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Washington Post 9/14/01
Marines found guilty of misconduct in Osprey case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31621-2001Sep14.html

by Mary Pat Flaherty
A Marine lieutenant colonel who was secretly taped telling his squadron to
"lie" on maintenance records to burnish the image of the troubled V-22
Osprey aircraft and his immediate boss have been found guilty of misconduct,
according to Marine officials.




New Zealand Herald 9/11/01
Craccum exposes security hole in university system
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=215759&thesection=technol
ogy&thesubsection=general

by Michael Foreman
Student magazine Craccum has claimed Auckland University's nDeva online
enrolment system may have been compromised after a security hole was left
open for three months.
Details of the exposure were published yesterday in an article titled: "How
to hack into nDeva - A beginner's guide".


The Times 9/14/01
Threat to inquiries as financial watchdog's base is lost
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001320383,00.html

by Chris Ayres in New York
SEVERAL high-profile investigations by America's financial regulator are
likely to be severely delayed, or even called off, after Tuesday's attack.
The Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office was located at 7
World Trade Centre, which was destroyed when the twin towers of the trade
centre collapsed on top of it.



Washington Post 9/13/01
Wall Street firms struggle in cope with staff losses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21153-2001Sep12.html

by Peter Behr
NEW YORK, Sept. 12 -- At one of the nation's largest bond dealers, stricken
employees struggled to put their shattered business back together without
the help of hundreds of colleagues and friends who had been trapped in the
inferno at the top of the World Trade Center's north tower.
The ordeal at Cantor Fitzgerald was repeated at branch offices and emergency
centers of hundreds of other companies today as the world's financial
capital took stock of catastrophic losses.



Associated Press 9/15/01
Legal industry suffers major blow
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010915/us/attacks_lawyers_4.html

by Shannon McCaffrey
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly one-fifth of New York City's lawyers have been unable
to return to their offices since the attack on the World Trade Center, and
reams of legal documents - from death penalty appeals to white-collar
investigations - may be lost or destroyed.
It is unclear how many lawyers were among the dead and injured in the attack
Tuesday.



Chattanooga Times Free Press 9/15/01
Cherokee genealogy classes providing keys to heritage
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2001/sep/15sep01/webln15cherokeegeneology.html

by Kathy Gilbert
Delving into the past of Mattie Knight, his part-Cherokee great-grandmother,
amateur genealogist Lanny McNabb hit a roadblock.
"There was this huge gap there," he said. "We didn't have records on her
background. It was difficult."
But a course in Cherokee genealogy at the Chattanooga Indigenous Resource
Center and Library last spring cleared up the problem, he said.



New York Times 9/15/01
Marines reprimand 2 officers in Osprey case
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15OSPR.html?ex=1001217600&en=7bd1
1038a63b8dce&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

by James Dao
Washington, Sept. 14 -- The Marine Corps announced today that it had
reprimanded two officers for their involvement in the falsification of
maintenance records for the V-22 Osprey, the experimental aircraft that was
involved in two crashes last year that killed 23 marines.
In essentially closing the books on nearly nine months of investigations
stemming from last year's crashes and maintenance scandal, the Marine Corps
also exonerated five other marines who had been charged with participating
in or knowing about the falsification of records.



Newsday 9/15/01
Lawyers cope with lost documents
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-law16.story?coll=ny%2Dnynews%2D
headlines

by Amanda Barrett
As New York City struggles to get back to normal, local attorneys are trying
to determine the fate of thousands of legal documents which may have been
lost during the World Trade Center tragedy.
Nearly 14,000 lawyers, have lost or been unable to reach their offices in
the trade center area according to Frank Ciervo, a spokesman for the New
York State Bar Association.



New York Times 9/14/01
Postcards from Eternity
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/arts/design/14KIMM.html?searchpv=past7days

by Michael Kimmelman
IN 1849, Maxime Du Camp and his friend Gustave Flaubert set off for Egypt.
Du Camp had wangled an assignment from the French government to photograph
monuments and sites, even though he had never taken photographs before.
Flaubert, for his part, ignored his brief from the Ministry of Agriculture
and Commerce to collect information about Egyptian crops and ships. Instead
he kept a diary, wrote letters and eagerly plunged into the sort of local
entertainment that required him to receive mercury treatments for the
remainder of his life.



