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In April, 2011, I started working out. When your feet swell on a warm day, you can make excuses. When your heart is racing a full hour after attempting to run for the first time since high school, there is a definite problem. The only thing I changed in my eating habits was I made myself eat consistently. Every three hours, I ate a little bit. If someone tells you that there is no such thing as your body going into "starvation mode", because you don't eat Enough to jumpstart your metabolism, just smile and nod. These days, I am half the size I was.
The first few weeks, I tried running on a local track. It was there, I decided "runner's high" must be similar to the feeling of invincibility meth users have. Mostly, brought on by the lack of oxygen running to the brain.
Humour. This is what I use the most. The basic rule is, set up, set up, twist. When I originally posted this here, in June, 2011, I took a few ideas of what I had done, what I could do, and exaggerated 1000%. Ed is a real person. But, he lives too far away to stalk him in person. 🙂
He did give a great bit of advice when I realized I was ungrowing my clothes, but the number on the scale never budged. "What do I do? Do I need more cardio? More water? What?"
His response, "Stop looking at the scale."
A few months ago I decided that my exercise routine should consist of a little more than keeping my fingers toned, while looking at the television. I figured it would be nice to identify my body as having some kind of shape, rather than looking like a puzzling piece of abstract art.
Running was my first thought. After all, how many people finish a 5k by rolling themselves down the street, like a bowling ball? So, I bought my running shoes and put on my running clothes. Then, returned the running clothes, because I haven't bought running shorts, since I was a young girl, and the size was like wearing thong underwear.
What I learned that first afternoon was all about runner's high'. I am very sure it is the same feeling that convinces meth addicts they are invincible. Because, as I pushed myself and my legs became as wobbly as Jello, I continued running. Ten minutes later, some other joggers stopped to ask if I was okay. For some reason, they thought I was having convulsions. After they helped me up off the ground, I vowed not to run, ever again.
Dancing was my next option. I remembered enjoying dancing a lot when I was younger. This time I was not even going to attempt to try on my old dance gear. I might be lucky if I could squeeze my dog's body into that tiny leotard, let alone, myself.
During my first lesson, I felt wonderful. It was like I had never stopped dancing. Looking up at the mirror, I knew I looked like a movie star. You have seen the scene in Fantasia, where the hippo dances? That was me. Maybe it would have even worked out better if I hadn't insisted I could lead the lessons, myself. For some reason, dance teachers are touchy about any offered help.
Finally, I met Ed. He works out at my local gym. He was very nice for the first week. He talked to me about proper form and even helped lift the barbell off my chest,. He seems like a shy kind of fellow, so instead of coming right out and saying he wanted me to be his exercise partner, he told me about how important it was to always have a spotter. But, I could read beyond the lecture.
I have spent every moment at the gym following Ed around. Even learned his routine. When he wasn't coming out as often as he used to, I checked around and found out that sly boy had been testing out a new gym we could work out at together. You should have seen how surprised and happy he was when I showed up. I am sure I saw tears in his eyes.
As time has gone on, I suppose he has been feeling a bit overshadowed by my progress. He shouldn't feel bad. I think he looks like a nicely built young man. When I asked him to poke my stomach, so he can feel my rock hard abs, he turned green and walked away. I suppose the envy was just too much for him.
Sadly, the summer will bring an end to our exercise duo. I plan on spending more time at the pool this summer, showing off my results in my brand new itsy bitsy bikini.
Don't be too jealous. I am sure Ed will be needing a new exercise partner to work out with,


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Mamuka Kirkitadze National Security AnalystFollow him on Twitter: @bukakirkitadze Trump's decision to leave Iran's nuclear deal was no surprise to anyone. During the pre-election campaign, he said that in case of the presidency, he would definitely look over Iran's nuclear accord and would try to make it more effective. Many were skeptical about this promise, many experts thought that with the efforts of European allies, the US could maintain anRead more

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Melanie Houston, Drinking Water Director, April 1, 2014
The Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters, Columbus Fire Fighters Local 67, and the Ohio Environmental Council are joining forces in calling attention to chemical fire retardants and their relationship to increasing cancer rates in fire fighters and health problems in children.
Chemical flame retardants, once thought to be important fire safety tools, are now known to be toxic and to release carcinogens when they burn. This has resulted in a higher incidence of cancer in the fire fighter community, and health problems for children.
In Columbus and across the nation today, fire fighters and health leaders are urging immediate action on toxic chemicals as a part of the GIVE TOXICS THE BOOT campaign.
More than 20 events have been organized around the country, many occurring simultaneously today, to honor fire fighters who have passed away from occupational related illnesses, some linked to toxic chemical exposure.
The events are paired with local screenings of the HBO documentary Toxic Hot Seat., see details, below, for local screenings.
Decades worth of scientific research shows toxic chemicals, like flame retardants, are linked to health problems including cancer and hormone-disruption and are harmful to the developing brain. Scientific studies have shown fire fighters have an increased cancer risk compared to the normal population due to onsite exposures to toxic chemicals and gasses.
"Children have been found to have flame retardant levels in their bodies that are 3 times higher than the levels found in their mothers," stated Laura Distelhorst, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Parent. "Cancer rates in children have grown by 20% since 1975 and learning disabilities are skyrocketing. Innocent children should not have to be exposed to such toxic chemicals at the expense of their health."
"Fire fighters face the danger associated with our profession every day in communities across Ohio," commented Mark Sanders, OAPFF President. "Conventional wisdom told us we could see and feel those dangers: flames, heat, collapse of buildings. These toxic flame retardants are poisoning us in ways we often times can't see or feel and certainly in ways never anticipated."
