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| === Thursday | November 11, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Homeless-vet-worthless-bum.jpg|thumb|Supporting the troops.]] | |
| '''Today Is Veterans Day; Do You Know Where Your Veteran Is?'''<br /> | |
| "More than 10 percent of Oregon's homeless are veterans. There are 19 separate squatter villages populated primarily with homeless veterans in Central Oregon alone, and that's only the ones the Central Oregon Veterans Outreach group knows about. Many of them are addicted to drugs, or suffering from PTSD."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/veteran-assistance-programs-aid-more-homeless-veterans-in-the-winter-1.1748145 Veteran assistance programs aid more homeless veterans in the winter]
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| === Wednesday | November 10, 2010 ===
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| '''Neighborhood Greenways: From Asphalt To Bike Path, One Street At A Time'''<br />
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| <videoflash type="vimeo">16552771</videoflash><br />
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| Portland's [[Bureau of Transportation]] (PBOT) claims that neighborhood greenways are "much more than just chevrons painted on the asphalt." PortlandWiki News has in fact discovered they're traffic calming devices like speed bumps, extended curbs, stormwater management planters and all the other features that bike bloggers and city planners prattle on and on about.<br />
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| *[http://livininthebikelane.blogspot.com/2010/11/portlands-bike-boulevards-become.html Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways]
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| *[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/portland-mode-share-tops-7.php Portland's Bike Use Tops 7%; Are 'Neighborhood Greenways' The Answer?]
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| === Tuesday | November 9, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Ecotopia.gif|thumb|Ecotopia in your dreams.]]
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| '''Watersheds & Woodpeckers'''<br />
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| Did you know that "we live in a watershed within a watershed within a watershed"? Were you also aware that a "watershed is an area of land that drains to a body of water"? Perhaps you suspect that we also live in a woodshed within a woodshed that drains into the clearcutting maws of the "forest products" industry within an industry. And that our woodshed's woodpeckers frolic with our watershed's waterpeckers. In short, we live in [[Ecotopia]].<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/news/2010/11/the_water_cycle_in_portland_living_in_a_watershed/ The Water Cycle in Portland: Living in a Watershed]
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| === Monday | November 8, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Oregon Spotted Frog.jpg|thumb|An Oregon spotted frog raised by offenders at the Cedar Creek Corrections Center. ''Photo: Melanie Colombo.'']]
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| '''Two Convicts & A Frog'''<br />
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| "Much to the surprise of research scientists and zookeepers" participating "in a 'head start' program to bolster" the Oregon spotted frog's "dwindling population," James Goodall, a convicted drug dealer and fellow inmate, convicted robber Harry Greer apparently make great endangered frog nannies. In a fenced off-area behind Cedar Creek Correctional Center called "Frogga Walla," the two men spend nine hours a day feeding and tending to the endangered little critters. "We baby them like little kids," said Goodall, adding "They've got personalities, too, it seems like." "People may not think prisons are the right place for this type of environmental work, but it's the ideal place," said Chad Lewis, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. "We have folks with plenty of time in a controlled environment. That's what you need."<br />
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| *[http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_frogga_walla.html Washington prisoners helping save endangered frogs]<br />
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| *[http://blogs.evergreen.edu/sustainableprisons/2009/08/19/saving-frogs-takes-teamwork/ Saving frogs takes teamwork]
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| === Sunday | November 7, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Deschutes County Oregon.gif|thumb|Lite, lite blue.]]
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| '''Bend-Area Pinkos Turn Red County Blue'''<br />
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| Deschutes County finally agreed to take the fall for Kitzhaber's election. "Although Dudley easily carried Deschutes County, Kitzhaber picked up more than 24,000 votes here – more than enough to put him over the top."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.tsweekly.com/blogs/the-wandering-eye/FLASH-Deschutes-County-Gives-Election-to-Kitzhaber.html FLASH: Deschutes County Gives Election to Kitzhaber!]
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| === Saturday | November 6, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Bike-n-rails.jpg|thumb|Suboptimal transportation modes.]]
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| '''Riding The Rails'''<br />
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| The [[Portland Streetcar Loop Project]] brought new rail tracks and changed traffic patterns that "will alter the cycling conditions in the vicinity of the west end of the Broadway Bridge and require that all travelers in the area be aware of new signs, lane markings, street and signal configurations and streetcar tracks."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?a=325897&c=29385 New streetcar tracks, one-way streets will affect cyclists in the Pearl District]
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| === Friday | November 5, 2010 === | |
| [[File:Kids-playground.jpg|thumb|Kids love to play.]]
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| '''Former Pedophobiac Discovers He Likes "The Little Buggers"'''<br />
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| After citing his "recent study" showing that "50% of parents have lost all touch with reality," blogger claims that "children don't bother me anymore. I used to blame most of the ills of the world on children, even when I myself was a child, but as of late I'm finding more and more that I actually like the little buggers. I like kids."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://pdxsucks.com/2010/11/04/according-to-my-recent-study-50-of-parents-have-lost-all-touch-with-reality/ According to my recent study, 50% of parents have lost all touch with reality]
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