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Vinita, OK 74301
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Sallisaw, OK 74955
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Edmond, OK 73034
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Hwy 66 & Pioneer Rd
Elk City, OK 73648
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Okarche, OK 73762
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5350 Cimarron Rd
Catoosa, OK 74015
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Cookson, OK 74427
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Ardmore, OK 73401
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Lawton, OK 73552
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1714 W Wrangler Blvd
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Freedom, OK 73842
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N 4475 Rd
Langley, OK 74350
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Stillwater, OK 74074
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Hulbert, OK 74441
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124 E Lee Ave
Sapulpa, OK 74066
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442370 E 367 Rd
Big Cabin, OK 74332
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Lake Tenkiller State Park
Vian, OK 74962
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Skiatook, OK 74070
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410 S Keeler Ave
Bartlesville, OK 74004
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McAlester, OK 74502
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Roosevelt, OK 73564
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Talihina, OK 74571
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Brenna Murphy '09 awarded Rhizome Commission
Rhizome has awarded Brenna Murphy '09 a grant through their annual Commissions Program to support her project Expanding Labyrinth. She will receive $4800 to support a daily meditative practice of creating net art.
This year over 300 proposals were submitted by artists from around the world. The jury included Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Jonathan Lethem, author of The Ecstasy of Influence; Caitlin Jones, Executive Director of Western Front; Renny Gleeson of Weiden + Kennedy; and Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome.
"At its core, this project is a lifestyle," Murphy said in her Rhizome Commission Proposal about her practice of engaging in "meditative computer mind work mode for large chunks of time." The $4800 supports Murphy's goal of "expanding my labyrinth while publicly exploring the creative-spiritual uses of the personal computer."
Watch an Alumni Profile video on Oregon Painting Society, a group with roots at PNCA that Murphy helped form.
Brenna Murphy has been busy since graduating in 2009. She traveled to the Tate where Oregon Painting Society performed there for No Soul For Sale. She was interviewed by Maurizo Cattelan for MUSEMAGAZINE.IT. And she has been featured on Rhizome before.
On the Expanding Labyrinth Proposal page, Murphy writes, "[f]or the past two years, I have been steadily weaving a digital labyrinth for meditation and exploration. The labyrinth is carved into the shared netscape through a series of linked web pages that contain talismanic arrangements of images, videos and sounds. All of the work is generated from my daily creative experimentation with computer graphics programs. For me, graphics programs are spiritual tools that allow one to psychedelically engage with the fabric of reality. I'm deeply committed to pushing the innovative possibilities inherent in these contemporary folk art tools. My labyrinth of pages is an active public record of my explorations. I propose to direct a rhizome commission toward the expansion of this project over the course of the next year. I am requesting a monthly salary to support me in this full time endeavor."
Read more about Murphy's project on the Rhizome website.
PNCA Faculty and Alumna Selected for Prestigious Printmaking Residency
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts honors MFA in Visual Studies Chair Arnold J. Kemp and PNCA alumna Pat Boas with a "Golden Spot" residency. The residency, made possible with funding from The Ford Family Foundation, supports Oregon mid-career visual artists.
These two PNCA community members are no stranger to honors and accolades. Kemp was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study at the Adrian Piper Research Archive in Berlin. Boas was named the 2012 Bonnie Bronson Fellow.
The mission of Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts is to provide educational, social, and economic opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. With an emphasis on contemporary, fine-art printmaking, they also function as a venue to practice traditional Native American art practices, weaving, bead working and regalia making, of the Plateau region. Located near Pendleton, Oregon, Crow's Shadow was founded by James Lavadour and friends in 1992.
The "Golden Spot" residency program is being funded through a grant from The Ford Family Foundation. Crow's Shadow offers three two-week printmaking residencies for Oregon mid-career visual artists. Artists in residence are guided by a Tamarind Master Printer to create limited editions of fine-art, hand-pulled prints that Crow's Shadow publishes, exhibits and sells.
Graduate Student Wins Honorable Mention in Sculpture Contest
Andy Lonnquist MFA '12 was awarded honorable mention in the International Sculpture Center's 2012 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award program.
Lonnquist's work will be recognized in the 2012 October issue of Sculpture magazine, as well as on the www.sculpture.org website. This achievement points to the success that graduate students at PNCA have around creating rigorous work and engaging in a vital design and craft history.
There were an exceptional number of nominees with 434 students from over 174 college and universities, world-wide. The jury included Donna Dennis, Winifred Lutz, and Joseph Becherer, and they reviewed more than 1,300 images of student work to make their selections.
Read more about the success of the students from the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program. Check out the flickr slideshow of the 2012 MFA AC+D Practicum Exhibition.
PNCA Launches Campaign, CREATIVITY WORKS HERE
At its 10th annual gala, PNCA announced the launch of a $15 million philanthropic campaign, CREATIVITY WORKS HERE, in support of its strategic move to renovate the historic former federal post office at 511 NW Broadway and to anchor the PNCA campus on the North Park Blocks in downtown Portland.
PNCA's Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design from PNCA - Pacific Northwest College on Vimeo.
PNCA announced a significant gift of $5 million from The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation to name the renovated building the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design. The gift is the largest from an alumna or alumnus in the school's 103-year history. Arlene Schnitzer will serve as an honorary co-chair for the campaign, along with Dorothy 'Dolly' Lemelson, a longtime supporter who has established a major scholarship program at PNCA and is a Visionary sponsor for the College's annual gala to support its Annual Fund.
Supporters have committed more than $6.5 million to the Campaign to date. Gifts include $500,000 from the late Ernie Swigert in honor of former PNCA president Sally Lawrence, $100,000 from the late Ed Cauduro, who established the Ed Cauduro Scholars at PNCA in 2008 with a gift of $1,000,000 through the Oregon Community Foundation, and a planning award of $50,000 from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. PNCA also has received a $740,000 grant from the Portland Development Commission for project planning and design.
Acclaimed architect Brad Cloepfil and his firm, Allied Works Architecture, revealed a dramatic design for the adaptive reuse, which is anticipated to cost $30 million and be completed during the 2014-15 academic year. The overall project will be funded through a combination of private philanthropy, tax credits, financing, and grants.
