The air gets colder and the nights get shorter. Who's ready for hoodies & scarves, bonfires, crisp nights, hot chocolate and all the beautiful fall colours. With fall around the corner, it's time to think about cleaning up your home and getting it "fall ready". Time to cover up the BBQ, put away all the summer toys, & bring in the patio cushions. The countdown to fall is on!
Pantry Purge- Fall is the best time for baking! Pumpkin pie, apple crisp, cookies & more. The best way to prepare yourself for all the fun fall baking you will do is to clean out the pantry. Take everything out of the pantry & get rid of whatever is expired or not needed. Clean all shelves with a wash cloth or sponge, don't forget about any racks or drawers! Wipe off all containers that may have accumulated dust or grease with a dish cloth. Last but not least, organize the pantry as you put everything back.
Get Organized- Since the weather is getting cooler, it is time to get out all the cozy warm blankets, sweaters, & leggings. We all know that fall clothing and accessories can take up a lot of room in our closet. You can save a lot of space by putting all of your summer gear in a storage container or vacuum sealed bag. I recommend using vacuum sealed bags because they can easily be stored under the bed or on the top shelf of the closet.
Clean Linen- The best feeling in the world is to jump into your bed with all new fresh, clean, cozy bedding on a chilly night. Strip your bed and wash the mattress pad, pillows, duvet, blankets and comforter. Store all the summer linens away in vacuum sealed bags & place fall and winter bedding in an easily accessible location so it's ready when nights turn colder.
Foyer Fun- With colder weather comes lots of outerwear. Organize your front entrance and make space for your coats, mittens, hats, boots and umbrellas now before you start using them. That way, you'll avoid having a mess of clothing and shoes right inside your door once cold weather hits.
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Despite their best efforts to play down the dangers of H7N2 virus now spreading between people in Wales, real panic is starting to set in, as the number of people suspected of being infected, or exposed to this "milder form of bird flu" has risen to more than 140.
A dozen children aged nine and 10 and two teachers at the school are being given tamiflu treatments as a precaution. A year five pupil at Ysgol Henllan suspected of contracting the virus has been linked to the smallholding.
Twelve people are being treated as "positive", but no-one is seriously ill. Of the 142 to come into contact with the virus, 47 came into contact "in the household setting," 14 in the school and 81 in "the workplace setting".
The British health authorities have warned on several occasions that there's no room for panic or fear.
The first outbreak occurred on May 24 at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Conwy. The farm tested negative for the virus, but 45 chickens were culled.
On May 26, a second outbreak was believed to have occurred on a farm at Efailnewydd. Further tests on May 29 supposedly proved negative.
On May 29, health authorities announced that some 221 people may have had contact with the bird flu virus.
The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) stressed that no-one has been seriously ill and the risk to the health of the general public is low.
The first confirmed case of the avian flu (in Wales) was confirmed last Thursday among chickens on a smallholding near Corwen in Denbighshire.
The Rhode Island chickens first affected were bought at a Chelford Market in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 7 May.
Wales' chief vet Dr Christianne Glossop said while they were very pleased with the results, they must "not be complacent so early in our investigations in the source of this outbreak".
She appealed for all bird keepers in Wales to continue being vigilant and to monitor their birds for any signs of infectious disease.
Marion Lyons, NPHS's communicable disease control consultant, said: "We have assessed the risk to others and can confirm that the healthcare worker was working at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd during the time when she may have been infectious, between 21 and 23 May.
The NPHS stressed that experience of this particular bird flu virus in humans was limited, so it was "actively managing" the response.
Dr Lyons added: "People can also be confident that, the more remote the contact with infected birds, the less likely that symptoms that we have defined would really be H7 flu".
Bird flu, of any type, is not the only virus the British have to worry about. A 'superbug' that has been all but impossible to eliminate continues to spread through British hospitals, killing an astound 4700 people in 2006 alone. While the British government spends hundreds of millions of pounds on pandemic prevention, an actual pandemic is already raging in British hospitals, killing thousands of most elderly, poor people each year.


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Digitalization & Automations
System integration to processes supporting next gen digitalization & automations (Industry 4.0).
Steve Jobs: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" Stephen Hawking: "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" Fujio Cho: "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes" Marissa Mayer: "Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter" Wade Boggs: "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results" Marissa Mayer: "Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter" Taiichi Ohno: "Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves" Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today" Wade Boggs: "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results" Steve Jobs: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" George Halas: "Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it" Jack Welch: "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others" Bob Parsons: "Anything that is measured and watched, improves" Henry Ford: "If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere" Charles Darwin: "It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" Sam Walton: "The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary" Stephen Covey: "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities" Wade Boggs: "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results" Taiichi Ohno: "Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves" Steve Jobs: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" Steve Jobs: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" Marissa Mayer: "Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter" Steve Jobs: "Innovation is saying no to a thousand things" Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do" Stephen Covey: "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities" Marissa Mayer: "Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter" Bruce Schneier: "The internet is no longer a web that we connect to. Instead, it's a computerized, networked, and interconnected world that we live in. This is the future, and what we're calling the Internet of Things" Fujio Cho: "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes" Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Planning is everything. the plan is nothing" Theo Gold: "You cannot become stronger without resistance" Fujio Cho: "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes" Buddha: "The mind is everything. What you think you become" Bill Copeland: "The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." Steve Jobs: "Innovation is saying no to a thousand things" Henry Ford: "Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success" Jeff Bezos: "Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room" Caterina Fake: "So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard" Henry Ford: "If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere" Mark Hurd: "AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success" Leo Tolstoy: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" Bob Parsons: "Anything that is measured and watched, improves" Edewede Oriwoh: "The Internet of Things is not a concept; it is a network, the true technology-enabled network of all networks" Gandhi: "Be The Change You Want To See In The World" Albert Einstein: "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" Albert Einstein: "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" Fujio Cho: "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes" Robert Collier: "Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out." Tom Peters: "The Marketplace is so demanding that we burn the policy manuals and knock off the incessant memo writing; there's just no time. It also demands we empower everyone to constantly take initiatives. It turns out stories are a – if not the – leadership answer to both issues"

