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RAIN 04/01: Weekend Update
Earthvision.net 3/27/01
Watchdog group posts 50 years of internal chemical industry documents on
Internet
http://www.earthvision.net/ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=15439
EarthVision Environmental News
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2001 - A nonprofit environmental research group known
for its hard-hitting computer investigations has today posted a vast trove of
internal chemical industry documents on the Internet.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) will launch the website - the
Chemical Industry Archives - with an initial collection of more than 35,000
pages of chemical industry insider documents spanning five decades. The
collection is subtitled, "The documents America's chemical companies thought
you'd never read."
Bergen Record 3/30/01
Sunshine law compromise reached
http://www.bergen.com/region/accessjc200103306.htm
by John Cichowski
TRENTON -- After weeks of bickering, New Jersey's leading press and victims'
rights groups agreed Thursday to find a way to provide public access to
government records without violating the privacy of crime victims.
Following meetings outside state Senate chambers, representatives of the New
Jersey Press Association and the New Jersey Victims Rights Law Center said
they would draft suitable language that would allow the state's 37-year-old
Open Public Records Act to be improved.
Star Tribune 3/30/01
Coming this year: A museum worthy of ham called Spam
http://startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=metro_a_cache&slug
=tcj30
by Chuck Haga
AUSTIN, MINN. -- The new specialized museum opening here later this year will
have a 45-seat movie theater, a gift shop, a cafe ("Want some canned luncheon
meat with that?") and interactive displays.
It will have 20,000 square feet of space inside and sculpted grounds outside,
crested by a bronze statue of noble figures: two giant pigs followed by a
farmer carrying a prod and a bucket of feed corn.
And it all will be devoted to Spam -- not computer junk mail, but the
luncheon meat that won World War II.
Hannibal Courier-Post 3/30/01
State supreme court is hosting judicial history exhibit
http://www.hannibal.net/stories/033001/com_0330010007.html
JEFFERSON CITY As visitors enter the Supreme Court this spring, they will
see a different kind of verdict: "The Verdict of History." The "Verdict of
History" is an exhibit that examines Missouri's judicial record, on loan to
the court from the Missouri State Archives for a limited time.
Supreme Court Archivist Joe Benson procured the exhibit and planned its
rotating display. The current display includes eight of the exhibit's 53
panels.
Newsfactor.com 3/30/01
IBM Holocaust lawsuit dropped
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/8596.html
by Robyn Weisman
The lead attorney for five plaintiffs who last month sued IBM (NYSE: IBM) for
"knowingly suppl[ying] technology used to catalog death camp victims and
aid[ing] in [their] persecution, suffering, and genocide" has agreed to drop
the case.
Michael D. Hausfeld, the plaintiff's attorney, told news sources Thursday
that the case would be dropped so that his clients, all Holocaust survivors,
would be able to collect from the compensation fund jointly established by
the German government and German businesses.
Los Angeles Times 3/30/01
Mexican report contradicts claims '40s war workers weren't paid
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010330/t000027318.html
by Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez
Most of the millions of dollars deducted as savings from the paychecks of
Mexican laborers who came to the United States during the 1940s was later
repaid, according to Mexican government records that contradict key
assertions of a growing reparations movement.
Thousands of surviving migrants on both sides of the border contend they were
cheated out of money that they earned toiling in fields and rail yards to
replace U.S. workers drafted in World War II. As an incentive for their
return to Mexico, under the agreement between the two nations, 10% of each
worker's wages was deducted from the migrant's paychecks to be forwarded to a
Mexican bank.
National Post 3/30/01
Napoleonic 1814 treaty relieved
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20010330/517017.h
tml
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - John William Rooney and Marshall Lawrence Pierce III are
no ordinary thieves, according to a U.S. indictment.
While most crooks make off with jewels or cash, Mr. Rooney and Mr. Pierce,
both of whom have PhDs, face charges of stealing the 1814 Treaty of
Fontainebleau, in which Napoleon renounced his claim to the French empire and
was sent to exile on the island of Elba.
The treaty disappeared 12 years ago from the French National Archives in
Paris, but police only caught on to the two men when Mr. Pierce, who also
uses the name Frederick Tomcezak, allegedly tried to auction it off through
Sotheby's.
