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Carpet Cleaning in Goodyear, Arizona
Thinking it's time to get your carpets in Goodyear cleaned? Many times, homeowners consider their carpets clean after vacuuming. What many don't realize is that over time, dust and dander get trapped within the carpet fibers, and can't be thoroughly cleaned with even the most high-powered vacuum cleaners.
Now that you have found the professional carpet cleaners in Goodyear, Arizona you can truly have clean carpets again! America Sunshine Maintenance LLC has been providing superior carpet cleaning Goodyear homeowners trust for excellent results. Give us a call today at (623) 463-7171 for a free quote.
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Did you know that the dirtiest part of your home is not the bathroom – it's the carpet! Carpets can take a beating from shoes, pets, spills, and more, and that dirt will get stuck inside the carpet fibers. Not to mention, carpeting also attracts and traps airborne particles like dust and dander. Regular vacuuming is a great way to remove surface dirt, but it's not enough to get rid of stains, odors, or ground-in dirt. Get rid of the dirt you see and the dirt you don't. Make your carpets in Goodyear clean again and looking their best by calling America Sunshine Maintenance LLC to provide you with a free carpet cleaning quote!
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The expert Goodyear carpet cleaning technicians at America Sunshine Maintenance LLC have over 11 years of carpet cleaning experience. Utilizing our commercial grade portable carpet extractor that has the power to extract any ground-in dirt and remove stains and discoloration, along with our high quality cleaning solutions and deodorizers, your carpets will look like new again! What's more, your carpeting will be fully extracted of any excess water and dry within just a few hours. Give America Sunshine Maintenance LLC a call today at (623) 463-7171 for a free estimate.
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Gayle G., Window Cleaning in Goodyear, AZ2015-06-15
★★★★★ - "We hired them for post-renovation cleaning. The job they did was fantastic. Very detailed with all the right cleaning supplies. Very satisfied. Flexible scheduling. Was able to get them in the day after contractor completed the renovation and began moving back into my house the minute they left. I highly recommend them."
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★★★★★ - "He was on time gave a fair estimate for the work to be done. Was very pleasant and proffessional during the job."
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★★★★★ - "He was here on time and did an excellent job."
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★★★★★ - "Nice thorough job. Windows are streak free and bright. Job well done and a great value for the money."
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★★★★★ - "The company was prompt in giving me an estimate and completed the project in a timely manner."
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Window Cleaning in Phoenix, AZ2015-06-15
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Julie I., Window Cleaning in Sun City, AZ2015-06-15
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Sharon C., Window Cleaning in Suprise, AZ2015-06-15
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★★★★★ - "Luis' window cleaning work is just outstanding. My wife and I have never seen our home windows so clean. Fabulous job indeed!!!"
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★★★★★ - "On time services! Very knowledgeable in his field!"
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★★★★★ - "Luis was very professional and his crew worked very hard to clean my home after a construction project."
House Cleaning in Avondale, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "Great job -professional and courteous. I would definitely use them again."
Window Cleaning in Scottsdale, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "Great job. Estimator came out on time. Cleaning crew was great. So, satisfied that I engaged them to maintain my yard as well. Highly recommend."
Moses J., Mowing and Landscape Maintenance in Phoenix, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "Luis is wonderful! Him and his co worker did an awesome job on these overgrown weeds I had...I mean OVERGROWN! I would highly recommend Luis."
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★★★★★ - "L and M Cleaning responded immediately to our request. If they said they would call you back they did. They completed our request and our yard looks great. We will recommend them to anyone and can not wait for them to add some new features to our yard."
Mowing and Landscape Maintenance in Buckeye, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "I was extremely impressed with the quality of work. We set a time for them to start and there was no delay. Very polite and hard working. My windows sparkled after L & M. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a reasonable, efficient and very professional company. I have already set up a return visit."
Window Cleaning in Buckeye, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "He was on time to start work. The work he did was top notch. All work was completed on time."
Window Cleaning in Laveen, AZ2014-06-05
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Window Cleaning in Buckeye, AZ2014-06-05
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Window Cleaning in Buckeye, AZ2014-06-05
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Window Cleaning in Mesa, AZ2014-06-05
★★★★★ - "John was on-time, friendly, thorough & professional. I will definitely use him again and have already recommended him to my friends."
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Winemaking Supplies
21" Stainless Steel Spoon
This high quality stainless steel spoon is manufactured by Polar Ware.
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28 MM Metal Screw Caps
This size fits most screw-type glass wine bottles. Has a coated liner.
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Implications of the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, for Climate Change, Green Finance and Sustainable Development Goals
This Briefing Note explores the implications for climate change, green finance, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the G20 Summit which was held in Hamburg, Germany, on 7-8 July 2017. On climate, the final encouraging result was a consensus among all countries except for the US to maintain strong support for implementation of the Paris Agreement and SDGs. The declaration "noted" the US intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and "use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently," but the other 19 countries stated that the Paris Agreement is "irreversible." The 19 countries additionally agreed on the G20 Hamburg Climate and Energy Action Plan for Growth. On SDGs, the Summit issued a document "reaffirming" and "updating" the G20's SDG Action Plan (the Hamburg Update). Three other major initiatives related to the environment were: the G20 Marine Litter Action Plan, High Level Principles on Combatting Corruption related to Illegal Trade in Wildlife and Wildlife Products, and the establishment of a Resource Efficiency Dialogue. Although the overall direction of the Hamburg Summit appears mostly positive, there were still major shortcomings. First, there were not many funding commitments on either climate or SDGs. Second, there was no discussion of alternative measures of economic prosperity beyond GDP, and the overall focus of the Summit was still on traditional economic growth and financial issues. Third, the separate Hamburg Action Plan does not highlight climate change or SDGs, and it puts significant emphasis on traditional economic growth issues. Thus, the G20 still has not consistently adopted sustainable development as its main organising principle. Finally, overall, the discussion of environmental issues was generally limited to climate change, marine litter, illegal trade in wildlife, and resource efficiency. The Hamburg Annual Progress Report on Development Commitments notes that of the 31 active commitments, "3 were now considered complete and 28 to be on track." However, the report concluded that the actions taken by the G20 in the areas of environmental and social sustainability "are notable but do not seem sufficient to deliver the intended ambition."


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Liberum acted as Sole Broker and Bookrunner for West Midlands-based property group Real Estate Investors plc (AIM:RLE), in a placing of 40,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of 50 pence per Ordinary Share, raising gross proceeds of £20 million from institutional and other investors.
The proceeds will be used to provide additional resources to capitalise on acquisition opportunities in the West Midlands property market.
Company website >>
Liberum Investment Banking: Chris Bowman and Jamie Richards on +44 (0) 20 3100 2222
Real Estate Research Analyst: Jon Stewart
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117 Crown Colony Court for sale in Lexington, SC
|Posted by Dena Mixon on August 12, 2012 at 9:55 PM
117 Crown Colony Court for sale in Lexington, SC
117 Crown Colony Court is a wonderful home for sale that is located in Lexington, SC. The home is located in the Lexington Hills Neighborhood. Lexington Hills is an up and coming neighborhood that offers affordable homes! Located just outside of the hustle and bustle of the Lexington area, this neighborhood is cradled among many trees. The layout of this neighborhood is very nice, offering many cul-de-sacs and side streets. This makes a wonderful place to have have a family and let your kids play! Located between Hwy 6 and Platt Springs Roads, with an entrance on both roads, Lexington Hills has easy access to everything in Lexington. Currently, Lexington Hills students attend some of the newest schools in Lexington SC, Lexington School District 1!
