Three weeks ago Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's federal security service, accused Georgia of harbouring Al Qaeda extremists in Pankisi. No terrorists have been discovered either by the numerous reporters who have travelled to the area or the delegation of journalists and foreign diplomats whose trip was organised by the Christian Democrat opposition party. But all the media attention aside, Pankisi remains an underreported region, home to people who have experienced the devastating power of both war and rhetoric.
Chechen refugees, 793 of whom currently reside in Pankisi Valley, have experienced war firsthand. The massive Russian air assaults on Grozny in 1999, which indiscriminately targeted civilians, caused a great Chechen refugee influx into Georgia. Most of them settled in Pankisi.
Pankisi Valley, the last truly populated area before you get to the infamous Pankisi Gorge, consists of four villages on either side of the Alazani River. Duisi, the valley's administrative centre, is followed by Jokolo, Birkeani and Zibakhevi on the river's left bank, with Tsenobani, Khaladzani, Dumasturi and Omalo on its right. Khadori, a ninth village, houses a hydroelectric station built by a Chinese investor and is situated up against the gorge. Pankisi Gorge leads to Russia's Dagestan and Chechnya. While the Pankisi villages might be the last settlements before you reach the border, the actual distance from Pankisi to Russia, according to various local sources, is anywhere between 70 and 150 kilometres in a straight line and up to 200 kilometres by an accessible route. The locals say that a vehicle cannot make it through the mountains, leaving travelling on foot or on horseback the only feasible options. The snow is three metres deep in wintertime, making the route impassible, the locals say. Besides, both the Russian and Georgian authorities have been quoted saying that the border has been effectively sealed.
Pankisi's population is anywhere between 8,000 and 15,000 people. Various sources, including the locals, Duisi police, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) officials could not give a specific figure. Almost 100% of the population is Muslim and the area has several mosques. A Wahhabist mosque, considerably more visible than the others, is situated in Duisi and remains closed even for many locals, who warned me against taking the building's picture.
As discussion progressed from personal issues to politics the locals denied the presence of any terrorists in Pankisi. Murad Khargoshvili, a local Kist, said that while no terrorists find shelter in the valley Russia still uses Pankisi as a destabilising tool against Georgia. Khargoshvili also spoke about the difference between terrorists and militants: while terrorists indiscriminately target civilians, militants fight for an ideal and a greater goal, one similar (or equivalent) to the liberation of Chechnya. The international community, including Russian spokespersons, includes both groups in the overarching category of terrorist.
Lamzira Margoshvili is a Chechen refugee whose father still lives in Grozny. As Margoshvili and I passed by what looked as an abandoned house in Duisi she said that a Chechen family from Grozny had lived there but now moved back to Grozny. "Some people still come and stay here sometimes though," Margoshvili said. Margoshvili also plans to leave for Grozny once she finishes her studies in law at the Tbilisi State University.
In 1999 Georgia welcomed about 8,000 Chechen refugees, most of whom have now left. Some went to Europe, but most returned to Chechnya, Shrestha said. Currently, 320 refugee families live in Pankisi. Very few of the refugees are single and most of them are men, he said.
Many Chechen families continue to live in Pankisi. While some of their relatives might be earning an income in Chechnya, limited economic opportunities take a toll on the valley's population. Chechen women are more economically active than men, many of whom spend their days standing in groups along Duisi's main road.
Aside from the economic difficulties Pankisi provides a peaceful and stable alternative to the turmoil of war, in which the local Kists and Chechens live comfortably together. As the Chechen women explained to me, while everybody in the valley knows who is local and who is a refugee, this has no impact on people's attitudes. "The people are really nice here and their attitude toward us is great," Makalova said.
Duisi has only one police station, strategically positioned at the village's entrance. Emzar Machalikashvili, the police chief known as the local KGB officer, thoroughly copied out details from my passport. Aside from fulfilling this administrative function, the presence of the Georgian police in Pankisi is minimal. Even when one local girl was injured in a car accident on the evening of Monday November 2, locals preferred to settle the matter among themselves as opposed to reporting the incident to the police. The allegedly intoxicated driver agreed to pay $100 to the girl's family.
The tranquility of Pankisi Valley dates back to August 2002, when the Georgian forces reportedly conducted a massive offensive ridding Pankisi of the alleged terrorist presence. According to official reports, prior to 2002 Pankisi Gorge was harbouring some Arab extremists. The Georgian operation was preceded by Russian accusations that Pankisi terrorists were collaborating with the Georgia authorities to destabilise the Russian North Caucasus.
Based on such arguments, the Russian side conducted air raids in Georgia in early 2002. Reportedly, the area was under the control of Chechen militants prior to 2002 and Georgia proper ended at Akhmeta. Now the locals live in comparative peace, bothered only by the poor economic conditions and lack of employment.
The post-2002 peace was briefly interrupted in 2003 and 2004 when Georgian forces conducted so-called cleansing operations in the valley. Makalova said that the Georgian authorities took her husband and two more men in the summer of 2003, after the Makalov family arrived there from Chechnya. Makalova said that the men were detained in Tbilisi. "They were under arrest and for almost one month they could not leave there [Tbilisi]," Makalova said. On one occasion the women attempted to protect their husbands from imprisonment only to find themselves beaten by Georgian troops. "It was still morning when a woman came running to our houses," Temirbulatova said. "She said that we all should come out. We were running. All the women were on the streets when we were told that the men would be taken. It was a special operation conducted by the Georgian authorities. Ten or 15 women gathered on the bridge, near the entrance to Duisi, to stop the trucks that were taking our men away." Temirbulatova and Makalova said that some women were assaulted by the Georgian troops when they attempted to prevent the military trucks from leaving Duisi.
To help the refugees and locals in Pankisi UNHCR has a regional Office in Akhmeta. The organisation helps refugees to become economically self-reliant, Shrestha said. UNHCR supports the refugees to launch income-generating projects, such as carpentry and beekeeping, by providing small grants. And while economic opportunities in Pankisi remain scarce, some people fare better than others: a new-looking BMW X5 and a Mercedes stood out against the otherwise ordinary landscape. In other respects, Pankisi residents live without running water and gas.
UNHCR also helps refugees resolve accommodation issues. The refugees in Pankisi live either in the community centre or in the private sector, often with Kist host families. UNHCR has started purchasing abandoned houses in the area and granting them to refugee families. The Georgian Government also supports Pankisi refugees with a monthly allowance of 28 Lari (around 11 Euro) per person. The Government has also recently granted citizenship to 13 Chechens. The refugees, with the help of UNHCR and local representatives of the Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation, submitted 31 applications but the government rejected 18, Shrestha said. UNHCR plans to continue supporting refugees who seek citizenship in Georgia.
UNHCR partner organisations help implement various educational and health programmes in the region. The Roddy Scott Foundation was recently opened in Duisi to help local children learn English. Roddy Scott was a British investigative journalist allegedly shot by the Russians in Pankisi Gorge while he was crossing the border with the Chechens, trying to document this often-ignored side of the conflict. Scott's parents have established a foundation in their son's name, which now allows 120 schoolchildren from Pankisi Valley to study English for free. As I visited the Foundation's English language class, I encountered a barrage of questions from the local fifth graders: Where are you from? Do you like your job (the children were well aware of what journalism is because of their cherished knowledge of Scott's story)? Do you like vegetables? How old are you? Would you marry a Chechen guy?


