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RAIN 10/19: Genealogy, slide rules, new archive



There are a whole bunch of stories in this posting.

ABCNews 10/17/01
Time Traveling on the Web
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_timemachine011017.html

by Tech Live staff
The Web has become a vital source of information and a powerful record of the
news events and cultural preoccupations of a given moment. But as the Web
evolves, some of those records could be lost.
Hoping to preserve this historical record, the Internet Archive plans to
launch a database next week that will allow users to travel back in time via
Web sites.



This Day 10/17/01
Experts decry secrecy of budget documents
http://allafrica.com/stories/200110170136.html

by Tayo Ajakaye
Experts from the financial and legal sectors yesterday in Abuja decried the
secrecy always associated with the budget document, saying it does not augur
for monitoring and implementation.
Starting off a workshop on Budget and Fiscal Democracy in Nigeria organised
by the Centre for Public-Private Cooperation, participants argued that the
idea that a budget passed as the appropriation act which was then sent to the
archives had become just another law was not in the best interest of the
country.



Associated Press 10/17/01
Ashcroft urges caution with records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011016/pl/attacks_ashcroft_foia_1.html

by Gina Holland
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obtaining government records may be more difficult under a
Bush administration policy change made a month after the terrorist attacks.
Attorney General John Ashcroft directed agency leaders to be cautious in
releasing records to journalists and others. He said agencies must
``carefully consider'' things like threats to national security and the
effectiveness of law enforcement.
Ashcroft also said that agencies that legitimately turn down requests made
under the Freedom of Information Act will have the backing of the Justice
Department.



Associated Press 10/17/01
Gordon wants to keep info. Secret
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011017/us/attacks_iowa_records_1.html

by Mike Glover
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The state's new domestic security chief said
Wednesday that lawmakers should review Iowa's open records law to make sure
information gathered to defend against terrorist attacks is not open to the
public.


Daily Mail & Guardian 10/17/01
State info not easily available
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001oct/features/17oct-info.html

by Verne Harris
When South Africa's freedom of information legislation came into operation in
March the South African History Archive (Saha) was at the front of the queue
submitting requests for access to hitherto secret files.
The reaction of the government departments concerned were enlightening: the
department responsible for the Promotion of Access to Information Act was the
least cooperative, while the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)
went out of its way to respond professionally.



Reuters 10/16/01
EMC, ex-worker in $1 billion spat
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7547827.html?tag=cd_mh

A former EMC executive has accused the world's top maker of data-storage
systems of improperly booking revenue after EMC filed a lawsuit against him
to protect trade secrets amid a bid for an estimated $1 billion in potential
revenue with customers such as Dell Computer.
EMC spokesman Mark Fredrickson said the claims of Kenneth Todd Gresham, who
left EMC to work for a rival earlier this year, have absolutely no merit or
basis.



Deccan Herald 10/18/01
Printouts of maps for landowners soon
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct18/imap.htm

by Rajesh Parishwad
After successfully providing printed copies of Records of Rights, Tenancy and
Crops (RTCs) to farmers under the Bhoomi project across the State, the
revenue department has now plans to offer computer printouts of land maps or
sketches, popularly known as "tippans" to the stake-holders apart from khata
extracts.


U.S.Newswire 10/17/01
Ivory Soap donates historic advertising collection to Smithsonian
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1017-102.html

Procter and Gamble's advertising for the Ivory brand, now in its 120th year,
is recognized as one of the longest lasting and most effective campaigns in
American business history. A full run of Ivory Soap advertising and related
materials will complement the business history collections at the Archives
Center housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The
Ivory Soap collection will join those from the Simmons, Hills Bros. and
Krispy Kreme companies, among others.


AP 10/17/01
Student newspaper files appeal over Earnhardt autopsy photos
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/101701/D7F731B00.html

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A student newspaper has formally filed an appeal
arguing that a new law restricting access to autopsy photos is
unconstitutional.
The Independent Florida Alligator maintained in an appeal filed Tuesday that
that the law shouldn't apply to the newspaper because its request for access
to autopsy photos of race-car driver Dale Earnhardt was made before the law
was passed.


