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AP 9/21/01
Bill, Checks and contracts missing
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010921/us/attacks_bills_1.html

by Robert Tanner
NEW YORK (AP) - As the twin towers of the World Trade Center burned and
collapsed, they sent off clouds of scorched paper: the bills, checks and
contracts that anchored the life of the buildings' 14,000 businesses.
Survivors of the calamity count themselves blessed or lucky, but for those
returning to work the destruction of all those crucial documents is still
crippling.


Charlotte Observer 9/21
Board member accused of leaks
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/housing0921.htm

by Lauren Markoe
A Charlotte Housing Authority board member is accusing another board member
of violating a public employee's rights by leaking protected information to
the media.


The Citizen 9/21/01
Court blocks release of low-digit license plate records
http://www.citizen.com/news2001/September/21/ap0921h.htm

by Holly Ramer
AP
CONCORD - A Tuftonboro man who accuses Gov. Jeanne Shaheen of rewarding
campaign contributors with low-digit license plates was denied access to
state motor vehicle records Thursday by the state Supreme Court.
The plates - those with four or fewer digits - are coveted status symbols in
New Hampshire. Though the state's safety commissioner has sole discretion to
give them, some say the true authority rests with sitting governors.


Business Today 9/21/01
Feds track terrorist funds: Banks told to check records
http://www.businesstoday.com/business/business/trad09212001.htm

by Tom Walsh
Washington is pursuing a global campaign ``dedicated to the disruption of
terrorist fundraising'' and will block access to bank accounts of suspected
terrorists, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said yesterday.
O'Neill told the Senate Banking Committee the Treasury will attack terrorist
fundraising ``like it has never been done before.''


Forbes Magazine 9/20/01
Mastering Business Disaster
http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/010920/0920recovery_1.html

by Arik Hesseldahl
The worst terrorist attack on American soil in part served as a wake up call
for many individuals and businesses: The worst can indeed happen.
As is true with life, business must go on. Some companies affected to
varying degrees by the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., Sept. 11
have had to turn to the disaster recovery plans they put in place in hopes
of never needing them. Others may be learning all to painfully that they
were not prepared for such a disaster. In one particular example, trading
firm Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly has been forced to delay the payouts of
bonus checks to the families of its deceased employees because it lost its
compensation records, though the company has said it intends to meet its
obligations.


Herald Journal 9/21/01
Man wants friends of Hunley to open records
http://www.goupstate.com/hj/news/0916hunley.asp

AP
CHARLESTON -- A Greenville retiree is suing to force the caretakers of the
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley to disclose all its dealings under the
state's open records laws.
Greenville retiree Edward D. Sloan Jr. says the nonprofit Friends of the
Hunley is a wing of the state Hunley Commission and a public body.



Pioneer Planet 9/21/01
Judge due to block release of tribe's casino audits
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/140096.htm

by Todd Nelson and David Hawley
Pioneer Press
A Ramsey County judge is expected to issue a temporary restraining order
today that bars the state from making public casino audits of the Prairie
Island Indian Community.
The order from District Judge Louise Dovre Bjorkman would prevent the state
from releasing the data for two weeks, pending a hearing for an injunction.



KPIX 9/20/01
Computer recovery helps NYC get back to work
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/kpix/20010920/lo/1326_1.html

by Sue Kwon
In the World Trade Center collapse, there could be thousands of computers
buried in the rubble and in surrounding buildings.
A Bay Area company is joining the recovery effort by tending to those
damaged computers from 3000 miles away, volunteering its time to help
business in New York get moving again.



Miami Herald 9/21/01
Some driver's license records sealed
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/038295.htm

by David Royse
AP
TALLAHASSEE -- Federal authorities investigating last week's terrorist
attacks have ordered state officials to seal the driver's license records of
people of certain nationalities.
Such records, which include names, addresses and driving infractions, are
public information under Florida law.




