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RAIN 08/11: A monster is created



Huntsville Times 8/10/00
PPG, union argue about documents used in case
Company asking that election held last August be thrown out
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Aug2000/10-e18299.html

by Gina Hannah
The first day of a hearing between PPG Industries Inc. and the Teamsters
Local 402 was spent with the parties arguing about what documents will be
admitted as evidence in the case.
PPG, an aircraft product manufacturer, has asked the National Labor
Relations Board to throw out an election held last August in which employees
at its Huntsville plant voted 241-217 to be represented by the union. The
company charges that union officials intimidated workers during the
election.
The union has filed charges against the company, saying one employee was
fired for showing support for the union and other employees were intimidated
by managers.
On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled on a long list of items the company and
the union must provide as evidence in the case.
The documents in question included:


Ann Arbor News 8/10/00
Parent seeks U-M discipline records
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000810agcantor.frm

by Liz Cobbs
A judge will decide within 30 days whether the University of Michigan must
release disciplinary reports on students who violated the school's alcohol
and drug policy to George Cantor as part of his lawsuit over the death of
his daughter two years ago.
At a hearing Wednesday, Cantor's attorney, Dale Robinson, told Washtenaw
County Circuit Judge Melinda Morris that Cantor wants the information to
find out the extent of alcohol problems on campus.
"This information will tell us what they did (about the problems) and the
effectiveness of the policy," Robinson said.


Greensburg Tribune-Review 8/10/00
State to give public access to sentence records by race, gender
http://triblive.com/news/rsnt0810.html

by Rich Cholodofsky
Judges' sentencing records that list the gender and race of every criminal
defendant will be made public as the result of a decision reached Wednesday
by a state commission.
The release will give researchers, reporters and watchdog groups
unprecedented access to the records of individual judges and will help
determine whether sentences of blacks and whites or men and women are
consistent.
"It opens up the door to what we really want - to find disparities in the
sentencing," said Charles T. Stokes, president of the Pennsylvania State
Conference of NAACP Branches. He said the NAACP may use the records to issue
report cards on whether judges appear biased.



Dallas Morning News 8/10/00
You've got a hassle
Getting buried in e-mail all too easy
http://dallasnews.com/technology/138000_emailfinal_10b.html

by Victor Godinez
University of North Texas professor Leon Kappelman recently logged off, shut
down and left town for a technology-free vacation with his wife.
For 12 days, Dr. Kappelman found seclusion and peace in Hawaii. But when he
returned to his Denton office, he found his e-mail in-box bursting with more
than 800 messages.
Faced with such a deluge, Dr. Kappelman, director of UNT's Information
Systems Research Center, adopted a strategy familiar to many who've dealt
with e-mail overload: delete, categorize and slowly respond.
"We've created a bit of a monster with e-mail," Dr. Kappelman says. "We need
to really help people learn how to better manage it."



Cincinnati Post 8/8/00
Doc's ledger puts face on Civil War
http://www.cincypost.com/news/civil080800.html

by Paul Gottbrath
Jerry Frey said his forays into Civil War history have always been in
pursuit of telling the ''little people's stories.''
His third volume, ''Longstreet's Assault - Pickett's Charge,'' released last
week, uses the ledger of a Cincinnati surgeon who served with the
Confederate Army to help show how those ''little people'' suffered and died
in the war's most famous - and bloodiest - battle: Gettysburg.
The ledger, compiled by Dr. Edward Rives, who lies buried in Spring Grove
Cemetery, has been in the collection of the Cincinnati Historical Society
since 1941. Frey came upon it there in 1993, but didn't realize it related
to Pickett's Charge until three years later.
In his ledger, Rives broke down into clinical but chilling detail the
horrific casualties that Confederate troops took in a furious and ultimately
futile attempt to drive dug-in Union forces off the crest of Cemetery Ridge
on July 3, 1863.



Editor & Publisher Online 8/7/00
Cooperative effort sells newspaper photographs online
Merlin-Net archives delivers prints, images
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/080700n3.htm

by Mark Fitzgerald
With its new venture Merlin-Net, the archiving and imaging company T/One
Inc. is sponsoring a huge garage sale for newspaper photographs.
The Merlin-Net <http://www.merlin-net.com> cooperative allows newspapers to
sell not only their own archived photos but also those of other papers
around the country. Local newspaper Web sites offer the photos through a
Merlin-Net portal that retains the newspaper brand. "Customers don't know
this part of, say, The Boston Globe's boston.com site," Merlin-Net Vice
President Craig Rottenberg said. "We're not trying to brand anything."


