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Thinking Like a Business Owner
Jim Olsztynski
Bill Gates is a brilliant computer programmer, but he doesn't spend any time writing code these days. Don't ask Ben & Jerry to make you a sundae or Mrs. Field to bake you some cookies. Thomas Edison died a wealthy man not so much because of his revolutionary inventions, but because in the latter stage of his life he got out of the laboratory and went into the business of marketing his inventions. Giant electric utilities now known as ComEd and Con Ed are among the businesses that arose from original Edison ventures.
The lessons are everywhere you care to look. It takes more than mastery of a craft to run a successful business selling the output of that craft. You need to tend to the business of running a business.
Think of how many contractors you've ever seen go out of business. How many of them failed because of mechanical incompetence? I've asked the same question of myself and respond that in my 24 years of association with the construction industry, I have never known a single contractor to go belly up because he didn't know how to do the work. Conversely, I've known plenty who failed even though they were master mechanics or project managers. It always happens because of an inability to make the transition from craft worker to business owner.
Technical know-how is, of course, essential to your business, but you're in a lot of trouble if you think that's all it takes to succeed. The vast majority of your competitors have technical knowledge as great as your own or better, or at least enough to get by. If craft labor is all there is to purchase, the customer might as well choose the contractor who will work for the lowest price.
Alas, that's exactly what happens in most cases. And that's one of the big reasons why so many master craftsmen fail when they strike out on their own as independent contractors. Failure to price their services correctly probably ranks as the top reason why contractors go bankrupt. Next come shortcomings in customer service, followed by failure to understand marketing.
Here are some of the defining characteristics of a successful contractor as opposed to a craftsman.
Know where to spend time
A contractor spends as little time as possible working with the tools and supervising jobs. People who strike out on their own as one-man shops obviously have to do the work. Some are content to remain sole operators and that is a choice we must respect. However, if one wants to make "big" money and/or enjoy free time for recreational pursuits, one needs to build an organization that doesn't depend on him or her to personally install every panel or even to directly supervise those who do.
Frank Blau is a friend of mine who runs the largest plumbing and HVAC service company in the Milwaukee area. He started out as a one-man operator more than 40 years ago, and has seen his company grow to upwards of $4 million in annual revenues with dozens of service trucks. I once asked Frank how big a contractor needs to be before he stops working with the tools. His answer surprised me.
As soon as the contractor hires one more employee, he should start phasing himself out of field work, Blau replied. He might still have to pitch in turning a wrench, but the majority of his time should be spent acquiring work for the other employee to perform. Then, once the contractor acquires a second employee, he should devote 100 percent of his time to the business of contracting. Michael Gerber, author of "The E-Myth," one of the best books about small business I've ever read, says much the same thing. He calls this working on your business rather than working in your business.
Conduct accommodating business etiquette
A business owner must lavish attention on customers, not just tolerate them. Customers are a pain in the neck to the average craft worker. They get in the way. They change their minds. They don't know squat about your work but think they do. They don't understand the laws of physics.
The typical craftsman may understand that he must endure these quirks, but has trouble doing so with a smile on his face and sincerity in his voice. Yet, that's what you must do as a business owner. You must resist the natural impulse to turn your back on demanding customers or to tell them off. You must return phone calls promptly to people who make you grate your teeth. You must pretend to like people you'd secretly like to strangle.
As a business owner, you must get in the habit of catering to customer wants and needs. This means, as much as possible, scheduling and performing work at the customers¿ convenience rather than your own. It means early morning or evening meetings. It requires a steady diet of 12-hour workdays, or even more when snafus arise. If you¿re not prepared to handle this, you don't belong in business yourself.
Enjoy your job
A contractor must enjoy selling and marketing. The typical craftsman believes that if you do good work at a reasonable price the world will beat a path to your door. "Word of mouth is the best form of advertising," goes the old saying.
Sorry, but it doesn't work so smoothly. Success in business requires constant selling and marketing, even when you have more work than you can handle. Here's why:
A. If you have more work than you can handle, you want to focus on the most profitable work. Part of sales and marketing is getting more business out of your best customers while winnowing out those who don¿t want to pay enough or give you trouble.
B. Relying on unsolicited referrals is putting your fate in the hands of other people. This is out of sync with the entrepreneurial spirit.
C. Eventually, work will slow down. When it does, you'll be desperate to start marketing, but it will take months for any efforts to kick in. The best time to prepare for a slowdown is in advance of it occurring.
None of this is to denigrate the craftsman's work. The craftsman is indispensable to your business. Just remember that once you go into business for yourself, you're no longer a craftsman. You're a contractor. Craftsmen work for you.
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Hello! I am Ms. Lavelle. Here is a little background information about me: I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I majored in English and Secondary Education. This is my 8th year at OHS, where I have had the pleasure of teaching English 3. I am very excited to begin teaching a few new classes: English 2 and AP Research. While at OHS, I have coached speech team, advised Student Council, and planned two educational tours to Europe. In 2014 I was honored to be nominated as a Most Influential Educator at the Top 10 Percent Banquet. Currently, I am enrolled at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb to pursue a master's degree in English with a focus in literature and composition. I hope to graduate in Spring 2018.


