BTA wants to hear from riders AND non-riders, so have at it.
Act soon – it’s anyone’s guess how long the Survey will be kept up on the website.
1) Portland Tribune story: Group seeks opinions on region’s bike issues: Bicycle Transportation Alliance conducting online survey, The Portland Tribune, Aug 4, 2009
It is not unusual for someone to think it is easy to find a dissertation or thesis: sometimes it is, and sometimes not. “The Internet Tubes” have made the search a little easier than in the past, but “they” (the Internets, that is) have complicated it in a few other ways, namely, if the document is not in the Usual (i.e. Old Days) Repositories For Such Things, the world of places one has to search for another repository has expanded exponentially. The upsides are that you may be more likely to find what you are looking for AND you will find some other very interesting titles while you search.
1) Check with your local reference librarians (most have some kind of online reference so you don’t even have to get up or break a sweat).
2) Subscription databases (check also with your local libraries)
a) Dissertation Abstracts Online (Dialog)
b) ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing (and see their sidebar about searching Google for dissertations)
3)Miscellaneous
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (and here) started July 1, 2009. There is more information, and links, at this Law School Academic News blog post. (Note: the program is not just for law students.)
This is a very new program and I recommend you run a search for the most up-to-date information. The following Google searches will bring up dot gov or dot edu sites, which are the best place to begin for very new educational benefit program information. You can also check with your financial aid office, if you are still a student.
Search string: Public Service Loan Forgiveness program site:.gov
Or,
Search string: Public Service Loan Forgiveness program site:.edu
The tips at this post, 20 Tips to Manage your Online Social Life, which I linked to from iLibrarian, piqued my curiosity. They may pique yours too – or not.
For me, it’s not so much my “social life” that needs managing. I can do that perfectly well or at least to my own satisfaction. It’s the work-related networks that start to feel overwhelming.
Mind Mapping isn’t new, but it has taken me a while to absorb its usefulness and adapt it. Password control is a necessity, but the right method eludes me still. These tips may not be exactly right for you, but they will keep your Organization-Maven Juices flowing in the right direction. Twenty tips are a bit much; I like new ideas in small bites, e.g. 3-4 tips at a time, max. But I can manage 🙂
If you have surgery in your future, don’t think about lawyers and medical malpractice if something goes wrong … think preventive, preemptive action, that is, BEFORE something goes wrong.
Oregon’s Patient Safety Commission has a Surgical Safety Checklist webpage.
You can also contact the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners, which regulates the practice of medicine in Oregon, to ask about your doctor or surgeon.
Journalists have ethical codes and so do librarians and lawyers. (Librarians also have a intellectual freedom codes, which might answer some of your question about why we can be so pigheaded).
Do Bloggers Share an Ethical Code?, posted at attorney Donald Vanarelli’s blog, is worth reading:
Excerpt: “According to a recent study published in the June 2009 edition of the New Media & Society journal entitled doing-the-right-thing-online-a-survey-of-bloggers-beliefs-and-practices, bloggers share a group of ethical principals. This first large-scale survey of blogging ethics identified four underlying ethical principles important to bloggers: truth telling, accountability, minimizing harm and attribution...” (link to full post)
Just as there are some lotteries you don’t want to win (e.g. airplane crashes), there are also some cheats who aren’t really cheats – not the bad kind, at least.
Ever wonder how good public speakers seem to talk without notes? While some really can, others have tricks. I love these simple ones – and am sure we can think up others:
A May 2009 It’s Only Money column at Oregonlive ran an interesting set of stories on health care advocates and on how to challenge health care bills. The article included lots of self-help tips and links.
Health care advocates can, among other things, scrutinize your medical bills for errors the same way legal billing auditors do (though mostly for clients with the money to pay to have their bills scrutinized). The average person isn’t as likely to wrack up huge legal bills the way the average person can wrack up huge medical bills, so do some research before you call in the lawyers.
Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) also has a brochure on Unpaid Consumer Debt (click on Consumer).
It’s a new month and the funniest judge in the country is still on the bench and online:
Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns in July 2009 with his not to be missed Criminal Waste of Space column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:
“A Ticket to Walk: Beds takes a look at prison administration“
If you are a simple soul, and only infrequently need more from your search engine than a blunt keyword search (Oregon legal research, for example), iLibrarian links to this post: 100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know.
I especially liked the list of E-Book & PDF Search Engines. These are good complements to a Google’s filetype search. And, sometimes you just need more than one search engine. The Google search is a bit more useful in that the size of the publication can be seen more quickly, and you can choose to view the document in HMTL, as an alternative to the PDF. But these others search engines have their own strengths and you don’t have to be a Super Searcher to make good use of them.
Oregon Legal Research Blog