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I've published several apps on IOS and Android adding flurry to measure the interaction that is happening in those apps, however, I'd love to enhance this interaction and make my apps more useful by using A/B Testing on users who are already using the app, however, I couldn't find any source that does such a thing on mobile apps, I wonder if there are any way to do it.
Here is what I would do to have A/B Testing done on Existing Customers / People who already have my app:
If you're still looking for a way to do this, I've created an iOS Client Library and PHP Server for performing data-driven A/B Split Tests in your iOS Apps - it should give a kick-start to anybody's Mobile A/B testing effort. There are controls (extending UIButton) for A/B testing button text and images as well as the ability to generically split test String values.
Check it out on GitHub.
There are a few players out there who provide a/b testing tools (and new ones seem to be springing up every other day)
Some worth checking out are Swerve, Artisan and Appiterate.
From the looks of it, Artisan and Appiterate are providing some sort of a visual editor for creating a/b tests. Something similar to what Optimizely provides for web. And another post I was going through mentioned that Optimizely was working on it's own solution for mobile. That should be interesting for this space.
There are few recent companies that are enabling you to do this right away e.g.
1) Optimimo - http://www.optimimo.com 2) Arise.io - http://www.arise.io (Clone of Clutch.io bought by Twitter)
There are few others that you will find when you search for Mobile A/B Testing in Google.


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21 Nov 2012 5:01 PM #1
"New" vs. Ext.Create?
I am currently porting a 3.4 app to 4.1 and have 100's of lines of code like
var frmId = new Ext.form.field.Text({...});
In Ext 4.x, these calls could be converted to:
var frmId = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.Text',{...});
I understand maybe the benefits of using Ext.define/Ext.create for application classes but why use Ext.create for Ext classes?
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Ext.create will instantiate the class just like the new keyword will except it checks to see if the class has already been loaded. If not then it will load the file. Once it has made sure the class definition exists then it will create the instance.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today with a briefing on his official visit to Bahrain. He praised the generous hospitality he and his accompanying delegation enjoyed from King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and the government and people of Bahrain, describing it as reflective of the depth of bilateral relations. The King also reviewed talks he held with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa and the message he received from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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"It's in my will that when I die my work won't be performed."
Posted 02 November 2001 - 10:31 AM
Brown immediately brings up the objection that with this attitude there would be no Giselle or no Swan Lake. Forsythe counters that ballet would be fine, other living choreographers will fill the void. It's a fascinating discussion no matter which side of the issue you are on.
I wrote an article that was published in Ballet Review, Spring 2000 which posited that one of Forsythe's problems with classicism is his questioning of the very nature of time and continuity. Interesting to see that theme echoed and it's interesting to see that as time passed, the auteur has become more important than the work. I think that's a much larger movement that began when artists in all disciplines stopped working anonymously and continued on through copyright.
There's plenty to discuss in the article. What do people think?
Posted 02 November 2001 - 10:44 AM
Since I'm definitely in the camp that Forsythe is "intellectual bubble gum" I won't contest his will smile.gif But seriously, I think he has a point. Having seen most of the ballets I love destroyed, lost, trashed or distorted beyond recognition after the deaths of their creators, I think he might be speaking in self-defense. It's not that Time Moves On, or that ballet masters are not men of good will and set out to destroy ballets, but that each choreographer worthy of the name has a different style, different way of moving dancers, different way of defining ballet. Forsythe's dancers could not dance Ashton (any more than Cunningham dancers would look good in Taylor, or vice versa).
At the Ballet Russe reunion a few summers ago, one of the grand old ballerinas said (I'm told) that she prayed no one would try to revive Massine's work. "Let it die." Of course, I'd love to have a company that treasures works of the past and has the ballet masters who can set them -- the Royal Ballet of Ruritania, in my mythology. But the people who can do this are even more rare than choreographers.
Posted 03 November 2001 - 12:34 AM
Does Forsythe have the right -- perhaps moral right, if not legal right -- to keep his works from being performed after his death? Do future generations have the right to see his work? There are a lot of interesting issues in this topic. Opinions, please.
Posted 04 November 2001 - 02:59 AM
Posted 04 November 2001 - 03:56 AM
Does Forsythe have the right -- perhaps moral right, if not legal right -- to keep his works from being performed after his death?
Absolutely. It's his work -- his intellectual property. To argue otherwise is to open a Pandora's box; it's just a short hop down the road from arguing that his copyright is not morally valid during his lifetime and that anyone, anywhere, is free to perform his choreography.
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Posted 04 November 2001 - 09:42 AM
But the situation for ballet is quite different from that of literature: a text is fixed and doesn't depend on staging and interpretation (though sometimes there are problems of abusive cuts and rewritings by heirs... For example it happened with Rimbaud's correspondance, the first
published version of it had been changed by his sister and brother-in-law, in a rather stupid way in general... For example they had changed the sums of money he mentioned because they wanted him to look richer than he actually was! rolleyes.gif )
so it's less likely to be destroyed.
While it is the right of the choreographer to forbid his works to be danced after his death, I think that it'd be a pity if all choreographers did that- and I'd rather see a distorted work that nothing at all.
Also the idea that seeing only recent works would be fine disturbs me. Leigh wrote: "Forsythe counters that ballet would be fine, other living choreographers will fill the void." Well, perhaps I've missed something, but it doesn't seem to me that many works as great and lasting as "Giselle" or "Swan lake" have been created in the last few years. Not all artistic periods are equally rich...
That's anecdotical, but I couldn't help laughing while reading "Paris Opera Ballet is his favourite outside company."- remembering an interview in a German newspaper one or two years ago where he was extremely negative and scornful about the POB dancers, calling them "soulless robots" for example.
Posted 05 November 2001 - 07:30 PM
If every choreographer behaved like Forsythe, any choreographic tradition would be strangled at the roots, assuming myopically that the only thing they might need to know is what came just before them (if that at all.) To assume that future choreographers will fill a void in choreography when the only work they see is the generation immediately before them is not the thought of a choreographer interested in classicism. I understand these thoughts coming out of an auteur choreographer where the work is inextricably mixed with the choreographer (I thought it took real courage for Bella Lewitzky to close her company down). Nor does this make Forsythe's work better or worse, it is what it is. But why do people want to hand the succession of ballet to "Balanchine's most convincing heir" who couldn't give a damn where it came from and where it goes once he's done with it?
Posted 05 November 2001 - 08:36 PM
Not surprisingly, I'm on the side of keeping works alive, or as alive as possible. I'm with Estelle. I'll always go to see an old "classic," no matter what shape it's in.
Posted 10 November 2001 - 04:41 PM
I agree with what Leigh has written about tradition (and Forsythe's rather self-centred response to it). Now that dance is recorded on film and video, the limitations of notation won't be a handicap for the future. But new performers will have their own feelings and expectations. Likewise in music notation is imperfect. Not only that, but instruments have changed vastly over the centuries. (Bodies have also changed!). However, whether a performer uses a modern instrument or a copy of an old one (of the composer's era), the influence of the performer (who lives now) is still a factor in performance.
