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| === Thanksgiving Day | Thursday | November 25, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Thanksgiving-graphic-small.jpg|thumb|Happy Thanksgiving!]]
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| '''Giving Thanks, And A Little More...'''<br />
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| Portland Mayor Sam Adams is "thankful for the people who make this City what it is – a welcoming, exciting, compassionate and innovative place where anyone from anywhere in the world can find their community." The mayor also expresses gratitude "for the countless ways in which Portlanders look out for one another," and asks [[Portlandia|Portlandians]] to consider giving back:
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| * The [http://www.oldtownmission.org/ Old Town mission] is also seeking sleeping bags, blankets, socks and gloves. They can be dropped of at 3 N.W. Third Ave.
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| * Portland Rescue Mission – [http://www.portlandrescuemission.org/contact/locations/ is seeking blankets, and other donations]
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| * [http://www.humansolutions.org/homelessness-services/warming-center-homeless-families.php Homeless Family Warming Center] is seeking blankets, food and household items, Eastminster Presbyterian Church at 125th and NE Halsey Street, drop off 7pm - 9pm
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| * And other great opportunities for giving can be found at more than 80 organizations represented in [[Willamette Week]]’s [http://giveguide.oaktree.com/Welcome.aspx Give Guide]
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?c=49278&a=328036 Giving Thanks]
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| === Wednesday | November 24, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Capsule.jpg|thumb|Pain relief. Encapsulated.]]
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| '''Who'll Stop The Pain?'''<br />
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| You will! In Oregon, self-medicating is as American as [[DIY]]. Oregon ranks fifth nationally for prescription painkiller abuse and has the highest rate in the country among 18- to 25-year-olds.<ref>[http://www.rdmag.com/News/FeedsAP/2010/11/life-sciences-oregon-ranks-5th-nationally-for-painkiller-abuse/ Oregon ranks 5th nationally for painkiller abuse]</ref> Dramatic spikes in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications. Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté argues that these responses are treating surface symptoms as causes while ignoring deeper roots. Dr. Maté says children are in fact reacting to the broader collapse of the nurturing conditions needed for their healthy development.<br />
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| ''Go to stories'':<br />
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| :[http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20101124/NEWS/11240426/1001 Oregon young adults lead nation in painkiller abuse]<br />
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| :[http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/dr_gabor_mat_on_adhd_bullying Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, Bullying and the Destruction of American Childhood]
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| === Tuesday | November 23, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Shadow Inventory.png|thumb|Shadow inventory of distressed "American dreams."]]
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| '''"Shadow Inventory" Of "Distressed Homes" To Hit "Real Estate Market"'''<br />
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| A wave of distressed residential properties may flood an already saturated residential real estate market in the coming months, according to CoreLogic, "a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to business and government." There was an 11 month supply of "distressed homes" in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro area in August. (CoreLogic defines "distressed homes" as residential property with mortgage payments more than 90 days delinquent or in foreclosure.) The "globalized free market" system's built-in stabilizers automatically correct marketplace deviations like "shadow inventories" of "distressed homes"--brought about by the continuing criminal enterprises carried out on Wall Street, in corporate boardrooms of major multinational corporations, and in the halls of Congress<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/14/real-ira-targets-banks-bankers Real IRA says it will target UK bankers]</ref>--by bailing out distressed banks, paying outlandish bonuses to "investment bankers," and making homeless serfs out of everyone else.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2010/11/22/shadow-real-estate-inventory-up-10.html Distressed homes to hit real estate market]<br />
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| :''Go to report'': [http://corelogic.com/uploadedFiles/Pages/About_Us/News/CoreLogic%20Shadow%20Inventory%2011-22%20FINAL.pdf Shadow Inventory Jumps More Than 10 Percent in One Year, Pushing Total Unsold Inventory to 6.3 Million Units]
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| === Monday | November 22, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Happy-women-love-to-read.jpg|thumb|Be the change [[Powell's Bookstore|Powell's]] wants you to be.]]
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| '''Happy Women Love To Read'''<br />
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| Mercy Corps' "[[M Power Project|M POWER Project]]" department suggests you join [[Mercy Corps]] and [[Powell's Bookstore|Powell's Books]] to help teach women to read, and how NOT to shop at Amazon dot com. You can "be the change" you always wanted to be and help teach hundreds of Indian women to read and write, boosting their self-esteem and empowering them to open bank accounts, start small businesses, participate fully in their households and communities, and NOT shop online. Powell's will throw in a free Powell's Books tote bag if you jump through all the necessary hoops and meet all their other requirements.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.mercycorps.org/projects/indialiteracy M Power Project: Empower Women In India Through Literacy]
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| === Sunday | November 21, 2010 ===
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| [[File:No-more-corporate-bullshit-fuk-wall-st.jpg|thumb|Fu*k Wall Street]]
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| '''"Eager Beaver" Police State Does Its Part To Stick It To The Man'''<br />
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| A Portland hedge fund analyst exposed his virile manliness by standing up to "two fresh faced eager beavers from the FBI" and refusing to "wear a wire and therefore ensnare (his clients) in (the 'eager beavers') devious web." (It's also manly to mix metaphors like "beavers" with "devious web" or "spiders" with "devious dam.") Afterward the hedge fund inside trading analyst cursed the [[Portland Timbers]] for failing to drive the FBI's "eager beavers" out of Portland as successfully as they banished the [[Portland Beavers]] from [[Stumptown]].<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704170404575624831742191288.html U.S. in Vast Insider Trading Probe]
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| === Saturday | November 20, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Food-eden.jpg|thumb|Public Displays Of Wanton Gluttony]]
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| '''Concern Mounts Over Portland's Public Displays Of Wanton Gluttony'''<br />
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| Labeled "America's New Food Eden," meat-centric restaurants like the [[Beast]], [[Country Cat]], [[People's Pig]] and other "lardcore" eateries serve non-kosher food that is "so good it will literally make you sick." In the midst of all this pork barrel fetishizing, has anyone stopped to think about the poor, starving waifs in Africa? Enquiring stomachs want to know.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2031652,00.html Why Portland Is America's New Food Eden]
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| === Friday | November 19, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Walmart-worldmap.jpg|thumb|World Map of Wal-Mart: Watch out for collapsing civilizations.]]
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| '''Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) To Open New Store In Portland'''<br />
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| The mega-retailer promises employment for 300 Portland-area serfs and countless sweatshop slaves across the globe. Watch out for falling wages.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.nwcn.com/news/Walmart-to-open-new-store-in-Portland-creating-300-jobs-79990382.html Walmart to open new store in Portland, creating 300 jobs]
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