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Searching for Kyle Lowry
Whether it's physical or mental or both, Kyle Lowry is mired in one of the worst slumps of his professional career at the most inopportune time. All he can do is fight through it.
By Josh Lewenberg
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TORONTO - Ninety minutes after the final buzzer it was just Kyle Lowry and a basketball.
About two hours earlier, the Air Canada Centre was buzzing. The sell-out crowd had started to thin out; many assumed the game was settled as the Raptors trailed by six in the dying seconds, but those that remained in their seats were treated to a thrilling and eventually disappointing ending.
Lowry's 40-foot buzzer-beating heave sent Game 1 into overtime, where Toronto would fall to the Miami Heat, 102-96.
Now, the building was dead silent. His teammates had gone home, but the struggling point guard continued to hoist up jumpers. One after the next, with mixed results, chasing his own rebounds, at one point into the third row. It was an eerie scene.
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That half-court shot was just about the only thing that went Lowry's way on Tuesday - one of the worst games of his four-year tenure in Toronto. He would shoot 3-for-13 from the field, hitting just one of his seven attempts from beyond the arc - the exact same numbers he put up in Game 1 of the first-round series against Indiana. The games in between haven't been much better. Lowry is yet to shoot above 40 per cent this post-season. He's shooting 32 per cent overall and 16 per cent from three-point range, where he shot a career-best 39 per cent during the regular season.
Whether it's physical or mental or both, Lowry is mired in one of the worst slumps of his professional career at the most inopportune time. All he can do is fight through it. If it doesn't work, it won't be for a lack of effort.
Immediately after the game ended, Lowry went up to the Raptors' old practice court on the third level of the ACC, where he spent the next 30 minutes launching jumpers before coming back down to address the media, basketball in his hand.
"[I'm] trying to just get the touch back," said the two-time All-Star. "I don't know where it's at, it's kind of mind-boggling right now. It's frustrating, but I'm not going to shy away from the criticism or anything. I want to continue to be aggressive, shoot shots and take the onus. I know I'm not playing well at all."
Lowry is coming off the best season of his 10-year NBA career, leading the Raptors to 56 wins and the Eastern Conference's second seed. After wearing down in the second half of the previous campaign, and into the playoffs - where Toronto was swept by Washington - he committed to changing his body over the summer and came into training camp with the weight loss to prove it. He kept himself in tremendous shape throughout the season and was as durable as he's ever been before aggravating the elbow bursitis on his shooting arm in a game against Orlando on March 20. He missed the following game in Boston to rest the ailment and his shooting numbers have cratered ever since.
True to character, Lowry refuses to connect his shooting woes with the elbow issue, insisting that he's feeling fine, physically.
Mentally, he's certainly been in a better place. For a player that expects so much of himself, as he should, this has been understandably trying.
"Right now, it's definitely a thousand different things going on [in my mind] because of how I'm not shooting the ball," he admitted. "I don't know, it's weird."
Throughout most of the Pacers series, he found other ways to put his stamp on the game. He played the role of facilitator, averaging 7.6 assists, he got to the free throw line, he rebounded the ball and he worked his tail off on defence. But on Tuesday he looked like a different player. He was looking forward to a new series, a clean slate, but instead, he passed up shots - and even a few layups - that he would usually take. He was tentative, occasionally sloppy with the ball. If he's not hurt, he looked like a player that was overthinking the game more than he was playing it.
"We know he's not shooting the ball well," Dwane Casey said. "He's not making shots that he normally makes. It's like a hitter, hitters go through slumps and he's there. I believe in him and he's going to come out of it."
"The only way to get out of a slump is to keep shooting," Patrick Patterson added. "Kyle is a confident player, he's an All-Star for a reason, like we all say, his shot's just not falling. He's missing shots that he's been making all season long. He's made a lot tougher shots, but for some reason the ball doesn't want to go in the basket for him."
So there he was, back on the main court with a black hoody draped over his head and that same basketball trying desperately to will his way out of the funk he's in. He said he hits his usual shots when he's in the gym by himself, but was wisely pointed out the obvious difference between shooting alone and shooting with a hand in your face.
The Raptors got past Indiana despite Lowry's poor shooting but he knows the chances of them doing the same against Miami are not in their favour. At best, the margin for error is slim. They need him to figure it out.
"I have been [in a slump like this], but not at this time," he lamented. "So that's what's frustrating. I mean, listen, playoffs all eyes are on you so it sucks that I'm playing this bad when all eyes are on me because I know I'm way better than this. So I've got to pick this [expletive] up."


