Detroit Pistons routed the visiting Portland Trail Blazer with a 123-103 victory at the Palace of Auburn Hills to hand the visiting team their third straight loss in a row on Sunday evening. Starting guard Reggie Jackson scored a game-high 30 points and an assists short to finished the game with a double-double to lead the Pistons to their 32nd win in 63 games played this season. "I think we played the way we wanted to play tonight," Jackson, who went 11 for 19 from the field and made a perfect…
sportswear company Columbia™ was first founded in Portland, Oregon, created so that the people of the Pacific Northwest could enjoy the outdoors with more comfort. The brand was founded in 1938 by Paul Lamfrom, who is the father of the present chair(wo)man Gert Boyle, who has held that position for forty years. Gert has practically grown Columbia into what it is today, a GLOBAL sportswear company. Even though it is a global company, it is still based in Portland, making apparel to keep people…
positive outcomes in research and evidenced-based programs in various school districts within the study. The qualitative article, titled, “A Qualitative Study of English Language Learners in the Portland Schools,” written by Victoria Haynes, described a purposive sampled population in public schools in Portland, Oregon. The study is a single study that included an ethnographic design. Ethnographic designs focus on natural settings (LeCompte & Goetz, 1982). Characteristics of ethnography studies…
flight 173, that left from John F. Kennedy International Airport December 28th, 1978. Its destination was Portland, Oregon, but had one stop in Denver, Colorado. The aircraft was a DC-8 and that day had on board one hundred and eighty-nine passenger, 6 infants and eight crewmembers. The start of the flight was without incident, and it was documented that the fuel required to get to Portland was 31,900 lbs., on departing Denver they had 46,700 lbs. of fuel. Again, they depart in route to Oregon…
discuss the technology inventory process, a game plan for the use of the two-hour delayed openings to begin mapping curriculum to standards and assessments in Atlas Rubicon, an idea to start a Portland Hall of Fame, and launching the development of instructional videos series make by Portland teachers for Portland teachers to support the one-to-one device initiative. I’ll be watching my son play baseball and daughter play soccer this weekend. If you need anything, I’ll have my cell. Enjoy the…
FLY ASH IN CONCRETE 2.3.4.1. WORKABILITY OF THE CONCRETE Fly ash particles are spherical in shape with high fineness and low carbon content this reduces the quantity of water required for a given slump (Zulu, 2014). This means that a mix with Portland cement would have a higher water content of the same workability compared to the fly ash mix. It is estimated that each 10% of fly ash added to a mix reduces the water content by 3%, this is dependent on the nature of the ash and other parameter…
part of my life. I love to play them, but I mostly watch them on television. According to my father they are like a religion to me. Frankly, I totally agree with him. My favorite teams who I enjoy watching are both from Portland, Oregon. They are; the Portland Timbers and the Portland Trail Blazers. Like many teams they have similarities as well as differences, in terms of their resiliency factors. The factors are; accept changes as part of life, progress towards their goal, and maintain a…
Proving how on the contrasting side to society there are certain individuals that can influence society in a negative way such as Coach Rene Portland did. Rene Portland was able to destroy the dreams of certain young girls who wanted to play college basketball based on her harsh discrimination against girls who were lesbians. People at the University of Pennsylvania knew of the abuse that the teacher committed…
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and at the same time helped for partial financial aid. Some of these opportunities included the International Student Retention Scholarship (January 2015- January 2016), my part time job at the student sustainability center, an event planner for Portland State Programming Board. All of the above opportunities and achievements have always motivated to attain my goal. However, I feel pressured because I have often ended up paying for my tuition, expenses, and living here. Furthermore, while…