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Dispersed flows with droplets and particles abound in nature from clouds, mist and fogs to the long-range transport of fine dust released in desert storms or in volcanic eruptions. They control the weather and influence the climate. They play key roles in many industrial energy processes – from spray drying, pneumatic conveying and fluidized beds, to coal gasification and mixing and combustion processes. They can have a profound effect on our health and quality of life, e.g. the inhalation of very fine air-borne particulate (PM10s) damages respiratory functions, and lead to increased cardio- pulmonary mortality rates and allergic disorders. Understanding the behavior of these flows, through modeling and experiment, is therefore important in our control of the environment, improving our health, and in the design and improvement of industrial processes.
There are essentially two ways of modeling dispersed flows, the Euler-Lagrange (E-L) approach where individual particle are tracked through an Eulerian flow field or an entirely Eulerian (E-E) approach where both the dispersed and continuous phases are described by a set of continuum equations that represent the conservation of mass moment and energy within an elemental volume of the mixture. This e-Book is about the E-L approach and exploits the recent advances in modeling complex flows in which LES has been used to describe the underlying large scale features of the continuous phase and stochastic equations based on the Generalized Langevin equations for the sub-filtered (SGS) motion of the fluid seen by the particle. The main advantage of this approach is that one can deal very successfully with particle dispersion and transport in complex industrial flows with complex geometries and boundary conditions, noting also that much success has been achieved using this approach in more generic flows like deposition of particles in a turbulent boundary. The author has been successful in presenting a thoroughly comprehensible and readable text that engineering researchers can use as a source of reference as well as for fundamental understanding. In order to achieve the dual objectives of understanding and simplicity, lengthy mathematical analysis has been avoided and emphasis has been placed on detailed applications. In view of the recent advances in LES and sub grid scale modeling and the application of stochastic methods, a e-Book of this nature is very timely and one that I would thoroughly recommend to all young researchers embarking on a study of industrial dispersed flows.
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Newcastle University
This e-Book presents an introduction to the numerical simulation of turbulent dilute two-phase flows using the very promising mesoscale approach namely; Large Eddy simulation (LES). The text details the use of the stochastic diffusion process in conjunction with LES approach to simulate industrial applications dealing with very small, turbulence-responsive particles convected by high-Reynolds, non-homogeneous and anisotropic flows. This novel approach has been proven to increase the accuracy of two-phase LES while keeping the computing cost at an affordable level.
The goal is to present a text that engineering researchers can read and understand and from which they can attack a variety of industrial problems. It serves only as a preliminary exposure to the readers who are interested in developing the subject at more advanced level. In order to achieve the dual objectives of understanding and simplicity, lengthy mathematical analysis was avoided and emphasis was placed on detailed applications.
The material included in this book is organized to facilitate the understanding of the numerical approach in the context of dilute gas-particle systems. The context in which the stochastic LES-particle is developed is explained in Chapter 1. In Chapters 2 and 3, the most important aspects of LES of single- and two-phase turbulent flows are covered, respectively. A separate chapter (Chapter 4) details the stochastic model developed to track small inertial particles transported by the LES-predicted turbulent flows. For that purpose, the simplest mathematical approach is used, consistent with technical vigor. In the subsequent three chapters (Chapters 5, 6 and 7), three important flow applications are presented in almost every details. The aim is to show the promising potential which the stochastic LES-particle approach has in tackling dispersed industrial flows. Also, to use the stochastic LES-particle approach to explain many of the experimental findings on inertial particle transport by turbulent flows.
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This e-Book is essentially the outcome of my last five years of association with this subject. I have received great deal of help from numerous persons over these years in formulating and revising my views on this numerical approach for particulate turbulent flows. I am particularly indebted to my teacher and mentor, Professor D. Laurence, who has been one of the leading practitioners of large eddy simulation technique for three decades at both Electricite de France and the University of Manchester. There are no adequate words to express his contributions to my understanding of the subject. I was fortunate to have an opportunity to work with Professor J.J. Riley at University of Washington-Seattle. Without his support and critics, it would not have been possible to develop the stochastic model. I would like to acknowledge the support provided by Emeritus Professor M.W. Reeks of University of Newcastle, Emeritus Professor D.E. Stock of Washington State University, and Professor Krishnanswamy Nandakumar of Louisiana State University. I would like to thank Dr. Alexander Douce of Electricite de France, Dr. Andy Lowe of the University of Manchester, and Dr. Chunliang Wu of Guangdong Ocean University, China for sharing knowledge about the subject.
I am grateful to one of my brilliant students, Mohamed Abu-Taqiya, at the Petroleum Institute- Abu Dhabi who helped me collect the required information, edit and proofread the book. Any remaining errors or shortcomings are the responsibility of the author. Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Karima, for her patience, understanding and enthusiastic support, which carried me through this long and arduous writing process.
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Chemical Engineering Department
Petroleum Institute
Abu Dhabi, January 2011


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Angular 2 – Simplifying Module ImportsStandard
NgModule was a late addition to Angular 2 first appearing in RC5. One of it's main purposes is to support lazy loading but it also helps reduce the code required for exporting and importing of components, directives and pipes. This post isn't an intro to modules, there are plenty of those out there including the great docs on the angular site linked above.
What I want to look at in this post is how we can use a small quality of life feature to simplify the importing of modules into other modules using an index.ts to export all items from a module.
Below is the typical folder structure for a simple angular 2 app with the top level app module that will serve as our entry point and a single feature module called contact. Somewhat contrived but it provides what we need.
/app app.component.ts app.component.html app.module.ts /contact contact.component.ts contact.directive.ts contact.pipe.ts contact.module.ts
ContactModule (contact.module.ts) includes our ContactComponent (contact.component.ts), ContactDirective (contact.directive.ts) and ContactPipe (contact.pipe.ts) in its exports making them available to any module that imports ContactModule.
Our AppComponent (app.component.ts) wants to use the ContactComponent and ContactDirective so we must import them into our AppModule (app.module.ts). It doesn't need the Pipe.
AppModule will look something like this:
//Import the module and individually the Component and Directive import { ContactModule } from './contact/contact.module'; import { ContactComponent } from './contact/contact.component'; import { ContactDirective } from './contact/contact.directive'; @NgModule({ imports: [ContactModule], exports: [], declarations: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule() {}
Even though we import the module ContactModule we must also include the imports for the ContactComponent and ContactDirective or neither of them will be available inside AppModule.
If the ContactModule is imported into lots of other modules this can lead to repetitive code. If we add something new to ContactModule we'd need to add the imports to each module that already imports ContactModule. Bit of a pain!
The solution to this is to create a "feature exports" file for all the exports from our contact feature. We only have to then import this file defining the items we want to use. Also, if we name this file index.ts we can also omit the filename when defining the import statement in the imorting module.
