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As Guyana approaches the one-year anniversary of the installation of the current government, the country has not yet benefited from a frank and honest discussion of what really occurred during the twenty months from the No-Confidence vote to the eventual declaration of the electoral winner. This is partly due to a reluctance by the media to open their pages and microphones to any scrutiny of their editorial support for the pro-PPP narrative of exactly what happened. It is also partly due to timid leadership of the opposition which is still to work out a coherent strategy of how to confront the peculiar type of government and governance that have emerged in the wake of what was in the final analysis a clear case of contrived Regime Change.
My argument that there was Regime Change does not assume that the Coalition would have won the election or actually won the election. Rather, it is that the Regime Change pre-empted a fair outcome, thus rendering the election inconclusive. The five-month impasse from March 2 to August 2, 2020 was in effect an open dispute over the process and result of the election that was engaged but not solved by GECOM or the courts. In the end US pressure in the form of sanctions and the threat of expanded sanctions on members of the Coalition forced a capitulation that cleared the way for the PPP's installation. This in effect kicked the dispute down the road into a "post-election zone" where it is most difficult to justly settle such disputes.
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From my standpoint, the PPP was installed in office by a fusion of geopolitics and ethnicity which militated against the PNC-led Coalition and in favor of the PPP. The scenario began with the No-Confidence vote in December 2018 which triggered a twenty-month impasse. During those twenty months the following factors converged in the PPP's favor–ethnic fearmongering, extreme media bias, conservative court rulings, poor leadership and bad strategizing by the Coalition, external entanglement of foreign forces in the electoral process, CARICOM's abandonment of its traditional neutrality, pre-election electoral manipulation by the PPP, the closing of ranks by the Indian Guyanese elites and the GECOM's chair succumbing to the intense pressure.
I cite the above to point to the fact that simplistic explanations of "attempts to steal the election" do not capture the essence of what took place. Such explanations are used to mask the reality which I cited above. As I argued last week any citing of the "Mingo factor" while ignoring the "Recount Factor" reeks of dishonesty and partisan justification of the August 2 outcome. The big question is this—When will there be an open and honest debate and analysis of what actually happened? My answer is that it may take the removal of the government from office to facilitate such a national debate.
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The degeneration of the government into dictatorship will not lead to such a debate because those who facilitated and supported the process that brought the PPP to office will either not see or pretend not to see the linkages between dictatorship and regime change. I almost fell of my chair when I read a letter to the press by a man who was very much part of the regime change theorizing abut the rise of dictatorship under the government he helped to install. He, of course, didn't cite the linkage between his acts in 2019-20 and the ill he complained about.
In the meantime, the PPP triumphantly marches on with no care for the destruction it leaves behind. It sticks its fingers in the eyes of the opposition with immunity. It dismisses the warnings of US Congressmen. It insults the very leaders of CARICOM who helped with the installation. It spends the oil money on itself even before the money arrives. It makes Guyana poorer. Bust as the old people say "Every rope got an end."
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The stations – open for about 18 hours a day – are all very busy, especially during weekday peak periods, and they account for a significant share of the 46 million passenger journeys a year on the London Midland network. Commercial Director Alex Hynes says: "We are working with the British Transport Police to create a safe and secure network. Ticket gates are an efficient way of reducing fare evasion as well as allowing us to gather vital information that can assist us in improving services." The Birmingham gating project also includes Moor Street and New Street stations, both of which are managed by other companies and are outside the Secom contract.
At the three London Midland stations, Secom engineers installed cameras on both sides of the ticket gates to capture images of passengers entering and leaving the gated areas. The images, 20 frames per second, are stored on digital recording equipment housed in secure locations at each station. Ian Barthorpe, of Secom's National Accounts Department, says the equipment was selected to ensure clear images to facial recognition standard and of a quality that could be used in evidence in the event of a prosecution.
"The installation involved very strict health and safety requirements – our engineers had to be safe at all times and they had to work at night to avoid blocking peak passenger movements. They also had to work to engineering standards that met with Network Rail's stringent requirements," he says.
Over the past two years, London Midland has initiated an extensive programme of improvements to its trains and stations. The company manages 149 stations and operates more than 1,200 services a day – between London and Liverpool, and local services in the Midlands.
Alex Hynes says: "We treat fare evasion very seriously, as do other train operating companies, and are successful at detecting fare evaders and prosecuting. We believe we have one of the lowest rates of 'fare dodging' in the country and report to the Department for Transport on our progress, quarterly. It's unfair that a minority of passengers choose to dodge their fare and the gates are an effective way of addressing this. We have a strong record of reducing fare evasion but we can't afford to be complacent."
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Over the last decade, there is an increase in the usage of Social Media today. The media become a common mode for the means of communication in today's life. Today about 90 % of the population were using this Social Media. Using this media as a model of communication business people were targeting their people in order to increase the traffic to the website. The usage of this Social Media has increased drastically over the past years.
In this current world, the Internet became the common thing in everyone's life. It has been all around us.It may be cars, homes, hospitals and additionally, wearable like Fitness bands and digital was the most common thins in now – days. And the next thing that we are going to have a look at the emergence of driver less cars in a short span of time completely (as it has already in existence in few places). And recently people were planning to have an answer for the problem in future that would occur in the future?
This IOT provides the customer experience effectively in today's life. It plays a major role in business – business communication. It expects that its customers were expected to cross 1.9 billion by 2020. Rather than turning the things into, the SDK file is designed to create easy –to use native IOS apps which works prefix with IoT data from industrial sensors ranging from wind turbines to power plants and jet engines.
As we know Teleco industry is an old perspective on capital investment and revenue and revenue sharing. So here IOT demands a new ecosystem totally. And moreover, the quantum of sustainability provided by the telecom industry is not sufficient. And the mobile operators need to provide the quantum of sustainability for those operators.
A new approach is necessary for considering the regulatory and policy paradigms in order to enable the IoT world. Data security and cross-border movement the opening up new questions for the new questions which were yet to defined.
5G technology doesn't have capital investment and revenge story. The next step is to define the new architectural model and enabling the network to figure out the cost of implementation and revenue case.
The implementation of 5G technology will happen either through the building of the entire network (or) follow the gradual path of 4 G generation and installation of base stations at the edge.
