Wall Street Journal
Ambushing the Bush Legacy
By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY
January 19, 2007; Page W13
In an interview Sunday night on "60 Minutes," President Bush told Scott
Pelley that he is "not the kind of guy who sits here and says 'Oh gosh,
I'm worried about my legacy.' I'm more worried about making the right
decisions to protect the United States of America."
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Wall Street Journal
Giant Retailer Reveals Customer Data Breach
Incident Could Affect Millions of Shoppers at T.J. Maxx,
Marshalls and Other TJX Stores Dating Back to 2003
By ROBIN SIDEL
January 18, 2007; Page D1
Retailer TJX Cos., which owns big discount clothing chains like T.J.
Maxx and Marshalls, said it has been hit by a wide-reaching security
breach that may leave its customers around the world exposed to fraud
and identity theft from transactions that date back to 2003.
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Jury selection begins in Coca-Cola trade secrets theft trial
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA Joya
Williams is accused of stealing trade secrets from Coke in an effort to
sell them to Pepsi. Potential jurors were answering questions posed by
the ...
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All aboard!
News24 - Cape Town,South Africa
The 1.5 million pages of passenger lists were previously only available
at The National Archives in Kew, southwest London. ...
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Our Views: Don’t lament records law
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
That’s why we’re concerned about the philosophy expressed by Baton
Rouge’s East Side Fire Department at its Web site concerning access to
public records. ...
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UTC employees’ pension data stolen
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
The exposure of personal data has become a commonplace occurrence after
the well-publicized ChoicePoint case involving 163000 compromised
records in 2005. ...
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0039>
Are We Building Sufficient Electronic Evidence?
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
The OCC observes that while a simple symbol may qualify as a
"signature," a bank may still not be able to enforce that signature if
its electronic records ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=114969&WT.svl=cmpnews1_4>
Coke secrets case goes to trial
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
A fired Coke secretary accused of trying to sell company trade secrets
to rival PepsiCo is scheduled to go on trial today. ...
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/coke/stories/2007/01/16/011
6coke.html>
And the winner is....
Power Line - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In Bill Bennett's Morning in America "Sandy Berger Lies" song parody
contest, the judges have selected a deserving winner from the more than
1000 deserving ...
<http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016537.php>
Letter: Concerned with records
Hudson Star Observer - Hudson,WI,USA
Research the data storage horror stories that are already appearing in
the media about US Government records that were originally digitized
and never ...
<http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/articles/index.cfm?id=21757>
One reader's response to my Weighing the Cost of Compliance article
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
And in self-interest, I must say that Records Management is one of the
best, most cost-effective ways to manage the risks. If you would like
to discuss this ...
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_res.html>
InfoWorld
Weighing the cost of compliance
Certain to spend too much adhering to regulations this year, IT may be
putting the enterprise at risk
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/08/02FEspendcompliance_1.html?BUS
INESS>
Sisters who released insurance files testify
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
s handling of claims after Hurricane Katrina heard testimony this week
from two sisters who turned over reams of internal claims records to
investigators ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/NEWS/70
1190373/1001>
Earliest official copy of Declaration identified at state archives
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA
They also house records for Georgia and local governments through their
retention period. Through their work, they are committed to finding
innovative and ...
<http://www.theweekly.com/news/2007/January/18/state_archives.html>
Georgia's copy of Declaration of Independence found
Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA
ATLANTA - An archivist was going through historical records at the state
archives when he came across a forgotten piece of history. ...
<http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=110820>
Fire Destroys Production Facility
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
Additionally the server and computer files were recovered undamaged.
Due to the nature of the business and the existence of another nearby
building it is ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070119/cgf015.html?.v=80>
Privacy and Animal ID
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide - Bismarck,ND,USA
Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests would appear to
apply to any information gathered by the government about animals. ...
