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campaign—which advocates for dairy jobs in the United States and spotlights stories of members, like Nevada farmer Daniel Perazzo. Developing and delivering editorial content to your members can be an uphill climb, especially with limited staff and budget. The U.S.
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Leading Professionals
Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas
Laura Empson
Based on 25 years of academic research into professional organizations
Appeals to both academics and professionals
One of the first academic books for practitioners that is based on in-depth and rigorous, theoretically grounded academic research
Based on 500 interviews conducted with senior professionals in some of the world's largest and leading professional organizations
Indicates how findings and ideas can be applied across all professional organizations
Suggests new ways of looking at leadership in a variety of sectors and types of organizations
Professional organizations - such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks - are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private. This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations - revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface which these organizations present to the outside world.
Individual professionals - highly educated, highly intelligent, and highly opinionated - are generally reluctant to see themselves as followers and may be equally reluctant to put themselves forward as leaders. They value their autonomy and confer authority on their leaders on a highly contingent basis. How does a professional come to be seen as a leader within a professional organization? How do leaders maintain their position once they have reached the top of their organization? How do they navigate the complex power relationships among their professional colleagues and actually get things done?
Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas analyses the complex power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of leadership in professional organizations. It is based on Laura Empson's scholarly research into the world's leading professional organizations across a range of sectors, including interviews with over 500 senior professionals in 16 countries. It draws on the latest organizational and leadership theory to analyse in detail exactly how professionals come together to create 'leadership'. It identifies how change happens within professional organizations and explains why their leaders so often fail.
1:Introduction and overview
Part 1: Foundations of Leadership
2:Leadership Constellation: Power, Politics, and Professionals
3:Leadership Dynamics: Co-constructing an Unstable Equilibrium
4:Leadership and Governance: Reconciling the Individual with the Collective
Part 2: Leadership and Individuals
5:Leadership Dyads: The Ideal Leader is Two People
6:Leading Insecure Overachievers: The Comforts of Social Control
7:Leading Discreetly: Management Professionals as Consummate Politicians
Part 3: Leadership and Organizations
8:Leadership Evolution: Growing Up and Growing Older
9:Leading Mergers: The Ultimate Change Challenge
10:Leadership and Ambiguity: Acting Decisively without Authority
Part 4: Conclusions
11:Paradoxes of Leading Professionals: From Unstable to Dynamic Equilibrium
Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms, Cass Business School, London
Professor Laura Empson is Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms at Cass Business School, London, and a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession. She has dedicated the past 25 years to conducting academic research into professional organizations, publishing numerous scholarly articles in leading academic journals and editing the Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Laura acts as an adviser to the leaders of many of the world's most successful professional service firms. Before becoming an academic, Laura worked as an investment banker and strategy consultant. She has a PhD and MBA from London Business School.
"The book is a rich treasury of research and insight... It offers plenty of important lessons for leaders in any knowledge business." - Andrew Hill, Financial Times
"This is a landmark study of the issues around leading professionals. The lessons are crucial to leaders of any organization that depends on highly talented, highly motivated, highly demanding individuals. They hold as true in the worlds of media and culture as they do in the traditional professions." - Lord Hall, Director General of the BBC
"Empson's eloquent and superbly researched book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the challenges of organizing knowledge work and of leading knowledge workers through influence and inspiration rather than authority." - Professor Paul Adler, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
"The higher reaches of the knowledge industry are difficult places to work. And if working in these organizations is tough, leading them is even tougher. How do you lead, cajole, and win the respect of these highly motivated, skittish, and suspicious people? Laura Empson has spent years pondering these questions and Leading Professionals is the highly revealing and accomplished result." - Michael Skapinker, Contributing Editor and Columnist, Financial Times
