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RAIN 8/01: Digital downpour, archives access denied, transponders



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Atlanta Journal Constitution 7/31/01
HOPE's online breach worse than feared
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_b3662590a33d60
7900a5.html
by Alan Judd and Kathy Brister
A security breach in the computers that run Georgia's HOPE scholarship
program was far more extensive than officials initially thought. It is
potentially so devastating that officials have shut down HOPE's computer
network while they investigate.


Boston Globe 7/31/01
Frank letter on Soviets lands in FBI collection
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/212/nation/Frank_letter_on_Soviets_lands_
in_FBI_collection+.shtml>
by Myron Struck and Tania Anderson
States News Service
Washington - A letter that US Representative Barney Frank wrote 12 years ago
concerning visits by Soviet labor leaders ended up in a Federal Bureau of
Investigation file and was recently released by the government - puzzling
and angering the Massachusetts congressman.


St. Petersburg Times 7/31/01
Eckerd to pay fine in Medicaid case
http://www.sptimes.com/News/073101/Business/Eckerd_to_pay_fine_in.shtml
by Dong-Phuong Nguyen
TAMPA -- Eckerd Corp. agreed Monday to pay a $1.7-million fine for its role
in a prescription drug scheme that defrauded Medicaid, ending a criminal
investigation into what was once considered a longstanding industry
practice.
In a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, the company
acknowledged it took part in a practice known as "partial filling" and
pleaded guilty to four federal charges that include filing false claims and
failing to keep accurate records of narcotic substances.


Tampa Tribune 7/31/01
Eckerd agrees to $1.7 million fine
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAPGMN5TPC.html
by Paula Christian
The Eckerd drugstore chain, one of the nation's biggest, has admitted
overbilling the government for Medicaid prescriptions and agreed to pay $1.7
million in fines.
The plea agreement, reached by federal prosecutors and an Eckerd Drugs
affiliate called ECK MD Inc., is the result of a five-year investigation
into the company's billing practices.


Hartford Courant 7/31/01
FBI probe continues
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=5000647&rende
r=y&Table=
by Mark Pazniokas and Edmund Mahony
WATERBURY - The FBI seized more documents Monday from the office of jailed
Mayor Philip A. Giordano, with at least one of the targets of the continuing
investigation being a controversial sewage-treatment plant built by a
company with alleged ties to organized crime.
A lone agent, who carried boxes from the offices of the mayor and
corporation counsel, barely attracted a second look, unlike Thursday when
dozens of agents arrived armed with search warrants.


Denver Post 7/31/01
Transport company indicted for fraud
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,33%257E82895,00.html
by Marsha Austin
A state grand jury has indicted a defunct Aurora patient transport company
and its chief executive on suspicion of defrauding Colorado's Medicaid
program of more than $400,000.
The indictments, handed down last week, charge Thai Transportation Inc. and
its owner Thanh Son Thai, also known as Richard Thai, 30, with six felony
counts, including two counts of theft and two of computer crimes.


Des Moines Register 7/31/01
ISU Foundation stands by policy
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/15456271.html
by Frank Santiago
The Iowa State University Foundation's decision to open the files on a
woman's $1.2 million gift to the school doesn't signal a shift in the
organization's policy of sealing its records, a spokesman said Monday.
"Our position has been and will continue to be that the foundation is a
private, not-for-profit corporation and thus is not subject to the
open-meetings laws," said Tom Mitchell, the foundation president.


Reuters 7/31/01
Experts brace for Code Red to hit Internet
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010731/ts/tech_codered_dc_16.html
by Deborah Zabarenko and Elinor Mills
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet security experts were bracing
for the worst from the ``Code Red'' worm that was expected to launch a new
strike on the world's computer systems as global clocks tick over to
Wednesday.


Associated Press 7/31/01
Failed Dot-Com certificates sought
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010731/tc/webvan_stock_auction_1.html
by Amalie Young
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Webvan is trading above a dollar.
That's right. Bidding hit $530 last Friday for a stock certificate from the
now defunct dot-com company, which Jeff Smith of Klamath Falls bought
several months ago for 14 cents.
``He's the only guy in the world to have made money on Webvan stock,''
laughs Greg Freishtat, an Atlanta investor who purchased the certificate on
eBay last week.


Aspen Times 7/31/01
Papers win access to rape affidavits
http://aspentimes.com/dynews01/073101.c.htm
by Jennifer Davoren
Two sealed affidavits containing information about the July 18 rape of an
Aspen woman and the arrest of the suspect will be made public, a judge ruled
Monday.
District Court Judge J.E. DeVilbiss agreed to release the affidavits after
The Aspen Times and the Aspen Daily News petitioned for the information.
The suspect, Marcos Garcia-Flores, 21, was present at the hearing. He was
formerly charged with sexual assault and first-degree assault.


