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BBC News 7/3/01
'Bootiful' dialect to be saved
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1420000/1420049.stm

The Norfolk dialect is to be preserved on tape for future generations. 
Money from the National Lottery will help record the Fenland speech, which
gives us "moss could" for Morse code, and "cuckoo", a bedtime drink. 
The £4,000 grant will go to The Friends of Norfolk Dialect (FOND) to buy
recording equipment. 


Houston Chronicle 7/3/01
Soggy documents salvaged with aid from space center
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/959078

by Mark Carreau
A cavernous NASA test facility that once contributed to the Apollo moon
landings has helped dry more than 1 million pages of soggy medical and
theatrical documents damaged by Tropical Storm Allison. 
Within days of the deluge, officials from the University of Texas Health
Science Center in Houston, Memorial Hermann Hospital, The Institute for
Rehabilitation and Research and the Houston Grand Opera called on NASA's
Johnson Space Center for help in preserving wet records and documents. 


National Post 7/3/01
Chain e-mail crashes tax computers
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010703/607
941.html

by Chad Skelton
The Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - E-mail chain letters -- a nuisance in any workplace -- crashed
the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency's computer network twice last fall,
according to internal documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
The first incident began on October 2 when an employee sent a message --
described by agency investigators as a hoax -- to 171 fellow employees
within the agency.


Washington Post 7/3/01
Duke Releases Calif. Enegry Records
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ca/A11798-2001Jul3.html

by Leslie Gornstein
AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES -- Duke Energy has released operating logs to counter
accusations by former workers that it reduced output to boost prices during
California's energy crisis. 


San Jose Mercury News 7/3/01
Generator followed state orders
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/duke03.htm

by Brandon Bailey
Even as executives at Duke Energy were claiming vindication Monday, state
officials insisted that newly released dispatch logs for the company's Chula
Vista power plant don't necessarily absolve the firm of charges that it
manipulated electricity prices. 



New York Times 7/3/01
U.S. charges internet operation was a huge scam
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/03/business/03PONZ.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Kurt Eichenwald
Oklahoma City -- By last September, life was getting rough for Donald A.
English.
An unemployed single father, Mr. English was almost out of cash. His family
was threatened with eviction. Collection agencies were at the door. His
credit cards were mostly tapped out.
With the walls closing in, Mr. English, 53, decided to grab for a distinctly
modern solution to his crumbling finances: He started his own dot-com.



New York Times 7/3/01
U.S. to seek Christie's data for use in antitrust trial
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/03/business/03AUCT.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Carol Vogel
Government prosecutors have agreed to ask Christie's for company documents
that lawyers for A. Alfred Taubman, the indicted former chairman of the
rival Sotheby's auction house, think can help in his defense.



Pantagraph.com 7/3/01
Decision pending in paper's inmate information lawsuit
http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/070301/new_0703010020.shtml

by Michael Freimann
CLINTON -- A DeWitt County circuit judge is expected to rule this week
whether to allow the federal government to intervene in a lawsuit filed
against DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey seeking the names of inmates
housed in the county jail. 



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/3/01
Some loss of photos disclosed in Frick archives
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010703frick0703p2.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
Of the 4,500 photo negatives in the Frick family archives, nearly 100 have
had to be destroyed because they were stored improperly and fused together,
a conservationist testified yesterday. 
Don Swanson, chief conservationist of the Frick Art Reference Library in New
York City, said the remainder of the nitrate negatives, which are part of
the Frick family archives, had been stabilized and would be conserved. 



Sun Times 7/3/01
Document may show Allies got early word of Holocaust
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/holo03.html

by Pauline Jelinek
WASHINGTON--The West may have been informed about Nazi Germany's plans for
the Holocaust months earlier than previously thought. 
"It has been decided to eradicate all the Jews," says a newly declassified
document believed to have been obtained by British and American intelligence
by March 1942. 


Toronto Star 7/3/01
Searching for the original Maple Leaf ... forever
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=994111355422&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=96833218
8774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467

Valerie Lawton
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA - The hunt is still on for the original Maple Leaf. 
Workers at Canada's National Archives have spent months playing detective in
search of the actual flag that was flown on Parliament Hill for the first
time in February, 1965. 



Washington Post 7/3/01
Spy agency reveals some, not all
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/md/A10615-2001Jul2.html

by Maureen O'Hagan
Hidden along Route 32, in a drab beige building that looks every bit the
cheap motel it once was, is America's official museum of secrets.
Here, you'll learn about a hush-hush device that historians say shortened
World War II by nearly two years (no, not the atom bomb), you'll read tales
of unheralded genius and you'll glimpse the efforts of this country's own
James Bonds, many of whom resemble the class nerd more than they do 007. In
fact, a number were women.



Amarillo Golbe-News 7/4/01
Mother's medical records turned over to court in Houston slayings
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/070401/tex_turnedover.shtml

AP
HOUSTON (AP) - Medical records of a mother accused of drowning her five
young children two weeks ago were turned over to prosecutors and defense
attorneys Tuesday. 