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From beginner to road racer, Ascent Cycles has got you covered. Let's give a big NoHo Welcome to our neighborhood's newest business.
We pride ourselves on our unique businesses that cater to our eclectic and growing arts district. Meet Mike of Ascent Cycles, NoHo's official bike shop.
Ascent Cycles is a full-service, bicycle retailer with a great selection of road, mountain, hybrid, e-bikes and kids bikes. They also stock a wide range of parts and accessories to keep you geared up, and they maintain and repair all brands of bikes to the highest standard. If you're new to cycling or you're a pro, they cater to all skill levels with a smile. Are you looking for a first bike? They've got you covered. Are you a seasoned road or mountain racer looking for a new machine? They can do that too. Stop by and say hello and give them a big NoHo welcome.
What types of repairs does Ascent Cycles do?
What makes us the destination for the customers cycling needs?
We have a great selection of bikes, including kid's, hybrid, mountain and road. We have a friendly atmosphere where both new and seasoned riders are always welcome. We have a great selection of accessories and components and nutritional supplements to help you get the most out of your ride.
Tell us a bit about your cycling experience?
I have been in the cycling industry for almost 20 years. I began my career as a junior-level bike assembler in Northern California. I began road & mountain bike racing competitively at age 12, then went on to compete in collegiate-level events while attending Humboldt State University. I have been a shop mechanic for 10+ years and am a former Continental Pro-team mechanic. I love everything about cycling and helping people get the most out of their experience.
Why did you chose the NoHo Arts District?
I chose to open my business here in North Hollywood because I thought a full-service, full-line bike shop would be a great fit for the area. NoHo is a very accommodating when it comes to navigating by foot or bicycle. I also believe that as the area continues to thrive, we will see more of a need for a quality bicycle shop in the area that caters to every type of rider.


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Q: Surveil a program, and do something if it dies? I have a program running on a little Raspberry Pi. Is there any way for me to write a bash script that is always checking if the program is running or not? If the program crashes, the script does something (e-mails me, for example).

A: The simplest implementation would look like this:
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Basically, the script runs program, and then immediately re-runs it if it exits. It's simple, efficient, and robust.
If you want the script to watch something already running, and restart it, then you have a more difficult task. You have to grep the output of ps, or some such, and that means patterns, text manipulation, and possibly some magic. It also means regular polling, which is inefficient, and/or means there will be a noticeable gap between one process exiting, then new one starting.
Alternatively, you could have a "program.pid" file somewhere, which make life easier, but you still need to check that the process with the given PID is the program it ought to be, and it's still all about polling.

Aside: You might like to consider setting your program up as a system service. I'm not sure what Rasbian uses, but both Upstart and Systemd can handle services that must be restarted when they die.