"Laura Empson has written a deeply engaging and enlightening book about the critical leadership challenges facing professional service firms. Based on extensive research and experience, this book is required reading for anyone who aspires to lead these increasingly large and diverse organizationsand for everyone who understands the central role that professionals occupy in the global economy." - Professor David Wilkins, Harvard Law School
"Laura Empson tackles a hugely complex phenomenon: the nature of leadership in professional service firms, where no one wants to be a follower and leaders only survive through the consent of their colleagues. She has created a truly fascinating portrait of what it means to be a leader in such settings. The book is full of rich insights engagingly told, and often revealed in the words of the professional leaders themselves. This portrait will resonate strongly with practising and aspiring professional leaders who will find much to learn from the stories she tells and the insights she develops. Scholars of management will appreciate her work, not only for its significant contribution to academic knowledge, but also because it speaks to us directlywe are, after all, professionals and struggle with similar issues of leadership in our own working lives." - Professor Ann Langley, HEC Montréal
"A richly detailed analysis of the complexities of modern professional organizations. The observations, based on more than twenty years of research, show a deep understanding of the tensions inherent in all successful firms. For those of us who lead or aspire to lead such firms, the lessons and conclusions are telling and valuable." - Philip Davidson, Managing Partner, KPMG UK
"Professor Empson has made a major contribution to the literature on how professional services firms work and how they are best led. This is very well-researched and insightful analysis, based on a wealth of interviews, and written in a very readable style. All in all, a must on the reading list." - Edward Braham, Global Senior Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
"This is an exciting and challenging book. It manoeuvres extremely well between what we know, academically, about professional leadership, and the concerns of thinking practitioners. The central ideas of plural leadership, leadership constellations, and ambiguity challenge all of us to re-evaluate our notions of leading professionals. Professor Empson has made an important contribution." - Professor C. R. (Bob) Hinings, University of Alberta
"Partnerships play a vital role in the modern economy. The spirit of partnership is a mystery to those who have not experienced it directly and also sometimes to partners themselves. This book is a highly readable explanation of what makes professional firms work and, importantly, how they are successfully led." - Sir Gerry Grimstone, Chairman of Standard Chartered, Deputy Chairman of Barclays
"This is a must-read for anyone wondering why it is so challenging to lead in professional environments and how to do it more effectively. Empson masterfully brings together findings from research with the lived experiences of those she has studied to provide in-depth and detailed analysis of what it takes to survive and thrive in these politicized, but highly rewarding, work environments." - Professor Mary Uhl-Bien, Neeley School of Business, TCU
"It's accepted wisdom that leading a professional services firm is different from other leadership roles, but very few have been able to explain why and in what ways. Laura Empson unravels this mystery, shining light deep into the underlying challenges leaders face and explaining ways to navigate them. An important book in a neglected and misunderstood area." - Hugh Verrier, Chairman, White & Case
"Professor Empson has done an exceptional job making theory understandable and relevant to those actually involved in leading professional organizations whilst helping those more interested in the theory better understand how the real world works. Leading a professional organization can be lonely and Lauras research insights will help those grappling with the challenges of leadership to realize that they are not alone." - Jeremy Newman, Former Global CEO, BDO
"Empsons latest book lifts the lid on the idiosyncrasies, paradoxes, and tensions of leadership in professional services firms. Featuring insights drawn from hundreds of interviews, Leading Professionals offers invaluable guidance to current / future leaders and management professionals alike." - Wim Dejonghe, Global Senior Partner, Allen & Overy
"A modern global management consultancy practice contains a complex mix of people from differing backgrounds with different cultures and aspirations. Leading them is a daunting task but a task which is helped significantly by the insights within the book. I wish I could have read this book fifteen years ago." - Mike Cullen, Former Global Managing Partner (Talent), EY
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Warszawa Śródmieście WKD (Polish pronunciation: ) is the city terminus of the Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (WKD) suburban light rail line in Warsaw. It is situated in Aleje Jerozolimskie to the south-west of Warszawa Centralna railway station. The station was opened on 8 December 1963.

