Nikki Haley accepts the office of governor of South Carolina

Nikki Haley accepts the office of governor of South Carolina

The South Carolina governor-elect will be sworn into office, marking the first time a woman has led the state, and as an Indian American, the first non-white leader as well. Thousands of well-wishers will brave the cold weather to mark the occasion.

Preparations are underway for the inauguration of Governor-elect Nikki Haley. Wednesday, the state will welcome it's 116th governor.


Governor-elect Haley made history on election night, and is now on the verge of becoming the new leader of South Carolina, the state's first non-white and female governor. Dr. Jeri Cabot, a political science professor at the College of Charleston says Haley rode the Tea Party wave to the governor's mansion. Cabot says, "She broke through barriers that this state had put in place. It is really a remarkable story. It's about timing, it's about the wave of conservative ideology that broke over the United States starting with the post 2008 election."

Nikki Haley

The soon to be governor of South Carolina received several prominent and key endorsements during her campaign run, including former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford, and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Cabot says, "South Carolina reform put up hundreds and thousands of dollars to do an add campaign during the primaries, and you had the Palin visit as well, and the backlash against the people coming out about these elicit sexual affairs. I think that actually helped her."

38-year-old Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, and is of Indian descent. Cabot says her unique qualities and her message connects with voters. Dr. Cabot says, "She personified her message. She was different. She looked different. She dressed differently. Her colors were different. I mean when you think back, and you remember those debates during the primary, and how she stood out. She would always be in the middle in her bright colored suits. She really personified the message. I'm going to do things differently. For South Carolina it means national attention for us. It comes down to what she can accomplish."
Governor-elect Nikki Haley represented Lexington county in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.

Background of Nikki Haley

PERSONAL LIFE
Nikki Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina. Her parents Dr. Ajit and Raj Randhawa are Indian Punjabi Sikh immigrants from Amritsar and she has an older brother Mitti, sister Simran Singh, and younger brother Charan. She went to Clemson University and majored in Accounting and then joined the FCR Corporation before joining her mother's business in 1994.[9]The family business grew to a multi million dollar company.

Haley was raised in a Sikh family, and identifies herself as a Christian, and sits on the board for Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church, Medmission. On September 6, 1996 she married Michael Haley, in a Methodist church ceremony. Michael is a federal employee with the United States Department of the Army and an officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard. Together they have two children, Rena and Nalin. Haley's brother Mitti is an active duty officer who has served in the U.S. Army for the past 20 years.
Candidate for South Carolina governor
On May 14, 2009, Nikki Haley announced she is running for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina in 2010.
On November 11, 2009, Nikki Haley was endorsed by Jenny Sanford, the first lady of South Carolina. Haley was also endorsed by former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin and former Massachusetts Governor and GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Recently she was hit by a sex scandal which is debied by her.
The mother-of-two, 38, whose husband is a United States Army reserves officer, has been hit by allegations she had a "physical" relationship with commentator Will Folks.
The claims are threatening to derail her campaign to replace the disgraced former governor Mark Sanford, who fell from grace after he was forced to admit having an affair. It is the latest scandal to hit South Carolina which is notorious for its brutal political culture.
The controversy erupted when Mr Folks posted a statement on his website claiming that "several years ago, prior to my marriage, I had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki. That's it".
Mr Folks offered no proof and later posted links to 26 articles covering his claim, stating that he had "uncharacteristically shut his pie hole in the wake of this morning's seismic revelations" and would maintain his silence. Mrs Haley, who was elected to South Carolina's House of Representatives 2004, has responded by saying the claim is a "disgraceful smear".
"I have been 100 per cent faithful to my husband throughout our 13 years of marriage. This claim against me is categorically and totally false. It is quite simply South Carolina politics at its worst," she said.
Mr Folks is a former aide to Mr Sanford, who famously told staff he was "hiking the Appalachian trail" while secretly flying to Argentina to meet his mistress María Belén Chapur. He later confessed all in a tearful press conference in which he said he wanted to be with his Argentine "soulmate".
Mr Folks pleaded guilty in 2005 to a charge of criminal domestic violence after police said he kicked open a door at the home he shared with a lobbyist and pushed her into a piece of furniture. He received a 30-day suspended sentence.
Mrs Palin, the former Alaska governor and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, has leapt to the defence of Mrs Haley, who had already become a heroine of the anti-government "tea party" movement that is becoming a major force in American politics.
"When Nikki and I held her endorsement rally on the steps of the beautiful and historic South Carolina state house a few weeks ago, I warned her and her family that she would be targeted because she's a threat to a corrupt political machine, and she would be put through some hell," said Mrs Palin.
"That, unfortunately, is the nature of the beast in politics today – especially for conservative "underdog" candidates who surge in the polls and threaten to shake things up so government can be put back on the side of the people."
Mrs Palin said that she told Mrs Haley in a telephone call: "Hang in there. I've been there. Any lies told about you will strengthen your resolve to clean up political and media corruption. You and your supporters will grow stronger through things like this."
Former governor Mr Sanford's jilted wife has also endorsed Mrs Haley, an Indian-American, was born Nimrata Randhawa. Mrs Haley's parents are Pubjabi Sikhs immigrants originally from Amritsar.
Mrs Haley, an accountancy graduate who used to work in her mother's multi-million dollar clothing firm started Exotica International, became the front-runner in the South Carolina race after Mrs Palin gave her backing.
Erick Erickson, South Carolina's most prominent conservative blogger, wrote that Mrs Haley had been smeared by "good old boys" who did not appreciate an "upstart" politician demanding transparency.
He concluded, Mr Folks was not a plausible candidate to be her lover: "Hot women do not cheat on men in uniform with ugly, poor dudes."

