Automobile insurance laws in Nebraska require the owner of a vehicle to have a certain amount of liability insurance on the vehicle. Liability insurance provides compensation to another person in the event that you cause an accident and are found to be liable to that person for damages. The minimum amount of coverage required by law is $25,000.00, but you can purchase higher amounts of liability insurance in order to protect your personal assets against the risk of higher damages being awarded against you in the event you cause another serious injuries.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for bodily injury or death of one person in any one accident.
Fifty thousand dollars for bodily injury or death of two or more persons in one accident, not exceed the per-person limits above.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for injury to or harm to property of others in one accident.
Lawsuits in Nebraska must be filed against the negligent driver and may not also name the insurance carrier as a defendant. In fact, the jury is not allowed to know that there is insurance coverage available on the defendant. If the jury renders a verdict in excess of the defendant's liability policy limit, the defendant is then personally liable out of his or her own assets for the additional amount.
When purchasing automobile insurance for yourself, you may seek to include several additional type of coverage other than liability insurance. One of these types of coverage is called medical payments coverage.
Medical payments coverage is a form of health coverage called by various terms, including "med-pay," "personal injury protection (PIP)," or on occasion "economic loss protection benefits." This coverage is available to the insured driver (the individual who holds the policy which includes med-pay coverage) and any passengers in the insured's vehicle for injuries sustained, regardless of the fault of the driver. It is important to note that the insurance policy of the negligent party does not pay med-pay or PIP benefits to an injured plaintiff. These benefits are limited to the driver or passengers in the insured vehicle, regardless of fault. The plaintiff looks to his own insurance policy or the policy on the vehicle in which he was a passenger for med-pay or PIP benefits.
The amount of med-pay benefits which may be paid to any individual is determined by reference to the policy limit for this particular type of coverage, as stated in the insurance policy declarations sheet for the person who purchased the coverage.
Two other related types of voluntary coverage you can (and should) purchase are uninsured and underinsured motorist benefits. These types of coverage protect you against a negligent defendant who illegally does not have liability insurance coverage or has minimum coverage that is inadequate to fully compensate you for your injuries. If you are involved in an accident with an uninsured but negligent individual, we would make a claim for you under your own uninsured motorist coverage. Your own insurance carrier would then have to pay any judgment which may be rendered, up to the limits of the policy which you purchased.
If the person who caused the accident has liability insurance, but the policy limit of his or her liability insurance is less than the uninsured motorist coverage of your policy, we can make an additional claim under your own policy for what is called underinsured motorist benefits, in the event that your damages exceed the limits of the other party's liability coverage. A complicated body of case law has evolved dealing with this type of benefit, and the experience of an attorney familiar with these issues is important in order to obtain the maximum amount of recovery for you.
Collision coverage is a type of voluntary coverage you can purchase which provides for the repair or replacement of your own vehicle after an accident, regardless of whether or not you are at fault. This is different than property liability insurance coverage discussed above. An innocent victim of an accident may present a claim for the property damage under his or her own collision coverage or under the negligent defendant's property damage liability insurance coverage. Your own collision coverage normally includes a deductible, whereas property damage liability insurance coverage does not. In an automobile accident case, after a claim has been paid under collision coverage, the insurance carrier who paid the claim may proceed against the property damage liability insurance carrier for the negligent defendant to recover the amount paid out. This process is called subrogation, and does not affect the amount of your recovery.


Ministry of consumer affairs, Food and public distribution department issued a notification as restuarant billing 'Service Charges' in addition of taxes is optional. Full notification is as under.
A number of complaints from consumers have been received that hotels and restaurants are following the practice of charging 'service charge' in the range of 520%, in lieu of tips, which a consumer is forced to pay irrespective of the kind of service provided to him. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 provides that a trade practice which, for the purpose of promoting the sale, use or the supply of any goods or for the provision of any service, adopts any unfair method or deceptive practice, is to be treated as an unfair trade practice and that a consumer can make a complaint to the appropriate consumer forum established under the Act against such unfair trade practices. In this context, the department of Consumer Affairs, Central Government has called for clarification from the Hotel Association of India, which have replied that the service charge is completely discretionary and should a customer be dissatisfied with the dining experience he/she can have it waived off. Therefore, it is deemed to be accepted voluntarily.
Correction: You can refuse Service Charges in restaurants. NOT Service Tax! Please review your article.


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Royston Crow > Lifestyle
Matt's View: Tour de France should get on its bike
Published: 7:57 AM July 6, 2014 Updated: 3:44 PM November 1, 2020
Tour De France logo - Credit: Archant
Anyone planning a trip into Cambridge tomorrow (Monday) should be prepared to be greeted by a sea of lycra.
Because, as you may have heard, the Tour de France is in town, with stage three kicking off in the city before progressing towards London via some of the picturesque parts of Essex.
The presence of Le Tour has caused much excitement, with many schools and businesses closing for the day so that their staff can a) avoid the chaos caused by closed roads, and b) enjoy the fun of the day.
But personally I am struggling to get excited about what is apparently a big event for the region.
Firstly, because as far as I'm concerned, the race shouldn't be here at all. The clue is in the name; Tour de France. If England wants its own big cycle race it should just arrange one and not try and nick bits of another country's.
As well as this, I'm not really down with all the schools shutting their doors and giving their pupils a day off.
I've heard a lot of people saying how it will be a "great experience" and a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to see these cyclists in action, as if the Tour de France usually takes place on some alien planet, rather than a short train journey away just across the English Channel.
If you're that interested, it's not that difficult to go there and see it, and you'll certainly get a more authentic experience than watching some novelty stage in the shadow of King's College Chapel.
I don't have any children, but if I did I'd much prefer they were at school learning stuff than standing on the streets watching some bikes blur past. As most of you will know, you can do that in Cambridge at pretty much any time. And that's before you even think about those parents who are at work and have to arrange alternative childcare.
Reading this little rant, you may have the impression that I'm quite anti-cycling, but nothing could be further from the truth. I've ridden a bike since I was a child and still use mine wherever I can. But I just think the time, effort and cash that has been put into sorting out this event could have been better spent improving facilities for cyclists who are out on their bikes every day.
The good work of the A10 Corridor Cycle Campaign has highlighted the need for a safer, more modern route between Royston and Cambridge, and I'm sure it's a story which is repeated elsewhere.
Let's hope the legacy of the Tour de France's visit will be continued investment in infrastructure, and it won't just be a one-off event that's quickly forgotten.

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Rowan Newton is a painter exploring the complexity of human emotion through body language and expressive paint application.
Rowan Newton's debut UK Solo Exhibition 'Fractured Integrity' runs at Jealous East for an exclusive 10 day launch, featuring 6 large-scale paintings and a series of miniature studies, marking a new direction in the artists work and a renewed, unique reflection on figurative painting.
'Fractured Integrity' explores an emotive narrative, told through the female form with a series of frozen moments. The Identity is concealed by obscuring the face, drawing our focus directly to the body.


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Q: Importing old libraries in Angular 4 component I have an old library that I need to import in my Angular 4 component. This library doesn't exist in the Node module folder. How can I include and use this library in my component?

A: Step 1: First, you will need to import jQuery into your project.
Follow the instructions here
Step 2: Import your library like this
Add your downloaded js library to wherever you want, preferably in assets/js and import in your component file like this.
import * as openxtag from './path/to/js/file'

Hope that helps.

