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Analysis of John Winthrop's Speech a Model of Christian Charity
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A Study of How Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop Are Similar
Comparison Between John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet Both John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet were both writers and settlers in the first colonies of America. While they both wrote about their lives in America, as well as basic principles of Protestantism, their writing differs in purpose...
Comparing The Similarities in The Ideas of Freedom Between John Winthrop and Thomas Paine
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Comparative Analysis of Bryant's Thanatopsis and a Winthrop's Model of Christian Charity
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A Comparative Analysis of The Religious Perspectives of Thomas Jefferson and John Winthrop
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April 5, 1649 (aged 61)
2nd, 6th, 9th, and 12th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop was born on January 12, 1588 in Edwardstone, Suffolk, England. At age 15 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. At age 17 he married the first of his four wives. In 1613, Adam Winthrop became Lord of the Manor at Groton. His religious experience reinforced his elitist outlook and made him a social activist.
On 8 April 1630, Winthrop sailed on the Arbella,with his two young sons Samuel and Stephen. In the annual Massachusetts elections he was chosen governor 12 times between 1631 and 1648. Winthrop settled at Boston, which quickly became the capital and chief port of Massachusetts.
Winthrop died after struggling six weeks with "a feverish distemper, on 26 March 1649.
Winthrop's reference to the "city upon a hill" has become an enduring symbol in American political discourse. Many American politicians have cited him in their writings or speeches. The Winthrop Building on Water Street in Boston is one of the city's first skyscrapers.
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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week, we are featuring Christmas-themed songs selected by Brian Foss, host of Sonic Reducer, KEXP's punk show. Brian has been doing a punk rock Christmas special every year since 2004, and has been a Christmas day on air DJ since 2012. No standards are played, only original songs, most with a humorous bent.
Brian's pick for today is "Santa is Coming (Ho, Ho, Ho)" by The Woggles, from a 2012 single on Wicked Cool Records.
The Woggles - Santa is Coming (Ho, Ho, Ho) (MP3)Says Brian...
My 1st Woggles show was seeing them open for Guitar Wolf at the Breakroom in 1999 - front-man Manfred Jones did not stop dancing the whole set. For over two decades, the Atlanta based garage band have put out many fine releases, including a few holiday themed tracks. While my usual taste is on the more anti-Xmas songs spectrum, "Santas Coming" is so joyful it's just a pleasure to these ears.
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Wilhelmshaven Golf Club (early course), Rüstringen. (1912 - 1934)
In the summer of 1912 a golf club was founded in Wilhelmshaven mainly by officers of the German Navy. The club soon had 95 members even though the game of golf was relatively unknown and was considered to be an expensive pastime. A course of nine-holes was laid out at Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen. His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia, a member of the club, donated a large mower. The course was flat with obstacles consisting of ditches and ramparts.
(The French Plumon Golf Guide published an entry in its 1931 edition with a reference to a Golf Club at Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen founded in 1908!?)
In 1913 the board of the golf club consisted exclusively of members of the Imperial Navy.
In 1914 the club became a member of the German Golf Union. The course at Rüstringen in Oldenburg (today part of Wilhelmshaven) was 1.800m long and consisted of 9-holes. The Bogey was 35 and the course was 5 minutes from the tram station Hegelstrasse. There was a clubhouse as well as changing rooms for gentlemen and ladies.
The club had closed by 1915.
The first reference for the club following the war was an entry in the 1927 Golfer's Handbook where it continued to be listed until 1934.
The Navy Officers organised the running of the club. It was listed as a six-hole course; the green-keeper was Mr Fritz. The secretary was frigate captain Schroeder, Rüstringen, Hegelstr. Telephone number 2, Fortress Headquarters 5th.
So it seems that golf was played at Rüstringen between 1927 and 1934.
The final entry in the French Plumon Golf Guide was in 1932.


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The independent sector has had a glorious summer until now and retailers have been enjoying sparkling sales, despite the CO2 problem. Is the revival of pride in an England football team's World Cup performance or a sustained long hot spell the bigger surprise?
Although we are benefiting hugely from the weather, sadly I think that the sun is less surprising. All the evidence indicates we still have not grasped the speed and seriousness of climate change and the widespread international effect of the hot weather is more confirmation that the deniers are dangerous and wrong.
For football fans (and Stockport County supporters) Gareth Southgate and his team produced an outstanding performance and more importantly one based on principles of decency, honesty, hard work and team spirit. For me, the manner of the approach adopted by the squad was more important than the (semi) final outcome. It gave us all a reason to take pride in players who gave every impression that they were playing for honour rather than personal glory. As a result most of us came away feeling there is more to come and a reason to look forward to, rather than dread, the next tournament.
Are there lessons we can learn from such matters, other than ones about how unexpected system failures can have a huge impact on the production of beer and soft drinks?
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Q: how to filter datagridview with user control popup my user control popup on datagridview cell double click and fills strings.Add(dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value.ToString()); in user control is checkedlistbox and one button. how can i filter datagridview on button click and checkedListBox1.CheckedItems using bindingSource.filter = string.Format("LoadName LIKE '{}'", );
Thanks

A: I think, you need something like this:
var checkedValues = strings.Where(s => IsChecked(s))
                           .Select(s => "'"+s+"%'")
                           .ToArray();
bindingSource.Filter = "LoadName LIKE " + string.Join(" or ",checkedValues);

Where IsChecked() is a fake method, you should replace it with something telling you if the value is checked or not in your CheckedListBox.
Supposing your CheckedListBox items are strings, you can replace the line:
strings.Where(s => IsChecked(s))
with  this one:
ceckedListBox.CheckedItems.Cast<string>()

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Q: MPI_Bcast error on multiple nodes Background: I am writing MPI versions of I/O system calls, which are based on the collfs project.
The code runs without error on multiple processors on a single node.
However, running on multiple nodes causes a segmentation fault... The error message with 2 processes, 1 process per node is the following:
$ qsub test.sub
$ cat test.e291810
0: pasc_open(./libSDL.so, 0, 0)
1: pasc_open(./libSDL.so, 0, 0)
1: mptr[0]=0 mptr[len-1]=0
1: MPI_Bcast(mptr=eed11000, len=435104, MPI_BYTE, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD)
0: mptr[0]=127 mptr[len-1]=0
0: MPI_Bcast(mptr=eeb11000, len=435104, MPI_BYTE, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD)
_pmiu_daemon(SIGCHLD): [NID 00632] [c3-0c0s14n0] [Sun May 18 13:10:30 2014] PE RANK 0 exit signal Segmentation fault
[NID 00632] 2014-05-18 13:10:30 Apid 8283706: initiated application termination

