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Eighth Air Force. 8 United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fighters
groups strafe oil storage depots in Hanau and Ulm areas, airfields
at Leipheim and Lechfeld, and miscellaneous ground targets.
About 70 fighters are encountered. United States fighters
claim 26 air victories and 69 destroyed on the ground. 8 United
States fighters are lost.
Ninth Air Force. 340 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
bombers of 9th Bomber Division strike barracks areas, rail
bridges, rail facilities, strong points, and defended positions
at 13 locations in Germany. Fighters escort Bomber Division,
fly sweeps and armed reconnaissance over West Germany, and
support ground forces East of Aachen and in Sarreguemines
Twelfth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) medium
bombers bomb bridges at Pizzighettone, Romano di Lombardia,
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Migazzone, Casarsa della Delizia,
Casale Monferrato, and at Zidani Most and also pound Brod
Ljubljana railway, the principal Wehrmacht escape route in
the Balkans. Fighter-bombers continue successful attacks on
rail lines, dumps, guns, and pipelines in the North Apennines
and the Po Valley, XXII Tactical Air Command claiming over
100 train cars, 8 locomotives, and nearly 75 vehicles destroyed.
Fifteenth Air Force. 680 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
heavy bombers bomb Vienna, Floridsdorf and Korneuburg oil
refineries, airfields at Aviano, Villafranca di Verona, Udine,
and Vicenza, and troop concentrations at Visegrad. 126 P-38
Lightning fighters escort Austria missions while 12 others
bomb the troop concentrations at Visegrad. 186 P-51 Mustang
fighter-bombers provide cover for raids on the Italian airfields
and sweep target areas. Over 50 other fighters fly reconnaissance
and reconnaissance escort.
Tenth Air Force. 27 United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fighter-bomber's
support ground forces South of Pinwe and in Bhamo area. 16
attack troops and supply area at Panglong and Ngapwegyi while
7 hit ferry area at Meza, 20 hit targets along Kanbalu Wuntho
railroad and at Maymyo and Wetwin. 9 B-25 Mitchell medium
bombers pound Man Pwe rail yards, destroying warehouses and
other buildings and causing much general damage. Transports
continue large-scale operations to forward areas.
Fourteenth Air Force. 10 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-25 Mitchell medium bombers blast stores at Hengshan and
hit populated areas from Ishan to Liuchow. 130 P-51 Mustang
fighter-bombers, P-40 fighters, and P-38 Lightning fighters
pound targets scattered over vast areas of South China. Troops,
shipping, supplies, trucks, and railroad targets are hit particularly
hard North of Lingling, from Liuchow to Ishan, from Hengshan
to Hengyang, from Kweilin to Liuchou, from Siangtan to Paoching,
and at Chuanhsien, Hwaiyuanchen, Chingmen, Chuchiang, and
Far East Air Force (FEAF). In Mindanao Northeast Celebes areas
United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24 Liberator heavy
bombers, B-25 Mitchell medium bombers and A-20 Havoc light
bombers again hit airfields and targets. Fighter-bombers,
A-20 Havoc light bombers, and B-25 Mitchell medium bombers
over several locations in Philippine Islands pound shipping,
supply and personnel areas, harbours, barges, airstrips, and
command targets. B-24 Liberator heavy bombers, with P-38 Lightning
fighters and P-47 Thunderbolt fighters supporting, launch
major strike against oil installations at Tarakan. Other B-24
Liberator heavy bombers and B-25 Mitchell medium bombers hit
shipping off Tarakan and in Brunei Bay. In the Makassar Kendari
area B-24 Liberator heavy bombers bomb Polewali shipyards.
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers pound airfields in Ceram Amboina
area while P-38 Lightning fighters strafe shipping. B-25 Mitchell
medium bombers continue to support ground forces in Mapia
Seventh Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24
Liberator heavy bombers from Saipan and Guam hit shipping
at Chichi Jima and Haha Jima. P-38 Lightning fighters and
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers from Saipan escort photo planes
over Iwo Jima.
Eleventh Air Force. 4 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers strike Suribachi shore batteries,
including one on Takikawa Cape. A shipping sweep by 6 B-25
Mitchell medium bombers is cancelled due to weather.
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Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent seem to have ended their beef over a bet the two had made. The two made a gentlemans bet of about $10,000 on a boxing match in which 50 Cent won.
It was said that Floyd did not give 50 the money and when 50 approached him, Floyd stated something to the effect of, What are you going to do if I don’t give you the money?
50 and Floyd were then said to have began a short fist fight but it looks like they are ok now…
Floyd Mayweather tweeted the above pic with the caption reading:
“Round 2: Me and 50Cent getting it on over some stacks…”

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HOLIDAYMAKERS will be able to fly to two new routes from Leeds Bradford Airport after a airline announced an expansion of its service there.
Monarch Airlines undertook a “strategic review” of it business over the summer, which had led to fears it could leave the airport. But it has announced it has expanded its service from LBA for next summer, adding flights to Alicante and Naples to the existing eight destinations.
Flights to Dalaman and Faro have also been increased.
The Monarch Group’s chief executive, Andrew Swaffield, said the company believed the improvements to flights from its northern base would appeal to existing travellers and new customers alike.

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There is one main reason the U.S. doesn't have the social democratic traditions and programs enjoyed by most Western democracies -- we are the only such nation without some kind of universal healthcare -- and that reason is our history of ethnic, racial and class strife. (The bounty of the eternal frontier and American exceptionalism fit in there too, but I'd pick our fractious and well-manipulated heterogeneity as the top reason.)
The history of the 19th century and early 20th century is the history of labor and political coalitions splintered by divisions between Northern Europeans and Southern Europeans, between middle-class Germans and less well off German Jews, between the Irish and everyone else, and, increasingly after blacks won something akin to freedom, between all white ethnic groups and African-Americans. Latinos and Asians came with their own demands and baggage and relations got more complicated still. Barriers of language, culture, class and skin color thwarted many efforts to grow labor unions and build a social-democratic majority.
This is The Great Divide in American politics today. Not that some people think we should have “social democratic traditions and programs” like universal health care and some think we shouldn’t. No, The Great Divide is that some people think the fact that we do not have such traditions and program is, ipso facto, a failure. Walsh clearly believes that if we were a normal nation, a healthy nation, a decent nation, we would have been able “to grow labor unions and build a social-democratic majority.” To her, the fact that our history prevented us from doing so is a tragedy.
On the other side are people who think our lack of social democracy is a largely desirable result of our unique history and a vital source of our strength. I come down primarily on this side. I have never understood either Americans or foreigners who admire, respect, envy, desire, or seek to make use of America’s wealth, America’s power, and America’s products while simultaneously decrying the shape of our social structures; our lack of full government involvement in all good things from art to daycare; and our messy, contentious, and often unkind intersection of government, politics, morality, religion, economic interests, ethnic groups, racial groups, economic groups, high-minded ideals, personal ambition, straightforward greed, and astonishing generosity. It seems never to have occurred to them that it is the very characteristics they disdain that have created the money, might, and merchandise they seek to emulate, own, profit from, or employ for their own purposes.

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In another strange set of events, Limerick Football Club added a post to their social media pages tonight and are recruiting new players for the 2020 Airtricity League underage season.
On the club’s official Twitter page, which has been dormant for months, Limerick FC stated:
Limerick Fc Academy now recruiting in all age groups for the upcoming 2020 Season.
Please follow the link below”
Attached to the link was a form for potential new academy players and their parents to fill out if they wish to join the club.
With the Airtricity League launch occuring yesterday, many expected confirmation of whether Limerick FC had been awarded a licence to play in the Airtricity League First Division. However, as of Thursday evening, no confirmation was forthcoming on the matter.
The above recruitment drive suggests that Limerick FC certainly have a future in the league although with recent developments, the football fraternity in Limerick are utterly confused and dissilusioned.
In another twist, rumours are gatherimg pace in Limerick that the newly formed Treaty United group were once again threatened with legal action and their future looks uncertain.
It has been a roller coaster month as just three weeks ago, a press conference was held at the Castletroy Park Hotel with a new dawn for Limerick football promised.
However, just three days later, Limerick FC owner Pat O’Sullivan was victorious in his legal battle with the Football Association of Ireland in the High Court which allowed Limerick FC to apply for a licence.
O’Sullivan issued a rallying cry urging Limerick United to unite with Limerick FC. No interaction appeared to be forthcoming. Just last week, Conn Murray and the former ‘Limerick United’ group were forced to change their name to Treaty United following the threat of legal actiom from Limerick FC.