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Cape Cod kids make a movie, Vineyarders reflect on COVID, and more arts news
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For some different kinds of movies to watch with the family this weekend, there's the Boston International Kids Film Festival, screening dozens of movies online (or with a trip to Arlington) that are by, for or about kids. One of the shorts was made by a group of Cape Cod middle-schoolers in a summer class at Cape Cod Media Center.
In other news, essays by Martha's Vineyard residents about their COVID-19 experiences have been pulled together into a book; new Broadway stars are joining frequent Provincetown host Seth Rudetsky for his online concert shows; and a Boston Ballet dancer stars in a modernized PBS version of "Coppelia."
Cape students' 'Karen' film to screen for Boston film fest
A close to four-minute movie that Cape middle-schoolers created last summer after being inspired by some politically incorrect videos will have its premiere for this weekend's Boston International Kids Film Festival.
The Nov. 19-21 event online and at the Regent Theatre in Arlington focuses on films for, by and about kids. This year, the festival includes 60 films, with a block of student work from Filmmakers Collaborative "FC Academy" programs alongside major theatrical and documentary films created by professionals.
The local movie is called "Revenge of the Karens!" and was created in July in a one-week FC Academy class offered through the Brewster Recreation Department. Finley Williams, a Brewster sixth-grader, says her group was having trouble deciding on an idea until, during a break, they watched a compilation of "Karen" videos — showing privileged white women making unreasonable demands. Their group, dubbed Uh-Oh, I Broke My Leg! Productions, chose to make a "revenge" film based on the vilified stereotype and Finley ended up playing the movie's title character.
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"I had to act entitled and self-absorbed," she said in a phone interview this week. "It was hard, but it was really fun."
Finley says she enjoyed learning about editing, camera angles and other skills that have carried over to video work she's now doing at Nauset Regional Middle School. Finley and her family were surprised to learn of the movie's inclusion in the Boston film festival and plan to participate online. "I'm really excited that it got chosen," she said.
Other Cape students in front of and behind the camera included Asa Kew, Silas Wirtz, Esme Hildebrand, Reese Daley, Mateo LaRosa, Dylan LaRosa and Mason Wentworth.
Filmmakers Collaborative is also putting on the Boston film festival, which, according to an announcement of the event, is designed "to inspire kids to use the media to tell their own stories while screening some of the best films that independent filmmaking has to offer." Festival offerings will include full-length documentaries, animated shorts and short films appropriate for young children through teens.
More than half the films being screened are student-made, with the producers and directors age 18 or younger — including by students in various FC Academy classes, according to the announcement.
This ninth year of the festival is set up in a hybrid way, with in-person screenings and Q&As for some films taking place all three days, but with all of the films and Q&A sessions available for viewers to screen virtually from home over five days.
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Other notable films showing include a documentary about a group of Massachusetts punk rockers under age 10 who made it big on the Warp Tour; and a documentary about students who took the U.S. government to court over climate change.
Festival information and tickets: https://bikff.org/. Passes begin at $50 for complete access to all online and in-person screenings and sessions.
Burns, Vosk among stars joining Rudetsky series
Seth Rudetsky, Sirius XM radio host who leads concerts with Broadway stars in Provincetown each summer, has announced who will be part of his continuing live online concert series through mid-December.
The virtual programs, at 8 p.m. Sundays, follow the concert-and-conversation format Rudetsky pioneered in Provincetown. Upcoming Broadway guests: Nov. 21, Andrea Burns ("On Your Feet! The Story of Gloria Estefan," "In The Heights"); Nov. 28, Leslie Kritzer ("Beetlejuice," "Something Rotten"); Dec. 5, Jose Llana ("The King & I," "Here Lies Love"); Dec. 12, Jessica Vosk ("Wicked," "Finding Neverland"); and Dec. 19, Andrew Barth Feldman ("Dear Evan Hansen").
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Islanders write about pandemic
A more than year-long project about how dozens of Martha's Vineyard residents responded to and coped with the COVID-19 pandemic has now been turned into a book: "Covid Monologues MV: Readings to Nourish, Inspire & Connect."
The anthology, available for purchase Dec. 12, includes 70 monologues from island writers aged 10-82, responding to events spanning from March 2020 to November 2021. Twenty-seven of the pieces haven't been part of past iterations of the community project.
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Creating the island monologues was the idea of book editors Jennifer L. Knight, actress and vice president of Island Theater Workshop, and Moira Convey Silva, who taught Zoom writing courses that included essays on coping with quarantine life. The longtime friends and busy moms who homeschooled together last year decided this kind of project might help people find their voices.
The two now hope, according to a press release, that the book "will help Islanders continue to cope with and better understand the challenges of Covid while leaving a testament for future generations."
The first installment of "Covid Monologues MV" was heard in November 2020 with a kick-off storytelling event at the Martha's Vineyard Museum. Since then, there have been dramatic readings and a student-centered monologue experience. Information on the book and its journey: www.covidmonologuesmv.com.
Boston Ballet dancer stars in modernized PBS 'Coppelia'
Michaela DePrince, an international dancer and Boston Ballet second soloist, stars as "Swan" in PBS's "Great Performances: Coppelia" production that officials say reimagines the classic ballet for today's audiences.
The ballet, described as "a modern fairy tale for the whole family" that is a "contemporary reboot for the digital age" combines live dance with 2D and 3D animation. The production premieres Nov. 26 on PBS channels, pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app.
Featuring other international dancers who include Daniel Camargo, Vito Mazzeo, Darcey Bussell and Irek Mukhamedov, "Great Performances: "Coppelia" tells the story of Doctor Coppelius, a sinister cosmetic surgeon. His quest to build the perfect robot woman threatens the romance, and then the lives, of young lovers Swan and Franz. Swan must act before Franz's heart is used to spark life into Doctor Coppelius' creation.
The show is based on a 2008 Dutch National Ballet production, but Ted Brandsen created new choreography for the film, in collaboration with that company's dancers and cast members, to mesh the live dance with the animation, according to a press release.
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The gut microbiota plays an important role in human health by interacting with host diet, but there is substantial inter-individual variation in the response to diet. Here we compared the gut microbiota composition of healthy subjects who exhibited improved glucose metabolism following 3-day consumption of barley kernel-based bread (BKB) with those who responded least to this dietary intervention. The Prevotella/Bacteroides ratio was higher in responders than non-responders after BKB. Metagenomic analysis showed that the gut microbiota of responders was enriched in Prevotella copri and had increased potential to ferment complex polysaccharides after BKB. Finally, germ-free mice transplanted with microbiota from responder human donors exhibited improved glucose metabolism and increased abundance of Prevotella and liver glycogen content compared with germ-free mice that received non-respondermicrobiota. Our findings indicate that Prevotella plays a role in the BKB-induced improvement in glucose metabolism observed in certain individuals, potentially by promoting increased glycogen storage.


