Learn about Agrace's grief support groups, including the dates of upcoming groups near you.
OverviewFor AdultsFor Families with ChildrenGroups by LocationHow do I get started?
A grief support group is a gathering where you can talk about thoughts and feelings and learn healthy ways to cope after someone has died. You'll get emotional support from the group leader and from the other participants, who have had a similar loss. Some Agrace groups meet once a week for six or seven weeks. Other groups meet regularly all year long, and you can attend as needed.
We suggest you wait at least two months after the death before joining a group, except the Bridges group for adults.
If you need help deciding which group to join, please call Agrace and talk with a spiritual & grief counselor, or use this form to contact us.
Dates and times listed are subject to change. Please confirm them when you register.
Most of our groups are held at the Agrace Grief Support Center in Fitchburg, or the Agrace offices in Janesville, Baraboo and Rockford.
If fewer than six people register for a group, it will be canceled.
Agrace's grief support groups are open to anyone in the local area who has experienced a loss due to death, even if the person who died was not an Agrace patient.
Bridges meets every week all year long. You may attend Bridges as many times as you need, to find hope and get support as you search for your new "normal" following a loss. Conversations at Bridges reflect the concerns of the people who attend that day.
Advance notice/pre-registration is not required. We usually recommend waiting at least two months after the death before joining Agrace's other support groups, but Bridges may be helpful sooner.
Daytime, 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Upcoming dates: April 3 and 17; May 1, 15 and 29; June 12 and 26; July 10 and 24; August 7 and 21.
Evening, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Upcoming dates: March 27; April 10 and 24; May 8 and 22; June 5 and 19; July 3, 17 and 31; August 14 and 28.
LOCATION: Bridges meetings are held at the Agrace Grief Support Center, Fitchburg.
If needed, this fee can be lowered or waived. There is no fee if your family member was served by Agrace or another hospice in the past 12 months.
Journey Through Grief is a six-week series for adults grieving the death of anyone—a parent, child, spouse, sibling or friend.
Feeling alone in grief can make your loss even harder. This group can help you overcome the isolation of grief, through the comfort of being with a consistent group of other people who have experienced a significant loss. Learn what may help you cope with your grief and return to healthy daily living.
Please call Jody (608) 327-7118 for more details or send a request here.
Spouse/Partner Loss is a six-week grief support series for adults whose spouse or partner has died.
Losing your life partner to death can be devastating. Find support from a trained counselor and other participants who understand the emotional nature of this loss. Participating may help you build a consistent support system where you can discuss concerns such as finances, household responsibilities, parenting, social connections and other matters that change when a partner dies.
Family Series is a seven-week grief support group for children who are grieving a death to attend with their parents/guardians.
Kids and parents meet in separate groups, where they learn age-appropriate ways to cope with grief, and find comfort from being with other families who share similar experiences. The adults meet separately to learn skills for parenting grieving children.
Please call Laura (608) 314-2924 for more details or send a request here.
Family Grief Support Program is for families with children aged 5 to 18. Children attend with a parent/guardian, and a meal is shared as a group. After an opening activity, children spend time in the space that meets their needs at that time (for example, in a play room or art room), while the adults meet as a separate group.
Parents/guardians are encouraged, but not required, to attend the adult meeting; however, a parent/guardian must stay in the building while their child attends the group. You and your child(ren) may attend as many sessions as needed. Pre-registration is required.
SCHEDULE: Meets every other week September through May, concurrent with the school year calendar from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
LOCATION: The Agrace Grief Support Center, Fitchburg.
COST: $20 per session/family (includes dinner). The fee is payable in advance online, or at the time of service. If needed, this fee can be lowered or waived. There is no fee if your family member was served by Agrace or another hospice in the past 12 months.
If you are interested in registering, complete our inquiry form or call Jessie (608) 327-7135.
These groups are held at the Agrace Grief Support Center, 2906 Marketplace Drive, Fitchburg, unless otherwise noted.
For group descriptions and registration information, see "For Adults" or "For Families with Children" sections, above.
Daytime, 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Upcoming dates: April 3 and 17; May 1, 15 and 29; June 12 and 26; July 10 and 24.
Evening, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Upcoming dates: April 10 and 24; May 8 and 22; June 5 and 19; July 3, 17 and 31.
Tuesdays, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Dates: June 4 and 18; July 2, 16 and 30; August 13 and 27.
No pre-registration necessary. Attend as often as you would like.
Every other week September through May, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m., concurrent with the school year calendar.
*If needed, the grief support fee can be lowered or waived. There is no fee if your family member was served by a hospice in the past 12 months.
This group meets at Agrace's Baraboo office, 1670 South Boulevard.
*If needed, this fee can be lowered or waived. There is no fee if your family member was served by Agrace or another hospice in the past 12 months.
If you are interested in registering, complete our inquiry form.
This group meets at Agrace's Rockford office, 7290 Argus Drive.
New dates to be announced..
Simply call the number below or click the button to send us a brief online form. You can ask which support group would be best for you, or indicate in the comments which group interests you.
Agrace's spiritual & grief services staff will contact you to answer your questions and help you register for a support group that meets your needs.


Football is a sport with countless variables.
While it may seem as simple as eleven players on a pitch fighting it out against eleven others to score the most goals in ninety minutes, it is not always that simple.
More than just the players on the pitch and the coaching tactics on game day come into winning a game of football.
There are over seven million points of data that can be collected in any ten minutes of a football match.
These points of data can be used to test effect of conditions on players, such as temperature, humidity, altitude and wind speed.
These are studied and analysed during the week leading up to a match to determine the players to select and the best formations and tactics to use.
One of the other variables that can have the biggest impact on a player, is the crowd.
Home advantage can have a huge influence on the result of a match and can intimidate one team or spur on another to record a win.
The crowd can not only influence the players, but also the referee.
In test conditions, referees award 15.5% fewer fouls against the home team.
So next time you're watching a football match, remember there are countless factors you should take into account before choosing which team you will support.


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The Rise Of Mobile Marketing If you run a luncheon sandwich shop, and the bulk of your trade is over the lunch hour, of course, what would it be worth to your to be able to draw quite a few people within a 10 mile radius who have smart phones to your location for lunch.
The possibility of a person picking up his smart phone and searching for "sandwich shop" on a search engine is good. If you are ranked on Google places, or Manta, chances are you are going to suddenly gain some new customers.
If your business is a computer game store, why wouldn't you want to rank highly in that category in your neck of the woods. Surely there are a few thousand kids that don't even know about you yet, yet when they search for their favorite game, it should be the name of your business that shows up.
There are just a lot of people who have their smart phone with them at all times. They would probably be happy if it could somehow be surgically attached to their hand so the would have it ready at all times. These people live their lives by their phones and if anything comes up on their phones, they notice it.
The concept of mobile marketing is nowhere near the volume of online marketing or print marketing, but it is growing fast. The push techniques, such as SMS marketing are really more annoying to most users, in that it interrupts their current activities and creates a negative image.
At the current level of the genre, a more passive form of focused marketing is the most effective. When the person with the mobile phone is looking for a specific product or service, it is your business that they find. That is really focused marketing.
The future of mobile marketing will probably continue to promote spots and ads, but that is really a shotgun approach to the problem of landing in front of enough eyes to become effective. The rifle approach will become more sophisticated in that it will be able to target users geographically based on the GPS of the phone with pre-selected tastes and likes derived form a social media source, for instance.
For example, say a person "likes" barbequed chicken on Facebook, and he happens to be shopping where a barbeque chicken restaurant is located nearby, an ad will flash onto his smart phone screen when he is a certain distance away from the restaurant. The same thing could occur when a pre-selected "like" from a social site directs a customer to a bookstore, or a clothing item. It could be an endless application to a person's desires to help the customer find an outlet for his personal tastes.
As technological skills increase and more people have smart phones, the mobile advertising industry could blossom far beyond anyone's current ability to visualize the extent of the market. The size of the industry will only be limited by the scope of the dreams of marketers and their methods of advertising.