The new folder structure will now look as follows including our new
index.ts file in the feature folder:
/app app.component.ts app.component.html app.module.ts /contact contact.component.ts contact.directive.ts contact.pipe.ts contact.module.ts index.ts
index.ts will contain the following:
export { ContactComponent } from './contact.component'; export { ContactDirective } from './contact.directive'; export { ContactPipe } from './contact.pipe'; export { ContactModule } from './contact.module';
Now when we want to import the contact feature module into our app module we just need to import the "feature file" for which we don't even have to specify the filename due to convention just the feature folder name…nice!:
//Import what we need from the 'contact feature' import { ContactComponent, ContactDirective } from './contact'; @NgModule({ imports: [ContactModule], exports: [], declarations: [] })
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The Angular 2 framework has now been released so it's a great time to jump in and learn the ropes. However, whilst we can relax our attention on the changing API's in the framework for a short time, we're still faced with the endlessly changing world of front end tooling.
Webpack is currently top of the pile for all of our developer workflow needs. But what else is there and where do we start?
Angular cli
A fork of the ember cli that's recently been updated to support webpack replacing systemjs. This is almost certainly going to be the dominant player going forward as it has some prominent angular community contributors. Remember that much of the featureset comes from webpack rather than the cli itself.
- Your lowest friction option for getting a project up an running.
- The generators are really useful for creating the often repeated boilerplate in an Angular app.
- The generators help maintain consistency across an application in the absence of existing coding standards.
- Built on test first principles. Unit and e2e tests are baked into the generators.
- Performance overall is mediocre. Initialising a new project or running tests for the first time can be very slow.
- Still in beta and past changes show they're not afraid to move the goal posts by quite some margin.
- Currently no OOB support for cache busting in the webpack build.
- The inline help system isn't good.
- Due to the development cadence it's difficult to get answers to problems. Most answered questions on stackoverflow are long out of date.
ASP.NET Core Yeoman generators
If you're looking at developing an Angular application using ASP.NET Core for the backend these generators are worth a look.
This is a great video by Steve Sanderson at NDC Sydney 2016 discussing their capability in some detail.
Community Starter Templates
These are a couple of github projects that provide a basic application along with some preconfigured tooling. Generally they're going to provide the same bootstrapped project experience as you'll get from the angular cli but in a slightly lighter touch template.
Low touch template with testing baked in and a solid README to get you going. As of this writing still being updated regularly.
Gulp based build – not a bad thing! It's an older project but it's still being updated. Again the README is solid and there are a number of forked reference sites linked that may prove handy.
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typings or the types npm organisation?
In this post I'll look at the current options available to us for managing the definition files (d.ts) in our typescript projects.
I recently started looking at the new features in typescript 2.0 and was surprised to find that
tsd has been deprecated. The deprecation isn't part of the 2.0 release as
tsd is/was just external tooling but it quickly became part of my refresher that I thought I'd share here.
As a quick update
tsd was a command line tool that allowed you to pull type definition files for external libraries (lodash, jquery etc) into your project.
I discovered we now have two options available to us that initially caused me some confusion as I wasn't sure if they were related in some way. They're not.
The typings project is a community supported option hosted on github that has been the primary replacement for tsd. It allows you to pull in definition files from a number of sources and continues to be supported. It has a solid upgrade path if you're moving a project from
View the README on the project repository for more info.
@types (organisation on npm)
The @types organisation on npm has been created by Microsoft as a response to the communities feedback that obtaining definition files has been troublesome. At the time of writing the organisation contains 2247 separate packages. Since this is a regular npm repository you'll just install the definition files as regular npm packages using the @prefix for the org:
npm install @types\lodash.
The repository is populated from a publisher service that continues to pull the definitions from the DefinitelyTyped repo. You could use it for pulling into a private repo if required.
Going forward I think I'll be using @types. However, the new angular-cli uses typings which is how I was introduced to it's existence. It'll be interesting to see if they continue to use typings or move over to using @types.
I'll be publishing another post soon describing how to configure a new typescript project to use @types.
Further reading:
Microsoft Blog Post – The Future of Declaration Files
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We're certainly not short of demo solutions and todo apps but I was pleased to receive an email today with details on the now comprehensive list of Azure code samples available for download here.
Of particular interest to me are the identity management and authentication samples I'll be hooking into Dynamics CRM 2016 and of course anything node related will always get my attention.
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If nothing else it has an amusing name, it's pronounced "dunder proto" due to the double underscore notation it borrows from python.
__proto__ property is used to access the prototype chain for an object instance. Don't know what a prototype chain is? Go take a look here.
So where does it come from? It gets created on any new instance during construction. If construction is done using a constructor function i.e by using the new keyword
var a = new Person() it will point to the prototype of the constructor function, in this instance
Person.prototype. If done using object literal notation
var b = {} it will point to
Object.prototype. Note that as everything in JavaScript is an object, all objects can follow their prototype chain back to
You can also gain access to the prototype using
Object.getPrototypeOf(...). MDN provides more on this. You should give this a read if you haven't already to understand the history of this property.
The following code demonstrates the setup of two very simple object literal and constructor function prototype chains.
//Object literal var o = {}; o.__proto__ === Object.prototype; //true o.prototype === undefined; //true //Constructor function function Shape(){} var circle = new Shape(); circle.__proto__ === Shape.prototype; //true circle.__proto__.__proto__ == Object.prototype; //true Shape.__proto__ === Function.prototype; //true
More reading.
I've already linked them above but as always the MDN docs are a good place to start. There is a great stackoverflow post that has some really valuable insight amongst the many answers and comments.
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TL;DR If you are struggling with
npm install failing on a package you are convinced is no longer a dependency of your current package.json structure. Try clearing out your node_modules folder or take a look at the
npm prune command.
I know this post is quite a long one but most of the content was created in realtime as I was working the problem. I'm a voracious note taker so figured I'd just write up my notes as a blog post as I went along.
I have a little express website running on my raspberry pi B+ from home. I deploy to this site using a post-receive git hook that deploys the master branch and runs
npm install --production to ensure the latest dependencies are installed. Notice that I use the –production switch to ensure devDependencies are not installed.
After trying to access this site following a push I found the site to be unavailable. I use forever to maintain the node process so I checked the logs and noticed a number of errors indicating new dependencies had not been installed.
I ssh'd into the server and run
npm install --production manually and saw that it was taking an unusually long time to complete eventually failing due to native module compilation failure.
Here are the new packages my latest commit has introduced:
- dependencies
- passport
- passport-local
- devDependencies
- browser-sync
- gulp
- gulp-nodemon
As you can see, passport and passport-local are the only packages that should be installed. However, after I traced the failed module up the dependency tree shown below you can see that npm was trying to install browser-sync whose dependency graph relies on native modules.
bufferutil ->
ws ->
engine.io ->
socket.io ->
http-proxy ->
foxy ->
At this point I checked online to see if there were any known issues but only came up with this github issue which is old and closed.
Let's see what the status of the
--production switch is in the current npm docs
With the –production flag (or when the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production), npm will not install modules listed in devDependencies.
That seems consistent with my understanding. So let's make sure we're on the latest version of npm and see if that fixes it.
My npm version (at the the time of posting) is
3.3.12, let's update with the utter brain f*ck that is self updating software.
sudo npm install npm -g
The update has taken us to
3.6.0 but having tried to run
npm install --production again I'm getting the same result with a failed compile.
