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- Killer contract: many practitioners operate as self-employed consultan…
- Who’s guarding your data in the cybervault?
- An exercise in process efficiency: imaging and indexing paper loan…
- The Corporate 100: Alaska’s Economic Powerhouses.(ALASKA BUSINESS…
- 2007 Bay Boat Buyer’s Guide: bay boats are versatile fishing…

Killer contract: many practitioners operate as self-employed consultan…
Free with registration – Safety & Health Practitioner – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 1, 2007
A basic understanding of loss prevention, says Steven Francis, will help them stay bullet-proof and avoid the legal claims that might cause crippling financial losses. WHY? Well, that was the year of the case Lister v Romford Ice and Cold Storage Co Ltd. Lister, a lorry driver, through his negligence, injured a fellow employee.

Who’s guarding your data in the cybervault?
USA Today – Apr 1, 2007
com) that lets individuals view their own records and make corrections for free. To underscore its Fort Knox-like approach, 26 surveillance screens form a backdrop at a guard’s station at the main entrance. All told, the company, whose annual revenue quadrupled over the past decade and now tops $1 billion a year, spent about $14 million tightening operations. It also exited the highly profitable business of selling Social Security numbers, birth dates and driver’s license numbers to private detectives, mom-and-pop collections agencies and other small-time clients, giving up $15 million in annual revenue. In a pivotal move, it recruited longtime Defense and Justice department official Carol DiBattiste to fill the new position of chief privacy officer and take over as general counsel at an annual compensation of about $800,000. That’s more than twice what her peers earn, says Ari Schwartz, a privacy advocate and deputy director of Center for Democracy and Technology. DiBattiste has steered the company through more than 80 audits by government agencies and big corporate clients to review its security and privacy procedures…
Privacy advocates worry that self-policing isn’t enough; only a portion of what data brokers do falls under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, which regulates how the Big Three collect and disseminate consumer credit histories. Data brokers argue that much of what they disseminate is not covered by federal rules “because it is based on public records” such as birth and death certificates, and property records, says Evan Hendricks, editor of Privacy Times newsletter. Chris Hoofnagle, senior fellow to the Berkley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California-Berkeley, contends modern-data storage and data-mining technology has allowed data brokers to pervert the intent of open records law. “The government compels individuals to reveal their personal information in a variety of contexts, then pours it into the public record for anyone to use,” he says. Data brokers “collect the information, repackage it and return it back to the government and businesses full circle. A bad dream Critics such as Pam Dixon, executive director of World Privacy Forum, rail against the data brokers’ practice of selling vast quantities of personal data to government agencies. ChoicePoint says less than 4% of revenue comes from the sale of data to government customers, but it won’t name them.

An exercise in process efficiency: imaging and indexing paper loan…
Free with registration – Mortgage Banking – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 1, 2007
However, once the lender has expanded beyond a single branch and opened offices in other cities, the challenge of moving files back and forth grows exponentially–in which case an ECM solution typically would be highly beneficial. Capstone’s motivation for deploying OnBase was clear. With a 2003 servicing portfolio of 1,200 loans, the company was being buried in.

The Corporate 100: Alaska’s Economic Powerhouses.(ALASKA BUSINESS…
Free with registration – Alaska Business Monthly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 1, 2007
Community Involvement: Big Afognak Cultural Camp, Alutiiq Museum and Archeological Repository, Alaska Native Heritage Foundation, Esgarltuke Taquka’aq, Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, Port Lions School, Red Cross, Junior Achievement of Alaska, Brother Francis Shelter, Special Olympics of Alaska and more. Agrium Kenai Parent Company: Business Type: Oil & Gas Nitrogen Operations Agrium Inc. Box 575 Business Description: Kenai, AK 99611 Stock Symbol: Anhydrous ammonia; urea. Phone: 776-3275 AGU Fax: 776-5579 Community Involvement: Caring Web Site: for the Kenai, Challenger www.

2007 Bay Boat Buyer’s Guide: bay boats are versatile fishing…
Free with registration – Bass & Walleye Boats – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 1, 2007
There are also two high-capacity bilge pumps, large scuppers and six floor drains in the self-bailing deck. The Bay Cat’s layout is open, roomy and easy to maintain with slip-resistant full-tread decks. Fishermen will especially enjoy the large front and rear casting decks with fishing pedestals, multiple large livewells, six console rod holders plus dual, large-capacity horizontal rod boxes with organizers. The Bay Cat’s bow anchor storage compartment is large enough for a 13-pound Danforth-style anchor. Storage for organizing tackle and gear abounds including bolster-mounted and under console storage. The base engine for the Bay Cat is a Mercury 200 OptiMax outboard that delivers top-end performance in the low- to mid-60 mph range…
Fishermen will especially enjoy the large front and rear casting decks with fishing pedestals, multiple large livewells, six console rod holders plus dual, large-capacity horizontal rod boxes with organizers. The Bay Cat’s bow anchor storage compartment is large enough for a 13-pound Danforth-style anchor. Storage for organizing tackle and gear abounds including bolster-mounted and under console storage. The base engine for the Bay Cat is a Mercury 200 OptiMax outboard that delivers top-end performance in the low- to mid-60 mph range.