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State Taxation of Natural Resources
Natural Resources as Source of New State
Taxation of Mines and Minerals
Taxation of Timber and Forest Resources
Severance Taxes to Meet Social Security Costs
All of the 43 state legislatures meeting in regular session next year will be on the hunt for new sources of revenue. Many of them will be faced with the necessity of raising tax funds to finance newly-enacted social security measures. Some will be forced to find substitutes for expiring sales taxes, against whose renewal many of their members were pledged in the 1936 campaigns. "Under such circumstances, a number of states are likely to follow the lead of Texas, whose legislature, late in October, raised existing taxes and levied new taxes on the extraction of natural resources within the state.
To provide funds for payments of old-age pensions, taxes on oil production were raised from 2¢ to 2¾¢ a barrel, tonnage taxes on sulphur were increased from 75¢ to $1.03, and taxes on natural gas were increased from 2 per cent to 3 per cent of market value. In addition, a tax of 10¢ a ton was levied on marble, a tax of 10¢ a ton on cinnabar ore, a tax of 5¢ a ton on all other ores, and a tax of 3 per cent of the market value of carbon black. The increase in the oil tax is expected to add upwards of $3,000,000 to the revenue received from the present tax, which in 1935 amounted to more than $8,000,000.
Governor Allred of Texas, in a special message to the legislature urging a "substantial increase" in the oil tax, said he had been "reliably informed that Louisiana and Oklahoma will in all probability have to increase their tax on oil in order to meet their own pressing security problems." Investigation by the Oklahoma Tax Commission of comparative oil taxes in Oklahoma and Texas was ordered early in October by Governor Marland. The commission's findings will be laid before the Oklahoma legislature in January. In Michigan, proposals to supplement property taxes on copper and other metal mines with tonnage taxes on mine production may be brought forward next year.
Jun. 28, 2013 Internet Shopping
Jan. 16, 1998 IRS Reform
Mar. 22, 1996 Tax Reform
Apr. 06, 1990 How Fair Is the Nation's Tax Burden?
Aug. 28, 1987 Taxing Business Services
Oct. 17, 1986 Tax Reform In The States
Sep. 28, 1984 Tax Debate: 1984 Election and Beyond
Mar. 19, 1982 Tax-Exemption Controversy
May 19, 1978 Property Tax Relief
Apr. 07, 1978 Tax Shelters and Reform
Feb. 10, 1971 Property Tax Reform
Mar. 26, 1969 Tax Reform Pressures
Mar. 24, 1965 Excise Tax Cuts and the Economy
Feb. 15, 1961 Flexible Taxation
Apr. 02, 1959 State Tax Problems
Apr. 23, 1958 Tax Reduction, 1958
Aug. 14, 1957 Fast Tax Write-Offs
Apr. 10, 1957 Federal Payments in Lieu of Taxes
Sep. 12, 1956 Corporation Profits and Taxes in Prosperity
Mar. 16, 1954 Shares in Tax Relief
Nov. 21, 1953 Revision of Excise Taxes
Mar. 19, 1953 Federal-State Tax Relations
Oct. 01, 1952 European Taxes and Tax Evasion
Nov. 03, 1950 Excess Profits Tax
Feb. 01, 1950 Tax Loopholes
Jun. 04, 1949 Excise Taxes
Oct. 27, 1948 Postwar Sales Taxes
Aug. 29, 1947 Taxation of Family Income
Apr. 09, 1947 Income Tax Relief
Jan. 11, 1946 Taxation of Cooperatives
Oct. 16, 1945 Federal Taxes on Business
May 08, 1944 Postwar Taxes
Sep. 20, 1943 Sales Taxes
Dec. 05, 1941 New Taxes for Defense
Apr. 05, 1941 Taxation for National Defense
Feb. 28, 1941 Taxation of Alcoholic Beverages
Jan. 11, 1941 Exemptions from Taxation
Dec. 04, 1940 Federal Taxes and Defense Financing
Feb. 01, 1940 Sharing of Tax Revenues
Feb. 02, 1939 Turnover Taxes in the States
Nov. 05, 1937 Broadening of the Income-Tax Base
Jun. 17, 1937 Exemptions from Income Taxation
Apr. 05, 1937 Coordination of Federal and State Tax Systems
Dec. 19, 1936 Revision of Federal Tax on Capital Gains
Nov. 02, 1936 State Taxation of Natural Resources
May 26, 1936 Assessment of Property for Taxation
Apr. 17, 1936 Federal Taxes on Consumption
Mar. 19, 1936 Taxation of Undistributed Corporate Profits
Dec. 17, 1935 Reduction of Tax Burdens on Real Estate
Oct. 21, 1935 Tax Delinquency in the United States
May 21, 1935 Comparative Tax Burdens in America and Britain
Feb. 01, 1935 Federal Taxation of Corporations
Nov. 27, 1934 Elimination of Conflicts in Taxation
Jul. 25, 1933 Taxation of Excess Profits
Jan. 25, 1933 Tax Burdens and Tax-Free Securities
Nov. 23, 1932 The Beer Tax and the Sales Tax
Dec. 19, 1931 Sales Taxes: Federal, State, and Foreign
Sep. 18, 1931 Death Taxes and the Concentration of Wealth
Mar. 18, 1931 Federal Taxation of Large Incomes
Jan. 10, 1931 Taxation of Capital Gains
Nov. 09, 1929 Federal Tax Reduction-1930
Aug. 08, 1927 Federal Tax Reduction—1928
Sep. 27, 1926 Tax Reduction and the Public Debt
Jan. 16, 1926 Taxation of Estates and Inheritances
Nov. 07, 1925 Federal Taxation of Small Incomes
Nov. 28, 1924 Social, Fiscal and Legal Aspects of the Inheritance Tax
Apr. 07, 1924 Causes and Effects of the Tax Return Blockade
Dec. 12, 1923 Tax Exempt Securities
Dec. 10, 1923 Taxation
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You can buy a ticket to any station on the Esk Valley Railway from anywhere in the National Rail Network. If a station is staffed, you must purchase your ticket at the ticket office. Otherwise, please purchase your ticket from the conductor on the train. Dogs and cycles go free!
Day Return fares on this line are great value; a Middlesbrough-to-Whitby adult day return (the longest journey) costs only £10.80, day return for a child is £5.40. Whitby-to-Middlesbrough adult day return costs £8.30, day return for a child is £4.15.
York Shopper: visit York for £13.70 day return from Whitby, leaving on the 0848 from Whitby. Change at Middlesbrough (not Darlington) and arrive at 1121 at York (11.24 on Saturdays). Return on the 1615 from York, arriving at Whitby 1907. Tickets must be purchased from Whitby Ticket Office before travel.
Tyne and Tees Day Ranger (£21.70) allows you to travel any time at weekends, on public holidays or after 8.45am Monday to Friday. The Day Ranger is attractive for journeys between Whitby and the Esk Valley, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Shildon (for the railway museum), Thornaby, Stockton, Hartlepool, Sunderland, Hexham, Morpeth, Newcastle, Northallerton and intermediate stations.
Please check the timetables before purchasing a ticket.
A third off the standard fare for residents traveling on Esk Valley Railway.
Valid for discounts on train tickets between Whitby and Middlesbrough.
A Residents' Railcard offers a third off normal adult train fares. Up to 4 accompanying under 16s can travel at a third off the normal child fare.
The Railcard is not valid for season tickets.
The Residents' Railcard price is £10 for one year.
If you live in the Hambleton, Scarborough or Ryedale Districts of North Yorkshire, or in the Boroughs of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland or Stockton, you are eligible for an Esk Valley Railcard.
Complete it, print it out, and please include a stamped addressed envelope a stamped addressed envelope with your cheque payable to EVRDC at The Coliseum, Victoria Place, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 1EZ.


LOCALLY, the Neighbors in Christ Parish kicked off their efforts to raise awareness and funds for Imagine No Malaria in May 2011. Since that time we have raised over $1600 which is like saving 160 lives! People have been given coin collection cans to save the change they bring home at the end of a day. These cans have a pop open bottom which can be removed and then put back making the cans reusable. We have also encouraged people to Save 100, asking them to give $1,000 over the three years to save 100 lives. We will soon have plans in place for another big event for late spring or summer to raise more funds for this effort which extends the healing power of Christ to those who do not have the knowledge or resources to heal themselves without help. When this campaign ends, countless live will have been saved and the knowledge will be in place to help communities remain from the killing power of malaria.
DONATE in your Sunday offering or you can donate through the Imagine No Malaria website or by texting 27722. To read more about this healing ministry of The United Methodist Church go to www.imaginenomalaria.org.
This is an appalling statistic in a world where six of the seven continents have very few cases of malaria and almost no deaths caused by the disease.
That leaves the continent of Africa to bear 91% of the burden of lost lives, lost income and lost opportunities to build the economies in each of the countries affected.
The United Methodist Church as a WORLDWIDE denomination is working with partner groups in a campaign to end death by malaria on the continent of Africa by 2015. This campaign is called Imagine No Malaria. In partnership with groups like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Health Organization, The United Nations Foundation, The Global Fund, the Red Cross/Red Crescent and the work of scientists around the world this is an attainable goal. There are several areas of work in this campaign. First is prevention through the distribution of bed nets and teaching people to use them effectively. Second is to treat people by equipping existing hospitals and community health workers with medicines to treat those infected by malaria. Then comes the education of people in rural areas on steps they can take to protect themselves from mosquitoes by trimming foliage and emptying areas of stagnant water. Finally, on a continent that doesn't rely on newspapers, there is an effort to deploy radios, cell phones and citizen communicators to spread life-saving information.
What can WE do? & What are WE doing?
What is the United Methodist Church doing?


