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RAIN 10/31: Power of the Internet



Nando Times 10/30/00
IRS gets access to offshore records in tax evasion probe
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/nation/story/0,4455,500274444-500428750-50

2700532-0,00.html

by Catherine Wilson
Associated Press
MIAMI (October 30, 2000 5:01 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A judge on
Monday granted the IRS access to thousands of MasterCard and American Express
credit card accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in three offshore banking havens.
The agency will use the records in a sweeping tax-evasion probe.
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan agreed with the IRS that cardholders may
have violated U.S. tax laws and that their identities are not readily
available from other sources.
The court order allows the IRS to issue summonses for charge, debit and
credit cards issued or paid by banks in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and
the country of Antigua and Barbuda in 1998 and 1999.


Los Angeles Times 10/29/00
The Human Face of War
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20001029/t000103267.html

by Robert Lee Hotz
It is past midnight in my Santa Monica study, and on the Internet, where it
is no time and no place, I am searching for a soldier's grave in France. My
mother had a brother, you see.
* Her brother's name was Bill. He was killed at Dunkirk in 1940 as the German
army pushed the British into the sea. His widow killed herself. They left a
child.
* For 60 years, that was the sum of it. There was no body to bury, no story
to tell, just a photograph of a second lieutenant in the upstairs hall. When
you are young, there are questions you don't know enough to ask. When you are
old enough to understand, you discover the answers are beyond your reach.


Discovering Archaeology September/October 2000
A voice for the forgotten
Molding historical archaeology into a people's science
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/1000toc/10profile1-voice.shtml

by W.L. Rathje
History, it is often said, is written by the victors. Certainly the old
documents - the prime intellectual fodder of historians - were largely
written by the wealthy and white elite. To hear the long-silent voices of the
disenfranchised and defeated, you must turn to "the more democratic words
from the earth."
That is the role of historical archaeology, at least as practiced and taught
by Kathleen Deagan, who has helped mold the discipline over some three
decades. The Distinguished Research Curator and Adjunct
Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Florida is a key
player in the field, through which she keeps company with the likes of
Christopher Columbus, as well as doomed settlers he brought to the New World
and the equally doomed indigenous peoples he encountered there. Deagan's
extensive and extraordinarily productive research assures her continuing
standing among leaders of historical archaeology in North America. And the
legions of disciples she has taught and mentored guarantees that her
scientific philosophy will outlast even her prodigious reputation. An offhand
tribute to her legacy is preserved at a bar in St. Augustine, Florida, where
a plaque reads: "Diggin' With Deagan."


Kansas City Star 10/30/00
Frank Driggs collects photos he digs
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat?file=fyi/3774ddef.a26

by Robert Trussell
Frank Driggs made his first trip to Kansas City in 1957 and his fourth visit
last week.
In both cases the goal was the same: to document and memorialize Kansas
City's potent contribution to the history of jazz. The reason for his most
recent visit: Driggs was invited by the University of Missouri-Kansas City to
inaugurate the exhibit "Kansas City: Paris of the Plains, 1920-1940" with a
slide presentation from his own photo collection.
Anyone who's ever read much about the history of popular music or jazz has
undoubtedly run across the ubiquitous photo credit "Frank Driggs Collection."
That's because Driggs is the go-to guy when it comes to archival images of
musicians in jazz, blues, rock, country and pop.



San Francisco Chronicle 10/28/00
Police join DiMaggio item prob
Document gone from Martinez city office
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/28/M

N117465.DTL

by Bernadette Tansey
The mysterious disappearance of a prized item of Joe DiMaggio memorabilia
from Martinez City Hall is now under police investigation in a probe that
also extends to files that were missing when the former city manager left for
a new job.
Interim City Manager Jim Jakel filed a police report earlier this month on
the vanished Department of Motor Vehicles document that had hung in the city
manager's office since Joe DiMaggio donated his Chris-Craft pleasure boat,
the Joltin' Joe, to his home town in 1991.
Both Jakel and Lt. Mark Smith, who is assigned to the case, said the probe at
this point is an internal city investigation and not a criminal inquiry. They
said the first priority is to clear up the confusion about exactly what items
vanished around the time former City Manager Marcia Raines wrapped up her
work for the city in August.



InternetWeek 10/24/00
UPS enhances Internet document distribution
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20001024S0002

by Mike Koller
UPS and eCopy Inc., a supplier of network scanning and paper document
distribution software, this week will make available an enhanced version of
the UPS Internet document delivery service that lets customers convert hard
copies of documents into electronic form and send them securely over the Web.
ECopy's ShareScan software has been integrated with UPS's Document Exchange
service, serving as an interface between digital copy machines and enterprise
applications, to enable UPS Document Exchange users to create digital copies
of paper documents, secure them using 128-bit encryption and transmit them
over the Internet.


Cal Law 10/30/00
Councill gives guidelines on sealing files
http://www.callaw.com/stories/edt1030b.shtml

by Sonia Giordani
The Recorder
The Judicial Council voted Friday to adopt statewide guidelines on when
judges may seal court records. Under the new rules, all court records are
presumed to be open to the public unless a judge expressly finds an
"overriding interest" in barring public access.
The new rules intend to ensure trial and appellate courts throughout the
state observe the First Amendment right to public access articulated by the
California Supreme Court last year in NBC Subsidiary v. Superior Court, 20
Cal.4th 1178.
"The bottom line is to make clear that the First Amendment standard needed to
be applied when the courts are considering sealing records," said Patrick
O'Donnell, a council staffer who presented the proposed rule.


Mobile Register 10/30/00
Attorney disputes Calhoun's version
Attorney says client has been unable to have voting right restored because of
missing documents
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Oct2000/30-a385588a.html

by Brendan Kirby
BAY MINETTE - Inside the Baldwin County circuit clerk's office is photocopied
paperwork from 136 court files dating to 1989.
Some county residents charge that those files were missing for years; Circuit
Clerk Jackie Calhoun says they were never lost but were sent to Montgomery to
be microfilmed by the Administrative Office of Courts.
Either way, they have become a key part of an intensely personal race between
Calhoun and Diane Hall Homan, the woman who is trying to unseat Calhoun in
the Nov. 7 election.


Beaufort Gazette 10/30/00
County to make deeds available on Internet
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/localnews/story/0,1458,208183,00.html

by James Tatum
Beaufort County Council took a step last week toward making county government
more user-friendly.
Council awarded a multi-year contract to Virtual Image Technology, a Fort
Mill-based firm, to provide support services for the Beaufort County Register
of Deeds.
The company will transfer deeds and other documents now maintained by the
Register of Deeds to digital computer files and microfilm. VIT also will
provide ongoing conversion services.
All deed records will be accessible via the Internet.
The initial cost for filing present records, which go back as far as 1865, is
$260,000. Continual conversion services is estimated at $8,000 per year.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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