Los Angeles Times
Old-Time Coroner's Reports Shed Light on Deaths
Richly detailed stories are available online for St. Louis and six Missouri counties. Together, the records
cover 90 years to 1932.
By Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated Press Writer
ST. LOUIS — On the surface, former Missouri Lt. Gov. Thomas Reynolds had
everything: a wife, community stature, a law practice in St. Louis.
But a coroner's inquest conducted at Lynch's Undertaking Establishment tells a
different story of Reynolds, who left Missouri briefly with other Confederate
exiles during the Civil War.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-adna-suspicious11jul11,1,5837713.story?



Boston Globe
Town eager to show off historic signature
finds
Jefferson, Bulfinch documents excite officials
By Robert Knox, Globe Correspondent | July 11, 2004
Now that the signatures have been verified on two historic letters discovered last month in Kingston's
old town hall, local library trustees are planning to exhibit and celebrate the find.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/11/town_eager_to_show_off_historic_signature_finds/ (


Naples Daily News
Guest Editorial: Presidential library
Not many empty shelves at Bill Clinton's library
By Special to the Daily News
July 12, 2004
In its eight years, the Clinton administration generated more than
controversy. It generated paper, lots of paper, truckloads of paper, to be
precise. You can see why the former president's book ran to 970 pages and
may, in fact, be only the first volume of his memoirs.
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/article/0,2071,NPDN_14966_3028486,00.html (


The Advertiser
Lost hopes: adoption papers destroyed
By CRAIG BILDSTIEN
12jul04
HUNDREDS – maybe more – of former wards of the state and their families will
never learn more about their childhood.
Files – some of which could date back to the late 1800s – have been destroyed,
erasing the personal history of an unknown number of South Australians. Records
were discovered missing when archival searches on behalf of individuals wanting
to retrace their past turned up only index cards.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10110271%255E2682,00.html

CBS Marketwatch
More workers losing jobs over e-mail
Firings for violations rise as more firms subpoenaed
By Andrea Coombes, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 12:01 AM ET July 12, 2004
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The number of workers getting fired for violating e-mail policies is rising as companies
face more subpoenas of e-mail records, according to a new poll.
Twenty-five percent of companies terminated a worker for
violating e-mail policies, up from 22 percent last year, according
to the poll.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BDD2A78ED-D056-4102-84BA-A5A789294879%7D&siteid=google&dist=google


Ottawa Business Journal
New privacy legislation not
main driver behind local
shredding company's
growth
By Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Mon, Jul 12, 2004 3:00 PM EST
ON-SITE DOCUMENT destruction company Shred-
It International is chalking up strong growth in
eastern Ontario, due to a combination of steppedup
promotional efforts and a growing interest in
corporate security and privacy, company officials
say.
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/290706268956367.php (


INDOLINK
Tracking South Asian American
Slaves
http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=071204025816


Hudson Valley News
Records management grants approved
Over $326,000 in state grants will be coming to municipalities and organizations in the 96 th Assembly
District.
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/rec_mgmt_grants-11Jul04.htm


Fayetteville Observer
Records on Internet pushed
By Andrew Barksdale
Staff writer
Larry Godbold says Lee Warren, Cumberland County's register of deeds, should
have more records available over the Internet for people who have trouble getting
the courthouse.
Godbold is challenging Warren in the July 20 primary. Both are Democrats.
Republican David Ivey, the land records manager for the Cumberland County Tax
Office, will face the winner Nov. 2.
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=local&Story=6408040


Court record room gutted
Express News Service
Ambala, July 10: THE Central District Record room was burnt to ashes in a fire
which spread at around 5 pm in the courts complex Ambala city today. Some
persons, who noticed smoke coming out from the record room, immediately
informed the concerned authorities. But, by the time the officials reached, the fire
had engulfed the record room, destroying all records.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=91023


New Zealand Herald
Philippa Stevenson: Time to get history on the
record or it will disappear
13.07.2004
COMMENT
When you're having a good old clean-out of the cupboards
there's a fine line between hopelessly out-of-date and
treasured history.
You may toss out last month's magazine but keep one from
10, five or just two years ago because, already, the march of
time has lifted some content from banal to significant.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3577868&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue


EDITORIAL: Saving the Bay's history
12.07.2004 - Hawkes Bay Today
The Bay's recorded history is short, and the early days
were sometimes racially charged.
However, that history, along with the earlier Maori oral
tradition, are our links to the past and should be precious
to all who live in the region.
Understanding what happened, and why it happened, in
past decades and centuries influences how we think and
act today. Obvious examples are claims to the Waitangi
Tribunal
http://www.mytown.co.nz/story/mytstorydisplay.cfm?thecity=hawkesbay&thepage=news&storyID=3577815&type=nzh


The Telegraph
Delete our cultural heritage?
(Filed: 12/07/2004)
The world is suffering from a dark and silent
phenomenon known as 'digital decay' –
anything stored in computerised form is
vulnerable to breakdown and obsolescence. And
this has enormous implications for the arts, says
Bruce Sterling
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/07/12/badigit10.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/07/12/ixartright.html

http://snipurl.com/e70


The Telegraph
Cautious Whitehall keeps the secret
state alive
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 12/07/2004)
The Government's passion for secrecy while it talks
about openness is revealed today after a study by The
Daily Telegraph that raises serious concerns about the
new Freedom of Information Act.
It shows that more than 76,000 files which have
passed the normal 30-year closure period laid down
by the Public Record Act remain hidden on the Lord
Chancellor's instructions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/12/nsec12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/12/ixnewstop.html

http://snipurl.com/7pjt


The Telegraph
Mystery and absurdity of secret
Britain
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 12/07/2004)
Britain's mountain of secret documents, a pile that
would stand taller than Nelson's Column, contains
information that is genuinely dangerous, mysteriously
obscure and just plain absurd.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/12/nsec112.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/12/ixnewstop.html

http://snipurl.com/7pjw


icWales
Church accused of book sale 'vandalism'
Jul 12 2004
Martin Shipton, The Western Mail
THE Church in Wales has been accused of committing "historical
vandalism" after deciding to break up and sell off part of one of the
oldest collections of books in Wales.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=14416371&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=church-accused-of--book-sale--vandalism--name_page.html

http://snipurl.com/7pjy


Omaha World Herald
Union Pacific's response
Allegations of Spoliation of Evidence
RESPONSE: Union Pacific's policy is clear: We do not destroy information or evidence
needed for legal proceedings. In the rare instances when an individual employee
intentionally destroyed or altered evidence, the employee was fired. The company also
has in place an Ethics Committee to review allegations of misbehavior.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=46&u_sid=1145538


Computerworld
Sarb-Ox Projects Still Lack IT Involvement, Auditors Say
News Story by Thomas Hoffman
JUNE 28, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) -
IRVING, Texas -- For many of the
attendees at a Sarbanes-Oxley Act
compliance conference held here this
month, getting technology managers and
staffers involved in the process of
documenting internal IT controls is turning
out to be a big challenge.
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,94159,00.html


Computerworld
Building a Compliance Framework
As the flow of mandates continues, CIOs who can integrate corporate compliance efforts
will be ahead of the pack.
News Story by Steve Ulfelder
JULY 05, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) -
Do you break out in a cold sweat
whenever you hear the phrase Section
404? When a co-worker mentions HIPAA,
do you race back to your office to figure
out the earliest possible date you can
retire?
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,94263,00.html


New York Times
Bar Code Détente: U.S. Finally
Adds One More Digit
By STEVE LOHR
Published: July 12, 2004
The humble bar code, the rectangular thicket of
slender bars and spaces on products, ignored by
shoppers, indecipherable to humans, is joining the
forced march of globalization.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/business/12barcode.html (


FCW
Technology aids search for MIAs
BY Matthew French
July 12, 2004
An enduring legacy of war is that some warfighters disappear — whether they are taken
prisoner and never returned, lost in the chaos of battle or destroyed in battle so that their
bodies are unidentifiable. Those combatants listed as missing in action stir the nation's
psyche.
A Navy organization in Hawaii has been working to investigate, find and identify missing U.
S. servicemen. Information technology allows their researchers and analysts to more
easily find relevant documents and interpret facts to link cases.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0712/tec-powmia-07-12-04.asp


San Francisco Chronicle
Digitizing the voices of the past
Science perfects sound of century-old
recordings
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer
A new technology under development in Berkeley
could help thousands of long-dead Americans to
"speak" again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/12/MNGJP7JRC21.DTL


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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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