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RAIN 5/25: Missing Nixon tape found, CD longevity and Kaiser Bill



Editor & Publisher Online 5/22/01
Wyoming papers concerned about public records
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/052201n2.htm

by Mark Fitzgerald
Wyoming Attorney General Gay Woodhouse met with a delegation from the
Wyoming Press Association late last week, reversing her refusal to involve
newspapers in her effort to rewrite the Public Records Act.

CNET News 5/24/01
Access Denied: Companies fight over CD listings, leaving the public behind
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6008182-0.html?tag=ch_mh

by Robert Lemos
Earlier this month, when he decided to record a new compact disc, Joe Smith
followed a procedure he's done hundreds of times: Insert the CD, access the
online music database and select songs using titles supplied by the
database.
Yet this time, instead of displaying the usual song information, the popular
CD-burning software made by Roxio delivered a different message. Roxio
products were no longer supported by Gracenote's CD information service,
which housed the database Smith had been using to match song and album
titles with a disc placed into his computer--a collection entered in large
part by individuals on the Net.


BMJ.com 5/26/01
Judge orders GPs to hand over patient records
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7297/1270/e

by Clare Dyer
legal correspondent
A High Court judge has ordered the partners in an NHS general practice to
hand over confidential records of patients and other documents to their
local health authority, so it can investigate concerns about their practice.



Hartford Courant 5/24/01
Lawsuit: Keep records off web
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=4615614&rende
r=y&Table=

by Jon Lender
Two state agencies went to court Wednesday to prevent the publication of
their members' annual financial statements on an official website starting
next month - even though those financial statements are, by law, open to
public inspection at the State Ethics Commission's office.
If the ethics commission puts these public records on its Internet site - as
opposed to requiring the public to go to the commission's office to view
them - it would subject members of the agencies to "harassment or threats"
from "hackers" or other individuals, the plaintiffs said.
They also claim the publication would violate a state law passed in the
1970s regarding the release of personal data.


Denver Post 5/24/01
Lost Nixon fitness tape found by Springs dealer
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E37526,00.html

by Cara DeGette
COLORADO SPRINGS - A Colorado Springs man has stumbled upon a 44-year-old
reel-to-reel audio tape of Richard Nixon chairing a Council on Youth Fitness
strategy session on what to do with an out-of-shape and spiritually lacking
young America.
Neither the National Archives nor the Nixon or Eisenhower libraries has a
copy of the Sept. 10, 1957, tape. Neither do they have a transcript of what
was said during the session.


Deseret News 5/24/01
Digitizing Shipler collection is a painstaking heartfelt task
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,275006914,00.html?

by Twila Van Leer
Sharing the Shipler collection of photo negatives documenting life in Utah
and the Mountain West from 1890-1980 has not been easy for the Utah
Historical Society.
Many of the early negatives in the collection are delicate glass. Even the
negatives made after the 1930s, when less-fragile film was available, must
be preserved from any decay in quality.


Naples Daily News 5/24/01
Earnhardt's widow says judge should view photos
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/05/florida/d636697a.htm

Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH - The widow of racing legend Dale Earnhardt wants a Volusia
County judge to look at her husband's autopsy photos so he will understand
their "gruesome, personal and offensive nature."


News Wales 5/23/01
Wanted: Welsh election propaganda
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?F=1&section=Politics&id=4039

There has been much talk of voter apathy during this General Election. No
doubt, canvassers from all political parties have received several
monosyllabic replies of disinterest on the doorstep.
However, there is one person who just can't get enough leaflets and posters
be they by the Labour, Plaid Cymru, Conservative, Lib Dem or the UKIP.


Newsroom 5/25/01
Historic Kiwi records future guaranteed
http://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/48156-32-0.html

The future of New Zealand's current and historic land records under Land
Information New Zealand's Landonline project is secure, according to
Minister for Land Information, Matt Robson.
Responding to concerns made by surveyors and others in Nelson about the
removal of local land records to a storage archive in Christchurch, the
Minister said he was satisfied that alternative storage options had been
fully considered before the decision to store them in Christchurch was made.



New York Times 5/24/01
Failed web sites live on, gone but not forgotten
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/technology/24FAIL.html

by Paul Andrews
They were once the Web's shining stars: Kozmo.com, Pandesic.com,
PlanetRx.com.
In the era of the digital plague, they have vanished seemingly without a
trace - unless, that is, you go to the Museum of E-Failure.


San Jose Mercury News 5/24/01
Policy aimed at language barrier
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/access24.htm

by Kim Vo
Shu Yeng Wang didn't know what to do. The elderly woman moved to San
Francisco from China in 1995 and didn't speak English. She couldn't tell
authorities that her daughter had been stealing her Social Security checks,
leaving her with just $20 a month.
``She wasn't aware of her rights. She had no one to ask about them,'' said
Traci Dobronravova, director of the service agency that Wang eventually
turned to, on the advice of a church friend.


Shawnee News 5/24/01
FBI finds even more documents
http://www.news-star.com/stories/051701/new_bombing.shtml

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI agents this week have found still more Oklahoma City
bombing documents that may not have been turned over to Timothy McVeigh's
attorneys, FBI Director Louis Freeh said Wednesday.
He told Congress his agency was guilty of "serious error" in dealing with
documents in the case.


Salt Lake Tribune 5/24/01
CD's: The test of time
http://www.sltrib.com/05242001/thursday/99836.htm

by Vince Horiuchi
Jake Hawley is a music CD salesman who didn't respect CDs. There was a time
when the employee of Salt Lake City's Graywhale CD Exchange would toss his
compact discs as if they were indestructible.
"I would just leave them out everywhere and cram three or four in one case,"
said Hawley, who has ruined dozens of discs that way. "I just didn't think
anything would ever happen to them."


The Scotsman 5/24/01
Archives reveal Kaiser Bill's sordid secrets
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=75039

Allan Hall in Berlin
KAISER BILL - the last emperor of Germany, who dragged his country into the
First World War and ruination - kept a sordid secret that has only now been
revealed: he was blackmailed by a prostitute over his love for
sado-masochistic sex.


PRNewswire 5/23/01
New national study of IT professionals finds 'Rapid Retrieval' to be most
critical issue in storage of electronic messages/documents
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010523/sfw108.html

Companies lack strategy to manage explosion of electronic messages/documents
and associated storage costs


BusinessWire 5/23/01
Oklahoma state Bureau of Investigation adopts Printrak's FaceIt-Enabled Law
Enforcement Identification solution.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010523/2233.html

MINNETONKA, Minn. and JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23,
2001--Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX - news), the worldwide leader in
identification technologies and systems, announced today its FaceIt®
technology has been selected by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation,
as a result of a new award to Printrak, A Motorola Company for its law
enforcement identification solution, which includes the Imagetrak(TM)
product.


Reuters 5/23/01
Medicare computer records vulnerable, experts say
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010523/hl/records_1.html

by Todd Zwillich
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - The payment records and patient files for 39
million elderly Medicare beneficiaries are vulnerable to hackers and
unscrupulous government employees because of lax computer security, federal
investigators and computer security experts said Wednesday on Capitol Hill.




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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