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Once you have the contact information of your host from the Campos Research Group, it is generally recommended to wait for her/him at Joe Coffee, which is found in the 2nd floor of the NWC Building. You may enter through 120th and Broadway (ground level), or through the main campus (4th floor). Swipe access is required in order to enter the elevator to the labs/offices.
If you are taking the MTA Subway, take the number 1 (red line) train and exit at 116th St / Columbia University. Walk north, toward 120th and Broadway. Pictures of the NWC building are found in the slide show in this site.


"Beautifully located four-star, very stylish, with a well-respected restaurant"
Hotel Pulitzer is a new hotel built right in the heart of Barcelona. Opened in June 2004, it is just 20 metres from Plaza Catalunya and close to the Ramblas and Paseo de Gracia. Built in a modern style, it offers luxurious facilities. The hotel lobby is spacious and bright, well decorated. Our elegant restaurant has its own private indoor garden. And our Bar serves a variety of snack meals and cocktails.
The hotel has 91 rooms. All of them are very comfortable and have a marble bathroom with hairdryer and a selection of toiletries, satellite/cable TV, air conditioning, central heating, minibar, safety deposit box and telephone in bath and room.
Other services are also offered to our guest, such as room service 24h, car rental, laundry service, concierge, bar/cocktail, Library (with a selection of books, journals, magazines and newspapers available to read free of charge), baby cots (on request) and a big solarium with teak floors on the top of the hotel with a city view.


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Opinion|Androgyny Is Now Fashionable in the W.N.B.A.
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Androgyny Is Now Fashionable in the W.N.B.A.
Women's basketball is expanding ideas of what female athletes are allowed to look like.
By Britni de la Cretaz
Ms. de la Cretaz is a sportswriter.
Courtney Williams, who plays for the Connecticut Sun, before a game against the Seattle Storm earlier this month.Credit...Monica Jorge for The New York Times
Earlier this month, the Seattle Storm, the W.N.B.A. team who won last year's championship, announced a partnership with TomboyX, a gender-neutral line of undergarments. Fans can now buy Storm-branded TomboyX bras and underwear, choosing from a black bralette or charcoal gray boxer briefs. Unlike team-branded thong underwear for sale from some major men's sports leagues, including the N.B.A. and M.L.B., there are no push-up bras or lace panties in sight.
W.N.B.A. teams are changing the way they approach marketing to their fans and portraying their athletes. Instead of emphasizing sex appeal and heteronormative styles, the league is leaning into the aesthetic that many of their fans and players already prefer, one that includes androgynous and masculine looks. Beginning with the social media accounts of players and teams, continuing through media accounts like WSLAM and LeagueFits, and culminating in official partnerships, the league is celebrating and showcasing androgynous swag.
Female athletes have been boxed in by traditional ideas of femininity for over a century. During World War II, players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were required to wear skirts and lipstick on the field. As recently as 2016, the W.N.B.A. had fashion, hair and makeup classes for its rookie players. In 2008, nearly a third of the league's two-day rookie orientation was dedicated to makeup and fashion tips. An outside beauty consultant, a makeup artist named Faith Edwards, was brought in.
The W.N.B.A.'s vice president of player personnel at the time, Renee Brown, told The Chicago Tribune that "womanhood" was important when it came to marketing the league, describing a player as "a woman first" who just happened to play sports. In a 2013 profile for Elle, Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner said she declined to participate in the (then-optional) classes because "I don't need that."
These beauty expectations were rooted in homophobia, whether or not the players were queer themselves. The fear that sports would make women "mannish" goes back to the turn of the 20th century. Female athletes were seen as a threat to the belief that a woman's purpose was to get married (to a man) and have children, as the historian Susan Cahn noted in a 1993 paper. Catering to the male gaze, professional female athletes were taught to portray a traditionally feminine exterior and to play up the perception of their heterosexuality.
But a changing culture and direct communication between athletes and fans on social media have allowed the W.N.B.A. and its players to create a new narrative about the aesthetics of women who ball. Not only is an androgynous and masculine presentation O.K., it's downright fashionable.
Brittney Sykes, a guard for the Atlanta Dream, can be seen on her Instagram account in knee-length cutoff jeans and a tank top. Guard Courtney Williams of the Connecticut Sun posts photos of her game-day outfits, which she has described as "like a little boy" and "easily best dressed in the WNBA." Las Vegas Aces forward Tamera Young posts photos of herself in androgynous fashion: In one she wears green pants by the designer Malena Janelle, a black graphic T-shirt, a beige cardigan and sneakers. In another, she shows off her silver Air Jordan 1 Retro Low sneakers.
The league is getting in on the action, too. Fashion photos of N.B.A. players arriving for game day have long been a staple of basketball coverage, with players like James Harden and Russell Westbrook showing off patterned suits, jaunty hats and slick shoes. Now their W.N.B.A. counterparts get the same treatment. Their outfits are documented by team photographers and posted on social media with captions like "game day drip" (a term that means your style is extremely fashionable) and "peep that style." Next to Los Angeles Sparks rookie Kalani Brown doing a twirl in her striped minidress is her teammate Riquna Williams walking in plaid pants and a bomber jacket. Androgynous looks are shown as just as stylish and coveted as outfits that are more feminine.
Kalani Brown of the Los Angeles Sparks arriving for a game.Credit...Adam Pantozzi/NBAE, via Getty Images
Riquna Williams of the Los Angeles Sparks on game day at the Staples Center.Credit...Adam Pantozzi/NBAE, via Getty Images
This is a big deal. In the past, the athletes whose images were seen as most desirable — women like Lindsey Vonn, Maria Sharapova, Alex Morgan — were women who fit into conventional ideas of female beauty: feminine, white assumed heterosexual. The male gaze was imposed on these athletes: Men were the audience, and executives most likely hoped that if the game itself couldn't draw in male viewers, then maybe the attractiveness of the athletes might.
A 2013 study in the Journal of Communication and Sport noted that media portrayals of female athletes emphasized femininity and heterosexuality as opposed to athleticism. A focus on heterosexual sex appeal prevented women athletes from being seen as too threatening to male audiences or too challenging to the status quo.
Sports can still be an incredibly hostile place to be queer. This continues to be a problem in professional sports, but it's an even bigger problem at the college level. Over a quarter of L.G.B.T.Q. student athletes have reported being harassed or bullied because of their sexual orientation, and collegiate athletes are more likely to report harassment than their straight counterparts.
One of the best things that could come out of the W.N.B.A. is that this culture of accepting and celebrating various forms of gender presentation could trickle down to the N.C.A.A., where homophobia is still rampant and female players are often pressured to conform to traditional gender norms.
Griner has been open about the fact that she was asked not to talk publicly about her sexuality while playing for Baylor University. "The coaches thought that if it seemed like they condoned it, people wouldn't let their kids come play for Baylor," she said in 2013.
Game-day fashion is a highly cultivated and carefully crafted aesthetic that deserves to be fully appreciated and admired. The photos of W.N.B.A. players' street style show that not only femme women spend a lot of time thinking about the clothing they wear; players who come to a game in androgynous attire put just as much thought into their outfit as an athlete who chooses to wear heels and a designer dress.
To be sure, not every woman playing in the W.N.B.A. dresses in androgynous fashion, nor should she have to. There is more than one way to be a woman in basketball.
Britni de la Cretaz (@britnidlc) is a sportswriter whose work focuses on the intersection of sports and gender. She is working on a book about the National Women's Football League.

