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RAIN 7/24 Part 2:Civil War database, self-destructing email, Morg an Stanley



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Cleveland Plain Dealer 7/18/01
Cleveland to restore long-forgotten portrait of Commodore Perry
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/995448607842225.xml

Christopher Quinn and Mark Vosburgh
Even though he is the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver
Hazard Perry needs to clean up his image.
In this case, the image is a Depression-era painting of Perry that a janitor
discovered two years ago in the basement of Cleveland City Hall. City
officials now plan to clean and display the poster-sized portrait, the work
of the late Kent State University Professor Elmer Novotny.


Gadsden Times 7/2201
Department of Archives starts Civil War database
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/news/stories/1033newsstorypage.html

by Dana Byerle
MONTGOMERY - His name was James Ray Anderson. On Jan. 13, 1861, before
hostilities started, Anderson enlisted as a private in the 55th Alabama
Regiment, Company B at Goshan (as it was spelled on Civil War records).


Washington Business Journal 7/20/01
Digital Paper cuts Xerox after customer service issues
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/07/23/newscolumn9.htm
l

Martin Kady II
Most small tech companies would sell their souls to the dot-com devil to
land a Fortune 500 customer to hawk their products.
But Chris Fountain of Digital Paper just broke up with his biggest customer
-- perhaps you've heard of Xerox?


Effingham Daily News 7/22/01
Search is on for a site for museum focusing on county, National Record
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2119326&BRD=991&PAG=461&dept_id=18
1096&rfi=6

by Cathy Thoele
The Effingham County and National Road Museum Foundation is moving toward
finding a permanent site for a museum.
The idea for the museum came about when plans for the new library were first
being organized.


Federal Computer Week 7/20/01
FEMA gets handle on mail
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0716/web-fema-07-20-01.asp

by Greg Langlois
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has tapped Integic Corp. to help it
manage and respond to the deluge of paper documents it receives from
disaster victims, members of Congress and others.


Washington Post 7/22/01
Frito-Lay moves to seal documents
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34959-2001Jul22.html

by Jay Lindsay
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Snack food giant Frito-Lay is seeking to permanently seal court
documents that show some of their pretzels and chips were tainted with
toxins, including substances similar to kerosene and cleaning solvents.


Houston Chronicle 7/23/01
War items needed to help account for U.S. MIAs
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/974449

by John W. Gonzalez
BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE --A small piece of fabric found where a U.S. Marine
Corps bomber crashed in Laos 32 years ago is the kind of cryptic evidence
that forensics analyst David Headley uses to help account for U.S. troops
missing in action in Southeast Asia.


Information Week 7/20/01
This e-mail will self-destruct in five seconds
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010720S0020

by Tony Krontzer
The Mission: Impossible team ain't got nothing on Atabok Inc. The
digital-communications-security firm is introducing technology that applies
digital-rights-management rules to E-mail, letting users of Microsoft
Outlook or Lotus Notes send a message that will self-destruct--maybe not in
five seconds, but according to a predetermined timetable.


KGW.com 7/22/01
Committee inquires about firms's destruction of documents
http://www.kgw.com/kgwnews/oregonwash_story.html?StoryID=23528

Associated Press
SACRAMENTO -- A state Senate committee wants to know why Morgan Stanley, a
multibillion dollar financial firm and adviser to several power generators,
destroyed documents that potentially could show efforts to gouge California
consumers.


KSDK.com 7/23/01
Audit reveals missing records
http://www.ksdk.com/News/news_article.asp?articleTypeID=200&articleID=16029

by Steve Jankowski
Psychiatric facilities operated by the state of Missouri are under fire in
the wake of a year-long audit of their systems. Missouri Auditor Claire
McCaskill says the audit revealed a system filled with terrible record
keeping practices and financial mismanagement.


Newsday 7/23/01
Riverhead Archive under way
http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/monday/nd2648.htm

by Erica Solvig
It takes a special place to keep a jury summons written by King George II 20
years before the Revolutionary War.
They're building it in Riverhead for the 1755 summons and hundreds of
thousands of other records, dating back to 1658, that are now housed in
Westhampton and the records room of the Suffolk County Center.