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Fifty Years Of 'Normalized' Tensions Between Japan And South Korea
Scott Snyder Contributor
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye listen during the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) dialogue at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila, Philippines November 18, 2015. (Courtesy REUTERS/Wally Santana/Pool)
Despite the resumption of high-level Japan-South Korea ties with the holding of a "cold summit" in Seoul last month between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prospects for a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations remain distant on the fiftieth anniversary of diplomatic normalization between Seoul and Tokyo. If anything, the gap between Park and Abe on how to address the issue of comfort women has grown deeper, despite a realization on the part of both governments that the issue must be managed as one part of a broader relationship rather than be allowed to block all forms of cooperation between the two sides.
The United States had a critical role in promoting a normalized relationship between Tokyo and Seoul in 1965 as the conflict in Vietnam was heating up. Likewise, the combination of China's assertiveness and the U.S. rebalance has enhanced U.S. interest in a stable relationship between South Korea and Japan today.
Two papers commissioned by the Council on Foreign Relations on these issues highlight the challenges and stakes involved in effective management of relations between Tokyo and Seoul. Seoul National University professor and prominent Japan specialist Park Cheol-hee traces past downturns in relations between Tokyo and Seoul that have coincided with past anniversaries of diplomatic normalization in his paper, "Still Distant Neighbors: South Korea-Japan Relations Fifty Years After Diplomatic Normalization." Park sees domestic politics in both countries acting as a spoiler in efforts to improve Japan-South Korea relations. Nevertheless, Park sees stepped up U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral cooperation and the need for stepped up mutual public-relations campaign efforts by both governments to promote positive attitudes among both publics toward each other. Finally, he urges accelerated negotiations to resolve the comfort women issue, which has emerged as the main obstacle dividing Prime Minister Abe and President Park.
Asia expert Mark Manyin's paper, "Managing Japan-South Korea Tensions," evaluates the U.S. role and interest in promoting a stable relationship between South Korea and Japan, arguing that costs of poor Japan-ROK relations are rising, requiring a response. Manyin considers four distinct roles and approaches that might frame U.S. intervention: the United States as a role model in catalyzing examination of historical issues, the United States as a referee that serves to bound detrimental Japanese and South Korean actions, the United States as a mediator in promoting resolution of outstanding Japan-ROK differences, and the United States as a commissioner through generation of opportunities for trilateral U.S.-ROK-Japan interaction.
At a moment of continued stalemate in Japan-South Korea relations despite the normalization of dialogue between the two countries, both papers are worthy of careful consideration by policymakers in all three countries that are concerned with promoting stable relations in East Asia.
This article originally appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations' Asia Unbound blog. See the original post here.
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Our Partners SFT project reaches milestone to improve mobile digital connectivity
Online platform of over 140,000 public assets where mobile network infrastructure can be installed is launched
A transformative project aimed at accelerating mobile digital connectivity across Scotland has marked a major milestone with the launch of an online platform showing locations of over 140,000 public sector land, buildings and street furniture assets where mobile network equipment can be installed.
The Infralink-Exchange platform details public sector owned assets, such as land, buildings, streetlights and CCTV, across its pilot area of the Tay Cities region (Fife, Perth & Kinross, Dundee City and Angus Councils) that would be suitable for mobile phone operators to install mobile network equipment.
Infralink-Exchange is one of eight pilot projects focused on making public assets available to speed up 4G and 5G deployment. All projects were awarded UK Government funding earlier this year.
The launch follows on from the work of the Infralink programme, established by public sector infrastructure body, the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) and funded by Scottish Government. Infralink is aimed at streamlining and speeding up the process of identifying and installing digital communications equipment on public sector buildings and land.
Sarah Eynon, programme director for Digital Infrastructure at SFT, said: "This is a significant step forward for the project because it means mobile network operators seeking to improve coverage in communities across the region can easily access the robust database of over 140,000 assets and easily find out where they can install macro and small cell equipment as well as details of potential willing landlords.
"Increasing Scotland's connectivity is a crucial economic driver towards post-pandemic recovery and to further attracting inward investment. Key to the success of the pilot project is having a process for data identification, incorporation and management that is sustainable and can be applied across the whole of Scotland.
"We will share what we have learnt and the approach we have used, to allow others to replicate it and use it across the country to help facilitate swifter and wider adoption of 5G, and the widespread benefits this will bring."
The asset information is hosted on Sitenna's platform and can be used to promote the assets and the terms they can be leased on. Providing a single point of entry, standardised commercial tools and a digitised lease management tool allows smoother interactions between local authorities and industry during contract negotiation.
Angus Council Leader and Chair of the of Tay Cities Region Deal Board, Councillor Beth Whiteside, said: "The Infralink-Exchange pilot plays a key role in improving connectivity throughout the Tay Cities Region by bringing together public assets and industry to allow local citizens, businesses, and visitors to experience enhanced mobile connectivity.
"Our commitment to ensuring digital is at the heart of everything that we do, ensures that we will continue to deliver an inclusive economic growth, reform our public services and prepare our children for the workplace of the future."
UK Digital Infrastructure Minister, Julia Lopez, said: "We have funded this innovative project as part of our pioneering programme to explore ways to cut red tape for telecoms firms looking to use roadside infrastructure and buildings to boost 5G coverage.
"It is just one way we're dialling up mobile coverage right across Scotland, such as the government-led Shared Rural Network which will bring fast and reliable 4G signal to hard-to-reach areas through a £1 billion investment."
Hamish MacLeod, Chief Executive of Mobile UK, said: "Connectivity is crucial to generating opportunities and driving economic growth. The Infralink programme is a pioneering initiative bringing together public assets and industry, and this milestone marks an important step in creating a streamlined process to enable quick and effective infrastructure deployment and ultimately extending mobile connectivity to more people."
Economy Secretary, Kate Forbes, said: "The Infralink-Exchange pilot aims to invest in improved coverage across the region by streamlining processes like identifying sites, drawing up contracts and beginning onsite work. It may also help the mobile industry work with Tay Cities local authorities.
"This project, financially supported by the Scottish Government, could help create jobs while promoting prosperity and improving technology and connectivity in line with our National Strategy for Economic Transformation."
Richard Watson, managing director of Rapier Systems, a telecoms company operating across the Tay Cities region, said: "We all need good mobile connectivity these days, not necessarily to watch TV on the go, but simply to be able to communicate with friends and family or pay bills. It really isn't a luxury anymore, or at least it shouldn't be.
"These days, the performance of mobile is right up there with fibre for most activities, so it simply isn't for the less fortunate anymore. We need to make it as easy as possible to do things commercially."
The Infralink-Exchange project was the only Scottish project of eight to be awarded a share of £4m funding earlier this year from the UK Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.
The project received £500,000 from the Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) to explore how digital software can help simplify local authority processes when telecoms operators request access to publicly owned buildings and curb-side infrastructure.


