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RAIN 10/18: Palimpsest, Clinton and Carter Libraries, copier misuse



New York Times 10/17/00
Gazing upon an erased treasure
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/17/science/17ARCH.html

Associated Press
Baltimore, Oct 16 - Using modern technology to unlock ancient secrets,
scientists have deciphered five pages of the only known copy of a
2,300-year-old Greek text by the mathematician Archimedes.
The scientists hope to complete a translation of the 174-page treatise, "On
Floating Bodies," by September.
Scholars believe the treatise was copied by a scribe in the 10th century from
Archimedes' original Greek scrolls, written in the third century B.C.
It was erased about 200 years later by a monk who reused the parchment for a
prayer book, creating a twice-used parchment book known as a palimpsest.


Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 10/17/00
Clinton archivists get keys, slide into Balch building
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Tue/ark/B1_xarchives_17.html

by Elisa Crouch
The National Archives and Records Administration took the keys to the former
Balch Motor Co. on Monday and began making the gray warehouse its Arkansas
home.
Movers carried boxes filled with office furniture and steel shelves into the
former car dealership as archivists put final touches on the temporary
quarters for Bill Clinton's presidential effects -- the largest presidential
collection in history.
"It's like moving into a new house," said David Alsobrook, of the National
Archives and Records Administration, who recently left his post as director
of the George Bush Presidential Library to direct the materials project in
Little Rock. "You have to make sure everything is where it's supposed to be."


Anchorage Daily News 10/17/00
Court upholds documents ruling
http://www.adn.com/metro/story/0,2633,204276,00.html

by Allen Baker
Associated Press
The Alaska Supreme Court has agreed with a Superior Court judge that Gov.
Tony Knowles did not have to provide the Gwich'in Steering Committee with a
handful of documents regarding the governor's lobbying to open the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Gwich'in leaders oppose opening the refuge because they say it would disturb
vital caribou calving grounds and threaten their way of life.


Huntsville Times 10/17/00
Companies manage others' documents online
City-based firm resells service to small and midsize businesses
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Oct2000/17-e15714.html

by Gina Hannah
A Huntsville-based company and a Florida firm are working together to provide
online document management for small and midsize companies.
Finao Corp. (Finao stands for "failure is not an option"), which has an
office downtown, recently became a reseller for CyLex Systems Inc. of Boca
Raton, Fla. CyLex provides document management services that are accessible
to its customers on the Internet.
Finao, which was formed in May, designs in-house document management systems
for customers.


Winston-Salem Journal 10/17/00
Boonville ordered to give up records
Newspaper filed suit after it said it could not get public documents
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/local/northcarolina/yadkin17.htm

by Danielle Deaver
YADKINVILLE
A judge ordered Boonville town officials yesterday to hand over public
records to reporters with The Tribune by 12:30 p.m. today.
Judge Judson D. DeRamus gave town officials 24 hours to get reporters copies
of town phone records, an invoice for a police scanner and the town employee
manual.
Reporters with The Tribune requested the material last month. The newspaper
sued town officials after they said they couldn't get the records.


Las Vegas Review Journal 10/17/00
Newspaper files motion against county
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Oct-17-Tue-2000/news/14620307.html

By Frank Geary
The Las Vegas Review-Journal accused Clark County officials of contempt of
court in a motion filed Monday in District Court, contending they violated an
order of the Nevada Supreme Court by turning over incomplete cellular phone
records.
"It is clear to us the county has obstructed a very clear, direct,
unambiguous order of the Supreme Court to turn these records over," said
Review-Journal attorney Don Campbell.
The Supreme Court in August upheld the newspaper's claim that county
officials' phone records are public information and ordered the county to
turn over copies of 1996 and 1997 cellular phone records for county
commissioners and top administrators, as the Review-Journal had requested in
1998.


St. Petersburg Times 10/17/00
Officials rebuked for racy e-mails
Clearwater's interim city manager calls such use of city computers by two top
officials inappropriate. They also discussed private business dealings
http://www.sptimes.com/News/101700/NorthPinellas/Officials_rebuked_for.shtml

by Christina Headrick
CLEARWATER -- Two top city administrators used city computers to swap e-mails
that included a picture of overweight black women in thong bikinis, jokes
about a sperm bank and other sexual innuendo and discussions about a private
business enterprise, a St. Petersburg Times review shows.
Interim City Manager Bill Horne said Monday he would admonish Garry Brumback,
assistant city manager, and John Asmar, planning and development
administrator, for showing poor judgment by sharing the racy e-mail.
Horne said that e-mailing the picture of the two women in thongs with the
caption "Does this suit make my butt look BIG?" was clearly inappropriate.
Asmar sent Brumback the picture, who forwarded it to someone else. Both men
are white.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution 10/17/00
Carter Library's new director has ambitious plans
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/local_news_9

3be9e1fe1bdf05e1041.html

by Colin Campbell
I've stopped by Copenhill Avenue twice this fall to talk with the new
director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.
His name is Jay Hakes, and he's 56 years old. He and his wife, Anita
Zervigon-Hakes, have bought a condo in one of Midtown's new high-rises, and
one of the first things he explained was the difference between the Carter
Center and the Carter Library and Museum.


Bergen Record 10/16/00
Just sign on the digital line
http://www.bergen.com/biz/digit16200010163.htm

by Brian Bergstein
Associated Press
San Jose, Calif -- It's no big secret that people can get great deals
shopping for automobiles on the Internet. Capitol Honda in San Jose sold 108
cars online in the past month -- nearly double the month before.
But like thousands of businesspeople nationwide, Capitol's Internet sales
manager, Chuck Fowler, hopes online deals can really take off now -- thanks
to a new federal law that cuts out the paperwork.
The electronic signatures act, which gives legal standing to documents
"signed" online, recently took effect. That means Fowler will no longer have
to ship buyers financing forms and other documents, and then wait for them to
come back with signatures.



The Advocate 10/17/00
Lafayette clerk cuts 'cheating'
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=16905

by Bruce Schultz
LAFAYETTE -- A new rule preventing the public from making copies of
microfilmed property records was required because some people were cheating,
said Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court Louis Perret.
"The copy machines were being manipulated in a way that we weren't able to
tell how many copies were being made," Perret said. "I was not going to let
the office be taken advantage of."
Lawyers, abstractors and surveyors are complaining that the new policy causes
unnecessary delays.
"It is an inconvenience," Perret acknowledged. "I have added personnel to
handle the workload."
Before the change last month, copies could be made from microfilmed property
records with just the push of a button. Now the actual documents have to be
brought to clerk employees to make the copies.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM CA
pakurilecz@aol.com

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