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NUI Ibiza
NUI Ibiza is a great creative space with a spectacular industrial design, an art gallery, a club and a restaurant focused on an original and delicious fusion of street food
NUI Ibiza It is much more than a restaurant, it is a multidisciplinary space loaded with creative proposals where you will find a exquisite fusion cuisine based on street food.
Located in the Es Gorg industrial estate, on the outskirts of Ibiza town, where the old B12 art gallery was located, NUI is an immense space that includes restaurant, art gallery, club and much more.
A very special place with a industrial design that covers every detail of decoration, aesthetics and lighting, following a style of "Commando art", which adapts like a glove to the style of the area and surprises and enchants the visitor, turning the decoration into a original artistic installation. The design is prepared by one of its promoters, Paul wallace, with more than 30 years of experience as a set designer and artistic director in important festivals around the world or for groups like Metallica.
The idea behind NUI arose in October 2019, when its promoters wanted to create a place designed for the residents of the island full of creative leisure proposals. Despite the complexity of having started it in 2020, in the middle of the coronavirus crisis and with all the restrictions, NUI has had its art gallery open this year, although at the moment this and other of its proposals remain at waiting for better moments. Among the projects pending development is a art maze participatory, to whom they want to bring to the schools of Ibiza, a replica of the anfiteatro of Shakespeare on the basis of containers, a playground with quality entertainment and puppeteers, magicians or mimes, or the realization of microtheater works, among others. NUI Ibiza also has a club and the well-known radio station OpenLab He will be part of the family, taking care of the musical aspect of the place.
And it is that NUI's approach is to offer Ibiza residents a magical place where things happen and one can go to spend the day and be surprised and fall in love with everything that is found there.
At the moment the restaurant is open, which has a spacious terrace, and you can also make your orders to be collected or delivered to your home.
At NUI, experience is fundamental, and that is how food is also conceived, an opportunity to discover new flavors, a multicultural and cosmopolitan fusion.
they have Dish of the day, always different and always delicious, for just 10 euros, with dessert and drink.
All their street food proposals are original and delicious, but you can't leave without trying the nachos with kimchi, guacamole and huancaína or on vegan falafel, with a spectacular yogurt and cucumber sauce.
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In these moments NUI open every day, minus the Tuesday which cierra, of 13 to 22 hours.
From Ibiza Town, take the E-10 (the ring road) and turn left at the Ikea roundabout (the one next to the podencos sculpture roundabout), taking Alcalde Bartomeu Roselló Sala street and then turn from turn left again in calle d'Antoni Planells Ferrer.
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If you know anything about Center City condos, you know that within the same (older style/exisitng) condo building, there can be two identical units in size, shape, and layout. One is priced 40% MORE than the other. The costlier unit has been fully rehabbed, and the cheaper unit is still in original conditon.
So what does it cost to cosmetically rehab a condo here in town? Well, the prices can vary of course depending upon who you use, materials used, and if you plan on replacing existing elements, or reinventing the wheel, so to speak. It has been my general experience that to simply upgrade kitchen, baths, floors, walls, closets, etc (not including heating/AC, or MOVING water supplies, etc.) is going to cost you somewhere around $50 per square foot. So if you have a 1000 sq ft condo that you wish to make gorgeous, you should plan on spending $50,000. And if done right, with a good eye to detail, without getting to jaded or one-sided in your new "look", the increase in value to your condo is going to exceed the $50,000 you just spent.
Now these rules are very general, and I would suggest you call me to chat prior to making any decision if you are concerned about return on your investment. I have rehabbed soooo many condos in Philly that hopefully I can be of help to you and your rehabbing dreams.


LeBron James | Living or Dead?
Is LeBron James Living or Dead?
Has American basketball player LeBron James died? Or is he still alive?
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers in action against the Washington Wizards during a game on February 6, 2017 at Verizon Center in Washington, DC.
LeBron Raymone James Sr. (; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is often considered the best basketball player in the world and regarded by some as the greatest player of all time. His accomplishments include four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, three NBA Finals MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals. James has appeared in fifteen NBA All-Star Games and been named NBA All-Star MVP three times. He won the 2008 NBA scoring title, is the all-time NBA playoffs scoring leader, and is fourth in all-time career points scored. He has been voted onto the All-NBA First Team twelve times and the All-Defensive First Team five times. James played basketball for St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, where he was heavily touted by the national media as a future NBA superstar. A prep-to-pro, he joined the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003 as the first overall draft pick. Named the 2003–04 NBA Rookie of the Year, he soon established himself as one of the league's premier players; he won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2009 and 2010. After failing to win a championship with Cleveland, James left in 2010 to sign as a free agent with the Miami Heat. This move was announced in an ESPN special titled The Decision, and is one of the most controversial free agent decisions in American sports history. James won his first two NBA championships while playing for the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013. He was named league MVP and NBA Finals MVP in both championship years. After his fourth season with the Heat in 2014, James opted out of his contract to re-sign with the Cavaliers. In 2016, he led the Cavaliers to victory over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, delivering the team's first championship and ending Cleveland's 52-year professional sports title drought. In 2018, James opted out of his contract with the Cavaliers to sign with the Lakers. Off the court, James has accumulated additional wealth and fame from numerous endorsement contracts. His public life has been the subject of much scrutiny, and he has been ranked as one of America's most influential and popular athletes. He has been featured in books, documentaries, and television commercials. He has also hosted the ESPY Awards and Saturday Night Live, and appeared in the 2015 film Trainwreck.
He is also known as LeBron Raymone James Sr. and King James.


Henry started playing with one of his new toys from Santa a couple days ago, but we think Oscar was even more excited. He really likes playing with Henry's toys. He plays with Henry differently than the other two. He plays quietly, talks to Henry with this really cute high pitched voice, and shows him how to play with the toys. Meanwhile the other two pick him up, give him strawberries on his belly and tickle him to death.


Yesterday was errand and chore day. Today I have to spread another truckload of mulch. I have 4 truckloads left and would like to be done by next weekend because weed control season starts soon after that. But I'll leave some time for some fun stuff this weekend. I want tomorrow to be glass day, I need to get the binding on the king size Rainbow Quilt and I need to finish this class sample.
This is a sample for a beginner fills class that I'll be teaching at The Longarm Network this summer. I only have the orange sections left to finish before I can bind it and deliver it to the shop.
Aside from different fill techniques I'm also trying to show the effect of thread choice. Weight, color and sheen all make a big difference.
I know that a lot of people don't enjoy doing fill work but I love it. I find it very zen. I do have to take frequent breaks to stretch my hands and relax my shoulders but it's a lot of fun to do.
Here are all of the classes that I've scheduled at The Longarm Network in Goochland, VA (just outside Richmond). These classes are all geared to beginners and are not machine specific. Anyone trying to get better on their midarm or longarm can take these classes.
Don't Fear the Longarm is perfect for new owners, people who haven't touched their machines in a while or anyone wanting to know how to build skills. It's scheduled for Saturday, April 22.
Ruling Rulers is for the quilter wanting to learn how to quilt with rulers. It's scheduled for Saturday, June 17.
Fill 'Er Up is the class that I'm making this sample for. In this class you will learn the fundamentals of different styles of fillers, tips for smooth curves and lines and how to travel fill designs. It's scheduled for Saturday July 29.
Now it's time to get on with today's chores.
What a clever way to do this quilt! I like the irregular sizes of the spaces you are filling.
Love the quilt and the lines! Love the fillers! Wish I lived close enough for a class or two.
Love the citrus colours in this one!
I like the fortune cookie filler, don't think I've ever seen that before.
Love the inspiration of this quilt, fabric, grid, and quilting!


I don't drink a lot of coffee, but my sons do and they often use my new Willow & Everett Pour Over Drip Coffee Maker for making their coffee.
To use this you just place it on top of your coffee cup, add coffee, pour boiling water in the top, and wait for your fresh brewed coffee to drip through. It just takes a few minutes for a fresh cup of coffee.
It is made 18/8 food grade stainless steel and the fine mesh keeps out the grounds pretty well. It also makes a great cup of tea. This is one of those gadgets that I never thought I needed but use nearly every day.