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FedEx ground shipping is always free, and if you order by our holiday deadlines, you can rest assured your gifts will arrive by Christmas Eve.
Delavan Monogram Memo Square. This gift idea will please the person who loves things just so…or the person with the perennial messy desk. Basically, anyone who is a get-things-done kinda person, no matter his or her tolerance for mess. Dress up this attractive memo square with an attractive monogram and their favorite ink color. The acrylic holder keeps pages neat and tidy.
Highland 4-Tablet Set. Make their desk, credenza or counter more interesting with the Highland 4-Tablet Set. Create one line of personalization in a choice of our most popular lettering styles. Offered in a range of vivid ink colors on thick, white paper, this set offers four distinct memo sizes for any use: messages, casual letters, enclosures and more. Includes a holder to keep notepads in order.
Highland 3-Tablet Set. This stocking stuffer really measures up. Perfect for teachers, quality control experts, engineers, architects, seamstresses, math mavens, or anyone whose tool of the trade has to do with measuring. The set features one line of personalization and your choice of 10 popular lettering styles and 8 matte ink colors on our exceptional white paper. This item includes three different tablet sizes. Tablet set with ribbon is shrink wrapped for easy gift giving.
Perfectly sized for a stocking, the Highland List with holder is easy to personalize and ships in 24 hours.
Delavan Monogram 4-Tablet Set. They'll love showing off their monogram on these square notepads. For anyone who just moved into a new home, achieved a new job or promotion, or loves to organize their day and tick off to-do lists. This set offers a three letter monogram in a choice of 10 popular lettering styles and 8 matte ink colors.
Highland List. Get the write stuff for your loved ones. Perfectly sized for a stocking, the Highland List offers 260 long, rectangular sheets. Surprise them by customizing two lines of personalization with a choice of lettering style and ink color. The acrylic holder keeps pages neat and tidy.
See our entire collection of personalized notepads here.
Our photo notepads are perfect for Mother's Day.
Mother's Day is just around the corner. Do you have an amazing gift for mom? You know, the kind that brings tears to her eyes? We've got it! Giftsin24 photo gifts are perfect for personalizing for Mom, Grandma or that special friend in your life.
Giftsin24 will print a special photo in vibrant colors on a range of notepad sizes, add a line or two of personalized text, and ship your gift within 24 hours most days.
Family Photo Super Slab We will feature your photo on the bottom right of the slab and one line of personalization at the top. We custom create each set using an easy-to-use download tool for your .jpeg photo.
Family Photo Desk Slab Smaller dimensions than the Super Slab above, but perfect for Mom's desk or counter top.
Family Photo Agenda If Mom has lots of children (or even pets), this long photo can show all of them off. Comes with a holder to keep the sheets tidy.
Give us 8 names and you can create 8 personalized gifts. This go-to gift is perfect for birthdays, wedding parties, office mates and more.
Sometimes inspiration for a particular gift for a particular person comes easily. In your mind's eye, you immediately see the perfect gift, you find it, you give it. But sometimes inspiration doesn't come. In that case, you need a go-to gift that's always appropriate, dependable and affordable.
You want to feel proud of your gift, but you also have a budget. So what's the answer?
Friends and Family Tablet Sets. Make these your go-to gift. Many of our customers swear by them.
Here's the concept: With one order, you'll purchase 8 personalized gifts at once. It's an easy, efficient way to create thoughtful gifts for a group. Think officemates: Add "Samantha" to one tablet, "Grace" to the next, move on to Abigail, Veronica, Madison, Taylor, Sheila and Ann. Press "order" and you'll receive 8 personalized tablets in 2-5 days (depending on where you live) and they'll arrive ready for giving.
Your officemates will never know it was so painless for you. All Samantha and the others will see is their own name carefully and beautifully printed on a high-quality note pad in a vivid ink color. They'll think you worked for days planning, tracking down, and creating this thoughtful gift. Only you will know it took you less than 5 minutes to order and arrived at your door in a matter of days.
Same goes for your children's teachers, kids' party favors, bridal party gifts, Christmas gifts and more. Just add a name to each of the 8 tablets (Mr. Seymour, Ms. Brown, etc. or Preston, Declan, Aiden, etc.), choose your ink color, and we'll print them for you in 24 hours and ship them out to you.
Here's another beautiful thing: At the regular price of $25.95, each tablet works out to $3.25. And with free shipping, the picture just keeps getting better and better.
Each tablet is made with our high quality paper. Each sheet is 80 lb text, like nice thick copier paper. There are 100 sheets per tablet. And each sheet is a generous 4.4 inches x 6 inches, so there is plenty of room to write.
Want to try it out? Check your calendar for upcoming birthdays for the next few months, give us 8 names, we'll send the tablets to you by the end of the week, and you can put them in your gift closet until the birthdays roll around. So easy, right?
Show off your pet with our Family Photo Super Slab and other photo products.
The hot, humid weather around most of the country in early September –"the dog days of summer" — got us to thinking … does your pet need his or her own stationery? We've got it! Giftsin24 photo products are perfect for personalizing stationery featuring pets. They are perfect for showing off your pooch, pet cat or parakeet.
And they, of course, work just as well in portraying kids. Or friends, loved ones, new homes, and just about anything else you can capture in a photo.
Giftsin24 will print your photo memoes in vibrant colors and ship your gift within 24 hours most days.
Family Photo Super Slab The photo will be featured on the bottom right of the slab while you have one line of personalization at the top. Each set is custom created using an easy-to-use download tool for your .jpeg photo.
Family Photo Desk Slab Smaller dimensions than the Super Slab above, but perfect for your desk or counter top.
Family Photo Agenda If you have lots of pets, this long photo can show all of them off…that is, if you can get them to stay still long enough to pose for the photo.
Start kids out with simple chores, like hanging towels or clearing the table. Before long, they may be washing loads or making whole meals.
Getting kids to remember their chores is one thing. Motivating them to do them is quite another. Many parents give up and decide it's not worth the fight. But other parents believe instilling a shared sense of responsibility and work ethic in children sets them up to be productive, hard-working adults.
Behavioral psychologists recommend creating a visual schedule for children so that they can see their tasks at a glance and gauge their progress.
When you're just starting out, it's important to keep tasks simple. Folding and putting away clothes, setting or clearing the table, and taking a dog for a walk are all good places to start. Gradually increase the complexity of the tasks as your child masters the easy ones.
Building in simple rewards is another key. These rewards can be stickers, experiences with you or the children's friends, or a weekly allowance.
Before long, you may just find that kids will be cooking meals, cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn!
Giftsin24 offers several products that can help you create a visual schedule. These three oversized slabs contain 250 sheets, offering up to 5 years of weekly chore sheets for your busy family.
The Family Organize by Day Slab makes a great basis for a visual schedule. Simply tear off a page, write in the daily chores for each person and hang it on your refrigerator, pinboard or other central, convenient place. This is a useful tool to show that everyone in the family has responsibilities.
The Organize by Day Slab is appropriate for making chore lists for individual children or family members. Each week, hang a new sheet in a child's room so their list is always close at hand.
The Organize by Week Slab is another tool for creating a visual schedule for individual family members.
Assign a task to each day and you'll get your new year's resolution accomplished in no-time!
A new year. A fresh start. Turning over into a new year means turning a new leaf on old habits. And getting organized consistently ranks as one of the most popular new year's resolutions.
Search "getting organized," and you'll find dozens of websites offering hundreds of tips. They cover such things as how to organize your home, your wardrobe, your kitchen cabinets or your day.
1. Write it down. Keep your goals up front with a good old-fashioned to-do list tacked to your bulletin board or taped to your bathroom mirror.
2. Break projects into steps. Is your goal to declutter your closets? Break it down by location (foyer, broom closet, hall, bath, pantry, etc.). And keep pen and paper nearby as you do them to write down any chores or projects that result from each of these, such as mending mittens, dropping off a box of outgrown clothes at your favorite charity or restocking toothpaste.
3. Assign dates. Schedule specific blocks of time into your calendar for each step. Be realistic. Break tasks into pieces and assign time frames to them, even down to the minutes.
4. Cut yourself some slack. There's a psychological aspect to changing habits. If you begin to procrastinate or get off track, forgive yourself and start somewhere else. Maybe that first task is too large? Break it down into even smaller chunks, even if they are minuscule, like gathering boxes and trash bags near your closet. Small victories along the way help your momentum. Struggling? Call a super-organized family member or friend for help getting started.
5. Cross off your accomplishments. It feels great to watch your progress! Remember to celebrate your victories!
Looking for pretty and functional to-do lists? Giftsin24 offers a variety of personalized notepads, such as weekly slabs, daily slabs, and family slabs.
While you were going through this year's photos to create your holiday greeting cards, did you find that one perfect shot that just makes you feel happy? The kids bundled up together. Or the sunset shot from your family vacation. Maybe your pet dressed up for Halloween. Or the quilt you are so proud of making. Whatever it was, consider using it to create holiday photo gifts for friends and family. Grandparents especially will love using your gift all year long when it includes a sweet picture!
Personalize holiday photo gifts, like this super slab, to create memorable gifts they'll use all year long.
Personalize Giftsin24 memos, lists, agendas, tablets and slabs with your very own photo for a one-of-a-kind gift. In addition to the full-color photo, add a name or phrase of your choice to each memo item.
It's easy to do! Choose your item, upload your image to the Giftsin24 web site, do some minor photo cropping if needed, indicate the personalization in one of eight matte ink colors, and place your order. That's all there is to it. We'll use our state-of-the-art technology to reproduce your photo and print your order.
We produce each Family Photo item with careful attention to detail. We print and ship your gifts quickly – most within 24 hours. They're the perfect holiday present for all the people on your list.
Browse our selection of matte ink photo items today on Giftsin24.
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When you're busy, there's nothing like a written list to keep you on track. Making to do lists is an indispensable daily ritual for many desk jockeys, soccer moms and weekend warriors.
No doubt about it, crossing off tasks is satisfying — but when the tasks are written on beautifully designed paper, checking them off can be even more pleasurable…not to mention more professional looking. Our new line of Watercolor products is the perfect answer.
We've updated and enlarged our Classic monogram, bringing it to life in 7 soft colors.
Watercolor memos and desk slabs make a fresh, modern statement that transitions from home to office. Dip your brush in every hue to create memorable gifts for friends, family, teachers and coworkers.
Making to do lists was never so fun.
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Michael Rosen's 9 poetry-writing tips for kids
Is your child a budding poet? We asked prolific author and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen for his tips for giving kids the poetry-writing bug.
Michael Rosen is one of Britain's best-loved children's writers, and the author of classics including We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Don't Put Mustard in the Custard, and No Breathing in Class.
We asked the former Children's Laureate for his top poetry-writing tips for kids, and here's what he had to say.
1. Read other people's poems
'It's really good to read or listen to poems by other people, and then daydream about how you could make them yours.
'Could you make your own poem sound like the one you've just read, or write a poem with the same theme, or even copy a line of it to inspire your own writing?
'Some of my favourite children's poets are Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Sarah Crossan, Joseph Coelho and Carol Ann Duffy.'
'There are thousands and thousands of poems online that could inspire you to write your own poetry.
'On YouTube, there are lots of videos of poets performing their own poems and other people's. You can put in your favourite poet's name, or type in a description like "funny poems" or "sad poems."
'Have a look at my YouTube channel, Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen: I've made over 200 videos that you can watch.'
3. Be a scavenger
'If you want to write poetry, you need to look at the world around you. You could start from something you've seen, or something you've heard someone say, or something you remember.
'Think of yourself as being like a crow, going about looking for things you can take for yourself.'
4. Use repetition
'Repetition is a brilliant way to pull a poem together.
'Rhyming is a form of repetition, but you don't have to write poems that rhyme.
'You could make the last line of the poem the same as the first line, or have a little phrase that you repeat, or even repeat a chunk of three or four lines.
'When you use repetition, it gives your poem a shape and meaning.'
5. Compare things to other things
'Poets always describe things by saying they're like something else. For example, one of Shakespeare's most famous poems describes someone as being 'fairer than a summer's day.
'You can compare things by using phrases such as "like," "as lovely as," "more than" and "less than." These are called similes and metaphors.
'Look very closely at things until you find something that it's similar to: you might cut an apple in half and think it looks like a cross-section of the world.
'Remember, comparisons don't always have to be beautiful and nice: you might think that a crow looks like a wounded soldier.'
6. Make your audience laugh
'Poetry can be a way of telling jokes. For example, limericks are usually very funny.
'One way to make people laugh is to steal the shape of your poem from something unexpected.
'You could use the format of the instructions for assembling a piece of furniture to write a poem about how to have a bath, for example.
'Or you could use the structure of your school rules, or the Once upon a time shape of fairy tales, or even the Highway Code.
'When you surprise people by mucking around with things that are quite formal, they'll find your poem funny.'
7. Think about how it sounds
'Another good way to write poetry is to make it sound like the thing you're describing.
'Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, From a Railway Carriage, has a rhythm that sounds like the wheels of a train going clickety-clack, clickety-clack.
'If you were writing about the school dinner hall, you could use short sentences that interrupt each other to make it sound noisy and busy.
'If you were writing about a river, you could make your sentences long and flowing.
'Your poem might even end up sounding like a song or a rap!'
8. Let your pen do the talking
'I got into writing poetry for pleasure when I was about 15, when I discovered that I could talk with my pen.
'Talking with your pen means thinking about something you want to say, and using it as the starting point for your poem.
'It could be a feeling, like "I'm lost" or "I'm fed up," or it could be a memory: one of my first memories was of sitting on the beach when I was three years old, and I turned it into a poem.
'The moment you start talking with your pen, you have something to write about.'
9. Make time to write outside school
'At school, you might be told off if you're daydreaming. Or you might be told you have to write a haiku or an acrostic poem, which can sometimes be hard.
'But when you're writing poetry at home, you never have to worry about being right or wrong. You can write about things that interest you, or you can do things that you might not be allowed to do at school, like ending your poem with a question.
'You're even allowed to daydream: a lot of great poems start out that way.'
Michael Rosen is the author of over 50 books for children and adults, including What is Poetry: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Walker Books, £6.99).
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SS-204 Mackerel
Two experimental Mackerel (SS-204) class diesel submarines were approved in the FY1940 building program; one built by Electric Boat, the other by Portsmouth Navy Yard. They commissioned March and August 1941. They displaced about half that of contemporary fleet boats and were 70-feet shorter. Surface speed was significantly less than that of fleet boats at 16 knots though submerged speed was slightly better, at 9 knots.
These submarines were assigned training duties early in the Second World War, operating out of New London CT. They also assisted the Underwater Sound Laboratory in developing anti-submarine sensors and tactics. On 14 April 1942 Mackerel (SS-204) narrowly avoided two torpedoes fired by a German submarine off the coast of Virginia, and managed to fire several torpedoes back, which missed.
Both were decommissioned in November 1945 and scrapped.


