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RAIN 2/23 Part 2: Dumpster diving, stolen letter, ID theft and more



Las Vegas Review-Journal 02/22/01
Federal Investigation: County meets EPA deadline on records
Agency probing allegtion refrigerant inventory not documented
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Feb-22-Thu-2001/news/15496674.html

by Keith Rogers
Clark County met its deadline Wednesday to send the Environmental Protection
Agency records the agency wants to review on the county's handling and
accounting of ozone-depleting refrigerants.
County spokesman Doug Bradford said the county forwarded all the information
the EPA had requested for a probe by the agency's San Francisco regional
office. The office, which oversees Nevada, is investigating an allegation
that the county failed to document its air-conditioner refrigerant inventory
as required by federal law. Violations of the Clean Air Act that pertain to
refrigerants and record-keeping can result in maximum fines of $27,500 per
day.



Las Vegas Sun 02/22/01
County gives Freon documents to EPA
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/feb/22/511471068.html

by Adrienne Packer
Clark County documents requested by the Environmental Protection Agency for
its probe into the mishandling of refrigerant were submitted this week to the
federal agency's regional headquarters in San Francisco.
The county took advantage of a 30-day deadline extension offered by the EPA
last month.



BusinessWire 02/22/01
Livelink Records Management Solution Receives DoD 5015.2 STD certification
http://ny-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/210532063&ticker=o

tc.to|otex

Newest Product Version From Open Text Meets Government Standards and Criteria
for Electronic Records Management

Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX)(TSE:OTC.TO), a worldwide leader in
collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced that its
Livelink Records Management Solution (TM)(iRIMS(TM)) has successfully
completed the Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2-STD certification testing.
Having previously certified Livelink Records Management Solution in October
1998, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) has ascertained that the
newest version (iRIMS 9.0) also meets government standards for electronic
records management applications.



San Francisco Chronicle 02/21/01
Prosecutors say documents link attorneys to dog-training plot
Pet owner claims papers aren't admissible in court
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/21/M

N162861.DTL

by Jaxon Van Derbeken
Prosecutors claimed today to have overwhelming evidence to show that two
Pacific Heights attorneys -- owners of the dog that killed Diane Whipple --
conspired with Pelican Bay inmates to raise attack dogs.
They argued in a San Francisco court that the alleged conspiracy is
sufficient grounds for a judge to order that any communications regarding the
scheme should be turned over to prosecutors.
Attorney Robert Noel, the owner of the dog, claims the documents are barred
from disclosure under the attorney-client privilege.



Fort Worth Star-Telegram 02/22/01
Map rescue success cited; State seeks more private donations to restore land
documents dating as far back as 1800s
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:STATE42A/1:STATE42A0222101.html

Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO -- A year ago, Texas Land Commissioner David Dewhurst issued an
urgent plea to history buffs: If something wasn't done soon, the old maps
revealing the evolution of their beloved state could be lost forever.
Decades of handling and exposure to heat and humidity had left the hand-drawn
maps dating to the early 1800s brittle and torn, Dewhurst said. Some were
held together by tape or dotted with water stains.



Rutland Herald 02/22/01
News media contest sealing of documents in murder case
http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/State/Story/20824.html

The Times Argus
CHELSEA - Vermont media on Wednesday filed motions to open sealed documents
in the case of James Parker and Robert Tulloch of Chelsea.
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, the Rutland Herald and WCAX TV are seeking
the release of search warrants and supporting documents in the case against
the teenagers, who have been arrested for the murder of two Dartmouth College
professors.



The State 02/22/01
Toal asks for money to link court records
http://www.thestate.com/local/docs/toal22.htm

by Rick Brundrett
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal asked lawmakers Wednesday for
$4.6 million to launch her plan to link court records statewide through a
modern computer system.
"We have a technological Tower of Babel across the state," Toal said in her
first state-of-the-judiciary speech before a joint session of the General
Assembly. "One system does not talk to the other, and every system is
outmoded."



VNUNET.com 02/15/01
Email tracking technique created
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1117729

by John Geralds
The internet engineering community is at the final stages of creating a new
technique for tracking emails.
Already under development for five years, the Message Tracking Query Protocol
(MTQP) allows email senders to track their messages and establish their
delivery routes.
Tony Hansen, a principal technical staff member with AT&T Labs, one of the
companies involved in the protocol's design, said: "You would be able to
track the message in a way that is similar to how a package sent via UPS or
FedEx can be tracked on the web." Senders would also be able to receive
notification that their messages have been received by the recipients, he
said.



Boston Globe 02/22/01
Rolls-Royce of e-books just a Yugo compared to paper
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/053/business/Rolls_Royce_of_e_books_just_a_Y

ugo_compared_to_paper+.shtml

by John P. Mello
Despite the tsunami of hype surrounding electronic books, they have failed to
capture the imaginations and, more important, the wallets of consumers. There
are some simple reasons for this failure.
Reading anything of any length on a computer screen is not a pleasant
experience. And the low-resolution displays on e-books haven't made the
experience any more pleasant.



Star Tribune 02/21/01
Judge orders Blue Cross and Blue Shield to release patient data
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=83619079

by Karren Mills
AP Business Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A judge said Wednesday that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Minnesota must release the records of juveniles and young adults who have
been denied mental health coverage.
But Hennepin County District Judge Myron Greenberg also said a process must
be set up for contacting individuals whose records are sent to the state and
must be approved by both sides and the court.