Yeah, that's about all I'm going to do there. This came from Mrsupole and she probably hasn't seen my other ones. So for her, don't forget this ridiculous nonsense, oh and my other ones here and here. And who can forget me turning this one around and into a game.
Lucifer, whom God told not to start the meme game in the first place!
That Lucifer, he was such a prankster!
So what's this one about? I'm supposed to mention 6 things or habits of no importance about me. Yeah right. I'll tell you what, this time I'll give you 6 things and 6 habits but only one of each will be true. You tell me. The first that can tell me correctly will get a personalized gnome surround photo. Sort of like these. How could you NOT want that?
6. I have an authentic bat phone just like the original one commissioner Gordon had on the TV show and I can make it ring by remote and then say "Holy Donuts, Batman" when friends are over.
1. While I wait in line at the Motor vehicles I hide my ipod with the portable speakers and play a farting track while I watch the expressions on everyone's face.
5. I like to bring my kid's tiny toy vacuum into the airport and pretend I'm vacuuming while making a vacuum noise with my mouth just to see if people even notice.
For tagging, I'm gonna have to go with my blog roll and go every 6th person starting with top blog commenter on my blog (ok, there are several tied but she's first alphabetically...you others should have named more wisely!) That would be: Elizabeth, Quirky, Lime (figures), Alex, Beth and MJ.
you make it fun to tag you. no one else creates their own games from these silly things.
the true ones are that you collect the barf bags. and you xerox stuff people hate and leave them everywhere.
how'd i do with the guessing?
The Ipod farting track? Very cool idea.
jaime - You were very close! You got one of them right!
chris - Thanks. Hey, your book should be arriving this week.
Are we supposed to think that spanking cane is just a travel momento?
incredible woody - The gift that keeps on giving!!!
okay - then it has to be the barf bags and the farting soundtrack.
Damn you for tagging me.
Well, I'm going to guess 4 and 3. But I'm usually wrong.
*sigh* I'll get to it tomorrow.
darn. I was hoping you collected barf bags.
I have an authentic spanking cane for kids that I picked up in Singapore - why are you picking up children in Singapore and spanking them?
i think you have a singapore cane and you xerox things.
I'm going with spanking cane and leaving life-like dummies around the city. It seems somewhat devious, and I like deviousness.
You're supposed to SPANK these kids from Singapore?!
I suppose that explains this jail cell.
Dammit, late was I to the guessing party! Whatever will I do without that photo???
And thanks for tagging me.
I guess C. Yes that's my final answer C. Oh wait maybe 3. No, no, that's not right...If a train leaves the station... wait wrong test. VE you didn't tell me there was going to be a quiz and my dog ate my homework and I believe EVERYTHING you say so I think it's all true. Did I pass?
Funny how I knew this meme was just perfect for you. Only you could take it to a whole new level. It is that devious mind of yours. This was hilarious, but believe it or not I had it narrowed down to between barf bags, the canes, and the xerox copies just seemed like something you would do. Although the toy vacuum was pretty close in the running too. I could see you doing that one. too.
Anyway, that was great and I am so honored that you took me up on my meme. Thank you so much for doing it. Only you could make it turn out this way. Now we need to see what follows with the other meme's.
I also do have to say that one of them was a little Stephen Wrightish of you. You tell me which one!
moooooog35 - Jail cell... ha... that's explaining a lot now.
gladys - You did pass...you passed out! ha ha. You also pretty much summed up my entire academic life!
It's scary that I'm starting to figure you out. Does Xerox still make copiers?
Dummies from bridges? Spanking cane?
You win. You are the craziest guy I know.
Whatever. It's already over. Whatever. Stupid Mondays.
The one true thing - # 5.
The one true habit – Haven't a clue. The only one that doesn't ring true is #4!
jaime - See...all that to earn the right to be humiliated by my gnomes. I didn't know people would line up for such abuse!
beth - Daggers? Ha! I have a high pain threshold and getting stabbed by internet daggers would only lead to more ridiculous crazy stories.
venom - Not bad! You got the first one right. As for that habit...I'd totally do that if I ever saw a bean counting contest. Sadly, they are far and few between.
I thought I'd read about you in Stewardess Weekly about your barf-bag collection.
Actually, I choose to believe it all.
Oh, you think you have troubles? Trying having the name Me-Me King, now, if that's not a magnet for memes, I don't know what is!
Guess I'm too late on the guessing. Oh well. I was wrong anyway. I pegged you for a barf bag collector.
serena - Now I MIGHT have those. In reality, my prankishness has been only in the area of photo copied images hidden on people's desks...I'm hoping to expand to all of them in the future!
This is hilarious and scary at the same time. People either love or hate you at work. But probably a little of both. Rub eyes to make dark circles. I will surely get the promotion now.
Mike - Why do I think these are YOUR habits?
I was SO hoping habit #6 was true.
I've gotta try that sometime.
I was gonna say something else about habit #3 but now I'm trying to figure out how you can fit a picture inside someone's stapler.
How many times do you have to FOLD it before it fits?
Accghhhh! Now I've lost count!
I know...I just know you have to have a spanking cane. And for no reason whatsoever I bet you Xerox copies of famous people. Cheers!!
I don't see those barf bags very often any more. Do you request one from the flight attendant?
4 and 6 but am i too late?
matt-man - Yes, you know me too well Mr. Smarty man! And you secretly want to borrow the cane for your own personal needs, don't you!
kurt - Yes, it's like blankets and food...they've scaled back to save costs.
dee - Yep, too late. MJ got it. Not bad though...you got the first one right.
Tagged... again... its coming fear not.
I cannot believe that meme is still circulating. How did it take so long to get to you?
Awe...missed the guessing game. I really need to check in more often.
yellojkt - They were just afraid!
maureen - Good answer! You know I would!


