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Girish Kasaravalli, who was the jury chairman of selection committee, has selected Adoor Gopalakrishnan directed Orupennum Randanum for the Best Movie award. Now TV Chandran, the director of second Best Movie, has expressed his disappointment towards Girish's judgment.
TV Chandran says that Adoor Gopalakrishnan directed movie is not at all a movie, but it is a documentary that was meant for Doordarshan. He asks how he can select a documentary for Best Movie award. So Girish Kasaravalli has done injustice by select the movie for the Best Movie award.
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I generally listen far more to my IEM's during any given day (music or Audiobooks) than I do to my full-size headphones at my office or at home. I bet I probably listen to IEM's at least 5-6 hours a day and some days maybe even more...sometimes I wear them to bed, listening to music as I fall asleep.
The reason I ask about the "average" hourly use per week with your full-size headphones is because I just ordered a new set of HE-400's and I'm trying to decide if its REALLY worth it (should it be worth it, given my weekly usage) "to me" since I probably listen to my full-size headphones about 4 - 5 hours a week and that may be stretching it a bit. I'm sure that there are many weeks that I may only listen for an hour or two.
Is this about normal use for your full-size headphones or much less than you use yours?
See, I've read (been told) that the HE-500's are worth the $300 price difference over the HE-400's (better midrange and highs) BUT would they be worth it to most of you IF you were only using them a few hours a week?...and maybe you are...I don't know what average use is. I'D LOVE TO KNOW
At work, in my office I mostly listen to stand mounted speakers (right now: B&W CDM-1NT's) and when listening to my main system at home, once again, I primarily listen to speakers (Magnepan 1.7's). It's mostly later in the evening when I try to sit back and listen with my headphones.
Its funny, you want something for a while and you're sure of what it is that you want (the HE-400's) but once the time comes to pull the trigger to buy that "thing" all these other options start flooding in. Should I have bought the HE-500 rather than the 400's? Do I use them enough to justify paying nearly twice as much for the 500's?
Another thing is I like Grado's, I've been intrigued by their RS1i's for a long time...now $700 seems steep. Its hard to rationalize the price being twice that of my 325i's when both have leather headbands, neither use plastic earcups...I have zero doubt that the RS1i's sound GREAT but why given their design do they cost more than twice that of my 325i's? I just thinking/typing out loud here...not really expecting a reason.
I'm sorry, didn't mean to go on rant...I have too many hobbies and not enough cash to throw at all of them <grin>
We ALL want the best sound possible but I'm not sure that I listen enough to my headphone rig to justify paying $300 more on one set...but maybe they are worth the price difference!?
If you could give me feedback as to about how many hours a week you use your full-size headphone's I'd truly appreciate it.
Thanks so much!

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Located in Cagaloglu, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of New Mosque, Hagia Sophia, and Basilica Cistern. Istanbul Archaeology Museum and Cagaloglu Hamami are also within 10 minutes.
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Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning as well as a complimentary manager's reception. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measuring 151 square feet (14 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a sauna, spa services, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle.
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Anyone know where can I sell my stuff to someone who has more than 2,000 gold?
Riften has 3 General Goods traders all relatively close together. (Bersi, Brand-Shei, and Grelka)
That video used to have a preview image, but it took an arrow to the knee.
Alduin just killed Lydia. Can't say I'm upset about it.
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I am thoroughly impressed with how vast Skyrim actually is and how every dungeon/cave is unique and diverse despite the landscape being pretty similar all throughout. I just spent something like 2 or 3 hours in a dungeon that spanned the equivalent of the distance between, I dunno, Whiterun and Riverwood or something. I've been all over the place with two different characters, level 29 and level 19, and there's still so much I haven't seen. I don't even know how long I've been playing for, is there a way to check? This game blows my head off.
I like to think his going to Activision HQ to kill everyone
When you click on Skyrim in your steam browser, it will have a play button. Next to that, it will show you how many hours played.
I have no life...
Wow, you know you could've just cropped this part:
A bit paranoid, eh?
So, I'm gonna start a new game but I'm going to mod the ever-living fuck out of it.
I'll be using the STEP compilation.
I can't decide between the Empire or the Stormcloaks. They both seem bad in their own ways.
I'm kind of more leaning against the Empire just because they're called "The Empire" which is never a good thing.
You should go through every mod currently on the nexus and make your decisions from there.
5mins in paint but it gets the point across.
I needed to show where to find it, not just a snippet to show how many hours I played.
I hate to rage about a game as good as Skyrim but honestly it would be so much better without the game FUCKING SHOVING DRAGONS DOWN YOUR THROAT EVERY TEN MINUTES.
Jesus fucking christ I just want to do some goddamn quests not have to put everything on hold to wait for a dragon to kill all the NPCs and fly around and NEVER FUCKING LAND and doggedly pursue me for no discernible reason.
Goddamn. I think I know why I still am more fond of Oblivion than of Skyrim: Oblivion never shoved massive, NPC-killing bosses down my throat every time I just wanted to get engrossed in some quests.
I'm ragequitting Skyrim to play Super Meat Boy.
This should not be happening.
Just do not do the Bleak Falls Barrow quest in the main story, but this will prevent you from completing the civil war, because you have to learn that you are dragon-born to complete the civil war. (Bulgruuf will keep complaining about his dragon problem, so he will not speak to you untill you have dealt with the dragon)
Sheogorath is the best deadric prince because he is the only one with more character than a paper plate nailed to a board.
If I leave my little brother alone with a laptop for a while, he makes comics.
More like:
"Hey, this game has dragons in it"
"Oh cool, I want to fight a dragon now"
"too bad"
Person walks off.
Seriously though, I have to fucking chase down dragons five holds before they finally begin attacking me.
*vigurously stabs own eyes with a fork while screaming*
Well, he did take center stage in the only decent Oblivion expansion.
I find it hilarious how easily people are persuaded in this game.
