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RAIN 9/14: Part 2



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collecting during the past few days all the urls work as of the 10 a.m. EDT

Bankrate.com 9/12/01
Disaster-proof your important papers
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/mtg/20000518g.asp

You have five minutes to clear out of your house.
Five minutes to grab every crucial financial document before the house
crumbles -- property titles, wills, insurance records, Social Security cards
-- and you need to do it, even with all the chaos surrounding you.
Could you do it? Think fast! Would you even know what to grab?


Charlotte Business Journal 9/10/01
Wachovia sues Richmond Fed over cashed check
http://charlotte.bcentral.com/charlotte/stories/2001/09/10/newscolumn1.html

by Fred Tannenbaum
Wachovia Corp. is suing the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond over a $563,288
check that the bank says was cashed by someone other than the person it was
originally written to.


Wall Street Journal 9/12/01
Internet was critical for worried friends
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1000260157653569961.htm

by Scott Thurm
When Robert Williamson heard of the apparent terrorist attacks, he feared
for two friends in New York. The 38-year-old account executive for a
Norfolk, Va., newspaper tried three or four phone numbers for each friend,
but he heard only busy signals, recordings and dead air.


Reuters 9/12/01
Collapse of SEC's NY office seen hobbling probes
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010912/n12239767_2.html

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The destruction of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission's field office in New York City is likely to hinder, but
not halt, major investigations by America's top market regulator, former SEC
officials and lawyers said Wednesday.
Probes such as the inquiry into initial public offerings involving the U.S.
unit of Credit Suisse Group would be set back by the loss of any documents
stored at the SEC's Northeast Regional Office, they said,


Reuters 9/12/01
Key data lost in terror attack but seen regained
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010912/n12279148_2.html

by Greg Cresci and Arindam Nag
NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Tuesday's terror attack on New York's
financial district destroyed a wealth of important data and documents, but
many companies expect to be up and running soon thanks to back-up files in
other locations.


Concord Monitor 9/12/01
Affidavit: DWI file destroyed
http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/local0901/barnstead_arrest_2001.s
html

by Sarah C. Vos
BARNSTEAD - Richard Bolduc, the Barnstead police officer who was arrested on
Monday, allegedly shredded an arrest file after deciding to cut a drunk
driver a break, according to documents filed in Laconia District Court.


Birmingham Business Journal 9/12/01
Banks impacted by air travel shutdown
http://birmingham.bcentral.com/birmingham/stories/2001/09/10/daily34.html

by Leslie Zganjar
Banks in Birmingham are feeling the effects of the shutdown of the nation's
air travel system.
Airlines were ordered to ground their planes yesterday in the wake of
reported terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Some airlines
have said they might resume some flights later today.


Philadelphia Inquirer 9/13/01
Bid to recover firms' files begins
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/09/13/specials/attack/DOCU13.htm

by Bob Fernandez and Akweli Parker
Government agencies and private firms yesterday began the huge task of
attempting to recover millions of documents and computer files that were
incinerated - or set aloft through shattered windows - in the World Trade
Center attacks.


Boston Globe 9/13/01
Defense to get Sampson call records
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/256/metro/Defense_to_get_Sampson_call_reco
rds+.shtml

by Fran Riley
Defense attorneys for Gary L. Sampson will get the records from an Abington
7-Eleven pay phone from which Sampson says he called the FBI to turn himself
in the day before he allegedly killed the first of three men he is accused
of murdering.


 Chicago Tribune 9/13/01
Recovery of records daunting, but doable
http://chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0109130289sep13.story?coll=chi%2Dbusi
ness%2Dhed

by Susan Chandler, Melissa Allison and Rob Kaiser
It was one of the most dramatic images from the World Trade Center attack: a
confettilike blizzard of paper floating to the ground amid the fiery
devastation.

In addition to the lives lost, the dozens of firms located in the two towers
lost everything from client accounts to trading records to personnel files.
The list of businesses affected reads like a who's who of finance: from
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. to Kemper Insurance Cos. and Aon Corp.



