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Just as college seniors in China were preparing to make the transition out of the academic cocoon in May, China's State Council announced a plan to roll out a series of policies designed to support student entrepreneurs and start-up businesses. The goal, it said, was to provide backing for 800,000 young entrepreneurs between 2014 and 2017. By unveiling these new policies, the government hopes to stimulate the slowing economy and create more white-collar jobs for the increasing numbers of college graduates. Will it work?
Initial impressions are that to reach this goal, may well be an uphill battle for the government. While 20% of the record 7.27m college students graduating this year in China expressed interest in starting a business, less than 2% are actually choosing to go down the road less-traveled, according to the Beijing News, citing Xin Changxing, head of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
"The percentage of graduate entrepreneurs in China is far behind other countries," Mr. Xin told the Global Times.
The reasons for graduates' reluctance to try their hand at entrepreneurship are many, experts say. Some, such as Dong Keyong, an expert in human resources at Renmin University in China, say the biggest obstacle for young entrepreneurs is the lack of capital. Starting a business is often seen as an option available only to those who come from well-to-do families.
In response to the new policies, one person, echoing the sentiments of many other users on Sina Weibo, wrote: "The people who have money are the fu'erdai" – a term that refers to the children of wealthy Chinese – "How many of them actually want to go through the hardship of starting a company?"
"Whereas poor students don't have any money – so what would they use to start a business?" the user added.
The new policies are meant to address this hindrance by, for example, providing small-sum guaranteed loans of around 100,000 RMB, depending on the province and interest subsidies to students who open small businesses.
But the policies do not go far enough in lowering the barriers to entry, Liu Su'an, a vocational guidance counselor for Xicheng District in Beijing told the Beijing News. While well-intended, they are mostly difficult to put into practice, with many students either unaware of the policies or unclear about how to take advantage of them, said Mr. Liu.
Nor do they address what other experts say is a more deep-rooted problem in China: the overwhelming societal pressure to find a stable job. A survey of students in Qinghai province in western China this year found that 77% graduates in Qinghai universities were planning on taking the exam to become a civil servant, a position that is as safe (assuming one gets the position – there were 21,000 graduates in Qinghai applying for 6,000 possible civil servant positions this year) as starting a business is risky due to the civil servant's guarantees of money and stability – hence the nickname "rice bowl". The top three reasons for applying said the students? Stability, increased job opportunities, and following the crowd.
Aside from the stability and prestige, another major incentive for college graduates to apply to work at big state companies is the opportunity to obtain a hukou, or residence permit, in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. With the permit comes social services and access to subsidized education – benefits that are otherwise difficult to get for non-hukou holders.
The hukou problem is a deterring factor when it comes to the government's new beneficial policies for entrepreneurship as well. If a student wants to start a company in, say, Beijing where many angel investors are based, without the local hukou, he or she may not be eligible to apply for the subsidies.
Despite the widespread respect accorded to high-profile entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma of Alibaba and Zhang Xin of Soho, there remains a common perception that being self-employed is akin to being unemployed. In an editorial published in the Shanghai Morning Post in February, Xiong Bingji, vice president of the 21st Century Education Research Group, called for a shift away from the idea that only weak students started businesses.
"In China, there is currently a phenomenon where students who are unable to get into college and college graduates who are unable to find a job have no choice but to start a business," Mr. Xiong wrote, citing as evidence a 2009 survey which found that the ranking of a university was inversely correlated with the percentage of students who chose the entrepreneurial path. In other words, at top universities where prospects for a traditional job were greater than at lower-ranked universities, graduates were more likely to choose a traditional job over starting a business, given the opportunity.
The idea that an elite student might choose to start a small-stakes venture is for some Chinese so galling that when media reported earlier this year on Zhang Tianyi, a Peking University law student who gave up on being a lawyer to open up a small shop selling rice noodles, the story went viral on Chinese social media.
"What a waste of a six-year education and what a waste of a Peking University legal education," commented one user.
Some within the entrepreneurial industry have voiced skepticism of the new government policies. Most college students could benefit from more job experience since most are not immediately ready upon graduation to undertake a venture, some say. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, other angel investors say, and it shouldn't be seen as a backup option for those who are unable to find traditional jobs.
"We should be supporting aspiring entrepreneurs, but not encouraging or incentivizing it," David Cao, founder of SV Entrepreneurs, told Caixin.
For the small minority of college graduates who have successfully started ventures, many say it's all about "being different". This year's graduates are of the post-90's generation, or those who were born in the 1990's. Compared to their parents were mostly born in the 1960's at a time of widespread societal upheaval in China, the post-90's generation grew up in a relatively more liberal and prosperous time in China and were exposed to many ideas via the Internet and other technologies.
"The fullness of their life circumstances enables post-90's to have more free agency and to take bigger steps toward their dreams," wrote the China Entrepreneur Magazine in a report published this year on post-90's entrepreneurs. "It's not like what their parents had to go through back then when they were forced to work hard to climb up through the small crack between their dreams and reality."
The post-90's generation is ripe for entrepreneurial success, the magazine went on to say, as they "did not experience the same hardship as the post-70's generation" and while they are only children like the post-80's, they "are more decisive."
Whether or not the new government policies are enough to spur the aspiring post-90's entrepreneurs to take the entrepreneurial leap, however, remains to be seen.


