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La arquidiócesis de Kalocsa-Kecskemét ( y ) es una circunscripción eclesiástica latina de la Iglesia católica en Hungría, sede metropolitana de la provincia eclesiástica de Kalocsa-Kecskemét. La arquidiócesis tiene al arzobispo Balázs Bábel como su ordinario desde el 25 de junio de 1999.

Territorio y organización

La arquidiócesis tiene 1543 km² y extiende su jurisdicción sobre los fieles católicos de rito latino residentes en el condado de Bács-Kiskun.

La sede de la arquidiócesis se encuentra en la ciudad de Kalocsa, en donde se halla la Catedral de la Asunción. En Kecskemét se encuentra la Concatedral de la Ascensión del Señor.

En 2019 en la arquidiócesis existían 127 parroquias.

La arquidiócesis tiene como sufragáneas a las diócesis de: Pécs y Szeged-Csanád.

Historia
La diócesis de Kalocsa y Bács fue erigida en 1010 por san Esteban de Hungría. Se creía que Kalocsa y Bács eran sedes independientes, unidas más tarde, pero estudios más recientes han establecido que era una sola sede, cuyos obispos residían en Kalocsa o en Bács. En las dos localidades hubo capítulos catedralicios distintos.

En 1135 la diócesis de Kalocsa y Bács fue elevada al rango de arquidiócesis metropolitana y la elección de los arzobispos se reservó a los capítulos unidos, en una asamblea que debía tener lugar en una tercera ciudad. La cuestión de la elevación a sede metropolitana también es controvertida: Asztrik ya disfrutaba del título de arzobispo, que se encuentra para Fabiano, el quinto obispo. Algunos eruditos sostienen que la metrópolis de Kalocsa y Bács se extendía en el siglo XI a la diócesis de Bihar (hoy diócesis de Oradea) y de Transilvania (hoy arquidiócesis de Alba Iulia), a la que pertenece la diócesis de Csanád (hoy diócesis de Szeged-Csanád).

La importancia de la sede se confirmó en 1175, cuando, dado que la sede de Esztergom estaba vacante, le tocó al arzobispo de Kalocsa coronar al rey Bela III de Hungría. El hecho se repitió en 1204 cuando el arzobispo Juan coronó a Ladislao II de Hungría. En 1212 se sancionó el derecho de los arzobispos de Kalocsa en caso de ausencia o negativa del arzobispo de Esztergom. Unos años más tarde, el arzobispo Ugrinus estableció el primer gran hospital de Kalocsa y en 1229 añadió la diócesis de Sirmio a sus sufragáneas. La nueva diócesis fue un baluarte en la lucha contra los patarinos, herejes muy extendidos en Bosnia. Los arzobispos se comprometieron a oponerse a la difusión de sus doctrinas. El mismo arzobispo Ugrinus tuvo el honor de coronar a Andrés II de Hungría. Luego cayó en batalla contra los tártaros en 1241.

La actividad misionera llevada a cabo en Valaquia desde el siglo XIII por las órdenes mendicantes franciscanas y dominicas llevó a la erección de las diócesis de Argeș y Severin, respectivamente en 1381 y 1382, que fueron asignadas como sufragáneas a la metrópolis de Kalocsa.

En el siglo XV dos figuras destacadas se sentaron en la silla de Kalocsa: Andrea Brenti, que tuvo un papel importante en la preparación del Concilio de Constanza e István Várdai, figura típica de un obispo renacentista, hombre de gran cultura humanística, quien llevó la influencia a Kalocsa del Renacimiento italiano y luego fue creado cardenal. Su trabajo en Kalocsa fue intenso y orgánico: celebró el sínodo diocesano, instituyó una visita pastoral a las parroquias, se centró en la formación del clero, envió a jóvenes clérigos a las universidades europeas, fundó una biblioteca y también se ocupó de los ingresos de la arquidiócesis.

En 1526 el arzobispo franciscano Pál Tomori dirigió el ejército en la batalla de Mohács, en la que encontró la muerte. La derrota marcó la conquista otomana y el declive de la arquidiócesis; los arzobispos bajo el yugo de los turcos ya no podían ejercer sus funciones. Sin embargo, la Santa Sede continuó nombrando arzobispos para esta sede, considerándola al mismo tiempo tierra de misión encomendada a los franciscanos, quienes también se ocuparon de los cristianos que emigraron a esta región desde Dalmacia después de 1550.

La jurisdicción arzobispal efectiva se interrumpió durante el período de dominación turca y se restableció durante el episcopado del cardenal Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch en la última década del siglo XVII. Fue su sucesor Pál Szécsényi quien construyó un palacio para la curia y construyó una iglesia parroquial, mientras que su sucesor Imre Csáky hizo construir la catedral. A pesar de estos esfuerzos, en 1733 el arzobispo Gabriel Herman Antun Patačić encontró que la arquidiócesis aún estaba por reorganizar: fue él quien estableció el seminario diocesano y restauró el cabildo catedralicio.

Tras el Tratado de Trianón, el 10 de febrero de 1923, la región de Bačka, que pasó a formar parte del Reino de Yugoslavia, fue arrebatada a la arquidiócesis y erigida en administración apostólica, que se convirtió en la diócesis de Subotica en 1968. A partir de ese momento, la arquidiócesis asumió el único nombre de Kalocsa.

El 31 de mayo de 1993, con la bula Hungarorum gens del papa Juan Pablo II, se revisaron los límites de las diócesis húngaras. La arquidiócesis de Kalocsa amplió su territorio que se hizo coincidir con la provincia de Bács-Kiskun mediante la adquisición de varios municipios de las diócesis de Vác y Pécs; a esta última diócesis cedió el municipio de Bogyiszló. Al mismo tiempo, la arquidiócesis tomó su nombre actual.

Estadísticas
De acuerdo al Anuario Pontificio 2020 la arquidiócesis tenía a fines de 2019 un total de 360 317 fieles bautizados.

