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Ananova 10/05/01
200-year old time capsule found under Dublin statue
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_416396.html?menu=

Archaeologists have found a 200-year-old time capsule in the foundations of
a Dublin statue, blown up by the IRA in 1966.

Asbury Park Press 10/05/01
DYFS didn't falsify its records
http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,455665,00.html

by Jason Method
TRENTON -- A federal judge has thrown out charges that the state's child
protection agency attempted to back-date, falsify and fill in missing case
records in order to thwart a lawsuit by a child advocate group.


Asheville Citizen-Times 10/05/01
Center stores nation's weather data
http://www.citizen-times.com/news/17899940.shtml

by Julie Ball
ASHEVILLE - Long before there were super sophisticated weather satellites
taking pictures around the globe, founding father Thomas Jefferson was
jotting down his weather observations.
Copies of Jefferson's journals along with the very latest in weather
information are archived in Asheville at the National Climatic Data Center,
the world's largest climate data center.



Chicago Tribune 10/05/01
Agencies remove some data from Web
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110050306oct05.story?coll=ch
i%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed

by Charles Ornstein and Deborah Schoch
WASHINGTON -- Several federal agencies have removed sensitive documents and
reports from their Internet sites following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
saying they want to keep the information out of the wrong hands.


The Dominion Post 10/05/01
Courtrooms becoming secret, documents increasingly sealed
http://www.dominionpost.com/a/news/2001/10/05/ap/

AP
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The U.S. terror investigation that has hauled in hundreds
of Middle Easterners is being conducted with closed court hearings and
sealed documents on a scale legal experts say may be unprecedented.


Evansville Courier & Press 10/04/01
Knight not afraid for his files to go public
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200110/04+knightnot100401_sport
s.html+20011004

by Rex W. Huppke
AP
INDIANAPOLIS - Bob Knight wants his personnel files at Indiana University
made public and says in an affidavit he would like to know more about the
discussions that led to his firing as head basketball coach last year.
"I am as interested as anyone in discovering the exact conversations held
between Myles Brand and the trustees of Indiana University," Knight said in
the affidavit which was filed on Wednesday.


Virginian Pilot 10/05/01
Virginia Marine Science Museum director to quit
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw1005mac.html

by Paul Clancy
VIRGINIA BEACH -- C. Mac Rawls, a former elementary school teacher who sold
the city on the concept of a major marine aquarium and fought to get it
built, announced Thursday that he is retiring shortly after the end of the
year.
Rawls, executive director of the Virginia Marine Science Museum, will step
down Jan. 4, his 62nd birthday, after almost 40 years as teacher, principal
and museum director.



Newsbytes 10/05/01
Microsoft warns of new macro problems for Office
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170854.html

by Brian McWilliams
A security flaw in Microsoft's popular spreadsheet and presentation programs
could enable a malicious macro to run without warning, the company said
Thursday.
Microsoft has released patches for the affected versions of Excel and
PowerPoint and recommends that users apply them immediately.



New York Times 10/05/01
Trademark business in new climate
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/business/01NECO.html

by Sabra Chartrand
As executives of all types try to come to grips with the business and
economic fallout of last month's terrorist attacks, Nils Montan's line of
work might not seem to command much urgency just now. And that may say a lot
about the difficulties of returning to business as usual in the currently
tense international climate.



The Mercury 10/05/01
Bank teller charged in forgery
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2455480&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=1
8041&rfi=6

by Jason McKee
LIMERICK -- A teller at a local bank allegedly doctored transaction slips in
order to steal $500 from a customer, according to police.
Casey Boothe Coull, 22, of Springford Road, Royersford, was a teller at the
Commonwealth Bank on Buckwalter Road when the alleged forgery took place,
according to court documents.



BBC 10/15/99
Original Schindler's List 'discovered'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_476000/476208.stm

A German newspaper says it has found an original of Schindler's List, naming
all 1,200 Jews saved from the Holocaust by industrialist Oskar Schindler.
Schindler was the owner of a factory, employing Jewish slave labour.
However, he saved his workers, the Schindlerjuden, from concentration camps
by bribing dozens of Nazi officials.



Boston Globe 10/06/01
In US ruling on Nipmucs, members' status is faulted
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/metro/In_US_ruling_on_Nipmucs_members_
status_is_faulted+.shtml

by Sean P. Murphy
Almost half of the members of the Nipmuc Nation, a Central Massachusetts
tribe asserting the right to build a casino by virtue of its members' status
as Indians, were only recently recruited into the group and are not Indians
at all, according to a federal government finding released this week.



