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  Alan Webb (athlete)
  Alan Webb (born January 13, 1983, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American athlete. He holds the American record in the mile, with a time of 3:46.91. He competes professionally for Nike, and is coached by Alberto Salazar.
  http://wn.com/Alan_Webb_(athlete)
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  Asa Lovejoy
  Asa Lawrence Lovejoy (March 14, 1808 – September 10, 1882) was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon. He was an attorney in Boston, Massachusetts before traveling by land to Oregon; he was a legislator in the Provisional Government of Oregon, mayor of Oregon City, and a general during the Cayuse War that followed the Whitman massacre in 1847. He was also a candidate for Provisional Governor in 1847, before the Oregon Territory was founded, but lost that election.
  http://wn.com/Asa_Lovejoy
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  Ben Cannon
  Ben Cannon is an American teacher and politician from Oregon. He was elected in 2006 to the Oregon House of Representatives, representing the state's 46th District, which covers portions of southeast and northeast Portland. He is unopposed for re-election in 2008.
  http://wn.com/Ben_Cannon
• Chip Shields
  Chip Shields (born 1959) is a Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate since appointment in September 2009. He previously represented District 43 in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2004 until appointment to replace Margaret Carter in Senate District 22.
  http://wn.com/Chip_Shields
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  Chris Solinsky
  Chris Solinsky (born December 5, 1984) is an American distance runner. Among his more notable achievements, he won eight state championships in high school and five NCAA Division I championships at the University of Wisconsin. He is the American 10,000 meters record holder with a time of 26:59.60 as well as the first non-African to break the 27-minute barrier in the 10,000 m. He is currently a professional runner for Nike, Oregon Track Club Elite and KIMbia Athletics.
  http://wn.com/Chris_Solinsky
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  Chuck Palahniuk
  Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.
  http://wn.com/Chuck_Palahniuk
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  Courtney Love
  Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress. Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for alternative rock band Hole, as well as for her publicity-ridden marriage to the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
  http://wn.com/Courtney_Love
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  Dan Saltzman
  Dan Saltzman is an elected commissioner serving in the City Council of Portland in Portland, Oregon.
  http://wn.com/Dan_Saltzman
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  Dan Steffan
  Dan Steffan is an American cartoonist and writer who has contributed to both mainstream and underground publications for several decades.
  http://wn.com/Dan_Steffan
• David Wu
  David Wu (; born April 8, 1955) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's . The first district includes part of western Multnomah County and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop, and Washington Counties. As an ethnic Han Chinese from Taiwan, Wu is the first Taiwanese American
  http://wn.com/David_Wu
• Diane Rosenbaum
  Diane M. Rosenbaum is an American politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 42 (Southeast Portland) from 1998 to 2009. She served as Speaker Pro Tempore. In the 2008 elections, she ran unopposed for the Oregon State Senate, replacing Senator Kate Brown, who was elected Secretary of State.
  http://wn.com/Diane_Rosenbaum
• Earl Blumenauer
  Earl Blumenauer (born August 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, he spent over 20 years as a public official representing the city before winning election to the United States House of Representatives in 1996. A Democrat, he represents , which includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River.
  http://wn.com/Earl_Blumenauer
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  Elliott Smith
  Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
  http://wn.com/Elliott_Smith
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  Farel Dalrymple
  Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
  http://wn.com/Farel_Dalrymple
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  Gus Van Sant
  Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Achievement in Directing for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
  http://wn.com/Gus_Van_Sant
• Jackie Dingfelder
  Jackie Dingfelder is a Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate, representing District 23 (Northeast and Southeast Portland). She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives for 7 years.
  http://wn.com/Jackie_Dingfelder
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  Jeff Merkley
  Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is the junior United States Senator from Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, Merkley was a five-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County within the Portland city limits. He also served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.
  http://wn.com/Jeff_Merkley
• John Charles Olmsted
  John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920), the nephew and adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted, was an American landscape architect. With his brother, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., he founded Olmsted Brothers, a landscape design firm in Brookline, Massachusetts. The firm is famous for designing many urban parks, college campuses, and other public places. John Olmsted's body of work from over 40 years as a landscape architect has left its mark on the American urban landscape.