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Able Archer: How Comedies Mature (or, at least, Age Gracefully)
The seventh season of FX's Archer premiered on March 31st.
I've spent approximately 30 hours of my life watching a goofy cartoon about a super-spy's ridiculous adventures. That might seem like a waste, were it not for the fact that, as it progresses through its seventh season, the FX comedy Archer remains one of the funniest things on TV. In its most recent seasons, that's been a function of its willingness to significantly tweak – I won't say reinvent, because it remains fundamentally the same show – its basic formula to stay fresh. It's a reminder of how even shows that are light, trifling entertainment (and it's no disparagement to Archer to call it that) can find ways to develop and even, in their way, grow.
As Mark Clamen's 2012 review of the show for this site indicates, Archer isn't exactly highbrow. It's frequently violent and crude (albeit loaded with surprisingly intelligent references, a trademark of creator Adam Reed's work). While it functions as a satire of the James Bond franchise and all of the hyper-masculine trappings that go with it, it's still often gleefully immature and politically incorrect. It's also a great showcase for the voice-acting talents of a number of underappreciated actors, including H. Jon Benjamin in the title role of secret agent Sterling Archer, Aisha Tyler as his long-suffering girlfriend Lana, and Jessica Walter as his mother (she's essentially reprising her role from Arrested Development here, but she does it so well that it doesn't matter). Perhaps the best example of how Reed understands how to utilize his talent is his use of Judy Greer, who's so well-known for playing second bananas that she's gamely made fun of herself for it. In Archer, she gets a chance to shed that bland persona, playing the deeply demented Cheryl (or Carol, or any of a variety of other names), a role that provides some of the strangest, and occasionally most disturbing, jokes on the show.
Archer has flirted off and on with developing some depth: an earlier season saw Archer battle cancer, and most recently Reed seems to have settled on keeping Archer and Lana together while they raise their new daughter. However, in the last two seasons, the show has blown up its premise – literally, as the spy agency where the characters worked was destroyed at the beginning of Season 5. Part of that was due to the fact that the agency was called "ISIS," a name that understandably became unpalatable when real-world events gave that acronym especially grim connotations. Still, the change would have been necessary no matter what, since a show like Archer can only go for so long before growing stale. It seems to have acknowledged as much by becoming especially self-conscious about some of its running gags and catchphrases, such as the characters' tending to yell "Phrasing!" whenever they hear a particularly juicy double entendre.
Season 5, in which the former members of ISIS attempted to refashion themselves as drug dealers after stumbling into an enormous stash of cocaine, saw Archer evolve into "Archer Vice," which, as the name suggests, functioned as a season-long satire of shows like Miami Vice. That season didn't always connect with me as well as previous ones, but Reed has effectively rebooted the show yet again for this season, the seventh in the show's run. This time out, Archer and his companions have relocated to Los Angeles and established themselves as private investigators. The show's targets this time out are pretty obvious: the season opens with a corpse floating in a pool, an homage to Sunset Boulevard. The show remains mostly the same – Archer even comments at one point that being a P.I. seems to involve most of the same skills that he developed as a spy – but it's flirting even more heavily with serialization, something that shows with its feather-light tone normally avoid.
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In its feints towards becoming (slightly) more substantive, Archer also parallels the recent evolution of the HBO comedy Veep, which returns for a fifth season tomorrow night. Like Mark, I initially had a hard time warming to this show, which follows the travails of Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia-Louis Dreyfus), an ambitious politician who's forced into the most useless political role in the country when her campaign for president falters. Creator Armando Iannucci initially laid on the cynicism a bit too thickly; Selina and her staff could never get anything done, and the show's focus on the meaninglessness of political discourse could be depressingly off-putting, even though it often rang true.
However, Veep has developed into a much more engaging show, and has found depths that Archer will probably never plumb. There's still no suggestions that Selina will ever be a transformative politician, but she has racked up some wins, most notably when the president steps down to deal with a family emergency, which finally leaves her in charge. The scene in Season 3 which Selina and her personal aide Gary (Tony Hale) discover that she's going to become president is a small masterpiece: Dreyfus and Hale give it an emotional resonance that makes it unexpectedly moving as well as funny.
Given their popularity, comedies like Archer and Veep could probably have runs of indefinite length, as long as their casts are willing to keep coming back. However, their slow development into somewhat more complex shows indicate that there are certain lengths to which comedies must go if they're to remain worthwhile viewing.
– Michael Lueger teaches theatre classes at Northeastern University and Emerson College. He's written for HowlRound and WBUR's Cognoscentipage. He also tweets about theatre history at @theaterhistory.
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Dolomites UNESCO world heritage
The Dolomites have always had an enormous impact on the imagination of all those who have seen them. No one has remained immune to their extraordinary fascination, to the extent so that they are universally considered "the most beautiful mountains on Earth". dolomites unesco
On June 26, 2009, Italy's stunning Dolomite mountains have been declared a United Nations World Heritage Site.
The Dolomites are widely regarded as being among the most attractive mountain landscapes in the world.
Their intrinsic beauty derives from a variety of spectacular vertical forms such as pinnacles, spires and towers, with contrasting horizontal surfaces including ledges, crags and plateaus, all of which rise abruptly above extensive talus deposits and more gentle foothills.
The mountains rise as peaks with intervening ravines, in some places standing isolated but in others forming sweeping panoramas.
Some of the rock cliffs here rise more than 1,600 m and are among the highest limestone walls found anywhere in the world.
A great diversity of colours is provided by the contrasts between the bare pale coloured rock surfaces and the forests and meadows below.The distinctive scenery of the Dolomites has become the archetype of a "dolomitic landscape".
Geologist pioneers were the first to be captured by the beauty of the mountains, and their writing and subsequent painting and photography further underline the aesthetic appeal of the property.
The mountains rise as peaks with intervening ravines, in some places standing isolated but in others forming sweeping panoramas. The Dolomites have joined the world's other cultural and natural wonders on the World Heritage List.The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee unanimously approved Italy's bid at its meeting today in Seville, Spain. The nine groups include:
The Pelmo and Croda da Lago mountains in the Veneto region between the Cadore, Zoldano and Ampezzo valleys.
The Marmolada massif between the Trentino and Veneto regions, boasting the highest peak in the Dolomites (3.343 metres) and the largest glacier.
The Pale di San Martino, Pale di San Lucano and the Belluno Dolomites, mostly in the Veneto region but partially in the Trentino region.
The Friuli Dolomites and Oltre Piave mountains, the furthest to the east and divided between the Friuli provinces of Pordenone and Udine.
The Settentrionali Dolomites between Alto Adige and the Veneto regions including the Cadini peaks, the pale mountains of the Sesto Dolomites, the austere Ampezzo Dolomites, the lunar Dolomites of Fanes, Senes and Braies.
The Puez-Odle mountains in the Alto Adige region and now a splendid natural park.
The Sciliar, Catinaccio and Latemar mountains between Alto Adige and Trentino.
The Rio delle Foglie (Bletterbach), a deep gorge with exposed layers of prehistoric rocks strata revealing the secrets of their creation and what the climate and the environment were like 250 million years ago.
The Brenta Dolomites, the furthest to the west, still home to the brown bear and all in the Trentino.
The nine Dolomiti mountain groups, spanning 142.000 hectares and given 85 hectares of border areas for a total of 231.000 hectares, are spread over fiveprovinces: Trento, Bolzano, Belluno, Pordenone and Udine.
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The Road to Deliverance or That's The Game – Survive
By Mike Tomano
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Exhausted am I, having traveled down The Road, a bleak novel by Cormac McCarthy. The Road is a story that posits the will to survive against futility. McCarthy's prose is direct, relentless, and at times soul-stirring, following the struggle of a man and his son wandering a desolate realm, deprived of comforts, their sole possessions merest necessities contained in a battered shopping cart. Two broken lives stripped of security and dreams, armed with fleeting hope, what The Man calls "carrying the fire."
I came to Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel after hearing him mentioned in interviews with people whose tastes I admire. I've heard tell of his "masterpiece" Blood Meridian, and am looking forward to reading it, as well as the rest of his works. Movies have been made from his novels Child of God (have not seen), No Country for Old Men (have seen twice), and The Road, a 2009 film adaptation starring Viggo Mortensen and directed by John Hillcoat that I dozed off watching a couple of years ago (I recall the film being good, I was just tired.)
Before the word was mentioned, my visualization of the unfolding events was grey, including the characters. A man and his son, wandering an depleted landscape, their quotidian seeking food and shelter, battling weather and what is left of mankind. There are no animals to hunt nor fish to catch, their sustenance reduced to salvaged canned goods and sifted water.
McCarthy depicts the tedium they face to reach another day. The Road's landscapes of abandoned structures and mummified remains evoke the paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski, a Polish artist whose dystopian pictures juxtapose remnants of beauty in post-apocalyptic settings.
"How does the never to be differ from what never was?"
Breathtaking. The thought of The Man facing a past with no merit and a future with no fortune, was one of many put-the-book-down moments, forcing me to hold my place and think about it for a while, as it perfectly encapsulates man's incurable futility defining the "meaning of life." When looking at a life lived, one hopes for an afterlife where great mysteries are revealed, whether one's faith lies in an Abrahamic eternal heavenly residence or total consciousness as promised to Carl the Groundskeeper by the Dalai Lama in Caddyshack. We want answers. Straight answers, see!
In The Road, the need for an ultimate answer is put on hold, as The Man exists solely for his child. All they have left is momentum.
Blessed or wretched, every scenario dealt by Life offers two options: Give Up or Keep Going. The Road, both literally and metaphorically, places us at the crossroad of those paths.