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Every student is allocated into a tutor group, each with a personal progress tutor. This allows each and every student to have at least one member of staff who knows them as individuals, can give them personalised advice, and takes responsibility for overseeing their academic progress, providing general support, setting high standards, and embodying the spirit of the college.
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All students are encouraged to report to their tutor, an assistant principal, or directly to the principal if they are concerned about themselves or someone else. We recognise that some students may be the victims of neglect or physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, and with this knowledge, ensure all staff working with students are trained to identify such abuse.
All forms of bullying, harassment, abuse, and victimisation are not tolerated at Joseph Chamberlain College. If any instances of these should unfortunately occur, all staff and students are told to report it and are assured that the incident will be dealt with promptly and effectively.
The safety of our students is a top priority at Joseph Chamberlain College, and students are encouraged to follow safe practices throughout the college. For example, when working with chemicals, equipment, or out of college on a placement, students will be given clear, easy-to-follow instructions by teachers and assessors detailing how to maintain both the safety of themselves and those around them.
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Interview: Save The Planet From Beyond The Grave With A Green Burial
Celebrate life after death by becoming a coral reef or preserving a forest.
Leaving the planet in a better state for future generations is a lifelong journey. Though we can make progress through activism, philanthropy, and research, saving the Earth is a project that's never quite complete. We're working on borrowed time — but improving the planet doesn't have to end when our biological clocks run out.
Eternal Reefs and Better Place Forests are two green burial companies with a shared goal: they want to make it possible for us to keep contributing to the world after we've passed.
Green Future spoke to their founders about the importance of natural burials, the role they play in the grieving process, and what the future holds.
Creating New Life In The Sea
Photo courtesy of Eternal Reefs
"This whole concept of conservation memorialization comes much, much closer to people's concept of the celebration of life," said George Frankel, the CEO of Eternal Reefs.
By turning cremated remains into structures that allow marine wildlife to flourish, Eternal Reefs memorials create new life after a loved one passes on.
The Sarasota, Florida-based company began in the late 1980s, when a group of divers from the University of Georgia noticed the degradation of the reefs in the Florida Keys.
To help restore the reef, the divers designed what are now known as reef balls. Round, hollow, and vented, reef balls are crafted from a pH-neutral concrete formula that's stable and ideal for creating a new reef system, Frankel said.
"We're reef-builders," Frankel said. "We look at our program more as building reefs than memorialization. So we meet all the regulatory requirements of reef-building."
Related: Why Get Buried In The Ground When You Can Be Turned Into A Diamond?
The group didn't consider using reef balls for memorials until co-founder Dan Brawley approached Frankel, asking for time off to fulfill a promise to his father-in-law.
"It was Don Brawley's father-in-law who got sick and said he'd much rather be in one of Don's reefs than in a field with a bunch of old dead people," Frankel said.
At the time, Frankel said his mind was "wide open to the concept of memorialization." He was coping with the loss of his parents and his brother's terminal cancer diagnosis.
"We both have pretty strong feelings about the environment," Frankel said. "So as soon as Don mentioned that this is what he had to do for his father-in-law, it literally resonated with me right away."
Eternal Reefs began creating memorials in 1999. In the years since, they've created approximately 2,000 memorials, including members of Frankel's own family.
"My brother is now in a reef ball in an Eternal Reef off the coast of Galveston, Texas," Frankel said.
While it's difficult to quantify the environmental impact of the reef balls, Frankel says it doesn't take long for marine wildlife to call the structures home. As fish look to breed, the structures immediately create a new habitat, and it's not long before other forms of wildlife follow.
"There really is a meaningful — both environmental and financial — contribution that reef balls, once they're placed in the ocean, create," he said.
Preserving Redwood Forests
When Sandy Gibson, the founder of Better Place Forests, was visiting his mother's grave, he expected peace and quiet. Instead, he listened as a loud bus churned past the historic cemetery.In that moment, he realized how strongly he wanted to be somewhere more beautiful and serene, Better Place Forests' website says.
"The inspiration for Better Place Forests came on March 1, 2015 — my late mother's birthday — so we've moved very quickly to make this a reality," Gibson said in an email.
With the help and support of his best friends Brad Milne and Jamie Knowlton, Gibson got to work turning his vision for a tranquil place to remember loved ones into reality.
"I was very lucky to have two best friends who knew my personal history and felt that an idea that was this important to me was worth pursuing as a team," he said. "Telling our families that we were going to leave our careers in software (Brad and I) and real estate (Jamie) so that we could create forest cemeteries was challenging at first. But as our families thought more about the idea, they became incredibly supportive."
Based in San Francisco, Better Place Forests is set to open its first memorial forest in 2017 in Mendocino County, California. The forest will use trees instead of tombstones to help families remember their loved ones, giving them a permanently protected space to scatter ashes in a natural, living memorial.
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"It is a little hard to explain, but everything just felt right about the site to be the example of how we introduce this concept to the country," he said. The forest's location restores a former logging site to its natural state and offers stunning views of the Pacific Ocean.
Though Better Place Forests is still a young company, the response has been incredible since its beginning. Gibson said their biggest request is that people want to know when a memorial forest will open closer to them.
"Our focus for the next year is on growing and finding additional locations so that everyone can find a place where they and their family can feel connected to," he said.
"Better Place Forests is an incredible way to find meaning and create something positive out of that loss," he said. "But it also means thinking about and confronting that pain head on."
Spreading The Word About Green Burial Options
Many people haven't thought about what they want at the end of their life, or they've avoided the topic altogether, Gibson said. People often struggle to discuss their wishes with their loved ones.
"One of our biggest challenges is educating our customers and showing them that there are choices that they can actually be happy about," Gibson said.
It's a challenge that Eternal Reefs works to overcome, as well. When the company first began offering memorials, Frankel said he thought the funeral industry was going to be a larger driver of referral business. But he found word-of-mouth has been the best way to spread the word.
"We and most of the conservation organizations have to reach people on the individual level to get this message out," he said.
Culture shifts also make the conservation burial movement more attractive, Frankel said. As people move around the country and away from where they grew up, a family cemetery plot doesn't make as much sense as it once did. Frankel, added that people aren't seeing the same value in an expensive headstone and casket as they once did.
"As people find out about this, just as it made sense to me, it makes sense to them," Frankel said.
Both companies have also found that as people learn about eco-friendly memorial options, they turn into advocates.
"Our customers deeply care about what we're doing and they love the forest," Gibson said.
Frankel said he loves how families become more invested in the marine environment as they choose green burial options for their loved ones. They're never going to hear another story about an oil spill without at least subconsciously thinking of their family's memorials, he said. And that involvement brings more support.
Gibson echoes that sentiment when talking about Better Place Forests.
"After hearing about what we do … and thinking about it, they become our most passionate advocates," he said.
"I think that we end up long-term with a much better support system for a lot of our marine environmental issues," Frankel said. "And I think the same thing becomes true for those people that choose conservation burials."
A Celebration Of Life
"The whole process from beginning to end is a very positive, very therapeutic process," Frankel said.
Empowerment is a key theme in eco-friendly memorials. Losing a loved one makes you feel powerless, Frankel said. But as the families become involved in the process, playing a role in creating the Eternal Reef, the process truly becomes a celebration of life.
"We watch them, and they take ownership of these reefs," he said. "This reef has now become a lot more than my mother or my father's memorial. It's become the tribute that I made to their lives with my own hands. And you watch that when they're putting the handprints in, and you watch that when they're taking out all the little tsotchkes and mementos and military medals or fish hooks, or coins from foreign countries that they came from."
While there are plenty of tears shed during the reef-building process, Frankel said the time that passes between the death of a loved one and creating their memorials gives families time to process their loss. It also provides an opportunity to explain the concept to children.
He often hears from parents who tell him, "You know, this is the best way I ever could've envisioned introducing my child to a loss because there's no body, there's no hole in the ground, no dark lighting, there's no somber music," he said. "'This is much more an arts-and-crafts project."
The feeling of having a positive impact on someone's lives is something Gibson recalled from a conversation with his first-ever customer for Better Place Forests. They didn't have their final location, and many of the details were still unclear, but he explained their plans for the company.
"At the end of the call she just said, 'Thank you for creating this. This is what I've always wanted,'" Gibson said. "After that call, we knew we were creating something that would have a huge and positive impact on people's lives."
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This yoga experience empowers participants to deepen their individual awareness of being in their own bodies, present to themselves: embodied presence. I coach awareness facilitating simple, safe yoga poses and unconditional positive regard as our foundation for the experience. Participants are empowered to choose what is best for their own individual experience throughout practice. Awareness is facilitated toward individual experience and choice throughout practice. Participants experience what is true for them and move with the possibilities they discover available to them within their inner terrain as well as physical being.
Breath is connected to movement and participants are invited to explore ways their own breath effects change within their own experience. Curiosity is always invited and welcomed as it shows up.
Facilitating this experience is an honor. I love coaching participants toward their own experience of embodying presence, inviting them to be with themselves. Witnessing individuals experiencing and acknowledging their own worth in their chosen physical expressions of caring for themselves is my only wish as a facilitator of this work . I know this heals the world in me and I believe this work may possibly heal the world one individual choosing self care at a time.