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Home » News & Updates » 83% Of Indians Are Biased Towards Anime Among Other Animated Content, Says Report
News & Updates Anime In India
83% Of Indians Are Biased Towards Anime Among Other Animated Content, Says Report
84% of those polled said they would be willing to spend money on merchandise and would pay a hefty amount for it
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A survey conducted by a Chennai-based digital entertainment business JetSynthesys revealed that 83% of Indians chose Anime over all other animated content options.
Among the top 3 favourite anime, 48% were in favor of Naruto, 38% voted for Death Note, and 38% were inclined toward Attack on Titan.
Furthermore, the survey also revealed that 84% of those polled said they would be willing to spend money on merchandise and would pay a hefty amount for it, if they have to.
"84% of the participants indicated that they were willing to invest in merchandise and would pay a substantial amount for the same, showcasing a high demand but a supply shortage of homegrown players in this category," said JetSynthesys.
It is worth noting, that anime consumption has increased the fan base for both the medium and all things Japanese up to 50% of them are interested to understand the culture better, the language, trying their food, and also want to visit the country.
JetSynthesys Vice-chairman Rajan Navani & Managing Director states that for a long time, the category was mislabeled as "kids' content," which caused a perception problem. However, this view has evolved in recent years, resulting in significant room for expansion and the potential for the industry to join mainstream discussions in India.
Navani further predicts, that with the emergence of Metaverse and various other immersive experiences such as AR/VR/XR, the possibility to exploit animation as a livelihood is not a dream anymore.
"Interestingly, in addition to the growth of anime as a content category, the bedrock of anime, that is, animation will also have a critical role to play in the future, especially with respect to emerging technologies like the Metaverse. The visual aspects of immersive experiences like AR/ VR/ XR will be greatly elevated through advanced animation and this will open up a world of possibilities for people to explore animation as a source of livelihood. We hope that this study brings to light this massive untapped opportunity for both global and Indian players in the ecosystem to work together to grow this space further in the country."
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Q: Read CSV malformed (3 csv concatenated) in a single URL call I'm trying to read this CSV:
https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/api/tmy?lat=41&lon=22&startyear=2007
And right now I'm doing 3 calls to parse it, since its structure is inconsistent. (they are basically 3 csv concatenated, with 3 indexes in between)
url = 'https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/api/tmy?lat=41&lon=22&startyear=2007'
MetaData = pd.read_csv(url,sep=":", nrows=3,names=['key','value'])
# do something with metadata
MonthData = pd.read_csv(url,skiprows=3,nrows=12)
# do something with the year
Data = pd.read_csv(url,skiprows=16, skipfooter=11, engine='python')
# do something with the actual data

Is there a better way to do so?

A: Use pvlib.iotools.get_pvgis_tmy
from pvgis.iotools import get_pvgis_tmy

lat=41
lon=22
startyear=2007

data, months, inputs, meta = get_pvgis_tmy(lat, lon, startyear=startyear)

This example and its output are in this Google Colaboratory Notebook: SO-get_pvgis.ipynb
Here are some plots form the notebook comparing the PVGIS components with predictions from Haurwitz and Erbs:
Compare GHI

Compare DNI

Compare DHI

If you're more interested in the codebase, check out the pvlib source at GitHub and contribute!
Thanks!


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New York Festivals 2018 International Advertising Awards is Open for Entries
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New York Festivals International Advertising Awards® is now accepting entries for the 2018 competition. New York Festivals, now in its...
New York Festivals International Advertising Awards® is now accepting entries for the 2018 competition. New York Festivals, now in its 60th year, is recognized worldwide as a touchstone for global creative excellence in advertising and marketing communications.
For 2018, NYF will expand their robust competition roster and in the weeks ahead unveil additional areas within the advertising, marketing, and communications sphere to showcase innovative creative from around the globe.
New York Festivals receives entries from 80+ countries in all media and NYF's powerhouse roster of competitions represents the full spectrum of creative work in the world of advertising communications.
The 2018 NYF Jury selection process is underway. Drawing from the world's most prominent agencies, NYF assembles the largest and most diverse brain trust of global creative minds who collectively cast over 400 votes to select the World's Best Advertising℠. The online Grand Jury, nominated by previous award-winning creatives, carefully reviews all entries and determines the shortlist.
For the 8th year in a row, the Executive Jury, an elite panel of 30 worldwide chief creative officers, will meet in together in New York City for five days of deliberation and select the World's Best Advertising® from the shortlisted entries selected by the international Grand Jury.
"NYF's juries are respected both locally and globally and the competition's world-renowned matrix judging system provides jurors with a revolutionary judging platform. The work entered in NYF's Advertising Awards is reviewed with the utmost attention by 400+ members of the world's foremost advertising creatives," said Michael Demetriades, President & Executive Director of New York Festivals International Advertising Awards.
New York Festivals recognizes exceptional contributions by individuals and companies within the international advertising, marketing, and communications community. In addition to Best of Show, Global Brand of the Year, Global Agency Network of the Year, Regional Agency of the Year, and Best New Agency of the Year, special awards in the competition shine the spotlight on innovation and include: Boutique Agency of the Year, Independent Agency of the Year, and Best Commercial Film Director. For more information, please visit: HERE.
The 2018 New York Show℠ awards ceremony and gala will take place the evening of Thursday, May 17, 2018 at the world-class performance space, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.
This year, in an effort to streamline the entry process, NYF has introduced a new fee structure for entry pricing—one fee per entry with incentives for entering early. The 2018 competition entry deadline is January 31st.
For more information on the 2018 competition please visit: Rules & Regulations and to enter the competition please visit: Here.
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The prepared testimony from Kimberly Loring was part of a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in Washington to examine what authorities call a "silent crisis" — the deaths and disappearance of hundreds of Native American women.
Sen. Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, said factors compounding the crisis include poor coordination among the multiple law enforcement agencies tasked with investigating crimes on Indian reservations. He and other senators also shared concerns over a lack of government data to measure the scope of a problem that has gained attention following the #MeToo movement, as well as years of legislative efforts to address the high rates of violence against Native American women.
Loring also was critical of the BIA's handling of evidence, saying agents failed to ensure a crime lab test was conducted on a stained sweater found early in the investigation and that witnesses believed belonged to HeavyRunner Loring.
A BIA spokeswoman did not immediately provide comment in response to Loring's concerns. The FBI early this year became the lead law enforcement agency in the case.
An Associated Press report this year found that Native Americans and Alaska Natives, who comprise less than a percentage point of the population, made up 1.8 percent of ongoing missing cases in the FBI's National Crime Information Center database — a figure the agency's assistant director of criminal investigations cited Wednesday in prepared testimony.
Native women, who represent .4 percent of U.S. residents, accounted for more than 0.7 percent of the missing cases, or 633. Advocates say that figure likely represents an undercount.
In AP interviews earlier this year, multiple families — including HeavyRunner Loring's — described feeling disappointed or dismissed after initially taking the cases of missing female relatives to police on their reservations.
"We all share the same experience when working with law enforcement," Kimberly Loring said.
Patricia Alexander, who co-chairs a taskforce on violence against women for the Tlingit and Haida tribes in Alaska, called on lawmakers to increase funding for crime prevention, victims' services and data collection.
Charles Addington, who is the deputy director of the BIA's Office of Justice Services, acknowledged before the committee that more coordination among law enforcement agencies is needed early in police investigations to solve missing persons' cases.
Addington's comments came amid pointed questions from lawmakers over his agencies' handling of investigations.


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Some people who suffer from dysautonomia experience mild symptoms, while others are not quite so fortunate. Depending upon the type of autonomic nervous system disorder you have and the severity of your symptoms, you may find it very difficult to work.
If your symptoms are severe you may qualify for Social Security Disability benefits.
Additionally, if any of your symptoms make it dangerous for you to work, you may also qualify for benefits. For example, some of the specific dysautonomic disorders cause a significant risk of fainting, which would make working at many types of jobs very hazardous.
There are a large number of people who suffer from dysautonomia and many of them have very controllable symptoms. This makes it especially difficult for those who suffer from severe and limiting symptoms to prove that their disorders are not quite as manageable. If you need to prove that your condition makes it difficult or impossible for you to work, it is strongly recommended that you enlist the guidance of an experienced Social Security Disability attorney who can help you put together a very strong application.


