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3 months ago I was commissioned by the European Environment Agency to make an illustration for their Marine messages report; State of European seas. This raised my interest in the subject of marine litter so I started to investigate and decided to get a project going that would raise public awareness about plastic marine litter. The idea is to make a series of screen prints, t-shirts and designer toys. The designer toys will be made from plastic litter fished from the sea. In the future I would like to collaborate with other artists, marine biologists and scientists to create projects that will explore the future of our seas. A designer toy is usually treasured by it's owner and is less likely to find it's way back to our sea again.Character Design, Illustration, Toy Design2014
Hugo Münsterberg Engineering Award commissioned by the university on twente. The award has a portratit of Hugo Münsterberg and was screenprinted at Kapitaal Utrecht
Hugo Münsterberg was one of the pioneers in applied psychology.Graphic Design, Illustration, Print Design2014
Set of medical iconsGraphic Design, Icon Design, Illustration2013
Cover illustration for the State of European seas - Marine messages report. Commisioned by the European Environment Agency.Graphic Design, Illustration, Print Design2014
Icon set designed by my alter ego Peter Perch. Works very well for small use in apps and websites.Graphic Design, Icon Design, Illustration2014
What if you would be able to generate music by the simple act of riding your bike? From a dream in progress to reality.Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Product Design2011
Event logo designed for the Red Bull Fierste Ljepper event in the Netherlands.
Commissioned by Sid Lee
Project: Event logo Red Bull Fierste Ljepper (pole jumping canals)Art Direction, Graphic Design, Branding2011
Infographics commissioned by Camel MediaGraphic Design, Icon Design, Illustration2014
Screenprint based on a digital painting i made. The screenprint was used as an illustration of the month of october in my CalendArt project.Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration2014
Illustrations and styleboard drawn for a tv commercial commisioned by artcore.Advertising, Animation, Illustration2014
Album art for the upcoming Paceshifters album.Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration2014
Digital painting and screenprint based on the famous Vermeer painting.Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration2014
PFFF Spray Paint Bird Sculpture 30 cm high 10 cm wide 20 cm deep made of wood, stone, iron bar and a spray paint can.Character Design, Crafts, Fine Arts2013
Icon Set designed for the education department of the Municipality of AmsterdamGraphic Design, Icon Design2013
Fish paintings that I made as my fish painting alter ego Peter Perch. For more info go to www.peterperch.comDigital Art, Illustration, Painting2014
Branding / Corporate Identity designed for an online vintage furniture shop.Branding, Web Design, Graphic Design2011
Branding designed for a new dutch tv book show.Art Direction, Branding, Graphic Design2011
I was asked to design a brandbook for the Amsterdam in business department of the municipality of Amsterdam. I took the i out of their logo and turned it into a character that helps explain the "rules"of the brand.Branding, Graphic Design, Icon Design2014
I was asked by BeMedia to design a character for the promotion of a new bar called de Uurwerker (the clockwork). Ofcourse we created a character with a clock for a head. We designed a big wall and made a mask out of cartboard that was used in movies and guerilla actions. Illustrations of the character are used throughout the bar as signage.Character Design, Illustration, Interior Design2014
Type treatment for Senseo Sarista. Art Direction: Marco Sluijter. Copy: Jeroen de Korte. Agency: Saatchi and Saatchi Leo Burnett AmsterdamGraphic Design, Illustration, Typography2014
Icon set making zodiac signs out of numbers. Work in progress I am working on 3 other sets with different numbers.Graphic Design, Icon Design, Illustration2014
Calendart is a calendar illustrated by 13 illustrators from all over Europe. Calendart is a project by Pieter Frank de Jong and Luca Boscardin, screenprinted at Kapitaal workspace in Utrecht (NL) during december 2013.
Sue Doeksen
Elena Xausa
Ricardo Leite
Menze Kwint
Luca Boscardin
Geertje Aalders
Mario Belem
Valentina Raffaelli
Aron Vellekoop León
Paula Bonet
Pieter Frank de Jong
Marta Veludo
Pierluca GalvanCrafts, Graphic Design, Illustration2014
Sreenprints made for my solo expo at Cut The Crap, Amsterdam.Character Design, Drawing, Illustration2014
Selection of illustrations made for Drive MagazineIllustration2013
Info-graphicGraphic Design, Illustration2013
Hamburger pattern designed for Mc Donald's commissioned by Tribal DDB AmsterdamAdvertising, Illustration, Pattern Design2013
Self promotional poster project. 500 posters were stencilled on A3 and folded to A6.Graphic Design, Illustration, Art Direction2011
Ludduvuddu is a platform that focuses on mending broken hearts. Yours, or that of your good friend. We do this by sending lovely and up to date tips, tricks and tools that will drag you through all phases of your heartbreak. From crying your eyes out to heaving a sigh of relieveBy sending you emails through your phone or computer and things that flop right onto your doormat we will make sure that these awful times will just be a little less awful. With some luck we will also receive great help from your friends. And for you, all of this is free! Or, if you want to pamper yourself or your friend just that little extra, for a small fee. Why? Because we know what it is like. And the shorter this time lasts, the better.