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ews/live15.txt>
DHS Pays for Wired News FOIA Lawsuit
Wired News - USA
The FOIA allows the "prevailing party" in such a lawsuit to collect
attorneys' fees. Contentious to the end, the DHS said that doesn't
apply here, ...
<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/dhs_pays_for_wi.html>
Bus Drivers Try To Block Access To Records
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Ed Nevin, Transit Workers Union attorney: "We're concerned about you
getting an advantage where you get personnel records and files and
documentation and ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=4953057>
Retail Giant TJX Discloses Massive Data Breach
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... including the disappearance of backup tapes containing the credit
card information of 1.2 million federal workers by Bank of America, the
theft of more ...
<http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=103003JUASTP>
Grant saves photographer's work
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK
He said: "For most of the early years Thomas used glass negatives and
because they were stored in his back-garden shed, the damp had badly
damaged them. ...
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s_work.php>
Archives of Spin
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
SINCE Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the first federal presidential
library — actually an archive and history museum — in 1941, each
president has had a ...
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The Bush Library And Its Foes
Human Events - Washington,DC,USA
Here I was angrily spitting out nails on account of the George W. Bush
presidential library's indicated destination -- my back yard,
residentially speaking. ...
<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18984>
Dallas Morning News
A Place for Debate: Bush library fits squarely into SMU's mission
06:45 AM CST on Friday, January 19, 2007
It would seem that the Southern Methodist University professors opposed
to sharing campus space with a George W. Bush presidential library
haven't brushed up on the school's mission statement.
They should. We believe they would see that the honor and prestige of
this partnership would only enhance the school's educational purpose.
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s/DN-bushlibrary_19edi.ART.State.Edition1.29200dd.html>
Wall Street Journal
Fans Leap to Save A Roadside Icon: Huge Orange Balls
Old '76' Logo Fuels Revolt Over Gas-Station Updates; Ms. Koga's Museum
Piece
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Security firms boom
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Shredding, secure document storage, records destruction – it's all big
business now. "Identity theft is becoming more prevalent than the theft
of products ...
<http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/173067>
CNET, Thu, 18 Jan 2007 9:26 PM PST
Digital archivists look to porn, Flash for tips
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6151389.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&s
ubj=news
Symposium focuses on models that will help preserve digital art on the
Internet with the same success that real-world museums preserve
traditional works of art.
HuffingtonPost, Sat, 20 Jan 2007 9:38 AM PST
Robert Schlesinger: Fix the Presidential Libraries
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schlesinger/fix-the-presidential-lib
r_b_39124.html
If I've fallen down on the job as a blogger in recent months, it's
because I'm in the throes of trying to finish a book on the history of
presidential speechwriters. Between trips to almost all of the
presidential libraries, more
than 100 hours of interviews and countless hours poring over
speechwriter memoirs (from Raymond Moley to David Frum) and other
source material, blogging has been ...
Calaveras Enterprise, Thu, 18 Jan 2007 9:00 AM PST
Audit reveals hundreds of documents missing
http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2007/01/18/news/news03.txt
An auditing firm hired to sift through Calaveras County Building
Department’s records discovered hundreds of original documents missing
from its file cabinets.
Burlington Free Press
Vermont Social Security numbers appear on secretary of state Web site
Published: Saturday, January 20, 2007
By David Gram
The Associated Press
MONTPELIER -- A prominent state legislator was not happy Friday when
someone called him, told him his Social Security number was on a Web
site maintained by the Secretary of State's Office and then read it to
him.
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EWS01/701200314/1009/NEWS05>
WCAX 3, Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:19 AM PST
Secretary of State takes down links to records with SSNs
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=5965913
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The Vermont Secretary of State's office has taken
down Internet links to business files that contain the Social Security
Numbers of individuals, Secretary of State...
Miami Herald, Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:54 PM PST
Defense attorneys seek probe of fake court records
http://origin.thestate.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/coun
ties/broward_county/16494198.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_broward_c
ounty
Outraged that prosecutors and judges in Miami-Dade have planted fake
documents in public court files, and worried it may be happening
elsewhere, the state's public defenders are asking the Florida Supreme
Court to halt the secret practice.
