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RAIN 8/07: $481,118 , alibi supported by records, wax?



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ABCNews (AU) 8/7/01
MP rejects calls to stand aside over computer hacking row
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-7aug2001-21.htm

The NSW Labor MP at the centre of a computer hacking scandal at State
Parliament says calls for him to stand aside pending a police investigation,
are "ridiculous".
The Coalition and Greens argue Tony Kelly must stand aside from his role as
a presiding officer, or he will bring Parliament into disrepute.


Boston Globe 8/6/01
Bibliophile ...
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/218/living/Bibliophile_+.shtml

by David Mehegan
Newton -- Victor Gulotta's collection once filled his upstairs library.
It included first-edition books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and
other objects associated with American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) - about 1,000 items, amassed over 14 years. Possibly the largest
Longfellow collection in private hands, it spilled into Gulotta's hallway,
where parts of it adorned the walls above the stairs.


Bryan-College Station Eagle 8/6/01
Courthouse records to move
http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/0804011courthousedocuments.htm

by John LeBas
Brazos County officials said thousands of documents will be moved from a
second-floor records room at the courthouse to relieve stress on the
building.
No structural damage has been found, and the move is meant to relieve the
overloading before it becomes a safety hazard, officials said. However, it
is believed the stress has worsened a crack running along the floor of a
storage room used by the district clerk's office.


Reuters 8/3/01
Bureaucracy to cut out jargon on forms
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010803/od/language_dc_1.html

PARIS (Reuters) - France's government has called on the country's infamous
bureaucracy to make official forms easier for the public to understand.
Some of the 1,600 most-used forms, documents and letters will be rewritten,
slashing through jargon and archaic language to make them clearer.


Canberra Times 8/7/01
Hacking scandal: Labor MP was computer teacher
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=national&cat
egory=general%20news&story_id=74193&y=2001&m=8

AAP
SYDNEY: The NSW Labor MP at the centre of a parliamentary computer hacking
scandal revealed yesterday he had been a computer teacher at a TAFE college.
But upper House MP Tony Kelly maintained that his knowledge of computers was
now so limited he would not know how to "hack" into another computer.


Times Daily 8/6/01
District attorneys get lesson in computers
http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/7557newsstories.html

by Bernie Delinski
District attorneys at the recent District Attorneys' Association seminar
learned about the newest vehicle used in thefts, forgeries, child
pornography and drug trafficking: computers.
"We're not talking about new crimes," Colbert County District Attorney Gary
Alverson said. "We're talking about a new way to commit an old crime."


(If the first link below doesn't work try the second link)

Frankfurter Allgemeine 8/6/01
For Bank Documents and love letters
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FD3-FBFB-11D2-B
228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={8B308BA8-8A11-11D5-A3B8-009027BA22E4}

http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/default.asp?width=767&height=572&agt=
explorer&ver=4&svr=4

by Peter Thomas
A seething, sticky mass pours from an old pot, bubbling red, into a mangle
of archaic machinery where it is forced through a sieve by a series of
rotating lead weights. Underneath, luminous red threads trickle into icy
water, forming little pellets from the shock.


Civic.com 8/6/01
Analyze this
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/aug/civ-tech-08-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
Five or six years ago, when the Web was still new, analytics meant nothing
more than the ability to count the number of hits on a Web page and to make
sure a Web site was still up and running and hadn't crashed - a frequent
occurrence at the time. But as Web sites become more complex and interactive
and begin to incorporate dollar transactions, analytics has taken on a whole
new purpose.


Federal Computer Week 8/3/01
Illegal immigrant data untapped
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0730/web-ins-08-03-01.asp

by William Matthews
A database of biometric information compiled when illegal immigrants are
caught trying to sneak into the United States from Mexico could help stem
the flow of illegal immigrants, but the U.S. Border Patrol has never
analyzed the data, according to the General Accounting Office.


Civic.com 8/6/01
Security in numbers
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/aug/civ-feat3-08-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
There just aren't enough security experts to go around these days. State
agencies had an easy enough time when security planning only meant deciding
which firewall to buy. But as the potential for hackers, viruses and other
cyberthreats has continued to mount, many agencies, left to their own
devices, simply have not had the wherewithal to put up an adequate defense.



Civic.com 7/2/01
Through a hacker's eyes
http://fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/july/civ-mkt1-07-01.asp

by Mandy Andress
Malicious hackers have escalated Web page defacements over the Internet" as
a result of recent tensions with China, stated a recent alert from the
National Infrastructure Protection Center. Despite the warning, several U.S.
government sites were attacked.



Federal Computer Week 8/6/01
VA head lays down IT law
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0806/web-gauss-08-06-01.asp

by Judi Hasson
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi made it clear last
week that he's the boss when it comes to spending money on information
technology.
In a memo to department staff, Principi said retired Rear Adm. John Gauss,
the VA's new assistant secretary for information and technology and chief
information officer, must approve all IT projects.