In shortly:
Nikki is a graduate of Clemson University with a B.S. in Accounting. After graduation, Nikki became the Accounting Supervisor of FCR, Inc. in Charlotte, NC, where she managed a staff that was responsible for the accounting and reporting of the corporation and five of its subsidiary companies.

In 1996, after educating herself in the corporate world, she returned as Controller in the family business, Exotica International, Inc, where she started at the age of 11.

She served as member of the Board of Directors of the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce before the business relocated to Lexington County. Currently, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors, the Government Relations Committee, and the Doris Burkett Scholarship Committee of the Lexington County Chamber and is co-chairing the Lexington Gala for 2004.

Nikki is also the Treasurer and President-Elect of the Greater Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, a member of the Lexington Medical Foundation and 2004 Lake Murray Dam Walk Committee benefiting Becky’s Place, the West Metro Republican Women, the Lexington County Republicans, Magnolia Junior Women’s Society of Lexington, the PTA, and Homeroom Mom for her daughter’s kindergarten class.

Nikki is also the Treasurer and President-Elect of the Greater Columbia Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, a member of the Lexington Medical Foundation and 2004 Lake Murray Dam Walk Committee benefiting Becky’s Place, the West Metro Republican Women, the Lexington County Republicans, Magnolia Junior Women’s Society of Lexington, the PTA, and Homeroom Mom for her daughter’s kindergarten class.

Elena Kagan: As a Supreme court justice Elena Kagan gives her First Opinion

Elena Kagan gives her First Opinion:
Justices Sonia Sotomayor (l.), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (c.), and Justice Elena Kagan in the Justices' Conference Room prior to Justice Kagan's Investiture Ceremony at the court in Washington on Oct. 1, 2010. Elena Kagan wrote her first opinion as a Supreme Court Justice, Tuesday.

Justice Elena Kagan delivered her first opinion for the Supreme Court Tuesday, siding with a credit card company in a bankruptcy dispute.

Supreme court justice Elena Kagan gives her First Opinion

The court, by an 8-1 vote, ruled against Jason Ransom, a debtor who wanted to shield some income from his creditors by claiming a $471 monthly allowance for a car payment.
The only problem is that he owns his 2004 Toyota Camry outright.
"In short, Ransom may not deduct loan or lease expenses, when he does not have any," Kagan said.
Although it seemed an easy issue, federal appeals courts had arrived at different answers.
And dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia said the courts that ruled for the debtors in these cases were right.
The allowance for car payments comes from a formula that sometimes produces odd results, Scalia said. "Our job, it seems to me, is not to eliminate or reduce those oddities, but to give the formula Congress adopted its fairest meaning," he said.
Kagan joined the court in August and had to sit out of eight of the 12 cases the justices heard in October because of her prior job as U.S. solicitor general in the Justice Department.
The bankruptcy case was one of the four she took part in during October.
The case is Ransom v. FIA Card Services, 09-907.

