| Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews And Missing Child Protocol
Sue Carroll: Most of us won't have an instant recollection who Shannon Matthews is. After thinking twice, of course we all know she is the nine-year-old missing from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire. But what a terrible indictment of the media that, when a child has disappeared in Britain for over a week, her name doesn't spring to our lips, we don't know her school, favourite toy or what she was wearing when last seen. Shannon is as precious to her family as Madeleine McCann, missing for 300 days, is to hers. But where are the front-page pictures, campaigns, the furore? Would this be different if she was the daughter of two middle-class, mediasavvy parents? Not a working-class child from up North. THE SUN: "Marchers wants Shannon home" THE family of Shannon Matthews led a poignant candlelit vigil for the missing nine-year-old last night – as police admitted hopes of finding her alive looked “bleak".
New employees: valuable from day 1 onwards
Brand: Introduce your new employees to your brand values and product or service features and promises. Do these focus on quality and tradition or rather on lifestyle and innovation? What does the customer expect from your products and services? Customers: Which reasons, benefits and values lead to the purchasing decision of our customers? These can be technical points or individual values. The new employee for example might discover: 'Many our customers are high-income people and value our exceptional quality a lot. They also appreciate our pragmatic and helpful solutions.' This way, your new employees get a better and more complete picture what is important and how to handle their tasks more effectively and more efficiently. This procedure provides them with more security and motivation.
Secret files against terror suspects revealed
In a proper trial, the public hears (or can obtain transcripts to) both the arguments of the Defence and the Prosecution. There are almost always arguments going both ways.
Here, the media only hears (and therefore reports) the side of the prosecution, along with all of the most extreme of accusations against the 'defendants'. Then again, can you even call them defendants in such a twisted system of justice where it's guilty until proven innocent, and where 'secret hearings' replace courtrooms? Posted 22/02/08 at 9:10 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Ankeny to Woodward trail gets DOT money
Ames, Ia. - The Iowa Transportation Commission awarded a state grant of $565,960 today to pay for construction on a key stretch of a planned 25-mile recreational trail between Ankeny and Woodward.
The state money will be used for work on a 5.25-mile section between Madrid and Woodward, including a bridge over the Des Moines River, state officials said.
When the project is completed, the multi-use trail will link Ankeny, Sheldahl, Slater, Madrid, and Woodward, extending through parts of four counties as part of the proposed Central Iowa Trail Loop. The corridor was purchased by the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation two years ago from the Union Pacific Railroad.
A section of the trail in Ankeny is now open to the public, and another stretch in the Woodward area will open this fall, said Rich Voelker of Snyder & Associates, who is the lead engineer for the trail project.
Song Yankun, 43, teacher
I do what I can for the environment. I take my own cutlery to my work canteen rather than using disposable chopsticks, which uses lots of wood. I recycle plastic bags by using them for rubbish and try to take my own bag when shopping. I'm glad the government brought in its new policy. [China has pledged to ban flimsy plastic bags from June.] When I go shopping, I don't really think about the environment. I am more concerned with food safety. For me, though, the two biggest environmental worries are water and air pollution. When I was a child we lived in the hutong alleyways and heated our home with coal. I had no idea that it was dirty. But now, we have different standards and more knowledge about the health impact. When I was a child we drank water straight from the tap. Now my children have bottled water only.
Traversing the cost of paths, sidewalks
Bruce Steidinger gives the Rockford area high marks for its network of bike paths that snake along more than 20 miles of the Rock River, Willow Creek and Perryville Road. There's just one problem. There are a lot of gaps in the system. "For most people who live in and around Rockford, you're stuck in your neighborhood if you want to ride your bike," said Steidinger, owner of Shosie's Cyclery in Loves Park. "We've got a lot of great paths. We need to get them connected. Even when I get the chance to leave the shop and go biking, I've got to put the bike on the car rack and drive out to where I can ride." Steidinger's critique comes as no surprise to local transportation planners. Rockford Area Transportation Study — the region's transportation planning group — meets today to adopt a study that recommends construction of nearly 228 miles of sidewalks and 425 miles of bicycle and pedestrian paths and on-street bike lanes throughout the Rock River Valley.
Bath man indicted for kidnapping, assault
A 28-year-old Bath man was indicted Wednesday on kidnapping and assault charges for allegedly attacking a 16-year-old girl last August. Darren P. McEathron is accused of dragging the victim into a wooded area off Birdseye Hollow Road in Wayne. The victim, who did not know her attacker, was riding her bicycle in the area. The man is accused of assaulting the girl Aug. 18, causing injuries to her face and extremities, according to state police at Bath. McEathron did not sexually assault the girl, authorities said. The victim was able to escape her attacker when he left her briefly unattended. McEathron, who was arrested in early January, was indicted without the results of a DNA sample he provided to investigators shortly after his arrest. Steuben County District Attorney John Tunney said his office has not yet received those results.
Mail halted after feisty feline wounds postie
Oreo is one tough cookie. In fact, Darlene Carlin's 15-year-old cat scared Canada Post so much that it stopped delivering the mail. The postal problem started on Jan. 2, when a postie delivered the mail to Carlin's Richmond home. .
Here from beginning to the end
It was 1935 and Birmingham and the country were in the thralls of the Great Depression. During that economically challenging time then-Birmingham Post Editor Jimmy Mills knew the newspaper had to do more than deliver printed words and bold headlines to the public. Many families, after all, couldn't afford to put food on the table, much less buy a newspaper. So Mills started the Goodfellows program which bought candy and fruit for needy youths. It evolved into a program that delivered fruit and toys to needy Birmingham-area around Christmas each year. It would be the Post's, later to become the Post-Herald's, first foray into community service, but not its last. Since then, the Post-Herald has sponsored various community service projects from the State Spelling Bee to the All-State Academic Team to the Kudzu Run and Car Show to the Distinguished Teachers Awards to the Scholar-Athlete Awards.
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