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— The House Ways and Means Committee today will make its first public examination of the string of temporary tax breaks known as extenders, as it faces pressure both to quickly restore those incentives and to let them stay dead.
— Yes, a president's budget is largely meaningless. But President Donald Trump's call for a more robust enforcement budget for the IRS illustrates a pretty strong difference of opinion between his administration and some on the right.
— Rough milestone: Tax revenue for states dropped the last quarter of 2018, for the first time in over two years, in part because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's limits on state and local deductions.
WELCOME TO TUESDAY, where let's kick this off with another tax-related historical note: Today marks 89 years since Mohandas Gandhi kicked off the Salt March, leading thousands of people some 240 miles over more than three weeks to protest a longstanding British tax on salt. (In all, around 60,000 Indians, Gandhi included, were arrested during the march.)
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WHAT DO WE DO WITH THESE? It's no secret that House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) has been in no huge hurry to figure out how to deal with extenders — marking a pretty big contrast with Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a champion of biodiesel preferences who thinks the incentives should have already been signed back into law by now.
Part of Neal's reasoning is that he wants his committee's new Democrats — 10 in all — to learn more about a group of tax breaks that include some pretty obscure provisions and has a long legislative history of being revived after long periods of being expired. Four of those Democrats are on the Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, which is holding the hearing this afternoon examining the tax code's temporary provisions, so it will be interesting to hear how those newcomers approach the topic.
The skeptics: There are plenty of advocacy organizations fighting to bring back the extenders for another go, but also an eclectic group urging Congress to leave the tax breaks on the scrap heap — think free market groups on the right (Americans for Prosperity), deficit hawks in the center (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget) and progressives (the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy), who have all argued that bringing the preferences back on a stop-and-go basis is no way to run a tax code.
Here's one way the extenders process might not be a textbook way to do policy: One of the narrower provisions is the American Samoa Economic Development Credit, which helps StarKist's operations in the territory. StarKist told Morning Tax in a statement that it has 2,600 employees in American Samoa, making it the territory's largest private-sector employer. But the company added that "without this tax credit, it is not economically viable to continue to manufacture" in American Samoa, largely because of competitors in cheaper places to produce, like China and Thailand. (A Samoan publication also noted last year that uncertainty over the credit was delaying StarKist from moving some operations from California to the territory.)
But from just a tax policy perspective, here's another interesting nugget about the credit — Congress actually repealed the underlying tax code section for the incentive in a technical corrections bill last year, leading the Senate Finance bill, S. 617 (116), to extend the preference to engage in a little gymnastics to get around that fact. (Check pages 16 and 17.)
BUDGET DAY! Trump's latest budget, released Monday, is likely to be largely forgotten by today in many quarters. Pro Tax's Brian Faler took a look at some of the bare-bones tax proposals in the budget, including $11.5 billion in funding for the IRS, a $50 billion tax credit program to bolster private schools, the scrapping of energy tax breaks and requiring refundable tax credit recipients to have a Social Security number.
But there was one proposal that pointed to some space between Trump and others on the right — $15 billion to strengthen tax enforcement that the administration says would bring in about $47 billion, a healthy profit for the government. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had already been an advocate for a more robust IRS budget, and this newest proposal might have been perhaps the sole bright spot in Trump's latest blueprint for some on the left.
At the same time, plenty of conservatives have long been queasy about the idea of pouring more money into tax enforcement, even before the IRS's tea party controversy made the agency even more of a target on the right. Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union told Morning Tax it's too simplistic to say that the solution is just for the IRS to audit more, noting that big companies already face a rather high audit rate. "In other words, the threat to taxpayers doesn't rise and fall in a linear fashion with IRS's enforcement budget. There is plenty to be worried about, but it's more about poor procedures and lack of protections for taxpayers than raw enforcement dollars," Sepp wrote in an email.
ON THE WAY DOWN: State tax revenue dropped a touch under 2 percent during the last three months of 2018 when compared to that same period in 2017, driven in large part by an almost 10 percent drop in personal income tax collections, Bloomberg reported off of Urban Institute data. And as it happens, the SALT cap affected the revenue totals for both years — individual income tax collections were artificially inflated in 2017's fourth quarter, because taxpayers rushed their payments in to beat the new limits. It's probably no surprise then that the states facing the biggest drops were the high-tax blue ones, with New York and California both absorbing greater than 14 percent drops in revenues.
Speaking of the SALT cap: The Tax Foundation found that hiking the top individual income tax rate back to the 39.6 percent mark wouldn't offset the costs of scrapping the new SALT limits, Brian also reported. In fact, the proposal from a pair of Democratic tax writers from New Jersey, Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Bill Pascrell, wouldn't even come close to breaking even by the Tax Foundation figures, falling short by more than a half-trillion dollars over a decade.
FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE: Austria, Italy and the Netherlands have helped enable Russia to expand its economic reach in Europe because of problems with their own political systems, including not keeping a close enough eye on tax avoidance and evasion, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a new study. The group's recommendations for battling back included closing tax loopholes and fighting harder against tax evasion. For its part, the Dutch government suggested that the findings explored "the downsides to our tax system's international orientation," but added that it emphasizes battling against tax avoidance.
NOT A GREAT TRADE: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is threatening not to give cities and counties their share of the state's gas tax increase if they don't meet housing goals, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. That policy wouldn't go into effect until 2023 under legislation rolled out on Monday, because the governor wants to give policymakers more time to hash out housing goals. Newsom has vowed to build 3.5 million new homes in California by 2025, but even some of his fellow Democrats have said that the proposal to tie the housing crunch to the gas tax is an overreach.
Bill Gates, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on the same page on taxing robots.
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Lee Earnest Longmire, 20, the suspect's real son, hasn't been seen in several years.
A Georgia woman has been arrested after police say she had a man pretend to be her missing disabled son to gain access to her son's $200,000 trust fund.
Yvonne Longmire, 58, allegedly conspired with 23-year-old Marcus Ford to have Ford pose as her missing son, Lee Earnest Longmire, in front of a probate court and during a visit with a physician to scam her son out of the money in his trust.
The pair had convinced authorities that Lee no longer had a severe disability and did not need a conservator to serve over his sizeable trust fund, according to a press release from the Gwinnett County Police Department.
The money was released into their care, but before they were able to withdraw it, the former conservator attorney and his paralegal became suspicious after realizing the 20-year-old had not physically been seen in several years, police said.
After an investigation, authorities declared Lee a ward of the state and appointed a guardian through the Division of Family and Children's Services to act on his behalf, but his whereabouts remain unknown. Yvonne has allegedly claimed he's "okay," although she hasn't disclosed where he is.
Yvonne surrendered to authorities on Friday and is facing a string of charges including perjury, forgery, identity theft, theft by deception, criminal solicitation, and exploitation of an at-risk adult.
Ford has also been arrested and is awaiting extradition from Phoenix, Arizona, where he was apprehended.
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Sixty years after abolishing its military, Costa Rica is promoting an ideology abroad that defense spending should instead fund social programs. But the country is not doing enough at home to keep the peace, according to Karen Olsen de Figueres, second wife of the man who famously disbanded Costa Rica´s armed forces in 1948, President José "Pepe" Figueres.
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\section{Introduction}