CNET News 9/13/01
Commentary: Firms need recovery plans
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7149701-0.html?tag=lh

by Roberta Witty and Donna Scott
Gartner Analysts
The shocking and tragic events that unfolded on Sept. 11 at New York's World
Trade Center may vividly demonstrate that lack of a business continuity
plan--or if there is one, a failure to test it regularly--will drastically
hamper a company's ability to recover from a catastrophe.



CNET news 9/12/01
Computer recovery companies go to work
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7141809.html

by Stephen Shankland
Businesses affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have
been turning to disaster-recovery companies in an effort to get their
operations back online.
"The first call came in at 9:05 (a.m.) Eastern time," just a few minutes
after the first plane struck the north tower of the 110-story World Trade
Center on Tuesday, Comdisco spokesman Rich Maganini said Wednesday. "The
calls came in almost one after the other right after that."



New York Times 9/13/01
Corporate paper trails lie buried in soot
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/business/13LAWY.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Jonathan D. Glater
As businesses began to digest the loss of life yesterday, they also had to
address the loss of records.
While many financial firms have automatic backups of their records, law
firms are especially dependent on hard copies of documents that might be
used in litigation or as legally binding originals.



Reuters 9/13/01
Firms try to reassure clients assets safe
http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010913/bs/att
ack_fund_accounts_dc_1.html

by Martha Slud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While firms in Manhattan's financial district are
struggling to find missing employees and grappling with property losses
following the attack on the World Trade Center, they also are working to
reassure investors that their money is secure.
Mutual fund firm OppenheimerFunds, whose nearly 600 employees who worked at
the Trade Center are all believed to be safe, said its account records are
unharmed and it is trying to reach out to investors through messages on its
Web site and print advertisements.



Associated Press 9/13/01
House passes tax relief bill
http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010913/us/att
acks_taxes_6.html

by Curt Anderson
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Thursday to give families of terror
victims tax breaks normally reserved for casualties in war zones. The IRS
announced several items of tax relief for affected people and businesses,
including those outside the immediate disaster areas.


USA Today 9/13/01
Lost records could be problem
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-09-13-data.htm#more

by Michelle Kessler and Del Jones
Concerns mounted Wednesday about the amount of data that has been lost in
the collapse of the World Trade Center.No one knows how much data is
missing, and the deaths of employees will make it difficult to get answers.
It will take months for many companies to even get an estimate of the loss,
experts say.


Mohave Daily News 9/12/01
If city wants copies of Lenkowsky's files, it will have to pay for them
http://www.mohavedailynews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/Septe
mber/12-1034-news1.txt

BULLHEAD CITY - If the city wants copies of its own legal files that are in
the hands of soon-to-be ex-City Attorney Paul Lenkowsky, it'll cost.
In a September 11 memo to City Manager Dan Dible, Lenkowsky said he has been
informed "that the contract recently concluded between the city and the
interim city attorney requires the newly-hired attorney for the city to
assist the city in obtaining city-related files from the Lenkowsky law
firm."



New York Times 9/13/01
News media try to sort out policy on graphic images
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/business/media/13ETHI.html

by Jim Rutenberg and Felicity Barringer
It was late on Tuesday night, and Erik Sorenson, the president and general
manager of MSNBC, began to screen newly arrived videotape of the rescue
effort at the World Trade Center.
"There were some pretty horrifying pictures," he said. "There was blood.
There were body parts."


National Review 10/01/01
Disarming America
http://www.nationalreview.com/01oct01/seckoraprint100101.html

by Melissa Seckora
"T he power of image and myth repeatedly overwhelms reality in discussions
of early American firearms," writes Michael A. Bellesiles, a professor of
history at Emory University, in his book, Arming America: The Origins of a
National Gun Culture. "America's gun culture is an invented tradition."
Bellesiles has done some inventing of his own. His book - which won this
year's Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious award in the writing of American
history - is one of the worst cases of academic irresponsibility in memory.
Yet his remarkable performance has not been enough to cause either his
employer, Emory, or his publisher, Knopf, to act.


New York Post 9/13/01
FBI looking to Internet for clues
http://www.nypost.com/apstories/V1481.htm

by D. Ian Hopper
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) . The FBI is serving search warrants to major Internet
service providers in order to get information about an e-mail address
believed to be connected to Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Investigators visited the nation's top Internet access companies Wednesday
morning, company officials said.


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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