Kent County Daily Times 10/17/01
It's time to look back again
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2500728&BRD=1718&PAG=461&;
dept_id=74409&rfi=6

by Marilyn Bellemore
CROMPTON -- It's that time of year again when bookstores begin to display the
latest calendars. As usual, shelves hold the 2002 versions of Sports
Illustrated swimsuit, the Backstreet Boys and Pamela Anderson.
And now appearing in locations throughout the Pawtuxet Valley are copies of
Vintage Valley Views 2002. It's the fifteenth edition put out by the Pawtuxet
Valley Preservation and Historical Society (PVPHS).


Pierre Capital Journal 10/17/01
Archaeologist searches for Lewis. Clark campsites
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2503954&BRD=1130&PAG=461&;
dept_id=99675&rfi=6

by Dorinda Daniel
Moving the Lewis and Clark Expedition from imagination to reality is the work
of Kenneth Karsmizki.
Karsmizki is a historical archaeologist from The Dalles, Ore., who is
focusing his research on campsites of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
Through the maps made and the journals kept by members of the expedition, it
is known that the expedition passed through a location such as Bismarck, N.D.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/17/01
Steel Valley archivist prepares to move collection
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20011017smonarchives1017p4.asp

by Linda Wilson Fuoco
When Mon Valley residents clean out their attics and basements, some of their
stuff ends up in the hands of Ronald A. Baraff. He happily takes in old lunch
boxes, hard hats, signs, photos, papers, blueprints, household bric-a-brac
and odd-looking pieces of metal.
Though Baraff has been on the job for three years, he's still wrestling with
a big backlog of stuff that must be sorted and stored and filed and
cataloged. And "new" stuff keeps coming in.



Deseret News 10/17/01
Send documents with certainty
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,330008617,00.html?

by Lois M. Collins
A new program created by Digital Signature Trust, an affiliate of Salt
Lake-based Zions Bancorp. that's partially owned by the American Bankers
Association, lets companies send documents electronically with the "same
certainty and security" they'd get if they used an overnight courier.
CertainSend delivers electronic documents instantly using the legally binding
aspects of TrustID digital certificates and the federal e-Sign law.


St. Croix Source 10/14/01
Genealogy holds interest for Virgin Islanders
http://www.onepaper.com/stcroixvi/?v=d&i=&s=News%3ALocal&p=43763

by Linda Lohr
Oct. 14, 2001 - St. John resident Myrna George is playing detective, but
instead of looking for nefarious characters, she's hot on the trail of her
family history.
She and about 80 million others across the country are hard at work on this
task. There are so many people looking for their roots that Utah Sen. Orrin
G. Hatch convinced his Senate colleagues to designate October as Family
History Month.
"Experts say that in the United States, genealogy is now the second most
popular hobby next to gardening," Hatch said in a news release.


The Daily Record 10/17/01
State wins bid to keep convict from reviewing documents
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/current_issues/2_91_law/legalnews/58777-1.html

by Peter Geier
A stockbroker convicted of fraud in Virginia is not entitled to most of the
documents he requested from the Maryland attorney general's office under the
Public Information Act, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday in a case
on remand from the state's top court.
In an unreported opinion, the three-judge panel held that the trial judge,
who individually reviewed and ruled on the 65 documents in dispute, had an
adequate factual basis to make his determinations. The Court of Appeals had
reversed the Court of Special Appeal's earlier decision, in which the
intermediate appeals court said Paul B. Gallagher was entitled to the
documents he sought because they were part of an "investigatory file" and he
was a "person in interest" under the state Public Information Act.


The Cabin 10/17/01
Volunteer helps others research their genealogy at library
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/101701/loc_1017010021.shtml

by Fred Petrucelli
Discovery has always fascinated Tom Slinkard, yet he never was big into
genealogy until he began volunteering at the Faulkner County Library.
Preaching and teaching have been his forte, so it is possible that delving
into the past for little known facts bears some correlation to what he's
about.


Reuters 10/17/01
U.S. House clears money laundering curbs
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011017/pl/attack_financial_laundering_dc_14.

html

by Andrew Clark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed
legislation to toughen U.S. laws against money laundering in a big step
forward for congressional efforts to target the financial networks that may
have supported last month's attacks on New York and Washington.
The Senate passed a very similar bill on Thursday as part of a broader
anti-terrorism measure giving expanded powers to U.S. law enforcers. The
House approved that measure on Friday, but had left out the money laundering
provisions.