The goal of this national movement is to communicate to lawmakers that chemicals should be proven safe before ending up in our homes and building materials, to protect the health of American families and first responders. While 11 states are considering policies on toxic flame retardants in their legislatures, Ohio's legislature has been silent on this issue.
"Fire fighters and children have in common a heightened exposure to chemical flame retardants in our home environments," stated Melanie Houston, Director of Environmental Health at the Ohio Environmental Council. "We need strong federal and state laws on toxic chemicals, laws that protect our most vulnerable populations, including infants, children and fire fighters. Unfortunately the most recent bill introduced in the U.S. House, the Chemicals in Commerce Act, does not do this."
Organizers of the event hope to raise public awareness about the issue of toxic flame retardants, fire fighters' unique exposures and the need for strong government leadership for effective regulation of toxic chemicals.
Participating states: AK, CA, DC, FL, ME, MA, MI, MN, NY, NC, OH, PA, UT, VT, WA
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It's often very hectic to copy the entire DVD of windows 7 as ISO and buying a new DVD and then write the DVD to make the copy of Windows 7 bootable disk. Especially when one of your DVD is about to get scratch and again and again you are doing the same. Now a day everyone of us must having the USB flash drive of generally 2,4,8,16 GB. So here you can learn how to boot your computer from USB flash drive of minimum 4 GB.
Don't worry i am not going to give you download link of any application that may or may not work with all type of ISO, as i also faced such problem. You can make the windows 7 bootable from just few commands in the command prompt only. All you need is the ISO or all the files or copy of DVD of windows 7 and Administrator right in your system.
While there are many tools to make bootable USB drive, there's one provided by even Microsoft, there's a way to do the same without any software. All you need to do is fire up Command Prompt and follow some simple instructions. Let's take a look at it:
Create Bootable USB without any software on Windows 10:
- Insert your USB flash drive to your computer.
- Search for 'cmd' in Windows 10 from the taskbar, Command Prompt will appear. Alternatively, you can also open the Command Prompt by pressing windows+R at the same time and typing in 'cmd' in the 'Run' window and hitting enter.
- Right click on Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator' in case you have searched for cmd in the Windows 10 Taskbar.
- Once the Command Prompt window appears, type diskpart and hit enter. Wait until the diskpart utility runs in another window.
- In the new diskpart window, type list disk and hit enter. It will show you all active disks on your computer.
Most probably, you will see two Disk types.
- Disk 0 for hard drive and,
- Disk 1 for your USB Flash Drive with its total capacity.
Since we are going to work on to create bootable USB drive, we will work with Disk 1.
- Type select disk 1 in the same windows and hit Enter. You will get a message 'Disk 1 is now the selected disk'. That means, any further operation that you do will affect your disk 1 directly.
- Type clean and hit Enter to remove all of the data in the USB drive. Clean command will format your bootable drive. You will get a message like 'Diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk'.
- Type create partition primary and hit Enter. You will get a message like Diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
- Type select partition 1 and hit Enter. It will choose partition 1 for setting up it as an active partition.
- Type active and hit Enter. It will activate the current partition.
- Type format fs=ntfs quick and hit Enter. This command will format your current partition as NTFS file system quickly.
- Type exit and hit Enter. Exit command will close the Diskpart program. But do not close the command prompt Windows.
Copying files from an ISO image on your PC/DVD to USB manually:
Now all you need to do open the files inside the DVD or ISO file, copy it and paste inside USB manually. This will make your USB drive bootable.
Copying files from a DVD to USB using CMD:
Let us assume that the USB drive is the G: drive and the DVD installer is located on drive E:. And, you also have inserted a DVD inside the DVD drive from where you want to copy the data to create a bootable USB drive.
By default, Command Prompt's active directory for Administrator permission is on C:WindowsSystem32>. We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (E:) as its active directory. Remember there should be a DVD inside DVD installer.
- Just type E: then hit Enter, and then the active directory is changed to E.
- Type cd boot and hit Enter. Now the active directory is changed to E:boot>
- Type bootsect /nt60 g: and hit Enter. It will create the boot sector on G: drive (USB Flash drive).
- Type exit and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt.
Until this step, we have been successfully able to create a bootable USB drive and the flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.
To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole installation files contained on the DVD installer to the USB flash drive.
- To do this, open the Command Prompt as in previous steps.
- Once the command prompt is open, type copy e:*.* /s/e/f g: and then press Enter. Wait until all the files in the DVD installer are copied onto the flash drive. Please double check the drive letter of your USB and DVD. Here, here de is the drive letter of the DVD drive that holds the Windows DVD, g is the drive letter that you assigned to the external USB Stick.
Now bootable USB drive is ready to be used for installing Windows from the Flash drive and you're done.


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About Maddy…
Hey there, welcome to Maddy 's blog! 🙂
I'm an eighteen-year-old guy, "studying" in a Uni, who has an interest in various things, particularly music.
In the world outside, people don't understand what I say because I speak way too fast and also in an unclear voice… or at least they act they as though they can't understand as most become jealous over my accent. Well, sorry to you guys but I can't change my accent and I DON'T want to anyway.
Most of the times, it so happens that my views on certain things are peculiar, to be a more specific, broader oriented aspect. I have this habit of reading books of all types (excluding academical-related textbooks as I find them teaching nothing essential with respect to what I do) so I guess that has its effect.
There's something new that I keep learning from time to time. There's no "how" on finding something to learn, if I see something that interests me, I try to learn about it. So based on what I learn, I post articles on my blog page, Let's talk.
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The folks at Food Network's food-truck reality show Eat St. have reached out to food bloggers across the country, hoping they'll help get out the vote for local trucks competing for a spot on the show. There are four trucks from the Dallas/Fort Worth area competing for a spot among 51 others from around the country.