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Rodriguez: On teaching, radical love and community
By Ralph Rodriguez
The teaching I do as a professor of American studies, ethnic studies and English finds me regularly engaged with matters at the core of whom we consider ourselves to be and how others consider us. This semester, for instance, I'm teaching an undergraduate course, ETHN 1890E: "Johnny, Are You Queer: Narratives of Race and Sexuality," and a graduate seminar, AMST 2220I: "Skin Deep: Reading Race, Reading Form." Both classes deal with cultural and theoretical works that take up, among other topics, race, gender, sexuality and class. As with any course, I am introducing my students to an ever-evolving body of knowledge, hoping they will become more fluent with its objects of inquiry and its methodologies.
I tell my students on the first day of class that personal connections with the material can be a useful jumping-off point that generates enthusiasm and insights, but those insights will need to deepen with further critical analysis in order for students to succeed in the class and in the discipline more generally. They will need the ability to form arguments, tackle ideas and venture into new realms of thought that may include the personal but will need to exceed it as well.
My pedagogy is not an either/or proposition. It is a both/and approach. As any rhetorician skilled in the art of argumentation will tell you, either/or thinking often (if not always) leads to fallacious reasoning. It takes a complex situation, strips it of all nuances and then suggests that there is only one of two ways to approach the topic. Tied to the rigor and professionalism with which I approach my teaching is also a recognition that across the seminar table or beyond the lectern are a group of people with feelings, vulnerabilities, complex personal histories and attachments to the course material. I want to bear their humanity in mind.
I see a robust humanistic approach to learning and teaching as invested in making the world a better, more equitable, more just place, one in which we help each other realize our fullest potential. Whether in our mutual production of knowledge (a production that, at its best, charges the classroom with a vivifying energy) I agree or disagree with my students or whether they embrace or reject my ideas, I want them to feel considered and heard, just as I do. It would be naive to pretend that we are on the same footing with the material I teach. I have many more years of studying and writing than they, yet I recognize they have valuable contributions to make and that ideally I am helping them refine their ideas. In the classroom, we are engaged in a dialogue to which I lend my support and expertise to abet the students in seeing the shortcomings, merits and potential of our ideas.
The achievement of such a pedagogy and the production of such a world are not reducible to a series of saccharine bromides. Rather the road to such teaching, the road to such engagement with one's students, is built on what scholars such as Cornel West, bell hooks, David Kyuman Kim and George Lipsitz, among others, have called radical love.
This radical love fosters community and emerges through it. Radical love is a love that gives the benefit of the doubt, that affirms and questions, that holds its skepticism at bay to allow a raw thought to develop, that understands accountability not as a zero sum game, that doesn't draw lines in the sand, that doesn't believe in (to borrow a phrase from Edward Said) solidarity without criticism, that understands that rifts can heal and that we need not divide ourselves from one another during that healing. It also understands that there may be moments when toxicity reaches such a level that, out of self-care and self-love, one has to pull back and find new alliances. A radical love can foster and enrich community.
I lack the space to discuss the large community of Brown, the one composed of the tens of thousands of people who work and study at the University, to say nothing of the innumerable alums, but I would like to say a word about the smaller communities in which we find ourselves at Brown, the community of the classroom in particular. It is a manufactured, ephemeral community that arbitrarily comes into being at the start of semester and then dissipates 15 weeks later.
Yet I want to encourage students and professors to treat it as a community, not as an assemblage of strangers. Some of the students know each other and even know the professor; some may even come to the classroom with pre-existing baggage with one another; others are meeting for the first time. The benefits of treating a classroom as a community are tremendous, for in the community I imagine created out of radical love, we can really push each other to get the most out of our thoughts, to refine them, to rethink them and to get them into the most lapidary form possible. Ideally in such an environment, we could generate more and more rich, complex ideas.
In such a classroom, there is both agreement and disagreement, but the latter must be done in an environment of mutual respect. It is in disagreement that one is forced to consider, reconsider and sharpen one's ideas. Students and professors can only work with one another in such an environment, however, if there is trust and class members tacitly agree to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Such a classroom mandates both a tremendous amount of emotional and intellectual maturity and students and professors who speak from a space of genuine belief. This cannot be a space of posturing or purposeful antagonism.
One needs to think about how they formulate and articulate their ideas. There are many ways to say any one thing, and one should measure one's words for the most productive result possible. Even if I disagree with you, there are a variety of ways to voice that disagreement. They run the spectrum from outright hostile to genuinely engaging your thought from a different angle. Students and professors are going to misstep from time to time, perhaps even say something that doesn't sit well with one another. We have to be able to acknowledge that misstep and realize it is part of the learning process and part of being human.
We cannot learn in an environment where fear precedes thought, where one is afraid of saying anything for fear of saying the wrong thing. Similarly, we must also recognize that we speak from particular positionalities informed by our race, class, gender and sexuality, among other identity categories. In addition, we need to be conscious of the various privileges we bring to the table. Each of these recognitions is meant to raise awareness of our positionalities and the rhetorical situation in which we find ourselves. We want to create dialogue, not dismiss voices. Self-awareness and a cognizance of one's interlocutors should lead to robust discussions. This space of radical love and community building is what I strive for in my teaching, and I am sanguine that it is from this space that we can find ways to improve our selves, communities, classrooms and the world.
Ralph Rodriguez is an associate professor of American studies and English. He can be reached at ralph_rodriguez@brown.edu.
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Darcey Silva and Tom Brooks: Are They Still Together?
by Simon Delott at October 17, 2019 9:00 am .
On Wednesday, we reported what Tim Malcolm had to say about rumors regarding his gender and sexuality. Being famous has its pitfalls.
At the same event, the infamous and incomparable Darcey Silva opened up about her own 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way journey.
Are she and Tom Brooks still together? And has he finally told her that he loves her?
The infamous Darcey Silva spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the status of her relationship with Tom -- and their future together.
So ... months after filming this season, are they still an item?
"You know what, it's to be determined," Darcey answers coyly.
Normally that would mean that, in real time, she and Tom aren't sure of their future. But it's Darcey, so we think that she means stay tuned.
She teases: "You guys are gonna have to wait and see."
"But on that journey of love," Darcey proclaims. "I take risks."
Well, Darcey has certainly worn some risky outfits in her ongoing pursuit of love, we'll give her that much.
"And," she expresses. "I am so proud of it."
"I will always follow my heart," Darcey announces.
"And, you know what?" she asks rhetorically before answering: "I'm grateful."
"I'm grateful for the energy that I bring to relationships and opening my heart," Darcey's mini-speech continues.
She also definitely brings a certain kind of energy to her relationships, no question about that.
"It's a positive thing in my end," she observes.
That seems to imply that some don't see her effect through such a positive lens.
"So," Darcey adds. "We'll see what happens."
"I'm always Darcey," she affirms. "And Darcey's Darcey."
You know how some reality stars are totally different when they're not filming their show? Darcey is clearly not one of them.
"I've heard it before. I'll hear it again," Darcey adds.
"Tom's gonna like, say maybe a little bit of what he wants to say," she states, whatever that means.
"But you know what, in the end," Darcey notes. "I have a real heart."
"I want love just like everybody else," Darcey expresses.
Not everyone wants love, of course, but we're sure that Darcey didn't mean to casually erase the aromantic community.
"And you know what, when you know somebody for that amount of time," she begins.
Darcey continues: "and you go on that journey for love, you know, I'm deserving of it."
"And I'm not here to be made for a fool," she adds. "So we'll see what happens."
"He has said he loves me," Darcey reveals. "But you will have to watch the next couple shows to see what happens."
"Tom's motivation is Tom's motivation," she continues. "I trust him and I just was being there on my own journey and following my own heart."
"And when I love somebody, I want to make sure that it's feeling right for me," Darcey explains.
She concludes: "In the end, I want to make sure his intentions are real as well. You know, time will tell."
It does look like Darcey is hinting that the two of them have split and that Tom may badmouth her, but with Darcey, who knows?
At the very least, we hope that her relationship with Tom ends better than her drawn out relationship with Jesse Meester.
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Montenegro's Milo Djukanovic. Photo UKOM, Daniel Novakovič/STA. Wikimedia Commons.
"We have the strong involvement of foreign factors when it comes to the process of Montenegro's parliamentary elections," he said.
The Montenegrin Prosecutor's Office said last week that it had "reasonable suspicion" that a criminal organisation had been formed in Serbia and Montenegro with a plan to attack the police in front of the parliament once the results of Sunday's election were announced, before taking over the assembly and declaring that the party of their choice had won the polls.
However, Dikic said on Monday that a Montenegrin policeman had "planted evidence" on him – a phone and keys to a warehouse containing weapons.