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The NBA regular season ends Wednesday, and the playoffs begin Saturday. And with that in mind, we’re going to shake things up a bit with regard to FiveThirtyEight’s NBA Power Ratings.Until now, we’ve ranked every team according to a projection of its true talent over the upcoming week — and the upcoming week only — using Real Plus-Minus (RPM) player ratings provided by Jeremias Engelmann and Steve Ilardi. (For more details on the original methodology, see our introductory rankings post.)But this week, with many teams resting key players in preparation for the playoffs, we’re ranking every team according to its projected playoff power rating. This means we’re projecting every team to be at “full strength” in terms of minutes given to players who will be available for the postseason, instead of only projecting for the next week. Playoff probabilities and expected end-of-season wins are still driven by projected minute distributions over the next few days, but the power ratings themselves have been geared to capture the talent that each team is bringing into the playoffs.With the playoffs being emphasized more in our ratings, it’s fitting that the San Antonio Spurs rank in the top two for the first time since early February. They’ve won 11 straight games, a run backed up by the underlying talent of one of the league’s best teams.The Atlanta Hawks also benefit from our switch to “playoff power” — while Thabo Sefolosha’s bizarre season-ending injury hurts their chances of winning the championship, we’ve boosted the playing time for many of their good players who have consistently been listed as day-to-day in the injury report in recent weeks.As for teams on the fringe of the playoffs, we noted last week that the Boston Celtics were basically a coin flip to make the playoffs, battling it out with the Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers for one of the two remaining postseason slots in the Eastern Conference. A week later, the Celtics have all but completely claimed their spot; our model now gives them a 98.9 percent probability of making the playoffs.By the same token, the Heat have almost completely dropped out of the race, with just a 2.4 percent chance of qualifying for the postseason. That leaves the Nets and Pacers to fight over one spot with two games left per team. Our calculations give Brooklyn the inside track largely because of the team’s possession of the tiebreaker over Indiana, in addition to an easier remaining schedule (the Nets face the No. 9 Chicago Bulls and No. 23 Orlando Magic; Indiana faces No. 7 Memphis and No. 15 Washington).Out West, the race for the No. 8 seed is between the New Orleans Pelicans and Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Pelicans have the edge in our simulations. Oklahoma City is marginally more talented, according to RPM, and is even projected to win fractionally more games on average, but New Orleans holds the tiebreaker over the Thunder.In no small part because of those tiebreakers, there’s a 45 percent probability that the Nets and Pelicans will be the final two teams to slip into the playoffs when the season ends Wednesday.
OSU sophomore Keita Bates-Diop (33) takes a free throw in a game against Louisiana Tech on Nov. 24 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost 82-74. Credit: Maria Martello | Lantern PhotographerIn Ohio State coach Thad Matta’s head coaching career, he has stood on the sideline for 531 games.He has won 403 of those, while dropping 128. But in none of those 531 contests has his team had more losses than wins in the record column.That will change on Tuesday, as the Buckeyes (2-3) are set to welcome No. 10 Virginia (5-1) to the Schottenstein Center for a 7:30 p.m. matchup as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.OSU’s season started off without any noteworthy results, grabbing 20-plus-point victories over a pair of unspectacular opponents. The wheels came off from there, however, as consecutive home losses to Texas-Arlington and Louisiana Tech dropped OSU to .500, before an overtime loss to Memphis in Miami gave Matta a losing record for the first time in his career.Sophomore forward Jae’Sean Tate said having a losing record comes as a shock when a player comes to a school like OSU, but the team has to keep its composure and keep getting back on track.“None of us expected to be 2-3, but we’ve just got to stay the course,” Tate said. “We have to learn how to grow, how to improve every week in practice.”Tate and fellow sophomore forward Keita Bates-Diop each offered the same two culprits for the Buckeyes’ struggles: turnovers and poor free-throw shooting.“We’re not losing games by a lot. They’re close games. It’s just the turnovers, we have to cut back on those, and make our free throws,” Bates-Diop said. “We could be getting different questions right now if we’re doing that.”The Buckeyes are turning the ball over 16.2 times per game, ranking 323rd in the nation out of 346 qualifying Division I schools. Virginia, on the other hand, ranks second with just 7.5 turnovers per game.Matta said the praise for the Cavaliers’ efficiency lies with coach Tony Bennett, who is now in his seventh season in Charlottesville, Virginia.“I think Tony Bennett has done a tremendous job in terms of coming in and establishing that program … I don’t think Virginia gets the respect of other schools, but they’re as good as any of them, that’s for sure,” Matta said.For the Buckeyes, Tate said it is never easy to snap a losing streak, and the team is unlikely to get any help against a team like the Cavaliers. Still, he said the team is trying its hardest to keep its focus one game at a time.“Any loss will have an impact on your confidence, but coach is doing a great job telling us to stay the course,” Tate said. “Teams go through losses all the time, it’s just how you bounce back the next game.”A glance at the CavaliersVirginia comes into Tuesday night’s matchup 5-1, with the lone loss coming in a second-game hiccup at George Washington.While the quality of its other five opponents hasn’t been the strongest, Matta said he has been more than impressed with what he’s watched.“They’re as good of a basketball team as I’ve seen this year … They’re such a great blend of the positions, inside, outside,” Matta said. “It’s definitely a veteran basketball team that’s going to be a great challenge for us.”Virginia — which earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament a season ago but was ultimately upset by Michigan State in the Round of 32 — uses a balanced offensive attack rather than relying on a go-to scorer.Redshirt senior guard Malcolm Brogdon leads the team with 16.7 points per game. The 2014-15 AP All-American Second-Team recipient has also chipped in 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game.The Cavaliers have shot exceptionally well this season, shooting the ball at a 51.7 percent clip from the field while holding opponents to 39.1 percent. Those marks rank 13th and 74th in the nation, respectively.“They’re a great defensive team,” Tate said. “They run a lot of offense through their post, so post defense will be really key. We’ve just got to execute and take care of the ball.”Up nextAfter the Cavaliers, the Buckeyes are set to resume action on Saturday against another school from the 10th state — Virginia Military Institute. Tip is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center.
The Senior Bowl, held in Mobile, Ala., is an opportunity for senior football players to showcase their talents in front of pro scouts and coaches. And Former Ohio State football players Ross Homan and Dane Sanzenbacher were invited to the field. Homan and Sanzenbacher understand the importance of the opportunity. “The best players in the nation are out here, competing and trying to showcase their skills,” Homan said. Being at your best and separating yourself from the rest is something Homan said is crucial in a game like this. “It’s very important. You’re always being evaluated every time you step on the field,” Homan said. “It’s a huge job interview; that’s the way I look at it.” Sanzenbacher agreed. “It’s an opportunity for you to show your talents and stand out from everybody else,” he said. Since the Sugar Bowl, Homan and Sanzenbacher have been training for the NFL draft process. Both were recently invited to the NFL Combine, and both said they plan to attend. During practice, Homan said coaches and scouts have been telling him to keep doing what he is doing and to relax and play to his ability. Sanzenbacher, who was a late addition to the Senior Bowl, had his first day of practice Tuesday, and said the competition there is one of a kind. “You can’t really replace that competition. It makes everybody better,” he said. “You’re working with some of the best players in the nation and it makes every rep that much more critical.” Being so close to the NFL, Homan said he is ready to make the most of the opportunity. “It’s a dream come true,” he said. “I have dreamed of it since I was a little kid, and now I have the opportunity to make it a reality.” Sanzenbacher said the feeling is surreal. “It’s weird. It doesn’t feel that close,” Sanzenbacher said. “There’s still a lot of steps that you need to go through to actually put on that jersey and play in the NFL.” Homan’s ultimate goal is to be a success and leave nothing undone. “Just be successful; just have no regrets,” Homan said. “Never look back and wish I could have done this or could have done that.” Sanzenbacher has different ambitions. “(I want) to put myself in a position to be successful after football,” Sanzenbacher said. “Obviously you want to play well and take (football) as far as you can, but ultimately, while you’re playing, set yourself up for the future.” Neither Homan nor Sanzenbacher has a preference of what team he would like to compete for. They said would just be grateful for the chance to play in the NFL. Sanzenbacher said he would never forget the experiences he had playing for OSU. “It kind of made me the football player that I am,” he said. “Being able to run out on Senior Day, to get your name announced as captain and your family on the field was definitely up there for me.” What Homan will remember most about OSU is his success on the team. “The close games, battles, sealing the deal on Big Ten championships,” Homan said. “Everything we’ve won, I’ll keep memory of.” The Senior Bowl will be televised at 4 p.m. Saturday on the NFL Network.
Junior defenseman, Clark Cristofoli (6), takes control of the puck in a game against Canisius. OSU won 3-0 at the Schottenstein Center Nov. 15. Credit: Brooke Sayre / Lantern photographer With freshman goalie Logan Davis’ first two collegiate starts came two victories as the Ohio State men’s ice hockey team swept Canisius College over the weekend.Davis took over the reins after fellow freshman Matt Tomkins sustained a lower-body injury in the first four minutes of OSU’s victory against Niagara Nov. 9.“That’s why (Davis is) out there in practice every day,” OSU coach Steve Rohlik said. “Sometimes you take it for granted, and I know our guys don’t, and Logan went out there and did his job.”Alongside Davis’ performance, Rohlik attributed the Buckeyes’ (8-4-0, 0-0-0) wins to their defensive unit, which he said has been a focus of the team.“Our guys played hard. Our guys blocked a lot of shots – I think we blocked over 40 shots this weekend – and Logan, in the nets, did his job,” Rohlik said of the defense, which gave up only one goal against the Golden Griffins. “When guys buy in and they’re willing to sacrifice their body in this game and get in front of pucks like that, you know you’ve got something special, and I think we can build on this.”Coach Dave Smith of Canisius (2-7-0, 1-3-0) shared the same sentiment of the Buckeyes’ defense, saying “their desperation and their commitment to blocking shots was the difference in the game.”The second game of the two-game series was played Saturday, and the Buckeyes managed to hold onto to the lead to win, 3-1.Both teams were held scoreless in the first period, but OSU got on the board and took a 2-0 lead with two goals by senior forward Alex Szczechura and freshman defenseman Josh Healey. Canisius responded with a wraparound goal by junior forward Mitch McCrank at 7:49 to pull the Golden Griffins within one goal.For the remainder of the game, OSU played a defense-centric game and fended off any attack on the net that Canisius attempted. With less than a second left on the clock, junior forward Ryan Dzingel sealed the victory with an empty-net goal.The Buckeyes outshot the Golden Griffins in the game, 29-23, and Davis stopped 22 of the shots he faced in his third victory as a goalie.Healey said playing consistently and not making drastic changes to the gameplay was what helped the team to keep its lead.“We just stuck to our game plan and kept going,” Healey said. “They pushed at the end, but we stuck to our game — get pucks deep, keep (the puck) on the other side and keep the lead.”The two-game series opened up Friday, and OSU came away with a shutout victory over the Golden Griffins.After a goal in the first period by Dzingel, who leads the team with seven on the season, the Buckeyes opened up the gap even more in the second period with goals from junior defenseman Justin DaSilva and freshman forward Nick Schilkey. With these, OSU extended the lead to 3-0, which was decidedly the final score after neither team scored in the third stanza.The series ended the Buckeyes’ seven-game homestand, during which they won six games. The team has a weekend off before it is slated to open Big Ten play with against rival Michigan in Ann Arbor Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. OSU is then scheduled to return home against the Wolverines Dec. 2 at 7:05 p.m.