"This is an historic moment for the College and for the City of Portland," said Ann Edlen, Chair of the PNCA Board of Governors. "We are extraordinarily grateful for Arlene's support and leadership in this transformational effort. This gift, coming from a committed alumna, validates all that we believe about the power of a PNCA education to change the world with creative and design thinking and making. I am also pleased to announce that the project has 100% participation from our talented and dedicated Board of Governors."
Read the press release for more information.
PNCA Receives Gift of Memory 99 for its Permanent Collection
At its 10th annual gala, PNCA announced that it had received a gift to its permanent art collection of an important work by alumnus Lee Kelly '59. The Ford Family Foundation gave the College a special, one-time gift to acquire Kelly's Memory 99 as part of the Foundation's evolving Visual Arts program established to honor the interests and memory of one of its co-founders, Mrs. Hallie Ford. Memory 99 is intended to be installed in the North Park Blocks in proximity to PNCA's Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design (511 NW Broadway) for which the College announced a capital campaign and lead gift of $5 million from The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.
Memory 99 is one of Kelly's most well known architectural sculptures, a complex, direct-weld work created out of Cor-Ten steel that is 23 feet wide, 11 feet high, and over six feet in depth. The Portland Art Museum installed the massive Memory 99 at the entrance to its Lee Kelly retrospective exhibition in 2010.
Read the press release for more information.
PNCA Spring Gala Raises More Than $465,000
On Saturday, June 2, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) held its 10th annual Gala, Transformation. Donors and sponsors contributed more than $465,000 in sponsorships and gifts to support the PNCA Annual Fund, a new record that surpassed last year's Gala total by more than $25,000. Contributions to the PNCA Annual Fund provide vital support for PNCA's students, faculty, and free public exhibitions and lectures.
Read the full press release for more detail.
PNCA Faculty and Alumna Chosen as 2012 Hallie Ford Fellows
PNCA is proud to announce that Faculty member Ellen Lesperance and alumna Michelle Ross '87 are two of three Oregon visual artists named 2012 Hallie Ford Fellows by The Ford Family Foundation. The recipients named are awarded $25,000 each for demonstrating excellence in their work and exhibiting significant potential for future accomplishments. This is the third year that The Ford Family Foundation has been awarding the Hallie Ford Fellowships and the second time PNCA faculty and alumni have been awarded the fellowship.
Faculty members Daniel Duford and David Eckard were part of the inaugural year for the Visual Arts Program and the Hallie Ford Fellowship.
The Museum of Contemporary Craft, in partnership with The Ford Family Foundation, will present an exhibition of the work of the Hallie Ford Fellows in Visual Arts. This exhibition is scheduled to open January 24th, 2013 and run through the Fall of 2012 at both Oregon and out-of-state museum.
About Ellen Lesperance
Ellen Lesperance is an Assistant Professor, teaching in Foundation, Intermedia, and Painting. Lesperance has exhibited her work in venues including The Seattle Art Museum; Monya Rowe Gallery, New York City; Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles; PS122, New York City; Artists Space, New York City; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland; and Samson Projects, Boston. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Tema Celeste, USArt, and Art Monthly. In 2010 she received The Betty Bowen Award and was a MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residence. She is represented by Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2012 her work in memory of slain activist/artist Pippa Bacca was featured in a solo exhibition at Frieze New York.
About Michelle Ross
Michelle Ross mentors in the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program and teaches painting and drawing at Oregon College of Art and Craft. She was recently a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2004 she received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, and in 2003 her work was represented in the Portland Art Museum's "Oregon Biennial", "Ulterior Motives: Current NW Abstraction" at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University and the West Coast issue of New American Paintings. Her work traverses the history of abstraction, design, decoration and the love of language. She received her BFA from PNCA in 1987 and is represented locally by Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
About the Hallie Ford Fellows
Those eligible are practicing visual artists currently producing works of art; full-time residents of Oregon for at least 36 months prior to the application deadline who are legal residents of Oregon 30 years of age or older at the time of application who have evidenced, through appropriate documentation, seven (7) or more years of active professional participation in their medium and are not enrolled in a degree-seeking program, either part-time or full-time at the time of application or during the successive grant period.
Namita Gupta Wiggers Appointed as Museum Director and Chief Curator
Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to announce that Namita Gupta Wiggers has been appointed director and chief curator of the Museum. Wiggers was hired as curator in 2004 to raise the national and international profile of the historic institution as it moved to its new location in the North Park Blocks, and to develop a vision for a new kind of museum focused on craft.
As a leader in the critical reconsideration of craft in America, Wiggers brings a broad, long-term vision of Museum of Contemporary Craft as a museum of influence. "Namita is a very gifted curator with a world-class reputation. She is also a thought-leader on craft and design and an effective administrator with the strategic thinking skills and day-to-day savvy to realize an ambitious vision for the Museum," says Tom Manley, president, PNCA and CEO of Museum of Contemporary Craft. "Her appointment is effective July 1st and coincides with the arrival of PNCA's new academic dean, Mark Takiguchi, who is coming from California College of the Arts. This brings the College a new opportunity to strengthen the ties between the Museum and PNCA curricula, and thus enhances curatorial studies opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students."
Read the press release for a full description of this exciting announcement.
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Wall Street Journal: PDX Next Art Capital? (And PNCA!)
In the latest Wall Street Journal, Peter Plagens asks whether Portland may be the nation's next "art capital." If the answer is yes, it puts PNCA in a good position, as Plagens' piece points to the important role that PNCA, its faculty, and alumni play in the region. Plagens writes about the Mayoral Candidates Forum hosted by PNCA's MFA in Collaborative Design program and moderated by program Chair Peter Schoonmaker. Plagens also mentions Guggenheim Fellow and Chair of the MFA in Visual Studies Arnold J. Kemp in comments about the role teaching artists play in the arts ecosystem in Portland.
Plagens visited FalseFront gallery to view an exhibition curated by PNCA's Laura Hughes MFA '10 (Visual Studies), and calls faculty member Crystal Schenk's Artifacts of Memory exhibition at Linfield College "a truly poetic stunner."