CNNfn 9/14/01
Getting finances in order
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/14/living/q_records/

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Losing a loved one is hard enough. But grief is often
compounded when one's financial and life-planning records are in disarray.
Keeping organized records is a gift to your family and to yourself. It helps
ensure that your wishes are followed, that your assets are accounted for,
and that your money is available to meet your family's needs in a timely
fashion.



Seattle Times 9/15/01
Ruling is big win for states' rights
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134341795_ruling15m.html

by Rebecca Cook
AP
OLYMPIA - The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that a federal law is
unconstitutional - a highly unusual move some observers say is a major
victory for states' rights.
The case decided Thursday involved two car accidents in Pierce County in
which one woman was killed and two were brain-damaged at different busy
intersections.



San Jose Mercury News 9/15/01
Voting blocked on product data bill
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/secret15.htm

by Noam Levey
SACRAMENTO -- For at least the fourth time in a decade, a proposal to give
the public greater access to company documents about dangerous products has
died, this time with the Assembly speaker blocking a vote on the
controversial measure Friday, the final day of the legislative session.



Boston Globe 9/16/01
Massport records detail security breaches
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/nation/Massport_records_detail_securit
y_breaches+.shtml

by Matthew Brelis and Brian C. Mooney

Two years before last week's horrific hijackings, Massachusetts Port
Authority officials acknowledged their systems could not prevent ''a
calculated criminal enterprise'' from piercing security at Logan
International Airport.
The statement came after a 17-year-old Brookline youth scaled an airport
fence, crossed the tarmac, boarded a plane, and flew to London as a stowaway
in business class.



The News-Press 9/16/01
State braces for fallout from missing stock trades
http://www.news-press.com/biz/today/010916money.html

by Dara Kam
TALLAHASSEE - Scattered amid the rubble of the World Trade Center are
records of the Florida's stock trades, part of the $125 billion investments
that cover everything from teacher pensions to small-town surplus funds.
With the stock market set to reopen Monday, state investors turned to
detail-oriented sleuthing to figure out what happened to stock trades - many
of which were never completed at the time of Tuesday's terrorist attack.
Stock trades take three days to clear once the order to buy or sell has been
entered, leaving some of Florida's trades ordered up Friday, Monday or early
Tuesday morning in a "never-never land of not settling," said Tom Herndon,
director of the State Board of Administration.



The Record 9/14/01
Providing X-ray records a grim task for dentists
http://www.bergen.com/news/xraymd200109147.htm

by Maia Davis and Lindy Washburn
Some calls to New Jersey dentists this week aren't for appointments or
advice, but for records to identify corpses.
Jane Gold, office manager for her dentist husband, Dr. Robert I. Gold in
Paramus, handled a request for X-rays and treatment records of a Woodcliff
Lake man, a longtime patient missing since Tuesday morning.
"You don't deal with life and death" in dentistry usually, she said. "I
never did this before, ever."




Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9/16/01
State open records law would include Legislature
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010916openrecordreg4p4.asp

by John M.R. Bull
HARRISBURG -- Gov. Tom Ridge's proposal on how to revamp the antiquated
state Open Records Law takes some lengthy strides into the 21st century, but
critics say it would still leave the state with a law weaker than many
others in the country.
"We're not trying to get everything," said Kara Dolphin Beem, director of
government affairs for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in Harrisburg.
"We are at least optimistic. This is the first sitting governor in a long
time to take this issue to heart."



The State 9/16/01
Utility's records examined
http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/09/16/biz/duke16.htm

by Dave L'Heureux
Internal documents from Duke Power indicate top executives discussed
underreporting income to state regulators as early as December 1998.
Such underreporting would enable Duke Power to avoid cutting rates for its 2
million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina.
The State obtained the documents from a Duke accountant who asked not to be
named. The accountant previously told S.C regulators about the possible
underreporting of income.




The Record 9/16/01
When disaster hits, data recovery a key issue
http://www.bergen.com/biz/info16200109161.htm

by Lauren Coleman-Lochner
People are irreplaceable.
Information isn't -- sometimes.
Even businesses whose employees escaped the destruction of the Twin Towers
must now cope with a different kind of loss -- of information that may be
critical to their operations.
While that ruin pales next to the human cost of Tuesday's tragedy, it is by
no means insignificant, a fact made evident even during the chaos following
the attacks, when it was possible to spot fleeing tower tenants clutching
briefcases.






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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