Tianjin Quanjian forward Alexandre Pato believes Milan pulled off a masterstroke by having Leonardo return.He also admitted he is ‘waiting’ for a call from his fellow Brazilian. Leonardo managed Pato at Milan between 2009-10 campaign and ever since then has returned to San Siro as the club’s general manager, prompting hype from the striker.“Leonardo has the vision, competence and authority to give the club a new approach,” the 28-year-old told Tuttosport and quoted in Football Italia.“I’m not only talking in a technical sense. I imagine that at the club, there’s been some loss: many people have left in just a year and a half, so Leonardo can give security to the whole club.Serie A Betting: Match-day 3 Stuart Heath – September 14, 2019 Considering there is a number of perfect starts so early in the Serie A season, as well as a few surprisingly not-so perfect ones….“He’s the right person at the right place at the right time: he’ll do a great job. In the meantime, I’ll be waiting for his call… after that we’ll see!Pato also shared his thoughts about Elliott Management’s takeover of the Rossoneri.“It seems to me that in a few weeks, the new owners have moved decisively with regards to the club’s organisation,” he added.“That’s good for Milan and their future. The club deserve to return to the top.”
Dan Cohen AUTHOR While changes are coming to how the department operates military grocery stores, they won’t be implemented in a haphazard manner, according to David Tillotson III, DOD’s assistant deputy chief management officer.Tillotson, who has been charged with identifying ways to reduce the $1.4 billion annual subsidy Congress provides the commissary system, said any changes would be carried out deliberately and with mechanisms in place to ensure they don’t degrade the commissary benefit for military families. “We’ll work on it a piece at a time, and that’s our intention,” Tillotson told the American Logistics Association, a group of manufacturers and distributors who serve commissaries, exchanges and morale, welfare and recreation facilities.Privatization, for example, is not an “all or nothing” proposition, he said. It is possible that only some elements of commissary operations are handled by the private sector, reported Military Times. The main sticking point to privatizing commissaries will be overseas stores, Tillotson said.“We are unequivocally certain that people are really, really going to choke on the overseas operation portion. We’re certain of that because nearly every conversation I’ve had chokes on that point,” he said.Tillotson noted that the department was pleased that the Senate had removed language from the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill allowing DOD to privatize commissaries at five major installations.The Pentagon already has proposed allowing commissaries to charge variable prices for items and to introduce private labels in an effort to reduce the annual subsidy.In addition to looking for ways to save money in commissary operations, Tillotson said the deputy secretary of defense has asked him to find $10 billion in savings from other reforms across DOD over the next four to five years.
US president Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on 7 September, 2018, as he travels to Fargo, North Dakota, to speak at a Joint Fundraising Committee. Photo: AFPDonald Trump had to be tricked out of killing a US-South Korean trade deal? He threatened to move a US missile defence system from South Korea to Oregon? He ordered a plan for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea?These supposed moves by Trump, detailed in journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, will cause bafflement and worry among government officials in Seoul. But, for many South Koreans, they just add more pieces of evidence to an established picture of an erratic US leader who thinks little of an alliance forged in the turmoil of the Korean War and often described here as a “bond of blood.””South Koreans have already seen Trump’s childish behaviour many times,” an editorial writer for the conservative Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s most-read newspaper, wrote in a column Friday about Woodward’s book, comparing the president to a “rugby ball that could bounce anywhere” if not watched by others.South Korea, before Trump, had become used to regular, glowing declarations from US leaders of both political parties about the eternal strength of their alliance. The country, after all, is a global success story, rising from the poverty and destruction of the war into Asia’s fourth-biggest economy; it’s a regional bulwark of democratic, capitalist values and a leader in culture, trade and good works.So long before Woodward’s book, South Koreans were shocked at Trump’s open complaints about the costs of maintaining the 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea as protection against North Korean attack; at his decision, after his June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to abruptly shelve major US military exercises with South Korea; at his claim that the “horrible” US free trade pact with South Korea destroyed US industry and his insistence that Seoul renegotiate.When asked by The Associated Press whether he has ever seen a US president who was so openly dismissive of the US-South Korean alliance, Kim Sung-han, a former South Korean deputy foreign minister, said, “No.””He’s the first and hopefully the last exception,” said Kim, whose last posting in the South Korean Foreign Ministry was in 2013 and who has never met Trump. “He doesn’t approach alliances with a strategic mindset, but only evaluates their transactional value. He constantly questions whether the United States needs any alliance. He thinks that if a partner wants to keep an alliance, it should pay 100 percent of the costs.”Many of the most explosive excerpts from the soon-to-be published book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” deal with the Koreas.Trump reportedly ordered a plan to pre-emptively attack the North; he suggested that a US missile defence system in the South meant to guard against North Korean attack should be moved to Portland, Oregon; and a former Trump economic official allegedly swiped papers from Trump’s desk so he wouldn’t sign an order killing the free trade agreement between the countries.In a statement provided to The Associated Press, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said it has been following the reports, but that it would be inappropriate to comment about a book that hasn’t been published yet. It refused to say whether it considers any of the stories true. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy couldn’t immediately comment on the trade deal allegations.”South Korea and the United States have been maintaining close communication and consultation on major issues such as the North Korean nuclear problem, security, economy and trade,” the Foreign Ministry said.In spite of the behaviour described in Woodward’s book, Trump’s administration has avoided policy moves that would have created major repercussions with South Korea.The United States and South Korea plan to sign a renegotiated free trade deal during the UN General Assembly in New York later this month. The missile defence system – the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System (THAAD) – remains in Seongju, South Korea. Washington and Seoul have so far cooperated in diplomatic efforts in the nuclear standoff with North Korea.Still, experts say that Trump’s attitude doesn’t bode well for South Korea.It’s possible that the alliance will end up looking much different depending on the outcome of nuclear diplomacy among Washington, Pyongyang and Seoul. Experts say Kim Jong Un, who initiated the diplomacy after a stream of nuclear and missile tests last year, sees a rare opportunity in a US president who seems eager to prove his deal-making skills and thinks less of the traditional alliance with Seoul than his predecessors did.North Korea has been demanding the United States agree to a declaration to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which some see as a precursor for pushing for the withdrawal of US troops in South Korea.”Trump will continuously cause trouble and the alliance can be persistently shaken,” said Choi Kang, vice president of Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Choi said South Korean government officials will be anxious about the descriptions in Woodward’s book, which he says show the United States as “dysfunctional.””I have never seen a situation like this,” Choi said.Most experts say the alliance will probably survive the Trump presidency. South Korea, along with Japan, has served a crucial role in protecting US interests in the region, a role that both Seoul and Washington may need more of in the future to check a rising China, said Lee Daewoo, an analyst at South Korea’s Sejong Institute.Kim, the former diplomat, said South Korea’s government should make stronger efforts to show the value of the US-South Korean alliance to the American public.”Whether there’s two years left or six years left, that’s more than enough time for (the Trump administration) to cause serious damage to relations with South Korea,” Kim said. “Efforts to persuade the US public are crucial, because if Trump is afraid of anything, it’s American voters.”
More information: Richang Hong, Meng Wang, et al. “Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia. DOI: 10.1145/1873951.1874013 Richang Hong, Meng Wang, et al. “Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impaired Users.” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. DOI: 10.1145/2037676.2037681 (PhysOrg.com) — Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn’t changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing impaired viewers – or all viewers when the sound is off – to follow along. Now a team of researchers from China and Singapore has developed a new closed captioning approach in which the text appears in translucent talk bubbles next to the speaker. The new approach offers several advantages for improving the viewing experience for the more than 66 million people around the world who have hearing impairments. This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. YouTube extends automatic video captioning © 2011 PhysOrg.com The researchers, Meng Wang from the Hefei University of Technology in China and colleagues, won the Best Paper Award for their work on the new closed captioning method from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference in October 2010. “The whole technique was motivated by solving the difficulties of hearing-impaired viewers in watching videos,” Wang told PhysOrg.com. “These viewers have difficulty in recognizing who is speaking, so we put scripts around the speaker’s face; they have difficulty in tracking scripts, so we synchronously highlight the scripts.”As the researchers explain, conventional closed captioning can be considered static captioning, since all spoken words are represented in the same way at the bottom of the screen, regardless of who said them or the vocal dynamics. In contrast, the researchers describe their new technique as dynamic captioning, since the text appears in different locations and styles to better reflect the speaker’s identity and vocal dynamics. For example, the text is highlighted word by word in synchrony with the speech signals. In addition, a small indicator next to the talk bubble shows the variation of vocal volume.Moreover, all of these features can be automatically implemented without any manual intervention. The engineers developed algorithms to automatically identify the speaker using the video’s script file along with lip motion detection. Using a technique called visual saliency analysis, the technology can automatically find an optimal position for the talk bubble so that it interferes minimally with the visual scene. Professionals can also further adjust the generated captions, such as moving the talk bubbles. When the speaker is off-screen, or a narrator is speaking, the words appear at the bottom of the screen as in static closed captioning. The system estimates vocal volume of words and phrases by computing the power of the audio signal in 30-millisecond windows.Processing a video for dynamic captioning takes approximately the same amount of time as the video duration itself (videos cannot be processed while running). However, processing time can vary depending on complexity. The researchers predict that the processing time can be significantly reduced by speeding up some of the individual processes.In a user study with 60 hearing impaired individuals aged 11 to 22, the researchers found that 53 of the 60 individuals preferred dynamic captioning over static captioning. The seven individuals who chose static captioning mainly did so due to their familiarity with that method. On average, the users rated dynamic captioning higher than static in terms of enjoyment, and about the same in terms of naturalness, mainly due to some instances when the text position changes abruptly. The researchers hope to solve this problem by smoothing the variation in text position.“In the technical papers, we have mentioned that there are several failure cases, such as putting scripts around an incorrect faces,” Wang said. “This is the main bottleneck for commercialization. In order to be commercialized, a better way is to further incorporate human intervention. For example, a professional user can quickly check the generated dynamic captions and then manually correct or edit some failure cases. It will cost much less time and effort than the pure manual generation of the whole captions as the user only needs to process those incorrect cases. We have already been studying it.”Since this work is the first to help hearing impaired individuals enjoy an improved video experience, the researchers note that there is a lot of potential future work in this area. In addition to improving dynamic captioning, they hope to apply the technique to videos without script files, as well as to perform more comprehensive user studies. Citation: Researchers revolutionize closed captioning (2012, March 22) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2012-03-revolutionize-captioning.html Explore further Examples of different captioning styles: (a) scroll-up captioning; (b) pop-up captioning; (c) paint-on captioning; (d) cinematic captioning; and (e) dynamic captioning. The first four techniques can be categorized as static captioning, and different from them, dynamic captioning in (e) benefits hearing impaired audience by presenting scripts in suitable regions, synchronously highlighting them word-by-word and illustrating the variation of voice volume. Image credit: Hong, et al. ©ACM

