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Camp Tag-A-Long
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The year 2013 marked the 30th Anniversary of Camp Tag-A-Long. Back in 1983, June Hutchison and Sara Phillips, passionate and committed Girl Scout adult volunteers, suggested that western Loudoun County should have an annual Girl Scout summer day camp, with several hours of scout-themed activities each day for an entire week. And so, Camp Tag-A-Long was born.
For the first few years, Camp Tag-A-Long's attendance was small, held on the Purcellville Community Center lawn for one week each August. As the numbers grew, Camp Tag-A-Long was moved to the lawn at the Douglas Community Center in Leesburg. Later, it moved to Camp Potomac Woods, which is its home to this day.
Camp Tag-A-Long has grown to become one of the most popular summer day camps in the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (GSCNC). Camp Tag-A-Long takes good advantage of the 101 wooded acres and extensive facilities at Camp Potomac Woods with an impressive program of activities including, but not limited to, Archery, Arts & Crafts, Brownie T-Shirt Stenciling, Campfire Cooking, Dance, Fishing, Gimp, Science, Songs, Swimming, and Tie-Dye.
Camp Tag-A-Long's enrollment and wait list numbers have mushroomed to the point that a second camp, Camp Franklin Park, was started in 1999 at Franklin Park in Purcellville, specifically to accommodate the overflow of Girl Scouts being turned away from Camp Tag-A-Long but wishing for a chance to attend a summer day camp in western Loudoun County.
We owe much gratitude for all the hard work over the past 30 years by the Hutchison and Phillips families, all of the former Camp Directors, and each and every member of the Camp Tag-A-Long staff. Thanks to all of you, since 1983, Camp Tag-A-Long has been a fantastic outdoor experience in the heart of Loudoun County for the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital.
LIST OF CAMP TAG-A-LONG DIRECTORS, 1983-PRESENT
Initiated in 1983 by June Hutchison & Sara Phillips.
1983-1984 Ann Puleo & Lucy Hastings
1985-1990 Linda Klein & Judy Meade
1991-1999 Peggy Moats & Donita Petersen
2000 Lou Schellenger & Susan Hughes & Karen Tyrell
2001-2002 Lou Schellenger & Karen Tyrell
2003-2004 Lou Schellenger
2005-2006 Lou Schellenger & Kim Hoban & JoAnne Sulak
2007 Lisa McGrail & Suzanne Termaat & Sandi Lippy
2008-2011 Lisa McGrail & Suzanne Termaat
2012 Natalie Metzler & Melani Carty
2013-2017 Natalie Metzler & Erin Greene
2013 Camp Tag-A-Long co-founder June Hutchison receives a service award from Diane Tipton at the GSCNC annual meeting.
Camp Tag-A-Long co-founder Sarah Phillips and her daughter, Dr. Barbara Sutton, pose on the RiverWalk environmental learning trail, which was made possible thanks to their generous gift to Camp Potomac Woods.
Loudoun camp caretaker marks half century on the job
The call came in early last Saturday. Someone told Abie Quesenberry that smoke was bellowing from the camp kitchen.
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The call came in early last Saturday. Someone told Abie Quesenberry that smoke was bellowing from the camp kitchen. Since Quesenberry is head handyman, he was needed on the scene. When he arrived, though, no flames. But what he discovered was even more shocking: a party for him.
"I don't know if my heart can take this," said Quesenberry, 68, after a chorus of "surprise!"
This year, Quesenberry, who lives with his wife, Nancy, east of Lucketts, is marking 50 years as caretaker at the Girl Scouts' 100-acre Camp Potomac Woods near Tarara Winery.
The burning kitchen was a guise put on by camp staff to get Quesenberry to Potomac Woods July 14, on a day off.
"When the plumbing leaks, we call him. When the latrine is about to fall through the floor, we call him," said Potomac Woods' camping services manager Denise Viau. "Abie can fix anything."
Fifty years at one job is an achievement worth celebrating. Only about 25 percent of U.S. workers stay with the same employer for more than a decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the average tenure at four years.
"That's a lot of dedication," said Wayne Graham, 57, who along with Quesenberry tends to the camp's leaking pipes, tall grass and squeaky doors. "But this is more of a lifestyle for him than a job."
Situated along the Potomac River in northeast Loudoun, Camp Potomac Woods is owned by the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital. During a typical summer week, about 200 campers live on the property. And Quesenberry, a father of one, calls each his "girl."
Minutes after emerging from the camp kitchen into the middle of the party in his honor, Quesenberry was still too overcome to recall one defining moment on the job. He said he's most proud that "no tragedy" occurred over his half-century span as caretaker.
On hanging up his hammer for a leisurely life of retirement? Not yet, he was quick to say.
"I guess everyone has to have something to do," said Quesenberry, who proudly posts a "caretaker of Potomac Woods" sign in front of his house.
"I just can't break the habit" of working at Potomac Woods, he said.
Charlene Meidlinger hugs Abie Quesenberry at his surprise party at Camp Potomac Woods near Lucketts.
–Times-Mirror Staff Photo/AJ Maclean
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Q: Visual Basic Excel - Macro to delete row I have 2 sheets (with phone numbers) in my document. if the number exists in sheet1 i want to remove the row from sheet 2.
I'm almost there (This is the first time I am using VBA). But could anyone help me with the last part.
Sub CleanList()

    Dim stopList As Range, cell1 As Range

    Set stopList = Sheet1.Range("A1:A10000")

    For Each cell1 In stopList
        Dim fullList As Range, cell2 As Range
        Set fullList = Sheet2.Range("A2:A10000")

        For Each cell2 In fullList
            If NumberFix(cell1.Value) = NumberFix(cell2.Value) Then
                cell2.EntireRow.Delete
            End If
        Next cell2
    Next cell1