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Trish Boyles, the director of the Pride Center, stands in front of the center, which is located in the second floor of the University Center. The center was rebranded over the summer to be more inclusive for all identities of gender and sexuality. (Abby Smith/B&W photo)
'The Pride Center' takes center stage, paves the way for change
By Abby Smith — Read time: 11 minutes; Published September 5, 2014, 6:00 am Lifestyle
LGBTQIA Services Director Trish Boyles wants more than just change for her office. She wants her office to have a strong impact on Lehigh's campus and be present in student life from the first-year experience through graduation.
Boyles, who joined Lehigh as the office's director last October, is leading the charge in a rebrand of LGBTQIA Services on campus, which includes a name change to "The Pride Center for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity."
"We were trying to be more inclusive and stay connected to the history of the gay rights movement, and the pride parades and celebrations have a long history back to the Stonewall (riots)," Boyles told The Brown and White. "We wanted to do something that would help raise our visibility on campus and just be more integrated into everyday life at Lehigh. We felt like the rebranding would help us on all those fronts."
Before Boyles came on as director, she said the LGBTQIA Services office was struggling to be visible among the student body. The absence of a director meant there was no programming or outreach, she said, meaning there was no way for students to be exposed to the work the office was doing.
"We physically didn't have people here to do things," Boyles said. "There just weren't things happening, so we couldn't be seen because we weren't doing anything."
Eryne Boyle, '15, a student worker in The Pride Center, said that Boyles has been a key figure in drawing students to participate in the Center's programs and initiatives. She believes that more students will want to be involved than ever before.
"This is my fourth year, and I don't even know who our old director was," Boyle said. "Then we were without a director. And now there's kind of been a fire lit under me to get involved.
"There's top-down leadership, and that adds a lot to people's desires to be involved and desire to be affiliated and associated with something that does have a stigma around it."
For Boyles, perhaps one of the most important aspects of the rebrand and the most critical step toward being more visible on campus is the Pride Center's push to collaborate with other offices, departments and organizations on campus.
Among the services' changes is the re-launch of SafeZone training, a program that aims to educate students, faculty, and staff on the issues LGBT students face and teaches participants how to use inclusive language and how to intervene when peers engage in homophobic behaviors. The Pride Center is also working to establish Athlete Ally and Greek Ally chapters.
Pride Center student worker Elizabeth Pines, '16, highlighted the Center's collaboration with two other offices fighting for a more inclusive campus environment: the Women's Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. She said that having a director in place for The Pride Center has helped her feel more connected to the other two offices.
"Now that we have a director and we have a vision, a long-term strategic vision, we're able to leverage each other's strengths to make all three of the offices more visible," Pines said. "Though we focus on different identities, we're so intersectional and are really there to support each other.
"That's also done a world of difference for the students, both those within those organizations and spaces and students who are passersby, who now see this collaboration and want to get involved."
This collaboration among the three offices is a new development for Lehigh's campus. Though the offices have pursued many initiatives separately, Boyles said they have not had the chance to collaborate because there has not been consistent leadership across the offices for the last six or seven years.
"So there haven't been three people in the positions for more than a year at the same time," she said. "There has not really been an opportunity to collaborate because people have been turning over, and it's just the new director learning the old director's job."
The Pride Center will harness this new sense of collaboration to plan this year's LGBT History Month. While before the office's programs consisted of a few exhibits around campus, this year October will feature a month-long program of events celebrating the history of LGBT rights and exploring the intersection of different identities.
"This is the first time we're doing a really institutionalized LGBT History Month," Pines said. "For the first time, we actually partnered with a lot of what Black History Month does in the way that they had their events. It was very much supported by Lehigh in terms of sponsorships and funding and marketing."
Boyle echoed Pines, adding that The Pride Center is collaborating in all but one of its LGBT History Month events. The Center is co-sponsoring events with the Women's Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, as well as athletics, academic departments and other campus organizations.
In addition to the widespread collaboration, this year's LGBT History Month has drawn institutional support, and for Boyle, this support is one of the things that will make October's events so successful.
"The fact that we're all collaborating and that Lehigh as an institution is supporting it is something that's unprecedented for things that relate specifically to LGBT issues," she said. "I think it's really important that the school is behind it, and I think a lot of that is driven by the events of last year. The school's really looking deeper into the issues students say exist, and this is one of the ways they can help us out."
The large-scale celebration of LGBT History Month ties in well with the Center's rebranding, Pines said. She hopes the month's events will help "make this a really big, successful, prideful, but still challenging LGBT History Month. So in addition to celebrating the progress that's been made, (we're) at the same time being critics and pushing for more change."
Besides the LGBT History Month programs, Boyles said The Pride Center's main goal for the first year of its rebrand is to get its name out to the student body, to welcome more LGBT students on campus to its community and to get involved in as many areas of student life as possible.
"People are getting used to it and making that transition from 'we're the office formerly known as' and just being able to say we're The Pride Center," Boyles said. "I would like for people to say, 'The Pride Center is everywhere.'"
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TBB Recommends- Netflix's Sex Education
'Sex Education' is one of the few shows that does exactly what is says on the tin.
It's an unapologetic, and surprisingly heartfelt, look into the testing times of teenagers going through puberty, that manages to hide a great deal of real advice on sex, relationships and self-love behind its humour and hijinks.
The show follows the life of socially awkward, sixth-form virgin Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) who lives with his sex therapist mother Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson). When it turns out that he has learned a lot from listening in on the therapy sessions his mother conducts, he teams up with the schools resident bad-girl Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey) to set up The Clinic to provide sex and relationship advice to their peers in exchange for money.
The Netfilx Original manages to bring something entirely new to the table as we navigate these common teenage problems with a litany of realised and developed characters, all with unique perspectives on the common theme of sex.
Firstly, we are introduced to Otis, a 16-year-old who describes himself as "sexually repressed", and with him, we are shown that there is so much more than the usual one-track minded teen whose only motivation is sex. Instead, Otis is completely opposed to the idea of sex, something unfathomable by his peers and his very sexually active, mother. While his phobia of intimacy is initially played off as a joke, the true origins of his fear become apparent as Otis is forced to confront his sexuality in a number of ways as The Clinic and growing feelings for Maeve expose him to intimate relationships.
Maeve, the mastermind behind The Clinic, is perhaps a character we are more used to seeing in this kind of teen drama. She is the scary, aloof bad-girl who isn't afraid of her sexuality. As a result, she is outcast and bullied by her peers. This doesn't stop her however as she proves to be strong-willed and undeniably good by the end of the first series.
Stand out character is Eric Effiong (Ncuti Gatwa) who also shows a great deal of development between the first and last episode. He becomes so much more than the stereotyical gay best friend there for comic relief, as he navigates through his own issues with identity as the story progresses. Once openly and unapologetically gay, a series of unfortunate events cause him to become isolated and angry, refusing the help of those around him. The story arch of not only his character but all the teenagers introduced to us, seem real and grounded while still managing to be entertaining. ***Him being of African heritage also plays an important part. Slightly irritating that there was the stereotypical black parental discomfort with having a gay son. Though to be fair it wasn't heavy-handed and in a brilliant and powerful scene of reconciliation between Eric and his father played by Deboia Oparei all is forgiven. *** Editor
Whilst everything is clearly exaggerated for the screen, the issues the teens come to The Clinic with, and the problems our main characters face are realistic and the advice Otis dishes can be used in the real world. Clever use of Jedi Mind tricks writers. Beyond just being a funny concept of a 16-year old virgin dishing out excellent sex advice learnt from his overbearing mother, Sex Educationmanages to turn each of the hilarious, but admittedly one dimensional, characters we see in the first half of the series, into true reflections of what it is like to grow up surrounded by others your age who are obsessed with one thing: sex.
Perhaps the only problems stem from the confusion British viewers, who went to school in the UK, may experience with the Americanisation of the sixth form college in the show. Despite being filmed and most likely set in a small town in Wales, there is the unfamiliar presence of very American High school-style traditions. This includes the huge school the children attend, fit with their own set of jocks, mean girls and school dances. Though somewhat jarring, once you get past the fact that this is most likely a ploy to increase the viewership across the pond, the show remains a touching coming-of-age tale, something that can be identified within any setting.
Overall, I think it's fair to say that any show which prides itself on beginning its very first episode with a scene depicting the unsuccessful sex lives of two sixth form students is bound to be something we have never seen before. While it has been deemed the next Skins, I think Sex Education stands apart from the often over dramatised life of teens many other shows boast, instead, giving its viewer a real look into how different sex and relationships can be for everyone. I highly recommend watching Sex Education, if not for the acting, well explored themes and story-arcs of all of the characters, but for the excellent music that accompanies every episode.
TBB Recommendation By Jade Fakokunde
*** Editor's couldn't help but add her two pence note: as an older woman, mother of 18-year-old British Black girl, though my daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed this series (watched separately because NO)… when we reconvened to discuss it, we both agreed what was missing from Sex Education was the visibility of black girls. Regular, melaninated black girls. Sometimes with the mainstream desperately wanting to meet the diversity mark, they consider everything but black girls. Young black girls who have their own style, banter and wit are often forgotten with shows like this rather opting for the mixed race / culturally westernised light-skinned girl as we saw with Ola played wonderfully by Patricia Allison and (sorry) the young actress who played one Otis' sex bothered clientele whose name I couldn't find.
Another slight peeve was this world where every single character was blissfully in an interracial relationship. Interracial love does not equal the end of racism nor racial utopian harmony. White creatives, it's perfectly okay to show diversity with same race love stories. You aren't showcasing your non-racism by avoiding it, actually with all the non-white characters having white love interests you're slightly perpetuating the notion that white people are the epicentre of every ethnic's desire which simply is not true and a little narcissistic and white privilegey. We have confirmation that there'll be a second series. My hope is that a new black girl is cast, say Adedayo Adelayo, or Simona Brown etc. who joins the school and gets the attention of Jackson. Shouldn't be too hard to write in? ***End of editor's note
Directors: Kate Herron, Ben Taylor
Writers: Laurie Nunn, Sophie Goodhart, Bisha K. Ali, Laura Hunter, Laura Neal, Freddy Syborn
Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Deobia Oparei, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Doreene Blackstock, Kadeem Ramsay, Daniel Adegboyega, Femi Elufowoju Jr.
Where to watch: Netflix


