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RAIN 01/27: Weekly Update Part 1



There are 22 stories in this posting.


Arizona Republic 01/21/02
6,000 vinyl LPs are up for grabs
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0121albums21.html

by Edythe Jensen
A musical Jurassic Park, frozen in vinyl at Arizona State University, could come alive this weekend on relics called turntables.
More than 6,000 donated LP record albums, the dinner-plate sized predecessors of compact discs, will go on sale Friday and Saturday for 50 cents each at the ASU Music Library.



Atlanta Journal-Constitution 01/21/02
Records may risk gun safety
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/metro_c3b4eb7694b920e800aa.html

by Don Plummer
Flaws in Georgia's record-keeping may be masking gun sales to ineligible buyers, according to a group lobbying for stronger background checks.



BBC 01/21/02
How the web watches you shop
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1768000/1768020.stm

by Mark Ward
Imagine for a moment that the real world was like the web, and all the information you unwittingly share when you venture online is available to the shop assistants in every store you visit.
If this were the case shopping would be very different, not to mention slightly sinister.



Chicago Tribune 01/21/02
Privacy option for Ameritech customers contains caveat
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0201210003jan21.story?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed

by Jon Van
Ameritech Corp. is offering a deal to phone customers who would like to opt out of annoying dinnertime phone solicitations--sort of.
Ameritech phone bills recently sent to Chicago-area customers contain a notice advising that they can keep their phone records private by calling an 800 number to opt out of allowing SBC Communications Inc., Ameritech's parent, to use their records as a marketing tool.



ComputerWorld New Zealand 01/21/02
Telco privacy code nearer
http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/1EA79A8923E55BB9CC256B44007CFA08!opendocument

by David Watson
The proposed privacy code of practice for the telecommunications industry has moved a step forward.
Privacy commissioner Bruce Slane has released a draft code and called for submissions on it.



Daily Mountain Eagle 01/21/02
Storage business offers climate control
http://www2.mountaineagle.com/NF/omf/eagle/news_story.html?[rkey=0016473+[cr=gdn

by Jewel D. Brooks
Climate controlled self storage. Hmmm. Jasper never had such a facility -- until now.
Local businessman Carroll Boshell is offering this feature in a new facility, 4th Avenue Self Storage, Inc., located at 400 4th Avenue.



National Post 01/21/02
Disney loses 1st round in Pooh battle
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020121/1191459.html

by Anne Marie Owens
A small family-owned firm has won an early victory over an entertainment giant, after a California judge found the Walt Disney Co. guilty of destroying key evidence in an 11-year legal wrangle over who owns Winnie the Pooh.



Charleston Gazette 01/21/02
History on Hold
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/News/2002012128/

by Bob Schwarz
DON'T make plans yet to see the $7 million renovation of the State Museum.
The redo hasn't quite stalled, but it has slowed to a barely perceptible crawl over the last 13 months, concede frustrated people who now work or have worked on the project. The intent of the overhaul is to tell the state's history in a balanced and visually powerful way.



Icwales.co.uk 01/21/02
Cudlipp papers donated to Cardiff University
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/page.cfm?objectid=11554867&method=full

The fascinating personal papers of one of the most influential figures in the British tabloid newspaper business have been donated to Cardiff University.



InfoWorld 01/18/02
Vendors fortify Web services' messaging
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/21/020121hnwebserve.xml

by Mark Jones, Ed Scannell, Tom Sullivan and Martin Lamonica
AS PART OF an overall push to fortify Web services, vendors are bolstering the reliability of messaging infrastructures with new tools to allow enterprises to build applications that ensure delivery of XML documents.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/21/02
Medical data group does own way online
http://www.timesdispatch.com/business/archive/MGB0VBQ0OWC.html

by McGregor McCance
Lacking a standard for sharing clinical information online, a group of Richmond doctors and health care companies decided last year to establish a secure system of staying in touch.



Springfield News Leader 01/20/02
New home for SMS archives celebrated
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/news/labor012002.html

by Eric Eckert
For more than 20 years, Neal Moore has collected thousands of pieces of labor union history. Now that collection has a new home.



NewsWales 01/21/02
Cardiff collection reveals tabloid history
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=5183

The fascinating personal papers of one of the most influential figures in the British tabloid newspaper business have been donated to Cardiff University.



Tucson Citizen 01/21/02
Open and shut case for public records
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/1_21_02garcia.html

by Joe GarciaPssssst.
Want to know a secret?
Most of the information you read in the newspaper you could get yourself.
That's right. You, Jonny Lunchbucket or anyone else could walk into City Hall and ask to see the official documents detailing the mayor's expense report.



St. Louis Business Journal 01/21/02
Optitek tracks paper trails for Northwestern University
http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2002/01/21/smallb2.html

by Ron Janecke
After taking on a huge project for Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., St. Louis-based Optitek Inc. has opened an office in nearby Chicago.



Pantagraph 01/21/02
Cherishing the memories
http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/012102/new_20020121003.shtml

by Rebecca Loda
NORMAL -- Sitting next to her tool bucket, surrounded by supplies, Jennifer Paddock of Ladd pages through the scrapbook she's creating.
The work in progress documents her husband's career as a high school basketball coach at St. Bede Academy in Peru.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/21/02
Scholarly work sparks a quest
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBLSSYOPWC.html

by Calvin R. Trice
HARRISONBURG Aprofessor's curiosity about a 19th-century edition dictionary at James Madison University has turned into a full-fledged, trans-Atlantic investigation.
JMU's Carrier Library has known for decades that its copy of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is an archival gem.



Baltimore Sun 01/18/02
Bill seeks limits on autopsy reports
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.autopsy18jan18.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines

by Tim Craig
The death of NASCAR racing's Dale Earnhardt, and the ensuing controversy when a Florida newspaper tried to obtain his autopsy photographs, has prompted a move to restrict public access to autopsy reports in Maryland.



Eyeforpharma 01/21/02
SAS to introduce text mining software
http://www.eyeforpharma.com/index.asp?news=24867

CARY, North Carolina (January 21, 2002) - SAS Institute, a provider of business intelligence, has announced plans to introduce SAS Text Miner, to add advanced text mining functionalities to the company's suite of data mining capabilities. (1/21/2002)



The New Republic 01/21/02
The EPA's Terrorism Handbooks
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012102/fumento012102.html

by Michael Fumento
"CHEMICAL PLANTS ARE FEARED AS TARGETS." That was the headline of a frightening front-page article in the Sunday, December 16, Washington Post about the potential vulnerability of American chemical storage and production facilities to terrorists.


Puget Sound Business Journal 01/21/02
XML helps combat overload of information
http://seattle.bcentral.com/seattle/stories/2002/01/21/focus9.html

by Bruce Sharpe
The Internet has created tremendous new opportunities for businesses to communicate with their customers, employees and partners. But it has also brought new challenges: How can businesses cope with the unprecedented demand for information?



Washington Times 01/21/02
Editorial: Your papers please
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020121-166867.htm

Mandatory fingerprinting used to be something we imposed on military personnel, criminals and criminal suspects. But if the idea of national ID cards being pushed by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) gets traction, every American will soon be inked - or tagged by another biometric identifier, such as a retinal scan - all in order to make us "safer."


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