Here at City Students' Union we know that being a student in London can be difficult, from the cost of renting to a monthly travel card the price quickly tallies up bringing with it stress and worries about working and studying. These difficulties are not uncommon and across the U.K. students face many similar barriers to full taking part in their course.
To try and take a step towards understanding this we have teamed up with near 30 other Students' Unions around the country to find out more about your experience at City University. We want to know all about how different factors of student life have affected your time here and how we could provide changes or projects to make it better for you.
We really appreciate your time and opinion and as a thank you for completing the survey you will be entered into a draw to win a years' worth or Netflix or Apple Music!
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Why Has Warcraft Not Been Turned Into a Slot Machine Game?
Since you're here you surely know how great WoW really is, there's no need to remind you of that. There have been more than 100 million people that played World of Warcraft, at least for a brief period of time. Ask any player and he'll proudly tell you that it is the MMORPG with the highest number of subscriptions. In fact, it is so popular it is one of the few MMORPGs that managed to enter popular culture and be accepted. People who love the game enjoy anything about it. They buy and order custom made outfits to be made for them, they buy real life World of Warcraft inspired items and there was even a World of Warcraft themed wedding. And it's not just WoW, the strategy title such as Warcraft III have also been very popular.
Geeky Stuff Become Mainstream
MMORPG and strategy games are considered to be quite geeky, but fortunately in the past few years, geeky became mainstream and even popular. People are no longer ashamed of their geekiness, in fact, most of them are proud of it. As a result we can see geekiness being represented in films, series and popular TV shows. Fashion shops sell more geeky outfits and more than few geeky casino games have been developed. These games achieved quite a high level of popularity both among people who played them primarily because of the theme as well as those who would try out any casino game. As a result more geeks became interested in casinos and online casino gaming. AustralianCasinoClub.com is great for people who have no previous experience with online casinos, as well as people who have already played casino games online.
Video Game Themed Slots
As it was mentioned above, several casino games that were based on a popular video game have already been released and became quite popular. Some notable examples include Call of Duty 4 and Tomb Raider: Lara Croft. Just like all other themed slots, video game themed slots include short videos, sounds as well as symbols that were featured in the game they're based on. Creating an online slot game that would be authentic and would resemble the original video game isn't easy and it requires a lot of effort from the developers. This is probably one of the reasons why such a highly popular game like World of Warcraft hasn't been turned into a slot game yet.
No Warcraft Slot yet, but Who Knows
A slot game has only a limited number of symbols, it would be quite difficult to choose which Warcraft characters to include in the game. Furthermore, the graphics would have to be impeccable and the game would have to feature at least several bonus levels and modes. Plus, Warcraft fans can be very critical in regards to anything that is based on their favourite games and they will probably object if they think that the game doesn't represent World of Warcraft adequately. All of the above is probably why Warcraft hasn't been turned into a slot machine yet. Bear in mind the word 'yet' here, as nobody knows whether such a slot game will be created in the future or not. After all, there's already a Warcraft film that'll be released this year, why not a slot game?!


