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A year ago, nearly all of the photographers from Rich Clarkson’s Topeka Capital-Journal photography staffs came together for three-day reunion in Eugene.

My granddaughter’s nickname is Osh. It so happens that there’s a city named Osh in Kyrgyzstan. Former Register-Guard Features Editor Grant Podelco and his wife, Daisy Sindelar, are journalists working in Prague, Czech Republic for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Daisy recently traveled to Kyrgyzstan to produce a series of stories. I asked Grant if he would ask Daisy to shoot a picture of an “Osh” sign to show Olivia. She did and this is how Osh looks in Kyrgyz.

Vic and Alice Bender celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this weekend. They were married on May 13, 1951, in Vancouver, Wash.

"We are all Americans" wrote Jean-Marie Colombani in LeMonde on Sept. 13, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11. In 2002, a tree was planted at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris to honor the victims. It's our favorite park in Paris and over the years since then we've stopped by to make a simple picture or two. This is the inscription on the plaque next to the tree: "This American oak is dedicated to the memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 in the United States of America. Gift of the American…

A kid knew exactly how to kill some time today in the Digital Duck area of the University of Oregon Bookstore in Eugene as his dad yacked on the phone.