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RAIN 7/31: Alfred the Great, Hauserman, Scarfo & Wrigley Field



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The Guardian 7/29/01
Priceless documents of Alfred the Great found
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,529280,00.html
Vanessa Thorpe
Arts correspondent
Priceless papers which document Alfred the Great's foundation of a
ninth-century monastery at Athelney have been discovered at the back of a
dusty shelf in a stately home.
Missing since the 1700s, the ancient charters, known collectively as a
cartulary, detail the king's establishment of a religious community on the
small island on the Somerset levels where he famously took refuge and where,
popular nursery legend has it, he burned cakes that had been left in the
hearth.

Ames Tribune 7/28/01
Blackwelder says estate was handled properly
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2152913&BRD=2035&PAG=461&dept_id=2
38101&rfi=6
by Liz Allen
The former chief fund-raiser for Iowa State University believes he made the
right choices in how he handled the estate of a north Iowa woman.
The former chief fund-raiser for Iowa State University believes he made the
right choices in how he handled the estate of a north Iowa woman.


Atlanta Journal Constitution 7/27/01
Our secrets safe with state?
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_b3167084606c626
81032.html
by Alan Judd and Kathy Brister
Fingerprints and signatures of every licensed driver. Financial records of
taxpayers. Medical histories of state employees and Medicaid recipients.
Such intensely personal information about millions of Georgians fills
computers throughout state government. But officials can't say exactly what
each state agency knows about individual citizens.


BBC News 7/30/01
FBI challenged over cyber spying
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1464000/1464483.stm
A suspected mobster is at the heart of a legal case testing the limits of
cutting-edge cyber-surveillance technology used by the FBI to fight crime.
The son of a jailed crime boss, Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, was the
target of a sophisticated operation by the bureau that allowed it to record
every keystroke on a computer on which gambling records were allegedly
stored.


Cleveland Plain Dealer 7/30/01
Blueprints for success
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/996490500294332.xml
by Mark Vosburgh and Christopher Quinn
Thanks to Cleveland archivist Martin Hauserman, architect Julie Kotapish
doesn't have to crawl around the downtown Walker & Weeks building with a
tape measure.
Hauserman also has spared Kotapish from tearing apart a concrete pillar to
find out how much weight the 75-year-old office building can support.


New York Times 7/30/01
Center may auction autographed menu
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Autographs-Auction.html?searchpv=apo
nline
Associated Press
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) -- Getting the autograph of a movie star is a thrill.
Having some of Hollywood's all-time biggest names on one piece of paper is
out of this world.


CNET News 7/30/01
Start-up looks to cure privacy concerns
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6718186-0.html?t
ag=ats
by Paul Festa
News.com
When the U.S. Congress enacted a law mandating stringent privacy protections
for health care records in 1996, opportunity knocked in Silicon Valley.
To help hospitals meet the letter of the Kennedy-Kassebaum privacy law by
the time enforcement begins in 2003, San Jose, Calif.-based ChartOne called
on a tiny start-up in nearby Sunnyvale, Calif. The start-up is composed of
former employees of iPlanet, the Netscape-Sun enterprise software alliance.


The Business Journal 7/27/01
Digital 'locks' can help make your online work secure
http://charlotte.bcentral.com/charlotte/stories/2001/07/30/smallb3.html
by Ted Claypoole
How do I know who you really are? I could memorize your face, your voice,
your handwriting. The way you hold your knife; the way you sip your tea. I
could call your mother, but how would I know that she is truly your mother?
I could check your driver's license or your birth certificate, but I would
be depending on documents prepared by someone I don't know. They could be
forged, or you could have fooled the civil servants at the licensing bureau.



St. Louis Business Journal 7/30/01
Electronic signatures gain validity in courts of law
http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001/07/30/focus13.html
by Gil Stuenkel
Local businesses are taking a new federal law clarifying electronic
commerce's legal role in stride, according to attorneys whose practice is
affected by the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
However, the attorneys agreed, the statute is not without some issues that,
for now, Congress is leaving to the states and the legal community to sort
out.


Newsbytes 7/27/01
Ex-IRS worker pleads guilty to internal server sabotage
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168453.html
by Brian Krebs
A former systems administrator for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
pleaded guilty to sabotaging several databanks at the agency after
supervisors disciplined him by taking away his security clearance.