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What is another word for axial?
Ben Davis March 4, 2021
Where is the axial skeleton?
What are the 7 axial bones?
What are 206 bones in the human body?
Which is longest bone in human body?
What two things work together making your body move?
How many ribs does a human have?
What rib did God take from Adam?
Why are there false ribs?
What is the difference between male and female ribs?
Why do I only have 11 ribs?
Who has more ribs Man or woman?
Do ribs grow back after removal?
What holds ribs together?
What happens if you lose a rib?
Do we need our ribs?
What is the function of the ribs in the human body?
Who has an extra rib?
Why can I move my ribs?
What organ is under the right rib cage?
What is rib tip syndrome?
What is at the bottom of your ribs?
In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for axial, like: vertical, axile, centermost, centrosymmetric, transverse, radial, , axially, azimuthal, axisymmetric and planar.
The axial skeleton forms the central axis of the body and includes the bones of the skull, ossicles of the middle ear, hyoid bone of the throat, vertebral column, and the thoracic cage (ribcage) (Figure 1).
The axial skeleton is the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of the head and trunk of a vertebrate. It consists of 80 bones and is composed of six parts: the skull bones, the ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone, the rib cage, sternum and the vertebral column.
The human skeleton is made up of 206 bones, including bones of the:
Skull – including the jaw bone.
Spine – cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and tailbone (coccyx)
Chest – ribs and breastbone (sternum)
Arms – shoulder blade (scapula), collar bone (clavicle), humerus, radius and ulna.
Your bones and muscles work together to support and move your body. Your respiratory system takes in oxygen from the air. It also gets rid of carbon dioxide. Your digestive system absorbs water and nutrients from the food you eat.
How many ribs do humans have? The vast majority of people are born with 12 pairs of ribs, for a total of 24, no matter their sex. The exception to this anatomy rule are people born with specific genetic anomalies. These can take the form of too many ribs (supernumerary ribs) or too few (agenesis of ribs).
His book is "The Lost World of Adam and Eve." Some people ask about God making Eve from Adam's rib, after causing a deep sleep to come on Adam. One English translation of Genesis 2:21 reads, "He took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh" (NIV).
A rib is said to be false if it does not attach to the sternum (the breastbone). The upper three false ribs connect to the costal cartilages of the ribs just above them. The last two false ribs usually have no ventral attachment to anchor them in front and so are called floating, fluctuating, or vertebral ribs.
The cranio-caudal inclination of ribs is greater in females than males but the length of ribs has not previously been compared between the sexes. We conclude that in females the ribs grow longer in relation to the axial skeleton than in males.
It is more common to see 11 pairs in the absence of associated anomalies; this situation occurs in 5%–8% of normal individuals. Eleven pairs of ribs occur in one-third of patients with trisomy 21 syndrome (,9), as well as in association with cleidocranial dysplasia and campomelic dysplasia.
Although many people might think that males have fewer ribs than females — most likely sparked by the biblical story of Adam and Eve — there is no factual evidence. Most people have the same number of ribs, regardless of their sex.
In their study, first author Stephanie T. Kuwahara and her colleagues looked at the mammalian rib bone, which regenerates uncommonly well. In fact, orthopaedic surgeons have noted that missing sections of the rib as long as eight inches will readily grow back in patients.
Structure of the ribs At the front of the body, the first seven pairs of ribs are attached directly to the sternum (breastbone) by cartilage known as costal cartilage. Instead, costal cartilage attaches these 'false ribs' to the last pair of true ribs.
Although the 12th rib is known as a "floating" rib as it does not extend to the back, the 11th and 10th ribs protect internal organs from the front and back so the removal of these risks damage to the kidneys, gall bladder and even the stomach.
Your ribs essentially serve two main purposes: They protect your heart, lungs, and other organs and tissues in your upper body. They also provide some protection for your liver and kidneys. They provide structure and support to the bones and muscles in your chest, shoulders, and back.
The ribs partially enclose and protect the chest cavity, where many vital organs (including the heart and the lungs) are located. The rib cage is collectively made up of long, curved individual bones with joint-connections to the spinal vertebrae.
About 1 in 200 people are born with an extra rib called a cervical rib. About 1 in 10 people who have a cervical rib develop thoracic outlet syndrome. The thoracic outlet is a space, or passageway, that lies just above your first rib and behind your collarbone (clavicle).
Share on Pinterest Slipping rib syndrome occurs when a person's ribs slip and move. Slipping rib syndrome occurs when the ligaments holding the ribs in place move, cause the ribs to shift or "slip." Slipping rib syndrome is more likely to occur in women than men. Playing contact sports is also a risk factor.
(Your skin is the largest organ.) The liver sits above and to the right of your stomach under the rib cage and below your diaphragm. The liver has a number of functions.
Rib-tip syndrome, also known as costo-iliac impingement syndrome, is described as pain felt in the flank at the level of the iliac crest (top of the hip bone) caused by the lowest rib touching the iliac crest, thereby causing pain.
The diaphragm is a mushroom-shaped muscle that sits beneath your lower-to-middle rib cage. It separates your abdomen from your thoracic area. Your diaphragm helps you breathe by lowering when you inhale, in that way, allowing your lungs to expand.
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The gearstick has developed a bit of a rattle which is really annoying when your driving for any length of time - like 5 minutes! It turns out to be a really easy fix, which I wish I'd done earlier.
You can sort out a degree of the rattle by tightening up the silver collar - there are two flats parts around the collar to allow you to get purchase with a spanner. However, on mine I'd tightened that as far as I could and it was still rattling.
There is a nut inside the gear knob which you can tighten to force the gear knob against the silver collar. You have to prise off the top of the knob with a screwdriver (there a gap at the front of the join to allow you to do this). Then carefully remove the switch, making sure you don't pull the wires out as losing them down the hole would be annoying. You can then see a nut within the shaft with two notches in it, which you should be able to tighten up using a screwdriver. Pop the switch top back on and job's done.


I would like to buy a bronze Wolfman with a stand. Can pay cash or exchange for a SS Wolfman standard gap brushed head with a UFO Colibri handle. Send me a PM if interested.
I am also adding a Stork Diplomat Titanium handle.


