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Ann Arbor News 4/19/01
Tax documents spill from truck
Local H&R Block customers angry
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20010419aa1taxforms19.frm

by Catharine O'Donnell
All over the country the past week, tax returns have flown out the door, but
Wednesday in Ann Arbor, tax documents flew literally - all over an area of
East Huron Street. And H&R Block customers are livid.
At least one box of tax information worksheets fell from a truck, spilling
customer documents listing such things as income, investments and Social
Security numbers.
"I'm outraged," said Kenneth D. Ross, graphics editor at Crain
Communications in Detroit. His worksheet was one of those scattered. "Those
documents have a lot of personal information that shouldn't be sitting
around in the street. What the hell's going on?"


InfoWorld.com 4/19/01
Gartner: Beware of business spam
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/04/19/010419hnspamgartner.xml?04
20fram

by Scarlet Pruitt
PEEK OVER YOUR cube wall. That mild-mannered person sitting next you might
actually be your e-mail nemesis: an insidious spammer who sends out mocking
happy faces in response to office correspondence and who always selects
"reply to all." That's right, according to an "occupational spam" study
released Thursday by IT research firm Gartner, gratuitous interoffice e-mail
has become a huge problem.
Business e-mailers intending to send helpful messages or cover their backs
by copying the entire company are flooding in-boxes, straining networks,
wasting heaps of time and, possibly, a lot of money.



Inland Empire Online 4/20/01
HUD reviews city's files
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/042001/bjaime20.shtml

by Joanna Banks
The Press-Enterprise
San Bernardino
Federal housing authorities reviewed files Thursday related to a low-income
housing program that is the focal point of a criminal case against a
developer, officials said.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials reviewed
documents at San Bernardino City Hall pertaining to the housing initiative
that involves acquisitions of property from HUD, said City Attorney James
Penman.



Los Angeles Times 4/20/01
Lockyer asks judge to order firms to release records
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010420/t000033391.html

by Robert J. Lopez and Rich Connell
California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer, ratcheting up his investigation of
possible civil and criminal violations by the state's power suppliers, is
asking a San Francisco judge to order two firms to hand over confidential
records.
In a motion filed Thursday in Superior Court, Lockyer said Reliant Energy
and Mirant Corp. have failed to comply with subpoenas for documents that
were to be produced by March 19.
Amid soaring electricity costs and rolling blackouts, the attorney general
launched an investigation of possible manipulation of wholesale electricity
prices that have skyrocketed to record levels and have financially crippled
the state's major utilities.



Newsday 4/19/01
Witness: Undersheriff knowingly broke law
http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/thursday/nd3741.htm

by J. Jioni Palmer
The main witness in the corruption trial of Suffolk Sheriff Patrick Mahoney
and former Undersheriff Edward Morris testified yesterday that Morris
knowingly broke the law by participating in campaign activities at the
county jail in Riverhead.
For four days, retired Deputy Sheriff William Posch told jurors in
meticulous detail how he organized fund-raisers and cataloged financial
documents on a "Friends of Pat Mahoney" campaign computer at the jail under
the noses of his two bosses. Most of that testimony indirectly implicated
Morris.



New York Times 4/20/01
Inside Art: The Morgan makes amends
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/arts/20INSI.html?searchpv=nytToday
by Carol Vogel
Issues of provenance, ownership and restitution resulting from World War II
looting continue to face museums in the United States and abroad. Now the
Pierpont Morgan Library has its first such case.



New York Times 4/19/01
Online Shopper: When familiarity breeds temptation
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/19/technology/19SHOP.html

by Michelle Slatalla
I PRIDE myself on being tenacious when it comes to shopping for food. The
time I heard that a fish market two towns away had the tiny clams I needed
for a sauce, I did not hesitate. And I once drove for 20 minutes to check
out a rumored shipment of collard greens.
So I was embarrassed to admit to my friend Jean the other day that I had
never visited the fancy new supermarket that opened less than a mile from my
house more than a year ago.
"That's not like you," she said. "It has all of those overpriced organic
fruits you like."


