A locallectual is an individual dedicated to the "shop local" movement. As concerns about global warming and economic and environmental sustainability become widespread, eco-conscious consumers have begun advocating the purchase of locally-produced goods to reduce the environmental resources expended between manufacture and market. "Locallectual" also refers to an online community founded in 2008 to bring like-minded conscientious consumers together to network and share information According to the official Locallectual website, a Locallectual is "someone who has the intellect and the drive to shop local, buy local, eat local, and support local businesses and the local economy."
Etymology and History
Locallectual is a portmanteau derived from the word "local" and the word "intellectual." The word is inspired by the success of the term "locavore," named the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year in 2007.
The word was brought into public use when Locallectual.com was launched on Earth Day in 2008 by Karen Beauford and Jessica Meehan from Charlottesville, Virginia.
Locallectual Online Community
Locallectual.com features a database of locally produced goods and locally owned retailers and eateries. The database is searchable by product category and browsable by company name, city, state, country, and zip code. Locallectual is a Web 2.0 wiki site, so its database is user-driven. Bloggers have praised the site for its interactivity; users can add companies, rate and review companies, create and join online community groups, and participate in forums on the Locallectual site. The site also features blogs by Locallectual's founders, a glossary of "Locallectual Terminology," and a searchable directory of registered users.
Etymology and History
Locallectual is a portmanteau derived from the word "local" and the word "intellectual." The word is inspired by the success of the term "locavore," named the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year in 2007.
The word was brought into public use when Locallectual.com was launched on Earth Day in 2008 by Karen Beauford and Jessica Meehan from Charlottesville, Virginia.
Locallectual Online Community
Locallectual.com features a database of locally produced goods and locally owned retailers and eateries. The database is searchable by product category and browsable by company name, city, state, country, and zip code. Locallectual is a Web 2.0 wiki site, so its database is user-driven. Bloggers have praised the site for its interactivity; users can add companies, rate and review companies, create and join online community groups, and participate in forums on the Locallectual site. The site also features blogs by Locallectual's founders, a glossary of "Locallectual Terminology," and a searchable directory of registered users.
Korean-Honduran (Spanish: Coreano Hondureño), is a Honduran of Korean descent. An estimated 10,000 Koreans live in Honduras, mainly concentrated in the cities of Tegucigalpa, the nation's capitol and San Pedro Sula, its largest city.
History
During the In the 1980s and 1990s, Korean immigrants have poured into Honduras. They have came as contract laborers. Many settled around Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. They opened their own businesses, and had intermarried with Spanish families. Many started to get used to the Spanish language, so most spoke the language of the country more then Korean. Most also became used to the Roman Catholic faith, which also made most of the Koreans Catholic. Many Korean Hondurans have relatives in nearby Guatemala and Mexico, as well in the United States.
Language
Most Korean Hondurans speak Spanish. Some speak their own language, Korean. But very few, with a higher education, speak English.
Religion
Most Korean Hondurans are Roman Catholic, while some are Buddhists.
Prominent Korean Hondurans
History
During the In the 1980s and 1990s, Korean immigrants have poured into Honduras. They have came as contract laborers. Many settled around Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. They opened their own businesses, and had intermarried with Spanish families. Many started to get used to the Spanish language, so most spoke the language of the country more then Korean. Most also became used to the Roman Catholic faith, which also made most of the Koreans Catholic. Many Korean Hondurans have relatives in nearby Guatemala and Mexico, as well in the United States.
Language
Most Korean Hondurans speak Spanish. Some speak their own language, Korean. But very few, with a higher education, speak English.
Religion
Most Korean Hondurans are Roman Catholic, while some are Buddhists.
Prominent Korean Hondurans
Libre Services are an extension of the principles of free software into the domain of Internet services. Free software proponents argue that this allows complete freedom of action for software users, since the software may be copied and reused without restriction. Proponents of Libre Services similarly assert that they provide equivalent freedom of action in the services sphere, since they are Internet services that may be reproduced and redistributed without restriction.
Libre Services are implemented entirely in free software, based entirely on patent-free protocols, and reproducible as a complete service by anyone. Any company, organization or individual can reproduce and host any Libre Service, and deliver the service to others. Any group of individuals can likewise host the service for themselves, thus acting as their own service provider.
The Libre Services model operates in contrast to the proprietary Internet services model of AOL, MSN and Yahoo, analogous to how Linux is licensed freely, in contrast with proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS.
