GZ Expat, Part II

links for 2008-11-30

• Sports: Home | "UO leaves Corvallis with rosy outlook" | The Register-Guard
  a Rose Bowl trip would have been huge, a catalyst that might have propelled the OSU program to bigger and better things.

  Scratch that.

  
  
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  Sports: Home | "Biggest plays go Ducks’ way twice" | The Register-Guard
  
  
  In a game in which Johnson rushed for a Civil War-record 219 yards on 17 carries — as the Ducks set a school record with 694 yards total offense — and Masoli threw three touchdown passes, ran for another and didn’t have a turnover
  
  
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  Sports: Home | "Pasadena can wait" | The Register-Guard
  
  
  Once the game started, they rolled up a school-record 694 yards of offense, didn’t commit a turnover, returned two of their four takeaways for touchdowns and scored more points than either team ever had in the Civil War.
  
  
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links for 2008-11-27

• China slashes interest rates as panic spreads - Telegraph
  The move came just one day after the World Bank predicted that China would grow by 7.5pc next year. The level of growth may appear robust by Western standards, but it would represent the slowest economic expansion in China for the last two decades. It is also perilously close to the 7pc minimum level of growth that Chinese economists believe is necessary in order to create enough jobs for the 6m university graduates who will enter the jobs market next year.
  (tags: china economics)
• Workers riot at Chinese toy factory
  The workers battled security guards, turned over a police car, smashed the headlights of police motorcycles and forced their way through the factory's front gate, Guo said. They went on a rampage in the plant's offices, damaging 10 computers, the company said.
  (tags: china protests)

links for 2008-11-25

• Oregon State running back doubtful for Civil War - College Football - Rivals.com
  Riley characterized the injury as a second-degree sprain and said Rodgers was “very doubtful” for the Civil War, although a final decision about his status would come later this week after talking to him and the team’s doctors.
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• Down with Barriers, Up with Iraq
  “I bet you 5 bucks it will end this year. Probably a few casualties for us still, but that by early 2009, a reasonable person will say it's over.”
  (tags: iraq waronterror)

links for 2008-11-23

• Vikings exit 2008 with a win
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College Football Saturday!
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Score! Hawks win 4-3
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links for 2008-11-12

• FT.com / Companies - New help for Fannie and Freddie borrowers
  Through a combination of interest rate reductions and the addition of more years to the loan, monthly mortgage payments would be reduced to no more than 38 per cent of a household’s gross income, Mr Lockhart said.
  (tags: economics usa)
• Police detain former president of Taiwan - International Herald Tribune
  Chen, 57, has denied any wrongdoing and accused his successor, Ma Ying-jeou, and the governing Kuomintang Party of a politically motivated attack on him and his family and suggested that his strong support for Taiwan's independence was behind the investigation.
  (tags: taiwan corruption politics)
• Blazers will retire No. 30 of Terry Porter and Bobby Gross
  The Trail Blazers are planning to retire No. 30 twice in December, once for Terry Porter and then for Bobby Gross. No such luck for Rasheed Wallace, who also wore the jersey number. (GZE2 - That's cuz Porter & Gross never choked down the stretch against the Lakers)
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• Jimi Hendrix's drummer, Mitch Mitchell, found dead at Portland hotel - Breaking News From Oregon & Portland - Oregonlive.com
  Mitchell, 61, who played with Hendrix at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival and helped shape such songs as "Voodoo Child" and "Purple Haze," apparently died of natural causes, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner said. Mitchell was found dead at appoximately 3 a.m. in his room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland.
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• Channelnewsasia.com Lego loses toy brick trademark case at EU court
  The ruling will allow competitors to continue to market products similar to Lego's iconic brick in the 27 European Union nations.
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Counterfeit Smart Car.
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links for 2008-11-11

• Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » A Milestone Worth Noting
  London The gin and tonic, acclaimed as the world’s first cocktail, is 150 years old. The first commercial G&Ts were served to London society in 1858. (GZE2 - I don't like Gin...but, happy anniversary anyway).
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links for 2008-11-10

• FT.com / Companies / US & Canada - Circuit City files for bankruptcy
  Circuit City is the largest US retailer to fall victim to the credit crisis. Credit card spending, which accounts for three quarters of its business, was particularly hard hit.
  (tags: business economy usa)
• Pajamas Media » Afghan Quicksand Awaits Obama
  And, as with so many Democrats in the Senate, he argued frequently, during the campaign, that we should have been focused on Afghanistan all along, because it is the real incubator of the international terrorist threat. Timing being everything, our new president will get his wish.
  (tags: afghanistan waronterror obama)
• Official WHL Website :: Doug Piper New President of Portland Winter Hawks
  While he served as Executive vice President of Business Operations/COO of the Edmonton Oilers from 1995 to 2000, season ticket sales doubled, and average attendance rose to 94 percent. Similarly, while serving as Executive Vice President of Business Operations for the Carolina Hurricanes, Piper created marketing and business programs that doubled the season ticket base.
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• Winter Hawks stage great rally, win 7-5
  Trailing Kamloops 5-2 with 10 minutes left in the third period, Portland scored five times to win 7-5 at Memorial Coliseum.
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