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Leeds Today Private grief on public display By Jayne Dawson HEARTBREAKING letters home from a Leeds soldier which lay undiscovered for years will soon be available for anyone in the world to read. The letters from Private Leonard Wragby, who died in battle, were written to his wife, Annie, and young daughter Margaret at the height of the carnage during the First World War. But they lay undiscovered in the back of a wardrobe after Margaret, the last surviving member of the tragic family, died a spinster in 1980. http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=791642 ( Reuters Grand Jury Subpoenas Nortel Records Fri May 14, 2004 01:29 PM ET By Jeffrey Hodgson TORONTO (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury has subpoenaed records from Nortel Networks Corp. (NT.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) as part of a criminal investigation, adding to a string of bad news at North America's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment. Nortel, which fired its chief executive last month during an investigation of accounting problems, said on Friday the documents include financial statements and corporate, personnel and accounting records from the start of 2000 to the present. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=5150563 Fort Worth Star Telegram Posted on Fri, May. 14, 2004 DPS records destruction case sent back to trial court By Jay Root Star-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN - The state police agency has not proved that it did not improperly destroy documents gathered last year after Democrats left the state to stall congressional redistricting, an appeals court ruled Thursday. Also up for review is whether the Department of Public Safety has the power to arrest members of the Texas Legislature who defy their leaders and break a quorum, as the "Killer Ds" did a year ago. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/8665916.htm The Journal Standard County FOIA decision was the right one The issue: Privacy and open government Our view: FOIA wasn't intended to eliminate privacy or aid marketers. You'd be hard-pressed to find a newspaper journalist - or any serious reporter, for that matter - who wouldn't defend the Freedom of Information Act with extraordinary vigor. Rightfully so. For when it comes to open government and press freedom, there's little gray area - the public has the right to request and receive records relevant to public business, institutions and officials. http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2004/05/14/opinion/op01.txt Newsday Bridge Commission agrees to provide documents _ for $15,000 May 14, 2004, 8:30 AM EDT PALMYRA, N.J. -- A Democrat running for freeholder in Republicandominated Burlington County has been told he must pay $15,000 to obtain extensive information on the county Bridge Commission. The commissioners told Chris Fifis they were obligated to provide the materials to him under the state's Open Public Records Act, but he questioned the cost of compiling the lists of contracts, employees, benefits, meeting minutes and other information. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--expensiverecords0514may14,0,2949418.story? KGW Goldschmidt restricts access to his state records 09:37 AM PDT on Friday, May 14, 2004 By CHARLES E. BEGGS, Associated Press Writer SALEM -- As controversy swirls around former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt after last week's disclosure of his sexual misconduct, many records from his four years as governor remain off-limits to the public. The State Archives in Salem has some records from Goldschmidt's one term as governor, but he gave the bulk of them to the private Oregon Historical Society in Portland after he left office in 1991. He attached a condition that those records not be disclosed without his approval of each request for a record. http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_051404_news_goldschmidt_records.1bf3eab34.html ( KOMO State Supreme Court Rules Against Open Records Activists May 14, 2004 By KOMO Staff & News Services OLYMPIA - The Washington Supreme Court has dealt the state's open records law a double blow, ruling that public records requests can be ignored if they are too sweeping and upholding the attorney-client privilege as a method for avoiding scrutiny of public documents. http://www.komotv.com/stories/31240.htm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001928137_webcourt13.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/173342_monorail14.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/173390_recordsed.html ( St. Petersburg Times Speaker vows to retrieve scores of deleted e-mails By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer Published May 16, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - House Speaker Johnnie Byrd on Saturday tried to defuse a controversy over the mass deletion of e-mails by an aide by saying he would take "whatever steps necessary" to retrieve the lost messages. "I support transparency in our state government," Byrd said in a statement. "I feel we owe it to the citizens of Florida, however, to go further in trying to retrieve the deleted e-mails in question." Byrd's chief of staff, P.K. Jameson, has said she routinely deleted hundreds of e-mails after the legislative session ended April 30. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/16/State/Speaker_vows_to_retri.shtml ( Peering into Bill Inmon's data warehousing crystal ball By Robyn Lorusso, Editor, SearchOracle.com 14 May 2004 | SearchOracle.com "Data warehousing is just beginning as an industry," according to W. H. Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse." So what lies in the long road ahead? Inmon took a look into his data warehousing crystal ball at Spring 2004 TDWI conference in Boston, Mass. The following are some of his predictions. Managing really large amounts of data "The biggest factor in making data warehouses expensive is you," Inmon said. Initially, a data warehouse does not require a large storage expense. But after five or 10 years, the storage costs climb and climb to keep up with data growth. The future will require companies to have a combination of disk and other types of storage to archive unused data, according to Inmon. http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid41_gci964808,00.html searchstorage.com IBM offers low cost disk, tamper-proof tape By Jo Maitland, News Director 13 May 2004 | SearchStorage.com IBM Corp. added a couple of new products to its storage portfolio this week, following the industry trend toward lower cost disks for tiered storage and write-once-read-many (WORM) tape technology for compliance. The newly announced disk array, dubbed TotalStorage FAStT100 Storage Server, is a near-line device that uses serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) disks, which are cheaper than traditional Fibre Channel and SCSI disks. It will be available in July, starting at around $15,000 and ranges from 250GB up to 56TB. StorageTek Corp and LSI Logic Corp already offer similar products. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci964347,00.html PC Magazine DVD Rot, or Not? By Don Labriola May 11, 2004 Last Updated: May 13, 2004 The recent Associated Press story about insidious, disc-devouring "rot" wasn't the first to hit the mainstream press. Major news outlets Worldwide have for years been publishing sensational reports that up to 20 percent of all mass-produced CDs and DVD-Video discs were slowly destroying themselves. But when an alarmed DVD industry investigated whether the problem was indeed as catastrophic as it appeared, it turned out that most reported incidents had actually been caused by improper disc handling and storage. Despite the latest round of headlines, true "DVD Rot" today appears to be exceedingly rare. Users themselves are the greatest threat to the longevity of their DVD collections. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1590592,00.asp Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]