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117 Crown Colony Court has been very well maintained by its current owners. This home has 1200 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and is only 9 years old. The construction is vinyl on all sides. The lot is a great size with plenty of room to play or entertain! There is a single car attached garage as well as a beautiful deck that overlooks the privacy fenced in backyard!
The front yard of this home is so nicely landscaped...it invites you to step inside! The front door brings you into a vaulted family room with new carpet, neutral paint and a beautiful laminate entryway at the front door. Beside the family room is the kitchen that has a wonderful eat-in area with a bay window and all new stainless steel appliances, including dishwasher, stove, and over the stove microwave! This kitchen also has gorgeous stained cabinetry. There are plenty of cabinets for storage. There is also a garbage disposal in the stainless sink.
Moving down the hallway will lead you to the bedrooms. The Master Suite is of a great size with a ceiling fan! This Master Suite offers a private bath that includes a garden tub! And finally, there is a walk in closet!!! Bedrooms 2 and 3 are a comfortable size and can be used for bedrooms or even office space. The Hall bathroom is conveniently located and shared by these 2 bedrooms.
This beautiful lot , where 117 Crown Colony Court sits, is a wonderful space that will offer you the ability to travel anywhere you want quickly and come home to a quaint residence!
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Moor Movies
The Film Society 13th Season – 2017/2018
This Season
The New Season will begin again in September 2017 preceded by a short AGM.
Details of showings are here.
The membership fee is currently £7.50 per head, unchanged now for 9 years. This year the film club will have shown ten films.
Entrance Fees are £2.50 for members and £4.50 for guests.
It really is cheaper to become a member, even if you miss 4 films!
To join for the forthcoming year please contact Wavell Urry on (01643) 851262 for more information
Film Evenings
Films will start at 7.30pm promptly. After the film tea, coffee and our famous home-made cakes will be available at 50 pence per item.
- Tamsin Godsal Chairman
- Wavell Urry Treasurer
- Evelyn Connell Committee Member
- Caroline Pickhaver Committee Member
If anyone would like to join the Committee, please contact Tamsin Godsal on (01643) 851239 for more information


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I made some time, and played some Metroid Prime 2 tonight. OMG. Sometimes Metroid can get frustrating. Back-tracking and exploration are integral parts of any Metroid game, but I just want to finish the damn thing. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's taking forever because I want to get as high an item completion percentage and visor scan percentage as possible, without using a walkthrough or strategy guide. Even if it means that I take forever (speed runs are not my thing).
I've just been sitting on this game forever. I bought it at launch, and played it obsessively for about three months. Then I gradually stopped playing. When I got stuck at Quadraxis, I just back-burnered the game. Actually, I took an extended break from gaming, full stop, so my backlog hasn't shrunk, really. It's actually grown since my hiatus, because work had some good-condition copies of older games I didn't have.
I think I'll gradually make more time for gaming in my evenings. Perhaps an hour or half an hour per night should allow me to do other stuff, and at the same time, hammer away at that pile of games.


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BMX Extreme
Game Description
Do you love doing dirt bike tricks? Well, do it the safest way possible – through an online game! In the BMX Extreme game, you get to perform superb bike tricks that would give you points to win in the competition.
In the BMX Extreme game there are two game modes to choose from - the free mode and the complete mode. In the Complete Game Mode, you are given a full minute to do all the tricks you know with the bike. And your tricks will be rated accordingly. If you do it beautifully, then you get higher points. In the Free Game Mode, there is no time limit enforced at all. You can play, practice, and try all the tricks you need to know for as long as you want.
The tricks you can perform are the as follows: Side Flip, Back Flip, Superman Flip, and Batman Flip. Do the Side Flip by pressing the Down Arrow Key. The Back Flip is achieved by holding the Left Arrow Key. Press the letter Z on your keyboard for the Superman Flip. The Batman Flip is on the letter C. To move forward, press the Up Arrow Key. Rotate the wheels of your bike by pressing the letter X. Play BMX Extreme Game online for free!


text: I've related much concerning one of my vehicles here using the EZ EFI 2.0 Throttle Body system, so I guess my experiences with a second system in another vehicle may also be helpful. Here's a link to the first system - http://www.cpgnation.com/forum/thre...with-dual-plane-intake-vs-single-plane.25871/ Vehicle number two is a power everything 1981 GMC Sierra Classic, with a 355 Chevy small block I built and installed to the truck in 1993. The engine, as built then, made a reliable 350 horsepower on the dyno (actually about 25 more). I put a total of 36,000 miles on the engine after the install, and never changed anything but the plugs and wires, oil, antifreeze, and other normal service items. The engine has forged pistons, stage two rods, and other goodies inside. After 23 years, I figured it was time for a refresh with some upgrades even if the engine still did run great. A number of things had quit working like the truck's R12 air conditioning. I installed a new compressor, hoses, evaporator valve, a new evaporator filter, and a new pressure switch - all for use with R4 refrigerant and oil. That just wetted my appetite with the AC working again. So I installed new tires and rims. I started enjoying driving the old truck again with its antique tag and it's loud turbo muffler exhaust. Lol, the hot rodder in me surfaced again. So, I purchased Trick Flow 195 "Fast As Cast" heads, A Super Victor intake, a COMP XFI HR cam, and all the roller goodies needed to up the power. I also peeled the old rusty headers to install a new set of stainless steel "shorty" headers, and installed a new X-pipe stainless PYPES Race Pro 2 1/2" dual exhaust with straight through perforated pipe mufflers in place of the 23 year old rusty dual steel exhaust and turbo mufflers. In the process, I installed a new Hooker cross member (actually for LS engine swaps) in order to tuck the exhaust higher. The Hooker cross member worked very nicely. The installed new exhaust left me shell shocked - the old exhaust had always been very loud, and this one isn't much louder than the exhaust on my new stock Chevy Silverado - even when I rev the GMC. I knew the old 2500 stall converter in the turbo 350 I had built with a B&M upgrade kit didn't seem to be working correctly when under pressure, for some years - even though the transmission still shifted nice and crisp. With the new parts and the EZ EFI 2.0 Throttle Body installed, everything had been working great - until I decided to drive the truck recently to fill a 55 gallon drum with diesel fuel. The engine was running great, but I soon began noticing the transmission shifts weren't crisp and were getting weaker. Fluid was 1 pint low but clean, and I added some as I looked at the modulator, lines, and TV cable. I nursed the truck seven miles back toward home at all of 30 miles per hour on level ground. Attempting more speed just revved the engine. With the one hill near my home, I put the truck in reverse and drove the last two miles home in reverse - knowing the forward gears would never pull the hill. Happily, reverse was still working good and I got home without a the need of a tow. Once there, I found the forward drive couldn't move the truck with so much as my foot holding pressure on level ground. I could actually physically roll the truck backwards in drive with one foot on the ground. Yes, this should be expected since the engine now makes some 450 horsepower or better, but I hadn't stuck my big foot into it at all. Either a seal began leaking or the old converter lost a piece of something into the front clutch pack - should have changed that thing long back, but didn't. Anyway, I'll have a new TCI stall converter and Street Fighter Transmission to install come Tuesday. I just don't feel like rebuilding the old transmission, and I would still need additional parts to beef the transmission up to the new horsepower level. The new TCI should be good for 575 ponies - well above my 355's new horsepower level. Once in, I'll give the new transmission an easy break-in - until I do decide to stick my foot to the pedal and light the tires up. What I did find, while the old transmission still worked, was the EZ EFI 2.0 Throttle Body system worked flawlessly in my purposely easy driving. With the drivetrain fixed, I'll be making timing changes and etcetera to the EZ EFI 2.0 fuel injection, and leaving my notes here in this thread. With the new transmission, I'll be using the normal lead foot driving style I had been avoiding in this truck.


