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Boy Had Web Access, Apparent Profiles
While his alleged kidnapper was at work, Shawn or someone pretending to be him put photos of him online and posted a chilling message on a site created by his desperate parents: "How long are you planning to look for your son?"
The postings, along with others, came to light after Shawn's rescue from an apartment in Kirkwood last week. Since then, Web users have discovered a profile at mindviz.com, and online comments have flooded in.
"Welcome home Shawn," wrote one of the nearly 40,000 visitors to Shawn's site on Monday. "I have prayed for you and I know many others have as well. Glad you are safe and healthy."
Investigators would not comment on the postings, and it was not immediately known if they were, in fact, created by Shawn or by someone else.
PM's address at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Following is excerpted from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at the inauguration of the 5th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at the Vigyan Bhavan here Sunday:
'I am delighted to welcome delegates from different lands to this blessed land of their ancestors. We feel truly proud that in this hall we find today the entire world represented. This gathering, ladies and gentlemen, truly symbolizes the ancient Indian yearning for 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' - the whole world is one family.
We are one family. The whole world is our home. That is why I have often said that while the sun has set on many great empires of the world in the past, the sun will never set on the world of the Indian Diaspora! From Fiji in the East, to Los Angeles in the West, from Cape Town in the South to Toronto in the North, the people of Indian origin are the world's most globalised community.
Caitlin Moran
For obvious reasons, the exact location of the future has always been vague mainly because, when one gets there, it has the disconcerting habit of suddenly becoming the present. However, one primary identifying marker of the future is the advent of the three-course meal in a pill!. Its what we were promised, as children, on Tomorrows World. Jet packs for all, silver tunic minidresses and white plastic furniture, and meals in a pill. Thats what 1997 was going to be like. But look! All of a sudden, it is 1997! It is the future! For although we might not yet have the technology for jet packs, or the legs for silver tunic minidresses, we do have a whole meal in a pill. Or, rather, a whole meal in a crisp. Have you looked at the crisps and snacks section in your local supermarket? Its nuts both figuratively and, in the case of the shelf where the salted pistachios are, literally.
Boomtown Blues: Oil business rebound a double-edged sword in Sidney
Lately, the number of batches is up, and that's good. The catch is, he can't seem to hire enough people to bake them.The owner of Sidney's M&M Cafe is not alone in his predicament. Sidney's Main Street is peppered with help-wanted signs.The worker crunch started 2½ years ago, when the sleeping giant awoke west of town. Oil is again pumping lifeblood into the region. But the oil industry's $25-an-hour jobs have tipped the balance of the local economy. .
Carmel moves into the home stretch on much-debated ball fields
CARMEL - Members of the town's recreation committee hope they are finally heading into the home stretch to long-awaited and much-debated ball fields off Seminary Hill Road.
Camarda Park, which backs up against the upscale Willow Ridge subdivision, is to include a 90-foot baseball diamond, a Little League and multipurpose fields, a playground and walking trails. Sizes of each element vary depending on which of three plans is chosen by the Town Board, which has charged a Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee with developing a specific park plan and a vision for townwide recreation in general.
Developer Paul Camarda donated the 37 acres off winding two-lane Seminary Hill Road in 1999 and it has been embroiled in controversy and delay ever since.
Town residents - particularly parents of athletic children - say the hamlet needs its own park and playing fields.
The year in review: Top Little Elm sports stories of '06
Accomplishing great things never happens by accident. Achievements, then, are the result of hard work and dedication to one's craft. Here is a look at the top moments Little Elm High School athletic teams, coaches, and players produced over the past year:Honorable mentionGolfer qualifies for regional - Rita Berumen shot a career-best 87 during her second round of play to advance to her second straight Class 3A Region I golf tournament in April. The senior shot 10 strokes better than she did in the first round to qualify. Berumen, who began playing golf as a freshman, shot an opening round 101 at Odessa's Nueva Vista Golf Club, and followed that up with a 109 in her final round. Her final score of 210 was good enough for 63rd out of 87 golfers at regionals.Tennis team serves up regional berths - Twelve different Lobos advanced to the Region I tennis tournament in April by virtue of their District 7-3A finishes.
Notes: Swanson back home with Royals
Swanson, who began his baseball career with the Royals in 1973, has returned as the club's vice president of communications and broadcasting. The announcement was made Friday by Royals vice president-business operations Kevin Uhlich.
Swanson, known throughout the industry as "Swanee," will oversee Royals media relations, broadcasting and alumni departments.
He succeeds David Witty, who resigned to direct University of Nebraska sports broadcasting.
Swanson, 52, was senior director of public relations for the Arizona Diamondbacks, joining the expansion club in 1997. It was his second straight start-up assignment; he joined the Colorado Rockies in 1992 before they had played a game.
A native of Kansas City, Swanson was with the Royals as a public relations associate from 1973-78 and was with the San Diego Padres beginning in 1984.
Generation Y stay home?
Seventy per cent of Y Generation Australians have already spent considerable time overseas and 65 per cent intend to spend time overseas in the future, says a survey by youth and student travel adviser, STA Travel.
More than 25 per cent of those surveyed have taken a gap year between university and work and over 40 per cent hope to take a gap year during their career.
According to Campbell Sallabank, CEO of the career building and networking site Linkme.com.au, travel has become an integral part of the career path for Australia's Generation Y.
The traditional gap year has changed but it appears that many still associate the name with the conventional gap year taken after school, 30 per cent of those surveyed refer to their time overseas as a gap year, whilst 40 per cent refer to their experience as a working holiday.
The last days of Jose
Little captures the insanity of Jose Mourinhos reduced status at Chelsea better than the queue of continental superpowers scrambling to offer him fresh employment. Four consecutive league titles in two different countries, a Champions League triumph at his first attempt, a swagbag of lesser trophies weightier than that of most other coaches no modern football manager has had such an impact so quickly and Real Madrid, Internazionale and Milan value that appropriately. The idea that Chelsea would wish to dispense with Mourinhos services after the first indifferent run of form of his two years in London (five games, one win, four draws, no defeats) was described as bonkers, madness by the Fulham manager Chris Coleman on Friday. Madness, though, is about to happen.
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