| Credit card industry tries to hook young people
All major banking institutions pay big money to colleges and universities for on-campus recruiting rights, offering students low initial interest rates and/or other sweetheart deals if they accept a credit card. The rest of us get solicitations through our phone or the mails.Seductive sales campaigns focus on high school graduates and for all kinds of items that TV, movies or society has told them they want, need, should have because they deserve it and others have, so why don't they? Car dealers offer "one-time sales events" to first-time wage earners, high-end electronic stores give 90-day-same-as-cash deals and guarantee that no one will be turned down, furniture showrooms offer newlyweds "no payments 'til next year," cell phones, Internet providers, cable companies, satellite dish outfits all make it sound as if you can't have a decent life without their help.All this has given birth to an additional parasite - the debt-consolidation, paycheck-cashing, payday-loan, instant-refinancing-of-your-car (and you get to keep your car - 'til they come to take it away) industry.Public schools teach kids how to drive, play sports, fit a condom, take birth control pills, find an abortionist or fill out a job application at McDonald's.
Debt Management: Reduce Financial Worries, have Smooth Life
Summary: Debt management plans help you to reduce your debt and interest burden and live a smooth life. These plans merge your entire debts into a single low-interest and borrower-friendly loan plan. People who are struggling to pay multiple credit card bills or feel being caught in the debt trap should opt for immediate and effective financial solutions. These people should consider the loan plans available in the UK financial market to avoid paying accruing interest charges. Those who continue to struggle with mounting credit card debts are simply wasting their hard-earned money, if they continue to battle with unrealistic interest charges. A simple loan plan could take away the suffocating effects of using plastic money. The rescuing options for people in such situations are opting for consolidation plans and availing effective debt advices as offered by several financial institutions.
NewVoiceMedia helps Parcelforce become PCI-DSS Compliant
London 20 November: NewVoiceMedia, Europes largest hosted contact centre service provider announced today that it is helping Parcelforce comply with the Payment Card IndustryData Security Standard (PCI-DSS). The PCI-DSS which comes into force this year, is designed to increase security for card payments and will impact all contact centres taking credit card details from callers. Currently staff in many contact centres can access customers card details over their computers or write them down during the phone call with a caller. Apart from the process inefficiencies, it exposes the contact centre to potential fraud as agents could pass this information on to others. The new system from NewVoiceMedia will allow Parcelforce customers to make highly secure card payments either over the phone or via the internet.
There's something rotten about Enchanted .
It looks like the 2007 holiday season has found its grandma movie, that family-friendly release you can schlep the whole clan to without spending the entire running time regretting your own birth. Enchanted, the Disney fairy tale spoof starring Amy Adams as an animated heroine who's banished from her cartoon kingdom to live-action New York, earned $50.5 million in its first week, winning the holiday weekend and outperforming every Disney Thanksgiving release since Toy Story 2 (1999). Adams, an actress who's dwelt on the edge of recognizablity for the past several years (nominated for a supporting-actress Oscar for Junebug in 2005, she also did a multiepisode stint on The Office and gave Will Ferrell a memorably suggestive pep talk in Talladega Nights), will no doubt become a household name and a hot Hollywood property as a result of Enchanted.
David Cameron's fudge on faith school 'fakes'
Mr Cameron will learn this year whether his own daughter has won a place at a state-funded Church of England school in Kensington, West London. This month The Times reported a surge in late baptisms into the Catholic Church, further evidence that some parents may be finding religion at a convenient moment in their children’s education. Fears that middle-class parents are adopting religion to get their children into popular schools have led some Labour MPs to call for an end to the expansion of faith schools. .
Work release for two in Roslyn school scandal
Two of the four people sentenced to prison for their part in the $11-million Roslyn schools embezzlement scandal are out on work release, state corrections officials said.
Debra Rigano, the former accounts clerk who was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in October 2006, works outside of a correctional facility seven days a week, officials said. At night, she returns to Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan, where she'll be eligible for release in September.
Officials declined to say where Rigano works, citing privacy concerns.
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Testing home school students has merit
Also, what makes a parent fit to teach their children? Did they attend college? Did they get certified? Do they have to dedicate their summers to continueing education? Nope. But guess what? All the teachers at the abhorrently substandard public schools do. " .
Election Commission laptop harddrive found
Metro Police confirmed late Thursday they have recovered the hard drive from the laptop computer, containing names and complete Social Security numbers for 337,000 registered voters, that was stolen from the Election Commission in December.Police said Election Commission staff viewed and confirmed the information stored on the seized hard drive came from the stolen computer that gave them the most concern.Officials did not disclose where the hard drive, a router and other computer components were found, citing the ongoing investigation. Police do not yet know if any of the other seized equipment — including additional hard drives — came from a second malfunctioning laptop also stolen from the Election Commission. Computer experts have begun the process of examining the files and data components to determine if they have been accessed or tampered with, according to police.Detectives are “vigorously" pursuing leads and expect to make additional arrests in the case, according to a news release.The main suspect in the case, Robert Osbourne, admitted to police Thursday that he broke into the Davidson County Election Commission Dec.
Police name murder victim
POLICE have named the teenager murdered in Erith at the weekend as 18-year-old Faridon Alizada. The post-mortem examination, which took place yesterday, gave the cause of death as two stab wounds to the chest. Mr Alizada who was also known as Fighterrr was a member of the IVS gang. A murder inquiry was launched after police were called to a reported stabbing incident in a third floor flat in Verona House, Waterhead Close in Erith. When police arrived at 3am on Saturday they found three youths in their mid to late teens suffering from stab wounds. One of the youths, Mr Alizada, believed to be from the Woolwich area, was pronounced dead at the scene. .
LSU has info for coaching search
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