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RAIN 07/17: Scour



USA Today 7/14/00
Film preservation: Science or fiction?
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000714/2458204s.htm

by Josh Chetwynd and Andy Seiler
As more moviegoers discover Hollywood classics on DVD and video, could we be
losing the original films?
Robert Harris, who with partner James Katz was responsible for such famous
restorations as Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, Vertigo and Rear Window, says
the DVD revolution is dooming old negatives.
Harris believes that the word ''restoration'' is popping up on DVD and video
boxes when the studios have only ''tweaked'' the movies on computers to make
them look good on a TV screen -- while letting original negatives
deteriorate. Harris gives passing marks to Universal (for which he has
worked), Sony's Columbia, MGM and Disney. But other studios, he insists,
''don't have a clue'' about how badly their movies need restoration.


Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 7/15/00
Fayetteville: UA Officials hope to establish center in honor of Blair
http://www.ardemgaz.com/search%5Fweek/sat/nwa/nwb1nwblair15.html

by Tracie Dungan
FAYETTEVILLE -- A University of Arkansas official is in the nation's capital
this week to gather congressional support for a political science center
that would honor the late Diane Blair.
Officials said Friday that the imminent approach of the federal fiscal
year's end will make it difficult to get funding for the proposed Diane D.
Blair Center for the Study of Southern Politics and Society.
But UA officials and congressional aides said they remain hopeful about
securing an appropriation of as much as $5 million in the coming budget year
to help finance it.



Washington Post 7/15/00
E-mail auditor didn't get the message
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/A46892-2000Jul14.html

Associated Press
An independent auditor hired to review the retrieval of White House e-mails
told a federal judge yesterday that he was never told of the judge's order
to produce the messages promptly.
The testimony from Gregory Ekberg came at the end of a lengthy pretrial
hearing in a civil lawsuit against the White House. Ekberg, of Vistronix
Inc., a McLean information technology company, said he had never heard of
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order, filed last April, to produce
the e-mails as soon as possible.


Birmingham News 7/14/00
Morris Municipal Court to put records on computer
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Jul2000/14-e346940b.html

by Jerry Baker
The Morris Municipal Court system soon will join the computer age.
The Town Council on Monday night voted to buy municipal court software from
Southern Accounting Systems to help Town Clerk Linda Creel handle court
record keeping.


Editorial: Open Records
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200007/13+records071300_news.ht
ml+20000713

The Vanderburgh County recorder's office can be added to the list of local
government offices going online. While we applaud this, and each effort to
make government electronically accessible to the public, one twist in the
recorder's effort gives us pause.



Los Angeles Times 7/15/00
Scour unplugs its search engine tool amind controversy over privacy issue
http://www.latimes.com/business/20000715/t000066348.html

by P.J. Huffstutter
Scour Inc. announced late Friday that it has stopped a controversial
Internet search engine tool that enabled outsiders to peek at digital
entertainment files in personal computers, sometimes without the owner's
knowledge.
The move came on the same day a story in The Times detailed the practice.
Scour officials said earlier this week that the Beverly Hills multimedia
firm, partly backed by Hollywood super-agent Michael Ovitz, had planned to
phase out the information-gathering technique by next month. The company had
said it was not as effective as its newer search tools.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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