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Sun-Sentinel 10/18/01
Complaint of secret files spurs audit of workers' records in Lauderdale
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cfiles18oct18.story?coll=sf

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by Gregory Lewis
Fort Lauderdale is reviewing personnel files to make sure they contain
"appropriate'' information, including disciplinary reports, as a result of a
complaint filed earlier this week, an assistant city manager said Wednesday.


Washington Post 10/18/01
Va. Evidence destroyed despite warnings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12485-2001Oct18.html

by Brooke A. Masters
An Arlington courthouse clerk threw away all the evidence from a 1999 death
penalty case in violation of Virginia law, despite warnings from two
colleagues that the material contained DNA and that the inmate's appeals were
pending, according to court documents filed yesterday.
Attorneys for death row inmate Robin Lovitt asked an Arlington Circuit Court
judge yesterday to reconsider his Oct. 4 ruling that Chief Deputy Clerk
Robert McCarthy did not act "in bad faith" when he drew up a court order to
have the evidence destroyed. At least 50 exhibits, including the murder
weapon, were thrown out May 23.



Washington Times 10/18/01
Fine-tuned engines
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20011018-79798436.htm

by Christian Toto
Finding something on the World Wide Web should be like finding a needle in a
haystack, given the Web's seemingly endless array of virtual pathways.
The search is fairly easy, however. Today's search engines, from bare-bone
machines such as Google.com to more venerable Web portals such as Yahoo.com,
give Web surfers a significant boost toward finding exactly what they want
online.
It wasn't always this way.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va

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<BR>ABCNews 10/17/01
<BR>Time Traveling on the Web
<BR>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_timemachine011017.html
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<BR>by Tech Live staff
<BR>The Web has become a vital source of information and a powerful record of the news events and cultural preoccupations of a given moment. But as the Web evolves, some of those records could be lost.
<BR>Hoping to preserve this historical record, the Internet Archive plans to launch a database next week that will allow users to travel back in time via Web sites.
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<BR>This Day 10/17/01
<BR>Experts decry secrecy of budget documents
<BR>http://allafrica.com/stories/200110170136.html
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<BR>by Tayo Ajakaye
<BR>Experts from the financial and legal sectors yesterday in Abuja decried the secrecy always associated with the budget document, saying it does not augur for monitoring and implementation.
<BR>Starting off a workshop on Budget and Fiscal Democracy in Nigeria organised by the Centre for Public-Private Cooperation, participants argued that the idea that a budget passed as the appropriation act which was then sent to the archives had become just another law was not in the best interest of the country.
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<BR>Associated Press 10/17/01
<BR>Ashcroft urges caution with records
<BR>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011016/pl/attacks_ashcroft_foia_1.html
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<BR>by Gina Holland
<BR>WASHINGTON (AP) - Obtaining government records may be more difficult under a Bush administration policy change made a month after the terrorist attacks.
<BR>Attorney General John Ashcroft directed agency leaders to be cautious in releasing records to journalists and others. He said agencies must ``carefully consider'' things like threats to national security and the effectiveness of law enforcement.
<BR>Ashcroft also said that agencies that legitimately turn down requests made under the Freedom of Information Act will have the backing of the Justice Department.
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<BR>Associated Press 10/17/01
<BR>Gordon wants to keep info. Secret
<BR>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011017/us/attacks_iowa_records_1.html
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<BR>by Mike Glover
<BR>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The state's new domestic security chief said Wednesday that lawmakers should review Iowa's open records law to make sure information gathered to defend against terrorist attacks is not open to the public.
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<BR>Daily Mail &amp; Guardian 10/17/01
<BR>State info not easily available
<BR>http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001oct/features/17oct-info.html
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<BR>by Verne Harris
<BR>When South Africa's freedom of information legislation came into operation in March the South African History Archive (Saha) was at the front of the queue submitting requests for access to hitherto secret files.
<BR>The reaction of the government departments concerned were enlightening: the department responsible for the Promotion of Access to Information Act was the least cooperative, while the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) went out of its way to respond professionally.
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<BR>Reuters 10/16/01
<BR>EMC, ex-worker in $1 billion spat
<BR>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7547827.html?tag=cd_mh
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<BR>A former EMC executive has accused the world's top maker of data-storage systems of improperly booking revenue after EMC filed a lawsuit against him to protect trade secrets amid a bid for an estimated $1 billion in potential revenue with customers such as Dell Computer.
