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A chat with Braise's Dave Swanson
For the fifth straight year, October is Dining Month on OnMilwaukee.com. All month, we're stuffed with restaurant reviews, delectable features, chef profiles and unique articles on everything food, as well as the winners of our "Best of Dining 2011."
I recently had a great conversation with local food pioneer, friend and celebrity chef David Swanson. His on-the-go cooking school is about to have a more permanent residence with the opening of his new restaurant, Braise
Here's what he has to say about it.
OnMilwaukee.com: David, you have been an innovative chef in Milwaukee for many years how would best describe your style of cooking?
Dave Swanson: Seasonal, balanced, simple flavors combined well. American cuisine.
OMC: Who was your biggest influence on your cooking?
DS: Having come up through the ranks in French kitchens with inspiration from masters chefs such as the famous Jean Banchet, those classic French cooking techniques are part of how I cook today, award-winning chef Suzanne Goin – owner of four successful restaurants in L.A. – her very simple approach to food is very unique, Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune restaurant in New York City. Her food is very straightforward, but done very well.
OMC: What cuisine excites you the most?
DS: It depends if I'm cooking it or eating it. If I'm eating it has to be Mexican food. If I'm cooking I have always been intrigued by Asian culture and cuisine. Vietnamese and Thai are very interesting to me. But far as what I enjoy cooking I really love the American palette. I love learning regional American foods, whether it's Pennsylvania Dutch, Mid-Atlantic, the Southwest, its really kind of nice having those influences there, as well.
OMC: A lot of people have heard about Braise RSA but for those that haven't, can you explain what an RSA is?
DS: RSA stands for Restaurant Supported Agriculture. It's collaboration between chefs and farmers. It's where a group of chefs can get together to source food locally; it's a great way to bring food in to their restaurants that otherwise they would have a difficult time finding.
The great thing about it allows the chefs to communicate efficiently with the farmers to specialize their needs. Chefs can partake in the process of what produce is grown to their specific needs. We are not a purveyor, but more of a liaison in establishing these relationships between chefs and farmers.
OMC: These are very exciting times for you; tell us about your new restaurant.
DS: It is a continuation of what I have done in the past of things I have done with my traveling culinary school. Where we teach class in right in the farm field and how to use those ingredients. The restaurant will be using a number of ingredients from 400 different farms in Wisconsin. The menu will be written daily to highlight the best ingredients of the season.
We are going to do things like more nose-to-tail cooking where use all parts of the animal; we'll have an in-house butcher who break down whole animals. And with RSA supporting us it will allow us the ability to work with these farmers on a greater level. We open with dinner service and eventually open for lunch.
We are still under construction but the opening details can be found at our website.
OMC: How does it feel to be your own boss?
DS: I'm completely fine with that. I left Sanford's in 2004 so I have been my own boss since then, with running the traveling school and the RSA I have had the opportunity to work out those personal demons. It's nice, everybody has their own take on Wisconsin cuisine and it's nice to have that creative freedom to do that.
OMC: Is fine dining dead?
DS: There are two aspects to that. One is there is such a resurgence of the cooks as opposed to the chefs. There are so many good cooks today that you don't really need to go to a white tableclothed restaurant to find good food these days. Whereas 20 years ago that was the only place you could go to find a good meal. Finding good food these days is a lot easier than before.
The resurgence of the cook and people who want to learn the trades have made a reconnection with our food. That's actually our tag line: "Reconnecting with our food."
I don't really see it coming back to the heyday it once was, there a lot of other things than just the food itself especially with the socio-economic issues, I don't see them coming back; starched white tablecloths, the maitre'd and sommeliers days are gone. But, I don't think quality food and quality service will ever go out of style.
OMC: Are there any food trends you want to kick off with your new restaurant?
DS: I really hope to establish regional Wisconsin cuisine, to define what that means and to highlight the many different areas of this state. I want people to reconnect with where their food comes from and showcase that good quality food still exists.
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Easy to set up
Plenty of buttons that are easy to hit
Back lit
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If you are looking for a comfortable, sturdy gamepad with plenty of buttons, this is for you. The buttons feel great and it really helps clear up your desk. I don't think I could ever go back to a standard keyboard after having this. It is so easy to customize to your liking and everything is right at your fingertips. If you practice enough you can probably use the thumbpad to fly jets and choppers. Mechanical keys are awesome!!
I have to take an egg off because of the space button being a mouse click and the keys sticking. To be clear, the keys themselves are not sticking, it seems to be something to do with the software. This is a pretty big deal, coupled with the every so often failure to process a keystroke. I will be playing BF4 and at random times I will let go of whatever direction I'm moving and my character will continue to move!! I have to repress the button to get it to stop. I normally just mash the keypad when this happens because I freak out. It will happen about 4 to 5 times in an hour of game play. This is HIGHLY unacceptable from a device that costs this much.
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CIGARETTES will smash the $16 barrier for a packet of 50 when Federal Government tobacco and beer excises rise next week.
A packet of cigarettes is likely to cost up to an extra 45c, while a schooner of beer may rise by up to 7c.
The extent of federal excises will be revealed this week and hit smokers' and drinkers' hip pockets from February 1.
Tobacconists are bracing for an excise rise of about 2.7 per cent, which is in line with inflation.
Smokemart estimates the latest excise slug will add an extra 1c to the price of every cigarette - and cost the average smoker about $110 more a year for their habit.
Based on the figures, a packet of Wingfield 20s will cost $7.30, Benson and Hedges 25s will cost $9.10 and Peter Jackson 30s will cost $10.45.
But a packet of Horizon 50s will rise 40c to $16.10 while Holiday 50s will soar by 45c to $15.65. Taxes and excises will make up 75 per cent of the cost of a packet of cigarettes.
Smokemart pricing officer Ennio Frocione said: "This is the first time I can remember cigarettes costing more than $16 a packet".
He fears the price surge will fuel a blackmarket in cigarettes. Tobacconists have received draft advice about the likely tax hikes ahead of the official government announcement.
