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RAIN 5/04: Think outside of the Grid



Asbury Park Press 5/3/01
Accord reached: Records' secrecy may end
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,389235,00.html

by Kathy Hennessy
Gannett State Bureau
TRENTON -- Citizens' access to government records may finally be expanded
now that groups struggling over the issue have ended their impasse.
The New Jersey Press Association, the state Attorney General's Office and
victims rights organizations have compromised on an amended version of
public access legislature, said NJPA Executive Director John O'Brien.


Bergen Record 5/3/01
Agreement may widen access to documents
http://www.bergen.com/region/publicsf200105032.htm

by Scott Fallon
A landmark bill that would expand public access to government records took a
leap forward Wednesday when New Jersey's leading press group and the state
Attorney General's Office reached a compromise over the measure's language.
State Sen. Robert J. Martin, R-Morris Plains, the bill's sponsor, said he
will ask the Senate on Wednesday to vote on a number of amendments, which
have stalled the bill.



Associated Press 5/3/01
Draft of contracts released by Siegelman aide
http://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?j3247_BC_AL
--Siegelman-Warehou&&news&al_headlines

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- In a reversal, Gov. Don Siegelman has agreed to let
the public see two draft contracts used to pay a politically connected firm
a reported $100,000 for state work, even though the documents weren't
signed.
The state paperwork involved G.H. Construction, a new firm that stood to be
paid $1.7 million to manage a state warehouse project on land purchased by
the company. The amount could reach $2.28 million if the project is
completed before Sept. 1, 2002.


Austin American -Statesman 5/3/01
Archivist go online for auction
http://www.austin360.com/shared/news/technology/ap_story.html/Technology/AP.
V2044.AP-History-For-Sal.html

by Vicki Smith
 Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP)--Purchasing rules won't stop the keeper of West
Virginia's archives. Budget constraints? Phooey!
Frederick Armstrong will do whatever it takes to outbid auction competitors
for a state relic: the original 1921 plans for the gold-domed Capitol in
Charleston.
But in an auction, no one gets preference. Winning takes money.


Austin American-Statesman 5/3/01
Blank birth certificates stolen from state agency
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/news_5.html

by Gary Susswein
>From Texas driver's license offices to American embassies around the world,
officials are on the lookout for more than 3,300 blank Texas birth
certificates that were stolen earlier this year.


BBC News 5/3/01
EU sets rules on info freedom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1309000/1309964.stm

by James Rodgers
Brussels
The European parliament has passed new legislation which allows the public
greater access to official documents.
While the result of the vote has been hailed by MPs, it has been criticised
by human rights groups for allowing too much information to remain secret.
Members of the European parliament voted 400 to 85 in favour of passing the
new law, which supporters have described as a historic change.


Computer Reseller News 5/3/01
Iron Mountain grabs Compaq exec to data archiving unit
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=26278

by Joseph F. Kovar
Boston
Iron Mountain, a provider of data archive services, on Monday named Compaq
storage veteran Peter Delle Donne to head up the company's Digital Archives
Division.
Delle Donne, who recently served as vice president of Compaq's Worldwide
Storage Solutions Services business unit, says he plans to work with channel
partners in selling the division's new long-term, digital-data archiving
services to enterprise customers.


Federal Computer Week 5/3/01
D.C. court pilots e-filing
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0430/web-efile-05-03-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
Burdened with one of the nation's highest per capita caseloads, the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia has embarked on a yearlong electronic
filing pilot that officials hope will streamline the legal process.


Computers and Libraries 5/01
Digitization: Is it worth it?
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may01/lee.htm

by Stuart D. Lee
Every now and then, it's cathartic to take a long, hard look at what you
have achieved, and more importantly at the various activities that have
eaten up so much of your time. This, I would suggest, is extremely
worthwhile, though you must be prepared to face some awkward questions.
Writing this article presents me in many ways with such an exercise. Having
spent the last 10 years working in computer services at Oxford University,
and the past 4 years concentrating specifically on the digital imaging of
rare manuscripts, I have set myself the starkest of questions to answer: "Is
digitization worth it?"


Computers & Libraries 5/01
Editor's Notes: It's all on the Web, isn't it?
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may01/ednotes.htm

by Kathy Dempsey
The wired world is all caught up in electronic publishing, in its many
forms. Regular people can post stuff on the Web. Scholars can get their work
published on the Internet so it's disseminated more quickly. There are scads
of scanning projects that are making old information digital. Dot-coms are
building portals and trying to capture some market share of the surfing
public.