Biography of Elena Kagan

Review of Elena Kagan:
Politician, attorney. Born April 28, 1960, in New York City to parents Gloria and Robert Kagan. Kagan grew up as the second of three children in a middle class Jewish family living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Kagan's mother was an educator, teaching students at Hunter College Elementary School. Her father worked as a longtime partner at the Manhattan law firm of Kagan & Lubic, working with tenant associations. Inspired by her father's work, Elena took an interest in law at an early age.

Also influenced by her mother's strong beliefs in getting a good education, Kagan attended Hunter College High School, an all-girls school that she later cited as a formative experience in her life. "It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind," she says. "And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward." Kagan graduated from the institution in 1977 and headed to Princeton University, focusing on the goal of law school.

In 1981 she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a bachelor's degree in history. She also earned the Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow scholarship from her alma mater, which allowed her to attend Worcester College in Oxford, England. She earned an M. Phil at Worcester in 1983, moving on immediately to Harvard Law School, where she became supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude in 1986.

After school, Kagan landed a job clerking for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The next year, she began another clerking job, this time for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. During this time, she also worked for Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential campaign. After Dukakis lost his bid for the presidency, Kagan headed to the private sector to work as an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.

After three years at Williams & Connolly, Kagan turned back to the world of education—this time as a professor. She began teaching law at the University of Chicago Law School, and by 1995 she was a tenured professor of law. Kagan left the school that same year, however, to work as Associate Counsel for President Bill Clinton. During her four years at the White House, Kagan was promoted several times: first to the position of Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and then to the role of Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Elena Kagan as a Justice of supreme court

Before Clinton left office, he nominated Kagan to serve on the D.C. Circuit of Appeals. Her nomination languished with the Senate Judiciary Committee, however, and Kagan returned to academia in 1999. Starting as a visiting professor at Harvard Law, Kagan quickly climbed the ladder from Professor of Law in 2001 to Dean of the Law School in 2003. During her five years as the Dean of Harvard Law, Kagan made big changes at the institution, including faculty expansion, curriculum changes, and the development of new campus facilities.

Miley Cyrus: Miley Cyrus's music video "Can not be Tamed"

Pop singer of Miley Cyrus:

Pop Singer Miley Cyrus 

If you liked the video, you’ll love the movie: The star of the music video “The Big Bang” by Rock Mafia will likely be turned into a feature-length film. Cyrus’s mother Tish will be a producer on the project. The video features the Disney actress and “Gossip Girl” actor Kevin Zegers.

Auto Biography of Miley Cyrus:

Miley Cyrus was born in Nashville, Tennessee November 23, 1992 just six months after her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, became a country and pop star when his song "Achy Breaky Heart" hit the charts. Her full name is Destiny Hope Cyrus, but she was given her nickname by her mother for her tendency to smile as a baby. "Smiley" was shortened to "Miley" and stuck. Other members of her family that are accomplished in the entertainment industry include step-brother Trace, a member of the band Metro Station, and younger sister Noah who is an actress.