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FC: Poetry Portfolio | Bahar Jalalian February 15, 2010 1st period
1: My Table Of Contents | Where I'm From...............................2-3 My Mother's Kitchen............................4-5 My Mommy Told Me........................6-7 Ode to GSMST.............................8-9 Language Arts Limerick...........................10-11 Halo/Walking On Sunshine...................12-13 Marriage..........................................14-15 Marriage Analysis.........................16-17 Page of Dedication..........................18-19
2: Where I am From My life is a shackle Like desert finding rain Attached is the start of me And the future I will gain So here I begin At the origin To see What will come I must tell... Where I'm from? I'm from Barbie dolls and Britney Spears From sweet scents that follow me And happy tears I'm from sweaty summers to he chilly frost I'm from baby smiles that came at a cost I'm from playgrounds and parks I'm from straight A marks From peach and berry picking To fruity Popsicle licking
3: I'm from dancing designer shoes And the diary I'll never lose I'm from bright green grass I'm from 8 hours in class But most of all I'm from the care that I call I'm from hugs, kisses, and high-fives I'm from those that I love Those that touched me with their lives
4: My Mother's Kitchen My mother's kitchen is a home for all A place of yum, come, and call With the warm sweet smell of baked goods in the oven My sister walks in to attack what she's lovin' As the green marble of the countertop starts to shimmer The look in her eyes continue to glimmer For what mommy has made is not just a treat But something so tasty That it's hard to beat Oh what a kitchen So quaint and mellow
5: It's brightened by foods And the walls of light yellow And even the plant in the corner That's dead Falls happily to the ground With its dry soil bed For my mother's kitchen cannot be turned down With its tastes and great smells I'm surprised your not around
6: My Mommy Told Me... | Baby, because you still are my baby You've got to keep your youth And baby, because you still are my baby I've got to tell you the truth You will get old and much less wild But through it all try staying a child Mature your brain Of course that's fine However, remember you will remain mine
7: So baby, because you still are a baby Twirl and twirl Put on those heels and wear your Cover girl Under that makeup you're still my little girl Don't worry about life Just take the ride Eventually your youth will subside The wrinkles will come and Botox won't help So smile all you want 'Cus at 40 You'll yelp Oh baby, you're always my baby Mommy is here Never change who you are Or I may disappear Because I am in you And you are in me As long as you're young There's that baby I see
8: When it comes to tough There's no harder than school But you make education cool Oh, GSMST how you make learning fun From friends to teachers, you're as bright as the sun You're a place I call home Though I'm not free to roam And a place of insight There's no wonder I'm yearning To make smarts all right You bring youth together In order to share The knowledge of great ones That's hard to compare From AP this to AP that A myriad of classes And scholars through and through GSMST gives chances Oh, yes many chances To teens like me and you The teens are wise But you are astute With colors gray and blue You're also pretty cute The goal is set up high And you reach higher everyday The county looks to you There's no other school this way Instead of sports and games You have different ways to play
9: Ode to GSMST | You play with books Those are mostly online You play with brains And mostly mine However, your play of choice is quick to choose You like to play with the future In order to win, not lose The list goes on and on You're truly the best that can be No wonder you frighten me GSMST you are worth the treacherous fight With all the work in class And all the homework at night You make girls wise women You make boys wise men And overall your score is 10 out of 10 So let us praise The magnificence Of such an important setting GSMST is a school I won't be forgetting
10: Language Arts Limerick
11: There is a great study of parts Its title is of Language Arts It's from different times With verbs, adverbs, and rhymes Too bad this idea needs smarts
12: Oh, remember those walls I built.Well baby they're tumbling down.They didn't even put up a fight.They didn't even make a sound.It's like I've been awakened.Every rule I had you breaking.It's the risk that I'm taking.I ain't never gonna shut you out.Everywhere I'm looking now,I'm surrounded by your embrace.Baby I can see your halo.You know you're my saving grace(I'm walking on sunshine).You're everything I need and more(Whoa oh).It's written all over your face(I'm walking on sunshine).Baby I can feel your halo(Whoa oh). | Halo and Walking On Sunshine Performed by the cast of Glee | Key No device Metaphor Rhyme Onomatopoeia Hyperbole Repetition Simile | This song combines two pieces of music in expressing a woman's joy and love with a wonderful man. Her happiness is shown in the art of poetry using similes, metaphors, and hyperboles.
13: And don't it feel good! Halo, halo, halo.I can see your halo, halo, halo.I can feel your halo, halo, halo(I'm walking on sunshine).I can see your halo, halo, halo(Whoa).And don't it feel good! I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure.And I just can't wait till the day when you knock on my door.Oh now now! I'm walking on sunshine, whoa oh! I'm walking on sunshine, whoa oh! I'm walking on sunshine, whoa oh oh! And don't it feel good! I can feel your halo, halo, halo(Hey, alright now)I can feel your halo, halo, I can see your(Hey, oh yeah)I can feel your halo, halo(Hey, Halo)I can feel your halo, halo(Hey)I can see your halo, halo(Halo)I can see your haloHalo!
14: This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind about a thing one has believed in, | Marriage By:Marianne Moore
15: requiring public promises of one's intention to fulfill a private obligation: | I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time, this fire-gilt steel alive with goldenness; how bright it shows—
16: Marriage Analysis
17: This free verse poem expresses the poet's belief on what marriage has become in her time as compared to that of Adam and Eve. By doing so, the poet presents marriage as a full commitment where both partners are publicly stating that they will stay together for as long as they live. While it has no rhyme scheme, the poem does use metaphors such as enterprise and fire gilt steel to represent marriage.
18: Dedication Page
19: I would like to dedicate this book to all my family, friends, and the wonderful members of GSMST. Most importantly, though, I would like to dedicate this book to my magnificent teacher, Ms. Glenn, for providing her students with an amazing challenge in the study of poetry.


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text: Chuc Posted March 10, 2016 Original Article HERE. Vehicle Devblog Part 1 - From nothing to something Hey Folks. I'm Garrett, a Senior Programmer here at OWI. You guys probably know me as RoyAwesome on the forums and reddit. I've been working on Squad for almost a year now, implementing a variety of features you guys play with every day, like the Deployable system, The Gamemode system, AAS gamemode, flags, scoring and so on. One of my main tasks for the last several months has been implementing one of our headlining features: Vehicles. (https://i.imgur.com/zY3eZbO.jpg) A Vehicle on the Test Map I started working on Vehicles in September 2015. At this point we had done two proof-of-concept prototypes, both in Blueprint (Unreal Engine's scripting system). You saw one of these with the Kickstarter Humvee trailer. I quickly discovered that both prototypes had some fatal flaws, which prompted my decision to simply start from scratch with our vehicle implementation. This proved to be the correct decision, as it allowed us to create a very robust system that can create some really unique vehicles. However, before I could write a single line of code, I needed to know what exactly did we want to do with vehicles. What kind of actions could you take? What happens if a vehicle gets shot by a rifle? A rocket? A tank shell? What do we want passengers to be able to do? Gunners? Drivers? I had a lot of questions I needed answers to, so I turned to our awesome designers Z-Trooper and SgtRoss to help brainstorm up some ideas for what they wanted Vehicles to look like in their final form. That simple question set off a massive round of design discussions, ending up with a huge design document with all kinds of cool ideas and features to add. With a design in hand, I had work to do. Starting with an empty code file, I had to decide where to start. The previous prototypes had focused on the Physics and movement portion of Vehicles, and since I was starting from scratch, I figured I'd start with the part that neither of those prototypes ever tackled… Getting into the vehicle and how seats work. How seats work and what you can do in them was a major focus of the design, so I figured I'd start there but implement a simplified version for now. As an added bonus, this also meant that we could leverage this code for Emplaced Weapons, as getting in and out of the weapon was something we needed to do to make them work. The initial implementation of Seats and interacting with them went by pretty quick, and by the end of September I had a working prototype of a static Vehicle that could have any number of seats. I encountered a serious issue testing it though… the game crashed every time I would get into the Vehicle. After some quick investigation, I discovered that parts of our code assumed that PlayerController (what you are) always controlled a Soldier (your person in the game). "Oh simple", I thought, "I'll just fix those assumptions". Yeah, It wasn't that simple. (http://i.imgur.com/VMxvkoE.png) Configuring the Seats for a Technical To understand the problem a bit more, Unreal Engine has a few important objects. Players are represented by the PlayerController. The PlayerController's