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Charlotte Observer 8/03/01
Archives to get increased exposure
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/library0803.htm
by Jessica Flathmann
ROCK HILL -- Buried in boxes, placed in folders or even carefully organized
in paper indexes, the items in the Winthrop University Archives are not
easily accessible to the public.

Civic.com 8/02/01
Cybercrime expertise listed online
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0730/web-crime-08-02-01.asp
by Brian Robinson
State and local law enforcement agencies are going to the Internet in order
to fight computer-related crime more effectively.
The National Association of Attorneys General (www.naag.org) is pulling
together a list of people responsible for investigating and prosecuting
cybercrime in their particular jurisdictions, and who can provide assistance
to law officers seeking electronic evidence stored outside their states.


Federal Computer Week 7/31/01
ADA assistance on CD-ROM
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0730/web-ada-07-31-01.asp
by William Matthews
Restaurants do not have to provide menus in Braille, but police departments
are expected to provide means for deaf people to effectively communicate
when they are arrested, and state lottery ticket sales should be accessible
to people with mobility impairments.


Austin Business Journal 8/3/01
Hart InterCivic software tested by Washington county
http://austin.bcentral.com/austin/stories/2001/07/30/daily57.html
The Snohomish County Auditor's Office in Washington has completed a pilot
program using Austin-based Hart InterCivic Inc.'s e-government software.
Snohomish County tested Hart InterCivic's electronic filing software with
real estate documents submitted by participating title companies.


The Mount Airy News 8/3/01
Probation Office Fire
http://www.mtairynews.com/cgi-local/top?section=top&story=probationofficefir
e
by Caroline Beamer
What should have been a typical Thursday morning for Betty Huff started with
opening the door to her office building and being confronted with smoke.
Huff ran out to her car and telephoned 911. She learned after police and
city fire officials arrived that someone had broken a window in the red
brick building and had gotten inside to start a fire in the probation
office, which manages Judicial District 17-B, Surry and Stokes County. The
office is almost directly across from City Hall on Main Street.


San Antonio Express-News 8/3/01
Council calls up paperless agendas
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=271494&xld=180
by Willliam Pack
The City Council edged a little deeper into the new millennium Thursday.
Instead of the usual paper agendas, council members used laptop computers to
call up the regular session's agenda and background data without touching a
sheet of paper.
It's a paperless agenda system that the city is testing in an attempt to
save money and paper while increasing efficiency and productivity.


New York Times 8/3/01
Bill Clinton returns to Arkansas
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Clinton-Visit.html?searchpv=apon
line
AP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Former President Clinton returned to Arkansas and
outlined the future of his $200 million library that he said would be a
lasting gift to his home state despite its many controversies.
The library will be the most expensive U.S. presidential library and will
house more documents and executive papers than any other presidential
archives in history.


New York Times 8/3/01
Clinton lays out future for library, and himself
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/politics/03CLIN.html?searchpv=nytToday
by Kevin Sack
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 2 --In a pep talk to a receptive hometown crowd,
former President Bill Clinton said today that he would use his presidential
library and policy center here to advance themes that were central to his
presidency.


New York Times 8/3/01
SirCam worm still spreading documents
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-6759035.html?searchpv=cnet
by Ian Fried
CNET News.com
Like a summer cold that just won't go away, the SirCam e-mail worm lingers
on, sending out the contents of infected hard drives for all the world to
see.


Rocky Mountain News 8/3/01
Winter Park real estate transactions scrutinized
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/real_estate/article/0,1299,DRMN_414_79
3736,00.html
by Peggy Lowe
Denver Auditor Don Mares on Thursday ordered an audit of all real estate
transactions by the Winter Park Recreation Association after suggesting that
a WPRA board member had a conflict of interest.


Kennebec Journal 8/2/01
State archives opens after flood
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010802archives.shtml
AUGUSTA - After being closed for nearly five months, the Maine State
Archives search room has reopened.


Civic.com 8/1/01
Tech to help map Alaska
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0730/web-alaska-08-01-01.asp
by Dibya Sarkar
Nearly $3.5 million in federal money will enable Alaskan state agencies,
boroughs and academic institutions to use cutting-edge technology to map the
state's topography and natural resources.
State officials announced that eight projects will benefit from NASA funds
earmarked for air or space remote-sensing technology initiatives.


Washington Post 8/3/01
Letter to the Editor: The AFL-CIO's right to privacy
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25477-2001Aug2.html
Robert Novak's July 23 op-ed column irresponsibly suggested that the AFL-CIO
has no right to protect the privacy of its internal documents and
memorandums. He complained that the AFL-CIO and the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) are getting an undeserved break in their so-far successful
litigation aimed at maintaining the confidentiality of internal files
provided to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) during a four-year
investigation of various AFL-CIO activities in 1996.


Washington Post 8/3/01
Can GAO make Cheney Blink?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23917-2001Aug2.html
by Ellen Nakashima
Few would have suspected that David M. Walker would be one of the Bush
administration's leading antagonists.
Walker holds as a keepsake the note George H.W. Bush wrote asking him to
volunteer in Bush's 1980 campaign for president. Walker has been a delegate
to the Republican National Convention and an official in the Reagan
administration. He won his current job with the support of Senate GOP leader
Trent Lott (Miss.).


