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RAIN 7/30: Weekend Update



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Sydney Morning Herald 7/28/01
Business jitters as new privacy laws give individuals the whip hand
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/28/national/national8.html

by Sue Lowe
Australia's first privacy laws have grown some teeth - and they are
frightening big business.
Under the changes, organisations will be required to give individuals access
to their personal information records on request within 30 days.

Hartford Courant 7/27/01
Preserving history page by page
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=585&eeid=4981298&eetype=
article&render=y&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0

by Loretta Waldman
As she gingerly pulls a volume of 18th-century land records from a locked
cabinet Thursday, the spine of the frayed book falls off in Therese Pac's
hand.
Packing tape holds other tattered volumes together. In yet another book,
containing minutes from an 1838 town meeting, the brittle, yellowed pages
have pulled away from the binding.


Dallas County News (Iowa) 7/26/01
Pictorial history of Dallas County to be published
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2137924&BRD=2036&PAG=461&dept_id=2
37073&rfi=6

by Darren Tromblay
Dallas County News, Inc., in conjunction with Heritage House Publishing, is
now compiling A Pictorial History of Dallas County.
This 128-page, hard-covered book will feature black and white photographs of
the people, places and things of Dallas County.


Dayton Dispatch 7/27/01
Data from traffic stops near Dayton to be tracked
http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/july01/781113.php

AP
DAYTON (AP) -- Starting today, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office will
keep data intended to identify and prevent possible racial profiling in
traffic and pedestrian stops.
Under the new policy, deputies will be required to fill out an "Officer
Initiated Stops'' form every time they stop someone.


Denver Post 7/25/01
Park's artifact storage an anachronism
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E74939,00.html

by Electa Draper
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK - One of the world's premier collections of ancient
Indian artifacts sits in decades-old cardboard boxes in an enormous metal
shed built as temporary storage in the late 1950s.
Some 3 million artifacts, photographs and documents related to the ancient
Puebloan culture are subjected to wild swings in temperature and humidity in
the Mesa Verde Research Center, said park archaeologist Linda Towle.


Govexec.com 7/27/01
Pentagon sticks with long-delayed Defense Travel System
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0701/072701m1.htm

by Kellie Lunnery
The Defense Department will move forward with its much-anticipated paperless
travel system, according to Pentagon officials.
The Defense Travel System (DTS) "will meet our future temporary duty travel
authorization, arrangements, payment and accounting requirements, while
providing broad benefits to the department," said Dov S. Zakheim, Defense
Department comptroller, and E.C. Aldridge, undersecretary for acquisition,
logistics and technology, in a July 17 memo.


The Guardian 7/27/01
Academy to document the era of the blacklist
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,528366,00.html

Reuters reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to
take a "searing" look at the Hollywood blacklist. Next year's exhibition
will include video, audiotapes, movie clips, photographs and documents to
present a full history of the anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1940s and
50s.


The Herald-Times 7/27/01
Kinsey puts erotic works up for adoption
http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/2001/07/27/news.010727_HT_CX3_AEP04847.s
to?PREVURI=%2Fstories%2F2001%2F07%2F27%2Findex

by Jon Meunier
Want to be enshrined forever in one of the world's foremost sex research
institutes?
All it takes is an open purse or wallet and an open mind.
On Tuesday, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and
Reproduction will display 30 to 40 pieces of artwork in need of adoption.


Ann Arbor News 7/27/01
Military seeking DNA from families of Korean War MIAs
http://aa.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20010727aforfriamkorea27.fr
m

by John Mulcahy
When Thurman Ramey of Ypsilanti Township returned from the Korean War in
1952, he had one grim task still in front of him. Ramey had to explain to
Alis Alexander, the grieving father of his army buddy Marvin I. Alexander,
why his son's remains were not returned after he was killed.


MassLive.com 7/27/01
Police sift Park Department records
http://www.masslive.com/newsindex/metroeast/index.ssf?/news/pstories/me727in
v.html

by Jennifer Picard
MONSON - Local police have been combing the financial records of the Parks
and Recreation Department for the past month for "accounting discrepancies,"
according to police, who are, for the most part, keeping mum on the
investigation until it is complete.


