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Merritt takes 400 metre-title from Olympic champion Wariner (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:58:02 GMT

Washington - Reigning world and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner was upset by LaShawn Merritt Thursday in the final of the 400-metre of the US Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon. Merritt finished in 44 seconds while a few strides behind ...

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‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl (OUTLOUD)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:26:00 GMT

“She’s really cute, really pretty,” a source told ABC News. Thomas Beatie, 34, told People magazine that he had given birth at a hospital in Bend, Oregon on Sunday. “The only thing different about me is that I can’t breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don’t,” he said, adding that he planned to publish [...]

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The China 5-Star Experience :: Experience Not Logic (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:05:00 GMT

Several years ago, a friend and I took a car from Portland, Oregon to New York to visit his brother who had just started his summer associateship at a big fancy law firm. We arrived on a Friday afternoon after making stops at Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore. We met his brother in his office. I was wearing flip flops at the time--I felt like a jackass with each step. Somehow his brother was able to get...

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Greatest Middle Distance Race Ever! (Yellow Chair Sports)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:36:00 GMT

Since many people are oblivious to the US Olympic Trials that are taking place in Eugene, OR this week, I thought I would link Monday night's 800m final, which is being considered one of the greatest races ever. This is what track and field used to be about and hopefully will become once again! 800 meter showdown

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A Life of Sex (Bouphonia)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Anti-abortion activists in Portland, OR have managed to complicate the construction of a new Planned Parenthood facility by pressuring the contractor to drop the project. [W]hen Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette signed on as the anchor tenant, Walsh said, he called other builders who had dealt with aggressive anti-abortion activists. He was told that protesters had gone as far as staking...

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OPRAH’S PREGNANT MAN GIVES BIRTH TO BABY GIRL (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:36:15 GMT

The transgendered Oregon man who went public with his pregnancy on OPRAH WINFREY’s talk show has given birth to a baby girl. Thomas Beatie, 34, was born a woman but opted for a sex change. The baby was born on Sunday (29Jun08) at a hospital in Bend, Oregon. Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network [...]

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Report: 'Pregnant man' gives birth (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:11:02 GMT

San Francisco - A transsexual who became known as the pregnant man has given birth to a baby girl, US broadcaster ABC News reported Thursday. The natural birth took place at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, on Sunday, the broadcaster said quoting an unn...

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Pregnant Man Gives Birth To A Girl! (Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:19:12 GMT

Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who has become known as “the pregnant man,” gave birth on Sunday to a healthy baby girl, ABC News is reporting. Thomas gave birth naturally at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, “She’s really cute, really pretty,” a source told ABC News Thursday afternoon. As we previously reported, Thomas, 34, was born a [...]

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Pregnant man gives birth to daughter (Cele|bitchy)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:59:33 GMT

Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man” who became famous after appearing on Oprah, has given birth to a daughter, according to several media outlets. TMZ reports that Beatie checked into a hospital in Bend, Oregon on Monday under a fake name. His room was “sealed off” from the pregnant women, and he gave birth [...]

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Thomas Beatie Gives Birth (Joe. My. God.)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:44:00 GMT

World-renowned "pregnant man" Thomas Beatie gave birth today to a healthy baby girl. The birth - at a hospital in Bend, Oregon - was natural, according to a source, who added that earlier reports that Beatie had planned a caesarean section are false. "She's really cute, really pretty,'' the source told ABC News Thursday afternoon. Born a woman, Beatie, 34, who had his breasts surgically removed and...

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Free ticket and discount tickets for Internet Strategy Forum Summit (Biznology)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:13:56 GMT

I'm still on the lookout for that winning case study for a free ticket to Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland, Oregon on July 17. I also received an announcement of an online ticket that you can purchase, so if...

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The Week in Naked Northwesterners (Slog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:05:17 GMT

In Portland, OR , the city's drinking water was threatened by a pair of trespassing skinny-dippers . From Local6.com : Two people were caught Saturday around 3 a.m. skinny dipping in a reservoir that provides most of Portland's drinking water...Officials said the accused skinny dippers were found in a part of the reservoir that had been offline. Had it been in use at the time, the Water Bureau would...

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Ed Harcourt Sets Solo Tour (The Music Slut)

noreply@blogger.com (m) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:25:00 GMT

Those aforementioned dates with The Gutter Twins have been officially nixed. New gigs: July 11 - Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar July 14 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir July 15 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey July 17 - Nashville, TN - 3rd & Lindsley July 18 - Chicago, IL - Schubas July 20 - Woodstock, NY - Utopia July 21 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's July 22 - New York, NY - Rehab July 23 - Boston, MA - T.T. The Bears...

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Murder City Devils set for another gig (Punknews.org)

aubin@nospam.punknews.org (aubin) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00:02 GMT

Murder City Devils have announced another reunion show set for September 6th in Portland, Oregon at the Roseland Ballroom. The show follows the band's recent Fun Fun Fun Fest appearance last November. The band split up in 2001 after the release of the Thelema EP and In Name and Blood full length. and members went on to Pretty Girls Make Graves , Big Business , Dead Low Tide and joke/cover band The...

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Go, baby boy! (here's your gravy)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Published in this morning's paper (with obvious alterations): Mack Daddy Smooth is hustling at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for track and field in Eugene, OR, but not to make the cut -- the locally grown chef is running to keep VIPs fed. His parents, King Verbose and Queen Scrutiny, say their favorite cook is tending to up to 500 visitors who, of course, have to eat as top athletes try to earn their...

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Going West, Part 1 (The Invisible Library)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:42:26 GMT

I’ve set up a flickr set of our photos, documenting our move from Savannah, GA to Salem, OR. This is the first leg of our trip, through North Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Illinois.

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Portland, Oregon July 3, 2008 3 AM Thunderstorm (The Rev. Chuck Currie)

chuck.currie@gmail.com (Chuck Currie, M.Div.) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:02:37 GMT

About 3 am Portland, Oregon was hit with a rare thunderstorm. Here's a view from our backyard: The video gets a little more exciting as it goes along. It wasn't anything like a South Carolina or St. Louis storm but...

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Wikipedia > Britannica because…#3 (Everything's Swirling)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:37:34 GMT

Slug Queenoriginally uploaded by gardngrl Slug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The slug take a royal status in Eugene, Oregon where a Slug Queen is elected each year in a late summer pageant. Your search - “slug queen” site:britannica.com - did not match any documents. My slug queen

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Marathon Update (somesaypip)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:45:00 GMT

Winning isn't whipping everyone else's ass. It's whipping your own. Kenny Moore Last Friday June 27 was the first day of the U.S Olympic Track and Field Trials. Thousands of athletes, coaches, spectators and reporters descended on Eugene, Oregon to see some of the world's best fight it out for their place on the Beijing team. On June 27, I was a few hours drive away in Sun River, Oregon. Gretchen and...

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FLIR Systems, Inc.: FLIR Systems Announces $6.3 Million Order From the United Arab Emirates (Market Wire - Professional Services: Engineering)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:05:00 GMT

PORTLAND, OR (MARKET WIRE) FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today that it has received a $6.3 million order from the General Headquarters of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense for the company's Star SAFIRE(R) III stabilized, multi-sensor systems. The units delivered under this order will be installed on fixed-wing surveillance platforms for use in counter-smuggling and counter-terror...

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