Imperial Soldier: hey! you're not supposed to be down here!
me: it's ok i'm allowed to be here
Imperial Soldier: oh ok
Yeah, like every speech check is lower than your actual starting speech for some reason.
so is anyone else here scared as fuck of swimming in games? i just started crying because a fish attacked me whiel i was swimming in creepy water and i couldn't see what was going on ):
Hope I'm not late.
ty i'm no longer crying
Well I can never make thieves fuck off, and they have good reason to when they always go down in a few seconds.
It doesn't help that underwater visibility in 95% of all videogames is around 5 feet in front of you.
Bah you should've seen it when there were real underwater enemies and dungeons in morrowind.
Now there's just some shitty fish which you will almost never see because you never need to swim anywhere.
Well to be fair, you get that feeling plus your eyes getting sore when you swim outside in real life
Needs more Dreughs.
Whats the character appearance whilst on the carriage to his execution? I'm curious.
That WAS the only expansion.
You know who I really think are useless in this game? The guards! I mean, someone actually stole my sweetroll, and now I can't get it back :(
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SEATTLE, Tuesday—Last Sunday, my daughter and son-in-law, with the two older children went with me to Bremerton. After a very pleasant luncheon with Mrs. Taffinder, wife of Admiral Sherwoode Ayerst Taffinder, Commandant of the Navy Yard, we visited the hospital with Captain Dan Hunt. This is not as big a hospital as those in San Francisco or San Diego, but it has been somewhat enlarged lately.
There were a number of patients from the northern area, not all of them, however, from the battlefront. A good many boys get hurt on board ship. In all these hospitals there are a number of nervous cases, some of whom, perhaps, will never be able to resume work in the armed forces, but may be able to take up their civilian occupations again.
They have some wards for the care of Navy dependents, and I saw a number of wives whose husbands are off on foreign duty. Seven babies were in the nursery, and several children were recovering from more or less serious illnesses.
This is not a separate hospital building, as it was at the naval air station in San Diego, but is a part of the regular hospital. The patients pay $3.50 a day, just as they do in San Diego. I had not been at this navy yard since the President was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. We visited all the navy yards on this coast in the winter of 1914, and the change is simply breathtaking. What used to be a golf course is now covered with shops and great activity is going on everywhere.
Yesterday, at noon, I spoke here in Victory Square. Ever since last May, Seattle has carried on noonday meetings in Victory Square. Always they have a record of bond sales read. In addition, they make a point of bringing interesting people to talk at that hour on anything to do with the war effort.
Yesterday, an army band, belonging to a Washington, D. C., regiment, played very well. In compliance with Donald Nelson's request, the newspapers here, as well as in other parts of the country, are responsible for the scrap metal drive, and they had charge of yesterday's program.
To me, the most interesting part of the program was the interviewing of four young officers; two naval fliers back from the Aleutian Islands and two boys from the Lexington. All of their stories were interesting, though told with great understatement, because the boys seemed much embarrassed at having to talk about their own experiences.
In the afternoon, my daughter and I saw a picture which was taken in China by Mr. Mark L. Moody, an American businessman who has spent some 25 years in the Far East. He had exceptional opportunities for taking pictures when the Japanese took Shanghai and various nearby cities.
The film is called "Ravaged Earth," and he tells me his desire is to awaken the people in this country to a knowledge of the kind of adversary they have in the Japanese. They are certainly appalling pictures. If we need any awakening, this film should certainly open our eyes.


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In 1993, Snoop Dogg released his debut, Doggystyle, and helped shape mainstream rap for a good chunk of the decade. Strange, then, that he'd be returning to the era with Doggystyle 2, a so-called sequel, over 15 years and countless rap trends later. Working with producer Swizz Beatz, Snoop recorded a wide range of material for the record: "some gangsta shit, some Crip shit, some R&B shit, some hip-hop shit, some hard shit, some mean shit" (I think a lot of those coincide with each other), as announced in a video on Mr. Beatz's Twitter account. It's hard to believe that Doggystyle came out in 1993, when plenty of Snoop's current fans were just being born.
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Iron is an essential mineral used to transport oxygen to all parts of the body. A slight deficiency in iron causes anemia (fatigue/weakness), and a chronic deficiency can lead to organ failure. Conversely, too much iron leads to production of harmful free radicals, and interferes with metabolism, causing damage to organs like the heart and liver.
The body is able to regulate uptake of iron, so overdose is rare and usually only occurs when people take supplements. Iron from natural food sources, like the ones listed below, are considered safe and healthy. While iron is better absorbed from heme (meat) sources, non-heme (plant) iron is better regulated causing less damage to the body. The current percent daily value for iron is 18 milligrams (mg). Below is a list of high iron foods.
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Courtesy: healthaliciousness, WebMD- Red meat
- Egg yolks
- Dark, leafy greens (spinach, collards)
- Dried fruit (prunes, raisins)
- Dried Apricots
- Sun Dried Tomatoes
- Cocoa Powder or Dark Chocolate
- Iron-enriched cereals and grains (check the labels)
- Mollusks (oysters, clams, scallops)
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HARRISON, NJ (March 26, 2012) – The New York Red Bulls announced that forward Juan Agudelo will undergo surgery today to repair a torn medial meniscus in his left knee. The procedure will be performed by Dr. Riley Williams at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Expected recovery time is up to six weeks.
Agudelo suffered the injury while he was with the United States Under-23 Men's National Team during a 6-0 win over Cuba on March 22 in Nashville, TN during the 2012 CONCACAF Men's Qualifying Tournament. The 19-year-old and former Red Bulls Academy product just began his third MLS season and has made one start this year, playing the full 90 minutes against FC Dallas in a 2-1 loss on March 11 before departing to international duty.
Coming off a 4-1 win over the Colorado Rapids Sunday, the Red Bulls return to action on Saturday, March 31 when they host the expansion Montreal Impact at 4:00 PM ET (TV: MSG). Tickets are available by calling 1.877RBSOCCER or by logging on www.newyorkredbulls.com.


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CMF's own Avery Grant rubbed elbows with Atlanta's filmmaking elite at a recent screening of David E. Talbert's "Baggage Claim"
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Aren't more people annoyed by this?