  http://wn.com/John_Charles_Olmsted
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  Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Donald Cobain (pronounced , ; February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana.
  http://wn.com/Kurt_Cobain
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  Kurt Schrader
  Kurt Schrader (born October 19, 1951) is an American veterinarian and politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he is the Representative for Oregon's 5th congressional district. Prior to his election to the U.S. Congress, he served in the Oregon State Senate.
  http://wn.com/Kurt_Schrader
• Lew Frederick
  http://wn.com/Lew_Frederick
• Li Ning (company)
  Li Ning Company Limited, () is a major Chinese athletic company which makes athletic shoes and sporting goods. Li-Ning branded products are targeted for consumers play in sports such as running, basketball, badminton, football, tennis, and fitness. Li Ning counts Nike and Adidas as its main competitors. The company endorses a number of athletes and teams, both at home in China and abroad.
  http://wn.com/Li_Ning_(company)
• Lovecraft
  http://wn.com/Lovecraft
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  Matt Groening
  Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama.
  http://wn.com/Matt_Groening
• Michael Dembrow
  http://wn.com/Michael_Dembrow
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  Mulugeta Seraw
  Mulugeta Seraw (October 21, 1960 in Debre Tabor - November 13, 1988) was an Ethiopian student and father who went to the United States to attend college. Seraw was killed in November 1988, at age 28, in Portland, Oregon by three racist skinheads. His father and son successfully filed a civil lawsuit against the killers and an affiliated organization, holding them liable for the murder.
  http://wn.com/Mulugeta_Seraw
• Neil Goldschmidt
  Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades.
  http://wn.com/Neil_Goldschmidt
• Ramona Quimby
  Ramona Geraldine Quimby is a character from a series of novels by Beverly Cleary. She starts out in the Henry Huggins series as the pestering little sister of Henry's friend Beatrice, called "Beezus" by Ramona and her family. She was given a larger role in the novel Beezus and Ramona. Then the series concentrated on her from kindergarten onward. Ramona is a rambunctious girl who is misunderstood by others. She wants to grow up quickly and hates being called a baby.
  http://wn.com/Ramona_Quimby
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  Randy Leonard
  Randy Leonard is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. He is currently a city commissioner in Portland, serving his third term on the Portland City Council. Prior to serving in Portland city government, Leonard served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was a firefighter with the Portland Fire Bureau.
  http://wn.com/Randy_Leonard
• Rod Monroe
  Rod Monroe (born August 20, 1942) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He currently serves in the Oregon Senate, representing District 24 in the middle part of Multnomah County, which includes most of eastern Portland and the city of Happy Valley.
  http://wn.com/Rod_Monroe
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  Sally Struthers
  Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948) is an American actress and spokeswoman, known for her roles in sitcoms and television, particularly that of Gloria Bunker Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton respectively) on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards. She is also known for playing Babette on Gilmore Girls.
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  Shalane Flanagan
  Athlete
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• Tina Kotek
  Tina Kotek is an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, she serves as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. In the 2009–10 biennium, she serves as the House Majority Whip.
  http://wn.com/Tina_Kotek
• Tom McCall
  Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 January 8, 1983) was an American politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the 30th Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, he grew up there and in Central Oregon before attending the University of Oregon. After college he worked as a journalist including time at Portland's The Oregonian during World War II.
  http://wn.com/Tom_McCall
• Travis Knight
  Travis Knight (born September 13, 1974, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 1996 NBA Draft. A 7'0" center from the University of Connecticut, he played under Hall of Fame head coach Jim Calhoun. While attending the University of Connecticut, Knight became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
  http://wn.com/Travis_Knight
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  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. First published in the 1960s, her works explore Taoist, anarchist, ethnographic, feminist, psychological and sociological themes.
  http://wn.com/Ursula_K_Le_Guin
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  Walter M. Pierce
  Walter Marcus Pierce (May 30, 1861 – March 27, 1954) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served as the 17th Governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from . A native of Illinois, he served in the Oregon State Senate before the governorship, and again after leaving the U.S. House. Pierce is also the namesake of the United States Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters on compulsory public education.
