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Bangor St Deiniol
Pen Y Bryn
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27.12.19 Better Ball Stableford
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14.12.19 3 Man Texas Scramble
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02.12.19 Norman Brookes Winter League
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27.11.19 Christmas Crackers Competition's
Friday 27.12.19
Better Ball Stableford
Open Competition 16 holes
SHOTGUN start 11.00
Entry Fee; £10 (includes Pie & Chips)
Happy hour at the bar £2 a pint
Raffle & Auction
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29.10.19 County Open events for next year
The County committee are now organising and finalising the County Open events for next year.
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29.10.19 Congratulations to Ron Evans
Ron Evans (St Deiniol member) who was successful in winning the Caernarfonshire and District County Seniors Championship Best Gross prize at Porthmadog GC on 17th September 2019 (won by Derec Owen last year).
24.09.19 Special Winter Membership Offer
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20.09.19 Diwrnod Gwahoddiad (invitation day) St Deiniol
The Match Secretary wishes to inform members that she has cancelled invitation day because of lack of support.
Tec has asked that a team of 3 (Best 2 to score) be put on to replace this fixture.
04.09.19 Open Day Results
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29.08.19 Auction Saturday Evening August 31st
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22.08.19 Congratulations to Barry Carter
Congratulations to Barry Carter...this year's club champion.
31.07.19 Open Competition
Captain's Charity Day
BetterBall Stableford
Sat August 3rd
Visitors £10
Members £5
Allowance 90%
25.06.19 President's Report - President's Day
96 competitors took part in this event on a beautiful sunny day and with the Course in excellent condition. Competitors and guests enjoyed one of Sian's excellent curries or sandwiches and chips after play and the overall winners were Club Chairman Nick Williams and partner John Morris with Wales Golf President Mike Bryant and partner Maurice Fowell as runners up..... Full results on Master Scoreboard and in the Club House. The Putting Competition was won by Tec-Sec.
At the start of the Presentation Mr Sinclair Buchan, a member of over 40 years standing was nominated by the President and seconded by Mr Captain to be added to our list of Vice Presidents.
The President congratulated all the winners and thanked the Greens Staff for the excellent condition of the Course, Sian for the meal, Glyn-and-Sue-shop for administering the Competition, the Vice Presidents for their generosity in supporting the Prize fund for the Day. She also thanked the members who had given prizes and supported the raffle in aid of Club Funds and all who had played in the Event. A full list of raffle winners is available in the Club House and a summary of monies raised will be provided later in the week
07.06.19 Victory Foursomes - St Deiniol v Wrexham at Prestatyn
Report from Chris:
Unfortunately it was not to be this evening as Wrexham came out on top and fully deserved, the quality of the golf was something else as they beat Chris Moore and Geraint Wyn Hughes 64, but that was no disgrace as Tom and Daniel from Wrexham were -4 gross after 13 holes.
03.06.19 Message from the Match Secretary
"The Summer knockout draws have been completed and are on display in the clubhouse.
The draws can also be seen on Masterscoreboard.co.uk. Any member can contact me for the password for this service. Instructions for accessing the masterscoreboard service are available on the hallway touchscreen at the club."
02.05.19 I'r Dyfodol (Welsh only)
Linc i World Handicapping System i ddechrau rhyw dro yn 2020 - click here for more information
02.05.19 Cystadleuaeth Haf (Welsh only)
Cystadleuaeth Haf 2019 yn dechrau yfory. Pawb yn chwarae oddiar ei raddnod clwb.
01.05.19 Fixture List 2019
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24.04.19 Latest pictures by Derec Owen
23.04.19 St Deiniol Duck Race Winners
£100 No; 458 Mike Bryant
£50 No; 465 Glyn Siop
£10 No; 461 Glyn Siop
£10 No; 289 Alfie Edwards c/o Ray
£10 No; 492 Haydn Davies c/o Dewi Davies
£10 No; 513 Steven Barry Davies c/o Bob
£10 No; 86 Dafydd Price c/o Ian P
09.04.19 Captain John Davies' Drive In
Captain John Davies' Drive In...with Vice Captain Stuart Haynes & some club members.
08.04.19 Norman Brookes League finals
St Deiniol hosted the Norman Brookes League finals day today. Chris Ward won the individual event with a score of 37pts and Team St Deiniol consisting of John Davies; Glyn Hughes; Andrew Hughes and Chris Ward won the team event with 101pts. Da iawn hogia.
01.04.19 Our new Club Captain
Our new Club Captain John Davies.
01.04.19 The new Lady Captain
The new Lady Captain, Martina Lahman.
01.04.19 President of Wales Golf
Earlier this year Mike Bryant, our Immediate Past Chairman, became President of Wales Golf. The role is mainly that of an ambassador, and will involve his travelling around the country to encourage more people to play golf. It will also be an opportunity to publicise our club and course to a wider golfing audience, also North Wales golf in general as it is 8 years since the President was a North Walian.
The attached photograph shows Mike in his official jacket within our clubhouse.
30.03.19 Hole in One
Kevin Jones 15th
12.03.19 Wales v Ireland
£2 a pint (Guinness £2.50) during Wales v Ireland match 16.03.19 in the Golf Club KO 2.45.
01.03.19 A message from Derec
Not every course has to be a textbook classic - there is much to be said for original and entertaining golf that runs through appealing and constantly changing scenery.
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01.03.19 Picture by Derec Owen
26.02.19 New Facebook page
In the process of setting up a new Facebook page as our original one has disappeared for some strange reason. Please be patient!
18.02.19 Norman Brookes match v Penmaenmawr
Photos from yesterday's (17.02.19) Norman Brookes match v Penmaenmawr.
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18.02.19 Betterball Stableford Open Comp
Congrats to today's winners (16.02.19) of the AM AM Betterball Stableford Open Comp with 46 points! Mari and Martina.
Pictured with Hon Sec Tecs who was in charge of presentation.
15.02.19 Wales v England
Saturday 23.02.19
£2 a pint during coverage of the game at the club.
Bring a friend along.
14.02.19 Newsletter - February 2019
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12.02.19 For your attention
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12.02.19 Competition
This is an OPEN competition and it is this weekend.
07.02.19 Course Maintenance
This week we have been carrying out some much needed Airation on the greens by Solid Tining up to a depth of 4 inches, this was a perfect practice to carry out after we Verti-Drained the greens 8 weeks previously,the Verti-Drain gives us the depth to break up soil compaction deeper in the playing surfaces (depth 8-9 inches) to help promote good root development and free draining playing surfaces through the winter months, with the Solid Tining we are looking to just break through the thatch layer to help keep the top layer dry and assist with the Verti-Draining work carried out previously and to try and prevent any disease outbreak.
Unfortunately it does cause a little disturbance to the playing surfaces but this work is vital for the greens and that they can be played all year round.
Thanks for you Patience,
Chris Moore
31.01.19 Ladies Presentation Night
The Ladies of the Club held their AGM and their Presentation evening at the Eryl Mor hotel on 31.01.19
01.02.19 "Rules School"
St Deiniol Golf Club was chosen by Wales Golf to host the only "Rules School" in North Wales in January 2019. The Level 2 Rules Seminar was run in conjunction with the R&A, as a two-day intensive course (8.30am-6.00pm on both days). It combined a mixture of classroom learning (looking at the Rules in more detail, but particularly the more important playing Rules, e.g. Course Played as it is Found (Rule 8) and Relief Situations (Rules 15-19). There were also practical situations as applied on the golf course, and also an opportunity to Role Play as a refereee (and yes, it rained for the two hours we were on the Course!). This was followed by a two-hour examination (a combination of True/False, multiple choice questions and identifying rules (or breaches and penalties) in given scenarios. The two hours flew by! Approximately 30 Delegates attended from a number of courses in North Wales and two members of St Deiniol passed the Level 2 exam - the outgoing Lady Captain Sue Jones and her husband Barry.
