GANDHINAGAR: Chief minister Narendra Modi appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed SIT today and was questioned for the first time for his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots that have come back to haunt him.
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In the end, it was a good thing, “just one of those things that brings people closer together,” Jack LaVoy said.
That’s not the usual spin that a husband would put on his wife being convicted for “attempted prostitution” in an all-out effort to obtain Phillies’ World
Series tickets, but I guess we’ll have to take his word for it.
As previously discussed here, during the Fall Classic between the Yankees and Phillies last October, Susan Finkelstein was arrested for allegedly offering undercover police sex for tickets. Earlier this week, a jury of seven women and five men found her not guilty of prostitution, but guilty of attempted prostitution. She faces a maximum one-year sentence on the third-degree misdemeanor.
Her attorney called the conviction “a half a stair step above a traffic ticket” (and I guess a half a stair step below actual prostitution? One and a half stair steps?). He maintains that Finkelstein is “goofy. She’s eccentric. She got nuts with an epidemic case of Phillies Fever. But she’s not a prostitute.”
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If you have never needed a bond until now you’re probably have no idea what a surety bond is.A surety bond is usually required by a state in order to obtain a license. There are thousands of different types of bonds, covering car dealerships to contractors, there’s practically a bond for every type of business.
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Chalk it up necessity and the changing patterns of employment. In 1958, the average job tenure was 23 years. Less than 40 years later, it was down to just three years as workers became more mobile and companies began restructure, downsize and outsource.
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“Times have changed and job security is under pressure,” said Marko Evans, co-founder of Pompano Beach based headhunter firm Now Hiring You. Evans speculates that for someone entering the workforce today at age 20, he or she is likely to have eight of more jobs within the next dozen years and as many as 20 jobs in a career lifetime. That means firms like Evans’, as well as companies across the board; have to focus on recruitment and retention like never before. The results can be the difference between success and failure.
“Recruiters are leveraging the social network sites, like YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as job sites like Dice, Monster, and CareerBuilder,” and Alex Funkhouser, president of the North Bay Village based recruitment firm Sherlock Technology Staffing.
He said tax, audit and consulting firm KPMG held low-cost, high energy contest among its employees to produce videos about why it was great to work at the firm. Hundreds participated worldwide. “The winners were judged by the number of hits and ratings they received on YouTube and other sites,” Funkhouser said. “The contest took on a life of its own and resulted in a boost to recruitment and retention, as employee morale got pumped up.” Social sites can be a double-edged-sword. Funkhouser said he trolls sites for talent. “It can be incredibly effective for finding candidates, just searching by company name,” he noted.
Hiring and retaining qualified personnel is priority No. 1 for the West Palm Beach- based Florida division of Suffolk Construction. With 260 local employees, it is the largest construction company in Palm Beach County and ranked the fourth largest general contractor in the region South Florida Business Journal’s 2008 Book of Lists.
Suffolk recently ranked 40 th among Training Magazine’s Training Top 125 list. It has partnered with the University of Florida to develop and deliver a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-accredited professional designation program, and with Florida Atlantic University of management training.
“Most building professionals know that their training really starts after they’ve received their four-year college degrees, and they know it will last for a lifetime,” said Fred Day, director of training for Suffolk . Day recently served as the national director for apprenticeship and training for Arlington , VA based Associated Builders and Contractors, a major construction industry trade organization that represents more than 25,000 contractor firms. He sees LEED certification as vital for ambitious professionals, as many government entities and municipalities are moving to mandatory LEED requirements. “One of the things we offer our recruits is a diversity of career paths and work types,” Day said.
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Nearly $730,000 in cash, about 1,000 pieces of jewelry and loaded handguns found hidden alongside recording devices in a mobster’s suburban home show there are still plenty of mysteries to unravel about the notorious Chicago Outfit.The discovery in a secret compartment behind a family portrait in Frank Calabrese Sr.’s home - a year after the …
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But there hasn’t been a lot of focus on the internal political rifts that seem to be muddying the waters in at least a couple of states as to whether they wish to participate in the challenge. In Nevada, the attorney general is resisting the governor’s demands to hop on the bandwagon. And in Michigan, vice versa.
In both cases, the question is the same. Is the governor the client, and the AG ultimately subject to his or her demands? Or does the AG, as the state’s chief legal officer, have some room to exercise independent judgment.
In Nevada, AG Catherine Cortez Masto, responding to Governor Jim Gibbons (PDF), played the old Rule 11 card — “I ain’t signing it if I don’t believe it.” And in Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm used AG Mike Cox’s own prior words against him, quoting him as having previously said to the press: “And any case where the state of Michigan is being sued or a state agency
is being sued, she’s the boss, she’s the client. Unless it is clearly
unconstitutional, I am obligated to do what she [Governor Granholm]
says.”
Should be interesting to watch this play out as the legal wrangling continues.
UPDATE:The governor of Washington, Chris Gregoire, is also none too pleased with her state AG’s decision to join the suit. Maybe she should attend his presentation tomorrow at Washington State University, where he’ll be explaining it as part of the “Coffee & Politics” lecture series.
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The term “Pro Se” can bring preconceived notions of failing miserably in the court system against the other party’s attorney. The idea of going it alone in the courtroom throws some people into fits of anxiety and nervousness that may keep them from pursuing any legal issues in court–out of fear.
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A Green Card also known as the Permanent Resident Card, is the evidence of your status as a Lawful Permanent Resident with a right to live and work permanently in the United States. By law, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS, expects green card holders to intimate USCIS about certain changes like change of name or biographic information, loss or damage of the green card.
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The manager for teen pop sensation Justin Bieber has been arrested on New York’s Long Island in connection with a fan frenzy at a mall.
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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Bullock has not been looking for a divorce lawyer – and neither has husband Jesse James, their reps tell PEOPLE.
TMZ reported Tuesday the actress’s representatives “had been in touch with several high-end divorce lawyers,” while James’s reps had “contacted several lawyers” in case Bullock filed for divorce following his reported infidelity.
Bullock’s rep tells PEOPLE: “Neither she nor her representatives have contacted or shopped around for divorce lawyers.”
James’s rep says the report was untrue.
Bullock’s rep also denied an Internet report that on Sunday night Bullock – who has moved out of the family home and has been lying low in the wake of the infidelity news – dined with producers to discuss an upcoming project in which she would play Meryl Streep’s daughter.
“The entire report,” says the rep, “is another piece of fiction.”
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