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RAIN 10/29: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 15 stories in this posting.


San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
Experts say Kenedy suit not much of a precedent
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=447524

by Alison Gregor
BROWNSVILLE - A jury verdict Wednesday that fortifies the legacy of South Texas ranching magnate Mifflin Kenedy may not necessarily set a precedent for Mexican American families seeking to right historic wrongs in court, experts said.
A 12-member jury delivered a unanimous civil verdict favoring the John G. Kenedy Jr. Charitable Trust, which had been sued by five descendents of Mifflin Kenedy's adopted daughter, Carmen Morell Kenedy. They claimed she had been hornswoggled out of her rightful inheritance.



San Antonio Express-News 10/26/01
Officials eye local history center
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=444308

by Tom Bower
Officials announced Wednesday they will appoint a committee to look at creating a history center to house San Antonio and Bexar County artifacts and archives.
In a news conference at the recently closed Hertzberg Circus Collection and Museum, local leaders, including County Judge Nelson Wolff and Mayor Ed Garza, announced the panel will oversee a feasibility study on renovating the museum building to house local historic materials and documents.
The building was built in 1930 as the San Antonio Public Library. It became the circus museum in 1968.



The New Zealand Herald 10/25/01
Ex-Team NZ member sued in spy scandal
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sports/sportsstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=224419&thesection=sport&thesubsection=americascup&thesecondsubsection=challengers

by Eugene Bingham
A former Team New Zealand member has been implicated in the most controversial espionage scandal to hit the America's Cup in almost 10 years.
Lawyers for the Seattle-based One World syndicate are suing a former employee alleging he turned double agent and tried to sell $US2.5 million ($5.9 million) of yachting secrets to a rival syndicate.



Interactive Week 10/26/01
Disaster recovery - be prepared
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2820507,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_hl

by John McCormick
COMMENTARY--Critical business papers floating through the New York air. Documents stored on PCs lost in smoke and rubble. Information-laden storage devices crushed under mountains of concrete and steel.
How corporate data was input, stored and backed up wasn't the first thing on people's minds in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks. We were all, rightly, thinking of far more important things -- family, friends, co-workers and others near and far.
But as this story points out, I-managers are back at work and desperately trying to set priorities for the new business order. They have a lot to think about, and network security tops the list. Yet, one of the key pieces of a networked system is the storage device attached to it.



Newsbytes 10/26/01
NJ removes chemical, reservoir data from state Web sites
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171567.html

by Brian Krebs
New Jersey has decommissioned Web databases detailing the state's reservoir system and hazardous chemical sites in an effort to keep the information out of the hands of terrorists.
Loretta O'Donnell, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, said the databases were pulled "temporarily, for security reasons."



Washington Post 10/25/01
Paper Chase: what to keep and where
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49930-2001Oct25.html

by Eileen Alt Powell
AP Business writer
NEW YORK -- One of the biggest benefits of putting your financial papers in order is that you can finally figure out what you have - and what you don't need.
"The problem is that people keep a lot of stuff they don't need and often can't put their hands on the stuff they do need," said Robert K. Doyle, a certified public accountant in St. Petersburg, Fla.
It's not unusual for people to feel overwhelmed by paper, adds financial planner Robert Glovsky of Boston.
"Look at what's in filing cabinets these days," he said. "Tax returns are more complicated and a lot thicker than they used to be. And people have a lot more different accounts so they have investment statements, mutual fund statements, bank statements, 401(k) statements."



New York Times 10/26/01
Pornography takes over financial site for children
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/technology/26NET.html

by Susan Stellin
Visitors to a financial Web site for children this week were in for a shock: the math-and-money game they expected to find had been replaced by a pornography site.
The money game, which is still accessible at Moneyopolis.com, was produced by Ernst & Young, the auditing and consulting company. An Ernst & Young spokesman, Kenneth Kerrigan, said the company had learned this week that pornographic images had been posted at an alternate Web address for the site, Moneyopolis.org, which has been under new ownership since this summer.
The sudden change of scenery was a result of an expired domain registration, a situation that has become more common as companies amass dozens of Web addresses, which generally must be renewed every year. Ernst & Young had not renewed the registrations for the Moneyopolis addresses, which expired this summer, because VeriSign Inc. (news/quote), the company that handled the registration, sent notices of the expirations to an employee who had left the company, Mr. Kerrigan said.



