| Contractor loses La. scholarship account data dating back to 1998
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Boston-based contractor hired to store and safeguard state scholarship and college savings account data lost most of those records _ including bank account numbers and student and parent Social Security numbers _ during a move, officials say. "We certainly don't want to create any panic. But people should be aware and take the necessary steps," said Melanie Amrhein, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance. "This is backup data off of a mainframe that contains sensitive personal information." Special equipment and software and "sophisticated computer skills" would be needed to get the compressed records from the TOPS scholarship program, START Saving Program, and Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to a notice posted on the Internet.
Candidates fight for S.C. and Nevada, look to Super Tuesday
Republicans vote Saturday and Democrats weigh in Jan. 2. Nevada caucuses are also being held Saturday. Daily Gamecock took a look at the Republican candidates fighting for first on Saturday. The newspaper's Jackie Alexander also took time to talk with UWIRE Campus Pulse about the level of student participation in the upcoming South Carolina primary, support for Ron Paul and the role of gender and race in the election. Related UWIRE Op/EdsThe Futile Obama phenomenon Huckabee's worrisome ties to an extremist movement Team Hillary cribs GOP race-baiting playbook McCain best embodies America Romney visits U. South Carolina campus Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spoke on family, military and economic issues to students and supporters Wednesday night in the Russell House Ballroom.
Sverdlovsk Region
Nearly 2000 public organizations are registered at the regional legal department; most of them operate in Ekaterinburg. The city celebrated its 275th anniversary in 1998.
Today, Ekaterinburg is one of Russia's most dynamic cities in the economic and political sense. Churches are being rebuilt, and the city is developing rapidly. New prospects are combined with respect for former city traditions.
HISTORY
Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723, when Lieutenant-General Georg Wilhelm (Villim Ivanovich) de Gennin commissioned a factory fortress built on the Iset River and named it Ekaterinburg.
Lieutenant Commander Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev chose the construction site for the new factory in early 1721. It was a secure, resource-rich location, with good land and abundant forests.
Primaries post most agonizing choices
If it's any consolation, this is the hard part. When it comes time for the general election campaign, voters will be faced with a clear choice on the major issues. The primaries, meanwhile, are forcing us to figure out not just who the candidates are, but who we are as well. On what is now the issue of greatest concern, according to surveys -- the flagging economy -- Democrats and Republicans truly seem to live in different solar systems. All three leading Democratic contenders have set forth elaborate stimulus plans, all three have ideas for rescuing families caught in the subprime mortgage trap, and all three serve up their proposals with great heaping buckets of empathy. Message: They care. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee does the empathy part but then shifts quickly to his weird idea about replacing the income tax with a consumption tax.
Is DGL the newest relief for heartburn?
Q: I have mild heartburn, especially at night. My friend told me to take DGL. What is that? Would you recommend it for heartburn? A: DGL is an abbreviation for "deglycyrrhizinated licorice." (Bless the child who ever gets strapped with that one at a spelling bee.) It's licorice minus glycyrrhizin, a compound that can cause high blood pressure and low levels of potassium in the blood if you eat too much of it. In herbal medicine, the root of the licorice plant is used to help soothe and release spasms from the digestive tract, among other things. DGL is pretty interesting, because in the lab it seems to increase mucous production and grow the cells lining the stomach. These are the natural protective mechanisms the body uses to protect itself against stomach acid.
Political background to the CPE protests
We are reposting the following series of articles on the revolt of the French working class in November-December 1995 in the hope that it will help to clarify the political background to the present upheaval in that country. The ongoing revolt by millions of youth and workers is a further response to the effort by the French ruling class to slash or eliminate entirely the social gains made in decades of struggle. In November-December 1995, the working class revolted against efforts by the right-wing regime of Prime Minister Alain Juppé to reform the social security system, just as today the government of Dominique de Villepin is reforming Frances labor laws. In 1995 millions of workers, led by the transport workers in particular, rejected the claims made by the government and the media and recognized the maneuver for what it wasan attempt to shift the burden of the social costs on to the back of the working population.
Your views on the Green debate
Poll Results The Americans are ahead again. This time it's in their negative attitudes towards the "green imperative". We asked for your feedback in December and followed up with a quick poll in January. Our thanks to the 3,000 or so folk who responded. But what a stark contrast between North American respondents and the rest of the English-speaking world. Freeform Dynamics has analysed the responses to January's poll and discovered that the mood, by and large, is that "something must be done". But a significant dissenting minority exists in the US. Forty per cent of respondents there regard the "green imperative" as scaremongering or hype, compared with a 20.7 per cent average in the rest of the world. Take a look at the red bars in this chart: Among other things, web activity logs provide details of the browser and operating system being used, so Freeform made another cut according to the operating system being used.
Governor proposes lean operating budget
After a bruising special session to address Maryland's chronic deficits, Gov. Martin O'Malley proposed one of the leanest state budgets in the past two decades, relying on cuts in open space and road maintenance and a slowdown in an education spending initiative to place the state on sound financial footing.
The governor proposed a 4 percent increase in the state's operating budget - the lowest in five years and one of the lowest in the past 25 years. A 7.5 percent increase was approved by the General Assembly last year.
O'Malley, a Democrat in his second year in office, has been working to put his stamp on the state's government but has been constrained by a structural budget deficit, projected at $1.7 billion for the fiscal year that begins in July.
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