Good parenting proposes imparting love, compassion, self-esteem, self-reliance, and healthy lifestyle choices as paramount. We live vicariously through our children, providing security and adequate education of skills for them to go forward and prosper. And, at the heart of parenting lies our children's safety.
The animal kingdom exists to procreate and protect offspring and kind. (Well, save for boar bears that get all jealous and eat their babies, but they're jerks. Okay, cougars will eat a kitten. And shark embryos, the feisty little bastards they are, cannibalize their littermates in the womb! Plenty more anomalies exist in the wild, like rats, but what do you expect from rats? They're rats! For all intents and purposes, we're sticking with the "procreate and protect" premise spanning species.)
The Road boils that parental burden to its core. How and what do we leave a child in a world that no longer exists? Heavy stuff, and McCarthy drags us sweating and fretting through that stark ponderance, sprinkling beauty into the fatalism befalling the mortal coil.
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."
Survival has been, and will continue to be, the basis for countless tales. From ancient mythology epics to current-day spy novel fare, staying alive in defiance of odds is a premise of which all can relate. The horror story creates suspense by placing its characters in threatening situations, fleeing from hockey-masked, axe-wielding maniacs or supernatural creatures. The adventure story finds our hero saving the world from the heinous plans of an evil mastermind, hidden inside a fortress with a laser beam's crosshairs on mankind. The mystery novel's sleuth will unveil the murderer. The fairy tale peasant? Slay dragon, rescue princess.
Good against Evil. The story of existence infinitely retold, from The Bible to SpongeBob SquarePants. All we want to do is survive and return to normal. The plot elemental: Normal / Upheaval / Return to Normal / Happily Ever After / Amen.
In The Road, there is no "normal" to return to, life's goal being merely to live. Bleak AF. Cormac offers reflections, the existential questioning, that would surface when global structure, and seemingly most of the planet's life, is extinguished.
James Dickey's 1970 novel Deliverance is a fine example of the survival story centered on the struggle to regain normalcy; survival with an endgame that aims beyond merely waking another day.
Four friends embark on a weekend canoe trip down a soon-to-be dammed river, guided by the outdoorsman of the group, Lewis. Their adventure heads down the shitter when one of two genetically-deficient mountain men decides to sodomize a member of their party, only to be shish-kabobbed by an broadhead-tipped arrow. (If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, crawl out from under your rock and do so.)
The 1972 film adaptation of Dickey's novel by John Boorman tops my list of all-time favorite films, one I revisit every couple years. I first caught it edited for network television in my pre-teen years and found it a cinematic epiphany. It was a dream adventure for a young lad obsessed with archery and The Great Outdoors.
At the point where Bobby (Ned Beatty) and Ed (Jon Voight) are confronted by the pair of backwoods freaks, the movie cut to commercial. When it resumed, the duo had been rejoined by Lewis (Burt Reynolds) and Drew (Ronny Cox), arguing over the judicial system while they buried one of the assailants. I was puzzled, and remained so until I saw the entire film on VHS.
Ah, so THAT'S what happened! Now, I get it! Holy Mackerel!
I've obsessed over and extensively researched the film and book over the years, delving into Dickey's poetry and interviews, as well as Boorman's filmmaking notes. The outdoor adventure aspect of it echoes my response to the "call of the wild," my concern for wildlife and habitate conservation., and my affinity for recreation beyond the pavement, in the woods and on the water.
Beyond those aesthetics, its theme of nature's indifferent cruelty in contrast to man's decided cruelty is endlessly thought-provoking. Deliverance is a profound human nature study, its exploration of the extremes individuals are capable of in the vacuum of peril, detached from familiar surroundings and comfort, make it a rich and rewarding experience.
By the story's conclusion, Lewis, who killed the inbred wonder who buggered Bobby, is hospitalized, facing leg amputation, Ed has killed the dentally-challenged cracker who killed Drew and Bobby is heading home, a cracked shell of his former self, to sit on an icepack and toil away on memory repression.
The film ends with Ed's nightmare recalling their horrific weekend from Hell. (I prefer this ending to the novel's epilogue, which continues Ed's narration of the following months, lessening the impact of the story's crescendo in comparison to the film's haunting finale.)
The survival story seeks triumph, victory over obstacle and threat, defiance over odds and adversity. In The Road, the victory of survival lies in continuing in the wake of diminishing hope. In Deliverance, survival entails prevailing over dire circumstance, calling upon primal resilience to defeat devastation.
A particular passage in the film that resonates is the serene setting in early camp, while Bobby and Drew prepare tents and Ed and Lewis drift their canoe in the river's shallows. Ed lays back and sips on a beer while Lewis attempts to arrow a trout. Lewis states, "Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive. That's the game – survive."
A few years ago, such a notion would be considered extremist. Today? Not so much. One need only to be aware of the daily news cycle to deduce a less-than-hunky-f'n-dory status quo.
Admittedly, we've been spoiled by modern convenience. How much can we survive? How prepared are we to meet such a demand, one that comes without warning? Preparation is a preoccupation for me, but I still come up short in the confidence department. The trick is to keep piling on the prep, as well as the knowledge. At varying levels in different times, Life throws us all into the survival game. Could be an avalanche of unforeseen expenses, could be a madman with an axe chasing you through the woods. Prepare to survive The Small, The Medium and The Shit Has Hit The Fan.
Sylvester Stallone has survived hearing "Yo, Adrian!" shouted from passersby for decades.
Arnold Schwarzenegger can't grab a coffee without some knucklehead yellin' "I'll be back!"
Pacino? "Hoo-Ha!" every day, from New York to L.A.
And for decades, Ned Beatty suffered fools bellowing "Squeal like a pig!" at him, his accomplishments as an established, exemplary actor, reduced to an early-career scene of his dimpled derriere getting stuffed by a psychotic hillrod.
So, short of waking to find a world in smoldering rubble or burying a body with your friends, let us presume our preparedness sufficient to battle daily hassles.
And when the goin' gets tough, just remember Ol' Ned and don't sweat it. Don't give up. Keep going.
You will survive. You got this.
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I was sitting upstairs when the coach was leaving the station. I was waving goodbye to Mari and the bright lights were starting to fade away. I had one only thought at the time:
Tokyo….I will come back again.
I already love this country. It has a fashion that is uncomparable and still, there is more to come.
When the night bus hit the road, it took me around Tokyo and then stopped at Shinjuku to take on board more passengers and then left again, this time it left Tokyo for good.
The road started to become a motorway. Looking down the windows I could see that the bus was going up like going on a ramp. The sorrounding buildings were very tall and that motorway reached a very high point above the normal street level. It was about 5 or 6 storey high and the sorrounding buildings were much higher. It felt a little bit scary being that high but at the same time it was very interesting. That high way seemed never ending, it as going for miles and miles, I was wondering after a while if it was going all the way to Kyoto.
I didn't want to sleep but I knew that if I hadn't had a sleep the day after it was going to be tiring and difficult to be awake for the whole day. On the other hand, I didn't want to miss a single second of the journey. I was sooooo curious of everything. I wanted to see everything. However, it was too dark to see almost anything at all, the only thing that I could see was that the first part of my bus journey while going through Tokyo, the bus was going fast through high rises. The buildings were amazingly high and the thing that amazed me most was the height of the level of the road, that motorway was built at 7-9 floors above 'normal' street level.
Past Tokyo, the road felt like never going down to sea level, it was always high. I wondered how long they took to build that road, and how they had built it. It was very fascinating. I had never seen anything like that inside the European continent, Asia was exciting and full of surprises, even on a night time bus journey and nothing is happening around me. Only my eyes could see the beauty of something that at first sight seems insignificant.
Even though the bus seats were very comfortable and could be pulled down at almost flat level to form an almost bed style sofa bed, they were still a bit far away to be 100% comfortable to use them as a bed, and I suppose it would be hard to pass a whole week on a night bus over night. It was suitable for a single journey and it was difficult to sleep long hours, maybe it was just because of my excitement. Anyway, after a while I managed to fall asleep.
I suddenly woke up a few hours later, this is because the bus was pulling away from the motorway and going into a service area. The bus stopped there not only for refilling the bus with fuel, but also to allow the passengers to go to the toilets and to eat and drink something. When I got off the bus I made sure to look at where the bus was parked and to recognise at least a few of the passengers, I did not want to jump on a bus which was going to a different direction, because more busses were parked there. As I said, The aim of that journey was to reach Kyoto, even though I wouldn't mind to go somewhere else, because, at the end of the day everything was new and exciting to me. I wondered where exactly where this place was. Was it near Nagoya? or somewhere in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the countryside? I didn't know. I wish I could find out.
There was only one restaurant inside that service area. They only served Japanese food, and this is what I wanted. The food they sold was simple and cheap. I had a bowl of delicious udon noodles. They were very tasty, I wished if I could find the recipe so I could cook them myself. Most passengers were there sitting and slurping the food bought. After that, everyone was happy and went back to the night bus for the last part of the journey.
Kyoto's Doors
A few hours later I woke up when my closed sleepy eyes could see the bright light of the sky and the sun rising from far away. I opened my eyes slowly, and the surroundings started taking shape. The bus was moving fast, and I could see from the landscape that the summer was at the end. The leaves of the tree and the grass were still green but the sun was at a lower gradient angle. It wasn't long until the landscape started changing and the bus driver slowed the speed of the bus slightly. A city was starting to take shape, was that the entrance of Kyoto? I could see houses that had a their appearance was different from what I was used to, buildings that resembled castles and the bus slowed further its speed and stopped at the first traffic lights. It wasn't long until the bus terminated its journey, I reached my destination, this journey was a history of Japan in reverse, I started my journey in the new capital, Tokyo, and reached the former capital, Kyoto, and I was sure that also this journey was going to be interesting.