Australian Hotels Association general manager John Lewis said he was yet to receive official notification on beer price rises.
Based on the tobacco industry assessments, a schooner of beer could cost about $2.60.
"The price of beer will not necessarily go up as beer has been de-regulated, but the pubs that don't will lose money," Mr Lewis said.
The tobacco rise has angered the state's 250,000 smokers who have branded it "unjust".
Smokers' Rights Association president Dennis Robinson said the increase was "another impost on smokers, who are already made second class citizens by governments".
"We are pushed out of restaurants and onto the streets and then made to pay more in taxes for our past-time," he said.
A spokeswoman for Customs Minister Christopher Ellison said it was too early to predict the full extent of a lift in excise. She said it was linked to the consumer price index which would be released on Wednesday.
Petrol has been spared after the government abolished twice-yearly indexation last year in response to angry motorists punishing the Liberals in Queensland and West Australian state elections.
Beer and cigarette prices will be adjusted again later this year, adding to drinkers' and smokers' woes.
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What's Selling: Zia Records in Phoenix
By Benjamin Leatherman
This week's version of "What's Selling" focuses on the central Phoenix location of Zia Record Exchange, 1940 West Indian School Road. The store's list of top 10 best-sellers for the week of August 11 to 17 is a pretty eclectic mix, ranging from from hard rock and indie music to hip-hop and electronica. Take a gander:
1. Suga Free, Smell My Finger (HMF Entertainment) 2. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money) 3. Austrian Death Machine, Total Brutal (Metal Blade) 4. Daz Dillinger, Only on the Left Side (Dog Pound Gangstaz) 5. Roca Dolla, Roca Is a Classic (5ifth Coast) 6. M.I.A., Kala (Interscope) 7. T-Pain, The Midas Touch Man (RBC) 8. Beck, Modern Guilt (Geffen) 9. Five Finger Death Punch, The Way of the Fist (Firm Music) 10. Coldplay, Viva La Vida (Capitol)


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Last week we got a great new image of Ender Wiggin in the Battle Room, presumably it's his first time in the Battle Room because he's wearing a yellow helmet, which we've all guessed is the official Launchie uniform color.
Now thanks to a hi-res version of the image, we get a better view of the look on Graff's face as he watches Ender hang on to the handholds outside the gate. He's clearly smiling, or at least looking at him with admiration.
I didn't comment much on this last week, but looking at this closer up, I do love the statement this image makes about the "technology" of Ender's Game because Ender floats just a few feet away from Graff, who is clearly standing in a hallway with gravity.
Whether or not this is possible at all, I'll leave up to the people who know science. I still think it lends some cool factor to the world they live in.
It's also easier to see the flash suit (click for larger size):
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You have captured Termeraire quite beautifully, I'm simply impressed.
I understand scales are hard and indeed very time consuming, but what you have here is marvelous work. The way you did the shadowing without dulling the detail is perfect, and with just a touch of blue really evens it all out. I'm still working on perfecting my art, and have not built up the courage to post them yet on NGs.
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In February, 2001, local residents uncovered a grave in an abandoned settlement not far from the main Russian military base in Chechnya, at Khankala. The grave held the remains of 51 people, some of them women and children, and many of them bound and killed by gunshots.
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Pendleton Veterinary Clinic was founded in 1947 by a local veterinarian, Dr. Russel Whitford. It was the first veterinary clinic in the area and, at that time, was a mixed animal practice. There were 3 doctors and it wasn't uncommon for them to fly to do their farm calls as they saw patients from Umatilla to Harney County. The clinic has evolved since that time and is now strictly small animal. We are also the veterinary clinic for Blue Mountain Wildlife and treat different wild birds and raptors in the hope of rehabilitation and release back into the wild.
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Rik Mayall
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"I can't go to prison! I'm too pretty! I'll get raped!"
"May I say what a charming blouse that is you have on!"
"Look, stop turning everything dirty will you! I am trying to fuck the Queen!"
"You just sit down there and drink your tea! Before I have to force it down your throat!"
The Rik Mayall, the late great comedy giant in the world of light entertainment was born, by his own admission, like 'a tripod'. He considered his fans to be 'his ordinarys' to whom he may have, if he was feeling generous, given free autographs to in order to brighten up their otherwise hopeless lives.
edit Overview
Rik has been in a number of classic televisual feasts during his many years of being known throughout the world. There's The Young Ones, Bottom and that other one with Nigel Planer that not many people have actually seen. Rik was usually seen in shows and performances with his comedy partner Ade Edmondson, whom he regularly fantasises about in his book Rik Mayall: Bigger Than Chegwin, Better Than Piles. Despite living an action-packed life of adventure, sordid masturbation and nob gags he recently lived a much quieter life in the country on his farm where he regularly lost arguments with Quad Bikes.
edit Early Life
The Rik Mayall was born on Augustus the 37th, 220.127.116.11. When he was born he delighted the nurses with an impromptu stand up routine where he read out some abysmal poetry he had written whilst inside the womb. Shortly after the nurses had tried to stuff him back in he decided that such a routine will undoubtedly get the fanny and thus a TV legend was born!
Rik's first paying gig was when he was 7 months old when he performed down at 'Madame Burlesque's House of Tittery'. He read out a poem about clouds and sausages before being booed and pelted with cabbages and used condoms. Undeterred, he decided that if he was going to break out of this shit cycle, he was going to need a partner to blame for each subsequant failure. He placed an advert in the local tabloid and, 20 years later, he received a reply.
edit The Dangerous Brothers
Rik created the Dangerous Brothers with new comedy partner (and nothing else, matey!) Ade Edmondson, 'dangerous' because they regularly ended up nearly killing themselves on stage in each performance. Rik always denied that Adrian was the influence for this violent act, calling him a "lovely guy" and "not my sexual partner, fuckhole!".
During one famous episode things got to such a point that Rik tied Ade to a chair and cut off his ear with a razor. He then, in a continual camera shot, went out to his car, got the spare can of petrol, came back and... no, hang on. Wrong movie.
