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RAIN 01/21: Weekly Update Part 5



There are 17 stories in this posting.


BBC 01/17/01
MSPs vote in favour of information bill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1765000/1765101.stm

MSPs have voted by 90 votes to 17 in favour of the Freedom of Information Bill, with the Conservatives the only party to oppose it.
The vote means that the Scottish Parliament will proceed immediately to appoint an Information Commissioner, who will be responsible for implementing the Bill.



Los Angeles Times 01/18/02
Court rulings go against Disney in Pooh dispute
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000004565jan18.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness

by Meg James
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has made several rulings against Walt Disney Co. in a bitter lawsuit with a small Florida firm over hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from the sale of Winnie the Pooh merchandise, according to new court documents.



Denver Post 01/18/02
Alert preceded Indian trust hacker breach
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E342624,00.html

by Bill McAllister
WASHINGTON - Three months before a computer hacker broke into Indian trust records maintained on a Denver computer system, Interior Secretary Gale Norton was warned that her department's major computer system, also based in the Colorado capital, was vulnerable to outsiders.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/18/02
Henrico to put limits on students' laptop use
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBH4HZELWC.html

by Chris Dovi
Henrico school officials are rebooting.
They will recall all 11,000 county-issued laptop computers before the end of next month to install upgrades and security devices aimed at curbing student abuses of the iBook program.
The planned upgrades are mandatory, said Superintendent Mark A. Edwards.



Idaho State Journal 01/18/02
Law would curb records access
http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/669/public/news240485.html

by Graham Garner
BOISE - Citizens and the media could have a more difficult time accessing some public records under a proposed law that would grant more discretionary authority to state agencies seeking to keep them from public view.



Lincoln Journal Star 01/18/02
Accuracy of payment records questioned
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=5685&past=

by Aaron Sanderford
Questions about the accuracy of the state's child-support payment records dotted the first day of testimony in an evidentiary hearing Thursday in Lancaster County District Court.
Lincoln lawyer Susan Ugai argued her motion to exclude the state's payment records as evidence in the 30 child-support cases scheduled for a February trial.



Lincoln Journal Star 01/18/02
BIA woes put hold on Native trust fund
http://www.journalstar.com/native?story_id=130

by Jodi Rave Lee
Mark Fire Thunder is among thousands of Native landowners still waiting for lease payments from the Bureau of Indian Affairs after the Interior Department closed a computer network a month ago.
The 73-year-old Lincoln man said he expected his annual lease payment in December to help him get home to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for the holidays.



Lincoln Journal Star 01/18/02
Judge eases off order to Interior
http://www.journalstar.com/native?story_id=126&date=

by Jodi Rave Lee
After shutting down Interior Department Internet connections nearly two weeks ago, a federal judge on Monday moved closer to putting the systems back online.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order -- with a list of caveats -- could begin to allow reconnection of eight agencies to the Internet as long as operations don't jeopardize "individual Indian trust data."



Lincoln Journal Star 01/18/02
Judge accepts report before Norton contempt trial recess
http://www.journalstar.com/native?story_id=132

by Jodi Rave Lee
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The contempt trial for two Interior Department officials recessed Tuesday, but not before a federal judge dealt another blow to those defending the department's handling of Native trust fund accounts.



KOMO (Seattle) 01/17/02
Two time capsules recovered from Seattle Center Opera House
http://www.komotv.com/stories/16367.htm

by April Zepeda
SEATTLE - Thursday offered us the chance to peek into the past and see some long lost Seattle treasures. Treasures buried 75 years ago, and forgotten.
When workers removed a plaque from the old opera house last week, they found two metal boxes behind it. Inside, were precious documents from Seattle's founders.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 01/18/02
Firefighter: Documents shredded
La-Sky says records relating to inspections of AeroTech destroyed
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jan-18-Fri-2002/news/17890625.html

by Frank Geary
A demoted Clark County firefighter who for five years was the Fire Department's voice has turned whistle-blower.
Steve La-Sky asked the county Wednesday to investigate Fire Chief Earl Greene and the Fire Department for the shredding of documents related to the inspection of a model-rocket fuel manufacturing plant where a fire killed an employee and forced the evacuation of nearby homes in October.



Scripps Howard News Service 01/18/02
Family's stories on tape can keep past fresh, alive
http://www.myinky.com/ecp/community/article/0,1626,ECP_737_944440,00.html

by Nzong Xiong
Janet Hatch started delving into her family's history when her third daughter was a baby. That was 26 years ago.
She began researching her genealogy and quickly realized how important knowing her family's history was to understanding her own identity and her children's. Whenever she could, Hatch, 53, got her parents and grandparents to sit down and tell stories to her eight children while she recorded their words on audio tape. As video cameras became available, she switched to audio and video recording.



Associated Press 01/18/02
Disney fined for destroying evidence
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020118/bs/pooh_fight_1.html

by Gary Gentile
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Walt Disney Co. was fined $90,000 last year for destroying boxes of documents relating to a dispute over royalties owed on sales of Winnie the Pooh products, court documents unsealed Friday show.



Washington Post 01/18/02
Push to close autopsy files reaches Md.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A220-2002Jan18.html

by Matthew Mosk
Concern that ghoulish details from autopsy reports could spread across the Internet or onto the pages of local newspapers prompted Maryland's medical examiner yesterday to ask lawmakers to block all public access to his files.



The Raton Range 01/18/02
Theft left village records lacking
http://www.ratonrange.com/ratonrange/myarticles.asp?P=474266&S=318&PubID=7730&EC=0

by Bob Morris
No opinion was rendered for the 1999-2000 fiscal year audit of the Village of Maxwell's budget because of incomplete records.



Washington Post 01/13/02
Slipped Disks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16600-2002Jan8.html

by Dave Barry
At least once per day, without fail, my computer, like every computer I have ever owned, has some kind of emotional breakdown. It simply stops working-often when I'm not touching it-and it puts a message on the screen informing me that an error has occurred. It does not say what the error is, nor where it occurred. For all I know, it occurred in New Zealand, and my computer found out about it via the Internet, and became so upset that it could not go on.



Washington Post 01/18/02
Your search for an engine stops with Google
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A244-2002Jan18.html

by Rob Pegoraro
Some two years ago, I would employ an entire palette of search engines to find things on the Web: HotBot, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Yahoo, AltaVista -- plus a newer contender called Google. And I wrote a column advising readers to pick and choose among the best of these sites.


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