Design: Pieter Frank de Jong & Liat AzulayBranding, Web Design, Graphic Design2012
Illustrations commisioned by the Dutch national police for ads used in a national campaign.Illustration2013
T-Shirt design for VDS show in co-operation with photographer Michiel Rotgans. Available soon at the newcake websitePhotography, Photo Illustration2011
Flyer and poster design for red bull music academy commisioned by Your Own AgencyGraphic Design, Illustration2013
Cover & patterns designed for NOVUM magazineGraphic Design, Illustration, Pattern Design2013
Infographic illustrations made for dutch Comedy Central Commissioned by NudnikAdvertising, Graphic Design, Illustration2013
Mural painted at Club Up Amsterdam celebrating their 5 year anniversaryIllustration, Interior Design, Street Art2014
Cover design for Depression & Inflamation by Hester DuivisEditorial Design, Graphic Design, Illustration2013
Editorial illustrations made for a dutch mental healthcare professionals magazine.Character Design, Editorial Design, Illustration2014
Logo, Icons and Patterns designed for Datateam Partners.Graphic Design, Icon Design, Pattern Design2014
Hand drawn logo drawn for the Vintage Award.Branding, Illustration, Typography2014
Logo designed for a company in Amsterdam named after my favourite herb katoembar (coriander).Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration2014
Mural painted in a abandonned factory in Covilhã Portugal.Fine Arts, Painting, Street Art2014
All works © Pieter Frank de Jong 2013.
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text: Firefighter here. Would not do anytging else. Being mostly wildland august archery hunts were tough at first but once you put your time into the career its easy. And my twin is actually a lineman. Its harder for him to take time off than me but once you get set up into an apprenticeship or at least a steady job location you will be in it to win it


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text: By Pastor Vince CarrigSports Writer Plainsmen guard Quinton Hite's three pointers stirred a 9-0 squall that eventually wrecked the Sailors as Perkins County shoved off from Sutherland with a 61-38 win Saturday night. Hite (17 points) and fellow-senior Plainsmen Jake Sexson had the room to see the basket clearly from the arc all night, and both battened down a trio of triples apiece. Sexson (13 points) scored all of his "threes" in the third quarter, with two coming on consecutive trips down the floor from nearly-identical spots. Sailors guards Tyler Fear and Brett Good answered the Plainsmen's hot start with three pointers of their own, but they only postponed the inevitable as center Blake Poppe (eight points) imposed his will on the blocks and starting guard Elliot Carlson (11 points) cranked up from beyond the arc. The Plainsmen raged to a 19-12 first quarter lead and intensified in the second quarter, with Hite and Carlson breezing to the basket for high-speed layups and Carlson exploding a ball down the hatch for a 15-4 second quarter run. Sexson outscored the entire Sutherland crew in the third quarter, 11-10. Hot from even two feet behind the arc, the senior swingman dug up a steal and a rebound to get some free throws as well. Fear scored 15 for Sutherland, but got little help beyond Good's pair of three-point makes. Senior Plainsmen forward Colton White found the bank open late, scoring six points on four shots from the field. White's 12-footer from the right baseline landed through the exact center of the net. Junior Plainsmen guard Matt Sestak stroked both free throws he took in the closing minutes of the game.Next Action The 4-7 Plainsmen will challenge the 5-6 Chase County Longhorns today (Thursday) in Imperial. The Longhorns have beaten common opponents Ogallala, Hershey, Gothenburg, and Dundy County-Stratton. The Perkins County boys return home Friday for a game with the 6-4 Wauneta-Palisade Broncos. Coach Dave Kuhlen always sends a tough team to the floor; common opponent Wallace stampeded the Broncos earlier in the year, but Wauneta has won five of six, including hanging 90 on 0-8 South Platte.PC 61, Sutherland 38Perkins Co. 19 15 21 6–61Sutherland 12 6 10 10–38 Scoring leaders–Perkins County: Hite 4FG (3[x3]) 0/1FT–17; Sexson 1 (3) 2/4–13; Carlson 4 (1)–11; Poppe 2 4/5–8; White 3 0/1–6; Sutherland: Fear 4 (2) 1/4–15; Good 1 (2) 1/3–9; Blomstedt 1 (1)–5.


text: I am curious. Would you rather have a politician who truly represents what his people want? For instance, if a politician passes legislation that a majority of Americans approve of regardless of potential outcomes? Or would you rather have a politician who will ignore what the masses want, and pass legislation he/she feels will ultimately serve their people better. IOW, someone who will do what is best for the country regardless of what their constituents say. ___________________ Yeah, a combination of the two would be nice. But I am not asking that. Choose one of the two options. (I guess, I am sorta asking if you prefer a true representative government versus a philiosopher-king type approach.)


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|Strong winds do damage
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Strong wind gusts put a damper on people's weekend activities Sunday, April 15 when wind gusts upward of 50 mph were recorded for much of the day. This tree located just north of the Holyoke School District administration office succumbed to the wind and toppled over. Luckily, the tree was far enough from the building, and no damage was done.
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Holyoke Enterprise April 19, 2012


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DeJesus, Greinke go shopping to help Haiti (photos)
Media members and Royals associates gathered at the front of Sam's Club in Independence. They had arrived in anticipation of greeting David DeJesus and Zack Greinke. The pair would be shopping with staff and volunteers from Heart to Heart International in an effort to support Haitian earthquake victims. Both Greinke and DeJesus had pledged $2,500 to Heart to Heart. Royals Charities had matched the donations, bringing the total to $10,000.
Zack had parked at the back of the store and was already browsing the aisles with his new bride, Emily. Not that you could see him…Zack was wearing his camouflage jacket. DeJesus and his fiancée, Kim, arrived a few minutes later.
It was time to shop for personal items that would fill Care Kits for the earthquake victims. Hand towels, washcloths, combs, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste and bars of soap were on the list. We joined the mass of media who trailed the Greinkes. They went to the right of the store with Jared of Sam's Club and the Heart to Heart volunteer, who was fittingly named Sam.