The company's implements a three phase plan to increase storage, performance, and backup infrastructure for their most vital data.
In Benjamin Franklin's day, nothing in the world was certain but death and taxes. In Brad Green's world at Denton Central Appraisal District, the certainties are that surging volumes of property assessments and vital tax data will continue to create a swell in storage requirements. Green, director of information services for Denton Central Appraisal District (DCAD), supports a 100-person property appraisal operation for one of the fastest growing and top-five ranked counties in North Texas.
The county, which is some 30 minutes north of Dallas, extends several hundred miles and contains approximately 300,000 parcels comprising residential and commercial properties. Each year, the district prepares and disseminates an annual appraisal roll, and then gives property owners three months to protest before final tax assessments are levied. During this time, information processing demands typically quadruple and storage requirements skyrocket. In addition, DCAD's heavy reliance on database technology and increasing use of imaging put additional strain on the storage foundation.
According to Steve Meek, president of The Fulcrum Group, a North Texas systems integrator that assists Green's IT efforts and led the storage network initiative, DCAD's direct-attached storage was busting at the seams and becoming a management nightmare. "DCAD's rate of growth made it much too difficult for the district's three-person IT team to manage a DASD approach," he explained. "One person was almost dedicated full time to shifting data between servers because there was no efficient way to optimize storage utilization across servers." As a result, The Fulcrum Group and DCAD began exploring other options to consolidate and centrally manage mass storage.
Fortunately, the search for a better storage solution coincided with a major database migration from an older RISC 6000 Unix platform to Microsoft SQL Server. "Database technology is critical to our entire operation," said Green. "Our core appraisal software and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are both database driven." In evaluating database platforms, DCAD wanted tighter integration with Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Excel, Exchange and Access. They also wanted the ability to extract data from web-enabled forms and import it into different applications. Still, storage was the guiding force behind DCAD's technology decisions.
"Everything started from storage," said Green. "It was the fundamental component of our system upgrade." At any point, the district can have 4,000-5,000 business owners, insurance agents and other users accessing its appraisal data, which must be readily and easily accessible. "Ramifications are huge if our systems go down," he added. The district's fiduciary responsibility to other county agencies, including the police and fire departments, means that uptime and high availability are top priorities.
In the last year alone, DCAD's storage grew by 300 percent as new home development and other growth countywide caused significant increases in imaged documents including photos and maps. While Green could anticipate a continuing storage swell, budgeting for exponential growth was not as easy since government budget processes are longer than most and typically include three-to-five year technology refresh cycles. The Fulcrum Group, a Texas qualified information systems vendor (QISV), works with many local government purchasers to help leverage technology investments wisely. "You need to be able to demonstrate how a particular solution is more cost effective while producing the necessary improvements in efficiency," said Meek.
In forecasting long-range requirements based on current and anticipated storage growth, it was clear that a storage area network (SAN) provided a critical piece of DCAD's upgraded technology foundation. It was also determined that a Fibre Channel SAN would provide enterprise-class protection for the district's high-performance databases. The high price tag associated with this solution, however, prompted the IT team to research more economical ways to extend the FC SAN so they could attach more servers to the storage network. With that in mind, Green started exploring the viability of iSCSI over two years ago, well before the standard was ratified. He decided to assess the viability of adding an IP SAN into his storage mix.
In early 2003, The Fulcrum Group demonstrated IP SAN solutions from FalconStor and Network Appliance but both fell short of expectations. DCAD wasn't pleased with FalconStor's level of integration and felt the drawbacks to the Network Appliance IP SAN were its proprietary architecture and high cost. During this timeframe, The Fulcrum Group brought in a StoneFly representative to demonstrate the capabilities of the StoneFly Storage Concentrator. In less than 30 minutes, he set up a basic IP SAN with one server and one disk array to show the ease with which the system handles block-level file storage.
"The interface was so intuitive and the system was extremely easy to use," said Green. "We were sold on the spot." In particular, Green was impressed with the simplicity of "carving out" volumes. "LUN management on the StoneFly IP SAN makes it possible to reassign resources from the common storage pool in minutes, unlike our FC SAN, which doesn't support a real level of virtualization," he said. Another plus was that anyone on the IT team could allocate or re-allocate storage from the IP SAN unlike the FC SAN, which required special expertise.
By the third quarter of 2003, the DCAD Board of Directors approved a budget to install both the FC and IP SAN platforms. They started with the IP SAN, installing two StoneFly Storage Concentrator i3000 models in a clustered configuration with Active/Passive Failover for high availability. The team began migrating database and imaging files to the IP SAN, eventually attaching 10 servers running Microsoft Windows 2003 to the IP SAN. Since DCAD wanted to support a clustered environment, The Fulcrum Group next piloted Windows 2003 clustered configurations on the IP SAN, using the built-in Microsoft iSCSI initiators.
Following the success of the pilot project, the team rolled out the clustered configuration to the FC SAN, which was based on an EMC CX600 platform. While it only took a couple of days to attach 10 servers to the IP SAN, DCAD spent nearly two weeks connecting eight servers to the FC SAN with substantial cost and drain on IT resources. The team also installed clustered file services running Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to take twice-daily copies or snapshots of all DCAD files.
DCAD's StoneFly IP SAN enables the IT team to meet fluctuating storage requirements easily and economically. Green recalled an emergency SQL deployment to install a new GIS server. Because time was of the essence, the team decided to bypass the FC SAN and hook the box into the IP SAN instead. "In less than an afternoon, we were up and running on the IP SAN," said Green. "We used Microsoft's built-in iSCSI initiators and were creating new storage volumes within hours." Green estimated that the server installation, which would have taken a week or more on the FC SAN, was also completed at about a third of the cost of connecting the server to the FC SAN.
In addition, DCAD uses the StoneFly IP SAN in conjunction with CommVault's award-winning backup and recovery software to slash back-up operations on the RISC 6000 platform. "We reduced back up on that primary system from 10 to two hours," said Green. "What's more, we can now back up 35 servers in the amount of time it used to take to back up one server." DCAD has also improved restore times considerably. Previously, if a file on any server was lost, it took several hours to recover the data, including securing offsite tapes and completing the entire restore operation. With the IP SAN, restores can now be completed in a matter of minutes. "Our combined CommVault and StoneFly solution gives us simple and affordable enterprise-class data protection," he added.