Tradition is not the fossil that some might have us believe it is.
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Posted 10 November 2001 - 11:03 PM
Posted 11 November 2001 - 02:10 AM
P.S. One thought re. Balanchine's career. He honored Petipa and Ivanov, but had little interest in traditional productions of their work, freely reworking their materials even when he used the same titles ("Swan Lake"). We would (rightly) scream if we saw that approach applied to the preservation of HIS works, and evidently he wasn't too keen on the idea either...
P.P.S. I don't mean a choreographer can't also be a fine critic...as readers of Leigh Witchel can attest.
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Posted 11 November 2001 - 04:56 PM
Here's the new thread:
Drew, very interesting post -- sorry I haven't had a chance to comment. I'll be back later smile.gif
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I have a point dataset which I'd like to Krige, ideally using an open-source software package. If possible, I'd also like to choose the semi-variogram model during the process to improve the estimation.
Depending on which Kriging type you want to apply, there are different packages to choose from:
The most common version is implemented for example in:
Simple Kriging uses the average of the entire data set while Ordinary Kriging uses a local average. Therefore, Simple Kriging can be less accurate, but it generally produces "smoother" results. It's implemented in:
Universal Kriging allows for consideration of drift in data. Implementations are included in:
Other Kriging Types
GRASS v.krige also supports Block Kriging.
HPGL implements a big number of less known Kriging methods (check the manual for more information on those):
SAGA offers different versions of both Ordinary and Universal Kriging.
Gstat krige additionally supports Block and Point Kriging.
It looks like there are a few options with GRASS GIS. Check out the GRASS Kriging Wiki page: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Kriging
A Google Summer of Code project in 2009 produced V.krige: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/V.krige_GSoC_2009
The GPL gstat package should work by itself or interfaced with GRASS GIS. http://www.gstat.org/
Dylan Beaudette has a nice example of doing kriging with GRASS. http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/438 (His blog is full of great and interesting examples of using OpenSource GIS and statistical tools!)
If you are happy to read your raster into a numpy array (gdal can do this), then you could use the High Performance Geostatistics Library implementation from Python or C/C++.
HPGL implements the following algorithms:
I haven't used it myself but have heard good things about it, especially with respect to speed.
The R-project has substantial number of spatial statistics software packages, but R has rather steep learning curve.
Check this free book, it's about doing geostatistics in R, and contains some info on doing it in SAGA and GRASS as well. http://spatial-analyst.net/book/ http://spatial-analyst.net/book/sites/default/files/Hengl_2009_GEOSTATe2c1w.pdf
I remember using SAGA to do this a few years back for some flood modelling output. Open Source and well worth a look.
gvSIG (another free GIS) does allow kriging, using Sextante. This is basically the same as using SAGA, but gvSIG provides a more 'typical' (i.e. ESRI-like) gis experience.
You could try the Kriging model in Surfpack version 1.1 (I wrote it while I was still on the DAKOTA team), or the latest and greatest version which comes with the "stable" version of DAKOTA (Surfpack is a sub-package of DAKOTA), it does universal Kriging from the perspective of correlation functions rather than semi-variograms.
Recently a user, Joel Guerrero, compared it head to head against a bunch of other implementations and stated that "Always related to surfpack, we are comparing it to other implementations (including a commercial one), and so far it outperform all of them, to the point that sometimes is seems that is doing black magic"
GSLIB (Geostatistical Software Library) is top-notch file/command-driven software developed from Stanford University and released in the 1990s, with some maintenance last decade. The source code can be freely downloaded and compiled on Linux/Windows using a Fortran compiler. There are online resources and a book available.
Kriging is one of the software's strengths:


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When Kate of the beautiful Foxs Lane blog announced a little while ago that she was working on a book, I got really excited. When I discovered it was about "retro caravan holidays in the modern world" I got really, really excited! I'm a little bit obsessed with vintage caravans and have often daydreamed about finding an old van, doing it up and going on a big adventure. In 2011 Kate and her lovely family did just that! The five of them packed up their vintage caravan, Frankie Blue, and embarked on a 6 month road trip around Australia. I followed their journey via Kate's blog with great admiration (and I have to admit, just a teensy bit of jealousy!) Yesterday a copy of Kate's book landed in our mailbox and as soon as it was unwrapped, I snuggled down with a cup to tea and devoured every page. Vantastic is just beautiful. It's bursting with practical information for beginner caravaners, sprinkled with cute crafty projects and yummy recipes and, naturally, the styling and photography is gorgeous. I know this book is going to become a much loved addition to our little library and I'm sure that in years to come, when we've got a van of our own, it'll be absolutely invaluable. And! The really good news is, we have a copy to giveaway. Hurrah! To go into the draw all you have to do is leave us a comment. We'll use the random number generator to draw a winner at the end of the week. Good luck everyone! And congratulations Kate!
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I am looking for a reference: Does Gaussian measure satisfy Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality (LSI) in $\({\mathbb{R}^d}\)^{\mathbb{Z}^d}$. Thanks.
As in Mark Meckes's comment, this is equivalent to log-Sobolev for standard Gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$, which in turn follows immediately from the finite-dimensional case. In order to show the log-Sobolev inequality $$\int |f|^2 \ln |f| \le \int \|\nabla f\| + \frac{1}{2} \int |f|^2 \ln \int |f|^2$$ it is sufficient to prove it for smooth cylinder functions $f \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}, \mu)$, i.e. which depend on only finitely many coordinates. But for $f$ depending on $n$ coordinates, this is precisely the log-Sobolev inequality for standard Gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$. (Unlike the classical Sobolev inequality, there is no dimension-dependent constant!)
Leonard Gross's original paper introducing the log-Sobolev inequality already mentions the extension to infinite dimensions (though it does not work it out explicitly).


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Seasonal recipe: Quick and easy blender strawberry ice cream
Quick and easy blender strawberry ice cream
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The shops here in Cape Town are overflowing with beautiful strawberries, each one bigger, juicier and more perfumed than any strawberry I remember from my childhood.
It's not often I can say that a piece of fruit I taste nowadays is anywhere near as delicious as the fruit I ate as a child, but I have to make an exception for strawberries. Perhaps the beauties I see in the shops are – oh, horrors – genetically engineered, or maybe farmers these days just have access to better, bigger, more fragrant hybrids.
Whatever the case, I've been buying cheap strawberries by the bucketload. Last week, when I found myself facing a mountain of strawberries that I'd bought in a frenzy and forgotten (neglected, actually) to use, I thought I'd better make a batch of my mum's wonderful strawberry ice cream. But I didn't have any custard, and was too hot and bothered to make a custard from scratch. The next option was an ice based on a sugar syrup, but the thought of making such a syrup, and waiting for it to chill, defeated me.
So that's how I came up with this blender strawberry ice cream. It's dead simple to make if you have a liquidiser and, with its lovely deep-pink colour, looks and tastes heavenly piled into cones and topped with sprigs of fresh mint.
