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RAIN 4/20: Cairo, Philippines, 50MM hits, $100K fine, lost email



The Daily Californian 4/18/01
1964 Free Speech Movement digitized by UC-Berkeley library
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010418/tech-177

by Cyrus Farivar
U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- For the first time, people from all over the
world can now access archives of University of California-Berkeley's 1964
Free Speech Movement through the Internet.
UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library announced Friday the launch of a new Web
site, which which contains over 35,000 pages of Free Speech Movement
literature, including speeches, texts, letters and even a poem by an
anonymous student recounting the tumultuous times of 1964.


New York Times 4/19/01
A writer at his wit's end? Burrows winds up in the library
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/19/arts/19BURR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Mel Gussow
In March 1956, a young New York comedy writer living in the Hollywood
Hawaiian apartment hotel in Los Angeles sent a plaintive letter to a distant
cousin who had been instrumental in helping him find a job on the "NBC
Comedy Hour."
Although he had been in Hollywood for only five weeks, he was already tired
of the place and critical of the political maneuverings of producers. In his
response, the cousin expressed his sympathy and recalled that his first show
in California, the "Texaco Star Theater" on radio in 1939, was "also a mess
- full of competition and backbiting and unhappiness."



ABC News 4/19/01
Opposition concerned over national archives move
http://abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-19apr2001-77.htm

The Federal Opposition is concerned the sale of a building which houses the
National Archives in Brisbane will lead to the destruction of scores of
historically significant documents.
The archives will re-locate to a smaller shop in Brisbane's city centre from
next year.


Charlotte Observer 4/19/01
Bill gives protection to conversation with crisis center staff
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/source0419.htm

Conversations between a domestic violence or sexual assault victim and a
crisis center worker would remain private in most circumstances under a bill
approved by a House panel Wednesday.
The measure, prompted by an Orange County case last year in which an
attorney for a rape suspect sought records from a center, makes words and
records between a victim and a worker at a rape crisis or domestic violence
center a new privileged communication in the state courts.
"It would prevent easy access to records and information," said Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, the bill sponsor.


CNN 4/18/01
Make your own Nixon Tape
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/18/nixon.tapes.ap/index.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly three decades after Watergate, the tables have
turned. Now the public can tape Richard Nixon.
Friday is the first make-your-own Nixon tape day at the National Archives in
College Park, Maryland.



Washington Post 4/18/01
Nixon tapes will be open to copying at Archives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28912-2001Apr17.html

by George Lardner Jr
Hundreds of hours of former president Richard M. Nixon's White House tapes
will be available for copying for the first time at the National Archives in
College Park under an agreement announced yesterday by Nixon's estate.
The Archives said researchers could bring their tape recorders and blank
tapes to the facility and plug them in, starting Friday, without any
charges.
Until now, those interested could listen to publicly released tapes at the
Archives and take notes or even make their own transcripts, but they could
not make copies of the recordings.


Associated Press 4/19/01
Computer group to sell warning data
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010419/13/computer-security

by D. Ian Hopper
WASHINGTON (AP) - A taxpayer-funded computer security group will sell its
security warnings to corporations - a service that already comes free to
government agencies.
Over 30 corporations have expressed interest in the service, provided by the
CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.


Otago Daily Times 4/17/01
Deputy statistician named to chief archivist position
http://www1.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=17Apr2001&object=0410840443&type=
html

Wellington: Deputy government statistician Dianne Macaskill has been
appointed chief executive of Archives New Zealand and chief archivist.


The Daily Universe 4/18/01
Ellis Island database opens
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010418/tech-170

by Alex B. Leeman
(U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- More than 100 million Americans now have a new
window into their past.
The American Family Immigration History Center at the Ellis Island
Immigration Museum was opened Tuesday as the culmination of a seven-year
partnership between the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, the
National Park Service, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


New York Times 4/19/01
Granddaughter of Lewis Carroll's muse puts collection up for sale
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/19/arts/19ALIC.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Sarah Lyall
LONDON, April 18 - Mary Jean St. Clair has only vague memories of her
grandmother Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, who died in 1934, at 82. And as a
child she was only dimly aware of Mrs. Hargreaves's singular place in
children's literature, as the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass."


The Virginian-Pilot 4/19/01
Airport manager stops city audit
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0419ref.html

by Robert McCabe
CHESAPEAKE -- Just a few weeks after telling city auditors that he would
allow them access to bookkeeping records he had refused to release for more
than eight months, the manager of Chesapeake Regional Airport has changed
his mind.
``Basically, they reneged,'' Airport Manager John Beaulieu said of city
auditors, adding that when they refused to follow prearranged terms for the
inspection of his private companies' records, he shut down the audit.