25.01.19 Roy Hughes, one of our hardest working volunteers
Roy Hughes, one of our hardest working volunteers clearing gorse on the 3rd.
25.01.19 Chris Moore with Past Captain Derec Owen
Chris Moore, our hard working greenkeeper with Past Captain Derec Owen
22.01.19 18th green this morning (and a picture of the Carneddau)
04.01.19 Closure of Pen y Bryn on 7th January 2019
Barry Williams of Gwynedd Council has been to see us today to inform us that parts of Pen y Bryn Road will have to be re-surfaced due to its unsatisfactory condition. Thos os brcause the bridge down the surface was laid whilst it was raining. Mr Williams is unhappy with the state of the road and told us that if it is left it will start to break up again. The work is being re-done at a cost to Hogans and not the Council. He asked us to pass this information to everyone affected by this work.
The road will be closed for this work (weather permitting) for one day on 7th January. There will be limited access.
16.07.18 Qualifier for the Wales Golf Over 55's Greensomes
On 13th July the club held its Qualifier for the Wales Golf Over 55's Greensomes. Congratulations to the winner Glyn Hughes and Kashmir Josson who scored very well for a winning score of 40 points. They go forward to represent the club at the National Finals at Denbigh GC on Wednesday 26th September. Runners up with 37 points were Terry Jones and Keith Parry who are our Reserve pair in case Glyn or Kashmir cannot compete at the Finals.
The score on the day were as follows:-
1. Glyn Hughes/Kashmir Josson - 40 points
14.06.18 Gwersi Golff Am Ddim i Ddechreuwyr / Free Golf Lessons For Beginners
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Cychwyn / Starting: Dydd Llun / Monday 25.6.18
Plant / Juniors 5.00 p.m.
Oedolion / Adults 6.00 p.m.
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30.05.18 Wales Golf Over 55's Greensomes Competition
This competition is open to men over 55 years who are members of a Wales Golf registered club.
Our club qualifier will be held on Friday 13th July. Entry fee is £5 per pair. Competition is off the yellow tees, on a Stableford basis, with handicap allowance the usual 60% of the lower handicap plus 40% of the higher handicap.
The winners, each of whom must have a Competitive Handicap, will qualify for the Wales Golf National Final on Wednesday 26th September at Denbigh GC.
To enter, simply play on Friday 13th July at a time to suit you and leave your card plus the £5 in the usual boxes in the clubhouse.
This is an opportunity to represent St Deiniol in a Wales Golf competition here in North Wales.
Organiser is Mike Bryant on firstname.lastname@example.com and 07713 402819.
21.05.18 St. Deiniol Golf Club Success
Many congratulations to St Deiniol and in particular Sue H, Janet and Chris, for not only winning individual prizes on the day, but whose combined scores brought home the C & A Vets overall team prize last Monday (14th May) at Pwllheli. What a win at an away course!
09.05.18 Open Golf Competition
Saturday 21st July 2018
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17.04.18 St. Deiniol Golf Club 2018 Summer Knockouts
Entries must be placed in an envelope with name and pin and placed in the competition entry box in foyer no later than May 14th 2018.
09.04.18 Pob lwc i Ken Cook Capten Deiniol ST 2018/19 - All the very best to Ken Cook Captain St Deiniol 2018 / 19
08.04.18 Lady Captain's Drive In
The St Deiniol ladies enjoyed a sunny, warmish and dry day for Lady Captain's Drive-in on Sunday 8 April. This year was a Stableford team game, two best scores on all holes and all 3 to count on par 3's. There was much rust to wear off clubs (and bodies) after such a wet and dreary winter, so congratulations to all for making it round and to Mari, Janet and Lady Captain (Sue Jones) for scoring 83 points, followed by 80 and 72 point team scores. Maybe the chilli chocolate brownie cake and a warm cup of coffee afterwards eased some of the aches and pains!
23.02.18 Club Over 55's Trip to Wrexham Golf Club
The club has arranged a trip to Wrexham GC for Thursday 29th March this year. Format will be coffee/bacon rolls at 9.30 am with the 1st tee available from 10.30 am until 11.50 am and will be followed by a 1 course meal. The visit will use both clubs's membership of "The 1906 Club" and "The Association of James Braid Courses" and total cost will be £28-30.
If you are interested please add your name to the list in the men's changing room.
Wrexham GC have 3 buggies for hire.
This is an opportunity to play one of the best courses in North Wales at a very competitive cost.
12.02.18 Duck Race
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Bangor St Deiniol team up with Spanish Holiday Villa specialists
Casa Cymru - Nerja Beach 4 Bedroom Villa for Holiday Rental (sleeps up to 9 people)
Swimming Pool - Sun Terrace - Private Parking - 45 minutes from Malaga Airport
Nerja lies on the eastern most tip of the Costa del Sol, where the mountains meet the sea. Once a sleepy fishing village, Nerja has retained its Andalucian character, particularly in the old quarter with its narrow cobbled streets and whitewashed houses.
Nerja boasts 16 kilometres of beaches with powdery sand and sparkling clear water. All major water sports are available here, including water skiing, scuba diving and sailing.
Please mention Bangor St Deiniol Golf when booking in order for the club to recieve commission.
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Can You Blame the GMD???
You'd have to be brain dead and paralysed – or Barbara Walters – not to feel at least a little tingle. Check out Will Smith training on the beach the other day for a new role… Helllloooo! No wonder Tom Cruise wants to be around him all the time. Wouldn't you???
According to Hollywood legend, there's supposedly a super secret enclave called The Spa hidden in the Hills where major motion picture movie stars go to do a little bonding.
Yes, these BFFs are rumoured to allegedly frequent the establishment, in addition to a few other unlikely ones who don't usually make the maybe gaybe pages, some of whom, if revealed, would totally break your hearts.
Total bollocks right? A place like that could never exist! Never, ever, ever. No Xenu way.


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January 9, 1994, Section 2, Page 1Buy Reprints
TO BE LINGUISTICALLY FASHIONABLE IN Silicon Valley, you must be able to speak knowingly about the "killer app" -- the killer application for a new technology, the function that makes a gadget appealing. A killer app can be something like the spreadsheet software that induced businesses to buy the first desktop computers. It can be something for the home, like the video games that popularized living-room computers. And, as crowds at trade shows have discovered in the past year, it can be something for the libido.
The sensation at recent computer expositions has been a new group of booths surrounded by black curtains. Inside are high-tech peep shows: interactive videos on CD-ROM featuring naked Penthouse models and hard-core porn actresses who respond to commands from a keyboard. The computer industry has professed shock -- the X-rated material has been banned from one trade show and from most computer magazines' advertising pages -- but in retrospect it all seems quite predictable.
In the history of communications technology, sex seems to be the most enduring killer app. For reasons both obvious and mysterious -- explanations variously cite the work of Newton, Freud, and Beavis and Butt-head -- sex has had a peculiarly creative impact on communications. Sometimes the erotic has been a force driving technological innovation; virtually always, from Stone Age sculpture to computer bulletin boards, it has been one of the first uses for a new medium.
"We want to humanize the products we invent, and sex is so fluid that we can find a use for it in any new situation," said Nicholson Baker, the author of "Vox," a recent novel about telephone sex. "It's hard work adopting a new technology, and we need some sort of compulsion to do it, so I suppose sex serves some purpose there. But we'd do it even if there were no purpose. We're always looking for exotic new ways of doing the same old things. New technologies are strange and exciting, and one wants romance to be strange and exciting."
The erotic technological impulse dates back at least to some of the earliest works of art, the so-called Venus figurines of women with exaggerated breasts and buttocks, which were made by firing clay 27,000 years ago -- 15 millenniums before ceramics technology was used for anything utilitarian like pots. When subsequent artists discovered the medium of cave walls, they produced work like the rock carving that archeologists have titled "Nude Woman," etched more than 12,000 years ago at La Magdelaine Cave in France.