Whenever you're choosing strawberries to buy, give them a good sniff by putting your nose to the top of the box. If a heady perfume drifts from the fruit, buy them without a second thought. If there's little or no scent at all, stick your nose back in the air and stalk away, with an infuriated air.
How much icing sugar you use will depend on the sweetness and/or tartness of your strawberries. I suggest that you start out using half a cup of icing sugar, and then add more if the mixture doesn't seem sweet enough. This ice cream is best made, luxuriously, with fresh cream, but if you're watching your diet, use thick natural yoghurt instead.
You'll need an ice cream maker to produce a perfectly smooth ice. If you don't have such a gadget, use the freeze-and-beat method, which will result in a slightly crystalline but still most delicious ice.
Blender strawberry ice cream
300g ripe strawberries, hulled
½ cup (125ml) icing sugar, or more, to taste
the juice of half a lemon
1 cup (250ml) cream (or natural yoghurt)
Put the strawberries, icing sugar and lemon juice in a blender and blitz to a fine purée. Taste the purée, and add more icing sugar or lemon juice, if necessary. Now pour in the cream, turn on the blender, and blend at the lowest speed for a minute or so, or until the mixture has thickened slightly. Don't over-blend the mixture, or you'll end up with butter.
Tip the mixture into the bowl of an ice cream machine and churn until frozen (or use the freeze-and-beat method; see above).
Serve immediately, topped with sprigs of fresh mint, in sugar cones or in little pre-frozen wine glasses.
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Volvo was a fairly conservative company for a long time. That was not without reason. Since laboratory resources were limited in the old days, it was safer to continue using tried and reliable solutions, rather than trying to incorporate novelties which had perhaps not always been thoroughly tested.
This was completely in accordance with the honest principles set by the two founders Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, who did not want 'the customers to have to act as test drivers'.
A well-tried truck...
A typical example of the conservative design of Volvo trucks in the old days was the L34. This medium-duty truck was a direct successor to the 'Sharpnose' trucks and was very similar (in fact nearly identical) in technical respects to the previous 'Sharpnose' L20 truck. As a result, the L34 was a well-tried truck, a fact which was most certainly popular with the customers (often firms like breweries and local delivery companies).
...but quite modern-looking
The exterior design was very modern, being very similar (but on a larger scale) to the famous PV444 car (and also to the PV83 taxicab). This Volvo design (which was probably influenced to a great extent by American cars of the era) became popular with the customers, and was of course quite modern-looking, with its headlights embedded in the fenders.
The L34 was primarily intended for local delivery work, a task which was very much facilitated by the low frame/chassis height, helping the driver to load and unload (the driver of the era had to make do with his own body strength for loading and unloading, since help devices like cranes and forklift trucks were more or less items of the future).
Favoured by the breweries
Perhaps the most famous L34 trucks were those used for the introduction of Coca-Cola soft drink products into Sweden in 1953. In contrast to other companies of the era, Coca-Cola actively used the trucks for spreading their product message, both by an ad message on top of the special superstructure (influenced by American brewery trucks) as well as on big posters on the rear of the trucks.
The L34 trucks were superseded by the L42 Snabbe in 1956, and it was in fact the last N type distribution truck from Volvo, i.e. with a bonnet. Later distribution trucks would all be of the F type.


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Player Focus: Europe's Top Goal Contributors
Like Arsenal last season, teams are often chastised for being overly reliant on a single player, with critics arguing that without that player they would struggle and potentially even fail. Without Robin van Persie this term, Arsenal are undoubtedly worse off and they paid for any dependence on the Dutchman when he left in the summer for Manchester United.
With van Persie's new teammates sharing out the goalscoring - so much so that a Premier League-high of 16 of United's squad have scored this season - there is less onus on him to perform, and it is more difficult to identify the players on whom a great deal of the burden lies this season. Upon further research, though, there are players that stand out in terms of the percentage of their team's goals that they have either scored or set up this season.
At the top of the pile is Swedish powerhouse Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who, at Paris Saint Germain has become even more integral to his team than he was at Milan last season. The centre forward was directly involved in 45.9% of Milan's Serie A goals last season, only to go yet further in France, contributing to an unbelievable 61.1% of PSG's goals in the league; a stat even more impressive when considering that the Swede has missed 3 games already this season. In those 3 matches PSG stumbled to a goalless draw at Ajaccio, a 1-1 stalemate at Montpellier and a disappointing 2-1 defeat at home to Rennes - one of only 2 home defeats this season, along with the game in which Ibra was sent off.
With 18 goals he is by far the leading scorer in the division, while his 4 assists rank him behind just 12 players in Ligue 1, only 3 of whom have made the majority of their appearances this season up front. Add to that 2 goals and 5 assists out of PSG's 14 in the Champions League group stages and it is plain to see exactly how key he is to the Parisians, having either scored or assisted 22 of their 36 goals so far. Ibrahimovic is a complete striker, able to play as the most advanced player in a team or deeper as a traditional number 10, traits that are exhibited by his consistently creative and clinical attack play.
Following close behind the PSG striker in terms of importance to his club is Aston Villa's Christian Benteke. Looking at his goalscoring record alone, a lot is left to be desired, with only 6 goals netted in 19 Premier League appearances this season. However, given that Villa as a whole have only scored 17 league goals and Benteke has picked up 4 assists as well, the Belgian's record is actually rather impressive.
Benteke has been charged with replacing Darren Bent at Villa Park as the lone striker and has had a fair job on his hands with Paul Lambert's youthful team underperforming on far too many occasions this season. Benteke's strength is a virtue that he uses to his advantage time and again, and his hold up play has been extremely effective. It wouldn't be at all unfair to say Benteke may be disappointed with his assist tally this season though, having won more aerial duels (152) than any other player in the Premier League, and with only Arsenal's playmaker Santi Cazorla having made more 'layoffs' than Benteke (117) [a layoff entails controlling the ball and passing it into the path of an onrushing teammate]; a stat which clearly portrays Benteke's attributes with his back to goal. His direct involvement in 58.8% of his side's goals is the second highest in Europe's top 5 leagues.
Linked with a move to Valencia as well as Swansea and Arsenal in this month's transfer window, Celta Vigo's Iago Aspas has impressed across the continent this season. He has scored (8) or assisted (3) 57.9% of his side's goals this season, and provides much of the reason that the newly promoted side find themselves up in 15th position, albeit only one point above the relegation zone.
With 68 shots and 44 key passes and no other Celta player having had more than 24 shots or made more than 32 key passes, Aspas is quite clearly the figurehead of his side's attacking play. He is generally expected to show loyalty to the club he has been at for 18 years and stay for the time being, but Celta will do well to hold on to him for much longer than that, though there is no doubt they will be keen to do so.
It is only thanks to Barcelona's extraordinary 64 goals this season that Lionel Messi's 36 goals and assists (56.3% or Barca's total) ranks lower than 5 players in Europe's top 5 leagues, with the other two players rounding off the top 5 for contribution to goals Vedad Ibisevic (57.1%) and Aritz Aduriz (56.5%).