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Stanisław Michał Progulski (geb. 17. September 1874 in Nowy Sącz; ermordet 3. oder 4. Juli 1941 in Lwiw) war ein polnischer Kinderarzt und Professor für Pädiatrie an der Jan-Kazimierz-Universität zu Lemberg.

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Stanisław Michał wurde als Sohn des Kaufmanns Stanisław und Adela (geborene Feyrichów) am 17. September 1874 im damals österreichischen Neu Sandec geboren. Er besuchte mehrere Gymnasien (Podwołczyska, Neu Sandec, Krakau) und studierte anschließend Medizin an der Universität Lemberg. Am 20. Februar 1902 schloss er sein Studium mit dem "Doktor der gesamten Heilkunde" ab. Er absolvierte die Weiterbildung zum Kinderarzt in Berlin und arbeitete ab 1904 in der Kinderklinik in Krakau unter der Leitung von Maciej Jakubowski. Bald darauf wurde er auf Einladung des Professors für Pädiatrie Jan Raczyński Assistent an dessen Lehrstuhl an der Universität Lemberg. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs diente er in der österreichischen Armee und war dann Offizier der Polnischen Armee während der polnisch-ukrainischen Kämpfe um Lemberg. Aufgrund seines schlechten Gesundheitszustands wurde er im Rang eines Hauptmanns aus der Armee entlassen und kehrte an die Universität zurück.

1918 starb Jan Raczyński, da Progulski aber noch nicht habilitiert war, wurde der aus Wien gekommene Franciszek Groër auf den Lehrstuhl für Pädiatrie berufen. Progulski habilitierte sich 1922 und absolvierte wissenschaftliche Praktika in Berlin bei Otto Heubner und in Wien bei Clemens von Pirquet. Nach seiner Rückkehr arbeitete er als Adjunkt (vergleichbar mit einem Privatdozenten) und ab 1938 als außerordentlicher Professor. Er war in den ständischen Organisationen aktiv; so leitete er zum Beispiel die Lemberger Abteilungen der Polnischen Ärztegesellschaft und der Polnischen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrie, war ab 1922 Mitherausgeber der "Pediatria Polska" und 1931 war er Kongresssekretär des Polnischen Kinderärztekongresses in Lemberg.

Er veröffentlichte über 50 wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, die sich unter anderem mit der Ätiologie der Appendizitis des Kindes (er empfahl eine frühstmögliche Operation) und Diagnostik von Tuberkulose, Meningitis und Myelitiden bei Kindern beschäftigten. Er forderte die Einrichtung spezieller medizinischer Einrichtungen für Kinder mit angeborener Syphilis und eröffnete die erste solche in der Lemberger Kinderklinik. Er verfasste eine weit beachtete Arbeit über die positiven Auswirkungen der Pockenimpfung. Er veröffentlichte Arbeiten zur Verringerung der Säuglingssterblichkeit ("Higiena niemowląt" (Handbuch der Säuglingshygiene), 1925) und entwickelte einen Inkubator für Neugeborene, den er sowohl für stationäre als auch häusliche Bedingungen ersann (Nowy model cieplarki dla niemowląt wczesnych i wątłych (własnego pomysłu) (Neues Modell eines Inkubators für Früh- und schwache Säuglinge (eigener Entwurf)) "Pediatria Polska", 1929). 1939 behandelte er als erster erfolgreich ein Neugeborenes mit Morbus haemolyticus neonatorum durch eine Austauschtransfusion. Die Eröffnung einer Frauenmilchbank in Lemberg im Jahr 1910 wird ihm zugeschrieben und kann als zweite solche Einrichtung weltweit betrachtet werden.

Neben seiner wissenschaftlichen und klinischen Tätigkeit war er erfolgreicher Fotograf. Seit 1925 war er ordentliches Mitglied der Fotografischen Gesellschaft zu Lemberg, in der er mehrmals Vorstandsmitglied war. Seine Motive waren hauptsächlich Kindern sowie Denkmäler und Landschaft von Lemberg. Er erhielt unter anderem die Silbermedaille auf der Internationalen Fotografieausstellung in Antwerpen.

Wenige Tage nach Einmarsch der Deutschen Wehrmacht wurde Stanisław Progulski beim als Lemberger Professorenmorde bezeichneten Kriegsverbrechen zusammen mit seinem Sohn Andrzej (Elektroingenieur und Fotograf, geboren 1915) ermordet.

Aus der Ehe mit Julia (geborene Winiarzów, verh. 1911, Tochter eines Lemberger Buchdruckers), gingen ein weiterer Sohn und eine Tochter hervor, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in die USA übersiedelten.

Weblinks
 Texte von Progulski im Angebot "Polona" der Polnischen Nationalbibliothek
 Zbigniew Rudkowski - ''Stanisław Michał Progulski (1874–1941)'' (Archiv)

Quellen
 Zygmunt Albert, Stanisław Progulski, In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Band 28, 1985.
 Zygmunt Albert Kaźń profesorów lwowskich – lipiec 1941 / studia oraz relacje i dokumenty zebrane i oprac. przez Zygmunta Alberta, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Breslau 1989, ISBN  Onlineversion
 Janina Mierzecka - Całe życie z fotografią, s. 254. Literackie Kraków, Krakau 1981, ISBN
 Helmut Schmidt: Die Geschichte und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung der Frauenmilch-Sammelstellen in Deutschland sowie ihres Erfurter Zentrums in den Jahren 1926 bis 1950. Leipzig 20. Dezember 1983, DNB 840837828.