Houston Press 4/19/01
Custody Battle
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-04-19/stuff.html

by Robert Wilonsky
Joe Simon doesn't read comic books anymore, and not because he's an
87-year-old man with far better ways to spend his time. The former and,
perhaps, future comics writer and illustrator simply doesn't get them
anymore; he doesn't know who they're for, what they're about, why most of
them even exist. Back in his day, Simon and his colleagues, writers and
artists plying their trade in smoky office buildings, knew their audience:
12-year-old boys. They knew what they wanted: good guys in tights beating up
the bad guys, who most often looked a lot like a guy named Adolf.


The Independent 4/19/01
Archive to shed light on tangled affairs of artful lovers
Business 'recluse' gives £2.2m to build Tate art library
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=67507

A mini British Library for art is to be set up at the Tate Britain gallery
in London. The centre will include hitherto unseen letters and manuscripts
from some of Britain's most famous artists, and hundreds of photographs
taken by artists of their contemporaries.



Irish Independent 4/19/01
Departments fail to clear records jam
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=413409&iss
ue_id=4324

by Kathy Donaghy
THE failure of Government Departments to clear the backlog of records was
yesterday highlighted in the report of the National Archives Advisory
Council.
In its report for 1999, the Council reiterated its concern at the failure of
some Government Departments to transfer records and in particular the
backlog of pre-1960 records.


Irish Independent 4/19/01
National Archive staff must rise from 35 to 45
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=413365&iss
ue_id=4324

Kathy Donaghy
A SUBSTANTIAL increase in staff is necessary if the National Archives is to
meet its statutory obligations, according to a new report.
The Director of the National Archives, Dr David Craig, said an increase in
staff from 35 to 45 was needed and he said two of these posts, the post of
editor of the National Archives website and an electronic records
specialist, were urgently required.


Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 4/19/01
Cornyn rules tapes of fatal Plainview chase are public record
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/041901/reg_041901077.shtml

by Phillip L. Hamilton
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn has issued an opinion that audio and
videotapes of a 40-minute, two-county, high-speed chase in which a man drove
off a cliff and died are public records.
Videotapes were made by the in-car cameras of Plainview police officers
pursuing 24-year-old Raul Lucio Jr., and audiotapes were made of radio
transmissions between dispatchers and officers involved in the chase.



NPR Online 4/19/01
Microsoft boosts 'self-destructing' e-mail system
Searchable archive for Ellis Island now online
http://news.npr.org/newsNow.jhtml?groupNews=4&audioNews=59

Audio stories


Philippine Star 4/20/01
Manila RTC archives: A disaster in waiting
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200104196329062.htm

by Jose Aravilla
In Mang Badong's room at the Manila Regional Trial Court archives is a small
table. But as he later found out, there is no such thing as a small table
for him, a terrified lawyer and his hysterical client when the 1991
earthquake struck.
"Can you imagine us fitting under that small table? I thought we would be
trapped in my office," he said.
During the powerful 1991 earthquake, the records in the mezzanine came
tumbling down, sending shelves piercing its thin wooden floors and crumbling
under the weight of hundreds of pounds of paper. It is on the mezzanine
where Mang Badong does his "diving" to recover files for as long as his
breath can let him.


The Dawn 4/19/01
Quaid's colour footage prepared
http://www.dawn.com/2001/text/nat15.htm

ISLAMABAD, April 18: The black and white archival footage of Quaid-i-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is now available in full colour as the documentary reels
depicting the history of freedom movement and early days of Pakistan have
been completely restored in colour.


New York Times 4/18/01
Really plugged-in people reveal really useful Web sites
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18JENN.html

by Jennifer 8. Lee
DESPITE the millions of dollars that dot-coms have been spending on
marketing, some Web sites and other Internet technologies become popular by
word of mouth - or mouse, as the case may be. Early adopters are often
catalysts for spreading the word, so perhaps the next Napster or eBay might
come from these people's favorite Web sites.


Cairo Times 4/19/01
Shredding the Past
Why do the second-oldest archives in the world have so few documents?
http://www.cairotimes.com/content/archiv05/archives.html

by Mona El-Ghobashy
On a hot summer day in the mid-1960s, Raouf Abbas was a graduate student,
sitting around sipping tea and chatting with colleagues at the Center for
Contemporary Egyptian History in Giza. Suddenly, a student of his burst
through the door and breathlessly told him that they were getting rid of
some documents at the Abdin Palace Archives, stacking them on the sidewalk
for junk dealers to cart away.