With 10 goals and 2 assists in 15 Bundesliga appearances, Ibisevic is the main man at Stuttgart, and his contribution alone have, incredibly, earned his side 13 of their 25 points, without which they would be languishing in the relegation playoff zone. Of course, without Ibisevic's contribution, someone would replace him in the team, but that statistic merely serves to strengthen his importance to the club.
Aduriz meanwhile, has had the tough task of replacing Fernando Llorente up front at Atheltic Bilbao, and he has done so with aplomb, bagging 11 goals and setting up two more to hold a position as the joint top-scoring Spaniard in La Liga. He plays to his strengths, with more headed attempts on goal (22) than any other player as well as the joint most headed goals (4). For a striker that has been in Spanish first tier football for a number of years now without being spectacular, to all of a sudden become top dog at Bilbao in spite of the pressure of having to replace Llorente, Aduriz has done exceptionally well this term.


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Legislation that would have allowed illegal immigrants to obtain Connecticut driver's licenses recently died in the legislature's Transportation Committee. However, Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney, one of the best legislative friends an illegal immigrant can have, told The Hartford Courant's Daniela Altimari he is trying to attach the license proposal to other legislation.
If Sen. Looney, D-New Haven, is successful, his fellow lawmakers should kill the legislation.
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Artesa Winery sits high on a hilltop overlooking the renowned appellation of Carneros in southern Napa Valley. The winery's roots date back to the 1980's when the Raventós family, heirs of the Spanish winemaking dynasty Codorníu, began acquiring land in Napa Valley. In 1997 it was named Artesa, from the Catalan word for handcrafted. Today, Artesa focuses on producing small, ultra-premium lots of the varietals for which Carneros and the Napa Valley are best known − Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon – and aims to capture the essence of terroir through exceptional winemaking.
The winery employs both traditional and modern techniques to create wines that experience minimal manipulation between harvest and bottling.
A visit to Artesa is nothing short of spectacular; design, art and nature combine to make the winery one of the most spectacular – and popular – destinations in wine country. Set into the highest hill of Artesa's 350-acre estate, the avant-garde winery structure was conceived by the renowned Barcelona architect, Domingo Triay, with the idea of building a modern and elegant structure seamlessly blended into the surrounding landscape. A protective covering of natural grasses conceals the winery rooftop, accented by fountains and contemporary sculpture. Inside the winery, the light-filled tasting room houses the contemporary work of Napa Artist Gordon Heuther including large-scale installations in glass, metal and canvas. This emphasis on elegance and art, offset by breathtaking vistas of surrounding Carneros makes the Artesa tasting room an essential destination for thousands of wine lovers visiting California Wine Country each year.
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Decribed as "one of the most architecturally stunning wineries in North America", Artesa has 360 degree views of the Bay Area and the rolling Carneros Hills from the terrace. The modern tasting room features two tasting bars, a courtyard/outdoor tasting area and expansive views of the surrounding countryside. The works of local artist Gordon Huether are featured throughout the Visitors Center.Music in Tasting Room: Eclectic mix of oldies and current artists
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.artesawinery.com or call 707-224-1668.
Our wine club, Club Artesa, allows members to purchase wine and merchandise at a 20% discount. In addition, members are offered special wines at bigger discounts throughout the year. Events are a big part of the Club experience;a Harvest Grape Stomp , the May Sunset Dinner, summer barbeques and much more all enhance membership in Club Artesa. Private tasting areas just for club members provides a top notch experience.
The offer listed below is valid for all Napa Valley residents age 21 and over.
Offers applies to 21 years or older Two for one tasting Monday through Thursday with a valid Napa drivers license
The Napa Green program is supported by a wide variety of groups including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the University of California. The Napa Valley Vintners, along with Fish Friendly Farming, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa County Farm Bureau and others developed the Napa Green program. Learn more about the program at napagreen.org.
Artesa Winery is certified under the Napa Green Certified Land Program. Artesa Winery has created and implemented a customized farm plan with measured results that addressed all aspects of its property, vineyard land as well as non-farmed land, including practicing soil conservation, water conservation, stable drainage, riparian corridor enhancement, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement and long-term improvement and sustainability.
Certification - certification is granted by the Napa County Agricultural Commissioners Office of Pesticide Regulation, the Regional Water Quality Control board, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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Varietal: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2015
Release Date: October - 2016
Appellation: Los Carneros
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A section of Kansas Highway 5 was closed Thursday in Lansing because of flooding from Seven Mile Creek, city and and Kansas Department of Transportation officials said.
An urban and small stream flood advisory was issued Thursday for Leavenworth County.
KDOT spokeswoman Kim Qualls reported that at 8 a.m. Thursday K-5 was closed in the area of Seven Mile Creek because of high floodwaters over the roadway. The highway reopened by 1 p.m.
Lansing Police Department Capt. Ben Ontiveros said officers had set up cones before KDOT barricades were put in place to close the highway.
He said some motorists attempted to drive around the cones.
"Our guys stopped them and told them they probably don't want to go that way," Ontiveros said.
Chuck Magaha, Leavenworth County Emergency Management director, said flooding at several smaller creeks resulted in water over gravel roads in the county.
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Judy Clark was unanimously selected Friday as the top candidate from among six applicants vying for the position of Ionia County treasurer. She will officially begin her new role on Jan. 1.
Clark is replacing the late Nancy Hickey, who was elected in 1996 and had retained the treasurer position until her death in late November. Hickey was recently re-elected to a four-year term set to begin Jan. 1. Clark will hold the appointment until the next general election.
The Committee to Appoint Ionia County Treasurer consisted of the Honorable Robert Sykes Jr., Ionia County probate judge; Ronald Schafer, Ionia County prosecutor; and Tonda Rich, Ionia County clerk. The committee interviewed the six applicants who applied for the position. At the conclusion of the interview process, Clark was the unanimous selection by all three committee members.
Rich, in explaining her selection, highlighted the arduous conditions Clark and the rest of the treasurer's office staff had endured during the past year, keeping the office together under trying circumstances. She commended Clark for her commitment to the office.
During the interview process, Clark had demonstrated the best command of the duties and functions of the office, Schafer said, adding that she had big shoes to fill.
Judge Sykes Jr. noted the loss of Hickey was difficult for everyone, but agreed with his fellow committee members that Clark demonstrated considerable knowledge of the delinquent tax fund and county land bank, and this made her the best candidate for the appointment.
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I created a basic particle system for SDL in C++. It has some basic stuff like an emitter, as well as a simple particle class. It can load a image, or create a dot of a color. And that's it. What other features do most simple particle engines have? Keep in mind this is a 2D particle engine.
This is a very broad question, but generally particle system features can be broken down into a few categories. Here are some general ideas for the sorts of things you might want to have.
Emission features define how, when, and where particles are emitted.
Motion features control how particles move after they're emitted.
Rendering features control how particles look.
These are just a bunch of general ideas. For your specific game you might only need a couple of these, or you might need other ideas that aren't on this list.
