| City madam loses appeal over three-year jail sentence
THE woman behind one of Southampton's biggest prostitution rings has had her appeal to cut her sentence refused. Judges at London's Court of Appeal upheld Sharon Moir's three-year jail term despite the fact she argued it was "manifestly excessive". The 47-year-old was convicted in June this year of running brothels and inciting and controlling prostitution for personal gain. She had been caught out after a police officer went undercover for an interview and Moir told her how to conduct herself as a prostitute. Mr Justice Cooke said there was "economic coercion" by Moir - who would have between 10 and 12 girls a day working at her brothels in the city - in that she would take their work away if they didn't work extra hours. See today's Daily Echo for the full story.
IT UK Admits To Another Record Data Loss of 3 Million Records
Security remains an increasingly hot topic, as everyone from nuclear plant officials to everyday citizens continue to show a lack of savvy for protecting themselves online. Between lax data and network management procedures at government and business facilities, to users giving up personal information for an abstract sense of "trust", the greatest threat to public and government security is not some malicious hacker, but the users and officials themselves. Britain is seeing the catastrophic consequences of this ignorance, but it is unlikely to be alone as users struggle to separate real threats from fiction and safeguard themselves in the 21st century digital world. .
First Advantage to Provide Consumer Leads on DealerTrack's Leads ...
First Advantage to Provide Consumer Leads on DealerTrack's Leads Network LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DealerTrack, Inc., a subsidiary of DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRAK) , a leading provider of on-demand software and data solutions for the U.S. automotive retail industry, today announced that the Dealer Services segment of First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FADV) has agreed to offer high-quality purchase request, subprime and bankruptcy consumer leads through the DealerTrack Leads Network(TM). The DealerTrack Leads Network enables dealers to take greater control of the leads purchasing process by only buying the leads they need. "We are pleased to have First Advantage, one of the industry's largest leads providers, offer quality leads to our mutual dealer customers through the DealerTrack Leads Network," said Mark O'Neil, chairman and chief executive officer of DealerTrack.
Renting 'green'? Not so easy
We're not going to be able to save the world," says Andy Taylor, Enterprise's chief executive, "but we think we can have an effect on the space where we play every day as a business. And we think that's what our customers and especially our employees want us to do." But - and you knew there would be a "but" - Enterprise can only do so much. Its customers, and those of sister brands Alamo and National, aren't guaranteed a hybrid rental car because there aren't enough of them for the company to buy. Most of its flex-fuel cars never run on ethanol because E85 filling stations are scarce. And fewer than one in 10 customers so far are paying the extra $1.25 per rental to offset their carbon emissions. Green is a popular theme in the rental car business these days. Hertz, for instance, markets its "Green Collection" and offers hybrids at 50 U.S.
Bush in Arkansas -- UPDATE
Just blow a kiss to your favorite Monkey Boy. It's an unfunded mandate. Bush is no stranger to unfunded mandates. NCLB is another unfunded mandate. If we can raise $12 billion per month to fight for Eron, EXXON, Mobil, Haliburton, etc in Iraq, the balance of funding needed for SCHIPS will not be difficult. .
'GM has its product mojo back,' exec Lutz says
Legendary General Motors Corp. executive Bob Lutz grinned broadly as the green Tahoe Hybrid he was in clawed and bounced its way up a steep, sandy hill in Decatur. It was probably an apt metaphor for the battle-scarred automaker. After years of uninspired vehicles, deep losses and dramatic declines in market share, a rejuvenated GM has brought a string of strong new cars and trucks to market, and it's now shipping out its best mainstream car in decades: the 2008 Chevrolet Malibu. The 99-year-old company is elbowing its way back into the highly competitive auto game with new vehicles such as the Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs, the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, the Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia crossovers, the Saturn Vue small SUV, Cadillac CTS midsize sedan and the Malibu. "The job's not done," said Mr.
UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News
AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Spam doesn't just mean the canned pork product, but also has an Internet usage, U.S. trademark guardians say.
Hormel Foods Corp. in Austin, Minn., sued Seattle software-maker Spam Arrest to try to stop it from using the capitalized word "Spam" as a trademark name. But the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled against Hormel, saying people won't confuse software that blocks unwanted e-mails with the iconic canned meat that's been around for 70 years, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reported Thursday.
Spam Arrest attorney Derek Newman says the ruling clears the way for other companies to use the word in trademarked product names when battling Internet spam.
"Spam Arrest fought this battle for the whole software industry," Newman told the Star Tribune.
Hobbit hominids were 'dwarf cretins'
AUSTRALIAN scientists are causing controversy in the usually placid world of anthropology, becoming embroiled in a feud about diminutive "hobbit" people whose fossilised remains were found in a cave on a remote Indonesian island four years ago. Combatting a bid to have the hobbits enshrined as a separate branch of the human family tree, they argue the tiny cave-dwellers were simply Homo sapiens who became stunted and retarded as a result of iodine deficiency in pregnancy. Dubbed after the wee folk in J.R.R. Tolkien's tale, the hominids - just a metre tall and with a chimp-sized brain - lived around 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores. The Australian-Indonesian team which announced the discovery in 2004 honoured the cave-dwellers with the name of "Homo floresiensis," or "Man of Flores," to bolster their claim that the hobbits were a new species of human.
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His powder-searching ways continued after college, landing him in Vail for a few years before it eventually became too crowded, too trendy. A move to Aspen ended with the same claustrophobic result. And so it went, Royall's quest for a quiet skiing sanctuary going on for years, taking him to places like Steamboat Springs, Taos, Sun Valley. And it always ended the same: moving out when the crowds moved in. The nomadic journey seemed to come to an end about 20 years ago when he arrived in Jackson, Wyo., a place still oozing that dusty-floor saloon charm of the Old West. But, like all the other ski towns that had lured Royall with their charms, Jackson changed, attracting fuzzy-jacket-wearing out-of-towners to the slopes and trendy shops with pricey paintings and sparkly T-shirts.
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