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$1 million per homer? $27,000 a point? $229 per second? Sports is loaded with money oddities If Juan Soto replicates his 2024 performance throughout his $765 million, 15-year deal with the Mets, he'll make roughly $1.2 million for every home run he hits. He's hardly the only superstar athlete earning outrageous sums for each of his accomplishments. Some NFL quarterbacks make more than $3 million per game. Stephen Curry could make roughly $161,000 per 3-pointer. This past regular season, Lionel Messi earned $229 for every second he was on the field with Inter Miami. Is the College Football Playoff bracket fair? Here are some tweaks that would have changed things The committee that chose the 12 contenders for college football’s national title was only worried about ranking the teams. Where those teams landed in the bracket was based on a formula created by conference commissioners. That jumbled up the pairings and made a strong case for tinkering in the future. Some possible tweaks, like reseeding after the first round or not giving conference champions automatic byes, would have resulted in a vastly different tournament this year, Belichick says he's had 'good conversations' with UNC chancellor amid Tar Heels' coaching search Former New England Patriots coach and six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick says he had “a couple of good conversations” with North Carolina Chancellor Lee Roberts amid his discussions about the Tar Heels’ head-coaching job. Belichick appeared on ESPN's “The Pat McAfee Show" on Monday. He said he had spent the 11 months since his departure from the Patriots taking a “longer look” at the college level. He said he had learned a lot and had “a couple of good conversations" with Roberts. UNC fired the program's all-time winningest coach in Mack Brown last month. Cowboys set to host Bengals under open roof after falling debris thwarted that plan against Texans ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The roof at the home of the Dallas Cowboys has opened without incident and will stay that way for a Monday night meeting with the Cincinnati Bengals. It will be the first game with the roof open at AT&T Stadium since Oct. 30, 2022. The roof was supposed to be open three weeks ago for Houston’s 34-10 victory on another Monday night. A large piece of metal and other debris fell roughly 300 feet to the field as the retractable roof was opening. The roof was then closed for that game. Tennessee grabs No. 1 in AP Top 25 after shakeup; No. 3 Iowa State has highest ranking since 1950s Tennessee is the new No. 1 in men's college basketball after a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25. The Vols are No. 1 for the first time since the 2018-19 season. Auburn remained No. 2 and No. 3 Iowa State has its highest ranking since 1956-57. Kentucky rounds out the top five. Tennessee is off to its best start since opening the 2000-01 season 9-0. Georgia QB Carson Beck's status for Sugar Bowl uncertain as he considers treatment options on elbow ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback Carson Beck’s status for No. 2 Georgia’s Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal is uncertain after he suffered an elbow injury in Saturday’s Southeastern Conference championship game win over Texas. Georgia announced Monday there is no timetable on Beck’s return as he and his family explore treatment options. Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Sunday the team was awaiting results of tests. The school did not announce details of the injury. Punter Brett Thorson will need season-ending surgery after injuring his non-kicking leg. Backup Gunner Stockton likely would start in the Sugar Bowl if Beck is unable to play. Another final-second victory puts the Chiefs in prime spot to secure AFC's No. 1 seed: Analysis A thunderous doink helped the Kansas City Chiefs gain some breathing room in the race for the No. 1 seed in the AFC after the Buffalo Bills fell short despite Josh Allen’s spectacular performance. The fight for the top spot in the NFC stayed close as the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles kept pace with the Detroit Lions. Four weeks remain in the NFL regular season to determine the playoff picture. There’s a clear leader in the fight for the AFC’s bye. The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs are 12-1 and in excellent position to secure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs after a 19-17 win with a last-second field goal over the Los Angeles Chargers. No. 19 Tennessee back in women's AP Top 25 after year out of poll; UCLA, UConn remain 1-2 Tennessee is back in the AP Top 25 at No. 19, ending the school’s longest drought in the 48-year history of the women’s basketball poll. The Lady Vols (7-0) had not been ranked since Nov. 27, 2023, a span of 22 polls. Since the rankings began in 1976, Tennessee