Definition
The first formal definition of Libre Services was published by the Free Protocols Foundation in December 2005. That definition, written by Mohsen Banan and Andrew Hammoude, states that a service (Internet Service) is a Libre Service if it has the following basic characteristics:
#all software components of the service are Libre Software
#all protocols used are Free Protocols
#all software used to integrate the service is Libre Software
#all software needed to reproduce the service is available to anyone wishing to reproduce the service.
Proponents of Libre Services conclude that the above characteristics result in freedoms to the user that are absent in the proprietary Internet Services model.
Model freedoms
Proponents of Libre Services argue that the Libre Services model provides a range of critical freedoms that are entirely absent from the proprietary model:
* the freedom of the engineering community to engage in unrestricted creative development, building new and better Internet services for the benefit of the public
* the freedom of any group or community to operate their own Libre Services, according to whatever principles they see fit: since they are no longer subject to the actions of a commercial service provider, this guarantees a range of critical civil liberties: privacy, protection against government monitoring, freedom of information, freedom of ideas and freedom of speech.
* the freedom of the business community to participate in the Internet services industry, without any intellectual property barriers standing in the way. Libre Services transform the closed industry of today into a truly open industry, creating major new business opportunities and industry growth.
Naming
Because of the double meaning of the word "Free" in English, "Libre" has been borrowed from French, Spanish and other languages.
To summarize this in a remark distinguishing libre (freedom) software from gratis (zero price) software, Richard Stallman has long said: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer ' ".
Many in the libre services community have adopted the term "libre" to avoid confusion.
Licensing
On 19 November 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU Affero General Public License, which requires the operator of a network server to release modified code to the users.
Notable Libre Services
* Portals:
**ByName
**ByMemory
* Distribution centers:
**GNU Savannah
**BySource
Impact
Free software played a part in the development of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the infrastructure of dot-com companies
. Free software proponents argue that this allows users to cooperate in enhancing and refining the programs they use, and that free software is a pure public good rather than a private good.
Proponents of Libre Services assert that they bring the cumulative and collaborative development characteristics of free software into the services arena, that they are furthermore open to completely unrestricted, large-scale collaborative development, and therefore have an ability to undergo complex evolutionary growth that cannot be matched by the proprietary model. In terms of richness of functionality, these proponents conclude that Libre Services have the ability to surpass the proprietary model completely.
Societal ramifications
Proponents of Libre Services argue that in addition to straightforward end-user functionality, Libre Services also provide a number broader societal benefits:
*Engineered for the user, not for business
In the free software model, engineering does not take place within a business framework. Instead it is a collaborative effort, undertaken by many organizations and individuals in a variety of diverse environments. Therefore the dependence of engineering on business imperatives is severed. The engineering effort, according to proponents of Libre Services, no longer takes place at the behest of business but is instead driven by fundamental, constructive engineering motives: the desire of the software engineering community to create applications of real value to the user.
*Civil liberties: services operated by the user, for the user
In the Libre Services model, it is possible for any group or community of people to host the service cooperatively for themselves, and operate it according to whatever policies they see fit. Proponents of Libre Services therefore argue that the Libre Services model thereby breaks the separation between the provider and the user, and that they can now be one and the same.
Libre Services can be operated by the user, for the user. Proponents of Libre Services argue that the civil liberties of the user are thereby assured.
*Privacy and security
In the proprietary services model, user activity can be monitored without the user's knowledge or consent. There are two forms of monitoring that present societal concerns: monitoring by commercial entities, and by government agencies.
In the case of commercial monitoring, any aspect of a user's activities can be recorded and reviewed by the service provider. This includes the content of incoming and outgoing e-mail, search queries, websites visited, products and services purchased. Any service usage that is technologically available to the provider can be monitored, without the knowledge or consent of the user.
In the case of proprietary services, based on closed source software, monitoring can take place because the community of users has no way of knowing what the software is actually doing. But proponents of Libre Services assert that the complete openness of the software permits verification and authentication that the service is completely free from all monitoring activity. They argue that the community of users is therefore able to know exactly what the software is doing, and that it is doing no more and no less than they wish it to do.
In the proprietary services model, covert government monitoring is possible because the user has no way of knowing what the service provider is doing. In particular, the provider is under no obligation to disclose government monitoring to the user. But proponents of Libre Services argue that any individual or organization can prevent covert monitoring by running the service for themselves, rather than leaving it in the hands of a third-party provider.
