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Cougar Mountain Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk
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The Vigyan Valley Learning Centre welcomes students with learning disabilities, and is committed to respond appropriately and effectively to their learning needs. The Centre is dedicated to taking all practical steps to ensure that students with learning disabilities can pursue their studies at secondary (IX & X) and senior secondary (XI & XII) level without any disadvantage. Our students are encouraged to make full use of various academic and support services on offer.
At our Centre, we take pride in understanding the learning and behaviour needs of your child. We understand that ordinary schools often do not understand and meet the diverse needs of your child. And we certainly appreciate the need to restructure and reorganize what and how we teach so that your child learns efficiently and effectively with us!
And, what's more, we understand that when your child has a need to leave his or her present school, they should come to a place for learning that offers more than the school your child has left behind – a learning centre that provides:
- an opportunity to learn the secondary and senior secondary curriculum of the National Institute of Open Schooling
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Our clinic offers comprehensive evaluation of special educational and behavioural needs of children with learning disabilities or suspected of having learning disabilities.
Using assessment tools that are specially designed to evaluate the various difficulties experienced by children with learning disabilities, a comprehensive evaluation report, statement of special education needs, and an outline of the educational intervention plan is provided to parents and teachers of the child evaluated at our clinic.
Evaluation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders is an additional focus area of our clinic.
Our clinic has a team of professionals who have a number of years of diverse experiences in evaluating and teaching children with learning disabilities and autism.
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With over twenty years of experience in disability rehabilitation and special education, and a diverse range of experience in hospital, rehabilitation centre, regular school, special school, and early intervention setting, both in India and Australia, Ajit Sacheendran, M is our Clinic's Chief Consultant for assessment and intervention programs. A rehabilitation practitioner, professional special educator, and a psychologist, Ajit's disability-specific specializations include:
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The prevalence of people with disabilities in India is estimated to increase significantly. Changing demography, increasing disabling conditions, and enhanced longevity due to recent advances in medical technology and care all lead to this increase. The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) estimates that by the end of the year 2016, the number will increase up to 2 crore, 29 lakh. It means that almost every year one lakh persons with disability will add to our population.
A major constraint in expanding the rehabilitation services in India is the lack of trained manpower to offer services to people with disabilities. According to RCI, during the year 2007, the rehabilitation sector faced a shortage of about 1.9 lakh trained personnel under different categories. By the end of the 12th Plan, the shortage of human resources will still be to the tune of 1, 04, 531!
Therefore, a College of Disability Studies (CDS), under the direct aegis of the Vigyan Valley Education Trust, is being established to educate and train professionals at various levels.
At present, the Foundation Course in the Education of Children with Learning Disabilities (FCECLD) of the Rehabilitation Council of India is offered by us.
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Provisional Registration from RCI after Successful Course Completion Valid For 3 Years
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Admission Is Online and Open Every Month from 1st To 10th
Total Number of Seats Allotted To Vigyan Valley Is 20
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George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, More Added To George Jones Tribute Concert
George Strait, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Reba McEntire, and Alabama have been added to the November concert in Nashville honoring country legend George Jones, who passed away in April.
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Turner Watson: 4/5 Stars
So, next week we'll be sampling the legendary Shiner Bock. Yes, THAT one. As a result, I got a little confused when they brought us this baby. So I popped the lid off (sidebar: hey, import breweries and micobrewers...when do you think you might enter the 1990's and give us twist-off caps?) and mmmmm-MMMMM!!! CARAMEL! MALTS! FLOWERS! HOPS!! Yes, I said "flowers." There's a certain flowery fruitiness in this bad boy, but with great body and robust flavor. Maybe there's a bit of orange peel in here or lemongrass or something, because there's a bit of that aftertaste but it's not too much. It's a nice setup for Big Brother next week. Can't wait!
John TheMexican:5/5 Stars: This is the beer company that provided the beer I grew up drinking in Austin, Texas. That was when dime bags cost a dime and good beer was 35 a keg! Nothing will ever not let me love any product these guys come out with. So yeah, 5 stars. And from an IPA. Eat it hippie.
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I ABSOLUTELY love Shiner Bock so I was curious to sample this ale. This Ale was very balanced with Malt, Hops & that hint of Caramel. The after taste reminded me of Sam Adams spring beer. So when mother nature dumps 10" of wet snow on us & you have to shovel the driveway, Id go with a different beer. When its actually spring I will give this beer another shot.


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Walt Disney's Pecos Bill made his debut in the 1948 classic cartoon "Melody Time". Disney sculptors captured the scene from that cartoon when Pecos Bill first sees Slue Foot Sue and Widowmaker realizes that he will have to share Bill. That moment was immortalized in this first sculpture in the American Folk Heroes series released in Summer 1994
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He'll transform the perception in western popular culture back to the historical spies of the Sengoku period in this disguise. The Green Ninja Child Costume includes a pair of green pants with matching shirt and hood, as well as a green overvest with black belt and sash with a lion head on it. 4-piece set. Polyester. Dry clean only.