The oldest known literature, recorded by the Sumerians in cuneiform on clay tablets, includes poetry celebrating the sweetness of a woman's lips and vulva. In one love song, a Sumerian newlywed instructs her husband how to put his hand on a "goodly place," and she says, "Let me caress you. My precious caress is more savory than honey." This was written nearly 4,000 years before the release of a CD-ROM with a Penthouse model licking her lips as she says, "Let's get interactive."
When Gutenberg's press brought the written word to the masses in the late 1400's, it didn't take long for printers to discover that the masses wanted more than Bibles. A book of erotic engravings depicting lovemaking positions, published in 1524 and suppressed by the Pope, inspired a collection of sonnets by the first modern pornographer, an Italian named Aretino.
Successors followed with works like "La Puttana Errante" ("The Errant Prostitute"), in 1531, and a famously innovative book, "L'Ecole des Filles" ("The Girls' School"), published in France in 1655. Its dialogues, in which an older woman instructs a girl on sexual pleasures, titillated the English diarist Samuel Pepys, who recorded a coded entry about buying a plain-bound copy of "that idle, roguish book," using it to masturbate and then burning it so it would not "disgrace" his bookshelf.
Literary historians have credited these early pornographers with helping to develop techniques -- dialogue, scene-setting, the epistolary format -- that eventually led to the novel, a genre quickly adopted for pornography. "Pamela," often considered the first English novel, was published in 1740, and it was followed just eight years later by the first pornographic one, "Fanny Hill."
Some of the earliest daguerreotypes, in the mid-1800's, were pornographic. One of the first movies, made by Thomas Edison, was a bit of realism called "The Kiss," and a pornographic film industry was thriving by the 1920's. Government regulation kept sex off radio and television airwaves, but eventually pornographers helped establish new audio and visual technologies for getting into the home.
They played a key role in popularizing the videocassette recorder. In 1978 and 1979, when fewer than 1 percent of American homes had VCR's and the major movie studios were reluctant to try the new technology, more than 75 percent of the videocassettes sold were pornographic. And when cable systems began allowing public-access programming, pornographers immediately brought forth shows like "Midnight Blue."
Ever since the Bell telephone system was dismantled in the early 1980's, the purveyors of phone sex have been the leading innovators in the marketing and technology of pay-per-call services. They are already anticipating videophone sex, perhaps within two years.
Now that cable-television and telephone companies are rushing to link American homes to fiber-optic networks, it is probably worth recalling what happened in the early 1980's when a prototype of the information highway was built in France. The French system, which provided millions of homes with terminals linked to a computer network, is described by Howard Rheingold in his recent book, "The Virtual Community."
"The French Government hired academics to do all kinds of studies anticipating the wholesome things people would do with the terminals, like check classified ads or railroad schedules," said Mr. Rheingold, a journalist based in San Francisco. "To their utter surprise, what the French really wanted to do was talk dirty. When the network started up, the first summer they spent such an amazing amount of time typing X-rated messages to one another that they overloaded the system and brought the network down." Consumers Union Men Want Gadgets, Men Want Porn
Why is the erotic so closely linked to new technologies? The simplest explanation is that sex has always been one of those topics that interested communicating humans. But it is not just another topic.
"Pornography is always unsatisfied," said Walter Kendrick, author of the 1987 book "The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture" and a professor of English at Fordham University. "It's always a substitute for the contact between two bodies, so there's a drive behind it that doesn't exist in other genres.
"Pornographers have been the most inventive and resourceful users of whatever medium comes along because they and their audience have always wanted innovations," he added. "Pornographers are excluded from the mainstream channels, so they look around for something new, and the audience has a desire to try any innovation that gives them greater realism or immediacy."
Another reason for audience enthusiasm has to do with demographics: Men are the chief consumers of pornography, and men are also the main enthusiasts for new communications gadgets. This means, for instance, that the markets for the first home-movie projectors or CD-ROM drives have conveniently overlapped with the market for pornography.
Is this just a coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. The feisty academic Camille Paglia has argued in her book "Sexual Personae" that developments in art and technology are related to the male sex drive: "Phallic aggression and projection are intrinsic to Western conceptualization. Arrow, eye, gun, cinema: the blazing light beam of the movie projector is our modern path of Apollonian transcendence. Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in Western culture."
George Basalla, the author of "The Evolution of Technology," does not wax quite so heroically on the subject of men's fondness for new technologies. "I have seen arguments that males play with gadgets because they've played with their penises, and that tools are kind of an extension of the penis," said Dr. Basalla, who teaches the history of technology at the University of Delaware.
"It's an interesting argument, partly reasonable," he continued. "I've taught courses about the automobile, and it's fascinating to see the different responses. The male response is erotic: They like to inspect the automobile, they like to lift the hood, they like to do things to it, they want it to respond to them. Women don't relate to cars that way at all. They come up to me after class and say: 'What's going on here? Why are the boys so excited about these things?' "
Lynn Hunt, the editor of a recent book of essays, "The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800," suggests another way of looking at the technology-pornography link: Not only do some men see technology in sexual terms, they see sex in technological terms.
"Pornography attaches itself to a new technological medium partly because it's a genre that's very interested in technological means," said Dr. Hunt, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. "One of the famous things that goes on in early pornography is to say: Love is not about emotion, love is about sexual desire. It reduces sex to a set of technologies that arouse desire, satisfy desire, create new desires. Pornography is about cataloguing all the variations, treating human bodies as interchangeable parts in machines."
Dr. Hunt's book includes an essay by Margaret Jacobs linking the rise of modern pornography to Newtonian physics. Pornographers reflected this scientific revolution by reducing love to anonymous encounters in a "space occupied only by bodies in motion" that "collide just like the atoms of the natural philosophers," writes Dr. Jacobs, a professor of history at the New School for Social Research. The Cyberfuture Virtual Sex, Virtually Alone
If sex is always at the technological frontier, then today's true pioneers of communications are to be found at Interotica, the CD-ROM company responsible for "The Interactive Adventures of Seymore Butts." The company consists of recent college graduates who work in shorts and sandals in an office near the Santa Monica beach in California. They got into the CD-ROM business intending to produce loftier material.
"I was hoping to do a title about the Amazon rain forest -- something interactive that would enable you to navigate through it as you learned about the ecology," said Lawrence Miller, a founder of Interotica. But as he and his partners wondered how well the rain forest would sell, they realized that there was a more attractive ecological niche to be filled, and their computers have been busy ever since mechanizing sex.
One afternoon, for instance, a computer in one corner of the office was dutifully converting a hard-core pornographic film into digital data for a compact disk. On the left side of the screen, labeled "Input," was an image of an energetic couple on a bed. Each twitch of these bodies in motion was being processed by the computer and displayed, several seconds later, on the right side of the screen above the label, "Output." No one in the company paid any attention.
Such digitalizing makes possible products like the "Seymore Butts" film, which is shot from the point of view of a narrator wandering around Los Angeles. It begins with him spotting a young woman in shorts. He goes up to her and introduces himself, and then the action stops with her face frozen on the screen.
"Geez, she's beautiful," the narrator says. "For the first time in my life, I'm feeling a little tongue-tied. Come on, man, help me out. What should I say?"
The viewer sees a list of choices on the screen: Slink away; Ask her out to dinner; Invite her to join him in a hot tub. If the viewer selects the hot tub, the action resumes with her slapping the camera. If he chooses dinner and makes a series of correct choices later in the film, he is rewarded with sex, seen in explicit detail from the narrator's point of view.
Similar illusions of interactivity are offered on other CD-ROM titles like Penthouse's "Virtual Photo Shoot," featuring video footage of models posing. The footage changes instantly in response to the viewer, who is supposedly a Penthouse photographer and can choose among commands like "Take Bra Off" or "Suck Finger" or "Touch Self."