|- align="right"
| 1950 || 606 000 || 880 000 || 68.9 || 402 || 357 || 45 || 1507 ||  || 72 || 694 || 207
|- align="right"
| 1970 || 210 000 || 263 982 || 79.6 || 148 || 148 ||  || 1418 ||  ||  ||  || 81
|- align="right"
| 1980 || 218 529 || 259 171 || 84.3 || 107 || 107 ||  || 2042 ||  ||  ||  || 77
|- align="right"
| 1990 || 200 474 || 241 109 || 83.1 || 95 || 92 || 3 || 2110 || 1 || 3 ||  || 77
|- align="right"
| 1999 || 398 000 || 537 084 || 74.1 || 100 || 99 || 1 || 3980 || 7 || 1 || 84 || 81
|- align="right"
| 2000 || 412 000 || 555 980 || 74.1 || 100 || 100 ||  || 4120 || 9 ||  || 85 || 79
|- align="right"
| 2001 || 422 406 || 557 112 || 75.8 || 93 || 93 ||  || 4542 || 10 ||  || 79 || 76
|- align="right"
| 2002 || 421 314 || 555 340 || 75.9 || 91 || 91 ||  || 4629 || 10 ||  || 95 || 75
|- align="right"
| 2003 || 419 790 || 553 330 || 75.9 || 95 || 95 ||  || 4418 || 11 ||  || 85 || 138
|- align="right"
| 2004 || 379 072 || 546 345 || 69.4 || 92 || 91 || 1 || 4120 || 11 || 1 || 85 || 138
|- align="right"
| 2006 || 379 072 || 546 345 || 69.4 || 103 || 102 || 1 || 3680 || 11 || 1 || 83 || 138
|- align="right"
| 2011 || 371 833 || 541 005 || 68.7 || 103 || 102 || 1 || 3610 || 12 || 1 || 59 || 136
|- align="right"
| 2013 || 368 755 || 536 409 || 68.7 || 110 || 108 || 2 || 3352 || 11 || 2 || 51 || 127
|- align="right"
| 2016 || 364 996 || 530 565 || 68.8 || 103 || 101 || 2 || 3543 || 13 || 2 || 43 || 127
|- align="right"
| 2019 || 360 317 || 523 793 || 68.8 || 104 || 104 ||  || 3464 || 11 ||  || 36 || 127
|- align="right"
|colspan=12 |<small>Fuente: Catholic-Hierarchy, que a su vez toma los datos del Anuario Pontificio.
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Episcopologio
 San Asztrik, O.S.B. † (1000-después de 1046)
 György I † (1050-?)
 Benedek I † (mencionado en 1055)
 Dezső † (1075-1093)
 Fabiano † (1094-?)
 Ugolino † (1103-?)
 Pál I † (1111)
 Fulberto † (1111-?)
 Gergely I † (1124-?)
 Francica † (1131-1134)
 Simon † (1135-?)
 Muchia † (1142-1149)
 Miko † (1149-1165)
 Sayna † (1167-?)
 Kosma † (1169-?)
 Endre I † (1176-?)
 István I † (1182-1187)
 Péter I † (1187-?)
 Pál II † (1189-1190)
 Saul de Hédervar † (1192-1202 falleció)
 Johannes von Meran † (1202-6 de octubre de 1205 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Bertoldo di Andechs-Merania † (1207-1218 nombrado patriarca de Aquileia)
 Ugrinus † (1219-1241 falleció)
 Benedek II † (1241-25 de febrero de 1254 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Tamás I † (1254-1255)
 István II † (1256-1256)
 Smaragdus de Sambok † (1257-de julio de 1265 falleció)
 Benedek III † (1265-?)
 István III † (11 de diciembre de 1266-1278)
 Ján † (1279-de noviembre de 1301 falleció)
 István IV † (1302-? falleció)
 Vince † (1306-? falleció)
 László, O.F.M. † (15 de agosto de 1317-1337 o 1338 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1338-1343)
 László Kobal † (24 de marzo de 1343-1345 falleció)
 István Harcsáki † (2 de marzo de 1345-1349? falleció)
 Miklós Vásári † (1349-11 de enero de 1350 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Dionizije Lacković † (11 de enero de 1350-? falleció)
 Miklós Keszei † (4 de agosto de 1356-8 de octubre de 1358 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Tamás Telegdi † (25 de agosto de 1358-10 de febrero de 1367 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 István VI, O.E.S.A. † (10 de febrero de 1367-circa 1379 nombrado patriarca de Jerusalén)
 Lajos † (antes de 1383-1391)
 Miklós Bebek † (19 de diciembre de 1391-después de 1399 falleció)
 Ivan Šipuški † (28 de marzo de 1401-después de 1402)
 Crisogono de Dominis † (1403-? falleció) (obispo electo)
 Andrea Brenti † (4 de enero de 1413-1418)
 Kármán Scolari † (23 de febrero de 1420-1423)
 Giovanni Buondelmonti † (5 de noviembre de 1424-1447)
 Matthias de Labischino † (8 de julio de 1449-?)
 Rafael Herczeg † (31 de agosto de 1450-1456 falleció)
 István Várdai † (25 de febrero de 1457-de febrero de 1471 falleció)
 Gábor † (24 de mayo de 1471-1479 falleció)
 György † (1 de febrero de 1479-1480 falleció)
 Péter Várdai † (16 de febrero de 1481-1501 falleció)
 László Geréb † (14 de febrero de 1502-11 de diciembre de 1503)
 Gregorio Frangipane † (11 de diciembre de 1503 por sucesión-1520)
 Pál Tomori, O.F.M. † (4 de febrero de 1523-29 de agosto de 1526 falleció)
 János Orszagh † (1527-1529)
 Francesco Frangipane † (1530-1543 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1543-1582)
 Juraj Drašković von Trakošćan † (30 de abril de 1582-21 de enero de 1587 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1587-1596)
 János Kuthassy † (1596-4 de junio de 1599 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Márton Pethe de Hetes † (15 de diciembre de 1600-3 de octubre de 1605 falleció)
 István Szuhay † (5 de octubre de 1607-9 de junio de 1608 falleció)
 Demeter Náprágyi † (27 de enero de 1610-25 de marzo de 1616 falleció)
 Bálint Lépes † (1619-1623 falleció)
 János Telegdy † (1624-1647 falleció)
 János Püsky † (14 de febrero de 1650-1658/1660 falleció)
 György Szelépcsenyi (Juraj Pohronec-Slepčiansky) † (1658/1660-3 de agosto de 1667 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom) (no confirmado)
 Petar Petretić † (3 de agosto de 1667-12 de octubre de 1667 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1667-1678)
 György Széchényi † (18 de abril de 1678-2 de septiembre de 1686 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Sede vacante (1686-1690)
 Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch † (6 de marzo de 1690-22 de agosto de 1695 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Pál Széchényi, O.S.P.P.E. † (1 de julio de 1697-22 de mayo de 1710 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1710-1714)
 Imre Csáky † (19 de noviembre de 1714-28 de agosto de 1732 falleció)
 Gabriel Herman Antun Patačić † (28 de septiembre de 1733-5 de diciembre de 1745 falleció)
 Miklós Csáky de Keres-Szeg † (4 de septiembre de 1747-15 de noviembre de 1751 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 František Xaver Klobušický † (20 de diciembre de 1751-6 de abril de 1760 falleció)
 József Batthyány † (15 de diciembre de 1760-20 de mayo de 1776 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Adam Patačić † (16 de septiembre de 1776-19 de julio de 1784 falleció)
 Ladislaus von Kollonitsch † (10 de marzo de 1788-23 de abril de 1817 falleció)
 Sede vacante (1817-1822)
 Péter Klobusiczky † (19 de abril de 1822-2 de julio de 1843 falleció)
 Ferenc Nádasdy † (24 de noviembre de 1845-22 de julio de 1851 falleció)
 Jozef Kunszt † (15 de marzo de 1852-5 de enero de 1866 falleció)
 József Krivinai Lonovics † (27 de noviembre de 1866-13 de marzo de 1867 falleció)
 Lajos Haynald † (17 de mayo de 1867-4 de julio de 1891 falleció)
 Juraj Császka † (17 de diciembre de 1891-11 de agosto de 1904 falleció)
 Gyula Városy † (11 de diciembre de 1905-28 de octubre de 1910 falleció)
 János Csernoch † (20 de abril de 1911-13 de diciembre de 1912 nombrado arzobispo de Esztergom)
 Árpád Lipót Várady † (25 de mayo de 1914-18 de febrero de 1923 falleció)
 Gyula Zichy † (31 de agosto de 1925-20 de mayo de 1942 falleció)
 Gyula Glattfelder † (24 de septiembre de 1942-30 de agosto de 1943 falleció)
 József Grósz † (7 de mayo de 1943-3 de octubre de 1961 falleció)
 Endre Hamvas † (15 de septiembre de 1964-10 de enero de 1969 retirado)
 József Ijjas † (10 de enero de 1969-5 de junio de 1987 retirado)
 László Dankó † (5 de junio de 1987-25 de junio de 1999 falleció)
 Balázs Bábel, por sucesión el 25 de junio de 1999

Referencias

Bibliografía
 (en inglés) Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Bacs, en Catholic Encyclopedia, Nueva York, Encyclopedia Press, 1913.
 (en latín) Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, pp. 371–372
 (en latín) Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1 , pp. 197; vol. 2, pp. VII, 132; vol. 3, p. 172; vol. 4, pp. 156, 365; vol. 5, p. 164; vol. 6, p. 173; vol. 7, p. 156; vol. 8, p. 215