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5. Catherine vs. Catherine: Your guide to the characters in Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, 1847
Famous for: Ghosts, violence, and relationships that no marriage counseling could ever fix.
Heathcliff, Hareton, Hindley. Sounds like the beginning of a nursery rhyme, doesn't it? Or the beginning of the cast list for a very complicated book. But don't be intimidated by Wuthering Heights. Jenny handily divides the Lintons from the Earnshaws in this Recap.


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First let me say this: I don't believe the cookie law can do a single thing to stop abuse of cookies but will just make websites frustrating to deal with.
While we are not under the new law jurisdiction (yet!), we will oblige to it. We are just going to wait a little to see how UK companies are dealing with it.
The law came in effect as of today, so I did a tour of major UK websites to see the methods they implemented to deal with the notorious cookie law.
BBC is my favorite
The law is meant to educate people about cookies and tracking technologies. BBC does just that: it tries to educate its users about the use of cookies on their website. The message is posted on top of the screen, in high contrast, so it's hard to miss.
My favorite sentence in their implementation: "If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the BBC website." In other words, if you don't care, we don't care.
What I love about BBC is that they went a step further. For those users who do care about their privacy they have created a dedicated privacy page, in plain language, where they can learn details about all the cookies and they can control which ones are setup and which not.
Virgin asks you to choose
The Virgin implementation goes in the middle of the page with one red and one green button, hard to miss. Of course, the green button says: Yes please (allow cookies). A little bit ironic, but at least they have the No thanks button very clear (even if red).
What I love about their implementation is this: "We will use a cookie to remember your preference (so that we don't bother you with this question next time you visit)." Ironic all the way.
The best part is that, if you choose to not do anything about it and continue navigating, the following cookie gets set into your browser: vcpref: maybe. :)
FT takes the bold move
You either accept their cookies or don't visit the Financial Times website. Of course, you can also choose to disable cookies in your browser and they show the way.
The only thing I hate about this implementation, though I think it's right, is that it impacts user experience. I go to ft.com to read the latest on the crisis and you make me read this pointless text. I want the news.
The Guardian, they hate the law just as much as I do
It's just they hate if for the different reasons. They have more than 100 cookies setup on the first page view of their website, from more than 10 different domains and I am pretty sure each one of them is valuable to them. No wonder their implementation (if you can't spot it from the first try, we don't blame you):
Their implementation is not what ICO probably had in mind. A small line at the top of the screen that is quite abstract to people who don't understand cookies. If I'll go tell my mum that it refers to the way the staff of The Guardian eats cookies, my mum will have no problem believing me (in fact she will have troubles believing me as she is almost as tech savvy as I am).
The big corporations
I've checked the implementations of Intel, Samsung or Apple and there is no sign of cookie policy anywhere on their home pages. I'm really curious what and how they will deal with the law.
As for us, we are inspired by the BBC implementation. Offering you, our users, the best experience ever is way more important than lecturing you about abstract things of which we really care to be ethical about.
What is you take on the whole deal, now that the law is here to stay?
For a different view on the matter, check out this article by Graham Charlton.


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With well-maintained, quiet roads and amazing scenery, Grey County is truly a cycling destination. Home to the annual Centurion cycling race, the region has become a training ground for racers and recreational cyclists alike. Read our Road Cycling 101 and order your cycling brochure to get started. Also, be sure to check Road Construction.
Grey County Tourism, Tourism Simcoe County, and RTO7 recently partnered on a series of cycling safety videos.
Trip Ideas
Distance: 85 km - Advanced
Surface:Paved (some paved shoulder)
This ourt displays the contrast between the west and east shores of Owen Sound, since many of the roads are not paved and because of the Land Force Training Centre you cannot travel around the full peninsula.
Enjoy the views of Geogian Bay as you ride the Blue Mountain Gondola up the Niagara Escarpment. The rest of the route is like a roller coaster, cruising downhill past agricultural lands, passing orchards along the way.
Bikeface Cycling has many faces: road - mountain - hybrid - recumbent - handcycles. Whether it's a ride in the park, bringing home the groceries or a heart-pounding climb to the top... we love it all and live it all! Our goal is to help you with your cycling desires whether you're looking for a new or used bike, parts, gear or servicing. We are proud supporters of the Owen Sound Cycling club.
'Cycle & Stay South Georgian Bay' gives you the opportunity to explore and take in the sights of the beautiful South Georgian Bay region whilst cycling from one Bed and Breakfast to another.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 35 km
- Surface: Paved
- Start: Neustadt Community Centre
All tours are led by a knowledgeable and friendly guide with years of cycle touring experience. To ensure a personal and friendly time with us, we limit our tours to a maximum of 8 riders.
Jolley's Alternative Wheels provides bicycle service, used & new bikes, parts, accessories and much more. All bikes - All service - All the time.
- Difficulty: Easy / Moderate
- Distance: 50 km
- Surface: Paved
- Start: Williamsford Community Centre
30+ years experience as a racing/touring cyclist & mechanic. I recognize the different anatomical needs of each individual and haw they apply to the type of riding they wish to do. I have experience with fitting women of small stature (less than 5'-0") and tall, large men (greater than 6'-6" & 250 lbs.).
- Difficulty: Moderate
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Can we create a morality pill? And if we can, should we? Scientists at yesterday's International Neuroethics Society panel on moral enhancement addressed these questions and others about the potential use of hormones such as oxytocin and serotonin to shape social behavior.
Some companies and media outlets have jumped the gun, declaring oxytocin the "moral molecule" or the "love chemical." If you want to enhance your trustworthiness, an internet search will turn up what is supposedly "oxytocin spray." But the panelists cautioned about reading too much into these claims, noting that this field is complicated and still in its infancy.
All three panelists, Dana Alliance member Patricia Churchland, Molly Crockett, and Julian Savulescu, seemed to agree that two of the biggest obstacles to the research are: (1) lack of universal definitions for terms such as "morality" and "moral enhancement," and (2) neurochemicals such as oxytocin and serotonin do not act in isolation, and they shape behavior beyond pro-social aspects.
Crockett suggested a multi-disciplinary collaboration to determine common definitions for morality and related terms. Churchland added that one must keep in mind that moral judgment is not neatly separated from factors such as emotions, reasoning, motives, habits, stress, temperament, age, etc. "Morality is not a module," she said.
And as morality can't be thought of without considering other factors, neither can neurochemicals like oxytocin be isolated as the single driver of certain behaviors. Churchland explained that oxytocin is found all over the body, not just in the hypothalamus, and it interacts with a variety of other hormones and chemicals that affect neuronal behavior. It's not surprising, then, that oxytocin affects behavior beyond those deemed pro-social; Crockett gave the examples of aggression and envy—not necessarily traits you'd want to enhance.
Given these obstacles, what is the state of the research being done on moral enhancements? Of the work with oxytocin, "most of the really good work has been done in animal studies," Churchland said, noting that we have no idea what the long-term effects are in humans. She encouraged the use of other strategies before turning to drug development to influence social behavior.