A graph is {\em k-degenerate} if each subgraph has a vertex of degree at most $k$.  Every $k$-degenerate graph is $(k+1)$-colorable. Borodin \cite{B76} in 1976 suggested to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets that induce graphs with better degeneracy properties. A graph $G$ is $(a,b)$-partitionable if its vertices can be partitioned into sets $A$ and $B$ such that the subgraph induced by $A$ is $a$-degenerate and the subgraph induced by $B$ is $b$-degenerate.   Borodin~\cite{B76} conjectured that every planar graph, which is 5-degenerate, is $(1,2)$- and $(0, 3)$-partitionable.   Thomassen~\cite{T95, T01} confirmed these conjectures.

Clearly a graph is bipartite if and only if it is $(0,0)$-partitionable.  A graph is called {\em{ near-bipartite}} if it is $(0,1)$-partitionable.
Recognizing near-bipartite graphs can be seen as restricted variants of the 3-coloring problem, which is well known to be NP-complete \cite{L73}. Borodin and Glebov \cite{BG01} showed that every planar graph of girth at least $5$ is near-bipartite (see \cite{KT09} for an extension of this result). Dross, Montassier, and Pinlou \cite{DMP15} asked whether every triangle-free planar graph is near-bipartite.
Borodin, Glebov, Raspaud, and Salavatipour \cite{BGRS05} proved that planar graphs without cycles of length from 4 to 7 are 3-colorable. Wang and Chen \cite{WC07} showed that planar graphs without $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles are 3-colorable. In this paper, we improved this result by showing that planar graphs without $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles are near-bipartite. Some tricks in the proof resemble those first appeared in \cite{BG01, BGRS05} and further developed in \cite{BGMR09, BGR10}.

\begin{theorem}\label{main1}
Every planar graph without \{4,6,8\}-cycles is near-bipartite.
\end{theorem}

An {\em{IF-coloring}} of a graph is a partition of its vertices into two parts such that one part colored $I$ induces an independent set and the other part colored $F$ induces a forest. Given a graph $G$ and a cycle $C$ in $G$, an $IF$-coloring $\phi_C$ of $G[V(C)]$ {\it superextends} to $G$ if there exists an $IF$-coloring $\phi_G$ of $G$ that extends $\phi$ with the property that there is no path joining two vertices of $C$ all of whose vertices are colored $F$ and do not belong to $C$.  We say that $C$ is {\it superextendable} to $G$ if every $IF$-coloring $\phi_C$ of $G[V(C)]$ superextends to $G$. When we wish to specify $G$, we will say $(G,C)$ is superextendable.

Instead of Theorem~\ref{main1}, we actually proved a stronger result:

\begin{theorem}\label{main2}
For every planar graph $G$ without \{4,6,8\}-cycles and any cycle $C$ in $G$ of length at most 12, $(G,C)$ is superextendable.
\end{theorem}

By \cite{BG01}, every planar graph of girth $5$ has an $IF$-coloring. Since $G$ contains no $4$-cycles, $G$ must have a triangle. Thus Theorem~\ref{main1} follows from Theorem~\ref{main2} easily.

Graphs mentioned in this paper are all simple. Let $d(v)$ be the degree of $v$. A $k$-vertex ($k^+$-vertex, $k^-$-vertex) is a vertex of degree $k$ (at least $k$, at most $k$). The same notation will be applied to faces and cycles. Let $C$ be a cycle of a plane graph $G$. We use $int(C)$ and $ext(C)$ to denote the sets of vertices located inside and outside $C$, respectively. The cycle $C$ is called a {\em separating cycle} if $int(C)\ne\emptyset\ne ext(C)$. We still use $C$ to denote the set of vertices of $C$.  An $F$-cycle is a cycle whose vertices are all colored $F$,  and an $F$-path is path whose vertices are colored $F$.

\section{Reducible Configurations}\label{ReducibleConfigurations}
Let $(G, C_0)$ be a counterexample to Theorem~\ref{main2} with minimum $\sigma(G)=|V(G)|+|E(G)|$, where $C_0$ is a cycle of length at most 12 in $G$ that is precolored. If $C_0$ is a separating cycle, then $C_0$ is superextendable in both $G-ext(C_0)$ and $G-int(C_0)$. Thus, $C_0$ is superextendable in $G$, contrary to the choice of $C_0$. Thus, we may assume that $C_0$ is the boundary of the outer face of $G$ in the rest of this paper.
Call a vertex $v$ {\em internal} if $v\notin C_0$, call a face $f$ {\em internal} if $f\ne C_0$ and {\em truly internal} if $V(f)\cap V(C_0)=\emptyset$.

\begin{lemma}\label{minimum}
Every internal vertex in $G$ has degree at least $3$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Suppose there is an internal $2^-$-vertex $v$ in G. By minimality of $(G,C_0)$, the $IF$-coloring of $C$ can superextend to $G-v$. If $v$ has a neighbor colored $I$, then color $v$ with $F$, otherwise, color $v$ with $I$. In all cases, $C_0$ superextends to $G$, a contradiction.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{separating}
The graph $G$ has no separating cycle of length at most 12.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Suppose otherwise that $C$ is a separating cycle of length at most 12 in $G$. Then $C$ is inside of $C_0$. By the minimality of $(G,C_0)$, $(G-int(C),C_0)$ is superextendable, and after that, $G[V(C)]$ is colored. By the minimality of $(G,C_0)$ again, $(C \cup int(C),C)$ is superextendable. Thus, $(G,C_0)$ is superextendable, a contradiction.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{C}
The following are true about $C_0$.
\begin{enumerate}
\item $C_0$ is chordless.
\item Every non-adjacent pair $v_0$ and $v_1$ on $C_0$ have no internal common neighbors.
\end{enumerate}
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
(1) If $C_0$ has a chord, then by Lemma~\ref{separating}, $V(C_0)=V(G)$. But by definition,  the precoloring of $C_0$ is already a good IF-coloring of $G$.

