| Southwest Airlines Selects Interceptas(TM) Fraud Prevention Solution ...
CHICAGO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Accertify, a Chicago-based provider of leading-edge fraud prevention solutions to online retailers, today announced that Southwest Airlines has selected its Interceptas solution to fight credit card fraud and ensure a high-quality experience for Customers. "Southwest is committed to running the best airline in the world and offering Customers the best overall travel experience," said Dodd Roberts, Director, Accounting Operations at Southwest Airlines. "Providing the best possible experience to the growing number of Customers who book online is a key part of that commitment." "We chose Accertify because its solution is the most comprehensive, flexible, efficient and easy to manage," Roberts said. "Interceptas will enhance our fraud prevention capabilities, help Southwest maintain a low cost structure and ensure a superior overall experience for Customers purchasing on southwest.com." Interceptas is the first end-to-end solution that addresses the entire business process of combating fraud from the perspective of the online travel merchant.
Chase Paymentech Debuts Website for Small and Medium Businesses
DALLAS, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC, has launched a new website designed to help small and medium sized businesses affordably accept credit card payments. The new site, http://merchantaccount.chasepaymentech.com, provides business owners with a simple, easy to use guide to access the latest Chase Paymentech payment processing tools. The site allows businesses to research payment products that fit their needs and offers quick access to experts who can customize a program to each business' requirements. These programs feature reliable terminals, low interchange rates to process credit card transactions and even custom gift card programs. Solutions can be designed for merchants who need secure payment solutions over the Internet, point-of- sale, telephone, or mail order.
BBC series seeks top disabled model
The BBC is launching a TV talent search for disabled models. Britain's Missing Top Model will see eight women compete before a panel of industry experts. The five-part series aims "to challenge preconceived notions of beauty". The winner will land a spread in a women's glossy magazine, shot by one of the world's top fashion photographers. BBC3 controller Danny Cohen said: "This series aims to challenge the artificial boundaries that seem to exist in the beauty and fashion industries. "It would be great if in the future we began to see more disabled models gracing the covers of the world's magazines." Producer Richard McKerrow, of Love Productions, said: "Our intention is to empower both the women featured in the project and thousands of others, who shouldn't be invisible to the fashion industry just because they are disabled people.
Fame and fortune: Trisha Goddard
On the one hand I'm a hoarder, and I think that's because there was never any extra money around when I was a child. I didn't get given pocket money – I had to do jobs so I've always been a grafter. But there's another part of me that loves to spend money because I still can't believe it when my account is not in the red. I find a good credit balance is a source of great excitement. Are you cautious with money or liberal? I'm somewhere between. As soon as I get paid anything 40 per cent of it goes offshore and sits in a deposit account waiting for the taxman. Other than that I believe money is to be enjoyed, so when it comes to holidays, for example, I won't scrimp. A New York taxi driver said to me, "I never saw a Securicor van in a funeral procession", and that's how I feel about spending money on the family.
David Blott from Moncton, NB, Canada writes:
If that is the case then why won't Harper state that he believes Canada should stay in it current role beyond 2009 instead of hiding behind both the Manley Commission and a spring vote that he knows has little likelihood of happening as the odds are Canadians will be in an election campaign?
Leadership would require that Harper makes his ambitions known now, not at some point in the future. Posted 27/12/07 at 1:05 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Oh come, come, headmaster - private schools are pretend charities
Many aid charities are little more than government agencies and what the government finances it must account for to the public. But when the payment takes the form of tax relief – such as £1.5m to just one private secondary school – what form can that account take? The government cannot deliver all communal needs. The marketplace often does so more efficiently and the voluntary sector more sensitively. Many people find public services so anonymous they prefer the concept of voluntary welfare, especially where the charity is small and donors can monitor where their money is going. To this demand, charitable institutions offer diversity and choice. But they operate under a light regulatory touch – albeit now made heavier by the Charity Commission’s crippling 109-page code of practice.
Legal threats put Bra Boys on wave of worry
While waivers were sought from many who featured in the real-life drama, executives acting for Universal Pictures, who bought the rights to make a feature film of the story, are believed to have raised concerns over any new legal complications. Meanwhile, UK tabloid The Daily Star reported yesterday that Russell Crowe had been warned against his association with the Sydney gang. Crowe, who narrated the doco, has signed on to direct the feature film. Quoting an unnamed Australian police source, The Daily Star Sunday article read: "Russell loves the idea of being a real hard man and not just a movie action star. But he doesn't know who he's mixing with." .
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY OUTLOOK
A more fact-based and empirical approach to policymaking promises systematically better results. . . . To address [data] gaps, policymakers should invest in collecting additional data and tracking a core set of indicators over time. They must also set clear policy targets and incorporate indicators and reporting into policy formation, and shift toward more analytically rigorous environmental protection efforts at the global, regional, national, state/provincial, local, and corporate scales. . . . The absence of broadly-collected and methodologically-consistent indicators for even basic concerns such as water quality--and the complete lack of time-series data for most countries--hampers efforts to shift pollution control and natural resource management onto more empirical foundations.[9] The EPI concedes that lack of data makes it impossible to consider numerous relevant environmental issues in constructing an international performance ranking.[10] One area in which data is easy to come by or estimate confidently from resource-use models is energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and it is on this metric that the United States fares poorly in the EPI's methodology because the EPI assigns one-quarter of its weighting to three climate change metrics.
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