The basic appeal of these products was probably best expressed by MTV's Butt-head, when he observed to his companion Beavis: "It would be cool if girls just did what you wanted 'em to." It is a philosophy that has offended many women and prompted a few to produce alternatives.
The most visible is Lisa Palac, editor of what is billed as "the only erotic magazine for women and men that combines the two most popular and powerful subjects of our time: sex and technology." The magazine, founded in 1992 in San Francisco, is called Future Sex.
"Most women," Ms. Palac said, "are reacting to computer pornography by saying, 'Oh, great, here's another field that's going to be contaminated by these sexist views of women.' I take the opposite view. The link between sex and new technology is always going to be there, and I think women should get involved. We need to create our own erotic titles that appeal to women."
Future Sex offers old-fashioned erotic photos and text, reviews current computer erotica and speculates about the future. On the cover of one issue, next to photographs of a man and a woman in joint sexual ecstasy while strapped into separate virtual-reality equipment (visors, headphones, assorted mechanical devices), was the headline: "Strap In, Tweak Out, Turn On!"
At the moment, there are only a few crude approximations of this virtual-reality technology. Ms. Palac has produced an audio-only version, a CD called "Cyborgasm" featuring sexual encounters you listen to on headphones with your eyes closed. You can hear, for instance, a dominatrix whispering and snapping her whip as she circles you -- and whatever you think of the dominatrix, you can at least admire the technology that produces such realistic sounds moving around you.
Pornographers hope to start adding other sensations when homes are wired into the fiber-optic information highway. Pay-per-call videophone sex is an obvious application. It's also easy to imagine video versions of the "hot chat" that is popular with computer on-line services, which currently allow just about any kind of sexual fetishist to carry on live conversations with soul mates around the country by typing comments on a computer screen.
True, many of the people now anonymously typing erotic comments might not want to be able to see one another on their videophones or television screens. (It is generally assumed that a lot of cross-gender role-playing is going on among the typists.) But with future virtual-reality technology, they could presumably alter their screen appearance. They could project screen images -- of Daniel Day-Lewis, say, or Julia Roberts -- that would mimic every move and noise they made in their living rooms.
Eventually viewers might be able to indulge other senses. "Virtual Reality," another book by Mr. Rheingold, describes how you might one day slip on 3-D glasses, headphones and a lightweight bodysuit with a mesh of tiny tactile detectors coupled to stimulators. The gear is wired to powerful computers that record your movements and cause you to experience sounds, sights and the sensation of touching or being touched by any kind of texture -- virtual wool, virtual satin, virtual skin.
Then you have the computer call up one -- or more -- people wearing similar gear. "You see a lifelike but totally artificial representation of your body and your partner's," Mr. Rheingold writes. "Your partners are able to move independently in cyberspace, and your representations are able to touch each other, even though your physical bodies might be continents apart."
It is impossible to know if this communications technology will ever be feasible. But it is fairly easy to guess what people would do once they put those suits on. Mr. Rheingold refers to it as teledildonics. Others prefer to call it cybersex or virtual sex. By any name, it sounds like the ultimate killer app.


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When it comes to burgers, you can't beat a diner that offers soft and succulent seitan patties. After attending the Vegan Connections Festival this year (you can see my blog post here), I decided I was going to stick around Glasgow for a bit longer to sample all their delightful vegan offerings.
Having just been at The Briggait, I decided to visit American-style diner Steak, Cattle & Roll at Merchant Square, 10 minutes walk in either direction from The Briggait or George Square. There is also another diner at Sauchiehall Street, but as I was pressed for time before I had to catch the bus back to Edinburgh, the Merchant Square location was perfect for me.
I'd never been to Merchant Square before, but was delighted to see rows of independent stalls set up within the ring of bars and restaurants that make up the exterior of the ground floor level shops. I was warmly greeted by a member of staff on arrival and promptly served a menu. The tables are quite well spaced out so you don't feel like you're joining in on the conversation at the next table. I decided to sit at one of the booth tables outside to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the square while I looked through some of the photos I took at the festival.
The menu was clearly marked with vegan options (these are shown with 'VG' in a green circle next to each dish) and I was really spoilt for choice. You can choose from a range of different burgers as well as vegan non-dairy milkshakes or choose a boozy vegan milkshake as well. Although not a fully vegan restaurant, it's clear when placing my order with the waiting staff that they are well aware of (and used to) catering to vegan customers. I wasn't expecting much of a presentation with my chocolate and peanut butter vegan milkshake with hazelnut milk, but when it arrived, I felt like a little child being given their first milkshake.
Chocolate milkshake with hazelnut milk and a shot of peanut butter
I can't really explain what the attraction is, but I've always found chocolate to be a great accompaniment to my favourite nut spreads and ice cream. When I was in Italy for summer school many years ago, I used to order the stracciatella (vanilla with chocolate flakes or chips) and hazelnut gelato every day. Give me a scoop of chocolate ice cream drizzled with peanut butter and I'd happily devour the lot. Maybe it's the idea that I got my chocolate ice cream, peanut butter and hazelnut milk all in one milk bottle, but I enjoyed every draw from the straw. I also wasn't expecting the beautiful drizzle of chocolate sauce on the inside of the bottle which made a relatively plain chocolate milkshake look all the more exciting, don't you agree?
Vegan Chicken burger
For many years before I became vegan, I hadn't been too bothered about meat at all, but chicken was always my downfall. Finding out that seitan cooked the right way can provide vegans with a substitute was something I was very happy to find. The southern fried Seitan tenders in mustard batter with cherry tomatoes, fresh shallots, crispy onion crumbs, cayenne mayo and classic garnish in the Vegan Chicken burger was the perfect combination of a sharp bite from raw onions with the tender sweet taste of their fried seitan tenders. My eyes must have popped out of my head when the waiting staff brought my burger to my table; I wasn't quite expecting the burger to be as tall as it was!
My lunch at Steak, Cattle & Roll
A more lady-like way to eat the burger probably would have been to cut it with a knife and fork, but I was game and eating alone, so I wasn't afraid of making a mess. It also made eating this tender and delicious burger all the more worthwhile. The southern fried tenders were so good, it reminded me of popcorn chicken pieces and the bun was also nice and soft. My one bug bear is when you get a bun that is hard on the outside really difficult to bite into. I have no complaints whatsoever with Steak, Cattle & Roll's vegan burgers. If they ever decide to sell their southern fried seitan tenders to supermarkets, you can guarantee I'll be one of the first ones in line to stock up on them!
I would love to go back and sample some of their other vegan options, such as their BBQ southern fried vegan chicken salad or their vegan veggie wrap, and their sides – who wouldn't be intrigued by the sound of Coca-Cola BBQ beans?
Steak, Cattle & Roll can be found at 321 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3HW (contact number 0141 258 5220) or Merchant Square (17 Bell Street, G1 1NU – contact number 0141 258 6500). For more information and menus for both sites, visit their website here.
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Some people may have restrictions on whether they are eligible to work in the UK, how long they can stay here and the type of work that they can do. As an employer you have a legal responsibility to prevent illegal workers from working here and it's considered best practice to check the work entitlement of every potential employee, regardless of their ethnic or national origin. If you were to employ a person who is found to be an illegal worker, you may potentially face a civil penalty, an unlimited fine and a criminal conviction.
To check a potential employee's entitlement to work in the UK you must obtain original identification from them. The identification required is typically a passport or driver's license, as well as a utility bill not more than three months old.
Once you have obtained these documents you will need to:
- check that all the documents are genuine and valid, and have not been altered in any way;
- check that the person named on the documents is the prospective employee (check that any photos and date of birth match the appearance of the person);
- identify whether the documents allow the worker to do the work in question.