So I know that the dependency causing the problem is browser-sync. Let's confirm this by removing it from package.json. When I now run
npm install it shouldn't matter whether it does or doesn't install devDependencies as the package causing the problem isn't in either section.
To my surprise this still fails! OK
npm install is clearly not just running through the package.json and installing the specified packages and their dependencies as I expected.
The next logical step (yes I know, many of you may have arrived at this point long ago) is to delete my node_modules folder and rerun
npm install.
Success! Everything installs as required.
What's going on? Well, it would seem that
npm install doesn't just install packages and dependencies defined in your package.json. Instead it sees your package.json as simply the top level in the dependency graph. Once it's completed the install for all the packages in your package.json, it must then start enumerating all of the packages under node_modules and repeat the process for their package.json files.
This behaviour makes sense and more importantly for me would explain how I ended up with this problem. My git hook script does an npm install without the –production switch. After I'd fixed this up as part of my analysis of this issue I'd fixed the problem for future deployments but I'd left my node_modules folder in an invalid state because the failing module (browser-sync) was still in there.
Further reading on this problem shows there is an npm command called
prune that will clear all dangling dependencies from your node_modules folder based on your current package.json. In fact we can do the following to clear out just our devDependencies, a common requirement if we've inadvertently installed them on the production box…as if!
npm prune --production
So, problem solved. I hope this post has been useful or at least mildly entertaining for the more initiated out there.


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text: A sequel to my painting "Lives Hanging in the Balance," this work shows the inevitable outcome in San Francisco's hot real estate market. What does the future bring for low income and immigrant tenants who live here? The comforter above the sign has teddy bears scattered throughout the colorful squares; it belongs to a child. In an interesting coincidence, this Chinatown building is near Donaldina Cameron Alley, which pays homage to the woman who rescued young Chinese girls from sex slavery in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Acrylic on canvas. (For zoom: place cursor over image.)


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What Will It Take to Power the US Military with Green Energy?
What Will It Take to Power the US Military with Green Energy?
As the world's largest industrial consumer of oil in the world, the U.S. Department of Defense is striving to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel, become more energy efficient and shrink its substantial environmental bootprint in the process.
GreenBiz reports frequently on those efforts by the DOD and various branches of the military, whose work in the area has become another aspect of competition among the forces.
Just last month, the Army awarded its first cloud computing contract. The service also announced it had awarded more than $60 million in contracts for solar and wind power installations, including one that will become the largest renewable energy project for the branch thus far.
And just last week, the American Council On Renewable Energy and business group Advanced Energy Economy said that they are working the Department of Defense to explore further ways to green the military's power sources. The two organizations, in concert with the DOD, are holding a series of forums this year on increasing military effectiveness with renewable energy.
The groups have prepared a primer for advanced energy companies about the military's efforts ease dependence on fossil fuels and case studies on work with three companies that have helped the DOD advance toward its goals: Lockheed Martin, Ocean Power and SunPower.
In addition to the resources, the organizations have drawn up a chart to illustrate the magnitude of the military's energy consumption, the costs in dollars and risks to soldiers and ways to minimize them:
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Laughing King Lear
About thirty years ago or more, I spent a great deal of time "under the Dome" of the British Library, housed then in the British Museum in Great Russell Street, where I would, before entering through the black wrought iron gates, pass the quarters where Arthur Machen once lived. I was in quest of rare decadent poetry. To get books, readers went to the great green directories listing the library's holdings, which stood like ancient holy books in niches around the room. They hefted them out, turned their vast pages, and found the elusive title they wanted. They then copied out the particulars, including the all-important shelfmark, onto a white slip of paper, which manifested these also onto several carbon copies. These requests were then placed in a receptacle at a central desk.
Some time later, which might vary from fifteen minutes to several hours, the desired book might arrive on a wooden trolley, pushed with hushed ponderousness by an official in a grey tunic. Occasionally, instead of the book, the slip itself would waft on to the reader's desk, informing them that the volume had been "destroyed by enemy action", or, with less drama, that it was frail and must only be viewed in the North Gallery. In this ceremonial manner, which seemed always like the solemn ritual of some arcane sect – the Sandemanians, perhaps, or the Irvingites –I was able to handle such rare relics as the verses of Count Stenbock, the phantasmagoria of John Barlas, the chiaroscuro poems of Arthur A Piggot, or the pierrot plays of Eric Lyall. And provided that one could show the work was out of copyright, it was also possible to order photocopies of at least some of the pages in these delicate volumes. The copies would be posted to you, arriving perhaps a fortnight or so later.
This service was usually provided with considerable efficiency. But on one occasion, I received from the British Library an envelope which proved to contain a mystery: a copy I had not ordered. It had no doubt been mixed up with another reader's request: they were perhaps puzzling at around the same time over the swooning effulgences that I must have been expecting. What I got instead was the final scene of King Lear.
I thought this was odd. Why would anyone need to order a copy of that, when the plays of Shakespeare may easily be found in countless editions? However, keen readers can rarely stop themselves from perusing any reading matter whatever, that happens to stop in front of them (I am myself an inveterate reader of notices). So I had a look at what I had mistakenly been sent. And then I was still more mystified. It all seemed rather amiable. The King, Gloucester and Kent exchanged cheery compliments and were apparently all set to wander off into the sunset together, arm in arm. I was not then as well-versed in Shakespeare as I might be, but I had formed the hazy impression that King Lear was a tragedy. Yet this didn't seem all that melancholy.
What I had been sent, of course, was the finale of the "happy" version of the play composed by Nahum Tate in an adaptation of 1681 that rather bravely mingles his lines with Shakespeare's. With a mind full of Machen's theory of improbable coincidences, as evinced most notably in The Three Impostors, I naturally supposed that receiving this unexpected document must have some secret significance. Perhaps, I reflected, it was not after all just a mix-up. Maybe there was a furtive Tate admirer embedded among the staff of the great Library, who made it his business to send tantalising glimpses of the happy Lear to random readers. If so, they had found their mark. I am sorry to say that the sentimentalist in me found it rather touching. And there are worse watchwords for life than Lear's last line.
Now, gentle Gods, give Gloster his Discharge.
No, Gloster, Thou hast Business yet for Life;
Thou, Kent and I, retir'd to some cool Cell
Will gently pass our short reserves of Time
In calm Reflections on our Fortunes past,
Cheer'd with relation of the prosperous Reign
Of this celestial Pair; Thus our Remains
Shall in an even Course of Thought be past,
Enjoy the present Hour, nor fear the Last.
Our drooping Country now erects her Head,
Peace spreads her balmy Wings, and Plenty Blooms.
Divine Cordelia, all the Gods can witness
How much thy Love to Empire I prefer!
Thy bright Example shall convince the World
(Whatever Storms of Fortune are decreed)
That Truth and Vertue shall at last succeed.