New York Times 3/30/01
Movie industry frowns on Professor's software gallery
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/technology/30CYBERLAW.html
by David F. Gallagher
Prof. David S. Touretzky, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University,
says he has never watched a movie on DVD, much less copied one illegally. So
why is the movie industry calling him a pirate?
The answer can be found on a university site which houses an unusual Web
project launched by Professor Touretzky - a project which has turned him into
something of a celebrity in Internet legal circles. His site is a gallery
devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed
illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on
DVD movies.
Nando Times 3/30/01
Princeton unseals Lindbergh manuscripts
http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500468937-500717436-503989041-
0,00.html
by Linda A. Johnson
Associated Press
PRINCETON, N.J. (March 30, 2001 11:19 a.m. EST) - Princeton University has
unsealed controversial manuscripts written by Charles and Anne Lindbergh on
the eve of World War II and thousands of letters in response to them.
The documents included drafts of a magazine article by Charles Lindbergh and
a book by Anne Lindbergh, both advocating that the United States stay out of
World War II.
Reuters 3/30/01
Marriott faces suit over Puerto Rico luxury hotel
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010330/15/leisure-marriott
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Green Isle Partners sued Marriott International Inc.
Friday, accusing the hotel operator of breaching contracts, falsifying
records and using kickback schemes to defraud it while running Green Isle's
luxury hotel and spa in Puerto Rico.
Green Isle, which seeks at least $420 million in damages, alleged in court
papers filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware that Marriott, its high-end
Ritz Carlton chain and other affiliates cost it money by forcing its hotel to
buy from their vendors, making fake entries in its books and inducing it to
accept a $22 million loan from a Marriott unit.
The Advocate 3/31/01
Archives get Civil War era papers NSU
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=20396
THIBODAUX -- A Donaldsonville resident and Nicholls State University alumnus
has donated 85 Civil War-era newspapers to the NSU Archives in Ellender
Memorial Library
Ottawa Citizen 3/31/01
Hydro papers on severance 'lost' in shuffle
City and utility each say other has documents
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/city/010331/5009963.html
by Ken Gray
Numerous important and sensitive documents concerning the Ottawa transition
board's creation of Hydro Ottawa are missing from the City of Ottawa's
archives.
"Personal and confidential" board papers on Hydro are in the utility's hands
while general documents are stored at the city, said municipal
freedom-of-information officer Shane Kennedy.
Tampa Tribune 3/31/01
Local historian documents details of West Tampa's past
http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAZUQ1MYKC.html
by Janis D. Froelich
As a local historian, Arsenio Sanchez is a stickler for detail. So it's not
good enough for him to recall his University of Florida graduation as
``1951.''
With his wife, Mary, cooking a pot of lentils on a recent morning, Sanchez
gets up from the sofa in the adjoining living room to quickly sort through
boxes on his back porch.
He emerges with a typed account of his life and zeros in on his diploma day:
July 18, 1951.
The Guardian 3/31/01
Archives lost as arson wrecks ballet's temporary HQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,466159,00.html
by Martin Wainwright
Arsonists have wrecked the headquarters of one of Britain's leading ballet
companies in a blaze which destroyed historic archives and left thousand of
pounds' worth of costumes soaked and smoke-damaged.
Petty thieves are suspected of setting alight the former school in Leeds
which is housing the Northern Ballet Theatre temporarily until a £6m new base
in the city's arts quarter is finished in two years. Hundreds of letters -
some from past performers, critics and the ballet's late director,
Christopher Gable - have been lost, along with contracts and other details
for forthcoming productions and tours.
Chicago Sun-Times 4/01/01
The library that never was
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/jesse01.html
by Tim Novack and Chuck Neubauer
When Operation PUSH officials were planning to open the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
Civil Rights Library in 1993, they received help from the state
librarian--then-Secretary of State George Ryan.
But after eight years and $52,779 in state grants, the Jackson library is
still just a dream.
"It was so disorganized," said Alice Calabrese, executive director of the
Chicago Library System, a state-funded agency that oversaw three grants Ryan
gave PUSH between 1993 and 1997.
"There's no librarian," she said. "We haven't heard anything in three or four
years. I'm still waiting for them to come back. I think part of the problem
is that it was going to cost a lot of money . . . and the state wasn't going
to do that."