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RH, Mondadori Unite Spanish Units
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In a bid to get a larger slice of what they see as a rapidly expanding market, Random House and the Italian publisher Mondadori have signed a letter of intent to combine their worldwide Spanish-language book-publishing operations in a newly created joint venture to be called Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori. The two publishers will each have a 50% stake in the venture, which is expected to generate annual revenues of about $100 million. The announcement was made jointly by Random chairman Peter Olson and Maurizio Costa, Mondadori chief executive. The agreement is expected to be finalized later this spring.
A spokesperson for Random House said the two companies decided to team up because they believed that their "already successful Spanish-language publishing programs could be more successful if they were united." The new company will consist of Random's Plaza & Janes division, which operates in Spain and Mexico, and Sudamericana, which has offices in Argentina; as well as Mondadori subsidiary Grijalbo, whose associated companies publish in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Argentina. A new organizational structure will be announced when the deal is closed, and until that time the two companies will continue to operate independently.
In the joint venture, Plaza, Sudamericana and Grijalbo will retain their editorial identities and will publish under a wide range of existing imprints. Titles published through the joint venture are expected to be made available in the U.S. through Random's newly formed Spanish-language imprint, Random House Espanol.


Growing anarchy has made access to information dependent on the will of the military and the militants. Both have shown little tolerance in allowing reporters to work independently. In threatening circumstances, journalists feel little hesitation in toeing the line, which has made journalism subservient to military strategies. More importantly, it has provided journalists with an excuse to justify anything in the name of insecurity, making professional dishonesty the norm in war reporting.
Ethically, any defensive measure is justified if it helps reporters keep safe. In the local context, however, this provisional compromise is of little help in ensuring their security. Meanwhile, it has killed in them the spirit of initiative. There is a growing realisation that journalism in a hostile situation is mainly about serving the combatants. This has caused complacency in war reporters. They take pride in their relationship with militants, who often invite them to cover terror at the source.


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July 18, 2012 -- Two new prescription weight loss drugs, Belviq and Qsymia, now have the FDA's blessing. Which, if either, is for you?
Both drugs help some people lose weight. Neither drug is for everyone. Yet the two drugs are quite different.
Here's WebMD's FAQ comparing Qsymia to Belviq.
Vivus says Qsymia should be available "in the fourth quarter of 2012," which begins in September. But don't look for it in your local pharmacy. Because women taking Qsymia must use birth control (see below) the drug will be sold only through "certified pharmacies." These are likely to be major online pharmacies.
Because Belviq has a potential for abuse (see below), the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration must rule on how to schedule the drug. That process probably began no later than last May. As this usually takes four to six months, Belviq should become available by early 2013. A quicker DEA ruling may speed the drug's arrival.
Why, after not approving any long-term weight-loss drug for 13 years, did the FDA approve two weight loss drugs in one month?
Until relatively recently, most medical researchers considered weight loss drugs to be vanity products. The benefit -- looking better -- was not considered worth very large risks. And early weight loss drugs such as fen-phen carried very large risks, indeed.
Researchers now realize that obesity itself is a disease. Obesity greatly increases all kinds of other serious medical risks, from diabetes to heart disease to depression.
Even though both Qsymia and Belviq carry risks, FDA advisory panels thought long and hard about recommending approval. But the panels were swayed by what most members saw as the much greater risk of untreated obesity.
Qsymia combines two currently approved drugs. One is the appetite suppressant phentermine, the safer "phen" part of the infamously unsafe fen-phen diet drug combo.
Phentermine is thought to suppress appetite by triggering release of the brain chemical norepinephrine. This suppresses the appetite by increasing blood concentrations of the appetite-regulating hormone leptin.
The other half of Qsymia is the seizure/migraine drug topiramate. Topiramate causes weight loss in several ways, including increasing feelings of fullness, making foods taste less appealing, and increasing calorie burning.
Who should and shouldn't take Belviq? Who should and shouldn't take Qsymia?
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater.
Being overweight, with a BMI of 27 or more AND at least one weight-related condition such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol.
Pregnant women should not take either Belviq or Qsymia.
Qsymia has particular risks for pregnancy, as it can cause birth defects if taken in the first months of pregnancy, even before a woman knows she is pregnant. Women of childbearing age must use effective birth control to keep from becoming pregnant while taking Qsymia.
Qsymia and Belviq each come with a long list of important safety information, but this list is different for each drug.
Qsymia approval required Vivus to set up a strict Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). This program includes a medication guide giving patients important safety information, prescriber training, and pharmacy certification.
There's no way to know for sure. Qsymia and Belviq have never been tested in a head-to-head clinical trial.
These numbers cannot be used to compare the two drugs, as the clinical trials had different designs.
SOURCES: FDA: "Medications Target Long-Term Weight Control." FDA web site, briefing information, Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. News release, Vivus Pharmaceuticals. News releases, Arena Pharmaceuticals/Eisai Inc. WebMD Health News: "FDA Approves Diet Pill Belviq." WebMD Health News: "FDA Approves Diet Drug Qsymia." WebMD Health News: "New Diet Drug Lorcaserin Wins Vote from FDA Panel." WebMD Health News: "FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Weight Loss Pill Qnexa."


A new agreement takes Apple's enterprise efforts to another level. Jordan Golson explains.
A new partnership between Apple and Cisco should improve the experience for iOS users on crowded Cisco networks and deliver increased integration between Apple users and Cisco's popular communication platforms.
A little more than a year ago, Apple and IBM announced a new, wide-ranging global partnership that has resulted in the development of dozens of new, vertical-specific apps and enterprise integration services.
Though neither IBM nor Apple have been particularly forthcoming with specifics about its partnership, the two companies have been fairly productive in developing new platforms and apps for its customers.
The Cisco partnership too is short on details. The press release includes platitudes a plenty from Apple CEO Tim Cook ("Together with Cisco, we believe we can give businesses the tools to maximize the potential of iOS and help employees become even more productive using the devices they already love.") and Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers ("Through this engineering and go-to-market partnership, we're offering our joint customers the ability to seamlessly extend that awesome Cisco environment to their favorite iOS devices. Together, we're going to help teams achieve higher levels of productivity and effectiveness.").
Cisco and Apple will initially focus on improving performance for iOS devices on Cisco networks, as well as extending the "Cisco Unified Communications experience" to the iPhone. Likely, this means your iPhone will speak to your Cisco desk phone, perhaps giving access to voicemail on the go or allowing calls to be seamlessly transferred from your desk phone to cell phone.
Cisco will also look to launch new and improved iOS versions of Cisco Spark, TelePresence, and WebEx—all key enterprise programs.
Both Apple and Cisco are popular platforms among large companies. Like the IBM hookup, this partnership should help companies integrate their various platforms while maintaining security. That's especially important with the revelation this week that more than 200,000 Apple ID accounts were compromised by users jailbreaking their devices.
Having secure networks and devices is more important than ever, and between IBM, Cisco, and Apple, companies can be confident in the security of their mobile networks—that's the pitch anyway.
A Cisco blog post notes that the new partnership will include cross-collaboration between Apple and Cisco engineering teams, with new joint solutions that the sales teams from both companies will offer to their customers.
We've reached out to both companies for more details about the partnership and hopefully will have more to share in the coming weeks.
Are you interested in what Cisco and Apple might have in store? Let us know your thoughts on the new partnership in the comments below.