End Sub

Private Function NumberFix(ByVal nr As String) As String

    If Not nr.StartsWith("46") Then
        nr = "46" + nr
    End If

    NumberFix = nr

End Function

A: The first thing is the way your using nr.StartsWith is more VB.NET-esque. THe function your looking for in VBA (probably not VB-script btw) is
Dim firstTwoChar As String
firstTwoChar = Mid(nr, 1, 2)

If Not firstTwoChar = "46" Then
    nr = "46" + nr
End If

NumberFix = nr

But even with that I'd say you should not be using a for...each iterator if you are deleting rows. The problem is when you delete row 5 then row 6 becomes row 5 and the next row you go to is row "6" but is actually row 7 in the original list, effectively skipping the original row 6.
You need to move backwards. Something like
Sub CleanList()

    Dim stopList As Range, cell1 As Range

    Set stopList = Sheet1.Range("A1:A10000")

    For Each cell1 In stopList
        Dim fullList As Range, cell2 As Range

        Dim firstRowSheet2 As Integer, lastRowSheet2 As Integer, r As Integer
        Dim sheet1sNumber As String
        sheet1sNumber = NumberFix(cell1.Value)   'you really only need to do this once
                                                 so you may as well bring it out of
                                                 the for loop and store the value and
                                                 not recalculate each time
        Dim cell2 As Range
        For r = firstRowSheet2 To lastRowSheet2 Step -1
                         '"Step -1" allows you to move backwards through the loop
            With Sheet2
                Set cell2 = .Cells(r, 1)
                If sheet1sNumber = NumberFix(cell2.Value) Then
                        cell2.EntireRow.Delete
                    End If
            End With

        Next r

    Next cell1

End Sub

But of course @ExternalUse is right. There are a lot of built in options for removing duplicates from a list. Unless you are trying to learn VBA, then this is a good exercise.

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Tiny Antibody Component Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in Animal Models
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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have isolated the smallest biological molecule to date that completely and specifically neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of COVID-19. This antibody component, which is 10 times smaller than a full-sized antibody, has been used to construct a drug—known as Ab8—for potential use as a therapeutic and prophylactic against SARS-CoV-2.
The researchers report today in the journal Cell that Ab8 is highly effective in preventing and treating SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice and hamsters. Its tiny size not only increases its potential for diffusion in tissues to better neutralize the virus, but also makes it possible to administer the drug by alternative routes, including inhalation. Importantly, it does not bind to human cells—a good sign that it won't have negative side-effects in people.
Ab8 was evaluated in conjunction with scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, as well as the University of British Columbia and University of Saskatchewan.
"Ab8 not only has potential as therapy for COVID-19, but it also could be used to keep people from getting SARS-CoV-2 infections," said co-author John Mellors, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Pitt and UPMC. "Antibodies of larger size have worked against other infectious diseases and have been well tolerated, giving us hope that it could be an effective treatment for patients with COVID-19 and for protection of those who have never had the infection and are not immune." Xianglei Liu of Pitt is also co-lead author.
Wei Li, assistant director of Pitt's Center for Therapeutic Antibodies and co-lead author of the research, sifted through antibody components and found multiple therapeutic antibody candidates in record time. (UPMC)
The tiny antibody component is the variable, heavy chain (VH) domain of an immunoglobulin, which is a type of antibody found in the blood. It was found by "fishing" in a pool of more than 100 billion potential candidates using the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as bait. Ab8 is created when the VH domain is fused to part of the immunoglobulin tail region, adding the immune functions of a full-size antibody without the bulk.
Like the Pitt and UPMC vaccine candidate PittCoVacc that delivers an immunization through a spiky Band-Aid-like patch and overcomes the need for needles and refrigeration, the researchers are "thinking outside the box" when it comes to how Ab8 could be administered. Its small size might allow it to be given as an inhaled drug or intradermally, rather than intravenously through an IV drip, like most monoclonal antibodies currently in development.
Abound Bio, a newly formed UPMC-backed company, has licensed Ab8 for worldwide development.
Dimiter Dimitrov, senior author of the Cell publication and director of Pitt's Center for Antibody Therapeutics, was one of the first to discover neutralizing antibodies for the original SARS coronavirus in 2003. In the ensuing years, his team discovered potent antibodies against many other infectious diseases, including those caused by MERS-CoV, dengue, Hendra and Nipah viruses. The antibody against Hendra and Nipah viruses has been evaluated in humans and approved for clinical use on a compassionate basis in Australia.
Clinical trials are testing convalescent plasma—which contains antibodies from people who already had COVID-19—as a treatment for those battling the infection, but there isn't enough plasma for those who might need it, and it isn't proven to work.
That's why Dimitrov and his team set out to isolate the gene for one or more antibodies that block the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which would allow for mass production. In February, Wei Li, assistant director of Pitt's Center for Therapeutic Antibodies and co-lead author of the research, began sifting through large libraries of antibody components made using human blood samples and found multiple therapeutic antibody candidates, including Ab8, in record time.
Then a team at UTMB's Center for Biodefense and Emerging Diseases and Galveston National Laboratory tested Ab8 using live SARS-CoV-2 virus. At very low concentrations, Ab8 completely blocked the virus from entering cells. With those results in hand, a team at UNC tested Ab8 at varying concentrations in mice using a modified version of SARS-CoV-2. Even at the lowest dose, Ab8 decreased by 10-fold the amount of infectious virus in those mice compared to their untreated counterparts. Ab8 also was effective in treating and preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection in hamsters, as evaluated by scientists the University of Saskatchewan. Researchers at the University of British Columbia uncovered the unique way Ab8 neutralizes the virus so effectively by using sophisticated electron microscopic techniques.
"The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge facing humanity, but biomedical science and human ingenuity are likely to overcome it," said Mellors, also Distinguished Professor of Medicine, who holds the Endowed Chair for Global Elimination of HIV and AIDS at Pitt. "We hope that the antibodies we have discovered will contribute to that triumph."
Reference: Wei Li W, Schäfer A, Kulkarni SS, et al. High potency of a bivalent human VH domain in SARS-CoV-2 animal models. Cell. 2020; doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.007
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Darren Middleton (born 28 December 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Career
Middleton started his career with English Premier League side Aston Villa, where he made one appearance. On 23 December 1995, he debuted for Aston Villa during a 1–0 loss to QPR. In 2000, Middleton signed for Stafford Rangers in the English sixth tier after receiving an offer from Spanish La Liga club Málaga.

