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RAIN 07/20: Room with a view
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New Scientist 7/22/00
Paper Chase
Analysing trace elements from documents may help catch the criminals
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224824
Rachel Nowak
Everybatch of paper has a characteristic chemical fingerprint that could soon
help to solve crimes as diverse as kidnapping, counterfeiting and fraud, say
Australian researchers.
Crime investigations sometimes hinge on identifying the source of paper used
for a ransom note, say, or to alter a business contract. But standard
forensic methods often fail to do this with white office paper, which is the
commonest type.
Now John Byrne of the University of Technology in Sydney and Lindsay Spence
of the Queensland Police Service in Brisbane have come up with a rapid way of
telling different white papers apart, using mass spectrometry to measure the
trace elements they contain.
Melbourne Age 7/20/00
Hospital records revealed
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000720/A17543-2000Jul19.html
by Mary-Anne Toy
Public hospitals will be forced to make public their infection rates and
other performance indicators and patients will be guaranteed access to their
personal medical records under sweeping reforms of the Victorian health
system.
Health Minister John Thwaites is expected to announce the changes today when
he releases the final report of the Health Services Policy Review.
The introduction of annual "report cards" for hospitals is one of 33
recommendations in the final report, which is aimed at removing barriers to
competition among health providers and improving consumers' rights.
Columbia Daily Tribune 7/19/00
Fire Damages records
Firefighter suffers second-degree burn
http://www.showmenews.com/News/20000719News004.asp
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Mammogram records were lost in what appeared to be an electrical fire that
started this morning at the Vandiver Drive office of a portable X-ray
service.
An odor of burning plastic and insulation filled the air around the Columbia
office of American X-Rays of Mid-Missouri, 1900 Vandiver Drive. The building,
which houses 8,000 to 10,000 X-ray films and radiologists’ reports, sustained
some smoke and water damage, manager Ken Wiggins said. The company has
contracts with 106 nursing homes from Warrensburg to Wellsville and from
Macon to Lake of the Ozarks.
Daily Oklahoman 7/19/00
City Schools face action over financial records
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=518450&TP=getarticle
by Christy Watson
The Oklahoma City School District could be penalized millions of dollars this
fall if district officials don't provide the state with accurate financial
information, state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Tuesday.
Garrett said annual audits of the district's finances have become more
accurate, but a change in state law will allow the state Board of Education
to withhold an increasing percentage of state aid if the Oklahoma City
district doesn't improve its financial accountability. The first of the
monthly penalties would be $955,976. That would increase to $4.3 million in
the fifth month and every month thereafter while the district remains out of
compliance.
Sky News 7/20/00
Millons of Tax files ‘missing’
http://www.sky.com/news/uk/story7.htm
Millions of tax records have gone "missing" after computer problems at the
Inland Revenue, it is claimed.
The magazine Computer Weekly has produced a leaked briefing paper appearing
to show up to 5.2 million cases are under investigation because records have
gone missing.
It says the bungle occured after a computer holding national insurance
details was linked with the computer operating the Paye scheme.Both systems
are managed by private firms.
Arizona Republic 7/19/00
Library’s Mesa Room illuminates city’s past
http://www.azcentral.com/community/comstories/0719history.shtml
by Betty Beard
In 1955, after four Mesa restaurants refused to serve a Black college student
and prominent athlete from Tempe, someone named Cactus Pete wrote an angry
letter to the Mesa Tribune.
"It's high time some Mesa restaurants recognize the fact that segregation is
a thing of the past," he said.
A year later, the Better Community Council of Mesa, which battled segregation
for years in Mesa, persuaded 48 restaurants to display "We do not
discriminate" signs in their windows.
That's just one of many vignettes of Mesa's past that are captured in old
letters, newspapers, books, brochures, maps, scrapbooks and other items
stored at the Mesa Room in the lower level of the main Mesa Public Library at
64 E. 1st St.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/19/00
Window with a history
Rediscovered and restored, Chatham’s Tiffany is one of few that he did
honoring women
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000719chatham2.asp
by Donald Miller
In 1926, Chatham College decided to store a Tiffany window, removed from its
former chapel, in a dusty basement. It would not be seen again for 70 years.
Commissioned in 1889 from Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), the window --
the oldest of its type in Pittsburgh -- moldered nearly forgotten in the
college's Jennie King Mellon Library.
San Francisco Examiner 7/19/00
Artists preparing a multimedia exhibition of forgotten history
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/19/li
brary.dtl
by Demian Bulwa
It's not much at first glance. The black-and-white portrait, perhaps dating
to the 1920s or '30s, appears to show 11 men in suits, smiling assuredly as
they don stately hats and canes and puff on pipes.
But Betsy Levine, who discovered the photograph some 20 years ago while
perusing her late great-aunt's home in New Haven, Conn., knew well to take a
second glance. And that's when she saw that the 11 men were not men at all.
Arizona Republic 7/19/00
Local firm aided by Hewlett-Packard
http://www.azcentral.com/business/0719imagetag.shtml
by Jane Larson
Computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday that it will invest $10
million in a small Chandler firm that hopes to tame the office paper glut.
ImageTag Inc., founded in 1997 by document-imaging veteran Steve Irons, has
developed a system that uses bar-coded Post-it Notes to help office workers
scan and file documents into their computers.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 7/19/00
PSC needs to speed records responses, utility group says
Watchdog group says agency took average of 43 days to respond
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/jul00/cub19071800a.asp
by Lee Hawkins, Jr.
The state Public Service Commission takes too long to respond to open records
requests, and the state Legislature should set guidelines to speed up the
process, a leader of a utility watchdog group said Tuesday.
The PSC has taken an average of 43 days to respond to open records requests
filed by the Citizens' Utility Board over the past two years, said Steve
Hiniker, CUB's executive director.
Savannah Morning News 7/19/00
Students urged to check college privacy policies
http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/071900/LOChigheredlaw.shtml
by Shannon Womble
ATLANTA -- Students should be asking colleges and universities about their
privacy policies, making sure personal information isn't disseminated without
permission, say legal experts.
At a Tuesday conference in Athens, college and university officials met to
discuss legal issues concerning students, faculty and administration. Among
the topics were privacy issues surrounding students' academic records and
information and the need for students to take a vested interest in their
privacy.
Houston Chronicle 7/19/00
Letter from Einstein given to local museum
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/607058
by Kelly Pedersen
It is a thrilling piece of history to behold: a typewritten letter from
Albert Einstein -- one of the 20th century's foremost intellectuals --
thanking an American company for assisting Jewish refugees during the
Holocaust.
A Houstonian discovered the document in a Beverly Hills, Calif., art dealer's
shop last year and donated it to the Houston Holocaust Museum last week.
Peter Kurilecz
pakurilecz@aol.com
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