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RAIN 5/28: Weekend Update Part 4



There are 6 stories in this update.

Billings Gazette 5/28/01
Frontier character found way to beat murder charge
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/f

rontier.inc

by Lorna Thackeray
William F. Goggin, alias Kerry Eagle - whoever he really was - had all the
markings of a first-class frontier character.
He was tried for murder and acquitted, despite evidence that included his
bloody clothing. The Yellowstone Journal noted on the day after St. Patrick's
Day, 1884, while Goggin was awaiting trial for murder, that "The 17th of
Ireland passed off pleasantly and quietly yesterday, Kerry Eagle being in
jail."



Austin Business Journal 5/28/01
Capitalizing on records
Capitol Services becomes giant in public research
http://austin.bcentral.com/austin/stories/2001/05/28/smallb1.html

by Barbara Wray
Special to The Austin Business Journal
The devil is in the details, some say. If the details related to corporate
transactions aren't handled correctly, that can create devilish problems. For
that reason, many corporations use the services of a law firm to guide them
through the maze of such activities as mergers, acquisitions or initial
public offerings.



ST. Petersburg Times 5/28/01
Couple's tool helps trace family trees
They have built a database on nearly a half-million Tampa Bay area deaths
between 1855 and 1981
http://www.sptimes.com/News/052801/Hillsborough/Couple_s_tool_helps_t.shtml

by Linda Gibson
TAMPA -- Retirees Art and Norma Schmidt understand how far people bitten by
the genealogy bug will go in their search for family history.
The Riverview couple know about vacations planned around trips to
courthouses, graveyards and libraries, about hours spent looking through
documents and newspapers for any scrap of information on grandma's cousin's
third child by her second husband.



Newsday 5/28/01
Nassau can't account for space
Audit: County lost track of property
http://www.newsday.com/news/daily/linass28.htm

by Edward W. Lempinen
Nassau taxpayers may be losing millions of dollars a year because of the
county's failure to manage its property, resulting in problems including
inefficient record storage and the payment of rent for offices it doesn't
even use, according to a new audit.
A draft of the report by Nassau Comptroller Frederick Parola, now under
review by lawmakers, shows breakdowns in oversight so pervasive that the
administration of Republican County Executive Thomas Gulotta couldn't even
list the buildings Nassau owns or the total square feet available for county
uses.



New York Times 5/28/01
I.B.M. meets with 52,600, virtually
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/28/technology/28BLUE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Barnaby J. Feder
I.B.M. invited all 320,000 of its employees to a marathon brainstorming
session called WorldJam last week, capping a nine- month, multimillion-dollar
effort to imagine and build a suitable room in cyberspace for an event that
would be impossible to hold anywhere else.
By the end of the three-day exchange, at noon on Thursday, nearly 52,600
workers had logged in at one time or another, according to WorldJam's
delighted managers. The visitors generated more than 6,000 proposals and
comments, and viewed five postings each on average.



Plattsburgh Press-Republican 5/28/01
Victory in sight for state military museum
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2001/05_2001/052820015.htm

by Diane Petryk
PLATTSBURGH - Thirty-four states each have a museum of military heritage open
to the public. Not New York.
But this may be the year.
Bill Glidden of Plattsburgh is hopeful that the New York State Military
Heritage Institute, of which he is a board member, will soon find a home for
more than 100,000 documents and artifacts now warehoused.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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