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The Arizona Republic Archival revival State's history must be saved, not nibbled to death Apr. 22, 2004 12:00 AM Mildew, rodent droppings, water leaks - those are the conditions you'd expect to find in a pile of garbage. Not in our state records. The appalling truth is that whole chapters of Arizona's history are at risk. Year after year, despite repeated warnings, we've failed to build modern facilities to protect the precious record of our past. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0422thur1-22.html Greenwich Time Historical society's online gallery sparks Civil War archives interest By Ivan H. Golden Staff Writer April 22, 2004 When The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich launched "Voices from the Civil War," its first online exhibit, in April 2003, organizers saw it as the solution to a logistical problem. "We had a very rich collection relating to the Civil War in the archives," explained Debra Mecky, the society's executive director. "But we did not have a place to permanently display these objects. And yet we thought it would be wonderful to be able to provide access to them, particularly for middle-school students, who study the Civil War as part of their curriculum." http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-hstg5apr22,0,6468578.story? Diplomat's Diaries Open a Window to the Past James McDonald's writings had been hidden. Now, a museum has made them By Stephen Braun, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON _ Diplomat James Grover McDonald passed through the history the 20th century like a privileged bit player. He met with Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt and was intimately involved in the birth of Israel as Harry S. Truman's first envoy to the fledgling nation _ faithfully recording his encounters in a massive cache of private diaries. McDonald's detailed accounts remained hidden for decades, unavailable to diplomatic historians until this week, when the U.S. Holocaust Museum made the diaries public under an arrangement with his daughter. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-diaries22apr22,1,1811166.story? A Diplomat's Dire Diary Museum Gets Eyewitness Notes on Hitler's Rise By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 22, 2004; Page C01 She's young and blond and beautiful in the old, faded photograph, her smile dazzling as she stands in front of an Air Force plane with her father, James G. McDonald, America's first ambassador to Israel. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32937-2004Apr21.html USA Today NASA to merge media archives By Sarita Chourey, FCW.com Space officials want proposals for a NASA archiving system that would create a one-stop multimedia source for the public. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-04-22-nasa-media-archive_x.htm Penn State Live Records document the rise and fall of region's short line railroad Thursday, April 22, 2004 University Park, Pa. -- Thirty years after its last train pulled away from here, the Bellefonte Central Railroad has made a return, of sorts, to the University Park campus. Instead of boxcars on rails, the Bellefonte Central is now represented by boxes in the University Libraries' Special Collection Library -- 126 boxes packed with a wealth of archival materials that demonstrate the importance of the short line operation to Centre County from near the turn of the past century into the early 1980s. http://live.psu.edu/story/6481 Rocky Mountain News Archives nominee deserves post April 22, 2004 The Bush administration's secretive ways have made a Washington mystery of something as relatively straightforward as choosing a new National Archivist. On April 8, President Bush nominated distinguished historian Allen Weinstein to be the head of the National Archives but did so without the customary consultation with professional societies of archivists and historians. They now suggest darkly that there might be some ideological agenda at work, especially because the Archives administer the presidential libraries. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_2826762,00.html ( http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=EDARCHIVIST-04-21-04 ( London Free Press New London offshoot business gets boost at equipment show NORMAN DE BONO, Free Press Business Reporter A London business is turning the workplace photocopier into an extension of a desktop computer -- able to store, file and retrieve information from paper documents at the push of a button. Global Document Solutions, a nnew London business, had its official unveiling yesterday but when its new product was shown off for the first time at an office equipment convention in Las Vegas in February, the London firm won a top technology prize and received more than 100 orders valued at more than $1 million US, company president Mark Welfred said. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/Business/2004/04/22/431410.html ( The Grand Rapids Press Paper shredding firm seeks rezoning to expand Thursday, April 22, 2004 By Keith Essenburg The Grand Rapids Press GRANDVILLE -- The Grandville City Council will decide next week whether to grant a rezoning request to a Grandville business owner who says his 4-year-old operation is bursting at the seams. Scott Dennis, who started Rapid Shred four years ago as a one-man operation, said his paper shredding company now employs eight people and continues to grow. Dennis said he wants to move the operation on Busch Drive SW to 2.25 acres at 2972 Sangra Ave. SW. http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1082645878266400.xml The Free-Lance Star Firm shreds papers holding personal Spotsylvania County business shreds sensitive documents for clients By CATHY JETT Date published: 4/22/2004 Mike Torosian knows all too well how the disposal of sensitive financial documents can go awry. Wind once plucked some important papers out of the trash as it was being hauled away from a financial institution where he used to work. http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004/042004/04222004/1336805 WNBC.com Judge Finds NYC Hospital In Contempt Over Abortion Records POSTED: 9:58 am EDT April 22, 2004 NEW YORK -- A New York hospital, found in contempt of court for not turning over patient abortion records, on Wednesday sought to win appeals court protection. The dispute over records at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital is delaying the conclusion of a trial on the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, signed into law by President Bush in November. http://www.wnbc.com/health/3030581/detail.html Bayoubuzz.com Paperless Courts? Moving On... http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=1515 Forbes.com Top Of The News The Case Against Credit Suisse Dan Ackman, 04.22.04, 8:05 AM ET NEW YORK - Frank Quattrone sent one e-mail and there is no solid evidence any documents were destroyed as a result. Still, Quattrone on trial in a Manhattan federal court for obstruction of justice. Meanwhile his colleagues at Credit Suisse First Boston, who presided over systemic document destruction, walk free. Quattrone, the former chief of Credit Suisse Group's (nyse: CSR - news - people ) CSFB technology unit, sent his e-mail on Dec. 5, 2000, endorsing the suggestion Dec. 4 of Richard Char, a senior banker in the group, that it was "time to clean out the files." Char's e-mail came after CSFB had been under investigation for six months concerning allegations that it accepted kickbacks from hedge funds in exchange the allocation of lucrative initial public offering shares. The National Association of Securities Dealers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney were all on the case. http://www.forbes.com/business/services/2004/04/22/cx_da_0422topnews.html ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Shorewood settles open records complaint for $655 By MARIE ROHDE [log in to unmask] Posted: April 21, 2004 Shorewood - To settle an open records complaint, the Village Board has offered to create an internal e-mail system for village business and may reduce the cost of copying public records. The board's insurance carrier would also pay Geoffrey Davidian $655 for the time he spent attempting to get village records. He said that amounts to about $25 an hour. http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr04/223909.asp Wisconsin governor's veto keeps utility records open By The Associated Press 04.22.04 MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed legislation yesterday that would have exempted utilities' security systems from the state's open-records law. The open-records law includes a balancing test in which record holders weigh the right to review a record with the public's interest in keeping it private. Doyle wrote in his veto message to lawmakers that the balancing test was adequate to ensure that sensitive security documents are protected from public view. http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=13223 http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/states/wisconsin/8487901.htm? Tests Find Theoretical Data Speed Limit By Associated Press April 22, 2004 If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster. But scientists say they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved. The good news: This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art data storage devices. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1571941,00.asp Wired Diebold Machine May Get Boot By Kim Zetter | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1 11:56 AM Apr. 22, 2004 PT SACRAMENTO, California -- A California voting systems panel recommended Thursday that the secretary of state decertify an electronic voting machine mmade by Diebold Election Systems, making it likely that four counties that used the machines will have to find others for the November election. The panel said the state should decertify the Diebold TSx. The TSx was used for the first time in California during the March primary in Kern, San Joaquin, Solano and San Diego counties. Kevin Shelley, California's secretary of state, has until April 30 to decide whether to act on the panel's recommendation. The state must give counties a six-month notice to take machines out of commission before an election. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63179,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Thursday 22nd April 2004 New light archives old recordings [PC Pro] 16:51 Light could come to the rescue of the vast archive of recorded material currently stored on fragile disks and cylinders. A research project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Physics Division in California has found a way to map the grooves on a record's surface using a beam of light and consequently digitise the content. Currently the only way to create a computer archive of these old recordings was to play them and record the output. However many are fragile and could be damaged by conventional equipment. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=56778 ( Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]