Pädiater
Hochschullehrer (Lwiw)
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Pole
Geboren 1874
Gestorben 1941
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Creature feature: The secretive blue-spotted salamander
A blue-spotted salamander. (Photo via Shutterstock)
Blue is not a popular color in the animal kingdom. When asked to think of animals that are blue, a few birds might quickly come to mind, like blue jays and great blue herons. The blue-spotted salamander probably wouldn't make many people's list, because most people have probably never seen one.
Blue-spotted salamanders live right here in Will County, but they typically try to stay out of sight. They are one of eight salamanders that live in Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Of the eight, only four — the blue-spotted, the eastern tiger, the small-mouthed and the spotted salamander — live in the northeastern part of the state.
Salamanders look like lizards, but they aren't related. Salamanders are amphibians, while lizards are reptiles. Salamanders, including blue-spotted salamanders, produce toxins as a defense mechanism. They have glands near their tails that can secrete a toxin when they are threatened, reports NatureWorks.
We often associate animals with the noises they make, but that's not true of salamanders. These animals can't hear, and they also don't make any sounds of their own, according to the San Diego Zoo. They are usually able to sense other animals nearby through vibrations in the ground.
Here's more information about these colorful creatures.
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The word salamander comes from an Arab term for "lives in fire," according to the University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web. In ancient folklore, people believed salamanders could live in fire. This belief came about because they were often seen coming out of logs that had been lit on fire. It wasn't until later that people realized the salamanders were in the logs because they provided the moist habitat they require.
Blue-spotted salamanders are mostly black or blackish-blue in color, with bluish-white spots on their sides, tails and legs and sometimes their backs and bellies, according to Animal Diversity Web. They typically grow to be between 3 inches and 5 inches long, and their tails account for about 40 percent of their body length.
All salamanders have short legs, so when they walk, their bellies drag on the ground, according to the San Diego Zoo. The back legs of a salamander grow more slowly than their front legs. Frogs and toads are the opposite: their front legs grow more slowly than their back legs.
Where they live
Blue-spotted salamanders are found in only a small part of the United States, mainly in and around the Great Lakes, according to Animal Diversity Web. In Illinois, they live in only the northeastern portion of the state, which includes Will County, IDNR reports.
These salamanders typically live in wooded areas, usually near small ponds or water sources or in areas with moist soil, Animal Diversity Web reports. Many salamanders spend much of their time underground, but blue-spotted salamanders are often above ground, but out of sight under fallen logs, leaves or other plant debris.
Some salamanders give birth to live babies, but blue-spotted salamanders lay eggs in water, which is why they live near a water source. They mainly breed in April, and the eggs take about a month to hatch. The larvae live in the water for a few months, transitioning to their adult form. Once they reach their adult form, they move onto land, usually by late summer.
What they eat
These salamanders are carnivores, and their primary food source is insects, spiders and small invertebrates, Animal Diversity Web reports. In addition to a wide variety of insects, common foods include snails, slugs, worms, centipedes and aquatic insects such as water fleas and insect larvae.
Why they matter
Blue-spotted salamanders do one thing most all humans can appreciate: they eat mosquitoes and mosquito larvae, according to Animal Diversity Web. And as amphibians, their mere presence in an area is an indicator the habitat is clean. That's because amphibians breathe through their skin and are very sensitive to toxins and other contaminants. If you see salamanders, frogs and other amphibians in an area, that's a good sign. It means the water is clean, providing a healthy habitat, according to the Clemson University Cooperative Extension.


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Section V high school basketball, hockey and more results for Saturday, Dec. 29.
N: Miles Brown 31 points -- breaks record to become Section V all-time leading scorer.
HFL (4-6): HFL sophomore Hannah Selke 18 points, Freshman Teagan Kamm 15 points and 17 rebounds.
Boys event winners—55: Nile Colson (Aquinas) 6.83. 400: Andy Frank (Penfield) 51.47. 500: Mason Kozody (Fairport) 1:11.75. 800: Connor Preston (Victor) 2:03.31. 1,500: Nicholas Andrews (Brockport) 4:13.69. 3,000: Ryan Thompson (Irondequoit) 9:08.79. 55 hurdles: Trenton Wynn (Penfield) 8.48. 800 relay: McQuaid 'A' 1:36.82. 1,600 relay: Webster Thomas 'A' 3:41.94. 3,200 relay: Webster Schroeder 'A' 8:57.06. High jump: Mason Yusko (Fairport) 5-10.00. Pole vault: Ryan Harman (Fairport) 13-07.00. Long jump: Jacob Liberati (Midlakes) 21-03.50. Triple jump: James Flannery (Wayne) 39-10.00. Shot put: Greg Cole-Allen (Victor) 46-08.25. 1,500 race walk: Jonah Cuestas (Penfield) 7:14.80.
Girls event winners—55: Sierra Manning (Eastridge) 7.68. 400: Aubrey Runkle (Wayne) 1:01.79. 500: Mallory Sullivan (Mercy) 1:27.39. 800: Paige Lind (Victor) 2:28.85. 1,600: Katherine Peterson (Webster Thomas) 5:43.82. 3,200: Katie Cobos (Canandaigua) 11:50.55. 55 hurdles: Erika Lawson (Webster Schroeder) 9.59. 800 relay: Aquinas 'A' 1:54.61. 1,600 relay: Wayne 'A' 4:20.42. 3,200 relay: Webster Schroeder 'A' 10:44.00. High jump: Jenna Allen (Sodus) 4-08.00. Pole vault: Vanessa Newbauer (Wayne) 7-00.00. Long jump: Eva Boothby (Webster Schroeder) 16-11.50. Triple jump: Cora Rose (Brockport) 34-08.50. Shot put: Rachel Koonmen (Fairport) 35-08.50. 1,500 race walk: Desilets Dubois (Brockport) 7:44.45.
Weight class finals—99: Sean Cullen (Spencerport) defeated Frank Downing (Carthage) 6-4, sudden victory period 1. 106: Dominic Vinci (Spencerport) pinned Myles Gronowski (Lancaster) 1:28. 113: Dante Rigal (Johnson City) decision over Brian Hedding (Rush-Henrietta) 9-2. 120: Nick Barberio (Lancaster) technical fall over Jake Gabriel (Wayne) 16-1. 126: Aiden Rabideau (Clarence) dec. Mike LoPresti (Spencerport) 1-0. 132: Jacob Vergien (Iroquois) dec. Seamus Costello (McQuaid) 11-5. 138: Mason Wersinger (Spencerport) pinned Josh Jones (Wayne) 3:56. 145: Dillon Callaghan (Greece) major dec. Karamvir Hothi (Rush-Henrietta) 14-5. 152: Ryan Stencel (Lancaster) major dec. Mike Vinci (Spencerport) 15-3. 160: Jonathan Rogers (Wilson) won by disqualification over Cory Day (Iroquois). 170: Silas Egenlauf (Spencerport) dec. Sullivan Walsh (St. Joseph's) 7-5. 182: Fombo Azah (Carthage) major dec. Jake Aina (Spencerport) 13-5. 195: Devon Shader (Coxsackie-Athens) dec. Matt Werts (St. Joseph's) 5-1. 220: Nick Serce (Irondequoit) pinned Kyle Tillich (Rush-Henrietta) 2:00. 285: Colton Crane (Gates Chili) dec, Collin Null (Carthage) 3-1.
Boys event winners—55: Cascius Facen (UPrep) 6.50. 400: Cody Smith (Clyde-Savannah) 52.57. 500: Ben Hulbert (Rush-Henrietta) 1:09.74. 800: Zakariah Jantzi (Batavia) 2:04.57. 1,500: Mario Rosales (Batavia) 4:32.51. 3,000: Ali Haji (Edison) 9:43.28. 55 hurdles: Tamaree Haygood (Rush-Henrietta) 8.55. 800 relay: Rochester Prep 'A' 1:39.43. 1,600 relay: Edison Tech 'A' 3:37.29. 3,200 relay: Greece Arcadia 'A' 8:48.80. High jump: Tamaree Haygood (Rush-Henrietta) 6-06.00. Pole vault: Brennan Hong (Gates Chili) 13-03.00. Long jump: Devon Jackson (UPrep) 20-08.50. Triple jump: Devon Jackson (UPrep) 42-11.50. Shot put: Alex Rood (Batavia) 47-01.00. 1,500 race walk: Michael Eller (Mynderse) 9:10.02.
Girls event winners—55: Jaelyn Davis (Rush-Henrietta) 7.19. 400: Amber Daley (Rush-Henrietta) 1:03.99. 500: Brooke Hessel (Letchworth) 1:23.65. 800: Haley Riorden (Rush-Henrietta) 2:23.18. 1,600: Julia Tomanovich (Pittsford Mendon) 5:40.29. 3,200: Taylor Biata (Rush-Henrietta) 13:26.76. 55 hurdles: Maya Prosser (Pittsford Sutherland) 9.10. 800 relay: Batavia 'A' 1:58.04. 1,600 relay: Pittsford Sutherland 'B' 4:29.61. 3,200 relay: Pittsford Sutherland 'A' 10:30.84. High jump: Destiny Fernandes (Greece Athena) 5-03.00. Pole vault: Bethany Smith (Haverling) 9-03.00. Long jump: Jayda Singleton (Greece Olympia) 17-04.75. Triple jump: Elizabeth Cohen (Batavia) 33-00.75. Shot put: Emma Kinnicutt (Wellsville) 30-10.50. 1,500 race walk: Carolyn Jessop (Romulus) 7:54.94.