NewsFacto 9/21/01
Judicial panel approves net usage rules
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010920/tc/13650_1.html

by Robyn Weisman
The Judicial Conference of the United States, a panel of 27 judges
officiated over by Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist,
announced Wednesday that it approved several policies involving various
aspects of Internet use. They include partial monitoring of court employees'
activities while using the Internet and providing online access to civil
court and bankruptcy court documents



Reuters 9/12/01
WTC collapse spotlights need for data doubletake
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010912/n12345867_2.html

by Caroline Humer
New York, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The collapse of the World Trade Center this
week underscored the importance of businesses backing up critical data more
than just once, analysts said on Wednesday.
Companies such as financial giant Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MWD - news) that were
able to function on Wednesday did so because in addition to having the usual
data backups that most companies keep internally, they also created
instantaneous copies of their data in a second location miles away.



Reuters 9/21/01
Gov't Web sites see record traffic after attacks
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010921/wr/attack_media_internet_dc_2.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Magazine special editions and Web sites updated around
the clock don't seem to be enough to quench the public's thirst for news on
the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
So, thousands of people have found ways to get information directly from the
source.



St. Petersburg Times 9/21/21
State releases license data - minus addresses
http://www.sptimes.com/News/092101/State/State_releases_licens.shtml

AP
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida driver's license records of people possibly connected
to terrorist attacks were made public Thursday, but only after the addresses
were deleted.
State officials agreed to remove the addresses of certain foreigners from
their license records, saying divulging them could hinder the probe into
last week's attacks on New York and Washington.



Web Techniques 9/01
Data Mismanagement
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/09/homepage/

by Amit Asaravala
We misplaced the last hardcopy of an important document the other day. In
it, we had outlined a formal process for updating our Web sites, including
which scripts to run when, and which files to put where. Although we'd
pretty much memorized the process-and therefore hadn't bothered to keep
track of the document-a formal record of procedures is a handy thing to pass
on to new production people when they first sit down to work on an existing
Web site.



Toronto Star 9/21/01
Police urged to scrap Ipperwash plan
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=1001023873168&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=968256
289824&call_pagepath=News/Ontario&col=968342212737

by Peter Edwards and Harold Levy
The Premier's office didn't want police to negotiate with protesters at
Ipperwash Provincial Park hours before Indian activist Anthony (Dudley)
George was shot dead, government documents show.
``Premier's office doesn't want to be seen to be working with Indians at
all,'' writes one official who attended a Sept. 6, 1995, meeting of the
Emergency Planning for Aboriginal Issues Interministerial Committee, hours
before an Ontario Provinical Police officer fatally shot George.



Washington Post 9/18/01
Indian trust reform still mired, watchdog says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47120-2001Sep17.html

by Bill Miller
The Interior Department has failed to correct record-keeping problems
plaguing a trust fund the government maintains for 300,000 Native Americans,
and the current management team appears unable or unwilling to get the job
done, a court-appointed monitor said yesterday.



ZDNET UK 9/21/01
Google's personalization raises privacy concerns
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095812,00.html

by Kevin Murphy
Computerwire.com
Tools acquired by the Google search engine could make its results more
relevant to users - but it runs the risk of infringing privacy
Google looks set to add personalisation features to its popular search
engine, following the acquisition of Outride's intellectual property assets,
announced yesterday. Though Google would not comment on its plans for the
technology, its integration into the Google search engine could mark the
most significant upgrade the company has made since its launch in 1999.



Atlanta Journal-Constitution 9/22/01
Firm offering data backup goes full-bore after disaster
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/saturday/business_b3ca53600
5ed012300cc.html

by Peralte C. Paul
Al Trujillo was hundreds of miles away from the chaos in lower Manhattan
getting his car repaired at a metro Atlanta car shop when he saw the twin
tower attacks unfolding on a television screen.
In an instant, he was virtually brought to ground zero as president of
Recall Corp.'s North and South American operations.



Augusta Chronicle 9/22/01
Grant will link clinic records
http://augustachronicle.com/stories/092201/met_071-6432.000.shtml

by Tom Corwin
>From the paper bag on the stainless steel table, Licheng Tian pulled a big
bottle of pills, a small bottle of pills, a plastic bag of drug samples and
a white bottle of pills.
''Who gave you this?'' Dr. Tian asked as he sat in an exam room at the
Center for Community Health, looking at the bag full of Protonix samples.