(from the online text edited by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, Newark, with thanks)
Mark Valentine
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- AnonymousApril 26, 2014 at 11:41 AM
Dear Mr. V. Thank you ever so much for posting these little essays a bit more frequently. I have sought out so many books owing to your suggestions and have never been let down. I recently read your "Seventeen Stories" after reading its glowing reviews on Amazon and realizing that it was the first book of yours that I could afford to buy! Thank you so much for your love of books as well as your generosity in sharing your passion in essays and your own fiction.ReplyDelete
It's cheering to get such encouragement, thank you. MarkReplyDelete
Of course Shakespeare's source play, the "True Chronicle history of King Leir, and his three daughters" staged by Queen Elizabeth;'s players roughly 15 years before Shakespeare's Lear, also had a happy ending, as did the prose source in Holinshed's Chronicles. So in a way Tate was reverting to the original ending.ReplyDelete
And I too look forward eagerly to each installment of Wormwoodiana...


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It's been four weeks since we started our son's sugar-free, anti-fungal diet, and it has gone so much better than I anticipated. His sugar cravings have gone down quite a bit, and it's really helped his overall demeanor.
The biggest challenge for me, however, has been preparing snacks for outings. Snack bars, deli meats, and restaurants were off the "safe" list, so I had to find something that was easy to whip up and take on the go. For me, muffins was the answer. I have to say, we have eaten a whole lot of muffins this month.
We've baked blackberry muffins, blueberry muffins, mixed-berry muffins, and apple-cinnamon muffins. I tried a range of recipes, some good, some not, and eventually took the parts I liked from each and put together my own.
This recipe is hearty and satisfying with just a hint of sweetness. It makes a great breakfast with ghee or butter and offers an easy snack to pack up and go. Here's how to make yours at home.
Begin by whisking the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl: almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
If you prefer to use stevia in lieu of honey, substitute 2 "doonks" of stevia for each tablespoon of honey, and whisk with the dry ingredients. (The combination I like best is 2 T honey and 2 doonks of stevia.)
Add the coconut oil and honey and stir thoroughly.
Then, fold in the walnuts and combine.
Next, peel and core the apples. This apple peeler, corer, slicer machine has made our baking SO much easier and is worth every penny.
Cut the apple slices into small cubes and set aside.
In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and mix in the diced apples. (In order to prevent the coconut oil from hardening, make sure the eggs are at room temperature by leaving them out for an hour or soaking them in warm water for 5-10 minutes.) Add the mixture to the dry ingredients and stir thoroughly.
Using a cookie scoop, drop the batter into muffin liners. I recommend parchment paper cupcake liners to prevent sticking!
Bake at 350 degrees for 22 minutes and cool for 10 minutes. Enjoy!
- 1¼ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp baking soda
- pinch of sea salt
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 3T honey
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 1 cup apples, peeled, cored, and diced
- Preheat the oven at 350 degrees.
- Whisk the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl: almond flour, coconut flour, cinnamon, baking soda, sea salt.
- Add the coconut oil and honey and stir with a spatula until well mixed.
- Fold in the walnuts.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, and stir in the diced apples.
- Add the apple mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until completely mixed.
- Scoop batter into parchment paper liner cups.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Allow 10 minutes to cool.
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When I was first getting to know my husband, I was surprised by the amount of time he spent with his family. They are fairly small- his immediate family consisting of his mom, aunt, sister, and Nana. His dad and their family are around, but his connection with them is much different than with his mom's side. And as I got to know them, I understood.
I can't say enough great things about his mother- she is wonderful and I give her full credit for how amazing Matt is as a husband. But his Nana had a special place for him. It would be impossible to count the number of stories I heard about their fun times together at her house on the river in Madison or the number of times he referred to her as a "great lady."
Nana passed away last week in her 70's, too early.
She'd been in the hospital for a week or so when his mom's reports on her health became concerning. Nana had spent a day or two in the hospital here and there but always recovered and went home. She came to visit for thanksgiving and we went three hours north to celebrate Christmas together, and it was fun and wonderful.
But this time in the hospital, she wasn't getting better. Matt made the drive several times, and I went up a couple of those. In my mind, this would end up like those other times and she'd go home with diet restrictions she'd hopefully follow and life would be normal again.
We took a Friday off work to go visit two weeks ago and she was noticeably much worse. The following weekend, it was clear we needed to be there.
That Sunday, we arrived at the hospital with Matt's mom and aunt there, and Nana was not aware. She was clearly struggling to just breathe and it was truly the most heart-wrenching moments of my life. I closed my eyes and prayed for God to give her peace and relief. It came, and she slept. We told stories and watched her rest. Matt and I went to the pharmacy and bought a nail color she would have liked, and his mom and I painted her long, pretty nails.
Later that evening, Matt's aunt went home and Matt and I had dinner and went to a hotel. We stayed up too late watching tv and after about two hours of sleep, got a call from his mom that we needed to be at this hospital. I took a quick shower to wake up, we dressed and rushed over. By the time we made it to the room, Nana was gone.
In my life I'll never forget seeing Matt's mom come around the corner with utter devastation on her face. Nana, whom the whole family adored, was gone. The mom to Marta and Laurie, Nana to Matt and Bri. The lady that served me wine and shared photos of her life with me just after we'd met. The woman that endured a difficult childhood after abuse, chlildrens homes, foster parents, divorce, loss- she's no longer able to tell her stories or be a mom and Nana.
I barely knew her in comparison to the children and grandchildren she had, but I feel her loss so deeply.
That early morning, at 3 a.m., we sat writing the first draft of her obituary using a form the hospital provided. Under the "achievements" section, Matt wrote "nana of the year for 29 years." And it was the most beautiful line I've ever seen in an obituary.
We went to her house to find clothes for her to wear the next day. To see her home just as she'd left it, expecting to return, was sad on a level I can't explain. As we looked through her papers to find important documents, we looked at photos of her life, and read letters from the foster mother who loved and raised her, and I felt deep regret about the questions I never asked and stories I'd never hear.
Matt's family amazes me in their strength. His sister flew home from college, and pinned photos to a cork board to celebrate her life for the service. Matt prepared a playlist of music she'd loved, and his mom and aunt gathered artwork she had created and displayed it at the funeral home. They remembered her in the most positive, beautiful way.
After a little time has passed, I'm left with a few thoughts.
1. I want to live the sort of life that inspires someone to write mom/wife/friend/nana of the year 29 years running
2. I want to have a plan for my arrangements, clothes, music so my grieving family doesn't have to worry about it
3. I want to spend time with my friends and family to hear their stories and know them better before it's too late.
I've not lost anyone close to me since my own Nannie died when I was young, and I haven't experienced this sort of loss as an adult. And it has been profound.
Thank you, Nana, for helping create the wonderful man I married, for giving him a fabulous mother, and and for the bittersweet reminder that life is a precious, brief gift.
To Joyce.


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Mercedes set the fastest practice times again at the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday, though rivals Ferrari and Red Bull may have closed the gap somewhat on Formula One's runaway leader.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, winner of the past two F1 races, was quickest around the Shanghai International Circuit in the afternoon session after a suspension problem limited him to only nine laps in the morning session.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, however, was just 0.141 seconds behind Hamilton under the watch of new team principal Marco Mattiacci, who arrived in Shanghai to take charge following Stefano Domenicali's resignation this week.
Alonso also set the quickest time during the morning practice.
"It's great to be still up front even though we have those issues," he said. "But, still, you want to get the car ready, you want to get the long runs feeling a little better, so there's some work to do."