The Dangerous Brothers started their double-act at the now demolished 'Club De Bollox' in London. They claim to have nothing to do with its destruction. Their act usually began with a light-hearted knock-knock joke that always went wrong, followed by a short sketch, usually containing a multitude of nob gags and fart jokes before, in the second part, a friendly beating took place in which Ade was nearly killed by Rik.
Soon their act was discovered by loud-mouth stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle, who decided that a little old-fashioned violence and near-death was exactly what Channel 4 needed. So, he signed them up to a 1,000 show minimum contract and regular oral servicing at his request. Ade responded by killing Alexi's wife and shitting in their goldfish bowl. Rik merely signed the contract.
The Dangerous Brothers lasted for 3 shows before the Channel 4 studio was burnt to the ground. Ade, who smelt of petrol and matches, denied all involvement and then blamed Rik, kicking him in the bollocks and shouting "Hah, girlie!" really loudly. Rik responded with a cricket bat. This turned into a scuffle with icy then turned into a horrendously slapstick fight that received media attention. This got the BBC interested.
edit Theatre Work
Despite what he says, Rik Mayall has only ever appeared in one serious theatrical show. In 1995, after he, shall we say, 'persuaded' Stephen Fry to give him a starring role. Stephen, after he had cleaned up, agreed and the show went into production. Unfortunately, Stephen did not know what he had let on. Brought up on a life of reading dictionaries, drinking Earl Grey tea and denying his homosexuality he was totally unprepared for the uncouthness mastery that Rik brought to the backstage.
Finally, after Rik rolled off 1,537 nob gags and 477 fart jokes in succession in just 3 days (a world record), followed by numerous shouts to the audience to "Just fuck off home!" throughout all of Stephen's jokes, Stephen fled fearing that his Englishness may be in danger. Ironically, he fled to Belgium. There he cried for half an hour. After stuffing his sad face with Belgian chocolate, he realised how shite his own country was. He stayed in Belgium for another half decade.
Rik, understandably annoyed, got on the phone to Ade and told him the problem. After he rang again (after Ade told him to "Fuck off!" and hung up), he promised his arse to him if he could help. Ade misunderstood Rik's offer and assumed he would let Ade give Rik a free beating up. He was horrified when Mayall undid his belt, pulled down his trousers and leaned over on the table in front of Edmondson, who promptly informed Rik that he wouldn't have to pay his old chum, followed by "now please lift your fucking trousers up".
edit Television and Film Work
The most famous of show Rik Mayall has been in is The Bottom Adventures where Rik and Ade, who play characters Prickhard Richard and Eddie Shitler travel to various dogging sites so that Eddie can record Richie taking it up the arse by many different strangers, the resulting footage then being used as blackmail material for Eddie to get whatever he wants.
Rik has also starred in the film Gest House Paradiso. In the film he and Ade play butlers to David Gest as David goes through a standard day of sex, buying stupid sunglasses and making shit up about himself. It was a flop causing Ade to eat 17 kittens and dig up the Queen Mum's grave.
edit Book Work
To date Rik has written just two books, and even one of them he needed help with. The first, published in the 80's was The Young One's Standard Cash-In Attempt and sold a groundbreaking 17 copies! His second book, The Rik Mayall - Bigger Than Chegwin, Better Than Piles broke all known literary records by selling just two copies. Harper Collins, on the brink of cancelling printing, was... shall we say, 'persuaded' by Mayall to keep production going. Currently there are 999,998 unsold copies of the book lying about in an un-named warehouse. Harper Collins secretly wish for a fire so that they can claim the insurance back on them.
The book does not conform with any of the standards that you see in current literary works. There is no punctuation, no capital letters, it is written entirely in crayon and has 15,773 uses of the word 'cunt' within its text (a world record).
The following are a couple of excerpts from this truly incredible work...
|hey there rik mayall here and if you dont believe me then you can fuck off cos it is alright look i got my name tag and everything and my name is even written on the front so thats proof enough so go away if you dont want to read more its rik here and not prick as people like to shout out in the street to me i dont care i give them autographs and never see them ever again on ebay or anywhere and ive got a huge nob
Rik also talks about meeting Ade for the first time...
|there was one time right and im not lying and if you think i am then fuck off home cos i have a huge nob so there but anyway i was sat down in college or something and the teacher came in and i thought that i had to give him a blowjob which i didnt like but i did because i thought you had to and then there was this laughter in the back and it was this bald guy called ade but i called him eddie which caused him to pull out two of my fingernails got d love him and want his arsebabies but not like that you sick fuckhole
And, as you'd expect, plenty of jokes!
|there was a guy and he walked into a bar and went weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
edit Later Years
In his later years, Rik was much more mellow. Settling in a nice farmhouse in Devon, he has almost managed to kick his knob-gag addition, bringing himself down to just 27 a day. In his spare time he enjoyed eating toast, farting, and falling from Quad Bikes. He brushed aside his recent near-death saying that he had no idea what went wrong, and that Ade walking away just before with brakeline cutters was completely unrelated.
The day before his death in June 2014, Rik proudly claimed he was "the spitting image of health". Rik went out on a jog around England, and promptly ate a hearty salad as a reward for such a run. Local doctors claimed he could live until he was 105 (Edmondson however, who drank a bottle of wine, liquor and beer a day, would live until he was 120).
edit Death
Nearby in the land of Ireland, a devout Catholic was celebrating his 90th birthday. God, who was grateful that the ancient man saved his church, said he could choose to smite one person. The old Catholic asked God to strike "Richard Mayall dead". Rik went to bed next to his loving wife and fiercely sexed her vagina, happy with the good news of the doctors that he had another 60 years to live. Then he died. When asked why he chose to smite Rik, the old man realised he had the wrong person - he wanted to smite Richard Dawkins dead. God assured him "maybe next time" and left.