has been in the Top 25 in 779 of 870 total weeks. UCLA, UConn and South Carolina remain the top three teams and Oklahoma has cracked the top 10. Georgia Tech and N.C. State entered the rankings while Illinois, Louisville and Alabama fell out. College football transfer portal opens as Oklahoma's Arnold, other top players look for a move The college football transfer portal has opened a day after the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff field was released. The portal period closes on Dec. 28. Oklahoma QB Jackson Arnold, Texas State running back Ismail Mahdi, Miami (Ohio) wide receiver Reggie Virgil and Ohio State QB Devin Brown were among the first players who entered the portal. The sophomore Arnold passed for 1,984 yards with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions and ran for 560 yards and four scores at Oklahoma. Mahdi led the nation with 2,169 all-purpose yards last season. Brown entered the transfer portal after three years as a backup. Saquon Barkley is chasing Eric Dickerson's NFL season rushing record. Can he do it? PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is closing in on the NFL season rushing record. Barkley set the Eagles' franchise record when he rushed for 124 yards and pushed his season total to 1,623 yards in a win against Carolina. Barkley also maintained his pace to break Eric Dickerson’s NFL single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards, set in 1984 with the Los Angeles Rams. Barkley is averaging 124.8 yards per game. At that pace and with one more game to play than Dickerson had, Barkley would become the top single-season rusher in NFL history. He needs 483 yards over the final four games to top Dickerson’s 40-year-old record. Barkley is on pace for 2,122 yards, just 17 yards beyond Dickerson’s 2,105 total.President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US ambassador to France, in the latest of several controversial picks. Kushner "is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests," Trump said on his Truth Social website, adding that Jared "worked closely with me in the White House." The choice is in keeping with Trump's pattern, so far, of selecting people, often wealthy, who are close to his family or of proven loyalty. Kushner is a multimillionaire real estate executive and former attorney; his son was a senior adviser during Trump's first term. Trump did not mention, however, that the elder Kushner once served jail time -- a two-year sentence, most of it served in a federal prison. Kushner, who is now 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign contributions. The case, which was prosecuted by then US attorney Chris Christie, included sordid details, to which Kushner admitted: that he had hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a man cooperating in a campaign finance inquiry, and then videotaped the encounter and sent it to the man's wife, Kushner's sister, to dissuade her from testifying against him. Christie, who worked on Trump's first presidential transition team and then opposed him in this year's Republican primary contests, later said Kushner had committed a "loathsome" and "disgusting crime." In 2020, Trump issued a pardon to Kushner, whose conviction had resulted in him being disbarred in three states. Nominees for key ambassadorships are often business associates of a president-elect, or major political donors. But it is rare, if not unprecedented, to name a convicted felon. The first two men to fill the prestigious Paris post were famed inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin and a future president, Thomas Jefferson. If confirmed, Kushner would succeed Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium who was a major Democratic fundraiser and donor. md/bbk/md
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Biometrics for fraud protection have become a critical piece of the online world, minting billion-dollar companies, but one of the top consultancies in the field says that by combining biometrics with other technologies, identity verification providers can tap into an emerging growth opportunity. The most-read story of the week on was Liminal’s forecast for Identity Authorization Networks, which notes ID.me, fresh off a fundraise at a $1.8 billion valuation, as a potential winner in the segment. The trial of age assurance technology in Australia by ACCS and NEC’s new imaging technology are other examples of face biometrics being layered with other technologies to address familiar problems in new ways. Digital identity networks that include enterprise identity and fraud protection capabilities are defined by Liminal as (IANs), and the consultancy pegs their market opportunity at $15.5 billion by 2028, just in the U.S. The new report says Proof, ID.me, Entrust, Clear, Visa, DocuSign and Google are ready to stand up IANs now, while Jumio and Socure are just a step behind in readiness to