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The post at Cote de Texas yesterday about the Florence Four Seasons hotel reminded me of a charming hostel I stayed at in Naples (Italy, not Florida) 2 years ago, LaControra. …. Portland fountain. Portland fountain …

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architect design: Italian Hotels

Cheverus hockey team skated past Westbrook Saturday, 2-1.Westbrook boys’ indoor track team opened their season Saturday by finishing in the middle of the pack of a three-team meet, and the Westbrook girls’ indoor track team opened their season Saturday with a third-place finish in a three-team meet.The Westbrook boys’ basketball team split two exhibition games at the Portland Exposition Building (a four-point loss to Greely and a thumping of Dirigo), before squeaking past Windham on Friday night

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Where shall we begin? The Bruins? The Celtics? The Eagles? How about neither. We’ll start this brief summarization with minor Red Sox and Patriots news. The Pats are licking their chops. No playoffs as hard as it’s to fathom. They sit at 11-5, season over. They are clearly better than most of the playoff teams. They have a better record than 3 of the 4 teams that won during the opening weekend of the playoffs(Arizona, Philadelphia and San Diego). But it is what it is. Had they won the tiebreaker

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BOSTON SPORTS 2009

“The underlying premise was that real estate values would always go up,” said Karin Immergut, U. S. attorney in Portland….From Portland to Albany to Bend and beyond, Oregonians hoping to cash in on the boom have instead suffered major financial setbacks in real estate deals gone awry….

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By Dennis SimanaitisMeet 7 of the latest electric vehicles to hit the road, and find out how they did in our rigorous round of tests.Plenty of people think Electric Vehicles, EVs, for short, are the Next Big Thing. To celebrate this, we got together the Toyota RAV4 EV, Tesla Roadster, AC Propulsion eBox, Mitsubishi i MiEV, Dodge EV, Mini E and Wrightspeed X1. Among them, one is an old friend, two are already on sale, one is almost on lease and one will be sold soon in Japan. To identify which is

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Well, here we are in 2009. Wow, does it seem like 2008 flew by! Maybe it was because once we unloaded our Lubbock house, things picked up speed and it seemed like it was all downhill.I’ve not done a real good job of keeping up to date on this blog and it is certain I’ll not make a resolution to do so in 2009, but I will make an effort to be a bit more consistent. It’s not only a means of keeping family updated, but also a way to catalog what is happening with our grandchildren and ourselves. Ov

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In my Chicago practice,I often tell my patients to find ways to limit the stress in their lives. Meditation is a great way to do that. Why? That is the question David answers below. By David Tucker L.Ac LMP http://thezenofhealing.com/blog/ This is a wonderful question. One in which that has just as equally wonderful answers. I was inspired to write about this from a story I just heard about an acquaintance of mine who was on the train from Portland while someone was having a heart attack. Whi

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… said Crispin Argento, Colliers International’s Portland-based research analyst. … cause problems for the rest of the city’s real estate scene in 2009….Greg LeBlanc, a real estate analyst for Portland State University, estimates that by the end of 2009 there may be between 3,000 to 4,000 new high-end apartments o…The real estate market downturn started during the summer of 2007 and will likely not show signs of improvement until the final months of 2009, real estate experts s … ay. While brokers at the national level remain cautious about the coming year, Portland-area brokers plan to try to buck the trend by keeping the market moving throughout t he entire year….“The Portland commercial real estate market is positioned to roll through the downturn,”…

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Local man became city sports icon as vendor/cheerleader I just came across this great beer hawker story written by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Jim Moore . It tells the life story of beer hawker Bill Scott who passed away on Sunday March 25, 2007 of colon cancer. For more than 20 years, Scott led cheers in the Kingdome, starting in 1976 as a beer vendor who spontaneously encouraged fans to shout at Seahawks and Mariners games.If you lived here then and went to the Kingdome, you k

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my childhood friend, who passed away this week. you will be missed. (kim is on the far right with the red headband this is from a slumber party in 1985 at robyn’s house. all of these girls were in the same class, as well as girl scout troop!Kimberly Ann Tudor Kimberly Ann Tudor, 32 PORTLAND — Kimberly Ann Tudor, 32, of Portland was suddenly called to God on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, after sustaining a brain aneurysm at home. Kimberly was born in Portland on March 1, 1976, the daughter of Ro

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in memory of "kimmy" "kimber" "Kim" Tudor