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Records/Archives in the News Part 02 01/17/00



Records/Archives in the News r991213a
There are 3 stories in this posting.

Cincinnati Post 12/13/99
He puts data in its place

Evening Standard (UK) 12/13/99
Celebrity secrets stolen from rubbish bags

Spokane Spokesman Review 12/13/99
Lance files request for documents on Clinton?s roadless areas plans


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Cincinnati Post 12/13/99
He puts data in its place
Loveland firm on road to $100M

by Karin Admiraal
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Every business, organization and government office in the world generates 
documents - reams of paper records, and more recently, billions of bytes of 
electronic information. 
Storing, organizing and keeping track of all that data has become a major 
problem and the source a major market for creative businesspeople. 
The document and records management market has become a $5 
billion-a-year-plus industry. And in this rapidly growing field, a 
Cincinnati-based company that began just three years ago is quickly becoming 
a player. 
When Masterpiece Technology Group Inc., based in Loveland, went public in 
1998, it was valued at $1.5 million. Today, it?s worth $40 million. Founder 
and president Newell Crane predicts that by this time next year, Masterpiece 
will have swelled to become a $100 million company. 
Masterpiece began by selling electronic medical records packages to nursing 
homes. That part of the business is now owned by Covington-based Omnicare. 
Crane said he sold the technology because he wanted to concentrate on 
providing similar packages to doctors - a much larger market. 
Masterpiece?s rapid growth has been based not only on the development of new 
technology, but even more on the acquisition of other companies. The company 
has taken over Triadd Software, a company that uses Internet technology to 
keep track of paper documents, and Maplecrest Software, a Danbury, 
Conn.-based company that handles electronic documents. Most recently, 
Masterpiece bought Populus Systems Inc., a Florida-based firm that produces a 
Web- based system for doctors? office records. 
The company now has about 500 major clients, including such household names 
as General Motors, MetLife, LensCrafters, Xerox, MGM Studios, New York City 
and the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. 
Having its operations spread out over most of the U.S. isn?t a problem for 
Masterpiece, Crane said. He takes advantage of the same Web-based technology 
the company uses to organize records, staying in touch with far-flung 
employees through the Internet. 
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Crane came to Cincinnati 20 years ago and has started businesses in areas as 
disparate as nursing home supplies and carbon dioxide cleaning. 
Through networking and the company?s advisory board, he has made the business 
grow. For example, Louis Levine, the chairman of the advisory board, is 
well-connected with medical unions and the AFL-CIO, and brings in business 
from those areas. 
And many of the companies Masterpiece has acquired have come to light through 
Crane?s role as managing director of the Wall Street investment banking firm 
Chapman, Spira and Carson, where he oversees requests for funds from medical 
companies. The companies he likes, he approaches with acquisition offers. 
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Evening Standard (UK) 12/13/99
Celebrity secrets stolen from rubbish bags

by John Sturgis
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A would-be solicitor who stole rubbish bags containing 200,000 confidential 
documents from lawyers whose clients included James Hewitt and Jonathan 
Aitken walked free from court today. 
Benjamin Pell, 35, took the papers in several midnight raids on Harkabys of 
Harley Street. He had earlier been linked with similar acts involving other 
firms and their celebrity clients. 
Stories believed to have been leaked by Pell were blamed for the split 
between Sir Elton John and his manager. 
At Blackfriars Crown Court today Pell, from Hendon, was fined £20 and told to 
pay £200 towards costs. Judge Christopher Hordern QC said: ?Even if one may 
put papers amongst their rubbish, that still belongs to them.? 
Edward Brown, prosecuting, told how the law graduate was filmed on 
closed-circuit TV, swapping rubbish bags for ones he had brought himself. 
Eamon Cherry, defending, said Pell had ?an obsession with rubbish?. 
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Spokane Spokesman Review 12/13/99
Lance files request for documents on Clinton?s roadless areas plans

Associated Press
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BOISE?Attorney General Al Lance has filed a Freedom of Information Act 
request with the United States Forest Service for documents related to White 
House roadless area plans. 
The federal government wants to declare 50 million acres of multiple use 
National Forest as roadless areas. 
Lance asked Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck to provide all documents 
related to ?an intensive two-day planning session at the National 
Conservation Training Center in Shepardstown, West Virginia.? 
He also has requested a copy of a regional contact list developed by Forest 
Service employees. 
?Idahoans, after enduring years of federal forest planning, have a right to 
know how and why the federal government determined that 50 million acres of 
multiple use lands must be designated as wilderness-by-fiat,? Lance said. 
He said it is difficult to imagine what conditions could develop during a two 
day meeting that would require a major change in federal policy. 
?We are mystified as to the need for a shift from years of site-specific 
forest planning to one-size-fits-all national planning,? said Lance. 
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PETER A.KURILECZ CRM, CA
PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM

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