Capital District Business Review 7/30/01
Group adopts standardized contract forms
http://albany.bcentral.com/albany/stories/2001/07/30/daily5.html
by William Tuthill
In a move toward streamlining the bidding process, a national building
owners group has adopted the standard form contract documents of the
Associated General Contractors of America.
Washington D.C.-based Building Owners and Managers Association
International, which has more than 18,000 members, approved the use of the
standard documents at its annual convention in Baltimore last month.


Austin Business Journal 7/30/01
Hart InterCivic completes N.J. project
http://austin.bcentral.com/austin/stories/2001/07/30/daily6.html
Austin-based Hart InterCivic Inc. has installed its public records imagining
and management system at the County Clerk's Office in Somerset County, N.J.
The value of the project is about $800,000.


Capital District Business Review 7/3/01
High-tech nature of business means better work at faster pace
http://albany.bcentral.com/albany/stories/2001/07/30/focus12.html
Thomas Eckert
It is a given: Today's building projects are being constructed with
incredible speed. This remarkable achievement continuously amazes the "gray
hairs" in the industry who are well aware of the increasing sophistication
built into today's facilities. More complex buildings should take longer to
build. But, in fact, the opposite is occurring.


Silicon.com 7/30/01
Internet bank records wiped after upgrade fiasco
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=996479898&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=4
6106&REQSTR1=newsnow
by Julian Goldsmith
Lloyds TSB has accidentally wiped the records of 1.6 million online
customers during a computer upgrade.


Insight 8/2/01
Clinton holdover orders secret documents destroyed
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200108210.shtml
by Jamie Dettmer and Kenneth R. Timmerman
A Clinton-administration holdover at the Pentagon agency in charge of
reviewing dual-use technology exports has ordered the wholesale destruction
of classified documents relating to controversial sales of military
technology to China and Russia during the Clinton presidency.


Lincoln Journal Star 7/30/01
High-tech society endangers history
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=4202&past=
by Nancy Hicks
"I suppose you would like to know if we have been grasshoppered again. They
were here several days pretty thick and injured the corn considerable. Some
fields they stripped the blades all off and other pieces stripped partly.
They nibbled the end off most all the ears and ate off all the silks so it
will not fill out. Nebraska would have had a splendid crop if the
grasshoppers had stayed away for a while." - Mattie Oblinger, Sept. 10, 1876



New York Times 7/27/01
M.I.T. physicist says Pentagon is trying to silence him
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/politics/27MISS.html?searchpv=day03
by James Dao
Washington, July 26 -- A leading critic of the military's missile defense
testing program has accused the Pentagon of trying to silence him and
intimidate his employer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by
investigating him for disseminating classified documents.



Janesville Gazette 7/30/01
Man finds old newspaper while cleaning out Masonic Temple
http://www.gazetteextra.com/masons073001.html
Associated Press
ANTIGO--A Masonic Temple member found what he hopes could be a windfall for
the Masons but may turn out to be a fake -- a New York state newspaper dated
Jan. 4, 1800.
Carl Loving, 64, said he was helping clean out the Antigo Masonic Lodge so
it could be sold when he found two pieces of plywood taped together.


Mt. Olive Chronicle 7/30/01
Yearlong project catalogues Rich history of Mount Olive
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2132873&BRD=1924&PAG=461&dept_id=2
29378&rfi=6
by C.D. Trombley
MOUNT OLIVE TWP. Local history is sprinkled with more than a few famous
people, from the scientist who isolated the Salmonella bacteria and Jackie
Gleason to Tiffany glass and Count Basie. Until recently, few township
residents may have had the resources to envisi n the breadth and depth of
Mount Olive's rich history. But a book by Rita Hilbert, the director of the
Mount Olive Public Library, brings the township's rich hi story into focus.


