I am a denizen of this lovely city and a foodie myself, which I think qualifies me to write about this topic that is very close to my heart - The must eat foods that visitors to our lovely city cannot and must not miss.
If you're ready for a culinary expedition, here is the list of 10 must eat foods for Bangalore visitors and foodies. Just thinking and writing about these foods is making me feel hungry, so let's get on with it.
Gone are those days when Idli and Vada were considered strictly a breakfast item. Nowadays, In Bangalore, steaming hot idlis are available at any time of the day. Believe me when I say that there are people who exist solely on platefuls of Idli Vada.
There are many side dishes that go well with Idli, but it is best served with sambar and coconut chutney. When I say sambar, it is not to be confused with the usual variety available elsewhere. My reference here is towards the tinge of sweetness in its flavour giving Karnataka's sambar its uniqueness (they add Jaggery).
Veena Stores: Margosa Road, Malleswaram (at the Sankey Tank end of the road).
Brahmin's Coffee Bar: Near Shankar Mutt, Basavanagudi.
"Thatte" in Kannada means plate. As the name suggests, these Idlis are much bigger in size compared to the normal Idli, and are about 4 inches in diameter.
These delectable fluffy things are also served with sambar and coconut chutney and (now comes the mouthwatering moment) a large dollop of homemade butter.
The chemistry between Thatte Idli and homemade butter cannot be explained in mere words. It is like Nirvana - you need to experience it to know it. But the last time I tried Thatte Idli, I was served Amul butter, the 10gm blister, which was a real turn off. So you be firm and insist on homemade butter.
The best place I know of for Thatte Idli is Sree Shivasagar Bidadi Bisi Thatte Idly Hotel, Bidadi (a suburb of Bangalore on Bangalore-Mysore Highway).
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. The story I have heard is that there was a shortage of rice, the main ingredient of Idli, during WW-II. Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR) replaced rice with semolina, and thus gave Rava Idli to the world.
This speciality of Karnataka is served with saagu (a local mix veg curry), coconut chutney and a liberal dash of ghee poured over the top. Who else can serve you the best Rava Idli in town than the inventors themselves, Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, Lalbagh Road.
Not to be confused with Tamil Nadu style masala dosas, which have thin crusts as opposed to Karnataka's slightly thicker crust.
Benne Masala Dosa, soft on the inside, is cooked with plenty of butter that gives its golden brown crust that delicious crunchy-ness!
It's usually served with coconut chutney, and of course a big dollop of butter.
The best place to try out Benne Masala is at Central Tiffin Room (CTR), Margosa Road at its K.G. General Hospital end. This place has been dishing out this variety of dosas for more than six decades.
This Karnataka specialty is a smaller (you get 2-3 Khali dosas to a set), thicker, softer and spongier version of the normal dosas. Boiled Kusubalakki (akki is rice in Kannada), a variety local to Karnataka, gives Khali dosa its soft and spongy texture.
It's usually served with sambar or saag and chutney. The blend of Khali dosa and chutney is of such exquisite taste that even a gourmet spread will find it difficult to compete with. Then you have your Benne (butter) Khali Dosa which is served with a lavish dollop of butter on top.
Hotel Dwarka, NR Colony, Basavanagudi is the place to go to for your mouth watering Khali Dosa.
I am going a little rustic here. This wholesome food, rich in multi-nutrients, is traditional to Karnataka. This tennis ball sized Ragi Mudde by itself does not have an independent taste. It is the combination of Muddes and its accompaniments that tickle your taste buds.
Hesarukalu (Green gram) saaru or Gojju (a sweet and sour chutney).
The best place to get your Ragi Mudde in Bangalore is Mudde Madappa Mess, Majestic.
Being a foodie, I don't play favorites. But when I think of Puliyogare, I must concede, my mouth waters, my eyes get dazed and I sport a grin.
Describing Puliyogare as tamarind flavoured rice doesn't do justice to this dish intrinsically woven into Karnataka's foodscape. It makes me flinch every time I hear somebody use that term.
Tamarind is the major player here, but there's a lot more at play here. This dish owes its complex flavours to the combination of a whole bunch of spices and the liberal amount of sesame oil.
It's best served with curds and papad.
Go get your Puliyogare at Puliyogare Point, NR Colony, Basavanagudi.
Another treat to your taste buds which has its origin in Karnataka. Again, the translated term hot lentil rice doesn't do justice to this favorite food of all Bangaloreans.
Yes, of course, lentil is involved. But what about the red chili, cinnamon, clove, cumin, methi seeds, coriander seeds, vegetables, etc? The interplay of all this lends this dish its unique flavour. Let me tell you something which will make your jaw drop. I have tasted Bisi Bele bath with around thirty ingredients.
You can serve the bath with chutney or onion raitha, with papad or potato chips, with a sprinkle of khara boondi over the top as dressing.
You can visit Halli Mane for your great tasting Bisi bele bath.
I agree chaats originated from Uttar Pradesh, but believe me when I say Masala Puri originated from Bangalore.
Though varieties of chaats are available across every nook and corner of India, I have never tastes anything outside Bangalore that is remotely as good as the Masala puri here. I speak with authority here, because I know how I yearn for a Masala puri every time I travel out of Bangalore.
A crispy sweet dish traditional to Karnataka. Originally Holige used to be made with coconut and jaggery stuffings, but nowadays a variety of stuffings like badam, kova, dal, and dates add different flavours to your experience.
Holige is best served with oodles of ghee.
The Place: Holige Mane, Malleshwaram.


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A plethora of profound words to-live-by and life altering dialogue wash over me as I watch in awe of this woman's determination, drive and unwillingness to hear "No" or "You Can't". But the one line that stayed with me, for years to come, that has popped into my mind all along my short path of life was this; "sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back… But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all."
Frankie (Maggie's trainer played by the legendary Clint Eastwood) is talking about her form, her style. But from the moment it rang in my ears, I heard the depth of that statement, it imprinted on my soul and to this day has never left me.
How often is it that we're so entwined in a situation, in a problem, that all we seem to be doing is treading water. I like to call it the slump, the trough, the stagnation. Now, there is no one that believes more in the trends of life. The upswing and the downswing. The cycle. Sometimes it's your turn to struggle and claw your way through an era, and sometimes it's your turn to bask in the glory of the moment. But that line, it has a strange way of lightly tapping me on the shoulder in the middle of my greatest battles, my cyclical thriller in Manila. (Yes, I've fought my fair share of Frazier's, so have you, don't discredit yourself.)
1. OWN YOUR WEAKNESSES; OWN YOUR STRENGTHS
"Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back…" for me, this speaks to the art of detaching, for me specifically, this speaks to emotion. So often I cloud myself with emotion, blame it on any which aspect you like, I'm a Gemini, I'm an only child, I'm a woman, call it how you like it, none of the above offends me, and it shouldn't offend you either. Understand yourself.
Understand the way you tick, the way you work, when you feel that wave of emotion, own it, label it, indulge and experiment with it. Assess what it helps you create, assess the damage it does if you let it be free, harness it and channel it. Be kind to yourself.
As humans we have this indescribable beauty within us that comes from being so imperfect, and having the ability to acknowledge that. So often the clarity we so desire, that we are so thirsty for, comes from detaching ourselves. It comes from decelerating the panic, zooming out.
Taking that one step back to regain our footing, regain our focus and deliver that knock-out punch, that winning number, the move that brings the crowd to their feet in awe and appreciation of you and your efforts.
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" – Bruce Lee
2. DON'T STEP BACK TOO FAR
However, there's always a "but". There is a balance to be kept, and our beloved Frankie, Clint Eastwood's character, brings it home with "But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all."
It's a warning and it's applicable to every aspect of our lives. Step back too far, and you aren't even in the fight any longer. Remove yourself too far, cut yourself off, bottle yourself up, and you're no longer competing. You're no longer in the game. You aint fighting at all.
It speaks to spectatorizing yourself (yup, I made it up, give it a minute it will catch on). It speaks to side lining yourself. Again I say, be kind to yourself, we are such gentle souls, so delicate, we are so soft and so in need of love and guidance. When there is no one around to applaud for you, applaud yourself.
3. ACKNOWLEDGE EVEN THE SMALLEST VICTORY
I once heard of a primary school teacher who was teaching her little ones to read. One day during class she requested that little Johnny get up and spell the word "cat" on the board. Johnny eagerly got up, ran to the board and in shaky, untrained handwriting Johnny wrote K-O-T. Instead of correcting Johnny straight away, the teacher ran up to Johnny and said "well done Johnny, you got the T correct. Now let us try to get the rest of the letters that you're missing."
Be gentle, do not jump to what is wrong first. Give yourself credit where credit is due. Don't work on yourself because you hate what you are, or what you see. Don't go into that gym despising your body, it's been so good to you for this long, after everything you've put it through.
Be gentle with your mind and thoughts when learning something new, your brain does a million things at once, over and over, every single day, appreciate yourself. But do not step so far back that you no longer fight. So far back that you no longer compete.
"It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you" – Eddie Scrap
4. SHOW UP ON THE NIGHT
Challenge yourself and change yourself, drive yourself to be what you have always wanted to be, how you've always wanted to be. Don't make yourself a spectator of your own life. You are stronger and more resilient than you could possibly fathom. There is complete freedom at the end of the road of endurance, at the edge of the limits we set ourselves. But we should aim to always discover this positively.
Take that step back in today's boxing ring, assess your situation, physically, mentally, emotionally… focus… distribute your weight evenly, and deliver life that winning shot.But don't forget the number one rule; Protect yourself at all times.
THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY: SAMANTHA EVE
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Groups of Furniture According to Their Functionality
Pullen | September 24, 2015 | The History of Furniture Construction
In terms of functionality, furniture can be divided into the following groups:
• for sitting and lounging,
• for reclining,
• for working and eating meals,
• for learning,
• for storage,
• multifunctional furniture and
• complementary furniture.
Each of the given groups is characterised by specific properties and requirements:
• of exploitation, that is the character of the performed task,
• anthropotechnical, that is adjusting the user's anthropotechnical characteristics to the technical features of the operational object,
• sanitary and hygienic,
• pedagogical and
• construction.
A group of furniture for sitting and lounging comprises typical chairs, tabourets, stools, pouffes and bar stools, which do not or only partially provide support for the user's back (Fig. 2.3a-e), as well as armchairs, sofas, chaise lounges and corner sofas, supporting the whole body or its major part (Fig. 2.3f-i).
Furniture for reclining should ensure comfortable and continuous support of the human body in a reclining position. There are, however, structures that not only meet this basic function, but also provide support for the body in a sitting position. For this reason, furniture for reclining can be divided into two subgroups (Fig. 2.4):
• only with reclining function, such as beds, couches and mattresses (Fig. 2.4a-c) and
• with a reclining and sitting function, such as folding sofas, sofas and corner sofas (Fig. 2.4d-f). In this subgroup of furniture, the change of function can be achieved by using fittings and accessories that enable to transform the piece of
Fig. 2.3 Furniture for sitting and lounging: a chair, b tabouret, c stool, d pouffe, e bar stool, f armchair, g sofa, h chaise lounge, i corner sofa
Fig. 2.4 Furniture for reclining: a bed, b couch, c mattress, d folding sofa, e sofa, f corner sofa
furniture and unfold or fold the reclining surface. However, if the dimensions of the seat are significant, the reclining function can be provided without the need for transforming the geometry of the piece.
The group of furniture for working and eating meals mainly consists of tables, table add-ons, desks, side tables, buffets and reception bays (Fig. 2.5). Tables can be used to work, study, prepare and consume meals, games, as well as bases for apparatus, instruments, flowers or lighting. Here, we distinguish tables for the dining room, kitchen, conference rooms, construction offices, trade offices, editorials of magazines, schools, kindergartens, etc. The tables for dining rooms can usually change the geometry of the work surface, increasing its length and at the same time, area for future users. Tables and desks for offices usually have a fixed geometry of the work surface, but they have step or stepless adjustment of its position height. The change of the geometry of the work surface of office furniture is provided by applying side tables and add-ons. These furniture pieces are designed by particularly considering the arrangement of devices and objects that are the basic equipment of the workplace, including the computer, telephone, notepad, writing supplies, binders and other office accessories requiring compartments, drawers, boxes, slides, hangers and top extensions. A problem at the design stage of the integration of form, function and structure of the furniture piece is providing an exit and hiding cables delivering certain media to electrical devices.
Reception bays are a unique type of furniture designed to work, for they are an obvious flagship of an institution—they stand in the lobby or the hallway, where clients are welcomed. They should not only enable the performance of precision work in a sitting position, but also hard work in a standing position.
Fig. 2.5 Furniture for work and dining: a table and table add-on, b side table, c desk, d buffet, e reception bayt
Furniture for learning is primarily benches, pupil tables, drafting tables and davenports (Fig. 2.6). When designing furniture belonging to this group, in particular school furniture, one must anticipate a different than normative structure load and guarantee the furniture's adequate stiffness, strength and stability. One must also remember to use such structural components for which the designer has certificates of their complete non-toxicity.
The group of storage furniture represents cabinets, bookcases, shelves, dressers, chests of drawers, cabinets, containers, dressing tables and library bookcases (Fig. 2.7). This is most numerous and diverse group of furniture, with a wide variety of forms and dimensions depending on the type, shape and size of the stored items.
Fig. 2.6 Furniture for learning: a bench, b pupil's table, c drafting table, d davenport
Fig. 2.7 Furniture for storage: a wardrobe, b bookcase, c shelf, d dresser, e chest of drawers, f buffet, g container, h dressing table, i library bookcase
Depending on the degree of connection with the room, furniture from this group can be divided into mobile (not connected to the construction elements of the room, e. g. containers, chests of drawers, cabinets, buffets and chests) and stationary (connected impermanently with the construction elements of the room, e. g. wall cupboards, shelves, partitions or tall standing cupboards).
Multifunctional furniture originated from the need to meet the many different needs of users. These needs appeared for a number of reasons. The first were the dreams of wealthy clients of having products that were unique in form, with surprising technical solutions, and enabling users to meet several practical administrative needs. Modern multifunctional furniture pieces are often adapted by necessity to minimum living space, the nature of work and financial possibilities of future owners. Usually, multifunctional furniture can be found among sofas with a reclining function, couch beds, couch shelves, escritoires for work and storage (Fig. 2.8).
The group of complementary furniture constitutes flower beds, covers, partition walls and side tables. Mostly, they are manufactured for individual needs of clients who are furnishing their rooms completely and expecting a uniform form, construction and technology of manufacture in order to maintain consistency of the interior's look and aesthetics.


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There's a New 'Opportunity' to Talk Peace With the Taliban
...BUT WHO'S BUYING?
A cease-fire in Kabul and encouraging words from Washington have convinced current and former officials that there's an opening for negotiations.
Updated Jun. 21, 2018 5:12AM ET / Published Jun. 21, 2018 5:11AM ET
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After 17 years of war, there's an opportunity to negotiate an end to the grueling conflict in Afghanistan, multiple U.S. government advisers and former officials told The Daily Beast. But they have substantial doubts that the Trump administration will capitalize on it.
Earlier this month, the Taliban showed, for the first time in the war, that they could order and enforce a cease-fire. And publicly, the Trump administration has proclaimed its desire to see some sort of peace talks move forward.
But those advisers told The Daily Beast that the administration remains internally divided over who should talk with the Taliban—and whether and how vigorously to capitalize on the three-day cease-fire.
The Taliban are holding out for direct talks with the United States over a military withdrawal, sidestepping Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's months-old proposal to talk Afghan-to-Afghan. U.S. diplomats have thus far declined, as Ghani—who faces an election next year—doesn't want to appear like the junior player. The furthest the administration has gone has been to emphasize the importance of the Taliban negotiating with Ghani, which has struck some outside observers as insufficiently bold.
"We've got all the opportunity here. We can seize it or we can miss it," said Chris Kolenda, a retired U.S. Army colonel, Afghanistan veteran, and former Pentagon adviser on the war.
"When your adversary accepts your war aims... that's what winning looks like."
— Retired Col. Chris Kolenda
Kolenda noted that the Taliban's Feb. 14 communique expressing openness to talks treated U.S. core interests in Afghanistan—i.e., not exporting terrorism—as reasonable. "When your adversary accepts your war aims," he said, "that's what winning looks like."
On Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphasized that Washington was prepared to "support, facilitate and participate" peace talks, rhetorically opening the door to U.S. involvement in still-hypothetical talks. But the administration's position, a State Department spokesperson emphasized to The Daily Beast, is that the Taliban needs to negotiate with Ghani, not Washington. It remains to be seen if Ghani will soften his opposition to U.S.-Taliban discussion.
"If Ghani wants it, I suspect the U.S. will do it," said Barnett Rubin, a professor at NYU and a decades-long fixture of Afghanistan diplomacy.
Over the weekend, social media lit up with joyful pictures of Afghans, including Taliban fighters, celebrating a brief cease-fire pegged to the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Taliban fighters re-entered Kabul—surrendering their weapons, according to local policemen, and encouraged selfies. The interior minister, whose job is to suppress the militant group, even met with Taliban representatives. A Zabul student told Reuters, "It is hard to describe the joy."
"We saw some remarkable scenes here over the weekend," British Lt. Gen. Richard J. Cripwell, the deputy commander of the NATO war command in Afghanistan, told reporters on Wednesday. "I cannot understate the sense of optimism that is in the country at the moment."
But the cease-fire was only a pause in the violence. Earlier that same day, the Taliban attacked two checkpoints in western Afghanistan, killing at least 30 government soldiers.
According to multiple knowledgeable sources, there is an appetite among the Pentagon's Afghanistan specialists for, at minimum, more aggressive diplomatic efforts to build on the momentum of the brief cease-fire—but also a hesitancy, not least because diplomacy isn't in the Pentagon's job description. Some sources speculated that the military brass fears Trump pulling up stakes in Afghanistan entirely after recommitting the U.S. to the war reluctantly.
"We believe the short ceasefire was an excellent starting point for confidence building between the Afghan government and the Taliban and encourage both parties to build on this momentum for the good of all Afghans, who deserve to live in peace," said Lt. Col. Kone Faulkner, a Pentagon spokesperson.
"Notably, Pompeo did not describe the Taliban as an enemy of either the U.S. or the Afghan people."
Since Trump fired national security adviser H.R. McMaster, the architect of last summer's troop mini-surge, the center of gravity for handling Afghanistan has shifted to the State Department. And Pompeo, for his part, has recently sounded conciliatory notes in his statements about the Taliban. Ghani's proposed peace talks, Pompeo said, "by necessity would include a discussion of the role of international actors and forces," a euphemism for U.S. troops. Notably, Pompeo did not describe the Taliban as an enemy of either the U.S. or the Afghan people.
It wasn't an overture for direct negotiations—which the Obama administration briefly attempted and which foundered (PDF)—but former officials considered it a signal to the Taliban that the Trump administration, at the least, isn't against talking. Yet four knowledgable former officials described the internal decision-making process as bottlenecked. Getting over both the internal impasse and the difficulty in coordinating a U.S.-Ghani-Taliban process would probably require some as-yet-undetermined foreign mediator. "You're likely to need some kind of third-party facilitator as the process gets underway," a former senior diplomat said.
The State Department spokesperson signaled opposition to any bilateral U.S.-Taliban negotiation.
"The Afghan government has offered the Taliban an honorable and dignified path to finding a peaceful end to the conflict. The Taliban must engage with that sovereign government," the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. "The United States is not a substitute for the Afghan people and the Afghan government."
Pompeo has a lot on his plate, not least of which is running the perilous nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. And the heft of his bureaucratic support on Afghanistan is an open question. At State, the seniormost diplomat handling the 17-year-old war is Alice Wells. But Wells, the acting assistant secretary for South and Central Asia, has to manage policy toward Pakistan, India, and a host of former Soviet states in addition to Afghanistan.
Jack Reed, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, noted on Tuesday that Wells may be out of the position in a matter of months, should new secretary Mike Pompeo choose a permanent assistant secretary. "Alice is overwhelmed and not empowered," said a former State Department official, whose account was corroborated by another.
A State Department spokesperson said Pompeo has "full confidence" in Wells, a "skilled senior diplomat with 29 years' experience" who is working with the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, John Bass, in "leading a dedicated team of professionals in support of the Afghan process."
Sources familiar with the matter also expressed doubt that Pompeo had sufficient White House aid. The senior National Security Council staffer handling Afghanistan, Lisa Curtis, is said to be unforceful, and was a McMaster hire. Meanwhile, McMaster's successor, John Bolton, is a cipher on Afghanistan diplomacy. The White House pointed to a speech Curtis gave last week, ahead of Pompeo's statement, that said a negotiated political settlement must be "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned."
Nor has the administration spoken with a singular voice. On Tuesday, the next commander in Afghanistan, Army Lt. Gen. Austin Miller, acknowledged to a bipartisan group of frustrated senators that the U.S. has fought a "generational" war, but signaled no changes in how the military would wage it. Though Miller said the endstate the U.S. seeks is "a political reconciliation, or realignment"—the latter term suggesting a modus vivendi that includes the Taliban—he also described the Taliban as "the enemy of the Afghan people," a characterization Pompeo conspicuously did not employ.
"If the administration doesn't seize the moment for diplomacy, the Taliban have options. It's winning more than it's losing."
If the administration doesn't seize the moment for diplomacy, the Taliban have options. It's winning more than it's losing. According to the most recent report by the U.S.' internal Afghanistan watchdog, the Taliban holds sway over nearly 4 million Afghans in over 59 of Afghanistan's 407 districts. "The Afghan government's control of districts is at its second lowest level, and the insurgency's at its highest level" since 2015, the watchdog, known as SIGAR, assessed (PDF).
Still, the Taliban has its own concerns. It honored its cease-fire, but the Islamic State's Afghan branch didn't, launching suicide bombings to play spoiler. The Taliban is said to fear defections to Islamic State, as well as a corresponding breakup of the country—something that unites the Taliban with the government it's fighting to overthrow.
"It's a stalemate, but the Taliban is not losing, and for reasons no one likes to talk about—the government is unpopular because it cannot provide security and people resent the power of corrupt warlords. There's an election next year and Ghani knows he's not popular and needs to do something to assuage popular discontent," said a former senior U.S. diplomat.
"Whether this ultimately proves to be a watershed moment or not remains be seen, but there's no question that the U.S. should lead the way in testing the possibilities that it could be an opening," said Laurel Miller, who until 2017 was the State Department's special representative for Afghanistan.
"It's not guaranteed to be, but the fact that there were reciprocal goodwill gestures, and both sides were able to exert command and control to implement them, and the visible manifestation of interest from [Taliban] fighters, security forces and ordinary Afghans, shows an openness to testing the possibility that this could be converted into an opportunity."
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As a youthful 36-year-old, Nick Sunderland is too young to go on a Saga holiday – but he has just landed a job as one of the company's four cruise ship captains.
A graduate of Durham University, he joins Saga from Holland America Line and will be taking turns at the controls of Saga Sapphire and Saga Pearl II with Captains Philip Rentell, Kees Spekman and Wes Dunlop.
Nick has risen rapidly through the ranks already, and was appointed a staff captain – effectively second in command – at the age of 29.
"I'm thrilled and just can't wait to join the Saga family" he added. "The ships are smaller, and I'm very much a personable person, so it's going to be great to really get to know everyone, meeting guests and socialising.


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Wichita police arrest mother after 2-year-old girl found safe
Sunday, June 16, 2019 11:34 PM EDT
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:30 AM EDT
WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) -
Wichita police say they have found a 2-year-old girl safe and arrested her mother in connection with the case.
Officers arrested 34-year-old Ronetta Clement in the 2400 block of South St. Clair Monday evening and booked her for felony interference with law enforcement (false information concerning death or disappearance of a child).
"Her arrest follows an extensive investigation into her allegations that her child's father had placed their 2-year-old daughter in danger," Capt. Brent Allred said.
Police asked for the community's help Sunday night after officers responded to a report of a suicidal person in the 2300 block of North Woodlawn. Clement told officers that the father refused to return custody of the girl and that he made some homicidal and suicidal statements, according to Capt. Allred.
"Based on this information, an 'attempt to locate' was issued on the 2-year-old and her father so that their welfare could be checked and so that officers could investigate what actually occurred."
Investigators received information Monday afternoon that contradicted what Clements told officers.
Authorities made contact with the toddler Monday evening at her grandmother's home and "everything appeared to be fine," Allred said. The girl's father has active warrants and did not want to be contacted.
"Our main concern is the welfare of the child," said Allred. "We still want to talk to him about it, and I'm sure at some point in time he'll want to talk to us about it."
Clement was held without bond Tuesday morning. The case will be presented to the district attorney's office.
"In all, approximately 117 hours from law enforcement were used in this case when officers and detectives could have been using this time on cases that required their attention yesterday."
Wichita Police Department
Wichita police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 2-year-old girl, and they believe she may be in danger.
Anyla James went missing from the 2300 block of North Woodlawn and is with her biological father, 28-year-old Alton James Jr., the Wichita Police Department said Monday morning.
Captain Brent Allred said police made contact with Anyla's 34-year-old mother after receiving a call for a suicidal person. When talking to police, the mother said Alton refused to return the child to her and made concerning statements about her safety and welfare.
Both mother and father have legal custody of the child.
Police issued an attempt to locate Sunday night. An Amber Alert was not issued because the child was not abducted.
Neither parent lives at the apartment complex on North Woodlawn, but police said the parents had agreed to exchange the child there.
Anyla is about 3 feet tall and 40 lbs with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt, white leggings with red hearts and pink shoes.
Police have made several attempts to contact Alton, but they have been unsuccessful. They have contacted other family members to ask for help.
Allred said that while Wichita police officers are actively looking for Anyla and her father, anyone who has any information regarding their location should call 911 immediately.


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Identifying Aggressive Prostate Cancers
Roswell researchers developing genetic testing to establish if prostate cancer is slow-growing or fast-growing. Test to help patients, doctors to determine cancer treatment.
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant
Prostate cancer is one tricky cancer.
Men with prostate cancer may have a tumor that doesn't grow or spread quickly. In this case, a wait-and-see option may be favorable over prostatectomy, which can cause side effects like incontinence and impotence.
But other men have aggressive tumors that spread to other areas of the body rapidly. Surgery or follow-up cancer treatments can give them the best chance at save their lives.
Telling the difference between slow-growing and fast-growing and recurring tumors has relied mostly on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. But soon, genetic testing may lend a hand.
Factors other than prostate cancer can elevate the PSA level. Obesity and other factors can abnormally lower PSA levels. Various factors can skew PSA testing, resulting in false negatives or false positives.
Researchers with Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., have identified the 11-gene signature linked to advanced, recurrent prostate cancer. Once they establish the gene signature's predictive value, they can perform a biopsy to give men and their doctors more information to make what is often a life-altering decision.
Gelman directs Research Integration and serves as a distinguished professor of oncology, along with chairing the Cell & Molecular Biology Academic Program. He also directs shRNA Core Resource at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
"The signature is based upon trying to predict early on whose cancer might recur," Gelman said. "The research is to look at tumors, or human cell lines which recapitulate this recurrence type of disease and then trying to find out genetic gene signatures that align with a recurrence versus a primary disease."
Men with family history of prostate cancer are more likely to have a more aggressive prostate cancer, which makes such testing even more meaningful.
Gelman and his team hope to start a clinical trial to confirm that the gene signature can accurately predict which tumors will spread and recur and which ones won't. For those with recurring tumors, treating with drugs that attack the gene signature can disrupt the cancer's mechanism and "decrease significantly the recurrence of the disease," Gelman said.
"Hopefully, it will become a predictive marker to figure out who's at higher risk and develop and test to decrease the incidences of occurrence."
The team has a few ideas of drugs that could be useful in preventing recurring prostate cancer, and hope to complete a trial in a few years.
William Phelps, PhD, works with American Cancer Society-funded researchers as vice president of Extramural Research in Atlanta, Ga.
He said that the question of whether a tumor is slow growing or fast growing "is certainly one of the critical questions that physicians don't have a tool to answer.
"People's perception of cancer can be, 'Just get it out of me.' But if they want to wait and see, it is absolutely a critical question if their cancer will grow quickly and the field needs this as a prognostic and diagnostic tool."
Bill Krellner leads the Buffalo chapter of Us Too, a prostate cancer support group. He said that identifying aggressive cancers is important. "A man can see if he needs treatment and how much time he has before seeking treatment if he needs it. He can delay or forgo surgery and its side effects."
Krellner added, "I've been a chapter leader for over 10 years and I've seen so many men who have been over treated and have to go through incontinence and erectile dysfunction and they may not have needed radiation.
"Absolutely ask your doctor. I don't think every doctor is on board. Seek a second opinion. These tests are covered by Medicare."
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Todd Baxter: 'My Battle with Prostate Cancer'


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Simon Cowell opens up about the stress he had in his live
In a new interview Simon reveals he battled with stress when working on shows both sides of the Atlantic in 2012. The pressure of working in The X Factor USA and Britain's Got Talent left him unhappy and struggling to get out of bed.
On a personal level he is happier than ever – with partner Lauren Silverman, and their three-year-old son Eric.
Simon says: "I got to a point when you get so tired, you wake up tired and I just thought 'this isn't fun any more'.
"I think the worst thing is stress. That's what makes you ill.
"I try now not to give myself too much stress. The good thing is once you rebalance yourself, you realise how much you still love your job – it's the best job in the world."
Slowly but surely Simon turned his life around. He now switches off his phone to relax.
"If people urgently need to get hold of me they can but it's been a revelation," he says on the eve of the final.
Talking to The Mirror he says while he is still driven and fiercely ambitious, gone are the discussions in the early hours with producers over the quality of an X Factor edit.
Talking about his fall down the stairs at his home "The good thing when that happens and you come out in one piece, you realise there are people in worse positions than you," he admits.
"I was very lucky. I got to the hospital quickly and the NHS were amazing. I had an MOT but I am fine now."
Simon, who was said to be suffering from low blood pressure, was fetching a glass of milk when he fell at his £10million mansion in West London.
He initially thought he had been paralysed. "I literally knocked myself out and my publicist was the first person I saw. I thought 'if this is my idea of heaven, this isn't great'.
"We were both thinking the same thing 'have I broken my neck?'."
Simon is now concentrating on getting his group Rak Su into the final on Sunday.


Last week at the HR Technology Conference, I had the opportunity to sit with some of the great leaders, analysts, and voices in the HR industry and talk shop for three days. I also went to some awesome parties, gambled, smoked a cigar, and drank copious amounts of caffeine.
The result? Some pertinent insight from this year's show that I wanted to share with you.
The potential of big data in HR software remains largely untapped at this point. Whenever someone mentioned big data, I always tried to tap into exactly what sources they were using. Here's the big hint: if you're not going outside of your current system to gather data, it's probably not big data.
The ability to tap into larger ERP or finance systems, external data sources, and build proprietary databases is in the works for many but I didn't see many working examples. While I am impressed with some of the analytics tools, forecasting, and visualization tools in the market, most of it is decidedly not big data.
As external candidate-facing products and employee self-service continue to dominate the new features vendors are delivering, the usability becomes absolutely critical. At this point, many of the sub-categories of HR software have features that are table stakes. Beyond those core requirements, users are looking for end-user friendly experiences.
HR leaders have already been burned by bad software implementations. They don't want to play software support and trainer. They need technology that can be used almost immediately and is also available on multiple devices (smartphones, especially).
We're still early but you'll start to see more and more vendors — new entrants and established players alike — that will start with usability and simplicity first, and feature set second.
For the umpteenth conference in a row, everybody was talking about their cloud solution. Let's be clear here: almost everyone I saw has an app that is available via the internet. Cloud, SaaS, multi-tenant, and single-tenant: these aren't just words, they have meaning. It is worth spending the time to understand for yourself what these terms mean and why it matters that you be accurate.
That being said, I think we get too caught up in this conversation. It's great that you got your software online but it still doesn't work that great. Or maybe it works fine, but all it does is automate an existing paper process without any rethinking of how it can be structured using an online delivery service. Either way, I think most people are less concerned with having crummy software more widely available and more concerned with enterprise software improving significantly.
Those were some of the trends that I had the opportunity to sit in on. What trends did you see from HR Tech?


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When it comes to vehicles, there is no such thing as a permanent style. The trends keep on changing with time with makes it hard for the users to cope up. Amongst many, one such trend is the introduction of vehicle gadgets. However, not everyone is a supporter of the idea. If you think that these gadgets are a waste of money and space, then here are advantages of the system that might change your opinion.
This is the first and foremost use of these gadgets – both interior and exterior ones. They ensure that both the drive and the passengers are safe throughout the journey. When driving you cannot be checking on your pet every five minutes since you need to have your eyes on the road. However, by installing a pet holder, not only can you take your pet with you during your travels, but can also ensure that they are safe and do not act as a source of distraction.
As many people believe, this is one of the primary concerns of the system – especially the exterior ones. By including brand new wiper blades and mirrors, you are increasing the attractiveness of the vehicle. This is very advantageous, since it enables your vehicle to stand out amongst other vehicles on the road. When you are purchasing auto spare parts for your vehicle, see whether the manufacturers sells these types of gadgets as well.
If you want your vehicle to be a head turner, then the best way to do it is to personalize it according to your own style. This is will not only make you a confident driver, but will increase the appeal of the vehicle as well. However, before you purchase the necessary gadgets and items from the auto spare parts store, make sure that your decisions suit the vehicle and your budget as well. This is important since not all types of gadgets can be included into all vehicles.
Regardless of what you might think, these changes are actually cost effectiveness. Although they might cost you a bit when it comes to the purchasing and the installation, they are economically viable when it comes to long term use. They increase the resale value of your car, which is very beneficial if you are planning to sell it in the future in order to buy a new one. This way, you can ensure that you get double or triple of what you invested during these installations.
If you still believe that these changes are unnecessary, take a baby step. Add one little gadget to your vehicle and see how it works. You will definitely not regret your decision.


Here are the questions, answers, and explanations from our 3-bet pots quiz.
The button will still have many hands that have missed this flop, and so if we fold instead of call we would end up folding too much of our range, thus giving him an amazing bluff opportunity.
Even though the K♠ is one the worst cards in the deck for our range, folding here would be a blunder since the button can still have a lot of hands that will bluff (such as AQ, AJ, A3, A2, 76s, etc.). Letting go of this hand would mean conceding the pot way too often.
Calling here would be a mistake because AQ will not realize it's equity given that it only improves if the turn is an Ace or a Queen.
We have King-high with two overs and a backdoor flush draw, so there are enough turns that will allow us to continue and realize our equity. Folding here would be a big misstep.
We are at the top of our range, we block the nut flush, and our opponent could easily find more than enough bluffs. Folding is not an option here unless we have a solid read that the button will under-bluff in this spot.
Our hand has become too weak on the turn to continue since the button has another 6 outs to beat even if he is bluffing (any 6 or T makes our hand a 4-high).
Even with a hand as handsome as 2nd pair and an open-ended straight draw, we cannot profitably continue after the Q♠ turn, because even if we improve on the river there is a good chance we'll be up against a much stronger hand. That could result in a costly mistake.
We binked the flush, but that's not a reason to start raising right away. Given the low stack to pot ratio, and the fact that we are in position, we will make more chips by calling and letting our opponent bluff or value bet worse hands on the river.
We simply cannot fold a hand that is so high up in our range without good evidence to do otherwise. Yes, the button can have JJ+, but he will also have a lot of missed hands from the flop with which he will fire all three streets at some frequency.


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Republic of South Ossetia
Republic of South Ossetia is located оn the southern slopes of the Main Caucasus Range in the area of 3900 square meters. Тhe capital is the city of Tskhinval.
One-tenth of the surface occupied by the Republic of the foothills.
The rest of the territory - the mountainous terrain height from 850 to 3938 meters above sea level.
The highest point - Mount Halatsa (3938 m).
Comment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia
The government of Hungary denied South Ossetian athletes visas so that the delegation of our Republic couldn't participate in the ConIFA European Football Cup that would take place in Hungary. Definitely this decision was met with indignation in the Republic.
Because of pressure from Georgia the high-level refusal given to South Ossetia football team resembles blackmail. Organizers of the Cup reported that police forces can be used to South Ossetian participants provided they arrive to Debrecen despite everything. Such position of the Hungarian authorities causes, at least, bewilderment and rejection.
Sport is a feast of life out of policy, promoting unification and binding friendly ties between people from different countries, creating better world, establish international trust and goodwill. They shouldn't mix policy and sport! Let politicians deal in politics, and athletes do sport.
However, sport becomes a factor of political influence and political ambitions today. The odious decision made by the government of Hungary is taken as an act of political pressure in the Republic of South Ossetia. It discords sharply with European values and norms of international law. As for the attempts to use sport as a political tool for discriminating citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia, they do not do credit to the state considering itself a democratic country.
June 16, 2015, Tskhinval


Once you write the final paragraph of a formal letter, you may feel like you're done and can move on to proofreading. But just as there is a style to how to address someone in a formal letter and for the letter's overall format, there are also guidelines in place for how to sign off.
When ending a formal letter, it's important to convey the appropriate amount of respect to the person receiving the letter. For example, you would use a different, more conservative complimentary close for an unknown recipient than you would for a business associate you know quite well. Your closing and signature should be as professional as the rest of your letter or email message.
A complimentary close, also known as a complimentary closing, is the term inserted prior to your signature in an email message or a formal letter. This sign-off phrase shows your respect and appreciation for the person who is considering the request in your letter or email. Although it is a very old-fashioned tradition, using a complimentary close is still considered de rigueur when writing formal business correspondence.
When writing or emailing a cover letter for a job or any type of business letter, it's appropriate to use a complimentary close. Make sure to choose one, though, that is professional rather than casual.
All of the options listed above are appropriate for use in business correspondence. Choose which one to use based on how well you know the recipient and the circumstances behind your letter writing. For instance, limit options that are some form of a thank you (such as "With appreciation" and "With gratitude") to instances where you are requesting a favor or expressing appreciation.
You can think of "Best regards," "Sincerely," "Cordially," and the variations on these closers as the little black dress of complimentary closes. You can't go wrong choosing one of these options—they're always appropriate.
You are not emailing with a friend or sending a thank you note to a relative. Do not use casual sign-offs like "Love," "Cheers," "Later," "Ciao," or "Always." These options do not match the formality of your letter. You want to keep the professional tone of your correspondence consistent, from the salutation through the content through the sign-off.
Always remember to follow up the close with a comma, as in the examples below. Your typed name will go after the complimentary close.
If you are sending a hard copy letter, leave four lines of space between the closing and your typed name. When you print out the letter, this will give you plenty of space in which to sign your name in blue or black ink between your complimentary close and your typed name.
If you're sending an email, leave one space between the complimentary close and your signature.
You can write your title below your name, as well as your phone and email address. In emails, you can include an email signature section with contact information.
After you finish writing a letter, of course, always proofread it for spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. In order to make a good impression, your letter needs to be flawlessly constructed.
Are you still unsure about what should be included (or not included) in a formal letter? From appropriate formatting to how to address the letter, find out tips and guidance for writing a formal business letter.


I was offered 12kg of peaches this week and on looking for a recipe found that peaches don't offer a good flavour for jam (which is probably why we don't see much!) Worried, I eventually found this recipe, which added orange and turned out totally delicious; quite a strong orange flavour, with a delicate hint of peach behind... really worth making!
Halve and stone them and liberally sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent them browning.
SHELLEY: Read this with interest, many thanks, it sounds good. I may try but change the peach for mango and rework the orange a bit to get it a little closer to a mango and orange marmalade. Frankly looking for some Christmas ideas for my family gift hampers. I would also probably run the whole thing in apple juice to get the added pectin and a touch of extra flavours, there seem to be so many apples this year that people are almost paying to have them taken away ! Like you I also tend to run with less sugar, frankly I often don't really measure it, more working to tasting and testing as I go along. I bought a jam thermometer earlier this year, how clever is that, no more jam with a wallpaper paste consistency it all now is just about on the wet side of set, which is just great.
Let us know how you get on Chris, won't you? I love mango.
Will do, not too sure at the moment if I will use dried mango flakes or buy fresh. Frankly have made Apricot Jam using both types at different times and the dried apricot base had more flavour, but iwll let you know.
yes do let us know how you get on ; sorry been soo busy not been here for 2 nights!
Sorry to keep on about my Kaki but I might on reflection do this with them instead of Mango.
Id never seen a kaki until I came here to france; it might work well!
Shelley:see my other post under Sharon Fruit, for now all matters except left handed keyboard work and simple left handed domestic tasks are on hold, but I have great hopes about this too.
mixture over low heat for 20 minutes.
Peel, pit, and finely chop peaches. In an 8- to 10- quart kettle, combine orange and lemon mixture and chopped peaches.
Stir pectin into fruit mixture and bring mixture to full rolling boil.
skim off foam. Pour at once into hot sterilized jars; seal.
Makes 7 or 8 half-pints.
this might have been something for my sharon fruit !! but all gone now.


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28 August 2020 /by Alex Edney
Bridge offers a range of dashboards that will help you develop a deeper understanding of your fans and monitor ROI across your digital channels.
By aggregating all available customer, transactional and digital engagement data from first and third party sources to create a rich single customer view, our clients are able to access deep insight and easily leverage their data for marketing campaigns and activations.
Data is drawn from our data lake and displayed on a series of visually powerful and interactive dashboards in our DXP, Bridge, that help you develop a deeper understanding of your fans and monitor ROI across your digital channels. These customisable dashboards are designed to help you understand fan behaviour, trends and marketing results as well as the impact of different fan engagement activations, enabling you to easily share commercial, financial and marketing KPIs and results with your internal and external stakeholders and decision-makers.
Your data is accessible at high speeds, in some cases near real-time, in order to power sophisticated personalisation and marketing tools and your audiences are profiled into cohorts to make it easy to segment fans as per high-value behaviours.
First & Third Party Data
Benefit from a 360 degree data driven view of your investments with the aggregation of first and third party data sources on a single platform.
Build and share a full picture of engagement behaviour and ROI via a series of customised and interactive dashboards.
Single Sign On (SSO)
Authentication is central to driving fan insight and personalisation. InCrowd features are specifically developed to encourage fans to sign-in.
Single Customer View
The Single Customer View (SCV) uses advanced InCrowd digital technology to capture rich data from each individual fan, giving you the power to build personalised fan experiences across multiple channels.
InCrowd's primary objective is to help your organisation become self-sufficient in managing its audience and so we also offer professional services and consultancy to assist in getting your new digital transformation and experience strategy up and running.
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Bridge's headless content management system (CMS) allows you to easily create and adapt content for your channels. The benefits of a headless CMS include a fully native experience for the user, easy multi-channel personalisation and improved resilience and flexibility.
Designed and built for global sports brands, our flexible framework works alongside third party sports data feeds and includes live streaming integrations, creating a seamless content experience for fans.
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Engage and retain the audience on your owned channels by creating a single source of information for fans.
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Deliver a dynamic match centre that changes state as the match progresses from build-up, to in-play and through to post-match reaction.
Create engaging personalised articles with blended personalised media and marketing components.
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Create highly personalised content and easily display to the segmented audiences created in Audience Builder.
Deliver a "game day" essential for attending fans whilst collecting valuable data on venue behaviour and location tracking for targeted communication and enhanced safety.
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Bridge's digital asset manager (DAM) is a central resource on Bridge that houses all your required imagery for content publishing to websites, native apps and in-stadia screens using text, data and digital assets.
Images are tagged automatically using AI but tags can also be added, removed and searched by users within the media library. The DAM global library includes player headshots and crests from other teams.
House all of your imagery in a central resource. Benefit from AI tagging, immediate crop and resizing tools and a global library available to all InCrowd clients.
Ultilise video content to increase the duration of fan app and web sessions and drive engagement levels.
Use centrally stored audio clips and soundbites to drive dwell time and fan engagement.
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Drawing from the data lake and SSO technology feeds, Bridge's Audience Builder tool gives you the power to utilise multi-source, real time segmentation data to target your fans through a range of specific criteria including demographics, transactional and user behaviour, brand affinities and many more.
Send or display omni-channel messaging via personalised content and smart push notifications alongside live match alerts (via push) and traditional banner advertisements.
Segment and build your audiences ready for personalised content distribution across all relevant channels within Bridge, including direct messaging as well as app and web content.
Target fans on mobile and web and deliver the right message, at the right time, within a moment or with scheduled rich push notifications.
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Bridge's fan activation and management tools allow you to drive greater engagement with new and existing fans through a variety of products. These include text or video polls, quizzes, contests, offers, games, questionnaires and forms with a number of new activations in development. This is a flexible and scalable solution that can be easily configured, providing a seamless experience for your fans. Combine these tools with our other advanced activation solutions to deepen your relationship with fans whilst growing your databases.
Combine these digital experience platform (DXP) tools with our other advanced activation modules to deepen your relationship with fans whilst growing your databases.
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Yes, it will mark the beginning of summer, kicking off with great BBQ's hosted by friends, soaking up the sun at the beach and thinking about where to go on our summer vacation, but it is really a day where we remember the fallen. The men and women who have served in our armed forces, sacrificed their lives in order to protect our freedom. I came across this fantastic article this morning that one of my friends posted on FB. It talks about the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. Yes, there is a HUGE difference! My husband is a Veteran of the Air Force so we recognize him on Veteran's Day. Not Memorial Day.
You can click here to read the article that was posted by the United States Air Force. Please take a few moments to read it.
I hope you and your families have a great day and please take a moment to remember the fallen.


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Landscape volunteer is a weeding wizard
By Jennifer Hayes | July 31, 2013
Common tools used by Best Friends volunteers include leashes, brushes, brooms and mops - but what about a hoe? Sure, a hoe is not a typical tool, but then again, 76-year-old Fred Winchester is not your typical volunteer.
Untypical volunteer
After his wife and dog passed away, Fred began watching TV to escape and came upon "DogTown," the National Geographic Channel television show featuring Best Friends. Seeing the Sanctuary situated within a beautiful canyon setting, he said to himself, "Son of a gun, that looks like something I want to do."
That's when he started to come to Kanab in his RV twice a year for a month at a time. And though he helps with the conventional volunteer needs, such as cleaning, walking dogs, and scooping poop, he's also become a master gardener, or rather weeder, at the Sanctuary.
Fred says volunteering is cheaper than therapy and gives him "a feeling that I've done something worthwhile, and all my troubles and worries go away when I'm pulling weeds or picking up poop."
In-demand volunteer weeder (aka landscaper)
With so many daily chores to complete, caregivers don't generally have the time to manicure the dog runs. However, weeds and dead brush had better look out when Fred comes to town. In fact, he's so good, he's often requested by caregivers.
One time, team leader Kersten Muthreich had a huge project and knew Fred was the man for the job. The area around Val's Puppy Care Center had to be cleared in anticipation of visitors who had attended the No More Homeless Pets Conference and were taking an excursion to the Sanctuary. It took three and a half days, but Fred pulled every weed and trimmed away enough dead branches to fill every dumpster there.
Fred's landscape maintenance isn't just for looks, though. Clearing weeds and brush makes the areas safer for the dogs and less hospitable to rattlesnakes.
Volunteering with animals at home in California
Back home in California, he volunteers for Pacific Grove-based Peace of Mind Dog Rescue. The group specializes in elderly dogs whose caregivers have passed away and assists handicapped or bedridden people to care for their dogs at home.
Roughly five days a week, Fred is part of the walking brigade, visiting four to five homes to take the canine residents out for a stroll. When he's not doing that, he helps at mobile adoption events and even occasionally fosters a homeless pooch.
"It keeps me occupied until I can get back to Best Friends," Fred quips.
Dog named after "can do" attitude volunteer
Fred is truly beloved among the Dogtown staff and canine residents, and it's not just because his pockets are always filled with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and dog treats - though that doesn't hurt. It's because he's the embodiment of what a volunteer should be. He's there to help in any way needed.
Dog trails need scooping? Fred's on it. The refrigerators need defrosting? No problem. Dishes need washing? He's there - and even brought sponges.
"He's just the best - he really understands what it means to be a volunteer," says Dogtown volunteer coordinator Kathleen Handley.
And that affection has recently translated into a very special honor. A dog recently arrived at Best Friends and was named Winchester, in honor of Fred. Gina Piazza, the Dogtown caregiver who named Winchester, instantly thought of Fred when she saw the dog, who, beyond his puppy years, has a face that is both friendly and welcoming.
"It just seemed right," says Gina. "The dog's demeanor seemed to fit."
It's no surprise that staff love him so much, though Fred takes it all in stride, saying, "It's a good thing to do - for yourself and the dogs. You get as much in return as you give."
Learn more about volunteering at Best Friends.
Photos by Molly Wald, Ann Hepworth, and courtesy of Pattie Atwater


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Banks have been introducing all kinds of high quality services, such as private banking, VIP rooms, and other professional concierge services. Many major banks have a lot of experience in how to effectively market products, but the practice of identifying and welcoming VIPs still remains in a basic stage of passive waiting. Being able to identify VIPs at the earliest possible time and thus providing more personalized services has become an important aspect for VIP marketing and services.
The VIP Customer Face Recognition Precise Positioning System is an effective service method for improving service quality for VIPs. It captures and analyzes the faces of people coming towards the entrance of the bank and attempts to find a match from a list of VIP face images. Once a VIP is identified, the system can send information about the VIP to the corresponding account manager through text messages, on screen alerts, or handheld devices. It can welcome VIPs by voice at the entrance and allow an account manager to meet up with the VIP as quickly as possible. Such personalized service will improve VIPs' loyalty to the bank and lead to more potential business.
When a VIP enters a branch office, his name and banking information are immediately retrieved through the intelligent face recognition system.The account manager is then notified ahead of time to prepare the required services.
The VIP can enjoy the same high quality service no matter which branch office he goes to by using the intelligent face recognition system to help the bank prepare in advance, which can improve customer loyalty and longevity.
By deploying the intelligent face recognition system to improve VIP customer experience, the system can help promote bank brand awareness, increase the bank's reputation, and improve its competitiveness.
The system can automatically distinguish potential VIPs who visit branches frequently which help account managers turn potential VIP customers into true VIP customers.
The intelligent face recognition system centralizes the management of customer facial feature information so that it is easy to share VIP facial information between different bank branches.
The system can be expanded to include other biometric authentication technologies to be used in bank security management.


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WhistlePig Rye Up For Sale in Craft Distilling "Feeding Frenzy"
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June 23, 2017 – The owners of WhistlePig Rye, the occasionally controversial but highly regarded Vermont whiskey distiller and bottler, have decided to consider offers for the brand and the WhistlePig Farm distillery. Dave Pickerell, WhistlePig's master distiller and owner of a small equity stake in the company, confirmed the decision Friday following a Bloomberg News report citing "people familiar with the situation."
"We'd be foolish not to entertain offers," Pickerell said in a telephone interview. "We have been contacted by some folks that have expressed interest, and at this time, we're not closing the door on saying no…that's the easiest way of saying it." The veteran distiller and consultant declined to name potential bidders for WhistlePig, which began bottling its rye whiskey originally sourced from Canada's Alberta Distillers in 2010. In 2015, WhistlePig opened its own distillery at founder Raj Bhakta's WhistlePig Farm in Shoreham, Vermont, and earlier this year released "FarmStock Crop #001," its first whiskey made with spirit distilled at the farm and blended with older sourced whiskies.
"We're in a feeding frenzy right now in the craft spirits world, and when you've got a company like WhistlePig that's doing well and has got a good reputation and great products, it's only a matter of time before people start looking to buy," Pickerell said. Over the past two years, large distillers have been snapping up smaller distilleries – either completely or as minority stakeholders. In April, William Grant & Sons acquired New York's Tuthilltown Spirits distillery after buying the rights to the distillery's Hudson Whiskey brands in 2010. Constellation Brands has been among the most active buyers, taking a minority stake in Virginia's Catoctin Creek Distillery and buying Utah's High West Distillery outright for $160 million last October. In December, Pernod Ricard acquired West Virginia's Smooth Ambler Distillery while keeping its existing management team in place. Of course, those deals are dwarfed by Diageo's announcement this week to acquire Casamigros Tequila from actor George Clooney and his partners for $700 million in cash and up to $300 million in incentives based upon the brand's future sales. According to Bloomberg, wine and spirits companies have announced around $937 million in mergers and acquisitions so far this year.
Listen to Mark Gillespie's interview with Dave Pickerell:
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The decision to put WhistlePig on the market was not unexpected, given the relationship between Bhakta and two of his major investors. As we reported in May of 2016, Bhakta had been clashing with board members Wilco Faessen and Christopher Evison in a dispute that eventually wound up in Delaware Chancery Court after Faessen and Evison moved to replace Bhakta as WhistlePig's operating manager. In court documents filed by Bhakta seeking to overturn his ouster, he claimed the two had been trying to force a sale of the company over his objections. Bhakta and his family control around 50 percent of the company's shares, while Faessen owns around 15 percent. Evison represents the US-based investments of Colombia's Santo Domingo family, with an estimated net worth of more than $15 billion – including a large stake in Anheuser-Busch and other investments in the spirits industry. The case had been scheduled for a trial last October, but was removed from the court's docket with no explanation, indicating that a settlement of some kind had been reached.
While the quality of WhistlePig's whiskies has never been questioned and they have won a number of major awards in competition, there have been complaints over transparency in whether they should have been labeled as Canadian or American whiskies. In a 2015 WhiskyCast interview, Bhakta blamed the issue on federal regulators changing their rulings on whether the finishing, blending and bottling of WhistlePig's Alberta-distilled whiskies was enough to deem them as American-made products. In addition, Bhakta's plan to build the distillery at his farm was delayed because of a dispute with Vermont regulators over whether whiskey could be considered an "agricultural product" because of its water content. Without that designation, WhistlePig Farm would have been subject to more stringent environmental regulations for commercial properties instead of being treated as a farm.
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Chamber of Chills
Chamber of Chills is the name of two anthology horror comic books , one published by Harvey Publications in the early 1950s , the other by Marvel Comics in the 1970s.
The first Chamber of Chills was a 10-cent horror anthology published bimonthly by Harvey Publications that ran 26 issues (June 1951 – Dec. 1954).
Artists included Bob Powell , Lee Elias , Rudy Palaces , Howard Nostrand , and Kremer. Issue 7 is mentioned in Dr. Fredric Wertham's 1954 indictment of comic books Seduction of the Innocent ( p.389 ). Chamber of the Subordinate Presence of Juvenile Delinquency hearings of 1954. Harvey then began concentrating on titles for young children, including Little Dot and Richie Rich .
Chamber of Chills Was formerly Blondie Comics and Its numbering begins Where Blondie left off (after 20). The first four issues of Chamber are 21-24. The numbering was reset with the fifth issue February 1952. Chamber of Chills became Chamber of Clues in February 1955 and saw two issues, folding in April 1955.
An unrelated comic-book series titled Chamber of Chills was published by Marvel Comics in the 1970s. It ran 25 issues Nov. 1972 – Nov. 1976.
The title Was one of four lancé by Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas to form a line of science fiction and horror anthologies with more thematic cohesiveness than the company's Earlier Attempts That decade, [1] qui HAD included Such series as Chamber of Darkness and Tower of Shadows . These stories are presented here, these new books would instead adapt genre classics and other works.
With the four titles, Marvel firsted Journey into Mystery vol. 2 (Oct. 1972), Chamber of Chills (Nov. 1972), Supernatural Thrillers (Dec. 1972), and, with a late start, Worlds Unknown(May 1973). The first issue features an original six-page story by sci-fi novelist George Alec Effinger , "Moon of Madness, Moon of Fear", penciled by P. Craig Russell (then credited as Craig Russell), and a slightly retitled adaptation of the Harlan Ellison short story "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer", by writer Gerry Conwayand artist Syd Shores ; Was a in-between story by writer Stan Lee and artist Russ Heath , "They Wait in Their … Dungeon", reprinted from Threat # 1 (March 1953), from Marvel's 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics .
The bimonthly is a new material through issue # 4, with one reprinted story added to the mix for the following two issues, and only one new story in issue # 7, after which the series became all-reprint. Most of the reprinted stories were 1950s "pre-code" horror stories, which the industry self-censorship organization the Comics Code Authority had banned on Code-approved comics until a loosening of the Code in 1971.
Other creators included novelist John Jakes , scripting "Spell of the Dragon", starring Brak the Barbarian (# 2), with art by Val Mayerik and Dan Adkins , and adapting his own short story "The Opening of the Crypt", a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe 's " The Cask of Amontillado ", with art by Frank Brunner (# 4); and Gardner F. Fox , DC Comics veteran of the 1940s, with a story each in # 3 (art by Ernie Chan ) and # 4 (penciled by Howard Chaykin ). Also contributing were Marvel regulars Steve Gerber , Tony Isabella , Larry Lieber, Don McGregor , and Doug Moench , editor Thomas, adapting Robert E. Howard's The Thing on the Roof, with artist Brunner (# 3). Others include two writers better known for their work at DC rival, John Albano and Steve Skeates . Other artists included Don Heck , Jay Scott Pike , and Paul Reinman .
The 1950s reprints included work by artists Dick Ayers , Gene Colan , Tony DiPreta , Sam Kweskin , Death Lawrence, Pete Morisi , Don Perlin , Bob Powell , Werner Roth , Robert Q. Sale , Joe Sinnott , and Pete Tumlinson . The latter part of the run began late 1950s and early 1960s " Pre-superhero Marvel " stories by the likes of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , mixed with a handful of tales from the earlier 1970s horror comics. Cover artists included Gil Kaneand John Romita, Sr.
Jump up^ Roach, David A. (May 2001). "Shadows and The Darkness" (13). Comic Book Artist via OhTheHorror.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2008.
Overstreet, Robert M. Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide . House of Collectibles, 2004.
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Heading into this weekend's game against the Penn State Nittany Lions, the Ohio State Buckeyes probably have one thing on their minds more than any other, and that's stopping Saquon Barkley. Although the Buckeyes are quite fond of dominant ball carriers, Ezekiel Elliott and Carlos Hyde just to name a few, this go-around they'll be tasked with slowing one down as opposed to helping one eat up turf. Penn State's "Big Back," in ability and sheer physical size, won't be that easy to slow down though. This will be for many reasons, but mostly because he is just that elite, and illustrates it every time he is on the field. Just like the elite backs before him and that now play on Sundays, he has special traits that make it inevitable that whenever he touches the ball, something good is bound to happen. What are those traits you might ask? I thought you never would.
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Over the past week, the Los Angeles Chargers have not looked like the same team that was taking the field the first few weeks of the season. Outside of just the fact that they have managed to string together a few wins in a row, the team looks as if they were somehow reinvigorated on both sides of the ball. Some would say that it is just the bumps of an NFL season, leading them to believe that the Chargers were eventually going to get here after weathering an early adjustment period. Some are still in shock of what they are seeing, and it has them and many others asking, "Are the Chargers a new team?"
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What is a troll? No, not the short, pimple-faced imaginary creature that lives under a bridge. Wrong again, not the highlighter hair-colored, plastic figurines that were all the rage in the 90s. When I say "troll," I am talking about the new age kind, the one that hides behind a keyboard. I am referring to a character that the phrase "when Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers" encapsulates perfectly. You know that guy or girl, with no "real" profile picture or image, who has something to say about everything and usually nothing positive. Yeah, that person. This person would be your troll.
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The world shook yesterday using Minnesota as its axis, but as we all know, there aren't many earthquakes in the midwest. Some would say it was the earth-shattering hit put onto Aaron Rodgers by Minnesota Vikings LB Anthony Barr, a "dead fish" tackle as categorized by the crew on CBS's postgame, one where the body makes contact and just goes "limp" as the tackler plows the person being tackled into the ground with their shoulder. Others would say it was the multitude of Packers fans and Wisconsinian's alike, as their realities were not only altered, but torn away at the seams. No matter what caused the quake, the aftershock is this: Aaron Rodgers has a broken collarbone and is likely out for the rest of the regular season. He could never be "replaced," so we must be careful about our next words, but the next obvious question is, who is his fill-in?
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