To follow are the truckers who had the guts/Flip cams/time to submit videos, with links to their videos where you can vote for your favorites. Try not to accidentally vote for non-local Aphrodisiac Ice Cream, which has a half-naked chick in its video. Focus. Stay strong!
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The five trucks with the most votes will win the Fan Favourite award (because for some reason this show about American street food is from Food Network Canada?) and will be eligible for the grand prize, which is a segment on the Eat St series. Voting started last Thursday and will continue through the end of January, with winners announced February 10. You can vote once per day, so you know what to do.
(Update: Over the weekend it looked like So-Cal and Nammi were neck-and-neck around 100 votes, but now Ruthie's is kicking ass with over 300!)


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These records document the history of the department from its early years to the present. Materials include office files, scrapbooks, subject files, photographs, student files, and record books. Also included are financial records of various sports teams, rosters, game photographs and printed material. Some material is restricted. Please consult with a reference archivist for further details.
These records document the history of the Athletics Association through by-laws, meeting minutes, officer notes, and files on programs offered by the organization.View Finding Aid
Dorothy Sears Ainsworth, Smith College class of 1916 served as the Director of Physical Education at Smith College between 1926-1960. She was actively involved in organizations interested in advancing the physical education of women, including the Eastern Association of Directors of Physical Education for College Women, the National Association of Directors of Physical Education for College Women, and most notably, a founding member of the International Association of Physical Education and Sports for Girls and Women. Dorothy S. Ainsworth died in 1976.
The Papers contain correspondence, photographs, publications and speeches, and records of the various organizations for which she served on the Board of Directors, including the IAPESGW (1947-1973), the American Academy of Physical Education (1967-1973), the International Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (1960-1973), and the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, (1958-1969).View Finding Aid
Senda Berenson Abbott (b. Senda Valvrojenski, March 19, 1868, Vilna, Lithuania; d. Feb. 16, 1954), as Director of the Gymnasium and Instructor of Physical Culture at Smith College, introduced the first rules of women's basketball and organized the first women's college basketball game. Trained at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, Berenson was hired at Smith in January 1892. At Smith Berenson instituted an effective program of Swedish gymnastics, which was supplemented by organized athletic contests in sports such as volleyball, fencing, field hockey and basketball, all intended to build character in her female students. She believed in strict and careful supervision of all activities and in offering "the most for the most," i.e., including young women of all skill levels in the program rather than devoting her time to a small group of highly skilled students. This philosophy resulted in a policy at Smith College to favor a strong intramural program over interscholastic athletic competition.
The Papers include biographical materials, writings, publications and photographs of Berenson, and subject files relating to her work at Smith.View Finding Aid
The Papers contain materials relating to Newhof's career at Smith College as teacher, coach, and administrator of intramural athletics between 1948-1991. This collection is unprocessed and some of this material may be restricted. Please consult with a reference archivist for information about accessing these records.
The Papers contain research materials for her dissertation, Dorothy S. Ainsworth:Her Life, Professional Career, and Contributions to Physical Education.
There are subject files relating to physical education and sports iThe College Archives has general files on athletics, Senda Berenson, physical education. The Sophia Smith Collection has a large collection of printed materials, including articles, newspaper clippings, reports, biographical articles, subject files relating to physical education, sports and women's health.
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Many college publications are useful for researching physical education and sports at Smith. The College Circular/Bulletin provides information about the curriculum over time; lists faculty members of the departments; lists requirements of students and provides general academic information about the College. The Smith Alumnae Quarterly over the years has printed articles about the history of physical education at Smith, as has the Smith College Monthly. In addition, letters written by women to their parents, family, and friends often contain references to college life, including sports. While there is no index to these letters, many of them are found in the Class Records--Alumnae Biographical files. Additionally, information about faculty members in the Department of Physical Education and Department of Athletics may be found in the Faculty Biographical Files. The Athletics files of the Class Records also contain general information about sports at Smith.


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The first coin design by sculptor Mary Milner Dickens was the 50p of 1992-1993 celebrating the United Kingdom's presidency of the European Council of Ministers and the completion of the Single Market. Her characteristically thoughtful designs were also chosen for the 50p of 2000 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act, the crown of 2001 marking the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria and the 50p of 2003 for the centenary of the foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union. Medal commissions include the emotive Battle of Britain 50th anniversary medal of 1990 and the Royal Mint's Fleur de Coin Club medal issued in 1994.
As a sculptor her versatility is founded upon the broad education she received at a number of eminent institutions during the 1950s and 1960s. She acquired the traditional skills of modelling, carving, drawing and lettering at the Royal College of Art and Leicester College of Art, while her time studying for a Masters degree in Fine Art at Cornell University in the United States exposed her to a variety of new technological processes and alternative media. She also spent two years at the British School in Rome and won the prestigious Prix de Rome for Sculpture in 1957.
She has received numerous commissions to provide work for public and private collections both at home and abroad, including a fifty-foot concrete mural for a grammar school in Berkshire and plate designs for the Silver Trust National Collection based in Downing Street.


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Sometimes it feels like everyone has a "first bra" story. For what's supposed to be a milestone, there really isn't a uniform response to the experience. In this week's But Make It Fashion roundtable, we asked our team: How did you come to own your first bra, and what was it like to get it? How'd you feel about it? What did it mean to you?
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But my first bra was a sports bra surely made from the thinest piece of material possible, as it was holding up nothing. The first time I got my period my mom just handed me a box of tampons and said there were "instructions inside" with zero mention of it again for the rest of my or her life, so I'm sure the reason...
