| Experian Consumer Direct With FamilySecure.com Sponsors the Joyful ...
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian Consumer Direct(SM), the leading provider of online direct-to-consumer credit reports, scores and monitoring products including FamilySecure.com, today announced its support of The Joyful Feast, a fundraising event designed to celebrate The Joyful Child Foundation's accomplishments and raise funds to expand its efforts to prevent predatory crimes against children. The event takes place Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. at The Grove of Anaheim, Calif. and features a live, half-hour acoustic performance by Grammy-winning artist Cyndi Lauper. The Joyful Child Foundation is a nonprofit, for public benefit organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse and abduction through programs that unite and uplift communities. The foundation was inspired by the life of Samantha Runnion, whose life was cut short after being abducted in front of her Orange County, Calif.
Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido (who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech). But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers' data. The story draws attention to a complex Web of potentially conflicting interests involving Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, the law firm she used to work for, her husband who still works for it, how that law firm represents one of the big three credit reporting bureaus, and whether or not the FTC has morphed into an agent of the credit reporting bureaus' success from the consumer guardian that The People have entrusted it to be. While the targets of this follow-the-money like inquest deny any impropriety, I can certainly understand the position of Robert Kuttner, author of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity who, who in response to the USA Today inquiry, said: Federal agencies that are supposed to be looking out for the consumer are really protecting the companies that do bad things the agencies were set up to prevent.
MCM students have their way, end stir
You will find residences housing not just beauty salons and gymnasiums, but also small-scale industrial units manufacturing gates and wrought-iron furniture. Though the building bylaws clearly state that residential premises cannot be used for anything else than residential purposes without seeking prior permission from the authorities concerned, the violation of rules in most parts is blatant. In Chandigarh, the Administration has allowed nursing homes to operate from residential buildings by relaxing the norms. Besides, doctors, architects, chartered accountants and lawyers have also been permitted to use a portion of their residential premises for professional activity. Norms have been relaxed to allow PCOs and STD booths to function from these areas. But a visit to different parts of the city, including Sectors 25 and 45, is enough to reveal that even provision, general merchandise and stationary stores are functioning from houses and adjoining garages.
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail
Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a "fairy tale" about his opposition to the Iraq war. Black leaders have criticized their comments, and Obama said Sunday her comment about King was "ill-advised." ___ THE DEMOCRATS Barack Obama makes stops in Nevada. John Edwards talks to voters in South Carolina, while Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns in New York. ___ THE REPUBLICANS John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney talk to voters in Michigan. Fred Thompson greets voters in South Carolina. Rudy Giuliani visits supporters in Florida. ___ QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If you want somebody who believes the status quo is just fine, you have plenty of choices." _ Republican Mike Huckabee, at a rally in Augusta, Mich.
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