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RAIN 07/31: Burnt, altered and preserved
Dallas Morning News 7/30/00
Park board violated records act, AG says
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/121079_tswfiller2_30m.html
Associated Press
GALVESTON– Galveston's Park Board of Trustees violated the Texas Open Records
Act when it denied a newspaper's request to release documents about the
distribution of beach user fees, the office of Texas Attorney General John
Cornyn has said.
On March 9, The Galveston County Daily News had sought release of the
documents.
The documents played a significant role in the board's decision to settle a
lawsuit against Bettah Beach, which is contracted by the board to manage R.A.
Apffel Park.
Czech News Agency 7/28/00
Brno Archive collects testimonies on transfer of Germans
http://www.centraleurope.com/czechtoday/news.php3?id=183809
BRNO, Jul 28, 2000 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) The Archive of The Town of
Brno has been collecting documents and testimonies on the transfer of Germans
from Brno at the turn of May and June 1945 on whose grounds the statement of
the municipal council will be drafted, archive director Frantisek Novak told
CTK today.
Brno councillors decided to establish an expert group to draft the statement
after the Youth for Intercultural Understanding civic association had called
on the town to apologise to transferred Germans.
Atlanta Journal Constitution 7/30/00
After centuries of obscurity, slaves take on identities
Historian’s vast Louisiana research put on CD-ROM
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/news_93382ce6
f502e1df008f.html
David Firestone
New York Times
New Orleans --- From the darkness of history they emerge out of a silver
spinning disc: two black slaves sold by a sugar plantation owner named Levi
Foster on Feb. 11, 1818, to his in-laws. The first slave, named Kit, was 28,
and was sold for $975. The other, named Alick, was 9, and was possibly Kit's
son. He was sold for $400.
For nearly two centuries, the names of those two slaves were lost in time,
along with the names of tens of thousands of others who worked the sugar and
cotton fields of Louisiana and made fortunes for their owners. Their
identities, scratched with quill pens on transaction records of human
property, have moldered in the basements of parish courthouses for more than
150 years, virtually untouched by researchers usually put off by the
difficult French and Spanish script.
Spokane Spokesman-Review 7/30/00
Slavery’s first census
History of Louisiana slaves finally emerging
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=073000&ID=s832623&cat=
by David Firestone
New York Times
San Jose Mercury News 7/30/00
Long-lost slave data astonishes historians
http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/slaves30.htm
by David Firestone
New York Times
Computer User August 2000
The Virtual Filing Cabinet
Internet document repositories offer diligent researchers nuggets of
information
http://currents.net/articles/1908,5,15,1,0801,00.html
by Cary Griffith
Shortly after the Web was born, the volume of Internet content easily
outstripped the Library of Congress, a library whose mandate is to acquire
every published work in the world. The Library of Congress has long realized
it cannot completely realize its mission. But that mandate is being partly
realized on the Internet.
While the Web is many things to many people, it has often been described as
the largest library in the world. In actuality, it is more like an endless
sea of libraries, each of which houses a special collection. Today these
special collections are more often referred to as Internet document
repositories.
Detroit News 7/28/00
Feds raid councilman’s house
FBI seized financial documents in ongoing investigation into Warren government
http://detnews.com/2000/metro/0007/28/c01-97232.htm
by Hawk Fracassa
Warren -- FBI and IRS agents have raided the home of Councilman Daniel
Woodhouse, as part of an ongoing federal grand jury investigation of Warren
government.
Eight agents seized ledgers with bank statements, VISA bills, airline ticket
stubs and other records in the July 10 raid, according to documents filed in
U.S. District Court.
The court file is sealed, but a July 7 search warrant obtained this week by
The Detroit News shows agents were most interested in seizing Woodhouse's
personal computer and his credit card and phone bills.
Mobile Register 7/30/00
Openness of Fairhope’s public records questioned
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Jul2000/28-a392558a.html
by Lori Moore
FAIRHOPE -Three Fairhope residents seeking documents on city activities and
expenditures said their requests for public records have gone unanswered for
months.
One of them, Eric Dyas, has taken his effort to the next level. The president
of the Citizens Watch Foundation, Dyas said he sent letters this week to the
state attorney general and the Alabama Ethics Commission asking for help in
obtaining the documents he requested from the city.
Dyas said those records would help determine whether Mayor and Utilities
Superintendent James P. Nix showed favoritism in the way sewer service was
provided to some citizens - including a City Council member.
Bergen Record 7/29/00
Blasts from the past
http://www.bergen.com/yourtime/atomic29200007291.htm
by Bob Ivry
We've all seen the footage: An unsuspecting house, in the middle of nowhere
in the middle of the night, suddenly gets hit by a massive wave of wind,
buckles, and tears away from the ground -- the victim of an atomic bomb test.
We've all seen it, but most of us would have to confess that we haven't given
a thought to the poor guy who held the camera.
"It's the same way with war photography, or video of a guy in a shark cage,
or film of people stranded on Everest," says Peter Kuran. "Whenever the
people we're seeing in the video are in danger, chances are the photographer
is, too."
Sydney Morning Herald 7/29/00
Hatfield case told subpoenaed documents were destroyed
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/29/text/national16.html
by Stephen Gibbs
A university counsellor said yesterday that a colleague told her two years
ago he destroyed documents subpoenaed for the murder trial of Irena Hatfield.
Ms Claudia Michels said Mr Shunyam Peinecke admitted in April 1998 he had
burnt records of counselling sessions between himself and Mr Atticus Busby.
Sydney Morning Herald 7/28/00
I burned trial papers and lied, says psychologist
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/28/text/national7.html
by Stephen Gibbs
A university counsellor has admitted destroying documents subpoenaed for
Irena Hatfield's murder trial and having perjured himself 56 times about the
files.
Mr Shunyam Peinecke told the Supreme Court yesterday he had burned 13 records
of counselling sessions he held with Mr Atticus Busby in 1996.
The psychologist then admitted previously telling "lie after lie after lie"
under oath by repeatedly denying destroying the documents since 1998.
Halifax Herald 7/27/00
Scrapbook captures Murray memories
http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooks/jul27_murray.html
by Stephen Cooke
Hopefully Anne Murray has limber wrists, but considering the amount of time
she spends on the golf course, that shouldn't be a problem.
The Maritime music legend returns home to Nova Scotia for two special
appearances this week to sign copies of her new book, the Anne Murray Centre
Scrapbook, a 96-page paperback overflowing with photos and memorabilia
stretching from her Springhill childhood to her acension to the world stage
as one of the best-known voices in popular music.
Fox News 7/27/00
Archiving today’s digital culture
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/072700/library.sml
by Stephanie Izarek
NEW YORK — From cave paintings and stone etchings to manuscripts and books,
people have always left their mark on history.
But in a society where information is directly tied to media that quickly
becomes obsolete, how do we preserve our "culture" for posterity?
The 10,000-year Library Conference, hosted by The Long Now Foundation and
Stanford University Libraries in early July, discussed how today's archival
institutions will cope with preserving multimedia content such as digital
audio and video files, photography, databases, Web pages and even links to
related content.
St. Louis Post 7/28/00
Bureau County sheriff indicted for allegedly falsifying campaign documents
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/861C192F39A35DEA86256
92A007D16BB?OpenDocument
by John O’Connor
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A Bureau County grand jury indicted Sheriff Greg
Johnson Friday for allegedly falsifying documents relating to a 1998
motorcycle raffle to raise campaign funds.
Johnson, 46, of Princeton, who has been embroiled in a series of personal and
professional problems for more than a year, faces two counts of mutilation of
election materials and one count each of perjury and official misconduct.
Peter Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
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