Washington Post 10/17/01
History's custodians size up 9-11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48214-2001Oct12.html

by Jacqueline Trescott
The National Museum of American History and the Museum of the City of New
York are coordinating a national effort to decide how museums should remember
the horrific attacks of Sept. 11.
The questions are still unfolding, but historians and curators have begun
seeking ways to explain the events to future museum-goers.
"We need to consider what is the appropriate response as keepers and
interpreters of the past," said Robert Macdonald, the director of the New
York museum. He added that "we need to thoughtfully consider what is the
appropriate way to collect and what should we collect."



Washington Post 10/17/01
Losing track of illegal immigrants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17957-2001Oct6.html

by James V. Grimaldi, Steve Fainaru and Gilbert M. Gaul
Over the past decade, terrorists have posed as students, slipped across the
lightly patrolled Canadian border, used false passports and presented
themselves as tourists to enter the United States and plot deadly acts.
Their persistence in exploiting loopholes forced U.S. officials to confront a
monumental question after the Sept. 11 attacks: Can a broken system, designed
to police millions of people who come to the United States in search of a
better life, be quickly reconfigured to capture the few who arrive in pursuit
of a life of terror.



Mail & Guardian 10/19/01
Editorial: Lekota to probe what is fact and fiction
http://allafrica.com/stories/200110180612.html

Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has launched an inquiry into allegations
that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era
military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC).
The Mail & Guardian reported last week how the SANDF concealed thousands of
military intelligence files crucial to TRC investigations. The commission had
probed the destruction of apartheid-era information and concluded in its
final report that all that survived was three series of files. Each series
contains thousands of pages of records of military operations inside South
Africa and abroad.



Asahi Shimbun 10/18/01
Court sides with residents in disclosure of documents
http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001101800326.html

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday rejected arguments by some of the
biggest names in construction and allowed residents to view and copy
documents related to suspected bid-rigging practices.
The ruling-the first instance of plaintiffs winning the right to view
documents in an ongoing anti-monopoly case-upholds a decision by the Fair
Trade Commission.
The residents were seeking the documents for use in their compensation
lawsuit against the five companies.


Business Week 10/18/01
A federal privacy commission? That's right.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018_5933.htm

by Jane Black
A government agency of technology and policy experts could help policymakers
balance national security and personal privacy
Until now, debates over privacy have always been cast as a battle between
good and evil, a struggle between Big Brother and Lady Liberty. On Big
Brother's side was the government seeking to gather and control more
information. In the camp of Lady Liberty was a coalition of citizens and
advocacy groups that sought to protect the right to be left alone.


Business Week 10/18/01
The Cyber-surveillance bill and you.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018_3451.htm

by Dan Carney
Here's how the digital eavesdropping legislation racing through Congress
vastly alters the existing legal terrain
Imagine a world in which the government could watch your every move on the
Internet. Well, get ready, because that may soon come to pass. In the wake of
the September 11 terrorist attacks, legislation authorizing widespread Net
surveillance has passed both houses of Congress and is on a fast track to
enactment. The bill would do everything from allowing secret searches of
homes to following suspicious movements of money. The feds also want to take
a closer look at people's computer habits.


Chicago Tribune 10/18/01
Council materials available on Web
http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0110180213oct18.story?coll=chi%2Dtech

nology%2Dhed

by Barbara Kois
GENEVA -- City Council agendas, meeting minutes and other documents will be
available for downloading at www.geneva.il.us, city officials said.


Connecticut Post 10/18/01
DMV checks again on ID
http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1002,3750%257E187160,00.html

by Ken Dixon
HARTFORD -- The state Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing
driver-licensing procedures to prevent the possibility of the identification
cards falling into terrorist hands.
However, a DMV spokesman said the state is already a national leader in
tightening procedures, which require extensive documentation before licenses
are issued.
The goal is to make it impossible for ID cards to be obtained by terrorists,
like the suicidal commercial airline hijackers who crashed planes into the
World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11.



Des Moines Register 10/18/01
Official's plan tightens Iowa open records law
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/16218687.html

by Jonathan Roos
Iowa Director of Homeland Security Ellen Gordon is likely to seek changes in
the state's open records law to ensure the secrecy of sensitive documents.
Gordon told state lawmakers Wednesday that a plan is being developed to
safeguard government installations, major industrial facilities and other key
locations within Iowa that could be potential targets of terrorist attacks.
She said several hundred "key assets" will be covered by the plan.