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Gov. Bullock provides update on "phased re-opening" of Montana
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<i>Gov. Steve Bullock speaking a news conference in Helena on April 22, 2020.</i>
Posted at 11:55 AM, Apr 22, 2020
HELENA — Governor Steve Bullock held a news conference to provide details on Montana's plan for a phased and gradual reopening.
Among the highlights of the plan is that many retail businesses can become operational beginning on Monday, April 27, and restaurants, bars, casinos, and breweries can become operational beginning on Monday, May 4, in accordance with the guidelines listed below. Scroll down for links to the complete plan and key points.
Bullock noted that as a result of the actions taken, Montana has among the lowest number of COVID-19 cases in the nation. Montana also has the lowest number of hospitalizations, per capita, in the nation.
He said: "I recognize that for over the past five weeks Montanans all across the state have gone to incredible lengths to protect our families, friends and the greater Montana community. We have made these sacrifices for health care workers. We have done so for all the other frontline workers in this crisis. We have done so for those most vulnerable to severe illness from this disease... Because just as important as it was for us to act as a community beginning five weeks ago, that still holds true to this day – and moving forward. Once we begin to reopen, we want to be able to stay open. Our personal responsibility to protect those around us – particularly those most vulnerable – remains just as important as any time during this pandemic."
The "Re-opening The Big Sky" plan is divided into three phases; here is a summary of some of the key points of the first phase:
PHASE ONE: SPECIFIC TYPES OF EMPLOYERS/ACTITIVIES
SENIOR LIVING OR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES must continue to prohibit visitors. Those who do interact with residents and patients must ensure strict protocols regarding hygiene and protection are followed. This includes daily screening of staff for symptoms and preventing ill workers from working.
CHILD CARE FACILITIES can remain operational but should follow State and local guidelines regarding operational levels and occupancy.
ORGANIZED YOUTH ACTIVITIES can consider becoming operational if physical distancing guidelines can be implemented. Avoid GATHERING in groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing.
RESTAURANTS / BARS / BREWERIES / DISTILLERIES / CASINOS can become operational on or after May 4, under strict physical distancing and reduced capacity protocols in accordance with State guidelines. All patrons must be out of bars, restaurants, and casinos by 11:30.
MAIN STREET AND RETAIL BUSINESSES can become operational on or after Monday, April 27, with reduced capacity and where strict physical distancing protocols can be maintained.
GYMS / POOLS / HOT TUBS remain closed.
OUTDOOR RECREATION can become operational if sites adhere to strict physical distancing between groups and exercise frequent sanitation protocols if public facilities are open.
PLACES OF WORSHIP can become operational on or after Sunday, April 26, with reduced capacity and where strict physical distancing protocols can be maintained between non-household members. Avoid GATHERING in groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing.
Other PLACE OF ASSEMBLY shall remain closed (e.g., movie and performance theaters, concert halls, bowling alleys, bingo halls, and music halls).
PHASE ONE: INDIVIDUALS
ALL VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS should continue to follow the stay home guidance. Members of households with vulnerable residents should be aware that by returning to work or other environments where distancing is not practical, they could carry the virus back home. Precautions should be taken to isolate from vulnerable residents.
Vulnerable Individuals: people over 65 years of age and/or those with serious underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, and those whose immune system is compromised such as by chemotherapy for cancer and other conditions requiring such therapy.
All individuals (non-household), WHEN IN PUBLIC (e.g., parks, outdoor recreation areas, shopping areas), should maximize physical distance from others. • Avoid GATHERING in groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing.
MINIMIZE NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL and adhere to Montana guidelines regarding quarantine.
PHASE ONE: EMPLOYERS
Continue to ENCOURAGE TELEWORK whenever possible and feasible with business operations.
When telework is not feasible it is encouraged to ACCOMMODATE ALTERNATE WORK SCHEDULES such as shift work and staggered scheduling in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Close COMMON AREAS where personnel are likely to congregate and interact; or enforce strict social distancing protocols.
MINIMIZE NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TRAVEL.
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS should be made for members of a VULNERABLE POPULATION or those with vulnerable household members.
Beginning May 7, 2020 all schools have the option to return to in-classroom teaching delivery. The State recognizes that if reopened, schools will require the district to make adjustments and create plans, policies, and procedures. If schools plan to reopen they should consider: Implementing an alternative educational delivery model that includes a mix of in-person and remote learning. Providing focused individual education, especially for at-risk students. How to reconnect and meet the educational needs of students who fall behind in a remote learning environment. The importance of maintaining the connection between students, teachers, and parents. The important role that schools play in the health of students, families, and communities. Graduation environments that can meet the social distancing requirements.
Re-opening The Big Sky - Key Points (PDF)
Re-opening The Big Sky - Phased Approach Details (PDF)
As of Wednesday morning, there have been a total of 439 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Montana. An additional two COVID-19 related deaths were also reported Wednesday, bringing the total to 14 in Montana. There have been six deaths in Toole County, two in Cascade County, two in Flathead County and one each in Lincoln, Madison, Missoula and Yellowstone counties.
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Michajlovské divadlo ( je významné ruské divadlo v Petrohradě, známé operním a baletním souborem.

Dějiny
Carské michajlovské divadlo bylo založeno dekretem Mikuláše I. v roce 1833. Jeho název byl odvozen od velkoknížete Michaila Pavloviče. Michajlovský palác vybudovaný na náměstí Umění se stal velkoknížecí rezidenci a divadlo sloužilo jako komorní scéna, kde přijímal i vysoko postavené hosty včetně členů carské rodiny.

Autorem projektu budovy je Alexandr Brjullov ve spolupráci s Alexejem Gornostajevem. Scéna a hlediště byly rozšířeny při přestavbě podle projektu Alberta Kavose v roce 1859, součástí úprav bylo i doplnění bohaté malířské, štukatérské i sochařské výzdoby.

Do roku 1917 nemělo divadlo stálý umělecký soubor a zvláštní repertoár. Na scéně vystupoval soubor Alexandrinského divadla, hostovali tu francouzští či němečtí umělci. Po přestavbě v roce 1859 převládl francouzský repertoár, zejména opereta (Offenbach), lyrická francouzská opera se naopak hrála zřídka, a to zejména v provedení souboru carského Mariinského divadla. Výjimkou byla polovina 90. let 19. století, kdy procházelo Mariinské divadlo přestavbou a operní představení se konala právě v Michajlovském.

V divadle v té době vystoupili např. orchestr Johanna Strausse, Matylda Krzesińska, Fjodor Šaljapin, soubor Sarah Bernhardt ad. Mezi časté návštěvníky divadla patřili Alexandr Sergejevič Puškin, Vasilij Žukovskij, Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj nebo Petr Iljič Čajkovskij.

Stálý soubor byl založen v roce 1918, u kterého v následujících letech 20. století působily např. následující významné osobnosti: dirigent Jurij Těmirkanov, režisér Vsevolod Emiljevič Mejerchold, choreograf George Balanchine atd.