job is to handle all input from players, as well as track their state across the game. They don't exist in the world, but they can "Possess" objects called Pawns, which are objects in the world that can be controlled. From the beginning of development until now, we have only had one type of Pawn: The Soldier. Because of that, some very core systems such as weapons and damage only really worked when a PlayerController was controlling a Soldier. If the PlayerController was controlling something else (let's say, a Vehicle), those systems just broke. (https://i.imgur.com/bdU9KYI.png) How you actually get into a vehicle Breaking these assumptions and fixing them took me quite a bit of time, from October into most of November. Some of them were easy to fix, such as instances where our code would cast a Pawn into a Soldier and not check if the cast failed, but some of them were not. I figured, around the start of October, we could get these issues fixed and released Emplaced Weapons in November. However, I discovered that our Weapons assumed that our PlayerController controlled a soldier in a big way. Progress on fixing Weapons was very slow. Weapons needed to be inside of an Inventory, which was part of the Soldier. I had to split that off into a component (horribly breaking it in the process). October slipped into November, and I was still changing things like instances where the weapon was playing Soldier Animations on any Pawn that was controlled (which obviously didn't work with vehicles). (https://i.imgur.com/K9sLHpR.png) Setting up a 50cal's Inventory Luckily, while I was busy fixing these issues Kory, another programmer, finished up his tasks and started working on Vehicles with me. At this point we had blown vehicles for the November patch, but we were still trying to get them out for Early Access. I asked Kory to look into getting physics working with the vehicles, getting the Humvee drivable. At this point, I had fixed all the simple soldier-only assumptions so driving the vehicle was possible. We figured we could at least have transport vehicles. Kory set to work integrating the UE4 vehicle system into the multiplayer Vehicle system I had built. By Thanksgiving, Kory and I were driving humvees around our test map. However, after turning on fake lag we started to notice some odd behavior, with the Humvees and Technicals rubber banding and desyncing when driven. We needed to do some more investigation, but with Alpha 3 right around the corner it would have to wait. (https://i.imgur.com/srOs1GB.png) Vehicles on the Test Map Around this exact same time, I finally fixed the last few issues with weapons, and successfully fired an Emplaced .50 cal. However, due to how buggy the Alpha 3 release was looking in testing, like Kory, I tabled working on Vehicles to focus on Alpha 3 and making the Early Access release awesome. I did add a method of spawning vehicles in any map so that post-EA we could spawn vehicles on full servers and see how they performed. After the Early Access release, we did a number of tests, spawning Humvees and Technicals on full servers and seeing how they performed. The results were not promising. The issues we saw with desyncing and rubber banding were much worse in full servers. I took a short break from firefighting post-release bugs to investigate, and I discovered that the default vehicle code didn't really have netcode or lag correction. Vehicles were warping around because the driver's inputs were sent to every client and the server, but only the server's position was "Correct". Due to the nature of physics engines, every client had small but compounding errors in positions and velocity, causing every client to see vehicles in different positions. When the server sent the "Correct" positions, the vehicle was teleported to the proper position, giving a very ugly warping and rubber banding effect. The netcode for Vehicles had to be redone. In Part 2, I'll talk about the process of rewriting the Netcode for Vehicles, putting the last few pieces together for vehicles, and talk a bit about how to mod them. For now, I hope you enjoyed this look into the development process of Vehicles. If you have any questions, you can follow me on Twitter, @RoyAwesome. 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The NPP government came to power at the back of an anti-corruption crusade but, it appears that energy has turned into empty talk and praise singing.
Just some few weeks ago, at site visit of controversial businessman and founder of Zoomlion, Joseph Siaw's facility in Accra, Nana Akufo Addo praised him for his contributions to waste management.
"What we are witnessing here is the modern way of providing service, the collaboration between the State and private sector to deliver public goods. And, in this case, the most important in any city is sanitation," the President said.
"It is an eye-opener for me. It is about what is possible, about what collaboration can do, and what is possible, with encouragement and proper policy framework, if we have confidence in Ghanaian entrepreneurs. Ghanaian entrepreneurs have to be at the forefront of the social and economic transformation of the country. This sort of facility, seeing it work in detail, is extremely encouraging."
But anti-corruption crusaders took issues with him, especially when endless scandals had caked around the man, including millions of contracts in waste management which have not been implemented. Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo at an anti-corruption event on Monday questioned the merit of the President's commendation, insisting it was not the right thing to do.
Speaking on Joy Fm's Super Morning Show, Mr. Short, who remains one of the country's anti-corruption voices, said the attitude of the president does not encourage hope in the fight against corruption. He said it has been more than ten months since the government came to power and it is about time he started walking the talk instead of always promising without anything to show for it.


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Child Immunizations
Immunizations are available Monday - Friday by appointment. Call 252-237-3141 ext. 6777.
Available vaccines are dependent on insurance coverage. Please bring proof of previous immunizations along with any Medicaid or insurance information.
- Diphtheria (DT, Tdap, Td, Dtap)
- Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib)
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- Influenza (Seasonal)
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Childhood vaccinations are given in a series. These are routinely given at two, four, six, 12, and 15-18 months, 4-5 years, and 11 years of age.
Adolescent Clinic Schedules
Tdap & Meningitis Clinic Schedule:
- The September 2017 clinic has completed.
- If you need Tdap & Meningitis vaccinations appointments are available. Please call (252) 237-3141 to schedule an appointment.
Adolescent immunizations are available during normal business hours Monday-Friday. To make and appointment please call: (252) 237-3141.
*Please bring insurance information with you to the appointment.
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Whether you're making your holiday plans or booking your dream honeymoon, there's nowhere better to score deals on travel gear than Nordstrom. From weekender bags to sunglasses, the selection is currently rife with major markdowns that are not to be missed — and with Black Friday approaching, the discounts only promise to get better (last year's savings included up to 40% off select designer items).
There are a few go-to retailers brides can always count on for stylish fashion finds, especially BHLDN and David's Bridal. With offerings ranging from dresses and shoes to lingerie and even decor, these two stores have literally got you (and your bridal party) covered from head to toe. If you're in the throes of wedding planning and haven't completed your bridal look yet, don't stress. Thanks to Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday sales on the horizon, there's a pretty good chance you'll be able to score a deal on the wedding dress (or accessory, etc.) of your dreams at these bridal destinations. Last year, BHLDN featured up to 70% off select styles, including gowns starting at $500, bridesmaids and party dresses starting at $100, and accessories starting at $30. Oh, and brides-to-be scored free shipping on their orders. David's Bridal had select shoes and accessories up for grabs from $4.99 to $29.99, 50% off select wedding dresses, $29.95 robes, $99 Donna Morgan bridesmaids dresses, and $299 select Truly Zac Posen wedding dresses. On Cyber Monday and Tuesday, they also gave shoppers 20% off online orders. Suffice it to say, we think this bodes well for 2018 deals. Ahead, we're highlighting our favorite dresses, shoes and accessories on offer from David's Bridal and BHLDN, so get ready to swoon — and then keep an eye out for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. These stunning picks could just be among them.
OK, Black Friday is still a bit of a ways off, but that doesn't mean you couldn't benefit from a little pre-shopping strategizing in advance. Going into the biggest shopping day of the year without a plan isn't just inefficient — it's downright crazy. There are so many opportunities to score big: everything from wedding accessories to honeymoon outfits to home goods for your new nest. If you want to get the most out of your Black Friday experience (clothing, shoes, accessories, beauty products...you get the picture) you should start taking notes — like, right now. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving (Turkey Day is Nov. 22 this year), but several shrewd brands have started offering discounts in the days leading up to the main event. Last year, many retailers rolled out discounts and promo codes at least two days early and several had reductions ready the week prior. That means you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for deals before Thanksgiving even arrives. Here's who served up serious discounts last year and who we're looking to score from again this time around. Don't forget to check back here for updates in the coming weeks.
