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RAIN 8/22: Faulty recordkeeping, Armstrong tapes, email security



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Indianapolis Star 8/21/01
3 bailiffs destroyed documents, report says
http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/report21.html

by Vic Ryckaert
Employees in Marion County's drug court told investigators they observed
three co-workers in a "beehive" of activity, ripping up hundreds of
documents and tossing them in the trash, according to a summary of
interviews obtained Monday by The Indianapolis Star.
The summary was part of a report prepared by Paige Blaskie, director of the
court's human resources department, and presented to the court system's
three presiding judges during an investigation into Judge Z. Mae Jimison's
court.

Detroit News 8/21/01
Archival entrepreneur gains leadership honor
http://www.detnews.com/2001/business/0108/21/b02-274081.htm

by Kathy Krolicki
Special to the Detroit News
Kim Schroeder is proud to be a librarian.
The founder of Archive Impact Inc. and recipient of this year's Wayne State
University sponsored Emerging Corporate Leadership Award, is out to break
stereotypes that often come with the job.


Indianapolis Star 8/21/01
Archivists raze paper to save it
http://www.indystar.com/print/citystate/tue/articles/paper20.html

by Matt Schwartz
The guillotine's blade is poised above a naked spine. The victim waits
silently, his last words already written onto his body.
Soon, the blade hits with a "thunk."
This is no medieval tale. This is right out of the 21st century.
The executioner is a librarian. He is cutting out and photographing the
pages from bound newspaper volumes and transferring the images to microfilm.


Charlotte Observer 8/21/01
Assisted living center files must be provided
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/records0821.htm

by Pam Kelley
When a family shops for an assisted living facility, consumer advocates
recommend checking complaints and violations with the government agency that
monitors the residence.
But some N.C. counties are making that task more difficult, by either
refusing to make copies or telling citizens to get the records through the
N.C. Division of Facility Services.


Boston Globe 8/21/01
One for the sages
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/232/metro/One_for_the_sages+.shtml

by Michael Paulson
Cambridge -- Crammed into bookshelves and piled onto tables, about 10,000
long, narrow tablets wrapped in red and gold fabric pack the corners of a
North Cambridge duplex.
Printed from hand-carved wood blocks by monks over the last millennium,
these looseleaf books of mulberry-husk paper feature, in ornately lettered
and occasionally illustrated Tibetan characters, the mystical poetry of
Milarepa, the astrological theories of Asian scientists, and the religious
teachings of the great lamas of the ages.



Associated Press 8/15/01
Hemingway archives at JFK Library
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010815/en/wkd_hemingway_collection_1.html

by Lisa Lipman
BOSTON (AP) - Tens of thousands of documents can be found in the Ernest
Hemingway Collection. The trick, however, is finding it.
More than 100,000 pages of his writings, 10,000 photographs and dozens of
personal objects including Hemingway's passports, flasks and wallet are
tucked into a corner on the fifth floor of the John F. Kennedy Library and
Museum in Boston.



Houston Chronicle 8/21/01
Mayor touts Net program to stabilize digital divide
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1014912

by Eric Berger
Vowing to bridge the gap between those with Internet access and those
without, Mayor Lee Brown said Monday the city has installed "revolutionary"
software at three municipal libraries to make it easier for Houston
residents to use the Web.
The mayor also said he wants to eventually allow free access to the Internet
from kiosks in city facilities, including fire and police stations, but
admitted that part of the initiative faced cost and safety hurdles.


Las Vegas Review-Journal 8/21/01
Sheriff wants work card records purged, but cost may be prohibitive
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Aug-21-Tue-2001/news/16815893.html

by Frank Geary
Sheriff Jerry Keller wants to eradicate the records of casino employees who
no longer need police-issued work cards, but purging the tens of thousands
of computer files could take weeks and cost an undetermined amount of money.

Keller on Monday wasn't available for comment, but Metropolitan Police
Department Deputy Chief Richard McKee said Keller believes the records
should be destroyed for the tens of thousands of employees affected by the
Clark County Commission's work card repeal last month.