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Rumors of David Bowie returning to the stage continue to persist, even though the singer and his representatives have said it won't happen.
The Mirror reports that Live Nation has offered Bowie a lucrative deal to play live at the Olympic Park in East London in 2014. The tabloid notes that the company has close links with Bowie's tour agent John Giddings and are confident of securing a deal.
The Mirror goes on to quote a source close to Bowie who says that while he "currently [has] no live dates planned," he isn't completely against playing live again.
A spokesperson for Bowie refuted the report, telling NME: "There are currently no plans for any live dates."
Bowie is rumored to be in the running to headline the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.
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This week's drink is a twist on the classic Negroni. Rather than using a London Dry Gin, this Negroni uses Genever, from which Gin originated.
1.5 oz Bols Genever
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Stir all ingredients with ice, strain into a pre-chilled rocks glass. Garnish with a large orange zest.
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It's Mixology Monday time again, and this month we are hosted by Adventures In Cocktails with the theme – "Niche Spirits". So that means no basics: no vodka, tequila, gin, rum, brandy or whiskey.
We said, "Hey, how about a nice Genever Cocktail from our new book – DIY Cocktails?"
Genever, AKA "Holland Gin", is the Dutch predecessor from which the more ubiquitous "London Dry" gin evolved.
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Founder of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) Boston, Misty Kalkofen, created the 1820 to toast strong women who drink strong spirits in honor of International Women's Day.
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Is it surprising to see a bottle of gin with a big warning tag telling you NOT to use it in martinis? Genevieve, the Genever-style gin by Anchor Distilling, does just that.
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North Korean military issues sharp threatPUBLISHED: 24 Apr 2012 10:13:49 | UPDATED: 24 Apr 2012 10:19:39PRINT EDITION: 24 Apr 2012
North Korea's military has warned of imminent "special actions" that will reduce South Korea's conservative government to ashes within minutes, sharply escalating the rhetoric against its southern rival.
The threat from the North's military leadership comes amid concerns that North Korea may be plotting another provocation in the wake of an unsuccessful rocket launch condemned by the UN Security Council as a violation of a ban against missile activity.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned North Korea against "further provocative measures", telling reporters in New York late on Monday that such actions "will not be desirable for the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula".
North Korea characterised the April 13 rocket launch as a failed bid to send a satellite into space - not a disguised test of missile technology - but then followed up two days later by unveiling a new long-range missile at a military birthday parade for late President Kim Il Sung.
There are new concerns that North Korea may conduct a nuclear test as it did after rocket launches in 2006 and 2009. South Korean intelligence officials say recent satellite images show the North has been digging a new tunnel in what could be preparation for a third atomic test.
"Nuclear weapons are not the monopoly of the United States," Lieutenant Colonel Nam Dong Ho told The Associated Press on Monday on the North Korean side of the Demilitarised Zone, saying North Korea needs atomic weapons to defend itself against the threat of attack from the US.
"It's my personal opinion, but I think we'll continue to conduct nuclear tests."
On Monday, the military warned in a statement carried by state media that it would launch "special actions" soon against the South Korean government and conservative media.
However, there was no outward sign of tension on the North Korean side of the Demilitarised Zone. At Panmunjom, small groups of tourists were touring the "peace" village and the buildings where the Korean War armistice was signed in 1953. The South Korean side was quiet.
For days, North Korea has railed against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and conservative South Korean media for criticising its rocket launch and the celebrations of the centennial of Kim Il Sung's birth.
But Monday's message, distributed by the state-run Korean Central News Agency and attributed to the "special operation action group" of the Korean People's Army's Supreme Command, was unusual in its specifics.
"Once the above-said special actions kick-off, they will reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style," it said.
The threat comes as North Korea's new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un, makes a strong show of support for the "military first" policy championed by his father, late leader Kim Jong Il. North Korea marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of its army on Wednesday.
Seoul expressed worry that the threats were hurting relations between the countries and increasing animosity.
"We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters, according to the ministry. "We express deep concern that the North's threats and accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions."
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Ravens beat Colts 24-9 in AFC wild card
|Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) is helped up by Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Paul Kruger (99) during the second half of an NFL wild card playoff football game Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Baltimore. The Ravens won 24-9. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
BALTIMORE — Ray Lewis' last ride now will take him to Denver. Anquan Boldin, Joe Flacco and a staunch Baltimore defense made sure of that Sunday.
Boldin set a franchise record with 145 yards receiving, including the clinching touchdown in the Ravens' 24-9 victory over Indianapolis in an AFC wild-card game. The win delays star linebacker Lewis' retirement for at least another week as Baltimore (11-6) heads to Denver next Saturday.
The Broncos beat the Ravens 34-17 three weeks ago.
Lewis even lined up at fullback for the final kneel-down in his last home game of a 17-year career, then went into a short version of his trademark dance before being mobbed by teammates.
He followed with a victory lap, his right arm, covered by a brace, held high in salute to the fans.
Sunday's victory also enhanced the Ravens' success rate in opening playoff games. Flacco now has won at least one postseason game in all five of his pro seasons, the only quarterback to do it in the Super Bowl era.
