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RAIN 4/15: Weekend Update Part I: Human Chain
Topeka Capital Journal 4/13/01
Access to inmate records denied
http://cjonline.com/stories/041301/kan_recordsrequest.shtml
by Paul Eakins
Certain prison records of Kansas inmates aren't accessible under the Kansas
Open Records Act, a Shawnee County District Court judge has ruled.
During an investigation into homicides committed by prison parolees, the
Wichita Eagle learned that about 20 murders had been committed by parolees
from 1997 through 1999 throughout Kansas. In its request for correctional
records of the parolees, the Eagle asked the Kansas Department of Corrections
for information on several inmates whose cases hadn't yet gone to court, said
Bill Tretbar, attorney for the newspaper.
Hartford Courant 4/12/01
Preserving 'History Through Deaf Eyes'
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bfromind=585&eeid=4374593&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0
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by Stephanie Reitz
WEST HARTFORD - The smell of history permeates this room. It's the essence of
parchment and bound leather, evoking old family Bibles or tucked-away letters
browned at the creases.
For decades, the Gallaudet-Clerc Historical Room at the American School for
the Deaf - one of the nation's premiere repositories of the history of deaf
education - has been a work in progress.
ASD insiders knew the room's contents, housed at the country's oldest school
for the deaf, represented only a portion of the school's archival holdings.
Dallas Morning News 4/13/01
Bill would tidy up record transfers
Laws didn't anticipate transition to governor
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/337726_perry_13tex.AR.html
by Wayne Slater
AUSTIN - When Rick Perry got a new job in December, he cleaned out the
records at the lieutenant governor's office and transferred everything to his
new office as governor.
Now, he wants to clean up state law to make sure it was legal.
Under a bill filed this week at Mr. Perry's request, "a lieutenant governor
who vacates the office of lieutenant governor to complete the unexpired term
of the governor" can legally transfer the records from one office to the
other.
Dallas Morning News 4/13/01
Security bug discovered in Alcatel's DSL modems
http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/337683_modem_13bus.AR.html
by Vikas Bajaj
Two California researchers say they have found a security flaw in Alcatel
SA's residential digital subscriber line modems that could allow hackers to
disable the high-speed Internet access devices.
No cases of hackers exploiting the bug have surfaced, Alcatel officials said.
The Speed Touch Home modems are available through several DSL providers
including Southwestern Bell and Pacific Bell, divisions of SBC Communications
Inc. of San Antonio.
Internetnews.com 4/13/01
EDGAR to usher in new era of XML
http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article/0,,5_742881,00.html
by Bob Liu
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stands on the verge of ushering
in a new era of electronic financial reporting, but less than half of all
filers of corporate documentation this past season have demonstrated they are
willing to accept to the new standard.
A week from now, on Friday, April 20, every publicly traded company will need
to transmit documents to the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and
Retrieval system -- better known to the world as EDGAR -- using Extensible
Forms Description Language (XFDL) rather than Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML). As opposed to HMTL or plain old ASCii files, XFDL is an open
protocol for securely sending and receiving legally-binding XML documents.
The Irish Times 4/13/01
£10m to buy heritage artefacts
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0413/hom4.htm
by Robert O'Byrne
The Government intends to create a £10 million fund for acquiring artefacts
of significant heritage value. The fund will be available to the State's main
cultural institutions.
The Minister for Arts, Ms de Valera, has announced the publication of a Bill
to establish the fund on a statutory basis. This year the intention is that
£3 million will be made available by the Oireachtas to establish this new
resource.
Las Vegas Review-Journal 4/13/01
The Strip: Casinos to pay penalties
Excalibur will settle immigration documents dispute
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Apr-13-Fri-2001/business/15863276.html
by Tony Batt
lasvegas.com Gaming Wire
WASHINGTON -- The Excalibur will pay more than $50,000 in civil penalties and
back pay to 22 employees who were fired or suspended because of a dispute
over immigration documents, according to the Department of Justice.
In another casino case recently settled with the government, Harrah's
Entertainment Inc. has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve environmental claims
against its M/V Star Casino in Lake Charles, La.
Associated Press 4/13/01
Newspaper files new request to see autopsy photos
http://www.oweb.com/newslink/sports/CARNASCAREarnhardtH0387.html
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A University of Florida student newspaper filed a
new request Thursday to see Dale Earnhardt's autopsy photos.
Meanwhile, the Daytona International Speedway physician who blamed
Earnhardt's death on a faulty seat belt backed away from his previous
statements.
The new cross-claim filed by the Independent Florida Alligator against the
Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office addresses developments in the case
that weren't present when the original request was filed last month. A
Deland-based Web site is also seeking access to the autopsy photos.