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text: News Business & Policy Canada Is About to Get Its First Carbon-Negative Brewery Karbon Brewing Co. hopes to quantify CO2 emissions and reverse them technologically. By Katherine Martinko Katherine Martinko Twitter Senior Editor University of Toronto Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Learn about our editorial process Updated January 8, 2021 07:13PM EST Fact checked by Haley Mast Fact checked by Haley Mast LinkedIn Harvard University Extension School Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside snowboarding or foraging. Topics of expertise and interest include agriculture, conservation, ecology, and climate science. Learn about our fact checking process Share Twitter Pinterest Email Karbon Brewing Co. News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Karbon Brewing Co. wants to become Canada's first carbon-negative brewery by 2024. The process of brewing beer is notoriously resource-intensive, using large amounts of water, energy, and heat, while generating significant quantities of packaging waste. Toronto-based Karbon hopes to solve these industry problems by tackling them more methodically than any other Canadian brewery to date. Its ambitious goal is explained in a press release: "Unlike other large-scale breweries that produce high emissions during their production cycle, being completely carbon negative means that Karbon’s CO2 footprint is far less than neutral. This allows Karbon Brewing Co. to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere as opposed to adding to it." Karbon plans to achieve this by relying more on technological solutions than carbon offsets, although offsets will be used occasionally. Right now the brand is working to map its carbon footprint, with the help of a tech company that has created carbon accounting software that could eventually be applied to the entire brewing industry across North America. Once quantified, Karbon will be able to figure out which solutions are most effective at negating all of its emissions by 2024. A spokesperson told Treehugger, "Their focus is on finding technology solutions to reverse their footprint – technology such as filters, CO2 recyclers, CO2 capture machines, and renewable energy. Karbon's plan is to tap into government grants and actually innovate solutions to apply to the brewing process. A huge focus of sustainability will be upstream supplier relations and downstream waste." The company is analyzing its packaging, too, and working with a supplier to create biodegradable 4- and 6-pack drink holders, recyclable can sleeves, and more (details on what kinds of materials these would include were not provided). The spokesperson added, "Many eco-friendly packing solutions do not exist at scale in the brewing industry and they are hoping to change that." Karbon Brewing Co. It's not clear where Karbon stands on refillable, reusable glass beer bottles, which have long been a viable green business model for breweries around Ontario. They also may be healthier than aluminum cans, which often have a BPA-infused epoxy in the lining that has been found to leach into the drink. (Lloyd Alter has warned Treehugger readers about this risk many times over the years.) The company says it is committed to using local ingredient suppliers as much as possible, which helps to reduce its carbon footprint and builds a more secure supply chain. Here you can see a lovely handful of hops grown just a few hours away from Toronto. It's great to see a brewery talking and thinking about sustainability in serious, comprehensive way. In the words of co-founder Stephen Tyson, "Traditionally the innovation in the craft beer industry has been around new recipe development and beer style. We wanted to change the focus towards the brewing process and cleaning up the supply chain." If Karbon Brewing Co. is able to prove that carbon negativity is feasible, then hopefully other companies will adopt similar practices – and then customers will come to expect it as part of a socially responsible business. Karbon plans to be sold at LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) stores, beer stores, and grocery stores across the province (it's currently in the LCBO's application phase), and it will offer direct delivery in the near future. The company has also signed up for 1% for the Planet to support local non-profits. View Article Sources "Survey of Bisphenol A in Soft Drink and Beer Products from Canadian Markets." Government of Canada, 2010.