<BR>EMC spokesman Mark Fredrickson said the claims of Kenneth Todd Gresham, who left EMC to work for a rival earlier this year, have absolutely no merit or basis.
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<BR>Deccan Herald 10/18/01
<BR>Printouts of maps for landowners soon
<BR>http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct18/imap.htm
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<BR>by Rajesh Parishwad
<BR>After successfully providing printed copies of Records of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTCs) to farmers under the Bhoomi project across the State, the revenue department has now plans to offer computer printouts of land maps or sketches, popularly known as "tippans" to the stake-holders apart from khata extracts.
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<BR>U.S.Newswire 10/17/01
<BR>Ivory Soap donates historic advertising collection to Smithsonian
<BR>http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1017-102.html
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<BR>Procter and Gamble's advertising for the Ivory brand, now in its 120th year, is recognized as one of the longest lasting and most effective campaigns in American business history. A full run of Ivory Soap advertising and related materials will complement the business history collections at the Archives Center housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The Ivory Soap collection will join those from the Simmons, Hills Bros. and Krispy Kreme companies, among others.
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<BR>AP 10/17/01
<BR>Student newspaper files appeal over Earnhardt autopsy photos
<BR>http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/101701/D7F731B00.html
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<BR>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A student newspaper has formally filed an appeal arguing that a new law restricting access to autopsy photos is unconstitutional.
<BR>The Independent Florida Alligator maintained in an appeal filed Tuesday that that the law shouldn't apply to the newspaper because its request for access to autopsy photos of race-car driver Dale Earnhardt was made before the law was passed.
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<BR>Kent County Daily Times 10/17/01
<BR>It's time to look back again
<BR>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2500728&amp;BRD=1718&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=74409&amp;rfi=6
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<BR>by Marilyn Bellemore
<BR>CROMPTON -- It's that time of year again when bookstores begin to display the latest calendars. As usual, shelves hold the 2002 versions of Sports Illustrated swimsuit, the Backstreet Boys and Pamela Anderson.
<BR>And now appearing in locations throughout the Pawtuxet Valley are copies of Vintage Valley Views 2002. It's the fifteenth edition put out by the Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society (PVPHS).
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<BR>Pierre Capital Journal 10/17/01
<BR>Archaeologist searches for Lewis. Clark campsites
<BR>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2503954&amp;BRD=1130&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=99675&amp;rfi=6
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<BR>by Dorinda Daniel
<BR>Moving the Lewis and Clark Expedition from imagination to reality is the work of Kenneth Karsmizki.
<BR>Karsmizki is a historical archaeologist from The Dalles, Ore., who is focusing his research on campsites of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition.
<BR>Through the maps made and the journals kept by members of the expedition, it is known that the expedition passed through a location such as Bismarck, N.D.
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<BR>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/17/01
<BR>Steel Valley archivist prepares to move collection
<BR>http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20011017smonarchives1017p4.asp
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<BR>by Linda Wilson Fuoco
<BR>When Mon Valley residents clean out their attics and basements, some of their stuff ends up in the hands of Ronald A. Baraff. He happily takes in old lunch boxes, hard hats, signs, photos, papers, blueprints, household bric-a-brac and odd-looking pieces of metal.
<BR>Though Baraff has been on the job for three years, he's still wrestling with a big backlog of stuff that must be sorted and stored and filed and cataloged. And "new" stuff keeps coming in.
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<BR>Deseret News 10/17/01
<BR>Send documents with certainty
<BR>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,330008617,00.html?
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<BR>by Lois M. Collins
<BR>A new program created by Digital Signature Trust, an affiliate of Salt Lake-based Zions Bancorp. that's partially owned by the American Bankers Association, lets companies send documents electronically with the "same certainty and security" they'd get if they used an overnight courier.
<BR>CertainSend delivers electronic documents instantly using the legally binding aspects of TrustID digital certificates and the federal e-Sign law.
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<BR>St. Croix Source 10/14/01
<BR>Genealogy holds interest for Virgin Islanders
<BR>http://www.onepaper.com/stcroixvi/?v=d&amp;i=&amp;s=News%3ALocal&amp;p=43763
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<BR>by Linda Lohr
<BR>Oct. 14, 2001 - St. John resident Myrna George is playing detective, but instead of looking for nefarious characters, she's hot on the trail of her family history.
<BR>She and about 80 million others across the country are hard at work on this task. There are so many people looking for their roots that Utah Sen. Orrin G. Hatch convinced his Senate colleagues to designate October as Family History Month.
