If you’ve been following the news, you will have heard that people with first aid and other types of lay or professional medical training can be lifesavers during, and after, disasters.
So, if you want to “do something” after a disaster, take a Red Cross First Aid Class!
Take along friends, your book group, your family, your softball league, etc., and plan a celebration in honor of your new life-saving skills.
Looking for a place to host a meeting in Oregon that enables participation by those who can’t attend in person?
Check out this recently updated guide on publicly-accessible sites that make videoconferencing equipment available to users. Please note that most require a reservation, and some locations charge for the service.
We admit the list is not as expansive as we’d like; please let us know about places we’ve missed and we’ll gladly include them!
An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed in 1923:
“Freedom from legal sex discrimination, Alice Paul believed, required an Equal Rights Amendment that affirmed the equal application of the Constitution to all citizens. In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention, she introduced the “Lucretia Mott Amendment,” which read: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” The amendment was introduced in every session of Congress until it passed in reworded form in 1972….” [Link to more from ERA History at Equal Rights Amendment dot org.]
Wikipedia Equal Rights Amendment
[And there is a very funny Pro-Con ERA West Wing fast-talk segment you can read in "The West Wing Script Book : [six Teleplays],” by Sorkin, Aaron, 2002 and maybe at the WestWingTranscripts website.]
Are you ready to Spring Forward in Oregon? March 10th is the Day the Clocks Change.
If you want to know why you have to Spring Forward (and if not, risk missing a lot of meals and time checks), read our Fall Back blog post from October 2012.
HOW you count words matters when word-counts matter.
The Legal Skills Prof Blog 1/29/13 post: Different Computer Systems Give Different Word Counts
Excerpt:
“Phrasal adjectives: Is “summary-judgment motion” two words or three?
Legal citations: Is “S.W.3d” one word or two?
Numerals: Does a pinpoint cite to a span of pages (e.g., “123-25″) count as one word or two?….” [Link to full blog post.]
State Courts and Oregon State Government offices will be closed on Friday, January 18, 2013, and Friday, April 19, 2013, and Friday, May 24, 2013.
Lawyers, law firms, and law libraries have historically shared books with each other. We now have some important eBook purchsing, borrowing, lending, and licensing issues to catch up on.
This will cost time and money to learn, prepare, monitor, and audit.
At the very least you will need the right eReader, the right App, and the right license.
(You will also need to accept the fact that each of those will change next week, and the week after, and the week after that.)
Bar associations may have useful information for their members in the form of online publications or training programs.
In the professional law librarian community, the AALL Consumer Advocacy Caucus and the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) work hard to keep law librarians ahead of the eBook curve and to remind legal publishers about good business practices. Publishing is a tough business. (See the Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers.)
So, before you toss out that pBook and purchase that eBook, there is much to consider, so make sure you read those eLicenses and consider these issues:
An awful lot of people have a hard time saying “no, thank you.”
Unless you have a burning desire to be scammed, I recommend you practice, practice, practice.
If you want another really good reason for saying, “no, thank you,” here’s a story for you, from the 11/6/12, Law for Real People Blog:Every Season is “Attempt to Scam the Elderly Season”
If you need more practice saying “no, thank you,” try this simple exercise on a busy downtown street:
Put your hands in your pockets and KEEP THEM THERE when someone tries to hand you a flyer:
With your hands in your pockets, look at the flyer (or not, if you really don’t want to be delayed). If you don’t want the flyer say “No, thank you,” and keep walking. No pain, no time wasted, no trash to throw away. And your hands stay warm and out of harm’s way. Smiling doesn’t hurt, either.
You can use this direct, courteous, but firm method anytime someone tries to engage you, bother you, interrupt your private time and thoughts, delay you, etc.
NO, THANK YOU.
But you do have my permission when solicited on a dark, windy, rainy, busy street, when both your hands are full of bags to say with great exasperation, “are you kidding me?!” Some people just have no common sense, judgment, or an ounce of grace to them and it’s best to get away as quickly as possible. They aren’t even worth “teachable moment” time.
Portland Metro Areas Elevations (from NOAA, NWSFO)
For a bird’s eye view of the country, try the USGS maps:
Elevations and Distances in the United States and other USGS data.
But (Arthur Clarke’s 2001, a Space Odysey) HAL may still be your friend. Read on:
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites, Dec. 17, 2012, blog post:
The WordRake Editing Program Takes on Scalia, Kagen and El Pollo Loco