The following link for the NYTimes are for letters concerning the recent
story about the Bettmann Archives move to a mountain vault.

New York Times 4/20/01
Opinion: To guard an image: Keep it near or dear
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/opinion/L20BETT.html?searchpv=nytToday


New York Times 4/22/01
Opinion: Monopolizing the Past
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/opinion/L22BETT.html?searchpv=nytToday



San Francisco Chronicle 4/20/01
S.F. port decision questioned
Developer asks for vote records
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/2
0/MN236615.DTL>

by Jenny Strasburg
San Francisco -- Chelsea Piers' chairman said yesterday that he was in "a
state of shock" over his firm's loss of a key San Francisco waterfront
development vote that went instead to a competing proposal from a Virginia
shopping-mall developer.
Roland Betts ordered his firm's San Francisco attorneys to do something
about it, and they promptly demanded that the Port of San Francisco turn
over records. They hope that the documents will reveal how port
commissioners reached their decision Wednesday night to pass over Chelsea
Piers and choose the Mills Corp.



San Jose Business Journal 4/16/01
Attorney General demands power producers' records
http://sanjose.bcentral.com/sanjose/stories/2001/04/16/daily47.html

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today demanded that Reliant Energy
and the Mirant Corporation -- two of the largest electricity generators in
the state -- produce documents subpoenaed in his investigation of possible
price gouging.
"There must be a short-circuit here because Reliant is claiming cooperation
with our investigation while refusing to turn over documents," Mr. Lockyer
says.


The Toronto Star 4/19/01
Original Jack the Ripper letter released
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_sessi
on_id_FutureTenseContentServer=a22474d969577eec&pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti
cle_Type1&c=Article&cid=987651144204&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=968256
289824&call_pagepath=News/Ontario

Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - In a scrawled, smudged letter written in Cockney English, a
man claiming to be the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper described a
foiled attempt to kill a woman and promised to find another victim soon.
The eerie note to a London doctor, made public by the government Thursday,
is filled with spelling errors mimicking the Cockney accent and gives the
gruesome details of an attempted murder.



Toledo Blade 4/19/01
Map flap in Maumee floods neighbors with woe
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010419&Kategori
=NEWS17&Lopenr=104190004&Ref=AR

by Janet Romaker
Since finding out that her hillside home is in a floodplain, Susan Bache has
been swamped, not with water, but with paperwork.
Because of an apparent error on a new flood map that was drawn by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mrs. Bache's home and several other
Maumee homes along Harrison Street are now listed in the floodplain area.



Dallas Morning News 4/21/01
Battling for history
Efforts seek to restore site where Texas independence was won
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/344925_sanjacinto_21t.html

by Bruce Nichols
HOUSTON - No wonder the Texans defeated the Mexican army. They had a
battleship.
Young visitors to the San Jacinto battleground sometimes get this muddled
view because, in the 165 years since the victory gave Texas its
independence, the site has not been well-preserved or properly developed,
said San Jacinto Museum President George Donnelly.
The facts are that the battle was fought on this bend in the San Jacinto
River on April 21, 1836, and the Battleship Texas was moored at the site
after World War II, more than 100 years later. Both are part of history, but
they have little to do with each other.



New York Times 4/21/01
Court ends fight over Pasternak's Archives
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/21/arts/21ZHIV.html?searchpv=nytToday

Agence France-Presse
Moscow - A decadelong tug of war over the archives of the Nobel laureate
Boris Pasternak ended today when a court here ruled in favor of his
daughter-in-law and against the heirs of the woman who was the model for his
most famous heroine.
The court dismissed an appeal by the family of Olga Ivinskaya, on whom
Pasternak based the character of Lara in his novel "Doctor Zhivago," leaving
his daughter-in- law, Natalya Pasternak, as sole inheritor of his
manuscripts and notes, Russian news reports said.