Going forward, Churchland recommended the use of larger studies, and pinpointed the need to better understand how to deliver oxytocin exogenously. Current results are hard to interpret, she said. Churchland co-authored a paper examining research reports on oxytocin, which she discussed with us in a briefing paper about the hormone that was published earlier this year.
Addressing the ethical question of whether this research is justified, Julian Savulescu defended the work, saying that we have an obligation to research moral enhancement. He believes that people have not mentally evolved to deal with the technologically advanced and globalized world they've created, and the problems, such as global warming and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, that they now face. In a paper that he co-authored for Philosophy Now, he wrote:
We have radically transformed our social and natural environments by technology, while our moral dispositions have remained virtually unchanged. We must now consider applying technology to our own nature, supporting our efforts to cope with the external environment that we have created.
"We are responsible if we fail to act, knowing what the risks are," he said.
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As you probably know, I will be adding some performance counters and enhancing the profiling view of Apitrace this GSoC summer. Recently I was experimenting with existing similar software. Here are some of my notes. This is certainly not a detailed review, I was primarily focusing on profiling and applications to Apitrace.
I had a look at Intel GPA (as a part of Intel INDE '15), AMD PerfStudio (22.214.171.124), NVIDIA Nsight (4.6) and CUDA Visual Profiler (7.0). Sadly enough, not all of these tools are available on Linux (on linux you have Visual Profiler for CUDA and AMD CodeXL for OpenCL, that is all I've found) and not all of them do support OpenGL profiling. Do not be surprised by the look of Windows UI and DirectX api names.
1. Intel GPA (DirectX): Platform Analyzer + Frame Analyzer
Currently supported Apis include DirectX and OpenGL ES (with linux toolkit available), but not OpenGL. Also I was told that Core OpenGL profile is being developed.
The toolset consists of several applications: Graphics Monitor, System Analyzer, Platform Analyzer, Frame Analyzer. Graphics Monitor is simply used to display HUD and collect data (one frame snapshot or a trace for some fixed duration) from applications by setting up some triggers or manually using hotkeys (which almost never work as analyzed applications trap all keystrokes). Also note, that there is no replay functionality (as in Apitrace), all performance data is collected per frame (there is actually a more fine-grained option) and at the same time timeline is made (when application is run).
In the options (screen above) you are limited to selecting only 4 counters (probably because more would not fit into HUD), but you can extend this number by using System Analyzer. This is the tool that connects to your current session and displays performance graphs in realtime. You can have arbitrary many of them, and all the data displayed is also included in the trace capture file when you save one.
Trace files can be opened in Platform Analyzer. This tool is all about timelines. Among others there are cpu/gpu frame bounds, gpu usage, DirectX tasks by thread. What is interesting here – GPU metrics are displayed as separate graphs in the timeline along other data (screens below). I think this is a nice visualization and it could be implemented in Apitrace, though I am not sure if per-call metrics can be displayed in such a way.
By the way, you can have a look at what metrics are supported here: https://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/gpa/15.1/win/Metrics_List_for_Intel_Graphics_Performance_Analyzers.htm
Also there is a filtering option. However, it didn't work as I expected.
I thought it filters out everything but the objects of the type selected. So, for example, you could filter by specific call (or call types, like draw calls), and easily find them in the timeline. This also could be in Apitrace. In reality, this option grays out everything except the selected object (and objects connected to it, neighbors in the timeline), so that some numbers in the statistics pane (bottom one) are recalculated.
Frame Analyzer offers many options, but I will focus on profiling. The tool gives the ability to analyze both individual calls (ergs in GPA terminology) and group of calls (grouped by render target). Metrics collection works differently for these set of tasks (details here https://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/gpa/15.1/win/Analyzing_the_Time_for_Individual_Ergs_and_the_Time_for_a_Group_of_Ergs.htm). Also the set of available metrics differs from the one used in traces (I had pretty much nothing on my Intel HD 3000). Initially I was not even thinking about Apitrace as an individual frame analyzer. I do not even know if this is actually possible to implement in the current state. Anyway, I do not think I am dealing with this in the scope of my project. This could be implemented later on the basis of what is already done. For those who are interested: recently there was proposed a project of creating frame-analysis tool based on Apitrace https://github.com/janesma/apitrace/wiki/frameretrace-branch, and it is being discussed quite actively on the mailing list.
There is however a feature that can be brought to Apitrace profiling. When you change something (like shader code, directx states etc), you can reprofile and see the difference in numbers.
Similar thing can be done in Apitrace (for the cases when you change call parameters in the main interface), but I do not know whether long profile times would make it usable.
2. AMD GPU PerfStudio (OpenGL)
PerfStudio is frame debugger/profiler. You connect your application to the PerfStudio server and then work with it. In terms of profiling PerfStudio allows to capture per-draw metrics after stopping the application at specific frame.
Counters are divided into groups. I do not know how one can group the counters I am going to implement for Apitrace (for example, AMD_performance_monitor counters have internal groups), but this idea should be definitely considered. As soon as you select counters profiling takes place. It is required to be done in several passes, this fact suggests that some metrics are incompatible and cannot be taken simultaneously (am I missing something here?). Finally, the table of metrics data is displayed:
Across the top of the Data tab you can group draw calls by the so-called state bucket. This means you can group the draw calls which share the same shader, render into the same render target (or depth or stencil buffer) etc. For these grouped calls the data is aggregated (for percentages is averaged). Looks like this:
Currently Apitrace groups calls by shader program if I understand it right. Implementing other state buckets (FBO, stencil, depth) might be a good idea if it is possible at all (i.e. is this information available in Apitrace and how consistent is it in context of many frames?).
In the options you can hide data from chosen counter groups:
Might be useful.
PerfStudio also has an option for comparing two profiles:
3. NVIDIA Nsight (OpenGL)
Nsight for Windows is shipped as a Visual Studio plugin. There is also a Linux version for Eclipse, but it is a part of CUDA Toolkit and supports only CUDA api. Windows version refused to run OpenGL 3.3 application, it looks like it can stand only Opengl >= 4.2
Nsight is a frame debugger/profiler (like PerfStudio). Well written description of profiling capabilities can be found here: http://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/index.html#developertools/desktop/frame_profiler_ogl.htm
It is worth noting that Nsight also uses state buckets and PerfKit counters allow to draw some pretty charts. I think such things would be too much for Apitrace (also it is PerfKit specific), but there should be some options to export data (then you can plot whatever you like).
4. NVIDIA Visual Profiler (CUDA)
Visual Profiler is a part of CUDA Toolkit and you can run one under Linux. It is similar to Apitrace in a sense that it also replays the whole timeline for profiling and it takes forever. The workflow is simple: you generate timeline, you collect metrics, you analyze your app. I was not able to found here anything interesting to apply to Apitrace.


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It's the life choice that's swept the nation. We're loving lentils, in the midst of an avocado overload, and (thankfully) on the other side of a surreal iceberg lettuce shortage – with chickpea rumoured to be next.
Whether your reasons are ecological, economical, or simply to feel better in yourself, an increasing number of people are moving on from meat.
To celebrate the start of National Vegetarian Week, running from 15th – 21st May, we caught up with Julia Pearson, our assistant food buyer and an enthusiastic vegetarian advocate.
Having been a vegetarian for around 13 years (way before it was cool) Julia tries to find new ways to add excitement to humble vegetables. Thanks to this veggie rush, it's never been easier. If you're the same, make sure you head to our recipe page online, with four veggie meals with each season. We've got the spring curried cauliflower chapattis (pictured above) on our to-make list, plus autumn's pumpkin and sweet potato ravioli would impress the fussiest of dinner guests.