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- Islamic Manuscript Tradition in Sub-Saharan Africa and the African Diaspora
- Islam and Politics in the Post-Soviet Space
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- Islamic Mass Media in the Near East and in Russia: History, Perspective, Ideology
- Islam: A Universe of Ideas
- History of the Expansion of Islam in East and South Africa
- Religion and Philosophy in Asia and Africa: The Middle East
- Islamic Corporation and Corporate Governance
- The Muslim East in Russian Orientalism: The Rise and Evolution of the Discourse
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I like the "litter.". It's a REAL home not a model home. There's a reason I love The Velveteen Rabbit… 🙂
Love it…makes me laugh! Only Daddy's seem to think up things like that! Yay for daddy's and thier patients with little children!
Yes. We moms simply cannot even hope to attain to the "fun status" that Daddy alone holds.
In my experience, Dad comes up with the cool games and Mom is the one making everyone clean up… so unfair. 🙂
I'm so glad you still posted the picture with the liter. It makes the picture even better: willing to put aside the desire/idol of a neat and orderly house to instead delight in those precious babies God has given you and James! God's grace is evident!


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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
|Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang : vol.1
|新疆の考古学的調査 : vol.1
Three fragments from one and the same bronze mirror are seen on Pl. 30 : 20. This mirror is of "the hundred nipples, stars and clouds" type, which first appears in the earlier Han dynasty.
Two small fragments from the thickened rim of mirrors (K. 13379 : 14 and K. 13409) may be of about the same date as the one first mentioned — at least they cannot be older. One has the border decorated with a double "saw tooth" pattern like Pl. 28: I, though smaller.
STEIN collected three complete and twenty-six fragmentary bronze mirrors in the Lop-nor region. Eleven of the total number come from the Lou-lan station. Among his reproductions there are for instance three TLV-mirrors, one with "four animal design", two or three of the same type as our Pl. 28 : 2 and one with a lapidary inscription with eight characters reading: "When you see the light of the sun the world is very bright" quite a common sentence on inscribed mirrors.' A study of the originals might reveal more types. Those mentioned above were corn-mon in the Han dynasty. Most of them seem to be small, and as far as can be judged from the illustrations they are of about the same quality as ours. These relics acquire antiquarian interest from the fact that they are no doubt importations from China proper. The fragment No. 8 : 3 seems to be from a small, plain mirror, which may be of local make.
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The bronze buckle Pl. 30 : I was found by HÖRNER in the southern part of the Lop desert. I have reproduced it once bef ore (BMFEA 7 Fig. 7) and labelled it as belonging to the nomad style bronzes. The hook projecting from the front part of the rim is large, but curiously enough turned "inwards" instead of "outwards" as in ordinary cases. This shape might be partly due to wear ; because of the thick verdigris it is impossible to get any definite impression of possible damage. There are
1 It is rather interesting to find that a small Chinese bronze mirror which has been excavated from a South Russian barrow is of the same type as this Lou-lan mirror and carries the same inscription (Ebert's Reallexikon 13, Taf. 4o C, and Stein 1928, Pl. XXIV, L. C. 013). A certain number of Chinese jade objects (fittings for sword sheaths) also reached Sarmatian South Russia (Ebert's Reallex. 13, Taf. 4o D f). Besides Chinese silk stuffs found in a Crimean tomb not posterior to the first century A. D. and the Chinese silks excavated in Palmyra from tombs not posterior to the third century we know of a couple of most interesting cases of Chinese exports from the time of the existence of Lou-lan. In the Dane John at Canterbury, England, a bronze vessel of the type Hu with Huai style decoration has been dug up (Ashton & Gray, Pl. 14) and another Huai style Hu was found in Rome (Vessberg in BMFEA 9). Both are good specimens and real pieces of art, and their presence in Europe at the beginning of our era goes to prove that the Chinese exported not only silk stuffs but also other art products, such as were in demand e. g. by the Romans. Some finds of Chinese wares in graves dating from the Roman time are said to have been made long ago in the region of the Rhine. None of the objects is preserved, and it is doubtful if we have here to deal with an ancient import of Chinese goods. A pottery vase depicted in Bonner Jahrbücher XV (1850) Taf. III : 1 cannot be of such a great age. LAUFER has drawn attention to several of these ancient but uncertain finds (Globus July loth 1905 ; reviewed in TP 1905, pp. 511 f).
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Initially developed for the military, the WD is a compact, rugged full-color display with integral controls for remote on-the-move operations.
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Here is a healthy 207-calorie version of this tasty main course, prepared with whole wheat flour and low-calorie mozzarella cheese. The cannelloni sheets, stuffed with spinach and low-fat paneer, radiates a distinctive feel, further accentuated by the lovely topping of freshly prepared tomato sauce. Though tedious to prepare, this is a brilliant one dish meal to try your hand at occasionally. Cannelloni recipe - How to make Cannelloni Tags Italian Veg PastaCasseroles and BakesOne Dish Vegetarian MealsBakedBoiledChristmasThanksgiving Preparation Time: 20 mins   Cooking Time: 8 mins   Baking Time: 15 minutes Baking Temperature: 200°C (400°F) Total Time: 43 mins     Makes 4 serves Show me for serves Ingredients For The Cannelloni Sheets1/2 cup whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta)1 tsp oil salt to taste whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta) for rollingTo Be Mixed Into A Stuffing1 1/4 cups blanched and finely chopped spinach (palak)1 1/2 tsp finely chopped green chillies1/2 cup crumbled low-fat paneer (cottage cheese) salt to tasteFor The Tomato Sauce1 tsp oil1/2 cup finely chopped onions1/2 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste1 1/4 cups fresh tomato pulp2 pinches of sugar1/2 tsp chilli powder1/2 tsp dried oregano salt to tasteOther Ingredients whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta) for rolling1 cup low-calorie white sauce2 tbsp grated mozzarella cheese Method For the cannelloni sheetsFor the cannelloni sheetsCombine the whole wheat flour, ½ tsp of oil and salt in a deep bowl and knead into a soft dough using enough water.Divide the dough into 8 equal portions and roll each portion into a 100 mm. 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Influenza is now categorized as geographically widespread in our county and across the state. It is not too late to get your flu shot. Anyone who has not received a flu vaccine, and has a valid Upstate ID badge, is strongly encouraged to visit Employee Health on either campus to receive the vaccine. Appointments are preferred. All employees should be mindful of mask requirements, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and appropriate use of sick time.
