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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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