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RAIN 11/12: Weekend Update Part 3



There are 17 stories in this posting


Los Angeles Times 11/09/01
An enduring legacy of a divided era
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-110901stasi.story

by Carol L. Williams
BERLIN -- In a dreary jumble of prefabricated buildings filling a city block, 2,500 government employees here are creating a permanent record for posterity of abuses committed against millions during the four-decade dictatorship of East German Communists.
The archivists' task is to preserve the chilling details of state-orchestrated repression, for schoolchildren and history scholars alike, today and in the future.



Cleveland Plain Dealer 11/09/01
Audit blames CMHA mess on fired boss
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/10053018083152017.xml

by Angela D. Chatman
CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday's Metro section said Robert C. Townsend II is the only remaining Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority board member who served during the tenure of former Executive Director Claire E. Freeman. Members Dwayne Browder and Louise Harris also were on the board at that time. END.
State Auditor Jim Petro yesterday blamed Claire Freeman for all mismanagement at the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority during her tenure, but he added the agency's board of commissioners failed to provide strong oversight.



BBC News 11/10/01
BBC to screen 'lost' classics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1648000/1648907.stm

BBC Television will screen this Christmas two episodes of classic comedy series Dad's Army which were missing for 30 years.
They are among more than 100 "lost" BBC TV and Radio programmes recovered for the nation after a six-month appeal by BBC archivists.
The programmes had either never been recorded or had been wiped from the archives.



Corpus Christi Caller-Times 11/10/01
Nueces County expands its Web site
http://www.caller.com/2001/november/10/today/localnew/17362.html

by Jason Ma
The computer savvy are now able to find information on property, marriage licenses and business names on Nueces County's Web site, as part of an ongoing project to put all documents online.
County Commissioners heard a presentation from the information technology department about the new features at their meeting Friday.



Eastside Journal 11/07/01
Gorton's papers going to UW
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/72566

by Patti Payne
CAREER ON PAPER: Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton is the subject of much talk and excitement at the University of Washington.
``His papers are here at the university,'' says UW head Richard McCormick, ``and it is our goal to make them widely available for use.''
``It's just a great big pile of organized stuff,'' Gorton says with a laugh. The longtime Bellevue resident is dividing his time these days between his office at Preston, Gates and Ellis and sharing an office with some of his former staffers.



Electronic Publishing 11/2001
Laserfiche presents new offerings at COMDEX
http://ep.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=29&ARTICLE_ID=126245

LaserFiche Document Imaging, a developer of software for digital archiving, indexing, and retrieval, is introducing new products including innovative disaster recovery and financial services solutions at COMDEX 2001.



San Antonio Express-News 11/10/01
Wright charmed by Japanes art
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=690&xlc=500216&xld=170

by Tracy Hobson Lehmann
The name F.L. Wright on a catalog card piqued art historian Julia Meech's curiosity.
Could F.L. be Frank Lloyd? Could the acclaimed architect be the vendor who sold hundreds of Japanese woodblock prints to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1918 and 1922?
Indeed he was.
Meech followed an archival trail to learn that Wright's career as an art dealer was, at times, more lucrative than his architectural pursuits.


Ottawa Citizen 11/10/01
After 84 years, grave of an unknown soldier from Edmonton identified
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={8D4E961A-8143-4ECE-A378-2A45ED2AFB20}

by Tim Cook
Canadian Press
EDMONTON (CP) - Margaret Short never figured her uncle's grave would be found. She knew Lieut. Harold Agar had died in the First World War, but his body was among hundreds of unidentified Canadian soldiers buried in a Belgian cemetery - there were just too many graves without names.
Then, earlier this year, out of the blue she heard good news. While researching for a book he was writing, Capt. Stephen Newman of Victoria came across Agar's burial site. After 84 years, Short and Agar's three other nieces were given the gift of closure.



Prior Lake American 11/09/01
County sets limits on data available on Web
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2622406&BRD=1264&PAG=461&dept_id=139378&rfi=6

by John Mueller
With the certainty that access to certain land and tax records for every property owner in Scott County will be available online, the Scott County Board recently made good on a promise to protect the privacy of citizens while providing better and more efficient service.
The county board approved a policy that in effect limits what information will be made available on the county's Web site.



Providence Journal 11/07/01
Police sued over profiling records
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/news/06493181.htm

by Bruce Landis
PROVIDENCE -- The state's top law-enforcement officer and the American Civil Liberties Union have both sued the Providence Police Department, accusing it of violating the state law aimed at determining whether Rhode Island police stop drivers because of their race.
The lawsuits, filed Monday by Atty. Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse and yesterday by the Rhode Island Affiliate of the ACLU accuse the city police of failing to report information on the drivers and passengers in cars the police stopped earlier this year.



Cyber India 11/09/01
Rewritable DVDs: Enervated in battle of standards
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/trends/101110901.asp

by Manoj Chadran
Standards, one thing consumers of electronic equipment and communication, and computing devices, always cry for. And it is also something that various players in the industry fail to arrive at many times, often resulting in the premature death of some promising technologies. The latest victim is the rewritable Digital Versatile Disk (DVD), which has the potential of taking video recording to the masses.



The Oklahoman 11/10/01
Government e-mail is public, ruling finds
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=781216&pic=none&TP=getarticle

by Lisa Tatum
EDMOND -- State Attorney General Drew Edmondson issued an opinion Friday that e-mail and other electronic information generated by government is subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
"A record is a record regardless of physical form or characteristic," Edmondson said.



San Diego Union-Tribune 11/10/01
Cops denied access to data on conduct
Judge rules files not public record
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20011110-9999_7m10suit.html

by Greg Moran
A San Diego Superior Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit from police officers who wanted to review electronic files on their conduct compiled by attorneys for the public defender.
San Diego Superior Court Judge William R. Nevitt Jr. ruled the records are not public documents that can be handed over under the state's public records law.



San Diego Union-Tribune 11/10/01
Judge urged to reseal papers in stock case against state
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/state/20011110-1050-ca-stocklawsuit.html

hAP
SACRAMENTO - A state judge, at the request of Controller Kathleen Connell, is considering resealing some key documents in a lawsuit alleging that the state sold millions of dollars worth of small investors' stock in the 1990s without making any attempt to notify the rightful owners.



Sydney Morning Herald 11/10/01
F is for a faked pass: uni marks examined
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/10/text/national3.html

by Aban Contractor
The state's anti-corruption watchdog is investigating claims that the marks of failed students were erased from official records at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption is looking at the unauthorised alteration of academic records and staff access to computer data.



Salt Lake Tribune 11/10/01
Board seeks truce in document fight
http://www.sltrib.com/11102001/utah/147552.htm

by Kirsten Stewart and Peggy Fletcher Stack
Utah State University and the LDS Church are leaving it up to a committee of historians, church authorities and attorneys to hammer out a truce in their battle over a collection of historical papers donated to the university by the late Mormon historian Leonard Arrington.


The Times 11/09/01
How The Great War was lost - and found
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001390056,00.html

by John Hughes-Wilson
Nearly 40 years after its release, a famed television series is making a comeback
Everyone loves to find buried treasure. In 1964 the BBC produced a groundbreaking television series called The Great War. For 26 weeks it ran in grainy black and white and was a sensation. For half a year, pubs thinned out on a Wednesday evening. With the rounded tones of Sir Michael Redgrave and Sir Ralph Richardson as the narrators, and previously unseen archival footage, The Great War was a television phenomenon.





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