Burlington Times-News 7/30/01
Man Own historical Harley
http://www.thetimesnews.com/2001/01-07/01-07-30/news-2.html
by Jim Wicker
Hopedale
It's not as significant a find as, say, the door latch from Noah's ark.
But the white Harley-Davidson motorcycle that Steve Isley of Hopedale bought
five months ago is nevertheless a 700-pound piece of history connected with
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


New York Times 7/30/01
Organized crime cae raises privacy issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/technology/30TAP.html
by John Schwartz
Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. might seem an unlikely champion of civil liberties in
the high-tech age. Mr. Scarfo, the son of the jailed mob boss "Little Nicky"
Scarfo, has been awaiting trial on charges of running gambling and loan
sharking operations for the Gambino crime family.


New York Times 7/30/01
Studios fight pirated movies on Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/technology/30FOX.html
by Amy Harmon
Anyone who wanted to see 20th Century Fox's "Planet of the Apes" over the
weekend had a choice: pay to see it in a theater or get it free over the
Internet, where pirated copies surfaced within hours of its release on
Friday.
The instant Internet availability of illicit copies of new Hollywood films
has become commonplace over the last year. And Internet providers, which are
legally obligated to remove pirated material from Web sites they host once a
copyright holder asks them to do so, are accustomed to quickly complying
with such requests.


Chicago Sun-Times 7/30/01
Old files may resolve Cubs' land dispute
http://www.suntimes.com/output/cubs/cst-nws-cubs30.html
by Fran Spielman
Documents dating back a century could provide the key to a mystery over who
owns a valuable patch of land next to Wrigley Field that the Tribune Co.
wants to develop as part of plans to expand the stadium.


New York Times 7/30/01
Patent seems designed for debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/business/30PATE.html?searchpv=nytToday
by Sabra Chartrand
The battle to capture the attention of consumers and to influence how they
spend money has resulted in an entire industry called customer relationship
management. The idea is to help companies attract new buyers, identify
valuable customers and win consumer loyalty. To do that, many companies
build profiles consisting of the biographies and buying habits of consumers
so the companies can customize marketing and tailor their sales pitches.


Toledo Blade 7/27/01
Pilkington preserves U.S. heritage under glass
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20010727&Categ
ory=BUSINESS03&ArtNo=107270027&Ref=AR
by Julie M. McKinnon
Pilkington North America's role in helping shield the country's "Charters of
Freedom" is pretty much over, but the glassmaker's effort should last at
least 100 years after the preservation project is completed in 2003.


The Flint Journal 7/30/01
Too much? Suit asks dad to halt info requests
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20010730f30a1montroselawsui
t.frm
by Nick Chiappetta
Montrose - A local resident who allegedly struck fear in school employees
and waged a paper war against two governmental entities is being sued for
harassment by the Montrose School District and Montrose Township.


Worthington Daily Globe 7/30/01
History center aids amateur genealogists
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2150809&BRD=2163&PAG=461&dept_id=4
38479&rfi=6
by Nancy L. Torner
Special to the Daily Globe
MARSHALL - The United States might be a melting pot, but discovering how we
individually got into the soup is a top hobby in America.
Many in- and out-of-state amateur genealogists looking for their roots in
the 19 counties of southwest Minnesota seek help from the History Center at
Southwest State University in Marshall, a public records repository for the
Minnesota Historical Society.


Janesville Gazette 7/30/01
Your assessment is online
http://www.gazetteextra.com/assessment073001.html
Associated Press and Gazette Staff
MILWAUKEE--Many municipalities around the state have rushed to put public
information on the Internet, causing privacy advocates and residents to
worry that anyone can access personal records with the click of a mouse.



Associated Press 7/30/01
Government criticized for erasing e-mail records in Indian trust fund case
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/211/wash/Government_criticized_for_eras:.sht
ml
by Robert Gehrke
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department destroyed e-mails that may have
dealt with mismanaged Indian land royalties, despite repeated court orders
that the files be preserved, according to a court-appointed investigator.


Information Week 7/23/01
Langa Letter: Is your data disappearing?
http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010719S0003?section=opini
on
by Fred Langa
In the early days of PCs, the only backup option was floppy disks, and using
them was a time-consuming and clumsy affair. Even with skillful use of a
specialized program such as FastBack, the best backup speed you could hope
for was about a megabyte a minute. Once hard-drive sizes exceeded what
reasonably could be backed up in about the space of a coffee break, 20
Mbytes or so, floppies ceased to be a practical backup medium, and tape
drives became de rigueur.



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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