Before the second half of 2000–01, he signed for Forest Green Rovers in the English fifth tier. In 2001, he signed for English sixth tier team Worcester City.

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Producer Prices in China increased to 100.40 Index Points in March from 100.10 Index Points in February of 2019. Producer Prices in China averaged 101.29 Index Points from 1995 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 113.47 Index Points in July of 1995 and a record low of 91.80 Index Points in July of 2009.
Producer Prices in China is expected to be 105.22 Index Points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Producer Prices in China to stand at 102.20 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the China Producer Prices is projected to trend around 105.82 Index Points in 2020, according to our econometric models.
In China, the Producer Price Index measures the average change in price of goods and services sold by manufacturers and producers in the wholesale market during a given period. This page provides - China Producer Prices - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. China Producer Prices - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.


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Curriculum guide that outlines the coursework completed at the transferring institution, along with a guide of what courses need to be completed at Oakland University for the degree.
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Noah Gift lectures at MSDS, at Northwestern, Duke MIDS Graduate Data Science Program, and the Graduate Data Science program at UC Berkeley and the UC Davis Graduate School of Management MSBA program, and UNC Charlotte Data Science Initiative. He is teaching and designing graduate machine learning, A.I., Data Science courses, and consulting on Machine Learning and Cloud Architecture for students and faculty. These responsibilities include leading a multi-cloud certification initiative for students.
Noah is a Python Software Foundation Fellow. He currently holds the following industry certifications for AWS: AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Machine Learning, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialist, AWS Certified Big Data Specialist, AWS Academy Accredited Instructor, AWS Faculty Ambassador. He also is certified on both the Google and Azure platform: Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Microsoft MTA on Python. He has published over 100 technical publications including multiple books on subjects ranging from Cloud Machine Learning to DevOps. Publications appear in Forbes, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, O'Reilly, Pearson, Udacity, Coursera, datascience.com, and DataCamp. Workshops and Talks around the world for organizations including NASA, PayPal, PyCon, Strata, O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference, and FooCamp. As an SME on Machine Learning for AWS, he helped created the AWS Machine Learning certification.
He has worked in roles ranging from CTO, General Manager, Consulting CTO, Consulting Chief Data Scientist, and Cloud Architect. This experience has been with a wide variety of companies: ABC, Caltech, Sony Imageworks, Disney Feature Animation, Weta Digital, AT&T, Turner Studios, and Linden Lab, and industries: Television, Film, Games, SaaS, Sports, Telecommunications. He has film credits in many major motion pictures for technical work, including Avatar, Spider-Man 3, and Superman Returns.
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Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation, resomation, flameless cremation, aquamation or water cremation) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat, and is an alternative to burial or cremation.

Process
The process is based on alkaline hydrolysis: the body is placed in a pressure vessel that is then filled with a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide, and heated to a temperature around , but at an elevated pressure, which prevents boiling. Instead, the body is effectively broken down into its chemical components, which takes approximately four to six hours. A lower temperature and pressure may be used, but at a longer duration (, 14 to 16 hours). At the beginning of the process, the mixture is very basic, with a pH level of approximately 14; pH drops to 11 by the end, but the final pH level depends on the total operation time and the amount of fat in the body.

The result is a quantity of green-brown tinted liquid (containing amino acids, peptides, sugars and salts) and soft, porous white bone remains (calcium phosphate) easily crushed in the hand (although a cremulator is more commonly used) to form a white-colored dust. The "ash" can then be returned to the next of kin of the deceased. The liquid is disposed of either through the sanitary sewer system, or through some other method, including use in a garden or green space. To dispose of , approximately  of water are used, resulting in  of effluent, which carries a dried weight of  (approximately 2% of original weight).

This alkaline hydrolysis process has been championed by a number of ecological campaigning groups, for using 90 kWh of electricity, one-quarter the energy of flame-based cremation, and producing less carbon dioxide and pollutants. It is being presented as an alternative option at some British crematorium sites. , about 1,000 people had chosen this method for the disposition of their remains in the United States. The operating cost of materials, maintenance, and labor associated with the disposal of  of remains was estimated at $116.40, excluding the capital investment cost of equipment.

Alkaline hydrolysis has also been adopted by the pet and animal industry. A handful of companies in North America offer the procedure as an alternative to pet cremation. Alkaline hydrolysis is also used in the agricultural industry to sterilize animal carcasses that may pose a health hazard, because the process inactivates viruses, bacteria, and prions causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

History
The process was originally developed as a method to process animal carcasses into plant food, patented by Amos Herbert Hobson in 1888. In 2005, Bio-Response Solutions designed, sold, and installed the first single cadaver alkaline hydrolysis system at the Mayo Clinic where it was still in use as of 2019. In 2007, a Scottish biochemist, Sandy Sullivan, started a company making the machines, and calling the process (and company) Resomation.

Religious views

In Christian countries and cultures, cremation has historically been discouraged and viewed as a desecration of God's image, and as interference with the resurrection of the dead taught in scripture. It is now acceptable to some denominations.

The Eastern Orthodox Church does not allow cremation.

The Roman Catholic Church allows cremation of bodies as long as it is not done in denial of the beliefs in the sacredness of the human body or the resurrection of the dead.

In 2008, Renée Mirkes published the first Catholic moral analysis of alkaline hydrolysis. He argued that it is morally neutral and may be an alternative to burial on similar grounds to cremation.