Ottawa Sun 02/22/01
Keeping good logs
Archives in lumber lore
http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/OS.OS-02-22-0023.html

by Tom Van Dusen
ARNPRIOR -- Want to know about Arnprior's Gillies Grove? Or about the
legendary 13th Laird of McNab? Or lumber king Daniel McLachlin?
It's all here for the finding -- and Laurie Dougherty will help you do that
-- in Arnprior's public archives and, since last weekend, its learning centre
for the history of the local lumbering trade.
It's in crates, in file folders, on shelves -- with more coming in all the
time, most of it pertaining to Arnprior and area but some of it relating to
all of Renfrew County. For example, the Arnprior and District Archives is the
storehouse for all of the county land registry files covering 100 years to
1958.



The Advocate 02/22/01
Agent: Ex-official mixed real, bogus purchases
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=19540

by Brett Barrouquere
A former administrator with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
mixed bogus purchases with real ones charged to the state, an FBI agent said
Wednesday.
Because the real and fake purchases overlap, it is tough to tell exactly how
much money the agency spent on fraudulent invoices, FBI agent Lloyd East
said.
"They were so intermingled, it was difficult," East said during the plea
hearing of a Baton Rouge businessman charged with covering up the false
purchase scheme.



Bergen Record 02/14/01
Board never saw suspect papers
http://www.bergen.com/bnw/schoolba20010214.htm

by Brian Aberback
WYCKOFF -- The school board never saw the paperwork that the district
believes longtime board administrator Richard H. Davis used to allegedly
siphon off $2.5 million over seven years.
At the first public meeting since the board sued Davis last week, alleging
the theft, board President Benjamin Fox said the trustees never saw the
invoices, vouchers, and hundreds of checks used to carry it out.



Houston Chronicle 02/22/01
Old maps go in right direction
Historic guides of Texas sites restored
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/830286

by John W. Gonzalez
Houston Chronicle San Antonio Bureau
SAN ANTONIO -- After decades of deterioration in state archives, four
tattered and priceless maps of Texas -- including early depictions of Harris,
Dallas and Bexar counties -- have been repaired with donated funds and soon
will be available for viewing on the Internet, officials said Tuesday.
The fourth refurbished map is an 1882 certified copy of the Republic of Texas
land survey compiled by Stephen F. Austin in 1837, the year after the fall of
the Alamo.



Edmonton Sun 02/22/01
Leaking information to author was last resort
Cop felt RCMP biker initiatives were ineffective
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-02-22-0009.html

by Kim Bradley
Passing confidential documents to author Yves Lavigne was a last resort for a
frustrated veteran cop, Staff Sgt. Bob Stenhouse said yesterday outside his
disciplinary hearing.
Speaking for the first time since he was suspended, Stenhouse said he had
gone as far as he could inside the RCMP with his frustrations over outlaw
motorcycle gang initiatives he felt were ineffective.



Nando.com 02/22/01
Letters from FDR, Nixon salvaged from trash bin
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500312513-500503185-503557142-0,00.

html

by Jason Strait
Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (February 22, 2001 10:25 a.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Signed letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Richard Nixon are among dozens of political keepsakes inside a scrapbook
discovered in a car wash trash bin.
The black, leather-bound book chronicles the life of Charles Seward, grandson
of Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state, William Seward.
Police recovered it last week and have no idea who it belongs to or how it
ended up in the garbage. A woman rooting through the bins stumbled across the
book and turned it over to police.



Atlanta Business Chronicle 02/22/01
Insurance Commissioner punishes UNUM
http://atlanta.bcentral.com/atlanta/stories/2001/02/19/daily44.html

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine placed UNUM Life Insurance Co.
and three affiliate companies on probation and fined them $5,000 for refusing
to produce documents and other records requested by state examiners.
The companies -- Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co., Provident Life
and Casualty Insurance Co. and Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. also face an
additional penalty of up to $5,000 for each document or record subsequently
withheld from the examiners.



Boston Globe 02/22/01
George Washington letter, stolen from archives, is recovered
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/053/region/George_Washington_letter_stole:.sht

ml

by John Mcelhenny
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) A 220-year-old letter signed by George Washington is back in
state hands, more than 50 years after it was believed stolen from the
Massachusetts archives.
The letter to a Massachusetts general requests shipments of rum, Spanish-made
uniforms and other supplies, and shows attention to the soldiers' needs that
contrasts with his image as a figurehead leader, a historian said.



New York Times 02/22/01
Google extends search engine's reach to a popular file format
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/22/technology/22GOOG.html


by Glenn Fleishman
IN a move that may prove particularly popular among academics and
researchers, Google, an Internet search engine, has started indexing millions
of Portable Document Format files.
The search engine, available at www.google.com, has already added about 13
million PDF documents to its index of more than 1.3 billion Web pages, most
of which are in Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML.



Los Angeles Times 02/22/01
It's no secret: Passwords protect your digital data
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010222/t000016036.html

by Jeff Levy
Passwords protect computers from prying eyes.
Users can install a password so a computer will not start properly without
one. Without the password, Windows won't load, even if an intruder tries to
bypass the hard drive by booting with a floppy disk.
The hardware-level password is created in the Setup program. Watch for
instructions to enter Setup when the computer first starts up, before Windows
loads. Often the instructions will be to hit Delete or F1 to enter Setup.
Follow the on-screen instructions to get to the password section and to
disable or enable and select a password.



Kiplinger.com March 2001
Anatomy of an ID fraud
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2001/March/managing/idfraud.html

by Kristin Davis
The fake Michigan driver's license bore Jane Sprayberry's name, but another
woman's photo. With it, the impersonator walked into an American Express
office, claimed she'd lost her credit card and asked for a replacement. The
helpful Amex representative handed one over, and the shopping spree began.
The binge included stops at a jewelry shop, two appliance stores and Saks
Fifth Avenue. "They even bought Versace underwear," Sprayberry says. "I'm
more the T.J. Maxx type."




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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