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The state of identity
The stakes for companies and individuals alike are higher than ever--and we're out of quick fixes.
1. The early internet was built for anonymity
What began as an online community for a few dozen researchers is now accessible to an estimated 3 billion people. When it comes to building trust online, we're still playing catch up.
A "dumb" core with intelligent edges
Long before viral cat videos, social media farms, or bitcoin, a team of government researchers was tasked with creating the world's first computer network. The system was used primarily to exchange files and messages between a few dozen scientists. Identity verification was more of an afterthought; the network was still small and there wasn't much of valuable on the network to steal at the time. These early internet pioneers weren't concerned with who was online, they were just thrilled to be online.
The project started with the philosophy that academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
on the internet's launch
Anonymity, speed and ease of use drew people to the Internet. Usernames and passwords on different sites allowed for multiple, anonymous "digital identities" that existed completely separately from an individual's "physical identity" as a real person in the world. This made it nearly impossible to match a username to an individual and vice versa.
The system was based on a "dumb" core that simply carried data, with intelligent edges — computers controlled by individuals. That meant it was (and still is) largely up to individuals to fend off fraudsters. "There's this sense that the [Internet] provider's not going to protect you," Virginia Tech Historian Janet Abbate told The Washington Post. "The government's not going to protect you. It's kind of up to you to protect yourself."
Soon, Internet users would blanket the globe
In the 1990s, partnerships with the telecommunication industry paved the way for commercialization of a new world-wide network. The number of people online skyrocketed — and so did the sensitivity of the data they were sharing. By 1998, with 147 million people on the web, the Internet had become a hub for financial transactions, allowing individuals to enter credit info and make purchases with the click of a mouse. "They thought they were inventing a classroom and it turned into a bank," Abbate recounted.
PayPal, Ebay, and Amazon entered the scene. Just as quickly, scammers followed. By the early 2000s, phishers were already targeting PayPal customers by spoofing emails that would send them to lookalike sites to collect credit card information. Meanwhile, scams like the classic "Nigerian Prince" email became commonplace (in fact, it still rakes in over $700,000 a year). The Internet became a massive global network, still with no consistent way to verify identity.
Today, many of us do our banking, taxes, dating, job applications–even doctors appointments–completely online. Roughly ninety percent of all of the data online was created in the past 2 years. That's 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, from over 3.7 billion people. Because we do so much online, our identity is more valuable than ever.
Yet, we're more susceptible to identity fraud than ever
As the amount of highly-sensitive data shared on the Internet grows, it becomes increasingly susceptible (and valuable) to fraudsters. Yet the overall infrastructure to verify a person's identity online has never been weaker. More and more companies are storing personal information with ineffective safeguards, and a single website breach can compromise individuals' identities across the entire internet.
In short, the problem's not getting any smaller: the 10 largest data breaches have all occurred since 2013 — the largest of which, Yahoo's 2013 data breach — impacted 3 billion peoples' data.
The recent breaches have pushed the price of personally identifiable information to an all-time low: hacked credit cards and CVV numbers sell for less than $5 on the dark web — social security numbers for as little as $1. It's not a matter of whether a bad actor can obtain your personal info, but whether they decide to target you.
Even the US government, which often relies on companies like Equifax to conduct "remote identity proofing," struggles to securely verify people online for their most sensitive systems, such as our SSN portal and other applications for government aid. In a recent announcement, the US Government Accountability Office acknowledged large gaps in verification capabilities and pled for standardization in the space.
The Insurance Information Institute estimates that identity fraud cost individuals more than $16.8 billion in 2017 alone. Yet while the stakes higher than ever, our measures for protecting people remain woefully antiquated and our methods of identity verification are largely reactive.
2. The identity arms race
Since its inception, companies and government agencies alike have tried to build a more secure internet. Most measures have been "quick fixes" and almost all continue to rely on the end-user to protect themselves.
We are living in a post-SSN world
"I feel very strongly that the Social Security number has outlived its usefulness," Rob Joyce, the White House's cybersecurity coordinator said following the 2017 Equifax breach, which exposed over 145.5 million Social Security numbers.
The Social Security number (SSN) was never meant to be a unique identifier, though at one point it was considered the most secure way of verifying yourself online. From the beginning, using SSNs for identity verification was plagued by mishaps: when they were first issued in the 1930s, many people had them tattooed on their arms to keep them handy and a popular wallet that included a placeholder social security card led thousands of confused citizens to think the sample number was their own.
Retrofitting this near century-old system to secure a highly-complex, ever-changing technology like the Internet was like trying to put reins on a spaceship. It created a single point of failure, relying on individuals to safeguard their unique number while simultaneously requiring them to use it for everything from buying a car to opening a credit card. When the system did fail, it failed spectacularly: the 2017 Equifax breach exposed nearly half of the US population's SSNs, along with addresses, phone numbers, drivers' licenses, and credit cards. Today, the SSN has been all but dismissed as a valid method of identity verification.
Knowledge-based verification was introduced… then broken
For increased assurance, banks would verify individuals by asking detailed personal questions based on credit reports and other data sources. These might be pre-chosen "static" security questions (like the name of your first pet) or randomized "dynamic" questions (like your current address) based on public records, private data, or transaction history.
Unfortunately, the knowledge-based verification question for one site often rely on information exposed in the breach of another site. Once fraudsters have access to the same personal information as the real individual, this kind of information no longer serves to securely identify the individual.
Photoshop has made document verification difficult
Physical forms of identification like driver licenses and government IDs attempt to bridge the gap between an individual's digital and physical identity. However, widely accessible image manipulation software like Photoshop can now be used to doctor and manufacture fraudulent documents. Moreover, the millions of driver's license numbers exposed in the Equifax breach alone can be used to write checks in an individual's name or to forge new licenses.
It's a constant race to outsmart bad actors
As authorities race to create new technologies and methods to verify people online, thieves and even nations will race to bypass and crack new verification methods. Facial recognition and document scanning are some of the latest identity verification technologies, but it's only a matter of time before hackers catch up. "Deepfake" videos, which can create realistic faux video clips of a person using as little as one image, already have the Pentagon scrambling. Meanwhile, socially sanctioned data collection in the form of viral Buzzfeed quizzes and face swap apps open the door to hacks in the future.
Even institutions like Equifax don't take identity verification seriously until something goes terribly wrong. So why aren't companies more proactive about preventing cyberattacks in the first place?
3. Identity is fragmented
It takes a lot of resources to verify identity on the internet and best practices are constantly evolving.
There are hundreds of new point solutions to verify identity
Proprietary data owned by single corporations can only address a few facets of identity and vendors are constantly rolling out their own solutions that incorporate new signals in lieu of those that have been compromised.
Some vendors claim that scraping even more information about an individual, whether from social media sites, emails, and other public sources, is the best method for verification. Meanwhile, others tout ever more sophisticated and some sometimes convoluted checks for liveness. With options ranging from eye analysis to smile comparison to face scan under multiple light settings, companies are often at a loss to separate the signal from the noise.
"Behavioral biometrics," like typing style and voice inflection can indeed identify individuals based on the unique way they interact with their devices. High-security industries like online banking and e-commerce have already begun to use voice identification for fraud prevention, spurring the growth of a $3.9 billion behavioral biometrics market by 2025. AI image processing software can be used to detect photoshopped or computer-manipulated documents for verification, and "re-verification" solutions can even run in the background during a handful of normal online interactions.
Although every vendor lauds their product as the end-all verification solution, the truth is that each of these verification types comes with their particular tradeoffs and companies must weigh the importance of user friction vs. security, device availability vs. robustness, or international coverage vs. single country expertise. The dizzying rate at which new third-party solutions and patches are created (and old ones are rendered obsolete) makes it difficult–and unprofitable–for companies to keep up.
Every business is different
Each business has its own needs and within a single business, there may be multiple use cases that require different identity solutions. For example, a food delivery platform will have a different onboarding and verification process for its couriers than its customers, and a fintech startup may need to collect a ton of identity data from a individual to issue a $100k loan, but far less to open a basic checking account. A single individual may also have different touchpoints with a company throughout their experience: that same courier may need to go through different identity checkpoints during sign-up than during account recovery.
In short, there's no such thing as a "silver bullet" identity solution. Instead, big companies often stitch together hundreds of out-of-the-box identity verification solutions. Paypal uses hundreds of third-party identity vendors, Facebook uses a mix of in-house human moderators and 3rd party companies, and Microsoft employs a fearsome in-house cybersecurity and fraud detection team called DART ( "Detection and Response Team").
Unfortunately, not all companies have the resources to cobble together a solution that's perfect for them. And, even for companies that do, identity verification isn't a revenue driver and therefore it isn't a priority. "In the real world, people only invest money to solve real problems, as opposed to hypothetical ones," Dan S. Wallach, a Rice University computer science professor who studies online threats told The Washington Post.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is assuming that they have or need a single perfect tailored verification solution. In a space as dynamic as identity, with constantly changing regulations and verification methods, companies that build their own tools find themselves investing more and more resources to stay on top of industry trends.
Data isn't just an asset… it's a liability
In 2019, the FTC charged Equifax and Facebook $700 million and $5 billion in fines respectively for mishandling individuals' data, blowing the previous record (a $148 million fine for Uber's 2016 data breach) out of the water. Increasing federal and consumer pressure means the Paypals and Facebooks of the world now allocate billions of dollars a year to protect their identity information: Facebook will spend $3.7 billion on safety and security in 2019–as much as their pre-IPO revenue.
Even with a massive budget, an ineffective or clunky verification systems can jeopardize customer loyalty and brand value. The Harvard Business Review found that a ten-second delay on a transaction can cause 50% of users to abandon the page, and 30% of enterprise revenue is at risk due to poor data quality (for example, when people give false answers to breeze through long-winded forms). Frequent "Making sure it's you" pop-ups, day-long delays waiting for a test fund to transfer, and limited integrations with popular third-party apps only add to this frustration. All of this makes customization and adaptability crucial to meet customer expectations and mitigate the risk of identity fraud.
4. The future of identity depends on the business and individual
Businesses will need solutions that meet customer expectations for each unique use case.
Businesses need partners that adapt to their business, not the other way around
Rather than stick with a single point solution, businesses need to be more intentional about what exactly they need to verify and how much personal data they need to store. Does it make sense for an e-commerce store to save a driver's license and introduce the unnecessary risk of data leakage when all they need to do is verify age? Probably not. Does it make sense to have a static verification flow for every single use case from onboarding new users to verifying during password reset attempts? Maybe. What is certain is that businesses have unique requirements and identity solutions need to be robust enough to meet their needs no matter the use-case, industry, or regulation.
Context is key
Who an individual is in the real world will play a large role in future identity solutions. Has your data leaked five times already? Are you a celebrity or public figure? Verifying your identity from a foreign IP address? The verification process you go through should be more robust. Analysts predict that more solutions will incorporate an individual's behavior, merging our physical and digital identities to create a safe, frictionless experience.
5. Identity will be more holistic and accessible
Identity checkpoints will depend on what you are trying to do, who you are and where you are doing it from. Importantly, it will tie together multiple forms of identity verification to create a fluid solution that adapts to the interaction and the individual involved.
Companies are no longer limited to simple checks such as performing a database lookup to verify if an individual with a name, date of birth, and address exist. Active checks such as reverse phone number lookups and real-time document scanning can work in conjunction with passive signals such as network checks, TOR/VPN detection, browser analysis, and more so that companies can be assured that an individual is truly who they claim to be.
Ultimately, more ways to verify means more access to resources and platforms for people around the world. At Persona, our mission is to do what quick-fix security measures to date have not: give individuals access to a fast, frictionless identity verification experience, without putting them–or businesses at risk.
If you're interested in learning more about our work on identity, reach out to us at info@withpersona.com
Daniel Lee is a product manager at Persona who loves collaborating with fellow Personerds! He likes biking around the bay area and exploring 'hole-in-the-wall' restaurants.
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Smarking Inc., and Citizens Parking's Icon Division Holdings Announce Data Analytics Platform Partnership
Parking Data comes to the Big Apple
New York, NY, June 13, 2016 – Smarking, the parking industry's leading provider of data analytics software, and Citizens Parking's Icon division, New York City's largest operator of parking facilities, today announced an official partnership. Through this partnership, Icon plans to harness the power of Smarking's groundbreaking data analytics platform to deliver insight and operational analytics to its entire portfolio of more than 300 parking facilities in Manhattan's most high-profile business districts.
Spun out of MIT in 2013, Smarking has developed a first of its kind, business intelligence platform that enables parking professionals to make business decisions 10-20 times faster than industry standard. "Our partners are saving hundreds of hours throughout the year by automating the way they compile data. Smarking is drastically reducing the laborious process of exporting Excel reports and cataloging emails to understand operations data. Parking executives and portfolio managers can now monitor and optimize their business processes with actionable real-time data from their laptops or mobile devices," said Wen Sang, CEO of Smarking.
"Manhattan is one of the most energetic and fast-paced places in the world. Parking demand here mirrors the vibrancy of the city – always intense but in new and exciting ways," said Jerry Skillet, CEO of Citizens Parking, Inc. "We plan to leverage Smarking's analytics platform to better understand the behavior of our customers and ensure that our services are tailored to meet the dynamic needs of our client base."
"We are thrilled to be working with Jerry and his team in New York City," said Diego Torres- Palma, Director of Growth at Smarking, "Our primary goal here at Smarking is to help our clients and partners stay ahead of the market and achieve long term success by bringing data analytics technology into their organizations. We are truly excited to see what Citizen's smart and passionate team can accomplish with our platform."
Keith Rabois, a top Silicon Valley executive, and senior investment partner at Khosla Ventures, said, "For many times when technology shifted the landscape of a traditional industry, players that proactively adopt to adapt survived the inflection point, and they'd win a lot more than even before. I'm excited to see it happening in parking with the tech solutions made available by companies like Smarking." In the future Smarking hopes to reduce traffic congestion and enable millions of drivers in need of smart parking solutions. Similar to real estate, the parking industry is witnessing a renaissance brought on by the digitization of inventory. Smarking's goal is to provide the data infrastructure for the parking industry, ultimately reducing traffic congestion where we work and live, and routing cars to their true destination — parking spaces.
About Smarking:
Smarking is a technology company that specializes in parking data. By aggregating and processing parking related data, Smarking provides a holistic business intelligence software platform designed to increase operational efficiency and enable data driven decision making for parking operations.
About Citizens Parking's Icon Division Holdings:
Citizens Parking's Icon division is the premier provider of parking services in New York City. The Company has been in business for more than 40 years and operates over 300 parking facilities in virtually all of Manhattan's most high-profile, prestigious neighborhoods and business districts. Icon is on the forefront of providing unsurpassed value to city residents, commuters and visitors to the City's numerous restaurants, Broadway theatres and concert halls, event destinations, shopping outlets and medical facilities by continuing to deliver affordable parking and prompt and courteous service.
Smarking Contact:
Diego Torres-Palma, Director of Growth
(617) 298-0255; diego@smarking.net
Citizens Parking Contact:
Jerry Skillett CEO Citizens Parking
626-825-9415; jskillett@iconparking.com