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The Fruits of Grace
By Nancy S. Gower, Minke De Vries
Foreword by Thomas F. Best
Before Taize, there was Grandchamp. The lesser-known Protestant women's community, initiated in 1936, grew out of generations of women's groups in French-speaking Switzerland. It was heavily influenced by Wilfred Monod, the Student Christian movement, Swiss Reformed efforts at liturgical renewal, and Bonhoeffer's Life Together. It was deeply affected by the angst generated by World War II and the search by European Christians for new ways to be Christian. This volume by the third prioress of the Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland reflects on the origins of the community, the sources and development of its spirituality, and on its ministries. Foci include the involvement of the community in the ecumenical movement and in mission around the world. There is also important new information about its interaction with Taize, Catholic religious communities, and the women themselves, as individuals and as a community. Sister Minke de Vries also provides an intimate view into the inner workings of a women's community and the structures of the spiritual practices of the Community of Grandchamp. The Fruits of Grace is a powerful analysis of a European Protestant women's monastic community. --Sister Minke's book, the fruit of her long years at Grandchamp, is a moving testimony to the wonderful spirit of forgiveness, reconciliation, and striving for unity that animates this wonderful community of Protestant monastic women. It touched me deeply.-- --Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, Loyola Marymount University --The communities of Taize and Grandchamp have much in common. Born from the same milieu, their leaders drew upon one another as they formed and matured as thoroughly ecumenical communities. This translation of Sr. Minke's account of the growth and development of Grandchamp, offered here by Dr. Nancy Gower, an expert on the formation and growth of Taize, brings new insight into their relationship.-- --Cecil M. Robeck Jr., Fuller Theological Seminary --The account of Sister Minke de Vries provides an important insight into the recovery of monasticism within the churches of the Reformation. Her personal perspective as the third prioress of the Community of Grandchamp gives us an insight into the evolution of the community during a period of intensive renewal and ecumenical encounter. Nancy Gower's well-documented introduction provides a window into the origins of the community in the confluence of movements that also gave rise to the communities of Taize and Pomeyrol. This work is a welcome contribution to the history of monasticism and of ecumenical spirituality.-- --Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University, Ottawa Minke de Vries became the third prioress of the Community of Grandchamp in 1970. Nancy S. Gower is a historian of Protestant religious communities in Europe and an Oblate at Saint Andrew's Abbey, Valyermo, California.
Manufacturer: Pickwick Pubn
Author: Nancy S. Gower
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Q: Get Id of user currently logged into MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online Is there a way to retrieve/identify the user that is currently logged into MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online?
What i'm trying to accomplish here is kind of like the facebook login except with MS Dynamics. I need to somehow detect whether the user has logged into the MS Dynamics website. If the user is logged into the MS Dynamics website, i'll have to grab the UserId and authenticate it with Kentico CMS.
I've tried messing with the WhoAmIRequest, but unfortunately it needs a credential to properly execute.
Any help would be great!