Divadlo měnilo své názvy, jmenovalo se Akademické divadlo opery a baletu Modesta Petroviče Musorgského, Leningradské akademické malé operní divadlo (MALEGOT), Malé akademické divadlo a Státní akademické divadlo komické opery, až v roce 2001 znovu získalo své historické jméno.

Moderní historie
V roce 2007 vystřídal na postu generálního ředitele divadla Stanislava Gaudasinského známý ruský podnikatel Vladimir Kechman, předseda správní rady společnosti JFC, která se zabývá importem ovoce.

Kechman prohlásil, že bude spolupracovat s Gaudasinským, který zůstane uměleckým ředitelem divadla. Poté ale uvedl do funkce zvláštní umělecké šéfy operního a baletního souboru. Do čela baletu se postavil tanečník Faruk Ruzimatov.. Uměleckou vedoucí opery se stala Jelena Obrazcovová,, která ale v září 2008 post uvolnila a stala se uměleckou poradkyní ředitele. Hlavním hostujícím dirigentem se stal Daniele Rustioni.

V roce 2009 se stal hlavním dirigentem a hudebním ředitelem divadla Peter Feranec, zatímco hlavním baletním mistrem divadla byl jmenován Michail Messerer. V září 2009 se Ruzimatov vrátil k vlastní dráze tanečníka a opustil místo uměleckého ředitele baletního souboru.

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Q: How to open and convert to data.frame from bin file with R Using the readBin Function, I tried to open .bin files obtained from National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
However I didn't understand how to get the data from .bin files.
.bin file information :
The file format consists of a 300-byte descriptive header followed by a two-dimensional array of
one-byte values containing the data. The file header is composed of:
• a 21-element array of 6-byte character strings that contain information such as polar
stereographic grid characteristics
• a 24-byte character string containing the file name
• a 80-character string containing an optional image title
• a 70-byte character string containing ancillary information such as data origin, data set
creation date, etc

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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)
United States (United States) 16,340 0 Browse Search
England (United Kingdom) 6,437 1 Browse Search
France (France) 2,462 0 Browse Search
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 2,310 0 Browse Search
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Europe 1,632 0 Browse Search
New England (United States) 1,606 0 Browse Search
Canada (Canada) 1,474 0 Browse Search
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) 1,468 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
Found 16 total hits in 9 results.
Bristol (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry cruger-henry-jr
Cruger, Henry, Jr. 1739-1780 Merchant; born in New York City, in 1739. His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the ristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the British Parliament, was elected to the Senate of the State of New York. He died in New York, April 24, 1827.
Henry Cruger (search for this): entry cruger-henry-jr
Cruger, Henry, Jr. 1739-1780 Merchant; born in New York City, in 1739. His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the British Parliament, was elected to the Senate of the State of New York. He died in New York, April 24, 1827.
Edmund Burke (search for this): entry cruger-henry-jr
April 24th, 1827 AD (search for this): entry cruger-henry-jr
1739 AD (search for this): entry cruger-henry-jr
Cruger, Henry, Jr. 1739-1780 Merchant; born in New York City, in 1739. His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the 1739. His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the British Parliament, was elected to the Senate of the State of New York. He died in New York, April 24, 1827.
Cruger, Henry, Jr. 1739-1780 Merchant; born in New York City, in 1739. His father became a merchant in Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the Bristol, England, where he died in 1780. Henry was associated with him in trade, and succeeded him as mayor of Bristol in 1781. He had been elected to Parliament as the colleague of Edmund Burke in 1774, and was re-elected in 1784, and on all occasions advocated conciliatory measures towards his countrymen. After the war he became a merchant in New York, and, while yet a member of the British Parliament, was elected to the Senate of the State of New York. He died in New York, April 24, 1827.


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Robert Mark Gašpar (born 7 February 1981), also known as Robbie Gaspar, is an Australian soccer player who plays for Floreat Athena.

An attacking midfielder, Gaspar is a former player of Malaysian side Sabah FA where he played for two seasons and appeared in the final of the 2003 Malaysia Cup. He spent two years with the youth team of HNK Hajduk Split but failed to make a first team appearance for the Croatian giants.

Robert is a friend of Indonesian boxer Chris John and the late Indonesian metal-music journalist and Persiba Balikpapan supporter John Yoedi. He got to know Yoedi when Yoedi would bring an Australian flag to the stadium to support Robbie.

Honours

Club honors
Perth SC
Football West State League Premier Division (1): 2002

References

External links

Profile in OzFootball

1981 births
Living people
Australian people of Croatian descent
Australian soccer players
Australian expatriate soccer players
Sydney Olympic FC players
Expatriate footballers in Malaysia
Expatriate footballers in Indonesia
Expatriate footballers in Brunei
Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) players
Persiba Balikpapan players
Persema Malang players
Persib Bandung players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
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Q: Using Javascript to override or disable meta refresh tag I have a website, where I am trying to use Ajax to update some stuff on the page without reloading it. However, there is a good chance that many of my users will be using mobile browsers that don't support Javascript so I am trying to design the page with meta refresh tags, that somehow work only for users without Javascript. Is there any way to do this?
I tried putting the tag within a noscript element, but my primitive cell phone browser wouldn't acknowledge it. I am thinking of maybe setting a cookie to remember if the user's browser supports Javascript, or having one version of the page that works without Javascript, and tries to use Javascript to redirect the user to a more sophisticated version, but I am wondering if there is a more elegant way to do it. Does anyone have any ideas?

A: Unfortunately, from @bluesmoon's answer, manipulating the DOM does not work anymore.
The workaround is to retrieve the original markup, find and replace the meta refresh element, and then write the new document with the replaced markup.
I am not sure how to retrieve the original markup using JavaScript except for sending an additional request using XMLHttpRequest.
In Opera, here is what I am using:
Disable meta refresh 1.00.js:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Disable meta refresh
// @version 1.00
// @description Disables meta refresh.
// @namespace https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3252743/using-javascript-to-override-or-disable-meta-refresh-tag/13656851#13656851
// @copyright 2012
// @author XP1
// @homepage https://github.com/XP1/
// @license Apache License, Version 2.0; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
// @include http*://example.com/*
// @include http*://*.example.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

/*
 * Copyright 2012 XP1
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

/*jslint browser: true, vars: true, maxerr: 50, indent: 4 */
(function (window, XMLHttpRequest) {
    "use strict";

    if (window.self !== window.top) {
        return;
    }

    window.stop();

    var uri = window.location.href;

    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    request.open("GET", uri, false);
    request.send(null);

    if (!(request.readyState === 4 && request.status === 200)) {
        return;
    }

    var markup = request.responseText;
    markup = markup.replace(/<meta http-equiv="refresh".*\/?>/gi, "");

    var document = window.document;
    document.open();
    document.write(markup);
    document.close();
}(this, this.XMLHttpRequest));

Opera also has a built-in feature that disables meta refreshes. No need for JavaScript.

*

*Right click on webpage > Edit Site Preferences... > Network > Disable "Enable automatic redirection" > OK.

A: This worked for me wonderful! (tried in chrome)
window.stop();

A: Meta tags are awful in this case. What about search engines??
What you should do is to make it something like I've outlined here.
Your links should point to full working sites as if it were a web 2.0 page. Then with event handlers (onclick) you enhance the user experience by using ajax.
So ajax users will not go to links, the link is rather processed when clicked and sent an ajax request to the exact same url but with an ajax GET parameter.
Now on the server side you have to be able to generate the whole site by some method. If it is an ajax request you send the related content. If it is not an ajax request, yo generate the full site with the related part embedded.
Your site will be SEO friendly, available to mobile users, and progressively enhanced for people on modern browsers and platforms. Finally ajax generated hash links will be usable, even as links.
Awesomeness. :)

A: Just remove the meta tag with javascript:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;http://new-url/" id="meta-refresh">

I've set the refresh timeout to 2 seconds above just as an example.  You could probably get away with 1 second as well, but don't set it to 0 because the javascript won't get a chance to execute in that case.  0 is also annoying because it breaks back-button usability.
Edit 2012-10-23 This does not appear to work any more.  The node still gets removed, but it appears that browsers parse and hold in memory all meta tags any way.