  http://wn.com/Walter_M_Pierce
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  Ward Cunningham
  Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain name, c2.com), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon and is the chief technology officer for AboutUs.
  http://wn.com/Ward_Cunningham
• Will Vinton
  Will Vinton (born 1947) is an American director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio.
  http://wn.com/Will_Vinton

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  40 Mile Loop
  The 40 Mile Loop is a partially completed greenway trail around and through Portland in the U.S. State of Oregon. It was proposed in 1903 by the highly-regarded Olmsted Brothers architecture firm as part of the development of Forest Park.
  http://wn.com/40_Mile_Loop
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  Albina, Oregon
  Albina is a historical city which was consolidated into Portland, Oregon in 1891.
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• Alpenrose Velodrome
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  Ashkelon
  Ashkelon or Ashqelon Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān ( ;
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  Astoria, Oregon
  Astoria is a city in and the county seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor (and first millionaire) John Jacob Astor. His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1810. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.
  http://wn.com/Astoria_Oregon
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  Beaverton, Oregon
  Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, seven miles (11 km) west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley.
  http://wn.com/Beaverton_Oregon
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  Ben Cannon
  Ben Cannon is an American teacher and politician from Oregon. He was elected in 2006 to the Oregon House of Representatives, representing the state's 46th District, which covers portions of southeast and northeast Portland. He is unopposed for re-election in 2008.
  http://wn.com/Ben_Cannon
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  Bend, Oregon
  Bend is the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population density of that area. With a population of 52,029 at the time of the 2000 census, Bend's estimated population was 82,280 in city, and 170,705 in metro as of July 1, 2009. The Bend MSA is the 5th largest metropolitan area in Oregon.
  http://wn.com/Bend_Oregon
• Boise, Idaho
  Boise (; {Boy-see not Boy-zee}) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho as well as the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River, this is the principal city of the Boise City-Nampa metropolitan area and the largest city between Salt Lake City, Utah and Portland, Oregon.
  http://wn.com/Boise_Idaho
• Bridgeport Village
  http://wn.com/Bridgeport_Village
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  British Columbia
  British Columbia (B.C.) (, C.-B.) is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without Diminishment"). Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858. In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.
  http://wn.com/British_Columbia
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  Burnside Skatepark
  Burnside Skatepark is a skatepark located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Located under the east end of the Burnside Bridge, the skatepark was originally built by the skating community without permission and eventually the city approved the area as a public skatepark.
  http://wn.com/Burnside_Skatepark
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  Canada
  Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
  http://wn.com/Canada
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  Cedar Mill, Oregon
  Cedar Mill is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, mostly north of U.S. Route 26 and west of the Willamette Stone. It received its name from a sawmill on Cedar Mill Creek, which cut Western Redcedars which were the dominant tree in the area; the mill's pond was near the intersection of 119th and Cornell Road, which could still be seen into the 1960s. As of the 2000 census, the community population was 12,597.
  http://wn.com/Cedar_Mill_Oregon
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  Central Oregon
  Central Oregon is a geographic region in the U.S. state of Oregon and is traditionally considered to be made up of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Other definitions include larger areas, often encompassing areas to the north towards the Columbia River, eastward towards Burns, or south towards Klamath Falls. These three counties have a combined population of 153,558 as of the 2000 census, with Deschutes the largest of the three counties, having approximately four times the population of the other two counties combined. As of 2008, the most populous city in the region is Bend, with an estimated 80,995 residents. As defined by the three county definition, Central Oregon covers of land.
  http://wn.com/Central_Oregon
• Chip Shields
  Chip Shields (born 1959) is a Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate since appointment in September 2009. He previously represented District 43 in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2004 until appointment to replace Margaret Carter in Senate District 22.
  http://wn.com/Chip_Shields
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  CNBC
  CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
  http://wn.com/CNBC
• Columbia Gorge
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• Columbia River Gorge
  The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to deep, the canyon stretches for over as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range forming the boundary between the State of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. Extending roughly from the confluence of the Columbia with the Deschutes River down to eastern reaches of the Portland metropolitan area, the gorge furnishes the only navigable route through the Cascades and the only water connection between the Columbia River Plateau and the Pacific Ocean.