Washington Post 8/10/00
Searching for old cemetery
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1898-2000Aug10.html

by Dan Eggen
Sherrie Chapman heard the rumors soon after she became resident historian at
Green Spring Gardens Park: Deep beneath the ivy and brambles, behind the old
Manor House, was a family cemetery dating back nearly 200 years.
The whisperings set off two years of research and investigation into the
mystery of the Moss family graveyard. With the help of archive documents, as
well as the memory of a former caretaker's wife, Chapman and other
historians have become convinced that the rumor is true.
Now all they have to do is figure out where, exactly, the bodies are buried.



The Arizona Republic 8/10/00
Freedom from paper
KwikTag turns computer into file cabinet
http://www.azcentral.com/business/0810imagetag10.html

or try this url
http://www.azcentral.com/azc-bin/gp.php3?f=/business/0810imagetag10.html

by Jane Larson
Forget predictions of the paperless office. Steve Irons has spent much of
his career studying how people love and use paper, and he thinks he's got a
more human, less technical answer to managing our precious pulp.
He calls it KwikTag, software built around the idea of a bar-coded Post-it
Note that tells your computer where and how to file your stuff.
It's the flagship product of ImageTag Inc., Irons' Chandler-based company
that is growing rapidly this year with an acquisition, key hires and a
recent $10 million investment from Hewlett-Packard Co.


CNET News.com 8/6/00
E-filing aims to reduce courts' dependence on paper
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2451274.html

by Evan Hansen
It was just after midnight on a recent Monday morning, and Colorado attorney
Russel Murray was already headed to court.
Not that it would take him eight hours to get there--in fact, it was just a
mouse click away. Murray was about to send the first electronic filing in a
weeklong pilot program with the Colorado state courts, one of the most
ambitious efforts yet to bring Internet technologies to the judicial system.

We wanted to prove that it was open 24/7," he said of the experiment, in
which he forwarded some motions in a divorce case. "If they didn't go
through, we could have still made it to the courthouse by 8:00."



Philadelphia Daily News 8/9/00
A thumbs down on realty fraud?
http://www.phillynews.com/content/daily_news/2000/08/09/local/NOTR09.htm?tem
plate=aprint.htm

by Bob Warner
HARRISBURG - An outbreak of bogus real-estate transfers in Philadelphia
shows the need for changes in the state's notary public laws, the chairman
of a legislative committee said yesterday.
One potential outcome discussed at a House State Government Committee
hearing may be a requirement that notaries take thumbprints from anyone
signing deed or mortgage documents in real-estate deals.
"When there is a problem, we can't ignore it," said Bucks County Republican
Paul Clymer, the committee chairman. "There is going to be a notary bill,
there's no doubt in my mind."


Columbus Dispatch 8/10/00
OSU hospitals' records public, high court rules
Bexley couple sued to force release of info
http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/aug00/380168.html

by Catherine Candisky
The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday ordered Ohio State University Hospitals to
turn over financial and administrative records detailing its acquisition of
Park Medical Center.
A Bexley couple asked for the documents under Ohio's public-record law.
In a 5-2 vote, the justices ruled that Dr. Susan L. Besser and her husband,
lawyer Kenneth R. Besser, were entitled to nearly all the information they
sought, including preliminary business plans, financial projections,
internal memos and e-mail.



Bergen Record 8/10/00
FBI seeks tax files in Paterson probe
http://www.bergen.com/paterson/pmtaxmc200008101.htm

by Michael Casey
In an ever-widening federal probe of Paterson Mayor Marty Barnes, the FBI
has issued subpoenas to the city's tax collector and tax assessor for
records related to property owned by the mayor and his son.
The subpoenas, issued Tuesday, followed an FBI visit to the offices of Tax
Collector Kathleen Gibson and Tax Assessor Charles Parmelli last week in
which agents interviewed Joanne Bottler, a close ally of Barnes who was
found guilty of misconduct and suspended in 1996 for processing tax
information on Barnes without proper authorization, city officials said.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4997
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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