Choosing where to spend your hard-earned money on Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) is tricky — especially for budget-conscious brides in the midst of wedding and honeymoon planning. You've likely already dropped a decent amount on your big day, so finding the best bargains out there is key. And mapping out your Black Friday sale-shopping strategy ahead of time always helps. With strategizing in mind, we suggest putting Walmart at the top of your shopping list. The mega-retailer just released its Black Friday deals, and there are tons of bargains in the electronics department alone. You can score everything from a big-screen TV (perfect for snuggling in front of with your honey) to a home security system to protect your nest to a Fitbit that will help you get in shape for the wedding. Ahead, we've collected the best online Black Friday tech deals Walmart has to offer. The sale kicks off online at 10pm ET on 11/21 and in stores at 6pm ET on 11/22, so get ready to snag these steals.
Cyber Monday is a great day to stock up on discounted holiday gifts for family and friends, but it's also an opportunity to score stylish honeymoon necessities for yourself. And the online destination that should serve as your starting point to prep your for your first trip as newlyweds? Why Nordstrom, of course. The department store's sales are the stuff retail legends are made of, and the Cyber Monday sale is certainly no exception. Last year, Nordstrom offered online shoppers an additional 20% off select sale items — which means this time around you've got the potential to scoop up a whole bunch of essentials that make for a chic honeymoon (without having to overpack). From cozy plane-worthy pants to sunglasses you'll wear long after you return home, these are the deals we think are worth keeping an eye on (and adding to cart) this Cyber Monday.
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As I have previously blogged, unless Prabowo Subianto is able to steal four to six million votes in the days before the official vote tally is released, an unlikely possibility, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo will be declared the winner of the presidential election sometime next week.
However, Prabowo is not going to go quietly; in the days since the vote he has repeatedly showed the thin-skinned, bombastic, dictatorial-type personality that scared many Indonesians about the prospect of a Prabowo victory. After Election Day, he lashed out at Indonesian journalists, accusing them of being biased against him and warning one reporter to watch out if she didn't want to "be hurt." Prabowo conducted an angry interview with the BBC that sounded more like a conspiratorial tirade; in a brief interview with the Wall Street Journal last Friday, Prabowo offered more conspiratorial warnings that "imperialist" tycoons and unnamed foreigners were plotting to take over Indonesia. Thus, of course, Indonesia needs a military strongman to protect it against such predation.
Still, even if Prabowo is unsuccessful in getting himself into the presidential palace, and if many of his claims defy all logic (he rails against predation even though his campaign is backed by most of Indonesia's old guard Suharto-era tycoons), his post-election actions are going to make a potential Jokowi presidency much harder than it otherwise would have been. (And it was never going to be easy – if Jokowi really wants to make a break from politics as usual, curbing the power of tycoons and other Suharto-era elites, he would have an enormous task on his hands.) Prabowo's actions will undermine a President Jokowi's legitimacy and, likely, leave a mass of voters who, even after the election is certified, will never believe that Prabowo actually lost, creating potential unrest throughout a Jokowi term. Such a scenario happened in Mexico (albeit with the left-leaning candidate the one unwilling to accept the election results) in the squeaker 2006 presidential election, when supporters of candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused to believe their man had lost, in part because of the candidate's own unwillingness to accept defeat, and in part because Mexico truly did have a history of thrown elections and rigged vote counting, as Indonesia does. Lopez Obrador supporters massed in major Mexican cities and launched other types of civil disobedience to protest the victory by Felipe Calderon. The stand-off after the election heightened partisanship, cast doubt onto Mexico's vote counting and monitoring institutions and its young democracy itself, and made it harder for Calderon to govern in such a charged post-election atmosphere.
The post-election situation in Indonesia could be worse. Lopez Obrador, though imbued with something of a messiah complex himself, and willing to drag on the post-election combat far too long, was overall a relatively clean politician and certainly one without deep ties to armed organizations. Lopez Obrador publicly discouraged his followers from using violence in the post-election period. Prabowo, on the other hand, has well-documented links to Indonesian criminal leaders, an alliance with the notoriously violent paramilitary group Islamic Defenders Front, and a history as a special forces commander that is allegedly rife with human rights abuses of all sorts. Prabowo seems, from all public accounts and private conversations I have had with his associates, to honestly believe that the "real count" in the election shows he has won. They say that even if the Indonesian election commission announces next week that Jokowi won, Prabowo will remain convinced that he was defrauded and that he won the "real count," as he calls it. His conviction, several Prabowo associates say, has only been reinforced in recent days as the former general's closest allies continue to tell him that he surely won the election, while any independent and dissenting voices in his circle have been shut out in the days since Indonesia went to the polls on July 9.
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Seeing molecules with AFM
Ever since his 2009 Science publication, Leo Gross and his IBM Zurich colleagues have captured our imagination by imaging the pentacene molecule with AFM and revealing clearly its five hexagonal carbon rings
Pentacene as imaged by Gross et al., Science p. 1110, 2009
Since that paper 8 years ago, fantastic images have continued to come in revealing structures of both natural and synthetic species in a wide array of applications ranging from biological to petroleum products. One of the most interesting outcomes of this work is elucidations of unknown structures. The ability to "just image" a molecular to figure out its structure is incredibly appealing, especially as it can be a critical component when added to more traditional methods such as NMR, mass spectroscopy, or vibrational spectroscopy to unambiguously elucidate a molecule's structure. In an application close to my former life in the petroleum sector, this method was recently used to image asphaltenes, complex polycyclic aromatic hydrocabons typically found in the "bottom of the barrel" of crude oil, whose applications are primarily as paving materials for roads. Beautiful images of various coal and petroleum-based asphaltenes emerged in 2015.
The asphaltene molecule as reported by Schuler, JACS, 2015, p. 9870
Even chemical reactions have been mapped including cyclization reactions and the famous organic reaction, the Bergman reaction.
When these images came out, I would have my managers running to me with paper in hand asking when we could reproduce these results in our AFM lab with commercial, ambient systems on the third floor of our research building.
These results are truly fantastic. But they are done with fairly unique instrumentation and methods. When I teach my AFM courses and cover the topic of resolution, I always include these results so that we know what is possible. But for most of us AFMers, these results are not possible in our own labs with commercial equipment – yet.
Just to clear up the record, here are some of the customized features of the setups used to do these measurements. First, this work is done in ultra high vacuum (<10-8 torr) and ultra low temperatures (5K). This is done to have a pristine, stable, and clean surface which requires such a well-controlled environment. I'm also guessing these systems are in the basement or equivalently quiet spot of their building. Second, this setup uses incredibly stiff cantilevers. Whereas conventional silicon cantilevers have a spring constant of 40N/m at the high end, these cantilevers are actually tuning forks with a stiffness in the thousands of N/m. Such a stiff lever enables tiny oscillation amplitudes down to a few angstroms (compare with ambient operation of silicon cantilevers where the oscillation amplitude is typically a few to even a hundred nm). The QPlus Sensor is a commercial example of this technology that was in fact used in the IBM Zurich publications and the sensors look like the one below:
A QPlus sensor
The tips are also specialized. They are metallic tips (often copper) functionalized with an individual carbon monoxide molecule that easily binds to copper. This kind of tip achieves many functions including a small radius, high aspect ratio, and inert to the sample. Functionalization generally occurs by picking up CO from the surface with the tip. Finally, the AFM operates in frequency modulated non-contact mode. This means that the tip is oscillated at its resonance frequency where the amplitude is kept constant by a feedback circuit. The resonance frequency shifts due to interaction of tip with sample, and this frequency shift is mapped during the scan. Molecular structure images are also often collected in constant height where the tip scans over the surface at a fixed height while the frequency change is recorded.
