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RAIN 10/21: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 14 stories in this posting

The Times Daily 10/19/01
Ackerman shares treasures with UNA's Collier Library
http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/9996newsstories.html

by Robert Palmer
FLORENCE - Forrest J Ackerman's enthusiasm for fantastic stories and his joy of sharing them have made the University of North Alabama a richer place.
Ackerman, who lives in Hollywood, gave copies of six movie scripts from his private collection to Collier Library's archives, where they join other movie scripts donated by actors Ernest Borgnine and George Lindsey.


Star-Tribune 10/19/01
Alleged birth certificate scheme prompts investigation
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/769031.html

State and federal authorities are investigating a British man charged this week in an elaborate scheme to obtain a Wisconsin birth certificate using bogus information.
Aaron O'Brien -- if that's his real name -- was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court with aggravated forgery. He also is being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for overstaying his allotted 90-day visiting period. Authorities are still trying to confirm his identity.


Asheville Citizen-Times 10/19/01
Green gets four months for altering drug-screen record
http://www.citizen-times.com/news/18707867.shtml

by Tonya Maxwell
ASHEVILLE - A Buncombe County Superior Court judge on Thursday harshly admonished county officials who trusted a convicted felon to handle probation cases and administer drug tests.
During a sentencing hearing, Judge Dennis Winner criticized Mable Green for "striking at what we do in this system" by falsifying a drug-screen record. Her actions erode the public's confidence in the criminal justice system, he said.


Philadelphia Business Journal 10/19/01
Audit: Record-keeping problems found at charter school
http://philadelphia.bcentral.com/philadelphia/stories/2001/10/15/daily47.html

by Jeremy Feiler
A state audit of Philadelphia's Center for Economics and Law Charter School found record-keeping errors, according to Auditor General Robert P. Casey Jr.
The audit found the school lacked documentation to support the student membership reports officials filed with the state. These reports are used to calculate state funding for the School District of Philadelphia and in calculating the charter school's funding from the School District of Philadelphia.
The audit showed that the school didn't maintain accurate records and documentation, including board minutes. The school also lacked a centralized filing system and the documentation to verify grants it received, according to the audit.



Business Week 10/19/01
Microsoft bug reports may get personal data
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/7571224.htm

by Wendy McAuliffe
CNET
Companies using Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer 5 have been warned that documents containing personal information could be sent to Microsoft along with debugging information in the event of a program crash.
The feature that reports errors sends crash and debugging information back to Microsoft to help the company detect and fix bugs in its software. But the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability office (CIAC) has released a security bulletin reporting that the debugging information includes an image of the current contents of the PC's memory, which may include all or part of the document being viewed or edited.



Dallas Morning News 10/19/01
Reservists live history, record it
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9a2cb30a4.b0.af.0.a4.75e36.html

by David McLemore
SAN ANTONIO - Sometimes, history is not found just in books. And wars are fought on fronts a little too close to home. Just ask Army Reserve Capt. Suzanne Summers.
A professor of history at Austin Community College in civilian life, Capt. Summers commands the 90th Military History Detachment, called to active duty at the Pentagon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A reservist for nearly nine years, this was Capt. Summers' first call-up. Suddenly, the historian found herself face-to-face with ... well, history.


DM News 10/19/01
DMA releases guide to consumer privacy
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=17499

by Kristen Bremner
The Direct Marketing Association yesterday released a guidebook designed to help marketers understand consumer attitudes about privacy.



CNET News 10/19/01
Hacker cracks Microsoft anti-piracy software
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7590303.html?tag=pt.boston.news.feed.ne_7590303

by John Borland
A piece of software being distributed anonymously online has successfully cracked part of Microsoft's anti-piracy technology, the centerpiece of much of the giant's recent forays into the audio and video world.
Microsoft confirmed Friday that the code, written by a programmer using the pseudonym "Beale Screamer," can strip off the protections that prevent a song from being copied an unlimited amount of times.


Irish Independent 10/19/01
Tribunal may finally see Finnegan's trust records
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=584493&issue_id=5899

by Fergus Black
LAWYERS for auctioneer John Finnegan expect to make a successful High Court application in the Channel Islands later this month to obtain documents from his family trust, the Flood Tribunal heard yesterday.
Since last April, the tribunal has been seeking documents related to Mr Finnegan's Guernsey trust.
But the Dublin estate agent claims the administrators of the trust, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse in Jersey, have refused to hand over the records. Yesterday, tribunal counsel Patrick Hanratty said although they had been told October 26 had been fixed for a hearing in the High Court in Guernsey, it had been indicated to the inquiry it could take two months to obtain the documents.


Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 10/20/01
Judge is asked to open documents in eFunds suit
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct01/efunds20101901a.asp

by Tom Kertscher
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has intervened in a lawsuit filed by the former top executive of eFunds Corp. after the company and its former parent asked a federal judge to bar the public from viewing certain documents.
In the lawsuit, Debra A. Janssen claims she was forced out of her job in May 2000 partly because of gender discrimination. Both eFunds and its former parent company, Deluxe Corp., maintain that Janssen left voluntarily and deny her other allegations.


Las Vegas Review Journal 10/19/01
Businessman, attorney guilty in files theft
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Oct-19-Fri-2001/news/17258595.html

by Carri Geer Thevenot
A Las Vegas businessman and his New York attorney are the latest defendants to plead guilty in a case involving stolen FBI records.
Businessman Robert Potter, 53, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Central Islip, N.Y., to conspiracy to receive stolen FBI records and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Potter remains in custody, and no sentencing date has been scheduled for him.



Las Vegas Review Journal 10/19/01
Road Warrior: DMV trying to stop ID fraud
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Oct-19-Fri-2001/news/17257013.html

by Michael Squires
Prompted by revelations that illegally obtained identification cards and driver's licenses helped the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks disguise their identities, Department of Motor Vehicles officials say they've increased their scrutiny of the documents being presented at state motor vehicle offices and are assessing ways to ensure the licenses and IDs they issue are valid.


Chicago Sun-Times 10/19/01
Medieval texts tell of harmony among religions
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fals19.html

by Cathleen Falsani
In 1896, two adventurous sisters from Scotland with a penchant for collecting old manuscripts came across a scrap of Hebrew text for sale in a bazaar in Cairo, Egypt.
They bought it and later showed it to a historian friend at Cambridge University who recognized the text as a Hebrew translation of the apocryphal book known as Ecclesiasticus or The Wisdom of Ben Sira, that researchers believed had been lost forever.
Pretty cool discovery. Like a dream sequence from "Antiques Roadshow."
The Scottish collectors' savvy purchase, however, led to much more: the discovery of more than 200,000 fragments of text in the repository, or Geniza, of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Egypt, better known as "Old Cairo."



Orlando Sentinel 10/19/01
Firefighters say records missing
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locfirefighter19101901oct19.story?coll=orl%2Dnews%2Dheadlines

by Mark Schlueb
The ammunition in the legal battle over the health care given to Orlando firefighters comes in the form of decades of confusing and often incomplete medical records.
In recent weeks, dozens of firefighters have been so alarmed by allegations that city clinic doctors failed to inform colleagues of serious maladies that they rushed to the clinic to get copies of their medical files. Most of them found lab results from some of their annual physicals missing altogether, fire union officials said.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va