For Julia, your kitchen cupboard essentials are the best place to start: 'Chilli, garlic, honey, etc, etc, etc – I could go on!' she explains, 'They're such simple ingredients you always have in the cupboard, but add so much flavour to your meal. I love honey roasted carrots and parsnips with my roast dinner!'
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Julia recently made a yoghurt dressing to go with aubergine, and was pleasantly surprised: 'It was so easy to make, I sprinkled sea salt, black pepper and cumin on to the aubergine wedges, and while they were baking in the oven, whisked Greek-style yoghurt with garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. A quick, tasty, and guilt-free meal!'
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Glenn Frey was dead. The news was coming through the radio on a rainy drive home from Southern California, and the elements outside our family car matched the mood of the 50-something adults sitting in the front seats. The trek from Disneyland to Sacramento was suddenly a wake for Frey, and for the youthful emotions that connected us – and millions of others – to his timeless music.
A founder of the Eagles, arguably the most successful American rock band, Frey was 67 when he died Jan. 18 from various illnesses – rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis, pneumonia – maladies he would have seemed impervious to in his 1970s heyday.
In the past, when entertainers had died, it had been easy enough for me to maintain an emotional distance because often they were much older and of a different generation. Not so with Frey, the news of his passing casting a melancholy light on my adolescent memories.
"We're getting up in years," said Mark Goodman, the satellite radio DJ who once introduced videos at the dawn of MTV in the early '80s.
We couldn't pretend Goodman was talking to someone else. He was talking to us. We are getting up in years. This reality was punctuated by the kids laughing in the backseat as they played games and asked innocent yet painful questions, such as "Who was Glenn Frey, Dad?"
I once had been the kid who was indifferent when my dad lamented the passage of time and the loss of people and things he held dear. Now it was my turn to ask my children to please quiet down as the opening strains of "Hotel California" played on the radio. The kids weren't being disrespectful. It's just that Frey meant nothing to them. Neither did David Bowie or Mic Gillette, founder of Tower of Power.
For my children, the music of their generation has yet to be written. For me, two artists from the soundtrack of my youth died within days of each other.
Before Frey's passing, the "Hotel California" album evoked only my early teenage years when – as teenagers often do – I began thinking for myself and pulling away from my parents. Frey inspired me to test parental disapproval for the first time. My dad hated rock music. He hated long hair even more. When I gravitated toward both, it created a family battle that we had never had before.
I was inspired to rebel against 1940s-era parents by lyrics I didn't really understand. "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair / Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air / Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light / My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim / I had to stop for the night."
Hearing Don Henley sing those lyrics about the free spirit of '70s life and life in the fast lane, I could imagine the album cover from the "Hotel California," with its glorious sunset beaming behind palm trees and a California Mission-inspired hotel.
At 14, I certainly wasn't living life in the fast lane when "Hotel California" topped the Billboard charts in the summer of 1977. For me, it was coming of age music. I would go to Tower Records and listen to the Eagles as employees spun vinyl for kids who had money to buy records. I didn't. All I could do was listen and watch from a distance as my mind opened. In the store, I was turned on to Hunter S. Thompson in Rolling Stone magazine. I first read seminal American poetry, such as "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. I discovered Lou Reed and Led Zeppelin.
I also discovered David Bowie and was stunned by his gender-bending stage persona, his seductive pop melodies and subversive lyrics. In "Rebel Rebel," Bowie sang: "You've got your mother in a whirl / She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl / Hey babe, your hair's alright / Hey babe, let's go out tonight."
The idea of not being sure if you're a boy or a girl seemed frightening at the time, given the Mexican/Catholic homophobia of my upbringing. But that song had a primal effect on kids everywhere. It empowered people who felt different and looked different.
To this day, the lyrics to Bowie's 1977 hit "Heroes" sound like a call to action to outsiders everywhere: "I, I will be king / And you, you will be queen / Though nothing, will drive them away / We can beat them, just for one day / We can be heroes, just for one day."
Bowie later said this song was about an affair between his manager and a young woman that was kept secret for years. But like any true art, the lyrics and the melodies carried messages that moved people for different reasons.
It was through Bowie's music that casual and cruel homophobia became unmasked to me. I met and became friends with kids who were gay. I didn't advertise it to my family because I was still too immature to know my own mind in those years. But I didn't run away from the ideas contained in the music I loved. That music helped shape me into a different person. Looking back now, I never felt the hostility toward gay people that some of my friends did. I saw the AIDS epidemic for what it was in the 1980s: a tragic health crisis that demanded attention.
I wonder now how much Bowie's music had to do with my own world view, which conflicted with my dad's and with those of other people I loved. My dad thought my music filled the minds of young people with dangerous ideas. In a sense he was right. The composers of my generation inspired me and others to find our own way and think for ourselves.
Bowie and Frey became part of the song book of my high school and college years, which also included Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Elvis Costello and the Clash. Bowie's "Let's Dance" album of 1983 was his biggest commercial success the year I turned 21. Music videos were new then. It was a time made for Bowie, whose videos for "Let's Dance" and "China Girl" still take me back to when I was thinner and had much more hair.
These artists remained in the public eye for decades. I saw the Eagles in Sacramento in the late 1990s, their voices still powerful even though their faces revealed hard-earned wrinkles. The concert reminded me of how talented they were as singers, songwriters and performers. Though none of the Eagles was from Southern California, the band formed there, and their music evokes a mythology of Los Angeles as a magical, if decadently destructive, place.
We had only just heard that Frey was ill late last year, when the Eagles passed up a chance to be recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors due to Frey's illness. Bowie's death on Jan. 10 at 69 was a shock because his cancer had been kept secret. Suddenly, they were gone – along with Gillette of Tower of Power. The man who blew that gorgeous solo on "You're Still a Young Man," died Jan. 17 of a heart attack. He was 64.
I told my kids that their dad was sad because these songwriters had created music that he loved when he was a boy. They were sympathetic, but soon back to being kids. They'll learn in their own time what we all learn eventually: That life is about the little things, like the music that moves you when you're young and impressionable and just making your way in life.
Then one day, the maker of that music dies. You mourn for him or her and for the person you were. You'll always love the songs, but from now on, when they come on the radio, they'll scrape your heart while making it pump a little faster.
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When I tried to think of a title for this post, the first thing that popped into my head was December First- which is when I'm actually sitting down to put it together. Of course, it won't publish until tomorrow, but the sentiment remains the same. The "wherethefuckhastheyeargone" sentiment that keeps creeping up behind me and scaring me half to death. 2015 has come and gone (almost) and in its wake it's left so many good things. (REALLY GOOD THINGS- SOME THAT I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU ABOUT YET BUT THAT ARE SO BIG AND GOOD AND GOOD AND BIG.)
S and I drove up to San Francisco the other weekend- a miserable drive made worse by accidents (not ours) and construction and general traffic woes. But we ate a lot of pizza and we saw my niece (who calls me something that sounds like "Ana") and we saw our good friends' new baby and we met other friends for drinks and we drank wine on my brother's deck and then we came home, back to LA, me searching Zillow to look up prices on all the houses we passed on the backroads from the 405 to Santa Monica.
Now: a short hop, skip, and jump away from the end of the year, from our trip to Hawaii (!!), from my birthday, from the aforementioned exciting announcement with which I'll start off 2016 (feel the suspense building?).