So where does this leave us? For now, enjoy the spectacular results coming out of the few groups that have this capability. The latest one involved imaging triangulene, a molecule that chemists have long been dreaming about.
Triangulene as imaged by Pavlicek Nature Nanotech 2017
And in terms of doing it yourself? Well hopefully you have been armed with a number of reasons to show why it's still not exactly readily available technology.
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Judge Linder to Receive Award of Merit from SWOSU
Judge Ray Dean Linder of Alva will be honored with an Award of Merit at Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Homecoming activities planned October 26 in Weatherford.
SWOSU President Randy Beutler will present the award at pre-game of the 6 p.m. football game in honor of Linder for his many years of service to the legal and judicial professions in Oklahoma.
Linder will also ride in the SWOSU Homecoming parade at 2:30 p.m. in Towne Centre of Weatherford.
Linder is a 1957 graduate of SWOSU after graduating from Waynoka High School where he was valedictorian of his 1953 class. While at SWOSU, Linder was class president during freshman and senior years. After finishing at SWOSU, he then graduated from the University Of Oklahoma College Of Law in 1960.
Linder has been a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association since 1960 and has served as District Judge, Division I, Fourth Judicial District of Oklahoma since 1983. He has also presided as judge of the Northwest Judicial Administrative District of Oklahoma. During his time on the bench, Linder has been named Trial Judge of the Year four times including 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2012.
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Count It All Joy
I couldn't believe what I was looking at.
There was toilet paper everywhere, not to mention a number of toys floating in the toilet. And did I see a few sitting comfortably on the bottom? Great. I was going to have to stick my hand in the toilet. Again.
It looked like a tornado had ripped through our bathroom. In a sense, one had. It went by the name of Evan.
The part that was most unbelievable is that I'd just finished cleaning up a mess in the kitchen and disciplined him for not listening to my repeated requests to pick up the toys he'd strewn all over the playroom. I had made a quick phone call and in a matter of five minutes he had destroyed the bathroom I'd cleaned just hours earlier.
Soon my newborn Liam was crying, my four-year-old Maxwell was asking for lunch to be made, and I had loads of laundry to fold and put away. How in the world was I going to get all this done and get my bathroom back in working order? How was I going to deal with this new phase of my life? I never expected it would be like this.
When I found out I was pregnant with our third child, I had mixed emotions. I was very excited, but had also heard that going from two to three children was, to put it simply, challenging. I figured for the most part it wouldn't be too bad since I've had a newborn twice before. It was like old hat, right?
Not exactly.
The first few weeks after Liam was born were a blur. Since he arrived right before Christmas, there was a lot of hustle and bustle in our home as visitors came and went. It was nice to have all the help with the boys, but I also forgot it would come to an end.
Soon all the visitors were gone, my husband Justin was back to his regular work routine, and I was at home with three children under the age of four. Alone.
It seemed all I did was clean, feed, change diapers, scream, and cry in an endless cycle day in and day out. By the time nightfall arrived each day and the boys were settled into their beds, I was ready to collapse myself. I had no energy left, but it seemed there was always something that needed to be done.
Would I ever catch up? Was this it? Would my life be juggling these three boys' needs all day long, with no time for myself? What a blast.
After a few weeks of chaos ruling my life, I listened to a message I'd heard in the past by Carolyn Mahaney. It was titled "Loving Our Children" from her Titus 2 series. In it, she said, "Sin is the culprit. When the tender feelings towards our children have subsided we don't have to look any further than our hearts. Our hearts govern our feelings, our hearts rule our affections, and when sin has entered our hearts our tender feelings for our children will be thwarted."
I realized my misery was my own. Dealing with three children, cleaning, cooking, and running errands was only miserable because of my heart. I needed to get back to Scripture. I was letting the daily occurrences of my life get me down. I was being selfish and angry. Instead of dealing with my heart and looking for a way to change, I was blaming my children for my unhappiness.
How was I going to deal with this new phase of my life? The answer was simple: "Count it all joy" (James 1:2).
This new, unexpected turn of life was to be counted as joy!
I have three beautiful, healthy boys that God has given to me. He put me as an authority over them. It was His design and plan to give me these kids to take care of, raise, and teach. God's grace is sufficient for me. When I humble myself and submit myself to Him, He will be enough.
Each day I can either wake up and say, Here we go again. Or, I can say to myself, God, thank You for the children You have given me, thank You for Your guidance and mercy to me as I seek to bring You glory each day. It's a choice I have to make.
Change can be hard. Going from two to three children was a bigger change than I anticipated. I felt completely lost as I tried to get through each day. But by counting it all joy, seeking Christ daily, consistently examining my own heart, and working out a regular routine, I slowly began to realize what would get me through this new phase of our lives.
I hope and pray that when new things are thrown my way in the future—including a toilet full of toys—I will remember to seek Him first and to count it all joy.
When Doing Justly, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly Stand at Odds
If your compassion far exceeds your capacity, here's one way you can be sure to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.
One of my life verses is Micah 6:8, "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
It is one of my favorite verses because my heart has been so moved by the love Jesus has for me and the sacrifice He made for me that I am grateful to have a way to express my gratitude through acts of justice and mercy while walking humbly with God.
I have found at times, however, the call to do justice and love mercy come in conflict with the call to walk humbly with God. For me, one of the ways to walk humbly with God is to recognize my limitations. I have to put skin to the fact that I am not God which means saying, "no" to ministry requests. It means going to sleep when I could be spending time advocating for the harrowed and helpless in the world. It means limited seats at my table, limited funds in my bank account, and limited energy in my body cannot be ignored but respected and adhered to.
This is hard for me at times, especially when I scroll my Facebook feed and see friends who are caring for their really sick children, spouse, or other family member all while millions of refugees flee war torn countries and babies are slaughtered by the hundreds each day in our country through the abortion industry.
As I scroll, I receive texts about one family member's surgery gone wrong and another family member announcing a new baby is on the way. I have in mind my neighbor who has inpatient surgery scheduled this week and another neighbor who is trying to hold down a full-time job, care for twins all while battling profound "morning" sickness.
Folks at church are fighting for their lives in physical and spiritual ways, and strangers who pass me on the road are clearly battling something as demonstrated by their impatient honking because I won't take a right turn on red. I want to meet the needs of all; I want to do justice and love mercy, but I'm daily confronted by the fact that I am so limited.
What am I to do when doing justly and/or loving mercy seem to come in conflict with walking humbly with my God?
God keeps bringing me to this answer: prayer.
God invites us to cast our cares before Him because He cares for us.
God tells us to be anxious for nothing BUT WITH PRAYER present our requests before Him.
God commands us to pray without ceasing.
And, when I walk humbly with God, I see the immense kindness in His command.
He gives us a way to do justly, love mercy WHILE walking humbly with Him.
It is by praying without ceasing.