Teammate Nico Rosberg had the third fastest practice time, about 0.4 seconds behind Hamilton. He said Mercedes still expects to win the race on Sunday, even if its rivals performed well in practice.
"We're still looking pretty decent at the moment," he said. "The competitors are pushing today, Ferrari was very close."
Mercedes has dominated the season, with Hamilton winning in Bahrain and Malaysia and Rosberg in Australia. Only an engine problem on Hamilton's car in the opening race in Melbourne prevented three successive one—two finishes.
But Alonso, the defending Chinese GP champion, kept pace with them in the cool conditions of Shanghai, indicating his struggling team may just emerge as a challenger on Sunday.
Ferrari has lagged behind Mercedes following the series' switch to V6 turbo hybrid engines, and new fuel—saving regulations. The slow start prompted Ferrari to part ways with Domenicali after six years, replacing him with Mattiacci, formerly president of Ferrari North America.
"Leaving aside the performance of the others, I am happy with what we have done today," Alonso said. "At every race, all the teams bring something new and we must try and make an additional step forward if we want to be competitive."
Red Bull also kept up the pace on Friday, with Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel finishing fourth and fifth, respectively.
Ricciardo said, however, he believes Mercedes may have been holding back during practice.
"We have to see where they are tomorrow. The gap seems a bit too close for now," he said. "I would like to say we've caught up but they've got a bit more in there."
"We're making small improvements," Ricciardo said. "I mean, the gap is a big one so it's not going to come over one race, but we've crept up a little bit more."
Felipe Massa of Williams was sixth fastest in afternoon practice, followed by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, who missed the morning session due to a mechanical problem.
McLaren's Jenson Button, Lotus' Romain Grosjean and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat rounded out the top 10.
Smog hampered visibility at the circuit on Thursday, but conditions were relatively clear for Friday's practice. Rain and cool temperatures were forecast for Saturday's qualifying session.


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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey doesn't seem to be resonating with as many people like the previous The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not to say that the film is a bad one. For those disappointed in the film seems to want a repeat of the first trilogy. My review of the film will and shall be up later today to help celebrate the site's 3rd year anniversary. For now let me share the ending song to the first part of Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien trilogy.
"Song of the Lonely Mountain" is sung by Neil Finn of Crowded House and it follows on the tradition of past Tolkien adaptations by Jackson by turning to musicians who Jackson and Shore enjoy listening to. The song has a Celtic, folksy rock sound to it. I particularly enjoyed the addition of hammers ringing on anvils to help listeners visualize the exiled dwarfs of Erebor toiling in front of their foundry in preparation for the day they retake their homeland from the dragon Smaug.
I didn't like the song when it was first premiered a couple weeks in advance of the film, but it has since grew on me and has joined the other three end credits songs from the original trilogy as favorite original film songs.
Song of the Lonely Mountain
Far over the Misty Mountains rise
Leave us standing upon the heights
What was before, we see once more
Our kingdom a distant light
Fiery mountain beneath the moon
The words unspoken, we'll be there soon
For home a song that echoes on
And all who find us will know the tune
Some folk we never forget
Some kind we never forgive
Haven't seen the back of us yet
We'll fight as long as we live
All eyes on the hidden door
To the Lonely Mountain borne
We'll ride in the gathering storm
Until we get our long-forgotten gold
We lay under the Misty Mountains cold
In slumbers deep and dreams of gold
We must awake, our lives to make
And in the darkness a torch we hold
From long ago when lanterns burned
Till this day our hearts have yearned
Her fate unknown the Arkenstone
What was stolen must be returned
We must awake and make the day
To find a song for heart and soul
Some folk we never forget
Some kind we never forgive
Haven't seen the end of it yet
We'll fight as long as we live
All eyes on the hidden door
To the Lonely Mountain borne
We'll ride in the gathering storm
Until we get our long-forgotten gold
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As we wrap up our 2014 farm business management experiences, and look to 2015 and beyond – we may consider expanding something we already do, or we may explore a new enterprise. We may even transition to something outside of agriculture.
|Our farm business choices are only limited by our imagination!
It is important to keep in mind that "anything is possible!" Examples easy to recall when emphasizing the openness of potential markets include; 1) bottled water, 2) pet rocks, and 3) gourmet dog treats.
Sticking with the family-companion theme, let's examine the potential of moving up a marketing channel. I'll focus on simple hard wood here.
1,000 board feet of pallet grade hardwood = $240
This same wood as firewood = $580
Same wood as 1 cubic foot bundles of firewood = $2,760
Same wood as hamster houses = $2,121,400
Maybe an overly simplistic example, but you get the point – anything is possible. The challenges revolve around actually making a profit with whatever it is we decide to do.
My preferred process for gauging the probability of success for expanding or starting a business is summarized here:
What is the objective?
Can you describe to me (very briefly) what it is you are going to accomplish?
Start at the end
How much net income would it take to call this effort worth while?
As we develop budgets and project revenues let's remember some concepts from economics:
Cash costs
People that operate out of a check book only use this method. If they can pay the input bills they believe they are successful.
Accounting costs
Folks that use accepted accounting methods to manage their business recognize there are costs other than cash when gauging profitability.
Economic costs
It may also be meaningful to consider our opportunity costs. I'm not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but I could work as a laborer somewhere in town and forego my farm income. Am I content with the trade off?
Sure, anything is possible, but is it feasible? I can make all the hamster houses I want. Is it reasonable to assume I could sell them?
I do believe our opportunities are only limited by our imagination! However, the risks are great and we must be considerate before we bet all our assets on a new venture.


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A couple of weeks ago we spent the weekend in Palm Springs at The Monkey Tree Hotel. After following them on Instagram for awhile, I was excited to be invited out to check out the place in person- and it did not disappoint! Palm Springs is only a 4 hour drive from Phoenix and the weather is pretty much the same, so the heat wasn't an adjustment for us. Plus I prefer triple digit temperatures for swimming because I'm a wimp like that :)
The hotel was designed in 1960 by Albert Frey, and changed names and owners throughout the years. The current owners, Gary and Kathy Friedle, bought the property in 2015 and moved from New York City to Palm Springs start their new adventure as boutique hotel owners. They restored the hotel to it's original mid-century design, back to the original name, and reopened it earlier this year. The hotel is a mid-century lovers DREAM, decked out in vintage furniture & decor that was all found around Palm Springs. They did an AMAZING job of restoring the great property and adding some unique touches to the place- like a Scandinavian Spa with a cold plunge (I suprisingly did it!)!
One thing I loved about the hotel is that it's smaller with only 16 rooms- which made it perfect for a more relaxing getaway, and a more personalized experience. Breakfast is served each morning and included my favorites- homemade scones, granola, fruit, and yogurt. Our room was really spacious with a kitchenette, and bright white with pops of yellow and blue. The sparkling pool had flamingo & donut floats, 60s garage rock on the speakers, and a homemade sangria served each afternoon- it was really fun but without the craziness of the packed pools you find at some of the larger hotels.
Ok, are you sold? I definitely recommend staying here on your next trip to Palm Springs! It's the kind of hotel you'll leave actually feeling refreshed, which is kind of the point of getting away right??