His main target Sunday was Boldin, who had receptions of 50 and 46 yards, plus his 18-yard TD on a floater from Flacco in the corner of the end zone with 9:14 to go.
Baltimore overcame the first two lost fumbles of the season by Ray Rice, too, as John Harbaugh became the first head coach with wins in his first five playoff campaigns.
Backup halfback Bernard Pierce rescued Rice with a 43-yard burst that led to Boldin's touchdown, and ran for 103 yards.
Flacco also connected with Dennis Pitta for a 20-yard TD and rookie Justin Tucker made a 23-yard field goal.
The loss ended the Colts' turnaround season in which they went from 2-14 to the playoffs in coach Chuck Pagano's first year in Indianapolis (11-6). Pagano missed 12 weeks while undergoing treatment for leukemia and returned last week.
Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who went 9-3 as interim coach, was absent Sunday after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Quarterback coach Clyde Christensen called the plays, but Baltimore's suddenly revitalized defense — inspired by Lewis' pending retirement, no doubt — never let standout rookie QB Andrew Luck get comfortable.
Indy's only points came on three field goals by Adam Vinatieri, from 47, 52 and 26 yards. Luck completed 28 of 54 passes for 288 yards. It was the most attempts by a rookie in a playoff game.
Reggie Wayne had 108 yards on eight receptions and moved into second in career playoff catches with 91 — 60 behind leader Jerry Rice. But the Colts, who moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis in 1984 — they still are despised here — became the second NFL team to improve to 11 wins following a two-win season and then lose in the opening round of the playoffs.
The Ravens also beat the 2008 Dolphins in a similar scenario.
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The top executive at New York Container Terminal on Staten Island is urging the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide a frequent-user discount for truckers whose bridge tolls will more than double by 2015.
"We realize that the port authority needs money," said James Devine, NYCT's chief executive. "But these toll increases threaten to destroy the viability of NYCT and damage the economic viability of the entire region."
The port authority last week imposed steep toll increases for trucks and cars crossing the agency's bridges and tunnels after Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York gave their approval.
Annual increases of $2 per axle will raise tolls for five-axle trucks using E-Z pass tags during rush hours from the current $40 to $90 at the end of 2015. Drivers paying tolls in cash will pay a surcharge of $3 per axle.
The port authority's toll-increase resolution authorizes the agency's executive director "to evaluate, and recommend to the board of commissioners, the establishment of a 'truck repeat volume program.'"
Devine said he hopes the port authority will establish such a program to mitigate the impact of the increases, the first of which takes Sept. 18. A port authority spokesman said a frequent-user program for trucks will be studied.
The toll increases will affect NYCT, the only major container terminal in New York, more than terminals on the New Jersey side of the harbor. Devine said that in 2010, truckers paid the port authority $14 million in bridge tolls to reach NYCT.
The toll increases also have been criticized by port drayage companies, which say they'll be forced to pass the increases to their customers.
Devine said tolls contributed to APL's decision to shift its vessel calls to Maher Terminals in New Jersey when the carrier's contract with NYCT expires next July, although terminal capacity was the main reason. He said Turkon Lines' 2009 shift to New Jersey was blamed entirely on the tolls.
He said NYCT has the port's highest crane productivity, with lift rates of 31 to 35 boxes per hour, and has rated tops in several trucker surveys, but that rising bridge tolls pose a severe handicap to attracting and retaining business.
"These tolls are destroying the economic viability of this facility," he said. "This terminal cannot and will not succeed if this is not fixed. That's not an overstatement or hyperbole, it's just fact."
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Nevertheless, Brett Furniss, president and owner of BDF Realty, a Charlotte, N.C.-based firm that specializes in rent-to-own properties, says there has been steady interest in these arrangements for the past few years.
"This isn't a new phenomenon," Furniss says. "When the market crashed in 2008, you started seeing more people looking at rent-to-own. I think the uptrend you are seeing now is because sellers realize that they can't sell their house for market value, so they are willing to entertain rent-to-own tenants, whereas in the past they just wanted to get the property sold. They still do want to get a house sold, but it's not a realistic thing anymore, so they want to look at other options."
"If you live in a property you can wait it out," he adds. "If it's vacant, you're just going to continue to make mortgage payments while the house sits on the market. Some people do that, but I think it's crazy. You want to market your home to the greatest number of people out there, and the greatest pool of people out there are renters and renters that want to be buyers. I don't know why you would continue to go after a diminishing pool of buyers who are so picky in this market. It is such a great buyers' market, and sellers are just getting killed."Under a rent-to-own arrangement, a seller agrees to take on a tenant with the understanding that they will have an option to buy the property at an agreed-upon price after an agreed-upon number of years. As part of that deal, there is typically an option-to-buy fee that can range from several hundred to several thousand dollars (be prepared for at least 5% of the home's market value). An added fee may also be tacked onto rent payments that goes toward at least a portion of the future down payment or purchase price.