address the emerging market. ID.me raised $67 million in a tender offer valuing the firm at $1.8 billion, and made an appearance at number 315 of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. The company says it is adding 60,000 new users daily and its revenue grew by 370 percent from 2020 to 2023, leading to next year. A bipartisan group of 14 American Senators has called for an . The Senators claim concern about the technology’s accuracy, necessity and impact on privacy, and suggest Congress should block the program’s expansion, pending “rigorous congressional oversight.” They say the agency has not provided sufficient evidence that the use of biometrics is necessary to spot fraud or speed up passenger processing. The new biometric pre-enrollment app intended to make the EU’s EES border control system operationally feasible was presented by Frontex at an iMARS conference last week. The , hurriedly developed in 10 months, has been through two tests, but the face biometric verification and chip reading functions are still being improved. ACCS CEO Tony Allen filled in the details of and released the full project plan this week. The trial relies heavily on the ISO/IEC DIS 27566-1 standard, and will examine a range of options, from biometric facial age estimation to inference based on data like purchasing history, for their effectiveness and privacy protection. A pair of American legislators and Meta think for age verification, with the social media giant offering up a metaphor that may apply in the metaverse, but not in meatspace. Apple disagrees, naturally, but has the AVPA and ACCS on its side. NEC has introduced a technology for capturing both , without adjusting the camera between modalities. The capability is delivered in a compact camera module that could go in POS devices, ATMs or tablets, and works on lower-resolution images, the company says. Generative AI is enabling fraudsters to gather information about their targets, tailor attacks to specific banks and defeat authentication checks, Feedzai Senior Director of Data Science Xin Ren writes in a guest post for . The combination of across the financial industry, however, can defeat even these sophisticated attacks. Illuma Founder and CEO Milind Borkar tells the the origin story of his voice biometrics business as a research and development contractor for the federal government, and its pivot to serving financial institutions. He talks about why demos of Illuma’s voice recognition look nearly the same even as the technology improves, and the difference between AI and machine learning. The number of e-Tazkira has grown by 8.1 million to 12.2 million in total since the Taliban took over in 2021, but rural numbers are low, and the cost has been increased fivefold. The NSIA is opening new centers and deploying mobile teams, and the government claims improvement, but regional disparities and claims of corruption linger. A pre-release edition of the UK’s DIATF has been published as businesses and regulators prepare for the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill. The framework is restructured in version 0.4 for ease of navigation, and makes . DHS’ OBIM is looking into migrating a pair of latent fingerprint biometrics databases holding more than . An RFI seeks a cost estimate for a cloud system that can search those databases 3,000 a day, between them, within specified times, and also asks about accuracy. Please let us know about any interviews, podcasts or anything else we should share with the people in biometrics and the digital identity community either in the comments below or through social media. | | | | |The Bears look for an interim coach bump when they visit the struggling 49ers
Johnson Controls prices senior notes offeringDALLAS — The A’s didn’t give pitcher Luis Severino a club record $67 million contract solely because they want to impress the fans in their new locale, Sacramento. The A’s need to add significant payroll this winter or else they risk a grievance from the Major League Baseball Players Association — and they have to spend perhaps another $25 million or more on next year’s roster before they’re in the clear. Advertisement Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement requires teams to carry a payroll more than 1 1/2 times the amount they receive from local revenue sharing. A club in violation doesn’t automatically receive punishment, but puts itself at greater risk of penalty if the union brings a grievance. Several small-market teams that receive a lot of money in revenue sharing have to be mindful of the requirement. But the A’s are in a unique spot where their revenue-sharing haul is growing because they have a new planned stadium in Las Vegas. In 2025, the A’s will collect 100 percent of their revenue-sharing allotment for the first time in years. The A’s were already planning to ramp up their payroll in advance of their move to Las Vegas, targeted for 