The station platform is located below the ground level to the south of the approach tracks to Warszawa Centralna, which can be seen from the platform. The station has an unusual layout and method of operation, with a single long platform alongside the southern (city-bound) track. Inbound trains stop at the west end of the platform to unload passengers, before pulling forward to the east end to allow boarding. Once trains are ready to depart, they do so via a mid-platform cross-over onto the northern track.

The station has no above ground buildings, save for concrete shelters offering some weather protection to the staircases linking the platform to the street. Alternative access is provided via an underground shopping mall, which connects the station to Warszawa Centralna and the street-level tram stops.

Warszawa Śródmieście WKD station should not be confused with its near namesake Warszawa Śródmieście PKP station, which is a Polskie Koleje Państwowe (Polish State Railway) suburban station situated to the east of Warszawa Centralna.

External links

Track diagram
Official WKD web page Retrieved on October 13, 2007

Railway stations in Poland opened in 1963
Srodmiescie WKD
Railway stations served by Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa
Śródmieście, Warsaw

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Q: Creating a specific chrome window and use it as drop-down search window I am using a simple script runs as "toggle.sh process1" which toggles visibility of  process1 if it exists and if it doesn't exist then it launches process1. It is really simple but useful. I use it for several applications such as terminal, kate, nautilus and lyx. (each works like a "drop down terminal" with an assigned shortcut in gnome)
However I need a more sophisticated way to achieve this with a specific Chrome window. This is because the restriction of this script is there must be one-to-one correspondence between process-name and window-id.
Any ideas how I can achieve this ?
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To be more clear I want to toggle visibility of a window of chrome (for search purposes) and if it doesn't exists then create that window. One of the below might solve it but I couldn't find a way to do it :
- Run an instance of chrome with a different process name and single-process option. (creating a symbolic link to chrome and naming it as "dropdown-chrome-4-search" wont work)

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*For creation: create a chrome new-window change its title to say "chrome-4-dropdown". For toggling: in the script get the ID of the window with title "chrome-4-dropdown-purposes" to toggle. (Don't know how to do the first creation step in the script)

A: I think I found a bad workaround. If I run google-chrome --user-data-dir=XYZ
then XYZ will be in the process name (as a parameter) so it is possible to grep it from process list and get its window ID. It is not perfect since have now two profiles now. But signing to same user name helps to sync it... hopefully...

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If you have been paying attention to the internet lately, chances are you have come across the term "blockchain." Blockchain is taking the world by storm, with many touting it as "the future of the Internet".
But what is blockchain, exactly? And why is it having such a significant impact on our society? More specifically, how are these shifts going to affect the work that we are doing here in the healthcare space? Today, we're going to do our best to answer some of these tough questions.
Arguably the most difficult question to address when actually explaining blockchain is what it actually is. Blockchain is most commonly referred to as a giant "ledger" that can be added to, but not changed. Every time information is added, it represents a new "block" in the "chain".
What makes blockchain so special is that its focus is on empowering the user, rather than hosting the information in one specific location. This decentralized approach to data ensures that no one person or company owns the information and that all of the information is verified – eliminating the capacity for fraudulent information or transactions. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is a popular example of incorporating blockchain.
This may be the world's simplest explanation of blockchain, so I'd suggest also checking out this article from Forbes which does a great job of introducing Blockchain and the value it brings to businesses.
In simplest terms – a decentralized form of storing medical information would allow for increased security overall and provide a safer method through which to keep sensitive patient information private.
In addition, blockchain has the potential to reduce the risks associated with incorrect or fraudulent patient information. This will have an impact on both cost savings (in the case of healthcare fraud) as well as positive patient outcomes (in the case of incorrect health information).
We've written many times on this blog about how shifts in healthcare (specifically through tools like mHealth) are giving the patient more control over their own medical information. Blockchain has the potential to continue that trend, giving patients control over their own personal health "blocks" and giving them the power to share that with healthcare providers as they see fit.
This change would shift some of the control from the healthcare industry and provides the patient with more agency over their own health.
Information that is publicly held and stored also has huge implications for research breakthroughs. With more information being available that is verified and reliable, health researchers should, in theory, have a larger pool of data from which to conduct their research. This has implications for new technologies, treatments and pharmaceuticals that can positively impact the health of our consumers.
Blockchain also has the potential to enable stronger collaboration among researchers. Rather than being divided by institutions chasing the next big breakthrough, perhaps researchers could unite around this shared source of data in an effort to make a positive change. Whatever happens, blockchain is here to stay and it will impact the healthcare industry as we know it.