<BR>"Experts say that in the United States, genealogy is now the second most popular hobby next to gardening," Hatch said in a news release.
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<BR>The Daily Record 10/17/01
<BR>State wins bid to keep convict from reviewing documents
<BR>http://www.mddailyrecord.com/current_issues/2_91_law/legalnews/58777-1.html
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<BR>by Peter Geier
<BR>A stockbroker convicted of fraud in Virginia is not entitled to most of the documents he requested from the Maryland attorney general's office under the Public Information Act, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday in a case on remand from the state's top court.
<BR>In an unreported opinion, the three-judge panel held that the trial judge, who individually reviewed and ruled on the 65 documents in dispute, had an adequate factual basis to make his determinations. The Court of Appeals had reversed the Court of Special Appeal's earlier decision, in which the intermediate appeals court said Paul B. Gallagher was entitled to the documents he sought because they were part of an "investigatory file" and he was a "person in interest" under the state Public Information Act.
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<BR>The Cabin 10/17/01
<BR>Volunteer helps others research their genealogy at library
<BR>http://www.thecabin.net/stories/101701/loc_1017010021.shtml
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<BR>by Fred Petrucelli
<BR>Discovery has always fascinated Tom Slinkard, yet he never was big into genealogy until he began volunteering at the Faulkner County Library.
<BR>Preaching and teaching have been his forte, so it is possible that delving into the past for little known facts bears some correlation to what he's about.
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<BR>Reuters 10/17/01
<BR>U.S. House clears money laundering curbs
<BR>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011017/pl/attack_financial_laundering_dc_14.html
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<BR>by Andrew Clark
<BR>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation to toughen U.S. laws against money laundering in a big step forward for congressional efforts to target the financial networks that may have supported last month's attacks on New York and Washington.
<BR>The Senate passed a very similar bill on Thursday as part of a broader anti-terrorism measure giving expanded powers to U.S. law enforcers. The House approved that measure on Friday, but had left out the money laundering provisions.
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<BR>Washington Post 10/17/01
<BR>History's custodians size up 9-11
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48214-2001Oct12.html
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<BR>by Jacqueline Trescott
<BR>The National Museum of American History and the Museum of the City of New York are coordinating a national effort to decide how museums should remember the horrific attacks of Sept. 11.
<BR>The questions are still unfolding, but historians and curators have begun seeking ways to explain the events to future museum-goers.
<BR>"We need to consider what is the appropriate response as keepers and interpreters of the past," said Robert Macdonald, the director of the New York museum. He added that "we need to thoughtfully consider what is the appropriate way to collect and what should we collect."
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<BR>Washington Post 10/17/01
<BR>Losing track of illegal immigrants
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17957-2001Oct6.html
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<BR>by James V. Grimaldi, Steve Fainaru and Gilbert M. Gaul
<BR>Over the past decade, terrorists have posed as students, slipped across the lightly patrolled Canadian border, used false passports and presented themselves as tourists to enter the United States and plot deadly acts.
<BR>Their persistence in exploiting loopholes forced U.S. officials to confront a monumental question after the Sept. 11 attacks: Can a broken system, designed to police millions of people who come to the United States in search of a better life, be quickly reconfigured to capture the few who arrive in pursuit of a life of terror.
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<BR>Mail &amp; Guardian 10/19/01
<BR>Editorial: Lekota to probe what is fact and fiction
<BR>http://allafrica.com/stories/200110180612.html
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<BR>Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has launched an inquiry into allegations that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
<BR>The Mail &amp; Guardian reported last week how the SANDF concealed thousands of military intelligence files crucial to TRC investigations. The commission had probed the destruction of apartheid-era information and concluded in its final report that all that survived was three series of files. Each series contains thousands of pages of records of military operations inside South Africa and abroad.
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<BR>Asahi Shimbun 10/18/01
<BR>Court sides with residents in disclosure of documents
<BR>http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001101800326.html
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<BR>The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday rejected arguments by some of the biggest names in construction and allowed residents to view and copy documents related to suspected bid-rigging practices.
<BR>The ruling-the first instance of plaintiffs winning the right to view documents in an ongoing anti-monopoly case-upholds a decision by the Fair Trade Commission.
<BR>The residents were seeking the documents for use in their compensation lawsuit against the five companies.
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<BR>Business Week 10/18/01
<BR>A federal privacy commission? That's right.