Watch this video for some ideas that you can add to your system, in particular modifiers, which can be used to interpolate particle properties over time, such as color or opacity, or to apply complex gravitational forces to the system. These are often enough to create some really cool effects, when combined with a basic particle emitter.
Afterwards, you might want to check the documentation of some existing particle engine to see what else they provide. The first one that comes to my mind is the Mercury Particle Engine, which also seems to be built around the concept of particle emitters and modifiers. Give it a test drive and it should be enough to answer your question.
I've been doing some research myself into this area. This tutorial seems to have brought me up to speed, even though I haven't been able to port it into my code yet:
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#2. Use it to Bring Details to Life
3D doesn't have to just be for huge obvious depth differences like hands coming out at you or deep landscapes going into the screen. If you are doing the film in proper 3D (see point #4 above) it's precise enough to show even little differences, like bumps on tweed or weathered wood, which they did in Up.
You probably didn't consciously notice that Karl's jacket was bumpy and you didn't go telling your friends, "That cracked wood was coming right at me!" but subconsciously, it makes tweed feel tweedier and makes old boards feel worn, the same way people and things feel older when photographed with high contrast lighting.
Without you knowing it, those textures do more to draw you into the scene than any big, sweeping spectacle could. When everything in Karl's house is slightly tweedy and worn, it really adds to making it feel like the house of an old man that time has passed by, without any of it standing out and catching your attention. It's that same musty feeling you get when visiting grandma, except you can leave.
#1. Use it to Help Tell the Story
I'm sure we can all imagine how 3D could undermine a good story by adding a bunch of cheesy distractions ("3D Citizen Kane" is pretty much the catchphrase of anyone arguing against 3D) but if the technology's not being wielded by a ham-fisted spastic, it can also be used to help tell the story.
Ham-fisted spastic on the set of Dungeon Siege.
For instance, every movie you've ever seen has used the camera to help you feel something in a scene. You usually don't notice it (that's the idea) but every good film maker uses camera angles, lighting and color to help draw you in. Horror movies tend to be the least subtle; the angle and lighting on a face can make the killer look scarier:
Though the right casting helps
So for a director who knows how to use it, 3D can be another tool that plays the same kind of subconscious tricks on an audience.
For instance, normally the twin 3D cameras are placed about the same distance apart as the average person's eyes. But if the director changes that distance in a scene, it can immediately give you a sense of disorientation. If you saw Coraline in 3D, you saw a great example of this; they used that trick in the creepy spiraling tunnel that led to Coraline's weird-ass alternate world.
Watching that scene gives you the subconscious feeling that something is wrong, something you just can't put your finger on. For people who hate subtlety, they make it pretty obvious what's wrong later on.
It can also be used to up the tension; for instance in a 2D film, a heavy rain just partially obscures the scene. But when shot in 3D you subconsciously find yourself trying to squint and peer past the raindrops. That feeling of depth in the shot makes you instinctively want to work to see what's behind the obstruction. It engages you, and draws you into the shot to try to make out the monster, or psychopath, or naked woman standing back there. You'll squint and dart your eyes around and maybe even move your head.
But that's just the beginning; the most interesting uses of 3D are the ones great film makers will be coming up with 10 or 20 years from now, once the tool has been in the hands of dozens of creative minds, innovating across multiple films. Meanwhile, bad film makers will still be using it to make shit jump out of the screen.
That's really the point; when you boil it all down, 3D is just one more tool for a film maker to use, for better or worse, just as same knife can be used to carve a beautiful sculpture or stab a stranger in the dick. At the end of the day the invention of 3D is no different than the invention of color film.
To this day, movies don't have to have color to be great...
...but once given the tool, great film makers make amazing use of it.
3D will be no different. Sometimes, you may even get that rare gem that uses both.
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"What happened to (former Rep.) Gabby Giffords is a bad thing. We just have to tell people we don't live in Utopia. The Left wants to live in Utopia, this utopian world, this delusional world where a law is going to prevent criminals from taking bad actions. That's not the case. It's never been. It never will be."
— Larry Ward, president of Political Media and organizer of Gun Appreciation Day on Jan. 19, National Journal article, "Is Gabby Giffords the New Jim Brady?" Jan. 8
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The 6 Most Badass Airline Pilots To Ever Stare Down Death
Admit it: At one time or another, you've thought, Man, being an airline pilot seems like a pretty easy job. And even they'll tell you that airliners pretty much fly themselves. For most of the trip, the pilot is there to make sure nothing goes wrong.
But sometimes, things do go wrong. Way wrong. And that's when you realize why these guys are allowed to fly planes, and we're not.
#6. British Airways Flight 5390
In 1990, British Airways Flight 5390 had just taken off from London on its way to Spain. However, right as the flight attendants were about to wheel out the food cart, the windshield of the plane suddenly exploded. If you're wondering what happens to the pilot in that situation, here's a reconstruction:
Via CaptainFox91
It is incredibly difficult to fly a plane from this position.
That's pilot Tim Lancaster being sucked out of the plane -- the only thing keeping him from flying off into the distance and plummeting to his death was a flight attendant, who ran in and grabbed Lancaster by the belt.
This, by the way, is precisely the reason why planes have co-pilots. And here's where one Mr. Alastair Atchison stepped up to the goddamned plate.
It wasn't going to be easy. Aside from the flight attendant next to him clutching the pilot's legs with all of his strength, the sudden decompression also pulled the cockpit door into the cockpit, which blocked access to the throttle. When Atchison tried to get on the radio to declare an emergency, he couldn't hear the response due to all the chaos erupting around him.
"Will you lot stop bloody screaming! It's highly unprofessional."
It took several minutes to get emergency landing permission from an airport in Southampton, all the while with the pilot still outside the windshield from the knees up, being crushed against the plane at 500 miles per hour, suffering from frostbite and about to lose consciousness due to the thin air.
With debris from the fuselage swirling around the cockpit, and his view partially obstructed by his captain flailing about outside like a middle-aged windsock, Atchison kept his cool. He guided the plane to the ground, and gently landed 35 minutes after the windshield failure started the madness.
They then started the difficult process of peeling the pilot off the top of the plane.
Amazingly, the pilot not only survived, but had only a few bone fractures and some frostbite to show from his exterior plane ride. The only other person injured was the first flight attendant who hung onto him during the ordeal, also suffering from frostbite.
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"You have to admit, Tim. It was kind of hilarious to see."
#5. British Airways Flight 9
British Airways Flight 9 was flying from London to New Zealand in 1982, and was on one of the last legs of the trip, going from Malaysia to Perth, Australia. Ash from a nearby volcano soon started to fill the air. The airplane went through it with no problem ... at first.
"Fuck you, Eyjafjallajokull" -- the 80s
An electrical anomaly known as St. Elmo's fire suddenly erupted on the windshield. The passenger cabin began to smell of sulfur. Then, one by one, the engines began failing, clogged with volcanic ash. After all four engines had ground to a halt, the flight engineer yelled, "I don't believe it, all four engines have failed!"