Keep a record of all the documents you obtain. Best practice is to keep a hardcopy (photocopy) as well as a soft copy (scan); you shouldn't keep a person's original documents. All documents should be copied in there entirety.
When copying a passport, copy:
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Strong, functional, and well-tested SR-series toprack for either general luggage or a Givi Monolock compatible topcase (E450, E470, etc). The light design allows the perfect adjustment of the plate to the motorcycle using unique adjustable fasteners. Includes fitting kit and all hardware needed for mounting.All hardware needed to mount the Givi rack is included. Installs quickly using simple hand tools. No welding or cutting of existing frame or body parts required. Tough black finish.
The SR104 is a black tubular steel rear rack that can be used alone or with:
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This family sized recipe makes about 16 hearty, oat filled pancakes named for their moist porridge texture within a pancake. We love them with cinnamon steamed apples on the side. This recipe works best if mixed the night before and refrigerated to cook in the morning, or mix during the day to cook for supper.
- 2 cups (quick cooking) rolled oats
- 3 cups buttermilk (or 2 cups milk and 1 cup yogurt)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 2 Tbps sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Steamed apples
- 2 Gala apples, unpeeled and sliced
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- Combine oats and buttermilk. Stir in oil and beaten eggs.
- Add combined dry ingredients. Refrigerate overnight or for several hours.
- Cook on non-stick griddle between low and med heat. Adjust heat setting so that the pancakes do not brown too quickly. Cook first side for about 2-3 minutes, until tiny bubbles appear on top. Flip and cook for another 2 - 3 minutes. *
- In the meantime, in medium pot, cook apple slices in butter until tender. A few minutes. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and keep hot on low heat.
* tips: a square (stove top) griddle/and a scratch proof flipper is a great investment for cooking pancakes/hot cakes. Keep cooked pancakes warm on an oven proof serving plate in 200 F oven. Serve with butter, maple syrup and cinnamon apples.
Left over pancakes can be stored in sealed bag (refrigerator or freezer) and toasted.
Left over pancakes can be stored in sealed bag (refrigerator or freezer) and toasted.


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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Thursday, 28 June 2012
Death in Paris, by Carl Weissner
Originally published on RealityStudio.org, this print edition was published in 2012 under the imprint Doll No Mori, Tokyo.
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Monday, 25 June 2012
Drawing Three 7-2001
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Rene Bohnen on donga
n 'n tyd van e-boeke, beide nuwe publikasies en bestaande boeke wat in die nuwe formaat aangebied word, het ek afgekom op 'n publikasie wat andersom werk.
donga was 'n aanlyn projek wat deur Alan Finlay begin is en vanaf 2000 tot 2003 op die internet verskyn het. Onlnags is sommige van die werke wat aanlyn verskyn het in gedrukte vorm gebundel en uitgegee deur Bleksem en Dye Hard Press gesamentlik ...Read more here
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012
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The Edge of Things and Arja Salafranca's The Thin Line on display at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012
The Edge of Things: South African Short Fiction, selected by Arja Salafranca, was published by Dye Hard Press in 2011. Salafranca's debut collection of short fiction, The Thin Line, was published by Modjaji Books in 2010. Salafranca was interviewed about her writing at the Anfasa stand at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2012
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Kelwyn Sole: Dreaming the everyday
Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg in 1951 and has lived in Windhoek, London and Kanye. He is a professor in the English department of the University of Cape Town. He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Absent Tongues, was published by Hands-On Books, Cape Town. His work has appeared in many poetry anthologies and literary journals, including Green Dragon ... Read the Dye Hard Interview here
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This course covers the different phases of systems development life cycle as process in pursuing IT projects. Emphasis is on the analysis and design stages. Topics include business processes; systems planning; feasibility studies; and analysis & design tools and approaches.
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Best of Nepal Tour is a perfect tour package in Nepal that includes naturally awesome places and culturally significant monuments and heritage sites. Nepal Best Tour begins with a Kathmandu city sightseeing that offers you to explore the Hindu and Buddhist religious sites as temple and stupas along with Durbar Square.
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HSBC's Willem Sels asks: Should markets fear rising inflation?
Willem Sels, UK head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank, queries whether inflation really is as great a danger as some expect.
Willem Sels, UK head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank, queries whether inflation really is as great a danger as some expect.
Higher oil and food prices could halt the current trend of falling inflation, but they should not cause a sharp inflation spike for now. Quantitative easing however is raising long term inflation expectations.
As a result, inflation-linked bonds should outperform fixed rate conventional bonds. Given the importance of food prices for EM, volatility could rise in the region, but the effect should vary by country and be limited for commodity exporters. Globally, we do not think that inflation will accelerate enough to endanger the current improvement of equity markets.
Safe haven government bonds have become more volatile in recent weeks, with US Treasury 10year yields moving from 1.38% to 1.83% in less than three weeks (before falling back somewhat). The resulting 4% price correction causes some investors – rightly in our view – to question the 'safe haven' label of sovereign bonds. If one expects a 1.4% income return, a 4% price move is hard to stomach. Our global investment committee recently further downgraded sovereign fixed rate bonds to a full underweight.
Increased bond volatility: what are the drivers?
The drivers of rising yields and higher volatility are manifold, but can be grouped into four themes: 1) the effect of commodity prices on current inflation, 2) the effect of quantitative easing on long term inflation expectations, 3) signs of improved risk appetite, and 4) positioning and valuations. We will discuss each of those in turn and attempt to forecast if they have further to run.
1. Commodity prices
Agriculture prices have risen significantly, largely as a result of bad weather. The drought in the US has been decisive for global market prices; the US is now expected to export 14% less corn and 15% less soy in 2012 than in the past four years. But there have also been droughts in South Korea and North-East Brazil, as well as flooding in India, Russia, the UK and North Brazil. However, the trend hasn't been confined to agriculture, as oil prices have spiked as well, largely as a consequence of production disruptions in the North Sea and concerns over tensions in the Middle-East.
We are reluctant to extrapolate the recent moves, though. Most of the drivers of higher prices have been due to supply disruptions, while demand remains subdued due to slow global growth. We think this should cap further upside for commodity prices.
Still, even if commodity prices remain unchanged from here, we believe that they will put some upward pressure on inflation (or at least halt its current downward trend). This is because rising commodity prices tend to push up inflation with a lag of 4 or 5 months.
The effect of food and oil prices on inflation varies by country. Emerging markets tend to be more sensitive to higher commodity prices than developed markets, but this is not uniform. Some countries limit the impact by subsidising prices, which caps inflation pressures. The impact on the local economy, stock prices, currencies and credit spreads, of course, also depends on whether the country is an importer or exporter of commodities.
If commodities were to move higher still, we would likely increasingly move towards commodity exporters, but we are not making a broad shift at this stage because we think slow global growth will cap upside for commodities. Nevertheless, we maintain some exposure to EM inflation linked bonds.


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How to lose belly fat
Everyone has some belly fat even people who have flat abs that is normal but too much belly fat can affect your health
in a way that other fat does not some of your fat is under your skin the other fight is deeper inside around your heart,
lungs liver and other organs it's that deeper fat called visceral fat.
Which may be the biggest problem even forcing people to get healthier and lose dangerous belly fat you will need to change your diet exercise routine and lifestyle for a longer period of time.
However for a week you can start making some big health promoting changes to your lifestyle all you need is determination method 1 add useful foods to reduce belly fat.
Enjoy the right types of fat studies have shown that eating the right kinds of fat such as monounsaturated fats
can help reduce belly fat or visceral by up to 20% on low fat diets monounsaturated fats are type of fatty acid
that has been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease improving diabetes management and improving the function of your blood vessels.
Eat lean protein lean sources of protein will help you stay satisfied throughout the day and help fuel your weight loss.