Modesto Bee 8/21/01
Stanislaus court records head to Net
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,289700,00.html

by John Holland
Once Stanislaus County court records go on the Internet next year, traffic
on county roads could go down.
The county has received a $161,000 grant to put these documents, ranging
from arrest warrants to divorce decrees, online.
The grant came from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District as
part of its mission to reduce driving and the resulting smog.


New Zealand Herald 8/21/01
Sinister spy file tracks PC users
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=208727&thesection=news&th
esubsection=general

Michael Foreman
Every time you visit a website, a hidden file embedded in Windows computers
records the visit and stores the information, defying almost all efforts to
wipe it.
A Herald investigation into the existence of the persistent file on Windows
95 and 98 PCs - a variant of files called index.dat - has turned up alarming
results.


New Zealand Herald 8/21/01
Is your computer being watched?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=208652&thesection=technol
ogy&thesubsection=general

by Michael Foreman
The Herald's investigation into hidden files that remain on Windows 95 and
98 PCs centres on a file called index.dat which appears to log a list of web
addresses visited by the PC's user and makes it easy to call up old
web-based e-mails.
The file and all its logged data stay on your PC even after you have cleared
your cache - a place where temporary internet files are stored.


New Zealand Herald 8/22/01
New e-mail security danger follows spy file revelations
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=210068&thesection=technol
ogy&thesubsection=general

by Josie Clark and Michael Foreman
Personal security online took another hit yesterday as hackers targeted
Hotmail addresses and Windows users found their systems riddled with spy
files.
Microsoft's Hotmail yesterday countered hackers who fleetingly provided
malicious users with the chance to read other people's personal e-mails.
A group called Root Core posted details of how to access Hotmail messages on
its website, and they quickly spread.


Newsday 8/21/01
Clinton, Barak records discuss Rich
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-clinton-pardon-ba
rak0821aug21.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnation%2Dheadlines

Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- During his final days in office, former President Clinton told
then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak he was considering granting a pardon
to billionaire fugitive Marc Rich but suggested the act would generate
controversy, according to transcripts of their phone calls.



Orange County Register 8/21/01
Judge Oks plan to deal with patient files from KPC clinics
http://www.ocregister.com/business/ocbriefing00821cci8.shtml

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Monday approved a $1.9 million plan to clean
up nearly 12 million patient records left behind when KPC Medical Management
shuttered its 38 clinics last November.


Orlando Sentinel 8/21/01
It's tough to try to prove who you are - or aren't
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-idtheft082101.story?coll=orl%2
Dnews%2Dheadlines

by Susan Clary
Heidi Wetherby has spent the past five years trying to regain her good name.
After twice being the victim of identity theft, Wetherby has been wrongfully
imprisoned, had her driver license suspended, her credit ruined and has been
denied home loans and utilities.


The Express-Times 8/21/01
Records probe snags fourth cop
http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/index.ssf?/news/expresstimes/front
/clintonq.html

by Tom Quigley
CLINTON TWP. - A fourth township police officer was suspended with pay
Sunday amid an ongoing investigation into alleged records tampering within
the troubled police department.
The internal investigation found the officers allegedly spent extended time
in "other locations" when they should have been on patrol, and then doctored
their logbooks to conceal their activities. Authorities have so far declined
to name those other locations.



Reuters 8/17/01
Spielberg's Holocaust foundation has new mission
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010817/re/life_shoah_dc_1.html

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A foundation created by Oscar-winning filmmaker
Steven Spielberg to collect on videotape the accounts of more than 50,000
Holocaust survivors has completed that mission, a spokesman said on Friday.
The group called the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation will
now focus on using those accounts for education and to overcome prejudice,
intolerance and bigotry, the spokesman said. Shoah, which means calamity in
Hebrew, is another word used to describe the mass murder of Jews by Nazis in
World War II.



Star-Tribune 8/21/01
State agency says casino audits should' t be released to public
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84767283

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A state agency has ordered the audits of American Indian
casinos be temporarily classified as nonpublic to give the Legislature a
chance to decide whether the records can be sealed permanently.
The order by the state Department of Administration comes after the tribes
threatened to stop sending the audits to the Public Safety Department if
they were made public.