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A Aaron K Carter film.
We thinks this was a web-series then turned into a feature.
The only reason to bring up is lead actress was switched mid-production and ,Yes,There is a resemblance ,But their interpretation of the daughter/heroine is vasts worlds apart.
The father figure was awesome and character was allowed to grow and comes to conclusion.
The ROTTENS,We assume are undead and we know this because their Point Of View is in black & white when attacking.
The lead human bad-guy , we decided is a Bam Magera ‘looker’ with Some Joe Cocker,Travis Tritt and Lou Gramm from Foreigner nuances.
Dead Kansas is scary in a Walking Dead way and yet Erin Miracle gives it this B-Movie feel with her outfits and endangered scenes.

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City of Dublin
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The City of Dublin is situated approximately 35 miles east of San Francisco and 30 miles northeast of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dublin has long been known as the “crossroads” of the Bay Area as it sits at the intersection of two major highways, Interstates 580 and 680. The City of Dublin along with the cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, San Ramon, and Danville comprise the region known as the Tri-Valley area. The City is also served by the Dublin/Pleasanton and the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Stations.
Dublin has emerged as a lively, thoughtfully planned community with a population of nearly 73,000 residents and a land area of 15.23 sq mi. Home to a mix of quality housing, a broad range of retail and commercial entities, and two pedestrian-oriented transit districts, the City is poised for continued prosperity.
The City seeks a veteran planning professional with a broad depth of planning and housing experience and high ethical standards.
Reporting directly to the Community Development Director, the Assistant Community Development Director has direct oversight and supervisory responsibility of the Department’s Planning and Housing Divisions. The two divisions are staffed with eight full time employees not including assigned support staff. The Department also utilizes contract services to assist with special projects, plans, and studies. The Assistant Community Development Director serves as Secretary, or staff liaison, to the Planning Commission and sets the Commission’s meeting agenda.
A combination of education and experience for this position include five years of increasingly responsible full-time experience in a municipal community development department and two years of administrative management and/or supervisory experience. A Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Business or Public Administration, or related field is required. A Master’s degree in a related field and AICP credential is preferred.
The City of Dublin offers an excellent salary and benefits package. The annual salary range for this position is $153,312 to $191,640, DOQ. CalPERS 2.7% @ 55 formula applies for Classic Members.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
CCEE1207 White on White
As our host for February, Shirley challenged us to a WHITE ON WHITE challenge. You are allowed to add color to your image and/or add colored ribbon. I went pretty much WHITE on this one, with my image and sentiment in black. The flowers are white in real life but seem a bit more creamlike in this picture.
Please be sure to check out the work of the rest of this fabulous team. Here are the links to our blog as well as to the blogs of the individual team members.


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Kings Park High School Senior Kayla Koelbel earned a top spot this past weekend at the New York State Track and Field Championships in Syracuse.
Koelbel was named All-New York State after finishing 3rd in the pentathlon and was instrumental in leading Kings Park to their third consecutive Suffolk County Division II Championship and their 6th consecutive League V Championship.
earned at the State Qualifiers last July and was ranked 8th in New York State.
Koelbel will attend Cortland University next year where she will continue her track and field career.
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A look at the costume worn by Julia Bartet for the role of Yvonne de Chambreuil in Henri Méilhac and Louis Ganderax's "Pépa" at the Comédie-Française theater in 1888.
This costume comes from the Comédie-Française stores handed over to the Centre National du Costume de Scene (National Centre for Stage Costume, CNCS). It was worn in the play "Pépa," performed in 1888, and featured in the exhibition "L'art du costume à la Comédie-Française" ("The Art of the Costume at the Comédie-Française") at the CNCS in Moulins, from June 11 through December 31, 2011.
"Pépa" is a play by Henri Méilhac and Louis Ganderax. It appeared alongside a number of plays by Émile Augier, Edmond Gondinet, Victorien Sardou, and Émile de Narjac, which all dealt with the new French law on divorce and its social consequences. The costume was reused in "Bajazet," a Jean Racine tragedy at the Comédie-Française in 1905.
When Emile Perrin, the Comédie-Française director, gave actresses the right to wear haute couture for modern costumes on stage in 1881, he was following the lead of many Parisian theaters. Indeed, contemporary plays around the turn of the 20th century were performed in contemporary costumes. From then on, actors would look to external couturiers to make their dresses, leading to staggering expenses. This eastern-style costume was bought from the couturier Jacques Doucet (1853–1929) at a cost of 1,500 francs for the play, "Pépa." That is the equivalent of around €20,000 today.
Julia Bartet (1854–1941), known as "divine Bartet," was born in 1854 and, along with Sarah Bernhardt in particular, was one of the main actresses of the Belle Époque. She joined the Comédie-Française in September 1879 and became its 307th member in December 1880 by unanimous committee vote. The theater's general manager at that time, Émile Perrin, who had modern tastes, expanded its repertoire to include several contemporary plays. Julia Bartet's versatility allowed her to take on roles as the young leading lady in classical plays, recent adaptations, and new creations. She played the part of Yvonne de Chambreuil in "Pépa" at the age of 34.
Miss Bartet's dresses were described in "La Cocarde" (November 2, 1888), a French newspaper established by Maurice Barrès: "Rose-leaf satin, Japanese-style negligee embroidered with braiding and blue-green plumetis. Skirt in the form of a train, opening over a satin petticoat with a touch of pink, itself covered with silk muslin decorated with Malines frills; the underneath, which is miraculously hazy, can also be seen under the train and on the sides, and forms a delicious, well-proportioned, light and silky bodice." The description surely comes directly from the Comédie-Française and was written for readers wanting to copy the dresses worn by Julia Bartet.
Indeed, as fashion became more popular from the 1870s, the press became the intermediary between stage and city fashions. The Comédie-Française programs at that time also provided an excellent showcase for fashion designers and couturiers. This was a reciprocal relationship. When an actress was dressed by a couturier, the latter was given publicity in the program.
"Pépa" is a play that deals with the recently introduced law on divorce and its social consequences, which was a means to women's emancipation. A woman formed a single social entity with her husband.Under the Third Republic, the Naquet law of 27 July 1884 re-established divorce on the basis of specific failings. This meant that women's social status would undergo a great upheaval.


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Towards Carfree Cities VI - Bogotá
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From 20-24 September, people from all over the Americas and abroad descended on Bogota, Colombia, for this year's successful Towards Carfree Cities conference, held at the Museo de 'El Chico' and the Universidad del Rosario and hosted by World Carfree Network member organisation Fundación Ciudad Humana.
Out of 120 participants, half came from Latin America and half from North America and Europe. Thirty of the participants came to Bogota as part of an international youth exchange organised by World Carfree Network and funded by the European Commission. Two hundred people attended the public day, convened by the mayor of Bogota, Luis Eduardo Garzón.
The mornings were focused on presentations and debates, while the afternoons featured workshops, excursions and on-site visits. Click here for the conference programme, or here to the presentations. The conference emphasised various successful projects and initiatives in Bogotá and across Latin America that cities elsewhere can learn from and emulate.
One example is the Bus Rapid Transit system that was developed in Curitiba, Brazil, and spread to Bogotá and is now being introduced in Africa, Asia and North America. Participants had the chance to tour a Transmilenio BRT facility and to ride bikes in Bogotá's weekly Carfree Sunday, in which 120 km of streets are closed to car traffic.
And just before the start of the conference, Bogota initiated a street closure programme in the historic La Candelaria district, with the eventual aim of creating a sizable carfree area there. Also on the theme of carfree spaces, participants took part in a "Street Conversion Design" workshop and international competition, with the aim of transforming spaces monopolised by transport into spaces designed for community enjoyment. The 15 winning submissions will appear in Carbusters magazine #29.
Participants were overall very pleased with the conference, and gained a lot from the experience. They are encouraged to send their feedback to WCN's conference coordinator Randall Ghent (e-mail: ; Skype: randallghent), to help us organise future Towards Carfree Cities conferences.
Also see the Carfree Bogota Blog: http://carfreebogota.blogspot.com/