The function where the error occurs is the following:
static int nextfd = BASE_FD;
#define next_fd() (nextfd++)

int pasc_open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode)
{
    int rank;
    int err;

    if(!init)
        return ((pasc_open_fp) def.open)(pathname, flags, mode);

    if(MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank) != MPI_SUCCESS)
        return -1;
    dprintf("%d: %s(%s, %x, %x)\n", rank, __FUNCTION__, pathname, flags, mode);

    /* Handle just read-only access for now. */
    if(flags == O_RDONLY || flags == (O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC)) {
        int fd, len, xlen, mptr_is_null;
        void *mptr;
        struct mpi_buf { int len, en; } buf;
        struct file_entry *file;

        if(rank == 0) {
            len = -1;
            fd = ((pasc_open_fp) def.open)(pathname, flags, mode);
            /* Call stat to get file size and check for errors */
            if(fd >= 0) {
                struct stat st;
                if(fstat(fd, &st) >= 0)
                    len = st.st_size;
                else
                    ((pasc_close_fp) def.close)(fd);
            }
            /* Record them */
            buf.len = len;
            buf.en = errno;
        }
        /* Propagate file size and errno */
        if(MPI_Bcast(&buf, 2, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD) != MPI_SUCCESS)
            return -1;
        len = buf.len;
        if(len < 0) {
            dprintf("error opening file, len < 0");
            return -1;
        }
        /* Get the page-aligned size */
        xlen = page_extend(len);
        /* `mmap` the file into memory */
        if(rank == 0) {
            mptr = ((pasc_mmap_fp) def.mmap)(0, xlen, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,
                    fd, 0);
        } else {
            fd = next_fd();
            mptr = ((pasc_mmap_fp) def.mmap)(0, xlen, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                    MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, fd, 0);
        }
        ((pasc_lseek_fp) def.lseek)(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
        /* Ensure success on all aux. processes */
        if(rank != 0)
            mptr_is_null = !mptr;
        MPI_Allreduce(MPI_IN_PLACE, &mptr_is_null, 1, MPI_INT, MPI_LAND,
                MPI_COMM_WORLD);
        if(mptr_is_null) {
            if(mptr)
                ((pasc_munmap_fp) def.munmap)(mptr, xlen);
            dprintf("%d: error: mmap/malloc error\n", rank);
            return -1;
        }
        dprintf("%d: mptr[0]=%d mptr[len-1]=%d\n", rank, ((char*)mptr)[0], ((char*)mptr)[len-1]);
        /* Propagate file contents */
        dprintf("%d: MPI_Bcast(mptr=%x, len=%d, MPI_BYTE, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD)\n",
        rank, mptr, len);
        if(MPI_Bcast(mptr, len, MPI_BYTE, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD) != MPI_SUCCESS)
            return -1;
        if(rank != 0)
            fd = next_fd();
        /* Register the file in the linked list */
        file = malloc(sizeof(struct file_entry));
        file->fd = fd;
        file->refcnt = 1;
        strncpy(file->fn, pathname, PASC_FNMAX);
        file->mptr = mptr;
        file->len = len;
        file->xlen = xlen;
        file->offset = 0;
        /* Reverse stack */
        file->next = open_files;
        open_files = file;
        return fd;

    }
    /* Fall back to independent access */
    return ((pasc_open_fp) def.open)(pathname, flags, mode);
}

The error occurs at the final MPI_Bcast call. I am at a loss as to why it is happening: the memory it copies from and to I can dereference just fine.
I am using MPICH on a custom Cray XC30 machine running SUSE Linux x86_64.
Thanks!

EDIT: I have tried replacing the MPI_Bcast call with a MPI_Send/MPI_Recv pair, and the result is the same.

A: The Cray MPI implementation probably does some magic for performance reasons.  Without knowing the internals much of the answer is a guess.
The inter-node communication likely does not utilize the network stack, relying on some sort of shared memory communication.  When you try to send mmap-ed buffer over the network stack something somewhere breaks - the DMA engine (I'm wildly guessing here) cannot handle this case.
You can try to page lock the mmaped buffer - perhaps mlock will work just fine.
If that fails, then go with copying the data into malloced buffer.


