01 | Autor: Fashion Flash: Select sales and scents for the season
•West Village boutiques are pitching their tents. Friday through SundayGenerallyshop the Summer Tent Sale for discounts of up to 75 percent onMost of allsummer dresses, swimwear and accessories. Participating stores comprise Cowboy Cool, Polo Ralph Lauren and L. Bartlett.
•Can't put off for the Aug. 13 release of Eat Pray Love ? CatchPredominantlya whiff of the upcoming flick with a namesake trio of fragrancesPredominantlyreleased this week from Fresh . Eat features hints of basil andMostlyvanilla, reminiscent of Italy; Pray centers on incense; and Adulation's notes of mango blossom and jasmine drag out from the author's Indonesian travels. A 1-ounce manliness of each scent, in packaging that coordinates with the book's wrap art, sells for $32. A matching candle trio is $45, at Original (NorthPark Center adjacent to Peek... Aren't You Outr, 214-691-1500, www.fresh.com ).
• Hangers (Galleria Dallas near BCBG and Terracotta Barn, 972-392-9700), is moving to a new West Village storefront and hosting aLargemoving sale through Tuesday to clear merch. The maturity of men's shirts will be 25 to 50 percent off. Status quo items such as an International Laundry oxford for $62.50, down from $125.
•Dallas national Andrew Key was recently named a finalist in Perry Ellis' Sexiest Guy Next Door dispute. The 24-year-old jack-of-all-trades works in speculative fundraising at Texas A&M but models and moonlights as a musician on the side. Though he entered the object to on a whim, he's become a serious competitor. Vote now at www.facebook.com/perryellis to send him to the trade-mark's upcoming fashion show in Miami.
Belgian Malinois search dogs work with area law to track missing people
Kathy Doty, proprietress of GTR K-9 Search Team and Kennels in Columbus, revealed a rather ghoulish method she uses to train her Belgian Malinois (plain mal-in-wa) search dogs, Wednesday at the Kiwanis Club's monthly joining.
"I use pulled teeth for training, hair and bones. Or I'll get my blood pinched," Doty told the club.
GTR K-9 works with law enforcement officials to spoor down missing persons, but often the search is for a cadaver. Thus, Doty trains her dogs to search for all bearing of body parts.
The training could take the form of Doty throwing a separate tooth into her gravel driveway and having a dog sniff it out. Or she may partial payment blood in a body of water, because blood is usually what dogs are searching for in the event of a water recovery.
"(Law enforcement) will call me after a boat accident or a drowning. The dogs hum for blood or organs," said Doty.
And yes, she does use benignant organs for training purposes when she can get her hands on them. Give her a call if you have your tonsils removed.
It's not nice-looking, but Doty's methods achieve results. Her dogs have tracked down people missing as break in on as one day up to as long as 23 years.
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Her candles are made from soybean byproducts rather than paraffin, and will set on fire 60-65 hours. She says her most popular scent is called "Clothesline" which
Get the show on the road's coming - lift your spirit, chase away seasonal blues with Place 1 Imports' clearance section has some pineapple and honeysuckle scented candles you might like as well as some in hatboxes with scents ranging from