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Do you have a bold new creative idea that you need help to realise? Sound Generator is Sound UK's research and development (R&D) programme to develop artists and the work they present.
Each year, Sound Generator enables six early-career contemporary music artists to each test and develop one bold new idea, supported by a national network of industry experts.
Sound Generator creates a space for artists to develop and test ambitious project ideas. Supported by this scheme, artists will be able to try out new approaches, learn from others and develop their practice. Your project could be indoors or outdoors, venue based or site specific, digital, installation or live, sound, music or multi-disciplinary. You may want to reach a new audience, work with the community or respond to the world we live in.
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Report From Our 11th Street Outreach
by Randy LoBasso | Nov 8, 2019 | Biking in Philly, Featured, Vision Zero | 0 comments
Members of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia spent last Friday afternoon staked out at 11th and Federal Streets in South Philadelphia with three missions.
First of all, we wanted to get cyclists' and pedestrians' impressions of the work-in-progress 2-way protected bike lane.
Second, we wanted to give cyclists a heads up on where the project stands, and some tips on cycling in the area while we wait for the rest of the protection and infrastructure to be installed.
Third, we had candy left over from Halloween. We wanted to give some of it out.
We spoke to about 15 people bicycling and walking on 11th Street, and, for the most part, their rants and raves about the bike lane were the same: Most people liked the lane and appreciated what the city was doing along the corridor. About half of all respondents thought the bike lane, as is, was complete, and all except one said they'd experienced illegal motor vehicle parking in the bike lane.
As has been broadcast since earlier this year when the bike lanes were announced, discussed at community meetings, and striping began, this small bit of streetspace dedicated to bicyclists hasn't come without controversy.
The city, at first, eliminated 18 motor vehicle parking spots in order to make the intersections safer for pedestrians and bicyclists—something members of the car-driving public have not appreciated. A few people disrupted a community meeting in Passyunk Square this summer that got a bit out of control, in which actual death threats were tossed around due to parking spots.
Since then, though, the city will restriped additional parking spots, by winter.
But that wasn't enough for one couple we ran into, walking across the street.
"Are you surveying about the bike lane?" I was asked. "Yes," I said.
"They suck!" one man continued.
The "palm card" we handed out to cyclists and pedestrians
Taking notes as they spoke to me, both members of the South Philadelphia community were against the bike lanes because, they said, of the design. They were dangerous, they thought, and got rid of too much parking. Then, they showed us examples of Montreal bike paths on their phones, which we agreed were better.
But here's the thing: The city actually went out of its way to keep as much parking as possible due to community concerns, we explained; would you have rather the city eliminated all the parking along this corridor? They laughed, and commented that there'd have been riots if that happened.
After speaking for about 20 minutes, they agreed to wait and see what the final design looks like—with added parking spaces, physical protection between the motor vehicles and bicyclists, and barriers at the intersections to reduce conflicts between people on bikes and people in cars.
Two highlights of the day, for me: A family biking home from school, the children of which said they used the lane to get to school every day. And a man in a motorized scooter, using the lane to get fresh air in his neighborhood (the photo above).
Installing the barriers and additional infrastructure to separate motor vehicles from people on bicyclists cannot come soon enough. A lot of the ongoing controversy around 11th Street has sustained because the installation hasn't been completed—which, in and of itself, is due to situations out of the city's control.
We intend to continue monitoring 11th Street and head out to do at least one more event this fall. We are hoping the new separation infrastructure can be installed by the end of the year.
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Colonial Mozambique
(Portuguese East Africa)
Last modified: 2017-11-11 by bruce berry
Keywords: colonial flag | kionga triangle |
Proposed Colonial flag (1967)
Colonialists flag
Companies in Mozambique
Military Command Banner of Arms
Portuguese Provincial Military Command (1961-1975)
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Mozambique : national index
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image by António Martíns-Tuválkin, 01 July 2016
The Portuguese colonies were regarded as integral parts of Portugal and did not have flags of their own. However, there were flags for the Portuguese governors and Governors-General of the overseas provinces. There was a project to give the Portuguese colonies/overseas provinces distinctive flags, but these were never adopted. The pattern for these flags was a Portuguese flag with the shield of the coat of arms of the territory in the lower fly, as shown above. These coats of arms were already in existence, and the shields of all consisted of two sub-shields, dexter representing the motherland, sinister the territory, and the base the oceans between them. The sub-shield of Mozambique was silver with seven green arrows pointing downwards, tied together with a red ribbon.
Mark Sensen, 30 July 1996
The heraldist F. P. de Almeida Langhans published on p. 67 of his Armorial do Ultramar Português (Lisbon, 1965) [lgh55] a general model for the overseas "provinces" flags. The was the Portuguese national flag defaced with the shield of the lesser arms of each province centered in the lower fly quarter of the red field. This proposal was approved in 1967, but never came into effect. The colonial arms, decreed on 08 June 1935, had a shield of the same pattern, tierced in mantel, the dexter silver, five escutcheons in saltire, each charged with five bezants, gold, in cross; and the point silver, five waves green. The remaining sinister mantel had some local emblem - Mozambique: White, with a green bundle of arrows tied together with a red ribbon (standing for St. Sebastian as the first colony was founded on S�o Sebasti�o).