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What do you think about the 'Cinema in the City' project?
Home What do you think about the 'Cinema in the City' project?
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The cinema in the city is an art, it has a sense of being there, a place where you can touch the world.
We have no concept of cinema in India.
We think of movies as art.
There is no cinema in this country, the only thing we can call cinema is a film.
If you look at film-makers like Ramesh Ponnuru and Anurag Kashyap and M.M. Khan, they are very much into film.
You have to say that the film is their art.
And if you look to film-making in India, you have to be aware of the way it is done.
Films are made with the same equipment.
It's a matter of making the right equipment.
So, you can have good cinema in a certain place, but the art is in its home.
A film can only work if it is made there.
It has to be a place you can be and experience.
We will make a film, and you will see the film in front of you.
And when you see it, you will be hooked and you have no idea what the film was about.
The way we do it, we try to make the film as visually as possible.
It needs to be in a specific location.
And then you can go and experience it in your own home.
It should have a sense that it is in the home.
There are no other options.
This is our hope and our intention.
The project is not only to make films.
We want to create a city in which we can all be together and work together.
The first phase of the project will be the construction of the cinema, which will be in an old building in Bahadurgars.
There will be an exhibition hall, a cinema room, a theater, a restaurant and so on.
There should be enough space to fit a cinema in there.
The plan is to open the cinema in 2021.
I don't want to say too much, but we are working on it.
I am very excited about it.
The idea is that we will be making a cinema that will be a part of the city.
It will be like the cinema of the future.
The cinema will be open to the public, and it will be part of Bahadurabad.
So the cinema will have a presence in the whole city.
You will be able to go to the cinema and enjoy the film there.
We are going to put a cinema theatre in every house in the entire city.
We also want to make a cinema centre that can be accessed from the railway tracks.
We already have the plans to build a cinema cinema on the railways tracks.
I want to know if you would be willing to give us a go on this project.
If we get enough support, we will take it to the next level.
I would like to get a cinema to be part the city, and I would also like to have a cinema on railway tracks, which can be accessible by the railway.
This project is the culmination of my life.
I have been working on the project for nearly four years now.
I started this project when I was a student.
I wanted to do something with the public in Bahaddurabad and I was given a job in the railway department.
I also got my masters degree from Delhi University.
In a small village in the north of the country, I have worked as a labourer for two years, and now I am a film-maker.
I love to make cinema.
I always love to create.
So far, my project has been funded by the government, through the railway budget.
I hope the film will be released in 2019, and then there will be more funds.
I think it will become a major project.
I really want to get it into the cinema.
It would be a great success.
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Carl Maria Splett (17 January 1898 – 5 March 1964) was a German Roman Catholic priest and Bishop of Danzig (Gdańsk); his role during World War II, especially as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Culm, is controversial. After World War II he was put on trial and imprisoned in Poland for his alleged collaboration with the Nazi regime, and later deported to West Germany.

Early life
Splett was born in Zoppot (Sopot) to the teacher and later vice-president of the Free City of Danzig's Parliament (Volkstag), Franz Splett. He attended school in Konitz (Chojnice), Neustadt (Wejherowo) and Danzig (Gdańsk), where he passed his Abitur in 1917. Splett studied Theology and Philosophy at the Seminary of the Diocese of Kulm in Pelplin, where he also learned Polish. He was ordained on 10 July 1921 and after graduating at Pelplin he was sent to Rome for further studies, especially in Canon law, and practiced at the Sacra Rota Romana.

Splett returned to Danzig in 1924 and became a vicar at several congregations within the then Apostolic Administration of Danzig (elevated to diocese in 1925). He was further promoted to cathedral capitular of Oliva in 1935. According to Czesław Madajczyk, Splett had close relations with Nazi Albert Forster, and pursued plans to replace Polish clergy with German ones. Bolesław Kumor claims he provided Forster with housing when the Nazi official first arrived in the city, and Forster in return supported Splett politically; as a result Splett enjoyed full support from the Nazi party. Forster praised Splett's work for Nazis saying, "This is my man, I can fully rely on his work"

Splett succeeded Edward O'Rourke as the head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Danzig in 1938. While the Nazis, who ruled the Free State of Danzig since 1933, tried to install their own candidate Paul Schütz as successor of Bishop O'Rourke, Splett was appointed as bishop by the pope. Splett also refused to appoint Schütz as vicar general as demanded by the local Nazis. Zofia Waszkiewicz claims he was supported by Nazi Forster who became his protector.

Splett himself on 20 April 1939 ordered churches to ring bells celebrating Hitler's 50th birthday as well as ordering prayers on his behalf.

World War II

Splett held the position as Bishop of Danzig also after the German annexation of the Free City during World War II. On 4 September, Splett issued a letter to churches where he praised the German invasion of Poland and Nazi annexation of the city, and recommended his flock to pray for God's blessing on Adolf Hitler. Immediately after the invasion, the Nazi gauleiter  Albert Forster demanded the Vatican appointment of  Splett as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Culm. The Polish bishop Wojciech Okoniewski was forced to flee in the face of the Nazi invasion and his auxiliary Konstantyn Dominik was interned by Nazis. The Vatican had its doubts, but Pope Pius XII on 6 December 1939 agreed to the Nazi demands. His appointment was protested by the Polish Government in Exile as a violation of a concordat signed with Rome.  Splett had close relations to Nazi Albert Forster, who praised Splett's work for Germany. Splett replaced Polish clergy with Germans, introducing 200 German priests into the Chełmno diocese where he took office from December 1939. After the invasion of Poland seven of the twelve Polish priests and four German priests of his diocese were murdered,. Under his reign Polish priesthood was oppressed and prayers and Masses under his direction praised Hitler. He also issued a ban against use of the Polish language in churches. When he banned confessions in Polish in May 1940, the Vatican intervened and ordered that the ban be lifted. Not only did Splett defend his ban, he argued it was to "protect" people making the confessions. After this argument he tried to claim that confessions in Polish are used for "nationalistic means". Eventually the Vatican accepted his explanation. Besides banning the Polish language, Splett ordered removal of Polish signs and names in cemeteries from monuments and graves and in all churches under his jurisdiction. When a family asked him to save three imprisoned Polish priests in Stuthoff camp he told them that "Polish priests are no apostles but traitors."

Bohdan Pietka states that Splett through his obedient and servile attitude towards Nazis not only led to the destruction of Polish religious life in the city but also by his indifferent attitude contributed to brutal extermination of Polish clergy and plunder of Polish churches.

According to Samerski, several parishes were seized and after Splett initially refused to prohibit the usage of Polish in his diocese another six Priests were arrested by the Gestapo, which forced him to ban the usage of Polish in his Diocese in April/May 1940.

According to Dieter Schenk, on 5 September 1939 Splett protested against the arrest of Catholic priests and in February 1940 Splett sent a list of Catholic priests who were victims of persecution after the German invasion of Poland to the Reichskanzlei, the German Red Cross, the Wehrmacht High Command, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, and the Gauleitung. Peter Raina points out that the priests Splett sought to protect were mostly of German ethnicity and not Polish. Schenk stresses that Splett did not collaborate but bowed to the murderous pressure of the Nazis, while Peter Raina disputes that he was under any pressure or danger, and states that Splett's actions were done in full awareness.