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Trump's attacks on federal employee unions, pay and benefits draw bipartisan rebukes
President Trump speaks at a bill-signing ceremony June 6, 2018, for the "VA Mission Act" in the Rose Garden of the White House. The bill will expand private care for veterans as an alternative to the troubled Veterans Affairs health system. (Evan Vucci/AP)
By Joe Davidson
Columnist focusing on federal government issues
President Trump's aggressive efforts to upend the long-standing federal labor-management landscape by undermining government unions increasingly are the target of bipartisan rebukes.
His workplace policies, including restrictive executive orders and proposed retirement cuts, are being hit politically and legally, from Republicans and Democrats and by multiple union lawsuits.
The latest salvo in the broad-based rejection of Trump's performance as boss in chief is a letter from two dozen House Democratic leaders asking him to rescind three executive orders that appear designed "to completely eradicate unions from the federal workplace."
His May 25 orders were a significant escalation of the administration's hostility toward federal labor organizations. One directive severely cuts "official time," which allows union officials to conduct activities for an entire bargaining unit, not just union members. Another blames union contracts for making "it harder for agencies to reward high performers, hold low-performers accountable, or flexibly respond to operational needs." A third order would allow federal agencies to fire workers faster.
The Democrats emphasized the danger the orders pose for federal whistleblowers, courageous individuals who often are made far more welcome by both parties on Capitol Hill than they are by their agencies.
Led by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the Democratic lawmakers said in their letter to Trump that the orders "are the most direct and systematic attack on whistleblower protections in a generation. They strip federal employees of procedures that were put in place to protect them against retaliation by their superiors — who are often political appointees — and they deny whistleblowers assistance from their union representatives when they are punished for speaking the truth. Your Executive Orders also degrade existing protections against undue partisanship in the federal workforce, allowing political appointees to terminate employees arbitrarily and without the checks assured through meaningful collective bargaining."
The focus on whistleblowers is strategic. While unions have far more support among Democrats than Republicans, whistleblowers win bipartisan praise for risking their careers when they report waste, fraud and abuse in government agencies.
Twenty-one House Republicans, with significant federal employee constituencies, were more restrained in their criticism of their party's leader, but they too objected to Trump's actions.
"The recent Executive Orders embark upon a path that will undo many of the long-standing principles protected by law, which establish checks and balances not only in the federal workplace, but for the American public," wrote the Republicans, led by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and including Virginians Barbara Comstock, who faces a tough reelection battle, and Rob Wittman.
The executive orders also are taking increasing fire on the legal front. A coalition of 13 unions filed suit against the directives this week, joining separate, earlier lawsuits from the two largest federal labor organizations, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the National Treasury Employees Union.
Trump exceeded his authority, said the coalition, which asked the U.S. District Court in Washington to block enforcement of the edicts.
The orders "would wreck the system of collective bargaining in the federal sector, eliminate meaningful due process for federal employees that is essential to American democracy, and make it all but impossible for federal employee unions to offer federal workers the representation that unions in the federal sector are required by law to provide," charged the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE).
The directives "make it all but impossible for federal employee unions to offer federal workers the representation we are required by law to provide," added NFFE President Randy Erwin.
While the executive orders have been the focus of much attention this week, more than two dozen Senate Democrats have not forgotten Trump's plan to cut federal retirement benefits by $143.5 billion over 10 years. That plan also has drawn Republican criticism.
In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, the senators cited Trump's call for "increased Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) contributions from employees, eliminating the FERS supplement for employees who retire beginning in 2018, basing retirement calculations on the average of the highest 5 years of salary instead of the current 3, and reducing or eliminating cost-of-living adjustments." They said they "fear these cuts are motivated by an ongoing effort to balance the budget on the backs of federal workers rather than an effort to provide a comprehensive approach to modernizing federal employee compensation."
The cuts, along with a Trump-proposed pay freeze in 2019, "will be devastating to retention and recruitment," wrote the senators, led by Mark R. Warner of Virginia.
Officials at the White House, the Office of Management and Budget and the OPM did not respond to requests for comment.
The executive orders are part of a continuing presidential onslaught demonstrating Trump's disdain for federal unions.
The Education Department imposed a contract in March on employees who had earlier rejected it. AFGE is appealing that action to the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), but it is a weakened body under Trump. The FLRA resolves unfair labor practice complaints that are mostly filed by unions. The decision to close two of its seven field offices and its long vacant general counsel's office place labor organizations at a disadvantage.
In a September executive order, Trump revoked the labor-management forums created by President Barack Obama. The forums facilitated communication on a variety of issues often affecting employees generally, not just union members.
The Trump administration implicitly blamed unions for "employer-employee relations activities [that] currently consume considerable management time and taxpayer resources, and may negatively impact efficiency, effectiveness, cost of operations, and employee accountability and performance" in a budget proposal released in February.
One thing about Trump — he makes no effort to disguise his anti-union bias. He repeatedly puts it in writing.
[Trump's orders show unwavering attack on federal unions, employees]
[Trump thanks federal employees with $143.5 billion in retirement cuts]
[Trump administration escalates attack on federal unions with one-sided 'agreement' at Education]
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Come, Take a Gentle Stab
Author: Salim Barakat, Huda Fakhreddine, Jason Iwen
Publisher: Seagull Books
Introduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry.
Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. This first collection of his poetry in English, representing every stage of his career, remedies that startling omission. Come, Take a Gentle Stab features selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry, including excerpts from his book-length poems, rendered into an English that captures the exultation of language for which he is famous.
A Kurdish-Syrian man, Barakat chose to write in Arabic, the language of cultural and political hegemony that has marginalized his people. Like Paul Celan, he mastered the language of the oppressor to such an extent that the course of the language itself has been compelled to bend to his will. Barakat pushes Arabic to a point just beyond its linguistic limits, stretching those limits. He resists coherence, but never destroys it, pulling back before the final blow. What results is a figurative abstraction of struggle, as alive as the struggle itself. And always beneath the surface of this roiling water one can glimpse the deep currents of ancient Kurdish culture.
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Tamy-Feé Meneide serves on the Executive Task Force of the Multicultural Coalition on Aging. She recently joined the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative Executive Committee to help promote greater diversity and inclusion within the Healthy Aging Collaborative. Tamy-Feé Meneide is currently the clinical research diversity coordinator at the Harvard Aging Brain Study.
What is the Multicultural Coalition on Aging (MCA) and what does it do?
The MCA is a group of dedicated individuals who are looking to improve the delivery of and access to culturally competent care for older adults, so that all services are available and acceptable to diverse populations. We are trying to help providers understand that being culturally sensitive is a part of providing excellent care. For instance, it's important that older adults receive and share information in a language that they feel comfortable in, and it's important to understand cultural customs like taking off one's shoes when visiting someone's home. Understanding and respecting these nuances help make people feel more comfortable, which goes a long way in building trust in communities that can feel afraid to rely on the healthcare system.
MCA has also transformed my thinking about diversity beyond skin color, to also recognize and include disability, socioeconomic status, and other factors beyond race and ethnicity.
For example, one of our Coalition members is legally deaf, and we have made sure that American Sign Language (ASL) is part of every presentation we do, and introduce ASL services to agencies that didn't provide it before.
How has the MCA helped you to reach diverse populations for the Harvard Aging Brain Study?
The purpose of the Harvard Aging Brain Study is to understand how aging affects the brain, so that we can understand what healthy aging looks like and what factors can predict problems like Alzheimer's disease. My job at the Harvard Aging Brain Study involves the recruitment, outreach, and retention of healthy older adults without memory loss, and to make sure that there is diversity among the study participants. We have completed enrollment with 300 study participants. Currently, twenty percent of enrollees are underrepresented minorities, spanning Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. This percentage is much higher than most other brain studies and is about the percentage of minorities that are represented in the Boston area.
In reaching out to some of these underserved populations, we need to understand that we are entering a community that may not necessarily trust the medical field. There's been a lot of history of underrepresented minorities being experimented on, like in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and so we are dealing with a lack of trust that has developed over many years.
A primary way of engaging these communities was for me and my team to insert ourselves as community members. I started off joining as many different communities as possible, like Seniors on the Move at the Roxbury YMCA, an intellectually and physically engaging program for seniors in the Roxbury community. I have also joined community agencies like the 60+ Veterans Group of Roxbury, who meet weekly at the 12th Baptist Church. By joining the Multicultural Coalition on Aging, I have been able to meet people from agencies servicing diverse populations that I might not have otherwise met, and gain people's trust. The other members of the Multicultural Coalition respect my work as a colleague, and these gatekeepers allow me access to the older adult populations that I'm seeking to reach.
It does help that I am from a minority background myself, so when entering these different communities, I definitely blend in. But it took my first year attending these community meetings, sharing my voice, and participating in volunteer activities, before I was let in to speak to them about my research and the educational workshops that I provide. You have to be patient, and the level of engagement is sometimes a lot more than you would expect. But it's an important investment, and we're reaping the benefits of that now and will continue to do so as we remain an integral part of their communities.
How do people join the MCA?
I help with the membership committee for MCA, and so they can get directly in touch with me (tmeneide@mgh.harvard.edu). The MCA meets the first Wednesday of every month in the Hebrew SeniorLife facility in Roslindale from 8:30 to 10am. To join, you don't have to call me, you can just show up. You can also visit our website to find out more information: http://www.hebrewseniorlife.org/research-mca-membership-opportunities.
You recently joined the Executive Committee of the Healthy Aging Collaborative (HAC). What has that been like?
I was invited to join the Healthy Aging Collaborative Executive Committee to help expand the Collaborative's work on diversity and inclusion. I am thrilled to join the Executive Committee. I'm excited to share my passion and my experience in working with diverse populations, and here I am at the table with different agencies that have powerful voices.
Some of the new work of the Collaborative revolves around building age-friendly communities in Massachusetts. Boston is one of the first cities in MA working towards designation as a World Health Organization (WHO) age-friendly city. The Boston Elderly Commission is looking at how Boston's community demographics are changing and how health and safety and civic participation can be improved. Mayor Marty Walsh is a strong advocate for this program.
Making Boston an age-friendly city for older adults is making it wonderful for all ages. When we invest in an age friendly city, it means there's investment in economic growth, we're enabling happier and healthier citizens, and we're elevating the quality of life for everyone. The Healthy Aging Collaborative strongly supports these efforts.
We're all getting older. This is one trend that we will all have in common, and we want to be a part of making sure that when we're there, we're happy and healthy.