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Mike Binder, like most people in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when the terror began. ''I was with Diane Sawyer being interviewed live on ABC when the first plane hit,'' recalls the writer/director of 2005's The Upside of Anger, and Reign Over Me, opening this weekend. ''I wandered the streets and ended up spending five days here. It was just numbing.''
It is numbness that forms the basis for Reign's central character, Charlie Fineman, played by Adam Sandler. Having lost his wife and two daughters aboard one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers, Fineman is emotionally stunted, unable to properly grieve or continue either with his professional or personal life. At the beginning of the film, Fineman is discovered still stuck in this stasis by his old college roommate, Alex Johnson, played by Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda). Johnson, a successful but disgruntled dentist, is stuck in his own rut and is watching his marriage buckle under the pressure. Together they revive their former friendship and begin to help each other rebuild their lives.
While Binder remembers being ''blown away'' by the events of 9/11, it wasn't simply his own feelings of sadness or separation from his L.A.-based family that inspired him to explore the kind of loss faced by Charlie Fineman. ''One memory I have is of a woman in Bryant Park just crying her eyes out and everyone trying to calm her down, just assuming the worst of what this woman lost,'' says Binder. ''I was with my family three years later and I thought, you know, there are still people for whom that day never ended, that are still wandering these streets, that are still numb but the world has moved on.''
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Neither Oliver Stone's World Trade Center nor Paul Greengrass's United 93 had been released when you conceived of this idea. Was there any trepidation on your part about tackling the subject of 9/11?
MIKE BINDER: There's always reasons why you shouldn't do something. They're always so clear to me when I'm reading the reviews [laughs], or the movie has bombed and I'm having trouble getting my next movie made. But when I'm making it, I don't believe in looking down and seeing how far the fall is to the ground especially in this situation because that's what made it interesting to me. It was a story worth telling.
How did you prepare for the character of Charlie Fineman?
Research. Reading, and talking to therapists and people who had gone through similar things. Sandler did so much research to the point that I thought, ''Boy, he's crossing the line with some of these people.'' He'd get to know some people so well, he'd tell me, ''I sat in on a therapy session today. I just sat in the back and listened.''
Were these group sessions?
No. One on one. I believe this was a guy who walked away from a horrible plane crash. He had survived and members of his family didn't. We weren't only talking to 9/11 survivors. We were talking to people who had horrible hops of the ball in life. That's what I was interested in: ''I've been working since high school, 30 years at my career, I raised a family, I have insurance and taxes and medical, and tried to do everything right. What happens when the sidewalk comes up and hits me in the face one day with something that I completely didn't expect?'' That to me is what's interesting about Charlie's life. Charlie got a hop of the ball that hit him straight in the face. And he cannot get off the couch.
You both wrote and directed The Upside of Anger as well as Reign Over Me. Do you think that's simply the best way to realize your particular vision, and is it difficult?
I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramadies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right. I could probably give you three people who have done it well [in] the last decade. So yeah, there's a side of me that says, 'Just find a good script with a big star and swing for the fences,' and I might do that one day. But things like Upside of Anger and Reign Over Me I'm proud to try. Sometimes I fail miserably, but I like the idea that I'm really going for something. I have this dream that one day, I'm going to write and direct the perfect adult comedy.
Who do you feel has hit that spot?
Cameron Crowe. I loved Almost Famous. I loved Jerry Maguire. I think some of Alexander Payne's work is interesting and really good. I loved Woody Allen in his heyday.
Personally, I would put The Upside of Anger in that league.
Tell a friend. My movies don't make any money and they don't really light the world on fire. But I'm really lucky because I've gotten them made. I have my own little group. I have my producers. I own my own editing room and my equipment and we kind of circle the wagons and make our own movies. I don't think that this movie is going to be a big hit. And Upside of Anger sure wasn't. Almost Famous wasn't a big hit. Jerry Maguire was because he had Tom Cruise. But Woody Allen's best movies weren't hits.
With something like Upside of Anger you might think that at least it reaches a specific, underserved audience.
I would think. Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap. All told, Upside of Anger cost like $9 million. This one was more expensive because it was Sony, but Sony's not going to lose money on Reign Over Me. When you keep that kind of equation going, it allows you to go, ''Okay, well, 9/11 might be a risky background for this film, but I'm going to do it anyway.''
What made you think of Adam Sandler for Charlie Fineman?
At one point Javier Bardem was going to play Don Cheadle's role. Bardem was in my office. We had gone to Tom Cruise [with the role of Charlie Fineman] and Tom Cruise didn't want to do it. So, Bardem and I were throwing out ideas. He walks over to the shelf and he looks at the Punch Drunk Love DVD in my collection on my wall. Bardem doesn't know a lot about American cinema, and he says, ''Who is this man, this actor? He's brilliant.'' And I say, ''You don't know who that is?'' And he says, ''No. I've only seen him in this movie, but I love him.'' And I go, ''Wow, you really don't know who Adam Sandler is? Dude!'' And he says, ''Think about him. He's so wounded.''
So you initially wrote the part of Alex Johnson for Javier Bardem. What happened?
