European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 62007 stars and stripes Page 11 in the states new Orleans mayor disputes aides numbers new Orleans new or leans mayor Ray Nagin on thurs Day said the cites recovery director was mistaken when he said pre katrina Hurricane population estimates of 455000 were too High and were kept on the books so the City could get benefits de Blakely told the australian broadcasting corp he believes there were perhaps 325000 peo ple in new Orleans when katrina hit in 2005 and that the City now is within 100000 residents of its pre storm population the cites recovery from the storm is widely believed to have been sluggish Nagin said Blakely was con fused about the numbers Cheney Brigham Young speech is protested Provo Utah More than 200 demonstrators held a quiet rally wednesday at Brigham Young University to protest vice president Dick Cheney upcoming commencement speech while his supporters staged a counter protest Cheney will be the commence ment speaker april 26 at by a conservative school owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of lat Ter Day saints the invitation from mormon Church officials has drawn criticism from some students and faculty who claim the school is show ing a partisan Stripe despite Church insistence it has no Alle Giance to any political party the ant Cheney protesters passed out leaflets that slammed the vice presidents support for the Iraq War the United states prisoner interrogation method and Cheney ties to his former employer Halliburton co astronaut trial judge limit Media Contact Orlando Fla the judge presiding Over the trial of fired astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak asked lawyers on both sides thursday to limit Media Contact and temporarily sealed some court documents Nowak is accused of trying to Kidnap a rival for a space shuttle pilots affections the Case has drawn International attention and Orange county circuit judge Marc l Lubet said he was just trying to keep the Media frenzy Down to a Dull Roar police say Nowak drove from Houston to Florida to confront air Force capt Colleen Shipman in an Orlando Airport parking lot and then Pepper sprayed her ship Man who was dating astronaut Bill Oefelein was Able to get away from the associated press government irs files on taxpayers May be at risk by Kathleen Day the Washington Post Washington thousands of taxpayers could be at risk of identity theft or other financial fraud because the internal reve nue service has failed to adequately protect information on its 52000 Laptop computers and other storage systems a new government report concludes the irs did not begin to adequately Correct the Security prob lems until the second half of 2006 despite being warned about them in 2003 and again in february 2006 according to a report by the inspector general of the irs j Russell George if taxpayers dont feel their personal information is protected that could make them less Likely to voluntarily file their taxes said assistant inspector general Margaret e Begg whose audit ing office studied irs Security policies and practices in place from january 2003 through mid june 2006 nearly 500 irs laptops were lost or stolen during that Svi year period Many from the Homes or cars of irs workers but a significant number 111 from irs offices the report found the irs says one Laptop typically contains information on 10 to 25 tax cases although the missing laptops could not be examined the inspector generals staff tested 100 Lap tops currently used by irs employees and found 44 had Unen cry Ted sensitive data including taxpayer data and employee personnel data leading investigators to conclude it is very Likely a Large number of the lost or stolen irs computers contained similar a encrypted data no report of identity theft has been linked to the missing Lap tops and no taxpayers have been alerted to the potential Security breaches irs officials say in previous reports in 2003 and 2006 the irs inspector generals office found that Agency employees often failed to encrypt information on laptops and that pass words and other Access codes were often easy to bypass the new report released wednesday found not Only that the Laptop problems persisted through much of 2006 but identified for the first time similar Secu Rity holes in backup systems at irs Field and processing offices around the country in one in stance an employee wrote user account names and passwords to the computer and various sys tems to which the employee has Access on a piece of paper that was taped to the Laptop the re port says the report attributes the newly identified shortcomings at irs offices to a Lack of emphasis by management  directory select Beers 6 fresh on tap comfortable atmosphere English speaking staff wednesday Candle Light night us  restaurant chinese new years Buffet 17 february 2007 1830 2130 for Only 1230c per person Lurich Buffet c evening Buffet fnvssatt8302130 710c 1 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