"Well, thanks, Captain Obvious. Hey, how about you sort this out. We're going to the mini bar."
At this point, the falling aircraft had about 23 minutes of glide time until it hit the ocean. The crew frantically tried to restart the engines in mid-air. With a crash landing possibly only minutes away, the pilot, Captain Eric Moody, made a breathtaking announcement over the PA: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
"Please keep all hysteria to yourself to avoid disturbing passengers who are sleeping. Thank you."
The plane continued to lose altitude and the oxygen masks dropped in the passenger compartment. The crew was about one minute away from having to make an emergency landing in an ocean with a 747 -- something no one had ever tried.
Then, in between bouts of frenzied cursing and pants-inflating bowel explosions, Moody and his crew tried one more time to restart the engines ... and it worked. The engines spun back to life, one by one. They climbed and leveled the plane at 12,000 feet, then starting racing towards the nearest airport in Jakarta.
On the way, the engines started clicking off again.
Lady Luck always uses loaded dice.
And even worse, the windshield was so fogged up that they had to rely on the lights on the tarmac they could only see through a small, clear part of the windshield. And so they headed down, speeding toward the pavement, squinting through glass caked with goddamned volcano ash.
Finally, with the sound of 248 unclenching passenger buttholes, the wheels touched down. No lives were lost, but in the captain's own hilarious words, it was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."
#4. Chinese Airlines Flight 006
In 1985, Chinese Airlines Flight 006 was flying from Taiwan to Los Angeles when an engine went out on the side of the plane. The same engine had failed twice on previous flights but restarted shortly after going out both times -- which, according to traditional aircraft maintenance guidelines, is totally just as good as actually working (you'll find out as this entry goes on that back then, Chinese airlines apparently just did not give a fuck).
Third time's a charm!
After the flight engineer tried and failed to revive the engine, the autopilot kicked in and tilted the plane 23 degrees to compensate for engine loss. But it didn't stop at 23 degrees. Pilot Min-Yuan Ho, drawing from his years of experience, determined that commercial airliners don't normally do this and disengaged the autopilot. By the time he did, the plane had tipped up on its side, and was falling fast.
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Planes should not do this.
So now he was plummeting toward the ocean, blinded by clouds and working with an artificial horizon system that was saying everything was OK (even though it plainly was not). Things became even less OK when the plane started diving and turning at the same time, doing a barrel roll heading straight down, losing 10,000 feet of altitude in less than 20 seconds.
Via Wikipedia
It was trying to spell "AARGH."
The pilot managed to wrestle the aircraft under control with about 20 seconds to spare before it would have splashed down.
But they weren't out of the woods. The landing gear was now stuck down, and the drag that it was causing meant they wouldn't have enough fuel to get to Los Angeles. They diverted to San Francisco, limping along on one engine. But the flight crew didn't even announce their landing as any kind of emergency to the stunned air traffic controllers. We told you, the Chinese didn't give a single fuck.
"San Francisco, could you move that tower slightly to the side? Frankly, it's just in the way."
It was only after learning of injuries on board that the tower declared the spiraling jumbo jet to be an emergency. Incredibly, it landed with just a broken tail wing and only two seriously injured passengers which, given the operation standards of the airline, was probably well within normal guidelines.


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You could win Thanksgiving with Enrique!
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By now you've probably heard our exciting news about pop superstar Enrique Iglesias performing at our 15th Annual Red Kettle Kickoff show at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day. We're pumped that Enrique's supporting The Salvation Army's Christmas kettle efforts and we're so excited to hear him sing hits from his Euphoria tour during halftime of the big game!
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Hold a piece of pop music in your hand. How heavy is it? If you threw it, could you break the window of a passing car? Could you break a tooth? For several years, The Blow have been hard at work developing an essential pop music formula, fashioned, as the best popular music is, with the function of getting under the skin of the people. What that music does once it gets there is what makes The Blow worth thinking about.
Fascinated with the physics of pop construction, The Blow makes music that holds a weightless gravity. Their songs are light enough to sail easily through the air, landing simultaneously on the turntable of a London DJ, in your mum's car stereo, and in the iPod of a middle schooler in study hall.
The Blow is Jona Bechtolt (also known as YACHT) and Khaela Maricich. The two have been working together as The Blow since 2004 when they recorded a limited edition EP called Poor Aim: Love Songs**. It quickly became clear that the results of their combined forces flexed with a muscle that had a range far beyond the limited edition market. United by a shared affection for the sparkling production styles of mainstream radio, and both raised with deep roots in the DIY scenes of the Pacific Northwest, the duo makes fractured pop chart toppers to seduce all manner of hearts out of their cases, onto the floor.


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Is it selfish to not want to go to a "Destination Thanksgiving"?
My sister, who has hosted Thanksgiving for the past several years, recently bought a vacation home more than 2 hours away. Her home takes me less than an hour to get to. She wants to host Thanksgiving at the new house, and she wants me to come for the entire weekend. My problems with this:
I have a pet, and the pet sitter books Thanksgiving weekend months in advance, so it's too late to get a sitter.
I can handle my family for an afternoon meal. An entire long weekend? NO.
I have the option of taking a BUS that comes about once a day back to the city. If I miss it, I'm screwed.
I told my sister that we can go a single Thanksgiving not together. She is adamant that the whole family be together and will not let this go. (My parents aren't thrilled but I agreed to spend the day before Thanksgiving with me.)
Am I selfish? I was really looking forward to 4 hours with my family and 3 1/2 days to myself.
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Who's the one being selfish? Your sister - why does it need to be at this far away place?
I agree with @omnichad, your sister is being selfish if she unilaterally decided this is how Thanksgiving's going to be this year and is going to be whiny if everyone doesn't shut up and go along. It's also pretty selfish if she's not acknowledging that you can't just magically make pet care happen.
I'm not quite clear on whether you have the option to go up just for Thanksgiving afternoon/evening, or if the deal is that you'd be stuck there all weekend. If it's the latter, I think you're just fine in skipping this one.
@jjkehoe: The deal is go up for the entire weekend and get a ride back with my parents on Sunday or stay 1 night and then take an alleged bus several hours; the bus comes about once per day, and if I miss it I'm screwed. (And it's a real possibility, seeing as how they don't know the area yet and I'm sure they'd try to guilt me into staying longer anyway.)
I should note that I commute an hour each way on a bus every day to work (often waiting in long lines at the bus station) and my idea of a vacation is not spending more time on one.
I just. . . don't want to be there. If he regular house was that far away, I'd get it, but it isn't. I will see her other times this year. I understand that she has this new vacation house she wants to use, but I have this grungy 1-bedroom apartment I'd like to use.
Your sister is being a little unreasonable here.
It doesn't matter if you or your sister are 'being selfish.' If you do not wish to go, thank your sister for her invitation & graciously decline. If she wants to know why, tell her about your pet, the difficulty w/transportation or tell her nothing at all. You do not need to justify your decision.