We circled through the grocery area before reaching the toothpaste and toothbrushes. Zack carefully studied the options as if he were looking at a scouting report on an opposing lineup. He helped Emily pick out a variety of multi-packs. A few minutes later, David and Kim joined them. Zack gave David some tips on what to buy.
We then trailed David, Kim, Cody (Sam's Club) and Karen (Heart to Heart) as they selected plastic bags for the Care Kits. We eventually branched off and caught up with the Greinkes, who had washcloths and hand towels remaining on their list. On their way, they met David and Kim. Whether it's baseball, basketball, golf or table tennis, Greinke is known for his competitive edge. Zack glanced at David's cart and asked if he was beating him. The competitive spirit includes shopping!
When it was time to check out, David began to do media interviews. Zack was content to unload items from the cart that he and Emily had filled. While DeJesus explained why he reached out to Heart to Heart on the Haiti relief, Zack emptied David's cart as well!
The group took their items outside to the FedEx semi-trailer. David and Zack signed autographs for a line of fans that had huddled in the cold. When the line came to a close, Greinke handed back the Royals uniform and walked back through the store to his car. The Greinkes were on their way to the bright lights of New York and Saturday's Baseball Writer's dinner where Zack would pick up his Cy Young award. However, the anonymity of joining Emily on a stroll through Sam's Club was just fine for the Kansas City ace on this Thursday afternoon.
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this got me laughing
I met the most obnoxious person ever this past weekend. He was a K-State fan. I think he learned to communicate with fellow human beings via goEMAW.
A couple of those were pretty funny though. Their ongoing flood joke they have going cracks me up for some reason.
Please no one post in that thread, they are obviously trying to get you guys to do just that.
Holy pot meet kettle.
Wow just wow.
When was the last time they handed us our lunch in football or basketball?
Purple Kansas being purple Kansas. I wonder what they will say when we beat their *** in Ames this year?
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
They are trolling for responses and you guys are falling for it here.
Once Klein and/or Snyder is gone, they will be nothing again
So, everyone connected already knows that the bigshots in the Big12 (TX, OU, KSU) have been discussing for years the best way to tell Iowa State to hit the road.
KSU? you kidding me?
Originally Posted by ogie4ISU
this got me laughing
ogie is obviously an emaw plant. Why else would he post this here when most of our members are sarcastically challenged?
Yes, because at the height of the big 12 going nuclear every conf out there was begging to get Ksu to join.
The idiocy of those troll posters is high.
Ames> Manhattan, KS. It's a fact. I am not sure what these people are drinking.
I live in State of KS, and nobody cares about Manhattan and west of Topeka/Wichita.
Do they not remember the Prince era? couple years of good seasons and getting back on national map and they are all the sudden title contenders? I want to drink/eat whatever they are having.
Originally Posted by BigBake
Yes, because at the height of the big 12 going nuclear every conf out there was begging to get Ksu to join.
The idiocy of those troll posters is high.
They are doing it on purpose.
Originally Posted by CyBer
They are doing it on purpose.
It's useless, 90% of cyclonefanatics have no idea what you're talking about. This is the site that had to invent the "sarcasm pirate" for the love of god.
not trying to get anyone fired up so calm down. I was just reading their forums and got a kick out off it.
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|Boys take Wray in home opener; fall to Idalia on the road Friday
|Written by Chris Lee
Holyoke split the first two boys' basketball games of the season, falling to Idalia 43-46 and beating Wray 41-35.
Holyoke 43, Idalia 46
The Dragons traveled to Idalia Friday, Dec. 4 and got off to a quick start as Evan Swanson hit three of his five three-pointers in the first quarter to give Holyoke the upper hand heading into the second stanza.
"Evan kept us in the game during the first quarter," coach John Baumgartner said.
The Dragons held the lead for most of the game but some turnovers late in the game gave Idalia the upper hand.
The scoring continued as Swanson hit another shot from beyond the arc in the second quarter. He was five for seven from three-point range for 71 percent in the ball game.
Reid Baumgartner also connected on a deep ball in the second, and the Dragons took a 26-22 lead into the locker room.
The Wolves managed to outscore the Dragons in the second half and come away with the close win.
Carper and Swanson combined for 32 of Holyoke's 43 points, with Carper recording 17 and Swanson 15. Logan Krueger was two for two from the line.
Idalia outrebounded the Dragons 20-15. Krueger and Swanson each pulled down four boards for Holyoke. Ryan Baumgartner and Alex Quintana each had two steals, and Ryan also had five assists.
The Dragons finished 15 of 31 for 48 percent shooting.
"Give them credit," Baumgartner said. "They're a good basketball team."
Holyoke 41, Wray 35
In the home opener, the Dragons were able to even their record to 1-1 with a 41-35 victory over Wray.
The Dragons kept the turnovers low and came away with the win. Baumgartner said they were able to move the ball around the outside better than the night before.
Reid Baumgartner sunk four buckets from behind the three-point line and finished with 12 points in the contest. Carper led the way with 15, and Swanson was two for two from the line.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The Illinois Department of Employment Security's August unemployment numbers for the state's 12 metro areas, compared with August 2011.