Spécial Magazine | Demi Lovato: Heroin Overdose?
No, the rumors are false. Demi lovato was NOT victim of a heroin overdose. Her fans experienced endless hours of anguish after hearing that she was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday july 24.
The 25-year-old celebrity was found completely unconscious in her home in Hollywood Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles that day.
She did have an overdose, but it was on prescription meds, not heroin! She was found holding a prescription of Narcan, a drug that can treat opioid poisoning.
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by Tami Luhby @Luhby December 24, 2014: 9:03 AM ET
The Schultheis family spends a little more on Christmas these days.
Thirty years ago, Sam Oliverio's Christmas list included Teddy Ruxpin, Cabbage Patch dolls and Speak & Spell for his nieces and nephews. Playing Santa set him back about $350.
Nowadays, the Putnam Valley, N.Y., resident finds those small gifts won't cut it.
Though he now only buys gifts for one niece and one nephew, both his godchildren, it's all about tech. That means he's spending $1,300, or nearly 60% more in inflation-adjusted dollars. That's not easy for the assistant high school principal to afford.
Even the cost of his dogs' Christmas gifts are rising faster than inflation. In 2003, he bought his late Golden Retriever, Carmine, a Jolly ball for $7. To buy the same gift this year for his German Shepherd, Memphis, cost him $22.
"Middle class wages are not keeping up with the cost of gifts," said Oliverio, 61, who is divorced and doesn't have children. "It's much tougher to buy gifts that really awe the recipient."
Overall, Americans plan to spend $861 on Christmas gifts this year, according to American Research Group, a polling firm. That's up 35% from 1985. Median income, meanwhile, is only up 6.5% over that time.
(Christmas spending was higher than now for the decade preceding the economic downturn in 2007, but it was likely fueled by the tech and housing booms.)
CNNMoney readers wrote to us about how their Christmas giving -- and receiving -- has changed over the past 30 years. The responses varied, but many said they are spending more ... and not all could afford it.
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Technology plays a big role in boosting both cost and expectations, said Jeanne Etling, 63, a librarian in Schaumburg, Illinois, with two grown children. Three decades ago, when her kids were young, she bought them Transformers and Legos. Now, FitBits and printers will be under the tree.
Lisa Schultheis is spending a bit more on Christmas these days on her six children, who range in age from 20 to 28. But she and her husband, who consider themselves middle class, try to focus on fulfilling "needs instead of wants." For instance, she's buying her daughters comforters for their beds.
While many blame the run-up on Millennials for feeling entitled, Schultheis takes their parents to task.
"Part of the problem with Christmas is the parents today. They seem to be the ones who need to give the expensive gifts," said Schultheis, 52, who lives in Tinton Falls, N.J. "It's the parents who are playing the "Let's keep up with the Jones'" game."
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For history buffs and techno fans in search of a unique evening out, San Francisco's Independent theater hosted The New Deal last Friday and Saturday, and the group will tour through the Western states in the coming month. The Toronto-based electronic trio, which self-identifies as "acid jazz," has been active since the late '90s, but they remain relatively obscure on the West Coast.
While the group chose for its eponym a series of legislation that resulted in an unprecedented shift of political power to the federal government, there's nothing particularly unprecedented about this New Deal's music. The concert consisted of catchy, fun but thoroughly unoriginal dance music — the kind of techno that compares to what I imagine Mario Kart would sound like on steroids.
The group opened with a bang. The performance of their first song included flashing purple lights, instrumental solos from real-life, in-the-flesh bassist Dan Kurtz and drummer Darren Shearer and throbbing beats. I've never seen the "Tron" movies, but that's what my friend invoked when trying to describe the sound of the opening number. Their music is manic, and the atmosphere evokes a wild, overgrown rager with 20- and 30-somethings pounding shots and grinding.
It was almost impossible to differentiate between songs. There was no vocalist to provide lyrical cues. The light show was constantly evolving. The songs carefully blended into one another. The music rarely let up, providing for few windows of softness in a whirlwind of hard-hitting hypersonic beats, leaving only brief opportunities for the '80s babies in front of me to freak dance tenderly with their lovers. The long stretches of screeching madness, however, allowed plenty of time for us single folk to hop up and down Like Mike.
The concert felt more like a party than an artistic performance, but perhaps the most redeeming quality of The New Deal's music is its playful sound. Many similarly-paced techno shows would be overwhelming, but the group's experimentation with '80s and pop-y sounds — particularly tunes reminiscent of Cyndi Lauper and Aqua — as well as its emphasis on live instrumental solos, makes it more accessible to House music neophytes than other artists.
The venue's overall atmosphere was fun and personal, with the trio actively engaging the crowd in a compelling mix of live and pre-recorded electronic material. While the concert was practically tailored to millennials, those seeking something catchy to dance to or an adventurous night out in the city could do much worse.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel that takes place in Utopia. Yet in this ideal place everyone is conditioned to be happy, it is a place where various things such as the arts are restricted so all people will be synchronized in thinking. Love and commitment does not exist but rather everyone belongs to everyone else. This place is also a place where soma holidays help people escape from their realities and never have its society feel any kind of distress or illness. This place was not Utopia to John 'the Savage,' ; it was rather a place of hell and torment which none of the things he enjoyed and loved existed. In the novel, freedom of the individual will is one of the fundamental beliefs at the root of human ideals.
While the environment or the public world (society) plays some part in forming the psyche of an individual, it is in the end, the choice of the individual (John) to be who they become The whole concept of Brave New World contradicts to everything John ever believed in. John came from a world where art and expression of variation from the society existed. People must face their problems and overcome them, and love requires commitment and is greatly appreciated. John was rather a Renaissance man trapped in a world where none of his necessities in life existed. He was disgusted at their orgy-porgies, their belief of take, take, take not give, give, give. Total happiness did not exist to John in a world which lacked expression of the arts.
It was rather total torment. Throughout the novel John continues to fight and believe for what he believes in while the surrounding environment continues to pressure him and submerge him into Utopian ways of life. The conflicts which were faced upon his arrival were of devastation. His life grew lonelier and lonelier each day with his dissatisfaction with the crude nature and refined society of the Utopians. He was trapped in a tedious world where there was nothing to do. John symbolizes the artist or the believer striving for ecstasy.
Yet in a world of synchronized life, lack of arts, unrequited love, and 'runaways'; it is impossible to find ecstasy. He finds nothing worth living for in the ordinary world and strongly regrets his leave of the reservation in coming to this 'boring'; world. Clearly he is the image of a man trying to liberate himself from his own egotism. Unable to cope with his problems, and to end his infinite sadness, John commits suicide. His death was the result of the torment and suffering from Utopia or his own hell. His individual will slowly diminished against the pressures of Utopian ways.
As a final resort John takes soma and partakes in an orgy-porgy. This was of great devastation to John. Everything, which he ever believed in, in his fight against the pressures of Utopia, was shattered in a split second. He had failed his personal egotism was defeated and the dread and horror of this defeat was overwhelming. Rather than living the rest of his life fighting Utopia and sticking with 'primitive'; ways of 'lunacy,' ; nor turning to the insanity of Utopia with science controlling his life, death was his third and best option to end his torment and suffering. It can be seen that freedom of the individual will and controlling pressures of the environment does affect psyche of a person.
In John's case his individual will was challenged by society's pressures. Yet in the end, it was his own choice to be what they become: deceased, rather than live with science affecting human individuals in the insanity of Utopia, nor living in the primitive world of the lunacy Indian Reservation. Freedom of the individual will is one of the fundamental beliefs at the root of human ideals. While the environment or the public world (society) plays some part in forming the psyche of an individual, it is in the end, the choice of the individual to be who they become.
This is reflected by John 'the Savage'; , in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The nature of John's conflict involves his personal beliefs and the contrasting Utopian's beliefs. Being from a world of art individuality, and literature, John is in great disappointment upon his arrival at the 'boring,' ; 'ordinary'; Utopian world. Art, individuality, and literature do not exist. There is lack of variation among the refined social class.
Sex is rather a pastime event and is not something that is cherished or appreciated. Also, stress and illness are not felt because of 'runaways'; on soma holidays. All which contradict to John's personal beliefs. His death was very symbolic in that a man choosing between life in insanity where advancement in science has affected the way society lives or life in. When his individual will slowly diminished he finally turned to Utopian ways by taking soma and partaking in an orgy-porgy. When he finally realized what he had done he killed himself.
Yet John did have alternatives to suicide: either continue to live a life of insanity in Utopia where advancement in science has affected the way of society; or to go back to the primitive lunacy life at the Indian Reservation where. John could not endure either alternative, hence he came up with a third choice of sanity: suicide.
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The deployment of soldiers and their beating of unarmed protesters set back President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to shed Zimbabwe's pariah status after decades of repression under Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup in November.
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If you've ever been on a long journey with kids in the back of the car you'll know that after a while your kids will get restless and that means your journey quickly descends into a nightmare. Qualcomm, the company behind most of the chipsets in smartphones around the world, believe it has the answer with the FLO TV, a spin off from the technology it's already dabbled with in mobile phones from companies like LG and HTC.
The concept is that you get a small portable dedicated device for watching television on without having to plug-in aerials (it's a mobile signal that is transmitted digitally over UHF channel 55), worrying about tuning-in stations or not having anything stored to watch.
The Flo TV device sports a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display, a built-in speaker, 3.5mm headphone jack, and flip-out stand so you can perch it on your desk. Made by HTC, the design of the device is fairly simple. Buttons are kept to a minimum (volume, mute, EPG and battery status) with the main control coming in the guise of that touchscreen display.
The quickest way to access stations to watch is either via the EPG (electronic programme guide) or simply by flicking your finger from top to bottom or bottom to top of the screen. Doing so loads up the next channel for you to watch with the system letting you see what is on (via an EPG message) so you can keep scrolling if you don't fancy the station.
Each programme, just like the EPG on your cable box at home, has information about it and the channels available include full-length simulcast and time-shifted programming from Adult Swim Mobile, CBS Mobile, CNBC, Comedy Central, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, MTV, NBC 2Go and Nickelodeon.
The stations aren't actually exact copies of the actual stations, a legal wrangle thing we're told, and certain stations aren't running all the time (Adult Swim only comes on from 10pm till 6am for example).
That's the theory and in practice the device quickly lets you watch television on the go, lets you switch through channels easily and lets you quickly shut the kids up with Nickelodeon in the back of the car. The in-built speaker is surprisingly good, if not a little tinny, and will fill a room allowing you to treat this as a radio in your hotel room (there aren't actually any radio stations available).
However, it's not all high fives. The quality isn't as good as we would have liked with the screen resolution somewhat lacking. Then there is the inability to record any programmes, meaning that while you've got used to your PVR and time shifting television in your home you won't be able to do that on the road.
You can set reminders in the EPG, however you've got to have the device on to let it remind you. We are sure it's a legal thing stopping the recording aspect rather than Qualcomm making that decision, but we can't say we wouldn't have wanted this feature.
The final grumble is that while the channel selection is okay it's not amazing, especially considering the Flo TV comes with up to $14.99 monthly subscription on top of the $250 purchase price (you do get the first 6 months free).
The 12 or so channels are a start (Qualcomm promises there will be up to 20 in the future) but for a device aimed at keeping the kids quiet in the back of the car we would have expected more content aimed at children. Nickelodeon is good, but where is Nick Jr, PBS Kids, and all the other crazy channels allowing you to get your fix of Wonder Pets every waking minute of the day?
As for the battery life we managed to get around 5 hours without changing channels too much, pretty much what Qualcomm claims.
Remember that scene in Wall Street where Michael Douglas is watching TV on a small black and white portable? Well that's what this will enable you to do, but in colour and without the big aerial.
If that's what you want to do, then the Flo TV will be right up your street. Everyone we showed, that wasn't a technology journalist, was impressed. However most did comment on the lack of quality on the 320 x 240 resolution screen.
From a hardware perspective it works, and works well. However while the technology looks and sounds promising, the execution for us isn't there just yet.
A bigger screen, better resolution and more channels are all on our wish list for version 2. For now, take this as a first attempt that could easily be bettered with more content and a higher resolution.