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ABSTRACT: The transformation of international economic relations after the Cold War has brought novelties in the field of strategic positioning, primarily in the domain of positioning of the states. After the period of transition, and due to the consequences of the global economic crisis, the importance of an exact and lasting definition of the strategic position of the Republic of Serbia, are proved to be done. The current crisis of society, i.e. of statehood, has shown the necessity of having a clear definition of the two most important dimensions of strategic positioning: the uniqueness of offer and the specificity of position. One of the integral solutions is to establish its Global Positioning Strategy. Without a GPS for the next fifty years, Serbia will not be successful in harmonizing its potentials with its target goals. Without a professionally defined diagnosis of the current situation in the country, further positioning is not possible. Right now, when knowledge and innovation determine the economic advantages in the modern world, there is too little innovation and a lack of a competitive intelligence network in Serbia which could initiate internal development. Without a clear perception, we will not rise to a stable international position. Without a Global Positioning Strategy, a lasting, successful and sustainable position of Serbia cannot be achieved.
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At the moment when the repositioning of Serbia in contemporary international relations requires serious efforts and hard work, one of the integral solutions is to establish its Global Positioning Strategy. Positioning is not what you have done for your product; positioning is what you have done about the perception of your product in the consumer's mind. The concept of GPS by itself can be defined as development and support to private and state-owned assets, governmental or military relationships, and business agreements with foreign countries positioned at key global strategic points, either independently or in multilateral arrangements, for the purpose of accumulating information, influence, power and technological expertise1. We can freely say that, today, the positioning strategy is far more present than it can be noticed by simply observing the market. Today, when the senses of sight and sound of average adults are exposed to roughly 100,000 words outside of their daily job, it is not easy to draw attention and leave a trace so that tomorrow your country may become their personal choice for investments, tourism, culture, education, sports or politics. Another trait of human attention is its short span (Bon 2009). These two premises have resulted in the fact that the positioning strategy, which combines the features of the differentiation strategy (how to be different from one's competitors) and the segmentation strategy (how to design the best offer for one's chosen target group) became dominant in the last three decades, in comparison to all other strategies, when human perception is concerned.
This is an explanation and key reasons why today we have achieved full success in designing of different positioning concepts concerning different effects, results and dimensions of globalization. When answering the question of how to position ourselves in the eyes of our own citizens and citizens of other countries through Personal Positioning Concept, Organization Positioning Concept or Country Positioning Concept, how to make both our market and our natural beauties more attractive, we can reach out for countless techniques of country image creating and country branding. All these are the final outcome of strategic positioning, from the perception in the message creator's mind to the perception in the message receiver's mind. The better we know a citizen's habits, customs, trends, ways of making decisions, aspirations, perceptions and understanding of matters, the more success a positioning strategy will have.
Today, we have a lot of different, unique and successful examples of global positioning of countries. Brazil is successfully marketing itself as a reformist nation with a global environmental model —"the lungs of the planet" and the home of the Rio Earth Summit. It is a leader in biofuels, it is willing to protect the Amazon and it plays a prominent role in climate change negotiations. Now Brazil is exporting its expertise in fighting social inequality and agricultural development to the world. The GPS panel has heard many times how Australia plays a bigger role on the world stage by focusing its efforts where it can make a difference, how Switzerland benefits from positioning itself as a country which is part of Europe but not constrained by the EU rules, and how Norway — an energy-producing nation dedicated to a green-energy future, the hard-headed pursuit of social justice, and peace in the world at large — is the new Canada.
The GPS comparison reflects our belief that the digital age is different from anything before, in the way that it creates new knowledge networks and alters the traditional balance of power of relationships. Although the world is increasingly multipolar, it is also more interdependent than ever; information is accessible by individuals and groups without the filter of diplomats or journalists. We are in a period of extraordinarily fast changes and global power shifts. Nobody can predict a future which is being written on the fly. But we can and must influence the direction where it is heading and develop the strategies and policies needed to best position ourselves in going forward. The current crisis of society, i.e. of statehood, has shown the necessity of having a clear definition of the two most important dimensions of strategic positioning: the uniqueness of offer and the specificity of position.
I think that Serbs would like Serbia to become the new Serbia. It will take ambition and seriousness of intent, a lot of hard work and clear goals. The Serbian people need to decide where Serbia wants to be and how to get there. We cannot sit on the sidelines as the world moves on.
Only with the joint forces of the government, the corporations, the media, the military, the NGOs and the academia can we find the right direction. In today's time of extremely fast changes and globalizations, strategies, which are usually made for a period of twenty five to fifty years, became one of the most difficult challenges for the state policy. The strategies are at the same time, equally challenging and necessary. A fierce competition for resources - energy, minerals, water and food - is taking shape on a global scale. It is exactly these new perceptive dimensions of sustainable development that dictate the global positioning strategies.
