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U-Wire 03/08/01
Commentary: Don't let your paper die; back up your files
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010308/tech-79

by Adam Goldstein
(U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- Learning the importance of backups is a lot like 
learning the importance of kneepads when you're rollerblading. Both slow you 
down and can cost a little bit extra, but it takes just one good crash to 
make you use them for the rest of your life. If you've already invested in 
patella protection, it's time to do the same for your computer. 



Federal Computer Week 02/13/01
Army fortifies records storage
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0212/web-army-02-13-01.asp

by George I. Seffers
The Army and ECCS Inc. have installed the largest segment of the service's 
new data storage system for personnel records, the company announced Feb. 8. 
The installation of 3.6 terabytes worth of storage for enlisted personnel 
records at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, is the latest successful 
implementation of the Army's new Personnel Electronic Records Management 
System (PERMS). The system is intended to provide significant cost savings 
and enable government personnel to have direct control over data. 




Houston Chronicle 03/09/01
Open records, public meetings being addressed by Legislature
Broader access to public an issue
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/845044

by Angela K. Brown
Associated Press
FORT WORTH -- When the Irving Police Department refused to release to the 
media some information about the Christmas Eve slaying of an officer, the 
Fort Worth Star-Telegram didn't give up. 
The newspaper filed a Texas Public Information Act request three days after 
Aubrey Hawkins' death, and filed another request a week later. 



Houston Chronicle 03/09/01
Bush records under wraps
Ex-governor's work sits at father's library
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/844190

by R.G. Ratcliffe
Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN -- Just days after former Gov. George W. Bush became president-elect 
last December, the official records of his state office were loaded onto four 
tractor-trailer rigs and shipped from Austin to his father's presidential 
library in College Station. 
The records, which may hold details on such matters as Bush's tax cuts or 
what he might have known about the state's brewing Medicaid crisis, sit today 
on 60 pallets sealed in plastic at the George Bush Presidential Library and 
Museum. 




Houston Chronicle 03/09/04
Protection sought for personal data
Lawmakers proposing tougher rules
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/845052

by Lisa Falkenberg
Associated Press
AUSTIN -- The state of Texas sells addresses, driver's license numbers and 
birth dates of every registered driver in Texas to just about anyone who 
wants to buy them. 
To most folks, and even some lawmakers, that's news in itself. 
Now, several lawmakers are trying to protect personal information they say is 
winding up in the wrong hands. They want to rewrite the law that lets 
marketers, advertisers and just about anyone else purchase motor vehicle 
records kept by the Texas Department of Transportation and the Department of 
Public Safety. 
The DPS sells the bulk records of 18 million Texas drivers for $1,600, said 
Frank Elder, assistant chief of the driver's license division. 



Lincoln Journal Star 03/09/01
Tribes learn how to preserve returned historical artifacts
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=2637&date=20010309&past=

by Mark Thiessen
Associated Press
OMAHA - Preserving tribal artifacts, it turns out, is easier than trying to 
preserve a tribe's language. 
Native leaders learned that neither is cheap. 
Members of tribes from as far as Oregon and Wisconsin sought direction here 
from historical preservation experts on how best to handle the various 
artifacts recently returned to them by a mandate of Congress. 
The two-day seminar that ended Thursday was aimed at educating tribes 
overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for their ancestors' artifacts, 
which were given to them as required by the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act of 1990. 




San Antonio Express-News 02/23/01
Defiant Travis letter still stirs
http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=sae

n&xlb=180&xlc=192796&xld=180

by Carmina Danini
Desperately in need of reinforcements to repel Mexican troops bent on 
crushing the rebels at the Alamo, a young cavalry colonel inside the 
beleaguered fort wrote a letter 165 years ago today that remains one of the 
most celebrated documents of the Texas Revolution. 
William Barret Travis' letter also is one of the most famous documents in 
American history, said Michael R. Green, former resident archivist for the 
Archives Division of the Texas State Library. 




New York Times 03/10/01
Prospecting for truth amid the distortions of oral history
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/10/arts/10HIST.html

by Alexander Stille
ROME -- When Alessandro Portelli was doing an oral history of a small 
working-class Italian city in the 1970's, he became puzzled when his subjects 
repeatedly made factual errors or even related events that had never 
happened. For instance, when talking about the death of a worker named Luigi 
Trastulli, who had been killed in a clash with the police in 1949, the people 
Mr. Portelli interviewed all insisted that the event had occurred during 
demonstrations in 1953. 




New York Times 03/08/01
Digitally, using discs, not tape
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/technology/08STAT.html

by David Pogue
To video nerds everywhere, the 1993 news report landed like a punch to the 
gut: according to various studies, the videotapes that store life's memories 
demagnetize, causing visible deterioration, in as little as 15 years. Sure, 
you can take the important tapes to a commercial duplication service every 
decade or so. But copying a standard analog tape (like a VHS or 8-millimeter 
cassette) substantially degrades the quality. No matter how high-tech a 
videographer you've been, your grandchildren may wind up learning about the 
important moments of your life by listening to you reminisce.