Thanks so much for having us Monkey Tree Hotel! We had the best time and can't wait to come back!This entry was posted in travel and tagged california, mid century architecture, Monkey Tree Hotel, Palm Springs, travel. ← 70s Vibes with Dansko & Dillards Kind of Fall with Dansko Ankle Boots →
We have driven by this several times during our last few days in the Palm Springs are for Coachella. I thought from the outside it would be cute and so I searched for information about it, finding this blog post. I'm sold! I'd like to return now for a vacation and stay here.


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When we heard the news that Lars Hinrichs, CEO and Founder of XING, was passing the baton of CEO to Dr. Stefan Gross-Selbeck of eBay, we were saddened, but also understood the decision. Lars started the company five years ago, when the Internet was in a "dead zone" between the DotCom Boom and Web 2.0 days. He loved networking and saw an opportunity to bring together aspiring and established business executives from around the world. He called the company, Open Business Club (or OpenBC), based on the notion that it was open to everyone and was completely transparent – I could see who you were connected to and vice versa, so we could better understand our "six degrees of separation." OpenBC thrived as the technology sector began to breathe in new life, and was profitable within 90 days of launch. Subsequently, Lars decided to change the name to XING – inspired by the railroad crossing signs he saw in the US (get it – XING = crossing!). The company got a new look and appealed to markets outside of Germany – attracting users from the US, China, India, and of course, every corner in Europe.
In December 2006, Lars took the company public, marking the first "Web 2.0" IPO. Seven profitable quarters later, Lars has proven he can run a startup and a public company and has now chosen to give the day-to-day activities to his successor, while he joins the company's Supervisory Board. He's taken the company's EBITDA margin from 17% to 40% in Q3'08, which is nothing to nothing to sneeze at, especially in today's recessionary climate.
Lars is not just an incredible entrepreneur (we're going to keep our eyes on him, as he has a track record of starting successful companies), but he's also one of the nicest guys I know. We also think the world of Daniela Hinrichs, who has navigated the press and communications around XING for several years. They are both the embodiment of business networking… and downright nice, smart, ambitious, international, and caring people.
We'll miss Lars but are proud to have had a "front row seat" while he created one of the most important and successful business networks in the world. We're looking forward to the next chapter of XING, under the tutelage of Stefan.
Connect with me on XING here: https://www.xing.com/profile/Kathy_Johnson
p.s. the photo above was taken during our last meeting in SF when we had to do Lars' favorite thing in San Francisco -have dimsum lunch at Yank Sing. We saw the sign as we left the restaurant and thought that was the perfect embodiment of where everything was headed – up and full steam "ahead"!
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This week marks the biggest travel time of the year. Most of us will be rushing around, trying to finish up our work, pack our bags, get the tickets ready and run off to meet family and friends to consume 4,000 calories in one sitting. Then we'll loosen our pants (or just wear sweats to make us feel less guilty…and yes, less fashionable), sit back and watch some tellie, and think about getting into a bit of shape for the next round of holiday merriment.Since Dominic and I are off to see my 84 year old mom for Thanksgiving, here are a few links that I found useful…
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A bit of self-promotion (yeah, I know… again). I was amazed and thrilled to find out I was a finalist for the venerable Stevie Awards, especially as I hadn't really thought my "lifetime achievements" were newsworthy enough to rank me amongst the top five in my category. Last Friday, the judges made the final call as to who was the grand poobah Lifetime Achiever, and sadly, I didn't get the big prize. But that doesn't discount the fact that I'm honored to have been recognized, at the lofty age of 43, to even be worthy of any sort of "Lifetime Achievement" nod.
Here's the press release, so you can see how I even got this far…
Consort Partners' Kathy Johnson Named Lifetime Achievement Finalist
by 2008 Stevie Awards for Women in Business
ROSS, CA, November 14, 2008 – Consort Partners (www.consortpartners.com), an international strategic public relations and marketing consultancy, announced today that its co-founder, Kathy Johnson, has been named a finalist in the fifth annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor shared by just 4 other women worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards and honors women executives and entrepreneurs globally and the companies they run.
Nicknamed the "Stevies" for the Greek word "crowned," winners will be announced during a gala event in New York tonight. More than 1,200 entries were submitted for consideration in 50 categories. Kathy is proud to be a finalist in the "Lifetime Achievement Award – Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations" category.
The nomination recognizes her work across various sectors, including her role as co-founder of technology PR and marketing consultancy Consort Partners, as well as her ground-breaking ventures in technology as co-founder of the world's first video search engine Blinkx and executive roles with Internet pioneers Firefly (acquired by Microsoft) and Netcentives.
Kathy's evangelism of disruptive technologies has garnered media attention including international TV and radio (BBC, CNN, CNBC, etc.), international newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Guardian, The Times, Die Welt, Reuters, etc.), and business and lifestyle magazines (Fast Company, Red Herring, Real Business, PC Magazine, etc.).
"To be recognized for a Lifetime Achievement Award by the prestigious Stevie Award organization at the age of 43 is an incredible honor," said Kathy Johnson. "This nomination is a privilege I share with my team at Consort Partners, as they have been with me as we've worked with business leaders and entrepreneurs worldwide to move markets."
Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners from among the Finalists and winners will be officially announced at the awards dinner at 7:30pm EST tonight.
"Being named a Finalist in The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an important achievement," said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards. "It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of recognition. We congratulate all of the Finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition."
Details about The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of 2008 Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.
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Last week I was interviewed by Martinne Geller of Reuters for a story she was working on about the effect of the recession on holiday shopping. She was a joy to talk to and I ended up telling her about our trip to Europe last year, when we popped into the Louis Vuitton shop on Champs Elysee in Paris and enjoyed a few glasses of bubbly while perusing the collection of new handbags. Well, you can read about what happened last year, and the consequences of the recession on my 2008 holiday shopping spree here: In recession, ladies recycle last year's dress.
We've been using reQall for months now, so it's a part of our everyday lives. I used to call reQall to remind myself of tasks (I still have my phone set to speed-dial reQall when I hit the letter Q), but I now confess that I'm addicted to the reQall app I've downloaded for my Blackberry. When I'm in a meeting and need to remind myself to look up conduct some research later, I simply open my reQall app, type in the task, and everything is synched and ready. reQall automatically populates my to-do list, sends me a reminder, and if I say it's due on a certain date, it also puts it in my calendar. How handy! But, I digress… the reason I'm writing this post is because website Lifehacker is conducting an iPhone Task Manager competition. There are a few out there – but reQall is the one you will love and use daily once you give it a try.
If you use it now, you know what I mean. If you don't use it yet, the holidays are a perfect time to get started… Remember to buy your wife that diamond ring; your mom-in-law that day at the spa; you need to get the car oil checked before you drive up to Tahoe for the ski weekend; and don't forget to research hotels, cabins and restaurants before you go. Also, be sure not to forget to buy the turkey and stuffing, order your Christmas cards and prepare your card list; buy those fun little holiday stamps, buy some eggnog and pumpkin pie, get your hair cut as it's getting a bit long, figure out when Santa is at the mall so your kids can tell him they've been good, get your dreidls and menorah ready, put a vacation hold on your newspaper, find a kennel for the dog and cat… well, you get my drift… and please don't forget to vote for reQall.
