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RAIN 02/02: Weekly Update 01/27/02



There are 18 stories in this posting.

Bozeman Chronicles 01/28/02
Yellowstone archivist offers insider’s
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=311&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=435944&om=1

By NICK GEVOCK Chronicle Staff Writer
When Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery began writing a manuscript about our country's national parks, he aimed to create more than just another pretty coffee table book.



Business World 01/28/02
Supreme Court issues new rules in prosecuting copyright pirates
http://www.bworld.com.ph/current/TheEconomy/ecostory1.html

By CECILLE S. VISTO,
The Supreme Court has approved a new set of rules that will facilitate the prosecution of copyright pirates and infringers, boosting government's efforts to have the Philippines removed from the international watch list of intellectual property rights (IPR) violators.


Chicago Tribune 01/27/02
Divine acquires Web search engine pioneer
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/local/chi-0201230256jan23.story?coll=chi-technologylocal-hed

By Barbara Rose and Christine Tatum
Divine Inc. continued its buying spree Tuesday by acquiring assets of one of the Web's first search engines, Northern Light Technology LLC, based in Cambridge, Mass.


Chicago Tribune 01/27/02
Critics say agreement limits access to Giuliani's papers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ch...70286jan27.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed

By Diego Ibarguen
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The city has handed over Rudolph Giuliani's official mayoral papers to a private group in an agreement that appears to give Giuliani the right to determine what documents can be made public.


The Herald-Dispatch 01/27/02
Many say education culprit behind poor open records performance
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2002/January/27/LNtop2b.htm

By RYAN KEITH
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON -- County officials pride themselves on knowing and performing their jobs well, but many say it’s time for a refresher course on West Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act.


The Herald-Dispatch 01/27/02
County by County Results
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2002/January/27/LNtop2c.htm

By The Associated Press
A county-by-county list of how agencies responded to requests for documents covered under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act.



The Connecticut Law Tribune 01/27/02
Connecticut Paper Seeks High-Tech Boon From High Court
Facts unscratched in groundbreaking case
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTCo...e&showsummary=0&useoverridetemplate=ZZZHCC0Q95C

Thomas Scheffey
The Connecticut Law Tribune
The Hartford Courant took a potentially groundbreaking electronic data case to the Connecticut Supreme
Court Jan. 18, but it may make slow progress due to a lack of prior spadework.
The newspaper is attempting to get the state police to let it buy the whole database of 815,000 criminal records in its computers. Three years ago, when Courant staff writer Jack Dolan asked the Department of Public Safety for the records, the agency multiplied its files by the statutory $25 fee per record and came up with a whopping $20 million proposed bill.



The Missoulian 01/25/02
UM given Crow cultural items for Mansfield Library
http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2002/01/25/build/tribal/crowcollex.php?nnn=6

By BETSY COHEN
MISSOULA — It’s not often that the University of Montana
outranks famous institutions such as the Smithsonian or Yale
University.
However, it happened recently when Mary Kay Voget, widow of
noted anthropologist Fred Voget, chose UM’s archives to be the permanent resting place for her husband’s lifelong research and photographs of Crow Indian culture.


New York Post 01/27/02
PRESERVING THE SACRED RELICS
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39902.htm

By WILLIAM NEUMAN
A team of archivists combing through the World Trade Center ruins has set aside fragments of the towers and the artwork and everyday artifacts that once filled them in a quest to
preserve the memory of the horrific attack.


New York Times 01/27/02
Quiet, Please. This Is a Library After All.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/arts/music/27HORO.html?pagewanted=all

By JOSEPH HOROWITZ
WHEN Lincoln Center opened 40 years ago, it was notoriously bedeviled by acoustical problems. The interior of Avery
Fisher Hall (originally Philharmonic Hall) has repeatedly been redesigned, and a further attempt is reportedly on the way; the New York State Theater has never adequately served the New York City Opera.
Now a third Lincoln Center acoustical crisis has materialized in an unlikely place: the library.


New York Times 01/27/02
Artifacts of Anguish Saved for Posterity
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27STEE.html?pagewanted=all

By ERIC LIPTON and JAMES GLANZ
Enveloped in white plastic sheathing, set atop small wooden blocks, the immense steel bones of the World Trade Center lie
under the gray winter sky on a patch of the Kennedy Airport tarmac where the jets never venture. Row after row after row, the 40-ton steel columns that once formed the lower facade of the north tower are now lined up like the coffins of soldiers brought back from war.


Orlando Sentinel 01/28/02
Victim of theft IDs new niche
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworl...8012802jan28.story?coll=orl%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

By Sarah Hale
Sometimes the best ideas are the least obvious ones.
Five years ago, LouAnn Busch-White, a 47-year-old, former
Sylvan Learning Center director, was the victim of identity
theft. Personal credit-card information, blank checks and
other documents were stolen from her mailbox in an
affluent Orlando neighborhood.


The Ottawa Citizen 01/28/02
Gatineau promises instant Web translation
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/news/story.asp?id={95ABB0E8-F60C-4622-840E-DED17A584C38}

by Zev Singer
By the end of the year, the City of Gatineau's Web site could be far more bilingual than Ottawa's.
Gatineau Mayor Yves Ducharme says the latest technology in translation software will allow his anglophone residents to read council documents in English, without the cost to the city of hiring translators.


Salt Lake Tribune 01/27/02
Clerk: I Was Told to Shred Olympic Files
http://www.sltrib.com/01272002/utah/171099.htm

BY LINDA FANTIN
Federal investigators waited 15 months before questioning the mail clerk who, for reasons never before made public, destroyed Olympic bid committee records at a respected Salt Lake City law firm. Then, as matter-of-factly as it began, the inquiry into the matter was dropped.
Mail clerk Thomas Benson, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned, told investigators how he did it, and more importantly, why: He was told to.


San Jose Mercury News 01/27/02
The dangers of destroying documents
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/shred012702.htm

BY MAUREEN FAN
Mercury News New York Bureau
Wells Fargo shreds teller trash. Intel rips up top-secret plans for a new chip manufacturing process. Biotech giant Chiron orders outdated packaging material destroyed so its products can't be reformulated or sold on the black market.
In the wake of the Enron debacle, whether to shred and how to do it have become as hot a topic as privacy and identity theft. While new privacy laws spurred consumers to invest in home office shredders, nothing has gotten the attention of
big business like the largest corporate bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.


San Francisco Chronicle 01/27/02
Enron shredding makes Raiders wonder about Andersen
Team links fiasco to attendance suit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/27/MN114975.DTL

by Tyche Hendricks
Oakland Raiders attorneys say allegations that Arthur
Andersen auditors shredded Enron financial documents
raise new questions about assurances the team received
about regular sellouts at the Oakland Coliseum.


The Age 01/27/02
Cooking the books for fun and profit
http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2002/01/27/FFX68FAAWWC.html

by Roger Franklin
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart," advises the Book of
Proverbs, "for He will make straight your paths."


Press Release 01/18/02
Time Hunter keeps an eye on how your workgroup spends its time
http://www.idg.co.nz/pressroom.nsf/UNID/45A7213D0A78717CCC256B4200671529!opendocument

Structu Rise has released Time Hunter, a Windows application that makes it easy for business managers to keep track of how their employees spend their time on the computer, whether the employees are working alone, part of an office workgroup, or distributed in virtual offices around the globe.





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