Just installed version 6.0.4 of Max, but to my disappointment I find that a serious file open bug reported many, many weeks ago has not been finished.
I am surprised this doesn't bother a lot of people, because this bug means you can't open sample/sound files that does NOT contain a suffix, which is the norm rather than the exception on OS X. Using "replace" into a buffer, for example, means you can only open sound files that have a suffix/extension.
It seems to only affect Max 6 installed on Lion, but … are you guys not using Lion? Or just not using sound files ;) Have you found a workaround? Or are you all using suffixes (.wav, .aiff etc.)?
I am now trying to decide whether to rename thousands of sample files, adding a suffix, to make them readable by Max, or wait one or two more months (or longer) for the next round of bugfixes.
This is working fine on Max 5, btw, even on Lion, so don't know what's going on.
Just got official word from Cycling, and extensionless files are no longer supported in Max.
Isn't it easy enough to select all and 'show extensions'?
I would've thought that Max doesn't care as hiding the extensions is only a GUI thing, with the files obviously still having extensions.
Nope, not that simple. These files simply don't have extensions, and won't show anything except the file name when I turn on "show all file extensions" in the Finder.
>It seems to only affect Max 6 installed on Lion, but … are you guys not using Lion?
Nah uh. Not on your life, my friend. I don't know, it was something about being in a school environment and have 50 students all have *different problems* appear as soon as Lion hit. So many students opting to downgrade to SnowLeopard, sooo much trouble.
More annoyed by the lousy timing and functionally useless Rewire support. /rant
Right, I didn't know you could have files with straight up no extensions (other than hidden ones). I assume that when you double click the file it opens with an appropriate program?
On Lion here and loving it. Took a bit to get used to some things, but I'm into it overall.
crx091081gb, we would love to hear about any issues you are experiencing in these (or any other) departments. Please refer to the bug reporting form for what we would need from you:
You can also email support at cycling 74 dot com with the info if you would prefer.
Re: ReWire support — I think I'm going to give up and try to make it all work with soundflower. I can't submit a bug report because it just seems random. Last weekend I was doing a live show (a pancake breakfast, oh yeah!) and when I started up my system, max/msp no longer even showed up as a ReWire option. It was working just prior — no reboot, no nothing. It just stopped working. When I get a free moment I'll see if I can get it work again, but if I recall it was also a process seemingly ditctated by some kind of chaotic attractor. After going through the delete/copy/link/delete/link/copy dance with the MSPReWireDevice.bundle several times it mysteriously started working.
I realize this isn't a Cycling issue so much as a Propellerheads issue, and I'm really hoping that maybe soundflower is a better solution. I really need to interconnect various processes to make the Sounds I Love.
of course i totally dislike the idea that max stops supporting it, because it is a matter of upwards incompatibility.
but saying that using no extensions for .aif files on OS X would be the norm goes too far IMO.
i would say that about 99% of all OSX programs which can write aif use extensions (or at least suggest such an extension as default in their save dialog), and even in OS 7 – OS 9 it was kind of standard.
if someone did not use extensions on mac 10 or 20 years ago (and yes i do have a handful such files on my disks too) he was working in a way that made his audio files and/or projects incompatible with windows already then.
beeing so ignorant for non OS 7 systems back in the days will now be punished in OS 10.6, thats called justice.
"Justice"? That's a big word for a file compatibility issue.
Anyways, lots of audio apps have no problems with these files, even on Lion. Live and Peak read them just fine, and even something as peculiar as Metasynth have no problems. Logic 9 also reads them perfectly. In fact, I have a huge list of audio apps that can read them just fine, but, alas, it is now Max 6 that forces me to rename them.
Windows compatibility? I have used a Mac for 23 years, never transferred my projects to a Windows machine ever. So ignorant? Not really, no – I just haven't had the need for it.
beeing so ignorant for non OS 7 systems back in the days will now be punished in OS 10.6, thats called justice.
I am curious why support for extensionless files was dropped. While OS X on the Aqua level does use extensiosn to figure out what what app to open a file with when the appropriate metadata is not there, Unix systems at the core don't care about file extensions. Sure, extensions make doing stuff like mv *.aif mystuff/.
easier, but not something the system as a core relies on. I imagine sfplay~
and buffer~
are now using the extension to determine what kind of file you are opening (am I right?), but what was wrong with previous methods in Max5 and earlier (I'm assuming those objects will looked at the extension, but if there wasn't one, looked at header information to figure it out?).
Maybe cycling is ahead of the competition, as it is apple's own decision to ditch creator codes in terms of type recognition altogether (http://tidbits.com/article/10537). From certain perspectives 7 was more advanced then lion is. On the other hand it opens options, as an extension might come that reads .cycling74soundfilethatisactuallydefinedasaiff or something like that.
am i wrong or does this also mean that you aren't able to interpret a radom file as audiofile anymore?
Maybe cycling is ahead of the competition, as it is apple's own decision to ditch creator codes in terms of type recognition altogether (http://tidbits.com/article/10537).
Oh maybe. Thanks for bringing this up, somehow I missed this piece of info in the past (although I suppose I had noticed, and mostly liked this behavior when I switched to Snow Leopard full time last summer).
am i wrong or does this also mean that you aren't able to interpret a radom file as audiofile anymore?
Change change the file extension of your random file to a support audio file extension and that should work I imagine.
ok but as oivindi also mentioned that could mean to rename quite a lot files… isn't it possible to read them as raw files?
There's a little Mac app called NameChanger that I've found really useful for batch changing file names. Look on macupdate.com.
Renamer is another good Mac app
See also A Better Finder Rename; will work in demo mode for free ad nauseam as long as you don't mind working with up to 10 files at a time.
I was also miffed to lose .sd2 support, but hey, that's progress.
I was going to upgrade to Lion this weekend, now maybe not – the joys of being a late adopter!
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Faribault has infrastructure in place for commercial and industrial development, including a large "shovel-ready" industrial park along Interstate 35. The city and EDA have a variety of incentive programs available for new businesses looking to locate within the community and to help businesses grow and prosper. These programs include loans, grants, and tax incentives for eligible businesses that add jobs or tax base to the city. Faribault is also a JOBZ community, providing tax-free zones for eligible business development. The business-friendly environment is why a wide variety of businesses call Faribault home, including food services/manufacturing, construction, aviation, automotive, entertainment, supply chains and the green industry.
