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RAIN 7/02: Weekend Update



AP 6/29/01
Calif. Panel cites power cos.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010629/us/power_woes_4.html

by Jennifer Coleman
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A Senate committee investigating possible price
manipulation in California's energy markets cited two power generators for
not turning over documents requested for the probe.


AP 6/29/01
EX-EPA head accused of files purge
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010629/pl/epa_files_2.html

by John Solomon
WASHINGTON (AP) - The same day a judge ordered her agency to preserve
records, then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner
asked a technician to delete her computer files, according to testimony in a
court case seeking contempt penalties against the government.


BBC News 6/30/01
The last laugh...Hancock's forgotten show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/news/062001/30/hancox.shtml

A group of Tony Hancock enthusiasts has discovered that the comedian's very
last UK mainland show was in Torquay.
Archivists at the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society have traced almost every
single stage show he performed. And, it has emerged that his appearance at
Torquay Pavilion in June 1967 was his last on the mainland.


Chicago Tribune 6/29/01
Ashcroft pushes gun proposals
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0106290202,FF.
html

by Naftali Bendavid
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft proposed Thursday that records of gun
purchases be destroyed after 24 hours instead of being kept for six months,
to the delight of firearms owners and the consternation of gun-control
advocates.


Yahoo Business 6/28/01
Classic Coke: Seldom-seen archives contain a trove of vintage advertising.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpiaw/20010628/ad/_b_h1_classic_coke_seldom-see
n_archives_contain_a_trove_of_vintage_advertising_h1_b__1.html

by Kathleen Sampey
The main building of Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters is distinguished from
any other corporate offices only by the Coke-red paint on the walls and Coke
soda fountains on each floor. An elevator descends to the sub-basement,
opening onto an equally nondescript, fluorescent-lit space that could well
be the corporate library of an insurance company.


Federal Computer Week 6/25/01
Accessibility eludes agencies
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0625/news-508-06-25-01.asp

by William Matthews
The date for posting fully accessible federal Web sites arrived June 21, and
any expectation that agencies would be ready promptly vanished.
Accessibility tests conducted on more than 2,700 Web pages on several
federal sites revealed that hundreds still did not meet standards for making
Web sites accessible to people with disabilities.


Charleston Gazette 6/27/01
Feds find problems at nonprofit
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/News/2001062631/

by Dawn Miller
West Virginia's advocacy group for developmentally disabled people that was
involved in the landmark Hartley and Medley cases 25 years ago is in danger
of losing its federal funding.
Federal reviewers cited problems with West Virginia Advocates Inc.'s board
of directors, credit-card charges, inadequate procedures and poor record
keeping.


Houston Chronicle 6/29/01
Officer falsified Osprey records probe finds
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/957292

AP
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has concluded that the commander of the Marine
Corps' V-22 Osprey squadron falsified maintenance records but that the
deception played no role in two fatal crashes of the tilt-rotor aircraft,
Defense Department officials said today.


Richmond Times Dispatch 7/01/01
Look before you toss 'junk mail'
Privacy notices allow opting of data-sharing
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBK3G34MOC.html

by Carol Hazard
The privacy notices have arrived - an average of 18 per household, according
to some estimates. Or they're in the mail.
Today is the deadline for banks, credit card companies, insurance agencies
and brokerages to mail the notices to their customers.


Modesto Bee 6/30/01
National Archives to close, revamp exhibit of country's founding documents
http://24hour.modbee.com/24hour/politics/story/614881p-660362c.html

by Marguerite Higgins
Scripps Howard News Service
WASHINGTON (SH) - This year's Fourth of July marks the 225th anniversary of
America's Founding Fathers proclaiming independence from Britain. And it's
the last day tourists and American history buffs will have to see the
founding documents before the exhibit is closed for two years.


New York Times 6/29/01
Cyber Law Journal: Invisible publishing sparks a lawsuit
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/technology/29CYBERLAW.html

by David F. Gallagher
Out of sight, out of mind? Not in this case. A snippet of invisible Web page
text has prompted a lawsuit by a Belgian company against Women.com Networks
Inc. The suit shows how far Web site operators will go to capture and
maintain prominent placement in Internet search results.



Reuters 6/29/01
Judge says EPA may have violated order
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010629/pl/environment_epa_contempt_dc_1.ht
ml

by Christopher Doering
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. district court judge said Friday that there
was ``substantial evidence'' the Environmental Protection Agency violated
his order to preserve Clinton-era computer records and would decide soon
whether to hold EPA officials in contempt.


Washington Post 6/30/01
Reveling in the roots others seek
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4735-2001Jun30.html

by Steven Grayt
One by one, they strutted into the Riversdale Mansion yesterday. Some
entered the Prince George's County landmark as absolute strangers; others
were lifelong acquaintances. But all shared the Plummer family heritage.
They politely introduced themselves to new faces and then gushed over
black-and-white photographs of ancestors and present relatives.


Richmond Times Dispatch 7/01/01
Court case information goes online
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBEFZO2MOC.html

by Alan Cooper
Information about cases in more than 40 Virginia circuit courts is now
available on the Internet, and court officials hope eventually to have
information from most circuit and general district courts there.


Sacramento Bee 6/30/01
San Juan gets files returned
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local06_20010630.html

by Sandy Louey
A Fair Oaks woman who pulled confidential student records out of a
playground trash bin has returned the files to the San Juan Unified School
District.
Deborah Chase turned over the files Thursday -- the same day the district
sought a court order seeking their return.