I cannot take a meal or give money to every sick person or family I know. I cannot extend kindness to all my neighbors all at the same time they're in need nor conjure up sustainable solutions for the refugee crisis and contact all the necessary world powers to make it happen.
I cannot heal all, but I know the Healer.
I cannot provide for all the needs, but I know the Provider.
I cannot rescue everyone in need, but I know the Rescuer.
I cannot comfort all the broken, but I know the Comforter.
I cannot speak peace over every situation, but I know the Prince of Peace.
I cannot be all to all, but I can go to the Great I Am through prayer, lay all the people, problems and pleas for help before the Omniscient and Omnipresent God of all Creation.
I can do this through prayer.
Recently, via an Instagram contest of all things, I came upon A–Z prayer cards designed by blogger/author/speaker, Amelia Rhodes. It is a simple concept packed with a powerful prayer punch. It has served me personally in this tension of wanting to do far more than I practically can do. It provides prayer prompts starting with each letter of the alphabet along with a scripture that coincides with the prayer focus. It ranges from Adoption to a creative "Zero Prejudice" for the letter "Z."
The cards are well thought out, color printed on sturdy cardstock with blank lines for the user to write in the names of people and/or organizations that are personal to them.
If, like me, your compassion far exceeds your capacity, pick up a set of these prayer cards and unload your burdens onto a God whose competence matches His kindness, both boundless.
Facing Our Fears in Motherhood
Do you have fears tied to motherhood? If so, here's encouragement for you.
"Are you scared?"
I was taken aback by his question. Scared? Of what?
"Of anything," he answered.
I had just shared my due date with a new class of trainees.
"He has three boys," another new hire volunteered. So fear is to be expected, I reasoned. I'm just about to face the most frightening experience in my life.
Of course I was scared.
I was scared…
- I'll lose my temper.
- I'll whine about sleepless nights.
- I'll breastfeed too often or not often enough.
- I'll leave piles of unfolded onesies in the middle of the nursery floor because I'm too tired (or lazy?) to fold teeny-tiny baby clothes for the upteenth time.
- I'll go with disposable diapers when the better choice would be cloth.
- I'll work too many long hours at the office and miss precious moments with her.
- I'll sign her up for too many activities and push her to become Miss Achieve-It-All.
- I'll pass on to her my ugly pride, self-righteousness, and perfectionism like a dreadful contagious disease.
- I'll miss countless little joys in life while pursuing worthless dreams.
In short… I was afraid I was going to fail miserably as a parent.
And now, holding my second-born daughter in my arms, thinking back on that brief exchange just a few years ago, I realize those fears were well-founded. I've failed many times. I've lost my temper. I've raised my voice. I've worked too much and played too little. I've seen my own sinfulness reflected in my daughter.
Yes, I've failed, but over and above it all, God's grace has covered my parenting imperfections and made me run to the cross day after day. The writer of Proverbs puts it this way:
Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.
Proverbs 14:26
When it comes to fears, we have two choices: Will we fear the unknown or will we fear the Lord? Will we allow the uncertain to grip us in its clutch or will we turn to God's Truth to set us free?
Scared? Oh yeah. There was so much to be scared of that day. And even now, if I'm completely honest, there are still fears nibbling at the edges of my consciousness. Fear that we won't outgrow the temper tantrums. Fear that the two girls won't get along. Fear that I'll mess them up and cause them interminable hours on a psychologist's couch.
I'm sure you have fears, too.
But rather than allow those fears to consume and paralyze us, we can take them to the Lord, acknowledging His sovereignty over our parenting, pleading His grace over our mistakes, and entrusting His provision over their futures. He is not only able to handle it all — He is far more capable to be trusted with it all.
If I say one thing to that frightened 9-month-pregnant me standing in that room years ago, I would say this: Don't let fear rob today's joy with tomorrow's unknowns. Each day has enough worries of its own (Matthew 6:34).
Instead, let us keep seeking God, running to Him as our secure fortress and resting in the knowledge that He will care for us and our children one day at a time.
What are you scared of today? Name your fears and bring them to the Lord, allowing Him to replace them with His peace that passes all understanding.
He Gives Shade To The Weary
If anxiety is a struggle for you right now, remember that He gives shade to the weary.
Do you ever have those moments of fear because you don't know what lies ahead? When do those thoughts tend to happen to you?
For me, most of those thoughts happen when I lay my head down to sleep at night. The vulnerability comes forth every time. That's what happened the other night to me. I shut my eyes and immediately anxiety welled up inside me.
What if we don't succeed in this new venture? What if we have to move? What if we can't pay our bills?
I laid there with the covers drawn tight over my head (I still think that I am safer if the covers are over my head), praying scripture over my anxious heart. Assuring myself that God sees me and that He cares.
In the morning, I turned to Isaiah 41, specifically verses 10-20.
"Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10, NASB)
Yesterday, the "what if's" piled up as I anxiously looked about me. My daughter needs tutoring, however at this point in life, tutoring feels like a luxury we can't afford. So I listed some items online to sell hoping to make just enough to cover the tutoring. I'm buying groceries on a Visa reward card. I'm holding my breath until the next paycheck comes. But what did God speak over me: Do not fear. Do not look anxiously about you.
"For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.' Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you," declares the Lord, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel." (Isaiah 41:13-14 NASB)
Why shouldn't I be anxious? Because God will hold me up. God will help me. When I first read the word "worm" as a description, I took it as a slam against Israel. Like, gesh, God. What animal does He relate me to? But through further study, He calls them a worm because worms are helpless. They are viewed as insignificant, despised and weak. God will help me — seemingly insignificant, helpless me — because He is my Redeemer. He is my go'el — my next of kin. The Redeemer is the one who provides for all my needs. Rent. Car payment. Credit card bill. Gas. Food. Clothes. Debt. God will redeem.
"Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff. You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will rejoice in the Lord, You will glory in the Holy One of Israel." (Isaiah 41:15-16 NASB).
God is transforming me from a helpless one to a powerful one. The description of that type of threshing sledge is like a modern day earth mover. Powerful. Strong. Immovable.
"The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the Lord, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them." (Isaiah 41:17, NASB)
He will come to our rescue. God, Himself, will answer you and me. Can you hear how personal that sounds? Have you ever pleaded with someone important whether your boss, public figure, or even a parent, and they responded to the need themselves? You expected for them to send their assistant, but instead they — the most important one — responded to you.
"I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water. I will put the cedar in the wilderness, The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert Together with the box tree and the cypress." (Isaiah 41:18-19, NASB)
This passage describes the wilderness-like times in life. You are barren. You are thirsty. You are hot. You are in need. God will provide what you need. God will quench your thirst. He will provide shade when you are weary. During those times, God can provide in creative, innovative ways. He can provide something out of nothing. Doesn't that give you great hope? Even when you can't answer how He will do it, He is creative enough to figure it out even when the odds are stacked against you.
"That they may see and recognize, And consider and gain insight as well, That the hand of the Lord has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it." (Isaiah 41:20 NASB).
God will do all of this so that His glory will be put on display. People — including yourself — will see that He is powerful.
So you can see how after a night of wrestling with fear and anxiety, reading this was like shade and water for my soul. God is a god who sees. And God is a god who acts on your behalf.
What do you need His help with today? What are you fearful about today? What keeps you awake at night? Where do you need some shade?