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Children teaching children
By Abbie Hine, 15th June 2012
As I head back to the sunshine and warmth of the Seychelles it's time to think about the next 2 months and what has been achieved while I've been in the less than summery UK!
Back in February and March while I was in Seychelles going from school to school giving talks and singing songs and generally having a lot of fun with the kids the first steps towards a link with schools in Seychelles and UK were taken. The P5-6 classes at the schools in Seychelles were given worksheets following their SOSF session. On the worksheet the children had to fill in a number of sections including explaining their favourite hobby, why they like living in Seychelles, what they had learnt from the SOSF session, what they would like to know about the UK and what else they would like to know about the marine environment. Along with this they all drew amazing pictures of their favourite marine creatures. These worksheets were then brought back to the UK.
Along with being Project Leader for this SOSF Marine Education Project in Seychelles I also runs WiseOceans (www.wiseoceans.com), a marine education and conservation company. One aspect of WiseOceans is to do marine awareness sessions in schools in the UK. These sessions are generally very similar to those I carry out in the Seychelles. Therefore it seemed only natural to link the schools in Seychelles with those in the UK.
The pioneering schools to trial the link are Le Retrait Primary in the northern part of the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles and Muthill Primary School in Perthshire, UK. Both schools are relatively small in number and full of enthusiastic kids, but this is more or less where the similarities end. Muthill is a rural village in central Scotland on the edge of the Highlands and at least 1 hours drive from the coast. Le Retrait on the other hand is merely minutes from crystal clear waters, under a warm sun and located on an island that is no more than an hours drive in total length.
A marine awareness session similar to the one the children at Le Retrait had had was held at Muthill Primary School. Following this a slide show of photos from the Seychelles, including photos of the children from Le Retrait were show. We also had a workshop session where the children replied to their new overseas friends. Some of them even created a life sized Basking Shark using themselves in their classroom! I think we'll be creating a Whale Shark at Le Retrait! The marine awareness session provided the children at Muthill with the knowledge to answer the marine questions from the Le Retrait children. The children from Muthill of course had plenty more questions about sharks, turtles and many more amazing creatures so on returning to the Seychelles a session will be held at Le Retrait where the children will be given more marine awareness to give them the knowledge to answer this next round of questions. And on and on the line of communication will go. Therefore it is ultimately the children who are teaching each other but with the added advantage that they are broadening their horizons and learning about another country. With this trial having proved a success so far the plan is to expand these links so the majority of the schools in Seychelles are linked with a UK school.
Marine education in the Seychelles
People in the Seychelles are surrounded by a stunning ocean, which they are completely dependent on. Abbie's programme inspires in children a sense of awe about the environment they are part of.
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En informatique, la meta description d'une page web est une balise meta qui sert à l'indexation de cette page par les moteurs de recherche et les annuaires. Elle doit contenir une description concise du contenu de la page en une ou deux phrases. Jusqu'en 2015, la longueur moyenne d'une meta description était comprise en . En , Google a décidé de changer ce nombre de caractères passant de  en moyenne, avec des meta descriptions qui atteignent presque  parfois.

Voici un exemple de meta description :

La meta description est une balise importante, car elle est utilisée pour le référencement du site contenant la page. On recommande aux créateurs de site web d'utiliser cette balise pour améliorer la pertinence des recherches sur la Toile.

À la suite des problèmes de référencement abusif apparus depuis 1999, très peu de balises meta sont employées pour l'indexation des moteurs de recherche. La balise description reste assez souvent employée comme description dans les pages de résultats des moteurs de recherche comme description des résultats, mais n'a pas d'influence notable sur le référencement naturel de la page qui la contient. En effet, l'impact de la meta description a un rôle indirect sur le référencement naturel d'un site web. La meta description va avoir une influence sur l'attractivité d'un résultat et aura un impact sur le taux de clic sur la page de résultats du moteur de recherche. Les moteurs de recherche vont ensuite attribuer une position plus ou moins avantageuse selon le taux de clic. Un taux de clic élevé va améliorer le positionnement de la page, un taux faible aura l'effet inverse.