By the time we set a start date, Adam had to be in and out by a certain time, and Bardem had another movie that he wanted to do and didn't quite tell us about [laughs]. I was bummed for a minute. And then Cheadle came in and I had to completely rethink the story. But Cheadle turned the boat in the direction it needed to go. It became such an American story.
Your HBO series The Mind of the Married Man (2001-2002) was the source of considerable discord between my wife and me while it was on the air.
Poor Chris Rock. Chris Rock is wildly talented and an American genius, but to do a movie called I Think I Love My Wife? Whoops. To do a show called The Mind of the Married Man? Who wants to take their wife to something that's going to [cause] a fight afterward? Did you ever get into a fight over Sex and the City at your house? I've never once said to my wife, ''Do you think like that? Do you do that? Is that true?'' [while watching Sex in the City]. Desperate Housewives there's no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were Desperate Househusbands, they would shut ABC down.
My point is, I want to do these really well-drawn-out male characters, but you get killed for doing it. It's the third rail of comedy. There was a lot of truth in Married Man, but it just wasn't easy to do. The critics did not support it. A lot of male critics beat the hell out of it just hoping it would go away. It was touching on something that is just universally hard to have in the living room especially on a Sunday night because, really, television is in the bedroom on a Sunday night. But I'm past that anyway. I'm lucky because I've done all my sex comedies at least for now. I'm trying to dig a little deeper.


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As in-demand designer Tom Ford officially leaves the Gucci Group April 30, the 42-year-old Texan is saying arrivederci, Milan, and -- confirming months of chic-clique chin-wagging -- sashaying West to be America's next top...director.
''Style gets out there when it's filtered through L.A. in film, television, and music videos,'' says Ford. ''The two are very linked at this moment.''
Though he's mum on the details, Ford's designs are hardly sketchy. The former actor's been schmoozing A-listers like Nicole Kidman for years. And he's signed with CAA (friend and agent Bryan Lourd reps Madonna and costumer-turned-director Joel Schumacher).
''Hollywood won't be a slam dunk,'' predicts Patrick McCarthy, chairman of Fairchild Publications, which publishes fashion bibles W and WWD. ''But if anybody has the ability to succeed as an outsider, it's Tom. It all depends on whether his instincts as a director are right.''
Ford's red-carpet fans are optimistic. ''Taste is taste. Style is style,'' said Arrested Development's Portia de Rossi at March 28's Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award ceremony, which honored Ford. ''That will translate into film.'' Says Christina Applegate: ''Fashion's loss is Hollywood's gain.'' Even if she's stuck without a Ford-designed ensemble to wear to her next event? ''We can always get vintage Gucci.''


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DUNEDIN, Fla. – This is what John Gibbons says he never said: that Dustin McGowan will be a reliever and that Ryan Goins will be his starting second baseman.
The Toronto Blue Jays manager intimated Saturday that certain reporters, including this one, recorded his words in recent days, then put two and two together and got five. (Reporters are notoriously poor at math.)
So for the record, Gibbons says the Jays will give McGowan a legitimate shot to prove he can handle a starter's workload over his two remaining outings of spring training. And they say they have not decided who will start at second base, nor who the backup catcher will be.
"We're trying to put the best team together, right or wrong," Gibbons said during his daily media session. "We've told you that all along. We don't have all the answers yet. We've got guys doing different things. We're trying to put it together, so no official announcements were made. I try to be honest and give you the best answers I can, but I haven't officially said anything about anybody. Hopefully, your instincts and you can see what's going on, and there's some indications things might happen."
Indeed there were indications, or at least there seemed to be. Particularly on Thursday, after McGowan worked three lights-out relief innings against the Phillies with a pitch count in the mid-40s.
On that day, McGowan said this: "We just kind of figured [the bullpen] was where I was going to be, just because I hadn't built up enough innings to even really compete for the [starting] job." And Gibbons said he was "concerned" about the injury risk for McGowan in a starting role.
An excerpt from Gibbons' exchange with reporters that day:
Q: It seems like he's more in the bullpen picture then.
Gibbons: Yeah, yeah. Unless he comes out of nowhere and you know.
Q: Is there even a way if you reconsidered to re-stretch him out during the season…
Gibbons: Well, that's hard to do. You get into that kind of jam, that's not easy to do. But we really just wanted to look at him, stretch him out for multiple innings out of the 'pen.
Q: How concerned are you if he went the route and got the innings needed to be a starter, [would you be] worried about injury with him?
Gibbons: Well, me personally, I was concerned about that. Not everybody was, but I was, because that's where he's had his problems. We think he's beyond that kind of stuff. And, I thought he thrived in the bullpen, I thought that was a good role for him. But he had desire to do it, a lot of people had desire to see if he could do it. Myself, personally, I kind of had some reservations.
Some media wretches concluded the foregoing meant McGowan would be a reliever. Not necessarily so, according to Gibbons and pitching coach Pete Walker. McGowan will pitch Tuesday with a 65-pitch limit. If he feels no ill effects, he will shoot for 85 in another game at the end of camp. And if he bounces back from that, he will be considered for the rotation, in a decision that could conceivably come down to the roster deadline on Sunday, March 30.