New York Times 4/13/01
Bush accepts rules to guard privacy of medical records
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/politics/13PRIV.html
by Robert Pear
WASHINGTON, April 12 - President Bush announced today that sweeping rules to
protect the privacy of medical records would take effect on Saturday. But he
said the rules, issued by President Bill Clinton, could later be revised or
clarified to address "legitimate concerns" of the health care industry.
The rules establish the first comprehensive federal standards for medical
privacy. They will affect virtually every doctor, patient, hospital, pharmacy
and health insurance plan in the United States.
The Wichita Eagle 4/13/01
Parolees' records to stay closed, court says
<http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/04/13/kansas/0413open_t
xt.htm>
by Tim Potter
A judge has rejected most of The Wichita Eagle's lawsuit seeking state
records on parolees accused of murder.
The newspaper filed its lawsuit against the Kansas Department of Corrections
in November 1999, citing public safety concerns over monitoring of parolees.
Questions have been raised recently over a parole paperwork mistake that led
to the premature release of Reginald Carr days before he became a suspect in
the killing of five Wichitans.
In arguing against the lawsuit, the Department of Corrections said that the
records sought by the newspaper constitute parole "supervision history" that
is closed by state law.
River Falls Journal 4/12/01
Final documents received on RF Utility director's 'resignation'
http://www.rivertowns.net/daily/rfj/c010412/#s010412a
by Phil Pfuehler
The last set of records on the departure of former River Falls Utility
General Manager Victor Marma show he was paid more than $92,000 to quit.
The River Falls Journal filed an open-records request under state law to find
all relevant information pertaining to Marma's resignation Feb. 28.
At the time, Marma quite abruptly and gave no reason. Other public officials
also refused to comment.
San Francisco Chronicle 4/13/01
Memories of a Movement
UC Berkeley holds digital archives of '60s student protest
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/13/M
N12743.DTL
by Charles Burress
Berkeley -- The remains of the fabled Free Speech Movement ironically have
come to their final resting place in the vaults of the movement's enemy --
the University of California at Berkeley.
The university was, according to the FSM, an extension of the capitalist
machine devouring our freedoms, but it turns out that UC Berkeley, or at
least its Bancroft Library, has become one of the greatest allies that the
movement ever had.
Until now, records of the 1964 Free Speech Movement have been kept carefully
guarded in the vast history archives of the somewhat forbidding Bancroft,
where visitors are subjected to registration and restrictions on what they
can bring in.
The Tennessean 1/23/01
Debate ends with archives director named
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/01/01983333.shtml?Element_ID=19833
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by Sue McClure
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - Maury County Commissioner Bob Duncan was appointed to the
newly created post of county archives director yesterday, but only after a
contentious and confusing argument among county commissioners.
The question: Who has ultimate authority to appoint department heads - the
county executive or the County Commission?
The Maury County Commission wound up confirming Duncan's appointment in two
ways. First, based on county commissioners' nominations, and second, on a
nomination from County Executive Ed Harlan. The confusion left both
commissioners and spectators shaking their heads.
The Tennessean 2/18/01
Library, archives items soon may be as close as computer
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/02/02623497.shtml?Element_ID=26234
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by Warren Duzak
A time will come soon when a significant portion of the Nashville Public
Library's historic and special collections and almost all of the Metro
Archives will be as close as your computer keyboard.
The library is digitizing material in preparation for its move to a new
building later this year, and the most significant effort is under way at the
Metro Archives. There, the paper trail the city and county has left since the
1780s is almost overwhelming.
The Tennessean 1/14/01
Metro acts to preserve its archives
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/01/01823291.shtml?Element_ID=18232
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by Anne Paine
When Metro destroyed stacks of deed books dating from 1952 into 1964 last
January, archivists cringed.
Some records are worth keeping, they say. That includes deeds, marriages,
wills and certain court documents.
The Register of Deed's office had microfilmed the deed books - to the great
relief of the archivists. They say microfilm is second best to the paper copy.
The Tennessean 4/12/01
Human chain to hand deliver first book to new Maury archives
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04117841.shtml?Element_ID=41178
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by Sue McClure
COLUMBIA - Maury County Archivist Bob Duncan loves history.
So much so that he wants everyone in the county to make history on May 1 by
forming a human chain linking the courthouse to the new Maury County Archives
building.
The point isn't just to link the two buildings, but to physically pass - hand
to hand to hand - the first document from its former home in the courthouse
to the newly renovated archives building, which, in an earlier life, was the
Maury County jail.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com
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