New York Times 7/27/01
Reconsidering the privacy of office computers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/technology/27CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
If you use a computer at work to send e-mail or surf the Internet, you may
be aware of a legal principle that seems to have sprung up overnight: You
have no right of privacy in on-the-job online communications.


New York Times 7/13/01
User agreements and a 'Timeless Issue'
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/technology/13CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
Finding that "the timeless issue of assent" has continuing vitality in the
realm of cyberspace, a federal judge has ruled that Internet users who
downloaded free software from a Web site were not bound by the terms of a
software licensing agreement because they never consented to it.


Scranton Times Tribune 7/27/01
County looks to intercept checks to delinquent dads
http://www.scrantontimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2143061&BRD=2185&PAG=461&d
ept_id=415898&rfi=6

by Ray Flanagan
The check is in the mail -- unless you're a deadbeat dad.
A state computer is matching Social Security numbers on tax returns of
anyone who is due a federal tax rebate. Once it makes a hit, names and
addresses are reviewed to ensure that the targeted taxpayers truly owe child
support, said Pat Luongo, the director of Lackawanna County's domestic
relations office.


Washington Post 7/27/01
Senators challenge Ashcroft on gun issue
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56499-2001Jul26.html

by Cheryl W. thompson
Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced
legislation yesterday that would reverse a proposal by Attorney General John
D. Ashcroft to cut the length of time the government can keep records when
it conducts instant background checks on gun purchases.


Washington Post 7/27/01
White House avoids subpoenas, releases documents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61207-2001Jul27.html

by Dana Milbank
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Government
Affairs Committee, claimed victory this morning in his bid to get the Bush
administration to turn over documents regarding its environmental
regulations.


Wall Street Journal 7/27/01
Uprooting time capsules can be a letdown if containers are lost
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB996181921241425497.htm

by Elizabeth Bernstein
For the 1976 fifth-grade class of Burns Park Elementary School, the point of
getting together recently for a reunion was to party -- not conduct a search
party.
The group had gathered to dig up the time capsule they buried as 11 year
olds during the Bicentennial celebration. But after days of looking, all
they could find was dirt and rocks. "Maybe we'll even get together in
another five years and try to find it again," says Raymond Howland, of Ann
Arbor, Mich., one of the alums.


Star-Tribune 7/28/01
City receives broader federal subpoena
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84621910

by Rochelle Olson
Minneapolis received a federal subpoena late Friday requesting information
about all City Council members' contacts with city inspectors regarding
ordinance violations and eminent domain cases since January 1998.


Des Moines Register 7/28/01
ISU sought immediate sale of farm, letter shows
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780927/15435244.html

by Frank Santiago
Iowa State University fund-raisers pushed to sell a donated farm against a
widow's wishes immediately after she died because they wanted the money to
prop up a building project that was on shaky financial ground, a
confidential letter shows.


Modesto Bee 7/28/01
Feds' use of computer surveillance at issue in mob case
http://24hour.modbee.com/24hour/technology/story/642169p-687571c.html

by D. Ian Hopper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (July 28, 2001 2:55 PM PDT) - By bugging a keyboard or installing
special software, FBI agents can remotely capture a computer user's every
keystroke. They have the ability to intercept e-mail from miles away. They
can recreate the pictures on a computer screen by monitoring its
electromagnetic emissions.


San Diego Union-Tribune 7/28/01
Pioneer Room patrons privy to the past
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20010728-9999_m1m28tfesc.html

by Ray Patterson
ESCONDIDO -- There is a place in town where you can look up long-lost
relatives or hunt for bits of local history. It's the Pioneer Room on Kalmia
Street, tucked into part of what was the old Escondido library, next door to
the current main library.