ABC News.com 8/20/01
Tapes show Louis Armstrong's anger
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010820/en/armstrong_010821_feature_1.html

We think of Louis Armstrong as a smiling entertainer, but his private taped
diary shows a different man: angry over racist slights, and witty and
profane on pet subjects like marijuana and laxatives.
Jazz great Louis Armstrong is mostly remembered as the happy, smiling
entertainer he played in movies like High Society and Hello, Dolly. But his
audio diary shows he was privately seething at the racism he and other black
Americans faced every day.



Salt Lake Tribune 8/21/01
Digital Signature lays off 45 employees
http://www.sltrib.com/08212001/business/124579.htm

by Steven Oberbeck
Digital Signature Trust Co., a Zions Bancorporation subsidiary that
authenticates digital signatures for online transactions, has laid off 45
employees -- about a third of its work force of 140 -- to reduce expenses in
the face of continuing losses.


Seattle Times 8/21/01
Editorial: 300,000 Indians cheated by incompetent feds
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/134331704_setted21.h
tml

A shameful tale of greed, incompetence and bureaucratic menace gets uglier
with each new revelation in court.
The U.S. government, through the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian
Affairs and the Treasury Department, has mishandled epic sums of money held
in trust for Native Americans.



The Times 8/21/01
Taubman seeks documents
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,5-2001290874,00.html

by Chris Ayres
ALFRED TAUBMAN, the owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, has asked a
Manhattan court for documents showing that his subordinates at the auction
house orchestrated an elaborate price-fixing scam without his knowledge.
Lawyers acting for Mr Taubman, 76, requested the documents under America's
"discovery" law, as part of pre-trial motions in New York's Federal District
Court. The request gave the first clear indication of how Mr Taubman will
defend himself against charges that he participated in a transatlantic
price-fixing conspiracy that cost American auction sellers at least $400
million (£275 million) in commissions.



Korea Herald 8/21/01
U.S. Planes strafed civilians in Nogun-ri
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/08/21/200108210011.asp

By Kang Seok-jae
Declassified U.S. documents show that American air force planes strafed
South Korean civilians on three occasions in and around Nogun-ri, a hamlet
some 250km south of Seoul, during the early days of the Korean War
(1950-53).
The U.S. military documents proving the three aerial attacks were made
public through the Web site of the U.S. publication firm, Henry Holt.



ZDNET 8/15/01
Why we should hail IBM's ode to open source - the Purple Book
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010815/tc/why_we_should_hail_ibm_s_ode_to_
open_source--the_purple_book_1.html

by Patrick Houston
Anchor Desk
As they chronicle the computer age, let's hope the curators find a place in
their archives for the Purple Book, a nondescript, plastic-covered binder
that deserves preservation for its historical significance alone. The Purple
Book isn't just a relic, though. It's relevant to today--so much so that
they just ought to include it in the computer science and business school
curriculums.


Wichita Eagle 8/21/01
Finney's memoirs reside at Haskell
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/08/21/kansas/0821memoi
rs_txt.htm

Associated Press
LAWRENCE -- A 3-inch-thick stack of typewritten pages is the start of what
was to become former Gov. Joan Finney's memoirs.
Housed in the library at Haskell Indians Nations University, the unfinished
document offers an unedited look into Finney's Topeka childhood and her
political career.



Los Angeles Times 8/21/01
Audit faults MTA record-keeping on drivers
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-000067800aug21.story?
coll=la%2Dcommun%2Dlos%5Fangeles%5Fmetro

by Douglas P. Shuit
Record-keeping by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority is so lax that the MTA cannot ensure that it meets state and
federal regulations designed to limit bus drivers' time behind the wheel and
protect the public against fatigued operators, a state audit has found.
"MTA lacks an adequate system to prevent all violations of federal and state
driving and on-duty time restrictions," state Auditor Elaine M. Howle told
the Legislature in a letter accompanying the 45-page audit, which was
released quietly last week.





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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