<BR>http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018_5933.htm
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<BR>by Jane Black
<BR>A government agency of technology and policy experts could help policymakers balance national security and personal privacy
<BR>Until now, debates over privacy have always been cast as a battle between good and evil, a struggle between Big Brother and Lady Liberty. On Big Brother's side was the government seeking to gather and control more information. In the camp of Lady Liberty was a coalition of citizens and advocacy groups that sought to protect the right to be left alone.
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<BR>Business Week 10/18/01
<BR>The Cyber-surveillance bill and you.
<BR>http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018_3451.htm
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<BR>by Dan Carney
<BR>Here's how the digital eavesdropping legislation racing through Congress vastly alters the existing legal terrain
<BR>Imagine a world in which the government could watch your every move on the Internet. Well, get ready, because that may soon come to pass. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, legislation authorizing widespread Net surveillance has passed both houses of Congress and is on a fast track to enactment. The bill would do everything from allowing secret searches of homes to following suspicious movements of money. The feds also want to take a closer look at people's computer habits.
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<BR>Chicago Tribune 10/18/01
<BR>Council materials available on Web
<BR>http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0110180213oct18.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed
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<BR>by Barbara Kois
<BR>GENEVA -- City Council agendas, meeting minutes and other documents will be available for downloading at www.geneva.il.us, city officials said.
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<BR>Connecticut Post 10/18/01
<BR>DMV checks again on ID
<BR>http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1002,3750%257E187160,00.html
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<BR>by Ken Dixon
<BR>HARTFORD -- The state Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing driver-licensing procedures to prevent the possibility of the identification cards falling into terrorist hands.
<BR>However, a DMV spokesman said the state is already a national leader in tightening procedures, which require extensive documentation before licenses are issued.
<BR>The goal is to make it impossible for ID cards to be obtained by terrorists, like the suicidal commercial airline hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11.
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<BR>Des Moines Register 10/18/01
<BR>Official's plan tightens Iowa open records law
<BR>http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/16218687.html
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<BR>by Jonathan Roos
<BR>Iowa Director of Homeland Security Ellen Gordon is likely to seek changes in the state's open records law to ensure the secrecy of sensitive documents.
<BR>Gordon told state lawmakers Wednesday that a plan is being developed to safeguard government installations, major industrial facilities and other key locations within Iowa that could be potential targets of terrorist attacks. She said several hundred "key assets" will be covered by the plan.
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<BR>Dallas Morning News 10/15/01
<BR>High-techers pay tribute to slide rule
<BR>http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/STORY.e98e31b2f9.b0.af.0.a4.54c71.html
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<BR>by Sudeep Reddy
<BR>RICHARDSON - They were used to build the first automobiles, put men on the moon and erect thousands of monuments.
<BR>But the slide rule, a low-tech calculating tool for three centuries, was all but forgotten after electronic pocket calculators hit the market in the early 1970s.
<BR>Now they've regained a following. Nostalgic engineers who used slide rules in high school, college and early in their careers want to pay homage to a tool that drove technological progress in the modern world. Many of them gathered this past weekend for a slide rule convention at the Richardson Civic Center.
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<BR>Dallas Morning News 10/17/01
<BR>Worst-case scenarios now worse: Companies demanding help in preparing for disaster
<BR>http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/STORY.e99870bf99.b0.af.0.a4.1e120.html
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<BR>by Crayton Harrison
<BR>Al Decker became very busy eight years ago when the World Trade Center was bombed.
<BR>Companies called him nonstop, scrambling for help in reviewing their technology to make sure they could withstand a terrorist attack.
<BR>"The phone was ringing off the hook for two weeks," said Mr. Decker, security services director at Electronic Data Systems Corp. "Then all of a sudden, it just stopped."
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<BR>St. Petersburg Times 10/18/01
<BR>Genealogy: Use paper trail to track female ancestors
<BR>http://www.sptimes.com/News/101801/Floridian/Genealogy__Use_paper_.shtml
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<BR>by Donna Murray Allen
<BR>Proving an ancestor's maiden name is one of the more challenging aspects of building your family tree, but few are more important because your DNA is linked just as closely to the women in your direct line as it is to the men.
<BR>How you start tracking down that elusive bit of data will be dictated primarily by the time frame in which you are researching. Marriage license applications and certificates provide good documentation, but many states didn't require such permanent records until about 1885. Since marriage license applications are generally courthouse records, you must know where the couple got married to get the paperwork. Some who lived near a state border sometimes crossed the line to get hitched.