Government Contractor News 7/30/01
Digital data downpour
http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no21/news/4763-1.html
by Richard W. Walker
The explosion of electronic data across government is rocking the once staid
world of records management.
Few know this better than the government's archivist, John Carlin.
"The whole ball game of records management is changing dramatically. The
change is huge," said Carlin, director of the National Archives and Records
Administration. "We've gone from file clerks who would help people get their
paper filed in an appropriate place to everyone at their desktop being their
own file clerk."


Government Contractor News 7/30/01
For the record, NARA techie aims at preserve
http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no21/news/4752-1.html
by Richard W. Walker
Question: How are the government's electronic records going to be preserved
over multiple generations of technology so that future archivists and
historians can access them?
Answer: Nobody knows yet.
But Kenneth Thibodeau, director of the National Archives and Records
Administration's Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program in College Park,
Md., thinks he's on the trail of a solution.


Government Computer News 7/30/01
Copyright office sets sights on paper-free registrations
http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no21/news/4765-1.html
by Susan M. Menke
The Library of Congress' Copyright Office now handles about 5 percent of its
workflow entirely online. No paper is involved except for the final
copyright certificate mailed for legal reasons, and even that soon will
become optional.


Reuters 7/16/01
Hackers developing anti-censorship software
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010716/tc/tech_censorship_dc_1.html
by Elinor Abreu
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A group of hackers is finishing work on software that
would enable human rights workers to access censored Web sites, in a move
that ratchets up the ``arms race'' between free speech activists on the
Internet and government censors in Asia and the Middle East.


The Virginian Pilot 7/31/01
Judge declines to delay museum-papers hearing
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0731pet.html
by Jason Skog
VIRGINIA BEACH -- The ongoing document battle between People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, the Virginia Marine Science Museum and the museum's
private foundation is expected to come to a head again Wednesday despite
PETA's failed efforts to postpone a hearing.
PETA attorneys on Monday asked Virginia Beach Circuit Judge Frederick B.
Lowe to postpone Wednesday's proceedings, complaining their efforts to take
sworn testimony from museum employees were thwarted by repeated objections
from attorneys for the city and the foundation.


Reuters 7/27/01
NASA data point to Mars 'Bugs,' scientist says
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010727/sc/space_mars_life_dc_1.html
by Kevin Krolicki
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Did NASA discover evidence of life on Mars and then
misplace it for almost 25 years?
A University of Southern California scientist argues that is just what
happened and that once-lost data collected by the 1975 Viking probes suggest
the existence of Martian microbes.


Union News 7/31/01
Monson tackles archive project
http://www.masslive.com/newsindex/metroeast/index.ssf?/news/pstories/me731hi
s.html
by Jennifer Picard
MONSON - Nowadays, keeping a list of people you don't like is not exactly
politically correct.
But in the late 19th century, members of the Grand Army of the Republic's
Marcus Keep Post 155, a Civil War veterans' group, probably thought their
blacklist book was a good way to remember who they kicked out for not paying
dues or getting too drunk at meetings.


New York Times 7/30/01
Jail Time in the Digital Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html
by Lawrence Lessig
Stanford, Calif.
Dmitri Sklyarov is a Russian programmer who, until recently, lived and
worked in Moscow. He wrote a program that was legal in Russia, and in most
of the world, a program his employer, ElcomSoft, then sold on the Internet.
Adobe Corporation bought a copy and complained to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation that the program violated American law and that, by the way,
Mr. Sklyarov was about to give a lecture in Las Vegas describing the
weaknesses in Adobe's electronic book software. Two weeks ago, the F.B.I.
arrested Mr. Sklyarov. He still sits in a Las Vegas jail.


New York Times 7/31/01
Lawyers consider easing restriction on client secrecy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/national/31LEGA.html
by William Glaberson
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the American Bar Association is
considering an expansive update of ethics rules for lawyers, which if
approved would give attorneys more freedom to divulge their clients' secrets
if such revelations would prevent fraud, injury or death.


New York Times 7/31/01
Military Style
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/fashion/31FRON.html?searchpv=nytToday
by Ginia Bellafante
Stylists who scour flea markets, designers who deplete vintage clothing
shops and socialites who wear 30-year-old Chanel are not, as it turns out,
the only ones steeped in fashion nostalgia. Soldiers, as Army Times
discovered a few months ago, yearn for uniforms that look less like civilian
clothes and more like the neutral-hued uniforms reminiscent of World War II.



St. Petersburg Times 7/31/01
Editorial: Touch-screen voting is best way
http://www.sptimes.com/News/073101/Opinion/Touch_screen_voting_i.shtml
Both political activists in both parties continue to spin and debate
Florida's presidential election debacle last November, but there is one
thing on which everyone can agree: The state's voting system is broken, and
it must be fixed. Hillsborough County has the chance today to become a
national model of election reform. By choosing a touch-screen voting system,
the county would show that accuracy and accessibility are as important as
the right to vote.