Antonio Martins, 08 July 1997, corrected 14 September 1997
It's interesting that the colonial flags of Mozambique relate only to the Overseas Province of Mozambique, not to the previous dispensation under the Kingdom of Portugal and the first three decades of the Portuguese Republic, where what we today call Mozambique was a grouping of separate colonies, labeled for convenience Portuguese East Africa.
These colonies were, from south to north, Lourenço Marques, Inhambane, Manhica eSofala (administered by the Companhia de Moçambique), Quelimane and Tete (these last two were initially separate, then combined as Zambezia), Moçambique and Niassa (Niassa administered by the Companhia de Niassa).
All of them issued stamps (the chartered companies issued stamps for the two under company administration), but I haven't yet seen any indication of flags.
Mike Oettle, 20 Dec 2001
image by António Martins, 21 Feb 2016
In the personal collection of Dr. Whitney Smith [smi76], there is a "colonial" Mozambican flag which was made and hoisted in July 1974 by some Portuguese colonialists fleeing Lourenço Marques (now called Maputo). The flag is based on a Portuguese flag design (2:3) with a background of green and red charged with the colonial greater arms: a round point shield (7:8) tierced in mantel, dexter silver, five blue eschuteons arranged in cross, each charged with five silver bezants saltire (old Portuguese arms), sinister silver, seven green arrows pointing down tied with a red tie, point silver, four waves of green (Portuguese traditional heraldic sea). The shield rests on a large golden armillary sphere (in this flag 1/2 of the hoist, as in the Portuguese national flag) in an "art nouveau" perspective less style, crowned with a five tower golden castle wall, with a blue armillary sphere on each tower and one silver shield charged with an Order of Christ cross on each of the four crenel gaps between the towers. Under all this a white scroll where the usual black sans serif inscription "PROVÍN. PORTUGUESA DE MOÇAMBIQUE" (before 1951: "COLÓNIA PORTUGUESA DE MOÇAMBIQUE") was substituted to a plain "MOÇAMBIQUE".
António Martins, 21 Sep 1997
The Companhia do Niassa and the Companhia de Moçambique are of relatively modern origin - 1891 and 1888 respectively. They were two of the concession companies to which the Lisbon Government devolved the administration of Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique). Companhia do Niassa covered the north of the territory; Companhia de Moçambique the central Manica and Sofala regions and a third company, the Zambezi Company, the Zambezi basin. The concession companies were wound down, I believe, during the early period of Salazar's rule in the late 1920s.
Unfortunately I know nothing about any flags these companies may have used!
Stuart Notholt, 30 May 1997
This is correct concerning the Niassa Company, which handed its territory (north of the River Lurio) back to the Portuguese Government on 27 October 1929. However, the Mozambique Company continued until the Second World War, handing its territory (between the Save and Zambezi rivers) back in January 1942. Unfortunately I also lack information on flag use, although there might just be something I can glean (not in full colour, unfortunately) from my Mozambique Company stamps. I'll have another look. I have no information on the Zambezi Company, as this company did not issue its own stamps - Portugal issued stamps for the colonies of Quelimane and Tete, and later merged them as Zambezia.
Mike Oettle, 04 Jan 2002
I do not know exactly when these companies ceased operating, but I've heard that it is related to the 1918 issue of the newly Portuguese ruled territory of the so called "Triangle of Rovuma", transferred from German East Africa to Portuguese (Mozambique) after World War I.
António Martins, 31 May 1997
image by Ant�nio Martins, 21 April 1998
image by Ant�nio Mart�ns-Tuv�lkin, 01 July 2016
The Regimental Colour of the Mozambique Provincial Military Command was a regular Portuguese military colour with the usual addition of a white scroll under the emblem containing the name of the unit. In this case, it reads �Comando Militar da Prov�ncia de Mo�ambique�, in embroidered capitals, the middle word "da" in half size.
The Provincial Military Command was in existence between 1961 until Mozambique's independence in June1975 and its main purpose was to fight the colonial war.
Ant�nio Martins, 17 June 2009
In old issues of the Diário da República one can probably locate accurate information about flags and Coat of Arms of towns and municipalities. All legislation has to be published there, and I believe that it has been the case at least since the revolution of 1910. About 20 Coats of Arms can be seen on Ralf Hartemink's site.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Feb 2005
The present day Mozambican 'Rovuma Triangle' was until 1918 part of German East Africa.
Santiago Dotor, 21 Oct 2002
At first I couldn't find it because the Stielers Handatlas of 1912 had the Rovuma river as northern border of Mozambique. In Andrees Handatlas of 1910 the Rovuma triangle is clearly visible, named "Kionga", a district known as the Kionga Triangle, northeast Mozambique, south of the Rovuma river, 1,000 km2. Kionga town had (1910) 4.000 inhabitants; formerly a part of German East Africa; occupied in 1916 by Portuguese troops, transferred to Portugal 1919. I suppose only national flags of Germany and Portugal were used in those days (although special postage stamps were issued in 1916).
Jarig Bakker, 22 Oct 2002
This is from a small reproduction of an old map made by FernãoVaz Dourado in 1576. This map reproduces the southeastern coastal areas of Africa, from southern Namibia to the easternmost tip of Somalia. It contains 9 reproductions of flags over those "city drawings" so common in the maps of that time. I drew the flags to the best of my eye resolution (the reproduction is small and some details are not obvious). I named the flags with the abbreviation of the contemporary state that occupies the respective territory. When there is more than one flag in a particular country, I added N for north, S for south and W for west. Even so, some places are dubious. The filenames and descriptions are: (Images: see this page):
- Placed in northern Mozambique is a square flag, yellow bordered in red, with five blue bezants disposed in saltire in the yellow square. This is evidently a Portuguese flag, but one I never saw before.
- Placed in southern Mozambique is another square flag, yellow bordered in blue, with a red templar cross in the yellow square. This is another Portuguese flag unknown to me.
Jorge Candeias, 15 Aug 1999