It's finally here – election day. After all the campaigning, messaging, soundbites, real-life stories, drama and interviews, it's now our turn to take action and head to the polls to exercise our right to vote. I had actually asked for an absentee ballot, so I cast my vote a couple of weeks ago and made sure to select the right answer to all the Propositions and Measures on the ballot. Unfortunately, I think the ballots can be a bit tricky sometime, as I had intended to vote for the right for marriage for everyone, including same-sex couples, but that meant voting No on Prop 8 versus what I had intuited to be Yes. Luckily, I read it again and cast the vote I wanted – No on Prop 8. I also am in favor of letting farm animals have a right to stand up in their cage, spread their wings, and have a humane life so I voted Yes on Prop 2. And finally, for the President of the United States? Well, I guess you can tell by the video below where my vote has gone.
Regardless of your political affiliation or whether you agree or disagree with my voting choices, I do hope you get out there and help shape your town, community and country and vote.


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Another FOTD Friday instalment! This is what I look like most probably if I have the mood to tidy up my face, and not the time to fuzz around with brights or techniques. The natural lashes (also featured in last week's FOTD Friday) and the pretty pink lipstick (sorry, discontinued) helped a lot in achieving this effortless lazy make up.
As lazy as I am, and as easy as this look is, my words shall end here. ;) Hope you like it!
Face (mostly not pictured)
- Garnier BB Eye Roll-on - new holy grail under-eye concealer! (blended in with Emily #217)
- BRTC Aqua Rush Water Drop BB Cream - Full Review (applied with fingers!)
- Hera HD Powder Pact (Moist) SPF 25/PA++ - Shade 21 (applied with MAC #187)
- Naris Up Brows Up Pencil Eyebrow - LB / light brown
- Gosh Velvet Touch Eye Pencil - Truly Brown (thickly lined, as eye shadow base)
- MUA Eye Shadow - Shade 1 Pearl (on the lids, with MAC #217)
- MAC Eye Shadow - Omega/Matte (in the crease, with the same MAC #217)
- MAC Zoom Lash (first time using it, hate it)
- Luminous Change Eyelash - 01 Natural Extension - Another FOTD using same lashes
- Luminous Change Eyelash Glue Clear
- Love and Beauty by Forever 21 blush - Pink (MAC #129SE, brush pictured here)
- Daiso Ellefar Silk Touch Foundation - #20 Beige - Product featured here (contour, with no brand #168)
- Shiseido Maquillage lipstick - PK357 - It is the octagon shape tube, limited edition released a few seasons ago


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Hey Oddies! Its the end of February and today we are reviewing all the new digis that came out this month! I know you've been watching the shop for when they are released but just in case I wanted to give you a round up and some extra inspiration from our lovely Odd Girls. There's some pretty amazing stuff below so let me get started…
We aren't going in any particular order so I want to kick off our review with a digi you might call "out of this world", Space Cadet Tia!
Next up was the special image from our Valentine's Day Blog Hop but is available to love at any time of the year, and you can tell she does… Big Kiss Kody & Mae!
The next group of digis are pretty special. This year for our big 8th year we brought a new member into the Odd Family, Dakota! She's fierce and you'll definitely be seeing more from her in March. Right at the beginning of Feb though we released 3 digi stamps to welcome Dakota.
First up is the digi stamp, Lounging Dakota!
The second digi stamp of Dakota is really making me want long hair again. With a kickin studded jacket we have Badass Dakota!
Anna Sigga
Our third digi stamp with Dakota was also great for the "love"ly theme of February but I'm pretty sure you can find a ton of ways to use Swoon Dakota!
I think we've had a pretty good month, what do you think? I'm pretty dang proud of my Girls. Our new team members have a full month under their belt and settling in nicely.
If you have used any of these new digis and want to share it in the comments below I'm inviting you to show us! Let's add to this review with your wonderful creations.
Just a heads up, today is the last day to join in our challenge and we'll be back here tomorrow with a new one for March. I can't wait to show you what's in store.


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Union bringing games to 2012 LG smart TVs
This week at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, Unity games were playing on an exciting new platform: LG smart TVs.
Union is working with LG to bring games to their impressive 2012 line of smart TVs. These aren't run-of-the-mill TVs—LG's Magic Remote supports motion control for games, a built-in camera enables Kinect-like gesture control for select titles, and stereo 3D is supported right out of the box.
And then there's the processing power. Madfinger's jaw-dropping shooter Shadowgun runs at a smooth 30 frames per second at 720p. Frisbee Forever, the multi-million selling hit iOS game from Kiloo Games, (which is also available for Nokia's N9 handset) soars on LG smart TV with motion control. Both were demoed in LG's booth and received quite the response from CES attendees. These two great games are just the beginning: more Union games will debut on LG smart TV this spring.
As with the other platforms with which Union works—BlackBerry PlayBook, Roku, and Nokia MeeGo N9—we currently don't have plans to support LG smart TV deployment from Unity. Instead, Unity-authored games for LG smart TV will be released through Union.
If you're keen to learn more about Union and the work we're doing with games for LG smart TV or want to submit a game to Union, contact us.
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internet marketing3月 13, 2012 6:19 pm
I wonder where the game is installed in?
oreo3月 9, 2012 1:52 am
Where is the game installed? Is there a hard drive in the LG Smart TV? If yes, what's its capacity?
Or do you have to plug in an external hard drive?
Samuel2月 29, 2012 4:10 pm
@Pathlong, I think that´s because the licensed software isn't capable of building for those devices (TV / Blackberry) and Union would do the needed adaptations to port the game if it is interesting and has commercial potential.
Pathlong2月 9, 2012 4:28 am
Why can we use our licensed unity3D software we bought from Unity to make our game running on TV and Blackberry, this time? Why we have to submit our game to Union?
Jason Amstrad..2月 2, 2012 9:28 am
Do not forget dynamic water for unity 3.5 !
stagiaires in suriname1月 26, 2012 9:15 am
Yes,I think also that Union is getting more interesting but I also think that you should mind about the blackberry since it has a lot of potential in it's market.
Stagiaires in Suriname .
Dwair1月 14, 2012 11:25 am
Nice, so we will have more and more plattform support through Union? I don't mind about blackberry, but TV games are very interesting, seems like we developers have more deployent options every day.
Union just seems more and more interesting…
stagiaires in suriname1月 14, 2012 8:25 am
Brilliant !
The guys from Unity just can not stop suprising me.
And I think that the BlackBerry PlayBook has a lot of potential,more people should start developing for it.
Stagiaires in Suriname


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Meet Emily, my latest Woodlands senior! Emily goes to College Park High and will attend the University of Texas in the fall….but, as an Aggie, I guess I won't hold that against her 🙂
When I posted the photos, I was smiling 🙂 Emily is just so much fun to be around, she lights up a room! These pics are so fun and colorful and I think they match her SPARKLING personality just perfect. Emily actually got to the session and, in all the craziness, forgot her other outfits at home! So supermom, Jamie, ran to get them and we did the first set of photos just me and her. Aren't moms the best (Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there reading this!) We couldn't do it without you!!!! Thanks so much Jamie for all of your help!