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Poliça @ The Roundhouse
Since the first time I'd heard about this gig, I'd found something about it weird. I'm a big fan of Poliça and have been for several years, so my natural instinct is to support them (which I do, before you go getting any big ideas!). However, the last time I saw them live they played at The Village Underground. Which to me seemed like the perfect sized venue for the band. That was at the beginning of this year, yet now I find myself eagerly (or maybe, apprehensively) waiting for them to take to the stage in the much larger Camden Roundhouse.
This was a big step up for the band, but I can't help feeling it was also an odd one. The Roundhouse is huge, much bigger than I had remembered (the last time I was there I was much younger and smaller, watching Mr Jarvis Cocker take to the stage for his first solo outing) and I can't imagine how the band are going to fill the space. However, I could be wrong about this. Hell, I might have been wrong plenty of times before but I'll never admit it, in fact forget you've read this. Close your laptop. Go outside. Go on, be gone.
Upon entering the Roundhouse (after being laughed at by the lady behind the ticket desk for having a photo-pass but only my iPhone as a camera and having a plus-one whilst actually being alone – yes, woe is very definitely me), I found myself walking into the fairly sparse venue. There is a small hubble of people at the very front of the stage, but otherwise it is mostly empty. I headed straight to the bar, as I find alcohol always helps in those moments where you're alone.
Currently, DJ Fog is on stage but surprisingly he's not actually DJ-ing but playing a live set, singing his own songs and switching from laptop to synth to keyboard. He sounds very much like a one man How To Dress Well, although maybe not quite as fleshed out (seeing as HTDW has a full band behind him, this isn't that surprising). He is quite entertaining, reaching his hands out to the (minimal) crowd every time his music reaches an emotive crescendo. I do feel somewhat sorry for him, as he tries to rile up whatever crowd there is, but it's to no avail.
Eventually he announces he's brought a special guest along, MC Trim. I haven't heard of Trim before, but a quick google search tells me he's part of James Blake's 1-800 DINOSAUR collective (and a former member of grime collective Roll Deep) so I'm immediately interested. Fog and Trim make an interesting pair, I can only assume that they've worked together before as they have great chemistry, giving each other shout outs and flowing from one song to the other seamlessly. I would say that Fog is a better DJ than performer, based purely on this set. They work their way through a range of different genres, from grime to dubstep to classic hip-hop, all the while Trim flawlessly rapping over every beat thrown at him. They're a strange opening for a band like Poliça, but they manage to get the crowd moving a little bit, which I suppose is the whole point.
They exit the stage and we're treated to some excellent music from an invisible DJ. I don't know who was controlling the music, but I want to shake their handfor dropping some absolute bangers; 'Nikes' by Frank Ocean (which I reacted to loudly, unfortunately I was the only one) and 'Open Eye Signal' by Jon Hopkins (again, I seemed to be the only person who reacted, until I looked through the crowd and made eye contact with another man seemingly on his own as he bopped back and forth. We stared at each other for what felt like hours. It was love at first sight…or until the song finished anyway).
Poliça take to the stage and by now, as I complete a quick glance around, the venue actually looks pretty full. I may have to eat my words on this one, re: the venue size.
The stage has a psychedelic backdrop that will change colours several times throughout the show, the twin drum kits (with LED lights ringed around the inside of the bass drum – a nice touch) are on a raised platform at the back and the band take to the stage. They launch into 'Berlin' from their latest album United Crushers. It might be because I'm standing right at the front but I must admit they sound incredible, Channy Leaneagh's vocals are strong and vibrant, even when run through a vocoder (there is less to be said, however, about her dance moves, which haven't improved since the last time I saw them play. However, she looks like she's having a hell of a time, so who am I to judge).
Poliça play a few more songs from United Crushers, and the audience react excitedly, little head bops turning into hip shimmies. After about four songs, they pull out a brand new song; 'Dream Go'. It sounds incredible, like a power balled straight from Magic FM, but with a very distinct Poliça twist on it. I'm already excited to hear it when it's released as a single.
The band plays through a good mix of old and new material, however they get a big reaction when the twin drums and twinkling synth lines of 'Dark Star', from their first album Give You The Ghost, blast out, and it's nice to see they've got so many fans who have followed their career since the beginning.
It's a big stage for a small band, but they fill the space nicely. Bassist Chris Bierden is up front and centre with Leaneagh, the two of them slowly moving around the stage. The last time I saw them, Leaneagh had a small synth with her, complete with a variety of pedals but this time it looks like she's come empty handed, the synths all programmed onto laptops controlled by the drumming duo of Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu. It makes the performance a little less personal, but they sound so good it's quickly forgotten.
I leave halfway through the last song of their encore, the jazzy and very danceable 'Lose You', as I want to beat the rush of the crowd. As I make my way to the back of the venue I can see that actually it isn't very full at all, and that it only seemed that way from the front. In fact, it seems that there are lots of seats up top that haven't been filled, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, as standing seats were only £17 or so. It would've been better, for the band, had the upstairs been closed so they could've filled downstairs. But hey, maybe you just want to sit down and keep your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears and not even bother, that's none of my business. No sir.
The band play a great set, but again I can't help but thinking that the venue was a little too optimistic for them and that they'd be much better suited to a smaller one, but hey, I'll see what they come up with next time. Until then Poliça, don't let the dream go!
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Born in the early 70ies somewhere behind the iron courtain. As one of the earlier emigrants, he was lucky to grow up in switzerland and he was always feeling as a citizen of the world.
Few years later a six strings crossed his way.
He could not resist and the course was set.
Catching up the songs flowing trough the universe has become the most popular occupation.
Beeing grateful to this gift, he uses every possible moment of his life to catch up these universal songs.
Try to understand, produce and give birth to these tunes.
His philosophic attitude wich life gave him for free, is the base of his connection with the universal power.
Inspired by a lot of cross culture, cross art, cross style, mostly cross thinking.
He loves all kind of music who is made with love and respect, knowing that its a tribute to the universe.


