– An Oregon Perspective –
Portland WordPress User Group – First Meeting at CubeSpace (Thursday January 15, 2009)
Thursday January 15, 2009 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm
CubeSpace
622 SE Grand Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97214
Category: Social
Where/When: Thursday, January 15th from 6:00-7:30pm at CubeSpace.
Anyone planning on going?
Thousands of Oregon Guard troops to head to war
Nearly half the Oregon Army National Guard will leave for war in 2009, the most since World War II, with more than 3,000 departing by summer.
They will include men who fight wildfires, search and rescue teams that rescue stranded climbers and help communities overcome floods and freezes.
This [...]
Senate boosts wilderness protection
In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. Majority Democrats assembled more than enough votes to overcome GOP stalling tactics in an early showdown for the new Congress.
Republicans complained that Democrats did not allow amendments on the [...]
Union to file grievance against Blazers over Miles
NEW YORK (AP) -The NBA players’ association plans to file a grievance against the Portland Trail Blazers, who have threatened litigation against any NBA club considering signing Darius Miles.
This is turning into quite a PR coup for the blazers. Reminds me of the mis-steps during the JailBlazer [...]
A Closer Look at the Portland/Miles Conundrum
On the heels of a Yahoo! report that the Darius Miles/Portland Trail Blazers clock is down to just two games – the Blazers sent out a message to the rest of the league threatening litigation if any team signed Miles “to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting [...]
Florida is No. 1 in the AP Top 25; Utah is perfect at No. 2
Oregon finished #10, and Oregon State finished #18.
InsideHigherEd.com has a discussion of the some of the costs of fielding a top flight sports program in the NCAA, using the Texas Longhorns and Oregon Ducks as examples.
The Article is here
Outdoing [...]
Spy and Surveillance
Is your company car or lorry / truck equipped with a GPS system and monitored by your boss? You have no chance of being undisturbed once in a while?
Do you suspect your jealous partner of having you watched?
Modern technology means that you may be constantly being monitored without even noticing it!
Tracking devices [...]
Why abandon the gasoline tax?
The state of Oregon is toying with the remarkably stupid idea of trying to tax people for transportation based on how many miles they drive. The idea is to use that new tax revenue to replace the traditional per-gallon gasoline tax, which taxes people based on how much gasoline they consume.
“A [...]
Weather News
A new storm moving into British Columbia today will spark potentially life-threatening flooding in the storm-battered Pacific Northwest.
According to Western Expert Meteorologist Ken Clark, “This is a particularly dangerous situation from the Cascades on west and also in extreme eastern Washington, northeastern Oregon and northern Idaho.”
Heavy rain will fall across the Pacific Northwest through [...]
Oregon band to march in inaugural
Portland’s Get a Life Marching Band has been picked to be in President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural parade Jan. 20.
It will join about 100 other bands. About 1,400 bands applied.
Members are mostly from Oregon and southwest Washington, but some come from as far as South Dakota. All have marching band experience [...]