| FG releases gazette on FCT homes
The federal government has issued a gazette regulating the establishment of day care homes, orphanages and care centres in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The gazette therefore, seeks to reduce incidents of abuse of physically handicapped persons in the FCT. The gazette also stipulates ways of sanitising the setting up and administration orphanages in the territory. The FCT Social Development Secretary; Hajia Amina Zakari, disclosed this in Abuja recently. Zakari said the FCT administration had concluded arrangements to meet with and sensitise all stakeholders in that sub-sector. She said the gazette contains regulations for the establishment of day care homes, orphanages and care centres as well as centres for the handicapped in the FCT. “These regulations had become necessary to reduce to the minimal cases of child abuse, especially those who are physically challenged.
Various News Items - 9/2/07
Busier than a Nymphette in Antarctica at the moment, so heres an abridged look at some of the stories that have crossed the wire, today. From the trades (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter) Lee Unkrich will direct Toy Story 3, due out in 2009. Tim Allen and Tom Hanks have agreed to come back. Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Carrie-Anne Moss and Emily Watson will headline Firelies in the Garden, about a family torn apart by unexpected tragedy. Michael De Luca will produce a big screen version of the videogame Metal Gear Solid for Sony. Patrick Fugit, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins, Jr. , Barry Shabaka Henley, Neil McDonough and Peter Stormare have joined the cast of the new Dennis Quaid serial killer thriller Horsemen. William H.Macy will star in and direct Keep Coming Back, a drama about a boy with a weak heart who takes a shine to an alcoholic stripper (Salma Hayek).
New life as woman brings discrimination for transgender youth
Some of the patrons at the Caribou Coffee shop in Friendly Center, an upscale retail area in Greensboro, cast uneasy and quizzical glances at Devon McCauley, whose thatch of jet-black hair extensions, scuffed boots and dual mouth piercings gave her the look of a 1960s girl-group singer with glam and punk-rock modifications.
By expression the 17-year-old Grimsley High School senior indicated the discomfort was mutual, periodically giving the room a vigilant appraisal while maintaining a mask of feigned disinterest and taking pains to avoid eye contact with other customers. Over the past six months, McCauley has been getting thrown out of places like these. She was banned from the Quaker Village shopping center near Guilford College last summer. Then, on Jan. 12, she said a McDonald's restaurant less than a block away from the progressive liberal arts college told her not to return.
Bayer MaterialScience CEO Recognized by Bender Consulting and ...
Bayer CEO Receives Tony Coelho Award. Greg Babe, President and CEO of Bayer MaterialScience LLC, was honored with the Tony Coelho Award for his commitment to hiring people with disabilities. The award is presented annually by Joyce Bender, Bender Consulting Services, Inc., and Tony Coelho, author of the Americans with Disabilities Act (right). (Photo: Business Wire) .
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