On 8 October 1940 the Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster praised  Splett stating that he "continues to fulfill all my wishes and orders".

In October 1942 Splett wrote to Field Marshal Goering a letter in which he declared himself a "German bishop" and stated his willingness and dedication to the spread of German culture to all churches in his diocese. In the letter he listed efforts made by him to pursue Germanization of Polish territories and boasted that by doing this he "fulfilled to no end his duty as a German bishop."

Post World War II

Trial in Poland
He remained in Gdansk after the Soviet Union occupied the city in March 1945 and was arrested by the Red Army on 25 March 1945, but soon released. He continued administering to the remaining Catholic inhabitants, who had not escaped, as well as the newly arriving Polish settlers.. In the beginning of August 1945 Polish Cardinal August Hlond requested Splett to resign from his position, which Splett refused to do. On 9 August Splett was arrested by Polish officials and put on trial for collaboration and oppression of the Polish People. The trial involved 36 people out of which 22 were priests and 4 nuns

Stefan Samerski reports that throughout custody Hlond pretended Pope Pius XII had disbanded Splett, which was not the case. Hlond criticised Splett's refusal to resign as the Catholic Church in Poland was in conflict with communist authorities; Splett's decision gave ammunition against the Church. He was sentenced to eight years in prison on 1 February 1946 and imprisoned at Wronki Prison. After his release from prison, Splett was kept under domiciliary arrest at Stary Borek in Southern Poland and at the monastery of Dukla.

Robert Żurek, Deputy director of the Polish Center of Historical Research in Berlin, regards this as a show trial and part of the anti-catholic policy of the Polish government after World War II. Its aim was to portray the papal policy as anti-Polish, since the Vatican had entrusted a Polish diocese to a "German chauvinist". Żurek stresses that in a statement of 16 January 1946 even  the Polish Bishop of Katowice, Stanisław Adamski, emphasized Splett's merits regarding pastoral care in occupied Poland. Adamski pointed out that Splett acted under massive pressure from the Gestapo and that the Nazis attempted to make the bishop appear as the initiator of their anti-Polish policy. Despite the pressure of Polish authorities, all Catholic priests interrogated as witnesses made exculpatory testimonies.

Polish officials were however not actually interested in the background of Splett's actions. The real intention of the trial was to justify the termination of the Concordat of 1925 by the Polish authorities and to segregate the Polish Catholic Church from the Vatican.

Historian Peter Raina states that the trial was fair and Splett was allowed to defend himself freely and without any difficulties nor obstructions and extensively. For Raina it was not a show trial, and the guilt of Splett was evident; he would get the same verdict if placed under trial at Nuremberg. Jan Zaryn writes that although the attack on Splett were often insulting, they were not without merit due to his servile attitude toward the Gestapo Professor Jerzy Serczyk writes that due to Splett's anti-Polish actions during the war there was hardly any disapproval in Polish society towards sentencing Splett

Later life in West Germany

In 1956, after protests from West Germany and by the Polish Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, the new Polish government allowed his emigration to West Germany. He remained official Bishop of Danzig until his death in 1964 and was active in pastoral care for the expelled population of Danzig.
Upon his return he sought contact and worked with the "Bund der Danziger", an organization of Germans formerly living in Gdansk that demanded annexation of the Polish city as well as "evacuation of Poles from our homeland". A publication Splett was engaged with in West Germany was Unser Danzig (Our Gdansk), in which Splett published in 1958 that the German right to Polish territories is supported by the pope himself. According to German historian Dieter Schenk, both 'Bund der Danziger and "Unser Danzig" served as shelter for many former Nazi activists and officials post war.

He played an active role in the improvement of the German-Polish relations throughout the Second Vatican Council.

The administrative position of the bishop of Gdańsk was held by lesser church officials. He was succeeded by Edmund Nowicki, his coadjutor bishop since 1956.

Splett died in Düsseldorf.

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20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
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From his first sale at age 5, reselling buttons from the floor of his grandfather's workshop, Brett invented and dreamed his way through school and university, eventually landing himself a copywriting role in which he thrived. Brett quickly learned the lay of the land in the advertising world, and after a short stint working in-house, he started his own highly successful design agency in 2001. The GFC reduced his client-base dramatically and Brett had a hard choice to make: rebuild his company or take a dive into startups, something he had dreamt about for years. Spoiler alert: startups won. At 35, Brett sold his house, packed his remaining belongings into a suitcase and booked a flight to San Francisco. It was not going to be easy but you'll see his journey makes Brett uniquely skilled to lead BlueChilli's smart city accelerator.
Brett arrived in San Francisco in 2011 with an idea called Musyo, an incarnation of his music business ambitions. Unbeknown to Brett, the product was far too similar to Spotify, which had just launched in Silicon Valley. Despite this, he went on and knocked on door after door with his pitch, aiming to raise some seed capital for Musyo. At this point we wish we could say that upon arrival his pitches were greeted with open arms, funds were raised and his startup was launched, but that's not always the case in the startup world. Brett spent the next few months trialling alternative ideas, pitching and rebuilding plan after plan. Silicon Valley was not kind and eventually led to a stint on the street for Brett – finding the most basic food and places to sleep day by day. But this didn't deter him.
They say when you get into an extreme situation – particularly a situation where your very survival is threatened (and I definitely felt that at times) – your mind goes into overdrive to figure out how to survive and get yourself out of that situation. For me, survival felt like it depended on having a successful startup. It was my key to escaping.
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Brett moved fast once back on Australian shores. He promptly sold some software he'd developed to a mapping company and did a stint working for CloudMGR, overhauling the user experience. Just over a year later, we were lucky to have Brett join the BlueChilli team as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, heading up our Brisbane office and he's now the accelerator lead for our CityConnect program.
Brett has learnt first hand the resilience required to succeed in the startup industry. He has personally experienced the key areas of risk that BlueChilli has identified for startups: team, timing, traction and technology. If you are accepted into the CityConnect program, you will have the opportunity to workshop and develop your ideas, working alongside Brett and our team to build, launch and begin commercialising your startup.


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require 'active_support/inflector'
require 'json'
require_relative '../../../../lib/iiif/hash_behaviours'

describe IIIF::V3::AbstractResource do

  let(:fixtures_dir) { File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../../../fixtures') }
  let(:manifest_from_spec_path) { File.join(fixtures_dir, 'v3/manifests/complete_from_spec.json') }
  let(:abstract_resource_subclass) do
    Class.new(IIIF::V3::AbstractResource) do
      include IIIF::HashBehaviours

      def initialize(hsh={})
        hsh['type'] = 'a:SubClass' unless hsh.has_key?('type')
        super(hsh)
      end

      def required_keys
        super + %w{ id }
      end

      def prohibited_keys
        super + %w{ verboten }
      end

      def legal_viewing_hint_values
        %w{ viewing_hint1 viewing_hint2 }
      end
    end
  end
  subject do
    instance = abstract_resource_subclass.new
    instance['id'] = 'http://example.com/prefix/manifest/123'
    instance
  end

  describe '#required_keys' do
    it 'accumulate' do
      expect(subject.required_keys).to eq %w{ type id }
    end
  end

  describe '#initialize' do
    it 'raises an error if you try to instantiate AbstractResource' do
      expect { IIIF::V3::AbstractResource.new }.to raise_error(RuntimeError)
    end
    it 'sets type' do
      expect(subject['type']).to eq 'a:SubClass'
    end
    it 'can take any old hash' do
      hsh = JSON.parse(IO.read(manifest_from_spec_path))
      new_instance = abstract_resource_subclass.new(hsh)
      expect(new_instance['label']['en']).to include 'Book 1'
    end
  end