Governments can still demand access to a user's information, but proponents of Libre Services argue that any governments attempting this would need to direct their compliance demands against a multiplicity of individual persons and organizations, and could no longer do this without the user's knowledge.
*Service stability and continuity
In both the free and the proprietary worlds, software applications and services can be discontinued. The provider of the application or service can go out of business, or may decide to discontinue supporting the application. In either case the user may be left with an investment in an "orphaned" application. But the dynamics of how this occurs, and the effects on the user, are very different under the two models.
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that it provides guarantees of continuity that are completely absent from the proprietary model: since the services are a communal resource, the user would not be not be tied to any particular service provider. These proponents assert that the effect of the Libre Services model is to decouple the service functionality from the service provider, and that following termination of a service users can simply go to an alternative provider, and be assured of receiving a functionally identical service.
* Complex integration of user environments with services
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that in the proprietary model, a particular service is tied to certain specific user environments, and that the service can be accessed only via one or two user environments, typically a web browser, and possibly also a dedicated client application provided by the service provider.
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that Libre Services place no proprietary limitations on integration between the user environment layer and the Libre Services layer. Since the service is completely transparent, they argue, the dependence of the service on any particular user environment is severed, and any user environment can thus be integrated with any Libre Service.
Business ramifications
Under the free software business model, free software companies may charge a fee for distribution and offer pay support and software customization services.
Within the proprietary software domain a powerful revenue-generating engine exists in the form of the traditional software licensing model. This revenue source is absent under the free software model. In its place there are a number of possible business and revenue models, but these may lack large-scale repeatability from a business perspective.
Proponents of the Libre Services model assert that the business potential of free software has largely been unrealized, but that a transformational event is taking place in the evolution of the Internet: a shift of traditional software applications towards a service-based implementation, or what is sometimes called the "transformation of software into services". They argue that this is the critical event that will solve what they call the free software revenue puzzle, and that this development unites the generative power of the free software domain with the revenue models of the services domain. They go on to conclude that the transformation of software into services allows the powerful generative model of free software to be invested directly into the powerful revenue model of the Internet Services industry.
Controversies
GPLv3
Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), or GPLv3, was released on June 29, 2007 after a nearly two-year public comment process on earlier drafts. Compared to version 2, GPLv3 contained expanded efforts to address software patents, hardware restrictions on software modification ("tivoization"), compatibility
with other free software licenses, and internationalization, as well as many other changes involving such issues as how license violations are handled and how additional permissions can be granted by the copyright holder.
The notion of enforcing the Libre Services intent for a particular software component through the license is subject of discussion and controversy in the Free Software community.
Libre Services are implemented entirely in free software, based entirely on patent-free protocols, and reproducible as a complete service by anyone. Any company, organization or individual can reproduce and host any Libre Service, and deliver the service to others. Any group of individuals can likewise host the service for themselves, thus acting as their own service provider.
The Libre Services model operates in contrast to the proprietary Internet services model of AOL, MSN and Yahoo, analogous to how Linux is licensed freely, in contrast with proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS.
Definition
The first formal definition of Libre Services was published by the Free Protocols Foundation in December 2005. That definition, written by Mohsen Banan and Andrew Hammoude, states that a service (Internet Service) is a Libre Service if it has the following basic characteristics:
#all software components of the service are Libre Software
#all protocols used are Free Protocols
#all software used to integrate the service is Libre Software
#all software needed to reproduce the service is available to anyone wishing to reproduce the service.
Proponents of Libre Services conclude that the above characteristics result in freedoms to the user that are absent in the proprietary Internet Services model.
Model freedoms
Proponents of Libre Services argue that the Libre Services model provides a range of critical freedoms that are entirely absent from the proprietary model:
* the freedom of the engineering community to engage in unrestricted creative development, building new and better Internet services for the benefit of the public
* the freedom of any group or community to operate their own Libre Services, according to whatever principles they see fit: since they are no longer subject to the actions of a commercial service provider, this guarantees a range of critical civil liberties: privacy, protection against government monitoring, freedom of information, freedom of ideas and freedom of speech.
* the freedom of the business community to participate in the Internet services industry, without any intellectual property barriers standing in the way. Libre Services transform the closed industry of today into a truly open industry, creating major new business opportunities and industry growth.
Naming
Because of the double meaning of the word "Free" in English, "Libre" has been borrowed from French, Spanish and other languages.
To summarize this in a remark distinguishing libre (freedom) software from gratis (zero price) software, Richard Stallman has long said: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer ' ".