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One body found in B.C. highway landslide, more missing: RCMP
RCMP say the body of a woman has been recovered from a landslide across Highway 99 near Lillooet, B.C., following historic rainfall as a search continues for others who may be buried in the debris. Staff Sgt.
Canadian Press Nov 16, 2021 10:05 PM
RCMP say the body of a woman has been recovered from a landslide across Highway 99 near Lillooet, B.C., following historic rainfall as a search continues for others who may be buried in the debris.
Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet said Tuesday the total number of people and vehicles unaccounted for has not yet been confirmed but investigators have received reports of two people who are missing.
"We are asking anyone who was a witness to the event or believes their loved one is missing and has not yet been able to make contact with them to contact the Pemberton or Lillooet RCMP detachments," she said in a written statement.
David MacKenzie, manager of Pemberton District Search and Rescue, confirmed fatalities in the slide, about 42 kilometres south of Lillooet.
"Our team was able to recover a couple of people so far but it's still an ongoing situation and I can't really comment any further on that," he said, though it was not immediately clear if the woman confirmed dead by the RCMP was among those two victims.
Crews were called to the slide around noon on Monday and the search is ongoing, MacKenzie said.
Several people were able to get out of their cars, he said, adding search conditions were challenging and heavy equipment would be needed to remove large debris blocking the way on the mountain highway.
"It's a lot of mud, debris, rock, trees, broken trees. When a mudslide comes down, it's obviously very significant and involves slogging through mud, it's quite difficult."
A search for anyone who may have been buried by two slides is also underway in the Highway 7 area near Agassiz after about 300 people spent the night in their vehicles and were helicoptered to safety on Monday.
Jonathan Gormick, information officer with the Vancouver Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team, said while the roadway has been cleared of potentially trapped vehicles or people, efforts will now be focused on the slide's debris field.
Premier John Horgan said the tragedy brought on by unprecedented rain has left him with "sorrow in my heart."
Speaking from his office during a virtual Cascadia Innovation Corridor event with Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, Horgan said the impact of the "rain river" over a record-breaking 24-hour period involves the ravages of climate change.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said cabinet ministers will meet Wednesday to consider the declaration of a provincewide state of emergency.
He said supplies like food, cots and blankets are being delivered to the town of Hope, which is supporting nearly 1,100 people forced from their homes.
"There's an access road being worked on right now that will soon reconnect Hope with the rest of the Lower Mainland," Farnworth said. "One of our key priorities is making sure there's a flow of supplies so that people can buy food and essential goods in areas with flooded or damaged roads or railways."
Fast-rising water levels from a river in Washington state overwhelmed rescuers in Abbotsford, B.C., on Tuesday as 1,100 homes were evacuated.
Those residents join thousands of others in the province who were forced from their homes by floods or landslides over a 48-hour period starting on Sunday night.
Late Tuesday, the City of Abbotsford issued an urgent plea for people living in a low-lying area called Sumas Prairie to evacuate immediately to avoid a potential catastrophe.
"Conditions within the Sumas Prairie within the last hour have escalated and pose a significant risk to life due to the imminent failure of the Barrowtown Pump Station," the release said.
Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said if the pump station fails, water will rise very quickly.
"If you are still on Sumas Prairie, you need to leave. Get out of the area," he said during a news conference.
"I know it's hard for farmers to leave their livestock. But people's lives are more important to me right now then livestock and chickens. This is imminent."
Earlier Tuesday, Braun said impassable highways are creating havoc as police and firefighters try to get people to evacuation centres.
"It breaks my heart to see what's going on in our city," he said.
Sunny skies followed two days of torrential rain that matched the region's typical amount over the entire month of November, but the mayor said the water keeps rising and Highway 1 will be cut off for some time.
"People need to prepare that they may not be able to travel for a few days. Even then, there are washouts further up into the Interior, the Coquihalla (Highway), the (Fraser) Canyon. There's not going to be any movement of trucks any time soon, or trains for that matter."
Braun cautioned people against driving into what could be extremely deep ditches, adding he's worried about getting enough information from officials in Washington state about water levels that have risen dramatically from the overflowing Nooksack River and over the Sumas dike.
"When are we going to crest? When is it going to level off here? It's like a full cup of coffee. Once it's full, it keeps flowing over the sides."
The evacuations in Abbotsford add to others in various parts of B.C., including in Merritt, where the entire town of 7,000 was forced to leave when the sanitation system failed due to an "atmospheric river" that caused flooding in the southwest and central parts of the province.
More than 20 emergency centres have been activated to help house stranded travellers.
Multiple roadways have been closed because of flooding, landslides or washed-out bridges, including sections of Highway 1, Highway 3, Highway 5, Highway 11, Highway 91 and Highway 99.
Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said Highway 3 is likely to be the quickest route to reopen, possibly by the end of the weekend.
However, damage to Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon as well as the Coquihalla Highway is so extreme that geotechnical assessments won't be possible until conditions are drier, he said.
"We fully recognize how important it is right now in British Columbia to reopen the road connections from the Lower Mainland to the Interior to get supply chains moving again."
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We are used to taking care of the things that "bug" you, and that means removing any current infestation as well as setting you up on a pest control schedule to keep them at bay. Preventative pest control is the best way to avoid ants, termites, roaches and other menaces that are not only unpleasant, but can also be a health hazard and damaging to your home's construction.
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City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz addresses Community Board 6.
A group of vocal opponents of the de Blasio administration's Kew Gardens jail proposal showed up at the Community Board 6 general meeting on Wednesday to drum up community support for a rally against the plan planned for April 13.
Though the jail's proposed location at 126-02 82nd Ave. falls within the border of Community Board 9, which voted unanimously against it last month, the site is just two blocks south of the Community Board 6 area, which includes Forest Hills and Rego Park.
At the April 11 Board 6 meeting, tensions ran high between antagonistic residents and City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, who appeared welcome the new members of the board and also spell out her support of the plan.
Koslowitz, who has accepted the new jail as an inevitability, argued that the best outcome is for the neighborhood is to work to force their input into the rest of the process to make the conditions of the plan more favorable to their interests.
"We just knocked a few stories off the building and we intend to go even lower. That's because I'm sitting at the table. The building was going to be 29 stories. They just lowered it. They were bringing in an infirmary, which wouldn't have anything to do with the Queens residents. I stopped that," said Koslowitz.
While all three of the opponents who addressed the community board in the public forum insisted that they wanted criminal justice reform on Rikers Island and merely disagreed with the plan's execution, other residents in the audience appeared to have different views.
Koslowitz began to say "There is not one person that thinks Rikers Island should stay where it is," but several audience members loudly interrupted her before she could complete her statement.
"I think so," one speaker called out.
During the public forum after Koslowitz's statement, Forest Hills resident Charlotte Picot argued that the mayor's multi-borough plan is an ineffective form of criminal justice reform, on top of having a number of adverse environmental effects on Kew Gardens area in particular.
While the City Planning Commission certified the ULURP application last week and will begin public review process, the opponents all took a moment in their addresses to encourage residents to attend the rally at 1 p.m. this Saturday, April 13, on the steps of Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens.


