Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

It was a year when frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

The Banded Rainbowfish is a bright, multicolored fish with a horizontal dark black or blueish band stretching from its head to its tail fin. The Banded Rainbowfish scatters the eggs that it lays.