Voir aussi
 Métadonnée
 Optimisation pour les moteurs de recherche

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Christian: Topic Sets Premiere Date for Italian Supernatural Thriller Series
Topic has set the US-Canada premiere date for Christian, a new Italian supernatural thriller series. Check out the trailer.
Christian: Edoardo Pesce as Christian — Photo © Matteo Cantamessa Graia, courtesy of Topic
Shows that involve faith and religious symbolism can be gripping. To wit: the contemporary Italian drama The Miracle, which debuted in the States two years ago. Coming next month is another series from Italy, Christian, a supernatural thriller.
The six-part drama follows Christian, a thug who lives in a crime-ridden neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome, where he serves as the henchman for the local crime boss, Lino. One day Christian starts having pain in his hands, so bad that he is physically unable to do Lino's dirty work. Then stigmata appear and his hands begin to bleed. initially frightened and confused, Christian begins to realize that he has gained mysterious healing powers in his hands, especially after he saves Rachele, a drug-addict neighbor, from a fatal overdose with a simple touch.
This miraculous gift of saint-like powers could be the proverbial answer to Christian's prayers for a better life, if he uses them the right way. With Rachele's help, Christian does healing work while preparing to fight Lino. This attracts the attention of Matteo, a mysterious Vatican postulator who begins to track Christian. Matteo is in search of signs and confirmation of a miracle that changed his own life as a child — while carrying a truth that could devastate not only Christian but the rest of the world.
Christian premieres in the US and Canada with three episodes on Thursday, January 5, exclusively on Topic and its digital channels, including Topic on Amazon. New episodes will drop weekly through January 26.
Starring in the series are Edoardo Pesce (The Hunter, The Guest Room) as Christian, Silvia D'Amico (The Man Without Gravity) as Rachele, Giodano De Plano (The Trial) as Lino, and Claudio Sanatamaria (They Call Me Jeeg) as Matteo.
Additional cast members include Antonio Bannò (Suburra: Blood on Rome), Francesco Colella (ZeroZeroZero), Lina Sastri (The Promised Life), Milena Mancini (The Teacher), Gabriel Montesi (Romulus), Selene Caramazza (The Hunter), and Ivan Franek (Astrid), amongst others.
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Q: how does a jar file read its own resource file? I've searched up and down and have not understood solutions to problems that seem like mine. Maybe I do not understand the problem enough to extrapolate my own solution from others' problems. From what I could find online, it seems like program 1 is trying to read resources from inside a jar. I'm trying to have a jar read its own resources.
use case:
I have a groovy project that contains source files and resource files. From within the groovy project I can read my resource files (located in src/main/resources/locales) via the following snippet
def dictionaryFile = new File("${localeDirectory}/${name}/${locale}.json");

where localeDirectory = src/main/resources/locales.
I use gradle to build my groovy project into a library to be used with a separate application (application 2). When application 2 starts to use this jar, the above snippet fails to find the resource file. I've looked at the structure of my jar file and see gradle puts the resource under locales (not src/main/resources/locales).
In what way can I have my groovy project access my resource files AND have application2 be able to use the built jar file to access its own resource files as well?

A: def final InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("${localeDirectory}/${name}/${locale}.json");

This worked once I changed my project structure to have the locale directory in the same package as the class that is requesting the resource files.


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Addressing Your Cancer Risk
Rural areas a bit safer than urban ones; environmental threats seem key, study says.
Alan Mozes
Consistent exposure to bad environmental conditions can wreak havoc on DNA structure and gene function.Andrey Armyagov/Alamy
Where you live appears to play a role in your risk of cancer, a new analysis suggests.
"Overall environmental quality was very strongly associated with increased cancer risk," said study lead author Jyotsna Jagai. She's a research assistant professor in environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The study authors said 1 in 4 U.S. deaths are attributable to cancer. Each day in 2014, about 1,600 Americans died from cancer, the researchers said.
Both genetics and environmental exposures play a role in cancer, according to the researchers. Consistent exposure to bad environmental conditions can wreak havoc on DNA structure and gene function. Poor environmental conditions can also give rise to systemic inflammation, and cause problems with hormones, the researchers said.
To get a better handle on how poor environmental quality might be associated with increased cancer risk, the study team looked at cancer incidence in nearly 2,700 urban, suburban and rural counties across the United States.
The information was collected by the U.S. National Cancer Institute between 2006 and 2010.
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The researchers also reviewed information collected as part of a U.S. Environmental Quality Index (EQI) review. This data was gathered between 2000 and 2005, just prior to the cancer incidence period.
The index graded environmental health on a county-by-county basis. Instead of looking at each factor of environmental quality individually, the index looked at all of the factors together.
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EQI scores collectively tallied more than 200 environmental factors. These included water quality, air quality, exposure to pesticides and contaminants, transportation and housing safety, and exposure to crime.
The lower the score, the worse the environmental issues.
The research team determined that counties saw an average of 451 cancer cases each year for every 100,000 residents.
But when cancer rates were considered with EQI assessments, the investigators found that cancer incidence went up significantly in counties with poorer overall environmental quality.
The findings appeared to affect women and men equally.
Although the study didn't prove a cause-and-effect link, the researchers found that counties with the lowest EQI scores had 39 more cases of cancer per 100,000 residents each year, compared to the highest-scoring EQI counties.
The risk of prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women seemed most susceptible to bad environmental quality, the research team observed.
What's more, the researchers found that residents living in more heavily urbanized communities appeared to be among the most vulnerable to the link between bad environment and greater cancer risk.
"We did not consider regional differences," Jagai said. "However, we did consider differences based on 'urbanicity.' Overall environmental quality was strongly associated with cancer risk across all urban and suburban counties."
The bad environment/higher cancer risk association was also evident in sparsely populated rural areas, Jagai added, although to a lesser degree.
So what can be done?
Jagai declined to offer specific ideas. But, she suggested that "improved social and environmental conditions would have a positive impact on cancer risk and other health outcomes."
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The study was published May 8 in the online edition of CANCER.
Scarlett Lin Gomez co-wrote an accompanying editorial in the same issue of the journal. She's a research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California in Fremont.
Gomez said the new findings "further show us that aspects of people's environment may be related to their risk of getting cancer.
"Studies such as this," she added, "give us the tools to identify the 'where' and the 'what' we should be focusing on."
Gomez said the new research "illustrates the value of environmental data such as those collected and maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], and the role of the EPA and other agencies in following up on these findings, to understand the root causes for these geographical disparities and how best to remediate them."
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Exhibit features painting of Holocaust survivor
RED WING -- "Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust," paintings by a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, will be exhibited starting Jan. 18 at the Anderson Center in Red Wing.
The paintings are by Robert O. Fisch, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Fisch is a native of Budapest, who was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II. After the war he attended medical school and moved in 1957 to the U.S.
He has studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Walker Art Center, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His works have been exhibited in Israel, Austria and Germany.
An opening reception for the artist will be held at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Anderson Center, 163 Tower View Drive in Red Wing. Admission is free. For more information, call (651) 388-2009.