  http://wn.com/Columbia_River_Gorge
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  Corvallis, Oregon
  Corvallis () is a city located in central western Oregon, United States. It is the county seat of Benton County and the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. The population was estimated at 51,110 in 2008 by the United States Census Bureau, though other research supports the estimate of nearly 55,000 used by the city itself in 2008.
  http://wn.com/Corvallis_Oregon
• Diane Rosenbaum
  Diane M. Rosenbaum is an American politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 42 (Southeast Portland) from 1998 to 2009. She served as Speaker Pro Tempore. In the 2008 elections, she ran unopposed for the Oregon State Senate, replacing Senator Kate Brown, who was elected Secretary of State.
  http://wn.com/Diane_Rosenbaum
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  Eugene, Oregon
  Eugene () is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the county seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (86 km) east of the Oregon Coast.
  http://wn.com/Eugene_Oregon
• FBI
  http://wn.com/FBI
• Free Rail Zone
  The Free Rail Zone is an area within Portland, Oregon where all TriMet light rail and Portland Streetcar rides are zero-fare (free). It primarily consists of the downtown area and the Lloyd District. Established in 1975, it was known as Fareless Square until 2010, and until then had included free rides on buses as well as on trains. The Free Rail Zone is similar to downtown free-fare transit zones in Seattle (established in 1973), Pittsburgh (since 1985) and Salt Lake City (since 1985), except for the recent change limiting its coverage to rail services. That change makes the current zone similar to one in Calgary, Alberta, which applies only to light rail.
  http://wn.com/Free_Rail_Zone
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  Gresham, Oregon
  Gresham () is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States immediately east of Portland. It was named for the American Civil War general, and Postmaster General, Walter Quinton Gresham. The population was 90,205 at the 2000 census; in 2008, the Population Research Center estimated the city's population at 101,221. This makes Gresham the fourth largest city in Oregon.
  http://wn.com/Gresham_Oregon
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  Guadalajara, Jalisco
  Guadalajara () is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,579,174 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality. The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area includes seven adjacent municipalities with a reported population of 4,095,715 in 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Mexico, behind Mexico City. The municipality is the second most densely populated area in Mexico; the first being Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in Estado de México. The city's economy is based on industry, especially information technology with a large number of international firms having manufacturing facilities in the Guadalajara Metro Area. Other, more traditional industries, such as shoes, textiles and food processing are also important. Guadalajara is the cultural center of Mexico, considered by most to be the home of Mariachi music and host to a number of large-scale cultural events such as the International Film Festival of Guadalajara and the Guadalajara International Book Fair and a number of internationally renowned cultural events which draw international crowds. It is also home to the Chivas football/soccer team, one of the two most popular in Mexico.
  http://wn.com/Guadalajara_Jalisco
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  Hillsboro, Oregon
  Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to many high-technology (high-tech) companies, such as Intel, that comprise what has become known as the Silicon Forest. As of 2009, the city's estimated population was about 90,000.
  http://wn.com/Hillsboro_Oregon
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  Houston
  Houston () is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2009 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.3 million within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the metropolitan area—the metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of approximately 5.9 million.
  http://wn.com/Houston
• Intel
  http://wn.com/Intel
• Jackie Dingfelder
  Jackie Dingfelder is a Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate, representing District 23 (Northeast and Southeast Portland). She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives for 7 years.
  http://wn.com/Jackie_Dingfelder
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  Jackson, Mississippi
  Jackson, or Jackson City, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County (the town of Raymond is the other), but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin counties. During the 90s Jackson saw a decline in population while its suburbs boomed. Sometimes the city is credited with going through the stages the city of Atlanta went through 70s-90s with its suburbs. Jackson including its surrounding suburbs boast a strong economy as well as population. The 2000 census recorded Jackson's population at 184,256, but according to July 1, 2008 estimates, the city's population was 173,861 and its five-county Jackson metropolitan area had a population of 628,817. The Jackson-Yazoo City combined statistical area, consisting of the Jackson metropolitan area and Yazoo City micropolitan area, has a population of over 600,000, making it the 88th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
  http://wn.com/Jackson_Mississippi
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  Kaohsiung
  Kaohsiung (;old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a city located in southwestern Taiwan. It is enclosed by Kaohsiung County, and faces the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into eleven districts. The city is one of two special municipalities under administration of the Republic of China (also known as Taiwan), which grants it the same status as a province. By the end of 2010 the city will be merged with Kaohsiung County to form a larger municipality.