Make sure you eat source of lean protein at every meal measure a serving of 3 to 4 ounces 21 28 grams to stay within your calorie
limit add fresh fruits and vegetables at every meal make sure that at least half of your plate is full of fruits and vegetables.
These low-calorie foods are rich in nutrients and can help you lose weight and reduce belly fat the best way to lose belly fat
is reducing calories when you make half your plate a fruit or vegetable the low calorie nature of these foods helps reduce
the overall calorie content of your meals choose whole grain foods when you are trying to reduce belly fat and get rid of dangerous visceral fat.
You will need to choose 100% whole grain foods when you are eating a bread rice or pasta 100% whole grains are significantly higher
in fiber protein vitamins and minerals compared to the more refined grains they are a much more nutritious option drink adequate amounts of water help your body feel more satisfied and hydrated by drinking adequate amounts of water and other clear liquids every day.
It is generally recommended to drink at least eight glasses of water a day however even an ounce of up to 13 glasses per day
have been recommended method to eliminate problematic foods to reduce belly fat cut the sugar in refined white flour studies
have shown that one of the biggest culprits and visceral fat is sugary drinks sweets and foods made from refined white flour
limit or cut these foods to help reduce belly fat sugary drinks like sodas fruit juices and sports drinks as well as sweet
desserts or cakes can increase visceral fat.
In addition foods made from white flour or highly processed carbohydrates are also responsible for packing on fat cut out alcoholic drinks.
Many studies have shown that increased alcohol consumption is linked to increased amounts of visceral fat limit or cut alcoholic beverages
to help reduce belly fat limit high-fat foods in addition to choosing sources of healthy fats to include in your diet.
You should also try to limit or avoid certain types of fat that can increase belly fat and the chronic conditions associated
with it method 3 increase exercise and activity do interval exercises two to three days this week higher intensity interval workouts
have become more popular it is known that calories from the torch but specifically burn larger amounts of body fat compared to traditional cardio.
Commit at least 30 minutes of cardio five days a week in addition to interval training studies have shown that it is equally important
to do at least 30 minutes of cardio each week to help reduce belly fat increase your daily activity levels.
Lifestyle activities are a great way to add more exercise to your day being more active throughout the day has been shown to have similar benefits to 115 minutes of planned cardio each week do strength training exercises.
One to three times this linked weightlifting builds lean muscle mass which can help boost your body's metabolism
and the ability to burn calories at rest you.
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When I hear a good song, I want to play it again, put it on repeat. One such song is Elevation Worship's aptly titled Do It Again: "I've seen you move, You move the mountains And I believe I'll see you do it again You made a way where there was no way And I believe
Looking Back
Sometimes I take a whole sequence of photos, only to look back and see that a lot of them are blurry. How did I do that? There are times in our lives and in our life as a church that we need to stop and refocus because things can get a bit blurry. There are many of ways to
Takes and Remakes
Many of us can never see peace because we can't understand grace. We want to repay, to make it up – always striving, always grafting – but we can never repay God. We come with our hurts and fears, our brokenness, and yet Jesus takes us as we are; that's grace. When we can't repay,
What is God doing?
Often I find myself asking the wrong question or not asking enough questions. That's why it's great to have a toddler, they're always asking questions. They want to know why, who, when, what… all the time! When you read a book like Judges, it's easy to ask the wrong questions. What – but we should be
Family Resemblance
When you have a child, people are interested in who in the family it looks like, who the child resembles. To be honest, I can't really tell, babies look like babies to me. But often, even complete strangers, will come up to us and tell us who they think our babies look like. People find
Escaping the Monkeysphere
Caring about people is hard. So many people and needs. So much going on, going wrong. Terror. Abuse. Depression. Poverty. Hate. We can be left feeling limited – there's only so much I can do. Liable – I should have done more. Lost – where can I start? Lonely – who's caring for me? Often,
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Early Career Program : Field Engineer - 2020 Opportunities
About Us :
At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we are developing and deploying industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward.
For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we are bringing our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient.
Our people are the trusted experts, relied on to solve customer challenges big and small. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
We believe in creating an environment of diversity and inclusion, without bias. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged, and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work.
We're makers, inventors, and leaders who aren't afraid of the tough challenges. We believe pushing boundaries will help to lead the way for a new energy future.
Role Summary :
Whether collaborating with customers to develop break-through technology, solving business challenges, leading at a wellsite, or working on digital analytics, we want you to be a part of Baker Hughes innovation
Field Engineering is for early career, highly motivated engineering talent people with a passion for technology and innovation, a drive to deliver technical excellence and develop their leadership skills.
The program is designed to accelerate participants' professional development through intense competency-based, classroom, online and on-job learning.
This three-year program will give you an opportunity to be directly involved in the delivery of services to help clients locate, evaluate and produce oil and gas ever more efficiently including improving environmental standards.
Program graduates have the technical and business foundation to proactively and continually make innovative contributions to Baker Hughes future.
As a Field Engineer you are the key interface between Baker Hughes and the client at the job site and you represent Baker Hughes both technically and professionally to ensure that equipment is installed, maintained and started properly, aiming at Customers' satisfaction through reliability and proactive support.
Your rate of progress will be driven by your personal effort and your ability to demonstrate your capability against the standards defined in the Competency-Development Program (CDP).
Your progression will be determined by your performance, including the demonstration of your unfailing commitment to deliver your accountabilities.
Your manager will help you gain the necessary skills and knowledge. Your manager will also lead the assessment process to evaluate your skills and knowledge.
You will benefit from working with an assigned mentor to ensure that you have a comprehensive, holistic learning experience.
Your mentor will support and direct you so that in time, you are ready to support other less experienced employees.
Your training will be based on on-job learning, self-study assignment and unparalleled technical training courses underpinned by the development of business acumen and leadership capability.
You will be developing the foundation of your career by gaining Baker Hughes qualifications which are the building blocks in the CDP.
During the program you will be developing basic oilfield knowledge working under the supervision of an experienced Field Engineer.
Your ambition must be to demonstrate your capability to work confidently with a progressively broadening scope of knowledge, skills and customer-facing accountabilities, and in time to be able to support less qualified Field Engineers.
Essential Responsibilities
Completing all training assignments to the required standards.
Essential qualifications / requirements :
Desired Characteristics :
Passion to be in field environment.
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With just over one month remaining, the National Corn Growers Association reminds farmers to register early for NCGA's National Corn Yield Contest and save big on entry fees. Until June 30, fees will be reduced to $75. NCGA reminds growers that a small time investment now saves money later this summer.
"While the early entry deadline may seem a ways out, we all know how quickly times goes by at this time of year," said Stewardship Action Team Chair Brent Hostetler. "Through the contest, we gain valuable data that helps develop the production practices of tomorrow. I urge those who haven't entered before to become NCGA members and try their hand at high-yield techniques as contest entrants in 2017."
To enter today using the online form, click here.
Entry will remain open at the full rate of $110 through July 31. All harvest forms will be due by November 17. Contest winners will be announced on December 18.
As a reminder, entry forms must be submitted to NCGA through the online entry form two weeks prior to the date that plot is harvested.
One rule change of note will be implemented in 2017. A member who requests a refund from their state checkoff between the dates of August 1 of the previous year through July 31 of the current contest year is subject to disqualification per the request of the member's state corn association.
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For half of a century, NCGA's National Corn Yield Contest has provided corn growers the opportunity to compete with their colleagues to grow the most corn per acre, helping feed and fuel the world. This contest provides participants not only the recognition they deserve but also the opportunity to learn from their peers – something especially important as farmers face tough economic challenges.
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The world's only hot-water beach was a tempting sight near mile 18 of the Glitnir Reykjavik Marathon. Vast quantities of scorching water bubble underground in Iceland, and clever engineers have diverted some of it to Nautholsvik Beach, where locals swim in the naturally heated waters of the Greenland Sea. With race-day temps hovering in the 50s and nasty, 30-plus-mile-per-hour winds blowing, I suspect I wasn't the only runner who entertained the idea of stopping and jumping in.