Metro area August 2012 August 2011
Bloomington-Normal 7.3 7.8
Champaign-Urbana 8.8 9.3
Chicago-Joliet-Naperville 8.8 10.5
Danville 11.0 11.1
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island 7.2 7.5
Decatur 11.4 11.2
Kankakee-Bradley 11.4 12.4
Lake-Kenosha 8.8 9.4
Peoria 8.0 9.0
Rockford 11.7 13.8
Springfield 7.9 8.0
St. Louis (Illinois section) 9.4 10.1
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The state Department of Employment Security says the unemployment rate fell in August in all but one of Illinois' dozen metro areas.
The monthly metro unemployment report released Thursday showed only Decatur area had higher unemployment last month than a year earlier. The local jobless rate increased from 11.2 percent in August 2011 to 11.4 percent.
Other areas saw significant drops: 10.5 percent to 8.8 in Chicago, 9.3 to 8.8 percent in Champaign-Urbana area and 9 percent to 8 percent in Peoria.
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|Nebraska Cattlemen's Ball gets Corvette donation to aid cause
|Written by Russ Pankonin, The Imperial Republican
This year's Cattlemen's Ball goal of clearing $2 million for cancer research in Nebraska got a big boost with the donation of a 2013 Chevy Corvette from Harchelroad Motors, Inc., of Imperial, Neb., and Wauneta, Neb.
The Corvette donated by Harchelroads is a 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Grand Sport Coupe, valued at $75,000.
This year's Cattlemen's Ball will be held June 7-8 at the Hanging H Ranch between Paxton, Neb., and Sutherland, Neb., on Highway 30.
The families of Ralph and Beverly Holzfaster of Paxton and Neal Hansen of Sutherland will serve as the hosts for this year's event.
In addition to raising funds for cancer research, the event also promotes the beef industry in Nebraska.
Shocked by donation
Holzfasters said they were visiting with area car dealers with the hopes of getting $3,000 vouchers good for the purchase of a new car from participating dealers.
As a host family for the ball, they had come to Imperial to visit with Sid Harchelroad about the idea.
"Sid just shook his head and said he didn't want to do that," Bev Holzfaster recalled. Instead, he offered to donate a Corvette. "We just about fell out of our chairs."
She said Sid wanted to do that in memory of his dad, Gene, who passed away in 2002 after a five-year battle with lung cancer.
Harchelroad said he's seen cancer affect not only his family but friends and employees as well. He added he's lost some friends along the way but also has employees who have beat cancer.
Harchelroad said the goal is to raise $500,000 through the sale of tickets for the Corvette. Tickets sell for $500 each, with a maximum of 1,000 tickets sold.
He said last week they are already well on their way toward the $500,000 goal.
Of the money raised at this year's Cattlemen's Ball, 90 percent goes to support cancer research at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.
The other 10 percent stays in the area where the ball is held and is used for a variety of cancer-related health care grants.
Holzfasters praised the work being done by the Eppley Institute. Ralph said he and Bev have both had bouts with cancer, so serving as hosts for this year's ball takes on greater meaning.
Great support so far
Holzfasters said they have found amazing support in the area for this year's ball.
They said it takes 400 volunteers to play host to the more than 4,000 people who attend the annual event.
The event typically sells out each year. Two levels of tickets are available.
The Trail Boss ticket entitles the holder to events and receptions planned for both Friday night, June 7 and all day Saturday, June 8.
The Top Hand ticket includes a prime rib supper and concert by the country group Lonestar Saturday night.
The couple said many volunteers have already stepped forward to help.
Other co-chairs for the event include the Holzfasters' sons, Jon and Tim, both of Paxton, Doug Teaford of Ogallala, Neb., and Greg Wilke of North Platte, Neb.
The Cattlemen's Ball is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization, so contributions, such as tickets for the Corvette, are tax-deductible, the Holzfasters noted.
Tickets can be purchased at Harchelroad Motors in Imperial and Wauneta.
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I'm not at liberty to give any details, but let's just say that there could be some bad news/consequences about CB within the next week or so. Just trying to give everybody the heads-up. Sorry for the downer.
I hate these kinda threads just like everyone else, but didn't really have a whole lot of options.
Lets just say that I hope it doesn't pan out the way I heard it was going to.
Oh dear lord... Don't you have anything better to do than make up stuff?
whoops, misread
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Just to let you know, this has nothing to do with going pro.
ok it would hurt brackins if he transferred. next year, we will be a much better team and brackins will get much better. under McDermott, he has improved greatly. it would hurt him to have to sit out a year so he could just be another "face in the crowd" at a premier school
"Just a heads up that something I can't tell you anything about is going to happen and it concerns person X. Just thought you all should know ..... er.... um.... that there's something you'd all like to know and I know it and you don't and I'm not telling. I know you guys all hate these posts and I do too, but I'm going to go ahead and post it anyway."
Is his ankle injury worse than we thought or his grades poor?
Its obviously legal or school related the way it was worded with "bad news/consequences". However, the it taking a week or so and the "could be" make me not as worried
When all is said and done, more is said than done
Nothing to do with transferring, nothing to do with him leaving ISU.
The vagueness of it make me wonder why I wasted my time looking at it.
And why I'm on the Internet in the middle of the night.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
I am his 3rd cousins cousins best friend from a second mariage and I know the Mavs are drafting him
he took steroids
To give people a time frame, if it doesn't happen by the next home game, K state on the 21st then we "should" be fine.
this makes no sense at all. he "could" have commited a crime but maybe not? wtf?
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Chairman Hastings, Co-Chairman Cardin, Members of the Commission –
It is an honor to testify today.
May I begin by taking this opportunity to congratulate the Helsinki Commission on holding this hearing on the crucial topic of NATO enlargement and the upcoming Bucharest Summit. The hearing follows in the tradition of the careful scrutiny given to the two most recent rounds of enlargement by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on whose staff I had the privilege of serving from 1994 to 2005.