Enlaces externos
 (en inglés) Ficha de la arquidiócesis en www.gcatholic.org

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A hunter, or in particular a turkey hunter, will know what a grand slam is, but for those that are merely interested in the topic for those who are just starting out, here some tips on grand slams, what they are and what it means.
A grand slam in turkey hunting means that the hunter has to shoot four different turkeys, each from one of the four major subspecies in the United States. The four major subspecies are Rio Grande, Osceola, Merriam's and Eastern. For a grand slam, the turkeys need to be hunted in spring and need to be fully grown toms that were called in and shot with either a shotgun or a bow. Even bigger than a grand slam is the scoring of a North American grand slam, where a Gould's turkey is added to the list mentioned above.
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The first major subspecies is the Eastern turkey, the species that was first seen and hunted by the early settlers in America, the puritans. They are most common in the eastern half of the United States, as some might have guessed by their name. The turkey's coverage extends as far southeastern as Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and some of the maritime provinces of Canada. This species can reach up to four feet in height and they recognizable by a chestnut brown coloring on the tail covert tips. There are anywhere around 5.2 million birds of the eastern subspecies in North America. Around 1871, this bird was also sometimes called forest turkey.
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The Rio Grande, the third major subspecies, is most commonly found in the lands between Texas and Oklahoma, in Oregon, parts of California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas and as an introductory animal in Hawaii. There are just over 1 million birds of this subspecies found in their natural habitats, which are natively the central plain states. Their distinctive mark is the disproportional long legs. The feathers of this bird are also iridescent but take a green-copper sheen in their color spectrum. Another very distinctive mark is the tail tip feathers and lower back feathers, which are of a very light tan color.
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What do the new Gillette commercial and This is Us have in common?
February 21, 2019 Jacki ZehnerLeave a comment
As published on LinkedIn Influencers on January 16th, 2019.
Yesterday I woke up to flurry of texts and emails that read, "Did you see it?!" These messages were followed by a link to an ad for, you guessed it, Gillette. I clicked. I watched, and I immediately teared up. I really did. Weird, I know. I mean, it's only a corporate commercial, right? But for the record, whenever I watch an episode of This is Us, which I happened to do yesterday as well, I require a whole box of tissues. The reason I cry watching This is Us is often for the same reason that I teared up watching the Gillette ad. They are both displaying a fresh take on masculinity, and I love it.
Before we continue, take a moment to go and watch the Gillette ad. It's less than two minutes long. I'll wait. Now, take a moment to think how you feel about it. Honor that feeling. Now, ask yourself why you feel what you do. If you're like me, and you loved it, perhaps it was because it was inspiring to hear male voices challenging the behaviors associated with toxic masculinity. Better yet, it put forth examples of what healthy masculinity looks like.
However, maybe you didn't like the ad, and if you fall into this camp you are certainly not alone. A simple scroll through google news this morning include lots of headlines that read "anti-men","backlash", and "boycott." In addition, some public figures have denounced the brand, including professional troll Piers Morgan, who publicly declared that this ad is part of a war on masculinity. As of this writing the ad has over twice as many dislikes on YouTube in comparison to likes, so clearly it has touched a nerve. If it provoked a negative reaction, I invite you to share the reasons why below because I'm somewhat baffled as to why an ad urging men to abandon toxic behaviors and replace them with more positive ones is controversial. I did read through many of the negative comments on Youtube but struggled to find any that were either thoughtful, or helpful, in terms of articulating the objections.
In a fortuitous twist of timing, this ad comes on the heels of the American Psychology Association's release of their first ever report on the harmful effects of toxic masculinity. Titled the APA Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Men and Boys, this report was 13 years in the making and drew on over 40 years of research. The conclusion? Toxic masculinity is killing men. Literally. The report outlines how traditional masculinity, which is marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance, and aggression, is psychologically harming men to detrimental degrees. In the US, men commit 90% of homicides and represent 77% of the victims of homicide, including 85% of the victims of gun violence. Men are the group most likely to become the victims of violent crimes in general, and suicide rates among men are three times higher than that of women. Overall, men have a lower life expectancy than women, and this is true in every country in the world.
The data clearly shows that toxic masculinity is exactly that: toxic. However, once again, judging from the reactions online, it's clear that a lot of people have missed that point. The goal here is not to take away men's masculinity. The goal is to challenge men to recognize the toxic aspects and arrive at a better expression of masculinity. You know, one that isn't literally killing them. That being said, we all know that change doesn't happen overnight, so I can only hope that enough men are inspired by this ad, and indeed by all the conversations taking place in this new #MeToo era.
Because it is January, the Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, and while I was watching the Gillette ad, I was reminded of being at the premier of The Mask You Live in 2015. This landmark film by the accomplished film-maker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, "follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become "real" men. Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the "boy crisis" and tactics to combat it. The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men." I cannot recommend this film more, so find out how to see it here.
While it is easy to get discouraged by the outrage the Gillette ad provoked, I find solace in the fact that popular culture seems to be making a positive shift. Last week, the New York Times profiled numerous musicians who are racking up hit albums and critical acclaim, all while specifically targeting toxic masculinity in their music. Earlier this month, the most lucrative franchise in Hollywood released a trailer for a superhero movie that featured zero action shots. Instead, it focused on the depression and grief of its overwhelmingly male cast, including a poignant shot of Captain America crying. And week after week, hit television shows, like This is Us, feature male characters who shy away from the stifling bonds of traditional masculinity. As Barbara Annis from Gender Intelligence Group notes in response to the ad, "We are entering a powerful paradigm shift, and I invite men and women to truly embrace these messages. I understand the inclination to react negatively when it lands as generalizing men or stereotyping male masculinity, but there are some beautiful messages in this ad that can inspire people to action. Think of this: women and girls all over the world have been hungering for men to engage and take action, and any boy who has been bullied will feel a sense of relief that there are men in the world ready to notice and take action. The critical approach is for us to move away from blame to a new kind of understanding."
At the end of the day, Gillette knew this ad would provoke controversy, but so far they are not backing down. They released a statement saying that going forward they will be reviewing all public facing content to ensure that they "fully reflect the ideals of Respect, Accountability and Role Modeling." Their website states that "It's time we acknowledge that brands, like ours, play a role in influencing culture. And as a company that encourages men to be their best, we have a responsibility to make sure we are promoting positive, attainable, inclusive and healthy versions of what it means to be a man." They're also putting their money where their mouth is by donating $3 million over the next year to nonprofits "designed to help men of all ages achieve their personal 'best'", with the first recipient being the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Personally, I applaud this initiative, and I hope it paves the way for more corporations to examine the content and ideals their advertising is putting out into the world. I hope there is more media on the horizon, from every medium, that portrays men as awesome, complex, loving, kind, and emotionally vulnerable human beings. I think we all want to live in a world where treating each other with love, kindness, and respect is the new norm.
Below please find some resources focused on healthy masculinity.
A Call to Men – is a violence prevention organization and respected leader on issues of manhood, male socialization and its intersection with violence, and preventing violence against all women and girls.
MenEngage Alliance – made up of dozens of countries, alliance members work collectively and individually toward advancing gender justice, human rights and social justice to achieve a world in which all can enjoy healthy, fulfilling and equitable relationships and their full potential.
Next Gen Men – a nonprofit organization focused on building better men through youth and peer engagement, education, and empowerment.
Promundo – Center for Masculinity and Gender Equality – is a global leader in promoting gender justice and preventing violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls.
The Center for Men and Masculinities – The Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, established at Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2013, is dedicated to engaged interdisciplinary research on boys, men, masculinities, and gender. Our mission is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and activists in conversation and collaboration to develop and enhance projects focusing on boys and men. This collaboration will generate and disseminate research that redefines gender relations to foster greater social justice.
The Future of Men by Jack Myers
Guyland: The Perlious World Where Boys Become Men and Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel
The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton (April 2019)
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What Are Your Resolutions For 2019? Here Are My Top Two.
January 12, 2019 Jacki ZehnerLeave a comment
As published on LinkedIn Influencers on January 1st, 2019.
It's that time of year again. Yesterday the calendar came to a close on 2018, and today the new year begins. I don't know about you, but I tend to have a love/hate relationship with the tradition of new year's resolutions. I love taking the time to reflect on the year in terms of goals achieved. I actually make a list in my journal every year, which is a wonderful thing to have because trust me, when you are as old as I am the years start to run together. I also love that January1st offers a clear date for a fresh start on the goals that may not have been realized. Now the hate part. When I see the same things creep back onto my list year after year, it can make me feel like, well, a bit of a loser. That being said, I do try to reflect on why certain behaviors, or lack there of, tend to repeat themselves, and all we can ever do is try to do better in the coming year.
This year my list is taking on a different tone and substance. There were a lot of changes in my life over these past 12 months, with the biggest change for me happening in September. After eight years of being All In for building Women Moving Millions, a non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls, I retired. Not only did I completely stop doing any of the day to day work of WMM, including member recruitment and fundraising, but I also left the board. That was hard, and weird, and I wrote way too much about it here. Now, with a few months past that landmark moment for me, I have a lot of learnings around it, but that is not what this article is about. However, I will say that my biggest take-away has been that the best way to let go is to just let go. You will never be able to land somewhere new if you are busy clinging to the old.
The other big life change for me was that my youngest child graduated from high school in June. She is currently in the middle of a gap year before going off to college in the fall of 2019, and I decided to take a gap year of sorts alongside her. I have traveled like a maniac this whole fall, with trips to places I have never visited before such as Ireland, Scotland, and Kenya. Though the travel will continue in 2019, I am also feeling a huge need to think about what is next for me professionally, and therefore many of my resolutions for this next year are oriented towards that objective. But before I jump into my list and invite you to share your top resolutions, where did this whole idea come from?
If you can believe it, setting new year's resolutions is a tradition that dates back to Julius Caesar. In 46BC he decreed that January 1st would mark the start of a new calendar year, and he invited his subjects to use this changeover to reflect on how they could be better citizens in the year to come. Pretty cool, right? Over 2,000 years later, people all over the world still make new year's resolutions, but research shows that only 46% of people manage to keep to their resolutions after just six months. Only 12% make it the full year. Some of the reasons behind this failure rate is a lack of planning, spur of the moment decisions made after three glasses of champagne on New Year's Eve, and/or not setting specific achievable goals. Social scientists also recommend keeping to just one or two resolutions in order to not dilute your motivation, and to avoid repeating past resolutions that have already proved to be frustrating.
So with that in mind, I will (partially) take the wonderful advice of those who know best and share my top two resolutions. I'm making them new ones, and I invite you to do the same. Social scientists also say that you are more likely to feel accountable for a behavior change if you write it down down and share it with others, so please share!
Practice daily meditation. This may sound like a simple task, but have you ever tried to focus on one thought, idea, or mantra for a sustained period of time? It is shockingly difficult to do, especially considering that in today's digital age our brains have become accustomed to being bombarded with stimuli every waking minute of the day. However, recent research has shown that practicing daily meditation yields enormous benefits, including increased attention spans and concentration skills, decreased stress levels, and higher capacities for empathy. Even more amazing, studies have shown that meditation can actually physically improve our brains by helping to strengthen the connection between brain cells. Scientists have observed that meditation can lead to our brains being able to process information faster and more efficiently, make better decisions, and even help decrease sensitivity to pain. A good summary of this research can be found here. It's also pretty telling that most incredibly successful people report practicing meditation, and so in light of all this, not to mention the fact that it costs nothing monetarily, why wouldn't you at least give it try? For years I have been saying that I will start doing this one day, and now today is the day. Join me.
