| Obituary: John Petrie Bartel / After time as band leader, he took up paper shredding
John Bartel, an accomplished organist who started a paper shredding company, died Wednesday from complications related to lung cancer. He was 65. Mr. Bartel, of Monroeville, grew up in Stowe and started playing organ in 1963. In 1966, he formed his own group, John Bartel and the Soul Masters, a band featuring Lou Stellute, Larry O'Brien and Jeff Martin. Mr. Bartel eventually changed the name of the group to the John Bartel Thing and recorded two albums, one for Capitol and the other for Perception records, as well as two singles for Solid State Records. The group opened for a number of headliners, including Jefferson Airplane. In the early 1980s, Mr. Bartel started Ameri-Shred Corp. in Monroeville. In 1986, Mr. Bartel and his wife, Cherie, opened All Safe Document Destruction Service Inc.
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Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company insures insurance companies. To be precise, it reinsures more than 280 farm mutual-insurance companies with more than 4,000 licensed independent agents operating throughout Iowa and surrounding states. After each days work, Grinnell personnel used to print some 15,000 pieces of paper nightlyscanning the pages into the companys electronic document-management system before shredding the hard copies. It was a laborious, time-consuming but necessary task: those pages were essential declarations informing clients of the companys policies and coverage. We needed to be able to generate our declarations in PDF format, not just as streaming data on our Xerox, and we wanted to be able to put it out on a secured website so that agents could get to these documents and download them, said Kevin Battreall, systems administrator for Grinnell.
Companies must now keep record of employee emails
If you say it, write it, or type it using computers and electronic devices on the job, expect your employer to save it and store it.
New federal electronic discovery rules set by the Supreme Court now require American companies to keep track of and back up all electronic documents in case it is needed for litigation cases.
"The contents of your communications, the location you're at, your email, your Blackberry, your pager, your thumbdrive, your iPod, all will be discoverable," said Mark Rasch, Solutionary Security Systems. It's relevant digital information that could serve as evidence if a company is sued, like in the case of Enron. Employees there were accused of shredding paper documents.
Large companies must now be able to retrieve electronic documents that could provide a trail in court.
Ken Rodriguez: During police audit, 'shredding was going on eight hours a day'
On the third floor at SAPD, behind secured doors that opened only with a pass code, a machine was shredding reams of paper. It was August, and city auditors were asking tough questions about a bungled, high-tech project. The project to computerize crime reports had become a technical failure, a financial disaster. Direct Report Entry, as it was called, also had become steeped in secrecy. The project manager, Mark Kozielski, worked under tight security on the third floor. Auditors wanted original invoices for purchased computer parts. Police did not have originals. Auditors wanted an itemized breakdown of multiple purchases that appeared under one price on receipts. Police could not provide an itemized accounting. Auditors wanted documentation showing that computer vendors received payment only after their work had tested successfully.
Shred to prevent identity theft
"You can imagine the pit in your stomach," said Smolow, of Englewood Equity. "It's an awful feeling knowing there is nothing I can do." Smolow has found a way to help prevent other people from becoming victims of identity theft. Englewood Equity is bringing Secure Document Destruction, of Punta Gorda, to its office in Century Plaza on Saturday for free onsite shredding. Residents can bring up to four file boxes or four paper sacks of documents to be shredded for free from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 2061 Englewood Road. Smolow got the idea for the shredding spree while visiting his mom. "In Philly, they have events like this nearly every week," he said. The shredded documents are "turned into confetti and recycled," Smolow said. Smolow investigated a few companies and found the Punta Gorda-based Secure Document Destruction.
Shredding for added business security
Duplo International has expanded its Ideal range of quality business shredders, with the launch of three new performance models. The Ideal 2360, Ideal 2403 and Ideal 2404 shredders offer improved shredding capability and increased capacity for users, as well as advanced control and safety features.
The new Ideal business shredders include an intelligent Easy Switch control element with large, colour-coded and back-lit illuminated symbols to indicate the operational status of the machine. In addition, the models feature Ideal's unique SPS Safety Protection System, which ensures that the highest standards of safety and reliability are upheld. The innovative SPS includes an electronically controlled safety flap in the feed opening, automatic reverse and power cut-off in the event of over loading or paper jam, automatic stop upon door-opening or a full bag, and double motor protection against over heating.
Hundreds of property owners to receive $25000 gift.
Santa Claus is coming to Rotonda West early this year. He's dropping gift packages worth $25,000 on hundreds of fortunate property owners. Except for a name change, this is a true story. But this wonderful Christmas story isn't unfolding in winter snow. It's unfolding under subtropical breezes in the Pine Valley section of Rotonda West. Once a cattle ranch, it's now a subdivision where the typical backyard view consists of scrub and woods. Several weeks ago, I was reading the morning paper when I heard strange noises in the distance. I had two more cups of coffee, but the noises didn't go away. A hunch led me to Pine Valley where large earthmoving machines were shredding the woods (visit my blog for video). Whether or not Santa Claus was driving those machines, the results will be the same.
Officials use shredder to recycle unneeded records
The presence of a mobile paper-shredding truck outside the Cole County Courthouse Friday morning had some people calling the newspaper with questions and news tips.
But officials said the shredder was part of the county's routine business.“We shredded the remaining blank ballots from the last election, and then we shredded (records from) the last two elections that were over 21 months old," said Cole County Clerk Marvin Register. “We only have to keep those for 21 months."Prosecutor Bill Tackett also has paper documents that, on a regular basis, get recycled through the shredding process.After the documents are stored electronically, he said, “They come in every so often and they're shredded after that."No paper is destroyed if the law says it's supposed to be saved, Tackett said.Register said his office doesn't have space to keep the older, voted ballots, when there no longer is any chance for a recount demand and state law no longer requires them to be held.
New rules compel saving e-mails
An obscure change in the rules regarding production of evidence in federal court will force companies to better manage the volumes of electronic information they generate and keep. Under an amendment to the federal rules of civil procedure, business executives and corporate lawyers who are expecting to be sued will now have to preserve electronic data with the same care and diligence they would use in preserving documents. In other words, no shredding of paper and no deleting e-mails when there's a likelihood of legal action. "It's a very big deal," said Daniel Gelb, a Boston-area attorney who specializes in electronic discovery. Instead of deciding how to handle electronic data on a case-by-case basis, the new rules "codify how lawyers should handle electronic discovery." "For law firms and organizations that don't do a lot of electronic discovery, this is going to be a major awakening," Douglas Herman of UHY Advisors said.
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