One person was hurt and four other family members were displaced after a fire tore through a home in Pasadena late Friday, officials said.
The fire was first reported at 8:37 p.m. at a single-story house at 1361 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena Fire Department Deputy Chief Bryan Frieders said.
Firefighters arrived to find heave smoke pouring out of a garage that had been converted to living space, as well as flames inside, he said. The fire had begun to spread to the main house.
An adult patient was already on the porch of the home, being tended to by family members, the chief said. The patient was taken to a hospital in "fair to serious" condition.
Firefighters extinguished the flames in about 20 minutes.
The cause remained under investigation, Frieders said. A dollar-value estimate of the damage was not available.


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Sherbourne est une station de la ligne 2 Bloor-Danforth du métro de Toronto, au Canada. Elle se trouve au 420 de la rue Bloor Street, et dessert le quartier de St. James Town et le sud de Rosedale.

Situation sur le réseau

Établie en souterrain, la station Sherbourne de la ligne 2 Bloor-Danforth, est précédée par la station Bloor-Yonge, en direction du terminus Kipling. Elle est suivie par la station Castle Frank en direction du terminus Kennedy.

Histoire
La station est mise en service le  lors de l'ouverture de la ligne 2 Bloor-Danforth.

Ellea une moyenne de fréquentation de  personnes par jour pour l'année 2010.

Services aux voyageurs

Accès et accueil

Desserte

Intermodalité
Elle est desservie par les bus de la ligne 75 Sherbourne.

