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RAIN 03/19: Weekend Update Part 2



[Inside] 03/15/01
Court seals documents for Samaha's Franchise, while foe brings out forensic
gunslinger
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=26042&pod_id=10

by Kim Masters
A federal court handed Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures a partial victory on
Thursday by agreeing to seal some of the documents filed in a suit brought
by the producer's erstwhile German backer, Intertainment.
Intertainment, declaring itself ''satisfied'' with the court's ruling,
released its forensics analysis of an alleged smoking-gun document that it
claims was signed by Franchise president Andrew Stevens. The report from
Forensic Science Laboratories concludes that Stevens's signature is
authentic. Stevens has denied that he ever signed the document in question.



Bangor Daily News 03/16/01
Buyers end fight for right to document
http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=30786

by David Sharp
Associated Press
AUGUSTA - A Pittsburgh businessman and a New York manuscript dealer who bid
$99,000 for a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence have given up
their fight to keep the document, the state announced Thursday.
The auction buyers agreed to turn over possession of the document to the
town of North Yarmouth after new information about the chain of ownership
surfaced during a legal battle, said James Henderson, state archivist.



Durango Herald 02/17/01
Courts shrink paperwork with computer filing
http://www.durangoherald.com/1news3992.htm

by Matt Joyce
Attorneys and judges in the Sixth Judicial District are now able to file
some court documents online as part of a statewide effort to make the
justice system more efficient.
Licensed attorneys can now e-file all court proceedings for civil and
domestic relations cases. Judges can also issue orders and decisions
electronically.
"Anything that you normally file on paper can be filed on our system," said
Laurie Machado, an employee of CourtLink, a Bellevue, Wash., company that
manages JusticeLink, the e-filing service.



Durango Herald 02/24/01
DHS students find out secrets about tobacco
http://www.durangoherald.com/1news4028.htm

by Shane Benjamin
For decades the cigarette industry has been marketing to children, adding
chemicals to its product and telling lies about the harmful effects smoking
can have, an anti-tobacco activist told students.
The news is not new, but it was reiterated again Friday in front of Durango
High School students and local anti-tobacco activists.



The Recorder 03/16/01
Federal court now just a click away
http://www.callaw.com/stories/edt0316b.shtml

by Jason Hoppin
Once upon a time, in a district court not so far away, attorneys filed
motions for summary judgment, declarations and proposed orders on paper, in
court and in person.
But a brave new world beckoned, where lawyers lawyered their cases from
home, in their pajamas, with an empty carton of kung pao at their
fingertips.
That time is at hand. Beginning April 2, the Northern District of California
will begin the laborious switch to a more efficient form of case management
-- electronic filing.
The move is not expected to come without kinks or controversy. In fact, the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts will hold hearings today on an
issue that has captured the public's attention -- privacy in the digital
age.



freedomforum.org 03/16/01
Speakers make case for Web access to public records
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13452

By Christy Mumford Jerding
ARLINGTON, Va. - The medium makes all the difference when it comes to access
to public court records, several panelists said today at the National
Freedom of Information Day conference.
"Any one of you can go down to the courthouse, report to the clerk, look up
[a case] ... sit down at a desk and spend as little or as much time as you
like" reviewing court records, Judge Rudolph Kass of the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Web Advisory Committee said at the conference's opening
session at The Freedom Forum World Center. "But it's work" to get the
information. The U.S. Supreme Court once referred to this laborious process
when it noted the "practical obscurity" of public court records, he said.




Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 03/16/01
Legislator seeks audit of travel files
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Fri/ark/A8yxgr-workers16.html

by Chris Osher
A state legislator who wants to abolish a division of the Workers'
Compensation Commission announced Wednesday that she has asked the governor
for an investigation into travel records of the employees whose jobs she is
targeting.
State Rep. Sandra Rodgers, D-Hope, spoke up at the conclusion of a
contentious hearing before the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor
Committee. She said she believes duplication of travel reimbursements have
occurred at the agency.