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Happy birthday to HUGE (aka James)! HUGE is 30 so we all think a dirty 30 WOD is in order for him tomorrow. Also happy birthday to Jamie L! Sorry I missed it on Sunday dude!
Skill work – Light practice and dial-in one of the following: Handstands, HSPU, Kipping HSPU, Deficit HSPU if all of the above are solid.
I wanted to share my reflections on the Open.I would say I got talked into the open, however, I don't really think I could have been talked into something I wasn't already considering. A better description is that I was personally invited to the open and accepted. Looking back I think this is what I needed and wanted, a personal invitation to join . . . by someone who knew what they were talking about.My husband signed up and tried to talk me into signing up, but while he knew my abilities he was no more informed of what the open would entail than me. Emily, one of the competitive ladies from Alpine suggested I join as well, here's someone who knew what sort of things would be required but I didn't think really understood my abilities (or in my mind limitations). However, the tipping point was Robby suggesting I join, he knew both my abilities, and he knew the open. He thought I could be successful and I believed him.When I first started hearing about it, I was willing to give this open thing a shot but I was afraid. I was afraid of being disappointed and of being disappointing. I hadn't really tested myself in a long time. Of course, I would come and do the WODs, but I didn't really have to push myself. I could hide behind lighter weights claiming lifting inexperience, or inability. But you have to RX the open workouts, and I had yet to RX any workout involving weights (or even come within 20 lbs most of the time). But here I was signed up for the open.Week after week I came and did my best. Some weeks were better than others. Some weeks I finished feeling very proud of myself (11 reps of my 1 rep max clean and jerk – impressed). Other weeks I finished feeling a bit disappointed (only 73 of 150 wall balls – sad). But week after week I came and I finished.Participating in the open reminded me why I love Crossfit. It reminded me of my track and gymnastics days. Although you may be performing alone, the support of the other team members is so important. I think anyone who has never done an individual "team" sport would have trouble understanding, but there is something very special about the support of people who are not only cheering for you but understand what it is like to be in your position.Reviewing scores after the open was completed I was surprised to see that I improved, compared to the other open competitors, each week. I do not think the WODs got easier for me, although, to an extent, they utilized things that I was better at (except wall ball week – that must be a fluke). However, I think the bigger piece is confidence. The open helped me grow so much mentally. It increased my comfort level with the bar, it forced me to deal with heavier weights than I normally would have chosen for myself. By completing workouts with these weights I learned to stop selling myself short. I learned what pushing myself really feels like.I joked earlier this weekend, the first weekend without an open WOD, that I kind of miss having an excessively heavy (for me), difficult WOD to complete. And it's true. I enjoyed my weekly Saturday challenge, the camaraderie, sharing the difficulties and the successes with the other open competitors and the spectators. Will is sign up again? Absolutely . . . and I'm going to talk others into it too :)Do I chose open rx weights for daily WODs now? Of course not, but I do feel that I am more prepared to chose an appropriate weight – one that pushes me and makes me better.
You're amazing Emily! I got goosebumps every time I watched your WODs… Thanks for this!


JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police have intercepted 167 rhino horns believed to be destined for Southeast Asia, in one of the biggest such hauls ever in the country.
Two suspects, aged 57 and 61, were arrested with the horns on Saturday, police said on Sunday. They had been tipped off about the suspects' vehicle.
"The value has not been determined — it's one of the biggest hauls in the country," Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, a police spokesman, said by text message on Monday. The case was still being investigated, he said.
Nearly 80 percent of the world's rhinos live in South Africa. More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in the country each year from 2013 to 2017, according to conservation group Save the Rhino.
That figure fell below 1,000 in 2018, but it still means more than two rhinos were killed each day of the year. Two rhino species have fewer than 80 animals left in the wild.
Poaching is driven by demand for rhino horn - consisting mostly of keratin, found in human nails and hair - in countries like China and Vietnam, where it is used in traditional medicine and also increasingly seen as a symbol of success and wealth.
The government and international donors have poured money into anti-poaching measures and securing national parks.
The two suspects were due to appear at a magistrates court near Pretoria on Monday.


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That Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have let this Bach violin concertos album run to nearly 2 hours of music suggests a relish of their task that is mirrored triumphantly in the resultant music-making. Their choice of repertoire, too, feels driven by a desire to celebrate Bach's life with the violin rather than document it. If they had wanted to be pedantically completist about it, we would have the Fifth Brandenburg and the Triple Concerto; instead we get the three known violin concertos plus the three most convincing reconstructions from harpsichord concertos, supplemented by a reconstruction of the putative early violin version of the B minor Flute Suite, and all neatly interspersed with arrangements of two of the organ sonatas and a clutch of cantata sinfonias (including the rarely heard, trumpet-and-drum-laden BWV1045, a violin concerto movement of some flashiness).
Everything here is energy, though the exuberance is of the grounded kind that never gets out of hand. Tempos are brisk; but while there's certainly not much risk of listeners thinking any of them too slow, neither does any one of them sound too fast, at least not the way they are performed here. Faust's playing is technically brilliant, yet always at the service of the music, and everywhere enlivened by a richly varied repertoire of interpretative details, from spontaneous twiddle-ornaments to little tempo-tugs or deftly elongated notes within a phrase. From her 1658 Stainer she produces a sound that is period-instrument clean (even at times a little wiry), but can summon warmth of tone and tonal strength when she wants. And together she and this superb orchestra show exemplary contrapuntal clarity while also outlining the music's architecture through glinting dynamic changes or compelling long-range crescendos and diminuendos. A word should go, too, to Xenia Löffler, whose liquid-gold oboe-playing is a perfect foil for Faust's busy violin in BWV1060 and a perfect match for its aching beauty of the Sinfonia from Cantata No 21. In short, without being tempted to eccentricity, these performances reveal keen musical minds constantly at work.
The deeper delight of it all is that you can encounter subtle new aspects in the familiar works – the E major Concerto intimate, even a little withdrawn, the slow movement of the A minor given a lightly pulsing, march-like momentum – and real revelations in the lesser-known ones. I'm not sure I've ever heard the reconstructed concertos sound so convincing (especially the D minor), the trio sonatas go at a thrilling lick that surely no organ could keep up with and the sinfonias simply gleam. This is a hugely enjoyable celebration of Bach – himself a violinist – which conjures not so much the strict contrapuntal and formal genius as the joyous spirit of the living man.