Oh this is so hard. I really have 10 more, so trying to pick just one to share here is tough. However, I'm going to go with the one that keeps creeping to the top of my mind even though it is going to seem a little hokey.
Practice kindness. As much as you can, in every situation, practice kindness. I spent some time, just know, scrolling though definitions in an attempt to be super clear about what I mean, and as a result of this I actually changed the words from "be kind" to "practice kindness". Similar to the idea above regarding meditation, to practice something is about developing it into a habit. I really want to be a person who naturally shows up in a way that is friendly, generous, and considerate. Think about how many interactions you have with others in a given day. This can be from the person you buy coffee from on the way to work, to your co-workers and clients, your online social engagements, as well as your time with family and friends. What if our default setting was to always show up with kindness, even in the most challenging of situations where strong action was required? To act with kindness is not to say you don't let someone go if they are not doing their job, or that you don't ask for proper service. It just means you do so in a way that is respectful. Our world is fraught with negativity, anger, and the normalization of aggressive interpersonal behavior. Enough. This new year I invite you, as I am inviting myself, to always try to show up with consideration, with friendliness, and with generosity. Practice kindness.
Happy New Year. Wishing you and yours the very best for 2019.
Happy 150th Goldman Sachs and A Call to Collective Action
As published on LinkedIn Influencers on December 15th, 2018.
In 1988 I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Finance. I was fortunate enough to have multiple job offers waiting for me upon graduation, but I quickly narrowed it down to just two. The first was a permanent, full time position with an awesome title and a great starter pay package in my home country at the Bank of Canada. The second option was Goldman Sachs in New York City. Now, you may think my choice would be a no-brainer. Goldman. However, they were only offering me a two year position as an analyst, and for less money. Additionally, there was no guarantee of anything after the two years. I was also more than a little intimidated after the grueling rounds of interviews and a full out meet and greet with the other new graduates from schools like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and more who would be part of the incoming analyst class. Now, I realize that this wasn't exactly the world-is-going-to-end-if-I-make-the-wrong-choice situation, as both were highly privileged options, but at the time I was 24, just starting out in my professional life, and it was in fact a huge decision for me at the time. The safe and sensible choice was to stay home in Canada with the better title and more money, so obviously I packed my bags and moved to New York City. It ended up being the best decision I've ever made.
It's been 30 years since I made that fateful decision, and let me tell you, a lot has happened in those 30 years. At Goldman, I moved from my initial analyst position into trading mortgage-backed securities, ultimately rising to become the first female trader and youngest woman to ever make partner at Goldman Sachs in 1996. I later transitioned into the executive suite in 2000, helping to manage the careers of the firm's Managing Directors, before finally retiring from Goldman in 2002 after 14 years at the firm. Even though I've now spent more time away from Goldman than working for Goldman, it sometimes feels like just yesterday that I would go to work every day at 85 Broad Street, and there are a lot of great memories at that address. Goldman was where I found myself professionally. It was where I developed my passion for women's leadership and gender equality. It was where I met some of my most dearest, lifelong friends. It was where I met my incredible husband, with whom I now have two beautiful children. And because I was a partner when the firm went public, I am now free to do full-time philanthropic work focussing on gender equity and inclusion. I have so much for which I am incredibly grateful.
This is why it was with much excitement that I RSVP'd YES to attending the annual retired partners dinner and the 150th Anniversary celebration of the firm that was held Wednesday night in New York City. As I read through the list of over 360 former partners attending, it truly was a walk down memory lane. There were many who were the leaders who supported me when I was a scrappy young trader, such as John Thain and Jon Corzine, as well as so many with whom I worked alongside. However, what gave me the most joy was reading over the names of the many individuals who I helped to hire, train, and champion for on their journey to become partner.
As professionals we interact constantly with our coworkers. Likely all day, every day. We need advice and support, as well as give it in return, and I always tried to do both at Goldman with an open, generous, and kind heart. That said, as I was reminded last night, I also, occasionally, got into my kick-ass-and-take-names mode. In a good way I was told. Today, as a much older (I mean seasoned) person, I can see so much of what I could have done differently or better, but it is a fact of life that we cannot change the past. The future, however, is something that we can shape from our reflections and learnings. I am trying to do just that.
For those of you who many not be familiar with the history of Goldman Sachs, left me share a brief summary. Goldman Sachs was founded by Marcus Goldman, a German investment banker who immigrated to the US in 1848. Originally settling in Philadelphia, Goldman moved to New York City in 1869, where in a little office in downtown Manhattan he started Marcus Goldman & Co. In 1882, Goldman's son-in-law Samuel Sachs joined the business, and in 1885, the firm changed its name to its present day moniker, Goldman Sachs & Co. Since then, Goldman Sachs has grown into one of the most respected and prestigious financial firms on Wall Street, not to mention one of the largest with over $32 billion in revenue last year. Of course, the firm has been far from perfect, and it has found itself at the center of more than a couple of firestorms throughout its history, many of which I have written about. However, that is not for this story. This story is about an institution that has grown and evolved and adapted into a world class financial institution, and it is one that has increasingly focused on providing innovative financial solutions to some of our world's biggest problems.
Of special interest to me is that for years Goldman has been one of the leaders in publishing research on the economic power of women. They were also one of the first to launch a major philanthropic initiative focussed on women called 10,000 Women, which has since evolved to include an amazing online education platform for women entrepreneurs. (please check it out!) There are more than a few Goldman Sachs reports that are included in my 500 Top Reports on women and girls, and a new version of this list will be coming out in 2019. Included on that updated list will be this one, Closing the Gender Gaps: Advancing Women in Corporate America, in which "the authors focus on some of the factors affecting women as they progress through their careers, offering strategies companies can use to level the playing field. These include helping women re-enter the workforce or "upshift" their careers, carefully reviewing compensation data, and adding women to companies' boards."
While I do praise Goldman's research, I also invite them, as well as all other major financial institutions, to not only write about the interventions, but to make bold commitments to fully enact them.
It was almost a decade ago, when my head and heart was still super engaged around the issue of women in finance, that I co-created a report titled Women in Fund Management: A Road-Map to Critical Mass and Why It Matters. This report addressed the problem around the lack of women in leadership roles, and more importantly what could be done about it. Nearly ten years later there is no lack of strategies or female talent to solve this problem. What is lacking across the industry is the commitment to these solutions, and that starts at the very top of any organization in order to truly embrace the goals of equity and inclusion. Further, because of the potential backlash around the #MeToo Movement, as powerfully outlined by Max Abelson in his recent article titled, "Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo: Avoid Women At All Cost", the potential cost of proceeding in a business as usual kind of way could be very high. Studies continue to suggest that not only is the representation of women in leadership roles not improving, but it may be moving backwards.
The challenges around engaging men, powerful men, around diversity initiatives have always been numerous. I know first hand. Almost 20 years ago I sat in a room with many of the partners who attended Wednesday's dinner talking about how to improve the make-up of the firm. We had just completed a year long, very big consulting project that included surveys, employee interviews, and more. The results were presented suggesting that Goldman had a long way to go to actually create the meritocratic culture that it espoused, but as we broke out into focus groups to discuss these findings it became clear, to me, that the deep changes that needed to happen would not. Why? The reasons are long, many of which I addressed in my TED Women talk in 2012, but at the core was a belief amongst many that nothing was broken, and thus there was nothing to fix. Goldman was a meritocracy where the best and the brightest rose to the top and were rewarded, and all of "this", "this diversity stuff", was thus in direct contradiction to that fundamental belief. As I have learned over the past 15 years of working in the world of social change, behaviors, generally speaking, follow beliefs, and in order to have long lasting change you have to first change the belief systems that result in certain behaviors. That in turn then creates certain outcomes.
So it's time for something new, something radically new, and I would like to offer a suggestion. An industry wide, joint commitment to creating an inclusive financial sector. It's time, and what a dream it would be to have Goldman Sachs lead the way.
What might this look like? I know, and I don't know. The "I know" part says adopt the many principles deeply thought out and articulated in this 2009 report, and the countless other reports that have been thoughtfully written. Again, you can find 500 of them here! But that is not a practical answer. It's not enough to know what to do. What is needed is an act of commitment, and a structure for accountability, to make it happen. My suggestion is to adopt a Collective Impact (CI) framework. In the non-profit world CI is an organizing framework that has become well-known and broadly adopted to help solve complex social problems. It is particularly used in spaces where there is not one actor that can solve the problem. "CI brings people together, in a structured way, to create social change." For so long the business world has sought to bring solutions to problems residing in the non-profit or social sphere, and it's time to reverse the direction of knowledge and expertise. Businesses have problems too, big problems, and creating an inclusive work environment is one of them.
Years ago I gave a talk to some women at Goldman Sachs about my life and work post-Goldman, and one of the things that I mentioned was how the underlying strategies being employed to end female genital cutting in Senegal might be applied to Goldman's diversity challenges. Needless to say there were more than a few questioning looks. But I was serious, and remain serious. One of my favorite, and deeply awarded organizations, is TOSTAN,because their theory of change (TOC) is one that could be applied to help solve almost any social problem, including, possibly, the diversity and inclusion challenges of the financial sector. Five years ago I traveled to Senegal with my then thirteen year old daughter Allie to spend time with Molly Melching, the founder of TOSTAN, and her then director of research Ben Cislaghi. As he described how they worked with hundreds of communities across many countries to end the harmful practice of FGC bells and whistles were going off for me. The process is too long to describe here, but the point is that it is a proven process for actually creating change and not just hoping for it.
To draw further from the social sector I would suggest employing the techniques of human-centered design to create the why, the what, and the how of the collective initiative. Take time in design. All too often interventions are created and implemented without ever consulting the people that they are designed to serve. When I think about the millions and millions and millions of dollars collectively spent on programs across the industry that are not working, not working at all, doesn't this make huge sense? Finance people do claim to be the best and the brightest, and are certainly paid to be, so take that mentality to solving this problem.
Point is, innovate. Point is, collaborate. Point is, look for ideas and partners in places you have not looked before. Point is, try something new. Point is, be bold and just don't talk the talk, but walk the walk. It's time.
As I write this the sun is rising in Battery Park City, and as I look out my window towards the Statue of Liberty I am remembering all those mornings when I would get to the gym before dawn, work out, and then run along the park with Whitney Houston blaring out of my walkman before heading to 85 Broad Street, the former home of Goldman Sachs. I would often pause for a second and stare at the neoclassical structure, a symbol of independence that happened to be female, and wonder why so few women? Staring at her would help me get my game face on to approach another day in the trenches of the trading floor. Today, so much has changed in the landscape of lower New York City that I can barely recognize it. There are buildings, parks, schools, the new World Trade Center, and yet so little has changed as it relates to the make-up of who occupies the highest floors of these gorgeous new skyscrapers. Who the Wall Street power brokers are, as evidenced in 2008, can have a dramatic impact on all the rest of us. And they are pretty much the same as they were 20 years ago. I am called into reflection as to my legacy at Goldman, and I know it remains my steadfast commitment to advancing women's leadership and inclusion. I did what I could, when I could, and although my role as a direct influencer in the sector has long since ended there remains something I can do, and that I just did, and that is to write. I feel very blessed to be etched into the 150 year history of the firm. Literally. Last night they showcased a piece that will contain the name of each of the 400+ past partners of Goldman that will be used in various ways this coming year. I'm easy to find. My last name begins with a Z.