In his article, Plagens, who received pointers from PORT's Jeff Jahn, focuses on the role that alternative spaces play in Portland (in addition to the academic galleries), writing that they are "less about art's being—art objects displayed and for sale—than they are about artists becoming . . . " This notion could be applied to PNCA and Portland's larger arts community as well. As Plagens notes, artists like Storm Tharp, who recently completed a portfolio as a visiting artist with PNCA's Printmaking Department, are here because Portland gives artists the space to do the work they need to do. Becoming "Our Next Art Capital" may be hyperbole, but there's something happening here, and PNCA is in the thick of it.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer Selected as Commencement Speaker
At the 2012 Commencement ceremony, PNCA will be proud to graduate over 100 undergraduate and 25 graduate students from nine undergraduate and two graduate programs. The 2012 Commencement Address will be delivered by Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
About Earl Blumenauer
A lifelong resident of Portland, Oregon, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) has devoted his career to public service.
While still a student at Lewis & Clark College, Blumenauer spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age both in Oregon and at the national level. He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1972, where he served three terms and chaired the House Education and Revenue Committee in 1977-78.
He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, creating a unique role as Congress' chief spokesperson for Livable Communities: places where people are safe, healthy, and economically secure.
A leading environmental advocate both in Oregon and in Congress, Congressman Blumenauer has authored and co-sponsored legislation to preserve and protect public lands, shift the nation's energy policy towards renewable energy and energy efficiency, curb global warming, and clean our nation's water bodies. He has worked on specific bills such as The Little Sandy Protection Act (2001), which enhances and protects the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, the source of drinking water for the Portland metropolitan area.
Joe Sacco wins Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award
The first winner of the Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award at the 2012 Oregon Book Awards is Joe Sacco, for his book, Footnotes in Gaza.
Sacco's Footnotes was among an impressive list of work including PNCA alumna Aidan Koch's '09 (Illustration) The Whale, Graham Annable's The Book of Grickle, Sarah Oleksy's Ivy, and Greg Rucka's Stumptown.
Published in 2009, Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic graphic novel about two bloody incidents during the Suez War. The book describes the author's quest to find out what happened in Khan Younis and Rafah in November 1956.
The Graphic Literature Award was created in April 2011 during a week that included a visit to PNCA by award-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Read more about the creation of the award here.
In 2008, PNCA's Feldman Gallery + Project Space exhibited a retrospective of Sacco's work. In the Oregonian, Brian Libby noted, "Sacco's work—mostly simple black-and-white, storyboard-like renderings in this show—brings alive the everyday reality of living amid violence. It's not about the violence toward him but instead the consequences for the innocent."
PNCA's Illustration program fuses professional practice with personal vision, pushing students to develop the hybrid skill-sets needed to flourish in today's dynamic, multi-media marketplace. Learn more about the Illustration program's students and faculty on the Illustration Tumblr site. Read more about Koch's The Whale here.
Arthouse Announced for North Park Blocks
The Powell family in collaboration with PNCA is set to build ArtHouse, a new PNCA student community project on the Powell-owned property adjacent to the North Park Blocks. PNCA's enrollment has doubled since 2004 to nearly 600 students and is expected to reach 1000 by 2018. The 7-story, 55,000 square feet building, in the location of the former Powell's Technical Books, will operate as art on different scales: from building as art, designed by Thomas Robinson, to spaces that showcase art, to places to make art. The building is planned for the Fall 2013 class.
Read news coverage of ArtHouse from the Daily Journal of Commerce.
Samantha Mash '13 Wins Prestigious Society of Illustrators Prize
Samantha Mash '13 has been selected to receive a $1,000 Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship Award for her work submitted to the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition. Her piece, Sculpture, depicts the back of a figure with mysterious horns and claws shrouded in the mystery of transformation. This award places her work among the best student work in the country for this school year.
Mash's winning illustration is modeled after something she saw in the Museum of Contemporary Craft during a class visit.
"My Visual Vocabulary class went to the Museum of Contemporary Craft last semester," mentions Mash, "and our instructor Martin French asked us to make an illustration inspired by one of the pieces on display. I decided to emulate the ceramic sculpture Untitled #5 by Manuel Izquierdo by taking his abstract form and turning it into a human figure."
Back in February, it was announced that Mash, Sera Stanton '12, and Jeffrey Versoi '13 had work accepted into the prestigious and highly competitive Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition. Open to all BFA illustration students across the country, 200+ images are juried into the show from over 7,000 entries.
"It feels really bizarre" says Versoi of learning that he was awarded this honor. "I've only learned last semester how prestigious this society is, and its just a real huge honor now. A real bizarre, huge honor."
In speaking about her approach to illustration, Mash cites a relentless process.
"I draw a lot and from all those sketches I turn a few into fleshed-out pieces," says Mash. "I normally sketch traditionally with graphite on paper and then scan this into the computer where I digitally paint and draw on top of the scan. It is sort of a long process and can take up to twenty hours or more on some illustrations, but I like how meticulous this method makes me."
PNCA's Illustration program fuses professional practice with personal vision, pushing students to develop the hybrid skill-set needed to flourish in today's dynamic, multi-media marketplace. Learn more about the Illustration program's current students and faculty on the Illustration Tumblr site.
Daniel Duford featured on Artforum's 500 Words
PNCA faculty member Daniel Duford has been featured in ArtForum's 500 words. He discusses his latest ceramic pieces, which are featured in the exhibition "Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art," on view at the White Box.
"Vessels, myth, the written word, and narrative are my foundations," Duford professes. "Because of my work with comics, I learned the value of sequential imagery. I see comic cells like ceramic shards that possess a physical dimension—they can be manipulated and assembled, spatially, to enrich a narrative and connect it to other physical objects."
Duford has been a vital part of the PNCA community for years. He has taught a variety of classes including a Graphic Novel Intensive and upper division classes such as Senior Critique Seminar and Theory and Practice. His work will be exhibited in the Museum as part of an inaugural Hallie Ford Fellows exhibition in January 2013.
Read a profile of Duford on UNTITLED. See what he had to say about Museum of Contemporary Craft's exhibition on Ai Weiwei. Relax into his essay on hand digging for clay from the Generations: Betty Feves publication.
MFA in Visual Studies Chair Arnold J. Kemp Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a Fellowship in the Fine Arts to PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies Chair, Arnold J. Kemp. Kemp holds a combined BA/BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. And he holds an MFA from Stanford University. From 1991 to 2006, Kemp lived and worked in San Francisco where he participated in four significant solo exhibitions and many groups shows while also working as a curator for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (1993–2003). Kemp's proposal for the Fellowship includes doing research at the Adrian Piper Research Archive in Berlin and making work based on that research.