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Birthday cake all around - not only is today Sandra tatsxxx11's birthday here on Pet Talk, it's also my big brother's birthday, and my dear friend Sarah's birthday, too!
Birthday cake all around - not only is today Sandra tatsxxx11's birthday here on Pet Talk, it's also my big brother's birthday, and my dear friend Sarah's birthday, too!
I've Been Frosted
Happy Birthday to all! I've brought some ice cream to go with the cake!
Gayle - self proclaimed Queen of Poop
Mommy to: Cali and Diego (nine year old kittens)
(RB furbabies: Rascal RB 10/11/03 (ferret), Sami RB 24/02/04 (dog), Trouble RB 10/08/05 (ferret), Miko RB 20/01/06 (ferret) and Sebastian RB 12/12/06(ferret), Sasha RB 17/10/09 (border collie cross)
Well, as you have seen, EVERYTHING Angel does is with 100% effort and enthusiasm. (Including begging for food at the table, none of this mooshy cute soft sad dog eyes stuff for her, she sits very politely and stares with an intensity that's funny, you WILL give me food NOW!)
She is an absolutely intense animal, no hyperbole intended.
Birthday cake and drinks!
When ever I hear about a birthday cake, it always makes me think of the red punch that people would serve with it!
Servings all around!
I'd love some cake and a cherry rootbeer, please.
I had a great Saturday. My cousin was in town and we visited the local cemeteries then went to lunch. It's good to get out to eat once a year. I enjoyed it.
She also brought me my Grandmother's Bible that my mom had given my grandmother when I was 5 years old. My cousin's mom (my grandmother's only living daughter) had the Bible. Since she has alzheimer's and in assisted living my, cousin is bringing out some of the things that my Aunt no longer can use. I was thrilled to have it. She also gave me 3 pictures of my dad when he was young. He was only 11 in one of them. Time to do some scrapbooking again.
No matter what anyone does, someone some where will be offended some how!!!!
Grandma (RB), Chester, Angel, Chip
Leonardo (RB), Luke (RB), Winnie, Chuck,
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!
"When dogs are looking at you, they're essentially hugging you with their eyes." -- Dr. Brian Hare
"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
Cassie's Catster page: http://www.catster.com/cats/448678
We must be related, my toe has been bugging me too!
I'll do a coffee with you?
Hows about a piece of toast, too?
I have a bunch of photos I managed to salvage from my mom. My problem? I don't know any of the folks in them!
One CRB.....DOnE!
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I need to clear out stuff to make my upcoming move less of a burden.
Please make me a reasonable offer and I will probably accept. The more you also buy from me, the more I'd be willing to make a deal with you. I will also charge actual shipping costs, so I will calculate that for you once we discuss items.
Everything comes from a pet-free, smoke-free home. I have done my best to give specific notes on the condition of items where needed. Pics and further details are always available upon request.
Take these guides, please!
Game Guides
Dead Rising 2 CE (sealed)
Final Fantasy XIII (soft cover)
God of War III
Halo Reach LE (Hardcover, sealed)
Infamous 2
L.A. Noire
Red Dead Redemption
Star Wars the Force Unleashed
Star Wars the Force Unleashed II (Hardcover, sealed)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 CE (sealed) (2x)
Gamecube - game conditions vary greatly with game discs having light to maybe slightly more scratching. I have not encountered any issues with the discs playing. Games are complete with case, artwork and manual - unless otherwise noted. I can provide extra details/pictures upon request. Some of the game cases are in "rough" condition since they were purchased used, but they are not cracked/broken.
1080° Avalanche
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time & Master Quest (disc only)
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Odama (2x) (disc only)
Waverace: Blue Storm
Wrestlemania XIX (disc only)
Playstation 3
Games, cases and manuals are in very good to like new condition
Beyond Two Souls Steelbook Edition (sealed)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Ghost Recon Future Soldier
Infamous Collection
Killzone 2
Max Payne 3
MLB 10 The Show
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 CE Steelbook w/ slip cover and comic insert (case only, never been used)
Blu Ray and DVD
Viva Elite Single Disc Cases (new) (50x+) - $0.45 each + shipping
LOST: Season 1 (Only Disc 1 watched once - bought version after)
Toy Story 3 [IronPack] (sealed) (2x)
Kung Fu Panda, "Po", beanie baby example photo (not an actual picture of mine)
Ipad Keyboard (Like New, only used twice) - used on an iPad2, I believe it should be compatible with all 30-pin connector iPads
Due to the collectibility of these items listed below, I'm in no rush to part with these. No yard sale type offers, please.
Club Nintendo
3DS Card Case 18 - 2015 Edition
3DS Card Case 18 - Pikmin/Super Mario Edition
3DS Card Case 18 - Legend of Zelda Edition
3DS Card Case 18 - Animal Crossing Edition
3DS Card Case 18 - Animal Crossing Edition - partially cracked on edge, but appears to be fully functional
Zelda 3DS Drawstring Pouch
3 Poster Set: 2013 Platinum Poster Set (Luigi/Pikmin/Zelda Wind Waker)
Blu Ray
Cars Best Buy Exclusive Steelbook (sealed)
The Nightmare Before Christmas Best Buy Exclusive Steelbook
The Muppets Wocka Wocka edition w/ Best Buy Lunchbox (BD+DVD+DC) (sealed)
K'nex Super Mario Figure Series #4 - Bowser Jr. (sealed)
K'nex Super Mario Figure Series #4 - Waluigi (sealed)
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As much as I love Will Ferrell, these mediocre sports movies are taking a toll on his career. Needs to be a bit more selective.
Though I've been disappointed in him since pretty much everything after old school, the full trailer looks better than I thought it would be from the teaser.


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suspicious infiltrates are noted in the rightt upper lobe, what is the meaning of these, am i seek?