A: I've found that the noscript tag works quite nicely for this.  For example, you can place this just after you close the head element:

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.example.com">

No need to remove the meta tag with script, since a browser that has script support will ignore everything inside the noscript element.

A: You cannot override meta refresh tag with JavaScript.
However you can do this
Suppose your page is at ->
http://example.net/mike.html
Put the following code there->

A: I agree that meta refresh is not the right way forward here. In addition to galambalazs' link, search on "progressive enhancement".
However, in the spirit of answering the question, you could try the following. It's untested, may not work in all browsers, but should be along the right lines:
var i, refAttr;
var metaTags = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
for i in metaTags {
    if( (refAttr = metaTags[i].getAttribute("http-equiv")) && (refAttr == 'refresh') ) {
        metaTags[i].parentNode.removeChild(metaTags[i]);
    }
}

Whether removing it would stop the browser from refreshing in time remains to be seen.

A: This is an example of what I use and it works perfectly (especially on Firefox)!

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Redirecting</title>

Redirecting you to http://www.live.comeseetv.com


Our ERP system links our company with a streamlined application that allows all teams to share information seamlessly. Each team, from accounting, to inventory control, to customer service to the value stream leaders throughout the building, can all access data simultaneously and make decisions with real-time details.
Recently expanded fiber laser technology at ACE has enhanced our ability to offer greater flexibility and hold tight tolerances in cutting various sheet metal thicknesses.
The investment in water jet cutting equipment, provides one of the most versatile cutting processes available. This technology allows us to cut and hold tight tolerances on plate – without heat affecting the cutting zone.
Our ongoing employee training provides team members with the knowledge, and skill, to remain up-to-date on emerging technologies, as well as process improvements.
Our acquisition of IRMKO Tool Works in early November has increased our machining capabilities. This additional ACE location includes a fully equipped shop with over 30 machinists producing precision stainless steel machine components.
As a whole, the metal fabrication industry is in good shape. Although recent tariffs are causing concerns about the future of steel and aluminum prices, metal fabricators are projected to see ongoing strong demand as the market adjusts.
In other words, even with inflation, the ongoing skills gap, and the growing trade war surrounding the recently imposed steel and aluminum tariffs, the metal fabrication industry is poised to increase steadily in 2019. At ACE METAL CRAFTS COMPANY, we look forward to an exciting new year bringing our passion and experience to your next stainless steel fabrication project.


These days, many of us need our devices to be as versatile as we are!
That includes wanting a coffee machine that can fill a carafe or make a single beverage.
Some coffee makers can even do both at the same time!
To show you what these fantastic machines can do you make your life more efficient, we're going to take a look into 8 of the top options out there.
Whether you prefer regular drip-style coffee makers or something more high-tech like the Keurig or Ninja Bar.
Carry on, enjoy and have fun choosing the perfect coffee maker for you!
The Cuisinart SS-15 is one of the top options for those who want the ability to make multiple cups or a single serving of coffee in the same machine.
When you're on the go, you can easily slide a travel mug into the device and get your coffee without having to use the carafe as a middle-man.
However, when you have the time or a group over, you can easily make up to 12 cups of cafe and the carafe will store it easily.
On top of that, this machine is also able to use K-Cups and other coffee pods as well.
You'll also be able to aim for a stronger cup using the "bold" option.
It also uses a filter that is gold toned, which allows for a better flavor overall.
This option might be considered one of the more expensive out there, at a little under $150, but it includes a lot of capability to back up that price.
Between the 60-ounce water reservoir and wide variety of coffee pod options, it's hard to go wrong with this machine!
Another fantastic option is the Hamilton Beach Flexbrew.
Those who are familiar with coffee makers know that this brand is well-known for a wide variety of great coffee makers, and the Flexbrew is no exception!
It's able to brew into a travel mug or up to 12 cups using the carafe.
That way, you'll be set whether you need a lot or a little.
In addition, you'll be able to choose between a regular brew and a bold one, depending on your taste.
This machine can also use K-Cups as well as a variety of other coffee pods, so you'll have plenty of options.
Furthermore, it offers an automatic shutoff after two hours, so you won't need to worry about leaving it on by accident while you're at work.
It also offers parts that are able to be washed easily in a dishwasher, cutting down on the cleaning hassle.
If you're familiar with other Ninja Coffee Makers, then you might find that the Ninja Coffee Bar has a similar, but more compact, appearance.
Thanks to the specialized dial, you'll be able to use this machine to make a carafe all the way down to a single serving, depending on your needs at a given time.
Furthermore, it uses an auto-IQ feature in order to ensure it adds just the right amount of water to your beverage.
The water reservoir is also designed to be removable so that you can easily refill it as needed.
From simple coffee to a classy espresso, the Ninja Bar can do it all with ease.
You'll even be able to make a delicious specialty brew and coffee drinks that are over ice!
Overall, the Ninja Coffee Bar makes it easy to brew just about any drink, allowing you to save money over frequent coffee shop trips.
For those who truly want to feel like a barista in their home, the CF111 Ninja Bar is a perfect option.
You'll be able to make a wide variety of single serve or multi serving beverages to suit whatever the occasion calls for.
It even includes a built-in frother for when you want to get fancy!
As a result, it can make regular coffee, elegant espressos and just about anything in between.
It's also a pod-free option which gives you more control over the grounds-to-water ratio you want.
For those hot summer days, it's even able to make an over-ice drink that will give you a boost and keep you cool.
Do keep in mind that this machine may not be as compact as other options out there.
Consequently, you'll want to make sure you have the space!
Otherwise, it's an excellent option for those in search of the most in versatility.
If you like a more compact option, the Hamilton Beach 49966 is a perfect tool.
Like the other options in this list, it's able to brew into a carafe or directly into a mug for a single serving.
You'll also have the option to use your favorite type of coffee or a coffee pod such as K-Cup.
When you need to make a lot, the carafe is also able to hold 10 cups so you'll have plenty to share!
This machine also contains two brewers depending on whether you want a single serve or to use the carafe, and each contains their own water reservoir.
It's truly a machine that is providing you with two coffee makers in one!
Furthermore, it also offers the ability to brew standard or stronger brews for when you need that extra kick.
It's absolutely a machine that is worth taking a look into!
Many of us are familiar with the name Keurig, and it's no surprise that there's a Keurig model that can cover your single-serve and multi-serving needs.
The K250 is able to brew several single-serving sizes ranging from 10 ounces to 4 ounces.
In addition, it's able to brew a cafe ranging from 22 ounces to 30 ounces.
Like many other machines, this one also allows you to have some control over the resulting brew strength.
On top of that, it allows for the high-tech convenience of a touchscreen.
With a 40-ounce water reservoir, you also won't need to worry too much about refilling it often.
It's truly worth a look if you're a fan of Keurig.
If you want something even more high-tech than the K250, the Keurig K575 is a perfect choice.
This machine offers an even larger water reservoir, at 80 ounces.
The touchscreen on this device is also in color, and you'll be able to change the touchscreen wallpaper.
You'll also be able to control the strength and select from a variety of single-serve and carafe options.
Just make sure to purchase a carafe if you need one, as it's not included with the machine.
Furthermore, as a Keurig machine it's going to be designed to use K-Cups, though there are some reusable K-Cup filter options out there.
The Hamilton Beach 49980A is one of the most highly rated options in this list.
It includes a 12-cup carafe that you can use when you need to brew a lot, and on top of that there's a space for brewing directly into a travel mug.
The side designed for your travel mug is also made to work with loose grounds, discs or even coffee pods of various brands.
As a result, you'll get a lot of choices with this machine.
It may not come with a fancy touchscreen, but it does offer the ability to select a stronger brew as well as other programmable settings.
You'll have to provide your own travel mug, coffee and water but aside form that this machine has everything you need!
It's well worth a look if you prefer something simple and reliable.
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