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RAIN 6/04: truckload of treasures, $48K fine, 6658 tomes



Austin American-Statesman 6/2/01
Spam cans it fight over Web term
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/saturday/news_5.html

by Shelley Emling
NEW YORK -- It may have won a war, but Spam, the canned meat, is no match
for the combined force of popular culture and the Internet.
This week, Hormel Foods Corp., maker of Spam, posted a message on its
official Spam Web site saying it would no longer object to Spam's double
meaning as junk e-mail.


ComputerUser.com June 2001
Movin' on up
Transfer data to your new system with care
http://currents.net/articles/2006,5,14,1,0601,01.html

by Matt Lake
Every morning, Bill had to wind up the pre-Cambrian 500MB hard disk on his
nonprofit's admin computer, shovel in another scuttle of coal, and wait for
a head of steam to build up before he could begin his computing day. When
the grinding of the hard disk got too scary, he finally plundered petty cash
for a new computer , and called me in to figure out what to do next.



Business Insurance 6/1/01
Kmart insurers must produce Y2K documents
http://www.businessinsurance.com/editorial/updates.php3?action=view&id=2011

DETROIT-Kmart Corp.'s insurers must produce internal communication related
to Y2K coverage exclusions added to property insurance policies, a federal
magistrate has ruled.
The May 25 decision by Magistrate Steven D. Pepe is the first court order
requiring insurers to produce interpretive documents, according to Murray D.
Sacks, a partner at McKenna & Cuneo in Washington who represents Kmart in
the case. Kmart and other policyholders hope that such documents would
contain admissions by insurers about the scope of Y2K coverage provided
under their policies.



Cleveland Plain Dealer 5/29/01
Collection on black history gets a new home
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/991133701288850.xml

by Grant Segall
Gregory L. Reese stood in a narrow aisle inside a flaking, leaking East Side
house recently, scanning head-high mounds of memorabilia.
"We've moved 60 percent of it," said Reese, head of the East Cleveland
Public Library, who recently put a truckload of treasures in a warehouse.
"Doesn't even look like we were here."


Dallas Morning News 6/1/01
County officials devising plan to halt identity theft
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/382507_idtheft_01met..html

by Terri Langford
Dallas County officials are crafting a plan to re-educate employees about
discarding personal information properly after several county workers'
identities were stolen.
Dallas County Administrator Allen Clemson emphasized that the
confidentiality of secured information - court and county documents - had
not been breached.


Federal Computer Week 6/1/01
VA improves access to medical records
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0528/web-va-06-01-01.asp

by Judi Hasson
The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a program designed to give
service members discharged in South Korea and Germany immediate and reliable
access to their medical records.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 6/1/01
UW refuses request to review records
http://www.jsonline.com/badger/other/jun01/record02060101.asp

by Don Walker
The University of Wisconsin has denied a request by the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel to review the records of contributions made to the school's Badger
Fund.
The Badger Fund is a program designed to oversee gifts and contributions to
all UW sports.



Dispatch Online 6/1/01
Judge raps advocates for messy documents
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2001/06/01/easterncape/JUDGE.HTM

BISHO -- High Court Judge President Bobbie Pickard lambasted advocates Toyo
Mnqaba and Viwe Notshe for tabling "unprofessional" documents that were
almost illegible and wasting the court's time.
They were appearing in the case between the House of Traditional Leaders and
Prince Zolile Burns-Ncamashe.


New York Times 6/1/01
Cyber Law Journal: Controversial ruling on library filters
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/technology/01CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
In early 1997, the Minneapolis Public Library began giving its patrons
unfettered and unlimited access to the Internet. The library's First
Amendment-inspired policy was intended to provide a needed service to the
community. But Wendy Adamson, a reference desk librarian at the library's
central branch, said it effectively made her working life a nightmare, and
federal officials appear poised to agree with her.



New York Times 6/1/01
Ebay fee move likely to be copied
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Subscription-Madness.html

Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- People across the country who sell things on eBay
are furious with the auction site because of its recent move to charge
subscription fees for a popular piece of software that makes it easier to
list items.