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JRA 3: MORDOR – Methods for Optimal Recovery of DNA from Osteological Remains
JRA3 will make the first attempt to develop a system for the use of very small samples (microsamples) in ancient DNA extraction from museum bone specimens. It will investigate the full range of issues arising from the use of microsamples, including the practicalities of sampling, extraction, heterogeneous DNA distribution and increased contamination risk. The success of JRA3 will open up the majority of the bone specimens that were previously not available for sampling, as they are much too valuable to permit user access. This includes type specimens, bone artefacts and very small specimens.
JRA 1 (SYNTHESYS 3) – Moving from physical to digital collections
SYNTHESYS 2 JRAs
JRA 1: PrediCtoR software tool
JRA 2: SCREENING – New Screening protocol for non-or minimal destructive analyses
JRA 4: Plants/fungi optimised DNA Extraction Techniques
JRA 5: Development of high-throughput methods for DNA isolation from invertebrates with muco-polysaccharide rich tissue
Outcomes and deliverables
A reliable and consistent DNA extraction method is fundamental to any attempt by users of museum materials to undertake advanced genetic studies. Most of the available DNA extraction methods used in palaeogenetics are based on classical lab protocols, such as solvent extraction, and include steps such as ethanol precipitation and sedimentation by centrifugation that typically result in a considerable reduction of DNA yield. Most studies employ samples of several hundred mg or more in mass. Taking into account the necessity of reproduction of the extraction experiments, and material lost during the sampling process, typically more than half a gram of sample is required. This amount is far too much for small and rare samples of cultural and scientific importance. A significant barrier to the development of better DNA extraction methods, which would enable the routine and reliable recovery of genetic material from extremely small sample volumes, is that the mechanism by which DNA is preserved in bone over long periods remains as yet unclear.
Although a range of studies of DNA extraction methods for archival bone material have been published, there has been no systematic attempt to develop a system for using micro-samples (less than 0.005g mass). While the use of completely non-invasive techniques has been discussed, this is only practical for samples which are small enough to be completely immersed in extraction buffer. Further, the microstructural effects of such extraction are unknown, but are thought likely to significantly reduce the long-term mechanical properties of the material. Micro-sampling by high speed drilling is a more attractive option to maintain the aesthetic, morphometric and mechanical properties of small and culturally valuable specimens. The overall objectives of JRA3 are to:
Generate baseline data on the use of minimally-destructive bone sampling techniques for application in genetic studies of museum archive-held material
Improve our understanding of the location and stabilisation of DNA in bone, to develop optimal methods for DNA recovery, pre-screening and decay modelling
Provide Users with an improved protocol for the recovery of pre-amplified DNA from extremely small sample volumes
Experimental assessment of the minimal sample size for which it is realistic and feasible to conduct DNA successful extraction
The extent to which these extremely small volumes of bone, can be recovered "in the field", cleaned for removal of contaminant DNA, museum consolidants or preservatives, and processed for DNA extraction is unknown. JRA3 will work with a range of material from museum specimens and with previously characterised material, in order to develop a best-practice method for minimally-invasive sampling.
Protocols for the extraction of highly degraded DNA from human or hominid specimens
The risk of contamination by archaeologists, curators, anthropologists, or simply the museum environment must be taken into account. There are already several protocols that describe the appropriate anti-contamination measurements, but still a completely human-contamination-free ancient DNA extraction protocol has not been developed. Therefore, JRA3 will work on the improvement of decontamination protocols for human samples.
A completely new light on this contamination issue is thrown by the possibility of applying 454 sequencing on ancient DNA. This new technique is expected to become a standard in palaeogenetics within the life of SYNTHESYS. Though it does not change the number and rate of contaminating molecules, in real terms it will make possible a far more accurate differentiation between authentic and contaminating molecule by looking at mass data generated from an ancient DNA extract or its PCR products. The decontamination procedures that we plan to develop by 36m will be used directly in the subsequent application of 454 sequencing.
Evaluation of the extent to which DNA in bone is heterogeneously distributed.
Extract DNA from multiple micro-samples of individual bones, in order to test the extent to which DNA in bone is heterogeneously distributed. The degree to which this is the case, i.e. that a single element contains DNA-rich and DNA-poor regions, is an important element in determining the utility of the micro-sampling approach and will feed back into the analysis strategy used by JRA2, and the results from JRA1.
Bone is a well described tissue, and the potential sources of DNA in bone are known. Post-mortem, it seems most likely that it is bound to the hydroxyapatite matrix, the mineral phase of the bone. It has been demonstrated that aggregations of hydroxyapatite crystals are present in most bone types, and that there appears to be organic material trapped within these crystalline aggregates. It has been proposed that these aggregate organic cores contain a useful source of uncontaminated DNA This prediction so far remains largely untested and new knowledge about this is badly needed. In order to generate this new knowledge we propose to:
Mill several bone samples and sort the resulting powder using a combination of sieving and sedimentation approaches
Sequentially bleach bone fractions to remove surface DNA
Extract the fractions and quantify the DNA in each using quantitative PCR
In this way, it should be possible to develop a profile of DNA preservation across different size fractions of the bone powder, and by reference to the known histological properties of bone, establish the micromorphological features of bone, which preserve DNA.
Development of new assay methods for the optimal recovery of DNA from bone micro-samples
Currently applied methods for DNA extraction generally rely on partially dissolving the mineral matrix and then recovering DNA from the soluble or insoluble fractions using either solvent extraction and subsequent aqueous phase concentration, or DNA-binding via chaotropic salt. Microsamples are likely to completely dissolve into aqueous solution, and may therefore require alterations to these standard protocols in order to result in sufficient DNA recovery, without co-purification of compounds inhibitory to downstream applications. JRA3 will screen a suite of approaches to establish the optimal procedure for efficient and reliable recovery of DNA, using material sampled in the first task.
Validation of the microsampling protocol will be carried out on a set of material identified by application of the protocols developed in JRA1 and JRA2.
The central direction of the work of JRA3 has been to develop a system for the use of very small samples (microsamples) in
ancient DNA extraction from museum bone specimens.
Deliverables include:
Protocol for contamination free DNA extraction from human bone for subsequent 454 sequencing reported (Deliverable 6.2 of the SYNTHESYS2 project; incorporated in the JRA2 Protocols report)
Validated, optimal DNA extraction protocol for microsamples (Deliverable 6.4)
Ancient DNA and evolution conference. 14th October 2009 – Natural History Museum, London.
For more information contact synthesys@nhm.ac.uk.
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
Biodiversity Information Standards
CSIC: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales & Real Jardin Botanico
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre
National Museum Prague
Picturae
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
Greek Research and Technology Network
Smithsonian (hosting the Global Genome Biodiversity Network)
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Hungarian Natural History Museum
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
Finnish Museum of Natural History
Digirati
National Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Royal Museum of Central Africa
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Global Genome Biodiversity Network
Museum für Naturkunde
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum
Meise Botanic Garden
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Belarusian authorities raid Russia-owned bank
People, wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, sign to support potential presidential candidates in the upcoming presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, June 14, 2020. The presidential campaign is underway in Belarus despite the coronavirus outbreak after the parliament and government refused to postpone the election scheduled for August 9. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Monday took control of a Russia-owned commercial bank that was led by a man who is now running to challenge Belarus' authoritarian leader.
President Alexander Lukashenko, who is seeking a sixth term in an Aug. 9 election, has accused Belgazprombank chief executive Viktor Babariko of corruption and called him a "scoundrel."
Babariko, who stepped down as the bank's chief to take part in the election race, denounced Sunday's searches at the bank and the arrest of its 15 executives on charges of tax evasion and money laundering as part of an intimidation campaign conducted on "political orders."
Belgazprombank is majority owned by Russia's state-run Gazprom natural gas company and Gazprombank, which is affiliated with it. The raid on the bank highlighted growing frictions between Lukashenko and the Kremllin.
The Russian owners criticized the Belarusian authorities' decision on Monday to introduce temporary administration at the bank, describing the move as a "flagrant violation" of Belarusian law and rules of the Russia-led economic alliance.
Lukashenko has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than a quarter-century, tolerating no dissent and cracking down on independent media. He has relied on cheap Russian energy and other subsidies to keep Belarus' Soviet-style economy afloat, but his relations with the Kremlin have grown increasingly tense in recent years.
Lukashenko has accused the Kremlin of trying to force Belarus to abandon its post-Soviet independence and vowed to resist the pressure.
The presidential vote comes as the Belarusian economy is facing damage from the coronavirus pandemic. Belarus has been one of the few countries that hasn't shut its borders and didn't impose any restrictions to stem the outbreak.
As the election approaches, authorities have intensified a crackdown on the opposition, detaining about 100 opposition activists across the country, including popular blogger Sergei Tikhanovski, who was collecting signatures for his wife's nomination as a presidential candidate.
Nikolai Statkevich, a prominent opposition leader who was due to be released Monday after serving a 15-day sentence for taking part in a protest against Lukashenko, was handed another 15-day sentence.
"The economic crisis and a sharp drop in ratings caused by the authorities' actions during the pandemic made Lukashenko nervous and prompted him to show his fist right at the start of the campaign," said Alexander Klaskovsky, a Minsk-based independent political analyst.