After Mayall tragically passed away, the BBC posted an elaborate article. The entire article read "Rik Mayall has died". The Telegraph was much more detailed, announcing "Rik Mayall has died. He was 56". The Sun featured on its front page a pregnant Coronation Street character. Rik Mayall's death was covered in tiny text on page 11, right above "11 Brit heroes die for their country". The cause of his death is still unknown and news reporters refuse any further investigations. Angry fanboys insist his wife killed him without any significant proof, just as Nirvana fanboys do.


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Innovation in data center design and operations was the hot topic in April, dominating our monthly list of the top 10 most-read stories at Data Center Knowledge. Our news coverage included stories of security at Google's data center, new and shared approaches in data center design at Facebook, Microsoft's customizations of servers & racks, and exec career moves in the industry. Here's the rundown of the 10 most popular items of April 2011, ranked by total page views:
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Summary of Season 1 & 2 (2008) - 4 discs
Thanks to a wrinkle in time, prehistoric creatures are running amok through the modern age, prompting evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter to spring into action. With his team of experts, Cutter takes on the beasts and tries to keep a crisis at bay.
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Weather forces Tornados out of action for the weekendFebruary 28, 2009
Softball and Tennis cancel games for Friday and Saturday
Brevard, N.C. - Weather has forced several Brevard teams to cancel plans for this weekend. Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis and Baseball have all been forced to cancel games and matches for Saturday
The Brevard College softball team was supposed to participate in the Mid-South Classic in Simpsonville, S.C., playing five games against West Liberty State, West Virginia State, Limestone, Tiffin and Charleston (W.V.), but received news early this afternoon that the games were called off due to rain.
Men's and Women's Tennis also had their plans for Saturday cancelled as their match in Misenheimer, N.C. against Pfeiffer University was wiped out due to the weather.
Baseball's weekend series at Mars Hill has been cancelled as the doubleheader on Saturday was called due to rain, and Sunday's make-up doubleheader has also been cancelled due to threat of rain and possible snowfall.
Stay tuned to BCTornados.com for more information as other Tornados sports call in with details about this weekend.


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By: George M. Johnson
No one is free unless the black Trans woman is free.
I imagine these are the words that will ring out of the mouths of every preacher and Black person in this nation when we finally reach the day of liberation. A day that will likely never come in my lifetime, as the battle between the "Church" and "State of the LGBTQ" continue to be at odds over who is acceptable in the eyes of man and God. This week, has brought out the some of the worst in people, as two pivotal leaders of the Black church and gospel music community have continued theological warfare on a community that is "tired, weak and worn" – to quote the classic hymn "Take My Hand, Precious Lord."


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16.3 Physical Design Flow
Historically placement was included with routing as a single tool (the term P&R is often used for place and route). Because interconnect delay now dominates gate delay, the trend is to include placement within a floorplanning tool and use a separate router. Figure 16.31 shows a design flow using synthesis and a floorplanning tool that includes placement. This flow consists of the following steps:
In Figure 16.31 we iterate between floorplanning and synthesis, continuously improving our estimate for the interconnect delay as we do so.
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Festival of Friends: An Offering of Four Quaker Voices
"Festival of Friends" presents four nationally-known artists-singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer, and authors J. Brent Bill, Philip Gulley, and Scott Russell Sanders for a delightful evening of story, song, essay, and humor, inspired by the rich Quaker tradition of finding the wondrous and sacred within the ordinary and everyday. The sold-out performance, part of the 2006 Spirit and Place Festival, received rave reviews. This hour-long program produced by WFYI Television presents highlights from the performance.
Good as Gold: The 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
Fierce competition. Amazing drama. Strength of character. Sound like something you'd witness at a sports arena, the Olympics perhaps? No, this is the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Every four years, the focus of the violin world turns to the Circle City, drawing young, vibrant musicians to one of the most prestigious competitions of its kind.
The Game Changers
The Game Changers is the story of a unique initiative to transform American classrooms by focusing on teachers and the universities charged with training them. In 2009, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation brought to Indiana a unique and new initiative that would identify and select high ability people in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math), fund their training at select universities willing to significantly alter existing teacher training approaches, and create new teacher preparation programs that focus skills and knowledge needed for the future.
Gametime is Showtime: Indy's Super Bowl Legacy Pt. III
Indianapolis' 2012 Super Bowl effort heads down the home stretch. Host Derwin Smiley shows you how the pace is ramping up for both the Host Committee and volunteers alike. Downtown streets come alive with elaborate venues for out-of-state visitors and 46 murals for Super Bowl 46 dot the urban landscape. The Super Bowl reaches out to young people on the Near Eastside through the Viewfinder Project and our student journalists from Tech High School show us the "Theatre of Inclusion." See these and many more projects on Gametime is Showtime.
A Gathering of Heroes
A Gathering of Heroes is the story of a reunion, of sorts: Several dozen veterans of World War II made a pilgrimage, by bus, from Indianapolis to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The documentary reveals the moving recollections of the vets of their experiences in the war, and the remarkable impact of visit to the memorial on the lives of these men and women.
Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era
Oscar Robertson, Jimmy Rayl, Ray Craft, Bobby Plump, Hallie Bryant. During their high school days, these young men didn't just play basketball: They played basketball at a particular time, in a particular state where the sport was king, and the players were so revered that, more than 50 years later, their names are associated with what dreams are made of. Whether they were from big cities or small towns, they became legends: they were part of Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era.
The Hope Givers
Indiana physicians and caregivers traveled to Morocco last fall on a mission to aid the most unfortunate in this beautiful, mysterious and poor country; it's children. It's a touching, emotional and inspirational story of how a handful of our neighbors reached across a vast expanse to touch lives one at a time.
Indy in the '50s
Mike Ahern narrates this scrapbook, highlighting the growth and popular culture of Indianapolis during the 1950s.
Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence
Invisible Women sheds light on ground-breaking women artists and their thousands of little-known works. It's a public television special where rediscovery and restoration are the guiding forces behind an extraordinary quest: rescuing art Florence's 'forgotten' women artists.