(2) Let $w$ be an internal common neighbor of $v_0,v_1\in V(C_0)$ with $v_0v_1\not\in E(G)$. Let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be the two paths of $C_0$ with ends $v_0$ and $v_1$. Then both $P_1+v_0wv_1$ and $P_2+v_0wv_1$ are cycles of length at most 12. By Lemma~\ref{separating}, $N(w)\subset V(C_0)$. Note that $d(w)\ge3$ by Lemma~\ref{minimum}. So $w$ has at least one neighbor, by symmetry say $v_2$ is on the segment of $C_0$ from $v_1$ to $v_0$ in the clockwise order. Let $P_i'$ be the path of $C_0$ with ends $v_i,v_{i+1}$ for $i\in[3]$ (index module $3$) in the clockwise order. Let $C_i=P_i'+v_iwv_{i+1}$ for $i\in[3]$. Note that $|C_1|+|C_2|+|C_3|\le18$. Without loss of generality, let $|C_1|\le|C_2|\le|C_3|$. Since $G$ contains no $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles, $|C_1|\in\{3,5\}$;  and when $|C_1|=3$, $|C_2|\ge 9$; when $|C_1|=5$, $|C_2|\ge7$. In any case, $\min\{3+9+9, 5+7+7\}>18$, a contradiction.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{5face}
Every truly internal $5$-face is incident to at most four $3$-vertices.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Suppose otherwise that $f=[v_1v_2v_3v_4v_5]$ is a truly internal $5$-face with five $3$-vertices. Let $u_i$ be the neighbor of $v_i$ not on $f$ for $i\in[5]$.  Let $G'$ be the graph obtained by identifying $v_3$ and $u_1$ of $G-\{v_1,v_2,v_4,v_5\}$.  Note that if the identification creates an edge between vertices of $C_0$,  then $u_1, u_3\in V(C_0)$, but the path between them along $C_0$ with $u_1v_1v_2v_3u_3$ forms a separating cycle of length at most $12$,  a contradiction to Lemma~\ref{separating}. It follows that the precoloring of $C_0$ remains valid in $G'$. Furthermore, if there is a path $Q$ of length at most 8 between $v_3$ and $u_1$, then $G$  has a separating cycle of length at most $11$ which is obtained from the path $u_1v_1v_2v_3$  and $Q$, contrary to Lemma~\ref{separating}. So $G'$ contains no $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles. Since $|V(G')|<|V(G)|$, we can extend the coloring of $C_0$ to $G'$.   Now we can extend this coloring to an $IF$-coloring of $G$ in the following way.

First assume that the new vertex created by the identification is colored $I$. Then we color $u_1$ and $v_3$ with $I$ and $v_1,v_2,v_4$ with $F$. If $u_5$ is colored with $F$, then color $v_5$ with $I$. If $u_5$ is colored with $I$, then color $v_5$ with $F$, which is invalid only if $u_2$ and $u_4$ are both colored $F$, in which case, we recolor $v_3$ with $F$ and $v_2,v_4$ with $I$. Note that we  create neither $F$-cycle nor $F$-path between two vertices of $C_0$.

Now assume that the new vertex created by the identification is colored $F$. First we color $u_1$ and $v_3$ with $F$. Note that there exists no $F$-path between $u_1$ and $v_3$ in $G$. If $u_4$ is colored $I$, then color $v_1,v_4$ with $F$, and for each $i\in\{2,5\}$, color $v_i$ with a color different from $u_i$; this is not a valid coloring only if $u_2$ and $u_5$ are both colored $I$, in which case we recolor $v_1$ with $I$. So we may assume that $u_4$ is colored $F$.  Color $v_1, v_4$ with $I$ and $v_2, v_3, v_5$ with $F$, we obtain a valid coloring, unless we create an $F$-cycle or an $F$-path between two vertices of $C_0$. In the bad cases, $u_2$ and $u_3$ are colored $F$. We may further assume that $u_5$ is colored $F$, for otherwise we can color $v_2, v_4$ with $I$ and $v_1, v_3, v_5$ with $F$ to obtain a valid coloring.

Consider the  case that $u_i$ is colored $F$ for $i\in [5]$.   Note that there is no $F$-path between $u_1$ and $u_3$, and there cannot exist $F$-path between $u_1$ and $C_0$ and between $u_3$ and $C_0$ at the same time, since $G'$ has a valid coloring.    By symmetry, we may assume that there is no $F$-path between $u_3$ and $C_0$.  There must be an $F$-path, say $P$, between $u_2$ and $u_3$, for otherwise we obtain a valid coloring by coloring $v_2, v_3, v_5$ with $F$ and $v_1, v_4$ with $I$.  We color $v_1, v_2, v_4$ with $F$ and $v_3, v_5$ with $I$.  Since the $F$-path $u_1v_1v_2u_2$ in $G$ can be replaced with the $F$-path $u_1(v_3)u_3Pu_2$ in $G'$, this cannot be $F$-cycle or $F$-path containing $u_1v_1v_2u_2$ in $G$. Therefore we obtain a valid coloring.
\end{proof}

A $3$-vertex $v\not\in C_0$ is {\em bad} if $v$ is on a $3$-face. A {\em tetrad} in a plane graph is a path $v_1v_2v_3v_4$ of four internal $3$-vertices contained in the boundary of a face, so that both $v_1v_2$ and $v_3v_4$ are edges of triangles.

\begin{lemma}\label{tetrad}
G contains no tetrad. Consequently, no face of $G$ is incident with five consecutive bad vertices. Furthermore, if a face of $G$ is incident with consecutive vertices $v_0,v_1,\ldots,v_5$ and the vertices $v_1,\ldots,v_4$ are bad, then the edges $v_0v_1,v_2v_3$ and $v_4v_5$ are incident with triangles.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Let $v_1v_2v_3v_4$ be a tetrad in $G$. Let $N(v_1)=\{x,v_2,v_1'\}$ and $N(v_4)=\{y,v_3,v_4'\}$, where $x,y$ are not in the triangles. Let $G'$ be the graph obtained by identifying $y$ and $v_1'$ of $G-\{v_1,v_2,v_3,v_4\}$. Note that the identification does not create a chord in $C_0$ or identify two vertices of $C_0$. For otherwise, there exists a path $P$ of length $4$ or $5$, which is internally disjoint from $C_0$, between two vertices of $C_0$, and since $|C_0|\le12$, there exists a cycle in $P\cup C_0$ of length at most $11$ that separates $x$ and $v_4$, contrary to Lemma~\ref{separating}. There is no path $Q$ of length at most 8 between $y$ and $v_1'$, for otherwise $G$ would have a cycle separating $K$ of length at most 12 that is obtained from the path $yv_3v_2v_1v_1'$  and $Q$,  contrary to Lemma~\ref{separating}. Thus, no new $8^-$-cycles are created in $G'$. This implies that $G'$ contains no $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles. Since $|V(G')|<|V(G)|$,  the precoloring of $C_0$ can be extended to  an $IF$-coloring of $G'$. Now we extend it to an $IF$-coloring of $G$.

