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TEACHER Charged Over $11K For Public Documents TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. -- A history teacher has been charged over $11,000 for copies of public records he received in a quest to uncover ... <http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3605347/detail.html> DENY access, pay a price Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA ... In a recent statewide audit of government offices, access to public documents was denied or delayed in about half the requests made by The Rep and others. ... <http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=3&ID=175147&r=0> LAW Lords protect legal advice privilege The Lawyer - London,United Kingdom ... issue of legal privilege was in the spotlight again last week as the House of Lords overturned a Court of Appeal decision to make public documents connected to ... <http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=111392&d=11&h=24&f=46 TOWN records organized South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA ... State law spells out "retention schedules" for public documents, meaning they must be maintained for specific periods of time, depending on the type of record. ... <http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/08/02/local.20040802-sbt-MARS-C1-Town_records.sto> Newsday Archive of pianist and composer donated to Rutgers By JEFFREY GOLD Associated Press Writer July 29, 2004, 6:17 PM EDT NEWARK, N.J. -- The archives of the late James P. Johnson, the "father of stride piano" and a noted Jazz Age composer, have been donated to the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers-Newark announced Thursday. "It's one of the most important acquisitions we've made," institute associated director Ed Berger said. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--jamesjohnsoncolle0729jul29,0,3659980.story? ( http://1010wins.com/topstories/winstopstories_story_211192204.html The Herald-Mail Thursday July 29, 2004 History has a 'new' home at Wilson College by BONNIE H. BRECHBILL [log in to unmask] CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Wanda Finney spends a lot of time sorting through the contents of folders in 75 old filing cabinets. http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=85240&format=html Dallas Morning News The sound of 40-year-old gunfire in Dealey Plaza Applying today's technology to fragile recording of JFK assassination 12:10 PM CDT on Saturday, July 31, 2004 By KATHARINE GOODLOE / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – It could be the ultimate artifact for historians and conspiracy theorists alike: the only sound recording from the moment of John F. Kennedy's assassination, made by a Dallas police motorcycle radio. Many scholars believe it can answer a mystery from Nov. 22, 1963: three shots or four? http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/news/localnews/stories/080104dnwashjfk.38352.html New York Times August 1, 2004 THE WORDS From the Distant Past, Tales of Cantors and Corpses By JAKE MOONEY N Jan. 22, 1856, a group of Jewish men from Brooklyn gathered at the Myrtle Avenue home of a Mr. Ross to discuss their "earnest desire" to found a religious community. Known as the Kane Street Synagogue, or Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes, the institution they founded is still in operation in Cobble Hill. The records from that first meeting and other early papers subsequently found their way into a five-foottall safe. At some point the combination was lost, and the safe remained locked for decades. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/nyregion/thecity/01syna.html Forbes Data of Reckoning Quentin Hardy, 05.10.04 Business gets more information than ever. This is just the start. How to survive? We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans. It's impossible to count all these bits, but people make good guesses, and they have come up with one for 2002. During that year the world created 5 exabytes of information. An exabyte is the digital equivalent of a trillion novels. The yearly total amounts to somewhat more than all the words ever spoken by human beings--and it was up 68% from two years earlier. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0510/151_print.html ( Cincinnati Enquirer E-mail: Messages are evidence Someone may be watching For lawyers, e-mail is the best thing since slippery banana peels. Instant messaging and employee e-mails have become an attorney's first legal line of offense - or, in some cases, defense - for workplace lawsuits, according to a new poll from the Columbus-based ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/27/biz_biz2a.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Court Web site easy pickings for ID thieves Thursday, July 29, 2004 By Patricia Sabatini, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette You probably already know some of the oft-repeated tips for cutting the risk of identity theft, things like don't carry your Social Security card and remember to shred pre-approved credit card applications before throwing them away, to thwart Dumpster-divers. Well, you might want to add this warning to the list: Don't get involved in a lawsuit. For nearly a year, the Allegheny County prothonotary's office has been electronically scanning court documents in civil cases, including divorces and child custody cases, and posting them online for public access. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04211/353372.stm Wall Street Journal Boost Your PC's Defenses To Avoid Spyware Scourge Plus, Search King Google Goes Down And Workers Throw up Their Hands August 2, 2004 Yes, Virginia, there is something worse than spam -- spyware. Spam isn't fun -- it can clog up your inbox, make you miss important emails and expose you to offensive content. But spyware can do far worse. The most-common forms of spyware pop up Internet Explorer windows filled with ad links. Sounds minor, but they can distract you from your work and slow down or crash your machine. Meanwhile, there are spyware programs that do more nefarious things -- such as transmit details about your online travels or even log your keystrokes (which could include credit-card numbers and other sensitive information) for transmission elsewhere. And while spams can just be deleted, spyware can be infuriatingly difficult to remove from your PC. http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109051139086171065-search,00.html? -- Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]