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RAIN 0804 Weekly Update: Sunday Roundup (7)



New York Times 8/4/02
Civil War Relics Draw Visitors, and
Con Artists
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 1 — One hundred and thirty-nine years after the climactic charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, Gen. George Pickett's Confederate cap rests here north of the Mason-Dixon line, a prime historic relic that has seen better but hardly richer days.
With the sentencing this week of the last of three convicted con men in the top-dollar underworld of ill-gotten Civil War memorabilia, the general's nattily crushed kepi is encased like a gray-and-gold punctuation mark in the year-old National Civil War Museum.
"That kepi is rightfully mine," moans George E. Pickett V, the general's greatgreat-
grandson. "It's part of the theft of my property by a Yankee carpetbagging con artist."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/national/04RELI.html?


The Independent 8/4/02
Internal emails: If the story's bad, memo's the word
By Leo Lewis
Next time you receive an email that's being sent to everyone in the company, grit your teeth before opening it. It might be an innocent circular about canteen prices, but in these markets, it could be much worse.
If you work anywhere near Americans, be particularly nervous about phrases like "major workforce adjustment", "employee transitioning", or IBM's favoured choice of "workforce
rebalancing". Also beware the sort of mail going round firms like Beatnik.com, where the founder quit with the line, "I am leaving Beatnik at a time when the business has never been stronger" – before explaining the exact state the company was in.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=321184


The Standard-Examiner 8/4/02
Meadows documents go public
They will add details to controversial massacre in Utah, LDS
history
By ANTONE CLARK
Standard-Examiner correspondent
SALT LAKE CITY -- Copies of documents that detail one of the most
controversial incidents in the history of early pioneer life in the Utah
territory, especially for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints, will be available for public access Monday.
The state archives will have microfilm related to the Mountain Meadows
massacre available for viewing, said Arlene Schmuland, patron services
archivist for the Utah State Archives Research Center.
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story...0020803231052003217+cat=news+template=news1.html


Philadelphia Inquirer 8/4/02
At city archives, piles aplenty, boxes many, history at ready
By Stephan Salisbury
The scent of cardboard, tangy and unmistakable, overwhelms anyone entering the basement of the old Bulletin  Building in West Philadelphia.
And why not?
The basement is vast, at least the size of a football field, with 16-foot-high shelves towering row after row, vanishing into the dim light 300 feet away.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/3797297.htm


Richmond Times-Dispatch 8/4/02
A comrade too brave
JMU professor passes on diary of fellow RAF flier
BY CALVIN R. TRICE
HARRISONBURG - A college English professor who flew for the Royal Air Force in World War II journeyed back to his native England last week for one last mission.
Geoffrey Morley-Mower took with him the diary of an RAF comrade killed in action in North Africa almost 61 years ago.
On Thursday, Morley-Mower will present the notebook to surviving family members of Lewis Fry "Molly" Malone, a fellow Brit who was flight leader for the No. 451 Royal Australian Squadron.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGBOWC19G4D.html


New York Times 8/4/02
Privacy vs. Security on Campus
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
WHEN the news broke a week ago that a Princeton admissions officer had used the Social Security numbers of applicants to his school to view Yale University's Web site for admissions, privacy advocates were aghast not only at his act, but also at the Yale site's lack of security.
In one online forum, Richard Wiggins, an author and information technology specialist at Michigan State University, noted that most businesses with online customer accounts have learned that Social Security numbers alone offer poor security, and issue personal identification numbers as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/weekinreview/04SCHW.html?


Toronto Star 8/4/02
Vinland Map a cartographic conundrum
By Jay Ingram
The Vinland Map is a piece of parchment that has drawn on it a depiction of the world typical of the Middle Ages. It is controversial because it is supposed to date back to the mid-1400s but it shows Iceland, Greenland and a large island to the west called Vinland, which would have to be Canada. These are all places documented in the Viking sagas but the map would be spectacular cartographic evidence for those voyages. Two new
reports on the map have only succeeded in deepening the controversy.
The Vinland Map first came to public attention in the 1960s. While it was certainly intriguing, its history was not documented and still hasn't been. So the possibility that it was a fake loomed large.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026143925999&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467



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