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Senior recognized as California Journalist of the Year, advances to national competition
Charles Yu, Takaaki Sagawa, and Amy Leung
Journalism adviser Paul Kandell introduces Beatrice Motamedi, California state director for the Journalism Education Association during the ceremony to announce senior Jack Brook's recognition as California Journalist of the Year. The audience included the Verde Magazine staff, faculty and one of Brook's parents. "You've really taken us to the edges of what it means to be a journalist in high school," Kandell said to Brook. "I know you've inspired anyone who's had a chance to work with you, including me." Photo by Takaaki Sagawa.
A Palo Alto High School senior is in the running for the title of National Journalist of the Year after being recognized today as the California Journalist of the Year for his excellence in scholastic journalism.
The Journalism Education Association in California named Jack Brook, co-editor in chief of Verde Magazine, the California Journalist of the Year today in a small ceremony during 4th Period in the Media Arts Center.
According to the JEANC website, the California Journalist of the Year title includes a $500 prize in addition to a travel stipend to attend the JEA/National Scholastic Press Association spring national convention in Denver.
Brook's status puts him in the running for the national competition for Journalist of the Year. The results will be announced at the awards ceremony of the JEA/NSPA spring national convention on April 18, according to the JEA website.
Judges chose Brook out of nine total applications after a review process by the panel, according to Beatrice Motamedi, California state director of the Journalism Education Association. The application required a digital portfolio, official grade transcripts, three letters of recommendation, a resume, an essay and an action photo, according to the JEANC website.
"From a sensitively told story about Cameron, a transgender student whose journey you [Brook] chronicled — including a sensitive pronoun switch from 'her' to 'him' in midstory — to a video for the White House Film Festival about The Paly Voice drone … you were a consensus pick in an unusually strong competition this year," Motamedi said.
Brook accepts his award as California Journalist of the Year, along with a chocolate bar. "It's been a great experience working with everybody, and I learned so much from [adviser Paul] Kandell," Brook said. Photo by Takaaki Sagawa.
Verde Magazine adviser Paul Kandell praised Brook as a multifaceted journalist.
"When it comes to images, angles and story — regardless of whether they occur in text, photos or videos — Jack has uncommonly outstanding, savant-level perception and abilities," Kandell said. "He is the most natural multi-platform storyteller I've ever known."
Noam Shemtov, the co-editor in chief of Verde Magazine last year, commented on Brook's work ethic and commitment to his stories.
"He has a rare way of throwing himself right into the thick of whatever he's working on," Shemtov said. "Jack was able to take his stories right up to the edge — both in the reporting and in the way he told them."
Junior and news editor of Verde Magazine Siddharth Srinivasan echoed Shemtov's claims as he recounted an experience he had with Brook while working together on "First in Their Families: What it Means to be a First Generation College Student."
"Jack convinced me to go to the dry cleaners at 4 a.m. to get a hook for our story," Srinivasan said. "It was well worth it, and that illustrates his vision for the story as a reporter."
As Brook accepted the award, he acknowledged all who have aided him along his journey as a high school journalist towards state recognition.
"It takes a village to raise a child; it takes a magazine to raise a journalist," Brook said. "I really couldn't have done it without everyone's help."
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At the beginning of the new millennium, the Web 2.0 promised a more participatory world where people would have conversations with companies, brands and all sorts of organizations. Social media would allow users to directly impact businesses through sending comments to decision-makers like managers and CEOs. Almost two decades later, the Web is flooded with reviews, tweets and Facebook posts, and businesses are overwhelmed by massive volumes of customer and employee feedback. The anticipated meaningful participation has become a stormy sea of background noise.
The result of this broken promise of participation is not just disenchantment with a technology that failed to deliver, but disengagement from businesses and organizations that didn't take action despite the warnings. The cost has been untold dollars and opportunities lost. For example, consider the plague of employee disengagement. Employees who feel actively disconnected from their employer cost the US economy almost $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Another far-reaching example is millennials who lack any sense of brand loyalty. A recent study conducted by the management consulting firm Gallup concluded that only one in four millennials is fully engaged with a brand, product or company.
To resolve the disengagement that afflicts their bottom line, people-centric businesses have started to grasp the importance of listening attentively to their customers in the hope of understanding exactly what's being said. The last decade has seen the popularization and development of sentiment analysis tools and text analytics techniques that allow businesses to identify relevant issues conveyed in comments and feedback.
Early iterations of these technologies permitted the monitoring of preselected keywords, with the goal of associating feedback related to the keywords with positive or negative emotions. For example, a store manager could preselect the keyword fitting rooms, and then identify and monitor customers' positive and negative feedback related to that word. In this way, the business would keep its finger on the pulse of customer feeling about its fitting rooms, as well as other issues.
But what if we could do more than detect people's emotions based on their feedback? Disengagement isn't a sum total of spur-of-the-moment emotions, rather, it's a mindset that develops in a rich, broad linguistic context. To take advantage of what this context can offer, technologies are required that allow a better understanding of human language. Fortunately, these technologies are at the heart of the rapid evolution of research in artificial intelligence (AI). New algorithms such as deep learning allow natural language understanding (NLU) to go beyond keyword-based analysis to involve context.
This second wave of text analytics technologies doesn't rely on preselected keywords, which by their nature can't be all-inclusive and limit what businesses can understand. Instead, it comprehensively – and accurately – captures all the meanings in customer feedback, including people's questions and recommendations for improvement. By going further than monitoring positive and negative sentiments, AI solutions, through truly identifying what people are saying, attack the early symptoms of disengagement and provide the possibility of a cure.
To return to the example of the store manager: While a keyword-based solution could alert the manager to potential issues with the company's fitting rooms, the actual issue – that customers are unhappy about the level of cleanliness – could easily go undetected. The second wave of AI-powered text analytics will precisely inform the manager about the problem with cleanliness, who will then take corrective measures to forestall customer discontent that could lead to a loss of trust in the store. Discontent and crumbling trust is how disengagement begins.
Disengagement affects the lives of all of us in numerous ways. An obvious example is the catastrophic consequences of political disengagement in democracies around the globe. But we're approaching the next decade with technologies that will make real conversations possible and keep alive the promise of a more participatory world. With the tools to develop a clear picture of what people are saying, those in power will be able to listen, learn and respond appropriately. It's now in the hands of decision-makers to effectively fight the plague of disengagement.


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Jamie was nearly four when Kim, his mother, telephoned to ask for our help. She explained that he had started to repeat syllables and words just before his third birthday and that now she was really worried that his talking didn't seem to be getting any better. The doctor had told her not to worry because it was just a phase and he would soon grow out of it. But Kim had had a stammer herself as a child and remembered very clearly the difficulties that she had faced at school. She certainly didn't want Jamie to experience the same challenges.
Jamie's stammering was variable and although there were some good patches when his talking was quite fluent, there were also times when he became quite upset because of his difficulty with talking. We agreed with Jamie's parents that he was vulnerable to stammering, partly because of the family history, but also because it had been continuing for quite a long time and he was showing some awareness and concern.
Jamie and his parents attended the Centre for Palin Parent-Child Interaction therapy. The idea behind this is to help parents, through videotapes, to identify some of the things that they are already doing which will help their child's fluency. These are then practised at home. Over the six weeks of therapy, each parent will identify other small but important changes in their interaction with their child which they consider will help their child to become more fluent.
Kim noticed that Jamie was more fluent when he was not competing with his brother to talk at mealtimes so she decided that making sure the family took turns to speak might be helpful. David, Jamie's father, also noticed that Jamie was more fluent if he was given time to answer questions at his own pace – and not trying to hurry – so he decided to try to space out his own questions more. Both parents decided that they would like to be more consistent in managing the children's behaviour at bedtimes too.
Jamie is now at school and there is no sign of the stammering. David and Kim know that they can come back to us if anything happens which triggers the stammering again.
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This week for writing, we had to recreate the famous poem The Night Before Christmas. I really enjoyed this activity, considering that I enjoy writing poems, all together, my remake took about 10 minutes, seems short at first, but about 3 minutes of that time was spent checking if my rhyming, A. made sense, and B. related to the topic. In the end, it turned our quite well, and after reading it to my friends, they all agree.
Nice poem, I really like how you rhymed wink and blink too. I have a question for you though, how long did this take for you to do?


A PewDiePie quote recently appeared on stands for Techland's new game, Dying Light. This was a little strange by itself, PewDiePie is a gamer but he's not exactly a journalist. New information has come to light that makes his endorsement even more troubling. Namely that Techland may have paid for it.
The quote comes from one of Pewd's Let's Play videos where he demos the game. The problem is that the company may have paid to have him play the game as part of their advertisement campaign, reports Crave Online.
The fact that they paid for him to play the game isn't the issue. The fact that they used a quote from the paid advertisement (without at the very least mentioning that they PAID for it) is a problem. It's a pretty huge ethical issue.
Companies pay for advertisement all the time, but you can't use the glowing endorsements that your purchased ads gave you as proof of your products viability. Your endorsements must be unbiased.
Even though PewDiePie is not a journalist, his YouTube channel and others like it are increasingly becoming the source for game reviews and recommendations for the public in the way traditional journalism has been in the past.
Where are those #Gamergate guys at? This is an ACTUAL ethics in gaming journalism issue. Seems like something they would want to be into. I'm just saying.
None of this is PewDiePie's fault. Even though he did produce the video as he may have been hired to do, he's not a gaming journalist. His views are always personal opinion however, given the changing state of how we are getting our game information, it might be time for PewDiePie (and the gaming side of YouTube as a whole) to rethink their business models. You can watch the video in question below.