However, the Catholic Church in the United States does not approve of alkaline hydrolysis as a method of final disposal of human remains. In 2011, Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington and then chairman of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), determined it "unnecessarily disrespectful of the human body." When alkaline hydrolysis was proposed in New York state in 2012, the New York State Catholic Conference condemned the practice, stating that hydrolysis does not show sufficient respect for the teaching of the intrinsic dignity of the human body.

Desmond Tutu, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, was aquamated, per his wish.

Judaism forbids cremation as it is not in line with the teachings of respect and dignity due to humans, who are created in God's image. Islam also forbids cremation of the deceased. Both religions are likely to reject alkaline hydrolysis as they believe that the body must be laid to rest through burial in order to prepare for the afterlife.

Sikhism, Hinduism, and Buddhism each place theological emphasis on the burning of the corpse which may prevent alkaline hydrolysis from replacing cremation.

Legal status

Australia
Aquamation based in New South Wales is the only company to provide alkaline hydrolysis in Australia, with the remains being used as fertilizer on plantation forests, due to difficulty with obtaining permits from Sydney Water.

Belgium

Flanders
The Flemish minister of Interior Administration Bart Somers asked in September 2021 the opinion of an advisory bioethics committee on resomation. The advice, received in November 2021, saw no objections.

Canada
Saskatchewan approved the process in 2012, becoming the first province to do so. Quebec and Ontario have also legalized the process.
A funeral home in Granby, Quebec, was the first in the province to receive an alkaline hydrolysis machine.

Ireland
From January 2023, Water Cremation became available. It was first country in the EU to offer this form of burial.

Handling of the water: when the process is complete the remaining water undergoes further treatment to ensure that it is completely sterile. Analysis is then completed to ensure Water Authority standards are met. At this stage the water can be recycled back to the Local Authority water treatment plant.

Mexico
Since 2019, Grupo Gayosso offers alkaline hydrolysis in Baja California.

The Netherlands

In May 2020, the Health Council of the Netherlands issued an advisory report on the admissibility of new techniques of disposing of the dead. The Council proposed a framework to assess alkaline hydrolysis. It concluded that alkaline hydrolysis is safe, dignified and sustainable. In addition to alkaline hydrolysis, the council also considered human composting as a technique to dispose bodies yet concluded that too little is known about composting and hence it cannot be assessed whether this technique fulfills the conditions. Taking into account the council's recommendations, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations prepared a law proposal to amend the Corpse Disposal Act. Once the proposed law has been submitted to the Parliament, the democratic process to admit alkaline hydrolysis as body disposal technique can be commenced.

South Africa
In November 2019, Avbob introduced aquamation in South Africa, following the mutual assurance society's recent introduction of the alkaline hydrolysis process at its Maitland agency in Cape Town. Aquamation has been legal in South Africa since then. Following his death in December 2021 the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was aquamated.

United Kingdom
A public crematorium operated by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council at Rowley Regis, central England, was the first to receive planning permission to offer the process but in March 2017, the local water utility, Severn Trent Water, refused the council's application for a "trade effluent permit" because there was no water industry standard regulating the disposal of liquefied human remains into sewers.

United States
Alkaline hydrolysis as a method of final disposition of human remains is legal in 21 states . Legislation is pending in New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The process was legal in New Hampshire for several years but amid opposition by religious lobby groups it was banned in 2008 and a proposal to legalize it was rejected in 2013.
Alkaline hydrolysis has been used for cadavers donated for research at the University of Florida since the mid-1990s and at the Mayo Clinic since 2005. UCLA uses the process to dispose of donor bodies.

See also
 Burial
 Promession

References

Further reading
 New in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye – ABC News
 New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home – BBC News

Death customs


The new Michigan Board of Licensed Midwifery held its very first meeting in late June in the state capitol Lansing. The board includes MANA board member Nicole White, CPM and Past MANA President/Executive Director Geradine Simkins.
Please join us in congratulating them on this important development in Michigan midwifery!
Michigan CPM legislation was signed into law today, January 4th. The bill was passed thanks to efforts by the Coalition to License Certified Professional Midwives in Michigan and the consumer organization Friends of Michigan Midwives (FOMM), who contributed countless volunteer hours for over eight years to secure licensure. The midwives in Michigan look forward to spreading the midwifery model to more families and to increasing collaboration through a more cohesive relationship with other health care providers.