Please do not feel obligated to do something you do not wish to do. And, have a delightful Thanksgiving...wherever you may be!!
@gmwhit: Thanks, that's the thing. While I admit I'm not the most tactful person, I told her VERY politely why it wouldn't work for me and that next year, with a little more notice, I might be able to make it. And she just keeps saying she wants to "work it out." She doesn't get that the only way to "work it out" is for me to not go.
I don;t see any problem with skipping it, but then I skip lots of family events. My family lives 650 miles away, which is a good distance for me. But is there a possibility of renting a car so you can go up there and come back on your own schedule? You could rent it as an overnight rental but that doesn't mean you have to stay overnight at your sister's place.
I definitely understand the petsitter issue. It's expensive and hard to schedule. I pass on plenty of activities because they aren't pet friendly and I can't get a sitter.
@moondrake: Renting a car is not an option. I haven't driven a car more than a few blocks in years. I'm a city girl.
I was going to second the notion to drive yourself, but if that's not an option...
If you did want to go, is bringing the pet with you an option?
Pffft! My best friend invited us to join her family for Thanksgiving dinner. She lives four hours away. Our budget won't really handle a night or two of hotel, our dogs are elderly and don't board well, and I really want to go.
So we'll drive there, enjoy dinner and visit, and then drive home again. We've done the same for years with my sister, who lives three hours away. It's doable, if you want to. If you don't want to, well, then the "it's too long a day for us" is a perfect excuse.
And no, you're not being selfish.
I believe the holidays are whatever you want them to be, but the one thing that they should be is HAPPY. Don't let someone guilt or peer pressure you into making yourself miserable ... there's plenty of time for that during the rest of the year.
I don't think they are being selfish. It's not like they are offering to come pick you up and have your pet come as well.
I would just use the "it is a very long ways away" excuse.
Offer to Skype with them at the dinner table. Some one can set a "place" for you at the dinner table with a laptop or tablet propped on a stool.
You can "be there" with everyone for the meal (you can feast on whatever YOU fix), enjoy the conversation and neither you nor your furry friend have to bother wearing pants.
Best of all, you can bail out when you've had enough of family time.
This idea offers you the opportunity to visit with family without having to break your budget or spend time worrying about if you'll make it back home on time.
If your sister REALLY wants family harmony and it not to be all about HER perfect Martha Stewart holiday, she'll think this is a workable option.
You aren't being unreasonable. Try this:
"Sister, I love you and would love to spend time with you. But this holiday won't work out. It's too far for me and I can't make it work. Have a great Thanksgiving dinner."
It would be a shame if you came down with the "flu" on Wed.
I would ask for a "rain check" then cash it in when it's better for you. You are not being selfish by doing this. IMHO your sister wants to show off her new vacation home, but you can see it at a more convenient time.
Just piping in to agree that it's your sister being selfish, not you. While there's nothing wrong with her wanting her perfect Thanksgiving exactly the way she envisions it, it's unreasonable of her to assume her dream needs to be the whole family's. If she really wants to "work it out," it's up to her to line all her ducks in a row, including figuring out how you will get there & back in one day.
Whether or not you're selfish is a matter of your motives - and here it sounds like you've tried to think through the possibilities, and it just isn't going to work. I don't think you're being selfish, you're being realistic. Now if they start bending over backwards ("Bring your pet along, I'll pick you up on our way out") then things might start getting stickier, but that also means the situation has changed drastically and it's time to reassess.
It's not selfish at all to recognize that you need some time to yourself to recharge when you're feeling burnt out. It's more selfish to ignore your own needs, because being burnt out will have effects on you, your dog, your colleagues, your family...
@curli76: Any chance that she has a "big announcement" that she wants to share and wants the whole family there for it?
@wisenekt: Haha, no.
Update, more than a month later:
We had Thanksgiving at her regular house; it was fine. I've promised to go to the vacation home next year.
As expected, I've learned I'm not really going to be invited there any other time, so I'm really not feeling much guilt. :)


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6 Amazing Rich Kid Versions of the Toys You Grew Up With
We all had that one rich kid in class growing up -- he was the first to get the new video game systems when they arrived, and he didn't have to make a "fortress" for his action figures out of a cardboard box and old egg cartons -- he had the real thing.
It's hard not to wish you could, just once, relive childhood as that rich kid who had everything. If by some sorcery that should ever occur, we already have our shopping list made out:
#6. A BB Gun That Could Kill a Predator ($3,500)
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This might be the only airsoft gun you could actually stop a home invasion with.
The Echo1 (CAW) M134 Minigun is possibly the most expensive toy gun on the planet (and if it isn't, we'll be extremely depressed for the human race). At a retail price of $3,500, its only practical purpose seems to be giving its owner the ability to boast about it on YouTube. Speaking of which, watch what it does to this perfectly good laptop:
"OK, now let's put it on YouTube ... wait, shit."
The Echo1 is powered by an actual motorcycle battery and the kinetic energy produced by the boner of the guy shooting it. It can fire anywhere between 3,000 and 6,000 rounds per minute, which gun aficionados refer to as "a shitload of dead squirrels." For added realism, it comes packaged in an actual weapons crate and can be hooked up to a backpack "similar to the one seen in Predator with Jesse 'The Body' Ventura." That is an actual quote from the website that sells them, which also states that it was made by "totally wicked awesome ninjas in Japan."
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Yeah, we didn't need to be told that. Some things are just a given.
Now, even though this is basically an overgrown BB gun, we're not saying anyone would actually hand one to a child ...
"Now go back up to the house and gather the servants. I have an idea for a game."
OK, so what would a kid, or overgrown kid, shoot with this thing? How about ...
#5. Life-Size Action Figures ($1,000 to $12,000)
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There are lots of insanely expensive action figures out there, but they're mostly just rare collector's items that you wouldn't actually want to play with -- stuff like an original edition of the butt-chin guy who appears in the Star Wars cantina for two seconds. If we were to spend thousands of dollars on an action figure, we'd like something you can actually get into a physical fight with -- like the $3,000 "Mini" Giant Gundam released by Bandai ("Gundam" translates to "Awesome Fucking Robot"), which is 5 feet tall and boasts 14 movable body parts, including its finger joints.
More importantly, it also comes packed with several interchangeable guns, one of which is a freaking light saber.
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The coffin of a child adorns his other arm.
Other bonus features include rocket-launching sound effects and the frightening ability to blink on remote control (known by future historians as the moment we doomed our race). Of course, this thing is completely worthless if you can't use it to stage massive backyard fights against something, and we're guessing your old TMNT villains aren't gonna cut it anymore. So how about some ride-on dinosaurs for about $1,000 a piece?
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Whoever that kid is, he just won the "having a childhood" game.
Toy manufacturer Hansa specializes in enormous, fully poseable plush toys for rich people with giant babies, apparently. Besides the usual giant horses, giraffes and bears, they've also branched out into extinct or fictional creatures, like this woolly mammoth or this huge, impossibly cool $12,000 dragon:
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Seriously, we would betray our own species to have that.