There are many causes of infiltrates in the lung, such as infection, scarring (fibrosis) or inflammation. Finding the cause often depends on the timing and nature of the symptoms and further testing such as x-rays/CT scans, blood tests and sometimes test such as a bronchoscopy or a lung biopsy. To determine the cause of your lung infiltrates, you should contact your physician for further evaluation.
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Does Passion Flower really calm a horse down? I was reading this in a magazine article... what have you heard about this? If you have used it, how much did you give your horse, and where did you buy it? I am looking into it because my horse gets a bit stressed at the shows... Maybe this will help? :? Thanks!:lol: |
To be honest, I don't think so. :wink: I'm using calm agent on my horse, and I notice chammomile + vervain seem to be the best. Everything else is not very useful (and mix with garlic drove her crazy 2 times I tried it). AND you have to give those herbs for at least a week to see the effect. So for just a show your best bet would be those one-time tubes with paste (Quietex or whatever the name of it). BTW, don't rely much on those either - calming is a very individual thing and what works for one horse has no effect on another. |
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"This generous gift is going to make a tremendous difference for a handful of Campbell Law students as they turn their knowledge into practice outside of the classroom," said Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard. "We are thankful to Womble Carlyle for standing with our students and supporting them in this endeavor with this tremendous gift."
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- Update: We lost our dear Dante in May, 2011. We love you, Dante. Thank you for bringing us so much love and joy into our lives.
- Update: here is a new recipe for Pumpkin Flax Seed Dog Biscuits.
No, Sierra is not cute! 😉 Let's see what you think of her when she comes over to your house! Sierra is a monster hiding behind the fuzzy white, polka dotted Boxer fur that you see here. When we saw her 3 years ago, her gentle puppy demeanor, her adorable little brown "pirate patch" over her eye, her lovable licks and her warm, sweet gaze deceived us into believing that she was going to be the perfect puppy.
She tricked us into thinking that with proper, firm training, she would do no harm. Can you call us two big SUCKERS?!! Not only has she killed and pulled up many plants from our garden, those that she has not killed, she's eaten. We finally gave up on the idea of growing rhubarb because she eats the stalks even before the snails get to them. What's left of the plant is a tiny base stalk with a dog paw print as evidence left behind. She loves strawberries too. Every other morning, it's a race to our little strawberry patch to beat her to the ripened berries.
If we're a little late, she'll be found licking her mug free of the super duper sweet chandler strawberry juice. It's SO wrong to see two humans (us) salivating and staring down at a dog (her) who just beat her guardians to their prized strawberries. Can you call us JEALOUS?!! But she is a great soccer player, loves to play in dirt and her love of the sprinklers keep us entertained and forgiving of her destructive ways!
He's big, he's lazy and he's a princess. He is named Dante, inspired during our trip to Rome, after the famed poet Dante Alighieri. We really should have named him "princepesa". Dante is supposed to be the big, strong, noble, athletic and fearless Rhodesian Ridgeback hunter that we also got suckered into loving. Is it too late to get a refund? Isn't there an 8 year dog ownership statue of limitations?!
What we ended up getting was a dog who HATES water, doesn't like to get his paws dirty, screams bloody murder when getting his nails trimmed or when about to get a shot at the vet and sleeps about 20 hours a day. And worse yet, he will not chase balls. Nope, none of this "fetch, Fido, fetch" playtime with Dante. He looks at a tossed ball like it's an insult to his character, giving us that "you really don't expect me to chase that, do you?" look. But wait, those are his GOOD traits.
If there's one significant description to singularly identify this dog amongst others, it's is his love of FOOD. Yes, of course, mostly all dogs love food and love to be fed. But our "great red hope" of a canine is so infatuated with food that if there was a plate of leftovers on the counter sitting over night, he will sit and stare at it ALL NIGHT. True! When we wake up in the morning, we'll find this hound sitting in the kitchen, half asleep, hoping the food will miraculously fall to the floor for him to ingest. But he is part hound and does have great smelling and hunting skills. He can run trails with Mom & Dad like no other, and if one of us gets lost, we're certain that he'll be able to find us by smell. We suppose that's a good thing!
But they are loved! Aside from our rant, they do get treated quite nicely (we remind them of their fulfilling life). They get plenty of couch cuddles, ear rubs, new toys , daily walks, frequent hikes, beach visits and road trips. In return, they give us unconditional love and loyalty, despite our faults. To show them that they are really, truly and deeply loved, we make them homemade flax seed dog biscuits. Can you call them SPOILED?! Yes, they get homemade dog biscuits made from all natural ingredients. Our highly loved and tattered bible, "The Professional Pastry Chef" by Bo Frieberg, is the ultimate, extensive book that is full of wickedly amazing dessert recipes. But Bo Frieberg's very first recipe in this monstrous book for human consumption is a recipe for dog biscuits, in which he dedicated to his dogs. This recipe has been in the White On Rice Couple's household for 8 years now and along with the addition of flax seeds, it's a culinary tradition will continue to be fully executed for as long as we have four legged monsters in the house. Thank you, Chef Bo!!
"Sharing the Love" of dog biscuits ! Dante & Sierra want to share their biscuits with their canine friends. Awww, isn't that so kind of them to extend their treat bag to their doggie friends? Well, we didn't tell Dante, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him. So for all you mommies and daddies out there who have doggies that would like to sample some of these delicious homemade dog biscuits, we're "Sharing the Love"! Dear blog friends who have dogs, you will love these, seriously you will. Take a bite into them for yourself and you'll see that they are quite delicious. But wait! These are for the dogs, so if you want some for your dogs, just leave your comment here and we'll get back to you. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these dog biscuits and try to make them for your canine loves!
Homemade Flax Seed Dog Biscuit Recipe
- 12 oz (340g) whole wheat flour
- 12oz (340g) bread flour
- 2 oz (55g) wheat germ
- 1 t (5g) salt
- 2T (30g) brown sugar
- 3-4T Flax Seed (optional)
- 3 eggs
- 1c (240ml) vegetable oil
- 3oz (85g) powdered dry milk
- 1c (240ml) water
- Combine wheat flour, bread flour, wheat germ, salt, and brown sugar, and flax seed in mixing bowl. Stir in eggs and vegetable oil.