Dallas Morning News 10/15/01
High-techers pay tribute to slide rule
http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/STORY.e98e31b2f9.b0.af.0.a4.54c71.html

by Sudeep Reddy
RICHARDSON - They were used to build the first automobiles, put men on the
moon and erect thousands of monuments.
But the slide rule, a low-tech calculating tool for three centuries, was all
but forgotten after electronic pocket calculators hit the market in the early
1970s.
Now they've regained a following. Nostalgic engineers who used slide rules in
high school, college and early in their careers want to pay homage to a tool
that drove technological progress in the modern world. Many of them gathered
this past weekend for a slide rule convention at the Richardson Civic Center.



Dallas Morning News 10/17/01
Worst-case scenarios now worse: Companies demanding help in preparing for
disaster
http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/STORY.e99870bf99.b0.af.0.a4.1e120.html

by Crayton Harrison
Al Decker became very busy eight years ago when the World Trade Center was
bombed.
Companies called him nonstop, scrambling for help in reviewing their
technology to make sure they could withstand a terrorist attack.
"The phone was ringing off the hook for two weeks," said Mr. Decker, security
services director at Electronic Data Systems Corp. "Then all of a sudden, it
just stopped."



St. Petersburg Times 10/18/01
Genealogy: Use paper trail to track female ancestors
http://www.sptimes.com/News/101801/Floridian/Genealogy__Use_paper_.shtml

by Donna Murray Allen
Proving an ancestor's maiden name is one of the more challenging aspects of
building your family tree, but few are more important because your DNA is
linked just as closely to the women in your direct line as it is to the men.
How you start tracking down that elusive bit of data will be dictated
primarily by the time frame in which you are researching. Marriage license
applications and certificates provide good documentation, but many states
didn't require such permanent records until about 1885. Since marriage
license applications are generally courthouse records, you must know where
the couple got married to get the paperwork. Some who lived near a state
border sometimes crossed the line to get hitched.



Houston Chronicle 10/18/01
Effort restores pieces of history
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1094384

by Ron Nissimov
While he attended the University of Houston law school in the mid-1980s, Don
Hartsell hatched a company that would take him around the world to save
invaluable documents and historical buildings.
Some of Hartsell's projects include working on the world's largest known
book-preservation effort at the central Los Angeles public library, restoring
a medieval German cathedral and designing special effects for the horror
movie Exorcist 3. In 1999, Hartsell's company, Solex, received R&D Magazine's
"100 Award" for inventing one of the 100 most technologically important
products of the year.



Hugin 10/18/01
Injured workers insurance fund IWIF selects Gauss for web-enabled records
management
http://www.huginonline.com/try/plsql/pressreleases.queryview?P_IDENTIFIER=8369

98&p_la=5

HAMBURG, October, 18 2001 - Gauss, a recognized market leader of Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that the Injured Workers'
Insurance Fund (IWIF) based in Maryland (USA) selected VIP DocManager for its
vital documentation retrieval needs. VIP DocManager-the document management
component of Gauss' ECM suite, VIP Enterprise-helps businesses reduce the
time it takes to process vital records throughout their organizations.



Jerusalem Post 10/17/01
It's all relative: Not only a family
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/10/17/JewishWorld/JewishWorld.36398.html

by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Looking at a lost culture

Some genealogists look merely for names and dates, others take family facts
and incorporate them into the milieu in which their ancestors lived:
socioeconomic, political, historical and geographical. Emily Rose has done
just this in her meticulously researched and detailed look at the lost
culture of Jews in rural southern Germany, Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the
German Countryside.



New York Post 10/18/01
Atty. Admits dirty deal for FBI files
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32098.htm

by Bill Sanderson
Lawyer Herbert Jacobi's effort to help a client gain an edge in a mob-linked
securities fraud case by illegally buying FBI records has cost him his
practice - and may land him in prison.
Jacobi pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in Islip federal court on Long
Island yesterday, and at his sentencing in January faces a possible five-year
prison term.



Savannah Morning News 10/18/01
Archive built for Savannah's builder
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/101801/LOCarchitect.shtml

by Erin Rossiter
Joseph Bergen can't travel very far before passing a building his father,
Cletus, and brother, William, designed.
Neither can Savannahians.