The decision to extend invitations to three former members of the Warsaw Pact – Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic – was anything but a "slam dunk," despite assertions to the contrary by some historians. Nor should it have been, for many debatable issues were involved. My Republican colleague and I were entrusted with the responsibility of structuring hearings, editing committee publications, and organizing the floor debate – a process that extended over several years. The committee held no fewer than a dozen hearings, including six in October and November 1997. The 1997 hearing topics included the Strategic Rationale for NATO Enlargement; Pros and Cons of Enlargement; the Qualifications of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for Membership; Costs, Benefits, Burden-Sharing and Military Implications of Enlargement; the NATO-Russia Relationship; and an unusual, concluding hearing in which representatives of interested organizations and individual American citizens gave their views on enlargement. A full record of these hearings, plus voluminous appendices is contained in a 552-page committee report, "The Debate on NATO Enlargement" (S. Hrg. 105-285).
The Foreign Relations Committee voted 16 to 2 in favor of sending the recommended amendment to the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty to the Senate floor, where after seven days of morning-to-night debate it was ratified on April 30, 1998 by a vote of 80 to 19. In a notable gesture of bipartisanship, the Republican majority delegated the responsibility of floor managing the bill to Senator Biden of the minority. I have been told by officials of several NATO partner nations that no other country's parliament came close to the United States Senate's exhaustive scrutiny of enlargement.
The next round of enlargement, which added Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the Alliance, was non-controversial. It culminated in a unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate on May 8, 2003.
The Alliance now faces the decision of whether to embark upon another round of enlargement. Mr. Chairman, I strongly support extending invitations to membership to Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia at the Bucharest NATO Summit. I also support, but with reservations, granting Membership Action Plans to Georgia and Ukraine at Bucharest.
Each candidate country's Membership Action Plan or "MAP" lays out military, political, and economic reforms necessary for membership. It is to the non-military issues, and to broader strategic considerations that I will confine my remarks.
Of the three candidates, Croatia has the strongest case for membership. It is the only one given a "free" designation by Freedom House in its 2007 "Freedom in the World" survey. (Albania and Macedonia received "partly free" status, with Albania also gaining an "upward trend arrow" due to its increased efforts to combat corruption.) A relatively wealthy, Western-looking country, Croatia has gradually recovered from the bloody and highly destructive war with Serbia of 1991-95, during which elements of its own ethnic Serb population set up a secessionist mini-state in the Krajina region, not subdued militarily until the summer of 1995. After some initial hesitation, Zagreb has subsequently resettled all but a few thousand of the more than 200,000 Serb refugees who fled from the Krajina, Western Slavonia, and Northern Dalmatia in the wake of the Croatian re-conquest. Unfortunately, there have been reports that the local population has harassed Serbs who have attempted to return to their prewar property.
Croatia's two leading political figures, President Stjepan Mesi? and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, while belonging to different parties, are both democrats. Sanader, in particular, deserves credit for having successfully reformed the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which the late President Franjo Tudjman had run in a fascist manner. Parliamentary elections held in November 2007 were judged to be free and fair, but it took nearly seven weeks of post-election negotiations until Sanader was able to put together a coalition government in mid-January 2008. The OSCE's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) judged that the Croatian elections had been "administered transparently, professionally, and represented further progress in fully meeting OSCE commitments for democratic elections."
In August 2007, Croatia and Slovenia agreed to seek a settlement of a long-standing border dispute through the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Some anti-democratic, right-wing elements do remain active in Croatia, especially among veterans' groups that resent the government's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. Last month a Croatian reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty received a death threat because of his reporting about the trial of a suspected Croatian war criminal. Such groups and activities, however, appear to be marginal, albeit troubling, remnants of the Tudjman era.
Support for NATO membership languished at about 30% until the Zagreb government undertook a public education campaign. That project, and the near-victory of the Radical Party in last month's elections in Serbia, combined to push support over the 50% mark by mid-February. The Kosovo-related mob violence last month in Belgrade, including against the Embassy of Croatia, may serve to increase pro-NATO sentiment even further.
Albania has made remarkable political and economic strides in the less than two decades since its people cast off Europe's most retrograde and paranoid communist dictatorship. The 1990's saw several violent outbreaks, including one in the wake of a pyramid scheme that wiped out the life savings of thousands of citizens. Although many parts of the country are still poverty-stricken, Albania has recently shed the dubious distinction of being Europe's poorest state, and the capital Tirana is in the midst of a building boom.
Albania's political life is raucous and often centered on disputes among a few leading personalities. Seven parties are represented in parliament. In July 2007, it took four ballots, which included opposition boycotts, before the parliament elected Bamir Topi as the country's new president. The government is implementing a comprehensive reform program of the judiciary and the electoral system. Progress has been made against corruption and organized crime, but they remain serious problems.
Albania is religiously diverse, with about half its population Muslim and the rest divided between Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism. The government emphasizes the need for inter-communal tolerance, and friction is at a relatively low level. All groups support NATO membership, with more than 90% of the populace in favor.
Despite its own post-communist problems, Tirana has an admirable record of being a prudent, good neighbor. During the Kosovo war of 1999, Albania took in hundreds of thousands of refugees. With Kosovo now independent, the government has made the completion of a modern highway between Tirana and Priština a top priority. Albania took a responsible stance during the inter-ethnic armed clashes in Macedonia in 2001, eschewing any desire for a "Greater Albania." Its relations with the third bordering country containing an Albanian minority, Montenegro, are excellent.