- Dissolve dry milk in water then incorporate the mixture.
- Mix to form a very firm dough that is smooth and workable. Adjust by adding a little extra flour or water as required.
- Cover the dough and set aside to relax for 15-20 min.
- Roll the dough out to 1/2″ (1.2cm) thick. Cut out biscuits using a bone-shaped cutter 3″x1.5″ (7.5×3.7cm). Place the biscuits on sheet pans lined with baking paper.
- Bake at 375°F (190°C) for approx. 40 minutes or until biscuits are brown and, more importantly, rock-hard. Let biscuits cool, then store in a covered container five to six feet off the flour. Use as needed to reward your four-legged friends.)
A note about the last instruction. These are to be given out at least 3-4 times daily. If not, dogs, feel free to go potty where ever you are not supposed to.
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THANK YOU!!for Sharing Your Love with us:
Lisa –Oh Goodness, you really spoiled us with your jars of homemade granola (yummy!), country soup mix, Rhode Island coffee milk (totally excited about this one) and beautiful hand carved servers! You should really sell your granola!
Denise & Lenny- Whoa! We can't believe you sent us back the meyer lemons that we sent you in the form of homemade marmalade! Both this and the blood orange marmalade were beautifully fresh tasting(love the rinds) and perfectly sweet. Your homemade Portuguese sweet bread was da bomb!…um we ate it too fast, no pictures of these! When are you gonna start your marmalade business?
Victoria- This awesome and informative pasta book has been so helpful in creating our next "Hand cut noodles & pasta" video! There's enough info here to make….5 more pasta videos! The orange soap is lovely too, almost all gone!
Kitt- Your kind gift of all stamps was a big surprise (we really didn't expect anyone to send us stamps!). Now we can continue to share the love of more gifts via your pre-paid postage! 🙂
Nan- You are a genius! What made you ever come up with the idea of us homemade aprons with our pictures on it? We've never had such personalized aprons before, now that you sent us two of them, we won't fight over which aprons to use anymore!
Carol – Thank you so much for this beautiful handmade card! All the detail on it is just beautiful! We can tell that it took a-lot of time to made this card.
Gaye – Now you make us really want to go to Australia, right now! These "Down Under" teasings of chocolates, Tim Tams and other Aussie treats won't last more than a day! The lemon myrtle bush herb is totally new to us and is another great addition to our spice collection! We'll be cooking with it shortly.
Pixie – Your generous package of vine leaves have been more than plentiful ! Thank you for getting us to eat out of the can and venturing into the world of dolmade making! There's no turning back now!
Susan – Winning this on your weekly Top Chef giveaway made our day! We were losing all the other giveaways, we were wondering if there was ever a chance of a lucky streak in our future. We went out and got a lottery ticket right after! Thanks for such a fun event!


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text: Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been spearheading efforts to make web more intelligent and useful to people. As a part of this effort, he has been calling people to open up the data and put it on the web in an open format. Recently, at TED University, he spoke about some examples of how open data on the web has been used for many useful purposes, including a major role in rebuilding Haiti. We thought we will share the video of his talk here.


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Like many who jumped early into 3D printing, Brook Drumm found the lower cost printers required a significant degree of assembly. Think Ikea, but with soldering guns, wires and less documentation. So he set out to build his own.
Brook Drumm always liked to create things.
But the former pastor turned web developer had spent the last few years in a profession where the product was on the screen - websites and iPhone apps - rather a physical product he could touch, and it was beginning to leave him a little unsatisfied.
"It kind of left me wanting to build something that I can hold in my own hand," said Drumm, who I recently talked with for the NextMarket podcast.
So one day when he read about Jay Leno's efforts to produce exotic car parts using 3D printing technology, something clicked. After all, Drumm was a car nut himself, a self-described "maker" who liked to tinker and create in his garage. He thought if Leno could do it with equipment that may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, in today's world of rapid technology evolution, it wouldn't be long before the technology came to him.
And it soon did. Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.
"It took Christmas money, birthday money, not telling my wife," jokes Drumm.
Eventually he bought the Cupcake, an early model from Makerbot and assembled it with his family, including his six-year old child who he taught to solder during the assembly process.
"I thought if this was going to be in every home, kids have to be involved."
But it left him a little unsatisfied, mainly because of how difficult he found it to put it together. Like many who have jumped early into 3D printing, they found the lower cost printers required a significant degree of assembly.
Think Ikea, but with soldering guns, wires and less documentation.
"It was hard, it was very technical. It took weekends of six, eight hour stints trying to figure out the documentation. We got it built. and I decided this was too hard and there was definitely room for someone to make this simpler."
And so he set out to do just that, design and create his own 3D printer. When he started researching online, he found out about RepRap, an open-source project for 3D printing, which provided the foundation to at least start creating a 3D printer, not only because of the open-source instructions but also because of a community of enthusiastic tinkerers like himself.
The only problem for Drumm when he posted his interest in creating a RepRap meetup? There was no one within 50 miles of his home of Sacramento in this early enthusiast community who he could get together with.
"It was a fairly small community at the time, and even smaller when you try to find someone local."
If you'd like to hear my full conversation with Drumm, download it at iTunes, Soundcloud, or through RSS.


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EXCLUSIVE: Expert criticizes Stossel's "ahistorical" remarks on Civil Rights Act
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John Stossel's argument that the Public Accommodation section in the Civil Rights Act should be repealed and that the "free market" likely would have resolved the issue of racial discrimination by businesses is "ahistorical" and "unempirical," a civil rights expert said.
The Public Accommodation section of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination "on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin" by businesses open to the general public, such as restaurants, hotels, and theaters.
In an interview with Media Matters, Andrew Grant-Thomas, deputy director of the Ohio State's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, characterized Stossel's comments as "a silly statement," adding, "Market forces hadn't exactly made anti-black discrimination disappear during the several centuries before the Civil Rights Act."