First we color $v_1'$ and $y$ with the color of the identified vertex.  If $v_1',y$ are colored $I$, then color $v_1,v_2,v_4$ with $F$ and color $v_3$ with a color different from the color of $v_4'$, and we obtain a valid coloring.  So we assume that $v_1',y$ are colored $F$. Then there exists no $F$-path between $v_1'$ and $y$ in $G$.  Assume first that $v_4'$ is colored $I$. If $x$ is colored $I$, then color $v_1,  v_3, v_4$ with $F$ and $v_2$ with $I$; if $x$ is colored $F$, then color $v_1$ with $I$ and $v_2, v_3, v_4$ with $F$. In either case, we obtain a valid coloring.  Let $v_4'$ be colored $F$.  If $x$ is colored $I$, then color $v_2, v_4$ with $I$ and $v_1, v_3$ with $F$, and we obtain a valid coloring. So we assume $x$ is also colored $F$.   Since there is no $F$-path between $v_1'$ and $y$,  either there is no $F$-path between $v_1'$ and $v_4'$ or there is no $F$-path between $v_4'$ and $y$. Also, there is at most one $F$-path between $\{v_1', y\}$ and $C_0$. If there is no $F$-path between $v_1'$ and $C_0$ nor between $v_1'$ and $v_4'$, then color $v_1, v_4$ with $I$ and $v_2,v_3$ with $F$; if there is no $F$-path between $y$ and $C_0$ nor between $y$ and $v_4'$, then color $v_1, v_3$ with $I$ and $v_2,v_4$ with $F$; in either of these cases, we obtain a valid coloring. We consider the other two cases.
\begin{itemize}
\item Case 1: no $F$-path between $v_1'$ and $C_0$ nor between $y$ and $v_4'$.  We may assume that there are $F$-paths between $v_1'$ and $v_4'$ (say $P$) and between $y$ and $C_0$.  Since the $F$-path $P$ in $G$ can be replaced with the $F$-path $y(v_1')Pv_4'$ in $G'$, there is no $F$-path between $v_4'$ and $C_0$. Then we can color $v_1, v_3$ with $I$ and $v_2, v_4$ with $F$ to obtain a valid coloring.
\item Case 2: no $F$-path between $y$ and $C_0$ nor between $v_1'$ and $v_4'$.   We may assume that there are $F$-paths between $v_1'$ and $C_0$ and between $v_4'$ and $y$ (say $P$).   Since the $F$-path $P$ in $G$ can be replaced with the $F$-path $v_1'(y)Pv_4'$ in $G'$, there is no $F$-path between $v_4'$ and $C_0$. Then we can color $v_1, v_4$ with $I$ and $v_2, v_3$ with $F$ to obtain a valid coloring.
\end{itemize}

Now suppose that $f$ is incident with five consecutive bad vertices $v_1,\ldots,v_5$. Since $v_3$ is on a $3$-face and $G$ contains no adjacent $3$-faces, either $v_2v_3$ or $v_3v_4$ is an edge on a $3$-face. In the former case, $v_4v_5$ is an edge on a 3-face; in the latter case,  $v_1v_2$ must be an edge of a $3$-face. This implies that either $v_2 v_3v_4v_5$ or $v_1v_2v_3v_4$ is a tetrad, a contradiction.

For the furthermore part,  if a face of $G$ is incident with consecutive vertices $v_0,v_1,\ldots,v_5$ and the vertices $v_1,\ldots,v_4$ are bad, then either each of $v_1v_2,v_3v_4$ is an edge of a 3-face or each of $v_0v_1,v_2v_3,v_4v_5$ is an edge incident with a triangle.  But  the former cannot happen, as the path $v_1v_2v_3v_4$ is a tetrad and each of $v_1,\ldots, v_4$ is a bad vertex.
\end{proof}

\section{Discharging Procedure}
\label{Discharging}

We are now ready to present a discharging procedure that will complete the proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}.  Let $x\in V(G)\cup (F(G)-C_0)$ have an initial charge of $\mu(x)=d(x)-4$, and $\mu(C_0)=|C_0|+4$. By Euler's Formula, $\sum_{x\in V\cup F}\mu(x)=0$.
Let $\mu^*(x)$ be the charge of $x\in V\cup F$ after the discharge procedure. To lead to a contradiction, we shall prove that $\mu^*(x)\ge 0$ for all $x\in V(G)\cup F(G)$ and $\mu^*(C_0)>0$.

Let $v$ be a $4$-vertex on a face $f$. The vertex $v\not\in C_0$ is {\em poor} to $f$ if  either $v$ is incident with a $3$-face that is not adjacent to $f$, or $v$ is incident with two $3$-faces both adjacent to $f$, or $v$ is incident with a $5$-face adjacent to $f$. A $2$-vertex $u\in C_0$ is {\em special} if $u$ is on an internal $5$-face.

\medskip

\noindent Here are the discharging rules:

\begin{enumerate}[(R1)]
\item Each $3$-face gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each incident vertex.

\item Each internal $5$-face gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each incident $4^+$-vertex and gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each incident $2$-vertex or internal $3$-vertex. Each internal $7^+$-face gives $\frac{2}{3}$ to each incident $2$-vertex or bad $3$-vertex, $\frac{1}{3}$ to each incident internal non-bad $3$-vertex or poor $4$-vertex, and then each internal face gives the surplus charge to $C_0$.

\item Each $4^+$-vertex on $C_0$ gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each incident internal $5$-face.

\item The outer face $C_0$ gives $\frac{5}{3}$ to each incident special $2$-vertex, $\frac{4}{3}$ to each incident non-special $2$-vertex or $3$-vertex on a $3$-face,  and $1$ to each other incident vertex.
\end{enumerate}

\begin{lemma}\label{vertex}
Every vertex $v$ in $G$ has nonnegative final charge.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
We consider the degree of $v$.

Let $d(v)=2$.  Then by Lemma~\ref{minimum} $v\in C_0$.  By (R2) and (R4),  $v$ gets $\frac{5}{3}$ from $C_0$ and $\frac{1}{3}$ from the other incident face when $v$ is special, or gets $\frac{4}{3}$ from $C_0$ and $\frac{2}{3}$ from the other incident face otherwise. Thus, $\mu^*(v)\ge2-4+\min\{\frac{5}{3}+\frac{1}{3}, \frac{4}{3}+\frac{2}{3}\}=0$.

Let $d(v)=3$. If $v\in C_0$, then by (R1) and (R4),  $v$ gets $\frac{4}{3}$ from $C_0$ if $v$ is on a $3$-face,  or gets $1$ from $C_0$ otherwise. So $\mu^*(v)\ge3-4+\min\{1,\frac{4}{3}-\frac{1}{3}\}=0$. Let $v\not\in C_0$. By (R1) and (R2), $v$ gets $\frac{2}{3}$ from each of the two incident non-triangular faces and gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to its incident $3$-face if $v$ is on a $3$-face, or $v$ gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each of the three incident faces if $v$ is not bad. So $\mu^*(v)\ge3-4+\min\{\frac{1}{3}\cdot3,\frac{2}{3}\cdot2-\frac{1}{3}\}=0$.