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Architects are often judged by their masterpieces. For Alister Mackenzie, it's Cypress Point. For Charles Blair Macdonald, it's National Golf Links of America. For Donald Ross, it's Seminole. For A.W. Tillinghast, it's Winged Foot.
For Seth Raynor, it's the Fishers Island Club.
Raynor was cast as Macdonald's right hand man for the early years of his career. But as Macdonald's interest in designing courses waned, job inquiries trickled down to Raynor, who perfected his architecture craft and gained a deeper understanding of the game at courses like Shoreacres, Camargo, Blue Mound, Yeamans Hall and the Course at Yale. Fishers Island was Raynor's final and greatest symphony.
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The experience
Entrances are often talked about at golf courses. The drive into a club builds anticipation and excitement for the day. Fishers offers a truly unique "entrance" – a ferry ride across the Long Island Sound to the island. Coming from the Nauck Harbor, we rode the Popeye shuttle and arrived at the dock situated off of the 17th hole. After a quick stroll down the wood planks, our carts awaited us and we drove to the clubhouse. Unlike many exclusive clubs, Fishers Island is the furthest thing from "stuffy," offering a laid-back vacation vibe that makes you feel at home.
We met the superintendents, Don Beck and David McIntyre, by the putting green, each of whom quickly apologized for how "green the course was," music to our group's ears. It was subtle, but the comment exemplified what Fishers is – a golf course architecture fan's nirvana.
For first-time readers, let me make it clear that there is nothing I love more than a firm and fast golf course. I believe that the effort to present a green golf course is one of the major issues with golf, creating sustainability issues and promoting a poorer playing condition to the average player.
The 6,636-yard par-70 course is filled with jaw-dropping vistas of the Long Island Sound and Raynor's famed template holes. Two of Raynor's standout skills – routing and building green complexes – are on full display at the venerable site. Raynor's routing skills maximized the holes on the water, providing dramatics at every turn while using the natural land movement as his fairway hazard, only employing two fairway bunkers on the course. The overlooked aspect of Fishers' routing is how nearly every hole plays in a different direction, which allows the course's best defense, the wind, to play a starring role. Golfers are kept in a constant state of confusion as they try to find the exact direction and strength of the wind on a given hole.
Raynor was known for his bold green concepts; the redan, the double plateau and the punchbowl have massive ridges that make them easily distinguishable. But the subtle ridges, rolls, spines and humps in his green complexes are what makes Fishers' greens some of, if not the best, in the world. These design subtleties are woven in from the tee through the green on every hole at Fishers Island.
I often judge a golf course by whether it inspires you to play more. At Fishers, my play was not good, but on the 17th hole I was sad to see the round nearing its end. Fishers deserves all of its acclaim and possibly more. It's one of the finest golf courses in the world.
A quick history lesson
Started by the Ferguson family in 1925, the Fishers Island Club was set out to be modeled after Mountain Lake, the vibrant country club community in Lake Wales, FL. Naturally the Fergusons went after the man behind Mountain Lake, Seth Raynor to design their golf course on the farmlands of Fishers Island. Upon walking the property, Raynor found two superior sites for 18 hole golf courses, one where Fishers Island sits today and another that was planned to be developed until the Great Depression cut its plans short and the additional course's development was abandoned. Over the years, Fishers has done an exemplary job keeping the original golf course intact and staying true to Raynor's intentions, planting few to no trees, maintaining firm and fast conditions and recently undergoing work to recapture the original green sizes.
On to the holes
*special thanks to Jon Cavalier for his beautiful photos*
1st - "Raynor's Start" - 396 yards - par 4
As is customary with most Raynor designs, the first is a friendly start. The wind typically plays off your back and the tee shot plays downhill. The water on the right comes into play at about 300 yards from the tee, requiring longer players to choose whether or not to play aggressively off the tee. The fairway slopes from left to right, and the green is perched with a light back to front slope playing slightly uphill. One of the subtle, strategic aspects of the first is how the safe play off the tee is down the left side, but on that half of the fairway the left-to-right slope is severe. Consequently, a shot to the left of the fairway makes yields a more challenging approach shot than the flatter right half, which carries the risk of the water.
2nd - "Redan" - 184 yards - par 3
The original green for the 2nd hole was lost to a hurricane, forcing the club to rebuild the green. The hole plays slightly downhill and the wind is a critical factor. As with all redan holes, the green slants severely from front-to-back and right-to-left around a deep front bunker. Contrary to most golf holes, the redan's ideal miss is long which leaves an uphill putt or chip to the pin. Unfortunately, the second green is slightly off since following the hurricane. The rebuild green has a slope that slope isn't quite severe enough in the middle of the green, which doesn't funnel balls all the way to the back.
3rd - "Plateau" - 335 yards - par 4
One of the most memorable holes at Fishers Island is the short par-4 third, which plays uphill and seemingly to the edge of the world. The hole doglegs slightly to the right and asks players their appetite for risk. The safe play is a long-iron up the left side, but a well-struck driver can get long-hitters close or even home. The dominant features at the third are treacherous greenside bunkers, which flank the right and left sides of the narrow back to front sloping green.
4th - "Punch Bowl" - 412 yards - par 4
The fourth is considered by many to be the greatest golf hole in the United States, it's a variety of the Alps template and perhaps the greatest version in golf. The strategy of the hole is dependent on the day's pin position, which is noted by a peg board.
If the flag is on the right side of the green, the left side of the fairway is preferred and vice versa. A smart play is to pull long iron and play it up the fairway, leaving a short to mid-iron approach to the blind green. If you choose to play boldly, a driver that cuts the corner will leave a wedge shot and maybe even a view of the obstructed green. For those that lay up, the second shot requires trust in your line off of the Fishers Island flag that marks the center of the green. The yardage to the pin cannot be measured by lasers and your swing will feel unstable as the wind typically is whipping down and off the sound.
Coming over the hill and seeing the bold punchbowl green set back against the ocean is a sight to behold and one that is truly unforgettable. While it has bold exterior contours, Raynor's subtle spine which runs through the middle of the green is the true genius of the green. This spine plays a factor in nearly every pin for shots just a little off their targets.
5th - "Biarritz" - 229 yards - par 3
Continuing on the jaw dropping stretch of holes is the biarritz fifth, which plays parallel to the Long Island Sound, giving the long par 3 the added challenge of strong winds. With the sound on the right, the natural bailout for golfers is left, where Raynor places two deep trench bunkers. The front of the biarritz is kept as fairway and when the course is firm and fast, the green is conducive to low-iron shots that bounce the ball onto the green. The green complex is a big square, which has back to front slope and another subtle ledge that comes into the play on the back half of the green. This divides the left two-thirds of the green from the back-right corner, which is slightly elevated and a devilish pin.
6th - "Olinda" - 555 yards - par 5
The first par 5 plays from the shore back into the mainland and shows off the incredible natural land movement on the island. The new tee box is back to the right and semi-blind, favoring a fade to the fairway, which slightly angles right. After reaching the top of the hill, a beautiful view of the green awaits, giving a preview of the great seventh hole as well. The sixth often gets overlooked among Fishers' amazing waterfront holes, but Raynor's restraint from using fairway bunkers is beautiful, opting to allow the natural rolling land to obstruct players shots and layups. Finding a relatively flat lie is difficult and makes it a challenge to go for the green in two or even lay up in the correct position.