The third candidate country, Macedonia, has also made recent, notable progress, but its path to membership may be the most difficult. Unlike Croatia and Albania, where the titular nationality accounts for about ninety per cent of the population, Macedonian Slavs total only about 64% with Albanians comprising about 25%, and Turks, Roma, Serbs, and others making up the rest. It is a country, parts of whose territory at various times has been claimed by Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece.
Relations between Orthodox Macedonian Slavs and ethnic Albanians have been very contentious, nearly erupting into civil war in 2001 until the U.S. and the European Union brokered the Ohrid Framework Agreement, whose decentralization provides enhanced minority rights in language and education and thereby has kept a tenuous peace ever since. The national government, which traditionally includes an ethnic Albanian party in the ruling coalition, has made good faith efforts at police, judicial, and economic reforms. Macedonia has a fully professional, multi-ethnic army, and all groups in the country strongly support NATO membership. Like Albania, Macedonia hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees from Kosovo during the war in 1999.
Presenting the most serious barrier to NATO membership is the issue of the country's very name. Greece considers Skopje's use of "Macedonia" a violation of its own cultural patrimony, and although Athens gave up its trade embargo in 1995, nearly two decades of negotiations still have not yielded an agreement. Skopje has declared that it harbors no designs on Greek territory. Its willingness to accept a "Double Formula" compromise, by which the country is known internationally as the Republic of Macedonia, but by another name by Greece, has not satisfied Athens, and it and most other EU members continue to use the provisional "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" or FYROM. The name issue is not a consideration in U.S. support for Macedonia's NATO candidacy, since Washington has joined well over one hundred other countries in recognizing the Republic of Macedonia as the official name, but if no compromise is reached before the Bucharest Summit, Greece threatens to veto Skopje's membership bid, an action which would be extremely unwise and regrettable.
Mr. Chairman, I support the issuing at the Bucharest Summit of NATO membership invitations to all three candidates: Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia. I believe that all three fulfill the requirements for Alliance membership, and all – especially Macedonia and Albania -- have been enthusiastic contributors to Alliance military operations. Nonetheless, some analysts are opposed to their inclusion on institutional or geo-strategic grounds. Allow me to address some of these concerns.
NATO makes decisions on a consensus principle. Some believe that further enlargement would severely complicate Alliance business. But before Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined, skeptics similarly warned that increasing the membership would seriously complicate decision-making. Their fears have proved to be unfounded. Achieving consensus among nineteen members was no more difficult than it had been among sixteen, and after the "big bang" enlargement of 2004, twenty-six members have worked together relatively harmoniously. In fact, most of the ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe that joined in the last two rounds are closely tied to the United States by bonds of history, culture, kinship, and world-view and tend to follow Washington's lead.
I find unconvincing the related argument that the addition of Croatia, Macedonia, and Albania would somehow undermine the Alliance's stability. On the contrary, membership in NATO has defused inter-ethnic rivalries in Romania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria and several international rivalries, including between Poland and Germany, Romania and Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, and Slovenia and Italy.
Some critics complain that Albania and Macedonia would become "consumers of," not "contributors to" the security of the North Atlantic area. This assertion strikes me as odd, given the fact that all three candidates have put their blood and treasure on the line by contributing to NATO operations in Afghanistan, and Albania and Macedonia to the U.S.-led effort in Iraq. Two weeks ago the Croatian Minister of Defense declared that his country wants to contribute to the full spectrum of NATO operations. Moreover, the "consumer/contributor" criterion has been regularly misconstrued. In the detailed Senate floor debate in 1998 on the inclusion of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the proponents of enlargement, echoing a Pentagon assessment, made clear that becoming a net-contributor was a process. Only Poland was judged able to become a net-contributor immediately upon accession; it would take Hungary and the Czech Republic a few more years to attain that status. Yet all three countries joined NATO in 1999.
It is also true, as many point out, that the Alliance is currently wrestling with other weighty problems, above all the unwillingness of several European members to commit troops to combat roles in Afghanistan. But, as former President Lyndon Johnson used to say, surely we can walk and chew gum at the same time. The addition of three spirited new members might even have a salutary effect upon some of the more hesitant, older ones.
Recently a tactical argument has been put forward that several years from now Ukraine and Georgia may be ready for membership, but supposedly they would have to be included in a larger group of candidate countries in order to gain the necessary unanimous support. Hence, the argument goes, it would be better to admit only Croatia at the Bucharest Summit, and leave Albania and Macedonia for the next round.
I am not sure that even the fundamental assumption is correct. It is quite possible that in a few years fully qualified Ukraine and Georgia would quickly gain admittance, with or without other candidates. Even if that does not prove to be true, the argument strikes me as flawed. First of all, it cavalierly plays with the security concerns of Albania and Macedonia as if they were expendable pieces on a chessboard. Might they not be threatened before the next NATO summit comes around? Moreover, the argument overlooks the fact that one or more additional candidates may be qualified by the time Ukraine and Georgia are ready. Montenegro readily comes to mind.
An even more interesting possibility, less remote than is often supposed, is that already qualified, non-candidate countries may change their policies and apply for membership. I am talking principally about Finland, Sweden, or Austria. Currently majority sentiment in all three countries is against NATO membership, but influential segments of opinion are pro-membership. In Finland, for example, a working group is preparing a Defense White Paper to be presented to parliament next fall, in which NATO membership is reportedly an option being considered.