Let $d(v)=4$. Let $v\not\in C_0$.  By (R1) and (R2), $v$ gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of (at most two) incident $5^-$-faces and gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each of the two incident $7^+$-faces when $v$ is on two $3$-faces; gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from the incident face when $v$ is on exactly one $3$-face and not on a $5$-face; gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each of the two incident $7^+$-faces adjacent to the $5$-face when $v$ is on a $5$-face; so $\mu^*(v)\ge 4-4+\min\{\frac{1}{3}\cdot2-\frac{1}{3}\cdot2, \frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{3}\}=0$. When $v\in C_0$,  $v$ gets $1$ from $C_0$ and gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of at most three incident faces by (R3), so $\mu^*(v)\ge4-4+1-\frac{1}{3}\cdot3=0$.

Finally, let $d(v)\ge5$.  If $v\in C_0$, then $v$ gets $1$ from $C_0$ and gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of at most $d(v)-1$ incident faces by (R1), (R3) and (R4); if $v\not\in C_0$, then $v$ gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of at most $\lfloor\frac{d(v)}{2}\rfloor$ incident $5^-$-faces by (R1) and (R2).  So $\mu^*(v)\ge d(v)-4+\min\{1-(d(v)-1)\cdot\frac{1}{3}, -\lfloor\frac{d(v)}{2}\rfloor\cdot\frac{1}{3}\}>0$.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{face}
Every internal face in $G$ has nonnegative final charge.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Let $f$ be an internal face in $G$.  Recall that $G$ contains no $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles. For $d(f)=3$, $f$ gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each incident vertex by (R1), so $\mu^*(f)\ge3-4+\frac{1}{3}\cdot3=0$. For $d(f)\ge5$, by (R2) we only need to show that $f$ has nonnegative charge before it sends charge to $C$, without loss of generality, we still use $\mu^*(f)$ to denote it.

Suppose $d(f)=5$. If $V(f)\cap C_0=\emptyset$, then $f$ is incident with at most four $3$-vertices by Lemma~\ref{5face}. By (R2), $f$ gains at least $\frac{1}{3}$ from its incident $4$-vertices. If $V(f)\cap C_0\ne\emptyset$, then $1\le|V(f)\cap C_0|\le3$ by Lemma~\ref{C}. If $|V(f)\cap C_0|=1$, then $f$ and $C_0$ share a $4^+$-vertex, thus by (R3)  $f$ gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from the incident vertex on $C_0$ and by (R2) gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of at most four incident internal $3$-vertices. If $|V(f)\cap C_0|=2$, then $f$ contains no $2$-vertices and gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to each of at most three incident internal $3$-vertices. If $|V(f)\cap C_0|=3$, then $f$ shares exactly one $2$-vertex with $C_0$ by Lemma~\ref{C}, thus by (R2), $f$ gives $\frac{1}{3}$ to the $2$-vertex and each of at most two incident internal $3$-vertices. In any case, $\mu^*(f)\ge5-4+\min\{-\frac{1}{3}\cdot4+\frac{1}{3}, -\frac{1}{3}\cdot3\}=0$.

Suppose $d(f)=7$. Then $f$ is not adjacent to any $3$-faces and contains at most four $2$-vertices. If $f$ contains a $2$-vertex, then $f$ shares at least two $3^+$-vertices with $C_0$, and f gives no charge to them. By (R2), $\mu^*(f)\ge7-4+\min\{-\frac{2}{3}\cdot4-\frac{1}{3}, -\frac{1}{3}\cdot7\}=0$.

Suppose $d(f)\ge9$. If $f$ contains $2$-vertices, then $f$ does not give charge to at least two $3^+$-vertices shared with $C_0$, so by (R2), $\mu^*(f)\ge d(f)-4-\frac{2}{3}(d(v)-2)>0$. So assume that $f$ contains no $2$-vertices.  By Lemma~\ref{tetrad}, $f$ contains at least two vertices that are not bad $3$-vertices.  It follows that $\mu^*(f)\ge d(f)-4-\frac{2}{3}\cdot(d(f)-2)-\frac{1}{3}\cdot2\ge -\frac{1}{3}$, with $\mu^*(f)<0$ only if $f$ is a $9$-face with seven bad $3$-vertices and two other internal non-bad $3$-vertices or poor $4$-vertices. But when $f$ contains seven bad $3$-vertices, at least four bad $3$-vertices are consecutive on $f$.   By Lemma~\ref{tetrad},  there are exactly four bad consecutive vertices on $f=v_1\ldots v_9$, say $v_1, v_2, v_3, v_4$, and $v_9$ and $v_5$ should be $4^+$-vertices.  As $v_6, v_7, v_8$ are bad $3$-vertices, $v_5$ or $v_9$, by symmetry say $v_5$, is not on another $5^-$-face. Then $f$ gives no charge to $v_5$ by (R2). Therefore, there is no $9$-face with negative final charge.
\end{proof}

{\bf Proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}}. By Lemma~\ref{vertex} and Lemma~\ref{face}, it is sufficient for us to check that $C_0$ has positive final charge. By Lemma~\ref{C}, if a $5$-face shares $2$-vertices with $C_0$, then it shares exactly one 2-vertex with $C_0$.  Let $P$ be a maximal path of $C_0$ such that each vertex in $V(P)$ is either a special $2$-vertex or a neighbor of a special $2$-vertex.  By (R4), $C_0$ gives $\frac{5}{3}$ to each incident special $2$-vertex and $1$ to each neighbor of a special $2$-vertex on $C$. So $C_0$ gives $\lceil\frac{|V(P)|}{2}\rceil\cdot1+\lfloor\frac{|V(P)|}{2}\rfloor\cdot\frac{5}{3}\le\frac{4}{3}|V(P)|$ to vertices on $P$. By (R4), $C_0$ gives at most $\frac{4}{3}$ to each vertex not in such a path.  It follows that $C_0$ gives at most $\frac{4}{3}|C_0|$ to its vertices.  So $\mu^*(C_0)\ge |C_0|+4-\frac{4}{3}|C_0|=\frac{1}{3}(12-|C_0|)\ge 0$, and $\mu^*(C_0)=0$ only when $|C_0|=12$ and either every other vertex on $C_0$ is a special $2$-vertex or each vertex on $C_0$ is either a $2$-vertex or $3$-vertex on a $3$-face. In the former case, let $u$ be a special $2$-vertex on $C_0$ and $f'$ be the internal $5$-face containing $u$. Let $u_1$ and $u_2$ be the two neighbors of $u$ on $f'$. Since $G$ contains no $8$-cycles, $u_1$ and $u_2$ are $4^+$-vertices. By (R2) and (R4), $f$ gets $\frac{1}{3}$ from each of $u_1$ and $u_2$ and gives at most $\frac{1}{3}$ to each other incident vertex. So $C_0$ can get at least $5-4-3\cdot\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{3}\cdot2=\frac{2}{3}$ from $f'$. So $\mu^*(C_0)>0$. In the latter case, since $G\ne C_0$, $C_0$ contains two bad $3$-vertices that belong to different $3$-faces but on the same face, say $f_0$, other than $C_0$.  It follows that $f_0$ is adjacent to at least two $3$-faces, so it must be a $9^+$-face since $G$ contains no $\{4,6,8\}$-cycles. By (R2), $f_0$ gives out at most $\frac{2}{3}(d(f_0)-2)$ to all incident vertices and gives at least $d(f_0)-4-\frac{2}{3}(d(f_0)-2)\ge\frac{1}{3}$ to $C_0$. So $\mu^*(C_0)>0$.