San Jose Mercury News 4/19/01
Software scans your hard drive, plus the Internet
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/netnews19.htm

Chicago Tribune
For the past several years products from Enfish Technology (www.enfish.com)
have allowed users to create lightning-fast indexes of all the disparate
information contained in every nook and cranny on their hard drives. It
doesn't matter whether you're seeking a tidbit like somebody's name or a
stray fact or a snippet of prose. With the $70 Enfish Onespace 3.0 running,
you type in search terms and up pops a near-instantaneous display of every
file you own with that phrase in it.


Sun-Sentinel 4/19/01
Curiosity-seekers overwhelm Ellis Island web site on first day
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cellis19apr19.story?
coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dsfla

by Jonathan King
The pull of the past outmuscled the wave of the future on Wednesday when
millions of people trying to trace their roots through Ellis Island swamped
a new Internet site set up to aid them.
"We were a little too successful," said Steve Briganti, CEO and president of
the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. "People are very interested,
especially in an area like [South Florida] where they can make a family
connection through Ellis Island."


Washington Times 4/19/01
Tapes of Gore e-mail can't be retrieved
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010419-76357548.htm

by Jerry Seper
More than five dozen backup computer tapes containing hundreds of missing
e-mails from former Vice President Al Gore´s White House office cannot be
retrieved, a computer technician has told a federal judge


Frederick News-Post 4/19/01
NAACP wants grand jury probe of 'black book' case
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/display.cfm?storyid=12489

by Steve Miller
The Frederick County NAACP on Friday will demand a grand jury investigation
of alleged corruption in Frederick Mayor Jim Grimes' administration and a
probe of claims that police covered up "black book" documents, according to
the civil rights organization.


The Tennessean 4/19/01
School System frustrates public-record request
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04311951.shtml?Element_ID=431
1951

by Diane Long
Shirley Karper of Manchester, Tenn., hit a brick wall at the Metro school
system last week when she tried to view the records of one of its high
school principals.
Under the state's public records law, any citizen can see the personnel
files of any school employee.


Toledo Blade 4/19/01
Fort Jennings has a face to put with its community
Descendant to deliver a copy of portrait to Ohio
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010419&Kate
gori=NEWS17&Lopenr=104190031&Ref=AR

by Kim Bates
FORT JENNINGS, Ohio - Village residents know almost everything about their
town founder, except what he looked like.
For decades, village leaders and historians have scoured archives looking
for a portrait of Col. William Jennings, who established a fort on the
Auglaize River during the War of 1812. It later became the site of this
small town.


Philadelphia Inquirer 4/19/01
U. Darby district adds copy fee
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/19/pa_west/WUDARBY.htm

UPPER DARBY - The Upper Darby school board has approved a policy that would
charge taxpayers 25 cents a copy - plus $25 in clerical services and $60 in
administrative services - "to obtain copies of existing public records."


Associated Press 4/19/01
Web sites fined over child privacy
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010419/14/internet-children

by Anick Jesdanun
AP Internet writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Three Web sites have agreed to pay $100,000 in civil
penalties to settle federal charges that those sites collected too many
details about kids without their parents' permission.


Winston-Salem Journal 4/19/01
House panel backs bill to protect privacy of conversations in assault cases
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/news/MGBA2O0VPLC.html

Associated Press
Conversations between a victim of domestic violence or a sexual assault and
a crisis-center worker would remain private in most circumstances under a
bill approved yesterday by a House committee.


Washington Post 4/19/01
Three charged with selling confidential data in FTC sting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33811-2001Apr18.html

by Robert O'Harrow Jr
The requests for private bank account balances came from a woman who claimed
she wanted to know more about her fiance. She would pay whatever fee was
necessary, she told information brokers across the country, as long as they
delivered the promised details.


Wall Street Journal 4/19/01
FTC charges three data brokers with breaking privacy regulations
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB987632786776092505.htm

by Glenn R. Simpson
WASHINGTON -- Wrapping up a sting operation, the Federal Trade Commission
charged three information brokers with illegally obtaining and selling
private bank-account information.


New York Times 4/18/01
You want repeat customers? Try E-Mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18STAM.html

by Bernard Stamler
IT'S cheap and it's fast. Customers respond to it and read it. They buy.
It's e-mail.
E-mail?
Sure. Although it has earned a bad reputation among people who call it spam
- ignoring, blocking or deleting it - many others like e-mail and actually
read it, especially if they have agreed to receive it in the first place.
Indeed, a consensus seems to be building among those who send it to their
customers: that is, when it comes to retaining customers and building
loyalty, e-mail works.

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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