Fri, 09/10/2010 - 23:16 by harsheeb
New York -- An out-of-work New York attorney says she has turned to housekeeping for people who have "always wanted to see a lawyer clean a toilet."
Alice Lingo, 29, told the New York Daily News she spent a year looking for a job as a lawyer after losing her $160,000-a-year litigator position to the economic recession and she is now posting flyers around Manhattan's upper West Side offering to tidy up other people's homes.
"Haven't you always wanted to see a lawyer clean a toilet?" Lingo's flier reads.
"I made the joke that I always wanted a job that makes people smile," Lingo said. "This job does. They come home and see their home clean."
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Wed, 09/01/2010 - 23:39 by Dan Dzombak
Dividend investing is popular again. Investors have taken to heart Jeremy Siegel's studies, which show that higher-yielding stocks tend to offer greater returns over time than low- or no-yield stocks. |
Sat, 08/28/2010 - 22:10 by harsheeb
Fort Lauderdale -- One of three men accused of helping Florida Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to 10 months house arrest, court papers say.
Rothstein, now serving a 50 year prison sentence for operating a massive investment fraud that lost investors $1.4 billion, helped authorities set up a sting operation that led to the arrests of Enrique Ros, Daniel Dromerhauser and Roberto Settineri.
The three were arrested on obstruction of justice charges related to their agreements to help Rothstein destroy evidence and launder money.
Ros, who pleaded guilty, was given a lenient sentence by Judge James Cohn Friday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
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Fri, 08/27/2010 - 10:01 by Prince damin
New Haven, Conn. -- Sergiy Stakhovsky won two matches Thursday, one of them over top-seeded Marcos Baghdatis, to reach the semifinals of the Pilot Pen.
Stakhovsky, at No. 9, is the highest seeded player to get to the semifinals of this last tournament prior to the U.S. Open.
Stakhovsky had to complete his third-round match early Thursday and he did so by defeating Tommy Robredo 7-6 (7-5), 6-2. He then bumped off Baghdatis 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4).
His semifinal opponent will be Thiemo De Bakker, who coasted by Evgeny Korolev 6-4, 6-3.
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Fri, 08/27/2010 - 09:34 by harsheeb
Canbera-- Two Australian law firms have banned employees from a workplace gossip site due to postings critical of bosses.
Law firms Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Clayton Utz said the Firm Spy site prints inaccurate rumors about their business practices and managers, News.com.au reported Thursday.
Mallesons blocked access to the site in July, shortly before it published allegations of artificially adjusting performance ratings to justify lower pay raises, and Clayton Utz blocked the site when it printed claims that more than 100 lawyers were being quietly fired while partners received boosted payouts.
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Fri, 08/27/2010 - 08:11 by harsheeb
London -- Britain's Law Commission is recommending getting rid of at least 1,500 crimes, including a ban on giving goldfish as prizes at fairs.
The commission, which serves as the government's law reform advisory body, said the offenses are among more than 3,000 crimes slipped into laws by officials without Parliamentary debate, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The commission's report called for the repeal of at least 1,500 of the offenses, including a ban on giving goldfish as carnival prizes. The report also suggested regulations be changed to ensure no new crimes go into the statute book without the full scrutiny from Parliament.
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Mon, 08/23/2010 - 22:36 by Deepika Garg
Facebook does not like the idea of a Hollywood flick being based on it. David Fincher’s highly-anticipated thriller ‘The Social Network’ is a stinging tale about Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Sun, 08/22/2010 - 00:07 by Mac Greer
On Wednesday, Facebook borrowed a page from foursquare and Gowalla when it introduced a new location-based service that allows users to share their location with friends. Facebook now has more than 500 million members, many of whom connect via Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad. So how does Facebook plan to turn that big membership into a bigger business? Why are advertisers so attracted to Facebook? And what would you do if someone offered you $5 billion? Earlier this week, Motley Fool Money Radio Show host Chris Hill talked about the business of Facebook with David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. |
Sat, 08/14/2010 - 23:33 by Rick Aristotle ...
Monday
Food giant SYSCO (NYSE: SYY) and home improvement retailer Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) kick off the new week of earnings reports. |
Sat, 08/14/2010 - 01:35 by Prince damin
Wethersfield, Conn. -- Connecticut authorities said a woman was arrested after she accidentally included a small bag of cocaine with her bank deposit.
Wethersfield police said the envelope Kendl Murphy, 43, used to make her deposit at the drive-up window of Rockville Bank at about 4 p.m. Thursday was found to contain a small bag of white powder, leading tellers to call police while the deposit was being processed, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Friday.
Police Sgt. Scott Custer said a field test on the bag showed positive results for cocaine. He said Murphy admitted the cocaine was hers and told officers "something to the effect that it was left over from the weekend and she didn't realize she left it in that envelope."
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Fri, 08/13/2010 - 07:40 by harsheeb
Carson -- "Nevada" should have two acceptable pronunciations so out-of-staters don't get chastised for pronouncing it like "armada," a state legislator says.
The Silver State's 2 million residents may pronounce Nevada with a flat "a" -- "a sound not unlike the bleating of a sheep," Assemblyman Harry Mortenson, D-Las Vegas, says.
But 7 billion people outside the state pronounce it with a soft "A" -- "not unlike a sigh of contentment," he says -- and they shouldn't get "raked over the coals" for using the Spanish pronunciation.
"Nevada" is a Spanish word meaning "snowfall" or "snow-capped" or "white as snow."
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Fri, 08/13/2010 - 06:53 by harsheeb
Newark -- Court papers say a member of an Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, N.J., has been running a Ponzi scheme that cost investors $200 million.
Federal authorities arrested Eli Weinstein Thursday, charging him with conducting a long-running real estate scam in which he sought numerous investments from Jewish community members, but never purchased any of the properties, the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger reported.
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