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It's the question we all want to know: how are French women so gosh darn beautiful?
French Women Beauty Tips
Maybe it's something in the air, the coffee they drink or the delectable cuisine, but there's something about French women we find so utterly captivating. Their very movements — the way they wear their clothes and swipe on their red lipstick — are so effortlessly beautiful that, in comparison to the doctored appearances of Americans, is a breath of fresh air we desperately crave more of.
We covet French beauty secrets like a banker covets money. We want it, we feel better with it, but as much as we try to understand it, we can't. Its nature is elusive, thus making it even more desirable.
The desire to get quintessentially perfect French girl skin and hair has been strong with us for a while, so after years of testing, researching and recalibrating, we think we may have finally uncovered the secrets to effortless French girl beauty.
Here's how French women do beauty:
1. Skin Care As Makeup
For the French, makeup is the dessert to a perfectly balanced meal where skincare is the entree. Like dessert, makeup is indulged in sparingly and with great care. What French women really can't get enough of is skincare. The effortless look they're known for actually comes from a regimented beauty routine that involves serums, moisturizers, facials, spa treatments, and other products. The importance of skincare is learned at an early age, but as for makeup, aside from several swipes of lipstick and a coat of mascara, it is virtually nonexistent.
2. Mid-Day Touch Ups
Unlike mid-day touch ups in the US that involve a quick trip to the powder room for a re-up of lipstick, eyeliner or setting powder, touch ups in France involve botanical facial mists. A spritz of mist instantly elevates the appearance of tired skin and will leave you looking and feeling hydrated and fresh.
3. Go To Bed Bare Faced
This means going to bed without any serum, overnight mask, medication, anything. The purpose of this is to allow the skin to breathe, which is perfect because your skin is detoxing while you sleep anyway! After cleansing, toning and (maybe) putting on a mask, French women go to bed au naturale.
It's all about giving your skin the TLC it deserves!
4. Use Thermal Spring Water, Not Tap
Tap water can be drying on the skin, so some French women will opt for fresh water facials and thermal spring water mists to remove their makeup and other impurities at the end of the day. If going down the route, simply spritz thermal spring water on some cotton balls and gently remove any makeup, dirt or oil.
5. Find Your Signature Lipstick
A good lipstick can do great things for one's look and confidence. If French women do wear makeup, you better believe it's going to be a bold red or fierce orange lipstick that instantly pulls their entire look together. I can't do without my red lipstick and can personally attest to its confidence-boosting power. Once you find your signature shade, getting ready in the morning will be 10x easier and you too will have that effortless look people love.
6. Don't Touch That Iron!
French women don't style their hair with damaging styling tools such as curling and flatirons. Much as is the case with makeup and skincare, the French direct their energies towards hair care, not styling. They achieve manageable, silky tresses with the aid of hair masks, serums and hair oils. Once you find products that work for your hair type, stick with them!
7. Drink Lots & Lots Of Water
A not-so-well-kept beauty secret is that water is great for turning back the hands of time and keeping the skin hydrated. The trick is to drink the right water: alkaline water. Tap and filtered water are acidic and cause inflammation, while alkaline water is anti-inflammatory and allows the cells to absorb water more easily and at a faster rate, therefore keeping you hydrated for longer periods of time. French women understand water's magical properties and drink it like their life depends on it. In a way, all of our lives depend on water, so drink up!
8. Enjoy What You're Eating
The French way of life is slower than that of Americans. This comes through in the way the French take their meals and the manner in which they enjoy their food. In France, a lot of attention is placed on what is being eaten, the quality of the ingredients, and the company. Meals can take up to 2 hours and only the freshest, most organic ingredients are chosen. French women get pleasure from their meals, so they are more diligent about what they're eating which, in turn, helps them eat healthier and, in the long run, look better! Be mindful of what you're eating and how often you're eating it. Food plays an important role in our appearance, so chew wisely!
9. Confidence
What's the one trait all French women share? Confidence! Through their minimalist beauty routine and emphasis on skincare, they've learned to embrace their unique characteristics and traits. These traits include wrinkles, moles, everything they were born with. French women accept who they are and what they're working with and strive to emphasize their individuality by placing special care and attention on their face and body.
When it comes to French beauty, it's important to remember two things:
- Focus on preventative measures; not remedies.
- Your skincare routine is specific to your needs and skin type; have patience when tailoring a beauty regimen for your skin.
Most importantly, be confident and embrace your individuality! Flaunt your natural hair and features; they're beautiful!
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This section offers 60 key texts and background documents on the EU accession process of Slovenia, covering key EU documents, books and articles as well as a special section on the Slovenian-Croatian border dispute. More general documents on the EU's enlargement process can be accessed here.
The major agreements between Slovenia and the EU throughout the accession process, from the Europe Agreement to the Accession treaty:
- Accession Treaty
- EC, Accession Partnership, 2001/2002
- EC, Accession Partnership, 1999/2000
- Europe Agreement (signed 1996, entered into force 1999)
Key European Council conclusions
The European Council, as the highest decision making body of the EU, took key decisions on EU enlargement, resolving issues that member states could not agree on at a lower level. Here is a selection of key European Council conclusions that were of crucial importance for Slovenia:
- Copenhagen European Council presidency conclusions on the "big-bang" enlargement of 1 May 2004 (12-13 December 2002)
- Helsinki European Council presidency conclusions on opening accession negotiations with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania and Slovakia (10-11 December 1999)
- Luxembourg European Council presidency conclusions on launching the accession process with 10 CEE countries and opening negotiations with Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus (12-13 December 1997)
In 1998 the EC began issuing so-called "composite papers" reporting on the enlargement process in the different candidate countries. These were later replaced by "Enlargement Strategy Papers". Here are the ones which covered Slovenia:
- EC, Enlargement Strategy Paper 2002 (9 October 2002)
- EC, Enlargement Strategy Paper 2001
- EC, Enlargement Strategy Paper 2000
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1999 (incl. Annex 1)
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1999 – Annex 2
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1999 – Annex 3
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1999 – Annex 4
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1999 – Annex 5
- EC, Composite paper on the regular reports 1998
All official reports on Slovenia prepared by DG Enlargement, including the "opinion" on Slovenia's application in 1997.
- EC, Comprehensive Monitoring Report on Slovenia, 2003
- EC, Regular Report on Slovenia, 2002
- EC, Regular Report on Slovenia, 2001
- EC, Regular Report on Slovenia, 2000
- EC, Regular Report on Slovenia, 1999
- EC, Regular Report on Slovenia, 1998
- EC, Opinion on Slovenia's application, 1997
Pre-accession funds and European Funds
For the European Commission's annual reports on the EU's pre-accession funds, click here. For annual reports on EU structural and cohesion funds since Slovenia's EU accession, see here.
The Slovenian-Croatian border dispute
There is hardly any information on the dispute that does not originate from one of the parties involved. The Slovenian side has been more proactive in making its position available on paper while Croatia has kept its cards – namely, its arguments and supportive evidence – closer to its chest.
