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RAIN 6/25: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 20 stories in this posting.

Washington Times 6/21/01
Election study conducted by Gore associate
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010621-12853483.htm

by Bill Sammon
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission´s study that concluded Florida blacks were
disenfranchised in last year´s presidential election was conducted by a
consultant to former Vice President Al Gore, The Washington Times has
learned. 
To obtain the raw data from this study, the commission´s two Republican
appointees said they have been reduced to submitting Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) requests to their own commission.



Ananova 5/21/01
Scotland's first erotic film discovered
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_300428.html?menu=news.quirkies

Scotland's first erotic film has been uncovered by film archivists.
Bongo Erotico shows a man wearing smudged eye make-up and dancing around in
frilly knickers.
It was filmed in the back room of a cafe in Wishaw in 1959 and lasts around
20 minutes.


Austin American Statesman 6/22/01
Sheriff's records logjam: 2 years and counting
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/friday/news_2.html

by Jonathan Osborne
Jose Martinez Raya, an undocumented immigrant from Cuba, had a felony
assault conviction on his record when the Williamson County sheriff's
department arrested him on a theft charge in October. 
But deputies didn't know that when they made Raya a jail trusty, and found
out about it only after the 26-year-old escaped from the jail three days
later. His felony record wasn't in the state database that police routinely
check when they make an arrest. 



BBC News 6/1/01
Lost Dad's Army shows found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1364000/1
364418.stm

Two long-lost episodes of the BBC TV comedy Dad's Army have been unearthed
following an appeal by BBC archivists for missing TV programmes. 
The series was one of the BBC's best-loved and most enduring comedies and
the BBC has been anxious to trace five missing episodes out of the 80 that
were made. 
The two episodes, from 1969, turned up in a pile of rusting film cans handed
into the BBC by a man who wishes to remain anonymous. 


Boston Globe 6/22/01
Tribe says they will take dispute with paper companies to U.S. Supreme Court
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/173/region/Tribes_say_they_will_take_disp:.s
html

Associated Press
INDIAN ISLAND, Maine (AP) The Maine tribes embroiled in a dispute with paper
companies over water quality vowed to appeal a federal court decision
against them to the U.S. Supreme Court. 
A three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on
Wednesday let stand a Maine supreme court decision to allow the paper
companies access to records they are seeking from the Penobscot Nation and
the Passamaquoddy Tribe under the state Freedom of Access Law. 



Wired 6/22/01
E-commerce fears? Good reasons
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44690,00.html

by Michell Delio
The little lock icon that appears in your Web browser's window is supposed
to prove you are engaging in a safe transaction. But it may be nothing more
than a visual placebo. 
The icon is intended to indicate that information is being encrypted as it
moves from your computer to the e-commerce site's computer. But complete and
uncrackable encryption of outgoing and incoming information may not always
take place every time the lock appears on your computer's screen. 



Electronic Business 6/22/01
"Hey Meg, You've got V-mail!"
http://www.e-insite.net/eb-mag/index.asp?layout=article&doc_id=32205&spacede
sc=news

by Mark Long
At this week's Streaming Media West exhibition in Long Beach California, I
had the opportunity to test AT&T Worldnet's forthcoming video email
technology platform, which will allow virtually anyone with access to the
Internet to send and receive video emails, or 'v-mails.' 


USA Today 6/22/01
Ellis Island finds an immigrant wave online
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-06-22-ellis-island-main.htm

by Gregg Zoroya
NEW YORK - Dot Ratigan tried until the wee hours without success to dig into
her immigrant family past, working from her Macintosh up in Cape Elizabeth,
Maine. Exasperated that Ellis Island officials had placed an unprecedented
pool of migrant data on the Internet, only to see her access barred because
of overwhelming public response, Ratigan fired off an angry e-mail. "My
parents arrived at Ellis Island with less aggravation and frustration than I
have had getting on this site," she wrote. "Let me know when you are up to
snuff." 


News-Record 6/22/01
General's wallet repatriated
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/wallet21.htm

by Jim Schlosser
GREENSBORO -- The British see it as a trophy of war. 
Americans see it as a symbol of gall, then and now. 
After killing an American general, British troops under Lord Charles
Cornwallis lifted his wallet. Now, 220 years later, the English have agreed
to loan the billfold for a year to the United States, but at a cost of
$10,000.



Associated Press 6/22/01
Hispanics sue Fla. County over Names
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010622/el/hyphenated_names_1.html

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A Hispanic group filed a federal complaint against the
county elections supervisor for omitting the second half of people's
hyphenated last names in voter rolls. 
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund said the policy could
confuse or disenfranchise Hispanic voters, as well as women who have
combined their maiden name with their husband's surname. 



Houston Chronicle 6/22/01
Flooded Medical Center, businesses quickly adapt
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/950321

by Tom Fowler
As the waters of Brays Bayou rose and power flickered throughout the Texas
Medical Center, the ICU at Ben Taub Hospital erupted in a cacophony of
warning bells. 
The power surge had disrupted the electronics on ventilators and other
life-support devices. The phone system and the vast computer network that
snakes throughout the campus would be next. 