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Q: Intel x86-64 XSAVE/XRSTOR I'm a CS student writing in Intel x86-64 assembly, compiling with nasm, and running on an Core i7 processor with Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest OS.  Does anyone have an example of how to use XSAVE and XRSTOR?  I've read the section on XSAVE in Intel Architectures Software Developers manual several times.  I tried to implement xsave in C++ and then disassemble the binary to get an understanding of what it's doing.  And of course I've scoured the Internet for examples.  Any suggestions would be much obliged.

A: The xsave/xrstor/xsaveopt instructions are used to perform a full save/restore of the extended state in the processor to/from memory.  Similar to fxsave/fxrstor, it saves/restores fpu state st[0..7], xmm[0..7], mxcsr, etc... in addition to supporting ymm[0..15] and future extensions (zmm[0..31]).  The actual values saved, and the data layout are enumerated via the relevant cpuid leaves.  The use is generally operating system context switching.  The programmer reference describes how to use them correctly.
For general userspace register save/restore, the assembler usually has a facility for saving/restoring a set of registers.
For example...
masm
foo PROC USES eax,ebx,ecx
    xor    ebx, ebx

loop:
    mov    eax, [esi + ebx*4]
    mov    [edi + ebx*4], eax
    inc    ebx
    dec    ecx

    jnz    loop

    ret

foo ENDP

yasm
%macro  mpush 1-*

  %rep  %0
        push    %1
  %rotate 1
  %endrep

%endmacro

%macro  mpop 1-*

  %rep %0
  %rotate -1
        pop     %1
  %endrep

%endmacro

foo:
    mpush  rax,rbx,rcx
    xor    rbx, rbx

loop:
    mov    rax, [rsi + rbx*8]
    mov    [rdi + rbx*8], rax
    inc    rbx
    dec    rcx

    jnz    loop

    mpop   rax,rbx,rcx
    ret

In ia-32, there is a pushad to save all the general purpose registers, but with amd64 you need to have corresponding push/pop pairs for each of the registers you use.

A: Finally, an answer to this question.  Thanks to user: harold who helped answer the question for me.  A summary of what I've found:
Set up a memory space in .data and align it on a 64-byte boundary.  Then you can use the commands with that memory space.  If you want to use the stack, you should be able to do so similarly ensuring that the stack is 64-byte aligned, but this way seems easier to me for this purpose.
eax: edx is used to set the flags of which registers you WANT to save, restore.  This combined is 64-bits and is ANDed with an internal control which knows which registers you CAN save/restore (this allows processors that don't have ymm for example to ignore those registers)  I find it easiest to just set all bits on and save / restore everything:
segment .data
align   64
regsave times 1024 dq 0

segment .text
mov     rdx, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
mov     rax, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
xsave   [regsave]

vzeroall

mov     rdx, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
mov     rax, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
xrstor  [regsave]

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After falling in love with a Swedish girl, a New York accountant follows her back to her homeland.
With Josephine Bornebusch, Lena Olin, Claes Mansson, Greg Poehler.
Produced by eOne Television. Airs on NBC.
Shoots in Sweden.


THE furore surrounding the decision not to select Lewis Crocker for the Commonwealth Youth Games has been described as "absolute nonsense".
The Ulster Council caused controversy last month when they opted to send Derry's Brett McGinty (pictured) to September's Games in Samoa instead of Crocker – going against the 69kg selection put forward by High Performance coach John Conlan.
The fall-out from that decision has rumbled on ever since, with Crocker's club Holy Trinity leading calls for a box-off between the welterweights.
However, Eugene O'Kane – the honorary secretary of McGinty's club Oakleaf – has defended the Ulster Council's decision.
He insisted the selection of the five-man team had been reached "in a fair and democratic manner".
In a letter to The Irish News, O'Kane said: "We feel we must respond to all the frenzy which has been whipped up on social media, one-sided press reports, letters to the sports minister, Sport NI and to the IABA CEO, imploring them to intervene – to prevent one of the great travesties in Ulster boxing history. Absolute nonsense and untrue.
"My club, our boxer and members of the Ulster Council have taken a barrage of unwarranted abuse over the decision.
"The Ulster Council selected this team in a fair and democratic manner. Each boxer was proposed and seconded and a vote by show of hands was taken.
On calls for a box-off, O'Kane was defiant, saying: "I would ask the question 'if the shoe was on the other foot' would there be such a clamour for us to get the selection reversed and a box-off called for – I think not!
Stepping away from the committee hall, O'Kane was keen to talk up McGinty's record between the ropes, describing him as "a very talented young boxer".
Boy 2. Since then he has gone on to win six national titles, as well as a European Championship bronze.
At 18, Crocker is a year older than McGinty, but O'Kane insists that – in terms of experience – there is nothing between the pair.
"Everyone in the Crocker camp seems to be ignoring our boxer's record and experience," continued the Derry man's letter.
"Brett and Lewis both lost on points to Martin Stokes at the recent U18 Championships in Dublin.
"Brett and Lewis also both lost on points to John Joyce recently.
"At an Ireland v Scotland International held in Monaghan just over a year ago, Brett boxed a cracking contest with the current European champion John Hutchinson, losing 2-1 on a split decision.


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Q: Site Collection Import Issue using stsadm  I am having some issues with importing a PUblishing Site Collection using stsadm import.  THe Export didn't report any issues and in fact the import reported no issue.   When we try to access the root site collection url we get an error that a List doesn't exist with a correlation token reference.  I am not aware that this correlation token doesn't help us.  If we go to _layouts/viewlsts.aspx we can navigate to other sites witout issue.  Appears to be isolated to the collection level.    We are migrating from SP 2010 in both cases.
We also have no custom list definitions etc.   We do have one DVWP and a few CQWP on the page.
We did take a look at all the log files and haven't found anything.
Paul

A: Have you tried doing the export & import using PowerShell?
Not sure what differences under the bonnet there are (if any), but I do know that the use of stsadm is deprecated in SharePoint 2010, and that the use of the management shell is now recommended as a replacement.
Export a site, list, or document library (SharePoint Server 2010)

A: There are some issues related to exporting / importing Publishing sites. Related, even saving a site as a template is disabled in SPD2010 for publishing sites.
What do the windows event log and ULS say?