Kemp is among a diverse group of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded fellowships in the Foundation's eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
April is Bursting with Student Exhibitions
There are numerous students and alumni exhibiting on campus at PNCA and at other venues throughout Portland for the month of April. See the BFA Juried Show in the Swigert Commons, a solo show by Darja Bajagic in the BFA Gallery, S-From in the Higgins Gallery, and Loop in the MFA Gallery. FalseFront presents Light Structures, curated by Laura Hughes MFA '10 and featuring the work of Sydney Kim MFA '10 and Cay Horiuchi MFA '12.
Delaney Allen MFA '10 Premieres New Photo Work at Nationale
Between gracing Washed Out's album covers and dominating the tumblr scene with haunting images of smoke and light, Delaney Allen MFA '10 has been busy since graduating from the MFA in Visual Studies program two years ago. He was recently featured on the international blog iGNANT and has his second solo exhibition opening at Nationale on April 6.
Born in Fort Worth, TX, Delaney Allen received his MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2010. His photographs have been shown nationally and internationally, most notably at Foam Museum in Amsterdam, NL. Additionally, he has self-published three books, one of which was included in Photo-Eye Magazine's "Best Of" list for 2010 (Between Here And There). His work has been featured in a number of print publications including Nylon Magazine and France's Tell Mum Everything Is OK. Allen currently lives and works out of Portland, OR where he is represented by Nationale.
Rose Bond Awarded Ford Family Foundation Artist in Residence Prize
PNCA's own Rose Bond, the chair of the Animated Arts department in the BFA program, has been awarded one of the five 2012 Ford Family Foundation Caldera Artist in Residence (AiR) Prize.
The Ford Family Foundation Caldera AiR Prizes are given to full-time Oregon artists over the age of 30 who are currently active and have been active in their art form for the last seven years. Along with a residency at Caldera, these awardees have been granted a financial stipend. The awards given are a result of a generous donation from the Ford Family Foundation.
Rose Bond is a Canadian born media artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Her short films have been screened in international competitions including Sundance, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Experimental Film Fest, and the Ottawa, Annecy, Hiroshima and Stuttgart Animation Festivals. She has created large-scale, site-specific public installations for a number of locations, including Intra Muros which was projected by Director's Invitation at the 2007 Platform International Animation Festival and restaged for the Holland Animation Film Festival in 2008 and Gates of Light sponsored by Bloomberg LP at the landmark Museum at Eldridge Street in New York's Lower East Side. Illumination No.1 her groundbreaking public media installation premiered in the windows of Portland's Seamen's Bethel Building in 2003. Bond is a Princess Grace Statue Award winner and a NEA and AFI film grant recipient. Bond is the chair of the Animated Arts department at PNCA. Her direct animation films are held in the Film Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Austin Adkins '12 and Linda Hutchins '88 to Perform at Low Lives 4
Current BFA student Austin Adkins '12 and alumnae Linda Hutchins '88 were selected to perform at the Low Lives 4, an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S.
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art will present performances by Adkins and Hutchins on April 27, 5:30–8:30pm, and April 28, 12–3pm, in their new space, 415 SW 10th Ave (Suite 300).
With experience in competitive roller-skating, Adkins will create a physical "video loop" online and in the PICA space, using his skates as training wheels towards the development of physical proficiency. Hutchins will combine drawing and percussion in a performance that weaves repeated strokes of silver from ten finger thimbles into a rhythmic pattern on the walls.
Photo: Katy Knowlton '11

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we are a family of 7, mum, dad, 2 adult girls,2 adult boys and 1 - 11 year old girl ( the boss ). this is the first time we are going on a trip to Disney land, Orlando.we have paid for a package holiday with first choice, we are flying with Thomson and we are staying at the kissimmee site. we have booked a car from doller and are now trying to sort out what park tickets to get. we are not sure if we should buy an all in one ticket deal on line here in the uk, and if so what are the best sites to get them from , or should we buy them out there. we are going for two weeks starting end of may. please could someone give us some tips on what to do and what not do. thanks


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Norton Brook Medical Centre covers approximately 150 square miles; the practice boundary is a five mile radius around the town. We are the sole practice in Kingsbridge, our boundaries overlapping with a practice in Salcombe and a practice in Chillington. Our team includes eight GPs, four nurses,2 health care assistants as well as our practice manager and reception, administration and secretarial staff.
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Welcome to the Dee J. Kelly Law Library at Texas A&M University School of Law, your hub for research, legal scholarship, information and reference, as well as a great place to study!
The Equal Justice Program facilitates the 30-hour pro bono requirement for Texas A&M law students. We believe the Equal Justice Program will enrich your legal education experience.
For questions about the pro bono requirement, see below. For more information, contact the Office of Student Affairs or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Each student must perform no less than 30 hours of pro bono work through a placement that has been preapproved by the school. Although 1Ls are not encouraged to begin pro bono work until after their first semester of law school, pro bono work may start in any semester of law school and must be completed prior to graduation. The student is responsible for selecting a placement, contacting that office, arranging to do the work, completing the work and filling out all proper forms.
The instructions below tell you how to select a placement. In addition, in order to receive credit, you must be sure that all required forms are filled out, signed by the supervising attorney and returned to the school and that your hours are entered into Symplicity. All forms that are needed can be found in Symplicity.
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Pro bono work may start in any semester of law school and must be completed prior to graduation. 1Ls are not encouraged to begin pro bono work until after their first semester of law school.
December graduates must have their pro bono hours completed by November 1. May graduates must have their pro bono hours completed by April 1. We encourage you to complete the required 30 hours well before the deadline, so we have time to process your paperwork and credit you with having completed the requirement.
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Trademark Class 2: Paints and Varnishes
Choose Class 2 for paints, colorants and preparations used for the protection against corrosion
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Class 2 includes mainly paints, colorants and preparations used for the protection against corrosion. Class 2 is one of 45 classes used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) when grouping products or services.
Examples of trademarks in Class 2 include: FROG COAT (Waterproof paints), BLACKGOLD (Protective Coatings), JUST ONCE (Protective coatings), and INKODYE (Colorants and color pigments).
You would choose Class 2 if you were registering any of these types of goods:
- paints, varnishes and lacquers for industry, handicrafts and arts;
- dyestuffs for clothing;
- colorants for foodstuffs and beverages.
For a complete listing of all goods in Class 2, see below.
You would NOT use Class 2 if you were registering:
- unprocessed artificial resins (Class 1);
- laundry blueing (Class 3);
- cosmetic dyes (Class 3);
- paint boxes (articles for use in school) (Class 16);
- insulating paints and varnishes (Class 17).
Related (Coordinated) Classes
If you are not sure whether you should register in Class 2, you might also consider the following "coordinated" classes: Class 17 - Rubber Products, Class 19 - Building Materials, Class 35 - Advertising and Business Services, Class 37 - Construction and Repair Services, Class 40 - Material Treatment Services, and Class 42 - Science and Technology Services. A coordinated class is one that is related to another class, usually because the USPTO has determined that applicants filing with Class 2 often file in the coordinated classes, too.
Why use the class system? Trademark registration is based on a class system. For each class of goods or services that you register, you must pay a separate registration fee. So if you apply for a trademark for posters (Class 16) and shirts (Class 25), you must pay two fees. You must indicate the correct class at the time you are applying for a trademark registration. If you list the incorrect class, you must start the application process over. Your registrations are restricted to those classes that encompass the goods or services you are already offering (as shown by the specimens you submit) or that you plan to offer (if you are registering on an intent-to-use basis). You may also need information about the class number in order to narrow a search of the USPTO's trademark database.
Specimens for Class 2
If the mark is used in commerce, you must furnish a specimen of the mark as consumers see it. The specimen must show the mark as used on or in connection with the goods in commerce. A trademark specimen should be a label, tag, or container for the goods, or a display associated with the goods. A photocopy or other reproduction of a specimen of the mark as actually used on or in connection with the goods is acceptable.
In most cases, where the trademark is applied to the goods or the containers for the goods in Class 2 by means of labels, a label is an acceptable specimen. Shipping or mailing labels may be accepted if they are affixed to the goods or to the containers for the goods and if proper trademark usage is shown. They are not acceptable if the mark as shown is merely used as a trade name and not as a trademark. An example of this is the use of the term solely as a return address.
Stamping a trademark on the goods, on the container, or on tags or labels attached to the goods or containers, is a proper method of trademark affixation. The trademark may be imprinted in the body of the goods, as with metal stamping; it may be applied by a rubber stamp; or it may be inked on by using a stencil or template. When a trademark is used in this manner, photographs or facsimiles showing the actual stamping or stenciling are acceptable as specimens.
The terminology "applied to the containers for the goods" means applied to any type of commercial packaging that is normal for the particular goods as they move in trade. Thus, a showing of the trademark on the normal commercial package for the particular Class 2 goods is an acceptable specimen. For example, gasoline pumps are normal containers or "packaging" for gasoline.
A specimen showing use of the trademark on a vehicle in which the goods are marketed to the relevant purchasers may constitute use of the mark on a container for the goods, if this is the normal mode of use of a mark for the particular goods
For More Information on Trademarks and Federal Registration
See Nolo's Trademark Center or consider Nolo's Online Trademark Application
Complete Listing of All Goods in Class 2 Based on Taxonomy
- Dyes, colorants, pigments and inks, alizarine dyes, aniline dyes, annotto [dyestuff]/annatto [dyestuff], auramine, carbon black [pigment], cobalt oxide [colorant], cochineal carmine, colophony, colorants/dyestuffs, dyes, dyewood/coloring [colouring] wood, dyewood extracts/wood dyestuffs, engraving ink, fixatives for watercolors [watercolours]/fixatives for watercolors/fixatives for watercolours, gamboge for painting, indigo [colorant], ink for leather, ink for skin-dressing, lamp black [pigment], marking ink for animals/marking inks for animals, mordants, orange lead/litharge, paper for dyeing Easter eggs, pigments, printers' pastes [ink]/printing compositions [ink], printing ink, red lead/minium, saffron [colorant], shoe dyes, siccatives [drying agents] for paints, sienna earth, silver emulsions [pigments], soot [colorant], stains for leather/mordants for leather, sumac for varnishes, titanium dioxide [pigment], toner cartridges, filled, for printers and photocopiers, toners [ink] for photocopiers/ink [toner] for photocopiers, turmeric [colorant], whites [colorants or paints], wood mordants, wood stains, yellowwood [colorant], zinc oxide [pigment].
- Food and beverage colorings, caramel [food colorant], colorants for beverages, colorants for butter, colorants for beer, colorants for liqueurs, food dyes/food colorants, malt colorants, malt caramel [food colorant].
- Thinners and thickeners for coatings, dyes and inks, binding preparations for paints/agglutinants for paints, Canada balsam, thickeners for paints, thinners for paints, thinners for lacquers, turpentine [thinner for paints], Coatings, aluminum powder for painting, badigeon, coatings [paints], protective preparations for metals, silver paste.
- Metal in foil and powder form, bronze powder/bronze powder [paint], gildings, metal foil for painters, decorators, printers and artists, metals in powder form for painters, decorators, printers and artists, silver foil [leaf], silvering powders.
- Paints and washes, aluminum paints, anti-fouling paints, asbestos paints, bactericidal paints, ceramic paints, coatings for roofing felt [paints]/coatings for tarred felt [paints], distempers, enamels for painting/enamel paints, fireproof paints, glazes [paints, lacquers], lime wash, repositionable paint patches, paints, primers, white lead, whitewash, wood coatings [paints].
- Lacquers and varnishes, bitumen varnish, black japan, bronzing lacquers, copal varnish, enamels [varnishes], fixatives [varnishes], lacquers, varnishes.
- Preservatives, anti-corrosive preparations, anti-corrosive bands, anti-rust preparations for preservation, anti-rust greases, anti-rust oils, anti-tarnishing preparations for metals, carbonyl [wood preservative], creosote for wood preservation, oils for the preservation of wood/preservative oils for wood, undercoating for vehicle chassis/undercoating for chassis of vehicles/undersealing for chassis of vehicles/undersealing for vehicle chassis, wood preservatives.