Brownsville Herald 8/4/01
FBI seizes Hidalgo County Clerk's records
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/archive/topstoryjmp/8-4-01/News4.h
tm
by Julie Bisbee and Dulcinea Cuellar
The Monitor
EDINBURG - Federal agents seized documents from Hidalgo County District
Clerk Pauline Gonzalez's office Friday afternoon and searched her vehicles
and home.
Texas Rangers and Department of Public Safety and federal investigators
swarmed through the district clerk's office early Friday afternoon, and
stayed at the office into the night collecting documentation and files.


Daily Courier of Western Pennsylvania 8/4/01
Rich history: Aviation exhibit opens at West Overton
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/dailycourier/dailycourier_story.html?rkey=1557
55+sid=5132059807abbc422ff68222bf3d158f+cat=dailycourier-news+template=news1
.html
by Bernadette Myers
SCOTTDALE - West Overton Museums unveiled a new exhibit this week that
celebrated another facet of the area's rich history - its aviation history.
The exhibit focuses on local aviators, World War I aviation and the U. S.
Airmail Service.


National Post /4/01
NAFTA agreement contains a loophole
http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/cadbusiness/story.html?f=/stories/
20010804/636217.html

by Ian Jack
Financial Post
OTTAWA - An agreement among the NAFTA countries to make tribunal hearings
more transparent contains a loophole that could ensure most proceedings
remain secret at least until they are decided, trade experts said yesterday.


Newsday 8/4/1
Hevesi gets bus contract records
http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/saturday/nd4231.htm
by Mohamed Bazzi
The Giuliani administration has turned over records to Comptroller Alan
Hevesi in his probe of a Staten Island bus contract.
The Economic Development Corp. provided the contract and related documents
Thursday after Hevesi slapped the agency with a subpoena. It marked the
first time Hevesi used his subpoena powers to get information from a public
agency.


New York Times 8/4/01
After a Vatican-Jewish project fails, a split on why.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/04/national/04RELI.html?searchpv=nytToday
by Gustav Niebuhr
A panel of Roman Catholic and Jewish scholars, jointly appointed by the
Vatican and an international Jewish organization to review documents related
to Pope Pius XII and World War II, halted its work last month. Within a
week, that news became public, setting off some sharp exchanges between
Catholics and Jews who had been closely following the work.


New York Times 8/4/01
Cheney refuses to release energy task force records
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/04/politics/04ENER.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Joseph Kahn
Washington, Aug. 3 -- Claiming that an arm of Congress was seeking to
"unconstitutionally interfere" with the workings of the White House, Vice
President Dick Cheney formally refused to turn over documents demanded as
part of a Congressional investigation of the administration's energy plan,
according to a letter released today.


New York Times 8/4/01
Worm woes boost traffic to security sites
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-6773085.html?searchpv=cnet

by Rachel Konrad
CNET News.com
The dreaded Code Red worm is having a predictable upside for some technology
companies: As panic over the worm mounted, traffic to major security sites
surged.


Syracuse.com 8/4/01
Hospital phone records studied
http://www.syracuse.com/news/syrnewspapers/index.ssf?/newsstories/20010804_c
fbill.html

by Pam Greene
Five University Hospital employees may be responsible for making $40,000
worth of unauthorized long distance phone calls in five months, according to
Syracuse police records.


Cleveland Plain Dealer 8/5/01
Computer records provided the base for reporters' inquiry
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/news/997003806731026.xml

Plain Dealer reporters Sheryl Harris and T.C. Brown analyzed computer
records from Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery to produce this report.
The database tracks consumer complaints funneled through her office's
Consumer Protection Section.


Ninemsn 8/6/01
Police probe NSW parliament hacking claims
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/story_16629.asp

NSW Police will interview parliamentary employees today in an investigation
into allegations a Labor MP's computer was used to hack into confidential
state Opposition files.
NSW upper house MP Tony Kelly yesterday admitted a computer in his
parliamentary office was at the centre of the scandal, but emphatically
denied he had been involved in hacking into private Opposition documents.


Denver Post 8/5/01
Chaotic records can make it hard to check on a school
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,4631%257E88748,00.html

by Eric Hubler and David Migoya
Sunday, August 05, 2001 - Is my child's school doing everything it can to
prevent fires?
That question should be easily answered with a visit to the Denver Fire
Department's Fire Prevention and Investigation Bureau at 745 W. Colfax Ave.


The Post and Courier 8/5/01
Genealogist uncovers history in Charleston funeral records
http://www.charleston.net/pub/news/local/gen0805.htm

by David Quick
Ten years ago, seasoned genealogist Linda Dayhoff Smith was stumped.
She could barely find any information on Annie Bollough Hawley, an ancestor
born in Charleston in the 1840s.


