| Chefs vie here for taste of 'Hell'
To use a favorite word of their hero, more than 350 cooks lined up Wednesday in the Loop looking for one "effin' " chance to be on reality TV. Only their guy -- foul-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay -- doesn't really use "effin'." Berating, humiliating and ultimately debilitating contestants on Fox television's "Hell's Kitchen," the Scotland-born Ramsay is a three-star restaurateur, a four-star afficionado of f-bombs and a five-star pain in the [bleep]. .
India firm's 'in-sourcing' creates jobs for Georgia
For critics of U.S. jobs outsourced to India, Azim Premji —- oddly enough —- may be your new hero. Premji, who has spent most of his career building a leading technology conglomerate in India, came to town Monday to announce a reversal of fortune: His Bangalore, India-based company, Wipro Technologies, plans to locate 500 to 1,000 jobs in metro Atlanta within the next three years. Better still, economic development officials say the kinds of jobs envisioned —- software developers and engineers —- are just what Georgia wants. "These are exactly the right kind of jobs we've been working on for a number of years," said Hans Gant, a senior vice president for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. "And Wipro is exactly the right kind of global company we have been trying to recruit.
ABCs to ACTs
Note: Montgomery Public Schools' child nutrition program is requesting that all students who were eligible to receive free or reduced lunch last year or who would like to apply for free or reduced lunch this year submit a free and reduced lunch application to their school by Sept. 28. One form per household is required. Applications must include the names of all children in the household, their Social Security numbers, a parent or guardian's income information and a nine-digit food stamp case number, if the food stamp option is being used. Foster children must complete a separate application. Forms are available at the school or the Child Nutrition Office, 607 S. Union St. For more information, call 334-269-3817.
Montgomery Public Schools' Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is registering students daily from 9 a.m.
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