New York Times 4/21/01
The paperless office? Not by a long shot
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/21/technology/21PAPE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by James Brooke
Windsor Quebec - Something happened on the way to the paperless office.
Instead of shrinking, paper sales ballooned. And the biggest beneficiary was
Canada, the world's largest exporter of office printing paper, which more
than doubled its exports in the last 15 years - the height of the computer
revolution.
In yet another case of the old economy's bouncing back with a vengeance,
paper companies around here are riding what may be the biggest printing boom
in history. The computer age has produced a golden age of paper, putting
aside 1980's predictions that new paper mills would one day be as
unnecessary as new power plants.


Lancaster Online 4/22/01
Paper Chase
County practically buried beneath old records; $1 million in new technology
could help ease crush
http://www.lancasteronline.com/sunday_news/papera22.htm

Paperless office?
As far as Lancaster County government is concerned, forget it.
County offices, particularly those connected with the courts, generate an
enormous amount of paperwork.
Alone, the prothonotary and clerk of courts produce 1,100 cubic feet of
records each year.
With the county archives at virtual capacity, though, steps are being taken
to manage, and in some cases slow, the paper chase. Investments of more than
$1 million in new technology are coming to fruition.


MSNBC.com 4/22/01
Bill Gates says, Take this tablet
http://www.msnbc.com/news/562422.asp?cp1=1

by Steven Levy
Newsweek
The knottiest task in computing is making a machine as friendly and
receptive as a piece of paper. Microsoft thinks it's got the problem beat.
The mantra of its hundred-member Tablet PC team is "the simplicity of paper
combined with the power of the PC." The prototype looks like a Palm on
steroids, with a color screen and the alarming presence of the Windows task
bar on the bottom. But using a special digital pen, you can write on it
clipboard style, manipulate your scrawled notes like typed text, annotate
all your documents and stylus-surf the Web. You can also listen to music,
read novels and dictate your own novel. All while maintaining eye contact
with your business associates and loved ones.



Daily Yomiuri 4/22/01
17th-century papers to be named treasures
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010422wo61.htm

A sheaf of 17th-century documents, the Tokyo National Museum and a
century-old tunnel are among the cultural assets expected to be granted
official status soon.
An advisory panel of the Cultural Affairs Agency proposed to the education,
science and technology minister that three cultural assets should be
designated as national treasures and 25 other cultural assets should be
designated as important cultural properties.
The minister is expected to make the proposed designations official soon.


Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 4/22/01
IBMs record will not disappear
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/apr01/black22042101.asp

by Edwin Black
My book, "IBM and the Holocaust," documents IBM's strategic business and
consultative alliance with Nazi Germany beginning at the first moment of the
Hitler regime in 1933 and continuing right into the war.
It was this joint planning and custom production of billions of punch cards
per year that endowed the Third Reich with the technology it needed to
dramatically accelerate and automate all phases of its Jewish persecution.
The six phases were identification, social expulsion, confiscation,
ghettoization, deportation and - finally - extermination.


Los Angeles Times 4/22/01
His mission is sorting out America's messy revolution
http://www.latimes.com/living/20010422/t000033889.html

by Tim Rutten
Aristocratic by temperament, but democratic by conviction; instinctually
conservative, but intellectually audacious.
The attributes so frequently applied to the American republic's founders
might be used with equal justice to describe the Huntington Library, the
understated powerhouse among contemporary Los Angeles' significant cultural
institutions.



Los Angeles Times 4/22/01
Question is, should drug-tainted records stand?
http://www.latimes.com/sports/times/20010422/t000034170.html

by Lisa Dillman
The figurative dust was blown off record books for closer examination when
Marion Jones decided to go after an obscure record, in the 300 meters, at
the Mt. San Antonio College Relays today in Walnut.
Determining the record-holder is not as easy as it sounds because the event
is run so seldom officially. Track & Field News editors and other experts
recognize East German Marita Koch's 34.1 seconds--a hand-held split time
from her world record 400 (47.60), set in 1985 at Canberra, Australia.



Birmingham News 4/22/01
Library archives opens doorway to city's civil rights past, shame
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?Apr2001/22-archiv22.html

by Walter Bryant
The church bombing trial under way in Birmingham highlights a black mark on
the city's history that won't go away.
A treasure of documents about the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
and other events of the civil rights struggle is stored in the archives
department of the downtown Birmingham Public Library.