Our Global Positioning Strategy is meant to elaborate in detail where Serbia, as a country, is situated at the moment, and determine how we can best reach our optimum destination. Let's be clear: if we know where we are going, there is no need for GPS navigation; if we do not sure, there is. The same goes for our Global Positioning Strategy.
Diagnosis Phase
The global economic crisis and the worsening of numerous tensions in regional geopolitics are making the fate of our world more and more uncertain with each passing day. In such a context, the competing strategies among countries, in relation to all their potential resources and wealth, are put in the focus of international relations. The rivalry between countries is escalating, and only if we apply careful analysis and wisely choose our priorities will we create comparative advantages that will be the right choice for us.
It is well known that a strategy clearly defines the ways and means to achieve the set objectives, and that it is not, as we can often notice in Serbia - a wish list or a castle on a cloud. In this time of crisis, only through joint efforts, well aware of the challenges set before us, can we achieve significant results that will lead us to a successful long-term economic recovery and development. We need to understand that challenges of the future of humanity, and thus challenges that Serbia is facing, will lead to continuous observation of the changes occurring in the world. Proper elimination of obstacles, pointing to the correct paths, coordination and integrated approach of all efforts in the country, can result in attracting necessary investments.
Managing a market position implies determining the image and market positions of competitive countries. Research on the image should discover how the multitude of impressions related to your regions or your country as a whole are organized in people's minds. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the dimensions for evaluating the phenomena we are examining – the stimuli, as a first step in the phase of diagnosis. After the research, the analyses of these stimuli will serve as the basis for the Perceptual Map, the first map in establishing the appropriate foundation for a high quality GPS.
Concretely, strategic thinking in any context involves the identification of a set of issues, the selection and/or development of an appropriate conceptual framework for assessing these issues and identifying potential courses of action, measuring key variables, and selecting courses of action. We need to analyze all the information required to define the geographical scope of industries, the competitive advantage of countries (regions) and their implications for the location of activities, and the appropriate trade-offs between local responsiveness and global integration of different activities in the value chain. International strategic thinking, as the basis for a high quality GPS, requires frameworks for the following levels of analysis: the geographical scope of the relevant industry, the attractiveness of various locations as markets, sources of factor inputs or strategic competencies, and the overall competitive advantage afforded by various locations, the sustainability of internationalization as a (dimension of) competitive strategy for a particular entity (region), the degree of global integration and local focus of activities or processes.
All the levels of analysis identified above play a role in the overall strategic process. Often, this process is depicted hierarchically as "zooming in" from the most macro to the most micro perspectives, or, on a temporal scale, from positioning to implementation. In practice, the process is more simultaneous and chaotic, since changes in opportunities or threats may appear at any of the levels, triggering a new round of strategic assessment. Nevertheless, it is useful to present the frameworks as a simple hierarchy from industry structure, location-based advantage, and the various dimensions of internationalization of the targeted companies, or regions. In addition, before we proceed with any new state interventions in defining new strategic guidelines, we should answer the question of what was wrong with the previous institutions, instruments and programs, why they failed to produce results, and what will be different now.
In order to obtain the right results, since the very beginning certain principles should be set, which will serve as the basis for the creation of the action plans. One of the best examples whose system should be taken into consideration in the first stage of defining the Serbian GPS is the so-called Canadian model of GPS principles. These are the following:
A proactive analysis of the events at the global scale is also needed – this means that certain countries, when drafting their GPS strategies, use analytical teams for the precise detection of GPS priorities of other countries, some of which being their direct competitors on the world map, and some of which being their important strategic partners. One of the best examples of such practice is the American analysis of China's GPS, which is well explained by Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. in his text Better Analysis Needed:
It is extremely important for U.S. and Western analysts to identify emerging geostrategic alliances and trends in a timely fashion to provide a solid basis for the formulation of meaningful hypotheses. This process allows for the targeted development and implementation of a unified response to confront any menacing GPS strategy. This proactive approach requires individual, group and organizational analysis, research and interaction using a blend of creativity, intuition, and imagination to connect the "global dots" allowing a clear pattern of China's global behavior to emerge. In any evaluation of China's unique GSP strategy, analysts must ask several questions. First, why are particular countries or organizations involved with China? Second, what does China gain or lose by entering into a specific agreement and how does it impact the country's overall GSP strategy? Third, what is the historical context in which agreements are made? Fourth, is the political climate; leadership ideology and overall sentiment of a particular country or organization involved with China favorable toward current U.S. foreign policy initiatives? Finally, what does a country cooperating with Beijing possess, such as natural resources, seaports and technology that could assist China?
If the Republic of Serbia is among the very few countries around the world that have signed Strategic Partnership Agreement with the People's Republic of China at the highest state level, such an analysis of relations would certainly produce the appropriate guidelines for a better perception of the Serbian market in the eyes of Chinese investors, and vice versa.
One of the best examples of this approach is the publication called S&T plans of six countries published by the Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and their Effect on U.S. National Security in the auspices of the National Research Council:
Globalization has facilitated the success of formal S&T plans in many developing countries, where traditional limitations can now be overcome through the accumulation and global trade of a wide variety of goods, skills, and knowledge. As a result, centers for technological research and development (R&D) are now globally dispersed, setting the stage for greater uncertainty in the political, economic, and security arenas. These changes will have a potentially enormous impact for the U.S. national security policy, which for the past half century was premised on U.S. economic and technological dominance. The increased access to information has transformed the 1950s' paradigm of "control and isolation" of information for innovation control into the current one of "engagement and partnerships" between innovators for innovation creation. Current and future strategies for S&T development need to be considered in light of these new realities. This book analyzes the S&T strategies of Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Singapore (JBRICS), six countries that have either undergone or are undergoing remarkable growth in their S&T capabilities for the purpose of identifying unique national features and how they are utilized in the evolving global S&T environment.