  describe '#validate' do
    it 'raises MissingRequiredKeyError if required key is missing' do
      subject.required_keys.each { |k| subject.delete(k) }
      expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error IIIF::V3::Presentation::MissingRequiredKeyError
    end
    it 'raises ProhibitedKeyError if prohibited key is present' do
      subject['verboten'] = 666
      exp_err_msg = "verboten is a prohibited key in #{subject.class}"
      expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::ProhibitedKeyError, exp_err_msg)
    end
    it 'raises IllegalValueError for bad viewing_direction' do
      subject['viewing_direction'] = 'foo'
      exp_err_msg = "viewingDirection must be one of #{subject.legal_viewing_direction_values}"
      expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
    end
    describe 'viewing_hint' do
      it 'can be a uri' do
        subject['viewing_hint'] = 'https://example.org/viewiing_hint'
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'can be a member of legal_viewing_hint_values' do
        subject['viewing_hint'] = subject.legal_viewing_hint_values.first
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for bad viewing_hint' do
        subject['viewing_hint'] = 'foo'
        exp_err_msg = "viewingHint for #{subject.class} must be one or more of #{subject.legal_viewing_hint_values} or a URI"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
      it 'can have multiple values' do
        subject['viewing_hint'] = [subject.legal_viewing_hint_values.first, subject.legal_viewing_hint_values.last]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
    end
    describe 'metadata' do
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that is not a Hash' do
        subject['metadata'] = ['error']
        exp_err_msg = "metadata must be an Array with Hash members"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
      it 'does not raise error for entry that contains exactly "label" and "value"' do
        subject['metadata'] = [{ 'label' => 'bar', 'value' => 'foo' }]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that does not contain exactly "label" and "value"' do
        subject['metadata'] = [{ 'label' => 'bar', 'bar' => 'foo' }]
        exp_err_msg = "metadata members must be a Hash of keys 'label' and 'value'"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
    end
    describe 'thumbnail' do
      let (:exp_basic_err_msg) { "thumbnail must be an Array with Hash or ImageResource members" }
      let (:exp_keys_msg) { 'thumbnail members must include keys "id" and "type"' }
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that is not a Hash or ImageResource object' do
        subject['thumbnail'] = ['error']
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_basic_err_msg)
      end
      it 'does not raise error for entry Hash with "id" and "type"' do
        subject['thumbnail'] = [{ 'id' => 'bar', 'type' => 'foo', 'random' => 'xxx' }]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry Hash that does not contain "id" and "type"' do
        subject['thumbnail'] = [{ 'id' => 'bar' }]
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_keys_msg)
      end
      it 'does not raise error for entry ImageResource with "id"' do
        subject['thumbnail'] = [IIIF::V3::Presentation::ImageResource.new({ 'id' => 'bar', 'label' => 'xxx' })]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry ImageResource without id' do
        subject['thumbnail'] = [IIIF::V3::Presentation::ImageResource.new]
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_keys_msg)
      end
    end
    describe 'nav_date' do
      it 'does not raise error for value of form YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ' do
        subject['nav_date'] = '1991-01-02T13:04:27Z'
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for value not of form YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ' do
        subject['nav_date'] = '1991-01-02T13:04:27+0500'
        exp_err_msg = 'nav_date must be of form YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ'
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
    end
    describe 'rights' do
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that is not a Hash' do
        subject['rights'] = ['error']
        exp_err_msg = "rights must be an Array with Hash members"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
      it 'does not raise error for entry with "id" that is URI' do
        subject['rights'] = [{ 'id' => 'http://example.org/rights', 'format' => 'text/html' }]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry with "id" that is not URI' do
        subject['rights'] = [{ 'id' => 'bar', 'format' => 'text/html' }]
        exp_err_msg = "id value must be a String containing a URI for #{subject.class}"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that does not contain "id"' do
        subject['rights'] = [{ 'whoops' => 'http://example.org/rights' }]
        exp_err_msg = 'rights members must be a Hash including "id"'
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
    end
    describe 'rendering' do
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that is not a Hash' do
        subject['rendering'] = ['error']
        exp_err_msg = "rendering must be an Array with Hash members"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
      it 'does not raise error for entry with "label" and "format"' do
        subject['rendering'] = [{ 'label' => 'bar', 'format' => 'foo', 'random' => 'xxx' }]
        expect { subject.validate }.not_to raise_error
      end
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that does not contain "label" and "format"' do
        subject['rendering'] = [{ 'label' => 'bar' }]
        exp_err_msg = 'rendering members must be a Hash including keys "label" and "format"'
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
    end
    describe 'startCanvas' do
      it 'raises IllegalValueError for entry that is not URI' do
        subject.startCanvas = 'foo'
        exp_err_msg = "startCanvas value must be a String containing a URI for #{subject.class}"
        expect { subject.validate }.to raise_error(IIIF::V3::Presentation::IllegalValueError, exp_err_msg)
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'A nested object (e.g. self[\'metadata\'])' do
    it 'returns [] if not set' do
      expect(subject.metadata).to eq([])
    end
    it 'is not in #to_ordered_hash at all if we access it but do not append to it' do
      subject.metadata # touch it
      expect(subject.metadata).to eq([])
      expect(subject.to_ordered_hash.has_key?('metadata')).to be_falsey
    end
    it 'gets structured as we\'d expect' do
      subject.metadata << {
        'label' => 'Author',
        'value' => 'Anne Author'
      }
      subject.metadata << {
        'label' => 'Published',
        'value' => [
          {'@value'=> 'Paris, circa 1400', '@language'=>'en'},
          {'@value'=> 'Paris, environ 14eme siecle', '@language'=>'fr'}
        ]
      }
      expect(subject.metadata[0]['label']).to eq('Author')
      expect(subject.metadata[1]['value'].length).to eq(2)
      expect(subject.metadata[1]['value'].select { |e| e['@language'] == 'fr'}.last['@value']).to eq('Paris, environ 14eme siecle')
    end

    it 'roundtrips' do
      subject.metadata << {
        'label' => 'Author',
        'value' => 'Anne Author'
      }
      subject.metadata << {
        'label' => 'Published',
        'value' => [
          {'@value'=> 'Paris, circa 1400', '@language'=>'en'},
          {'@value'=> 'Paris, environ 14eme siecle', '@language'=>'fr'}
        ]
      }
      File.open('/tmp/osullivan-spec.json','w') do |f|
        f.write(subject.to_json)
      end
      parsed = subject.class.parse('/tmp/osullivan-spec.json')
      expect(parsed['metadata'][0]['label']).to eq('Author')
      expect(parsed['metadata'][1]['value'].length).to eq(2)
      expect(parsed['metadata'][1]['value'].select { |e| e['@language'] == 'fr'}.last['@value']).to eq('Paris, environ 14eme siecle')
      File.delete('/tmp/osullivan-spec.json')
    end
  end

  describe '#to_ordered_hash' do
    describe 'adds the @context' do
      before(:each) { subject.delete('@context') }
      it 'by default' do
        expect(subject.has_key?('@context')).to be_falsey
        expect(subject.to_ordered_hash.has_key?('@context')).to be_truthy
      end
      it 'unless you say not to' do
        expect(subject.has_key?('@context')).to be_falsey
        expect(subject.to_ordered_hash(include_context: false).has_key?('@context')).to be_falsey
      end
      it 'or it\'s already there' do
        different_ctxt = 'http://example.org/context'
        subject['@context'] = different_ctxt
        oh = subject.to_ordered_hash
        expect(oh['@context']).to eq different_ctxt
      end
    end

    describe 'runs the validations' do
      let(:error) { IIIF::V3::Presentation::MissingRequiredKeyError }
      before(:each) { subject.delete('id') }
      it 'raises exceptions' do
        expect { subject.to_ordered_hash }.to raise_error error
      end
      it 'unless you tell it not to' do
        expect { subject.to_ordered_hash(force: true) }.to_not raise_error
      end
    end
  end

  describe '*get_descendant_class_by_jld_type' do
    before do
      class DummyClass < IIIF::V3::AbstractResource
        TYPE = "Collection"
        def self.singleton_class?
          true
        end
      end
    end
    after do
      Object.send(:remove_const, :DummyClass)
    end
    it 'gets the right class' do
      klass = described_class.get_descendant_class_by_jld_type('Canvas')
      expect(klass).to eq IIIF::V3::Presentation::Canvas
    end
    context "when there are singleton classes which are returned" do
      it "gets the right class" do
        allow(IIIF::V3::AbstractResource).to receive(:descendants).and_return([DummyClass, IIIF::V3::Presentation::Collection])
        klass = described_class.get_descendant_class_by_jld_type('Collection')
        expect(klass).to eq IIIF::V3::Presentation::Collection
      end
    end
  end

end

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Q: I have an exercise program that I've started to do 3-4 times a week. I like it, but I've heard that cross training is good. Should I be doing something different once or twice a week instead of my program?
A: Most fitness people agree that cross-training is beneficial, both physically and psychologically. Ideally, it keeps you fresh and interested and makes working out more stimulating and fun. With planning, one activity supports and compliments the other; this can help keep the athlete healthy and injury-free.
There are a couple of things to consider, however. How long have you been doing your exercise plan? Has it become habitual, i.e., you automatically go and do it, without considering (at least most days) bagging it? That is, does it feel like a solid part of your life? When something positive becomes a habit, we don't need to use our finite amount of will power to make that positive thing happen–then we have more energy to focus on other things (eating nutritious food, watching less tv, for example). So it might be a good idea to really establish your exercise routine before changing it.
It's also important to remember to start a new exercise routine slowly. You might feel like you have a good base established with your present routine, but that doesn't mean that you have a base established for something different. For example, say you've been cycling 3 times a week and you're thinking of cross- training with weightlifting. Great idea! It's important to get some advice from a trainer, though, so you avoid injuries.
In short, cross-training is great to add to an established routine if you get some advice and take it slow.