Finally, some assert that the Kosovo crisis necessitates a postponement of the enlargement process in the Western Balkans. On the contrary, the challenge of Kosovo strengthens the case for enlargement in Bucharest. If the government in Belgrade persists in a policy of self-isolation from the Euro-Atlantic community and perhaps even gravitates toward temporarily becoming a semi-satellite of Russia, then it would be a useful insurance policy to have NATO members on most of Serbia's borders (Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia) and on the border with northern Kosovo (Albania).
The granting of MAPs to Ukraine and/or Georgia at the Bucharest Summit appears to me to be more problematic than the decision on invitations to membership for Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia. Ukraine rates a "free" and Georgia a "partly free" overall designation in Freedom House's "Freedom in the World 2007" survey, with Ukraine scoring higher than Georgia -- and Macedonia and Albania, for that matter -- on civil liberties, at the same level as Croatia.
No one can doubt Ukraine's geo-strategic importance. A stable, democratic Ukraine inside NATO would dramatically expand the zone of stability in Europe. It is precisely because of Ukraine's importance that the Alliance must give its qualifications very careful scrutiny.
On the positive side, over the past two years Ukraine has conducted two free and fair parliamentary elections and has seen a peaceful change of administrations. The new government in Kyiv led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gotten off to a promising start by making the country ready for accession to the World Trade Organization and by moving to curb the serious corruption that has afflicted the economy.
During the past decade Ukraine has already been an active participant in Alliance peacekeeping and military operations, including in a combat role in Iraq in 2004-05. In April 2005, NATO and Ukraine launched an Intensified Dialogue on membership. On January 15 the country's three top elected officials – President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Tymoshenko, and Parliamentary Speaker Arseny Yatsenyuk – sent a letter to NATO, asking that the Alliance consider offering Ukraine a MAP at the Bucharest Summit.
On the negative side, Ukraine's democracy remains fractious, and sometimes dysfunctional. In fact, for over a month, the parliament has been in a forced recess as the opposition blocked the legislature to protest the above-mentioned joint letter to NATO. The opponents, it must be said, have lost some credibility through the publication of official documents showing that when Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych was Prime Minister from 2002 to 2004, he supported Ukraine's drive to NATO membership, including the annual NATO-Ukraine "Action Plans" that were similar to MAPs.
Whether the blocking maneuver in parliament is rooted in political opportunism or principled opposition, the fact remains that overall popular support for joining NATO currently stands at only about 20%. The political leadership has said that the electorate would have to show its backing in a national referendum before the government makes a request for membership. Three years after the Orange Revolution, Ukraine remains a sharply polarized country.
Unlike Ukraine, in Georgia there is strong support for NATO membership, more than 76% having voted for it in a national referendum in January 2008. NATO and Georgia entered into an Intensified Dialogue on membership in September 2006. The small country in the Caucasus, fractured shortly after its post-Soviet independence by civil war and violent secessionist movements, has been extraordinarily willing to commit its troops to Alliance missions, including combat operations. In fact, Georgia now is one of the leading non-U.S. contributors to the coalition forces in Iraq.
Until last fall, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the architect of the 2003 Rose Revolution, was seen in the West as an exemplar of democracy. His reputation, however, has been tarnished, first by the excessive force used by police in breaking up anti-government demonstrations in November 2007, and then by opponents' insistent allegations of electoral irregularities in the January 2008 presidential elections. It should be added that respected international observers, while noting problems, judged the elections to have been generally fair.
Georgia's relations with its Russian neighbor are acrimonious. Moscow has levied economic sanctions against Tbilisi and maintains a constant propaganda barrage against President Saakashvili. Russian troops have recently withdrawn from their bases in Georgia, but Russian "peacekeepers" continue to patrol in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Moscow may utilize the Kosovo situation to recognize one or both of these two secessionist regimes.
Mr. Chairman, as was explicitly the case in the last two rounds of NATO enlargement, relations with Russia must be a factor in our decision. Taking the Kremlin into consideration does not, of course, mean giving it a veto. Every independent country has the sovereign right to choose its own foreign and security policy. That includes formerly communist-ruled Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia as well as former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia.
Moreover, NATO is not an offensive alliance. It never had plans for launching an unprovoked attack on the U.S.S.R. (unlike the Warsaw Pact's battle plans for conquering Western Europe), and it has no plans to invade Russia now. If Russian President Vladimir Putin views NATO as a potential aggressor, his attitude has more to do with a KGB-inculcated, zero-sum view of the world than with reality. His recent comment about targeting Russian nuclear-armed missiles on Ukraine if it joins NATO is a totally unacceptable attempt at intimidation and reveals an unwillingness to accept the fact that Kyiv is independent of Moscow.
U.S. policy toward Russia can be firm and, at the same time, avoid being gratuitously provocative. Extending membership invitations to the three Balkan candidates or granting MAPs to Ukraine and Georgia, if they qualify, would not fall into the gratuitously provocative category. On the contrary, a rational, twenty-first century Kremlin assessment would welcome increased stability on its borders. Unfortunately, Putin and his circle seem to be mired in the mindset of a nineteenth-century Great Power, desirous of weak, unstable neighbors.
President Putin -- who, in May, will become Prime Minister Putin -- plans to attend the Bucharest Summit. Any negative decisions there regarding NATO enlargement would likely be viewed as acquiescence to his opposition. This is an impression I would not wish to be conveyed, but in itself it is not sufficient reason for the Alliance to move forward. At the end of the day, each candidacy, whether for membership or for a MAP, should be evaluated on its own merits.