The Archivist
York News Times (subscription) - York,NE,USA
Brink is an archivist for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has a
bachelor's degree in history from Doane College in Crete and a master's
in museum ...
<http://www.yorknewstimes.com/stories/012007/localnews_archivist.shtml>
Disquiet in the library over Bush's plans for presidential institute
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Headed by the former commerce secretary, Donald Evans, the four-man
Bush presidential library site selection committee narrowed its search
late last month ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/21/wlibrary
21.xml>
Flying Behemoth May Find Its Way Home
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
“It’s the mother of all acquisitions,” said Stan Piet, archivist at the
aviation museum, where the Mars would be exhibited. “This plane is an
icon.” ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/us/21mars.html>
Gunn archive sheds light on Norfolk past
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
County archivist Dr John Alban said he had found some "astounding"
facts among the paperwork, such as discovering from Mr Gunn's
correspondence from North ...
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News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Jan%202007%2011%3A55
%3A09%3A627>
The web's most useful sites
PC World Canada - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Winner:Zoho Writer features a list of documents users can hide divided
into sections for private, shared and public documents, plus templates.
...
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tm>
Wider access to records is backed
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Wilder has previously denied access to electronic records. Among those
denied were Texas Christian University students studying local judicial
issues and ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16506684.htm>
The Morning News, Thu, 18 Jan 2007 1:50 AM PST
Shiloh Museum Archivist Suggests Ways to Save Family Photos
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/01/18/your_home/011807photopreserv
e.txt
By the time Grandma pulls that box of precious family photos out of the
attic to pass it on to a new caretaker, it's a good bet the damage has
already been done.
Wired
One Giant Screwup for Mankind
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Chicago Sun-Times, Fri, 19 Jan 2007 2:20 AM PST
Collection inspired black community
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/217459,CST-NWS-harsh19.article
When Vivian Gordon Harsh installed the "Special Negro Collection" at a
South Side library in 1932, Chicago Public Library Board President
Andrew Kolar admonished her for displaying material that would likely
cause a "race riot."
Montgomery Advertiser, Fri, 19 Jan 2007 2:15 AM PST
Photos document growth of Magic City from 1900s
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/N
EWS02/701190330
At about the time Oscar V. Hunt came to Birmingham to work as a
motorman, the U.S. Census listed the population at 38,415. It was the
99th largest city in the nation.
Deseret Morning News, Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:56 PM PST
Comic strip clippers are helping to preserve collections
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650224013,00.html
"A nightmare," Joe Matt sighs. "All those years, all that money, all
that work. None of which I'll ever get back."
BBC News, Fri, 19 Jan 2007 7:06 AM PST
Clergyman's archive on display
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/6279439.stm
A clergyman's historical archive goes on display after being saved from
export to the USA.
NBC 15 Mobile, Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:23 AM PST
Photographer documents Magic City's growth since 1900s
http://www.wpmi.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=f6dc4528-8427-4c64-9
0df-6e3aeac94c36&rss=218
At about the time Oscar V. Hunt came to Birmingham to work as a
motorman, the U.S. Census listed the population at 38,415. It was the
99th largest city in ...
San Francisco Chronicle, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 4:04 AM PST
Preserving best vintage comic strips / Publishers introduce a new
generation to newspaper genre
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/MNGRTNK5UP1.D
TL&feed=rss.news
"A nightmare," Joe Matt sighs. "All those years, all that money, all
that work.
None of which I'll ever get back." Matt, the graphic novelist best
known for his absurdly self-centered autobiographical comic "Peepshow,"
is sitting in a prefab booth at...
Lawrence Journal-World, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 1:42 AM PST
Historic document returning home
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jan/21/historic_document_returning_home
/
Next month a 150-year-old document that would have made Kansas a slave
state will return to the site of its birthplace, Lecompton’s
Constitution Hall.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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