Miley Cyrus

Young Miley Cyrus became an overnight sensation in 2006 as the star of the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, but fortunately her family has had some experience with that sort of thing -- her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, went from obscurity to stardom in a few short months when the song "Achy Breaky Heart" hit the charts in 1992. The success of "Achy Breaky Heart" was hardly the only memorable event for Billy Ray that year -- on November 23, 1992, he and his wife welcomed their daughter Destiny Hope Cyrus into the world. Destiny's cheerful disposition as a child earned her the nickname Smiley, which stuck when it was shortened to Miley. Miley's career as a professional actress began in 2003, when she appeared in an episode of the television series Doc, which starred her father; the same year, she landed a small role in the Tim Burton film Big Fish. Miley developed an interest in music early on, writing songs and learning to sing while still a preteen, and in 2005 she landed a role that allowed her to put her skills in acting and music to work. Miley was cast in the title role of Hannah Montana, in which she played a teenage girl leading a double life -- by day, she's Miley Stewart, an ordinary kid dealing with school, her friends, her siblings, and all the other foibles of life for a 14-year-old, while a night she dons a wig and becomes Hannah Montana, a multi-platinum pop star whose career is guided by her dad Robby Stewart, a successful songwriter. However, Miley's friends don't know she's also Hannah, and keeping this a secret is no simple matter. Debuting in March 2006, Hannah Montana became an immediate success with young viewers, and in October, a soundtrack CD was released, featuring Miley singing eight songs from the show along with five related tracks, including a duet between Miley and her father Billy Ray on "I Learned from You." That fall, Miley hit the road, wowing audiences as the opening act for another Disney-spawned pop act, the Cheetah Girls, and in March 2007, the Hannah Montana album was reissued in a special edition featuring a bonus DVD, not long after the show's theme song, "The Best of Both Worlds," was released as a single. A second Hannah Montana album, Hannah Montana, Vol. 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, is scheduled for release on June 26, 2007. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Some music videos name of  Miley Cyrus's:
Can't Be Tamed
When I Look At You
Fly On The Wall
Party In The U.S.A.
The Climb
The Climb

Rachel Zoe: Rachel Zoe seven months pregnant

Rachel Zoe

Why Rachel Zoe is trending now?
The procibilities will goona be a boy of Rachel Zoe. The hottest stylist, seven months pregnant, revealed the sex of her baby in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily. Though her new addition will be here soon, Zoe isn’t slowing down with work. She's currently filming her reality TV series and preparing to launch a new fashion line.

Auto Biography of Rachel Zoe:

Rachel Zoe, was born on September 1st, 1971 New York in the U.S. She is an American fashion stylist best known for working with celebrities, fashion houses, beauty firm, advertising agencies and magazine editor.

Zoe was raised in Millburn, New Jersey, where she later studied psychology and sociology at George Washington University. She worked at Gotham and YM magazine before working as a stylist.

As for her career, although Zoe works with high-profile clients and has a very notable fashion sense. She had the opportunity to meet and work with some high-profile clients just because she went freelance at her beginning. As a freelancer stylist, she has worked with Brenda Song, Mischa Barton, Mario Orejel, Nicole Richie and many other. Zoe’s current client list includes names as : Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Debra Messing, Demi Moore, Joy Bryant etc.

Auto Biography of Rachel Zoe

Zoe collaborated with Judith Leiber an accessories maker, on a line of luxury bags. Later on she served as the face of BlackJack cell phone, that was Samsung’s phone mark, and was a nation campaign too. Did work as a consultant for Piperlime.com, Gap, Inc’s shoe and website.

With numerous deals coming in and the expansion of her clientele, Zoe called off her former agency Magnet and signed Todd Shemarya Agency.

In September 2008, The Rachel Zoe Project, which was her own reality series debuted on Bravo. The series follows her, her two fashion associates, Jordan Johnson and Brad Goreskim as well as her husband/business partner Rodger Berman. Bravo announced they would pick up a third season of the show, after the second series’ premiere which was on August 24, 2009.

Zoe officially announced that she will be releasing a clothing line, which is set come out the fall of 2011.




About Rachel Zoe
Born: September 1, 1971, Yonkers, New York
Best Known As: Celebrity Stylist, Star of “The Rachel Zoe Project”, Being Uber-Skinny

Rachel Zoe emerged onto the Hollywood scene a few years ago when Nicole Richie publicized her new look and new stylist, Rachel Zoe. Although Zoe had a bevy of famous clients before Nicole, their association shot her to uber-stardom.  Now Rachel Zoe has her own reality show on Bravo called “The Rachel Zoe Project,” which has just been picked up for a second season. We at The Frisky have fallen in love with Rachel, her style, and her catchphrases, if not her ever-withering frame.

Rachel Zoe pregnant

Why is Rachel Zoe famous?

Rachel Zoe is a famous fashion stylist who has worker with names like Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Debra Messing, Demi Moore and many other great names.

Why do we like Rachel Zoe?

Despite having any formal fashion training, she managed to have a successful career so far.