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Baylor Beats Northwestern, Off to 7-0 Start
by David Cassilo / @dcassilo
Quietly a couple of college basketball's remaining unbeaten teams squared off Sunday afternoon in Evanston, Ill., when Baylor visited Northwestern. However, the game was far more one-sided than it looked on paper as the Bears dismantled the Wildcats, 69-41.
Everything came easy for Baylor on both ends of the floor in the victory. The Bears shot 60.4 percent from the floor and held Northwestern to just 24.1 percent shooting. They led by 18 points at halftime and saw that lead rise to 61-29 with just under six minutes to go.
The win was a balanced effort as no Bear scored more than 16 points. While standouts Perry Jones III and Quincy Miller combined for just 15 points, it was junior college transfer Pierre Jackson pacing the team with 16. Jackson, who has scored in double-figures off the bench in his last four games, made seven of his eight shots on Sunday.
Jackson's addition is one of the reasons this Baylor team is living up to the hype.
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"We have a lot more depth this year we have a lot a guys than can do special things," Acy said. "We take it personally in practice guarding each other. Last year, (defense) is what really hurt us."
Baylor's 7-0 start has been impressive. The Bears and Missouri are the only top-25 teams to win every game by at least 10 points. Those two teams could be the ones that unseat Kansas from the top of the Big 12 for the first time since 2004.
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It's time to ban Iran from the Olympic Games for executing Navid Afkari
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The International Olympic Committee has a history of banning countries from competing at the Olympic Games.
From 1964 to 1988, South Africa was banned from competing due to its racist apartheid policies. In 2000, Afghanistan was banned for its treatment of women. Various countries were banned in the first half of the 20th Century for their involvement in the two World Wars.
It's time to add Iran to that list.
Truth is, it's been time for a while.
The Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International paint a picture of an Iranian government steeped in "entrenched discrimination," "torture" and "inhumane punishment."
LGBTQ rights are virtually non-existent there, as anti-discrimination policies are supplanted by an outright encouragement to discriminate. Gay people are executed in Iran simply for being gay, and the country's foreign minister has cited "moral principles" in defending the murders.
"The punishment [for being gay] in Iran many times is being thrown off a building, or barbaric ways in which you kill someone by hanging them or shooting them," former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell tells me in the latest episode of the Five Rings To Rule Them All podcast. "It's really systemic human-rights violations."
According to intelligence, Iran's regime had executed between 4,000 and 6,000 gay people as of 2008, over a decade ago.
Grenell, a longtime Republican and personal friend of mine, talks on the podcast about seeing intelligence that demonstrates a system of tapping phones and Internet to identify people who may be organizing to fight for human rights.
Grenell has been a champion of LGBTQ rights internationally and is an advisor to the RNC.
When you Google "human rights Iran," it should come back with a one-word answer: "None."
Yet it's the murder of national-champion wrestler Navid Afkari that has enflamed the latest outrage against the Iranian regime and spurred people across sports to speak up.
Afkari, a national champion wrestler in Iran, was murdered by the government on Sept. 12 because he dared say a negative word about the Iranian regime (speaking ill of the government is, in fact, illegal there). He had also been accused of killing someone during a protest, but his admission to the crime, as well as the accounts of alleged eye witnesses, were coerced and ultimately recanted.
People from around the world — President Donald Trump, major sports figures in Iran, United World Wrestling, UFC president Dana White, Grenell, even the IOC — pushed publicly and behind the scenes to prevent the murder. Iran was defiant and killed him anyway.
Afkari's murder has now become a flashpoint for a push to exclude Iran from the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. The growing chorus has so far included people across sports, including the head of the World Players Association of soccer, and the German Athlete Association, who said, "the inaction of the IOC is unacceptable."
Add me to the list.
So far the IOC's response has been insultingly tepid.
"The execution of wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran is very sad news," the IOC response read in part. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Navid Afkari."
That cannot stand as the IOC's final response. It should ban Iran from the Olympic Games next summer.
I am sensitive to some of the arguments against banning a country from the Olympics. Does this hurt the regime or the innocent athletes who've worked all their lives to get here? Greg Louganis has talked about the heartbreak to the athletes of the United States boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
While this is not a boycott, I do understand the needs of the athletes. Would punishing an athlete like Afkari really be a just remedy for Afkari's murder?
The IOC has a work-around, which it recently utilized with Russian athletes, allowing them to compete under the Olympic flag while banning Russian flags, the national anthem and other displays. That speaks to the legitimacy of the athletes' hard work and the illegitimacy of the human-rights violations of their government.
There's also the idea of the power of engagement, something I'm a big proponent of. Certainly some are lost causes on issues of human rights, and the Iranian regime very well may be (even though I hold out hope). Engaging with people can build bridges; Isolation is a last resort when trying to build understanding and advance human rights.
Yet there also have to be times when the crime demands a punishment.
"For engagement to work, there also needs to be moments where you say, 'This has crossed the line so much that you don't get to participate in the international community,'" Grenell says. "So I would like to see, because of the systemic human rights abuses by the Iranian regime, I would like to see the Olympics say, 'You are no longer welcome in international competition.'"
No doubt there are many other egregious human-rights abusers around the world. No nation is perfect.
Yet that doesn't mean the public embrace of egregious human-rights violations by the Iranian regime should go ignored. The murder of Afkari is the flashpoint that has put this issue over the edge — an attack on the sports world in the face of athletes, governing bodies and the IOC itself.
It's time to ban Iran from the Olympic Games.
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