  http://wn.com/Kaohsiung
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  Khabarovsk
  Khabarovsk (, ) is the administrative center and the largest city of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some 30 km from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia in 2002. Population: 578,600 (2009);
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• Klickitat Street
  Klickitat Street is a city street located in northeast Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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  Lake Oswego, Oregon
  Lake Oswego () is a city located primarily in Clackamas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Small portions of the city are also located in neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. Located south of Portland surrounding the 405-acre (1.6 km²) Oswego Lake, the town was founded in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910. The city was the hub of Oregon's brief iron industry in the late 19th century and is today an affluent suburb of Portland. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 35,278. The 2006 estimate is 36,350 residents.
  http://wn.com/Lake_Oswego_Oregon
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  Las Vegas, Nevada
  :This article is about the city of Las Vegas, Nevada proper, not to be confused with the Las Vegas Strip or the Las Vegas metropolitan area. For other uses of "Las Vegas", see Las Vegas (disambiguation).
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  Lloyd Center
  Lloyd Center is a shopping mall in the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon, United States, just northeast of downtown. It is owned by Glimcher Realty Trust and anchored by Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Marshall's and JCPenney. The mall features three floors of shopping with the third level serving mostly as professional office spaces, a food court, U.S. Education Corporation's Apollo College, and an indoor Regal Cinemas multiplex. Another Regal Cinemas multiplex is located across the street. The mall includes the Lloyd Center Ice Rink where Olympian Tonya Harding first learned to skate.
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  Mutare
  Mutare (known as Umtali until 1982) is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.
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• Nike, Inc.
  Nike, Inc. () () is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area. It is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of $18.6 billion USD in its fiscal year 2008 (ending May 31, 2008). As of 2008, it employed more than 30,000 people worldwide. Nike and Precision Castparts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state of Oregon, according to The Oregonian.
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  Nordstrom
  Nordstrom, Inc. () is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings. The corporate headquarters and the flagship store are located in Downtown Seattle, Washington.
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  NW Natural
  NW Natural () is a publicly traded utility headquartered in Portland, Oregon, United States. Primarily a natural gas distributor, the company services residential, industrial, and commercial customers in Western Oregon and Southwest Washington in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1859, the company has over 660,000 customers and revenues in excess of one billion in US dollars annually. After Enron filed for bankruptcy, NW Natural attempted to purchase fellow Portland utility Portland General Electric (PGE) before various issues led to the abandonment of the deal.
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  Oregon
  Oregon ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern boundaries, respectively. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers, and settlers who formed an autonomous government in Oregon Country in 1843; the Oregon Territory was created in 1848, and Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Salem is the state's capital and third-most-populous city; Portland is the most populous. Portland is the 30th-largest U.S. city, with a population of 582,130 (2009 estimate) and a metro population of 2,241,841 (2009 estimate), the 23rd-largest U.S. metro area.
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  Oregon City, Oregon
  Oregon City was the first city in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated. It is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,754; the 2009 estimate has the population at 31,826.
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  Pioneer Place
  Pioneer Place is an upscale, urban shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. It consists of four blocks of retail, dining, parking, and an office tower named Pioneer Tower. The mall itself is spread out between four buildings, interconnected by skywalks or underground mall sections. The footprint of the entire complex consists of four full city blocks, bisected by SW Yamhill and Fourth, bounded north-south by SW Morrison and Taylor Streets and east-west by SW Third and Fifth Avenues.
  http://wn.com/Pioneer_Place
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  Portland Art Museum
  The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and 7th oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in the United States, at a total of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m²). The permanent collection has more than 42,000 works of art, and at least one major traveling exhibition is presented most of the time. The Portland Art Museum features a center for Native American art, a center for Northwest art, a center for modern and contemporary art, permanent exhibitions of Asian art, and an outdoor public sculpture garden. The Northwest Film Center is also a component of Portland Art Museum.