Having that option after the race, however, was one reason runners from around the world came to Reykjavik. The spectacular course was another. This old European city sits on a peninsula a scant 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and much of the flat, loop course followed a rocky coastline, offering magnificent ocean vistas. The race started and finished in the heart of the city. Runners lined up just down the hill from Hallgrimskirkja, the oft-photographed church whose 225-foot-high steeple looms over the area, and the mayor started the race with a countdown in Icelandic. The 3,000-foot snow-capped Mt. Esja appeared across the water at mile five, and marathoners eventually found themselves navigating past the harbor and zoo (impressive reindeer!) and down a bike path. Here runners cruised along the Ellioaar River-famous for salmon fishing-and past a nine-foot waterfall.
A vast majority of the island's 300,000 residents come to Reykjavik during race weekend. But most could not care less about the 26.2-mile road race; they're here to party. It's no coincidence that the marathon is offered the same day as what Icelanders euphemistically call "Culture Night"-an all-night party reminiscent of Woodstock or Bonnaroo. The festivities start Saturday morning. As a result, the last half-mile of the marathon takes runners right through throngs of giddy revelers. For most out-of-towners, Culture Night represented their first exposure to punk rock sung with an Icelandic lilt.
Despite the wind, Jiri Wallenfels of the Czech Republic won the marathon in a tidy 2:33, and Frenchwoman Nathalie Freyling was the first female finisher in 3:34. They led a crowd of 10,192 runners from 42 countries who were participating in the event's marathon, half-marathon, 10-K, 3-K, and 1.5-K races.
Postrace, some runners chose to return to mile 18 and the warm shore of Nautholsvik beach. Others journeyed an hour or two by car to see shooting geysers, massive waterfalls, and purplish glaciers. Many runners, however, treated aching muscles to the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's most-visited tourist destination. At this outdoor spa, locals and tourists alike luxuriated in the enormous geothermal pools. This runner, for one, found the milky blue waters more soothing than any deep-tissue massage.


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The Jets (0-0) at the Buffalo Bills (0-0) at New Era Field in Orchard Park, N.Y. on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. ET.
Coverage on SNY:
- Jets Pre-Game Live at 12:00 p.m.
- Jets Halftime Live on Facebook.com/SNY
- Jets Post-Game Live following Mets Post-Game
- Jets Post Game Overtime on SNY.tv & Facebook.com/SNY following Jets Post Game Live
It should be a beautiful, fall-ish day with lots of sun, little wind and temperatures in the mid-60s.
It's a battle for first place in the AFC East! No, really! … OK, these are two rebuilding -- or possibly "tanking" -- teams, neither of which are expected to win many games this season. If they're tanking, then a loss here gets them off to a good start. If they're not, then they ought to take the wins where they can find them because neither have a lot of winnable games on their schedule this year.
Vacc's 2017 Jets preview: It's bad, but not historically bad
PLAYER TO WATCH Jets QB Josh McCown
He didn't play much this preseason, which means he hasn't had a lot of time to get used to a new offense or the many young receivers on his roster. Oh, and his two veteran receivers -- Jermaine Kearse and Jeremy Kerley -- just arrived last weekend. McCown is a 38-year-old journeyman, as everyone knows, but he has had brilliant stretches of football in the last three seasons, and some terrible stretches, too. If the Bad Josh shows up this Jets team has absolutely no chance to win. If he's the competent, turnover-free quarterback he's been during those good stretches, then this is a game the Jets can absolutely win.
MATCHUP TO WATCH: Bills RB LeSean McCoy vs. the Jets linebackers
McCoy remains one of the best and shiftiest backs in football and if he's able to get through the Jets' defensive front he can be tough to handle in the open field -- running or catching passes. With veteran LB David Harris gone, there will be a lot of pressure on Darron Lee and Demario Davis, especially, to keep him contained. Beyond the front three, this is a dangerously young and unproven Jets defense. There is talent there, but they are likely to be a work in progress. If they're not immediately up to the task of dealing with a player like McCoy, this could be a very long game.
Jets: QB Bryce Petty(Christian Hackenberg will be the backup QB), Newly signed WR Jeremy Kerley, TE Jordan Leggett, S Rontez Miles, DB Derrick Jones, G Dakota Dozier, TE Neal Sterling.
There aren't going to be many opportunities to pick the Jets to win this year, so I may as well take advantage of the opportunities when they're there. The Bills have two advantages here: They are at home, and they have the best player on the field in McCoy. But they are also adjusting to life under a new coach (Sean McDermott), trying to rebuild a defense that was a mess last season, and -- much like the Jets -- have been enduring their own player-shedding this summer. So it's not like they're coming into this game on a roll. I think the Jets' defensive line is going to be able to pressure QB Tyrod Taylor, and he doesn't really have the weapons any more to make the Jets pay for mistakes, or to test their young secondary. His best weapon is McCoy and I think the Jets can keep him contained enough to stay in this game. As for the Jets' offense … I think they're going to surprise you. Not a Chiefs-beat-the-Patriots kind of surprise, but I don't think they're going to be a disaster. They will be able to run, and their West Coast, quick-passing attack can utilize both Matt Forte and Bilal Powell as weapons out of the backfield. If McCown can avoid the big turnover, he can connect with his patchwork receiving corps and move this offense. Not a lot, but enough. … Jets 19, Bills 17.
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Paul T. Nghiem, MD, PhD
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
University of Washington School of Medicine
UW Medicine
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dermatology, Merkel cell carcinoma, melanoma, graft versus host disease, complex skin cancer management in a multidisciplinary team
I like to provide patients with as much information as they are comfortable with and engage them in the decision making process regarding management options in caring for complex skin cancers."
Why do you practice oncology?