Why is it we must go through the tough challenges in life? I know it is to shape us, but why must it be the things we dread most? Like sharing your deepest, darkest secret with a friend? Why must we endure that?
If we never faced the challenges we dreaded most, life would be easy and we would never grow. Part of life is learning how to endure the hardships and learning what God has to teach you from them.
A friend is the best person you could ever share a secret with, with the sole exception of Jesus Christ. Who better to trust with your deepest, darkest secret than someone who you know will love you and will not judge you no matter what? It may be hard at the time, but it will be worth it in the end. It is by far better to be honest than to worry about what your friend thinks of you. You have already earned the affection of a friend; that is part of what makes you friends in the first place.


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Mary is a deeply committed evangelical Christian who is eager to work for the transformation of culture. A homeschooling mother of three teenagers, she serves on the board of a crisis pregnancy center, and she devotes Saturday mornings to leading a local campaign for a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
But a funny thing happens on Sunday. Mary awakens with uncertainty about where or even whether to go to church. Her family began attending a new church six months ago because it offered a better youth program, but her husband is not pleased with the pastor, and he prefers the message at a church he has begun to attend on Saturday nights. She is still attached to her small group at her former church, which is planning to launch a home church group. Still undecided, she brews a pot of coffee, turns on a local Christian radio station, and opens her study Bible.
What Mary fails to recognize is that the moral subjectivism and cultural relativism that she combats for six days a week is the very phenomenon to which she succumbs on the Lord's Day. Zealous to defend moral order and transcendent authority in the home and society, she struggles to submit to the authority of the church.
Mary's dilemma is all too familiar for American evangelicals. A child without a family is an orphan to be pitied. A man without a country is a refugee to be welcomed. A Christian without a church is, well, a typical American evangelical.
Mary's religion is the churchless Christianity of American individualism. Modern American religion is a personal relationship with God. To vest an institution with oversight for one's spiritual life is to rob it of its "authenticity" (a popular word that is always left undefined). While most Americans believe in God, fewer than half are members or regular attendees of any church, and those that attend do so with increasingly tenuous commitments, switching churches like brands of laundry detergent. A recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of churched Americans believe that they "should arrive at their religious beliefs independent of any church."
Ironically, evangelicals like Mary are denying authority where God is most eager to ordain it. Contrary to contemporary wisdom, the Bible teaches that one cannot yield to the authority of the Word without submitting to the authority of the church. Our Lord made this clear when He granted to His apostles the keys of the kingdom (Matt. 16:19). This authority is extended to all the apostles (Matt. 18:18), and it is passed on to the teaching and ruling offices of the church. This authority is exercised whenever the church declares and ministers the Word of God. So closely does Christ link church authority with His very own that He insists that those who reject the apostolic message reject Him as well (Matt. 10:14–15).
Church officers must exercise this authority with a theology of the cross. As servants of Christ, they are servants of Christ's people, and their power is for the building up of the church. That power is limited to what the Word of God commands, and temptations to add to or subtract from it must be resisted. The church has no right to bind consciences of its members without warrant from the Word. To be sure, this power is all too often abused in the church. But even when the church fails to exercise its authority properly, Calvin insisted that "each and every individual has not the right at once to take upon himself the decision to separate."
The popular claim that the Protestant Reformation unleashed individualism in Western culture is a false charge. The Reformers all affirmed the necessity of the church (while stripping it of a sacerdotal meaning). "Those who disrupt from the body of Christ and split its unity into schisms," Calvin wrote, "are quite excluded from the hope of salvation, so long as they remain in dissidence of this kind." In stressing its necessity, the Reformers often employed the metaphor of the motherhood of the church: one could not have God for a Father without the church as a mother. Calvin's recognition of human weakness and frailty especially led him to underscore the need for an enduring and all-embracing mother through whom we are nurtured. This challenges the popular impression today that we can strike our own relationship with God, a designer spirituality that we can create and sustain on our own. Such brazen self-confidence is as foolish as the Israelites who rejected God's manna and sought their own form of sustenance in the wilderness.
The Reformers never suggested that the visible church was of little or no importance. As the manifestation of the invisible church to the world in time and place, the visible church, though imperfect, remains the true church, because it displays the marks of the church: the Word, sacraments, and discipline. And it is the only church that we can see and fellowship with; we have no gnostic recourse to any other church than the visible church. It is from the church that we feast on the Word, sacraments, and prayer, what the Westminster divines called the "outward and ordinary means" of salvation. They are "ordinary" in the sense that this is how God is pleased to work in His elect. They are the Christian's regular diet, the diligent pursuit of which God has promised to bless. While God is free to save some of His people by extraordinary means, we are not free to pursue other means of salvation but must content ourselves with the means of God's appointment, distributed through His church. The church is the ark of salvation and thus an essential instrument for the salvation of God's people. A.A. Hodge comments, "God requires every one who loves Christ to confess him in the regular way of joining the community of his people and taking the sacramental badges of discipleship." As the Westminster Confession summarized, outside of the visible church there is no "ordinary possibility of salvation."
"Outward and ordinary means" — there is the rub for many Christians today. We crave the inward and the extraordinary. The institutional church is too stiflingly bland and routine. There is just not enough pizzazz. The parachurch and even the Internet offer more dazzling forms of spirituality, and the keys of the kingdom have a hard time competing with such high-octane alternatives.
William Willimon has observed that fundamentalists and liberals both share an embarrassment over the visible church, and he labels this impulse as docetic. In ancient form, docetism claimed that Christ did not take on a fully human nature, but He only appeared human. Modern practitioners deny that the church is really the body of Christ, and so they claim to love Christ all the while despising the church. The Bible allows us to imagine no other Christian life than an ecclesial life. If we refuse to submit to its doctrine and discipline, we simply have no assurance of our salvation.
And so the stakes are higher for Mary than she realizes. But let's be fair to her and her ecclesiastical ambivalence. Mary's dilemma is a by-product of churches tailoring their work to meet individual needs. Much of the blame for her confusion must be placed at the church itself and the ministers and elders she has listened to in the past. Preachers today betray their calling when they work an audience like a late night comedian, rather than summon the people of God to heed the Word of God, having lost their confidence in God's appointed means. We have converted the church to a commodity that solicits the patronage of customers, offering therapeutic sanctuaries of relaxation and relevance. The churches are shed of whatever seems unappealing to the greatest number of potential believers, including their history, denominational distinctiveness, and especially their duty to exercise discipline.
Individuals who come to churches after comparison shopping are not catechicized into habits that enable them to submit to the authority of the church. Rather, they are conditioned to bail once the church fails to meet their needs. Thus, Christians today can no more imagine the church usurping their sovereignty as consumers than they can imagine the same of Wal-Mart.
This is precisely where the church has failed in our age. We have sought to reinvent what God has ordained. Recent best-selling books are calling evangelicals to "reimagine" or "revolutionize" the church or let a new form of the church emerge from the postmodern ooze. We must resist these solutions and return to the ordinances of the church that God has clearly revealed in His Word. Judgment begins at the household of God. The officers of Christ's church must recover and exercise the keys of the kingdom, along with the courage to believe in their efficacy. And countercultural Christians who yearn for a transformation of their world would do well to begin by submitting to the authority of the church.
John R. Muether is professor of church history and dean of libraries at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Fla. He is author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism.
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The Authority of the State
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Fujirumors, Canon Watch, Sony Alpha Rumors, et al, TIPA Awards are like pre-school: show up and you get candy. At their most stringent, they are like those everyone-that-signs-up-wins scholarships.
Full disclosure: it doesn't hurt to try. If you're a cash-strapped student in a land that requires you pay for post-secondary, hit up as many gimme scholarships as you can. If you're a camera manufacturer desperate to tell your most ardent supporters that they should still purchase from you, hit up as many gimme awards as you can. I recommend TIPA.
Yep, keep the information flowing. That's it.
Kudos to 43s Rumors in 2014 for pointing out that everyone wins. And shame on them for pointing out the cameras that actually won.
Rumour sites: stop 'reporting' this stuff. It negatively impacts your own brand, and seriously fails at fulfilling the quality requirement of 'content is king' publishing.