\section{Final remarks}

Kang, Jin, and Wang \cite{KJW16} proved that planar graphs without \{4,6,9\}-cycles are 3-colorable. We believe that we could get the following result, by slightly modifying the proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}. We will keep it as a future work.

\begin{problem}\label{main3}
Every planar graph without \{4,6,9\}-cycles is near-bipartite.
\end{problem}

{\bf A sketch of proof of Problem~\ref{main3}}.  We use the same discharging rules as the proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}.   The main difference is that we now have $8$-faces to consider but have no $9$-faces. In the reducible configurations part, we need to consider the property of the outer face $C_0$ carefully since the forbidden cycles have changed. In the discharging part, Now a $7$-face $f$ may share an edge with one $3$-face, but not more. If $f$ contains a $2$-vertex, then it contains at least two $3^+$-vertices on $C_0$, thus gives no charge to them.  As $f$ contains at most three $2$-vertices by Lemma~\ref{C}, $\mu^*(f)\ge 7-4-3\cdot \frac{2}{3}-2\cdot \frac{2}{3}=-\frac{1}{3}$. Then $\mu^*(f)<0$ only if $f$ contains three $2$-vertices and one internal triangle with two $3$-vertices on $f$, but we have a separating cycle of length at most $12$ in this case.   For $8$-faces, they do not share edges with triangle and have at most four $2$-vertices, so their final charges are at least $8-4-4\cdot \frac{2}{3}-4\cdot\frac{1}{3}=0$.  The calculation for other vertices and faces is the same as in the proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}. $\Box$

\medskip

We believe that planar graphs without cycles of lengths from $4$ to $7$ are near-bipartite, but failed to prove it.  The trouble is that an $8$-face may be adjacent to too many triangles when we try a similar approach to the proof of Theorem~\ref{main2}, which we cannot reduce. The condition in Theorem~\ref{main2} excludes $8$-cycles, and the conditions in Problem~\ref{main3} excludes the difficult situation.

\bigskip

{\bf Acknowledgement:} the authors would like to thank Daniel Cranston for bringing their attention to this research problem, and the referees for their careful reading and valuable suggestions.

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After falling 35 points behind at the final change, the Panthers outscored the Crows 6.3 to 0.3 in the final term to come away with a famous one-point victory at Hickinbotham Oval.
To add to the excitement, South Adelaide only took the lead in the final seconds after Daniel Bass coolly slotted a set shot from just inside 50 to put the icing on a dramatic win.
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The Panthers head into their final game of the minor rounds with a relatively clean bill of health.
Jackson McMahon (fractured cheekbone), Sam Overall (groin) and Ben Darrou (groin) will all be tested during the week before they are cleared to face the Crows.
Adelaide are also boasting a relatively clean bill of health.
Former Collingwood wingman Paul Seedsman (corked buttock) and former Port Adelaide utility Keenan Ramsey (ankle) are listed as tests ahead of Round 22.
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Centurious is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Centurious was a servant of Mephisto and an enemy of Zarathos. In combating Zarathos, he became a regular foe of the first Ghost Rider.

Fictional character biography
In prehistoric times, the man who would come to be known as Centurious was the prince of an Amerindian tribe. He bargained his soul to Mephisto in order to combat the demon Zarathos and save the woman he loved, becoming a soulless immortal in the process. He lived many lifetimes and learned many things over the following centuries. In Ancient Egypt, he studied the mystic arts, and acquired the Crystal of Souls. He had many occupations, aliases, and wives in the years to come, including that of the owner of a Louisiana plantation.

In modern times, he first encountered and battled Johnny Blaze, the Ghost Rider. He used Reverend Dombue to control the town of Holly.  Centurious battled the Ghost Rider again, trapping Johnny Blaze in the soul crystal. The soul crystal was shattered by the Ghost Rider, which freed John Blaze's soul from the soul crystal. Centurious and Zarathos were then trapped within the soul crystal, battling each other.

Years later, Centurious was revealed to have granted supernatural powers to Reverend Styge, the third Sin-Eater. Centurious disciplined Styge after his defeat by the second Ghost Rider, Daniel Ketch. Centurious set Steel Wind and Steel Vengeance against the new Ghost Rider and John Blaze. Hag, Troll, and Deathwatch were turned over to Centurious by Steel Wind and Steel Vengeance. He then set the Firm against Ghost Rider and Archangel.  Centurious killed his minion Mr. Stern for disobeying orders, and captured Heart Attack. His identity as the head of the Firm was revealed, as was his face finally revealed. He again battled Ghost Rider, and formed an alliance with the Lilin. In a later battle, Blaze appears to kill Centurious.

During the Siege storyline, Centurious appeared as a member of the Hood's crime syndicate.

Powers and abilities
Centurious was conferred with immortality upon selling his soul to Mephisto. Over his long life, he has become an adept practitioner of the mystic arts.  He has the ability to manipulate the forces of magic to magically enhance his strength, durability, and stamina, to control the natural elements of earth, air, fire, and water, for the abilities of telekinesis, levitation, illusion-casting, and mental control of some lower animals and of humans under certain circumstances.

Centurious once used the Crystal of Souls, a power source for his abilities that imprisoned the souls of his victims.

Centurious is proficient in various hand-to-hand combat techniques learned over many ages, but prefers not to engage in physical combat.

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Characters created by Bob Budiansky
Characters created by J. M. DeMatteis
Comics characters introduced in 1982
Fictional characters with immortality
Fictional indigenous people of the Americas
Marvel Comics characters who use magic
Marvel Comics male supervillains
Marvel Comics supervillains


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