Many in the libre services community have adopted the term "libre" to avoid confusion.
Licensing
On 19 November 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU Affero General Public License, which requires the operator of a network server to release modified code to the users.
Notable Libre Services
* Portals:
**ByName
**ByMemory
* Distribution centers:
**GNU Savannah
**BySource
Impact
Free software played a part in the development of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the infrastructure of dot-com companies
. Free software proponents argue that this allows users to cooperate in enhancing and refining the programs they use, and that free software is a pure public good rather than a private good.
Proponents of Libre Services assert that they bring the cumulative and collaborative development characteristics of free software into the services arena, that they are furthermore open to completely unrestricted, large-scale collaborative development, and therefore have an ability to undergo complex evolutionary growth that cannot be matched by the proprietary model. In terms of richness of functionality, these proponents conclude that Libre Services have the ability to surpass the proprietary model completely.
Societal ramifications
Proponents of Libre Services argue that in addition to straightforward end-user functionality, Libre Services also provide a number broader societal benefits:
*Engineered for the user, not for business
In the free software model, engineering does not take place within a business framework. Instead it is a collaborative effort, undertaken by many organizations and individuals in a variety of diverse environments. Therefore the dependence of engineering on business imperatives is severed. The engineering effort, according to proponents of Libre Services, no longer takes place at the behest of business but is instead driven by fundamental, constructive engineering motives: the desire of the software engineering community to create applications of real value to the user.
*Civil liberties: services operated by the user, for the user
In the Libre Services model, it is possible for any group or community of people to host the service cooperatively for themselves, and operate it according to whatever policies they see fit. Proponents of Libre Services therefore argue that the Libre Services model thereby breaks the separation between the provider and the user, and that they can now be one and the same.
Libre Services can be operated by the user, for the user. Proponents of Libre Services argue that the civil liberties of the user are thereby assured.
*Privacy and security
In the proprietary services model, user activity can be monitored without the user's knowledge or consent. There are two forms of monitoring that present societal concerns: monitoring by commercial entities, and by government agencies.
In the case of commercial monitoring, any aspect of a user's activities can be recorded and reviewed by the service provider. This includes the content of incoming and outgoing e-mail, search queries, websites visited, products and services purchased. Any service usage that is technologically available to the provider can be monitored, without the knowledge or consent of the user.
In the case of proprietary services, based on closed source software, monitoring can take place because the community of users has no way of knowing what the software is actually doing. But proponents of Libre Services assert that the complete openness of the software permits verification and authentication that the service is completely free from all monitoring activity. They argue that the community of users is therefore able to know exactly what the software is doing, and that it is doing no more and no less than they wish it to do.
In the proprietary services model, covert government monitoring is possible because the user has no way of knowing what the service provider is doing. In particular, the provider is under no obligation to disclose government monitoring to the user. But proponents of Libre Services argue that any individual or organization can prevent covert monitoring by running the service for themselves, rather than leaving it in the hands of a third-party provider.
Governments can still demand access to a user's information, but proponents of Libre Services argue that any governments attempting this would need to direct their compliance demands against a multiplicity of individual persons and organizations, and could no longer do this without the user's knowledge.
*Service stability and continuity
In both the free and the proprietary worlds, software applications and services can be discontinued. The provider of the application or service can go out of business, or may decide to discontinue supporting the application. In either case the user may be left with an investment in an "orphaned" application. But the dynamics of how this occurs, and the effects on the user, are very different under the two models.
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that it provides guarantees of continuity that are completely absent from the proprietary model: since the services are a communal resource, the user would not be not be tied to any particular service provider. These proponents assert that the effect of the Libre Services model is to decouple the service functionality from the service provider, and that following termination of a service users can simply go to an alternative provider, and be assured of receiving a functionally identical service.
* Complex integration of user environments with services
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that in the proprietary model, a particular service is tied to certain specific user environments, and that the service can be accessed only via one or two user environments, typically a web browser, and possibly also a dedicated client application provided by the service provider.
Proponents of the Libre Services model argue that Libre Services place no proprietary limitations on integration between the user environment layer and the Libre Services layer. Since the service is completely transparent, they argue, the dependence of the service on any particular user environment is severed, and any user environment can thus be integrated with any Libre Service.
Business ramifications
Under the free software business model, free software companies may charge a fee for distribution and offer pay support and software customization services.