News24.com 9/14/01
Land claims to be checked
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/WesternCape/0,1113,2-7-830_1080419,00
.html

SAPA
Cape Town - A research company has compiled a database system to fast-track
the preparation of 5 000 urban land claims by people removed under the Group
Areas Act in the 1960s and 70s in the Cape Metropole and surrounding
districts.
Citizen Surveys, who was appointed by the Land Claims Commission to help
validate urban land claims, say letters are being forwarded to all
claimants, notifying them which documents are required to complete each
claim.



News-Press.com 9/13/01
Investors fear a paperwork nightmare
http://www.news-press.com/biz/today/010913records.html

by Joan D. LaGuardia
Millions of documents and computer files burned or were blasted to the
streets as debris in the World Trade Center attacks.
Among them, records on life savings and other investments of many Americans.

Southwest Florida customers of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - a firm hit badly
by Tuesday's terrorist attack - are beginning to fear the paperwork
nightmare that could result if records of 401(k), IRA, stock and bond
transactions are lost.



Sunday Times 9/23/01
William of Orange 'funded by the Pope'
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stifgneur02002.html

by John Follain
Rome
DOCUMENTS discovered in Vatican archives suggest that William of Orange, the
Protestant hero who ascended the English throne in 1689, was in the pay of
the Pope.



Times Argus 9/22/01
Harry's Pharmacy loses license; store to close
http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/34224.html

by David W. Smith
BERLIN - Citing procrastination and failure to follow record keeping orders,
the State's Board of Pharmacy has suspended the license of Harry's Discount
Pharmacy in Berlin and its president, forcing the store to close by Monday.



The Observer 9/23/01
Fury at plan to sell off DNA secrets
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,556511,00.html

by Antony Barnett and Gaby Hinsliff
The genetic secrets of millions of Britons could be sold off to private drug
companies under highly controversial proposals outlined in leaked government
documents.
DNA samples collected from patients during routine hospital treatment would
be stored on a massive national database and auctioned to pharmaceutical
companies, who could use the information to help develop lucrative new
drugs.



New York Times 9/23/01
McKim, Mead & White: a skeptic's view of a renowned architectural firm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/realestate/23SCAP.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Christopher Gray
Mosette BRODERICK has spent much of her professional life studying McKim,
Mead & White for her book "When Architecture Could Fashion a Nation," to be
published next year by Alfred A. Knopf. Mrs. Broderick, who teaches
architectural history and is director of the urban design and architecture
studies program at New York University, has gone through letters, bill
books, clipping books, local sources and building records trying to better
understand America's most famous architectural firm, the designers of the
old Pennsylvania Station, the Municipal Building and much of the Columbia
University campus.



New York Times 9/23/01
Trying to reweave threads of tattered offices
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/business/23LIFE.html

by Constance L. Hays
Amer S. J. William's office had green carpet, cream-colored wallpaper and a
sprawling view of New York Harbor.
On a wall was his law school diploma, and on his desk sat dozens of Lucite
souvenirs from various Wall Street deals in which he had been someone's
lawyer. On sunny days, turned the right way in his swivel chair, he could
see both the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Ellis Island. Looking down, he
could watch tugboats guiding barges up the Hudson River and cargo ships
pushing purposefully out to sea.



Washington Post 9/21/01
To attacks' toll add a programmer's grief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1234-2001Sep20.html

by Ariana Eunjung Cha
The tears have come in the kitchen, the car and the shower, too.
Like many Americans, Phil Zimmermann, a stocky, 47-year-old computer
programmer, has been crying every day since last week's terrorist attacks.
He has been overwhelmed with feelings of guilt.



South Bend Tribune 9/23/01
Looking for the past
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2001/09/23/local.20010923-sbt-MARS-D
1-Looking_for.sto

by Margaret Fosmoe
In the early 1800s, Potawatomi Indian villages dotted the landscape of
northern Indiana.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame want to pinpoint those sites to
learn more about lifestyles of the native Americans of that era.



The Union Leader 9/23/01
Museum documents how Americans at home coped with WW II
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=5495

by Carol Carter
WOLFEBORO - The year was 1939. Hitler had invaded Poland and President
Franklin Roosevelt was calling for a strong defense.
On the homefront, folks were singing "God Bless America" and the "Beer
Barrel Polka." Movie favorites were "Gone with the Wind" and "Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington."





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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