The green is another square complex, which slopes from back to front. In the last year they have been able to recapture the back portion, which repels balls off the green. An interesting aspect of Raynor's design psychology is how on the lengthy par-3 second and the fifth he rewarded players who boldly miss long, while on the shortish par-5 sixth, a bold player who misses is penalized with a very difficult recovery.
7th - "Latimer" 363 yards - par 4
Perhaps the most overlooked great hole at Fishers Island is the strategy-packed short par-4 seventh. Playing from an elevated tee, the first decision posed to the player is whether to play aggressively with a driver or lay up short of the salt marsh. The second decision is what side of the fairway to favor. The safe side is left but it leaves a poor angle, while the ideal approach comes from the right side but brings the salt marsh into play. Due to the elevated nature of the green, an approach from the fairway is necessary to hold the firm wind-blown green, which slopes from back to front and features a dramatic false front.
8th - "Road Hole" 465 yards - par 4
The eighth was converted to a par 4 in the early 2000's and is a challenging rendition of the road hole. With the sound on the right and a pond on the left, a good tee shot is a must to this fairway that slopes heavily from right-to-left. Typically playing into the wind, a good tee shot still yields a lengthy approach to the tough road hole green, which is guarded by a deep front pot bunker. There is plenty of room to bail right but it leaves a tricky chip across the green, which slopes from right to left and back to front.
9th - "Double Plateau" - 365 yards - par 4
Fishers' front nine comes to a dramatic close with the short par 4, which features one of golf's greatest green complexes, the double plateau. The tee shot is blind, up over a hill and one of two fairway bunkers on the property. After navigating the tee shots, Raynor treats golfers to another great reveal, as the double plateau green seemingly floats out over the sound. Its bold undulations divide the green into three distinct segments that, when playing firm and fast, make the proper approach angle a premium. If the pin is front-left, the proper angle is from the left; front-right, the right side is preferable and with the back pin the center to left side of the fairway is best.
10th - "Knoll" - 401 yards - par 4
Make the turn and players are treated to a rare sight, an unchanged and original knoll hole, one of Raynor's templates that was often ruined by greens committees who thought they knew better. Completely bunkerless, the 10th is one of the toughest holes on the course. Finding the fairway is a must to set up a reasonable approach to the elevated green, which repels balls that are slightly short, long, right or left. Depending on the pin position, the favored approach angle will change, giving players a little more green to work with on their approaches. As the wind picks up the 10th only gets tougher.
11th - "Eden" - 164 yards - par 3
Photos don't do the 11th justice. The short par 3 is perhaps the best representation of the famed Eden hole at St. Andrews. The green slopes severely from back to front and right to left making any approach long a dicey putt. The worst place to miss on this challenging par three is in the devastatingly deep "hill" bunker.
12th - "Winthrop" - 389 yards - par 4
After the truly remarkable waterfront stretch of the Nos. 3-11, Raynor navigates players inland toward some overlooked holes that possess incredible strategic challenges and phenomenal green complexes.
The first of those is the 12th, which possesses a great deal of strategy because of its elevated, reverse-redan green complex. Off the tee, players have to decide how aggressively they will play, taking anything from a driver to a long iron. The fairway has a lot of undulation that moves from left to right and has a large hump which can obstruct approach shots with an uphill or downhill lie. The green slopes hard from left to right and front to back and has a subtle knob in the middle that obstructs putts to almost every pin. The hole typically plays downwind, which makes the approach shot extremely difficult to hit close because of the green that slopes severely away and is perched some 30 feet above.
13th - "Waterloo" - 400 yards - par 4
The 13th plays back towards the 12th tee and is a slight dogleg right. Much like the twelfth, the strategy is changed significantly by the wind direction. If it's playing into the prevailing wind, the play off the tee is a driver down the right side of the fairway which opens up the ideal approach angle to the large squared off green, avoiding the second and final fairway bunker, which is blind from the tee. The second shot plays over a pair of ponds and into the green complex, the star of the show. It has a false front and bold kicker on the left corner, which feeds shots toward the center. Raynor bisected the green with a small spine that penalizes players who miss their mark to the right or left and the front-left section of the green has a small bowl that makes for a fun pin.
14th - "Cape" - 425 yards - par 4
On the flattest piece of the property, Raynor went to the fail safe template he used at every course he designed – the strategy-packed cape hole. Long hitters will be tempted to carry the water down the left, which is a 290 carry but the prudent play is an iron to the right. The ideal line is down the left side of the fairway, which drastically shortens the approach shot into the green but carries the added risk of the water. I fanned a 3-iron to the right side of the fairway and was left with 200 yards into the green, a number that could have been 30 yards less had I taken my tee shot down the left side.
The green is another special one with bunkers on the right and left and a severe false front. It requires an excellent approach shot to make a birdie. I found the back-left portion of the 14th green to be the most interesting as it features a small ridge that allows for a slightly bolder approach to the green with the comfort of a backstop.
15th - "Long" - 541 yards - par 5
The 15th starts Fishers' closing stretch with a reachable par 5. The tee shot is blind and over a marsh obscuring a generously wide fairway. The right side of the fairway opens up the green and especially the back-left corner for those attempting to get home in two. The green slopes heavily from back to front and is guarded by bunkers on either side. The left bunker is particularly deep and a brutal spot to find yourself if the pin is on the left side. Like most greens at Fishers, the 15th has many small intricacies. The right third of the green plays into a small bowl with the left two-thirds elevated and on its own tier.
16th - "Short" - 146 yards - par 3
The picture worthy short hole plays extra difficult at Fishers because of the always-present wind. Despite playing less than 150 yards, I was forced to hit a 6-iron because of the prevailing wind, which typically is in players face. The green is surrounded by trouble with bunkers catching small misses and marsh penalizing the wide misses. As is typically the case, Raynor saved his wildest green for the short, making par a formidable test on the seemingly easy par 3.
The 16th green's exterior slopes funnel shots on the edges into the bunkers while the center slopes to the right, with a thumbprint on the back half which makes any putt not directly below the flag extremely fast. The unique aspect of Fishers' short is the right side, which is obstructed from the tee but allows for a pin that seemingly floats into the marsh. Getting to that pin is a tall task and the prudent play is to play just slightly left of it, allowing the slope to funnel the ball to the corner.
17th - "Coast Guard" - 415 yards - par 4
The 17th features one of the widest fairways on the course, which allows players to set up a proper angle to attack the day's flag. The prevailing wind at Fishers typically has the 17th playing into a strong left-to-right crosswind, which makes the second shot to the big green difficult. The green is sloped from back to front and has a false front which repels any shots slightly short or with too much spin. There is a small spine that runs down the left third of the green, creating an added obstacle for any pin on the left half of the green.
18th - "Home" - 452 yards - par 4
The closer at Fishers Island is a long and challenging par 4 that plays into the prevailing wind. The tee shot favors a fade and will leave a mid- to long-iron into a boldly-contoured green. The second shot plays uphill and the large and wide green is guarded by bunkers in front and to the right. Raynor gave players an ample, wide opening to play a low running shot into the green, which is divided into three distinct sections: the front-right portion, which slopes significantly from back to left, the back ledge and the front-left bowl. Hitting the green is a success but a player who finds themselves on the wrong ledge will be left with a challenging two-putt to close out the round.
Following the round, I proceeded to burn copious amounts of cash in the pro shop before heading back to the pier to catch our ferry off the island. The ferry ride back to reality allows for reflection on what a laid back place Fishers Island is. The breathtaking views are enough to make Fishers an unforgettable course, but Seth Raynor's superb architecture make it one of the world's best.