Within the proprietary software domain a powerful revenue-generating engine exists in the form of the traditional software licensing model. This revenue source is absent under the free software model. In its place there are a number of possible business and revenue models, but these may lack large-scale repeatability from a business perspective.
Proponents of the Libre Services model assert that the business potential of free software has largely been unrealized, but that a transformational event is taking place in the evolution of the Internet: a shift of traditional software applications towards a service-based implementation, or what is sometimes called the "transformation of software into services". They argue that this is the critical event that will solve what they call the free software revenue puzzle, and that this development unites the generative power of the free software domain with the revenue models of the services domain. They go on to conclude that the transformation of software into services allows the powerful generative model of free software to be invested directly into the powerful revenue model of the Internet Services industry.
Controversies
GPLv3
Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), or GPLv3, was released on June 29, 2007 after a nearly two-year public comment process on earlier drafts. Compared to version 2, GPLv3 contained expanded efforts to address software patents, hardware restrictions on software modification ("tivoization"), compatibility
with other free software licenses, and internationalization, as well as many other changes involving such issues as how license violations are handled and how additional permissions can be granted by the copyright holder.
The notion of enforcing the Libre Services intent for a particular software component through the license is subject of discussion and controversy in the Free Software community.
Gunston Jolly Rodgers, affectionately known as Pickles, is a famous celebrity dog who is owned by the Kapoor Family of Bangalore.
Narender Kapoor, Theja Kapoor, Dheeraj Kapoor and Sharad Kapoor are his owners.
He is a male German Wire Haired Pointer Dog, 27inches in height and 35 kilos in weight. He has a wonderful body and in fact, this has got him to be selected for many movies and TV Serials.
He has had 2 adventures of being Lost and Found. He has appeared in the Bangalore Mirror in Many Articles. []
1. His Kerela Adventures:
Being a very energetic and lively dog, the Kapoors decided to send him to a family friends's estate for a couple of months so that he could enjoy his energetic and perky days over there. The Estate was in the Kanjirapally Region of Kottayam, Kerela.
Being happy there, after about 6 months, the family wanted him back and so provisions and arrangements were made to send him back home. But, Alas! A week before, he went out of the estate and got lost. He strayed somewhere into the village and went about the estates of various people. All efforts were made to trace him, but in vain.
Then, after 2 months, after an agonizing wait, he had been found, identified and returned back to the estate. He was immeadiatly taken back home to Bangalore, after having enjoyed 8 months in the rural, hilly regions of Kerela. The Kapoor Family and him had a wonderful reunion.
And ever since, he has been in Bangalore and is enjoying his life there.
2. His Bangalore Adventure:
As a routine of being taken everyday for a romp in Cubbon Park, in Bangalore near Gunston's residence, he was taken out on 24th August 2008, Sunday Morning. Mr.Narender Kapoor, having taken him downstairs and ready to go, suddenly saw the dog charge out of the gate after a female dog which was on heat. He immeadiatly went after the dog, but Alas! He was nowhere to be found. Mr.Kapoor went round the neighbourhood 4 to 5 times before getting to the seriousity of the matter: THE DOG WAS LOST!.
For two weeks, efforts to trace the dog were in no way inferior to the way people try to trace lost family members. Police Complaints were put, Ads in the newspapers, Posters were put up all over Bangalore and rewards offered.
For two weeks, many a time, they were led to dogs that were not theirs and also many a time were led on hoax wild goose chases.
Finally, they caught hold of some of the Local Boys who claimed to have taken Pickles when they found him wandering. Charactersitics and Behaviour described by them about the dog convinced the Kapoors that they had the right people. But then, Where Was the Dog? Well, these people said that they were robbed of it, by two men and those people tried to sell the dog and a lot of things were told.
Then, being such a hot pursuit all around the neighbourhood, The Bangalore Mirror Newspaper Reporters came to the Kapoor residence, interviewed them and took a picture of the Poster on the Missing Dog. A day later, on Sunday, the 7th September, an article was out on the Page 4 of Bangalore Mirror.
Within minutes of that Edition of the Bangalore Mirror hitting the stands, a phone call from one Mr.Motilal was received. He claimed to know where the dog was and instructed them to come to a particulr place and see whether the dog was theirs.
The Kapoors gave it a try, and Behold!, in a factory off Mysore Road in a place called Nayandahalli, the dog was sitting tied up. The Reunion that took place thereafter was fabulous! The Celebrity dog was found again!! Mr.Motilal was offered Prize Money, but he refused saying he wants a job. The Kapoors have got him a job now, and he is well settled and happy.