St. Petersburg Times 7/28/01
Harris employs systems expert
http://www.sptimes.com/News/072801/State/Harris_employs_system.shtml

by Steve Bousquet
TALLAHASSEE -- By hiring an expert to examine two computer hard drives for
missing files, Secretary of State Katherine Harris intends to show that no
public records were erased during the long presidential vote recount.
But Florida newspapers, including the St. Petersburg Times, hired their own
expert Friday to inspect the two computers and review the expert's work.


Evening Standard 7/28/01
Red-faced Lloyds in web wipe-out
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/business_story.html?in_review_id=
428118&in_review_text_id=377262

A COMPUTER foul-up has wiped out the transaction records of Lloyds TSB's
1.6m internet customers, it emerged at the weekend. The bank has been forced
to send out duplicate paper statements to customers following the debacle,
which was partly triggered by a £250m upgrade.


Corpus Christi Caller-Times 7/29/01
Justice of the peace accused in fake time sheet case
http://www.caller.com/2001/july/29/today/texasnew/6720.html

AP
HOUSTON - Justice of the Peace Mark Fury has been accused of ordering
employees to turn in false time sheets that did not reflect overtime.
Fury was charged Friday with eight felony counts of tampering with a
government document. A grand jury declined to indict four of his employees.


Hartford Courant 7/29/01
Mohegans rebuilding language
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=4992337&rende
r=y&Table=&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0

by William Weir
UNCASVILLE - Fidelia Fielding, the last fluent speaker of the Mohegan
language, died in 1908. Since then, echoes of the language have faded into
obscurity.
But a combination of detective work and what could be called linguistic
forensics have helped the tribe and a team of scholars reconstruct the
language, word by word.


Houston Chronicle 7/29/01
Lost work by Puccini see light
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/982355

AP
DENTON -- Hidden for a century, an unusual march by a well-known opera
composer was brought to life.
At a musicians conference in San Antonio, the University of North Texas wind
ensemble performed Scossa Elettrica by Giacomo Puccini, who wrote the operas
Madame Butterfly and La Boheme.
"It's delightful -- a great little find," said Eugene Migliaro Corporon,
wind symphony conductor and music professor at UNT in Denton.


Houston Chronicle 7/29/01
Museum will chronicle emigration from the south
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/982301

by Chris Roberts
AP
EL PASO -- As a public school pupil, Albert Armendariz Sr. was taught that
Mexicans were dirty and Catholicism was evil.
His parents were Mexican immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande in 1906. He
was born and raised in a mostly white El Paso neighborhood.
Armendariz, 82, went on to a distinguished career as a lawyer, federal
immigration judge, former national president of the League of United Latin
American Citizens and co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund.


Houston Chronicle 7/29/01
'Honeypot' with twist: every keystroke's recorded
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/tech/982997

AP
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As a tank officer in the U.S. Army, Lance Spitzner
carefully studied the range of Soviet tanks, their speed and rate of fire.
It's called getting to know the enemy.
Later, as a computer security consultant, Spitzner was surprised at the
sorry state of intelligence-gathering on people who break into computers,
steal information, erase data and launch attacks.


NewsMax.com 7/27/01
Clinton holdover deep-sixed Chinagate evidence
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/7/27/205843

Pentagon records that could have documented some of the most serious
Chinagate allegations against the Clinton-Gore administration have been
quietly destroyed by a Clinton holdover at the Pentagon.


Odessa American 7/29/01
Wood's career victory total in question
http://www.oaoa.com/sports/sp072901a.htm

by John Erfort
Legendary Texas high school football coach Gordon Wood, thought to be the
only football coach at any level with more than 400 victories, did not reach
that plateau after all.
A recent discovery has proved that Wood's win total has been incorrect for
the past 15 years. Wood was thought to have 405 victories - the most wins by
any football coach at any level.