Palm Beach Post 7/31/01
Sorting Lake Park's financial records challenges director
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/local_news_7.html
by Thomas R. Collins
LAKE PARK -- When new Finance Director Mike Arciola took over after Director
Ed Kelly suddenly resigned, he saw a finance department in disarray.
Taking a look at bills from insurance companies, he noticed the town was
being charged for policies of employees no longer working for the town. The
town had been paying the bills, in some cases for employees who'd left or
dropped the insurance policy more than a year before.


Sacramento Bee 7/31/01
Scam Alert: Identity theft put a damper on teacher's summer vacation
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local08_20010731.html
by Edgar Sanchez
Emily Lim, a bilingual resource teacher in Sacramento, never had a summer
vacation like this year's.
Instead of resting or going to the movies during summer recess, the
49-year-old woman is stressed out, dealing with the theft of her name and
the financial damage done by a scam artist.


Editor & Publisher 7/30/01
San Diego Newspaper shuts down archives
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpiep/20010730/en/_b_h1_san_diego_newspaper_sh
uts_down_archives_h1_b__1.html>
by Joel Davis
Citing a landmark Supreme Court ruling that publishers must get permission
from free-lancers before using their articles in electronic databases, the
San Diego Union-Tribune is blocking access to all of the archive's contents
created prior to Jan. 1, 2000.


New York Times 7/31/01
Software called capable of copying any human voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/technology/31VOIC.html
by Lisa Guernsey
AT&T Labs will start selling speech software that it says is so good at
reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a human voice that it
can recreate voices and even bring the voices of long-dead celebrities back
to life. The software, which turns printed text into synthesized speech,
makes it possible for a company to use recordings of a person's voice to
utter things that the person never actually said.


Associated Press 7/31/01
Star-Spangled Banner getting a rest
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010731/pl/restored_symbols_1.html
by Carl Hartman
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two of America's most revered symbols, the Declaration of
Independence and the original Star-Spangled Banner, are getting a
much-needed rest after decades spent hanging on museum walls. When they go
on permanent view again next summer they'll be lying nearly flat.


CNET News.com 7/30/01
The art and innovation behind a new IM
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010730/tc/the_art_and_innovation_behind_a_
new_im_1.html
By Paul Festa
Watch out browsers, bots, e-mail and telephones--here comes the next
generation of instant messaging.
Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles
in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only to gain
mainstream acceptance, but to establish itself as an independent platform
for a variety of communications and information-gathering applications.


The Morning Journal 7/31/01
Social worker jailed in credentials case
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2154848&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=4
6371&rfi=6
by Richard Payerchin
SANDUSKY -- A Lorain woman faces a misdemeanor charge of practicing social
work without a license after allegedly working as a social worker for about
10 months at Sandusky's Providence Hospital, according to police.
Paula E. Martin, 52, 3016 Meister Road, also faces felony charges of theft,
forgery and tampering with records, according to Erie County Jail records.


UPI 7/31/01
Lewis and Clark likely didn't sleep there
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=207467
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 31 (UPI) -- Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt
Tuesday unveiled the most precise maps ever developed of the 1804 to 1806
Lewis and Clark expedition, and they indicate that many towns claiming the
explorers passed through them are wrong.


Boston Herald 7/31/01
Watchdog sues watchdog: Insurance commissioner bitten over Liberty Mutual
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/business/lib07312001.htm
by Tom Walsh
An insurance industry watchdog group sued Commissioner of Insurance Linda L.
Ruthardt yesterday, alleging she violated state public records laws in
handling Liberty Mutual's controversial application to reorganize.


The Street.com 7/30/01
State of the Web: and the winners are ...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ts/010730/wrong_010730.html
by James J. Cramer
Well, what do you know, we do have four category killers on the Web, and
they'll begin to make big money accordingly. And the winners are: eBay
(Nasdaq: EBAY - news) , USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI - news) , TMP Worldwide
(Nasdaq: TMPW - news) and Homestore (Nasdaq: HOMS - news) .
I know, if you're like me, you're thinking, "Wow, that's all we have to show
after eToys , Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN - news) , Planet RX , Buy.com (Nasdaq:
BUYX - news) and whatever the heck else was out there during the craziness?
But these four are winners and they're going to make a ton of money being
winners.


Forbes.com 7/31/01
Transponders: Cash in a Flash
http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/010731/0731transponders.html
With a lane almost to itself, and flanked by lines of cars on either side, a
car speeds up to a tollbooth on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. But the
booth is unoccupied and the car only slows, instead of stopping, as it
passes. His toll is instantly paid and he sails onto the bridge, far ahead
of the pack waiting to pay cash.How Transponders WorkFuture Uses of
Transponders




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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