On Fox News' America Live, Stossel earlier today discussed the 1964 Civil Rights Act with host Megyn Kelly. Kelly asked, "How do you know that these private business owners, who owned restaurants and so on, would have said, 'You know what? We will take blacks. We'll take gays. We'll take lesbians,' if they hadn't been forced to do it?"
Stossel replied, "Because eventually they would have lost business. The free market competition would have cleaned the clocks of the people who didn't serve most customers."
Stossel went on to say, "[I]t's time now to repeal" the Public Accommodation section, "because private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist."
When asked about Stossel's remarks, Grant-Thomas noted that even with the progress made since the Civil Rights Act's passage, racial discrimination is still a problem. "If you look at any market for which we've done extensive studies, significant discrimination remains," Grant-Thomas said. "It's clearly better than it was. But there's still discrimination."
Grant-Thomas pointed to the housing and employment markets as domains where the free market has not entirely dealt with the problem of racial discrimination.
"There are plenty of private organizations that currently -- and legally -- discriminate on the basis of race, or other grounds, in their membership. That hasn't caused them to go under," he said. "Indeed ... in some key arenas -- like housing and schools, some people pay more for segregated settings."
Ultimately, Grant-Thomas took issue with Stossel's suggestion that a market would be the source of solution to the moral problem of discrimination. "The Civil Rights Act wasn't passed on economic grounds, but on moral and ethical grounds," he said. "Suggesting that market logic would have sufficed to weed out discriminators is pretty much besides the point in that respect."
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The latest news about robots, robotics
artificial intelligence...
Posted: Oct 07, 2013 | |
Better robot vision (w/video) |
(Nanowerk News) Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision. But a robot that manipulates objects in the world needs to do more than just recognize them; it also needs to understand their orientation. Is that mug right-side up or upside-down? And which direction is its handle facing? | |
To improve robots ability to gauge object orientation, Jared Glover, a graduate student in MITs Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is exploiting a statistical construct called the Bingham distribution. In a paper ("Bingham Procrustean Alignment for Object Detection in Clutter") theyre presenting in November at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Glover and MIT alumna Sanja Popovic 12, MEng 13, who is now at Google, describes a new robot-vision algorithm, based on the Bingham distribution, that is 15 percent better than its best competitor at identifying familiar objects in cluttered scenes. | |
That algorithm, however, is for analyzing high-quality visual data in familiar settings. Because the Bingham distribution is a tool for reasoning probabilistically, it promises even greater advantages in contexts where information is patchy or unreliable. In ongoing work, Glover is using Bingham distributions to analyze the orientation of pingpong balls in flight, as part of a broader project to teach robots to play pingpong. In cases where visual information is particularly poor, his algorithm offers an improvement of more than 50 percent over the best alternatives. | |
MIT Ping Pong Robot - rally with a human. | |
Alignment is key to many problems in robotics, from object-detection and tracking to mapping, Glover says. And ambiguity is really the central challenge to getting good alignments in highly cluttered scenes, like inside a refrigerator or in a drawer. Thats why the Bingham distribution seems to be a useful tool, because it allows the algorithm to get more information out of each ambiguous, local feature. | |
Because Bingham distributions are so central to his work, Glover has also developed a suite of software tools that greatly speed up calculations involving them. The software is freely available online, for other researchers to use. | |
In the rotation | |
One reason the Bingham distribution is so useful for robot vision is that it provides a way to combine information from different sources. Generally, determining an objects orientation entails trying to superimpose a geometric model of the object over visual data captured by a camera in the case of Glovers work, a Microsoft Kinect camera, which captures a 2-D color image together with information about the distance of the color patches. | |
For simplicitys sake, imagine that the object is a tetrahedron, and the geometric model consists of four points marking the tetrahedrons four corners. Imagine, too, that software has identified four locations in an image where color or depth values change abruptly likely to be the corners of an object. Is it a tetrahedron? | |
The problem, then, boils down to taking two sets of points the model and the object and determining whether one can be superimposed on the other. Most algorithms, Glovers included, will take a first stab at aligning the points. In the case of the tetrahedron, assume that, after that provisional alignment, every point in the model is near a point in the object, but not perfectly coincident with it. | |
If both sets of points in fact describe the same object, then they can be aligned by rotating one of them around the right axis. For any given pair of points one from the model and one from the object its possible to calculate the probability that rotating one point by a particular angle around a particular axis will align it with the other. The problem is that the same rotation might move other pairs of points farther away from each other. | |
Glover was able to show, however, that the rotation probabilities for any given pair of points can be described as a Bingham distribution, which means that they can be combined into a single, cumulative Bingham distribution. That allows Glover and Popovics algorithm to explore possible rotations in a principled way, quickly converging on the one that provides the best fit between points. | |
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Moreover, in the same way that the Bingham distribution can combine the probabilities for each pair of points into a single probability, it can also incorporate probabilities from other sources of information such as estimates of the curvature of objects surfaces. The current version of Glover and Popovics algorithm integrates point-rotation probabilities with several other such probabilities. | |
In experiments involving visual data about particularly cluttered scenes depicting the kinds of environments in which a household robot would operate Glovers algorithm had about the same false-positive rate as the best existing algorithm: About 84 percent of its object identifications were correct, versus 83 percent for the competition. But it was able to identify a significantly higher percentage of the objects in the scenes 73 percent versus 64 percent. Glover argues that that difference is because of his algorithms better ability to determine object orientations. | |
He also believes that additional sources of information could improve the algorithms performance even further. For instance, the Bingham distribution could also incorporate statistical information about particular objects that, say, a coffee cup may be upside-down or right-side up, but it will very rarely be found at a diagonal angle. | |
Indeed, its because of the Bingham distributions flexibility that Glover considers it such a promising tool for robotics research. You can spend your whole PhD programming a robot to find tables and chairs and cups and things like that, but there arent really a lot of general-purpose tools, Glover says. With bigger problems, like estimating relationships between objects and their attributes and dealing with things that are somewhat ambiguous, were really not anywhere near where we need to be. And until we can do that, I really think that robots are going to be very limited. | |
Gary Bradski, vice president of computer vision and machine learning at Magic Leap and president and CEO of OpenCV, the nonprofit that oversees the most widely used open-source computer-vision software library, believes that the Bingham distribution will eventually become the standard way in which roboticists represent object orientation. The Bingham distribution lives on a hypersphere, Bradski says the higher-dimensional equivalent of a circle or sphere. Were trying to represent 3-D objects, and the spherical representation fits naturally with the 3-D space. Its just kind of a recoding of the features that has more natural properties. | |
It isnt really as hard as the math looks, Bradski adds. Its a better representation, so I think once its understood, thisll just kind of become one of the things that is built in when youre doing the 3-D fits. [Glover] found something that was obscure, but once people are familiar with it, it will just be a no-brainer. |
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Serves 4
In this riff on a BLT, pancetta stands in for bacon and peaches add a sweet note. Use pre-sliced pancetta—it's very thin and cooks up quickly.