Dallas Morning News 6/29/01
Residents protest ZIP code change
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/406155_zipcode_29met..html

by Selwyn Crawford
Jo Zavitz is trying to do in a few days what rain, snow, heat and gloom of
night have failed to do for more than a century - derail the U.S. Postal
Service.
The Far North Dallas resident is leading a fight to persuade postal
officials to reverse their decision to change her neighborhood's ZIP code,
which officials say was necessary to accommodate current and anticipated
residential growth in the area.



Dallas Morning News 6/29/01
Gun records' life shortened
http://www.dallasnews.com/national/406067_Ashcroft_29nat.html

by Russ Rizzo
WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday that the
Justice Department will sharply reduce the amount of time the FBI can retain
the records of gun purchasers' instant criminal background checks.
The move, which came just three days after the Supreme Court rebuffed the
National Rifle Association's bid for immediate destruction of the records,
was denounced by gun-control groups as pandering to the gun lobby.



Nando Times 6/29/01
Former EPA adminstrator accused of deleting computer files
http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/35057p-579073c.html

by John Salomon
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2001 4:10 p.m. EDT) - The same day that a judge ordered
her agency to preserve records, then-Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Carol Browner asked a technician to delete her computer files,
according to testimony in a case seeking contempt penalties against Browning
and her former department.



New York Times 7/01/01
The search for the family tree moves to the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/technology/01GENE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Corey Kilgannon
It took Ron Wild about 10 years of visiting genealogical libraries around
the country, perusing microfilm and searching through dusty archives, to
trace the family line of his wife, Eva Mary, six generations to her
great-great-grandfather, Joel Calvin Taylor, a farmer, born in Constable,
N.Y., in 1824.
It took Mr. Wild just a few hours recently to uncover the 44 previous
generations.



The Times 6/30/01
In search of the past
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001222960,00.html

by Alexandra Frean
Social Affairs Correspondent
ONE fifth of all adopted people have applied for and received their original
birth records.
More than 400,000 people have been adopted since the practice was first
instituted legally in 1926, but it was not until 1975 that those aged 18 or
over were given the right to obtain the records that named their natural
parents.



San Jose Mercury News 6/29/01
Two companies found in contempt of Legislature
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/hearing29.htm

by Dion Nissenbaum
SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers found two companies in contempt on
Thursday for refusing to turn over thousands of pages of documents as part
of an investigation into possible electricity price gouging, the first time
since the Great Depression that a committee has resorted to such a drastic
measure.



Wired 6/29/01
Post-Tasini: Pity the Librarians
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44905,00.html

by Kendra Mayfield
For publishers reeling from a recent Supreme Court loss, it's time to pay
freelancers whose work has been republished in electronic databases without
their permission.
But rather than pay up or face billions in liabilities, publishers are
deleting tens of thousands of freelance articles spanning decades. So who
will bear the brunt of that extra work?



Washington Post 6/30/01
225 years of history on hiatus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4578-2001Jun30.html

by Linda Wheeler
The grand marble rotunda of the National Archives building, the home of the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, will
close Thursday and remain shuttered to the public for two years while the
founding documents are restored and the exhibit area is renovated.


Washington Post 6/27/01
A feminist's seal of disapproval for the Maryland State Archives
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/md/A53695-2001Jun27.html

by Lori Montgomery
The Maryland State Archives are under assault by a feminist writer from
California who has accused archivist Edward C. Papenfuse of masterminding a
sexist plot to bury images of women on Maryland's state seals.


Washington Post 6/29/01
Ashcroft would abbreviate gun buyer record-keeping
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60395-2001Jun28.html

by Cheryl W. Thompson
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft announced plans yesterday to slash the
length of time that the government can keep records on instant background
checks for gun buyers.



Washington Post 6/30/01
New rule on injury reporting rejected
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1558-2001Jun29.html

by Anitha Reddy
The federal government yesterday rejected a proposal to require employers to
separately report nerve, tendon or spinal disk injuries in their workplaces,
a decision critics say will make it harder to identify health problems
caused by repetitive motion.



Washington Post 6/30/01
The museum that took off
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1525-2001Jun29.html

by Jacqueline Trescott
The first 25 years of the National Air and Space Museum can be illustrated
with one out-of-this-world statistic: It's had 219 million visitors, more
than any other museum on the planet.


Yahoo Finance 6/29/01
Biggest document-management contract awarded by EDS
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010629/n29316305.html

Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Australia-based Tower
Software said on Friday it had won a record document-management contract as
part of a $6.9 billion U.S. Navy plan to build an information network
linking ships, bases and service personnel worldwide.


AP 6/29/01
Few Americans read privacy notices
http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/010629/protecting_privacy.html

by Nancy Benac
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many Americans greeted the billion-plus ``privacy
notices'' in the mail recently with a hook shot into the trash can. Now that
big yawn may become a collective ``oops.''It turns out those
fine-print-filled envelope-stuffers weren't your typical junk mail.


The Standard 6/26/01
Media Grok: Publishers purge freelancers
http://biz.yahoo.com/st/010626/27450.html

by David Sims
Most editors probably assigned staff reporters to cover Monday's U.S.
Supreme Court, just to make sure. The Supremes ruled that several major
publishers had violated the rights of freelancers by including their works
in electronic databases without offering a little extra cash for the new
use. In a 7-2 decision, the court confirmed a 1999 appeals court ruling in
the case, filed in 1993 by Jonathan Tasini, president of the National
Writers Union, against the New York Times, Lexis-Nexis, Time Inc. and
others.



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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