  http://wn.com/Portland_Art_Museum
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  Portland Building
  The Portland Building, alternatively known as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Built at a cost of $29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time. The building houses offices of the City of Portland.
  http://wn.com/Portland_Building
• Portland, Maine
  Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. It is considered Maine's cultural, social, and economic capital. The 2007 estimated city population was 62,875. Portland is the principal city of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, with a population of 513,102, which includes Cumberland, York, and Sagadahoc counties.
  http://wn.com/Portland_Maine
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  Reykjavík
  Reykjavík () is the capital and largest city of Iceland. Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay. With a population of around 120,000 (and over 200,000 in the Greater Reykjavík Area) it is the heart of Iceland's economic and governmental activity.
  http://wn.com/Reykjavík
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  Sauvie Island
  Sauvie Island, in the U.S. state of Oregon, originally Wapato Island or Wappatoo Island, is the largest island along the Columbia River, at 26,000 acres (105 km²). It lies approximately ten miles northwest of downtown Portland, between the Columbia River to the east, the Multnomah Channel to the west, and the Willamette River to the south. Much of the interior comprises water; Sturgeon Lake, in the north central part of the island, is the most prominent water feature. The land area is 84.82 km² (32.75 sq mi, or 20,959 acres). Most of the island is in Multnomah County, but the northern third belongs to Columbia County. The Sauvie Island Bridge provides access across the Multnomah Channel from U.S. Route 30.
  http://wn.com/Sauvie_Island
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  Seattle
  Seattle ( ) is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. , the city's population was approximately 617,000 within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.
  http://wn.com/Seattle
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  Silicon Valley
  Silicon Valley is in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, HP, Intel, Cisco, eBay, Adobe, Agilent, Oracle, Yahoo, Netflix, and EA. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for 1/3 of all of the venture capital investment in the United States. Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay.
  http://wn.com/Silicon_Valley
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  South Waterfront
  The South Waterfront is a high-rise district under construction on former brownfield industrial land in the South Portland neighborhood south of downtown Portland, Oregon, U.S. It is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the United States. It is connected to downtown Portland by an extension of the Portland Streetcar, and to the Oregon Health and Sciences University campus atop Marquam Hill by the Portland Aerial Tram, as well as roads to Interstate 5 and Oregon Route 43.
  http://wn.com/South_Waterfront
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  Southern Oregon
  Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon south of Lane County and generally west of the Cascade Range, excluding the southern Oregon Coast. Counties include Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, and Josephine. It includes the Southern Oregon American Viticultural Area, which consists of the Umpqua and Rogue River drainages. As of 2007, the population in the four counties is approx. 455,000.
  http://wn.com/Southern_Oregon
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  Suzhou
  Suzhou (; Suzhou dialect: ; ancient name: ) is a prefecture-level city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction. Since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Suzhou has also been an important centre for China's silk industry and continues to hold that prominent position today. The city is part of the Yangtze River Delta region.
  http://wn.com/Suzhou
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  Tallinn
  Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 411,196. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, west of Saint Petersburg.
  http://wn.com/Tallinn
• Tina Kotek
  Tina Kotek is an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, she serves as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. In the 2009–10 biennium, she serves as the House Majority Whip.
  http://wn.com/Tina_Kotek
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  Ulsan
  Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh largest metropolis with a population of over 1.1 million. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring Busan to the south and facing Gyeongju to the north and the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east.
  http://wn.com/Ulsan
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  Vancouver
  Vancouver () is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.
  http://wn.com/Vancouver
• Vancouver Mall
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  Willamette Valley
  The Willamette Valley ( ) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its emergence from mountains near Eugene to its confluence with the Columbia River at Portland. A small part of the Willamette Valley ecoregion is in southwestern Washington, around the city of Vancouver. Being a productive agricultural area, the valley was the destination of choice for the emigrants on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s. It has formed the cultural and political heart of Oregon since the days of the Oregon Territory, and is home to 70% of Oregon's population.