The Indianapolis: The 2010 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
Every four years, the world's most talented young violinists come to the Hoosier capital for a competition known in international violin circles as simply, The Indianapolis. The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis promises extraordinary prizes, the loan of a magnificent Stradivari violin, and perhaps most importantly, the launch of the winner's solo career.
The WFYI documentary The Indianapolis follows 40 young violinists on their journey through the demanding 17 day competition, as they compete for the title of Gold Medal Laureate.


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I have spent ten months in Paris participating in the exchange program called Erasmus. I knew before going, that Paris is an amazing and beautiful city. I had been there before and I have already wrote about my favorite places in Paris, but this time, let me show something a little different…Have a look!
Many photographs have been taken of Paris. Every corner, every street, every square and building have been the subject of many photographs and even though we are able to find prettier photos each time every single one seems to show us something different…as if the beauty of Paris was constantly renewed before our eyes. A beauty capable of making us feel more human, more gentle, and happy…
Having said this, what I have to show you; you might have already seen probably many, many times in color or in B&W, but I want to show it to you again. To show you this beauty and this elegance, that I was able to capture on film during my ten months there. These are ordinary photos of Paris but at the same time, they are my photos of Paris, my moments, my Paris. So this is also going to be a little, my own guide of Paris for you. I hope you like it!
I could not, not start without the Eiffel Tower. I must tell you, it attracts so many tourists that it is almost impossible to visit sometimes, but every one should still make the effort.
My Paris has music, little boats that children can rent to play in, the fountains of the Luxembourg Garden, or people protesting for their rights:
It has modern buildings/pieces next to old and very important monuments:
I remember those long walks that some friends and I would take, going down on the Montmartre Quartier from the Sacré Coeur or going up to Arc du Triomphe to see the views and lights (at night) of the Champs Elysées:
I loved buying some little Tarte aux Fraises and take it to eat at the Jardin des Buttes-Chaumont, my favorite garden in Paris or go read with some friends to the little garden that you can find next to Pont Neuf while smoking some cigarettes:
My Paris has a graveyard where people take bottles of wine to Jim Morrison or give kisses to Oscar Wilde. You can find a tree next to Jim Morrison's grave covered by chewing gum.
You should try to visit all the bridges, you can find some to be so beautiful:
I had to say goodbye to Paris a month ago, I thought it would cost me more than it did, and now I understand why: Paris is never going to leave me, Paris is in me, in my heart. As someone has once said: "once you have lived in Paris, Paris is never going to leave your heart". Of course I miss Paris, and I'll always will, but at the same time, this is like missing an old friend: maybe you haven't seen each other for years, but when you do see each other, it's like it has just been yesterday that you said 'goodbye'.
Hope you can see Paris like the way I was able to see it. Have fun, lomo fun!
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In my 55-plus years as a native of Arizona, our state has always been pragmatically independent and conservative. Only lately has the pragmatism been replaced by dogmatic ideology. This ideology has become more hostile and prominent recently and unfortunately was brought to the forefront immediately before the Holy Days leading up to Easter. It is unfortunate that the vitriolic speak that Maricopa County GOP Chairman Mr. LaFaro chose when speaking at a legislative committee was to compare our governor with Judas' betrayal of Jesus. It is my opinion that supporting Medicaid expansion to 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level does not amount to equating Gov. Brewer to Judas.
If we look at the expansion of Medicaid pragmatically, it is fiscally conservative to support it. This Medicaid expansion is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and will be an economic driver for employment. Unfortunately, if Medicaid expansion fails this will cause economic hardship and possibly even closure for rural hospitals. It is also important to mention that if Medicaid expansion is not passed by the Legislature, more than 50,000 uninsured adults will lose their insurance. This includes many with mental illnesses that will unfortunately and possibly tragically go untreated. This will result in undue burdens placed on our already stressed public safety professionals.
The benefit that our Arizona economy receives from this expansion is very important for our recovery. By investing in the expansion of Medicaid, the return on investment for Arizona is $8 billion. Just recently, the Mayo Clinic hospital has joined the rest of the hospitals in supporting Medicaid expansion. It is these hospitals that have agreed to impose a tax on hospital beds to pay for this initial investment. Uncompensated medical and hospital care creates a hidden tax on everyone else through an increase to our insurance premiums.
Please join me in supporting our Legislative District 18 legislators. Let's encourage Sen. McComish, Rep. Dial and Rep. Robson to support Medicaid expansion in Arizona and tell them that we have their backs when it comes to the nonproductive dogmatic vitriolic voices that oppose it.
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Summary: A sequel to the 2008 film based on the HBO series, SATC2 finds the four friends finally maturing and getting bored with the happily ever afters they got in the first film. So they take a trip to Abu Dhabi, to get away from it all.
Thoughts: Dish Network users got free HBO this weekend, so I went through and recorded a bunch of movies. Combined with having all of the Starz channels free for a year, we have a lot of movies on our DVR. I decided to review each of them, instead of just the ones I see in theaters.
I watched most of the Sex and the City series with my wife a while back. I found most of it disturbing to my young mind, but the dialog was usually pretty clever. Then we watched the first movie as the series didn't really end so much as just stop. The problem was the first movie was completely forgettable. I couldn't tell you anything about what happened in the first movie.
The problem with the second movie is that not only is it forgettable, its boring. You really feel that the characters are bored with their lives because you, the viewer, are just as bored as they are. Even when they all ignore their problems to go to Abu Dhabi (funnily, the real Abu Dhabi wouldn't let them film there), you're bored watching them hang out at the hotel and ride camels. A lot of the movie is spent with the characters finally starting to mature. It's been 12 years, it's about time. The problem with watching characters spending a whole movie maturing is that it's boring. The first movie was an OK coda to the series (that I remember), but this one just takes that coda and stretches it out.
It's completely unnecessary, lacks any charm the series ever had (clever dialog is replaced by terrible puns like "It's against the law: Jude Law!"), and I'm afraid to say it, kind of racist. The always-right Americans go to the Middle East, don't respect any of the customs of the country, get arrested, and come out the heroes because the women of the Middle East really long to be consumers of terrible New York fashion like the girls. I'm not sure what message that is sending out, but I don't think its the one they wanted.