The third important aspect of diagnosis is external analysis of goals that the state has defined as strategic. In that sense, monitoring the global trends of sustainable development may be of vital importance in finding the right direction for external communication of GPS.
Therefore, we must not bypass the activities of three important actors in this field: the Global Economic Symposium (GES), the Kiel Institute, and the Rockefeller Foundation. With their initiatives, these three institutions of strategic importance have contributed to a better understanding of the global scene for which all of us are, in fact, competing by trying to position ourselves. These institutions show how we should monitor the changes around the globe or at national levels, and how to approach them with a new perspective and point of view of everyday problems. I will mention their aspects that are important for GPS.
1. The Global Economic Symposium (GES) is meant to give a new impetus to global problem-solving. Our world has become increasingly interdependent and its problems — climate change, financial crisis, failed states, vicious cycles of poverty, educational deficits, unsustainable energy demands, water management and many more — are interdependent as well. However, visions are not enough; they need to be translated to concrete action plans and policies, business strategies, civil initiatives and research agenda. These action plans should emerge as the outcome of a dialogue among leading academics, business people, policy-makers and representatives of the civil society based on state-of-the-art research. Our ideas must go through the crucible of rigorous analysis and evaluation.
2. The Informal City Dialogue project of the Rockefeller Foundation is alive and flourishing in nearly all cities in the Global South, deeply interwoven with the formal city but often separated by exclusionary policies, lack of services and investments, and marked out in large areas of inadequate infrastructure. Yet the formal city cannot exist without the informal city. Many residents living in informal settlements work in the formal economy and many living in the formal districts find their livelihoods in the informal economy. The OECD estimates that half the workers of the world—close to 1.8 billion people—hail from the informal sector, contributing to an informal economy estimated to account for as much as 40% of metropolitan or city GDP.
3. The Kiel Institute Innovative with its Solutions Based on the Positive Economy. The positive economy concept deals with problems differently than other economic concepts. It is based on rational altruism and respect for future generations. It considers that the desire to make profit is merely a tool and not an end in itself. It aims to make humankind's entire capabilities flourish. It considers the earth to be more than just a source of resources. Rather, it is what makes it possible for everyone to (co)exist. In short, the positive economy is a new economic concept that goes far beyond the concept of the market economy. The purpose of the commission is to find solutions to pressing ecological, demographic, economic, and political problems that, according to the initiators of the commission, have arisen for the most part because decision makers have often taken short-term views. These problems need to be dealt with by 2030.
In the past couple of decades, the Serbian authorities have changed both the priorities of their foreign policy and the goals of the country's economic development. These frequent changes are not only bad, but they also lead to confused perceptions of foreign investors, citizens and potential partners. Not only do not they contribute to the stability of the selected environment, but they also lead to wrong perceptions of what the real strategic goals of Serbia are, and what was supposed to be achieved through these goals. Simply put, the diagnosis phase at the strategic level of analysis of the international position of Serbia in the previous decades, did not even exist.
GPS Methodology
Any management consultant can tell you that 90 per cent of strategy is execution. My methodology suggests that all obtained and processed information should be gathered into three parts, so that the methodology formula consists of: MMP x USP x POSM
MMP- Marketing Mix Package x USP-Unique Selling Proposition x POSM- Point of Sale Material Marketing Mix package is the base result or product of a marketing strategy. As a term, the marketing package has been used for almost half a century as the abbreviation for the combination of all tactical activities in marketing. According to the 7P model of MMP and in line with my methodology of strategic positioning, there are exactly seven elements, i.e. areas in which we need to precisely stipulate all the important steps. These are: Product, Price, Promotion, Distribution, Public Opinion, Politics and Personality.
On the other side, at all stages of defining, designing and implementing the GPS strategy, the internal and external strategic communication must be fully aligned with the so- called Coordination-Communication-Cooperation rule of all state authorities, civil society representatives, economy and business representatives, in relation to the Coordination Team for GPS drafting. Well united economic potentials of our country, presented through an integral approach to direct communication with decision makers, will make the final GPS portal visible to all those who are defined as the target group that we want to reach with our information.