Reuters 03/14/01
NetTrends: Imaginary friend causing data overload
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010314/14/column-nettrends

by Peter Henderson
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) - Tommy is an imaginary friend, living in today's
digital world, and soon you will be just like him.
Tommy captures images of his family and friends on digital cameras and
camcorders, designs complex buildings with software instead of pen and
paper, writes a lot of e-mail and has a fair amount of tests done at the
local hospital.
Altogether, Tommy and organizations keeping tabs on him -- from retailer
Amazon.com's records to the hospital holding an MRI scan -- last year
created digital data about 1/10th the size of the print collection of the
U.S. Library of Congress, were it to be put on disk.




New York Times  03/15/01
It's a dirty job, but now the Web offers help
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15SUDS.html

by Joyce Cohen
DOING the laundry - always a chore - became a little less unpleasant this
semester for Cindy Ku and other students at her M.I.T. dormitory.
Her dorm is home to an experimental laundry room, with 20 brand- new washers
and dryers connected to the Internet.
Ms. Ku must still run downstairs to the laundry room to load and unload her
clothes. And she must still vie for a machine during the peak washday,
Sunday, the only day she can squeeze laundry into her schedule.



New York Times 03/15/01
Web sites unlock the doors of famous prisons
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15GRAB.html

by Michael Pollack
IN the center of modern London, there is a medieval castle the very name of
which was enough to strike terror into the hearts of the bravest men. . . ."

So speaks Tony Strafford, a retired sergeant major in the British army, to
the accompaniment of gloriously spooky organ music in his introduction to
"Tales From the Tower" on the Tower of London site
(www.tower-of-london.com). Produced by Camelot International and the yeoman
warders, the uniformed attendants of the Tower, the site, one of many prison
sites online, compresses 900 years of bloody history into a rousing royal
tour.



New York Times 03/15/01
Welcome to the World Wide Web. Passport, Please?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15BORD.html

by Lisa Guernsey
LAST fall, a French judge named Jean-Jacques Gomez made Internet history,
and attracted a flock of critics, when he ordered the Yahoo Web site to
prevent French residents from viewing Nazi memorabilia in its online
auctions.
To Yahoo, the appearance of Nazi uniforms and other objects was simply an
unintended byproduct of the borderless Internet: the items, which were being
offered by sellers all over the world, happened to be on French computer
screens.



New York Times 03/16/01
'Wols: Vintage photographs from the 1930's': A master is born
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/arts/16LOKE.html

by Margarett Loke
Art, like life, takes strange turns. If "Wols: Vintage Photographs From the
1930's," at the Ubu Gallery, is a sign of things to come, the German-French
artist who went by the name Wols, known for decades as a postwar abstract
painter, may end up being better known for a masterly body of photographic
work long hidden from view.



Pierre Capital Journal 03/15/01
Genealogists find wealth of information
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1541868&BRD=1130&PAG=461&dept_id=
99675&rfi=6>

by Patrick Baker
Genealogical study begins at home and then works its way backward through
time
Laura Glum is a co-founder of the Pierre - Fort Pierre Genealogy Society,
the origin of which dates back to the early 1970s. She said people should
thoroughly investigate their own history by examining documents at home and
talking to familiar relatives before jumping into archival study.
Glum said, "You always start from what you know and go into what you don't
know. The first thing you have to do is know all about yourself.



PlanetPDF 03/16/01
Out of business: Adobe Acrobat Business Tools
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?WebPageID=1327

Citing slow sales and very low awareness, Adobe Systems is discontinuing the
sales and development of its Acrobat Business Tools product. "It just didn't
hit the mass market," said Rick Armstrong, Senior Product Manager for
Adobe's ePaper Solutions group, citing that the year-old Business Tools
accounted for a "very small percentage of total Acrobat sales."
Announced in late 1999, Business Tools was intended to fill the large gap --
in both functionality and price -- between its free Acrobat Reader and the
commercial, full-featured Adobe Acrobat product.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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