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No matter who wins the TX-OU game, everyone scores big at The Shops at Park Lane
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Get ready, Longhorn fans: "Football Christmas" is coming. For one glorious weekend each year, Dallas practically vibrates with excitement and energy, thanks to the pride and passion of the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners, who travel to Big D to face off in their historic football rivalry at the Cotton Bowl.
This year's showdown is set for October 11, and we've got the inside scoop on how to make the most of it at The Shops at Park Lane (no matter which team you're cheering for).
Stylish Scores
Call us superstitious, but we think a new game day outfit is just the good luck charm your team needs. Located just across I-75 from NorthPark Center, The Shops at Park Lane specializes in "smart luxury," and it is just the place for scoring designer game day duds on a budget at names like Nordstrom Rack, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, Bloomingdale's The Outlet, and Old Navy.
Tip: Rumor has it that these outlets receive the best merch in the area, so they're a must-see. A pair of $150 Joe's jean shorts for only $29.99? Yeah, they've got 'em. Burberry shades in crimson and Marc by Marc Jacobs sunnies in burnt orange for under $100? Check and check.
If your game day style is more traditional, Dick's Sporting Goods helps you represent with jerseys, caps and more. For more game day style ideas and inspiration, check out The Shops at Park Lane's TX/OU Pinterest board.
Seasoned fans know that parking at the Cotton Bowl is a beast on game day. So if you scored tickets to the main event, skip the hassle and park for free at The Shops at Park Lane and hop on the DART rail at the Park Lane Station to head down to Fair Park. DART has done all the work for you; click here for details.
For fans who will be watching the game at a house party, be sure to load up on all the snacks and sips you need at Whole Foods. Tasty options abound, from grab-and-go wings and freshly made guacamole and salsa to a staggering local and global beer selection; plus, Whole Foods even offers personal shopping. Tip: Mention this page on its website, and your first personal shopping experience is free.
And it's poor form to show up to a party empty-handed, so grab a last-minute hostess gift at HomeGoods.
We'll Toast to That
Don't have tickets to the game? Grab a seat at one of the hot spots equipped with a gazillion TV screens that are sure to be tuned to the big game. Gordon Biersch brews its own German-style beer and is known for its signature garlic fries. Tip: Go ahead and get an extra order for the table, because they won't last long.
Grimaldi's Pizza serves up an authentic slice of Brooklyn, and Bowl & Barrel is the place to watch the game and enjoy a round of bowling. Yes, The Shops at Park Lane is the perfect place to indulge in stylish fun, and to raise your glass in praise of the winning coach's Gatorade shower.
About The Shops at Park Lane
The Shops at Park Lane is a 33.5-acre mixed-use development in the heart of midtown Dallas. The property is the city's premier destination for designer fashion and home décor at surprising values. Additionally, it serves up a unique mix of restaurants and entertainment venues, making The Shops at Park Lane the ultimate Dallas destination for smart luxury and stylish fun. Visit The Shops at Park Lane website, and follow it on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.
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Highly anticipated restaurant and bar from San Antonio chef now open at new downtown Austin hotel
Officially cured
It's finally here, Austin: The eagerly-awaited restaurant from San Antonio chef Steve McHugh has officially opened its doors. In welcome news this dreary weather week, McHugh's Luminaire opened February 1 at the new Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue Austin, along with a second concept, Las Bis.
Located at 721 Congress Avenue, details of the new hotel and its restaurants were released in fall 2022, sparking excitement from Austinites already familiar with McHugh's work at San Antonio's Cured and Landrace. For the initial announcement, CultureMap connected with the six-time James Beard finalist to hear what Austinites can expect, while an updated announcement this week revealed that McHugh has enlisted chef Greg Driver as executive chef at the new concepts.
"We're thrilled to finally lift the curtain and bring in guests to dine with us," says Chef Steve McHugh in a release. "Chef Driver and I work really well together, and I have no doubt that Luminaire and Las Bis will shine under his leadership."
Previously the interim executive chef at Westwood Country Club in Austin, Driver will carry out McHugh's vision at the restaurants. Both new concepts and the hotel itself are a welcome addition to the heart of downtown, padding out the list of pre- and post-theatre dining options for entertainment at the Paramount and State theatres right next door.
Luminaire occupies the entire ground floor of the hotel, including an expansive patio stretching both sides of the corner along Congress Avenue and 8th Street. Much like its San Antonio counterparts, the full-service restaurant will feature the seasonal, local Texas fare and charcuterie well-known (and well-loved) by McHugh devotees. Along with specially curated meat boards (hello, 24-month jamon), the menu will also showcase a heavy Spanish influence, featuring a variety of delicious breakfast empanadas, chicken a la plancha, the Angus beef Luminaire burger, and more.
The all-day restaurant will be an ideal pre-curtain-time destination, while the upstairs Las Bis will take over for post-show nightcaps. Located on the eighth floor of the hotel, the terrace bar and lounge shares space with the hotel's lobby and will feature craft cocktails, natural and biodynamic wines. Snacks will include an assortment of playfully plated conservas, both domestic and imported, which McHugh shared the story behind in our previous coverage.
"Our team put many thoughtful hours into the menu creation for Luminaire and Las Bis, blending familiar flavors with plenty of discovery," says McHugh in this week's latest release. "And for those without much experience in cured meats and conservas, we made sure to include plenty of must-try items to introduce folks the right way."
In addition to the two new concepts, McHugh's team and executive chef Driver will provide room service for guests, as well as catering for the hotel's four meeting and event spaces. Starting February 1, Luminaire will be open Monday through Sunday from 6 am to 11 pm, while Las Bis will open Sunday through Thursday, 4 pm to midnight, and noon to midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Photo by Mary Whitten
The menu will feature McHugh's signature cured meats.
Austinites wake to power outages as Winter Storm Warning is extended through Thursday
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The Winter Storm Warning for Central Texas has been extended until 6 am Thursday, and Austin is experiencing widespread power outages as a result. Light freezing rain and drizzle created significant travel issues on elevated roads through Tuesday, while a heavier round of freezing rain overnight into Wednesday morning brought significant icing to much of Central Texas.
Travel conditions Wednesday morning will be the worst of the week. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began pretreating bridges and overpasses on major Austin roads on Sunday in preparation for the expected icy conditions on Tuesday and Wednesday. Even so, crashes and closures have been reported as roads remain slick.
Officials are warning residents to stay off the roads if they can because of icy conditions. If you must drive, take it slow. If a signal is dark, treat it as a four-way stop. An interactive map of road closures and a list of H-E-B closures can also be found on KVUE's website.
Through mid- and late morning Wednesday, temperatures remain below freezing for much of Central Texas with pockets of heavy freezing rain possible for western Travis, western Williamson and parts of the Hill Country. On Tuesday, Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell issued a disaster declaration, which activates the recovery and rehabilitation aspects of the Williamson County Emergency Management Plan and allows the County to take all legal actions necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of county residents, Williamson County said in a release.
By late afternoon Wednesday, warmer air will begin moving into the Austin metro. This could begin to ease icing concerns for the late day. However, for the northern I-35 corridor and Hill Country temperatures will remain below freezing, and this means icing issues could persist into Thursday morning, which is when the last round of precipitation moves through.
KVUE is continuing to update its list of weather-related school closures across the area.
Read the full versions of these stories and watch the videos at KVUE.com.
Beyoncé comes home to Texas as part of highly anticipated new world stadium tour
queen bey is coming
Hear ye, Texas: Our queen is coming. Houston-born Beyoncé will grace the Lone Star State with her presence on two different stops as part of her just-announced Renaissance World Tour. Austin Beyhive fans will have to travel, but hey, at least she's coming.
She'll first stop in Dallas on September 21, where she'll play at the AT&T Stadium before heading to her hometown on September 23 at Houston's NRG Stadium.
Ticketing for the world tour dates go on sale Monday, February 6. BeyHive members will enjoy an exclusive presale, while other fans can register now with Ticketmaster's Verified Fan technology here. Those interested can score tickets, schedules, and more information at beyonce.livenation.com and tour.beyonce.com.
Note to jet-setting Texans: The queen kicks off her world tour on May 10 in Stockholm, Sweden at the Friends Arena. She'll dot Europe with big stadium shows through June 27, where she'll play Warsaw, Poland.
Her North American tour starts July 8 in Canada, where she'll play Toronto's Rogers Centre. Beyoncé will trek the U.S. through the summer and into September; her Dallas and Houston shows are the sole Texas performances.
In a bit of a head scratcher, the Texas native will end her tour in New Orleans (Caesars Superdome) on September 27.
The world tour comes as Beyoncé is awash in Grammy glow: in November, she was nominated for nine Grammy Awards, tying her with her husband (neé Shawn Corey Carter) for the most nominations in Grammy history. Critics and fans have lauded Renaissance, her first solo work since the wildly popular and deeply personal 2016 effort, Lemonade.
Start packing and planning those trips. Here's the entire tour schedule:
May 10, 2023 – Stockholm, SE – Friends Arena
May 14, 2023 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
May 17, 2023 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Principality Stadium
May 20, 2023 – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murray Field Stadium
May 23, 2023 – Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light
May 26, 2023 – Paris, FR – Stade de France
May 29, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
June 08, 2023 – Barcelona, ES – Olympic Stadium
June 11, 2023 – Marseille, FR – Orange Velodrome
June 15, 2023 – Cologne, DE – Rhein Energie Stadion
June 17, 2023 – Amsterdam, NL – Johan Crujff Arena
June 21, 2023 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion
June 24, 2023 – Frankfurt, DE – Deutsche Bank Park
June 27, 2023 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy
July 8, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre
July 12, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field
July 15, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium
July 17, 2023 – Louisville, KY – L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium
July 20, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – Huntington Bank Stadium
July 22, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Stadium
July 26, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field
July 29, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Aug. 01, 2023 – Boston, MA – Gillette Stadium
Aug. 03, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Acrisure Stadium
Aug. 05, 2023 – Washington, DC – FedEx Field
Aug. 09, 2023 – Charlotte, NC – Bank of America Stadium
Aug. 11, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Aug. 16, 2023 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium
Aug. 18, 2023 – Miami, FL – Hard Rock Stadium
Aug. 21, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Dome at America's Center
Aug. 24, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – State Farm Stadium
Aug. 26, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium
Aug. 30, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Levi's Stadium
Sept. 02, 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium
Sept. 11, 2023 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place
Sept. 13, 2023 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field
Sept. 18, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – Arrowhead Stadium
Sept. 21, 2023 – Dallas – AT&T Stadium
Sept. 23, 2023 – Houston – NRG Stadium
As with previous tours, Beyoncé will create activations, programs, and giveaways via BeyGOOD, the foundation she created in 2013.


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NEWS & NOTES - State College District Newsletter
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Churches of State College District by County >
Church, Web-site, Worship Day(s) & Times
Church Hill, http://www.umchurchesreedsville.com/ Sundays @ 10:00 a.m. (Pastor Jean Ward)
First Lewistown, Sundays (Traditional Service) @ 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and (Modern Service) (Pastor Randy Hughes)
Freedom Avenue, Burnham, Sundays @ 8:30 a.m. (Pastor Randy Traxler)
Grace Lewistown, lewistowngraceumc.org Sundays @ 9:15 a.m. (Pastor Richard Williams)
Granville, http://granvilleumchurch.com/ Sundays @ 9:00 a.m. (Pastor Ted Corcelius)
Grove Memorial, Lewistown, www.grovememorialc.com Sundays @ 9:40 a.m. (Pastor Randy Traxler)
Lake Park, Lewistown, Sundays @ 11:00 a.m. (Pastor Randy Traxler)
McVeytown, Sundays @ 9:20 a.m. http://www.mcveytownumc.com/ (Pastor Stephanie Rupert)
Milroy, Sundays @ 11:15 a.m. http://www.umchurchesreedsville.com/ (Pastor Jean Ward)
Reedsville, http://www.umchurchesreedsville.com/ Sundays @ 8:30 a.m. (Pastor Jean Ward)
Rhodes Memorial, Lewistown,http://rhodesmemumc.susumc.org/ Sundays 9:15 a.m. ( Pastor Rachel Horst)
Shrader, Sundays @ 8:30 a.m.
Trinity Lewistown, http://www.trinityumclewistown.com Sundays @ 10:30 a.m. (Pastor Christopher Lutz)
Valley St. Mark's, Havice Valley, Sundays @ 11:00 a.m. (Mr. Dale Benner)
Valley Salem, New Lancaster Valley, Sundays @ 9:30 a.m. (Mr. Dale Benner)
Vira, Sundays @ 10:00 a.m. (Pastor Joshua Randolph)
Wagner, Sundays @ 8:30 a.m. (Pastor Joshua Randolph)
Walnut Street, Burnham, Sundays @ 9:00 a.m. (Pastor Christopher Lutz)
Watts Memorial Belleville, wattsmethodistchurch.org Sundays @ 10:15 a.m. (Pastor Steve Swigart)
Wayne, Sundays @ 8:20 a.m. http://www.mcveytownumc.com/ (Pastor Stephanie Rupert)
Wesley Chapel, Lockport, Sundays @ 10:30 a.m. (Pastor Bill Kuhn)
Yeagertown, Sundays @ 10:45 a.m. ( Pastor Rachel Horst)


