Daylight Savings Time: the new Hot Topic everywhere I go – and no one has a clue. So here you are:
Your clock will (but you may have to make it) fall BACK one hour at 2 a.m., Sunday, November 4th, 2007. For more information Go Navy!
(Thanks to the excellent Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter for the reminder and the link.)
The Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Security (DFCS) has a lot of useful information at their web site, including information now on:
1) the 2007 Identity Theft law that allows you to place a security freeze on your credit file:
Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act (2007 SB 583). More on this new law from Julie Tripp at Oregonlive.
and
A new Bedsworth, oh my!
Read an excerpt (if you dare):
China, of all places, is giving new meaning – and new laws – to the term “born again.”
(PARTS ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE)
“Book thievery is the one crime of which people do not seem to mind being suspected.” (“Miss Manners Basic Training: The Right Thing to Say,” by Judith Martin, Crown Publishers, 1998, p. 47.)
As the author of “The Book Thief” laments, it is very hard to get law enforcement to care about missing books. Who cares if the books are national treasures, worth more than any single painting in an art museum, the only surviving record of a two-thousand year old culture, or simply a paperback book purchased with public money for the enjoyment of hundreds for the next couple of years? Most law enforcement personnel, from police to prosecutors to judges, even those who are literate and even literary seem to find book theft somewhat more important than the theft of one’s recycling from curbside and somewhat less important than the theft of someone’s front garden pink flamingo. Stolen pink flamingos make the news, but not stolen books, unless there are lots of them and there is someone to blame, usually not the thief. It is one kind of several types of crimes where the victim is deemed more to blame than the thief. (For example, library and book store security system managers often get more of the blame than the thief.)
Newspaper websites getting into the public records $$ business?
Excerpt from From PI Buzz:
“It had to happen. Newspapers that publish public records databases have been attracting more viewers to their sites. I don’t know if this translates into subscribers or other ways papers make money, but the Memphis Daily News is taking the direct approach, selling access to Tennessee public records. The paper has partnered with the Chandler Reports, which sells property profiles and business filings. There are no free searches, although they do the usual gimmick of presenting search fields but then require a fee to see any results.”
Oregon Legal Research Blog