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Marvel Rewatch, Day 1: Iron Man (2008)
By Julianne Ramsey April 25, 2016 April 16, 2019
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In honor of the release of Captain America: Civil War, We Minored in Film's Julianne Ramsey will examine the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it stands. We're calling it the Marvel Rewatch.
Day 1: Iron Man (2008)
It's hard to remember now, eight years removed from its release date, but Iron Man felt like a massive gamble. After all, Iron Man was a character with minimal recognition outside of comic book aficionados (and to those who did recognize him, he was seen as a fairly unlikable character). Add to that the casting of Robert Downey Jr., a talented but troubled actor who was hardly a box-office draw and the concept of creating a cinematic world in which each film built on the one that had come before it, and one couldn't help but feel that Marvel was possibly committing financial suicide. Yet, it was the sole first superhero film in a summer of sequels (Hellboy II, The Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight) and that gave it a dose of novelty. Looking back at its box office take, it didn't exactly set the world on fire. It made less than 600 million worldwide and was certainly the bridesmaid to Warner Brother's Dark Knight bride, but the film showed that name recognition wasn't inherently necessary to get audiences into the theatre. If your film was strong enough, audience word of mouth would give it some success. It became the pleasant balm to The Dark Knight's brooding nihilism. Looking at the two films, it not difficulty to see the approaches that would elevate Marvel and ultimately sink Warner Brothers.
The film's plot isn't really all that important, as it's ultimately the skeletal structure upon which Tony Stark's snarkiness and metal fight scenes are placed. It centers on billionaire, M.I.T. wunderkind, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Stark manufactures weapons, he gambles, he parties, he has indiscriminate sexual encounters, and he does so without a care in the world. Then he's captured by Afghan terrorists. He awakens to find he now requires an electromagnet to keep shrapnel from entering his heart and his captors want him to make a nuclear missile. Alas, they don't supervise the creative process nearly as well as they should, and he instead makes a metal suit he uses to escape.
Once he's back in the States, he decides to don an improved metal suit and make the planet safe for humanity, all the while quipping and cracking wise. He goes from weapons manufacturer to weapons demolisher, while never quite losing his cavalier sensibility.
Looking at Iron Man now, its flaws are more apparent. I'm not entirely certain Obadiah Stane's plan actually makes that much sense. He arranges to have Tony Stark, the man who's genius intellect are responsible for the company's success, killed due to…reasons, I guess.
The film also dabbles with real world implications only to drop them when it's no longer convenient. Sure, Tony Stark wants to defeat terrorists, and he has a few moments when he ponders his responsibility for all the carnage he's seeing on news reports, but those moments are brief and more of a plot footnote than actual plot development. The concept of post-traumatic stress disorder is also raised and abandoned just as quickly. In addition, the film ticks a lot of superhero cliché boxes: A shadowy, bald business partner (Jeff Bridges) who seems just a touch too avuncular (check); a world-weary buddy (Terrence Howard) who wishes our hero would just pull his personal stuff together (check); a potential love interest (Gwyneth Paltrow, more likable here than she's been in a long, long time) who worries her goofball of a boss is going to get himself killed (check); a climactic fight scene that can't quite make you forget you're watching 2 CGI creations bash each other senseless for 20 minutes (oh yeah, check).
However, what makes the film work, for all the familiarity there is in its plot mechanics, are the little details it gets so right. Casting Robert Downey Jr. in a big-budget superhero film was hardly an expected or safe choice, but looking at it now, who else could play Tony Stark? Downey brought that perfect mix of gravitas and wry amusement to the film.
Iron Man may be the best use of his fast-talking, self-aware persona. He's capable of playing both the grim determination required to make a guy dressing up in a flying metal suit to fight crime believable and the mocking self-deprecation required that keeps the audience laughing with the film, rather than at it. The film works because he's in the lead, and he keeps likable a character that could feel insufferable. The cast, and director Jon Favreau, realize attempting to match his tone would make the film near unwatchable, and they play it straight, occasionally parrying Tony Stark's fast-talking jocularity with a wry retort (Gwyneth Paltrow is especially good at portraying Pepper Potts as a character who is more than capable of matching Tony quip for quip, but she does so in a subtler, drier way), but letting most of the comedy heavy-lifting lie squarely on Downey's well-sculpted shoulders.
It's the right approach for the film, and casting seasoned actors lends the film the same believability Christopher Nolan found when he populated his Dark Knight trilogy with A-listers. Iron Man doesn't shatter the mold, but it stretches it in interesting ways, especially its ending which takes the idea of secret identities and casts it aside entirely.
Coming back to Iron Man for the first time in a few years, it's nice to realize the film still works. There's a sense of fun present here that permeates the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The action sequences work, Paltrow and Downey have a nice chemistry that gives the burgeoning romance between the two a grounded quality often missing in superhero romances, and the humor mostly lands. Ultimately, however, this is Robert Downey Jr.'s film to carry, and he uses his manic line delivery and that cat-that-ate-the-canary grin to keep Iron Man flying when it should plummet. Whatever hoops through which Marvel was forced to jump that landed Downey, they were more than justified.
Up next, Julianne gives up over 2 hours of her life to rewatch The Incredible Hulk.
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Oh you know, I'm just your typical wallflower, high school theatre nerd who minored in film studies, attained her M.A. in English Literature,works as a substitute teacher, and decided to go to nursing school, but really wants to be a writer who blogs about pop culture, and then have people who. . .wait for it. . .actually read/ look forward to what she writes. In my spare time (when it's there), I watch one of my many blu-rays or DVDs (about 800 now), reading my kindle (one of the greatest inventions ever), playing my ipod (another one of the greatest inventions ever), obsess over b=Broadway musicals and horror films, and play my guitar (badly). In other words, I have no life that doesn't revolve aroung pop culture or school. Sigh.View all posts by Julianne Ramsey
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The emotions that funerals ignite are hard enough as it is without having to also plan the ceremony yourself. The planning process is quite extensive and even more so when you have to go it alone. Funerals are taxing because they require your utmost attention but this is strenuous when you're also trying to grieve and process your loss. From funding the venue, to setting the date, and making arrangements with the funeral home, there are so many details to consider.
Funerals can be draining, not because the participants dread commemorating the passing of a loved one, but because there are so many steps involved in arranging for a funeral. Many questions arise when planning a funeral in Monroe. Will you recognize the deceased in a religious manner? Have you checked with the location to make sure that your guest list does not surpass the capacity limits?Will you need a graveyard or are you going to call upon the aid of a crematory? If you plan to bury your loved one, have you purchased a cemetery plot for the burial? Where do you plan to host the reception? Is there accessible parking for the guests? We know that funeral planning is not an easy feat by any means.
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Funeral planning guides and workbooks can eradicate extraneous strains stemming from the pressure of planning the event. We have a plethora of free funeral planning guides for Monroe, along with frequently asked questions about funerals and a blog with posts that answer every question you could possibly ask. Take a look at our website for further information about funeral homes in Monroe. If you are going the route of cremation rather than a burial, we have compiled information about crematoriums in Monroe as well.
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'I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
[Edwin Abbott.] FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS.(With illustrations by the author, A Square.) Seeley & Co, London 1884.
Our image shows the cover of the Blackwell's later edition but it is substantially the same as the 1884 first from Seely and Co., 'Flatland' is a science and mathematics fantasy that satirises class consciousness in Britain through the depiction of a society where geometrical characteristics are the basis for class distinctions and protocol: circles are the elite, with squares, triangles and lines subordinate in that order. Three dimensional objects are encountered only in the dreams of the populace, and anyone who claims the reality of a third dimension is considered mad. I can be seen as an attack on the staid and heartless Victorian society, with its bigotry and stultifying prejudice. "Irregulars" (cripples) are put to death, women have no rights at all, and when the protagonist in the story Mr. A. Square tries to teach his fellows about the third dimension, he is imprisoned. There is a good discussion of the work and 'Dimensionality' in general at the University of Winnipeg Cosmology site.
'... Prior to Einstein's general theory of relativity, it aimed at redefining the frame of reference of our perceptions of the world, and opening up the possibility of the kind of self-awareness that came to characterize the modernist, and post-modernist, perspective...."
The precursor game is fun - I saw someone on TV recently claim that Saki was the forerunner of Monty Python and even The Mighty Boosh. John Betjeman once claimed Theodore Wratislaw was the first punk. Suvin in Victorian Science Fiction in the UK calls the book "A pioneer of SF as cognitive parable, and the culmination of UK SF up to that time." The 1884 first is cream-colored parchment over stiff wrappers. The US first a year later is a hardback. Much desired is the Arion Press 1980 edition in 275 copies, each signed by Ray Bradbury who provides the introduction, it comes with aluminum covers & aluminum case. There is a 1983 reprint with foreword by Isaac Asimov and in 2002 'The Annotated Flatland' appeared. The book is used in classrooms as a teaching aid and has been translated into many languages, it is especially liked in Spanish. There have been references to it in the Simpsons and people talk about it over at My Space, so it is still au courant.
Edwin Abbott (1838 - 1926) was a London headmaster, a clergyman and author who wrote several theological works and a biography (1885) of Francis Bacon but is best known for his standard Shakespearian Grammar (1870) and of course this pseudonymous work. Dionys Burger has written 'Sphereland' (1965) a sequel to Flatland, that depicts the adventures of A Square's grandson, A Hexagon, who investigates the shape of flatland as it sits in three-space.
Large octavo. 9 inches by 7. [2 blank], viii, -100, [2 blank] pp. Original publisher's off white printed and illustrated parchment over stiff card plain covers. Diagrams and figures in text by the author. Some small chips at spine and hinges and edges. Printed covers slight browned and slightly soiled - overall a sound about vg above average example of a vulnerable book. Contemporary neat inscription with some relevant quotes from Samuel Johnson on f.e.p dated 4 December 1884, initialled by one 'E.L.' As Lilly writes ". . . the most influential fantasy tale to explore mathematical theory. Satirically cast in autobiographical form, the narrator--- one A. Square---is an inhabitant of a two-dimensional universe who tries to conceive of what it would be like to live in three dimensions."
OUTLOOK? A book that will always be good for a $1000 in decent condition. The trouble is that the kind of people who lusted after this book (geeks, boffins, technocrats) are no longer making silly money; however their time will come again so the book is one to hold on to through recession, slump and financial Armageddon.
Also worth looking out for is the related 1907 fantasy novel by EA's fellow fourth dimensionalist C.H. Hinton - 'An Episode of Flatland; of How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension to Which is Added an Outline of the History of Unaea.' Currey has 3 copies in varying condition from $300 to $650. Stableford says of it -'....a very strange story (it) describes a two-dimensional world rather more complicated than Abbott's, and features a startling plot in which the inhabitants of a two- dimensional planet avoid collision with another by diverting their 'world' in[to] the third dimension, taking advantage of the fact that... their souls have access to more dimensions than their bodies."
dude looks like Robin Williams grandad!
The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again.


