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RAIN 06/13: Paper Fingerprints?



Urls have not been tested so good luck

Nando Times 6/12/00
Government to pay $18 million to Nixon estate for seized papers, tapes
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/nation/story/0,4455,500215170-500304538-50
1688566-0,00.html

by Deb Riechmann
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (June 12, 2000 8:10 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The 
Justice Department has agreed to compensate President Nixon's estate $18 
million for thousands of secretly recorded tapes and presidential papers 
seized upon Nixon's resignation in 1974. The payment is a fraction of what 
Nixon's estate sought - but far more than the government initially offered. 


Nando Times 6/12/00
Nuclear secrets missing from Los Alamos lab
http://www.nandotimes.com/front/story/0,1108,500215124-500304458-501687977-0,0
0.html

by H. Josef Herbert 
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (June 12, 2000 5:31 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Nuclear 
secrets stored on computers and locked away in a vault at the Los Alamos 
National Laboratory have disappeared, prompting a top-level investigation, 
laboratory and Energy Department officials disclosed Monday. 
Officials learned of the missing secrets and other sensitive material on June 
1 and have not ruled out the possibility that the disappearance of the data 
is related to the forest fire that threatened the lab and forced its 
evacuation last month. 


Cincinnati Enquirer 6/12/00
Preserving city’s broadcast history seems left to us
http://enquirer.com/columns/kiese/2000/06/12/jki_preserving_citys.html

by John Kiesewetter
I guess we'll have to do it ourselves. Sad to say, nobody seems very 
interested in preserving Cincinnati's rich broadcasting heritage. 
The debt-plagued Cincinnati Museum Center no longer has a full-time 
broadcasting archivist. 
TV producer Jim Friedman has abandoned his ambitious First 50 Productions 
Inc., a nonprofit organization to document and save the first 50 years 
(1948-98) of Cincinnati TV history. 
The Cincinnati Broadcast Hall of Fame, launched 10 years ago this month by 
the Cincinnati Historical Society, hasn't inducted anyone since 1993. 


Salt Lake Tribune 6/12/00
Online signatures pose notary challenge
http://www.sltrib.com/06122000/business/57766.htm

by Steven Oberbeck
Millions of Americans someday may conduct most, if not all, of their personal 
business online. 
And that may mean those neat metal embossing stamps used by notaries public 
could go the way of manual typewriters and slide rules. 
While some Utah notaries abandoned their embossing stamps years ago, others 
stick to tradition, using both rubber and metal to indicate signatures on 
documents are authentic. 
The Internet may change even that. 



Orange County Register 6/11/00
Safe-deposit boxes protect vital records from disaster
Families in earthquake, flood and hurricane zones urged to store documents 
out of harm’s way
http://www.ocregister.com/business/stashcci.shtml

by Eileen Alt Powell
Associated Press
Nobody likes to think about it, but homes do burn down, get swept away by 
floods, blown away by hurricanes and destroyed by earthquakes. 
With those disasters can come the added aggravation of losing important and 
often hard-to-replace documents. 
To avoid a double disaster, experts recommend, families should keep records 
such as birth certificates, property deeds, insurance policies and even 
precious photographs in a safe-deposit box. 


Deseret News 6/8/00
Utah company’s technology puts notaries online
Arcanvs develops digital signatures for e-documents
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175010386,00.html?

by Lois M. Collins
As increasing numbers of people use the Internet to conduct business, the 
industry's challenge is how to protect the integrity of electronic documents.
That's a problem Salt Lake-based Arcanvs believes it has solved with the 
introduction of digital notarization. Utahns got a sneak peek Wednesday of 
the technology, which will be formally introduced next week in Las Vegas at a 
convention of the National Notary Association.



Dallas Observer 6/8/00
A puff of smoke
Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-06-08/stuff.html

by Robert Wilonsky
His name appears in almost every book written about Groucho Marx, so much so, 
he has been given the appropriate appellation by members of the Marx family: 
Wesso. But Paul Wesolowski is of no relation to the famous clan. He's a man 
in his 40s who lives outside Philadelphia and, several times a month, works 
with children who suffer from emotional problems as the result of abuse or 
neglect--hardly the stuff of which laughter is made. He knows Groucho, Harpo, 
Chico, and Zeppo only from a black-and-white distance--from the 
late-late-show screenings of Animal Crackers and Monkey Business and Duck 
Soup that popped up on the television screen during his childhood. He adored 
the brothers the first moment he saw them, falling in love with Groucho's way 
with words and Harpo's way without them. A child of the 1970s became 
instantly enamored of these purveyors of anarchy who were stars and failures 
and stars again decades before he was born. And long ago, the fan became the 
expert. 


New York Times 6/11/00
Words to Live by
#19: The document that can’t be forged
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000611mag-document.html

by Alan Burick
When Joshua Smith looks at a piece of paper very, very closely, he sees a 
fingerprint. Smith, who works at a start-up company called the Escher Group, 
has found that every square centimeter of paper contains a unique pattern of 
fiber hills and fiber valleys. This square centimeter, he notes, can serve as 
verifiable proof that the paper -- and thus whatever is written on it -- is 
the original. Even a perfect photocopy can't capture the texture of the 
original paper, because the copy is a different piece of paper. 



The Hindu 6/12/00
Exhibition on archival records of famous legal cases
http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/06/12/stories/0412403r.htm

HYDERABAD, JUNE 11. 
Nothing sinister about it, for it looks just like any other pen. But, it has 
a broken nib to which great significance is attached. The nib was broken 
keeping with the custom of those days i.e after scribbling the death warrant 
of the great patriot, Bhagat Singh. 
Then, there is a small sheet of judicial document belonging to the High Court 
of Patna dating back to the year 1908. Under the heading `Sentence', is a 
terse single sentence that ordered the hanging of the freedom fighter, 
Khudiram Bose. 



Pioneer Planet 6/11/00
Doyle: Some officials charge too much for public records
Attorney general says most located without expensive searches
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/2/news/docs/030003.htm

by Jenny Price
Associated Press
Attorney General James Doyle is warning sheriff's departments, county clerks 
and other officials against charging excessive fees for access to public 
records. 
Doyle issued a letter last week to public records' custodians statewide after 
receiving complaints that some were charging a fee for finding records that 
should be readily accessible. 
The open records law was intended to give the public access to records at a 
reasonable cost, Doyle wrote. 



Evansville Courier & Press 6/7/00
State says officials broke records law
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200006/07+brokerecords060700_news
.html+20000607

Associated Press
City officials improperly withheld public records from a Hopkinsville 
newspaper, an attorney general’s opinion says. 
The officials further “subverted the intent” of the Open Records Act by 
failing to give a reporter timely access to other records, according to the 
opinion released Monday. 




Peter Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com

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