- Raw natural resins, copal, gum resins, gum-lac/shellac, mastic [natural resin], natural resins, raw, sandarac.
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- PhilippinesRetailFunding via Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PMPC)
Jeannie RosePhilippinesRetailFunding via Community Economic Ventures, Inc. (CEVI), a partner of VisionFund International
MyrnaPhilippinesRetailFunding via Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. (NWTF)
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Evelyn is married and has seven grown children. She makes a living by running a store where people buy items they use daily such as shampoo, soap and toothpaste. She has run her store for more than a decade and earns about 3,000 PHP a month.
Earlier this year, Evelyn joined PMPC to gain access to financial services to help improve her life and ability to engage in business. She has successfully repaid a loan of 3,000 PHP from PMPC and is applying for a new one, for 6,000 PHP, to secure additional capital to run her business. She plans to use the additional income made possible by this loan to improve her family's living conditions.
About PMPC:
Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PMPC) is one of the most progressive cooperatives in northwestern Mindanao. It reaches out to the rural poor using the Grameen model.
*Note: To maximize efficiency and reduce costs, this loan was posted using a template to automate the translation by Kiva. Given that manual translation of entrepreneur profiles is costly, Kiva created this template for our Field Partner to allow it to continue to post loans in English while providing quality and accurate information to Kiva lenders.
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About Paglaum Multi-Purpose CooperativePaglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PMPC) was founded in 1992 by the beneficiaries, parents and staff of the Paglaum Community Development Foundation to address economic and livelihood activities for sustainability. The organization operates in the northwestern provinces of Mindanao and Visayas.
In the local vernacular, "paglaum" means "hope." The initial foundation is dedicated to child development through a holistic approach. The goal is to build self-reliance and expand opportunity so the poorest of the poor can help themselves.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
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Stop by the Peace Corps info table atMTSUto learn about Volunteer experiences, have your questions answered, and gain tips to guide you through theapplication process. Bring your resumeto receive a personalized assessment and recommendations from regional recruiter Maggie Flinn on your qualifications for Peace Corps programs. Submit anonline applicationby September 30, 2014 to be considered for programs departing in 2015!
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The Corpse Reviver #2 is one the most popular of the Corpse Reviver family of cocktails. It first appeared in famed barman, Harry Cradock's, The Savoy Cocktail Book in the 1930s. The name tells tit all cocktail. This drink will revive your 'corpse' after a hard night of drinking. The Corpse Reviver #2 is the classic 'Hair of the Dog' approach to curing a hangover, keep on drinking!
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The concept of this drink was based on Spanish Horchata (rice milk). However I have been longing to work with Pumpkin for a couple years now and this Halloween gave me the perfect excuse. The Pumpkin really goes nicely with the rice milk and the Bourbon blends in perfectly giving the overall profile nice warm tones.
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The Manhattan cocktail may be the best know whiskey cocktail. Of course, the aren't forgetting the Old Fashioned, OK maybe it is a tie. Although it's origins are in dispute (like most cocktails), the Manhattan cocktail originated in Manhattan (Surprise!) sometime during the 1870's.
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Hemingway didn't just write great novels. Papa was a world class drinker. The man does have a Daiquiri named after him, after all. The Hemingway Daiquiri was created by Constantino Ribalaigua at El Floridita, in Havana during the author's time living there. They say that Hemingway ordered these by the double, giving the drink the nickname "Papa Dobles". … Read more
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An attempt to organize the chaos of feelings, images and informations
concerning the disaster in Japan, through two Drawings. Ink on Paper.
Hi Simon, I saw your Japan work yesterday on Twitter. Am happy to see it here too. I think it's excellent.
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Summer has come to the island, and the sun beats down from on high on the dry grass. Pollinators buzz their way through a sea of blackberry flowers, and the fir forests grow fragrant with the scent of warm sap. I have been digging in the earth, three, four, five feet deep, looking for clay. I found the clay: dense, gray, and sticky, a marvelous substance that can be molded to any form, liquefied in water, or baked to brick in the sun.
I had seen ovens made of earth, and I wanted to make one. A year ago in Alaska, I helped Jimmy Riordan, Michael Gerace, Jesus Landin-Torres III and Sara Frary, and many others build an earthen egg, a chamber of contemplation, on a rocky beach. That experience kindled a flame inside me, a great curiosity about this way that you could build things out of dirt. I have often wondered about my acrylic paints, how they're made and where they come from… what if I could just make art out of the earth beneath my feet?
I decided to build an oven, because I love bread, and pies, and pizzas, and everything else that comes out of ovens. Fortunately for me, Kiko Denzer and Hannah Field have written an excellent book that shows how anyone can do this. Build Your Own Earth Oven is an indispensable guide, ancient knowledge brought back from the brink of forgetting, and woven together with new knowledge and innovation. I have known these two since I was a boy, and finally reading their book was second only to enjoying their company in person.
So I dug up clay, and I shoveled gravel, I cut wild grasses and scrounged old bottles. I pried big beautiful stones out of the ground for the foundation, glacial gems of granite and limestone. I trod the mud with my feet, then poked and prodded it into lumpy forms approximating my vision. I shoveled horse and cow dung out of fields, mixed it with clay, and smeared the fragrant gray-green frosting into fanciful patterns to please the eye. Who knew that grazing animals manufacture a durable and versatile plaster? People living in mud houses all over the world have known this for thousands of years…
At last the oven is finished, somehow just in time to bake bread and feed friends on the longest day of the year.


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As far as I can tell, one of the big uses of the monadic bind operation is to do variable substitution such as
do x <- maybeComputeSomething
y <- maybeComputeSomethingElse
maybeDoStuff x y
This is all well and good if maybeComputeSomething, maybeComputeSomethingElse, and maybeDoStuff all return Maybe values, but I feel like this form of iterated substitution would be useful in computations even if there wasn't the possibility of a returned Nothing. Since the identity is a monad, I would in some sense expect to be able to do something such as
do x <- computeSomething
y <- computeSomethingElse
doStuff x y
which would expand to something looking like
computeSomething >>= (\x ->
computeSomethingElse >>= (\y ->
doStuff x y))
and since bind in the identity monad is simply x >>= f = f x, this would act as
doStuff computeSomething computeSomethingElse
if >>= were treated as the identity monad's bind, but this (unsurprisingly) fails, because after all I never explicitly stated a monad (unlike the Maybe example when the types are clearly of the form Maybe a) and if Haskell assumed the identity monad everywhere the majority of cases would get cluttered up quite fast by the required disambiguations.
