It seems unlikely that one book could exemplify both these trends, but [Lisa Alther]'s first memoir, Kinfolks, does just that. The title is an allusion to the main source of Alther's name recognition: her 1976 novel Kinflicks, a bawdy best-seller about a Southern girl's coming of age. (Since then, the part-time Hinesburg resident has published four more successful novels, one of them set in Vermont.) Kinfolks traces the central events of Alther's life, covering much of the same ground as Kinflicks but showing us where the author diverges from her heroine. In this familiarity, and in the somewhat random anecdotes with which Alther seasons the narrative, it's hard not to see signs of a book written "for the fans. Stylistically, it's a bit like being shown slides from your genealogy-obses...
In the next 10 minutes, nearly 500 Americans will become disabled, according to the National Safety Council. Added to that, each day, four of every 150 employees are absent from work, Kaiser Permanente reports. JHA's 2005 Absence Management Survey showed disabling injuries and illnesses account for 55% of employee absences. While those numbers continue to climb, some employers underestimate the magnitude of the situation, said Richard Colver, director of group risk and health care for Willis Employee Benefits. A growing number of employers are beginning to streamline the management of employee absenteeism by shifting administration of leave-of-absence programs. About 30% of 225 companies surveyed in a 2008 Hewitt Associates study said they're outsourcing their program management, a 13% ...
Back in the old days, some departments refused to take reports on until they were gone for a certain period of time. In the movies, it's always 48 hours, but this number really varied from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Over the years, the time frame for searching for a missing child has, by necessity, diminished. When a child disappears, police and entire communities immediately go into overdrive. It's a smart approach and has saved lives.
Broken twigs, compressed grass, fresh footprints - members of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department analyzed them all on Monday during training exercises to track fugitives and missing persons. Experts from the state Division of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service trained about 20 members of the Sheriff's Department's SWAT team and the Kanawha County Ambulance Authority. The men followed tracks along trails at Camp Virgil Tate, trying to locate two deputies posing as fugitives.
The 21st century's competi24-hour news services e brought forth the probity that whether in a or urban area of the nation or in the smallest rural comer, police agencies responsible for those jurisdictions could very well find themselves in the national spotlight regarding missing person cases. A structured framework for organization with trained resources, robust leadership that communicates a clear mission and focus with aggressive implementation of investigative teams will improve the opportunity for the desired results in the awesome responsibility inherited by law enforcement in the investigation of missing persons.
By Lauren Garrison Register Staff lgarrison@newhavenregister.com In the seven years since her daughter disappeared, Cori Mirabilio of Woodbury has worked with the police to follow every lead, hired a private detective, submitted a DNA sample and registered her daughter in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
That wasn't the case in 1995, when Manbites Dog first presented this region with the story of Jody, a man living an ironic, self-imposed exile in a one-room store filled with maps of the world. The reasons for Jody's strange expatriation slowly come into focus as Carl, his seemingly eccentric, slippery - and above all, insistent - friend repeatedly interrupts it in pursuit of two goals. For motives entirely opaque at the start, Carl is determined to (1) fill Jody's store with an apparently random assortment of chairs, and (2) get him to actually walk outside for the first time in days, if not weeks. Chachula's Jody vividly represents those who couldn't face the staggering losses during the first years of plague and effectively buried themselves instead. Where Jay O'Berski initiall...
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