The Guardian 5/14/01
TV find sparks hunt for other lost gems
http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,490435,00.html

The screening of a long-lost episode of The Likely Lads may assist with a
BBC search for early programmes missing from its archives. 
Dozens of shows have vanished or been taped over, including nearly half of
radio's Hancock's Half Hours and a one-off appearance by the Beatles on Juke
Box Jury. 
Until recently 13 out of 20 episodes of the 1960s series The Likely Lads
were missing, but a team of amateur collectors called Kaleidoscope uncovered
an edition called The Last of the Big Spenders. 



ZDNET News 6/22/01
Excite@Home pulls file-swap newsgroups
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093157,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_mh_
int

by Stefanie Olsen
Excite@Home removed several newsgroups this week that it said fostered
copyright infringement under federal law. 
The Internet service provider pulled a handful of newsgroups it said were
related to sharing files or pictures. Newsgroups are bulletin board-like
services linked to an ISP that contain messages on specific topics. 
"We have closed some newsgroups that raise two sorts of concerns: One set
could be fostering the sharing of copyrighted material; another set raises
concerns about sharing child pornography," said John Sullivan, associate
general counsel for Excite@Home. 



New Yotk Times 6/21/01
How it Works: Online maps for here, there and everywhere
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/21/technology/21HOWW.html

by Eric A. Taub
Thanks to to the Internet, a man can now engage in the most embarrassing of
all activities in the privacy of his own home: asking for directions.
Web-based map services are feature-rich successors to the simple but
venerable paper TripTik introduced by the American Automobile Association in
1932. But unlike their printed counterparts, online mapping services can
generate customizable point- to-point driving directions, plotting routes
that favor the shortest distance, the shortest driving time, the most direct
route or even particular roads. Of course, these services may not always be
capable of providing a driver with a particular favored route. 



Wireless.NewsFactor.com 6/22/01
Security App Encrypts Attachments for PDAs
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010622/tc/11485_1.html

by Mike Mayor
The evolution of document delivery had businesses sending such important
documents as bills, legal papers or sales proposals to their customers or
employees first via personal messenger, then by mail, next using a fax
machine, and more recently as an attachment to an e-mail message.
Now companies also can deliver sensitive documents to their mobile employees
without fear that the message will go to the wrong person. MicroVault Corp.
has announced that its NetCourier product, an e-mail-based document delivery
and distribution system, has been enhanced to securely deliver documents to
such devices as Web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital
assistants) that run Microsoft's Windows CE 3.0 operating system. 



Shawnee News-Star 6/21/01
Commissioners pay bill despite discontent
http://www.news-star.com/stories/062101/gov_commission.shtml

by Shana Hawk
Pottawatomie County commissioners Monday expressed discontent over the high
price tag for copies of bridge inspection records, but unanimously approved
the claim. 
A $2,783.40 claim was approved to pay Brawley Engineering for copying bridge
inspection files for the county. The bill included 92 hours of copying
services at $30 per hour, Commissioner Buck Day said. 



Korea Herald 6/23/01
Bad credit records should be deleted after 3 years, panel says
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/06/23/200106230024.asp

Beginning next month, the maximum amount of time bad credit records stay
registered will be reduced from the current seven years to three, while all
loans and credit grants to both individuals and corporations will be
regarded as credit information, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said
yesterday. 
According to the FSS, it decided to reduce the maximum period during which
bad credit records stay with the Korea Federation of Banks (KFB) to three
years in order to prevent their misuse. 

Yahoo Finance 6/22/01
OUTSIDE THE BOX: A fundamentalist Internet?
http://biz.yahoo.com/opt/010622/pomdnrwgzaguhj8a_h_fba.html

Shelley Souza
Optionetics.com
If a global treaty wins approval, the Internet could not only become mired
in legal battles that cross national borders, but also find that its voice
is being silenced to conform to the strictures of countries like China and
Morocco. As if the Regulatory Investigative Powers Bill [RIP], the British
bill that was proposed last Summer, isn't enough: the Hague Convention on
Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments is setting new rules to monitor a wide
range of categories that challenges everything on the Web-from regular
speech to copy right law.




Albuquerque Journal 6/23/01
County will disclose suit settlements
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/367869news06-23-01.htm

by Guillermo Contreras
Bernalillo County has agreed to inform people who file lawsuits against it
that confidential cash settlements can be made public if there is an
appropriate request under New Mexico public records law.
The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed against the county in May by the
Albuquerque Journal and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government over
the county's refusal to disclose how much it paid a former county employee
to settle a lawsuit in 1998.



Dallas Morning News 6/23/01
Architects of Clinton library merge past, future in design
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/400985_arclinton_23te.html

by Brian Skoloff
AP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Bill Clinton says he knows every detail of the model of
his library complex, from the tiny fake trees to the inch-high silver people
in the park. 
He got his first look Friday at the final 14-foot-long, three-dimensional
model of the Clinton Presidential Center as he met with its architects. He
looked proud. 
"[James] Polshek makes fun of me because every time there's been a slight
change in the design, I can tell," Mr. Clinton said. 




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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