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Today’s Official Statistics: U.S. Department of Defense Casualty News Releases
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Casualties of American Wars
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Participate in Oregon Government Portal (Website) Survey
Oregon dot gov website designers and content writers are updating the portal. They want your input:
A link to the Survey is available at the Oregon dot gov homepage, under this heading (as of today): “Help us improve the Oregon.gov state portal!”
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Oregon 2013-14 Blue Book Cover Photo Contest
Jack Ohman wants to kickstart the Oregon Secretary of State’s Blue Book Cover Photo Contest (and don’t we all follow the journey of OR7, the wolf formerly known as OR-7!)
Photo Contest Open for 2013-14 Oregon Blue Book
“Amateur photographers may submit photos for the front and back cover
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Legal Aspects of Cohousing, Ecovillages, Barter Economies, and More: for Oregon Attorneys and Entrepreneurs
“Community-members, attorneys, and entrepreneurs may attend a two-day workshop examining legal strategies for the creation of sustainable, localized and sharing economies. This workshop will look at some of the key ingredients of the transition to a new economy, including:
- Cooperatives
- Community-owned enterprises
- Social enterprise
- Local currencies
- Barter economies
- Ecovillages
- Cohousing
- Local investing
- Car sharing
- Urban agriculture
- Cottage-scale industries
…. The two-day workshop will address legal questions that arise in efforts to build more sustainable economies, including those relating to entity formation and structure, securities laws, employment laws, tax laws, real estate law, zoning laws, risk management, and regulation of commercial activity.
…. Among other things, participants will gain tools and understandings helpful in forming and structuring organizations, making contracts and agreements, raising capital for community-owned enterprises, and navigating the vast and interesting world of legal regulation…”
Presented by Attorney Janelle Orsi (Director, Sustainable Economies Law Center), with Portland Attorney Ashlee Albies.
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Beyond Google: Research Resource Guides for the Expert Searcher, Librarian, and Teacher
Take your research skills to the limit:
1) Read “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet: Conducting Effective Investigative & Legal Research on the Internet” 12th edition (as of 8/12)
2) Read: “Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012,” by Sabrina I. Pacifici, Published on July 14, 2012:
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Which Creative Commons License Do You Need?
Creative Commons has a new “license chooser“ that walks you through the process of selecting the right Creative Commons license.
While Creative Commons licenses aren’t just for students and teachers, this article from the School Library Journal highlights a copyright “teachable moment” opportunity for you and your children.
Excerpt: New Creative Commons license chooser (Posted by joycevalenza on August 5th, 2012)
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West (and Westlaw) vs. Lexis Headnotes (Human vs. Machine)
Lawyers and other legal researchers rely on the West Key Number system and the Lexis equivalent headnote system to find relevant case law.
If you want to know how these indexing systems work “behind the scenes,” here’s an article for you:
“The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis,” by Susan Nevelow Mart and Jeffrey Luftig.
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History of Undercover Reporting (new database)
“New Reference Resource: NYU Launches History of Undercover Reporting Database,” filed by Gary Price, InfoDocket, on August 6, 2012:
“New York University has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. The archive, “Undercover Reporting,” includes an array of stories, ranging from the slave trade in 1850s to efforts to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in the U.S. in the late 1930s to treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the 21st century….” [Link to InfoDocket blog post.]
Link to Undercover reporting dot org.
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Internet Access: Who has it, Who doesn’t (Pew Report)
While looking for internet access statistics, we came across this:
Pew Report: Digital differences: Internet adoption over time (April 13, 2012):
“Home broadband demographics: % of american adults age 18+ who have a high-speed broadband connection, as of August 2011“
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How the U.S. Manages Domain Names Gone Wild
Let this be a lesson for us all:
US Executive Branch Closure Crawl (from Free Government Information (FGI))
Toddle over to Federal Government Blogs for more websites.