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<BR>Houston Chronicle 10/18/01
<BR>Effort restores pieces of history
<BR>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1094384
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<BR>by Ron Nissimov
<BR>While he attended the University of Houston law school in the mid-1980s, Don Hartsell hatched a company that would take him around the world to save invaluable documents and historical buildings.
<BR>Some of Hartsell's projects include working on the world's largest known book-preservation effort at the central Los Angeles public library, restoring a medieval German cathedral and designing special effects for the horror movie Exorcist 3. In 1999, Hartsell's company, Solex, received R&amp;D Magazine's "100 Award" for inventing one of the 100 most technologically important products of the year.
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<BR>Hugin 10/18/01
<BR>Injured workers insurance fund IWIF selects Gauss for web-enabled records management
<BR>http://www.huginonline.com/try/plsql/pressreleases.queryview?P_IDENTIFIER=836998&amp;p_la=5
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<BR>HAMBURG, October, 18 2001 - Gauss, a recognized market leader of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund (IWIF) based in Maryland (USA) selected VIP DocManager for its vital documentation retrieval needs. VIP DocManager-the document management component of Gauss' ECM suite, VIP Enterprise-helps businesses reduce the time it takes to process vital records throughout their organizations.
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<BR>Jerusalem Post 10/17/01
<BR>It's all relative: Not only a family
<BR>http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/10/17/JewishWorld/JewishWorld.36398.html
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<BR>by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
<BR>Looking at a lost culture
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<BR>Some genealogists look merely for names and dates, others take family facts and incorporate them into the milieu in which their ancestors lived: socioeconomic, political, historical and geographical. Emily Rose has done just this in her meticulously researched and detailed look at the lost culture of Jews in rural southern Germany, Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside.
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<BR>New York Post 10/18/01
<BR>Atty. Admits dirty deal for FBI files
<BR>http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32098.htm
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<BR>by Bill Sanderson
<BR>Lawyer Herbert Jacobi's effort to help a client gain an edge in a mob-linked securities fraud case by illegally buying FBI records has cost him his practice - and may land him in prison.
<BR>Jacobi pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in Islip federal court on Long Island yesterday, and at his sentencing in January faces a possible five-year prison term.
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<BR>Savannah Morning News 10/18/01
<BR>Archive built for Savannah's builder
<BR>http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/101801/LOCarchitect.shtml
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<BR>by Erin Rossiter
<BR>Joseph Bergen can't travel very far before passing a building his father, Cletus, and brother, William, designed.
<BR>Neither can Savannahians.
<BR>From 1907 to 1975, the father and son team planned homes and offices, apartments and churches, military buildings and mansions. Some of their work may be seen in St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, Drayton Tower, St. Mary's Home, Henry Ford's Richmond Hill plantation, Savannah State University's library and many of the city's Tudor-style homes.
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<BR>Sun-Sentinel 10/18/01
<BR>Complaint of secret files spurs audit of workers' records in Lauderdale
<BR>http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cfiles18oct18.story?coll=sfla%2DNEWS%DZbroward
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<BR>by Gregory Lewis
<BR>Fort Lauderdale is reviewing personnel files to make sure they contain "appropriate'' information, including disciplinary reports, as a result of a complaint filed earlier this week, an assistant city manager said Wednesday.
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<BR>Washington Post 10/18/01
<BR>Va. Evidence destroyed despite warnings
<BR>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12485-2001Oct18.html
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<BR>by Brooke A. Masters
<BR>An Arlington courthouse clerk threw away all the evidence from a 1999 death penalty case in violation of Virginia law, despite warnings from two colleagues that the material contained DNA and that the inmate's appeals were pending, according to court documents filed yesterday.
<BR>Attorneys for death row inmate Robin Lovitt asked an Arlington Circuit Court judge yesterday to reconsider his Oct. 4 ruling that Chief Deputy Clerk Robert McCarthy did not act "in bad faith" when he drew up a court order to have the evidence destroyed. At least 50 exhibits, including the murder weapon, were thrown out May 23.
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<BR>Washington Times 10/18/01
<BR>Fine-tuned engines
<BR>http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20011018-79798436.htm
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<BR>by Christian Toto
<BR>Finding something on the World Wide Web should be like finding a needle in a haystack, given the Web's seemingly endless array of virtual pathways.
<BR>The search is fairly easy, however. Today's search engines, from bare-bone machines such as Google.com to more venerable Web portals such as Yahoo.com, give Web surfers a significant boost toward finding exactly what they want online.
<BR>It wasn't always this way.
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<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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