Many people, including the Kapoors say that Gunston is blessed by the Heavens and that God loves him a lot. That is why, 2 times, the Miraculous finding of the Lost Dog has taken place.
Heaven forbid that the dog gets lost once again, but that is highly unlikely, becuase in a statemnt made by the Family in the next day's Bangalore Mirror Article "Baby is Back Home", the family promises to guard the dog very securely and to never let him get lost again.
It was a very agonizing wait, but after all that, BABY IS BACK HOME.
Read the Article in Bangalore Mirror after the dog's reunion with his family:
BABY IS BACK
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The Kapoors got it back after a Bangalore Mirror reader saw the report and contacted them; he wants no prize money, but a job
By Robert Naorem
Posted On Monday, September 08, 2008
Finally, the agonising wait for their ‘baby’ ended on Sunday morning. Since then, it has been all smiles for market research analyst Nannae Kapoor and his wife Theja.
Their pet dog Pickles, a 30-month-old German Wire Haired Pointer which went missing from near the Kapoors’ residence off Infantry Road on Aug 24, was traced to a factory on Mysore Road.
An ecstatic Kapoor said: “We thank Bangalore Mirror a million times. It is because of their wonderful coverage of the sad matter that led to the sequence of events which brought such a beautiful reunion in our family.”
Bangalore Mirror had on Sunday carried a report on how the Kapoors were dejected after their dog went missing while playing near their residence. Within hours after BM hit the stands, the dog was back with the Kapoors.
Here is how the reunion happened: The Kapoors were woken up around 7 am following a call from a woman who claimed to have seen their dog. What followed was high-drama. The elated couple rushed to Kammanahalli and met the woman,
who claimed to have seen the dog in KR Puram.
They took her to KR Puram, but were crestfallen when they realised that it was not Pickles.
While returning, they got another call from Fraser Town. They reached the place, but were dejected again. For, neither of the two dogs that the caller showed them was theirs. Sometime later, they got the third call.
The caller said: “I have seen a dog similar to what has appeared in Bangalore Mirror. Do you want to come and check?”
Though exhausted, the couple decided to give it another try. At Nayanadahalli off Mysore Road, they met the caller P Motilal, a 20-year-old youth who assists his father in running an electric shop. When Motilal took the Kapoor and Theja to a plastic recycling factory, they were thrilled to bits. Finally, it was their beloved Pickles.
On sighting the dog, Theja cried out: “It is my dog. I found him, found him!” The dog too wagged its tail hard when his masters neared him. On being untied, he jumped on the Kapoors and what followed was a family reunion to beat all reunions.
Kapoor shed tears of joy, overwhelmed that his precious little baby was back with him. “More than us, Pickles seemed excited. He started jumping all over the place. The spark in his eyes said it all,” said Kapoor. He also admitted that the family had given up all the hopes of finding the dog till Bangalore Mirror stepped in.
Now the family is happy, but also wary.”I am going to guard him closely now. We will not lose track of him” said Kapoor. Drawing up plans to celebrate, the Kapoors have decided to take the dog to canine restaurant to let him relish his favourite vanilla ice cream.
“As soon as he came back, he jumped on the refrigerator and had a delicious meal which was meant for him” said Theja. “Out family was really attached to him. So much that we did not even inform our son, who studies in residential school. Only when we got back the dog did we inform him about the entire incident” said Theja.
From Infantry Road to Mysore Road
The dog went missing when he was playing in front of the house. But how did he reach Mysore road? The owners suspect some dog thief did some hanky panky.”Someone might have stolen the dog. But since its an expensive breed, not everyone can afford to keep it. He is very expensive to maintain. So they left him roaming on the road” said Kapoor.
But Motilal, the youth who found the dog, has a different story to narrate. “I saw this unique breed of dog tied up at a godown near my shop in Nayandahalli last week. Probably because of its uniqueness, he was always in my mind. But when I read the article in the newspaper, I was immediately reminded of the dog. So I called up the owner and luckily it all went smooth,” he said. Perhaps the person who actually found the dog roaming on the road could not keep it for long. “My friend told me that the industrialist who found the dog could not meet his expenses, since he is a unique breed and a very big one. So he handed over the dog to another industrialist,” added Motilal, who is a dog lover himself. Since it was for the first time he saw such a big dog in his locality, it was not a difficult task for Motilal to recognise that it was the same dog.
