More than you might want to know about “today“: What happened on a particular day, LibrarySpot
Feature story about something that happened “today in history“: Today in History, American Memory, Library of Congress
“This position is responsible for the opening and closing of the movable draw spans of the Hawthorne, Morrison, Broadway and Burnside Bridges.”
Visit the Multnomah County Job Opportunities website.
“Job Code: 6059-11
News from Oregon Legal Research Central:
1) We now have a Tag Cloud at the blog (right side, scroll down). Let me know if it works for you or if there is another way you like to find subject-specific blog posts, which leads to the second change ….
2) We’ve also changed the Comment functionality so people can Comment without having to log in. Yay! I hadn’t realized that logging in was necessary and once I found out I went to our fab-host, Justia, to fix the problem. They did so promptly! (And thank you also to our reader who emailed us directly when she realized the log-in/privacy problem – and the disincentive to Commenting it presented.)
Two Gems of the week:
1) This “Dressing for TV” advice list is useful and hilarious. You will never watch people on the screen the same way again.
2) Ask the Past: Advice from Old Books (Hat tip to Rare Book Room blog for the link to Ask the Past and How to Bust a Move)
Kids might be the ones to ask, but we all want to know!
Read about the Twin Bucket Toilet system at PHLUSH. (Thank you to the Washington County Health and Human Services folks for their Buzz Newsletter PHLUSH story (on page 2).)
And if you want the lighter side of Disaster Preparedness, watch this 90 second very funny American Red Cross video: The Kit You Don’t Want To Have
1) For documents cited in Oregon court filings I recommend starting with the free, official, and online OJD Appellate Court Style Manual.
You can link to that PDF, but I prefer going through the live OJD Publications website to make sure I have the most current version (the print/PDF Style Manual says 2002, but it has been updated since then).
2) You sometimes, though rarely, need the Bluebook (Harvard et al). The Oregon Appellate Court Style Manual will tell you when you need to go to Bluebook.
If you’ve not read about the Beatitudes Campus model of care for people with dementia, this New Yorker magazine article will change how you look at (and feel about) aging and caregiving:
The Sense Of An Ending: An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia,” by Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, May 20, 2013.
If you can’t find the whole article on a free website, check your public library for the print or for a copy from one of their news and articles databases. (Or ask a friend with a New Yorker subscription for their cast-off May 20th issue.) (Or borrow mine.)
The 7/30/13 ABA Journal reports: “Ralph Nader plans tort law museum,” article by Debra Cassens Weiss
The museum’s location is currently set for Winsted, Connecticut (so you won’t need to decide between a visit to rockets and spies while in D.C. or stamps and tort law – whew).
A free e-Book: 60+ Ways to Get Rid of Your Student Loans (Without Paying Them) (From SALT.)
More about this e-Book:
A NYT article I read last weekend tipped me off to this Amazon price tracker: Camel Camel Camel
Use these search words to find other product and service price trackers: Online Price Trackers
It’s nice when other people and bots do the drudge work for us. But make sure you’re not being sold a different bill of goods under the guise of “we save you time and money.”
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