So this leads me to my question. I want some code that feels like
do x <- computeSomething
y <- computeSomethingElse
doStuff x y
and that does the same thing as
doStuff computeSomething computeSomthingElse
I understand that I could do this by explicitly defining an Id monad which looks like Maybe except without the Nothing possibility, but this takes types a -> Id a, and so doesn't really define the identity monad. Furthermore, my functions now have to have types a -> Id b, whereas I would really like them to still be of the form a -> b. Is there a way to create the repeated substitution feel without introducing complexity in the types involved?


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On December 7, 2012 the U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, Donald Koran, swore in a team of 32 Peace Corps education volunteers at the US Ambassador's residence, in Kigali, Gasabo district, Kacyiru.
The volunteers who have already been deployed in various schools across the country will during their two–year length of stay commit themselves to the development and promotion of quality education In Rwanda.
The ceremony was presided over by the Peace Corps Country Director Steve Miller, along with a Ministry of Education representative and other high ranking officials.
According to Koran, the volunteers have been in the country for three months learning more about the country, culture and language.
He added that the team will not only focus on teaching students, but also train teachers.
Peace Corps was invited to return to Rwanda for the first time since the 1994 genocide by President Paul Kagame, and the agreement between the governments of the United States and the Republic of Rwanda was signed on July 18, 2008.
"Since the implementation of this initiative, a good number of about 300 volunteers have served Rwanda and so far, this is the eighth group of Peace Corps volunteers that will operate in the country since 1994," Miller said.
The first group of volunteers arrived in Rwanda on January 29, 2009. Other Peace Corps Volunteers in Rwanda work in the health sector, with the vast majority working in rural health centers throughout the country.
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Amanda Tapping studied drama at the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Arts in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She continued for 4 more years studying theater. Early roles included appearing in Booty Call (1997), Life or Something Like It (2002), The Outer Limits and The X-Files. Her big break came when she played Colonel Samantha Carter on TV series Stargate SG-1 in 1997.
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Three-Star Pork Knuckle: Michelin Coup Signals New Era of German Cuisine
Germany, the land of sausage and beer, isn't known for its fine dining. But with the 2013 edition of the German Michelin Guide, that perception is starting to shift. In the last two years, German chefs have pulled down Michelin stars at an impressive rate. France may have to look over its shoulder.
Contemplate German food. It's a sea of brown and white characterized by meat and potatoes, sausage and bread, and cabbage that's been fermented until all the color has drained away.
German chef Kevin Fehling also received his third Michelin star to become Germany's 10th chef with the world's top culinary designation, awarded for his work at La Belle Epoque, located at the Columbia Hotel in the northern city of Lübeck. Germany now has more three-star restaurants than any European country after France. German chefs are "breathing down their neck," said the worldwide director of the Michelin Guide Michael Ellis last Wednesday at the release. There are now a total of 311 Michelin stars between 255 German restaurants.
Lightening Up Heavy Staples
"It's a bit unusual that it came so fast and at once, but that's the way it is," says Ralf Flinkenflügel, the editor in chief of the "Michelin Guide Deutschland 2013," about the recent influx of stars. There are simply that many restaurants that deserve the distinction, he explains. "We have to reflect the situation."
For the last 20 years, Flinkenflügel has also been one of the Michelin Guide's test-eaters, a shadowy cabal of anonymous diners who pay for their gourmet meals in cash and whose numbers are unknown. Before a restaurant can be awarded a third star, he says, testers from the head Michelin office in France and editors in chief from other countries dine there to make sure the restaurant upholds the international Michelin standard.
The guide's testers from Germany and beyond ate in Fehling's restaurant about 20 times in the last three years before the third star was awarded, Flinkenflügel says.
Contrary to what one might assume, the gourmet food being served in Germany isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional recipes and ingredients. One of Fehling's best dishes, for example, is Eisbein -- or pork knuckle, German peasant food -- with sauerkraut and parsley, according to Flinkenflügel. "Europe hasn't really discovered the German kitchen," he says. "I think the German chefs deserve more attention."
So what does a three-star Eisbein entail?
First, Fehling takes the most tender filet from a cured suckling pig haunch and serves it with a Gillardeau oyster and grated horseradish, along with an emulsion of pureed parsley leaves and sauerkraut formed into a half-moon with the help of agar-agar powder. Then, instead of traditional Bratkartoffeln, or "fried potatoes," he serves potatoes that have been oven-cooked for three hours with chicken stock that is later mixed with gelatine to create a geleé.
"Because German cooking is very heavy," he says, "it's important that you cook with less fat and that you employ modern technology to bring lightness into the dishes."
An Economic Indicator
Flinkenflügel cites an increased number of television shows in the country that involve cooking, which might have increased the public's interest in fine dining. Indeed, a Jamie Oliver-influenced culture seems to be taking shape in the larger cities, with shops opening up to cater to gourmands and several new cooking magazines hitting newstands as well. More tourists are also making short trips into Germany, he says, eating in the best restaurants on their getaways.
Because gourmet restaurants can't exist without gourmet consumers, Michelin stars aren't just a token of a country's gastronomic savvy, they're also an economic indicator -- and one that is now catching up with the reality that Germany is the biggest economy in Europe.
"What do you need for a three-star restaurant?" says chef Stefan Hartmann, whose eponymous restaurant Hartmann's in Berlin's Kreuzberg district has one star. "You need a lot of money, and you need people who can afford that." He points to examples like Sven Elverfeld's three-star restaurant Aqua at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Wolfsburg, where carmaker Volkswagen is headquartered.
Three of the 10 three-star German restaurants are in the prosperous southern state of Baden-Württemberg, where companies like Mercedes, BMW and Bosch are based. Meanwhile Berlin, where not a single company traded on the country's blue-chip stock market index the DAX is headquartered, has a total of 16 Michelin stars but no three-star restaurants.