At the risk of jumping to conclusions, it seems likely that the Jays would not have attached such 11th-hour urgency to McGowan's audition if someone else had stepped up and grabbed the final rotation spot. McGowan, who has a long, sad history of disabling arm injuries, was healthy as a reliever last year and says he is healthy now. He is also throwing in the mid-90s with nasty movement on his pitches, a combination no other rotation candidate can offer at the moment.
Even McGowan admits it is questionable whether he can push himself to 85 pitches in such a short time. The last time he hit that mark was in June of 2008, just before his first in a series of shoulder surgeries.
"It's going to be tough, I think," McGowan said. "Every time you increase by 15, 20 pitches, it's more stress. Since I hadn't done it in so long, I'm kind of eager to see how I feel after too."
And excited about the prospect of starting again.
"I said from Day 1 that I wanted to be a starter," he said. "I know the obstacles I had to overcome to do it too, so a bunch of full surprises coming, I guess."
Now, to second base. On Thursday, a reporter asked Gibbons whether there were any doubts that Goins would be his starter. The reply: "I saw what he did in September. He made a huge difference on our team. So I don't have any doubts."
On Saturday, Gibbons said: "I don't think I said Goins was the starting second baseman." Reminded what he had said, he replied: "Did I say he's officially the second baseman?"
Nothing, Gibbons insisted, is official, including the selection of Erik Kratz or Josh Thole as the backup catcher. The key criterion is their ability to handle R.A. Dickey's knuckleball. Gibbons watched them both do that Friday when Dickey worked eight innings in a minor-league game.
"They both did a good job, but we haven't decided what we're doing to do yet," the manager said.
Entering Saturday's action, Kratz was batting .455 with a 1.296 OPS for the spring. Thole was batting .167 with a .333 OPS.
Dickey "doesn't mind throwing to either one," but his opinion will not influence the decision, Gibbons said.
So to summarize, this is Gibbons on McGowan: "I'm concerned about his health, but I didn't say we have to have him in the bullpen. That hasn't been determined yet … I never said he's not going to be in the rotation."
And about Goins – well, not exactly about Goins, but in response to a question asking whether Goins, in fact, will start at second base: "Here's what we're going to do. When we choose to announce the team, you'll know who everybody is. You'll know the reason who's in the rotation and who's not, and we'll just leave it at that."
As of Saturday morning, the Jays' brain trust had another decision to make about McGowan's next outing: whether to take him south to face the Pirates in Bradenton on Tuesday, or start him in a minor-league game in Dunedin.
Tuesday is the start day for J.A. Happ, one of the rotation candidates. The Jays want to see him get his pitch count beyond 85, and they want McGowan to hit 65. In reply to a reporter's question, Walker acknowledged it might be an advantage to let McGowan work in a minor-league game, an environment where his per-inning pitch count can be controlled simply by the Jays announcing an inning is over.
"We have to weigh the pros and the cons," Walker said. "We want to see him get to that pitch count, Number 1, and see how he bounces back. That's the risk you take pitching in a major-league game. There is the chance he might not get [to his pitch target] for some reason, whether it's a long inning or something happens. So we can control it a little bit, makes sure he gets up four, five times."
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1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Make filling: In a skillet over medium-high heat, sauté beef, onion, garlic and mushrooms until beef is no longer pink, 7 minutes. Transfer mixture to a bowl. Stir in spinach, Worcestershire, mustard and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
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Update on State Rep. Terry Backer Case: Fined for Ethics Violation
Here's an update on a story we did a couple of years ago about an apparent conflict of interest involving a state legislator and his influence over an agency that directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to a non-profit he operated.
The original story concerned whether state Rep. Terry Backer of Stratford should have been sitting as head of an obscure legislative subcommittee with enormous power over the budget of Connecticut's environmental agency. Backer denied there was any conflict but resigned as subcommittee chief after being questioned by the Advocate.
Late last year, Backer was fined $500 by the Office of State Ethics in connection with the same issue. Ethics officials found he'd violated Connecticut's Code of Ethics for public officials. Backer told the Connecticut Post that the matter was "an infraction of their rules" and that it was simply a paperwork glitch involving his signature on papers concerning the $148,000-a-year program.
Backer was and still is head of a non-profit agency called Soundkeeper Inc., an environmental watchdog group that had as its largest source of income federal grants that were awarded by that same state environmental agency.
Over a six year period, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection directed more than $1.3 million in federal grants to operate boats that pumped out and collected sewage from other boats so the stuff wouldn't be dumped in Connecticut harbors or Long Island Sound.
As head of Soundkeeper Inc., Backer was being paid more than $100,000 a year. At various times, both Backer's wife and son were also employed by his non-profit.
Backer, who was for years co-chairman of the legislature's Environment Committee, was first elected to the General Assembly in 1992 and last November (two days before the agreement with the Office of State Ethics took effect) was reelected to the legislature.
