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PC Format Daily (UK) 6/26/00
NY Times on-line document endangers lives
http://www.pcformat.co.uk/newsread.asp?story_id=762

The New York Times messed up big time when it released a classified 1954 CIA
file on its Web site on Sunday, detailing the secret history of the 1953
coup that overthrew Iran's elected government, and the involvement of the
CIA and British officials. But releasing the file wasn't the blunder itself.


Financial Times 6/23/00
Swiss must yield up Aeroflot documents
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3YAM0SS9C&liv
e=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZFKOXOA0C&tagid=ZZZYF7I2B0C&subheading=transpor
t

by Frances Williams in Geneva
Switzerland's Supreme Court has rejected final appeals by two Swiss
companies against the handing over of documents to Russia concerning the
alleged theft of $600m in hard currency from Aeroflot, the Russian airline.
The documents were seized in raids last year on the Lausanne offices of
Forus Services and Andava, financial services companies that had close ties
to Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs.



PRNewswire 6/13/00
Acquistion would uniquely position Loudeye to provide audio and video media
restoration...
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-13
-2000/0001241447&EDATE=

NEW YORK, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Loudeye Technologies, Inc.
(Nasdaq: LOUD
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/squote?source=blq/prnewswire&tic
ker=LOUD>), a leading provider of digital media solutions that unleash the
power of audio and video on the Internet, today announced that it has
entered into an agreement in principle to acquire privately-held VidiPax,
Inc., the leading independent provider of video and audio restoration and
migrationservices in world.  As part of the acquisition, Loudeye plans to
expand VidiPax's well-established restoration facility in New York into a
full-service Digital Media Center.  The acquisition is anticipated to close
by the end of June 2000, subject to satisfaction of a number of conditions.


Chicago Sun Times 6/26/00
Case pivots on missing papers
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/docs26.html

by Abdon M. Pallasch
It was a case of missing documents, a disappearing attorney and a record $34
million verdict for a man suffering from asbestos-related cancer.
And it may have repercussions in asbestos cases around the country.
While arguing the Downstate case, Chicago attorney Bill Fahey asked Shell
Oil for all documents about what it knew in the 1950s and '60s about the
harmful effects of asbestos. That's when Fahey's client James Hutcheson--now
64 and dying of lung cancer--worked at Shell's Wood River Refinery near
Alton.
Shell's attorneys produced some documents and said they had no more. But on
the eve of trial, Fahey got a call from a former Shell worker who said the
company had documents showing it knew as far back as 1945 that asbestos
caused cancer.


Irish Times 6/26/00
Missing revenue files hinder Ansbacher inquiry
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/0626/fin4.htm

by Colm Keena
Tax officials investigating companies and individuals linked to the
Ansbacher deposits are encountering significant difficulties because so many
Revenue files are missing or have been destroyed, according to sources.
Huge numbers of files were destroyed following the transition to self
assessment in 1988 and again in a major culling in 1996.
Sources close to the Revenue said that in order to show that a particular
company or individual made an incomplete return on a certain year, the file
for that year is needed both so as to show the amount paid and the backing
information which led to that figure.


Business Wire 6/20/00
Salt Lake County Recorder's Office Leads E-government
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000620/ut-salt-lake-county

SALT LAKE CITY (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Salt Lake County Recorder's Office will
complete the first-ever, paperless recording of a real estate document
today.
The new technology will decrease the time spent by the Salt Lake County
Recorder's Office to process a document, thereby reducing costs.
The new technology creates a legally binding, "smart document" that can be
securely signed and transferred electronically, then indexed immediately.
The "smart document" now allows a computer to read and translate
information.



Lehigh Valley News 6/26/00
Paper says group has no records for money
Supportes of Abu-Jamal have provided no accounting for donations
http://www.mcall.com/html/news/regional/b_pg011_fib11_mumia.htm

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A group that has raised money to support death-row
inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal as his fate has grown into an international cause has
done little to disclose how much has been donated or spent.
The International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal has
received at least $240,000 in the last two years alone, according to an
analysis by The Philadelphia Inquirer.



Waco Herald Tribune 6/26/00
Adams' Letter Fetches $555,750
http://www.accesswaco.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0271.AP-
Adams-letter.html

Associated Press
BOSTON (AP)--Clip that letter to the editor.
Documents that America's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, sent to his
hometown newspaper in 1837 were auctioned Monday for $555,750.
Seth Kaller of Kaller's America Gallery Inc. of Manhattan bought Adams'
letter and a speech from Sotheby's auction house in New York.
Adams' four-page letter and 11-page address to The Quincy Patriot--now The
Patriot Ledger--defended the right of slaves to petition the U.S. Congress.



Sacramento Bee 6/26/00
Insurance department employee says she was ordered to shred documents
http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?N10.HTML

by John Howard
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- An Insurance Department employee who detailed $119
million in alleged claims violations against State Farm said she was ordered
to shred her report on the insurer, which later settled by giving $2 million
to a fund created by Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush.
Department lawyer Cynthia Ossias testified Monday as the Assembly Insurance
Committee opened a new round of hearings in its investigation of
Quackenbush's creation and use of nonprofit funds financed with insurer
settlement money.



Foster's Daily Democrat 6/26/00
N.H. adoptees seek to open records
http://www.fosters.com/news2000b/june/26/nh0626n.htm

Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Other states have done it. Now, adoptees and their
birth mothers in New Hampshire want their state to give them access to their
birth certificates and other records.
Those certificates would include the names and birth dates of their birth
parents, information not included in the amended birth certificates adoptees
now receive from the state.
Instead, they get certificates with information pertaining to their adoptive
parents.
For Janet Allen of Center Barnstead, vice president of the newly formed New
Hampshire Open Adoption Records Coalition, it's a civil rights issue.



Times of India 6/27/00
BHA makes ashes out of precious records
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/27spor13.htm

MUMBAI: In a shocking incident, the Bombay Hockey Association has destroyed
all the past records of the players who have graced the game through the
association, by burning them for lack of space.
The BHA president himself confirmed this, saying that ``they (records) were
burnt under my supervision. What could we do? We did not have place to keep
them.''



Muskegon Chronicle 6/26/00
The paper trail ends here
http://mu.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000626mmedrec403.frm

by Lynn Moore
At Hackley Hospital, clerical workers are doing the virtually unthinkable:
They're shredding patient charts.
The hospital has entered the 21st century with electronic medical records,
something hospital officials agree their industry has been slow to adopt.
But among hospitals, Hackley is ahead of the game, said Thomas C.
Mroczkowski, vice president and chief operating officer at Hackley.
"This is hospital past," Mroczkowski said as he stood among rows and rows of
shelves holding six years worth of medical records. "It's like something out
of Dickens. Hospitals are so high tech, then you come to the medical records
department and it's paper."


Time 6/26/00
The Infoarnarchist
Could this 23-year-old British programmer unravel the Web?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,47705,00.html

by Adam Cohen/London
Ian Clarke boots up a computer in a house he shares with two flatmates in a
gritty London neighborhood, across the street from Brixton Prison. With a
few quick keystrokes, he downloads a free copy of Britney Spears' new
single, Oops!...I Did It Again. As Britney's sugary lament fills his
dorm-style bedroom, bouncing off the unmade bed and the laundry bag on the
door, Clarke insists he feels no pangs of conscience. "Copyright is a
crutch," he says. "It's inherent in nature that information wants to be
free."


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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