But Hartmann says that better domestic produce in Germany has made cooking Gourmet cuisine more financially feasible for German chefs. "The farmers are getting better -- especially the East German farmers," he says, citing an increasingly large appetite for organic vegetables. "Those farmers in the 90s, they were still working like they did before reunification, and now they're really doing their own thing. You can get great produce from them, like great tomatoes from Brandenburg."
Nova-Regio Cuisine
Chef Matthias Schmidt, whose restaurant Villa Merton in Frankfurt, the financial capital, received its second star last week, is one of the chefs who chooses local ingredients to cook gourmet food on German soil.
Schmidt, along with chefs like René Redzepi of the two-starred Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, is a pioneer of "Nova-Regio" cuisine, an emerging style in Northern Europe that emphasizes creative and often spare uses of wild and natural ingredients from the surrounding region. For dessert on his six-course, 111 ($141) menu, Schmidt offers beetroot with grapes, roses and black beer. "The last few years we have worked with beer because it connects us with the culture," Schmidt says. He also serves Handkäs mit Musik, a typical Frankfurt dish of marinated cheese formed by hand. According to German tradition, the music comes later.
Schmidt says that one reason German food is traditionally so heavy might be the long years of hardship following the two world wars. "People were just happy to have a lot on the plate," he says. But this aspect of German cooking is also what poses the biggest challenge for gourmet chefs. "It's big, it's a lot, it's hot and it's heavy," he goes on. "It's very difficult for us to combine our modern cuisine with the culture."
But another challenge is that the French, whose food is traditionally much lighter, are the ones setting the world's gourmet standards with institutions like Michelin. As such, France naturally has a comfortable lead over Germany in the Michelin rankings, with nearly 600 starred restaurants and more than twice as many three-star establishments.
A Complicated Rivalry
Indeed, the Michelin rankings are a window onto the complicated rivalry between the European neighbors. German chefs pride themselves on their modesty and precision. French chefs pride themselves on, well, being French.
"Some of those big chefs in France, they always say 'We are this, we are that, we will be this and we have always been that,' and a German chef would never do that," says Berlin chef Hartmann. "They are more concentrated on what they are doing and not what somebody is reading about them."
Hartmann found himself having to defend his national cuisine to Pelé, who alleged that all Germany has to offer is sausage. But the next day, Pelé attended a five-course dinner served by Hartmann at the German embassy. It featured only traditional German food -- roasted rabbit with vegetables, and eel with red beets -- and the French chef ate it up, Hartmann reports proudly.
"I think how embarrassing is it that French chefs are not looking to Germany or to Scandinavia," he says. "They just staying in their country, thinking 'Hey, it's great here, and everything else is nothing.' It's not true! It's their mistake. A lot has happened. There's so much more in Germany than just kraut and turnips and sausages."
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If You Lie Down With Missiles
'Those who brought in combustible materials should have considered the possibility of a match being struck.' Nice words, but not sufficient.
I wonder how many times we can go on quoting Abba Eban's immortal observation that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity without boring the reader. But what can you do? It still fits. The Palestinians haven't learned a damn thing. They have a morbid knack for making the biggest, most stupid mistakes whenever the door opens a crack and a chance comes their way to establish a state alongside Israel.
What prompted them, after the Oslo accords were signed with such pomp and circumstance, to send suicide bombers into the heart of Israeli cities? Why, the moment the Barak, Arafat and Clinton summit ended at Camp David, did they kick off the Al-Aqsa Intifada that left 4,000 people dead on both sides? What is the sense in holding a victory parade in Gaza and then firing a massive volley of Qassam rockets into territories that Israel left of its own will? What is the logic in choosing a critical time, when Sharon is fighting for his political life against rebels in his own party, to bombard Israel with 40 Qassams in one night? What do they want? An Israel led by Bibi and Uzi Landau?
For a moment, it seemed that Hamas was abiding by Abu Mazen's request to silence the guns while the disengagement was under way, when Sharon made it clear there would be no withdrawal under fire. But the instant the last Israeli soldier left Gaza, the Hamas chiefs couldn't wait to take credit for "chasing out" the Israel Defense Forces and knocking down the settlements. In a bid to grab the reins when the Palestinian Authority goes to the polls in January, they've been stirring up the crowds as only they know how - until the Qassam explosion that killed 19 Palestinians and wounded 200. Hamas couldn't sell the lie that Israel was behind the blast, even to al-Jazeera.
Forty Qassams launched in one night was bad news for Abu Mazen on the eve of his summit with Sharon. Condoleezza Rice raked him over the coals and demanded that he disarm Hamas. Establishing a democracy with armed militias is out of the question, he was told. An analogy would be Lehi and Etzel, Israel's pre-state militias, taking over the country by force after the establishment of the state. David Ben-Gurion, aware of this danger, not only took away the weapons of these militias, but disbanded the Palmach. Those who keep monsters at home shouldn't be surprised when their appetite grows with the eating.
The goal of the Hamas leadership is to rule the PA roost. Abu Mazen appears to be too weak to enforce the one government-one army rule. He knows very well that Mussa Arafat, bumped off by Hamas, lived 200 meters from his home in Gaza. Hamas derives its power from the Palestinian street. It would be a strategic error on its part to do anything to bring Israeli artillery, tanks and planes back into firing range, now that the IDF has left the Gaza Strip and the inhabitants have been given a chance to rebuild their lives, free of the shackles of occupation. Put it this way: He who goes to bed with Qassams should not be surprised if he wakes up with a boom.
Both Abu Mazen and his interior minister denounced Hamas. When its leaders tried to shift the blame on Israel, it was Abu Mazen who didn't let them get away with it: "Those who brought in combustible materials should have considered the possibility of a match being struck." Nice words, but not sufficient.
The president of the Palestinian Authority has enough army and police units, and all the international backing he needs, to deploy them in Gaza in a display of strength against Hamas. Hamas has not only been lambasted by the ministers of the European Union but defined by the Bush administration as a terror organization.
For Israel to make more painful concessions for the sake of an agreement, it will take more than the shameful goings-on at the convention of the Likud Central Committee, and more than last night's vote and its consequences. What is needed more than anything is a leader on the other side who is no less forceful than Sharon - a man who is prepared to fight against the extremists and the enemies of peace, and be more than a partner on paper.
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