  http://wn.com/Willamette_Valley
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  Wilsonville, Oregon
  Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A portion of the northern section of the city is in Washington County. Originally founded as Boones Landing due to the Boones Ferry which crossed the Willamette River at the location, the community became Wilsonville in 1880. The city was incorporated in 1969 with a population of around 1,000. The population was 13,991 at the 2000 census, and as of 2008 was estimated to be 17,940. Slightly more than 90% of residents at the 2000 census were White, with Hispanics as the largest minority group.
  http://wn.com/Wilsonville_Oregon

• Adidas
• Alan Webb (athlete)
• Albina, Oregon
• Alpenrose Velodrome
• alternative weekly
• Amanda Fritz
• Amtrak
• Amtrak Cascades
• anti-racist
• Asa Lovejoy
• Ashkelon
• Astoria, Oregon
• auditor
• barley
• Beaverton, Oregon
• Ben Cannon
• Bend, Oregon
• Beverly Cleary
• bicycle-friendly
• Blitzen Trapper
• Boise, Idaho
• Bologna
• Boora Architects
• Boring Lava Field
• Brian Michael Bendis
• Bridgeport Village
• British Columbia
• Bull Run Watershed
• Burnside Skatepark
• Canada
• Car sharing
• Cedar Mill, Oregon
• Central Oregon
• CH2M HILL
• Chinook people
• Chip Shields
• Chris Solinsky
• Chuck Palahniuk
• climate
• CNBC
• Coast Starlight
• coin toss
• Cologne
• Columbia Gorge
• Columbia River
• Columbia River Gorge
• Columbia Slough
• Columbia Sportswear
• Commuter town
• confluence
• consumer goods
• Coraline
• Corvallis, Oregon
• county seat
• Courtney Love
• Critical Mass
• Cross Crusade
• cyclocross
• Dan Saltzman
• Dan Steffan
• Dark Horse Comics
• David Wu
• Demonym
• Diane Rosenbaum
• Don Miller (author)
• Downtown Portland
• dragon boat
• Earl Blumenauer
• Earthsea
• eco-friendly
• Elliott Smith
• Empire Builder
• erotic massage
• ESCO Corporation
• Ethiopian
• Eugene, Oregon
• Everclear (band)
• Evraz Group
• Farel Dalrymple
• FBI
• Feast of Love
• Fight Club (novel)
• FLIR Systems
• Food Network Awards
• Forbes magazine
• Fort Vancouver
• Fortune 500
• Free Rail Zone
• Freightliner Trucks
• Gabriel Skatepark
• gentrification
• Good Will Hunting
• Gresham, Oregon
• Grist (magazine)
• Guadalajara, Jalisco
• Gus Van Sant
• Hainish Cycle
• Harbor Drive
• Hawthorne Bridge
• heatwave
• Henry Huggins
• Henry Weinhard
• Hi-Tec Sports
• Hillsboro, Oregon
• Hole (band)
• Hood to Coast
• hop (plant)
• Houston
• Hoyt Arboretum
• IMAX
• indie music
• Indymedia
• Integra Telecom
• Intel
• interstate highway
• Jackie Dingfelder
• Jackson, Mississippi
• Jeff Merkley
• John Charles Olmsted
• Jules Bailey
• Just Out
• Kaohsiung
• KEEN, Inc.
• Keep Portland Weird
• Khabarovsk
• Klickitat Street
• KOIN Center
• Ku Klux Klan
• Kurt Cobain
• Kurt Schrader
• Lake Oswego, Oregon
• land use
• Land use forecasting
• land use planning
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Leatherman
• Leverage (TV series)
• Lew Frederick
• LGBT
• Li Ning (company)
• Liberty Ship
• Life Unexpected
• light rail
• Lloyd Center
• Lloyd District
• log cabin
• Louie Louie
• Louisiana-Pacific
• Lovecraft
• Lucy Activewear
• Macy's
• Major League Soccer
• Marine west coast
• Matt Groening
• MAX Light Rail
• MAX Yellow Line
• McMenamins
• metonym
• Michael Dembrow
• microbrewery
• microdistillery
• Milk (film)
• Mill Ends Park
• Miracle Theatre
• Modest Mouse
• Mount Hood
• Mount Saint Helens
• Move, Inc.