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61.1Well, since you wish to hear the essay, I shall bring it out and read it aloud; but first you must understand its purpose. The writer's desire is to praise Epicrates, note whom he thought to be the most charming young man in the city, although there were many fine gentlemen among those of his own age, and to surpass him more in understanding than in beauty of person. Observing also that, generally speaking, most erotic compositions attach shame rather than honor to those about whom they are written, he has taken precautions that this should not happen in his case, and has written only what he says he is convinced of by his judgement, believing that an honest lover would neither do anything shameful nor request it. note 61.2Now, that part of my essay which you may find to be the most erotic, so to speak, is on this topic, but the rest of it in part praises the lad himself and in part counsels about his education and his design for living. note whole essay is written as one would put it into a book, because discourses intended to be delivered ought to be written simply and just as one might speak offhand, while those of the other kind, which are planned to last longer, are properly composed in the manner of poetry and ornately. note For it is the function of the former to win converts and of the latter to display one's skill. Accordingly, to avoid spoiling the essay for you or rehearsing my own opinions about these questions, I ask you to lend your attention, since you are immediately going to hear the essay itself, because Epicrates is also at hand, whom I wished to hear it.
61.3Observing that certain of those who are loved and possess their share of good looks make the right use of neither one of these blessings, but put on grand airs because of the comeliness of their appearance and exhibit reluctance to associate with their admirers, note and so far fail in judging what is best that, because of those who pervert the thing, they assume a surly attitude toward those also who desire to associate with them from pure motives, I concluded that such young men not only defeat their own interests but also engender evil habits in the rest, 61.4and that the high-minded should not follow their foolish example, bearing in mind particularly that, since actions are not absolutely either honorable or shameful but for most part vary according to the persons concerned, note it is unreasonable to adopt the same attitude toward both classes of men, and secondly, that it is the height of absurdity to envy those who have a host of firm friends but to repulse their admirers, who are a separate group and alone feel drawn by nature, not toward all, but only to the beautiful and modest.
61.5Moreover, although those who have never yet seen such a friendship turn out well or have severely condemned themselves on the ground that they would be incapable of associating innocently with casual acquaintances, it is perhaps not unreasonable to entertain this prejudice note; but for those so disposed as yourself, who have not utterly refused to hear how very many benefits accrue through love without shame and have lived the rest of their lives with the utmost circumspection, it is not reasonable to have even a suspicion that they would do anything shameful. 61.6Consequently I have felt all the more a moved to write this essay, feeling sure I should not fail to secure two most honorable rewards. note For when I have described the good qualities you possess, I hope that at one and the same time I shall prove you to be worthy of admiration and myself not senseless if I love you, being what you are; and secondly, in tendering the advice that is most urgently needed I believe I shall present proof of my own goodwill and furnish a basis for our mutual friendship.
61.7And yet it does not escape me that it is difficult to describe your character in keeping with your deserts and that it is more hazardous still to give advice when the adviser is bound to make himself answerable for his advice to the one who accepts it. note It is my judgement, however, that, while it becomes the recipients of merited eulogies to baffle by the excess of their real virtue the ability of those who praise them, yet in my counsel I shall not miss the mark, being well aware that no advice could be innocently carried out if proffered by men who are senseless and quite ruined by incontinence, not even if they advise supremely well, but that not even the advice that is only moderately pondered can altogether miss the mark if tendered by men who choose to live pure and self disciplined lives.
61.8Cherishing such hopes I enter upon my theme. All men would agree with me, I believe, that it is of the utmost importance for young men of your age to possess beauty in respect of person, self-discipline in respect of soul, and manliness in respect of both, and consistently to possess charm in respect of speech. As for these two kinds of qualities, natural and acquired, Fortune has so generously blessed you with nature's gifts that you consistently enjoy distinction and admiration, and the other kind you are bringing to such perfection through your own diligence that no fair-minded person could have fault to find with you. 61.9And yet what ought he to possess who is worthy of the highest eulogies? note Must he not manifestly be loved by the gods and among men be admired, for some qualities on his own account, for others because of his good fortune? Now the longer list of your virtuous qualities it will perhaps be fitting to describe summarily later on, but the praise I have to utter for each of the gifts of Fortune I shall now try to declare with truthfulness.
61.10I shall begin by praising that quality of yours which all who see you will recognize first, your beauty, and the hue of your flesh, by virtue of which your limbs and your whole body are rendered resplendent. Wondering what fitting comparison for this I may offer, I find none, but it is my privilege to request those who read this essay to see you and contemplate you, so that I may be pardoned for declaring that I have no suitable simile. 61.11For to what could anyone liken something mortal which arouses immortal longing in the beholder, the sight of which does not satiate, and when removed from sight lingers in the memory, which in human form possesses a natural beauty worthy of the gods, like a flower in its comeliness, beyond suspicion of imperfections? Furthermore, it is impossible to impute to your person even those blemishes which in the past have marred many another who has shared in beauty. 61.12For either through ungainliness of mien they have ruined all their natural comeliness or through some unfortunate mannerism have involved their natural attractions in the same disfavor. By none of these could we find your person afflicted, for whichever of the gods it was that took forethought for your person has so diligently guarded you against all such mishaps as to leave nothing calling for criticism and to render your general appearance superb. 61.13Moreover, since the face is the most conspicuous of the parts that are seen, and of the face itself the eyes, even more in these did the god reveal the goodwill that he had toward you. For he not only furnished you with eyes adequate to perform the necessary functions but, although the virtue of some men is not recognized even from their actions, of your character he has placed in a clear light the fine qualities through the evidence of your glance, displaying it as gentle and kind toward those who look at you, dignified and serious toward those who converse with you, manly and proper to all men.
61.14And here is a matter that may be particularly surprising. For while other men are assumed to be mean-spirited because they are gentle and to be arrogant because they are dignified, and are thought overbearing because they are manly, and stupid because they keep quiet, Fortune in your case has taken qualities so mutually contradictory and caused them all to be properly harmonized, as if fulfilling a prayer or wishing to set an example for others, but not framing a mere mortal nature, as was her usual way.
61.15Now if it were possible to do justice to such beauty as yours in words, or if this were the only quality of yours worthy of praise, we should think it necessary to omit praise of none of your good points; but as things are, I am afraid that we may find our bearers refusing to hear praise of your other merits and that we may defeat ourselves by harping on this theme. 61.16For how could anyone overdo the verbal description of your appearance, since not even works of art executed by the skill of the best masters could do more than justice to it? Nor is this astonishing; for works of art have a motionless aspect, so that it is uncertain what they would look like if they possessed life, but your personality enhances in your every action the superb comeliness of your body. Only this much, therefore, I have to say in praise of your beauty, omitting a great deal.
61.17As for discreetness of conduct, it is my privilege to pass the finest of compliments, namely, that though such youthfulness readily invites scandal, it has been your lot to be praised instead. For so far from overstepping the mark, you have chosen to live more prudently than is expected of your years. Of this the most convincing evidence is your deportment toward others; for although many make your acquaintance, and reveal characters of every kind and sort, and all seek to entice you into intimacies, you have so managed such people that all are content to feel friendship for you. 61.18This is an index of those whose choice it is to live in the esteem and affection of men. And yet some men in the past have been well thought of who have advised against welcoming the company of all comers, as is also true of some who have taken their advice. For they claim that it is necessary either to humor low-minded people and so be maligned among the multitude, or else to be constantly on guard against such reproaches and so incur the dislike of such acquaintances themselves. 61.19Personally I think you deserve to be eulogized all the more for this reason, that, while the other lads think it one of the impossible things to please men of every type, note you have so surpassed these as to have risen superior to all the difficult and troublesome people, allowing the others no reason even for suspecting immoral relations with any and overcoming your annoyance with them by the adaptability of your manners.
61.20Now touching your admirers, if it is right to speak also of these, you seem to me to deport yourself so admirably and sensibly toward them, that, though most of them cannot be patient even with the object of their preference, you succeed in pleasing them all exceedingly. And this is a most unmistakable proof of your goodness; for not one finds himself disappointed of favors from you which it is just and fair to ask, but no one is permitted even to hope for such liberties as lead to shame. So great is the latitude your discreetness permits to those who have the best intentions; so great is the discouragement it presents to those who would fling off restraint. 61.21Furthermore, while the majority of men, when young, seek a reputation for prudence by keeping silent, you are so superior to them in natural gifts that you gain men's good opinion of you not less by your speech and demeanor in casual company than by all your other merits; so great is the grace and charm of your words whether in jest or in earnest. For you are ingenuous without doing wrong, clever without being malicious, kindly without sacrifice of independence, and, taking all in all, like a child of Virtue sired by Love. note
61.22Turning now to courage—for it will not do to omit this either, not because I would intimate that your character does not still admit of great development nor that the future will fail to furnish richer material for eulogy to those who wish to praise you, but rather that words of praise mean most at your age when to do no wrong is the best hope for other lads—your courage a man might extol on many other grounds but especially because of your training for athletic sports, of which you have a multitude of witnesses. 61.23And perhaps it is in place first to say that you have done well in choosing this kind of contest. For to judge rightly when one is young what line of action one should pursue note is the token of an honest soul and of sound judgement alike, and on neither ground would it be right to omit praise of your choice.
You, therefore, being well aware that slaves and aliens share in the other sports but that dismounting is open only to citizens and that the best men aspire it, have eagerly applied yourself to this sport. note 61.24Discerning, moreover, that those who train for the footraces add nothing to their courage nor to their morale either, and that those who practice boxing and the like ruin their minds as well as their bodies, you have singled out the noblest and grandest of competitive exercises and the one most in harmony with your natural gifts, one which approximates to the realities of warfare through the habituation to martial weapons and the laborious effort of running, in the magnificence and majesty of the equipment simulates the might of the gods, note 61.25presents the number and the greatest variety of features and has been deemed worthy of the most valuable prizes. For, apart from those offered, getting the drill and practice in such exercises itself will possess glamor as no paltry prize in the eyes of those who are even moderately ambitious for excellence. The best evidence for this may be found in the poetry of Homer, in which he represents the Greeks and barbarians warring against one another with this equipment. note I may add that even now it is customary to employ it in contests in Greek cities, and not in the meanest cities but in the greatest. note
61.26So admirable is your choice of sport and so approved among all men. Believing also, as you do, that it is futile to desire the things most worth while, or yet to be physically endowed for all sorts of feats, unless the soul has been prepared for an ambitious career, at the very outset you exhibited diligence in the training grounds, nor in the real tests were you disappointing, but you gave extraordinary proof of the distinction of your natural gifts and particularly of the courage of your soul in the games. 61.27I hesitate to begin treating this topic for fear words may fail me in the description of what took place on that occasion, but nevertheless I shall not pass it over; for it is a shame to refuse a report of what enthralls us as spectators.