À proximité

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Métro de Toronto
 Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
 Liste des stations du métro de Toronto
 Ligne 1 Yonge-University

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Station du métro de Toronto
Station de métro mise en service en 1966

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As of event year 2020, Messe Frankfurt says it will be changing over completely to green power, sourcing 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy.
This includes the power supply for the stands, halls and exhibition grounds at the company's Frankfurt base. For Messe Frankfurt, the move away from conventional energy sources is a further milestone in implementing its long-term strategic measures in the field of sustainability. The company's cooperation partner is Frankfurt-based energy service provider Mainova AG.
Messe Frankfurt goes on to explain that its average energy needs are comparable with those of a town with around 40,000 inhabitants. Switching over to electricity with an optimised carbon footprint is described as "a natural next step" in the Group's integral business practice.
In this way, the company says it also accommodates the wishes of its customers.
Awareness of the need for sustainable energy has further increased in recent years and a number of guest organisers already exclusively use electricity from renewable energy sources. For Messe Frankfurt, switching over completely to green power is a further means of actively helping to protect the climate and environment and of driving forward its energy targets with a view to achieving an integral energy performance. The company adds that it is also playing its part in the ambitious climate protection plans of its shareholders, the City of Frankfurt and the federal state of Hesse.
Messe Frankfurt operates an active energy management system. As Uwe Behm points out: "Conserving energy is intricate work". Accordingly, states the company, the targets set by Messe Frankfurt's energy team will be implemented under the supervision and resolute drive of the company's energy manager. Uwe Behm: "The sheer diversity of buildings on our exhibition grounds and the different ways in which they are built and used means that individual analyses are needed. In the case of new buildings and renovations, forward-looking, energy-optimised construction and efficient operation are vital, for example with compound cooling systems between the exhibition halls." However, there are many small measures that are essential for efficient energy management, explains Messe Frankfurt – these include adapting air-conditioning for specific facilities, preparing energy consumption graphics to raise employee awareness, or having an effective building automation system.
Renewable energy has been a priority on the exhibition grounds for years, with three photovoltaic systems currently being operated there. Since late 2018, the third photovoltaic system – located on the roof of Hall 12 – has been generating energy from the sun's rays. In future, an estimated 2 GWh of energy is to be harvested every year, which is roughly equivalent to the requirements of 500 households.
Since 2010, Messe Frankfurt has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact – the first German trade fair organiser to join its ranks. The worldwide CSR network is committed to sustainable corporate management and to the ten principles set out in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption activities.
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Юруна (Iuruna, Jaruna, Jurúna, Yudya, Yurúna) — индейский язык, на котором говорят в резервации Пакисамба, в городе Атламира штата Пара, в двух деревнях около устья реки Маритсауа-Митау, в национальном парке Шингу на севере штата Мату-Гросу в Бразилии. В 1989 году в резервацию Пакисамба прибыл один человек, а в 2007 году было уже 35 членов. В национальном парке Шингу пожилые люди говорят на португальском языке, а половина женского населения его понимают. В общем португальским менее свободно владеют пожилые, а более молодое поколение говорит на нём (2007). Это один из примерно 70 языков тупи.

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Von Békésy is a worn lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the northern latitudes, behind the northeastern limb of the Moon as seen from the Earth. This is a relatively isolated crater formation, the closest named crater being Volterra, just over one crater diameter to the north-northeast. To the southwest lies Millikan.

This crater has been heavily eroded by subsequent impacts, and several portions of the rim are overlaid by smaller craters. The largest of these is laid across the southeastern rim. There are multiple smaller craters along the northeastern and the western rims. The interior floor is relatively featureless, with only a few tiny craterlets to mark the surface.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Von Békésy.