1P = Product = the most delicate element of the strategy, because it marks the positioning of a country, its business potentials, its natural resources, its heritage and culture, its comparative advantages in comparison to neighboring countries, its traditional values and, of course, its citizens themselves. The home country's image fortifies the diplomatic activities. In his brilliant monograph, Wally Olins writes that nations need new images because 'a changing reality is leaving perceptions far behind' (Olins 1999)'. This is especially true for developing and transition countries, which have experienced dramatic changes, but this is underestimated abroad. Country branding as the final result of GPS is about 'presenting a nation or region in a powerful, attractive and differentiated way': however 'branding works when it projects and reinforces a changing reality – but it can be counterproductive if isn't rooted in fact'. The key is to use a central idea that is powerful and simple, capturing the country's unique qualities. 2P = Price = in this case, it is reflected in fiscal and monetary policies, but also in the solutions that the state implemented in the field of country's economic development strategy. The facts are showing that the industrial revolution never completely overtook the economic territory of Serbia, in the exact sense of this notion. The road toward reindustrialization that we should take is certainly the only road toward survival, in line with the principles of sustainable economic and territorial development. The financialization (a term that means that the financial sector and the service sector make up the largest part of the gross national product), which was the core of our transition strategy, is one of the reasons why the real economy in today's Serbia is in such a poor shape, while the financial sector is doing relatively fine. This is why the state should secure the conditions for financial consolidation and growth of the level of economic activities, and to set as its priority the type of manufacturing which is based on our resources and comparative advantages (energy, agriculture, food industry, infrastructure and traffic). The second issue is the creation of a Development Bank which would certainly mean a great deal in internal communication with all healthy economic actors. The Development Bank would have to be managed independently from politics, and along with its development, other institutions and programs would have to be shut down. The Development Bank would not be a competitor to commercial banks, but it would encourage them to finance the economy, by means of its funds and program guidelines. However, it would have to avoid direct crediting, and allow the financial institutions to choose their projects. 3P = Promotion. Product Country Image can be defined as the total of all descriptive, inferential and informational beliefs one has about a specific product from a particular country, which is organized in some meaningful way in a consumer's mind. These can be any immediate thought about an origin country, which is linked in memory to the PCI. The link may be strong or weak, but it tends to be strengthened by many experiences or exposures to communication. To provide specific examples, the town Leskovac can position ajvar (minces roasted pepper salad), the town of Cacak can position kajmak (light cheese spread) and šljivovica (plum brandy), while the towns of Svrljig and Homolje can position their famous cheese. For small countries, like Norway, a Country of Origin marketing strategy constitutes the possibility of enhancing its international competitiveness within products and services that otherwise would be too small to position on a global scale. However, using country-of-origin in marketing entails far more than just putting a "made-in" label on the products, particularly when international knowledge of the country is limited. 4P = Placement. There are no aspects of external relations, bilateral, regional or global, which are not affected by 'image'. Proactive diplomacy demands that serious and constant attention should be paid to the country image. Diplomacy theorist Brian Hocking has written a survey of 200 US Fortune 500 companies, in which 72 per cent said that 'company brands interact with national identities in concrete ways' (Hocking 2000). Consider the following examples. China used image consultants in marketing Beijing as the venue for the 2008 Olympics and Shanghai did the same in presenting itself as a 'world city' (Expo 2010). The successful tourism destination countries make focused use of branding. Poland recently invited Olins to help re-fashion its overseas image. South Africa has long been an accomplished practitioner of country branding. Brazil has attached weight to this issue as well, and has a special unit in the office of the Mister of Foreign Affairs that oversees image activities. Serbia can certainly rely on the positive experiences of others in this domain and find its own way toward defining the country image. Adequate and well coordinated placement of the appropriate information should certainly be performed at the following levels: the ministries with their global networks of economic diplomacy, the government's agencies for promotion of export and attraction of investments, the branch offices of regional chambers of commerce, the information centers for people in Diaspora, the business clubs around the world whose members are influential and eminent Serbs, the business clubs in general, the behind-the- scenes events during large sports championships or World EXPO exhibitions, the media associations, and the NGO forums and conferences. 5P = Public Opinion. Here, the role of the media and the civil society is very important, both at the local and at the international level. 6P = Politics = as political activities have a huge influence on positioning. This is the most important element as GPS defining and implementation are the focus of our work. We have but a few positive examples of our positioning at the global scale, and it boils down to individual persons, cities, touristic destinations and a couple of festivals. 7P = Personality, i.e. personal characteristics. The modern diplomat must be a specialist, adept at accumulating knowledge and building networks. Headquarters would focus on strategy, coordination and integration. It is always interesting to analyze the characteristics of selected persons whose personality may be part of a country's GPS. The Republic of Serbia certainly has a few individuals whose results and life achievements could be equal to the global positioning level. These are certainly Rastko Nemanjić, emperor Dušan the Great, Marko Kraljević, Milutin Milanković, Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Vuk Karadžić, Josif Pančić, Nikolaj Velimirović, but also Novak Đoković, Milorad Čavić or Milica Mandić. Why should be the list of names and abstractions that we start our analysis from be diverse and cover longer periods of Serbia's history? Because this is the best way, by using a funnel-type analysis, to identify the most important perception points concerning those domains in which Serbia wants to position certain potentials.
The second element of formula, USP is the essence of GPS. It is a marketing message that should provide the consumer with the answer to the question: Why? Why to come to your country? Why to invest in your country? We must be sure that USP is a message that in the best way explains to the consumer or investor that coming to Serbia is something special. USP is one sentence or order of minimum two to maximum four words, it should be legible and understandable, it should be correct and plausible, and in that sentence or order of the words, there is always one word that emphasizes the uniqueness of your GPS offer, way of business or a position of country.
The GPS Panel in Canada has identified the following three overarching Canadian interests: Prosperity, Peace, Cohesion as USP of GPS Canada. Prosperity: A successful country provides a high standard of living for its citizens and opportunity for its young people. Peace: Security is a fundamental goal for all countries. We prefer the more positive and ambitious term, "peace," since a peaceful world serves our interests and those of the other countries with whom we interact. Cohesion: National unity and threats to it have long figured in our international policies, from the Imperial impulses of the Boer War and the First World War to France's periodic encouragement of Quebec separatists. In the decentralized federation that is Canada, it is imperative that we create the domestic consensus to speak with a single voice beyond our borders.
The third element, POSM is much more than point of sale material. For strategist, POSM is of great importance for two reasons: firstly, it costs and secondly, you should know when and how much to "dose" it. POSM presents your country on the best chosen way and the GPS Coordination team must work on it together with the National Touristic Organization, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Science and Education and Regional Local Agencies for Economic development.
So, today, why is the improvement of Serbia's international position is unthinkable without a properly defined GPS? Simply put, because the effects of strategic positioning entail country success and profitability. The effects can mostly be seen in the following areas: barriers to the competitors who enter the given market are successfully created, solid basis for the so-called fine tuning of the GPS is created, and the positions in relation to other strategic partnership countries, investment funds, and international institutions such as WTO or IMF are strengthened. An excellent GPS, with motivated Government and citizens to implement it, results in long term success for any country today. That includes Serbia too.
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