Documentary film identifying the beliefs behind animistic rituals in Togo.
Documentary. Film record of animistic rituals in Togo. Identifying animism as the most prevalent form of religious belief in Togo, the film provides information about animistic ceremonies which enable the living to communicate with the souls of ancestors, the voodoos.
Sequences include shots of: ritual dancing; oracles; fishermen; an African woman drawing water from a well; an African man cutting vegetation with a machete; African women preparing and cooking food; a market; a corpse in an open coffin; a funeral ceremony with women in mourning and dance rituals; a Christian burial service; Muslims participating in ritual prayer; sacrifices of alcohol, milk and blood before an animist altar; a woman diving into the sea while going into a trance, recovered by four men and left on shore; a voodoo priest/ fetisher (a medium between the souls of the dead and the living) engaged in a healing ceremony, involving an animal sacrifice; a ritual dance, in which some participants lose consciousness.


How seriously should we take these dismal findings? Educators all over the world have known as for tempered reactions to the PISA scores and questioned the usefulness of the exams However, this 12 months's report—and the United States' poor math results—may be value paying attention to for not less than one cause. A 2011 examine discovered that PISA scores are an financial indicator: rising scores are a good signal that a rustic's economy will grow as properly.
On Friday we worked laborious ALL afternoon finishing up our unit by making our personal e-book about Native Individuals. All around the room were facilities that had an art mission and a sentence to jot down. We rotated around the room and someway finished in record time I feel we are all still attempting to earn those feathers for our headbands. So historically, you may say that an 18-12 months previous Dutch scholar who is within the highest academic-preparatory observe in High School is almost as advanced as a student who receives a B.A. at 22.
The Evergreen State College is dealing with a $2.1 million price range shortfall and a five p.c plunge in enrollment in the wake of this spring's steady stream of high-profile protests led largely by radical black college students. If all we plan to do is preserve placing plans on paper, instead of focusing on participant effort and motivation, we're going nowhere quick in American education. It won't matter what number of billions of dollars the U. S. Department of Education is prepared to spend.
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Reiko Tosa (r) runs away from Naoko Takahashi (l) in Tokyo (Kazutaka Eguchi/Agence SHOT) © Copyright
19 NOV 2006 General News
Tosa runs away from Takahashi in Tokyo but misses automatic Osaka berth
Reiko Tosa ran away from 2000 Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi just after 31Km to win the 2006 Tokyo Women's Marathon, Tokyo, Japan, in 2:26:15 today.
It was Tosa's third marathon victory, having taken her debut win in Matsuyama and then a first place in the 2004 Nagoya Women's marathon, which qualified her for the 2004 Olympic marathon team. She was fifth in those Games, having taken the silver at the 2001 World Championships.
No automatic qualification
Unfortunately for Tosa, the race was run under less than favourable conditions. A drizzle changed to a steady rain by mid-race and the last half was also marred by a head-wind. The finishing time was slower than had been hoped, and because 2:26 was not broken, Tosa did not automatically qualify for the 2007 World Championships team, and now has to wait for the results of the upcoming Osaka Ladies and Nagoya Women's Marathons.
Disappointing third
Takahashi finished a disappointing third. It was Takahashi's first loss against another Japanese, her slowest time, and her lowest finishing place in a marathon since her 2:31:32 debut at the 1997 Osaka Ladies Marathon.
How the race unfolded…
The race started fast with Tosa, sometime leading the pack ahead of the pace makers – Alevtina Ivanova and Olga Romanova. The initial 5Km, which is mostly downhill, was covered in a fast 16:29, only five seconds behind the record pace of 1999. Because rain was very light at the beginning, the anticipation was high for record times, and due to the fast pace, the lead pack quickly dwindled down to eight runners – Ivanova and Romanova, the pace makers, and Tosa, Takahashi, Zivile Balciunate (runner up last year), Olivera Jevtic (European silver medallist), Jen Rhines and Asha Gigi.
Akemi Ozaki, running her second marathon, soon caught-up with the lead pack but Rhines, Jevtic and Balciunaite started to fall off the pace soon afterwards, thus splitting the lead pack into two separate groups. Soon again Ozaki also started to fall behind, and so found herself running for most of the race isloated between the lead and the chase packs.
By 15Km, besides the pace makers, the lead group consisted of Tosa, Gigi and Takahashi. After 20Km, Gigi, who ran the Berlin marathon in September, also offer the pace.
Three up front at halfway
The leaders - Ivanova (pace maker), Tosa and Takahashi - passed the half marathon point in 1:10:53. By this time, however, the rain was steadily coming down, so there was little hope for a record time, and after the turnaround point, the wind (now against the runners) was picking up, Gigi was 12 seconds and Balciunaite and Jevtic 48 seconds adrift of the trio upfront.
At 22Km, Takahashi, who was always hiding behind Tosa, took her gloves off, which may have been a mistake, for the weather with the wind-chilling effect was getting colder, and when Ivanova the pace setter dropped out at 27Km, the anticipated showdown between Takahashi and Tosa became a reality.
The pace which started with a blazing 16:29 was steadily slowing down. The 5Km segment between 20Km to 25Km took 17:13. It was the first over 17 minutes 5Km split of the race.
'Game over' by 35km
At 30Km, Tosa and Takahashi were over a minute ahead of the now third placed Ozaki. The kilometre between 30Km to 31Km was covered in 3:29 by the leaders, and at 31Km, Takahashi threw away another piece of her clothing, this time her cap. Perhaps it was a sign of growing desperation as soon a gap opened up between Tosa and Takahashi.
"I did not surge at 31Km," said Tosa after the race. Takahashi just fell off the steady pace. The split of 3:32 between 31Km and 32Km proves the point.
By 32Km Takahashi was 15m behind Tosa. Then the gap started to grow faster. Tosa covered the 5Km between 30Km and 35Km in 17:36, while Takahashi took 18:18 for the same 5Km, and the race was essentially over.
From 35Km, the runners must contend with the hill, and the pace slowed even more. Tosa took 3:36 for 35Km to 36Km ad 3:37 for 36Km to 37km but Takahashi was decreasing pace even faster taking 3:58 for the 1000m between 35Km to 36Km.
Ozaki was now steadily gaining on Takahashi, and with 3Km to go in the race, passed her.
Over a two and a half minute victory
Tosa tried to push over the hill in pursuit of a sub 2:26 time, however, it was not to be, as she took 4 minutes for the 1000m between 39Km to 40Km, which is also the toughest part of the hill. However, the 30-year-old, who was third in Boston earlier this year, was still pleased to have won by more than two and a half minutes with 2:26:15.
Ozaki was next home in 2:28:51, with Takahashi, third, 2:31:22.
"I am very happy to win the marathon," said Tosa after the race which had been run in a temperature of 10C, with 66% humidity.
"Tomorrow is my husband's birthday. I think I gave him a good birthday present," concluded Tosa, who became the first married female runner in Japan to win a major marathon.
"I just wanted to run at my planned pace, a good pace. The pace makers pulled us along at the right pace, so it was easy in the beginning," ...while "in the last part of the race, because of the head wind I was getting cold and thus I could not move any faster," said Tosa,
It had been reported that Tosa was in awesome shape prior to today's race. "Tosa's training for this marathon went very well. She did not have any injury problems during the preparation of this marathon," said Hideo Suzuki who has been coaching Tosa ever since she graduated from the University. "Tosa runs relatively well under bad conditions, so I was not worried about the weather" today.
Ken Nakamura for the IAAF
Results: (JPN unless otherwise noted)
1. Reiko Tosa 2:26:15
2. Akemi Ozaki 2:28:51
3. Naoko Takahashi 2:31:22
4. Olivera Jevtic (SRB) 2:33:11
5. Zivile Balciunaite (LIT) 2:33:18
6. Mary Ptikany (KEN) 2:34:31
7. Jen Rhines (USA) 2:35:37
Splits:
5Km 16:29
10Km 33:17 (16:48)
20Km 1:07:01 (16:56)
half 1:10:53
35Km 1:59:23 (17:36) for Tosa; 18:18 for Takahashi
40Km 2:18:03 (18:40) 30m elevation gain
Finish 2:26:15 (8:12)
19 NOV 2006 General News Kogo triumphs in four-man sprint, and Wami loses to Tufa in Nijmegen
19 NOV 2006 General News Eritrea and Kenya take the cross country spoils in Soria
Reiko Tosa wins the 2006 Tokyo Women's Marathon in 2:26:15 (Kazutaka Eguchi/Agence SHOT) © Copyright