• Move.com
• Mt. Hood
• Multnomah County
• Multnomah people
• Mulugeta Seraw
• Mutare
• NCAA Division III
• Neil Goldschmidt
• New York Times
• Nick Fish
• Nike Oregon Project
• Nike, Inc.
• Nirvana (band)
• Nordstrom
• North Park Blocks
• NPR
• NW Natural
• Oceanic climate
• Off Broadway
• Off-Off-Broadway
• Oni Press
• Oregon
• Oregon City, Oregon
• Oregon Constitution
• Oregon State Parks
• Oregon State Senate
• Oregon Steel Mills
• Oregon Supreme Court
• Oregon Symphony
• Oregon Zoo
• Orsinian Tales
• Pacific Northwest
• PacifiCorp
• Paranoid Park (film)
• Pearl District
• personal freedom
• Pink Martini
• Pioneer Place
• political system
• Popular Science
• Portland Aerial Tram
• Portland Alliance
• Portland Art Museum
• Portland Building
• Portland Marathon
• Portland Monthly
• Portland Opera
• Portland Penny
• Portland Rosebuds
• Portland Streetcar
• Portland Timbers
• Portland Tribune
• Portland, Maine
• Portlandia
• quarter (U.S. coin)
• rainbow trout
• Ramona Quimby
• Randy Leonard
• redlining
• Reed College
• Rentrak
• Reykjavík
• Ribsy
• Rod Monroe
• Ron Wyden
• rose
• rose garden
• sagittaria
• Sally Struthers
• Sam Elliott
• same-sex marriage
• Sapporo
• satellite city
• Satyricon nightclub
• Sauvie Island
• Seattle
• Shalane Flanagan
• Silicon Forest
• Silicon Valley
• sister cities
• skatepark
• Skidmore Fountain
• Sleater-Kinney
• South Park Blocks
• South Waterfront
• Southern Oregon
• Stark Raving Theatre
• State v. Henry
• Street Roots
• Stumptown
• Suzhou
• Tallinn
• Tears of Joy Theatre
• The Bee (Portland)
• The Dandy Warhols
• The Decemberists
• The Huffington Post
• The Kingsmen
• The Oregonian
• The Portland Mercury
• The Portland Tribune
• The Shins
• Timberline Lodge
• TIME Magazine
• Tina Kotek
• Tom McCall
• Travel + Leisure
• Travis Knight
• TriMet
• Tualatin Mountains
• Tualatin Plains
• Tualatin Valley
• Twilight (2008 film)
• U Car Share
• U.S. Bank
• UCLA School of Law
• Ulsan
• Uniform Crime Report
• Untraceable
• urban bicycling
• urban renewal
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• USGS
• Vancouver
• Vancouver Mall
• Vanport City, Oregon
• Vanport, Oregon
• Vestas
• Walk Score
• Walter M. Pierce
• Ward Cunningham
• Wendy and Lucy
• Western Star Trucks
• white people
• Wieden+Kennedy
• wiki
• Will Vinton
• Willamette River
• Willamette Valley
• Willamette Week
• Wilsonville, Oregon
• Yelp.com
• ZGF Architects LLP
• Zidell Companies
• ZIP code
• Zipcar

Janus, Portland Filmography

• The Planeteer (2010)

• Black and White Photos of You
• The Last Ever
• Sleestack
• Tactics Of
• Fidalgo
• Van Houten
• Sift
• Van Houten (Somatic Responses remix)

• Laerned
• Ocacsax
• Canejo Place
• Close the Lights
• Screetch Mariners
• Ten Sky
• 1517 Stone Edge Circle
• 8th Charter
• Uprox Detox

• Cind
• I'm Not Like Me
• Prdedder
• Cale
• The Enemy of Flies
• Watching Her
• Arod
• Duce Duce
• Look at Her (album version)
• Piller
• Security 81
• Put It Together
• Anything
• TBLRBL
• Carpet Jargon 03
• Sixela

• Don't Hate Me for Succes
• This Is Our Song
• It Should Not Have Happened
• Lucky Ones
• Sister of Dark
• Let Me Get What I Want
• These Words
• I Feel So Wrong
• I Started Something
• We Will Find Love
• You & Me