New York Times 6/1/01
The Records Industry vs Aimster
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/technology/01MUSI.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Matt Richtel
The Recording Industry Association of America asserts that Aimster, its
latest legal nemesis in the fight over online music, is essentially a clone
of Napster that permits the free exchange of copyrighted files over the
Internet.
But outside legal experts say it is unclear whether the recording industry
could prevail over Aimster as easily as it did over Napster, given what they
say may be crucial differences between the way users exchange files on the
two services.


New York Times 5/30/01
U.S. again prosecutes man cleared of being reviled Nazi
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/30/national/30IVAN.html?searchpv=day01

by Francis X. Clines
Cleveland, May 29 -- Eight years after an Israeli appeals court overturned
his conviction as the notorious Nazi death camp sadist Ivan the Terrible,
John Demjanjuk, an 81- year-old retired Cleveland auto worker, went on trial
here today with his American citizenship once more at stake.


Santa Fe New Mexican 6/1/01
Judge to appoint special master in Lee defamation case
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1894892&BRD=2144&PAG=4
61&dept_id=367954&rfi=6

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - An arbitrator with high-level national security clearance
should decide what classified documents can be given to attorneys for Wen Ho
Lee in a defamation suit filed by the former nuclear scientist, a judge said
Friday.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said he wants to appoint a
special master by July to supervise the handling of documents requested by
Lee's attorneys. Many of the documents will likely contain sensitive
information about U.S. nuclear weapons programs.



Electronic Telegraph 6/1/01
Records on plastic bullets criticised
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003864436460684&rtmo=3HruBSSM&atmo=rrrrrrrq
&pg=/et/01/6/1/nplas01.html

POLICE in Ulster were accused yesterday of keeping inadequate records on the
firing of plastic bullets.
Important documents were missing about the use of baton rounds, according to
research for the Human Rights Commission. The report was published to
coincide with the introduction of a new type of plastic bullet for riot
control.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6/2/01
Paper meets digital in records storage
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/saturday/business_
b381b7b120d7c0311030.html

by Peralte C. Paul
When Seattle's finance department decided to overhaul its voluminous record
keeping, the daunting task left at least one man sleepless.
The trick for Mike Herrin, Seattle's director of finance and business
technology: Find a system to allow some 1,000 municipal employees to access
reams of records in electronic format and archive about two years of data
they might need to regularly call up.



Manhunt.com
http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/12315.html

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, located at 515 Malcolm X
Boulevard in New York, N.Y., has launched a project to identify, acquire and
preserve research materials essential for documenting the Hip-Hop movement.



Washington Post 6/2/01
File almost frees triple murderer
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/A10385-2001Jun1.html

by Ruben Castaneda
The package arrived bearing the official stamp of the Prince George's County
clerk of the Circuit Court, the signature of the chief judge and a court
order demanding the immediate release from prison of a triple murderer.
But a supervisor at Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional
Services noticed something unusual about the letter that landed in her
Jessup office last week: The law clerk whose signature appeared didn't sound
familiar.



The Guardian 6/3/01
Film exposes Allies' Pacific war atrocities
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,500631,00.html

by Jason Burke
For more than half a century they have been portrayed as wholesome heroes
who fought in terrible conditions to save the Western way of life from
Japanese aggression. But now the savage acts that Allied soldiers were
driven to commit in the Pacific theatre are about to be exposed.
Researchers for a TV series to be broadcast on Channel 4 this month have
unearthed disturbing and previously unseen footage from the Second World War
which had languished forgotten in archives for 57 years.The images are so
horrific senior television executives had to be consulted before they were
considered fit for broadcast.



The Herald-Zeitung 6/3/01
Bills expunging court records hurt Texans
http://web.herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?-datasource=nbherald&-table=story&;
-keyfield=ID&-op=eq&ID=997&-search

staff reports
Texas legislators, claiming interest in protecting privacy, apparently
turned a deaf ear to open government advocates with bills sent to the
governor this past week.
Gov. Rick Perry is the last great hope that measures such as House Bill 1323
will fail.


Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 6/3/01
Probe under way over GOP caucus records
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun01/records03060201.asp

Associated Press
Madison - The Dane County district attorney has confirmed his office is
investigating possible Open Records Law violations that have been alleged to
have been committed by the Assembly Republican Caucus.
The investigation centers on whether caucus members deleted computer files
and removed boxes of campaign records from their state offices to keep them
from the Wisconsin State Journal, which had requested the information under
the Open Records Law.


New York Times 6/3/01
First, Elvis's Guitar; now 'On the Road'
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/living/03IRSA.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Kathryn Shattuck
Literary fans had fun picking faces out of the crowd at Christie's the other
day, when, 50 years after its completion in a three- week typing frenzy, the
120-foot scroll on which Jack Kerouac composed "On the Road" was auctioned.
There sat Kerouac's old literary agent, Sterling Lord, an éminence grise in
tweed. There was the scroll's consignor, Tony Sampas - a nephew of Stella
Sampas, the last of Kerouac's three wives - nearly anonymous in a dark
blazer and jeans. There was Douglas Brinkley, Kerouac's authorized
biographer, in a well- tailored suit.



New York Times 6/3/01
Rascal or Racist? Censoring a Rabbit
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/weekinreview/03LELA.html?searchpv=nytToday

by John Leland
After Cartoon Network acquired the rights to all the Bugs Bunny cartoons, it
announced, in early May, that it would celebrate by holding a marathon
49-hour broadcast of the entire Bugs oeuvre - the first complete airing
ever. Then the network blinked.
Twelve cartoons would not be aired because they contained racially offensive
material, the network said.


Reuters 6/3/01
U.S. academics help delve into Cuba treasure trove
http://www.realcolumbus.com/rc/life/docs/08883667.htm

by Frances Kerry
MIAMI (Reuters) - From marriage and dowry records to cargo inventories and
sales of slaves, the daily details of centuries of Spanish colonial rule in
Cuba lie buried amid millions of pages of aging legal documents in its
National Archives.
Now -- in a sign that hostile political relations between Washington and
Havana do not have to get in the way of academic zeal -- Cuban and U.S.
archivists are launching a joint project to delve into the dusty,
hand-written notarized records, preserve them electronically and make them
more accessible to academics and a wider public.



Shawnee News-Star 6/3/01
ONG's parent company fined
http://www.news-star.com/stories/060101/new_ongfine.shtml

Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An administrative law judge found the parent company
of Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. in contempt Thursday for not turning over
documents in a case involving gas costs and fined the company a total of
$48,000.


Sun-Sentinel 6/3/01
Preserving 300 year of precious history
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/search/sfl-hbauza03jun03.co
lumn?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dcaribbean

by Vanessa Bauza
HAVANA · More than three centuries worth of history housed in four dusty
rooms at the Cuban National Archives is poised to enter the digital age
thanks to a joint project between the archives and the University of
Florida.
The Notary Protocols, as the set of 6,658 tomes is known, include marriage
certificates, slavery papers, dowry records, wills, deeds and other personal
documents from 1578 to 1900. They include 10 million pages written with
meticulous detail by the notaries of the time.


The Star-Democrat 6/3/01
Sheriff, Chief wrangle over records; Chief Harvey refuses to release
background check documents
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1900040&BRD=2101&PAG=461&dept_id=4
17987&rfi=6

by Travis Dunn
EASTON - The Easton Police Department no longer will require other police
departments to pay a $2,000 fee for copies of background check information
collected on its officers, according to EPD Chief George Harvey.


The Age 6/4/01
Concern over patient record seizure
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/06/04/FFXJCTJ4JNC.html

by Paul Osborne
BRISBANE, June 4 AAP - Queensland's Medical Board has been accused of
draconian tactics in seizing patient records from a doctor banned from using
a controversial drug treatment.
The board last week banned Dr Stuart Reece from prescribing naltrexone, a
drug which blocks the effects of heroin, and will today seize patient
records to be examined by an investigator.




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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