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Juram will work with the firm's numerous international clients, helping them identify and implement tax-saving ideas. She has considerable experience leading tax consulting and compliance engagements for multinational companies, including debt financing structures, acquisition planning, foreign tax credit planning and local country tax planning.
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Family and friends remember teen killed in hit-and-run
TREVOSE, Pa. (WPVI) -- A candlelight vigil was held in Trevose, Bucks County, Sunday for the victims of a deadly hit and run crash last week.
Friends and family of Jessica Kurtz and her companion gathered at Street Road and Philmont, the spot where the two were struck by a truck last Monday.
Jess Kurtz
19-year-old Jessica Kurtz, known as Jess to her friends, died a day after the incident.
Surprising words of forgiveness were offered from Kurtz's mother during Sunday night's vigil.
"I pray for him and have no ill will towards him at all," said Jessica's mom, Karen Kurtz.
Both Kurtz and a male friend were hit by the same truck. The friend survived.
Police said the driver of the striking vehicle got out and carried Kurtz to the side of the road before returning to his truck and driving off.
"I'm sure he panicked," said Karen Kurtz. "I don't know how I'd feel if I had taken the life of a young individual."
Police said they have a person of interest and recovered a truck they believe to be involved in the incident.
Vigil held for Trevose hit-and-run victims: Sarah Bloomquist reports on Action News at 6 p.m., December 3, 2017
Kurtz was remembered Sunday as a bright, shy young woman who joined the ROTC and graduated from Bensalem High School just last year.
Her mother explained why she has no malice toward the driver, but that she has a message for him.
"He's messed up his future and for me to hate on him or anything like that, that just destroys me," she said. "I pray for him, that he does the right thing and steps forward."
Anyone with information regarding last Monday night's hit-and-run is asked to contact the Lower Southampton Police Department.
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Worldwide icon-chevron-right South Pacific icon-chevron-right Australia icon-chevron-right Sydney icon-chevron-right Where to see Aboriginal art in Sydney
Where to see Aboriginal art in Sydney
Whether you're looking to expand your knowledge or understanding of this continent's rich Indigenous art history or its contemporary practice, these galleries and collections are where to start
Photograph: Supplied APY Gallery
By Time Out editors | Posted: Thursday June 21 2018
Whether you're visiting from overseas or a curious local looking to get beyond the basics (Dot paintings? Bark paintings? Just the tip of the iceberg), these are the places to see the best of Australia's diverse Indigenous art practice.
You can also see the work of a handful of Aboriginal artists on the streets of the city: check out our hit-list of the best public art in Sydney. And see which exhibitions are taking over the city this month.
Public institutions and collections
Art Gallery of NSW
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The AGNSW has a broad collection of works on paper, bark and canvas, as well as sculptures, fibre works, photomedia and multimedia – of which only a small proportion are on display at any given time. You can see them for free on lower level three in the Yiribana Gallery. Their current hang includes works by key contemporary artists Esme Timbery and Daniel Boyd.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
icon-location-pin The Rocks
The MCA is home to the Ramingining Collection (bark paintings, carved-wood sculptures and functional objects from northeastern Arnhem Land), the Maningrida Collection (works primarily in fibre) and the 'Arnott's Bark' collection of paintings on bark. Besides these permanent collections, the MCA contains many works by Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander artists in the Level 2 gallery as part of the exhibition MCA Collection: Today Tomorrow Yesterday – including works by Vernon Ah Kee, Daniel Boyd and Gordon Bennett, among others.
It's worth the trek to Canberra for the NGA's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection – the largest in the world, comprised of over 7500 works, and displayed in a purpose-built wing containing 13 galleries. There's a hugely diverse range of works on display and the Indigenous colection is growing each year.
Commercial galleries and artist co-ops
Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery
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Under the direction of long-time Indigenous art specialist Gabriella Roy, this gallery has been in operation since 1996 and shows traditional and contemporary Aboriginal works from the Tiwi Islands and prominent community art centres in South Australia, Central and Northern Australia.
APY Gallery
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In March 2018, the APY Art Centre Collective opened this artist owned gallery in Darlinghurst, making it the first of its kind in Australia. The gallery has a focus on ensuring emerging artists are connected with new and broader audiences, and showcases work from the APY lands across a broad range of practices including painting, traditional punu (wood) carving, weaving, textiles, new media and digital photography.
Photograph: Supplied
Kate Owen Gallery
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Whether you've got $200 or several hundred thousand dollars to drop on an artwork, you'll find something to your taste at this large commercial gallery – and staff ready to help you navigate your way through the world of Aboriginal art. But even if you're not in the market to buy, the Kate Owen Gallery is a great gallery to visit, with around 100 paintings on its many walls at any one time.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Co-op
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This not-for-profit cooperative was formed in 1987 by a group of local artists, including Michael Riley, Brenda L Croft, Tracey Moffatt and Bronwyn Bancroft. Reacting against the media's fetish for 'traditional' or 'authentic' art, Boomalli spearheaded the urban Indigenous art movement in Australia. They continue to showcase work by founding members, emerging artists, and from Greater Sydney and regional NSW.
Utopia Art Sydney
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Christopher Hodge's gallery, established in 1989 when "contemporary Aboriginal art" was a relatively new concept for the art world, shows both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, but it's named after the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. The UAS stable includes major Utopia artists like Gloria Petyarre and the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Which exhibitions should you see?
The best art this month
There's art in every corner of the city this month.


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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16
Volume 16: Letters and Personal Writings
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by George S. Claghorn
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This volume gathers together for the first time all known extant letters of Jonathan Edwards, along with his major personal writings. For more than three decades George S. Claghorn has scoured America, Great Britain, and Scotland for letters and documents by and about Edwards. The result is an unparalleled compendium of 235 letters—including 116 never before published or never reprinted since Edwards's death—and four autobiographical texts—Edwards' meditation "On Sarah Pierpont," his future wife, and "Diary," "Resolutions," and "Personal Narrative."
These letters and personal writings reveal the private man behind the treatises and sermons. They trace his relations with parents, siblings, college classmates, friends, and family, as well as with political, religious, and educational leaders of his day. New documents include Edwards' only known statement on slavery and letters on the Indian mission at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, that display Edwards' interest in native Americans and his efforts on their behalf. These writings show the human face of Edwards as he applied theological and philosophical insights to the events of his daily life. They provide an unprecedented resource for understanding the man, his times, and his personal connections.
George S. Claghorn is professor of philosophy at West Chester University.
"The Jonathan Edwards Project is the first of its kind—a comprehensive, exhaustive effort to produce an online archive of all of Edwards' sermons, treatises, letters and musings to serve the needs of anyone who cares to know the man. To date, no other university or institute has attempted to transcribe, computerize and then post online the complete works of any one historical figure. . . . Though he may never attain the rock-star status of George Washington, with the Yale project, Edwards will live forever.—Adrian Brune, Hartford Courant
"An excellent resource for both Edwards scholars and more generally for students of eighteenth-century New England and its religious contacts across the North Atlantic world."—M. A. Smith, Ecclesiastical History
"This volume gathers together for the first time all of Edwards's known extant letters, including 116 never before published, as well as his only known statement on slavery and letters on the Indian mission at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. . . . This edition reveals the private man behind the treatises and sermons and traces Edwards's relations with parents, siblings, friends, and the leaders of colonial New England society."—Mark A. Mastromarino, Documentary Editing
"This is truly 'an unprecedented resource' for new and enriched understanding of Edwards. While Edwards has been appreciated for his genius through his readily available treatises and sermons, a portrait of Edwards emerges from these pages that exposes a private, human, many-faceted personality."—Wayne Hansen, Church History
Yale French Studies, Number 113
French Education: Fifty Years Later
Ralph Albanese and M. Martin Guiney, Special Editors
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 17
Volume 17: A Commentary on Mr. Pope's Principles of Morality, Or Essay on Man (A Translation from the French)
Samuel Johnson; Edited by O. M. Brack
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 6, Parts I & II, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies
St. Thomas More; Edited by Thomas M.C.
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 35
With John Chute, Richard Bentley, the Earl of Stafford, Sir William Hamilton, the Earl and Countess Harcourt, George Hardinge
Horace Walpole; Edited by W. S. Lewis, A.
A Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 15
Samuel Johnson; Edited by Joel J. Gold
Changing the Odds
Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged
David E. Lavin and David Hyllegard
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 8
Volume 8: Ethical Writings
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Paul Ramsay
Volume 7: The Life of David Brainerd
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Norman Pettit
Volume 6: Scientific and Philosophical Writings
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Wallace E. Anderson
Volume 1: Freedom of the Will
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Paul Ramsey
Volume 2: Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by John E. Smith
Volume 3: Original Sin
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Clyde A. Holbrook
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