Buffalo News 10/06/01
Opening set for storehouse of records
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20011006/1048107.asp

by Thomas J. Prohaska
LOCKPORT - A grand opening for the county's new $500,000 records storage
building is set for 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The one-story, 9,200-square-foot building isn't actually done yet, but the
ceremony was scheduled to accommodate State Archives Week and a visit by
Robert W. Arnold III, chief of government records services for the State
Archives.


Detroit News 0/06/01
Employee doesn't have to hand over documents allegedly stolen from Ford
http://www.detnews.com/2001/autos/0110/06/autos-311840.htm

by Ed Garsten
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT -- A judge refused Friday to force a Ford Motor Co. employee to hand
over confidential human resources documents the automaker says he stole.
In March, a letter was written on behalf of John Kovacs by his attorney to
Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. asking him to discontinue what he called
the company's policy of using race and gender in employment decisions.



Star Tribune 10/05/01
Ford worker can hold documents
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=85098358

by Ed Garsten
AP
DETROIT (AP) -- A Wayne County Circuit judge refused Friday to force a Ford
Motor Co. employee to hand over confidential and sensitive human resources
documents the automaker says he stole.
In March, a letter was written on behalf of John Kovacs by his attorney,
James Fett, to Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. asking him to discontinue
what he called the company' s policy of taking race and gender into
consideration in employment decisions.



Dallas Morning News 10/07/01
Archive's savior will be too late
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/489868_azhistory_07te.html

by Foster Klug
AP
PHOENIX - In a dark corner of the Arizona State Capitol, near a stack of
old, yellow papers crumbling like corn flakes, Melanie Sturgeon uses a
finger to trace a line in the dust on a leather book's bent spine.
The dust, which has blown in through cracks in the windows, covers nearly
every book, box and paper in the crowded room that stores the gems of
Arizona's historical records.



Dallas Morning News 10/07/01
Telling Clinton's life story: University historians teaming up to collect
audio, video interview
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/489437_arclinton_06te.html

by Suzi Parker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The story of Bill Clinton is best told by those who know
him. That's the belief of university historians in Arkansas and Virginia.
The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville have teamed up to conduct the Clinton History Project, a
multiyear initiative to chronicle the life of the former president through
oral histories.



Internet Week 10/04/01
IBM sets sights on unstructured data
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20011004S0007

by L. Scott Tillett
Recognizing the need for e-businesses to handle large amounts of distributed
content, IBM's software group Wednesday said it will focus much if its
development efforts on helping enterprises manage unstructured data.



Lincoln Journal-Star 10/07/01
Internet revolutionizes businesses' newsletters
http://www.journalstar.com/business?story_id=1093&date=20011001&past=

by Jan Norman
The Orange County Register
Dawn Fleming, an attorney in Orange, Calif., for years has wanted to write a
newsletter for her small-business clients. But the printing and mailing
costs were prohibitive.
Now, Privy Business Bulletin is a reality, thanks to the Internet and
e-mail.
The current issue includes articles on global protection of intellectual
property rights and arbitration clauses. The cost to send it to 200 clients
is her time.


KCRA 10/04/01
Court case challenges privacy boundaries
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/sac/news/localnews/stories/news-localnews-1004
36420011004-201054.html?subid=22100408

SACRAMENTO -- A major showdown took place in Sacramento's federal court
Thursday afternoon with a prominent lawyer and doctor on one side and
federal agents on the other.
The agents seized thousands of personal, confidentially protected files
belonging to ordinary Californians. The question is, did the agents overstep
the bounds of the law?



The Seattle Times 10/06/01
Billions in stocks, bonds found in WTC rubble
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134350411_safe060.html

by Sean Gardiner and Patricia Hurtado
Newsday
NEW YORK - Workers picking through the rubble at the World Trade Center,
trying to recover the bodies of the nearly 5,000 missing, found a safe
containing about $2.7 billion in stocks and bonds last week, according to
law-enforcement officials.


Ananova 10/05/01
End comes for web anonymity tool
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_416044.html?menu=news.technology

People will no longer be able to visit chat rooms anonymously using a well
known internet tool.
Zero Knowledge Systems has announced it's removing all anonymity features
from its Freedom Privacy software.
It means its users will no longer be able to send emails, visit chat rooms
or browse the web anonymously.



