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AP Vatican to Release WWII POW Information VATICAN CITY - The Vatican (news - web sites) is releasing more that 2 million files on prisoners of war and other missing persons from its secret archives, part of efforts to emphasize the humanitarian aspects of the World War II papacy of Pope Pius XII, officials announced Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040608/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_archives_2 Dallas Morning News Holy cards are making a comeback 04:17 PM CDT on Friday, June 4, 2004 By JOE BOLLIG / Catholic News Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. _ Sister Marcella Schrant is a card-carrying Catholic, and proud of it, too. She got her first holy card in 1935. She got her latest a few weeks ago. The first one, a St. Anthony card she received as a child, will share a binder with the newest one, a picture of Kansas City's new coadjutor archbishop. These two cards are part of a collection of more than 400 owned by Sister Marcella, who works at the St. Lawrence Campus Center at the University of Kansas. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/060504dnrelholycards.8b922.html Computerworld Information Highway Patrol It's 11 a.m. -- do you know what your employees are doing? News Story by Linda Rosencrance MAY 31, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - It's 11 a.m. -- do you know what your employees are doing? Well, you do if you're like the increasing number of employers that are concerned about the security of their computing environments as well as the productivity of their employees. In fact, nine out of 10 companies check up on their employees' online activities while they're at work, according to a recent survey of nearly 200 businesses conducted by the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. That's because more and more liability risks and security threats are originating from inside organizations rather than outside. http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,93471,00.html Colleges seek gold in alumni data Facts on graduates' lives perused to boost chances of donations. By Christina Gostomski Of The Morning Call They aren't spies or private investigators. They don't work for the FBI or CIA. But if you're a college graduate, there's a good chance they have a file on you. Typically, they know how much you earn, what your house is worth and how much you give to charity. Who are these people, and what are they doing with statistics on your lifestyle? They're college researchers, and their goal is to find out how much money you have to give your alma mater and what might persuade you to fork it over. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5researchersjun08,0,723455.story? BBC Search business turns serious By Mark Ward BBC News Online technology correspondent For some people, particularly in business, Google and other net search engines are just not good enough. Although the web has given the person in the street access to more information than ever before and Google has made it easy to search through that vast pile to find what you want, typically business users need even more. So argues Clare Hart, boss of search firm Factiva which was formed in 1999 from Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3743307.stm Detroit Free Press MIKE WENDLAND: Personal info is better shred than read June 8, 2004 BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Remember all that talk about the paperless society? Ha! In my home, it's clear that the information age has overwhelmed the paperless society. I have three computers and two printers, and I get way too much snailmail. It just keeps piling up -- e-mail printouts, bank and credit card statements, bills and all those other documents I know should be better disposed of than tossing them in the trash can. Add to that all the data I now keep on CD-ROMs, and I realize that I need waste management help. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend8_20040608.htm Business Week JUNE 7, 2004 • Editions: Edition Preference INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Something Wiki This Way Comes They're Web sites anyone can edit -- and they could transform Corporate America When software developer Nicholas Pisarro Jr. saw his first wiki late last year, he knew it was unlike any Web site he had ever seen. On the site, a free online encyclopedia called Wikipedia, thousands of volunteers had written a breathtaking 500,000 articles in 50 languages since 2001 -- all thanks to the defining feature of wikis. To contribute, all they had to do to was click on an "edit this page" button and start typing. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886138.htm ( Boston Globe Archives of Saddam rule were destroyed at Iraqi National Library as Baghdad fell By Carl Hartman, Associated Press, 6/8/2004 01:42 ADVERTISEMENT WASHINGTON (AP) Fires at the Iraq National Library set as U.S. forces took over Baghdad did not destroy large numbers of rare books and ancient manuscripts as initially feared, U.S. investigators say. Instead, the fires apparently were aimed at destroying sensitive records about Saddam Hussein's government, said Mary-Jane Deeb, a specialist on the Arab world at the Library of Congress. Deeb, who headed a three-person team sent to Iraq to check on the library's contents, said it's unclear what information the documents contained. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/160/wash/Archives_of_Saddam_rule_were_d:.shtml Portland Tribune Ex-guv lobbied for victim Files show Neil Goldschmidt tried to get jobs for woman he had abused as a teen By TODD MURPHY Issue date: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 The Tribune SALEM — When Neil Goldschmidt was Oregon governor, he tried to obtain work for the woman he had sexually abused in the 1970s when she was 14 years old, according to files released Monday. http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=24729 http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=68012 http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=81602 The Oregonian Historical society goes to court on privacy of Goldschmidt papers An official says the group seeks a third party to decide which records sought by the state are public Tuesday, June 08, 2004 LAURA OPPENHEIMER The Oregon Historical Society is asking a judge to decide which of former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's papers the public can see. http://oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/10866957328010.xml Salem Statesman Journal SAIF releases six new documents STEVE LAW Statesman Journal June 8, 2004 Salem-based SAIF Corp. released several documents Monday that it said were mistakenly left out of a batch of materials released in a prior public records request. Four of the six documents are messages from former SAIF chief executive Katherine Keene to then-SAIF consultant and former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=81593 Portland Tribune More SAIF records surface Ethics probe turns up memos insurer said didn’t exist By JIM REDDEN Issue date: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 The Tribune State ethics investigators have obtained dozens of State Accident Insurance Fund records that were withheld from a Portland attorney in apparent violation of court rulings. http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=24707 Sydney Morning Herald The chart that put Australia on the map June 9, 2004 Matthew Flinders is finally winning acclaim for a 200-year-old labour of love that named a nation, writes Steve Meacham. At 11.30am today in the Parkes Room of Parliament House, the Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, will present a chart to the president of the Legislative Council, Dr Meredith Burgmann. The chart is singularly plain: a simple, if meticulous, pen and ink rendition of the continent we call home. Yet behind today's ceremony lies a fascinating tale of two men, separated by two centuries. The first is Matthew Flinders, the explorer and map-maker who died in 1814, aged just 40. The second is Bill Fairbanks, 66, a company secretary from Wahroonga. What the two share is obsession. Flinders - born in Lincolnshire on March 16, 1774 - was obsessed with becoming the first man to circumnavigate the continent (a mission he achieved on June 9, 1803 when his ship, Investigator, limped back into Sydney harbour). http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/08/1086460291509.html CIO Vic IT Leaders Deem Open Source Laws Unnecessary RODNEY GEDDA , COMPUTERWORLD 07/06/2004 08:14:25 The Victorian government's newly appointed chief technical officer Tony Aitkenhead is standing firm and refusing to buckle to demands from industry body Open Source Victoria (OSV) to adopt ACTstyle open source procurement legislation. http://www.cio.com.au/pp.php?id=371923611&fp=4&fpid=21 Peter A. 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