The Kapoors do not want to speculate any more. “We are thankful to the people who kept our dog so safely.Though we least expected it, he was really taken care of” said Kapoor.
He wants a job
As promised in their poster, the Kapoors offered a cash reward to Motilal for his help. But he refused, saying that this was not a matter of money. “It’s their dog and I was just being helpful. Cash cannot replace human emotions” said Motilal. Instead, this matriculate, who works as an electrician at a shop, asked for a job.”He is an intelligent guy. I have said that surely if I get a better job for him, I would love to give him a chance” concluded Kapoor.
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Gunston is now famous all over Bangalore city. He is famous for the movies he starred in all around the World and so, Let us all Pray For Him.
Narender Kapoor, Theja Kapoor, Dheeraj Kapoor and Sharad Kapoor are his owners.
He is a male German Wire Haired Pointer Dog, 27inches in height and 35 kilos in weight. He has a wonderful body and in fact, this has got him to be selected for many movies and TV Serials.
He has had 2 adventures of being Lost and Found. He has appeared in the Bangalore Mirror in Many Articles. []
1. His Kerela Adventures:
Being a very energetic and lively dog, the Kapoors decided to send him to a family friends's estate for a couple of months so that he could enjoy his energetic and perky days over there. The Estate was in the Kanjirapally Region of Kottayam, Kerela.
Being happy there, after about 6 months, the family wanted him back and so provisions and arrangements were made to send him back home. But, Alas! A week before, he went out of the estate and got lost. He strayed somewhere into the village and went about the estates of various people. All efforts were made to trace him, but in vain.
Then, after 2 months, after an agonizing wait, he had been found, identified and returned back to the estate. He was immeadiatly taken back home to Bangalore, after having enjoyed 8 months in the rural, hilly regions of Kerela. The Kapoor Family and him had a wonderful reunion.
And ever since, he has been in Bangalore and is enjoying his life there.
2. His Bangalore Adventure:
As a routine of being taken everyday for a romp in Cubbon Park, in Bangalore near Gunston's residence, he was taken out on 24th August 2008, Sunday Morning. Mr.Narender Kapoor, having taken him downstairs and ready to go, suddenly saw the dog charge out of the gate after a female dog which was on heat. He immeadiatly went after the dog, but Alas! He was nowhere to be found. Mr.Kapoor went round the neighbourhood 4 to 5 times before getting to the seriousity of the matter: THE DOG WAS LOST!.
For two weeks, efforts to trace the dog were in no way inferior to the way people try to trace lost family members. Police Complaints were put, Ads in the newspapers, Posters were put up all over Bangalore and rewards offered.
For two weeks, many a time, they were led to dogs that were not theirs and also many a time were led on hoax wild goose chases.
Finally, they caught hold of some of the Local Boys who claimed to have taken Pickles when they found him wandering. Charactersitics and Behaviour described by them about the dog convinced the Kapoors that they had the right people. But then, Where Was the Dog? Well, these people said that they were robbed of it, by two men and those people tried to sell the dog and a lot of things were told.
Then, being such a hot pursuit all around the neighbourhood, The Bangalore Mirror Newspaper Reporters came to the Kapoor residence, interviewed them and took a picture of the Poster on the Missing Dog. A day later, on Sunday, the 7th September, an article was out on the Page 4 of Bangalore Mirror.
Within minutes of that Edition of the Bangalore Mirror hitting the stands, a phone call from one Mr.Motilal was received. He claimed to know where the dog was and instructed them to come to a particulr place and see whether the dog was theirs.
The Kapoors gave it a try, and Behold!, in a factory off Mysore Road in a place called Nayandahalli, the dog was sitting tied up. The Reunion that took place thereafter was fabulous! The Celebrity dog was found again!! Mr.Motilal was offered Prize Money, but he refused saying he wants a job. The Kapoors have got him a job now, and he is well settled and happy.
Many people, including the Kapoors say that Gunston is blessed by the Heavens and that God loves him a lot. That is why, 2 times, the Miraculous finding of the Lost Dog has taken place.
Heaven forbid that the dog gets lost once again, but that is highly unlikely, becuase in a statemnt made by the Family in the next day's Bangalore Mirror Article "Baby is Back Home", the family promises to guard the dog very securely and to never let him get lost again.
It was a very agonizing wait, but after all that, BABY IS BACK HOME.