A Sleuth Takes on the Case of the Mysterious Skin Cancer Sometimes we do what the higher-ups want only because we're in no position to refuse. But our acquiescence occasionally leads to fortuitous discoveries. When Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD, was a new attending physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston in 1998, a mentor recruited him to help write a textbook chapter on Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). But Dr. Nghiem had seen only one case of MCC and knew very little about it. "I was very unenthusiastic about this assignment," recalls Dr. Nghiem. His disinterest faded as he dug into the existing studies on MCC. "When I actually sat down and read the literature, I found out Merkel cell carcinoma is a very interesting and unique cancer that is poorly understood," he says. Since then, unraveling the mysteries of MCC has been a major focus of Dr. Nghiem's clinical work and increasingly his lab research. Several aspects of MCC piqued Dr. Nghiem's curiosity. For one thing, MCC strikes more aggressively than any other type of skin cancer, such as the more common melanoma and basal cell carcinoma. "It's the most lethal of all skin cancers, killing upwards of a third of all patients diagnosed with it," says Dr. Nghiem, a dermatologist specializing in skin malignancies. There are also some important differences in risk factors for MCC and how the disease develops, and it is managed differently than other skin cancers. Read more about MCC. Expanding Skin Cancer Services After the textbook project, Dr. Nghiem's interest grew. At the time, there was no one who specialized in treating MCC in the greater Boston and New England area, says Dr. Nghiem, so he quickly developed into the region's go-to man on the subject. In January 2006, Dr. Nghiem brought his experience to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, joining the skin cancer experts already on staff here. He is working primarily with several other SCCA doctors, David R. Byrd, MD, Shailander Bhatia, MD, and John A. Thompson, MD, to expand the SCCA multidisciplinary skin oncology clinic to serve people with more types of skin disease. "The melanoma clinic is well established," said Dr. Nghiem right after his move. "I am looking forward to joining the team and expanding the clinic's focus to include a greater breadth of skin cancers and dermatology. I am also interested in enhancing integration of teaching and research into the clinic," says Dr. Nghiem, also a professor of Medicine in Dermatology at the University of Washington. Working with Patients and in the Lab As of 2015, approximately 2,000 people annually in the United States are diagnosed with MCC, says Nghiem. In Boston, he saw about one new patient per week, and that has now doubled at SCCA. About 20 percent of his time is spent with skin cancer patients, overseeing their medical care and coordinating with surgeons and medical and radiation oncologists to make sure they get all the treatment options that are appropriate. The other 80 percent of Dr. Nghiem's time is spent in his laboratory at the new South Lake Union campus of UW Medicine. A researcher affiliated with SCCA partner Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Dr. Nghiem moved not only himself and his family but also his lab from Boston to Seattle. He studies the checkpoints in the cell cycle that relate to damage from ultraviolet radiation. In the process, he's trying to find small molecules that selectively damage P53-negative cells. P53 is a very important tumor suppressor. In cells that are deficient in P53, cancer has an advantage instead of being suppressed. Dr. Nghiem is trying to find ways to intervene and reverse that advantage so that cancer cells are more effectively killed by chemotherapy and radiation. Read more about Dr. Nghiem's lab. "The science and clinical opportunities here are outstanding," says Dr. Nghiem about his move to SCCA. Understanding the Mysteries of MCC MCC stands out from other skin cancers in several ways that have important implications for treatment. "The most important therapies for melanoma," says Dr. Nghiem, "are early detection and complete surgical excision [removing all the cancerous area]. For Merkel cell carcinoma, early detection is, of course, important, and surgery can be effective," he says. "But unlike in melanoma, surgery alone has very high local recurrence rates for this disease." MCC is a cancer that spreads discontinuously, Dr. Nghiem explains. So when doctors remove a cancerous area, it may appear they got it all. For instance, the margins around the excised tissue may be free of cancer cells when examined under the microscope. But there are often cancer cells left in the adjacent tissue that will grow and make their presence known over time. "The other important thing about this cancer is that it's very sensitive to radiation," says Dr. Nghiem. There is some evidence that in some people radiation alone may be a viable treatment option, he says. It is only a hypothesis at this point, and it needs further study, he adds. But in any case, he says, "radiation plays a uniquely important role in this skin cancer." Minimizing immunosuppression is very important in this disease, too—"unusually important compared to other skin cancers," says Dr. Nghiem. People whose immune system isn't functioning at a normal level are at increased risk for MCC. For instance, people whose immune systems are suppressed because of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a solid organ transplant, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia or another cancer are 10 to 20 times more likely to get MCC and much more likely to die of it once they've got it. Minimizing patients' immunosuppression can become part of the therapy for MCC. If there's any way to decrease the immunosuppression, this may help the body control MCC. Making Treatment Choices People with MCC can get diagnostic services at SCCA as well as a full range of treatment options here in Seattle. Dr. Nghiem also consults with patients from other parts of the country and their doctors, who want expert guidance on how to proceed. Important issues include whether a sentinel lymph node biopsy needs to be done to check for cancer spread, whether more surgery needs to be done after the initial excision, whether the primary site needs irradiation, whether the bed of lymph nodes that drains the area needs irradiation, whether chemotherapy should be given, and whether immunosuppressive therapy could be modulated to improve the body's defenses. "Those decisions need to be really customized," says Dr. Nghiem. "You need one really extensive consultation early on," he says, to look at the whole picture and consider all the options. Then patients who live elsewhere in the country can be managed by their local doctors. "I see a lot of people who come from across the country, and I can then work with their local physicians," says Dr. Nghiem. As of 2015, several clinical trials are ongoing to test the ability of immune stimulating drugs to treat this cancer. Besides seeing people with MCC, Dr. Nghiem sees many patients with melanoma, and he has a special interest in graft-vs.-host-disease (GVHD). GVHD can occur in people who receive transplanted tissue from a donor, such as in an allogeneic bone marrow or stem cell transplant. The disease occurs when the transplanted cells recognize the recipient's body as foreign and attack the tissues. GVHD can affect many body systems and organs, including the skin. Coming back the Northwest Dr. Nghiem grew up in Olympia, Wash., and his wife grew up in Redmond, just across Lake Washington from Seattle. Both of their immediate and extended families are here, so they were happy to make the move, says Dr. Nghiem, when the job opportunity arose at the SCCA and UW. Nghiem's wife, Dr. Stephanie Lee, researches the outcomes of stem cell transplants and cancers that affect the blood, such as leukemia and multiple myeloma. She is the director for the Long Term Follow-Up Clinic and a researcher at the Hutchinson Center and also an attending physician at SCCA, where she works with transplant recipients. After 13 years in the Boston area, the transition to Seattle has been time consuming—especially the complex process of moving his research laboratory, says Dr. Nghiem. But the family is glad to have made the move. In January, shortly after their arrival, Drs. Nghiem, Lee, and their two young children were enjoying the proximity to family and looking forward to hiking and camping in the Northwest. Dr. Nghiem earned his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1994 along with a PhD from Stanford's Program in Cancer Biology. He was an intern at Brigham & Women's Hospital from 1994 to 1995 and a resident in dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1995 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he was a Howard Hughes Physician Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University with Stuart Schreiber. Among his many involvements in professional organizations and publications, Dr. Nghiem has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology for several years. In 2014, he was also elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (the ASCI organization) that recognizes physicians whose research has had an impact on the understanding and treatment of disease.
Harvard College
Stanford University
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
Dermatology, 1998, American Board of Dermatology
PhD, Cancer Biology, Stanford University; Internship, Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital


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The branch of dentistry concerned with correcting improperly positioned teeth and jaws, orthodontics requires extensive education beyond dental school. At Smile Sonrisa Dental, our Houston orthodontists have decades of experience in helping children, adolescents, and adults attain healthy, straight teeth and stunning smiles with braces and other types of orthodontic appliances. We are also committed to staying abreast of the most advanced treatments through continuing education and professional association memberships so that we can offer you the best treatment experience possible. Taking your age, aesthetic preferences, and unique orthodontic issues into consideration, our professional team will formulate a custom treatment plan to give you the smile you have always wanted.
When we detect tooth and jaw problems while your children are still developing, we can often influence proper growth and development with orthodontic appliances because children's bones are still soft and easily manipulated. Interceptive orthodontics can help guide jaw growth, make space for crowded teeth to erupt, and correct issues related to thumb sucking and other bad oral habits. Our Houston dentist for kids orthodontics specialists recommend a first consultation for your child by the time he or she reaches 7 years of age. If serious issues are not corrected with early treatment, your child may need to wear braces longer as a teen or even undergo corrective jaw surgery later.
We typically place braces on children and teens when all baby teeth are lost and adult teeth have erupted. This usually happens around the age of 12. The need for braces used to be cause for embarrassment, but orthodontic treatment is now practically a rite of passage that the majority of modern teens experience. Also, braces now come in a variety of colors and styles so that teens are able to comfortably express themselves and feel confident during treatment. Orthodontic treatment typically takes around two years, but if your teen underwent interceptive orthodontics as a child, his or her time wearing braces may be shorter.
Perhaps you are unhappy with your smile as an adult, but you are uncomfortable with the thought of sporting a metal mouth at work and on social outings. Our Houston orthodontists understand your reservations about getting braces, so we offer treatment options that are discreet and comfortable, allowing you to maintain your confidence and professional demeanor. When your braces are removed, you will be amazed not only by how great your smile looks but by how much easier your teeth are to brush and floss. You will experience better oral health overall, making your visits with your Houston family dentist more pleasant than ever.
Our Houston dental care professionals are happy to see orthodontic patients of any age. If you are concerned about your child's teeth, bite, or unhealthy oral habits, or if you simply want to improve the look of your smile, contact our Houston dentist office as soon as possible to set up a consultation.