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See also
 Georg von Békésy

Impact craters on the Moon


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World Championship Game 2: Sharp Catalan ends drawn
by Carlos Alberto Colodro
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11/27/2021 – A second consecutive tense draw was seen on Saturday at the World Championship match in Dubai. Once again, Magnus Carlsen deviated from mainstream theory early in the game, pushing his opponent to solve difficult problems over the board from the get go. Ian Nepomniachtchi showed great nerves to keep things under control, and even got some winning chances in a complex middlegame. The tension continues to rise in Dubai! | Photo: Eric Rosen / FIDE
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Full expert analysis of the game will be published shortly on our news site. Game 2 will be annotated by none other than English grandmaster Luke McShane.
Besides the competitive factor — which has to do with stamina, nerves and sheer chess talent — a World Championship match is also a struggle between two teams of talented 'chess scientists'. Each contender invests money and time to gather a group of trusted assistants to help him reach every single game with as many prepared variations as possible. After all, showing a strong novelty or surprising the opponent in a sideline might have a decisive effect on the final result.
After two games in the 2021 World Championship match, both the defending champion and the challenger have demonstrated just how much work goes into these contests. Commentators and pundits mostly agree that Magnus Carlsen currently has a 2-0 advantage in terms of preparation, but credit should be given to Ian Nepomniachtchi's team for having looked deeply enough at the 8...Na5 line seen in the first game, and to Nepo himself for having survived through the complications of a sharp Catalan Opening on Saturday.
Power Play 24: A repertoire for black against the Catalan
On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black against the Catalan, based around maintaining the rock of a pawn on d5. Keeping central control ultimately gives Black good chances to launch an attack against the enemy king.
The likes of Erwin l'Ami, an expert analyst himself, knew we were in for a creative, sharp struggle as early as on move 8.
A Catalan it is! Magnus sidestepping the trendy new system 8.a4 Bb7!? with the rare 8.Ne5. #CarlsenNepo
— Erwin l'Ami (@erwinlami) November 27, 2021
Carlsen was the one creating the conditions for a fighting game, and after 8...c6 9.a4 Nd5 10.Nc3 f6 11.Nf3, Nepo responded in kind, going for 11...Qd7 instead of 11...b4, creating more imbalances in an already complex position.
Soon after, Black planted his knight on the strong d3-outpost, which was described by Nigel Short as a 'giant sprawling lobster'. After thinking for a bit over 15 minutes, Carlsen responded with the critical 14.e5, as predicted by Short.
Nepo was holding tight, but clearly it was Carlsen who was in the driver's seat — the world champion does not play the Catalan as often as other lines against 1.d4. However, an imprecise knight jump by the Norwegian turned the tables.
After 17.Ne5, Black correctly went for 17...Bxe5 18.dxe5 Nac5, getting the upper hand. In the post-game press conference, Carlsen confessed that he had completely missed his opponent's 18th move, but "[took] some solace in the fact that you usually need to work pretty hard to win such positions as Black".
Nepo definitely had winning chances. Later on, the Russian praised Carlsen's play after his mistake on move 17, as the champion found the most obstinate manoeuvres despite being well aware of the fact that he had erred in a critical position. White's ability to prevent a quick disaster worked out well for Carlsen, as Nepo surprisingly faltered on move 24.
The Catalan: A complete repertoire for White!
The Catalan is one of the most solid openings for White. It forms part of the large and strong fianchetto family in which White builds his strategy mainly around the bishop on g2. Grandmaster Victor Bologan covers all of Black's replies to the Catalan, some of which can even transpose to other openings such as the Tarrasch System and the Queen's Indian. Suffice it to say that the Catalan rules!
Black's 24...c3 was described by Anish Giri as 'panicky'. Nepo later explained that he was overly fearful of being on the wrong side of a mating attack. The Russian elaborated:
Perhaps ...c3 was a little bit of a human reaction to make sure I'm not going to be mated, and I guess after ...c3 it was more or less equal.
Once the dust had settled, Black was an exchange up, but White had a strong knight on d6 (much like his opponent earlier in the game). Among others, commentator Judit Polgar considered that the world champion was the one trying to find a plan to go for the win.
Carlsen's 37.Qg4 was not the most precise here, as after 37...Rxd6 (the knight is way too strong) 38.exd6 Qxd6 Black knew he could draw a potential rook endgame with 3 v 2 on the kingside. And that is exactly what happened, with Nepo keeping things under control before the peace treaty was signed on move 58.
Former world champion Garry Kasparov, who visited the playing venue in Dubai, shared on Twitter:
I'm not sure I understand the players' sudden dislike of material in this game, but I do have an old personal bias for powerfully located knights in world championship games… #carlsennepo
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) November 27, 2021
Not even one of the living chess legends fully understood what was going on in the game, but what is undeniable is that it has been two days of intrigue and palpable tension. We can only hope to see more of the same in the coming weeks. The fight is on!
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Topics: FIDE World Championship 2021, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen
Carlos Alberto Colodro Carlos Colodro is a Hispanic Philologist from Bolivia. He works as a freelance translator and writer since 2012. A lot of his work is done in chess-related texts, as the game is one of his biggest interests, along with literature and music.
Statistics and numbers: The World Chess Championship in 5 Charts
1/5/2022 – The World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi was the chess highlight of the year 2021, and chess fans all over the world followed the games and the match avidly. Carlsen won 7.5-3.5 and defended his title. Shortly after the match, Oliver Roeder and Simran Parwani took a look at some statistics of the match and presented their findings on www.538.com, a statistics-oriented website that focuses on American politics and sports. | Image: FIDE
Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match
12/10/2021 – Magnus Carlsen picked up a fourth win at the World Championship match in Dubai to secure overall victory with three games to spare. Playing black, the world champion saw Ian Nepomniachtchi all but self-destructing for a third time in the match. This was Carlsen's fourth consecutive successful defence of the title after becoming world champion in 2013. | Photo: Eric Rosen / FIDE
Resistance 11/28/2021 03:56
Very tense, fascinating battles so far (especially Game 2). So what if they're not perfect; at least they feel real. They're trying to make things happen, and so, I congratulate Magnus and Ian for their effort (-Also, it is a real treat seeing them coming up with these new, unusual opening ideas which add ever new life to our game-).
The only downside, so far: the time control. No increment till move 61? Most games end before move 60, so you're basically removing the 30 seconds cumulative increment from the classical world chess championship match altogether (!). No. In an event as important as this one, players should be encouraged to create, to take risks and to seek greatness. Everytime organizers rob players from such necessary, basic conditions (-cumulative time increment from the very beginning in this case-), chess itself loses; we all lose.
Yayo 11/28/2021 11:17
Mr Carlsen is the clear favourite in this match: he has the highest Elo rating in history, has a lot of experience in World Championship matches and has never been defeated so far. That said, Mr Nepomniachtchi is an extremely solid top player with nerves of steel and a worthy, dangerous opponent.
MauvaisFou 11/28/2021 10:26
I think that after three draws against higher-rated players, the weaker player should be penalised, because more often than not, it is the weaker player who seeks the draw and plays solid lines.
But, like most of chessplayers fortunately, I believe that draws are NOT an issue.
rakerchess 11/28/2021 10:11
Previous comments based on analysis by Fat Fritz 2 (one minute analysis per move, Syzygy endgame tablebases enabled, opening book turned off) running on an HP Z8 G4 workstation (3 GHz, two Intel Xeon processors, 48 cores, & 192 GB RAM).
After the "perfect" 1st game, mistakes and blunders abounded in the 2d game.
After an interesting opening, Carlsen's 20 Rb1? gave Nepo a large advantage. Carlsen should have played 20 Be3 Na1 21 Ra1 ba4 22 Be4 Ne5 23 Qh5 Ng6 24 Bc5 Rf6 25 Ra4 Qc7 26 Nc4 a5=, with equality.
Carlsen's next mistake 23 Rd1? -+ led to a lost game, instead he should have played 23 Be4 Ba8 24 Rd1 g6 25 a5 Qe7, though still with a large advantage for Nepo.
Nepo reciprocated with 23...Ba8??=, when 23...ba4 24 Be4 g6 25 Qc4 c5 26 Rd2 Be4 27 Ne4 Qc6 28 Rd6 Qc8 29 Nf6+ Kh8 30 Rd2 Rb4 31 Qc3 a5 -+ would have given him a winning advantage.
On the next move, Carlsen's 24 Be4? gave Nepo a large advantage, when 24 Nb5 Qb7 25 Be4 Qb6= would have led to equality.
Nepo's 24...c3?= threw away his large advantage, when 24...g6 25 a5 Qe7 26 h4 a6 27 f4 c5 28 Ba8 Ra8 would have kept this advantage.
Carlsen's 26 bc3?? -+ was a blunder, when 26 Qc3 ba4 27 Rd2 Kh8 28 Qc4 c5 29 Ba8 Ra8 30 Qc5 g5= was equal.
Nepo did not take advantage of this, and blundered in turn with 26... ba4??=, when 26... Qg7 27 f4 g5 28 ab5 gf4 29 bc6 Kh8 30 Kg2 Qe5 31 Nb7 fg3 32 hg3 Rg8 33 Qd3 Rbf8 -+ was a clear win.
Carlsen should have lost this game. Nepo had a winning advantage on two occasions, and was never worse than equal.
On this form, Carlsen will lose the title this time around. Is Carlsen underestimating Nepo, and pushing too hard as White by playing "coffee house" chess? We shall see in the games to come.
ulyssesganesh 11/28/2021 06:45
i hope Nepo to Nail Magnus this time ..
oh... those dominating knights ...... i was reminded of Garry's monster knight at d3 against the celebrated sicilian game against Karpov in a WCC....
Claudioarrau 11/28/2021 06:22
@Archnimzo, couldn't agree more. For true lovers of chess, the content of a game transcends the result.
elmaestro1967 11/28/2021 05:27
Love chess,,, Carlsen will win.
Archnimzo 11/28/2021 05:13
I don't think of draws as a 'disease', it is part of the game and a valid result, not everything should be 0 or 1, yes or no, win or lose. I love chess as it is.
@methos, it takes a lot more to succeed than just the will to win at the highest level these days. The players need teams of seconds to pore over the best available computer analysis. That costs money, which they can't afford to throw away by playing for death or glory every game. In a match especially, they have to play strategically, knowing when to keep their powder dry and when to go for broke. So it's absurd to suggest, as you do, that nominally higher-rated players should be penalized if they don't win at least one out of every three consecutive games. A true chess connoisseur appreciates a high-quality, fighting game regardless of result. So should you, and anyone else who seeks a holy grail where only the result matters.
tom_70 11/28/2021 03:50
@methos, I think both games have been hard fought. These aren't early draws. The system doesn't need to be changed, only peoples understanding of what it takes to win at the highest level.
Vidmar 11/28/2021 02:54
Chess is absolutely perfect as it is and has been for 200 years.
A draw is a legitimate result; many times they're hard fought, as today. A variant is just another parlor game, not The Royal Game.
methos 11/27/2021 11:46
Carlsen's last 2 defences have been a snoozefest and it is shaping up to be the same this time.
I have a suggestion to counter the draw epidemic.
In any tournament or match, if a player has 3 draws in a row and it is against a lower rated player, the third game is counted as a loss both in points and rating.
This would be easy to program into software for a tournament director.
Also, if the match or tournament ends with two players tied, the lower rated player wins.
The reasoning is that the draw problem is being caused by the stronger player.
He has the ability, more so than the weaker player, to draw.
Therefore there should be a penalty to discourage this.
Excessive draws are a mindset.
This could be applied to other sports such as football and cricket which are afflicted with the same disease.
Leavenfish 11/27/2021 11:20
Yes, AO's comment is nonsense. Chess is clearly far from played out and no one really cares about 'variants'. Those are for people who can't play regular chess very good or are washed up as players or 'promoters' looking to make a buck on a spectacle....or good regular players simply willing to take those $$'s the promoters offer.
to AlphaZero
We could also decide that from now on, pawns will move diagonally and take pieces going straightforward ... Among other defaults, RandomChess completely breaks the equality between players.
Metaphysician 11/27/2021 11:00
I'm glad Carlsen and Nepo are playing actual chess and not a variant. The first two games were exciting.
AlphaZero1 11/27/2021 09:45
Make Random Chess mainstream. It will be disliked by the "chess scientists" but will show who possesses brute chess force.


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