The Employability Jigsaw Project undertook a short review of HEI employability practice. This short report offers examples and links from seven universities.
Graduate Employability. Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching in association with Bond University, Curtin University and RMIT University. Videos for Educators including 'Making employability explicit', 'Teach your discipline well', 'Embedding employability in the curriculum', 'Rethinking assessment'.
Dacre-Pool, L. and Sewell, P. (2007). The key to employability: developing a practical model of graduate employability. Education and Training, Vol 49(4), pp277-299.
Pegg, A., Waldock, J., Hendy-Isaac, S. and Lawton, R. (2012). Pedagogy for Employability. The Higher Education Academy.
Gedye, S and Ivaldi, F. (2016). 7 Steps to Enhancing Student Employability Teaching and Learning Support, Plymouth University.
Yorke, M. and Knight, P., 2006. Embedding employability into the curriculum (Vol. 3). York: Higher Education Academy.


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North Gujarat districts: Second spell of unseasonal rain in a week, says IMD
Light rain has been forecasted in the northern districts of Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Patan and Mehsana, along with Kutch, on January 5.
By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad |
January 3, 2022 1:32:53 am
On December 27 and 28, unseasonal rain was reported from more than 30 talukas, especially the northern districts and Kutch regions of Gujarat. (File/Representative Image)
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light to moderate rainfall for January 5 and 6 in Gujarat, especially in the northern districts. This will be the second spell of unseasonal rain in the state within a week.
Light rain has been forecasted in the northern districts of Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Patan and Mehsana, along with Kutch, on January 5. This will be followed by light to moderate rain in all the districts of the region, including the Saurashtra districts of Dwarka, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Morbi, Surendranagar and Kutch, on January 6, the forecast says.
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"An intense western disturbance is very likely to affect northwest India from January 3 onwards. North-easterly to easterly winds are prevailing at lower levels over the region," stated the bulletin issued Sunday evening.
The Met department has also issued a warning for the fishermen Sunday and Monday as strong winds with a speed of 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph are "very likely" to prevail over the Comorin area and adjoining South East Arabian Sea from January 2 to January 3. "Fishermen are advised not to venture into the abovementioned area during this period," warned IMD.
On December 27 and 28, unseasonal rain was reported from more than 30 talukas, especially the northern districts and Kutch regions of Gujarat.
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On Sunday, Naliya recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 10.1 degrees Celsius followed by Deesa at 13.5 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperatures at other places include Bhuj at 13.6 degrees Celsius, Kandla Airport 13.8 degrees Celsius, and Kandla Port and Rajkot at 14.9 degrees Celsius each.
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It is a fact of life that if you plan to run a business, then you must pay taxes. If you're an online retailer, then you're also responsible for charging sales tax to customers living in states where your business has a physical presence. This tax is then remitted to the relevant tax authority.
Filing taxes is a cumbersome process and online sellers will waste several hours trying to deal with compliance. If you're new to the e-commerce business, let's take a moment to understand what exactly a sales tax is.
Sales tax, by definition, is a 'consumption tax'. It is charged when you buy goods or services. State and local authorities use this tax for things like roads, schools and public safety. It is controlled at the state level. This means that each individual state can set down their rules and laws about administering sales tax. The only prerequisite is that they fall within the framework defined by the US Constitution.
Sales tax can vary in terms of the list of items that are taxable, the amount of sales tax charged and the frequency and dates on which online sellers need to file these returns.
The word nexus means to tie or to bind. Having a sales tax nexus means your business is tied to the state under consideration and your requirement as a business owner is to charge this specific tax to buyers present in these states.
Location:Having an office, store, warehouse, etc., for your business in that state.
Personnel:Having an employee, salesperson, contractor or installer who is doing work on behalf of the business in that state.
Inventory:Some states will consider inventory storage to cause nexus.
Sales:The amount of revenue you generate in sales also determines sales tax nexus in some states. The threshold for this is usually 100,000 US dollars annually. It can also be according to the number of transactions recorded, for example, 200.
Affiliates:If a business affiliate advertises about your products and shares in the profit made, this can create a sales tax nexus in some states.
Shipping Relationship:If a third party ships products to your buyers, a nexus can be created.
Sales at Trade Shows or Other Events:If you sell products on a temporary basis in a trade show or any other event, then this may create a nexus as well.
Some states may exempt other items as well. For example, Ohio exempts the tax amount on precious metal coins. The price of the item can also determine whether it is taxable or not. In New York, clothing items with a price higher than $110 are not exempt from this tax.
After determining how a sales tax nexus works and which products are liable for taxation, the next step is to register for a permit so that you can legally collect sales tax. Sales Tax Registration is managed by a state's taxing authority. It is usually the State Department of Revenue.
You may get your sales tax permit number instantly (when filing online) or might take at least 10 business days.
Note:Do NOT skip this step. Sales tax collection is considered illegal if you don't have a valid permit. It may be a mistake in some cases, but some states consider this to be tax fraud and take serious action.
Due Dates:When you receive your sales tax permit, you will also receive a filing frequency as well as due dates for tax filing. The filing frequency can vary from a monthly, quarterly or an annual/semi-annual basis. The filing frequency can depend upon the amount of sales tax collected by the seller in a state. The due dates for tax filing will be different for each state. In most states, the due date falls on the 20th day of any given month.
Resale Certificates:Your sales tax permit can also serve as a resale certificate in most states. This means that you can buy retail items and resell them without paying tax.
Now that you've understood the various technicalities involved in sales tax collection, we can move to the main task – collecting the money from buyers.
Origin-Based Collection:Depending on the state, this requires you to collect sales tax at your business location. For example, if your business is based in Texas (an origin-based state), then the rate is determined in accordance with your location. Buyers in Texas are then charged that particular sales tax rate. This is a relatively simple form of tax collection.
Destination-Based Collection:In this form of tax collection, you charge sales tax according to the location the product is being shipped to. As compared to origin-based tax collection, this is a little complex and requires you to calculate it according to the state, county and city where the buyer is located.
Shipping taxability:Most online retailers will charge for shipping, and some states consider shipping to be a mandatory part of an online transaction. This is subsequently followed by a sales tax charge on the shipping amount. Other states consider shipping to be a separate charge and do not consider it to be taxable.
Drop Shipping and Sales Tax:Drop shipping is when your vendor ships an item directly to a customer. This can be a profitable business model, but it can cause complications in sales tax collection. An example of drop shipping is if your website sells phone cases but uses a third party company for design printing and shipping the product to the customer. If you notice there are several transactions happening here – your customer purchases an item from you, you purchase an item from your vendor and finally your vendor ships that item to the customer— and if the vendor has a sales tax nexus in your state, they will have to charge you the required amount on the purchase, unless you provide them with a resale certificate. Additionally, if your customer is located in a state where you have sales tax nexus, then you will have to charge sales tax to the customer as well.
After sales tax collection comes filing on the due date decided. This type of filing can be time-consuming. When filing a return, you don't just need to determine the amount of sales tax collected from buyers in an entire state. Instead, you will have to calculate the amount collected in each county, city and any other taxing district. This is important because states use these dollars to make payments for budget items like infrastructure and public safety.
However, they need to know which city or area to allot these funds to, and that's where the additional breakdown of your transactions comes in. For some states, for example, origin-based states or those that have a single sales tax rate, the breakdown is not very difficult. This is limiting to only a few states, however, and breaking down transactions is extremely time-consuming, especially if you sell items through multiple channels and in high volumes.
Most states allow you to file your sales tax online. Some may even make this mandatory. If you want to file manually, you will have to log in to the website of your state's taxing authority. We recommend that you file your taxes a few days before the due date. This can help avoid problems that may occur with your filing and also give you time to deal with unexpected state idiosyncrasies.
For example, in Florida, the due date is the 20th of a given month after the taxable period. Florida, however, requires a seller to pay via an electronic funds transfer (EFT), and their payment should reach by the due date. Therefore, if you want to file on time, you will need to know the sales tax amount you owe and transfer the money to the Florida Department of Revenue a few days before the given due date. If you fail to file on time, there will be a fine of $50 with interest on the amount of sales tax you owe.
Other states operate under similar mechanisms and require sellers to file with interest if they are late. If you know you will be late in filing your taxes, some states allow a filing extension. However, this is not the case for most and a seller can still be fined in spite of being granted an extension.
If you're late by accident and receive a penalty, then you can contact the taxing authority of that particular state and request for the penalty to be waived. This works if it's the first time you've been late.
Complying with the various rules and regulations attached to sales tax filing can be a resource draining activity for any e- commerce business. If you feel like managing this is taking up too much time and energy and are still not sure that your reporting will be error-free, then you can consider outsourcing this activity and reduce the risk of errors and late filing penalties. Outsourcing also reduces the cost that comes with hiring a full-time employee for your accounting and tax filings.
Besides managing your sales tax, there are other numerous benefits of having an outsourced accounting team for your eCommerce business. After all, accounting is no longer just about completing tax returns and balancing the checkbook. The reality is that a growing eCommerce and digital business needs a monthly accounting department. Hiring a full outsourced accounting team with a modern outlook offers you proactive and real time thinking that will increase the efficiency of your business and give you more time to focus on expanding and improving upon your core operation. With a team of experts working to bring your accounting division up to mark, turnover and disruption will no longer be your issue.
Finally, our services allow for the improvement of your cost structure and can help reduce your customer acquisition costs, costs of goods sold and labor costs. All of these will ultimately result in greater profitability. You can lower the costs of your finance and accounting operations, gain faster access to reports and useful data, make better decisions and improve the KPIS for your eCommerce business. Also, get tax advice and planning that will save you thousands of dollars each year.
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Online dating has been a growing trend in the way people meet and start many different types of new relationships. Through the years, you've probably known of friends and family members who have given online dating a try. In our busy times, it's been difficult to meet new people just by chance alone. Once in a routine, we are only exposed to a fraction of the population within our daily lives. Without new experiences every day, our circles are very limited. Just like those who are lucky enough to meet at the right place and time, what about those who haven't met, purely based on circumstance? A healthy cultural revolution has been brewing within the online scene and it has become common for singles to take control of their own chances of meeting each other, while increasing convenience at the same time. Various forms of existing stigmas about relationships originating online are slowly fading, as the apprehension associated with using the internet to meet new people is wearing off.
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With her impressive vocal range and soulful sound, Team Kelly's Kymberli Joye has been a standout performer on "The Voice" ever since her initial blind audition.
With parents as pastors, the 26-year-old contestant has had Christianity ingrained in her roots, but nothing brings her faith to life quite like worship. Bringing judges to their feet and audiences members to their knees, Joye undoubtedly took "The Voice" audience to Church with her goosebump-raising rendition of this popular Christian song.
Check out her unforgettable performance of "Break Every Chain" below!
Team Kelly's Kymberli Joye performs "Break Every Chain" during The Voice Live Top 11 Performances.