Slovenian documents
- Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Non Paper – Chronology of Slovenia-Croatia Border issue" (22 February 2009)
- Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenian comments on two Croatian memos on Slovenian-Croatian relations (13 February 2009)
- Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Information on prejudices in certain negotiating chapters of accession negotiations for Croatia's membership of the EU" (18 December 2008)
- Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Aide Memoire" (June 2006, Precis of the Slovenian position)
- Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, White Book on the Border between the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia (Bela Knjiga o meji med Republiko Slovenijo in Republiko Hrvasko), 2006 (Slovenia's 442 page documentation in support of its position in the dispute; English translation [without the original documents]).
- ANNEX XIII of the Europe Agreement between the EU and Slovenia (Spanish Compromise), Exchange of letters between Slovenia and the European Community otherwise know as the Spanish Compromise, which ended Italy's veto of Slovenia's Europe Agreement.
- Dimitrij Rupel, "Europska komisija neka postupa u interesu EU", Delo (Sovenian daily), 7 May 2009, in which the former Slovenian Foreign Minister suggests that it is the EU's duty to side with Slovenia in its dispute with Croatia. The EU, argues Rupel, should do Slovenia's bidding and not act as an independent arbitrator. An English summary is available on the website of the Slovenian government's communications department.
Croatian documents
- Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, "Chronology of the Border Dispute between Croatia and Slovenia", Zagreb, 16 March 2009 (presentation outlining Croatia's position and criticising Slovenia's).
- Factual information on Croatia as provided by its government, including its Maritime Code, can be found at this United Nations website.
UN Documents
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 10 December 1982, articles 15 (delimitation of bays), 21 (innocent passage), and 22 (sea lanes and traffic separation schemes) are of special note.
- An overview on UNCLOS and a range of related documents are available at the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Website.
- A number of academic institutions deal with oceans and the law of the sea; some of them are listed on the UN's website.
- Information on arrangements between states in complex geographic configurations in enclosed or semi-enclosed seas can be researched on the UN's website on legislation and treaties
Academic Analysis
- Jozef Kunic, "The Slovenian-Croatian Border Question – Is the Path to Solution the Right One?", International institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies, Ljubljana, 29 January 2009.
- Davor Vidas, The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the European Union and the Rule of Law. What is going on in the Adriatic Sea?, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 10 December 2008.
- Matej Avbelj and Jernej Letnar Cernic, "The conundrum of the Piran Bay: Slovenia v. Croatia – The case of Maritime Delimitation", in: The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law & Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2007; an electronic copy is freely available.
- Bruno Lopandic and Bojko Bucar, "Zagabria e Lubiana, duello sull'Adriatico", LIMES, No.6/2003, pp. 131-139.
- Bojko Bucar, "The Issue of the rule of law in the EU enlargement process: aspects of Slovenian Italian relations", published in Development and Developing International and European Law. Essays in honour of Konrad Ginther on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Peter Lang (publisher), 1999, pp. 341-353.
Books, reports and articles on Slovenia's EU accession
A selection of various texts on Slovenia's EU accession process, including reports from the 1990s (unfortunately, many of these are not available online):
- Janez Potocnik, Fedor Cerne, Emil Erjavec and Mojmir Mrak, "The Accession of Slovenia to the EU", in: George Vassiliou, The Accession Story. The EU from 15 to 25 Countries, Oxford Univ. Press, 2007, pp. 343-370.
- Vladimir Lavrac and Boris Majcen, Economic Issues of Slovenia's Accession to the EU, Ljubljana, Institute for Economic Research, September 2006.
- Bojko Bucar and Irena Brinar, "Slovenia – Political Transformation and European Integration", in: Anselm Skuhra (ed.), The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union. Efforts and Obstacles on the Way to Membership, Studienverlag, 2005, pp. 93-133.
- András Inotai and Peter Stanovnik, "EU Membership: Rationale, Costs, and Benefits", in: Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui (eds), Slovenia. From Yugoslavia to the European Union, World Bank, 2004, pp. 353-366.
- Joze Mencinger, "Transition to a National and a Market Economy: A Gradualist Approach", in: Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui (eds), Slovenia. From Yugoslavia to the European Union, World Bank, 2004, pp. 67-82.
- Janez Potocnik and Jaime Garcia Lombardero, "Slovenia's Road to Membership in the European Union", in: Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui (eds), Slovenia. From Yugoslavia to the European Union, World Bank, 2004, pp. 367-380.
- James Gow and Cathie Carmichael, Slovenia and the Slovenes. A Small State and the New Europe, Hurst, 2000.
- World Bank, Slovenia. Economic Transformation and EU Accession, Volume II: Main Report, 1999.
- M. Mrak, M. Rojec and J. Potocnik, Slovenia: Strategy of the Republic of Slovenia for Accesssion to the European Union, Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, 1998.
- V. Bobek, J. Potocnik, V. Ravbar, M. Rojec, P. Stanovnik and F. Stiblar (eds.), Slovenia: The Strategy of International Economic Relations – From Associated to Full-fledged Membership in the EU, Ministry of Economic Relations and Development, 1996.
- Ministry of Economic Affairs, Strategy for Increasing Competitiveness Capabilities of Slovenian Industry, 1996.
- Janez Potocnik, Marjan Senjur and Franjo Stiblar, Approaching Europe – Growth, Competitiveness and Integration, Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, 1995.
A number of resource pages for further information and documents:
- Gateway to information on Slovenia – a portal on Slovenia with information on a wide variety of topics, as well as links to many institutions, from government to business and culture (managed by the Government Communications Office)
- State portal of the Republic of Slovenia – a similar, somewhat more formal portal managed by the Ministry of Public Administration
- Government office for European Affairs (archive on EU accession) – besides information on new developments on Slovenia and EU policy, the site includes many background documents, including the Slovenian negotiation position and Slovenia's National Programme for the Adoption of the Aquis.
- Negotiating team website (including negotiation positions, etc.) – the old website of the Slovenian negotiation team; not very extensive, but provides some interesting information on the structure of the negotiation process, organisational flow-charts and the composition of the negotiation team
- Slovenian EU Presidency 2008


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Geoffrey Bilder – 2009 August 14
In Publishing
Allen Renear and Carole Palmer have just published an article titled "Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing" in the current issue of Science (http://0-dx.doi.org.lib.rivier.edu/10.1126/science.1157784). I'm particularly happy to see this paper published because I actually got to witness the genesis of these ideas in my living room back in 2006. Since then, Allen and Carole's ideas have profoundly influenced my thinking on the application of technology to scholarly communication.
Those who have seen me speak at conferences recently will have heard me do an awful lot of ranting about the how publishers and librarians need to help researchers practice the time-honored art of "reading avoidance" (or as Renear and Palmer politely put it- "strategic reading"). I even managed to squeeze this rant into a recent interview I did with Wiley-Blackwell.
The essence of my argument has been that our industries need not be bamboozled by the technical jargon and messianic hand-waving that typically accompany discussions of new technology trends like "web 2.0", "text-mining", "the semantic web", "micro-blogging", etc. This is because there is a fairly simple way for us to understand the relative import (or lack thereof) of new technologies to scholarly communication and that is to ask the following question:
"Can the application of this technology in the realm of scholarly communication help researchers to read less?"
If the answer is "yes", then you'd better pay very close attention to it.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say the history of scholarly publishing can be characterized by the successful adoption of conventions and tools that help researchers read strategically.
Now I have something to cite when I rant.
Anyway, congratulations to Allen & Carole.
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