Biloxi Sun-Herald 7/29/01
Opinion: The luxurious liberty of a free press
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/07/29/opinion/0729_jr_labbe.htm

by J.R. Labbe
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The 50 journalists sitting around the scattered tables in the conference
room were there to find out what hell state lawmakers hath wrought on open
government during the latest legislative session.
One of the newspaper's attorneys was going through his biennial briefing on
changes in Texas statutes that would limit or expand access to government
meetings and publicly held documents. As he talked about sunshine laws and
accident reports, attorney general's opinions and the "information practices
of state government that would affect personal privacy," my mind wandered
back to a visit by a delegation of Chinese journalists.


The Jewish Week 7/27/01
Scholars, Holy See don't see eye to eye
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=4838

by Eric J. Greenburg
An international team of Jewish and Catholic historians has chosen to defy
the Vatican rather than sacrifice its academic credibility. In a surprising
move, the five scholars - two Catholic priests and three Jewish professors -
have halted work on a landmark two-year study of Catholic Church actions
during World War II. They blame the Vatican for


The Review-Appeal 7/26/01
DA promises to probe Al-Qadir's voter registration: Is candidate eligible to
run after felony conviction?
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2150371&BRD=950&PAG=461&dept_id=16
2488&rfi=6

by Clint Confehr
Williamson County's district attorney is starting an investigation regarding
a candidate for alderman in Franklin's Oct. 23 election because of questions
about his voter registration.
The questions stem from Rashid Al-Qadir's criminal record and may affect his
eligibility to serve, or even run in the 3rd Ward city board race against
Vic Andrews, Chuck Edmond-son and Bob Poe.


The Seattle Times 7/29/01
Author offers alternate theory on how America got its name
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134322126_terra29.ht
ml

by Michael Upchurch
Book Critic
If you can navigate the obstacles - flat prose, unnecessary repetitions,
eccentric organization - this book, which suggests the Americas were named
after an English merchant rather than Italian mariner Amerigo Vespucci,
offers considerable rewards.


Sydney Morning Herald 7/30/01
US role in Soeharto coup recounted in secret history
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/30/world/world3.html

by James Risen in Washington
A supposedly secret State Department history released by a private research
group discloses new details of United States policy during the 1965 campaign
by the Indonesian Army to wipe out the communist opposition.
Mr Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a Washington
group that pushes for the declassification of government documents, said the
history on US policy in Indonesia in the mid-1960s had been completed for
some time, but the CIA and the State Department had blocked its release.



Wichita Eagle 7/29/01
Haskell welcomes cultural museum
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/07/29/kansas/0729apmus
eum_txt.htm

AP
LAWRENCE -- Haskell Indian Nations University's new cultural center and
museum will be as much about the future of American Indian culture as its
past, officials said.
"It's a chance for tribal colleges to get their language back and preserve
their culture and the identity of their people," said Gail Bruce, a founding
board member of the American Indian College Fund. "Not only does it provide
structure, it's a place for people to gather and have ceremonies."


Washington Post 7/29/01
Paper may be missing page dating to 1779
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/A1014-2001Jul28.html

by Josh White
An Alexandria history buff appears to have found one of the Colonial court
documents that disappeared when Union troops raided Prince William's
courthouse during the Civil War, and county officials are investigating to
see whether the aged paper is one of 45 pages still missing from a record
book dating to 1779.


Washington Post 7/29/01
Papering over corporate past
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62594-2001Jul27.html

by Carol Vinzant
NEW YORK -- Retired pharmaceutical executive Edward Adams sees nothing
unusual in the way he holds his stocks: on paper certificates in a bank's
safety deposit box, backed up by records held in his house safe.
"I don't know the security of their system, but I know the security of
mine," Adams said from his suburban Philadelphia home. "Could [the brokers'
system] be compromised in some way? Could a blip erase your holdings? I have
no idea."



Washington Post 7/29/01
Securities Industry's very own cache
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64185-2001Jul28.html

by Carol Vinzant
NEW YORK -- In an unmarked yet heavily guarded building in lower Manhattan
resides the richest company in the world, a company few have ever heard of
and one that exists only on paper.
Cede and Co. holds $23 trillion in assets, but is merely a proxy for the
Depository Trust Co., which handles all the processing of stock certificates
and money for U.S. stock markets.



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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