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RAIN 02/03: Weekly Update 01/30 Part 3



There are 12 stories in this posting.


The Tennessean 01/30/02
Human chain, book passing to mark
opening of archives
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/01/13010138.shtml?Element_ID=13010138

By SUE McCLURE
Staff Writer
COLUMBIA — As if to prove the adage ''history repeats itself,'' a
human chain will again be formed on May 1 to link the courthouse to
the new Maury County Archives.
And once again, a significant piece of the county's history will be
passed physically — hand to hand to hand — from its former home in
the courthouse to the newly renovated archives building, which in an
earlier life was the Maury County Jail.



URLWIRE 01/30/02
CIA Relaunches Electronic Reading Room
http://www.urlwire.com/news/012902.html

Today, the CIA relaunched the Electronic Document Release Center
(FOIA) with the new CIA Electronic Reading Room at
http://www.foia.cia.gov/default.asp. Documents can be searched
from the main page or via an advanced interface that allows you to
limit a search by date. A browsable list of Frequently Requested
Records is also available.


Federal Computer Week 01/25/02
SSA testing digital certificates
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0121/web-ssa-01-25-02.asp

by Graeme Browning
The Social Security Administration has taken another step forward in its efforts to
make wage reporting easy and electronic for the nation's 6.5 million employers.
SSA this month began testing a new software application from Digital Signature
Trust Co. (DST) that enables employers to sign electronically the wage reporting forms
- W-2s and W-3s -- they file with the agency. This pilot project builds on a
program tested last year that allows employers to file the forms online using a
personal identification number and password.



Los Angeles Times 01/27/02
Editorial: A mouse with its head in the bear's honey pot
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/1124596.html

Winnie the Pooh began life not as a loyal retainer in the House of Mickey Mouse
and Donald Duck but as a gentle, befuddled character in a father's bedtime story
for his son. A teddy bear from London's Harrod's department store was A.A.
Milne's birthday gift in 1921 to his 1-year-old son, Christopher Robin. The stories
Milne wove around that stuffed bear, published in 1926, were the writer's gift to
generations of children.
The Disney company got into the act in 1961, buying the Pooh clan from Stephen
Slesinger Inc., a literary agency to which Milne sold his merchandising rights in
1930. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others now may generate more than $4 billion a
year for Disney's empire and licensees.



The Irish Examiner 01/30/02
Disney faces Pooh 'honeypot' battle
http://www.online.ie/news/irish_examiner/viewer.adp?article=1648983

By Hugh Dougherty, New York
DISNEY faces losing billions of pounds from the sale of Winnie the Pooh
merchandise if legal action brought by the owners of the name is
successful, it emerged yesterday.
Lawyers for the Slesinger family claim the Pooh brand is a honeypot worth
as much as £4.2 billion each year to Disney.
The family of Stephen Slesinger, the man who bought the rights to the
Winnie the Pooh name from author AA Milne in 1929, is suing the cartoon
giant, claiming it has cheated them out of millions of pounds of revenue
since 1983.



Federal Computer Week 01/28/02
El Paso hitches HR to Web
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0128/web-elpaso-01-28-02.asp

BY Dibya Sarkar
The city of El Paso, Texas, encumbered by a 30-year-old mainframe system, is
implementing a Web-hosted solution for its financial, budgeting, pension and human
resources/payroll functions.



Washington Post 01/30/02
Fire Damages Haymarket Town Office
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58708-2002Jan29.html

by Josh White
A midnight fire burned much of the
inside of historic Haymarket Town Hall yesterday, causing an estimated $60,000 in
damage to the first floor and gutting the one-room town office in a blaze
investigators believe started at an electrical outlet on the floor near the town clerk's desk.
Although the outside of the building was largely spared, town officials said
damage to the building -- which dates to 1883, when it was built as a schoolhouse --
was significant. Haymarket Mayor John R. "Jack" Kapp said yesterday that the
first floor was consumed by fire, leaving the walls and floors blackened with soot.


Federal Computer Week 01/15/02
Tipping the scales toward info sharing
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0114/web-juv-01-15-02.asp

BY Dibya Sarkar
Eau Claire County, Wis., has taken a counterintuitive approach to managing information
on juvenile crime.
Rather than erring on the side of caution and keeping a tight lid on sensitive data within its agencies, officials have decided to create a system for making the data more
accessible throughout the county's justice system.


Federal Computer Week 01/23/02
State meets demand for map data
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0121/web-gis-01-23-02.asp

BY Brian Robinson
Overwhelmed by demands from the public that require manual searches for information, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) has turned to the World Wide Web to provide spatial and map-based data.
The department's OneStop Web Geographic Information System application (www.des.state.nh.us/gis/onestop) pulls information from databases throughout state
government and combines them into multilayered maps and text presentations, depending on the complexity of a user's inquiry.


Winston-Salem Journal 01/30/02
Despite great record keeping, N.C. still has illegal gun sales, study says
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/news/MGBRQ8QU1XC.html

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURHAM
North Carolina is the best in the nation at automating criminal records, but it still isn't able to
keep hundreds of people from illegally obtaining guns, according to a national study.
"Broken Records," a report that was released Jan. 16 by the Americans for Gun Safety
Foundation, shows that North Carolina has adequately automated 94 percent of its felony
and domestic records.



Federal Computer 01/28/02
NIST prepping security guides
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0128/web-nist-01-28-02.asp

BY Diane Frank
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's security team will be releasing
more than 30 guides over the coming year to help agencies with many crucial technical
and policy security concerns, officials said last week.



Washington Post 01/30/02
A Recipe for Safe Mail
Letters to U.S. Government Are Culled, Wrapped, Baked
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58221-2002Jan29.html

by Steve Twomey
Baked at 175 degrees, the government's mail must be set out to breathe these days, like an opened bottle of wine. So the letters rest for hours in circus-like tents in the
parking lot of the shuttered Brentwood postal facility, purging themselves of gases that have accumulated during sanitization.





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