Overall: Boring, uncomfortable, kind of ruins the pretty good series.
REVIEW: Sex and the City (2008)
Thoughts: Basically, if you like the TV show, you'll enjoy the movie. Jessica and I watched the whole series on DVD a few years back, so we had to see the movie to see what was up 4 years after the series finale. Turns out that everyone is up to the same tricks. If you've never seen the show, it tries to give you a run down of who these characters are supposed to be, but even if you can follow the plot without seeing the series, the most emotional moments will be big "so what" moments for you. The point is that these characters have 10 years of history, and here we are seeing them try to get their happily ever afters. If you've never seen them before, you won't care.
To put it in a way more of you would understand, it's like having a "Ross and Rachel Get Married and Chandler and Monica Get Pregnant" Friends movie in theaters, and you go without ever having seen Friends. Would you understand what a big deal that would be? That's pretty much exactly what the Sex and the City movie is, but with more nudity and swearing.
Overall: Good for those who've seen the series.
Technical Complaint: This movie was filmed in Super 35, which is basically using regular 35mm film because it's cheaper. This means that the original image is 4:3 (standard TV shape). Because they wanted the movie in 16:9 (high definition TV shape), they crop the top and bottom off of the film and print it stretched out to another reel of 35mm film and the movie theater's projector unstretches it. The problem is that the editor for SatC instead of cropping some from the top and some from the bottom cropped all of it from the bottom, which meant that all of the shots were set way too high and you could see the boom mic in several of the scenes. Someone, somewhere made a huge cropping mistake and somehow it got printed on film. Every copy from the New York premiere to the 1:10 Saturday afternoon Bedford showing has this problem. It's absolutely ridiculous.
I just emailed New Line Cinemas about it. We'll see what excuse they give us.


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The appointment of former major general
It remains to be seen whether the appointment will prove to be inspired or inept, or even emblematic of government desperation. But on balance the immediate outlook has to be uncertainty for Defence, notwithstanding Lewis's abilities as a soldier, a military diplomat and a security adviser.
The appointment is unprecedented in that Lewis is the first career military officer to be appointed secretary of the department, which since the mid-1970s has been administered by a diarchy headed by a civilian secretary and a military Defence Force chief with separate but equal functions.
Now Lewis will sit at the shoulder of the new Defence Force Chief, Major General David Hurley, a former Duntroon classmate and fellow infantry corps officer. It is unclear how the arrangement might affect civilian influence over day-to-day Defence Department governance and how it will impact on Hurley. It is certainly discouraging to senior Defence civilians who worry that frequent changes of secretary in recent years have destabilised and weakened the non-military input into defence and enhanced the power of the uniforms.
Civilian defence officials are also apprehensive and surprised that a Labor defence minister as risk-averse as
Sceptical insiders say the appointment risks the return of a Rum Corps, with an out-of-control warrior caste pursuing narrow and dated military agendas with little relevance to Australia's modern strategic concerns.
While this concern might be overstated, there are strong grounds for speculation about how Lewis might manage the huge department with its $26 billion budget. As a former military officer, a military attaché and a national security adviser, Lewis had little experience running a huge bureaucracy and budget.
He has been appointed when Defence is wrestling with the strategic reform program, which aims to save $20 billion over 10 years, a $100 billion-plus rearmament program that appears increasingly unaffordable, and a government that is eyeing big cuts in the Defence budget to help bring the budget back into surplus.
The question is whether Lewis will have the skills to protect the Defence budget or whether the government has appointed him precisely because it does not want a tough nut capable of sustained resistance to government raids. Already Smith has hinted at delays and possibly reductions in Australian purchases of new fighter aircraft and submarines.
Outgoing secretary
So it does seem surprising that a non-economist has been appointed Defence secretary when financial management is a critical issue. It also seems surprising that Lewis apparently was not considered for a role as army chief or Defence Force chief if the government thought so highly of his credentials.
Lewis's appointment comes at a time of intense activity within Defence as a new top military leadership team settles into place. As well as the war in Afghanistan, the strategic reform program and budget uncertainties, Defence is facing multiple reviews ordered by Smith into misbehaviour, mismanagement, accountability, procurement, policy, organisational and force posture issues.
It is also facing far-reaching changes in the management of the procurement agency, the Defence Materiel Organisation, following the resignation of Stephen Gumley.
One way or another a strong secretary from a military background will want to influence the outcomes of these reviews—especially the force posture review being conducted by two former secretaries, Ric Smith and Allan Hawke, which is looking at where Australian military forces should be located in future.
But whether Lewis succeeds or fails as secretary will depend on how he manages the vast Defence bureaucracy and the financial challenges he is going to face as the government struggles to return the national budget to surplus.
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The last time I saw my grandmother, she was in a hospital bed, somewhere between sleep and unconsciousness, and so mortally still and alabaster white that it was difficult not to conclude that she wasn't already dead.
In many ways, she had spent the past three decades preparing for this eventuality. Each time one of my visits to my grandparents' home in Milan came to an end, both were convinced we would never see each other again, that death would claim them in the interim. And so each successive goodbye became ever more comically cinematic, tears and hugs in lieu of all the things they would never, could never, quite put into words.
But they clung on to the passing of the years with such tenacity that, as I grew out of my 20s and then my 30s, I became increasingly convinced they'd go on to outlive me. My grandfather eventually passed away three years ago, at 94. And then, at 92, after a fall at home left her hospitalised, it seemed that my grandmother's time was at last imminent.
It took me a month to find out about the accident. She hadn't wanted to trouble me, she said later. I flew to Italy, rushed to the hospital and found a very different woman from the one I knew and loved. She was confused and distant, her words slurred. She had always seemed so much younger than her years. Not any more. So when I solemnly kissed her cold forehead on my last day, I learned that all those years of preparation didn't make it any easier to say goodbye. I had not, however, reckoned on that tenacious spirit. Several seasons have since passed and she has recovered; returning home to the daily care of Suzy, her saintly home help, and at least a semblance of her previous life. This week, she turns 93.