On that basis, I narrowly support offering MAPs to Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest Summit. Despite the fact that receiving a MAP is not a guarantee of a later offer of membership, it nonetheless is a watershed in the membership process that makes eventual success highly probable, if not inevitable. Both countries, in my opinion, still have room for major improvement in their domestic politics. This May, Georgia will hold parliamentary elections, which will offer an opportunity to reassure its friends that its democracy is solid. Ukraine must demonstrate that its bitterly antagonistic political rivals can cooperate to effect economic progress and further reduce corruption, and conduct a public information campaign on NATO so that popular support for membership can grow substantially from its current extremely low level.
It has been reported that some Western European allies are inclined to oppose granting MAPs to Ukraine and Georgia. I would like to emphasize that if NATO does decide not to grant the two MAPs at Bucharest, it should explicitly declare that the door is still open to both countries, should express willingness immediately to consult with them on remaining actions to be taken, and should stress that Kyiv and Tbilisi will receive MAPs upon their satisfactory meeting of all the criteria, a development which might occur in advance of the sixtieth anniversary NATO summit in 2009.
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my testimony. I would be happy to answer any questions the Members of the Commission wish to pose.


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Cash prize for the RX division. Femme Royale, Phenom, and more prizes for winners in both divisions.
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2010 Challenge from Jeremy Brooks on Vimeo.
This video is a compilation of my shots for the 2010 Challenge. The challenge for 2010 was to shoot one photo each week on a specific theme. The theme changed every four weeks. The themes were:
- Resolution
- Natural Landscape
- Signs
- Down Low
- Flowers
- Gadgets
- Color Theory
- Symmetry
- Macro
- Doorways
- Architecture
- Shifting Season
- Feet
Shooting the 2010 Challenge was a lot of fun. The changing theme kept it interesting, and having a whole week to choose a shot meant that I could take my time and think about what I wanted it to look like.
The soundtrack for this video is Technitonics by Doctor Popular, from the Beeps and Smudges album. Thanks for licensing your music under the Creative Commons, Doc!


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I have an application in which a user can select events and they will auto be inserted to calendar.
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Did you know the skin is the body's largest organ? It acts as a barrier against wetness, sun damage, and infection. Learn more about the skin and its crucial functions for the human body in this video.
Learn about the skin through this excellent video, an introduction to the skin and its marvels.
The two layers of skin, the dermis and epidermis, and their functions are illustrated in this animation.
This 3D animation video shows the process of acne formation and its treatment.
The two layers of skin, the dermis and epidermis, and their functions are illustrated in this animation.
Lesson plan stands alone and is part of a larger unit "Skin Deep Project". It includes background information, motivational, development, assessment and extensions.
Lesson opens with discussion questions to grab student attention, assessment, and extensions. All handouts are linked in blue. "In this lesson, students will learn about the factors that determine skin color and how adaptation and natural selection contribute to its variation." - ScienceNetLinks
Lesson includes, background, motivational discussion questions, Develop activity (answers to questions provided here), assessments, extensions, and related resources. All readings and handouts are provided as blue links. "To learn about the damaging effects of sunburns and tanning, and how sunscreens work to protect us from the sunâs harmful UV rays." - ScienceNetLinks
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Events Calendar
- Sunday, July 7, 2013
- Export2013-07-07T09:30:00 Boots and Saddle Club
9:30 am - The Boots and Saddle Club Horse Show will be Sunday, July 7th. Registration 9:30am, Show 10:00am at the Carney Park in south O'Neill. Trophies or awards are given up to 6 places and high point awards in all age groups. Any questions about the shows or wish to become a member please contact Bruce Cole, 402-336-1689 or Brenda Koenig, 402-485-2333.
- Export2013-07-07T10:00:00 Trinity Lutheran Celebrates 100 yrs
10:00 am - Trinity Lutheran Church in Foster will host their centennial celebration on Sunday July 7th. The schedule for the day is:
10:00 Divine Service with District Pres. Russell Sommerfeld preaching.
11:45 Catered Lunch
1:30 Program
2:30 Closing Prayer
2:45 Cake and Coffee Reception
RSVP's appreciated. Call 402-329-6252 or 402-329-4942 .
- Export2013-07-07T10:30:00 Community Bible Church -Guest Speaker
10:30 am - Dr. Bill Hall will be the featured speaker during special evangelistic meetings at Community Bible Church of Norfolk, 401East Park Avenue, from Sunday, July 7, through Sunday, July 14. Dr. Hall will be speaking on Sunday at 10:30 am & 6:00 pm and at all other evening services at 7:00 pm. There will be children's meetings and a supervised nursery during each service. The public is invited to attend.
Call 371-5000 or 379-1561 for more information.
- Export2013-07-11T12:00:00 Norfolk Support Group
12:00 - 1:30pm - The Norfolk Support Group for Widowed Divorced and Separated meet each Sunday for Brunch at the HyVee East Dining Area from noon to 1:30 pm.
- Export2013-07-07T13:00:00 Pierce Historical Society Classic Car Show
1:00 - 4:00pm - The Pierce Historical Society will hold their 3rd Annual Classic Car Show on Sunday July 7th from 1 to 4 pm in Gilman Park at Pierce. This show is designed to feature Pre 1985 vehicles, their is no judging. Food available, games and prizes. For details contact Bill Kuhl at 402-329-4109.
- Export2013-07-04T14:00:00 2013-07-07T American Legion Bingo
2:00 pm - The Norfolk American Legion Post #16 holds Bingo each Sunday at 2 pm at 1305 Riverside Boulevard. Everyone is welcome. For more info, call 371-2005.
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