Were I to describe all the contests an unseemly length would perhaps accrue to this essay, note but by recalling a single example in which you especially distinguished yourself I shall demonstrate the same truth and be found to make a more reasonable use of the patience of my hearers. 61.28When the teams had been started and some had leaped to the fore and some were being reined in, you, prevailing over both, first one and then the other, note in proper style, seized the victory, winning that envied crown in such fashion that, glorious as it was to win it, it seemed the more glorious and astounding that you came off safely. For when the chariot of your opponents was bearing down upon you head-on and all thought the momentum of your horses beyond checking, you, aware that some drivers, though no danger should threaten, become overanxious for their own safety, not only did not lose your head or your nerve, but by your courage got control of the impetus of your team and by your speed passed even those contenders whose luck had suffered no setback. 61.29What is more, you caused such a revolution in men's minds that, though many keep insisting that nothing in equestrian contests affords such delight as a crash, and seem to speak the truth, in your case all the spectators, on the contrary, were afraid that some such accident might befall you. Such goodwill and eagerness for your success did your personality awaken in them.
61.30They had good reason to feel so, for while it is a splendid thing to become distinguished for some one excellence, it is still more splendid to combine all the qualities of which a man of sense might justly feel proud. From the following examples this will be clear: we shall find that Aeacus and Rhadamanthys were beloved by the gods for their discretion, Heracles, Castor and Pollux for their courage, and Ganymedes, Adonis, and others like them for their beauty, so that I at any rate am not astonished at those who covet your friendship but at those who are not so disposed. For when some, through sharing in one or another of the qualities I have mentioned, have been deemed worthy of the company of the gods, surely to a mere mortal it is the heights of desire to become the friend of one who has become the proud possessor of all good qualities. 61.31Certainly your father and mother and the rest of your kinsmen are rightly envied because you so far surpass those of your own age in excellence, but still more enviable are those whom you, who have been deemed worthy of such blessings, select from the whole number to be your friends, judging them worthy of your companionship. And since Fortune has appointed the former to share your affection, but the latter their own fine qualities have recommended in addition, 61.32I do not know whether to call these young men admirers or unique for their sound judgement. For, as I think, Fortune, scorning base men and wishing to arouse the minds of the good, at the very outset made your nature beautiful, not for a life of pleasure, to be beguiled thereto, but serviceable for a virtuous life, to have happiness therein. note
61.33Although I have still much to say in praise of you, I think I shall cease my eulogy at this point, fearing that I may seem to plead your cause in terms exceeding human limitations. For so far, as it seems, does the power of words fall short of that of vision that, while none would think of mistrusting the evidence of his eyes, people think the praise of things men say they have seen, even if it falls short of the truth, to be incredible. 61.34Accordingly, I shall leave this topic and now endeavor to counsel you on the means of rendering your life still more worthy of esteem. To the words I am about to utter I would not have you give heed as to a matter of trivial importance, nor to leap to the conclusion that I have, after all, addressed you thus, not for your good, but from a desire to display my skill; otherwise you may miss the truth and, by choosing haphazard counsel in place of the best, fall short of the best in judging your own interests. 61.35For we do not reproach men of humble and insignificant natural gifts even when they commit a dishonorable act, but to those who, like yourself, have attained distinction, even a bit of negligence in some matter of high honor brings disgrace. note Again, those who go astray in other domains fail merely t make the best decision in some single, isolated matter, but those who miss the right advice on the conduct of life, or scorn it, have reminders of their own folly to live with their whole life long.
61.36Now you must not fall into any of these errors but rather seek to discover what is of supreme consequence in human affairs, and what it is that turning out well would do us the most good, but turning out badly would hurt us most along life's pathway. For it requires no proof that upon this factor we must expend the greatest care, which more than anything else possesses the power to tip the scale to one side or the other. 61.37Now of the powers residing in human beings we shall find that intelligence leads all the rest and that philosophy alone is capable of educating this rightly and training it. In this study I think you ought to participate, and not balk at or flee from the labors involved in it, reflecting that through idleness and indolence even quite superficial things become difficult, while through persistence and diligence none of the worthwhile things is unattainable, 61.38and that of all things the most irrational is to be ambitious for wealth, bodily strength, and such things, and for their sakes to submit to many hardships, all of which prizes are perishable and usually slaves to intelligence, but not to aim at the improvement of the mind, which has supervision over all other powers, abides continually with those who possess it, and guides the whole life. note 61.39And yet, although it is a fine thing to be admired among high-minded people even on account of fortuitous success, it is much finer through care bestowed upon one's self to gain a share in all the accomplishments that are esteemed; for often it has fallen to the lot of vulgar men to share in the former but none have a part in the latter except those who excel in real manliness.
61.40However, touching the subject of philosophy, some future occasion will afford me more suitable opportunities to review carefully the particulars, but the outlines of it nothing will prevent me from running over at once. This one point, therefore, you must grasp clearly at the outset, that all education consists in understanding something and then putting it into practice, note and this is even more true of philosophy than of any other studies, for the synthesis of learning and practice is likely to be more perfect in proportion as the instructors are more clear on this point. 61.41And yet, since intelligence commands the province of speaking and deliberating, and philosophy confers facility in each of these, what reason can there be why we should refuse to get a firm grasp of this study, through which we shall become masters of both alike? Because life may then too be expected to make a great advance for us when we reach out for the things of supreme importance and find ourselves able to secure by rule and precept such as can be taught and the rest by practice and habituation. 61.42It certainly is not permissible to make the assertion that it is not through acquired knowledge that we surpass one another in sound judgement; for, speaking generally, all natural ability is improved by the addition of the appropriate education, note and this is especially true of talents which at the outset are inherently superior to the rest, because the one kind is capable only of improving upon itself while the other may also surpass the rest.
61.43Be well assured also that the facility acquired solely from practical experience is treacherous and useless for subsequent needs of life, but the education secured through the pursuit of philosophy is happily blended in all these needs. There is no denying, of course, that in the past some men who got practical training just by good luck in action have won admiration, but for you the proper thing is to disregard these men and to take yourself seriously in hand. For in matters of the utmost importance you should not be extemporizing instead of really knowing what to do or in emergencies be studying your arguments instead of really knowing how to debate an issue on its merits.
61.44Be convinced too that all philosophical learning confers precious benefits upon those who take advantage of it, but especially is this true of the knowledge that deals with practical affairs and political discussions. No doubt it is disgraceful to be quite ignorant of geometry and other such subjects of study, but to become a topmost contender in this field is too low an ambition for merit like yours. note In that kind of philosophy, however, not only is it a worthy ambition to excel, but to remain ignorant is altogether ridiculous.
61.45You may infer this to be true on many other grounds and especially by scanning the careers of those who have become eminent before your time. You will hear first that Pericles, who is thought to have far surpassed all men of his age in intellectual grasp, addressed himself to Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and only after being his pupil note acquired this power of judgement. You will next discover that Alcibiades, though his natural disposition was far inferior in respect to virtue and it was his pleasure to behave himself now arrogantly, now obsequiously, note now licentiously, yet, as a fruit of his association with Socrates, he made correction of many errors of his life and over the rest drew a veil of oblivion by the greatness of his later achievements. 61.46But not to spend our time rehearsing ancient examples while others are available closer to our own times, note you will discover that Timotheus was deemed worthy of the highest repute and numerous honors, not because of his activities as a younger man, but because of his performances after he had studied with Isocrates. note You will discover also that Archytas of Tarentum became ruler of his city and managed its affairs so admirably and so considerately as to spread the record of that achievement to all mankind; yet at first he was despised and he owed his remarkable progress to studying with Plato. note 61.47Of these examples not one worked out contrary to reason note; for it would be much stranger if we were obliged to achieve paltry ends through acquiring knowledge and putting it into practice, but were capable of accomplishing the big things without this effort.
Now I do not know what call there is to say more on these topics, for not even at the outset did I introduce them because I assumed you were absolutely ignorant, but because I thought that such exhortations both arouse those who lack knowledge and spur on those who possess it;. note 61.48And do not make any such assumption as this, that in speaking these words I am presumably offering to teach you any of these branches myself, for I should feel no shame in saying that there is still much I need myself to learn, and that I have chosen rather to be a contender in political life than a teacher of the other arts. note Not that in disavowing these subjects of instruction I am impugning the reputation of those who have chosen the profession of sophist, but my reason is that the truth of the matter happens to be as follows: 61.49for I am aware, of course, that many men have risen to eminence from humble and obscure estate through the practice of this art, and that Solon, both living and dead, was deemed worthy of the highest renown. He was not disqualified for the other honors note but left behind him a memorial of his courage in the trophy of victory over the Megarians, 61.50of his astuteness in the recovery of Salamis, and of general sagacity in the laws which the majority of the Greeks continue using to this day. Yet in spite of these great claims to distinction he set his heart upon nothing as much as becoming one of the Seven Sages, note believing that philosophy was no reproach but that it brought honor to those who pursued it, having been no less wise in this very judgement than in the others in which he showed himself superior.
61.51My own judgement is not different from Solon's and I recommend to you to study philosophy, bearing in mind the advantages you have possessed from the beginning. Indeed it was with this purpose in view I ran through the list of them myself in the first part of my essay, note not expecting to make a conquest of you by praising your natural gifts, but that I may the better urge you to take up philosophy if you shall escape the error of putting a low value on it, or, through pride in your present advantages, of under-valuing the advantages yet to be gained. 61.52Again, even if you are better than the common run of men, note do not seek to be superior in no respect to the talented remainder, but deem it the highest purpose to be first among all, and that it is more to your advantage to be seen striving for this than merely being foremost among the rank and file. And do not bring shame upon your natural gifts or cause to be cheated of their hopes those who are proud of you, but endeavor by your own ability to surpass the desires of those who have your interests most at heart. 61.53And bear in mind that speeches of the other kinds, when they fulfil their purpose, only crown their authors with glory, but that good counsels attach benefit and honor to those who hearken to them; and that the decisions we make about all other matters make plain the power of perception we possess, but that the choices we make of careers put our whole character to the test. And as you pass judgement in these matters, count upon being judged at the same time yourself by all men, and do not forget that I, who have been so ready to praise you, will also be involved in the hazard of the test. 61.54The proofs by which you must be judged worthy of my praises must also acquit me of all censure for the friendship I bear you.
I would not be pressing you so urgently to study philosophy note unless I thought that in this I was making you a most precious contribution as evidence of my goodwill, and unless I observed that our city often makes use of ordinary men for lack of men of the best type, and through their bungling incurs the gravest misfortunes. 61.55So, then, in order that our city may enjoy abilities such as yours and you the honors which these abilities deserve, I have urged you with some vehemence. Neither do I think that it will be in your power to live as chance decrees, but that the City will appoint you to be in charge of some department of her business, and in proportion as your natural gifts are the more conspicuous it will judge you worthy of greater responsibilities and will the sooner desire to make trial of you. The wise plan, therefore is to train your mind that you may not fail when that day comes.
61.56Now it has been my part to tell you note what studies I think it is to your advantage to have pursued, but it is yours to decide concerning them. There is an obligation also on the rest, those who seek to be on intimate terms with you, not to be content with superficial pleasures and pastimes, nor to summon you to these, but to consider diligently how they may render your career most brilliant. By so doing they would bring most credit to themselves and become instruments of the greatest service to you. 61.57Neither am I now finding fault with any one of those who keep company with you, for this also seems to me one element of your general good fortune, that you have found no base admirer, but select as friends from the young men of your own age such only as any man would gladly choose. I urge you, however, while being friendly and agreeable to all of these, to heed those of them who have the most sense, so that you may seem even more worthy of respect to this particular group and to the rest of the citizens. Farewell.