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Updates in Meteor Core (MDG)
Announcing Meteor 1.2
Meteor 1.2 is now released! This has a ton of changes that all of you should be aware of. Some of them are breaking changes and you will need to update your Meteor application to accommodate for those changes. This is a release that has been under development for a long time.
Here are some things that came with the release:
- Improved Build Tool
- Official React & Angular Support
- Cordova Upgraded to 5.2
- Crosswalk Support
- LESS / Stylus Imports from packages
- & much more
Meteor Hot Code Push
This is a great blog post that talks about the hot code push feature in Meteor.
System Status Page
MDG has developed a system status page to help keep track of the various services around Meteor. It shows details about things like Galaxy, Meteor Packages, etc. It's always good to have a public status page to keep the community updated.
Meteor Global Hackathon Update
If you are going to be participating in the Hackathon or are interested in participating, you should definitely read this update for more information about it.
Meteor SF Devshop September 2015
This months devshop was great. Here's a list of some talks that occurred throughout it.
Rocket Chat
A great talk that goes through the history behind the open source Rocket.Chat system. What I really enjoyed is the various issues they have encountered and how their team got around it.
Health-based IoT products that uses Meteor for its new business model. They run through an interesting scenario where they have to make sure every enterprise client has a different configuration and they get to do that quickly and easily by utilizing the Meteor and React.
Meteor's Global Hackathon
Nick Coe talks about the global hackathon and how the award is a year subscription to Galaxy.
Sandstorm Makes Deplying as Easy as Making a Google Doc
This is an awesome talk that gives an overview of Sandstorm and a demo of how it works with deploying various open source applications. What I found interesting that I didn't think about before is that Sandstorm does more for security than anything else.
Writing Shell Scripts with JavaScript
Avital, a core developer at Meteor, talks about why writing scripts in JavaScript rather than Bash is better. It is due to the ES2015 changes and utilizing fibers to create synchronous code.
Universe Packages
Universe is a set of Meteor packages to help with development and make your life easy.
Sandstorm in the Meteor Global Hackathon
Jade talks about a bunch of perks that you can get if you utilize Sandstorm.io for your Hackathon project.
Forms Package
This is an interesting package to make it easy to build smart forms in Meteor. I think this package has a lot of potential and can be very useful for all Meteor devs.
MeteorFlux Video Application
Simon Tucker does a talk about how he used React + Flux + Meteor to build a WebRTC video chat application. It's a cool demo, but personally, I do not see the need for adding a Flux architecture into the mix. In my opinion, it adds unnecessary complexity to your application and if you look at Facebook's Relay, the new data architecture that Facebook released, the architecture is similar (if not almost exactly the same) as Meteor's current architecture, so there shouldn't be a need for Flux.
Angular Meteor 1.0.0 Released
The Angular-Meteor package has been updated to be fully compatible with the Meteor 1.2 release. There are more new features and fixes to come as outlined in the blog post.
A Round Up of Meteor Podcasts
This is a great list of recommended Meteor-related podcasts by MDG.
Announcing Meteor Galaxy
Galaxy, Meteor's cloud hosting solution, is now released! The pricing is meant to be catered to larger applications and industry, there will be smaller plans released at a later point, but they want to focus on a small subset of applications to start.
The Meteor Guide
MDG has started on a large guide on various aspects of Meteor. It is open for contribution from community members, so if there is a topic that you feel you know very well, you should contribute to it.
Updates in the Meteor Community
Query Constructors
Sacha Greif wrote a great blog post explaining a good way to handle various query parameters for your publications. He shows you how to build it out with code and I think it's a good query logic structure to have. Especially if you want to scale up your application and easily change query params.
Meteor 1.2 Upgrade Guide
If you are upgrading from Meteor 1.1 to Meteor 1.2, this is a great guide to follow. It outlines a large variety of changes to keep in mind and what steps you can take to ensure the upgrade goes smoothly.
Migrating from Iron Router to Flow Router
Another great guide created by the people at OKGROW!, talking about the differences between Iron Router and Flow Router. It also talks about how to migrate your existing Iron Router based code to use Flow Router. There are some significant differences like no router subscriptions and rather utilizing the template-level subscriptions.
Meteor Interviews #10
This is a great interview with Abigail Watson about the clinical track of Meteor that she is working on. It's a very interesting interview because it's about using Meteor in healthcare. One thing that I really liked is that the clinical Meteor track is meant to be more of a distro instead of a fork that is HIPPA and FDA compliant to allow for healthcare applications to be built in Meteor rather than a legacy programming language.
Introducing Blaze Plus
Blaze Plus is a great package developed by Arunoda that adds on a great feature to add properties that you can pass to child templates. What this allows for is fast rendering down the "template tree" without having to re-render everything on the way down from the parent. It's a very useful package that I see myself using in my next Meteor app.
MDG Needs To Be More Involved with the Community
This is a very interesting forum topic. It isn't the easiest topic to summarize, but for those who have been around for some time, I highly recommend reading the topic.
Uploading Files to S3
The Meteor Chef goes through and shows you how to setup Amazon S3 and use it in your Meteor application to upload files and persist them. It is very well written and shows you step-by-step how to do it.
Exporting ES6 Classes from Meteor Packages
This is a great article that shows you how to export your ES6 classes from your Meteor packages. It shows you a little trick that allows you to get around getting an
undefined value when you try to export your class.
Meteor Club Q&A with Jeremy Shimko
This is a great Q&A with Josh Owens and Jeremy Shimko, a freelance Meteor developer who has previously worked in devops. There is a lot of interesting conversion throughout this Q&A and part of it is focused on Docker. I would highly recommend watching / listening to this.
Spacetalk is moving to new projects SpaceDrop and Rocket.Chat
One of the two Meteor-based Slack alternatives, SpaceTalk, is now dividing into two different projects - SpaceDrop & Rocket.Chat. Rocket.Chat is an existing Slack alternative and rather than SpaceTalk trying to compete, they will help out the Rocket.Chat project as one unified Meteor-based Slack alternative. On the other hand, SpaceDrop is going to be a CMS with the goal to be a better Drupal.
Package Scan
This is an interesting application that takes your
.meteor/versions file and tells you which packages may have security vulnerabilities. This is pretty awesome and a great tool to make sure that you application is secure.
Introducing Base v3.0.0
The Meteor Chef has released version 3 of his base Meteor setup. It's a really great starting point for Meteor applications. It is opinionated but has good structure and can really help you organize your Meteor application to start.
Meteor Training at HTML5 Dev Conf
OKGROW will be hosting a 2-day training class at HTML5DevConf, if you are interesting in learning Meteor or getting a deeper understanding of it, this would be a great class to attend.
Meteor Interviews #11
This is a great interview with Dean Radcliffe that talks about asynchronous JavaScript.
Discover Meteor Podcast
These are brand new podcasts that are meant to help you get a better understanding of building Meteor applications. Each podcast will be short and highly focused on a single topic. That way, you can learn about a single aspect of Meteor at a time.
Microservices with Meteor
This blog post shows you how to setup micro services in Meteor by utilizing DDP. It is a very simple concept, you have various Meteor services running and you communicate between those small services with DDP. It is a very powerful protocol that should get some more emphasis in my opinion.
Gift for Meteor Hackathon Participants from Kadira
The Kadira team is giving you a bunch of great stuff if you are participating in the hackathon.
Server-Side Reactivity
This is a fantastic package that allows you to use the
Tracker.autorun API on the server which can really help you build out some more complicated publications.
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