New York Times 4/22/01
Editorial: Digitized History
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/opinion/22SUN2.html?searchpv=nytToday

One of the great themes in this digital age is the dream of perfect
reproducibility, the ability to create generation after generation of
digital copies with no loss of information. Binary code has also become the
Esperanto of equivalence, translating music, words and images into a common,
readily manipulated language. It has dissolved the fundamental differences
between text and illustration. The time when photographs by Jacob Riis, the
journalist and social reformer, had to be turned into wood engravings in
order to be printed in The New York Tribune seems almost as distant as the
time, only a few years ago, when copiers and printers were entirely
different machines, when combining text and illustration meant an exacting
outing with scissors and paste and a bottle of Wite-Out.



New York Times 4/22/01
Recordings document a golden age of country
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/arts/22HALB.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Alex Halberstadt
Baltimore -- RECLINING in an armchair surrounded by a bank of audio
equipment, Leon Kagarise surveys a collection of garage sale bargains he has
accumulated over most of his 63 years. Scattered among old clothes, rusty
electric fans and fading concert announcements are records - roughly 100,000
- stacked to the ceiling, filling two bedrooms and spilling out onto the
kitchen counter. In fact, the living room of his small house here
accommodates one person, standing, in addition to Mr. Kagarise, while other
rooms are accessible only by walking sideways through the narrow passageways
formed by the mountains of LP's.




New York Times 4/22/01
Retracing the path of a photographer's 30-year quest
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/arts/22LOOS.html

by Ted Loos
The photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled the continent for 30 years to
create his epic, 20-volume series "The North American Indian." In his quest
to take pictures - more than 40,000 before he was through - he ruined his
life.
Nearly a century after Curtis began his project, the filmmaker Anne
Makepeace shadowed him, making her own images during a decade of on-and-off
work. Though her path was certainly easier, she got more of a taste for his
struggles than she bargained for.



Lancaster Online 4/22/01
Paper Chase
County practically buried beneath old records; $1 million in new technology
could help ease crush
http://www.lancasteronline.com/sunday_news/papera22.htm

Paperless office?
As far as Lancaster County government is concerned, forget it.
County offices, particularly those connected with the courts, generate an
enormous amount of paperwork.
Alone, the prothonotary and clerk of courts produce 1,100 cubic feet of
records each year.
With the county archives at virtual capacity, though, steps are being taken
to manage, and in some cases slow, the paper chase. Investments of more than
$1 million in new technology are coming to fruition.



US News 4/22/01
Family history, with the dust
Exploring Ellis Island's vast new E-archive
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010430/ellis.htm

by Nancy Shute
Twelve-year-old Madison Kille is bubbling with excitement over the hottest
new Internet attraction. It's not IM or MP3 downloads, but a bunch of old
government documents: the immigration records from New York's Ellis Island.
"We found my great-grandmother, and we actually found out her name was
Paulina," says the Simsbury, Conn., girl. "We saw the ship she came in on.
It's really cool." The ship's manifest revealed that officials wouldn't let
the 19-year-old Paulina, traveling alone, leave the island until someone
showed up to escort her to the wilds of Waukegan, Ill.
Madison is not the only one who is excited. When the Web site for the
American Family Immigration History Center debuted last Tuesday,
roots-seeking Americans inundated it with 27,000 hits per second. That may
well be the most popular launch in Internet history, eclipsing Madonna and
the Beatles. The deluge left tens of thousands unable to go to
www.ellisislandrecords.org.


UPI 4/21/01
First e-marriage sealed in Europe
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=179203

by Carol Tiegan
UPI
LUBBEEK, Belgium, April 21 (UPI) -- Europe's first marriage sealed by an
electronic signature took place Saturday in Lubbeek, a small town in
Belgium, marking the first time in the world a marriage was completed with
the help of a "SmartPen." Danny Buellens, 30; and Nele Vleugels, 28; were
declared husband and wife Saturday morning at the town hall of Lubbeek. They
confirmed their wedding vows electronically by using a SmartPen made in
Belgium.





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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