Chico Enterprise-Record 10/07/01
Memories, friends and artifacts for Chico State's homecoming
http://www.chicoer.com/display/inn_news/news3.txt

by Roger H. Aylworth
Precious memories, old friends, and 60-year-old artifacts came together
Saturday for Chico State University's homecoming 2001.
The day's official events began in front of Kendall Hall, the campus
administration building, when a pair of time capsules from the classes of
1941 and 1951 were unearthed.



The Observer 10/07/01
Hitler was gay - and killed to hide it, book says
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,564899,00.html

by Kate Connolly
Berlin -- Adolf Hitler was gay - or so says a sensational new biography on
the Nazi dictator due to be published tomorrow.
Eyewitness accounts from Hitler's former lovers, and historical documents
that for the first time illuminate rumours that have circulated for over
half a century, are disclosed in Hitler's Secret: The Double Life of a
Dictator .



Palm Beach Post 10/07/01
Identity theft ruining lives of thousands
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/business_2.html

by Jeff Ostrowski
Will and Maria Jackson discovered in 1995 that someone was opening credit
cards in Maria's name.
Six years and hundreds of phone calls later, the Vero Beach couple finally
has cleaned the identity theft from their credit report.



Marco Daily News 10/07/01
Paper trail shows lengthy list of debtors for Marco developer
http://www.marconews.com/01/10/marco/d669660a.htm

by L.M. Stackel
MARCO ISLAND - Misrepresentation. Default. Breach of contract.
The accusations follow Avi Baron around like a foul odor.
Almost 30 lawsuits have been filed against the local developer in the past
decade, the most recent on May 11 by Waste Management of Collier County.
"I can't find him," said Ludwig Abruzzo, the company's attorney. "The
sheriff has been looking for him. We haven't served him (with papers)."



The Japan Times 10/08/01
Post office misused records in teen recruitment
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20011008a5.htm

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Officials at Yokohama Chuo Post Office sent postcards
soliciting part-time workers to some 8,000 people aged 15 to 17 based on a
list of those who had postal savings accounts, a move that goes against
internal rules, it was learned Sunday.



Seattle Times 10/07/01
More on the ongoing tussle over music online
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134350502_ptgett07.
html

by Linda Knapp
Some time back, I related some of the issues surrounding the free
downloading of copyright music and explained how to do it (Getting Started,
July 22).
Reader responses ranged from "thanks for a great column" to "(your
encouraging of) others to download copyright material under the guise of
murky legal waters is totally irresponsible."


News & Record 10/06/01
State tightens license controls
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/drivers06rk.htm

by Scott Mooneyham
AP
RALEIGH -- State Transportation Secretary Lyndo Tippett said Friday that
state officials will step up efforts to catch people who use fraudulent
documents to try to obtain driver's licenses.
The crackdown comes in response to complaints by lawmakers that out-of-state
residents are flooding North Carolina to obtain driver's licenses. They say
license examiners do little to enforce proof of residency requirements.



Sun-Sentinel 10/07/01
Outlasting Egghead.com was a pleasure
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbtech07oct07.column?coll=sfl
a%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

by Christine Winter
Becoming the master of your own online data is often easier said than done.
Here's a good example of how opt-out services are seldom to the consumer's
advantage.


Baltimore Sun 10/07/01
Official seeks access to files on mall plans
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.foia07oct07.story?coll=
bal%2Dlocal%2Darundel

by Lynn Anderson
In an unusual move, an Anne Arundel County Council member has cited the
Maryland Public Information Act - as newspaper reporters and government
watchdogs are more likely to do - to gain access to public documents
regarding a long-embattled shopping center project.



Wichita Eagle 10/07/01
State papers belong in Statehouse, senator says
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/10/07/kansas/1007apcon
stitution_txt.htm

by John Milburn
AP
TOPEKA -- More than 140 years ago, 52 men gathered in a storehouse in
Wyandotte to assemble the framework for statehood.
Conditions were less than ideal. It was July 1859, and political tensions
rivaled the conditions of a Kansas summer.


Khaleej Times 10/07/01
Dubai court finds hacker guilty on two charges
http://www2.zawya.com/Story.cfm?id=ZAWYA20011007092224&Section=Industries&pa
ge=Legal

THE Dubai Appeal Court yesterday over turned a lower court ruling issued
against Lee Alan Ashurst, the 22-year-old Briton accused of hacking into
Etisalat's computer network, by finding him guilty on both charges of
opening private e-mails of Etisalat employees and misusing Etisalat services
through unauthorised entry of its internet system.




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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