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World Reborn 1.0
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In the not so distant future, mankind has been reduced to barbarism and most of society has collapsed whilst the world is turned into a free for all battle. In order to restore order, the powers that be create the Judge4101, a powerful judicial computer that essentially takes control and drags everybody back on track, kicking and screaming as they go. All goes well for a year until without warning the Judge4101 stops talking... and that isn't such a bad thing because, when it starts again, it declares mankind to be in contempt of court and promptly dispatches an army of "biotech" weapons in order to carry out the sentence! Enter our heroes to be, Perrin and Thiel are both children of the Judge4101's regime but brave and, when tooled up with the mobile base they discover near their village and the battle craft within, something for it's honour to worry about.
Perrin and Thiel quickly settle into their respective roles as technician and pilot and, along with Richter (who seems to be the voice of the mobile base's computer) their first course of action is to wade into battle against the biotech forces attacking their village. As the story progresses it begins to offer options as to which routes to take and our heroes are joined by others depending on which of these forks the player follows; there are several potential crewmates, Mei is a girl from a tribe who was being held prisoner and subsequently rescued by Thiel, Freya a shy lass who may end up as a love interest and Fuma (known as Maverick to his friends) who is a bit gobby and insists on blowing bubbles with his gum. Because of the forking in the story, it seems that a maximum of two of these characters will be encountered during any one game.
There are also four ships as well; the Falcon is the default and more than reasonable in most situations, it's standard cannon is okay to begin with and can be charged, plus it has a mega weapon that lobs a fireball across the screen; for most of the game, the Falcon is the ship of choice and to be honest I used it for almost the entire game. After that, the Shark is a faster-moving craft of best use in underwater scenarios or places where it's shield weapon can be of use, the Tiger (added to the roster when either Freya or Miho come on board) has a speed boost option and does a bit more damage and the almost mythical Dragon, which I believe is discovered on only one path to the Judge4101's hideout, has no special weapon and only fires a single shot at a time... but that shot is almost an entire screen high and does severe damage to any biotech it touches!
The unusual feature that makes World Reborn stand out is that, essentially, developers Neopong have tried to blend a shoot 'em up with elements of a role playing game; the characters and ships all have experience points that can be increased by taking them into battle (or by collecting XP power-up capsules), there's a coherent storyline running throughout which accounts for the branches and even has a betrayal sub-plot. I'm not sure how well this actually works as a concept to be honest because, whilst the shooting action is good, the player gets one life with a shield to protect it and if that is lost a continue is offered; fairly average going for an RPG from my experience, but most seasoned shoot 'em up players will find this annoying because very few of them play with continues and it means that a game with quite a long playing time needs to be completed on a single life. That plot can be somewhat annoying as well, there's a lot of back and forth dialogue between the characters that could probably have been pared down a little and, although the aforementioned sub-plot was a nice touch it doesn't really go anywhere interesting or even plausible. As a general hint, the player is usually rewarded for being the nice guy and one of the rewards is really worth the effort; taking the fastest route to the Judge usually results in getting blattered quite badly.
This does have to be applauded as a brave attempt to do something a bit different with the shoot 'em up genre though; the changes to the overall mechanic do make it quite a difficult game for those who refuse to use continues (and I fell into that camp to be honest and didn't even use the codes issued after each level) and, depending on the route taken, things can get very hard indeed. However, World Reborn is still playable, looks and sounds professional with lots of variety throughout and the way the new weapons are introduced is an interesting twist - having more than one way to complete the game gives it a long term appeal that conventional linear shoot 'em ups can sometimes lack and it ensures that there are lots of reasons to play through it again once your mission has been completed.
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The EU Initiative on the Integrative and Complementary Approach to Counter-Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans (WBCTi) was endorsed in the form of Council Conclusions by the Council of the EU at the level of ministers in late 2015, accompanied by a first multi-annual WBCTi Integrative Plan of Action (iPA) for the period 2015-2017.
The Council Conclusions invited EU actors to coordinate and cooperate planned actions in the area of countering Radicalisation leading to Violent Extremism and Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in the Western Balkans in order to effectively identify and fill identified gaps by:
engaging in a more rational use of resources,
joining expertise, and
by creating synergies – as opposed to overlapping of efforts in the region due to a lack of coordination witnessed so far.
The WBCTi originated from the Brdo Process regional ministerial framework chaired by Slovenia, where the ministers of interior/security of the Western Balkan countries had demonstrated a strong and clear political demand for a more coordinated action in this policy field.
Our partners and donors efforts in regional cooperation in WB have successfully been aligned for a 3-year period with the WBCTi iPA 2015-2017, and the approach turned out to be successful in ensuring coordination, alignment and elimination of duplications, while also being rewarded with high support and wide awareness.
On 6th February, the new EU Strategy for the Western Balkans reiterated the importance of the WBCTi in ensuring coherence and synergies of actions.
To expand this approach to other security-related fields, the Council of the EU in December 2015 endorsed the setting-up of the "Integrative Internal Security Governance (IISG)". Besides the WBCTi, the IISG includes two other pillars:
Pillar II addressing Serious Crime (Western Balkan Counter Serious Crime initiative) and Pillar III addressing Border Security (Western Balkan Border Security initiative).
In September 2017, the ministers of the interior/security of the Brdo Process were convened in the framework of the first, inaugural meeting of the IISG Board, supporting body at the highest level. The "IISG Board Kick-Off Meeting" took place at Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, on 8th September. Austria was appointed by the ministers as the Lead Partner of the WBBSi (Pillar III) together with DCAF (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) in Ljubljana (DCAF Ljubljana).
The WBBSi iPA 2018-2020 is a living document and it's published at the IISG/WBBSi web site (http://wbbsi.wb-iisg.com/) after its endorsement. The document is updated on the web site in accordance with its adjustments.


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First Upgraded AW101 Merlin HC Mk3 Helicopters Delivered to Royal Navy
25 Merlin helicopters to be modified under the Merlin Life Sustainment Programme
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland announced today that it had delivered the first of seven upgraded AW101 Merlin HC Mk3 helicopters to the Royal Navy as part of phase 1 of the Merlin Life Sustainment Programme (MLSP).
Under the MLSP design and manufacture contract, awarded to Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland in January 2014, 25 AW101 Merlin HC Mk3/3A aircraft will be converted to Merlin HC Mk4/4A configuration for the Royal Navy in two phases as a replacement for the Sea King HC Mk4 in the amphibious support role.
The seven Merlin HC Mk3 aircraft being upgraded under MLSP Phase 1 will provide an interim capability while the Mk4 aircraft are converted, and in turn will be converted to Mk4 standard.
The first AW101 Merlin HC Mk3 aircraft arrived at AgustaWestland's Yeovil facility on 23rd October 2014 and underwent a number of modifications, including the introduction of a folding main rotor head, naval lashing rings, revised twin wheel main undercarriage for ship operations, fast roping capability and various communications upgrades including the introduction of an 'I Band' transponder.
The upgraded Merlin HC Mk3 first flew on 8th April 2015 and completed flight trials at the end of August. Following formal Release to Service in September the aircraft has now been delivered and will be followed by six further aircraft to provide an Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in Spring 2016, when the final Sea King HC Mk4 aircraft will be withdrawn from service.
Philip Dunne UK's defence minister said "Delivery of this first upgraded Merlin marks an important milestone in our £330 million investment in the fleet, which will give our Royal Navy a total of 25 Merlin MK4 helicopters by 2020.
These upgraded helicopters will improve the capabilities of the Merlins for their amphibious roles, including flying from our new aircraft carriers. This work on the fleet has sustained hundreds of jobs across British industry, including in the South West."
Air Vice-Marshal Julian Young, director helicopters at the MOD's defence, equipment & support organisation, said "The Merlin Mk3 has demonstrated already it ability to operate in urban and harsh deployed environments, and the interim-standard of the Life Sustainment Programme sees fast-time conversion of the aircraft to operate in its new Littoral Manoeuvre role.
"I am delighted that we are now firmly in the delivery phase of this programme, and are supporting the Royal Navy and Royal Marines with upgraded, modern Commando Helicopter aircraft.
"The Merlin Life Sustainment Programme represents a magnificent team effort led by AgustaWestland and the MOD, involving multiple industry suppliers, and delivering on budget and at this point ahead of schedule. I look forward with confidence at the whole programme delivering for the Commando Helicopter Force."


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Evaluation of the Family Group Conferencing pilot program
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Boxall, Hayley|Morgan, Anthony|Terer, Kiptoo 2012. Evaluation of the Family Group Conferencing pilot program. Research and public policy series no. 121. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/rpp121
Latest Update: 21-10-2020
Boxall, Hayley
Morgan, Anthony
Terer, Kiptoo
Research and public policy series
The Family Group Conferencing pilot program was implemented by the NSW Government in response to recommendations made as part of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW to increase the use of alternative dispute resolution prior to, and during, care and protection proceedings.
There is no formal program other than the NSW Family Group Conferencing pilot program that provides alternative dispute resolution services for care and protection matters that are not currently before the Children's Court. The use of Family Group Conferencing has provided an important opportunity to resolve child protection matters and build support networks for families outside of the court process.
The NSW Department of Family and Community Services contracted the Australian Institute of Criminology in June 2011 to undertake a process and outcome evaluation of the pilot. This thorough evaluation of the program provides useful policy analysis of what makes Family Group Conferencing an effective alternative dispute resolution program within a government child care and protection system.
Bail practices and policy alternatives in Australia
Bail, Remand, Offenders, Courts, Risk assessment, Peer-reviewed
Travers, Max
Colvin, Emma
Bartkowiak-Théron, Isabelle
Sarre, Rick
Day, Andrew
Bond, Christine
Plea negotiations: An empirical analysis
Sentencing, Courts, Peer-reviewed
Flynn, Asher
Freiberg, Arie
Australian crime: facts & figures 2014
Offenders, Statistics, Courts, Corrections, Trends, Criminal justice system, Comparisons, Victims
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Fino al 1990 ha rappresentato la Germania Ovest.

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Chuck Michel
Civil Rights Attorney, National Rifle Association
Civil rights attorney for the National Rifle Association in California and the California Rifle and Pistol Association
Chuck Michel on KCRW
Federal Gun Rights and California
Yesterday's 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling said the Second Amendment permits Americans to keep handguns at home for the purpose of self-defense.
Jun. 29, 2010 from Which Way, L.A.?
The Constitutional Right to Gun Ownership
The US Supreme Court has settled an issue as old as the Bill of Rights: individuals must be allowed to own guns .
Jul. 1, 2008 from To the Point
Whittier Narrows Dam critically needs an upgrade to protect 1.2 million Angelenos
Repairing the Whittier Narrows Dam was reclassified in 2016 from "high urgency" to "very high urgency" by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Jan. 3 from Greater LA
Writer and author of The Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran, Robin Wright says that after weeks of protest on the streets of Iran, "for the first time in human…
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Can Hugo Soto-Martinez help make LA City Council more progressive?
LA City Councilmember-elect Hugo Soto-Martinez credits his South LA-based upbringing, union organizing, and time studying criminology at UC Irvine for giving him a different…
Monterey Park shooting: Healing is possible, but will take a long time, says resident
Families and community members are still seeking answers following the shooting at a Monterey Park ballroom dance studio after a Lunar New Year celebration.