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We’ve Teamed Up with S & T Too, to Make This Year’s Parks Challenge Even Better!
It’s a trivia scavenger hunt that ends with delicious S & T Too pizza! So, round up the family and…
- Visit the 8 featured parks.
- Enjoy the 8 featured parks and answer the trivia questions.
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New Mixtape from DJ Spinatik titled “Fresh Out The Kitchen 4” featuring various artists hosted by Kap G
New mixtape from DJ Blak boy, DJ S.R., and Mixtape Monopoly titled “Street Titans 2” featuring various artists.
New mixtape from Guy ATL and Soul Musix titled “Guy’s Super Friends 4” featuring various artists.
In January of this year DaBaby, aka Baby Jesus, from Charlotte, NC released his mixtape Baby Talk on LiveMixtapes, which featured his version of a lot of today’s hits and he has not stopped. Today […]
Que drops a new fourteen track mixtape. Dee Boi and Miguel Fresco are the only two features on the project.
DJ Scream hosts Lil Mikey TMB’s “Eastside Nino” mixtape. The tape features 21 Savage, Trouble, Hoodrich Pablo Juan, and many more. LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD HERE
New Mixtape from Spotlife Movement titled “Spot 2” hosted by Black Bill Gates. This is a eighteen track project featuring artists from the Spotlife crew such as Banks, Phew, 32 Yacht, and Bipoloar HD, with […]
DJ Princess Cut drops new mixtape titled “Candy Sto” featuring various artists.
Que drops a new three track EP titled “Live From Da Dawg House”. The first two songs are produced by Sonny Digital and the last song featuring YRC is produced by Westside Webb.
Atlanta’s Simpson Road veteran Booman is back to the streets with the long awaited mixtape “Brick Fair” hosted by Rich Gang’s DJ Swamp Izzo. DOWNLOAD: Booman – Brick Fair


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Pictures are now posted on our Facebook page from our April 30 open mic. Thank you so much to everyone who came, it was a great event! And don’t forget to join us this Wednesday, May 14 from 6-8 pm for our “How to Get Published” writing panel at CCSF’s Ocean Campus, VA 115.
Come to the Ocean Campus this Monday for a great talk by a prize-winning author!
Who: Jonathan Freedman
What: Discussing his most recent novel, his career as a writer and the transition from fiction to non-fiction.
Where: Batmale Hall, Room #349
When: Monday, March 10th 3-4:30 pm
For more info on Jonathan’s work, visit his website!
Following in the spirit of Forum‘s recent publication party—which, if you missed, was a great success and a lot of fun—we are hosting a second open mic and reading this semester, this time at the ever-excellent Cafe La Boheme. Located next door to the 24th Street BART station, Cafe La Boheme is not only easy to get to but also serves as a dependable locale for finding good food, drink and conversation—and, in the case of this upcoming Sunday, a chance to hear the latest literary works of the CCSF community as well. So whether you have some new or old work you would like to read, you’d like to hear some great stories and poetry, or you’re simply looking for something to do Sunday night, come on out and enjoy the festivities!
When: Sunday, April 14, 2013 @ 5:30 PM
Where: Cafe La Boheme (3318 24th Street)
Just want to let y’all know the series is updated for our upcoming Nov. 5th show at Brick & Mortar! Please
RSVP and share on your facebook / twitter / email blasts / whathaveyous so that the series gets as much exposure as possible. There is no facebook event because all promotion is sponsored by NoisePop’s Do415.com, which is where everyone attending should RSVP. The flier is also attached for your printing and spreading purposes. Remember, the show is free but the bands split up 20% of the bar ring, so the more drinkers we get through the door, the happier we’ll be at the end of the night.
There’s some additions to the evening’s itinerary as well…
Load-in 5:30, soundcheck 6. doors at 7.
7 – 8pm: DJ Neil Martinson
8 – 8:30: Colin Ludlow Mattson & The Folks
8:30 to 8:45: Short readings from contributing authors of Forum Magazine
8:45 – 9:15: Betsy and Beau
9:15 – 9:30: Short readings, raffle winners
9:30 – 10:15: Sea Dramas
10:15 – 10:35: DJ Neil Martinson
10:30 – 11:15: Luke Sweeney & Wet Dreams Dry Magic
11:15 – ? DJ Neil Martinson
Please feel free to coordinate with the other acts (including mine) if there is backline equipment you’d like to share, (i.e. amps & drums). Thanks in advance to all of you for contributing your many talents to what should be a beautiful harvest of music, literature, and revelry!
L’s Caffe have been kind enough to sponsor a reading/fundraiser for Forum.
Reading will be crime novelist and teacher Seth Harwood and poets Nic Alea and Aimee Suzara and possibly others (watch for updates). There will also be the usual open mic, maybe a raffle and, excitingly, the latest issue of Forum will be out so you’ll have your first chance to see (and/or purchase) the latest batch of poetry, prose and art from the CCSF community.
Thursday, May 31
2871 24th Street, SF CA
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Benjamin Bac Sierra author of the novel Barrio Bushido and poet Athena Kashyap whose work has appeared in Noe Valley Voice, Spork, The Fourth River and many others will be reading this coming Monday, May 7 in Visual Arts 114. There will also be standard reading fare — an open mic as well as food and drink and a raffle. Hope to see you there.
One more reminder. Yes, we are have a reading tonight at the Ocean Campus, 6 pm, MUB 140. There will be a raffle, food and drink and an open mic which may feature a contest — a chance to get featured on this very blog so check it out.
Tomorrow, Saturday, February 4 —
Join us for a night of live music, readings, and dancing as we celebrate our latest edition of Forum!
Magazines hot off the press will be available to purchase for $10 as well as raffled off throughout the night and contributors will each receive a free copy of the magazine. Well-known authors will read from their latest works before the mic is opened to the public to read poetry, sings songs, chant wisdom…anything, really!
Featured readers will be:
There will also be an open mic and music from local band Rival Parties, DJs and as well as live jazz to kick off the evening. The event is also a fundraiser to benefit Forum*, a $7 donation is suggested but not mandatory. Things get underway at 6:00 pm at N.I.P. at 17th & Capp (Look for the wooden door that says “NIP;” Please enter/exit discreetly).
*this is not an official class/club/magazine event
This weekend, the Free University of San Francisco is offering classes taught by such local luminaries such as Matt Gonzalez, the former San Francisco Supervisor and mayoral candidate, and San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima. As you can tell by the name, these classes are free, as well as open to the public. Here’s more information from Kwame Opoku-Duku, Forum‘s Managing Editor for the spring 2011 issue:
Alan Kaufman and Diane Di Prima are both literary icons in San Francisco and throughout the U.S. (and probably beyond). The event is taking place at on Saturday at Viracocha, at 998 Valencia St.
Kaufman starts his lecture on Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack at 11:30 am downstairs. His lecture will go until 1:30pm.
Di Prima begins her lecture entitled “Vision and the Visionary Poet” at 2pm upstairs. She is scheduled to speak until 4pm.
These are the literary aspects of the Free University of San Francisco but there is much more going on to satisfy all of your political, musical and artistic desires.

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The new songs reflect some changes in Earle's life. Since his last album, 2014's double shot of Single Mothers and Absent Fathers, Earle has gotten married and is about to become a father. Kids In the Street shows his growth as a songwriter. Instead of looking into himself, the songs look out into the world around him. Plus, he's letting his blues and soul influences out in these songs. It's not a huge change in sound. Kids In the Street fits right in with Earle's discography of country/folk releases, but it's just enough of a change to keep his sound interesting.
You can get your copy of Kids In the Street Singles Pack + PledgeMusic Acoustic Sessions (not exactly a catchy title, but accurate) for free at NoiseTrade. Kids In the Streets will be released on May 26 via New West. The album can be pre-ordered via PledgeMusic. For more on Justin Townes Earle, check out his website.
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Raul Alfonsin, who oversaw transition to democracy in the early 1980s, dies aged 82.
Poch is alleged to have worked as a pilot at the Navy Mechanics School, which gained notoriety for being a torture centre during the war.
Velasco ordered that Poch be held in prison until Argentina puts in a formal request for his extradition, Iganacio Pelaez, Poch’s lawyer, said.
Poch has said that he had no involvement with the deaths in Argentina, Pelaez said.
“He still doesn’t understand anything,” Pelaez told the Associated Press news agency.
“It’s all a nightmare for him. He doesn’t understand why he is here.”
Poch currently works for Transavia, a buget airline that operates along tourist routes between the Netherlands and other European and North African cities.
About 13,000 people died in the war against dissidents during Argentina’s period of military rule between 1976-1983, the country’s government has estimated.
Human rights groups say the death toll is more likely to have approached 30,000.

