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New York Times July 11, 2004 In Deaths at Rail Crossings, Missing Evidence and Silence By WALT BOGDANICH Jenny Nordberg contributed reporting for this article. Tom Torok contributed data analysis and reporting. Eric Koli contributed reporting from San Francisco. t 5:45 p.m., with the autumn sun dipping toward the horizon, Blas Lopez, a father of four young children, drove his truck loaded with potatoes bound for market onto a railroad crossing in southcentral Washington State. In an instant, a 4,700-ton Union Pacific train rammed Mr. Lopez's truck with the force of an explosion, ripping apart his body. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/national/11RAILS.html Fayetteville Observer Whispering Pines records access lacks accord By Julia Oliver Staff writer WHISPERING PINES - The Village Council came to no clear consensus Wednesday on a proposed ordinance that would restrict access to public records. The council is considering the ordinance because it says a few residents have plagued its staff with complicated requests for documents. http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=region&Story=6444282 The Pilot W.P. Ordinance on Excessive Public Records Requests Debated By Brian Klimek: Staff Writer The Whispering Pines Village Council discussed a proposed ordinance aimed at controlling excessive public records requests Wednesday but took no action. After discussions during the work session, some of which involved two residents who have sued the village over access to public records, Mayor Giles Hopkins said the council would revisit the issue in August. http://www.thepilot.com/news/070904wpordinance.html Seattle Times Gravel-pit lawsuit triggers e-mail hunt By Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporter King County officials, responding to a lawsuit from the owner of a Maury Island gravel pit, hired a consulting firm to help search for deleted e-mails on the computers of County Executive Ron Sims and other officials. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001974568_search08m.html Atlanta Journal Constitution Crash data collection stuck in pre-digital age By JOEY LEDFORD The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 07/08/04 Most motorists consider a police accident report a must-have document to get the insurance company rolling after a fender-bender. To local police and state and federal highway safety officials, crash reports, when collected in a database, provide a road map of the job they need to do. They pinpoint problem roads and intersections, classes of drivers, like teenagers, more likely to crash and even what offenses most often lead to mishaps. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0704/09ranger.html Legal Week Media, Sport and Entertainment: A qualified privilege The Freedom of Information Act, while a bold move for the Government, is unlikely to provide the full transparency that media organisations had hoped for. Lawyers must encourage their clients to go on the offensive if they are to reap the full benefits of the act, says Keith Mathieson http://www.legalweek.com/ViewItem.asp?id=20582 The Straits Times Past it forward How do you preserve history and make it ''living'' for today's generation? Tay Suan Chiang speaks to three young professionals IN a laboratory at the National Archives of Singapore at Canning Rise, a container of wheat starch paste is being cooked. It is not part of a food recipe but is used for repairing torn paper. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,4386,260451,00.html Shanghai Daily news The Shanghai Archives Museum yesterday made 26,838 volumes of archived documents available to the public, including many memos written about government meetings when foreign powers settled in the city. "These archives, dating back from 1849 to 1943, are very valuable for the study of the city's modern history," said Liu Nanshan, curator of the museum. http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/1326/class000100005/hwz202297.ht m Stephenville Empire Tribune Cell phone customer records are recovered By ANNA BOUDREAU News Editor The Erath County Sheriff’s Department is in the process of calling several hundred Cellular One customers after a box containing papers with personal information was found in a dumpster behind the business Wednesday afternoon. http://www.empiretribune.com/EMPIRETRIBUNE/myarticles.asp?P=1007541&S=425&PubI D=16324 e-Media Growth in archiving segment By Cynthia Peterson Companies are taking cognizance of the need to manage electronic mail and other data more efficiently in the region. According to Legato’s area consulting director Ron Demone, companies are looking at technologies like archival solutions, and are exploring options such as tiered level storage, implementing an archival framework or applying snapshotting technologies to deal with the data. http://www.emedia.com.my/TECH/BizComp/NewsAnalysis/20040708101512/wartrevamp Information Week $50 Million Plan To Give One Community E-Health Records Amid a national drive for electronic health records, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will spend $50 million to get one community using the records. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek July 8, 2004 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22104465 If electronic medical records really can deliver revolutionary improvements in the quality and cost of health care, one Massachusetts community is going to find out. Funded with $50 million from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, a group of health-care payers and providers in the state plans to begin early next year wiring one community with interoperable electronic medical records. Their hope is that the pilot project will convince the health-care community statewide that digitizing and sharing patient records will mean better medical decisions, fewer errors, and lower costs. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22104465&tid= 13692 TechNewsWorld Electronic Signatures: The Proof Is in the Process By Jack M. Germain TechNewsWorld 07/09/04 6:15 AM PT According to Thomas Gonser, cofounder and executive vice president of products and business development at DocuSign, the DocuSign Express online e-signature service works with any business application. In essence, it solves the software compatibility issue. "We built a system that allows anything that prints to be digitally inserted into a document," Gonser told TechNewsWorld. "It's patterned after the law, and it creates a proof trail." http://www.technewsworld.com/story/35016.html BBC War rages over webmail's future A virtual war is being waged in cyberspace that will benefit millions of internet users. The battleground is e-mail, a service which, for many, virtually defines their online existence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3871371.stm Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va