For organizing todays event, as well as kicking off a social Media Campaign as this years challenge. We want to encourage more women to vote, especially for this upcoming election. Well share more details later on in the program. You can learn more about the initiative on wchallenge. Org 100 women. Todays event will stream live on sfgovtv. Org youtube channel, as well as the citys facebook and twitter accounts. I want to thank our colleagues here from sfgov tv for working in the backgrounds and making this event as successful as possible for everyone. You can feel free to share the links and host a watch party if you want on your preferred social media platforms, because we will be having them on facebook and twitter. This session will be recorded for future references. So lets get started. Happy womens equality day. May i kindly ask the president of the commission on the status of women to join us, bree anna swat, to officially kickstart the celebration of todays event. Thank you. Tha
Too many they say to reopen for in person learning, given that Santa Clara County in the red tier is experiencing substantial spread of covid 19. To have a lot of kids in a classroom, that is an indoor gathering, and we dont think thats safe. A high schoolteacher in san jose welcomed the decision. I wasnt totally surprised, but i was relieved. John fensterwald told Us School Districts are grappling with how and when to reopen. The Elementary School districts, its easier to bring back your teachers. If youre a unified school district, thats more difficult. Thats a harder negotiation to make. In San Francisco abc 7 news was told the unions Bargaining Team is preparing right now for three meetings next week with the school district. The Oakland Education Association on the other hand informed us that they have not not negotiated with the school district, and no talks around schools reopening are scheduled. Reginald moseley works from home and is able to supervise his three children as the
Distancing social from future tense in partnership, a partnership of slate, new America Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and then joined by Priscilla Painton who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, and Brandon Tensley was the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you have to unmute. A, nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to moderate this, one of the things that it brought up, brought to mind area broader in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at the time, did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. In particular, y
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Im british welcome to news asia laughter had with us 75 years ago today japan officially signed its surrender in world war 2 even though it had announced an end to the fighting 2 weeks before it wasnt until the 2nd of september 1905 that the surrender was officially signed it came however at the cost of some 30000000 lives in asia from targeted mass killings such as in china fighting and occupation by Japanese Forces at its peak japan controlled territory from eastern china to most of Southeast Asia but with it came suffering in the local populations and death however there were also those who were forced to work for imperial Japanese Forces such as the protagonist of our next report. For 95 year old lee had gray memories fade slowly during world war 2 the south Korean National fought for the Japanese Army afterwards he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and his home near tokyo the horrors of the time continue to haunt him. I was going to go back to korea b