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Across the country families are facing substantial council tax rises. As a Conservative, I believe in low taxation and keeping bills as low as possible for taxpayers. And as a Conservative, I will always campaign against any unnecessary rises in tax for hardworking families.
As Lady Thatcher said in 1977, “Our aim is to make tax-collecting a declining industry.” This goes to the very heart of what our Conservative philosophy is all about, and yet many Conservative councils across the country are opting to go against this core mission.
Thousands of parish and town councils in England have recently increased their share of the annual council tax bill and raised £18.9m in extra funds. For example, Endon with Stanley Parish Council voted to increase the precept by 2.35%, with only myself voting against it on principle. Our neighbours in Bagnall Parish Council made the right decision not to increase their precept at all.
Figures show that 3,659 parish councils raised the basic Band D tax bill by more than 1.99%. Sixty small authorities at least doubled residents' bills last year. Another 130 put their bills up by between 50 and 99% while 1,001 increased the annual bill for a Band D home by £5 or more.
Parish and town councils are not subject to the referendum threshold of 2%. Larger authorities and other bodies, such as Police and Crime Commissioners, are legally obliged to hold a referendum if they want a rise of 2% or more, or would raise bills by more than £5 per year per household. Last year the Chancellor changed this rule for larger councils. The threshold can now rise to 3.99% as long as most of the increase funds adult social care.
Many parish councils are now planning large percentage increases for 2016-17 in order to take on a range of services which some councils cannot afford to run anymore such as libraries, toilets, youth work, community buildings and economic development activity.
To give you a few examples: Newquay Town Council will put its council tax precept up 90%, Frodsham Town Council in Cheshire is increasing its precept by 50%, and the largest percentage rise in parish council tax precepts is an eye-watering one at almost 1,200%.
The number of local residents who attend parish council meetings often remains in the low single figures. Most parish councils don’t have to hold elections as not enough people put themselves forward as candidates. In addition, their meetings aren’t live screamed via an online video like those of district and county councils. This lack of accountability means that it is a lot easier for parish councils to get away with increasing council tax, without any political pressure.
This is a travesty for local democracy. Under the Coalition government, many councils were rightly stopped from increasing council tax by 2% or more without first holding a referendum, but the rules do not apply to parish and town councils. The proposed rise in the limit for a referendum to 3.99%, will mean that the average household will pay an extra £50 on top of what they already pay.
On a brighter note, our Conservative-controlled Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, under the excellent leadership of Councillor Sybil Ralphs MBE, has just frozen council tax for the seventh year in a row. Stoke-On-Trent City, now under the control of the Conservatives and City Independents, also made the right decision to freeze council tax. Sadly, Staffordshire County Council are taking the wrong path by increasing their share of the council tax by 3.95% from April, after councillors approved the rise last week.
What we need is for councils to put measures in place to ensure that high quality public services are provided in a way that meets the continuously changing needs of residents in a fast-paced society, at the lowest possible cost. I encourage all of our local authorities to read some of the excellent documents produced by the Taxpayers’ Alliance who give some great examples of how this can be done successfully.
We also need true democracy restoring to our communities by the Government extending the referendum threshold to parish and town councils so that they can no longer arrogantly increase our council tax bills without our consent.
Joe Porter is a Parish Councillor in Staffordshire Moorlands, Chairman of Staffordshire Moorlands Conservative Future and the President of Keele Students for Britain. He studies Marketing and Politics at Keele University, where he is a Trustee of Keele Student Union.


Requirement of a legal residence of the foreigner in PolandA foreigner from outside EU can work legally in Poland if they
- hold a document permitting them to enter the Polish labour market, i.e. a work permit, a seasonal work permit, a declaration of entrusting work to a foreigner (or must be exempted from the said requirement based on specific regulations) or a temporary residence and work permit,
- hold a residence title, the grounds for which must entitle also to work (e.g. a relevant visa or residence permit);
Residence titles which can entail a permit to work in Poland include:
- based on a visa, except for visas issued for tourist, temporary protection and visit due to humanitarian reasons, because of the state interest or international obligations (those are visas mentioned in Article 60 section 1 item 1, 22 or 23 of the Act of 12 December 2013 on Foreigners respectively);
- pursuant to Article 108 section 1 item 2 (a stamp in a travel document confirming submission of the application for a temporary residence permit — the stay is legal until the final decision is issued) or Article 206 section 1 item 2 (a stamp in a travel document confirming submission of the application for a permanent residence permit — the stay is legal until the final decision is issued) of the Act of 12 December 2013 on Foreigners, or based on the stamp in a travel document, confirming the submission of an application for a residence permit for EU long term resident, if they were entitled to work in Poland directly before submitting the application;
- based on a temporary residence permit, except for the permit granted in connection with the circumstance mentioned in Article 181 section 1 of the Act of 12 December 2013 on Foreigners (this is a temporary residence permit granted because of the required short-term foreigner's stay in Poland resulting from their obligation to appear in front of a Polish public body, vital interest of the foreigner or the interest of Poland);
- based on a visa issued by another Schengen Area state,
- based on a residence document issued by another Schengen Area state,
- within a non-visa traffic.
The foreigner working legally in Poland is entitled e.g. to:
- receive remuneration not lower than the one stipulated in the foreigner's work permit, declaration of entrusting work to a foreigner or the temporary residence and work permit;
- receive one copy of the work permit or the original declaration submitted by the employer to the Poviat Labour Office, entered in the declarations register;
- receive a written agreement, being grounds for work, in a language understandable for them.
Types of agreementsIn Poland, it is possible to work under various agreements (e.g. a contract of employment or civil law agreements, e.g. a contract of mandate or for specific work). The type of the agreement is connected with different work nature and the rights and obligations of the employer and employee.
Most rights and the broadest protection is offered to an employee by a contract of employment. Pursuant thereto, the employee is entitled e.g. to:
- the protection from the termination of the contract of employment for selected categories of workers (primarily employees on sick leaves, during a leave, pregnant workers, employees at the pre-retirement age);
- the determination of the working and resting time;
- paid holiday leave;
- remuneration for the time of sickness;
- specification of detailed rules of agreement termination;
- remuneration for overtime work (longer than stipulated in the Labour Code);
- at least the minimum remuneration (in 2019 the minimum remuneration in Poland is PLN 2,250.00 gross; it is reduced by the social insurance contributions and advance personal income tax payments).
What should a contract of employment contain?Apart from naming the employer and the employee, agreement type and its execution date, it should indicate the following information:
- work type (name of the position/job, function and job description);
- work location;
- remuneration corresponding to the work type: work commencement date (if it is not stipulated in the contract, it is assumed to be the date when the contract is signed);
- working hours.
The employer who executes the contract is obliged to register the employee for social insurance within 7 days after they commence work.
Civil law agreementsThose are agreements governed by the Civil Code. The most frequent civil law agreements include:
- contract of mandate,
- contract for specific work.
Important information: For the contracts of mandate (Article 734 of the Civil Code) and for the agreements which the provisions concerning specific work apply to (Article 750 of the Civil Code), the minimum hourly rates apply, i.e. PLN 14.70 gross at present.
Important information: For some civil law agreements, e.g. the contracts of mandate, the employer is obliged to register for social insurance purposes! The employer must do it within 7 days after the employee has commenced work.
Foreigner's registration as an unemployed personForeigners who lost their job are entitled to register as unemployed in the Poviat Labour Office if they hold one of the below-mentioned residence titles:
- refugee status;
- permanent residence permit;
- residence permit for EU long-term resident;
- temporary residence permit granted to perform work in a highly-qualified job;
- temporary residence permit to carry out scientific research;
- temporary residence permit granted in connection with holding a residence permit for EU long-term resident in another EU state;
- residence permit due to humanitarian reasons or a consent for tolerated stay in Poland;
- in connection with benefiting from temporary or supplementary protection in Poland;
- temporary residence permit for a family member of a Polish national or a stamp in a travel document confirming submission of an application for the temporary or permanent residence permit or the residence permit for EU long-term resident, if they held a temporary residence permit directly before the application was submitted;
- temporary residence and work permit or a visa issued to perform work provided they were employed in Poland continuously for at least 6 months directly before registering as unemployed
Rights of foreigners registered as unemployedFollowing registration, those people will be able to use unemployment benefits and labour market services, i.e. employment services, career counselling and career information, help related to active jobseeking and participation in training organised by the Labour Office. Moreover, they will be subject to health insurance and, consequently, use free health care services. For foreigners who hold a temporary residence and work permit (the so-called "uniform permit") and a visa issued to perform work, participation in training will not cover financial aid related to further education during training and post-graduate courses. A registered foreigner can be entitled also to the unemployment benefits if they reside based on one of the above-mentioned residence titles and meet the conditions of acquiring the said right, as stipulated in the Act on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions (as a rule, they comprise the obligation to work and pay Labour Fund contributions for 365 days altogether in 18-month period before the date of registering as an unemployed person).
Foreigner's registration as a jobseekerForeigners who do not meet the conditions required for registration as unemployed can register as jobseekers. They obtain access to services offered by Labour Offices, e.g. to the employment services and career counselling.
Labour market services available to the people not registered in the Poviat Labour OfficeForeigners holding a temporary residence and work permit or a visa issued to perform work or another temporary residence permit, regardless of whether they are registered as unemployed or jobseekers, can use:
- Popularly available employment services provided by Labour Offices;
- Information on the jobs, labour market and training and education opportunities provided by Labour Offices;
- Information and electronic databases aimed at obtaining jobseeking and self-employment skills.