by Mike Hibberd -- "The main auditorium was at capacity yesterday morning for the keynotes; delegates who arrived more than a moment late had to be content with watching the presentations piped through to big screens in the seminar rooms. Obviously people were keen to catch the words of business wisdom they were expecting to drip from the mouth of Virgin frontman Richard Branson. Those in search of the Bransons roadshow weren't disappointed, but for once the big man had his thunder stolen- by science fiction author Douglas Adams. Adams' turn was as close to stand-up comedy as it was to traditional conference presentation and you wouldn't have wanted to be Worldzap CEO Brad Kwong, who had the dubious task of following the author.
"Before any of these took to the podium, though, GSM Association chairman Jim Healy did his piece, singing the praises of the standard. One in ten of the world's population will be a GSM user by the end of the year, he said, following on from the reassurance from that GSM is very much thriving in the US. Voicestream, he reported, now has licences covering 97 percent of the US population. Healy then fulfilled what appears to be a contractual obligation for GSMA keynotes and made a half-hearted stab at baiting the handset manufacturers. Recalling George Schmidt's famous performance(s) he told them they should be ashamed of themselves. But it's doubtful they were quaking; it was a tepid reprimand delivered with none of the schoolmaster's thunder that characterised Schmidt's rants.


The third dimension tends to have a linear perspective. Some situations may appear to be an either-or decision, while others have variations in between the two opposites. For example, between black and white are varying shades of gray. Between day and night are varying degrees of sunlight.
Another difference in opinion can occur when you and someone else are looking at a situation from a different angle. For example, you may see a large stone building. From one angle, it appears cold and imposing, while another angle may show delicate details carved into the stone that invite you to explore the interior. Two people can see the same structure but have differing ideas depending on the angle of their view.
The same linear perspective can occur when looking at issues such as love and fear. The point at which you or someone else is standing on a linear dimension can determine whether you view something with love or with fear.
However, when you rise to a higher vantage point that occurs at a multidimensional perspective, the seemingly insurmountable differences take on a very different appearance.
In the previous example of the large stone structure, when it is viewed from a higher, multidimensional perspective, you can see both the massive size as well as the intricate details. You are able to view the strength of the structure as well as the carved details that invite you to come closer. You have gained a new perspective by moving to a multidimensional approach.
In the case of love and fear, when you move to a multidimensional level, you are able to see that fear may be caused by a lack of understanding of the situation and what it means for you. It allows you to see all angles from a higher perspective, and you are able to see how the situation can be approached in different ways. It does not mean you will automatically change your viewpoint. It simply means that you view it from a higher perspective and see the implications from a broader scope.
Focusing on a multidimensional level could be compared to using a microscope and a telescope. When you focus multidimensionally, you can zoom in on the smallest details and then zoom out and upward to gain a larger perspective.
From a spiritual perspective, looking at situations from a multidimensional approach allows you to see the varying degrees that occur. You are able to see both the challenges and opportunities of a situation. What may appear insurmountable on a linear dimension may appear less daunting when viewed from a higher perspective. You may see the positives of a possible outcome, or you may see that your efforts will not help you achieve what you had hoped for and that your energy could be better devoted to another direction.
You may also find that your qualities of love, compassion, and understanding increase when you focus multidimensionally because you are able to see many sides and viewpoints of a situation. You may find yourself pausing and considering all angles before reacting. Your awareness is expanded, and you are vibrating at a higher frequency, which attracts similar higher frequencies to you.
When you ask for the highest and best for all concerned, your Light expands and radiates out across the great web of creation.
The farther you progress on your ascension path, the higher you will rise on the great spiral of ascension and the more you will have a multidimensional viewpoint. As you set your focus and intention to be multidimensional, you will find yourself looking at the bigger picture, and you will be lifted upward on your ascension path.
Beloveds, we are happy that you are focusing on a multidimensional perspective. We are with you as you practice this uplifting approach.