"The last thing I want is for anyone to think I have a conflict," Backer told the Advocate in 2010 after being questioned about the relationships between his actions as a lawmaker, his non-profit, and the grant money it was being awarded.
According to the consent order signed by ethics officials and Backer, his signature on documents asking for that grant money violated the state code that forbids public officials from appearing before or lobbying state agencies. The intent of the code is to prevent even the appearance that a legislator or other state official is using his or her position to benefit themselves, according to ethics officials.Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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The Textile Industry and the Triangle Factory Fire
Dramatic change characterized the rapid industrialization of nineteenth-century America. The economy, politics, society and specifically women were all affected. In the early stages of this economic revolution, manufacturing was moved to factories in newly developing urban areas. Young women began working in the textile industry as early as 1820. Later on as goods were increasingly produced by machines run by unskilled labor, the number of women in the industrial workforce grew. Women entered the ranks of...
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Theodore Roosevelt : A Bully Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. His presidency would become the symbol of strong leadership, reform and a square deal for Americans in the new century.
When Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1901, the nation was adjusting to the rapid changes that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The process of industrialization was continuing, the economy was expanding, and cities were growing as people both immigrated and migrated to find...
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Symbols of the 1920s: New York City Skyscrapers in Photographs and Paintings
The roaring 1920s was an era of dramatic change. Among the most enduring manifestations of this change was the rise of the big city. The centrality of urban growth to the social, political, and economic changes of the 1920s gives it a special place in the study of that decade, the twentieth century, and the United States in the modern century. The changes that took place in New York City, America's largest city by this time (see the interactive activity in the March 2007 issue of History Now), were...
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The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
Baseball became an increasingly integral part of the American landscape in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Growth of the sport occurred in conjunction with the rapid industrialization of the United States, the rise of big business, the expansion of the working class, frequent disputes over labor practices and the Progressive reform era, which sought ways to address the challenges of a modern America.
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TITLE IX: Striving for Gender Equity in Athletics
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The Jungle
The United States was transformed in the last decades of the nineteenth century by the industrial revolution. The rapid growth of cities, increase in immigration, expansion of a struggling working class, and concentration of the nation's wealth in the hands of a few "robber barrons" all demonstrated that the nation's governing institutions were not prepared to cope with the challenges of that revolution.
The government's role in the economy in the nineteenth century is best characterized as one of removing...
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Martin Luther King Jr.: His Legacy as Seen Through the Mississippi Summer Freedom Project
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 21, is celebrated by Americans each year to remember and recognize the life and work of the man. Martin Luther King Jr., however, represents far more than the contributions of a single individual. He is the symbol of a movement that included varied organizations and wide support. Understanding the broadness and diversity of the Civil Rights Movement is an important way of honoring both the man and his cause. Using the classroom as an historical laboratory, students can use primary...
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The Supreme Court, Title IX and Gender Equity
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the federal judicial system and has both original and appellate jurisdiction. Historically, the Supreme Court's most influential role has been through the exercise of judicial review. The court's power to declare acts of the legislative and executive branches unconstitutional, and therefore null and void, has enabled Supreme Court Justices to act as policy makers.
Title IX is a United States law enacted on June 23, 1972, that states: "No person in the...
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Lincoln and Presidential Power
When Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860, his experience in politics and government included serving in the Illinois legislature and the US House of Representatives. He had also studied law and was licensed to practice law in Illinois at age twenty-seven. This seems like scant experience for a man who would lead a country through the greatest internal challenge to its existence. However, Lincoln found a way to draw on his life experience and his professional...


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Stock Futures Shrug at Jobless Claims Report
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were pointing to a flat to lower open on Wall Street Thursday, pausing after the Federal Reserve pledged continued stimulus support and business activity appeared to have slowed in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
The markets' response to a less-than-expected rise in claims for U.S. unemployment benefits was muted.
Futures for the S&P 500 were flat, or 2.91 points below fair value, at 1,549.