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Okay,I'm back! So,in this episode, Night Raid are going to assassinate a leader from the religious group or his assistant. I don't know if I was slow when Najenda explained the plan or my brain was very tired after all that studying. Anyway,they decided to take care of the Jaegers first. And you all know why they make Wave sent flying like that. I think they want him and Tatsumi fight later which will be epic.I think they made the right choice to do that because you got to save the best for last.
And Kurome's Imperial Arm was awesome.It's pretty badass when she resurrected the huge Danger Beast like that and the skeleton of the beast was very epic! It reminded me of Digimon, when Greymon turn into a skeleton of himself and I don't know what his name was. I like how they make a scene for fan service for nothing like being a decoy or something. I thought they wore swimsuits so that the enemy attract to them. And it was funny how Lubback say 'Gay',no offence but the way he said it was funny.
And I'm sorry if you guys annoyed when I said whenever this little twerp shows up but, Seryu is so cray cray that I literally hate her. I know I should chill but damn,she's a psycho! Acting all cute with that little puppy and that little 'Teehee' expression... Mine! Make sure to make your shots count! Not like when you missed a shot on Kurome! Also,don't die. What I like in this episode, the funny scenes,the progression and maybe the fan service because it was a little funny. I'm hoping for Tatsumi Vs. Wave on the next episode or him against Esdeath. Anyway,that is it for this review. I hope you guys were entertained by this review and the episode!
I'll see you guys next time so,take care and have a great day!!^^/

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When Beth Dzuba's husband Mark died suddenly 18 months ago, running the leak-detection business he owned was the furthest thing from her mind.
A marketing professional at Eli Lilly and Co., she knew nothing about the leak business, let alone how to run a company. The couple-married less than three years-had never even imagined such a tragedy, let alone discussed what to do with the business if the unthinkable happened.
Nevertheless, Dzuba found herself dealing with her husband's business even as she was reeling from his death. And she's far from alone. Few smallbusiness owners think about succession-let alone plan for it-until they're forced to, experts say.
"They're just not planning for the unexpected very well," said Bob Bai- ley, district director for the 14 Indiana chapters of SCORE, which provides small-business counseling. "Owners simply don't want to plan for it. Most wait until something awful happens. The result is just not pretty."
Businesses can suffer, to be sure. CDaddy's BBQ, a family-owned restaurant near 10th Street and King Avenue, remains closed nearly a year owner Clarence Williams was shot and killed. His wife, Carla Jones-Williams, has said she's not sure if or when it will reopen.
Beth Dzuba, 43, faced the same decision when her husband died. The closest they'd come to discussing succession was talking about Beth taking a three-year leave of absence so they could explore running the business together. But those conversations were full of "ifs" and "maybes" and "someday when we can afford its."
"We never even got that far," Beth Dzuba said. In March 2005, Mark went into the hospital for routine surgery and died days later when complications arose. He was 42. "It was very unexpected. It just shouldn't have happened."
At first, she thought she'd sell the American Leak Detection franchise outright.
"That's what I thought I'd do," she said. "But with everything that happened ... I needed a little time to figure things out."
She took a 90-day leave from Lilly, still thinking she'd sell. She informed the franchise's corporate office in California of her decision, and went into the office occasionally to help Mark's cousin, Mike Dzuba, who was trying to keep things afloat.
"Then I fell in love with the business," Beth said. "It just made me feel close to Mark. I realized this was where I was supposed to be."
She told American Leak Detection she was going to keep the business and asked Lilly for that three-year leave she and Mark had talked about.
"Planning for the unexpected should definitely be done, but it's extremely difficult because both sides are so entrenched," Dzuba said. "I was at Lilly, so for us to plan for me to come into the business to learn it in case of the unexpected was just not practical."
Even had the two considered such a tragedy, their plan would not have called for her to take over the company.
"This is not a glamorous business," she said. "Had we talked about it, I would have said, 'If you die, I'll sell the business.' So perhaps you at least have the conversation, but leave the door open for the possibility of making a different decision."
It's not always death that sparks business owners'thoughts about succession planning, but it's usually something serious.
Bob Melloh, owner of Johnson-Melloh Inc., an Indianapolis mechanical contracting, plumbing and heating company, got serious about passing on the family business when he was treated for prostate cancer about three years ago.
Melloh has been in remission for a year, but, as the disease ran its course, he started talking to his sons, Andy and Nick, about taking over. Andy was working for the company at the time; Nick worked for a residential heating and air conditioning firm, but has since joined Johnson-Melloh.
"Most people don't want to think about succession planning, as it's related to death," Nick Melloh said. "Unfortunately, we kind of got pushed into thinking about it."
Working with a financial planner, the Mellohs made changes to their wills and the company underwent some restructuring to minimize tax liabilities in the event of a sudden death.
"You can't just ignore things," Nick Melloh said. "There's been a shift in practices and mindset since our father's illness."
That tough-love approach to succession planning is critical, but rarely carried out in small companies, said Kent Lutz, director of the Goering Center for Family and Private Business at the University of Cincinnati.
"It's very difficult to talk about your ultimate removal from your own business," he said. "It's a very emotional issue. Often [business owners] have their whole identify wrapped up in the business."
An emotional time is the worst time to make next-generation decisions about one's business, Lutz said. So waiting until the unexpected happens isn't a prudent decision.
Rather, Lutz and others recommend tough love-drawing in someone from outside the company to help make difficult decisions.
"The founding family is not adequately able to take themselves out of the equation and do the planning," Lutz said, adding that it often takes a "hard-nosed" adviser to get the job done.
That's not necessarily the company's accountant, banker or even financial adviser, Lutz said: "In many cases, they have a vested interest in the business, so they can't necessarily push the owner far enough for fear of losing their client."
Plan to plan
Lutz has created an eight-step program that includes identifying a growth strategy for the business, putting together a team that will keep owners accountable, valuing the business and going through the estate-planning process.
While he uses his program to counsel small businesses on succession strategies, Lutz said it's important to remember that even the best-laid plans aren't set in stone. Decisions can and often do change-as they would have with the Dzubas.
What's important is moving forward with planning anyway, Lutz said.
"Any succession planning is a very complicated set of procedures and that's one reason it's avoided," he said.
It's like putting together an estate plan, said Bailey of SCORE. "Someone has to get the owner to face up to the issue. They have to admit they need to do this and think ahead."
And not all unplanned successions are unmitigated disasters, certainly.
Dzuba is exploring her new career path, for example.
Patora Fine Jewelers co-owner Ramiro Campens also is content with his role in the jewelry store his late brother, Julio, founded 20 years ago.
Julio died of pancreatic cancer five years ago, and Ramiro left a marketing position at Houston-based Sysco Corp to join Julio's two partners, who took over at the time. A fourth owner has since been added, creating a stronger, more stable structure.
"I'd had no inkling of getting into the business while my brother was alive," Campens said. "Succession happened without us meaning for it to happen."
Although none of these business owners had plans in place before the unexpected happened, they all agree it's crucial to do so.
Like the Mellohs and Patora co-owners, Dzuba has begun to plan for the unexpected now that she's got the business back on its feet.
Not only does planning help ensure the company carries on, but it also minimizes revenue that could be lost as family members try to think about sales and profit amid the emotional trauma of death or serious illness.
"We lost a lot of business initially because we didn't have a back-up plan," Beth Dzuba said. "But the unexpected does happen and there has to be some consideration to keep the company from going under."


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Posted on 4 April, 2018 at 1:12 am Share With Twitter : CBSE not to reconduct class X Maths exam
The Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have decided not to reconduct the Class 10 mathematics examination anywhere in India, including Delhi/NCR and Haryana.
“Consequent to the preliminary evaluation of the impact of reportedly leaked CBSE class 10 maths paper & keeping in mind the paramount interest of students, CBSE has decided not to conduct re-examination even in the states of Delhi NCR and Haryana. Hence, no re-exam for class 10,” School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said in twitter on Tuesday afternoon.
The CBSE announced the cancellation of the Class 10 Maths exam on the day it was held after reports of paper leaks. Mr. Swarup had said the government would take a call within 15 days on whether the exam should be held in Delhi/NCR and Haryana, if at all, while announcing that it would not be held anywhere else.
The police investigation is on into the papers leak and a few people have been arrested and an official has been placed under suspension.
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from the CBSE on its plans to reconduct the examination. The court also sought response from the HRD Ministry and the Delhi Police on a petition seeking a court-monitored probe into the papers leak.
The National Human Rights Commission on Monday said it had issued notices to the HRD Ministry, the CBSE and the Delhi Police over the papers leaks. It sought a detailed report in four weeks.
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