Oh, and for a few extra dollars, you can make these fuckers move. Shit, at this point your Gundam's gonna need some help to take care of these things -- a perfect excuse to shell out $6,000 more on your own life-size Terminator.
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Nerd sold separately.
It features glowing red eye action, two guns and movable arms, but sadly, the legs are fixed to the base, meaning that, no, you can't make it ride on top of the dragon.
#4. Luxury Cars for Kids ($29,000 to $97,000)
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It's never too early to learn how to compensate.
This isn't just some useless room decoration that rich people buy their kids simply to prove how rich they are -- it has a working engine. It's an actual miniature car, and it's probably better than yours.
The Ferrari Testarossa Two Seater Car for Kids is currently priced at $97,395 and has a top speed of 17 mph. It features fancy-looking upholstery, retractable headlights and even a tape player, as if your kid even knows what a tape is. Turns out that junior Ferraris are pretty popular in Europe: Check out this footage of a little kid driving an Italian model down the street.
"Don't stop at the light -- they'll try to clean your windshield and expect some money."
He's like 8, and this already makes him a more accomplished adult than us. We're guessing that the lady beside him is his trophy wife. On the other hand, if you're concerned less with luxury and more with performance (and blatant parental negligence), for only $29,000 you can get this:
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Years of therapy and social detachment.
The LeMans Junior Race Car has a top speed of 30 mph. That could get your kid arrested for speeding in some residential areas. The specifications page lists a number of impressive features, none of which are seat belts.
But maybe your only aim is getting your kid the hell out of your house. In that case, we recommend the Junior Off Roader, which, in addition to being prepared for dirt roads, comes with an optional camper trailer attachment for a combined total of only $66,000. The trailer itself could comfortably house a family of dwarfs.
Cars for Children
Or one adorable meth lab.
And it's not just these three models -- Mobileation.com's Luxury Car Lot section has a whole bunch of fully functional cars for kids available for anyone with too much money and not enough common sense. What this really means is that when the moment comes for these kids to do the inevitable "I'm leaving home" routine, by the time they get scared and decide to turn back, they'll probably be in another state.
"Fuck, I knew I heard a helicopter! Quick, ditch the coke!"
Man, what happened to the simpler days, when all a kid needed was a bunch of G.I. Joes? Yeah, about that ...


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His Home at 'Sky's Edge'
Sheffield, England
If good taste prevails, "Standing at the Sky's Edge" (Mute) by Richard Hawley will appear on many "best of 2012" lists. The album goes beyond the rich and lovely ballads of his previous recordings, adding squalls of electric guitars and waves of synthesizers to create a roiling platform for his warm, sturdy baritone. The result is an expression of calm, reasoned anger rather than all-out rage. At Fagan's, his favorite pub here in his hometown, Mr. Hawley said that the disc was inspired in part by the 2010 accidental death of his friend Tim McCall, a Sheffield guitarist.
"It was just a jolt," said Mr. Hawley, 45, "and it made me reconnect with the instrument I love."
Though Mr. Hawley is best known in the U.S. for his lush solo albums, he played guitar in the alt-rock bands Longpigs and, briefly, Pulp. The guitar, he said, played a crucial role when he awoke to his calling.
"I was 9 and my daddy came up and he was angry," he recalled over a pint of Guinness. "I was playing my guitar. 'Why are you still up?' he said. 'Dad, there's this song and I don't know what it is.' He was grumpy, but I played it. He said, 'It's yours.' He took the guitar off me and kissed me on the head. I lay in the dark thinking: 'What does that mean?'"
Mr. Hawley committed to a music career at age 17. "I just left home. I wasn't just perched on the edge of the nest. I threw myself out." He felt he had no choice but to become a musician. "There was nothing else."
He recorded two albums before his stint with Pulp. His third, "Lowedges," brought attention to his voice and crooning delivery, a style associated with mid-'60s British orchestral pop that influenced the likes of Paul Buchanan, Nick Lowe and David Sylvian. There's a touch of Rick Nelson and Roy Orbison in there too; while out on Broad Lane to smoke a cigarette, Mr. Hawley regaled his visitor with Orbison's "Blue Bayou."
Mr. Hawley's music is deeply rooted in this town. His grandfather and father were steelworkers who played music. "Music was all around me from acorn to tree," he said. His band of locals has been together 13 years, and most of his albums bear the names of locations here.
"I was brought up in a rich, beautifully dark culture," he said. "Steelworkers work a hard life, quite brutal, the sort that makes you laugh until you cry. I have friends who have been ground down. But my dreams have never involved swimming pools in Los Angeles." He added, "I lived in London for about six weeks. I was in love, but even love couldn't keep me in that place."
In 2006, Mr. Hawley was nominated for a Mercury Prize for his album "Coles Corner." He didn't win, prompting Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, a Sheffield band that captured the award, to say: "Someone call 999. Richard Hawley's been robbed." But the disc gave Mr. Hawley's career a boost. He went on to record his superior discs "Lady's Bridge" and "Truelove's Gutter," produce an album by Duane Eddy, back Nancy Sinatra and record with the Arctic Monkeys as Richard Hawley and the Death Ramps. This year, "Standing at the Sky's Edge" was also nominated for a Mercury Prize, which Alt-J won for its album "Awesome Wave."
"At the end of 'Truelove's Gutter,' I realized I had the opportunity to sit still and watch the grass grow," he said. "I thought the next album would be a pastoral affair. But then Tim died." Mr. Hawley was upset further when a newly elected government announced it wanted to sell the woodlands where he walked with his grandfather as a child and still allows his dogs to roam. He directed his emotions into a successful campaign to block the sale—and into "Standing at the Sky's Edge."
"The songs didn't need a 100-piece orchestra. They needed me to be around with one guitar," he said. "I let it rip, but not just to turn it into a midlife-crisis situation. There's a golden rule with me: The song must always win." The album reflects how Mr. Hawley and his band can sound in concert. "Live, things get more raucous," he said. "A lot of my stuff lends itself to a form of carnage."
Mr. Fusilli is the Journal's rock and pop music critic. Email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @wsjrock.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- It was a night on the town for a group of Fort Riley wives during an event designed to take their minds off the stress of having their husbands deployed.
The Manhattan Chamber Military Relations Committee hosted a "Yellow Ribbon Social Special Edition" on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. The "Yellow Ribbon Socials" meet twice monthly at varying locations in Manhattan. The program offers spouses of deployed or otherwise displaced soldiers an opportunity to bond, network and feel less alone during the stressful time of deployment/displacement.
The event Tuesday night was called "Proper Pin-ups". A group of local businesses came together to give 15 members of the Yellow Ribbon Social Group an evening of fun and pampering. Each spouse had their hair and make-up done by a cosmetology student at Bellus Academy, then traveled to Harry's Restaurant downtown to be photographed by a La Brisa photographer. They were decked out in true vintage "proper pin-up" attire courtesy of Rockstar & Rogers and Gypsy's on the Boulevard. They also enjoyed treats and beverages at Harry's.
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