New York Times 03/10/01
Earnhardt photos compromise offered
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CAR-NASCAR-Earnhardt-Autopsy-Photos

.html?searchpv=aponline>

Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The fight over race driver Dale Earnhardt's autopsy 
photos has led to a proposed compromise that would maintain the public's 
right to see such photos but ban their copying.
The First Amendment Foundation, a Tallahassee-based organization that 
advocates open government, suggested the compromise after Earnhardt's widow 
and race fans attacked the Orlando Sentinel for seeking access to the photos, 
which are normally public record under Florida law.



Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
03/06/01
Regional Frick papers to stay
<http://www.triblive.com/live/news/news_story.html?rkey=98690+sid=38ce2b3229ec

113ac5f71c50d41e5501+cat=news-pittsburgh+template=news1.html>

by Bill Zlatos
Some of Henry Clay Frick's documents may be shipped to New York, but two 
descendants of the industrialist vow to keep fighting the transfer of any 
material from Pittsburgh. 
Under an agreement announced Monday between the Pennsylvania Attorney 
General's Office and The Henry Clay Frick Foundation, the University of 
Pittsburgh library would receive Frick's business papers and other materials 
of interest to western Pennsylvania. 



Reuters 03/08/01
CS unit found guilty of Japan obstruction charges
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010308/02/financial-japan-creditsuisse

by Hideyuki Sano
TOKYO, March 8 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP) was found 
guilty on Thursday of charges it obstructed a Japanese government inspection, 
becoming the first foreign bank to be found guilty of criminal charges. 
CSFP, a London-based derivatives-trading subsidiary of Swiss financial 
conglomerate Credit Suisse Group Inc, was ordered to pay a fine of 40 million 
yen ($334,400) by the Tokyo District Court. 



St. Petersburg Times 03/10/01
USF didn't provide documents as requested last year
http://www.sptimes.com/News/031001/TampaBay/USF_didn_t_provide_do.shtml

by Ernest Hooper
The forced resignation of University of South Florida athletic director Paul 
Griffin came just days after the St. Petersburg Times disclosed that several 
documents relating to charges of racial discrimination within the women's 
basketball program were not given to the newspaper when requested last 
August, possibly in violation of the state's public records law. 




Dallas Morning News 03/09/01
Bill lays out conditions to seal warrants
Specific guidelines would be set
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/306881_search_09tex.A.html

by Natalie Gott
Associated Press
AUSTIN - Judges and prosecutors would have to follow specific criteria if 
they wanted to seal a search warrant affidavit under a bill by a senator who 
has been an advocate of open government. 
Under the bill, the search warrant could be sealed to protect the safety of a 
confidential informant, witness or peace officer; to prevent the destruction 
of evidence; to prevent the disclosure of certain information obtained from a 
court-ordered wiretap; or to prevent flight from arrest. 



Dallas Morning News 03/09/01
Financing for Clinton Library ruled proper
Plaintiff invited to verify Little Rock's compliance
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/306868_arlibrary.ART.html

by Chuck Bartels
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday that Little Rock 
didn't need to ask voters for permission to buy land for the Clinton 
Presidential Library but said the city's funding method could be challenged 
again. 
Nora Harris had sued the city, alleging a shell game in which Little Rock 
would use its general fund to pay off $16.5 million in bonds in violation of 
state law. 



USA Today 03/09/01
Archives exhibit is an American original
Scribblings and speeches will soon be touring USA
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010309/3125290s.htm

by Gregg Zoroya
WASHINGTON -- From her office in the bowels of the National Archives Building 
-- home to America's most treasured documents and in dire need of the 
renovation set to begin this year -- curator Stacey Bredhoff assembles the 
words. 
These are not the words most Americans associate with the Archives, those of 
the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, 
which will be removed from public display this summer while a two-year 
face-lift of the 1935 building begins. 



The Sunday Times 03/11/01
Brando inspired by vision of Mons angel
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/11/stinwenws02023.html

by Nicholas Hellen
Media Editor
FOR years the film footage lay neglected in a military trunk, even though the 
man who shot it claimed it was evidence of the Angel of Mons, the apparition 
seen by soldiers before they died in the first world war. 
To the owner of a junk shop in Monmouth, it was worth £15. Yet last week it 
was bought for £350,000 by a Hollywood director in partnership with Marlon 
Brando, to form the centrepiece of a romantic epic. 



Seattle Times 03/10/01
Business leaves no shred of evidence
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slu

g=shredit10&date=20010310

When news hits about identity thieves snatching Social Security numbers, or 
when sleuths working for a company like Oracle get caught digging in 
Microsoft's trash, Don Kiele gets phone calls. 
It wasn't always so easy to convince people they needed to shred documents. 
When Kiele got started five years ago as a general manager for Shred-it of 
Western Washington, he asked banks, hospitals and big corporations whether 
they were careful to destroy sensitive information before dumping it. 


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

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