FoodService Central 5/2/0
Whataburger's new software to save 9,500 hours this year.
http://www.foodservicecentral.com/content/news/article.asp?docid={6DEBF485-3
F12-11D5-A770-00D0B7694F32}&VNETCOOKIE=NO

It's a widespread problem in the fast-food industry: how do you keep track
of the daily hirings, firings, transfers, resignations and leaves of absence
for thousands of employees spread across multiple units?
"With over 10,000 team members company-wide, and an industry turnover rate
on the front lines approaching 300%, the paperwork involved in getting
people on and off the payroll added up to more than 1,500 documents per
day," says Tom Jaggard, Whataburger's Group Director of Information
Services.


Virginian Pilot 5/3/01
Museum tried to squelch dolphin-tank critics, files show
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0503mus.html

by Jason Skog
VIRGINIA BEACH -- Concerned that bad publicity could sink a proposed $55
million dolphin exhibit, Virginia Marine Science Museum officials attempted
to squelch and discredit critics, and wondered whether they should
infiltrate opponent ranks, according to recently released city documents.



Jacksonville Times-Union 5/3/01
Lawmakers to consider open records exemptions
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/050301/met_6074882.html

by Andrew Marra
TALLAHASSEE -- A series of new exemptions to Florida's open records law is
poised for possible approval as the Legislature's annual session winds down
this week.
Lawmakers this year have proposed an estimated 134 bills affecting the
Florida Constitution's open records law for government documents -- most by
seeking to create new exemptions or renew old ones.


Portland Press Herald 5/3/01
Maine tribes relying on federal courts to resolve water issue
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010503waterfolo.shtml

by Roberta Scruggs
AUGUSTA - Indian tribal leaders said Wednesday they are hoping the federal
courts will overturn a Maine Supreme Judicial Court order to hand over
water-quality documents to three paper companies.
At a press conference on the steps of the state Capitol, Barry Dana,
governor of the Penobscot Nation, said the issue reaches far beyond the
documents themselves. To the Penobscots and Passamaquoddys, he said, it's a
battle over their right to govern themselves without interference.



Washington Post 5/3/01
Md. to conduct inquiry into Frederick Scandal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36232-2001May2.html

by David Snyder
The Maryland state prosecutor said yesterday he will investigate a Frederick
prostitution scandal that has spurred several lawsuits and captivated the
local media for months but has not, until now, been the focus of a possible
criminal investigation.
State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli said his office will conduct an
inquiry -- the precursor to a criminal investigation -- into charges of
corruption and allegations that Frederick city officials illegally withheld
documents rumored to show that prominent city figures were clients of a
prostitution service shut down by police.



Associated Press 5/3/01
State worker charged with hacking; lawyer says he was just doing job
<http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n5789_BC
_LA--HackingIndictment&&news&newsflash-louisiana>

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A state health department worker has been indicted
on charges that he hacked into another department's computers and got
information he was not authorized to get.
Andrew Mata, 39, was charged Wednesday with offenses against intellectual
property, and could get up to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, East
Baton Rouge Parish prosecutor Mark Pethke said.


Federal Computer Week 5/3/01
Overruns plague patient data system
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0430/web-med-05-03-01.asp

by Christopher J. Dorobek
The Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs have made
little progress in their plans to create a system that would enable them to
share patient health data, according to the General Accounting Office.
The Government Computer-Based Patient Record (GCPR) project was initiated in
1998 to enable health care professionals to "share clinical information via
a comprehensive, lifelong medical record," according to early project
documents.


CIO 5/01
Think outside the Grid
http://www.cio.com/archive/050101/think.html

IN A FERTILE VALLEY in the heart of the country's most populous state,
visionaries and entrepreneurs replaced the apricot, plum and olive trees
with semiconductor plants, supercomputers and data centers, driving the
country to record levels of prosperity.
Then the lights went out.
That's the short version of how California and Silicon Valley-the nation's
economic engine during 10 years of record growth-were broadsided by an
energy crunch that has shaken the state and sent ripples all the way to
Washington, D.C. For many of Silicon Valley's high-tech giants, the rolling
blackouts have provided a shrill wake-up call: Local governments and
utilities can't reliably provide the energy needed to keep critical IT
systems and data centers up and running all day, every day.



Toledo Blade 5/3/01
Exhibit recalls predictions from the past
<http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010503&Kat
egori=NEWS19&Lopenr=105030033&Ref=AR>

by Erica Blake
TECUMSEH - A glimpse of the future has arrived in this small Lenawee County
community - one that was predicted many years ago.
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of
the American Future" will open tomorrow at the Tecumseh Area Historical
Museum. The exhibit, which runs through June 16, shows visitors what 18th,
19th, and early 20th- century Americans believed the future would look like.


WorldNetDaily 5/3/01
Reno's e-mail records as spotty as Clinton's?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22661

by Paul Sperry
WASHINGTON -- The e-mail records of former Attorney General Janet Reno and
her top aides were not electronically archived until late last year, a
high-level Justice Department official says, and may be as spotty as those
kept by the Clinton White House.



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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