Los Angeles Times 04/01/01
Abe Lincoln and the truth get mugged at the click of a mouse
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/20010401/t000027814.html
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
At St. Joseph, Mo., in the spring of 1861, the young rider for the Pony
Express tucked a copy of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address into his
saddlebag and began the journey that transmitted the new president's words to
Sacramento, Calif., in a record time of seven days and 17 hours. In little
more than a week, the entire country could read of Lincoln's hope of averting
war and his belief that in time, the "mystic chords of memory" would heal the
country's widening divisions.
Web Techniques April 2001
Making your mark
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/04/wudowsky/
by Claire L. Wudowsky
I received an email a few days ago about developing a domain name acquisition
strategy. The author indicated that I should choose a word that describes my
business or product and then register this word and all its misspellings.
This procedure is fine if a company wants a domain name that's merely an
online address; however, the method is quite shortsighted if a company also
wants its domain name to be its identifying trademark or brand name. Dot-com
companies, like their brick and mortar counterparts, must plan for the long
term if their businesses are to thrive and prosper. Adopting and maintaining
strong trademarks or brand names should be part of this long-term plan.
New York Times 04/01/01
Papers sue for autopsy photos
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/national/01EARN.html
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 31 - Two Florida newspapers have sued officials in
Broward County, saying that a new state law that bans the release of autopsy
photographs violates First Amendment guarantees and state law.
The suit, which was filed on Friday, came a day after Gov. Jeb Bush signed
the bill into law. The law grew out of pressure brought by Teresa Earnhardt,
the widow of the race car driver Dale Earnhardt, who died on Feb. 18 in a
final-lap crash at the Daytona 500.
Pioneer-Planet 04/01/01
Your permanent record
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/tod/news/docs/037016.htm
by Kristina Torres
It's the ultimate threat, what true believers think principals have tattooed
on those biceps toned by years of paper-lifting:
``This will go on your permanent record.''
Ooh, mama. The ``this'' in this utterance is never good. But what, exactly,
is a permanent record, who sees it and how long can it haunt you?
``There is very little that is defined as `permanent,' '' assures Steve
Schellenberg, director of compliance for the St. Paul school district, as he
reels off a list that includes attendance records, graduation date and high
school grades (doh!). ``And it may be a permanent record, but it still is a
private record.''
Web Techniques April 2001
Protecting your digital valuables
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/04/stratrevu/
by Bill Pitzer
As companies continue to build their Web presence, they're realizing the
importance of their digital assets. These assets-such as photos, marketing
collateral, Word documents, and multimedia files-are traditionally associated
with companies that deal specifically in print or other media, but
organizations in other sectors are beginning to see the value of properly
managing these files. Not only must internal users be able to quickly access
various media, it's critical to properly safeguard this valuable intellectual
property.
Biloxi Sun-Herald 04/01/01
Auditor to examine supervisor's $1M escrow account
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/04/01/pageone/3853747_04012001.ht
m
by Patrick Peterson and Geoff Pender
State Auditor Phil Bryant says he will further investigate the $1
million-a-year "escrow account" operated by the Harrison County Board of
Supervisors.
Bryant also has asked Attorney General Mike Moore for an opinion on whether
the account is legal.
Bryant said he will investigate whether supervisors are abiding by state
"unit system" and other laws that require supervisors to act and spend tax
money as a board and not run their voting districts like mini-governments.
Individual supervisors are prohibited from direct day-to-day control of
purchases, projects and workers.
Boston Globe 3/31/01
Belongings, including dirty socks, of 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman on display
at Uconn
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/090/region/Belongings_including_dirty_soc:.sht
ml
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Nearly 100 pieces of memorabilia, documents even
unwashed socks that belonged to 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman will be
displayed beginning Sunday at the University of Connecticut.
The items, including declassified FBI documents related to his arrest at the
violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, will be exhibited
through May 25.
CNET News.com 04/01/01
Hackers say corporate security still poor
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5383459.html
by Robert Lemos
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Companies are paying more attention to
safeguarding their digital assets, but the overall state of corporate data
security is still poor, said hackers and security experts attending the
CanSecWest conference on Thursday.
The conference--whose speakers include creators of major open-source security
tools as well as security specialists--has brought together not theorists but
the software mechanics who create and break network security for a living.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com
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