Futures for the Nasdaq were down 3.5 points, or 16.46 points below fair value, at 2,781.75.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 14 points, or 11.73 points below fair value, at 14,422. J.C. Penney (JCP) shares were rising 2.04% to $16.50 in premarket trading after the company said in a filing Wednesday that bondholders on March 18 withdrew a claim of default against the department-store company. Bondholders had filed the notice on Feb. 4 saying that the company was in default because it pledged merchandise as collateral on its bank credit line. Micron Technology (MU) shares were rising 1.18% to $9.42. The Boise, Idaho-based company is expected by analysts Thursday to post a fiscal second-quarter loss of 19 cents a share on revenue of $1.92 billion after the market close. The FTSE 100 in London was slipping 0.75% and the DAX in Germany was stumbling 0.85% after financial information services company Markit Economics' early estimate on the German private sector output in March showed the slowest growth so far this year. The "flash" Germany Composite Output Index slowed to a three-month low of 51 in March from 53.3 in February. The "flash" Germany Manufacturing Output Index contracted to 49.8, a three-month low, from 50.7. On Thursday, the European Central Bank gave Cyprus an ultimatum or Monday deadline for finding a solution to raising €5.8 billion in funds to meet requirements under a €10 billion European bailout package after the Cypriot parliament rejected the proposal for levies on Cyprus bank accounts. The Labor Department said that initial jobless claims rose 2,000 in the week ended March 16 to 336,000, from an upwardly-revised 334,000 the prior week. That was less than the 342,000 expected by economists. Continuing claims for the week ended March 9 increased by 5,000 to 3.053 million from an upwardly revised 3.048 million the previous week. This was roughly in line with the 3.05 million average estimate from economists. The four-week moving average on first-time claims was 339,750, a decrease of 7,500 from the prior week. The National Association of Realtors is forecast to say at 10 a.m. that existing home sales rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5 million units in February from a 4.92 million-unit rate in January. Out at the same time is the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's Business Outlook Survey for March. The report may show that manufacturing conditions continued to be in contraction but improved to a decline of 2 from a drop of 12.5, which was the worst reading since June 2012. The Conference Board's Index of Leading Indicators, out at 10 a.m. as well, is expected to increase 0.4% after rising 0.2%. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reports on the January Housing Price Index which rose 0.6% in December. The report is due at 9 a.m. The benchmark 10-year Treasury rose 2/32, diluting the yield to 1.954%, as the dollar rose 0.08%, according to the
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My workplace uses text messaging as our primary method of communication. Most of our management team doesn't pick up the phone, so texting is the best way to get people to actually hear what you need to tell them.
Of course, life being as it is, I've had not one, but two incidences where I sent a text to the wrong person.
The first one was relatively mild. Actually, I was just complaining about how my boss had scheduled me for a crappy shift... long, or late or something. Intended to send it to my boyfriend, sent it to my boss instead. Luckily, it had been rather good-natured complaining, so she laughed it off. Every once in awhile, I send a message to her, something like "OMG by boss is such a bitch!" and we have a good laugh.
I didn't get off so lucky with my second one.
We had a crew member, we'll call him Batman. He'd started out great, but due to (in my opinion) poor training and management (ie, my fault, at least in large part) he'd become a touch lazy. He'd seen what some people could get away with and followed suit. My manager had made the determination to fire him one day, but I talked her out of it, insisting that he'd been really great, maybe just a good talking to about his decline and a clear message that his job was one the line would be all it would take.
So she does that (although I suspect their talk was not as serious as it should have been) and I set to work re-training him when I can. Then, I hear a complaint from another supervisor: he'd been chewing gum during his shift. At a fast-food restaurant. And when she asked him if he was, he said no! She was peeved at him.
So I send a text to my boss, who is still looking for any good excuse to fire him: "Cathy caught Batman chewing gum today, and he lied about it. Why would he do something so stupid? I don't get it!!!" (It was something like that, anyway. Pretty close).
Of course, I sent this to Batman.
He was understandably upset. I mean, he clearly saw the humor in the situation, but still. And I freaked out a little. I felt SO bad. I needed to make it OK.
So here's what I did, and it may shock people that it actually worked: I was honest. I told him I'd intended to send that to our boss, but that I stood by what it said. I asked him why he would do something like that when he knew his job was on the line. His defense was weak (nobody told him he couldn't chew gum on the floor... why would you need someone to tell you that?), but he did explain that he hadn't lied about it, that when Cathy asked him, he'd said "No," as in "Not anymore!" which was followed by a conspicuous swallowing, intended to be funny but also communicate that he got the message and stopped the behavior.
And I admit one thing that made the whole thing better: I played the "I saved your job" card. I felt, and still feel, it was a questionable move, a sort of emotional blackmail, but I tried to explain that I'd gone out on a limb for him, and that he was expected to prove himself and not do stupid things and just trying to get fired.
In the end, our crew/supervisor relationship was stronger, and I really think it was because of the honesty. At my workplace, management has a strong tendency to not let crew members know when there is a problem, and unsurprisingly, problems then fester. Batman was eventually fired, but for calling his supervisor a douche (which was also a stupid move, but the supervisor really IS a douche, and is often called that, but that particular supervisor had wanted Batman fired for some time). He had improved marginally in the meantime, but he was still out of the job.
And that was my exciting foray into fixing my own terrible mistakes.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Bouncing Back from a Big Mistake
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I love this story! Can you tell us the story about him calling the manager a douche too, please? That sounds good.ReplyDelete
Alas, I wish I knew the whole story. I didn't even find out he'd been fired for about 4 days (we definitely have communication issues at that place). But it might be funny. I'll get back to you. :)ReplyDelete
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FILE - In this April 18, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama continues to take aim at unscrupulous college recruiters who target veterans and members of the military.
In his weekly Internet and radio address Saturday, Obama reiterated a series of measures he announced yesterday to protect current and former servicemen and women as they seek educational opportunities under the GI Bill. Some for-profit institutions use deceptive military-themed websites that appear to be government-run or connected to the GI Bill benefit system.
For the Republicans this week, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, criticized the Democratic-controlled Senate for not producing a budget. He says Obama has failed to lead the country and put it on a path toward a smaller debt.
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