I still run into people (parents! yikes!) who say,”what peanut paste (or butter) recall?” Duh.
** FDA website and here and here.
** CDC website and here and here.
Maybe we still need paper boys (and girls) running through the streets shouting out headlines: PEANUT PASTE RECALL! READ ALL ABOUT IT! DON’T EAT YOUR PEANUT PASTE!
For your inner-detective/sleuth … bet you didn’t know this could be a career – and maybe a darned interesting one for some!
Metro’s Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol
“Metro’s RID Patrol tackles the problem of illegal dumping in multiple ways: cleaning up dump sites, investigating evidence found at the dump sites, issuing citations to the guilty parties, investigating haulers that are illegally dumping and working with communities that need education and help to reduce dumping in their neighborhood.
As President Obama has said, “… there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.” (Inaugural Address, 1/20/09) …
My view (below) is from the perspective of a law librarian and of someone who hires lawyers, so think of me as a Super (and maybe very annoying) Client, but who also talks to hundreds of people who are trying to find the right lawyer:
Two things lawyers who want to make a living (as lawyers) should never say, but that I hear said every day:
It should and you can always refuse to do business with them if they don’t (and put it in writing, please). But that’s too easy. There needs to be legislation requiring them to do this!
For a public policy wonk there are few things more fun than watching the Bills Go By. Visit the Oregon Legislature’s web pages to all sorts of bill searching options. Then you can track its path through Committees, Committee hearings, reports (e.g. these), floor votes, and maybe even a Governor’s signature.
Here’s a bill on requiring car repair estimates: 2009 HB 2268
I’m thinking about adding Popular Mechanics website to my list of places to visit weekly.
Interesting, and well written, stuff. Take a look:
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, “Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far“
Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #14 (Article IV, Legislative Department, Sections 2-6, copied from this version at the Oregon Legislature’s website)
ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
… (previous sections found in this Small Bite)
The stories (e.g. here and here) we’ve been reading recently about the surgical checklist from the World Health Organization (their Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge) have some of us wondering why all surgical teams aren’t required to use them.
Even under the extreme emergency of “birds in engines,” the pilots of that plane that landed in the Hudson pulled out their own checklist.
It also has us wondering if we can’t just take the Checklist into the operating room with us and insist that the hospital staff use it and sign off on it (a big X marking the place where the knife is supposed to be inserted wouldn’t hurt either, so to speak).
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to Project Gutenberg, this article will be helpful (and fun to read if you like creating UGC (user generated content)):
U-Content: Project Gutenberg, Me, and You, by Nicholas Tomaiuolo
And it includes an interview with Michael Hart, one of the original open sourcers (or maybe I should say sorcerers, since it is really is magic).
From iLibrarian, link to the 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic story.
I was reading the September 2008 Consumer Reports and their story, “ID Leaks: A Surprising Source is Your Government at Work,” reminded me that I wanted to post about their Consumer’s Union “How to Protect Yourself” guide, their Financial Privacy Now website.
(And don’t forget to check out their blog.)
This is nothing new for a lot of you, but it doesn’t hurt to include the information on this blog too:
