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Missing persons, crime, are national obsession—and entertainment

CNN's Nancy Grace devotes most of her nightly one-hour show to cases of missing children like Caylee Anthony. Popular TV showWithout a Trace, about an FBI missing persons unit, ran for the last seven seasons.Nothing entices the public interest like a disappearance, a theme strongly threaded through Kathy-Diane Leveille's shocking novelLet the Shadows Fall Behind You.

In real-life cases like the Caylee Anthony murder, the public are genuinely horrified by her death, but at the same time we undeniably tune-in by the millions.

VANCOUVER — With 83 percent of businesses in British Columbia classified as small businesses, only one chartered bank is directly focused on catering to their needs. Jameson Bank, made popular in Canada with its “concierge banking” approach to small and medium enterprises, has grown by word of mouth in British Columbia, helped by a steady base of very loyal customers.

“Demand for our white glove approach was so strong we recently recruited a new local expert in Vancouver,” said James Lau, vice chairman at Jameson Bank.

Paul Cook, on Cooked in LA, speaking about addiction. Kunati Books.

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Cover Design by Persona Corp, Kam Wai YuPair of Surrey educators try to get the lead out

ByAlex Browne - Peace Arch News

School days – especially for elementary age children – are not the way many adults remember them.

Learning disabilities, declining IQ levels, attention deficit disorder, autism and behaviour problems – such as violence and delinquency – have become epidemic among children over the last few decades.

Joanna Cerazy and Sandra Cottingham are two Surrey school district special-education specialists – Cerazy as a hands-on worker with a caseload, Cottingham as a district level consultant – who have seen the increase in children with such problems. And it’s become clear it’s a problem not just affecting children in their own school district, but worldwide.Read More>>

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Joanna Cerazy, MEd (Author), Sandra Cottingham, PhD (Author)

Childrens: Parenting & Family Care, Health

256 pages, Cloth, 5.5 x 8.5
Distribution Rights: WOR
$24.95 (CAN $25.95)
9781601641922(1601641923)

Pub Date: May 2009

Author/ Activist Dave Donelson, author of "Heart of Diamonds"(West Harrison, NY) A well-publicized letter from author Dave Donelson convinced computer chip giant AMD Corporation to change a product code name, according to an online report on technology site CNET News.Donelson had complained in an open letter published on his blog on Daily KOS about the company’s recent decision to name a new computer chip “Congo” because of the connection between conflict minerals used in electronic devices and the brutal war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“Nearly six million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998,” Donelson explained in the letter sent to AMD CEO Dirk Meyer, “and the death toll continues to mount as fighting over the country's mineral resources continues. Currently, more than a million Congolese have been driven from the