Associated Press 7/4/01
Berlin court to rule on Kohl spy files
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010704/wl/germany_kohl_3.html

by Stephen Graham 
BERLIN (AP) - Helmut Kohl's lawyers went before a court Wednesday seeking to
block the release of conversations secretly recorded by East German spies -
archives lawmakers would like to use in their investigation into a slush
fund scandal. 



Associated Press 7/4/01
Constitution going off display
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010703/us/declaration_remodeling_2.html

by Carl Hartman
WASHINGTON (AP) - When the National Archives closes at the end of July
Fourth, the Declaration of Independence will go out of sight as experts
examine it and repair the display that houses it. 
Gone, too, for the next two years will be original copies of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 


Times-Union.com 7/4/01
Better to shred than to have it read
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=61441&BCCode=B&newsd
ate=7/4/2001

by Kevin Harlan
Business Writer
The paperless office promised by the electronic age is generating as much
paper as ever. 
Fending off the sharks who would turn the piles of confidential medical,
credit and other information into ill-gotten gain is an expanding breed of
business: the professional shredder. 



Akron Beacon Journal 7/4/01
Diebold, retiree join to safeguard Charters of Freedom
http://www.ohio.com/bj/home/docs_business/022303.htm

by Candace Goforth
Leo Grosswiller served in the Korean conflict, but he doesn't have any war
stories. He never saw the front line, never even left American shores.
Instead of a gun, he wielded a drafting pencil. 
But 47 years after his tour of duty and four years after civilian
retirement, he's given his country something he's proud of, something
important and enduring. And he used his pencil. 



New York Times 7/4/01
EMC cracks down on defectors to guard secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-emc-dc.html?searchpv=reu
ters

Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - When top engineers and sales staff defect from EMC Corp.
(EMC.N), the world's No. 1 data-storage firm does not let them go gently.
EMC followed Joanna Karwowska, a top software engineer, to her new job at
rival Network Appliance Inc.(NTAP.O) with a federal court order that allowed
corporate detectives to inspect the hard drives on laptop computers issued
by her new employer. She is accused of conspiring with Network Appliance to
cripple a secret EMC project targeting the smaller rival, according to a
federal lawsuit in Boston.


New York Times 7/4/01
Museum traces black origins in Va.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-WKD-Black-Education.html?searchpv=ap
online

AP
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- There are no pictures of Samuel Kelso, but his legacy
remains.
The son of slaves, Kelso proposed a novel concept at Virginia's 1867
Constitutional Convention: public schools for everyone, blacks and whites.
Educating blacks -- in public schools or in private institutions -- was an
important issue after the Civil War. And in the same year Kelso pushed for
public schools, two traditionally black colleges opened elsewhere: Howard
University in Washington, D.C., and Morehouse College in Augusta, Ga.



New York Times 7/4/01
Release of Kohl recordings blocked
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Germany-Kohl.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
BERLIN (AP) -- Helmut Kohl won a court ruling Wednesday blocking the release
of his conversations that were secretly recorded by East German spies, a
victory in the former chancellor's attempts to defend his legacy as the
leader who reunited Germany.



Philippine Star 7/5/01
Supreme Court: Desierto can't open Estrada bank records
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200107050437780.htm

by Delon Porcalla
The government's corruption and plunder cases against ousted President
Joseph Estrada suffered a serious setback as the Supreme Court (SC) has
barred state prosecutors from looking into his bank accounts. 
Ombudsman Aniano Desierto deplored the issuance of the ruling, saying it
dealt a big blow to ongoing investigations on Estrada's alleged ill-gotten
wealth. 



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/4/01
Keep Frick files here, in NYC, historian urges
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010704frick0704p6.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
For three hours yesterday, a historian testified that the business papers of
Henry Clay Frick should stay in Pittsburgh while records of his art
collecting belong in New York City. 
William L. Joyce, who heads the special collections division at Penn State
University's library in State College, was one of five people hired to
examine the Frick family archives. 



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 7/4/01
Records offer glimpse into past of officers in Roberts case
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/29949_roberts04.shtml

by Vanessa Ho
Two years before Seattle police Officer Craig Price fatally shot Aaron
Roberts, Price and his partner shot and killed a large pit bull that had
been menacing Central District residents, according to police records
released yesterday. 
The documents, obtained through a public-disclosure request, also paint a
more detailed portrait of Price's partner, Officer Greg Neubert, a nine-year
veteran. His files showed many commendations from citizens and supervisors,
and one suspension that stemmed from an argument with a sergeant.


Washington Post 7/4/01
County won't release records on many cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A358-2001Jun29.html

by Craig Whitlock and David S. Falls
Last year, after his officers killed two men in one weekend, Prince George's
County Police Chief John S. Farrell promised a "vigorous investigation."
"The facts will come out," he said. "This scrutiny is necessary so the
community understands that nothing will be left undone when it comes to
investigating these cases."





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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