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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/08/02 Part 1



There are 10 stories in this posting.

Birmingham News 01/03/02
Privacy rules changing for medical industry
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10100529073040616.xml

by Anna Velasco
Soundproofing doctors' offices and use of numbers rather than names to call patients to the exam room are some of the changes in store for health care when new federal privacy rules take effect.
Enforcement of the 1,700 pages of privacy rules will not start until April 2003, but health care providers are scrambling now to figure out how to comply.



Albuquerque Tribune 01/08/02
Your word alone won't replace lost records
http://www.abqtrib.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=FABLES-01-08-02&cat=BX

by A.J. Cook
Scripps Howard News Service
A small consulting firm on the 93rd floor lost equipment and documents in the Sept.11 collapse of the World Trade Center's south tower. Fortunately, all five employees survived.
Now business owner Patrick Duroseau is putting his business back together. One problem he will face is estimating his company's taxable income - he lost all his records in the attack.



Arlington Morning News 01/09/02
City offering e-mail updates
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/arlington/grand_prairie/STORY.eb480fb2db.b0.af.0.a4.e05.html

by Stephanie Sandoval
Dallas Morning News
Internet surfers can now get automatic e-mail updates from the city on subjects ranging from open tee times at the two municipal golf courses to new postings on the Police Department's sex-offender database.
Visitors to the city's website at www.gptx.org can subscribe to receive e-mail messages whenever information on their selected topics is updated.



Asheville Citizen-Times 01/08/02
New database will link health-care providers with patient information
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/technology/4570

by Leslie Boyd
ASHEVILLE - Dr. James Keel III, a specialist in critical care, sees patients who might not be able to tell him whether they have life-threatening allergies to medications or whether they have a second medical condition that might complicate their treatment. Some arrive unconscious or confused, and no one may be with them to answer Keel's questions.



BBC News 01/08/02
Sarah documents thief jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1748000/1748773.stm

A computer expert from Brighton has been jailed for a year for stealing documents and photographs relating to the Sarah Payne murder inquiry.
Christopher Charles Branscombe, 21, pleaded guilty to taking the papers, including a photo of Sarah's dead body, from the solicitor who defended Roy Whiting, and then selling them to various media organisations.



Business Week 01/08/02
How e-mail could foil fraudsters
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf2002018_3454.htm

by Alex Salkever
Let's say you buy a pair of hiking shorts online at adventure-sports outfitter Patagonia.com. Within minutes, you get an e-mail saying your order has been received and giving you a order-confirmation number. And you'll get another e-mail when the order actually ships.



Washington Post 01/09/02
Obituary: Charles Otstot; CIA analyst, Archivist of OSS papers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16955-2002Jan8.html

by Claudia Levy
Charles Mathieson Otstot, 75, a retired analyst with the CIA whose volunteer work with the National Archives helped establish a database of World War II intelligence documents, died of prostate cancer Dec. 25 at Powhatan Nursing Home. He lived in Arlington.



The Times-Daily 01/08/02
Council considers public records ordinance
http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/12848newsstories.html

by Russ Corey
FLORENCE - The public will have to submit a written request in order to obtain public documents if the City Council approves an ordinance today as expected.
The proposal is based on one in Hoover. That ordinance requires that people seeking public records make their request in writing, identify the exact record being sought and state the reason for their request.



Detroit Free Press 01/08/02
Technology provides a hard lesson
http://www.freep.com/news/metro/des8_20020108.htm

by Desiree Cooper
When I first entered the wired world, I parked my hard drive in a nice neighborhood. I didn't visit chat rooms. I rarely got e-mail messages from people I didn't know, and when I did, I didn't open the attachments. I bought a zip drive to store my most precious files. I snuggled down, safe in my own little corner of the ether.
But while I wasn't looking, my virtual neighborhood started to go down.



Duluth Tribune 01/09/02
Assembly committee approves privacy bill
http://web.duluthnews.com/content/duluth/2002/01/09/local/du_PRIV0109.htm

by JR Ross
AP
MADISON -- Wisconsin's Open Records Law would have new guidelines on releasing public employees' personnel files and appealing the release of those documents under a bill an Assembly committee approved unanimously Tuesday.
The proposals are meant to end confusion over what information about public employees can be kept confidential and what must be released to the public.


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