My grandparents were always something of a mystery to me. Perhaps grandparents invariably are. They were already old when I was born, and by the time I was a teenager, both had retired, he from the factory floor, she from occasional nursing work. As a child, I would visit every summer; as an adult, I managed about three long weekends a year, each time struck anew by how quiet, how small, their lives were, every day a facsimile of the one before, a trip to the supermarket a bona fide event. Until his contemporaries died off, my grandfather would pass his time playing bowls. But after successive funerals, he rarely ventured out; mornings were spent poring over perpetually incomplete crosswords, afternoons and evenings dozing in front of the television. Truly a man of his era, he relied on his wife for everything, and conveyed his love for her through bickering alone. (He behaved much the same way with me, and I only ever got a hint of his affection via the firmness of the handshakes that welcomed my arrivals, and marked my departures.)
My grandmother's focus, meanwhile, was the upkeep of their small rented flat: beds made, bathroom cleaned, floors polished. The kitchen was her main domain and, deaf to my cries that, actually, a sandwich for lunch would do, she'd impose on me yet more prosciutto, pasta, an extra slice of beef, a little cheese, cake, grapes, espresso. She would take mortal offence if I ever told her enough, stop, I'm full up. As far as she was concerned, I was always too thin and wanted fattening up.
At Milan's main airport, once, my hand luggage was searched before boarding the plane home. Between my clothes, she had hidden dozens of sachets of coffee, packets of saffron, ravioli, a bar of dark chocolate and, for the flight, two ham rolls filled with tomatoes, a lot of butter and a little mayonnaise.
The customs officer looked up at me.
"Nonna," I said in explanation.
To me, my grandparents seemed wonderfully uncomplicated: always welcoming, always there. But that was only ever an artful illusion maintained by their enigmatic silences, their distinct lack of need to fill in their historical gaps for me, to answer fully any questions I ever posed. Both were born during the first world war and came of age in the second. In 1943, my grandmother, born in Yugoslavia, caused a scandal when she got pregnant by an Italian soldier in circumstances she chose never to fully disclose. She fled Slovenia, and, seven mysterious years later, re-established herself in Milan, where she married my grandfather, who agreed to adopt my mother on condition that no one ever learned her true parentage. My mother told me, in confidence, when I was 15, while my grandfather only confessed, nervously, at the age of 89.
They sent my mother to be educated at a nearby convent. She loathed the nuns, and their religion, and wasn't much more enamoured by home life with her overly strict and censorious parents. She left Italy as soon as she could, arriving in London in her early 20s, to marriage, two sons and a divorce my grandfather always maintained he saw coming.
Their relationship remained a difficult one to the bitter end. When she was dying of cancer in 1999, I hoped my mother would seek a final peace with them. But when my grandmother came to visit her in a London hospice, my mother refused to talk, sending the poor woman back home heartbroken. A few weeks later, she died on my grandmother's 80th birthday.
When my grandfather followed her 10 years later, I was working abroad. Because they seem to be in such a hurry to bury people in Italy, I missed the funeral, arriving days later for the unveiling of the headstone. His widow stood by my side, silent and resolute, but I feared this would be the undoing of her, that without him her world would collapse.
I suggested a day out, that we visit an old friend on the other side of Milan. It was wonderful to be out of that claustrophobic flat and in the open world with her on my arm, but she was all too clearly bemused by, and fearful of, the city she no longer knew. When she took a tumble on the escalator in the underground station – I caught her, someone slammed on the alarm, medics were called – she couldn't get back to the sanctity of her flat quick enough, nor to a life whose parameters she alone could set.
My two daughters have only visited their great-grandmother a handful of times. It's always worth the trip to see her face light up when she hugs the girls her own daughter never lived to see, but they are ultimately too loud for her, too chaotic. Milk is spilled, plates broken.
Their relationship is now based on the exchange of photographs and the occasional shy "Ciao" on the telephone. It's not enough, of course, but I'm grateful we have at least that.
It's often suggested that we have better – or less complicated – relationships with our grandparents than we do with our parents. This is certainly true in my case. I cannot hold against them things they did before I was born, and I have only ever known them to be kind and doting, and eminently lovable. There is much I wish I could say to my grandmother now, and much I wish she felt she could say to me. For what it's worth, I offer her all the forgiveness she so clearly craved from my mother.
I'm so happy she has made it to 93. I hope she sees 94.


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FIREFIGHTERS spent more than three hours tackling a blaze after a suspected arson attack in a flat above a former chip shop.
A neighbour called the emergency services after seeing smoke billowing from the flat in Chorley Old Road, opposite Morrisons, just after 9am yesterday.
Crews from Bolton Central attended and called for help from a crew at Bolton North Fire Station.
Watch manager Kirk Cornwall, from Bolton Central Fire Station, said firefighters forced their way into the building after being unable to gain access at the back.
A lounge in the upstairs flat had been wrecked by fire and a bedroom in a loft conversion was also badly damaged.
The occupant of the home was out at the time.
Fire investigators believe the blaze was started deliberately. Watch manager Cornwall said: "When we arrived there was smoke coming from the first floor and the converted attic space. The main fire was in the back room and it had started spreading up to the attic space. The damage was quite extensive."
A firefighter was taken to A&E after injuring muscles in his back while using a door ram to gain entry to the flat.
Michael Gallagher, aged 71, of nearby Avondale Street, said: "I saw firefighters at the back of the flat and there was smoke and flames coming from a window.
"A man from a neighbouring flat had been asleep but his two young girls were awake and smelled smoke."
A man, aged in his 20s, was arrested on suspicion of arson yesterday at the scene.


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Subject: Re: [OK-CEM] / Brummett
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:31:05 EDT
Charles Brummett b. ca 1865? MO?; m. Texanna "Anna" Atkins McKim McIntosh in
Creek Nation; he would have d. in Sapulpa, Creek Co, OK. I have been looking
for any info concerning him for years.