At the end we got to go into an empty carnival and do some shots on an old carousel! Something I have always wanted to do. I had to make it happen 🙂
The bright colors in these photos make me think of summertime!


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635-1/45/507 HOLLOWAY ROAD 20-SEP-54 (West side) CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACH ED RAILINGS
Anglican church in Neo-classical style, originally the Holloway Episcopal Church and a Chapel of Ease to the medieval church of St Mary Islington. Built 1812-14, the name of the architect William Wickings recorded on a tablet under the E window; builder Joseph Griffiths. Became a parish church in 1894, internal alterations 1895 by CE Child. Yellow brick in Flemish bond with dressings of Portland stone, roof obscured by very deep parapet. Plan of chancel, nave, N,S and W porches; tower over the chancel. Gauged brick voussoirs to arches and openings; upper windows are round-headed, lower are segmental arched, basement openings also segmental-arched and barred. E end is of 3 bays, each articulated by a shallow full-height round-headed arch enclosing lower and upper windows, the middle bay set slightly forward. Rusticated stone plinth incorporating windows to basement; stone band dividing the two upper storeys and similar impost band not carried into the round-arched recess which frames the window; stone entablature. Lamps fixed to corners. The tower over the central bay is square in plan; its first stage is of ashlar and incorporates clock faces - clock by Handley and Moore of Clerkenwell presumably 1814; second stage is of brick with round-arched recessed louvred belfry openings flanked by bracketed Ionic pilasters of stone; moulded stone impost band, again not carried into the arched recess; modillion cornice, parapet with urns over the pilasters, the urns originally of Coade stone but replaced in real stone in 1910. First bay of N and S returns continues this arrangement but at ground floor level are curved steps up to a stone portico with paired Tuscan columns distyle in antis supporting an entablature and blocking course, later enclosed with wood panels with pedimented doorway; scrolled wrought-iron lamp bracket over entrance; iron railings to steps at sides and centre. 6-bay nave with stone bands separating storeys and at parapet level; part lead rainwater heads with downpipes at either end; at centre railed steps down to crypt with segmental-arched doorway. W end is similar to E but with central porch similar to those at N and S with railed steps, though straight; doorway with double 8-panelled doors, a rear entrance; centre and ground floor windows blind/blocked; similar storey bands; parapet is surmounted by a gable enclosing a semi-circular lunette within a round-arched recess. N side as S.
Inside, N and S porches lead to hallways with vestry off and cantilevered open-well stone staircase to gallery with iron stick balusters and lamp bracket and wreathed wooden handrail; fanlight over former main doorway; panelled dado, mutule cornice. Ringing chamber with peal boards and wooden ladder to belfry. At ground level doors lead to interior at NE and SE. Central shallow segmental arched reredos recess at E end containing two pairs of Ionic marble or marbled pilasters, each outer pilaster sunk in the reveal of the recess; the pilasters support an entablature with modillion cornice broken by a gilded dove within a sunburst; the arch to the recess relating to the entablature as a segmental pediment, the soffit decorated with paterae in squares; black panels with gilded texts - the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments and Creed. Very shallow sanctuary bordered by later altar rails of brass supported on panels of arabesque ironwork and paved with decorative encaustic tiles; Regency table altar. Gallery to N, W and S sides is raked and carried on Tuscan columns with a plain white painted front. Altered from horseshoe-shape to rectangle by Child in 1895. At W is the organ by George Pike England of 1814 with adaptations by Henry Willis in 1867 and N P Mander in 1947 - Father Willis the organist here for c 30 years. England's mahogany case is of the 4-tower type, each with 3 pipes; central flat has 5 pipes and outer pair is double-storeyed; the towers have carved pipeshades and above the console is a gilded sunburst. Royal Coat of Arms to gallery front. Original dado panelling throughout the church. 6-panelled double doors with panelled reveals. Ceiling is lightly moulded: a modillion cornice, coving and a flat ceiling bounded by a band of guilloche work, with one large and two small roundels surrounding central roses of foliage ornament. A C19 water-colour shows an elaborate painted decorative scheme to the ceiling, no longer extant; the present painted decorative scheme is a recovery of the original Regency character. Mahogany pulpit converted from original 3-decker and now at W is square in plan with concave chamfers at corners and resting on an arcaded base, the curved stair having a balustrade of later ironwork. Marble and alabaster font in N aisle of fine neo-Renaissance work dated1899, a square bowl decorated with oval panels carved in shallow relief supported by a central column and four corner Corinthian antae. Some Victorian stained glass with small scale decorative pattern at W and N window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne post 1856. Some wall monuments including The London Troops Memorial and a mosaic Art Nouveau style War Memorial. Beneath the church is a crypt of four parallel white-painted brick tunnel vaults mostly converted to classrooms. Set in a large churchyard with many chest tombs.
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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Hello there. Here's my post for this Monday, at a much more reasonable time than last week! I saw this video at the gym the other day. Apparently it's from 2008 but I hadn't heard it before although it is said to have 'taken the world by storm' or got 22 MILLION hits on youtube, which I guess is about the same thing. And yet, as so often happens in popular culture, the lyrics contain a ridiculous use of the word 'infinity.' (See the cartoon). Another example is in cult-classic movie Forbidden Planet, where the oh-so-super-intelligent scientist claims that the aliens managed to increase their energy supply: 'almost literally to the the power of infinity'. This latter example is made even more amusing by the use of the word 'almost' at the beginning!
Now I don't want to come across as a snob, if anything I'm just a pedant, but the philosophical and mathematical point of the term infinity is that it represents that which is beyond what we can describe or calculate, and as this can't have a conceivable upper limit then infinity cannot be said to be fixed point or a quantity! Rather it's a quality: so you can't multiply by the power of infinity anymore than you can multiply by the power of blue. Also the question of how we can know that infinity really exists when it is precisely that which exceeds and resists knowledge is a question that has been pondered by many philosophers and theologians. I don't think any of these thinkers thought that the answer might be 'Guru Josh'...
Now I suppose Guru Josh is being a bit more ''poetic'' than the writers of Forbidden Planet, but nonetheless
this sort of hippy mumbo-jumbo just serves to distract from how exciting the notion of the Infinite is, whether in astronomy or the Negative Theologians for example: Pseudo-Dionysus, Rudolf Otto, Paul Tillich, and then in all the philosophers influenced by the latter, including Heidegger. Gordon Finlayson, a lecturer at my old uni thinks we can even find a type of Negative Theology in Adorno. He presents a persuasive argument in 'On not Being Silent in the Darkness: Adorno's Singular Apophaticism' Adorno and Religion, ed. M. Waggoner, Indiana University Presss (forthcoming 2009). (Check me out with my 'proper' citations and everything!)
Hum. This post started off as a joke but I got a bit serious at the end there...In any case infinity is a serious issue, and cartoons like this need to be seen as the pathetic attempt for easy laughs that they are....
Join me in my quest for linguistic precision in popular culture!
becca xo


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