Position a rack 6 inches from the broiler element and heat the broiler on high. Arrange the pancetta on a large rimmed baking sheet and broil until crisp, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Halve the baguette lengthwise. Put the bread cut side up on the oven rack and broil until golden, about 1 minute.
Spread the mayonnaise on the bottom half of the baguette. Lay the tomato slices over the bread and season lightly with salt and pepper. Top with the peach slices, pancetta, and then the lettuce leaves. Replace the top half of the bread, cut the sandwich into 4 pieces, and serve.
Serve with a simple side of Pan-Seared Summer Squash with Crisp Rosemary.
nutrition information (per serving): Calories (kcal): 400, Fat (kcal): 17, Fat Calories (g): 150, Saturated Fat (g): 5, Protein (g): 18, Monounsaturated Fat (g): 7, Carbohydrates (mg): 44, Polyunsaturated Fat (mg): 3, Sodium (g): 1050, Cholesterol (g): 40, Fiber (g): 3,
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Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival (November 2013)
June 12, 2013 by ScottsVVCBF
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Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival | |
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11/02/2013 | |
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Biff! Bam! POW! The Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest returns to the Vegas valley with a full day of geeky goodness and comics! The longest running comic book event in Nevada, now in its 6th year, it features an artist alley, panels & workshops, an artist jam, cosplay contest, portfolio reviews and a marketplace with local comic book stores and publishers. This year's guests include Greg Rucka ("Lazarus," "Queen & Country," "Whiteout," "Stumptown"), Georges Jeanty ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Deadpool," "Gambit," "Teen Titans"), Warren Wucinich ("Courtney Crumrin") and many more as well as the nerdrock musical stylings of Adam WarRock and 3d6. A free program the entire family can enjoy. For a complete listing of guests and activities, visit the website. |
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Clark County Library 1401 E. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89119 United States Map It |
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Greg Rucka, Georges Jeanty, Warren Wucinich, Spencer Brinkerhoff III, Deryl Skelton, Adam WarRock, Ben Saunders, Molly McIsaac |


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The $20 Pack
Why smokers are happier when cigarettes cost more.
Would smokers prefer that cigarettes be expensive? Certainly, higher cigarette prices would make smokers healthier. There is plenty of evidence that smoking is very bad for you, and almost as much evidence that people smoke fewer cigarettes if they are expensive. But "healthy smokers" are not the same thing as happy smokers.
So, do high cigarette prices make smokers happier? If smokers are rational, they don't. But if smokers are wracked by temptation and are trying unsuccessfully to quit, then higher prices might make them happier by encouraging them to smoke less or even to stop entirely.
This turns out to be a controversial point for economists, surely members of the only profession that could argue about whether smoking is rational. The "rational addiction" theory was put forward by the celebrated pair Kevin Murphy and Nobel laureate Gary Becker. They argue that people weigh the health risks of smoking, the possible social and psychological benefits, and the fact that it is habit-forming before deciding whether to light up.
That is not as absurd as it sounds. Even smokers know that their habit is dangerous; in fact, economist Kip Viscusi established that smokers overestimate the risks. And there is nothing necessarily irrational about deciding to embark on a course of action that many find enjoyable but that is painful to reverse. Otherwise, marriage would be irrational too. Addictive or not, the question is whether, for some people, the benefits might reasonably outweigh the costs.
A second possibility is that, rather than acting rationally, smokers are helpless puppets who will pay any price for a smoke. If so, expensive cigarettes are bad news for them; making them poorer without encouraging them to quit. But that possibility doesn't fit the facts: We know that smokers respond to price signals by smoking less. They also smoke less if prices are expected to rise at some later stage. This implies that smokers both think about the future and recognize their own addiction, because a self-diagnosed addict who expects prices to rise might try to begin the difficult process of quitting before the habit becomes expensive.
A third possibility is that smokers are neither puppets nor ultrarational robots, but simply creatures of flesh and blood. They recognize the risks and would like to quit but keep valuing the short-term bliss of the nicotine hit over the longer-term benefits of kicking the habit. For smokers who fit this description, expensive cigarettes can indeed be a blessing by encouraging them to cut down or quit. Rational and temptation-wracked smokers behave in similar ways, smoking less if prices rise. They just feel differently about price hikes in the cigarette market.
One way to resolve the debate is to ask smokers how they feel. Six years ago, economists Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan did the next best thing, looking at two large sets of data on overall happiness, one covering Canada and one the United States. By comparing what happened to happiness in U.S. states and Canadian provinces where cigarette taxes rose, they were able to take an educated guess at whether high prices made smokers more or less cheerful. They had to make some heroic assumptions, but the results did point in the direction of the temptation model: Where cigarette taxes rise, "potential smokers"—the people whose age, class, income, and domestic circumstances suggest that they are likely to smoke—are happier. So when the tobacco industry raises prices, at least it may be spreading a little cheer.


text: At Apple's latest shareholder meeting, a think tank, NCPPR, pushed the company to stop pursuing environmental initiatives like investing in renewable energy. Cook went on a tirade -- or at least what passes for one from the very cool and collected CEO. He made it clear that he makes choices for reasons beyond just the profit motive.