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A life-and-death balancing act
Human interaction can be an enemy to or a protector of protected species.
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Updated July 14, 2019 8:00 AM
The elephant was killed for its ivory tusks. It's a sad, and too common, story.
The even more horrifying part came later, after poachers in northern Botswana tried to cover their tracks. Knowing that vultures feeding on carrion can tip off rangers to their presence, the poachers laced the elephant carcass with poison. And killed 537 vultures from five species, all of which are either endangered or critically endangered.
The loss was mind-boggling. And it gets worse: Many of the vultures killed last month were new parents who left behind chicks not likely to survive on their own.
It's hard to wrap one's mind around such cruelty. Then you contrast that with what's happening in Africa some 1,200 miles to the north, where endangered mountain gorillas are making a slow but sure comeback. That's also due to human intervention — the establishment of national parks in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; tough enforcement of laws against hunting and logging within those boundaries; health care for the gorillas from trained veterinarians; and a nifty funding mechanism in which money paid by ecotourists to see the gorillas is used to pay park rangers who keep them safe.
Such is the yin and yang of preserving species.
It's certainly true in our own country. The Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, has been spectacularly successful in restoring populations of alligators, whooping cranes and bald eagles. But the Trump administration continues to try to weaken the law, even as the UN says that up to 1 million species of plants and animals are at risk of extinction in as soon as a few decades — often because of human behavior.
Concern for species survival is not only a matter of principle, though humans do have a moral obligation to not blithely wipe out other organisms. We also must worry about how our actions vis a vis one species affect entire ecosystems in ways that we, in our ignorance or hubris, do not anticipate.
I've written about the havoc wreaked in Yellowstone National Park when wolves were eradicated, and the balance that was restored when they were reintroduced. Here's another cautionary Yellowstone tale.
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In the 1990s, lake trout turned up in Yellowstone Lake, possibly introduced by a misguided fisher. They flourished, and began eating young cutthroat trout, the vaunted native species. As cutthroat disappeared from the lake's shallower waters (lake trout prefer deeper waters), ospreys and bald eagles lost their main food source, and numbers of each species plummeted. And the grizzly and black bears that gorged on cutthroat making spawning runs up local streams moved elsewhere.
On the other hand — and in species conservation there always seems to an other hand — an effort to protect bison, once reduced to 23 in the park but now numbering more than 4,000, has been so successful that Yellowstone is shipping out bison to bolster smaller herds elsewhere.
And on yet one more hand, the recovery of gray wolves in the West has led to their reappearance in northern California, and to the subsequent disappearance of six members of a pack of seven — killed, some environmentalists contend, by ranchers seeking to protect their livestock. Rancher worry is understandable, but gunning down whatever crosses one's rifle sights cannot be our best answer.
And poisoning vultures destroys creatures that do a marvelous job of controlling the spread of diseases by quickly eating contaminated carcasses harmful to other species but not to vultures.
In nature, balance is critical and success is possible. But the work is hard and long. Without it, failure is guaranteed.
Michael Dobie is a member of Newsday's editorial board.
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Getting well is an inside job. Your belief system is critical to being well. Do you believe you were designed to be well or sick? Is it "normal" to have headaches or have an extra 30 lbs just because it is common in society? Why do some kids get sick from a virus going around the school while others do not?
What is going on in the external environment has less to do with health than what is going on inside you and it all starts with what you believe.