Canadian Press 10/26/01
Premier Harris swears in affidavit there are no more Ipperwash documents
http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Ipperwash-Harris-Affidavit.html

LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Ontario Premier Mike Harris has sworn in an affidavit that there are no more government documents related to the 1995 police raid in which an unarmed native protester was killed.
Broadcast News has obtained an affidavit sworn by Harris about meetings held the day Dudley George was shot at Ipperwash Provincial Park.



Science Daily 10/26/01
Betting on climate change: Alaskan gambling contest yields treasure trove of scientific data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011026075116.htm

A celebrated betting pool in Alaska is providing researchers with a remarkably accurate record of global climate change, according to a new study in the journal Science. And the results show that spring is coming earlier and earlier.
Every spring, the Alaskan village of Nenana (population 500) hosts the Nenana Ice Classic - a popular event that awards cash prizes to those lucky enough to guess when the annual ice breakup will occur on the nearby Tanana River. Winners must predict the exact minute that a specially constructed wooden tripod will crash through the icy surface.



Dallas Morning News 10/26/01
Mormon church claims signed document proves ownership of papers
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9ca469076.b0.af.0.a4.25a6f.html

AP
SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church claims it has a document that gives full ownership of some historical papers to the church, not Utah State University.
USU isn't so sure.
The document is a paper signed by historian Leonare Arrington stating that after he retired as a church employee "any copies or transcripts of diaries and journals he used in his research ... would be returned to the church."



Reuters 10/26/01
New Internet library holds 10 billion Web pages
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=45102&pub=tt&categoryid=626

by Andrea Orr
The world's largest Internet library opened its virtual doors this week, showcasing more than 10 billion Web pages, including many believed to be long gone - and some that people probably wish they could erase.
Dubbed the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org), the archive is the work of San Francisco entrepreneur Brewster Kahle who for the past five years has been working on a library that would store not just documents like old newspapers that are normally preserved, but a sampling of everything that has ever been posted on the World Wide Web.



New York Times 10/26/01
Zeroing in on the suspicious number above the state motto
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25HOWW.html

by Catherine Greenman
Car washes use them to cut down on nonpaying customers. Parking garages use them to prevent customers from swapping tickets and paying lower fees. But while digital license plate readers, which read and verify a vehicle's license plate, have primarily been used in the United States as a means of ensuring payment, they are now being sized up as security tools.
Digital license plate readers use a camera with a light source to take an image of the front or the rear of a vehicle as far as 250 feet away. Optical character- recognition software converts the plate image to text that is then sent to a database for verification purposes.



Detroit News 10/25/01
County puts law online
http://www.detnews.com/2001/oakland/0110/27/d04-326847.htm

by Jennifer Chambers
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP -- Online, not in line.
That's where attorneys and members of the public will go in the near future to quickly access and file documents at the Oakland County courthouse.
As Oakland County moves forward with its new $7-million case management computer system, which tracks all cases start to finish, it plans to be the first courthouse in Michigan to offer electronic filing. That will allow attorneys and those engaged in lawsuits to file cases, briefs, pleadings and motions online without stepping foot in the courthouse and allow the public to view cases via the Internet.



Yomiuri Shimbun 10/27/01
University allegedly faked official document
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011027wo31.htm

Kanazawa University falsified public documents submitted to the former Education Ministry in July last year about a male lecturer who was involved in a scandal with a female student in 1997, sources said Friday.



Florida Times-Union 10/27/01
Watchdog groups criticize efforts to close meetings, records
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/102701/D7FDDQB81.html

by Brendan Farrington
AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's Sunshine Laws are designed to give the open access to government meetings and records. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some lawmakers want to close part of those laws to the public.
During a hectic week when lawmakers were supposed to focus on cutting about a billion dollars from the state budget, the Senate voted to allow secret committee meetings to discuss legislation related to security from terrorism or espionage. Some senators wanted to go so far as to make secret any votes on bills.
Senate committees also considered legislation to reduce access to public records, including a provision that would allow the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to close otherwise public records for up to a week.


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