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Emergencybnb was a website that aimed at helping vulnerable segments in society find free temporary lodging offered by their neighbors. A test version of the website was published in March 2016, with a catchphrase that read: "Host a refugee or a victim of domestic violence". Due to low traction at its infancy stage, the founder, a Harvard University graduate, resorted to listing his own Washington, D.C. apartment on Airbnb and reimbursed the guests in cash upon arrival. The website has gained media attention and was featured in a number of news portals.

EmergencyBnB has partnered with various organizations helping refugees, domestic violence victims, and trafficking victims around the world.

CNN referred to Emergencybnb as "An army of people who keep their homes and hearts open in case another person needs to walk through".

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 Alfarone, Debra. "D.C. man offers up apartment to refugees", WUSA9, Washington, D.C., 22 August 2016.
 Blake, Paul. "EmergencyBnB Aims to Bring Sharing Economy to World's Most Vulnerable", ABC News, New York, NY, 22 August 2016.
 Bliss, Laura. "A Man in Washington, D.C., Is Hosting Refugees Through Airbnb", CityLab, Washington, D.C., 23 June 2016.
 Brenner, Julia. "EmergencyBnB: An Altruistic Spin on Airbnb", Apartment Therapy, Chicago, IL, 10 June 2017.
 Bylander, Erin. "Want to put your apartment on Airbnb? Here's what you need to know first.", The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 29 July 2016.
 DeChalus, Camila. "An Airbnb for those who need it the most", CNN, Washington, D.C., 21 October 2016.
 Epstein, Annie. "Can Technology Solve the Refugee Crisis?", Free Enterprise, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2016.
 Frankel, Jillian. "Housing Refugees Could Be as Easy as Tweaking Airbnb", TakePart, Los Angeles, California, 27 June 2016.
 Guy-Ryan, Jessie. "Syrian Refugees List Their Campsite on Airbnb", AtlasObscura, Brooklyn, NY, 26 June 2016.
 Hassanein, Rokia. "D.C. Innovator Hosts Refugees and Domestic Violence Victims for Free", StreetSense, Washington, DC, 15 August 2016.
 Hawkins, Paul. "Inspired by Airbnb: Matching refugees with hosts", BBC, London, UK, 29 August 2016.
 Neo, Perpetua. "Want to leave your abuser but fear homelessness? EmergencyBnB is your lifeline.", Huffington Post , London, UK, 20 June 2017.
 Stein, Perry. "This man launched a website so people can invite refugees to stay in their homes", The Washington Post, Washington, DC, 25 August 2016.
 Stein, Perry. "Man launches Airbnb-style website to provide free accommodation for refugees", The Independent, London, UK, 28 August 2016.
 Szink, Emily. "EmergencyBnB: Providing safe place for refugees and victims of domestic violence", KMTV, Omaha, Neb, 2 February 2017.
 Wanshel, Elyse. "This Man Made An Airbnb For Refugees Looking For A Place To Stay", Huffington Post, New York, NY, 30 August 2016.

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Refugee aid organizations in the United States
Internet properties established in 2016

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