New York Times 7/23/01
Books of the Times
Aiding Dictatorship, not democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/books/23BERN.html?searchpv=nytToday]

by Richard Bernstein
You have only to read George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" to know,
contrary to the well-cultivated and widely accepted myth, that the Soviet
Union and Stalin did not fight the good and moral fight against fascism in
the Spanish Civil War. Over the years, many (not all) historians examining
the Spanish conflict - that vortex of noble failure and international
romanticism - have essentially agreed with Orwell, finding that the real
motive of the Soviet Union was to establish dictatorial control of a
European country, ruthlessly eliminating all opposition from within the
republican camp, and not to safeguard Spanish democracy.



The State 7/22/01
Plan to buy war relics criticized
http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/07/22/politics/relics22.htm

by Valerie Bauerlein
In spending $3 million for a collection of Civil War naval relics, South
Carolina is spending six times what the State Museum has paid out for all
acquisitions in the past 10 years.
That has ruffled some feathers in South Carolina's archival community, which
feels the state's museums have been shortchanged financially.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/22/01
Genealogy, too, getting big assist from Net on searches
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010722familytreereg4p4.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
Jill Schrecongost's father teased her when she started researching their
family tree.
"Maybe you're a Daughter of the American Revolution," John Schrecongost
joked as his daughter, a 39-year-old office manager from Salisbury, Md.,
surfed http://ancestry.com/ and other genealogy Web sites.


San Francisco Chronicle 7/21/01
Scrapbooks - 21st century lives bound together by 19th century art
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/21/HO185053.DTL

by Laura Thomas
Throughout the 1800s, young women collected cards, locks of hair, dried
flowers and other mementos and pasted them into books to give to friends.
They were called friendship books.
A century or more earlier, educated people collected writing and phrases
they considered significant in "commonplace books."
The term "scrapbook" emerged in the late 19th century with the manufacture
of die-cut images called scraps. Mark Twain, a great lover of making
scrapbooks, invented 57 self-pasting albums.



BayArea.com 7/23/01
Senate committee told Morgan Stanley destroyed power records
http://www.bayarea.com/c/breaking/docs/020448.htm

AP
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Morgan Stanley, a multibillion dollar financial firm and
adviser to several power generators, destroyed documents that potentially
could show efforts to gouge California consumers -- and a state Senate
committee wants to know why.



Chronicle of Higher Education 7/27/01
JSTOR's Journal-archiving service makes fans of librarians and scholars
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i46/46a02601.htm

by Scott Carlson
Four bookshelves, heavy with bound volumes, greet visitors at the door of
JSTOR's office here. A quick scan of the room shows black steel bookcases
lining the walls, cramming the corners, narrowing the walkways. They're
packed with tattered, sun-bleached, occasionally handsome copies of journals
like Classical Philology, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, and College
English.


Toronto Star 7/18/01
Privacy czar probes Aeroplan data
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=995494134173&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=9683321884
92&call_pagepath=News/News

OTTAWA (CP) - Federal Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski says Air Canada
has agreed to stop sending out a controversial Aeroplan brochure while he
investigates public complaints about possible violations of privacy rules.


San Fancisco Business Times 7/23/01
Visa merchant disputes taking paper-less trail
http://sanfrancisco.bcentral.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/07/23/newscolumn6
.html

by ron Leuty
Visa U.S.A. no longer will require storekeepers to turn over copies of
transaction receipts in disputes that aren't related to fraud.


Federal Computer Week 7/20/01
White House foils computer worm
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0716/web-worm-07-20-01.asp

by Diane Frank
The White House moved quickly to make sure the computer worm that infected
thousands of systems around the world did not affect its ultimate target -
the main White House Web site.
The Code Red worm, which by last night had infected more than 225,000
computers, was designed to set a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack
on the White House site's IP address.



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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