"Anna" and Charlie/Charles were in Creek Nation 1900....Sapulpa in 1910,
1920, 1930.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I always have been fascinated by the Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Keystone, S.D.); ever since noted New York Times Magazine photographer Sam Falk gave me an image he took of Gutzon Borglum�s sculpture. When Falk presented me with his photograph in the 1960s, little did anyone realize that the effects of erosion�although not yet readily apparent�already had taken hold.
Carving of the monument actually began in 1927 and finally was completed in 1941. Although jurisdiction over Mount Rushmore was ceded to the Department of the Interior�s National Park Service in 1933, nearly 50 years passed before general acknowledgment of the necessity for preservative action.
Weathering breaks down rock. While granite is fairly resistant, outcroppings constantly are subjected to the elements; causing gradual chemical and physical changes. Carbon dioxide and oxygen from runoff attrite substance. Physical erosion occurs when water, lodged in cracks, turns to ice and expands. Annual freeze/thaw cycles additionally force apart fractured edges. Tree roots produce a similar result which, ultimately, causes rock to disintegrate into clay and sand.
To safeguard the statues, experts would need to predict which of the granite blocks were most prone to shifting. In 1989, Respec Engineering, Inc. (Rapid City, S.D.) conducted a high-tech checkup that included photogrammetry and three-dimensional AutoCAD (AutoDesk, Inc., San Rafael, Calif.) modeling. Using precision cameras mounted aboard fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, the survey comprised some 300 photographs. From those images, a computer created 3D projections of the monument�s internal fracture system. It was part of a sprucing up for the Memorial�s impending 50th anniversary. Apparently, in the 1930s, sculptors had noticed some crazing of the granite; but, the longer-term impact was unknown. Each fall, workers sealed cracks and fissures with a mixture of granite dust, linseed oil and white lead to reduce damage when cooler weather causes rock to contract. After the Respec structural inspection, preservationists were able to estimate the damage potential. They distinguished stable fractures versus those that should be filled. Eventually, the ones most in jeopardy would have to be reinforced with steel pins to arrest further movement.
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But both are merely incremental moves on the seismic shift that is violently shaking up the media world today.
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Research In Motion Ltd. shareholders and others close to the company increasingly believe the board needs stronger directors and a new chair.
A day after the BlackBerry-maker's board came under heightened scrutiny for not providing oversight as their situation worsened, many were calling for dramatic change at the top to reflect RIM's drastic management changes and the international scope of the company's now very global business.
And some feel the board's sense of deferral under founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie has continued, given that many of the directors – with the exception of one new addition since board chair Barbara Stymiest took over – remain from the old era.
Although there is a new set of executives led by CEO Thorsten Heins, including new marketing and legal chiefs, shareholders and observers still think the board is stuffed with people from the "Mike and Jim" era at RIM.
"Mike and Jim were passionate people with persuasive personalities, and I think it was difficult for the board members to influence them," says Adam Belsher, a former RIM executive who is now CEO at JADsoftware Inc. in Waterloo, Ont.
At the AGM this week, one shareholder said RIM needed the type of proxy battle that has since reshaped Canadian Pacific. Another asked why there was not a Muslim board member, who may have been able to help the company through its regulatory hurdles in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Ms. Stymiest, a director who became board chair in the January shakeup, acknowledged this week that the board has "gaps," and said that the board has enlisted a search firm to help "augment" the board in certain areas.
"I think the board's got to realize that the company's changed – it's going through a new era, the post-Lazaridis-Balsillie, dual-CEO, dual-chair era," says Garfield Emerson, a veteran Canadian executive who served as chairman of Rogers Communications Inc. for more than a decade and currently sits on the board of Canadian Tire Corp.
One former RIM executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said many members of management never took the board too seriously –– that it was perceived as being purposely weak, composed of famous Canadians with very little relevant experience in high technology. Now, shareholders apparently see that: When asked to elect directors at the company's annual meeting, the withhold rates, usually much less than 10 per cent, were incredibly high, with Ms. Stymiest receiving 23.1 per cent, management guru and Rotman School dean Roger Martin receiving 22.6 and the former lead independent director John Richardson receiving 30.2 per cent.
"When you get that degree of withholding, you've got to step down," the executive said.
There is also a lot of interrelations between the board members, which strikes shareholders and observers as odd. Many know each other either through the board at the University of Waterloo, at accounting giant Ernst and Young or through relationships at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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"Based on the AGM, I think there was a pretty strong signal to the effect that the board should be revamped. It seems that Barbara is on side for that, but the problem is, we're six months into her reign and we've only had one director who's been appointed. I'd have thought the company would move much more quickly."Report Typo/Error
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text: 'Solitary Gestures' Opens Jan. 13 in CCC's Alexander Gallery Posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 4:40 PM Article by: Janet PaulsonAn exhibition of recent works by sculptor Christopher B. Wagner entitled "Solitary Gestures" opens January 13 in the Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College. An artist's reception will take place on Wednesday, January 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the gallery, with an artist talk at 1 p.m. "Solitary Gestures" showcases approximately 15 sculptural works that explore figurative and animal forms constructed of reclaimed materials such as lumber, hog skin and paint. Wagner's work aims to emphasize the spiritual or intellectual longings of humans. His formal depiction of both human and animal forms utilizes elongation of limbs and necks to convey a yearning to extend beyond ourselves.Christopher Wagner received his master of fine arts degree from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. He was recently chosen to participate in a residency program offered in Portland titled "Glean" which gave artists access to reclaim and utilize materials harvested by Metro. "Solitary Gestures" runs through Feb. 6. The Alexander Gallery is located in the Niemeyer Center at CCC. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the exception of campus holidays. The exhibition is open to the public and there is no cost to attend. For more information, please contact Kate Simmons at 503-594-3032 or email@example.com. Press ReleasesEvents CalendarVideo ChannelPress ReleasesCCC in the NewsCollege Relations and Marketing Contact the College Relations and Marketing DepartmentOregon City - 19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Email us: email@example.com Call us: 503-594-3017