Los Angeles Times 8/6/01
INS penalty system falls down on Job
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000063864aug06.story?coll=
la%2Dheadlines%2Dfrontpage

by Jonathan Peterson
WASHINGTON -- Employer sanctions, touted 15 years ago as the nation's key
tool for stemming illegal immigration, failed in practice, offering a
cautionary tale as the nation once more focuses on the issue of undocumented
workers.
Without fanfare, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has slashed its
work site enforcement efforts in recent years, resulting in a dramatic
drop--as much as 97% over two years--in arrests of workers and fines and
warnings issued to employers, government records show.


Washington Post 8/6/01
New sights set on old enigma
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35919-2001Aug5.html

by Glenda Cooper
It was the 20th century's most baffling aviation mystery. On July 2, 1937,
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, vanished in the
Pacific while trying to fly around the world. Despite a massive search, no
trace of the intrepid aviator was ever found.


Webtechniques 8/01
None of your business?
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/08/rosenheim/

by Mimi Rosenheim
Imagine demanding access to someone's entire life without a second thought.
You want a social security number, DNA, financial history, fingerprints, and
access to family information, correspondence, files, and medical history.
Sounds intrusive, but it's likely that you have all of that information
about your employees, and then some.


New York Times 8/6/01
Smithsonian must exhibit ingenuity to deal with gifts
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/06/arts/design/06SMIT.html

by Elaine Sciolino
Washington, Aug. 5 -- The Smithsonian Institution has discovered that it is
indeed possible to have an embarrassment of riches.
The institution's National Museum of American History has accepted two gifts
for permanent exhibitions that cover much of the same ground and would
together take up about 10 percent of the museum's exhibition space. The
gifts come from two of the museum's largest donors, so museum officials are
now in the unusual position of trying to determine how to honor both
contracts.



CIO Magazine 7/15/00
Pitfalls for pack rats and purgers
http://www2.cio.com/archive/071500_fine_content.html

by Brett Dorny
ONE INEVITABLE byproduct of the information age is, like it or not, an
overabundance of information. Forget the intellectual challenges of
information overload, I'm talking about the very practical matters of
information disposition. What records should you keep and how should you
store them? How will you find and retrieve documents once you've decided how
long and where to keep them? More important, what kind of trouble are you
going to get into if you do these things wrong?



AccountingWEB 8/6/01
Rules for keeping tax records
http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=54660&d=101&h=0&f=0&datefor
mat=%o%20%B%20%Y

How long are you supposed to keep the receipts and other documents that
support the numbers you put on your tax return?
The Internal Revenue Services expects taxpayers to maintain certain
financial records and sets guidelines for how long you are supposed to save
this information. The records you are required to keep go hand in hand with
the preparation of your tax return.



St. Louis Business Journal 8/6/01
Law firms benefit from Optitek's document imaging
http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001/08/06/focus7.html

by Amy Sieckmann
Electronic document management firm Optitek Inc. expects to reach $5 million
in sales this year by helping law firms and other businesses keep track of
their records.
That sales estimate follows a 500 percent increase in revenue last year
alone. The St. Louis-based technology firm helps law firms and other
companies switch from handling large amounts of paper records to storing
these files electronically.



Sun-Sentinel 8/6/01
Talk about paperwork: record request costs almost a half-million
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pcrecords06aug06.sto
ry?coll=sfla%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

by Megan O'Matz
A Martin County parent asked the Department of Children & Families for
records dealing with child abuse and was astonished to receive a letter from
the state saying the information would cost her almost a half-million
dollars.
"I was definitely shocked. I was speechless," Stuart resident Deseré
Clabo-Vandevender, a fierce critic of the department, said of the agency's
demand for $481,118 to fulfill her request involving child deaths and
unfounded abuse reports.


The Daily Press 8/6/01
New Bayfield County plat book a home-grown project
http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=79925&refer_u
rl=

by Rick Olivo
WASHBURN -- For anyone seeking to do anything that has to do with land there
is one tool that is at the same time utterly indispensable and frustratingly
limited.
That tool is the county plat book, the comprehensive property guide sold by
county clerks which tells who owns what piece of property.


Dallas Morning News 8/6/01
He didn't do it: After 6 months in jail, courier proved alibi with job
records
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/437068_jennings_06met.html

by Holly Becka
As 28-year-old Jeff Jennings listened to a robbery victim testify that he
was the man who had threatened her with a gun, he "shook like a leaf" even
though he knew he was innocent.
He'd been in the Dallas County jail for six months awaiting trial and was
fast losing hope he'd be going home anytime soon. He worried that the
employment records proving he couldn't have committed the crime would be
discounted.

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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