2028 after three years in Sacramento. The CBA adds another layer to their motivation. “That is something we’re aware of,” said a person briefed on the A’s roster planning who was not authorized to speak publicly. The A’s estimated payroll for luxury-tax purposes in 2025 is $78.4 million, per FanGraphs, with Severino accounting for $22.3 million, his average salary over three years. People briefed on baseball’s revenue-sharing distributions who were not authorized to speak publicly said they expected the A’s, whose attendance was the worst in baseball last season, to be among the highest revenue-sharing recipients next year at roughly $70 million, if not more. The prior three years’ revenues affect a team’s payout, but the most recent year is most heavily weighted. Using the $70 million estimate for 2025, the A’s would need to reach $105 million in payroll, leaving them still another $27 million or so away. The union can file a grievance any time it believes a team is not using revenue-sharing dollars in, as the CBA puts it, “an effort to improve its performance on the field.” But normally, to win such a grievance, the CBA puts the burden on the union to prove the club is failing. The burden shifts, however, when a team lets payroll sit below 150 percent of revenue sharing: the club instead has to prove it was using that money properly. That’s the situation the A’s might face. Advertisement Before the current 2022-26 CBA, the requirement was lower, at 125 percent. The players pushed for it to increase. How severely a team would be fined if it lost a revenue-sharing grievance isn’t clear. The process can be slow. Sometimes, the league and the union need an arbitrator to rule one way or another. Other times, the parties reach a settlement themselves. Often, pending grievances are resolved as part of every-five-year CBA negotiations, making them effectively a form of bargaining leverage. The union in 2018 brought a revenue-sharing grievance against the A’s, Marlins, Pirates and Rays which was not resolved during the most recent round of bargaining in 2021-22. It is still pending in part, but at least one team has been removed from it, people briefed on the process said. It wasn’t immediately clear which team. The union filed another revenue-sharing grievance claim in 2019 against some of the same teams. The requirement to spend more than 150 percent of revenue-sharing on payroll is based upon the calculation for luxury-tax purposes, which incorporates more than salary alone. Teams apply annual contributions to the pre-arbitration bonus pool ($1.67 million) and player benefits payment (about $17.5 million) in luxury-tax calculations, and therefore, to the 150 percent threshold as well. The A’s have a complicated relationship with revenue sharing. In Oakland, they were treated like a small-market team under the plan, even though the sport technically regards Oakland, part of the Bay Area, as a large market. Every team makes contributions to revenue sharing. But which teams receive a regular distribution depends on “market score.” Teams with scores above 100, the largest markets in the sport, are disqualified. When this CBA was made in 2022, a dozen teams were market-disqualified. In order of highest to lowest scores, those were: the New York Yankees , New York Mets , Los Angeles Angels , Los Angeles Dodgers , Chicago Cubs , Chicago White Sox , Toronto Blue Jays , the A’s, San Francisco Giants , Washington Nationals , Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox . Advertisement But because of their long quest for a new stadium, the A’s received a special carve-out in the CBA: they were only partially disqualified. The deal called for the A’s to receive 25 percent of their revenue-sharing allotment in 2022, 50 percent in 2023, 75 percent in 2024, and 100 percent in both 2025 and 2026. Still, there was a caveat: if the A’s didn’t line up a new stadium by 2024, they would be fully disqualified starting that year. They made their Las Vegas plans in time to keep receiving the money. The A’s had a special revenue-sharing allowance in the 2016-21 CBA as well. The A’s expect their local revenues to rise in Sacramento, even with a cut to their TV rights fee, said a person briefed on the team’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly. Therefore, their revenue-sharing checks may be at least a little lower in the future, because revenue-sharing payments are based on local revenues. The A’s averaged 11,528 tickets sold per game in Oakland in 2024, lowest in the majors. Their new home, Sutter Health Park, doesn’t have significantly more capacity — roughly 14,000. Teams don’t disclose how many fans actually come through the gates, or the average price tickets were sold for. In other revenue-sharing news, MLB and the union earlier this year agreed that some money collected from luxury-tax charges can be given to clubs who have taken reductions in their local TV rights