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    DRAFT Meeting Agenda MEETING TITLE: Project Sponsors Council DATE: Friday‚ January 22‚ 2010 TIME: 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. LOCATION: Washington State Department of Transportation‚ SW Region 11018 NE 51st Circle‚ Vancouver‚ Washington 98662 TIME 10:00 a.m. AGENDA TOPIC Welcome Approve Dec. 4‚ 2009 Meeting Summary 10:05 a.m. Conceptual Finance Plan Overview and Discussion 10:25 a.m. Tolling Study Committee Findings 10:55 a.m. Break 11:10 a.m. Performance Measures Advisory Group Report

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    into the marriage in the hope that everything will go as planned‚ and that they will always get along‚ especially in the field of responsibilities division between both spouses. Eric Bartels‚ a feature writer for the Portland Tribune in Portland‚ Oregon‚ in his article “My Problem with Her Anger”‚ seems to encounter a huge trouble when his wife seems to never feel happy with anything he did. Bartels explains what it feels like to be “on the receiving end of his wife’s anger”. He was trying to help

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    motion by Manifest Destiny. The war ended with an American victory gave us a treaty that increased the nation’s size by more than five hundred thousand square miles. The subsequent diplomatic settlement of a controversy over the boundaries of the Oregon Territory added another quarter million square

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    such as "The Whole of Oregon or None!" and "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"‚ referring to the northern border of the region. (The latter slogan is often mistakenly described as having been a part of the 1844 presidential campaign.) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement‚ the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846‚ keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States‚ and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846‚ which

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    destiny also be-came known as not only expanding the territory‚ but also the institution of slavery. President John Quincy Adams believed so much in manifest destiny that he orchestrated the Treaty of 1818‚ provided for the joint occupation of the Oregon Country. He negotiated the Transcontinental Treaty in 1819‚ purchasing Florida from Spain and extending the U.S. border with Spanish Mexico all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And he formulated the Monroe Doctrine‚ which warned Europe that the Western Hemisphere

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    fostering about Role of media (Jon Oliver clip) The problem of climate change is not whether it exists‚ but instead what action we should take George Monbiot‚ Heat (2006) “The Denial Industry” The Global Warming Petition Project‚ also known as the Oregon Petition; Frederick Seitz A 12-page review article about the human-caused global warming hypothesis is circulated with the petition. To view the entire article in National academy of Science wrote an open letter stating its “concern about the confusion

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    Manifest Destiny was a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquisitions. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good‚ but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). It was originally a political catch phrase or slogan used by Democrats in the 1845-1855 period‚ and rejected by Whigs and Republicans

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    medication to aid in a quicker less painful death of the terminally ill patients. In the early 1900’s a group of Oregonians joined together to create a law allowing terminally ill patients a right to their end of life care. 3 of these bills started in Oregon but didn’t go much further than just that. In November

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    With Antebellum America followed a desire for Manifest Destiny. The people soon wanted to own all of the land in the country and began moving west. While this westward movement seemed euphoric for the Americans‚ advertised nearly as a getaway from the already crowded east‚ such a feeling did not exist for the Indians. Manifest Destiny was an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others due to the facts that it was made out to be an expansion prearranged by Heaven when it simply was the

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    into the trans-Mississippi West in order to obtain defined boundaries with Canada and Mexico; moreover‚ they went westward to acquire the western edge of the continent. Commercial goals fueled early interest as traders firs sought beaver skins in Oregon territory as early as 1811 and then bison robes prepared by the Plains tribes in the area around the upper Missouri River and its tributaries. Many of the men in the fur business married Indian women‚ thereby making valuable connections with Indian

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