Townonline.com 7/25/01
Here's to preserving our media history
http://www.townonline.com/northwest/chelmsford/opinions/20893538.htm

by Bill Walsh
Nothing we make lasts forever.
I was reminded of that fairly obvious fact this past weekend, while watching
a John Wayne film festival on cable TV. AMC (American Movie Classics) was
running their 9th Annual Film Preservation Festival, and in between
"Stagecoach" and "Chisum," they talked about film preservation.


Los Angeles Times 8/5/01
Doctors improvise in flooded town
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-flooded-doctors0805aug05
.story?coll=la%2Dap%2Dtopnews%2Dheadlines

by Ryan Keith
AP
MULLENS, W.Va. -- To treat patients, Sam Muscari Sr. and Manuel Barit rely
on their memories -- among the only things left intact in this flood-ravaged
coalfield town.
The doctors' downtown offices were destroyed by July's record floods.
Hundreds of records detailing medical histories are now a mud-caked, useless
mess. Also gone are X-ray machines, computers and equipment the doctors once
used to diagnose ailments and prescribe treatments.



Courier News 8/5/01
Library features massive collection
http://www.c-n.com/news/c-n/story/0,2111,428807,00.html

by Jerry Carino
BERNARDS -- The first book devoted solely to golf was a three-edition epic
poem called "The Goff." Written by Thomas Mathison and published in 1743,
1773 and 1793, it depicted a fictional golf match at St. Andrews in
Scotland. Original copies of "The Goff" books are hard to find, and only one
library in the world has all three editions -- the library of United States
Golf Association.



Ninemsn.com 8/5/01
MP denies NSW parliamentary hacking
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sci_tech/story_16641.asp

New South Wales Lower House member Tony Kelly has confirmed that his office
is at the centre of a computer hacking scandal.
Mr Kelly said a computer in his parliamentary office had been seized by the
clerk of the parliament, John Evans, for independent examination.


News.com.au 8/5/01
Hacker could bring down Carr Govt Greens
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2514888%255E1702,00.html

AAP
A COMPUTER hacking scandal set to rock the New South Wales state parliament
could bring down the Carr government, the Greens said today.
It has been reported a senior Labor MP's computer was used to hack into
opposition terminals to read private documents.


Kansas City Star 8/4/01
Officials near historic sites resist new map of Lewis and Clark route
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3accdf2f.804,.html

by Sophia Maines
New maps tracing the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
conflict with the claims of many Missouri towns thought to be stops on the
historic journey.
"There are a number of corrections that will have to be made in history
books because of these maps," said the state archivist for Missouri, Kenneth
Winn.


Ninemsn.com 8/6/01
Police probe NSW parliament hacking claims
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sci_tech/story_16644.asp

AAP
Police have launched an investigation into allegations a NSW Labor MP's
computer was used to hack into confidential state Opposition files.
NSW upper house MP Tony Kelly admitted a computer in his parliamentary
office was at the centre of the scandal, but emphatically denied he had been
involved in hacking into private Opposition documents.


Sydney Morning Herald 8/6/01
Politicians' secret files raided by hacker
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0108/06/national/national9.html

by Robert Wainwright
Australian Federal Police have begun a search for a computer hacker who has
broken into secret Opposition policy files using the computer of a State
Government MLC, Mr Tony Kelly.
Mr Kelly revealed yesterday his office was at the centre of the row but
denied he was personally involved in hacking into the files belonging to the
prominent Liberal MLC Mr Charlie Lynn.


St. Petersburg Times 8/5/01
Internet copyright tizzy will pass
http://www.sptimes.com/News/080501/Columns/Internet_copyright_ti.shtml

by Robyn E. Blumner
Whenever I hear a debate over intellectual property rights and young people
swapping music over the Internet, I can't help but remember the first time I
bought a dual cassette tape player.


The Gloucester Daily Times 8/5/01
Local historian returns to roots
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/g/gstory.pl?slug-GTALK04

by All Hands
One of Edith Sparling's many services to the Gloucester community over the
years has been working with the city's Preservation Committee -- an
organization which tracks down the histories of old houses and, if they
qualify as landmarks, issues them official plaques.


The Times 8/6/01
Hughes blamed pills for Plath's suicide
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001270349,00.html]

by Dalya Alberge
Arts Correspondent
A LETTER in which the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes blames his wife's
suicide on an adverse reaction to antidepressant drugs is included in an
unpublished correspondence acquired by the British Library.
The collection includes more than 140 letters and other documents written to
Keith Sagar, his biographer and friend, over a period of 30 years. Some,
written 20 years ago, detail the events leading to the suicide of his wife,
Sylvia Plath, in 1963.


Wichita Falls Times-Record 8/5/01
Agencies paying late fees
Past due bills costing millions in interest
http://www.trnonline.com/stories/08052001/regional_news/26460.shtml

by Ty Meighan
Scripps Howard Austin Bureau
AUSTIN - Dozens of state agencies in Texas are not paying contractors on
time, costing the state more than $2.1 million since September 1999.
Agencies continue to pay invoices late despite employee training on payment
procedures and numerous notices by the State Comptroller's Office.




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Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
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