fees. The league office expected to notify recipient teams on Monday. An individual team can’t receive more than $15 million, and must have had a reduction between 2022-24. Teams that are about to take a cut in 2025 for the first time, such as the St. Louis Cardinals , are not included. The total amount of money distributed is expected to be no more than about $75 million. Advertisement MLB and the union declined to specify the recipient clubs. Teams known to have taken rights-fee cuts in the 2022-24 timeframe include the Arizona Diamondbacks , Cleveland Guardians , Colorado Rockies , Houston Astros , Pittsburgh Pirates , San Diego Padres , Seattle Mariners , Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers . Any team that receives a media disruption distribution will have that money count toward the 150 percent requirement. The distribution was agreed to for one year, but could be repeated next year if the parties choose. (Top photo of Severino: Evan Bernstein / Getty Images)
His weekslong journey would take him from Tehran, through rural Iranian villages, on foot across a mountainous borderland and ultimately to Hamburg, Germany. As arduous and dangerous as the trip was, Rasoulof’s travels had an added wrinkle: He was trying to finish a movie at the same time. A week after arriving in Germany, Rasoulof would premiere his film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” at the Cannes Film Festival in France. As he fled, Rasoulof was preoccupied with the movie’s edit, which was being carried out in Germany. “I remember when I was sitting in the car that was driving me to the border,” Rasoulof says. “I had my laptop and I was taking notes and sending them to my editor. The two friends who were taking me kept saying, ‘Put that thing away for a second.’” In Cannes, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” won a special jury prize and Rasoulof was celebrated with a 13-minute standing ovation. The movie has since been hailed as one of the best of the year, and arguably its most daring. Rasoulof made “Sacred Fig” clandestinely in Iran, directing scenes from a separate location to avoid raising suspicions. (The opening titles read: “When there is no way, a way must be made.”) Its story — a devastating family drama set during the 2022 protests that engulfed Iran — would surely only add to Rasoulof’s prison sentence. So after all of this, how is he feeling? When he recently met with The Associated Press for an interview, Rasoulof shrugged. “Ordinary,” he says. Rasoulof, 52, has a more gentle, bemused presence than some of his films would suggest. But how could Rasoulof, after what he’s lived through this year, feel anything like ordinary? “I still haven’t grasped the meaning of exile,” he explains. “I think it will take some time. The feeling of that void has not hit me yet, and I think it may never come.” Rasoulof has been busy traveling from film festival to film festival. In September, he and his 24-year-old daughter attended the Telluride festival in Colorado. Many more such stops were to come. Since fleeing Iran, Rasoulof has effectively been immersed in the world he’s long known: cinema. “Maybe I am living in the world of cinema, and maybe that’s why things are so familiar,” he agrees. “Maybe that’s why I don’t feel I’m in exile.” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” currently playing in theaters, is the Oscar submission from Rasoulof’s adoptive home, Germany. He’s settled in with his family, grateful for how the country has welcomed him. Speaking through an interpreter, Rasoulof grants that he’ll probably always mentally have a bag packed, ready to return to Iran should the chance ever come. But what “home” constitutes has changed for him. “I might be able to change this concept of home for myself,” he says. “I walk on the streets here and I see people of different colors and forms from all over the place, and they all call this place home. So there’s always the chance that one can build something new.” How oppressive politics can infiltrate the home is central to “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” It concerns a family of four: Iman (Missagh Zareh), a lawyer newly appointed to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran; his wife, Najmeh (Soheila Golestani) and their two daughters, Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). Iman is proud of his high position, but, when the government crackdown on protesters following the death of Mahsa Amini accelerates, his daughters are increasingly at odds with him. After Iman's gun goes missing, his wife and daughters turn into suspects. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” populated with real cellphone videos from the protests, plays out as an excruciating microcosm of Iranian society. “It wasn’t like I put those videos in. They just came in,” says Rasoulof. “The reality is that it was through those videos I realized what happened. When the Woman, Life, Freedom movement occurred, I was in prison.” Rasoulof has spent several spells in Tehran’s Evin Prison. In 2010, he was arrested on set for filming without a permit. In 2022, he was jailed for seven months after pursuing the release of another of Iran’s most prominent filmmakers, Jafar Panahi. Panahi, who secretly made the film “No Bears,” was only released in 2023 after commencing a hunger strike. “My windows at home opened to the hills that have the Evin prison in them,” says Rasoulof. “I knew behind those walls many of my friends were sitting.” Rasoulof, inspired by the courage of the younger generation, resolved to pour the same spirit into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Although it wasn’t until Rasoulof’s appeal of his sentence failed that he resolved to flee, he grants that deciding to make “Sacred Fig” essentially sealed his fate. “Making this film was part of that decision,” he says. “Although I had made up my mind earlier, because it was such a bitter decision, I was denying it and delaying it, waiting for a miracle to allow me to stay.” “I would open the fridge to make sure there was nothing there that would go bad,” he adds. “It was a strange circumstance.” For the film's actors and crew members, signing up for the movie meant also becoming co-conspirators. Everyone knew the risks. And, like Rasoulof, many of them have since left Iran. Rostami and Maleki also now live in Germany. Asked if his collaborators are all currently safe, Rasoulof responds: “No one is safe from the Islamic Republic.” In his new life, Rasoulof is experiencing freedoms he never had in Iran. His films, for example, are widely available outside his native country but not in Iran. His prize-winning 2020 drama “There Is No Evil,” about capital punishment in Iran, is banned — though, ironically, Rasoulof’s prison guards enjoyed watching it with him from a flash drive. “I haven’t seen many of my films on a big screen, especially my last film,” he says. “I really want to see ‘There Is No Evil’ on a big screen. A festival in Portugal has promised to take me to see my own film.” The name of Rasoulof’s film comes from his memory of an ancient fig tree he once visited on an island in the south of Iran. It’s a tree that, with apparent metaphorical meaning for the Iranian government, spreads its seeds onto other trees, killing them and growing in their place. Rasoulof pulls out his phone to share a photo of his apartment in Tehran. Outside a large window, you can see the walls of Evin running along a craggy hillside. Inside are many houseplants. “This is my home,” he says. “I have a lot of plants. I really miss my plants. I have a neighbor who takes care of them for me. I actually have a fig tree at home.”AI Boom Makes 139-Year-Old Cable Maker Japan’s Hottest Stock
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The special court for MPs and MLAs has acquitted 38 members of the Shiv Sena who were booked in July 2005 for being part of a mob allegedly intent on disrupting a gathering organised by Narayan Rane. The list of accused included senior party leaders Bala Nandgaonkar, Sada Sarvankar, Anil Parab, Ravi Chavan, and Jitendra Dhanavade. As per the prosecution case lodged with Dadar police station, Rane had held a rally organised by Mukesh Puro and Pramod Keluskar. The police claimed that there was information that members of Shiv Sena may disturb the rally, hence, heavy bandobast duty was placed around the area. At around 10 am, a mob of 400-500 women and men proceeded from ‘Saamana’ holding Shiv Sena shouting slogans against Rane. The prosecution had claimed that the intention was to disrupt the rally. As the procession came close to the place of the rally it turned violent and the police had to resort to lathi charge. Police booked 48 senior members of the party for rioting but during the pendency of the trial 10 of them have passed away. The case was previously pending before the Mazgaon court but till 2022, when the government amended the provisions of assault on government officials on duty, enhancing the punishment to five years, the case was transferred to the sessions court Mumbai on January 10, 2022. The prosecution had in total examined four witnesses, which included two injured police officials, a complainant and one investigating officer. However, the court found their evidence insufficient to hold the accused guilty. The special judge observed, “All material prosecution witnesses claimed that they sustained injuries during the alleged occurrence. Yet none of the injury certificates or medical papers proved on record to that effect.” Court also noted, “It is apparent that some of the accused are public figures being leaders of political parties. 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No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?" 1914 translation by H. 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