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Words & Images © Brendan McInerney. Team New York No. 1.
The work that is presented here is very much a product of collaboration. It is a product of the time and consideration afforded to me by the people pictures more so than any effort of my own. For this collaboration, I invited each person pictured here to my apartment in Rockaway Park. We talked for a little, sat down for an interview and then took some portraits. I had hoped to get a better understanding of each person which I could demonstrate in a photograph. Each discussion was unique, touching on themes or ideas that each person had condensed since arriving in the United States. What surprised me, however, was the common thread woven throughout all the interviews.
A more honest theme for this project might be 'bureaucracy' or 'deferral.' As Hany Hawasly said, "I think… maybe this doesn't silence you but [being an immigrant] will slow you down very much before you're capable of feeling grounded enough to have an opinion and to express it." I wanted this idea to come across in the way the quotes are displayed. I transcribed portions of the interviews in my own handwriting and superimposed them on pages from I-129 and I-485 forms provided by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to people trying to obtain a visa or a green card.
Bureaucratic forms often appear to be plain, blank and therefore nonpolitical but this could not be further from the truth. USCIS has made calculated and intentional changes to these forms to make them harder to understand and more difficult to complete. These parts are intended to encourage greater understanding and wider discussion of the immigrant experience in the United States, among myself, my collaborators and anyone so kind as to take time to read these words and look at these images.