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Shabana Khan is a World Social Science Fellow on Risk Interpretation and Action with the International Social Science Council, and a visiting faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture. Shabana is pursuing research on water issues in megacities, and communications in disaster recovery and reconstruction in Uttarakhand, India. Her previous research has looked into water-related hazards, vulnerability and governance in Dwarka as part of the EU project Chance2Sustain with the University of Amsterdam, and accreditation of disaster management training, education and research in India with SEEDS Technical Consultancy Services. She has also worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Delhi, as research fellow at the School of Planning and Architecture, as researcher at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute and as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Sciences in New Zealand.
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A new Joseph Brodsky museum opens today, April 8, in the village of Norenskaya in the Arkhangelsk region, TASS reports.
The museum is situation in the house where the future Nobel laureate lived in internal exile, after being convicted of parasitism.
After being found guilty, Brodsky spent 18 months in the village between March 1964 and September 1965, staying in a room of the house of the Pesterev family. He wrote 80 poems during his time there, publishing some in the local newspaper. His sentence was commuted in 1965 and he left Norenskaya.
In 2013 regional authorities purchased the Pesterev house, which was in very poor condition by that time. Local businessmen funded the complete rebuilding of the home and its conversion into a museum.
The museum will make Norenskaya a place of pilgrimage for Brodsky lovers from different countries, schoolchildren and university students, said the press service. Visitors can see the bed on which the poet slept, his table and chair, as well as other household items. The museum also includes documents and information from museums and archive collections, photographs, recollections, ethnographic materials, music, films and books from the early 1960s.
In March a virtual poetry platform "100 Verse of Joseph Brodsky in Norinskaya and about Norinskaya" was launched on the website of the Konoshskaya Central District Library. Audio and video performances of the works of Joseph Brodsky are being posted on the website by anyone who wants to participate.
Joseph Brodsky's flat in his hometown of St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, is set to become a museum later this year. "Brodsky's apartment is fully preserved as it was during his life here," said Mikhail Milchik, President of the Joseph Brodsky Museum Foundation. "The kitchen is completely the same – even the old wood stove is there, though nobody uses it."
According to Milchik, the museum will display the poet's personal belongings, letters and archive photos. The rest of the apartment will contain an exhibition dedicated to Brodsky's era – the museum will show how the poet and his contemporaries lived in 1970s Leningrad. Poetic readings, thematic exhibitions and movie screenings will also be held in the apartment, which will become a cultural center for Brodsky enthusiasts.
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TWO persons were killed in a stabbing incident by unidentified suspects in Barangay Tabun, Mabalacat City, Pampanga on Monday, April 8.
Police Colonel Jean Fajardo, Pampanga Police acting provincial director, identified the fatalities as Carmencita Pelayo, 32, and Karen Guevarra, 32, both residents of Barangay Tabun of said city.
The report said a certain Rachelle Alabado, a companion of the victims, told police that the suspect entered their rented house where she was mauled by the latter.
She told police that she pretended to be unconscious while her companions were stabbed by the suspect, the report said.
The victims were taken to a nearby hospital but did not make it alive due to multiple stab wounds in different parts of their body, the report said.
Fajardo ordered the Mabalacat City police to identify and possibly arrest the suspect.