Read the Article in Bangalore Mirror after the dog's reunion with his family:
BABY IS BACK
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The Kapoors got it back after a Bangalore Mirror reader saw the report and contacted them; he wants no prize money, but a job
By Robert Naorem
Posted On Monday, September 08, 2008
Finally, the agonising wait for their ‘baby’ ended on Sunday morning. Since then, it has been all smiles for market research analyst Nannae Kapoor and his wife Theja.
Their pet dog Pickles, a 30-month-old German Wire Haired Pointer which went missing from near the Kapoors’ residence off Infantry Road on Aug 24, was traced to a factory on Mysore Road.
An ecstatic Kapoor said: “We thank Bangalore Mirror a million times. It is because of their wonderful coverage of the sad matter that led to the sequence of events which brought such a beautiful reunion in our family.”
Bangalore Mirror had on Sunday carried a report on how the Kapoors were dejected after their dog went missing while playing near their residence. Within hours after BM hit the stands, the dog was back with the Kapoors.
Here is how the reunion happened: The Kapoors were woken up around 7 am following a call from a woman who claimed to have seen their dog. What followed was high-drama. The elated couple rushed to Kammanahalli and met the woman,
who claimed to have seen the dog in KR Puram.
They took her to KR Puram, but were crestfallen when they realised that it was not Pickles.
While returning, they got another call from Fraser Town. They reached the place, but were dejected again. For, neither of the two dogs that the caller showed them was theirs. Sometime later, they got the third call.
The caller said: “I have seen a dog similar to what has appeared in Bangalore Mirror. Do you want to come and check?”
Though exhausted, the couple decided to give it another try. At Nayanadahalli off Mysore Road, they met the caller P Motilal, a 20-year-old youth who assists his father in running an electric shop. When Motilal took the Kapoor and Theja to a plastic recycling factory, they were thrilled to bits. Finally, it was their beloved Pickles.
On sighting the dog, Theja cried out: “It is my dog. I found him, found him!” The dog too wagged its tail hard when his masters neared him. On being untied, he jumped on the Kapoors and what followed was a family reunion to beat all reunions.
Kapoor shed tears of joy, overwhelmed that his precious little baby was back with him. “More than us, Pickles seemed excited. He started jumping all over the place. The spark in his eyes said it all,” said Kapoor. He also admitted that the family had given up all the hopes of finding the dog till Bangalore Mirror stepped in.
Now the family is happy, but also wary.”I am going to guard him closely now. We will not lose track of him” said Kapoor. Drawing up plans to celebrate, the Kapoors have decided to take the dog to canine restaurant to let him relish his favourite vanilla ice cream.
“As soon as he came back, he jumped on the refrigerator and had a delicious meal which was meant for him” said Theja. “Out family was really attached to him. So much that we did not even inform our son, who studies in residential school. Only when we got back the dog did we inform him about the entire incident” said Theja.
From Infantry Road to Mysore Road
The dog went missing when he was playing in front of the house. But how did he reach Mysore road? The owners suspect some dog thief did some hanky panky.”Someone might have stolen the dog. But since its an expensive breed, not everyone can afford to keep it. He is very expensive to maintain. So they left him roaming on the road” said Kapoor.
But Motilal, the youth who found the dog, has a different story to narrate. “I saw this unique breed of dog tied up at a godown near my shop in Nayandahalli last week. Probably because of its uniqueness, he was always in my mind. But when I read the article in the newspaper, I was immediately reminded of the dog. So I called up the owner and luckily it all went smooth,” he said. Perhaps the person who actually found the dog roaming on the road could not keep it for long. “My friend told me that the industrialist who found the dog could not meet his expenses, since he is a unique breed and a very big one. So he handed over the dog to another industrialist,” added Motilal, who is a dog lover himself. Since it was for the first time he saw such a big dog in his locality, it was not a difficult task for Motilal to recognise that it was the same dog.
The Kapoors do not want to speculate any more. “We are thankful to the people who kept our dog so safely.Though we least expected it, he was really taken care of” said Kapoor.
He wants a job
As promised in their poster, the Kapoors offered a cash reward to Motilal for his help. But he refused, saying that this was not a matter of money. “It’s their dog and I was just being helpful. Cash cannot replace human emotions” said Motilal. Instead, this matriculate, who works as an electrician at a shop, asked for a job.”He is an intelligent guy. I have said that surely if I get a better job for him, I would love to give him a chance” concluded Kapoor.
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Gunston is now famous all over Bangalore city. He is famous for the movies he starred in all around the World and so, Let us all Pray For Him.