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RAIN 12/03: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 14 stories in this posting.


Billings Gazette 12/01
U.S. requires ear tags on sheep to allay concerns over disease
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/21-scrapies.inc

by Jim Gransbery
Although there is no evidence linking scrapie in sheep and goats to mad cow disease or to the human form of the degenerative malady, U.S. sheep producers are now required to ear tag identify all their animals except lambs under 18 months going directly to slaughter.



Boston Globe 02/01
Web archive focuses on Jewish women
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/335/metro/Web_archive_focuses_on_Jewish_women+.shtml

by Michael Paulson
It was a presentation by an archivist that really stunned Gail Twersky Reimer: the archivist had done a quick survey of papers of Jewish women contained at various libraries, and came to the conclusion that 90 percent of those women were Holocaust survivors.



Budapest Business Journal 11/2601
How reliable is an e-mail?
http://www.bbj.hu/user/article.asp?ArticleID=135372

by Timothy John Smith
A new law went into effect in September governing the use of electronic signatures in Hungary (Act XXXV on electronic signatures - let's call it "the Act" from now on). This harmonizes Hungary's law with the provisions of the EU directive on electronic signatures.
In a nutshell, the Act gives various levels of legal recognition to electronic signature reliability. By clarifying the enforceability of electronic signatures, the Act allows for the use of electronic means to create contracts, thus facilitating electronic commerce.



Chicago Tribune 12/01/01
SEC subpoenas Andersen records in Enron collapse
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0112010123dec01.story?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed

by Delroy Alexander
The search for answers to how Enron Corp. could have fallen from grace so fast has turned to the energy giant's advisers, its Chicago-based auditor confirmed Friday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena calling for Andersen, formerly known as Arthur Andersen, to hand over documents relating to its Enron audits.




National Post 12/01/01
Guarding the vault of the living Dead
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.asp?id={F5DF222A-1E97-4A94-B3E2-7060E66EBB89}

by Barrett Hooper
The old Coca-Cola bottling plant that serves as the headquarters for Grateful Dead Productions looks like any number of industrial buildings in Marin County, 30 minutes north of San Francisco along Highway 101. Low-slung and nondescript, it shows no signs of what's inside -- all the better to keep the band's famously devoted fans from dropping by. Deep within the building that houses the Dead's business offices, where Jerry Garcia still receives letters from fans six years after his death, are a state-of-the-art recording studio, a rehearsal space, a storage room for music and sound equipment, and the 12-person merchandising operation that fills orders for Grateful Dead sports bras, bath salts, dog bowls, and the ubiquitous tie-dyes.




New York Times 12/01/01
Ex-Pentagon officials cleared in Tripp suit
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/national/01TRIP.html?searchpv=nytToday

Two former Pentagon officials who discussed the employment records of Linda R. Tripp with a reporter may not be held personally liable for invading her privacy, a federal judge ruled yesterday.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 12/03/01
Panel tries to fix mess on access to records
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec01/privacy02120101a.asp

by Amy Rinard
You send your kids off to school every morning in the care of a bus driver, but you wonder about his background.
Is he or she a safe driver? Any brushes with the law?
So you try to get answers from public records, starting with the public school system.



Canadian Press 11/30/01
Privacy commissioner voices concern over air-passenger information bill
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={F18FBE5C-8697-4B30-88BE-1F915626BF06}

by Stephen Thorne
OTTAWA (CP) - An anti-terrorism mini-bill being speeded through the Commons could pave the way for "unjustifiable intrusions on the fundamental right of privacy," Canada's privacy commissioner says. The legislation, which would allow airlines to release crew and passenger information to Canadian authorities and foreign governments, easily passed second reading on Friday with little opposition.




Richmond Times Dispatch 12/01/01
Petition filed over destruction
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBB6TJTOUC.html

by Frank Green
When the government destroys the evidence - including potential DNA evidence - in a death penalty case under appeal, who should pay the price: the condemned man or the government?
That is the question at the heart of a habeas petition filed on behalf of Virginia death row inmate Robin Lovitt yesterday in U.S. District Court.




CBS 11 12/01
Restricting open records to be studied
http://www.cbs11tv.com/StoryDisplay.asp?StoryID=7126

by Bill Miller
Star-Telegram Dallas Bureau
DALLAS - Energy producers and utility operators on Tuesday said they favor exemptions to the Texas Open Records Act to keep terrorists from learning the vulnerabilities of crucial infrastructure.
Members of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security agreed to study the requests that would restrict descriptions of "worst-case" emergency scenarios at various facilities such as petroleum storage batteries, pipelines, refineries and water treatment plants.




Dallas Morning News 11/03/01
Death Records enhanced
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lloydbockstruck/STORY.e9ebf6d807.b0.af.0.a4.66132.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
Officials in Charleston, S.C., the oldest Southern city in the United States, began keeping death records in 1819. They did so because of the need to monitor health conditions - especially in the disease-ridden months of June to November.




Dallas Morning News 12/01/01
End of the trail for horseman: retiring advocate of paints has seen registry become world-class
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/STORY.ea80aa7602.b0.af.0.a4.be0f.html

by Nancy Calaway
FORT WORTH - When Ed Roberts joined the American Paint Horse Association in 1975, the group literally painted the horses.
Markers and map pencils were used to illustrate each horse's unique color patterns on its ownership certificate. But with more than 500,000 horses eventually joining the group's registry, the hand-sketched drawings were mercifully replaced by laser-scanned photographs.




The Scotsman 12/01/01
SAB documents 'faked'
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=126430

by Martin Flanagan
BELGIAN brewing giant Interbrew yesterday branded documents leaked to the press about its possible bid for South African Breweries as partly faked - fuelling speculation that someone wanted to derail a takeover approach.
Interbrew said an "unknown source" had falsified parts of a leaked document that suggested a bid might be on the cards.




Richmond Times Dispatch 11/30/01
Va. Attorney discipline records on Web
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBN6N5XOUC.html

Information about an attorney's disciplinary record and whether he or she has legal malpractice insurance is now available on the Internet.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va