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HERTFORD, N.C., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New England Pro Tour, Inc. ("New England") a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greens Worldwide Incorporated (OTC Bulletin Board: GRWW - News) announces that it has terminated the employment of Brian Hebb, the former director, president, secretary and treasurer of New England. New England also announces that it has filed a complaint in the Superior Court of Middlesex County, Massachusetts against Brian Hebb and Hebb Builders. This Civil Action relates to Brian Hebb's breach of the fiduciary duty he owed to New England as a director, officer, and employee, Hebb's unlawful conversion of New England's corporate assets, Brian Hebb's unlawful diversion and conveyance of those assets to Hebb Builders, and Brian Hebb's fraudulent representations to GRWW regarding New England.
In at least one significant way, the Denver Art Museum's radically unconventional addition has succeeded before it even opens. Some area residents have scorned the Frederic C. Hamilton Building, others enthusiastically embrace it. It has generated international press attention, and many of the country's top architecture critics have already visited it or soon will. Museum leaders wanted to raise a ruckus and get noticed, and to that end, they have gotten exactly what they wanted. Architect Daniel Libeskind has said the $90.5 million building was inspired in part by the Rocky Mountains. With its faceted, crystalline forms and jutting, sharply sloping walls, it looks like a mineral formation that has just burst from the ground. It is the anti-box. There are no perpendicular lines, no two rooms the same shape.
Sales of existing homes in the Denver metro area fell 13 percent in September compared with the same month last year, according to statistics released Thursday. The median sale price of a single-family home declined 2.2 percent, to $243,500, during the same period. "However you slice this, the market is slowing down," said Larry McGee, managing broker of the Berkshire Group. Of 31,450 houses on the market, McGee estimates up to 7,000 are foreclosure properties and another 3,000 are at some level of distress. "That means we're going to have a market adjustment," he said. McGee said the weak market for existing homes is taking its toll on homebuilders, who are increasing the commissions they offer Realtors from 3 percent to as much as 4.5 percent. "The higher the co-op commission goes, the more they're saying, 'Gee, we're a little desperate,' " McGee said.
Labor backbencher Craig Emerson says students who want to pursue a trade should wait until they have finished school or undertake a school-based apprenticeship. MBA chief executive David Dawes says the move would be positive for all industries seeking apprentices. "The great advantage of them going to year 12 is that they are more mature and they are able to tackle the issues of getting to and from work, and that's an important issue," he said. "But also working on site in the building construction industry in a mature manner." Mr Dawes says more students finishing year 12, means more young people can become apprentices. He says the move will bring other jurisdictions in line with the ACT, which is leading the nation with school-based apprenticeships "We have in the order of 120 young people coming though our school-based program here in the territory, which is quite a healthy number," he said.
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Thursday hired on two old hands for the job of getting more minorities into construction jobs in Northwest Indiana.Ivy Tech Community College and the Indiana Plan, a union-supported construction trainer, will be in charge of pre-apprentice programs meant to right a history of exclusion for minorities in some construction trades. "We are entering into a building boom the like of which the state has never seen," Daniels said to a packed room at the Gary WorkOne."This is a time of tremendous opportunity for young people and maybe some not-so-young people."The governor listed projects that will provide those jobs, including Cabela's, in Hammond; Bass Pro Shops, in Portage; casino projects in Northwest Indiana; and the centerpiece, $12 billion in Major Moves road construction.Daniels has been touting those projects to supportive crowds in frequent swings around the state as Election Day approaches.But at the WorkOne, the Republican governor faced tough questions on whether or not the new training program, called Major Opportunities, will deliver on its promises.Al Mays, who works in the Renaissance Program, a prisoner rehabilitation program, wanted to know if people with a felony in their past will get an equal chance to participate."And how will we be sure it's fair?" Mays said, "because historically the trades have a record of not being fair to minorities and in particular felons."All you had to do was look out the front window of the WorkOne at the construction project on Grant Street to see that minorities often have little representation, said Dwight Gardener, president of the Baptist Ministers Conference, in Gary.State Sen.
A famous contemporary author who had a bounty placed on his head by Islamicists for one of his works is joining the faculty of Emory University in spring 2007. Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," will teach and place his archive at the Atlanta university's library. He will officially join the faculty as a distinguished writer in residence for five years. During each year at the university, he will teach for at least four weeks, lead a graduate seminar, participate in undergraduate classes, advise students, engage in symposia and deliver a public lecture. This is Rushdie's first extended relationship with a university. .
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