Kennedy has a fling with nightclub singer Constance Smith, who involves him in a crime.
Producers Robert S Baker and Monty Berman began with B-films like this, moved into Hammer-style horror, and ended up developing several major TV series.
Screenwriter "Jonathan Roach" is actually director Cy Endfield, taking refuge in the UK from the McCarthy witch-hunts.


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Kojak är en amerikansk TV-serie av Abby Mann från 1973 med Telly Savalas med flera.

Kojak var en mycket populär polisserie på 1970-talet världen över med Telly Savalas som Lt. Theo Kojak. Han utmärkte sig genom sitt slätrakade huvud och sitt ständiga sugande på godisklubbor.

Handling
Serien utspelar sig i New Yorks trettonde distrikt och kring den omutlige Theo Kojak, en flintskallig och tuff polis. Kojak visar en mörk, cynisk kvickhet och en tendens att töja reglerna så till den grad att en brottsling alltid kan bli fälld.

På DVD
Nedan visas utgivningsplanen för Kojak på DVD. Observera att utgivningsplanen endast är preliminär och kan när som helst ändras från filmbolagets sida.

I rollerna (urval)
 Telly Savalas - Lt. Theo Kojak
 Dan Frazer - Frank McNeil
 George Savalas - Det. Stavros
 Kevin Dobson - Det. Bobby Crocker
 Mark Russell - Det. Saperstein

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Amerikanska TV-serier från 1970-talet
New York i fiktion
Universal Studios
TV-seriestarter 1973
TV-serieavslutningar 1978
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Engelskspråkiga TV-serier


Medtec Europe is the region's main destination for Europe's leading medical device and technology players.
It also serves as a prime location for market opportunities and Start-Up companies looking to distribute and present their innovations to investors.
Medtec Europe continues to bring together leading international and domestic Medtech professionals from all over the world to do business and network. Held annually, the show's location is taking place in the great city of Stuttgart, Germany.


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Actor Lee Min-ho starts military duty in Gangnam Ward Office
This undated file photo is of South Korean actor Lee Min-ho. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) — Actor Lee Min-ho began working at the Gangnam Ward office Friday, as a substitute for his mandatory military service.
Wearing a black mask and dressed in black pants and a grey jacket, he arrived at the office around 8:45 a.m. Hundreds of fans were waiting for him.
He was ordered to fulfill his duty as a public service worker due to the injuries he sustained in two car accidents in 2006 and 2011, according to his management agency MYM Entertainment.
He recently shared his encounters with soldiers on the front line during a press briefing for the MBC TV documentary "DMZ, the Wild," for which he volunteered to narrate.
"I will serve my duty soon and I feel sad to say goodbye (to fans). I want to do one more job if possible, before I go," he said.
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Hanneke's latest release, For Reasons Unseen (November 2009) features an all-star cast of musicians - including Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Rushad Eggleston, Casey Driessen, Brittany Haas, Keith Murphy, and Aoife O'Donovan. Influences from Scotland to China, along with grooves and musical innovations from the hip Boston bluegrass/Americana scene, fuse together to create a uniquely American approach to Scottish music. She creates sounds on the cutting edge of acoustic music, while retaining the integrity and soul of the Scottish tradition.
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Areas of Interest/Specialization:
Land Degradation, River Systems, Climate Change, Mountain Ecosystems, Environment and Development, Remote Sensing and GIS
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Shastri Mobility Grant Awardee, for research on Sustainable River Basin Management, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Canada,2016-17.
DAAD Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016-17.
DAAD Visiting Fellowship to Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014.
Associations of American Geographer (AAG) Research Fellowship Grant under MyCOE/SERVIR Programme on Climate change on Himalaya 2013. from Associations of American Geographer (Funded by NASA), 2013.
ESRC, UK, Research Fellowship, School of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2009.
Young Scientist Award, 17th M.P. Young Scientist Congress, 2002.
Fellowship for Application of Remote Sensing & GIS in Applied Geomorphology at Groupe Development Teledetection Aerospatiale (GDTA), Toulouse, France, by French Govt., 2000.
International Collaboration/Consultancy:
Research collaboration on Land Reclaimation and Sustainability, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014-2018.
Sustainable River Basin Management, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Canada,2016-17.
Climate Change Induced Gully Erosion and Land Degradation, School of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2010.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5):
(2017) 'Dynamics and Patterns of Land Levelling for Agricultural Reclamation of Erosional Badlands in Chambal Valley (Madhya Pradesh, India)'. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, (Wiley),43(2): 524-542. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4266 (with I. Marzolff).
(2015) 'Geomorphological Evolution of Badlands based on the Dynamics of Palaeo-channels and Their Implications'. Journal of Earth System Science, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Springer). 124(5): 909-920. (with V Ranga and S N Mohapatra).
(2015) 'Semi-Automatic Detection of Badlands and Badland Encroachment: A Case Study in the Lower Chambal Valley (India)', Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis) 30 (8): 919-936. (with V Ranga, Van Rompaey, A., Poesen, J. and S N Mohapatra.).
(2013) `Land Degradation and Spatial Vulnerabilities: A Study of Inter-Village Differences in Chambal Valley, India', Asian Geographer, Routledge, (Taylor and Francis). 30 (1): 65–79. (with Paul Carling).
(2009) (edited) Geoinformatics for Natural Resource Management. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., (with P.K. Joshi, S.N. Mohapatra and T.P. Singh).
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3):
(2017) 'Ravine Erosion and Livelihoods in Semi-Arid India: Implications for Socio- Economic Development', Journal of Asian and African Studies, (Sage),52(5):1-18.
(2016). 'Characteristics of a Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channel in a Plateau and Plateau Fringe Region: A Study on the Barakar River of the Chotanagpur Plateau, India'. Environmental Processes, (Springer), 3(4): 981-999. (with S. S. Biswas)
(2016) 'Controlling Gully Erosion: An Analysis of Land Reclamation Processes in Chambal Valley, India', Development in Practice, (Routledge), 26(8): 1047-1059.
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Finding Rangoon in Arunachal Pradesh
In conversation with Pankaj Kumar, the cinematographer of Rangoon
By Rashmi Shankar
Shahid Kapoor on the sets of Rangoon. Photo: Hitesh Mulani
"We wanted to shoot in areas where no film had been shot before."
Often while shooting a film, creativity is key. How do you create a romantic setting out of thin air? Achieve a certain mood, or say, produce a set straight out of the 1940's? Sometimes, you need to look beyond the obvious, says Pankaj Kumar, cinematographer of Bollywood film Rangoon. Kumar along with director Vishal Bhardwaj and a crew of 400 people set out to Arunachal Pradesh to address a unique challenge. To create a country outside of the actual location.
Set in pre-Independence India, Rangoon the film is "not based in Rangoon" but somewhere along the border of India and Burma. The Northeast of India was zeroed in on, given its proximity to Myanmar and likeness to the border. And the recce was extensive, stretching across three months. "This is a location-based film; a lot of the story takes place in the jungles, near the rivers and vast [open] areas. We wanted a cold, depressing environment, because something dreadful is happening—there's violence, gore—it's war time", says Kumar about choosing a location for Rangoon.
The joys of shooting in the great outdoors
They considered a few options—Nagaland, Sitpura—but it was in Arunachal Pradesh that they found what they wanted. Spectacular, sparsely populated, untouched by modern civilization, and with "vast landscapes where you won't find electric poles for long distances". "The setting, nature was just as it would've been in 1944." Most of the shooting in the state happened in villages around the Siang River, like Pasighat and Pangin. In February, when they were shooting, days were short and cloudy (so they got soft, diffused light), without haze, and weather, "so nice you could go on and on." Accessibility issues meant no crowd gathering to watch, so they could point the camera in any direction they wanted; perfect for capturing the sweeping landscapes.
Kangana Ranaut in the middle of a jungle in Arunachal. Photo: Hitesh Mulani
Locals were very helpful too. There is an action sequence in the beginning of the film, which was to be shot on an island in the middle of a river. There were no boats, so the villagers helped the production design team make special bamboo rafts for the team. Through the schedule, villagers helped with setup, transporting equipment, and even acted as extras.
But it didn't come without challenges. Reaching locations everyday was a struggle—filled with landslides and dusty roads. During the month-long schedule (about 50% of the movie is shot there), a crew of nearly 400 stayed in Arunachal Pradesh. The lack of infrastructure and hotels nearby meant production had to get creative. Some old British structures near Pangin—about two hours from the shoot location—were renovated to house the cast and crew.
Catching a quick snooze in between shots. Photo: Hitesh Mulani
A blessing in disguise
Nature threw up some challenges of its own. While crossing the Brahmaputra River one evening, their ferry got stuck, thanks to a low tide. "Vishal [Bhardwaj], I and six members of the team were stranded in the middle of the river", with little visibility and no phone signals. Having been stuck for a few hours, they realised they might have to spend the night on the boat and pulled out their sleeping bags. "Vishal just sat down, took his phone and started composing a song." The song, Alvida, has been used in the film, and the incident is one of their most memorable.
Hitesh Mulani
Rangoon releases in cinemas on 24 February, 2017
TopicsArunachal PradeshBollywoodKangana RanautPankaj KumarRangoonVISHAL BHARDWAJ