A: You can get the Currently Logged in User Id by
 WhoAmIRequest request = new WhoAmIRequest();
            WhoAmIResponse response = (WhoAmIResponse)Service.Execute(request);
            if (response != null)
                return response.UserId;

You can create a default service like:
ClientCredentials Credentials = new ClientCredentials();
Credentials.Windows.ClientCredential = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
//This URL needs to be updated to match the servername and Organization for the environment.

Uri OrganizationUri = new Uri("http://crm/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc");

Uri HomeRealmUri = null;

//OrganizationServiceProxy serviceProxy;

OrganizationServiceProxy serviceProxy = new OrganizationServiceProxy(OrganizationUri, HomeRealmUri, Credentials, null)

IOrganizationService service = (IOrganizationService)serviceProxy;

A: You can get userid from context. Recheck this article.


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Katie Tsuyuki
Katie Tsuyuki made her Olympic debut at Sochi 2014, where she missed a spot in the final by one place, finishing as the top Canadian female halfpiper in 13th place overall.
Tsuyuki made her World Cup debut in December 2005 in Whistler. She would record her best World Cup result in January 2010, finishing ninth in Stoneham, Quebec. Just a couple of weeks later, she was at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, not as a competitor, but as a forerunner for the halfpipe competition.
Tsuyuki is a three-time medallist at the Canadian championships, including her gold medal run in 2006. Tsuyuki made her debut at the FIS World Championships in 2013 where she finished 15th.
Getting into the Sport: Was a competitive swimmer for eight years… Also has a background in waterskiing/wakeboarding… When she saw halfpipe introduced to the Olympic Games at Nagano 1998 she thought it was something she could do, especially during the long winter months in Canada… Started snowboarding at age 16… Odds and Ends: Nickname: K-Tron… Always travels with her own comforter to ensure a good night's sleep… Collects magnets during her travels… Enjoys cooking and fitness as well as wakesurfing… Affiliated with Make-A-Wish Canada, Ronald McDonald House and the Sony Charitable Foundation… Favourite quote: "I love winning. I can take losing. But most of all I love to play." – Boris Becker…
2014 Sochi Snowboard Halfpipe - Women 13
FIS World Championships: 2015 – 15th (HP); 2013 – 15th (HP)
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Best of 2022: Team Canada snowboarders and freestyle skiers flip and fly to Olympic glory
Crispin Lipscomb
Inspired by coaching Sochi 2014 hopeful Katie Tsuyuki, Crispin Lipscomb came out of retirement to compete at the 2014 Olympic...
Carle Brenneman
Carle Brenneman has been a member of the national snowboard cross team since 2011 and was an alternate for the…


In the dining room, a Lindsey Adelman chandelier suggests a constellation shining above a custom dining table that appears to extend from the sandy shoreline. Holly Hunt chairs in ebonized wood and leather upholstery play off the neutral palette of material contrast.
Perched 23 floors above the picturesque Honolulu shoreline, views of the ocean, mountains, and city architecture arrest the eye from every perspective. "Because of this unique vantage point, we wanted to bring warm textures and materials into the project while incorporating our clients' modern and clean aesthetic," explain Makoto Mizutani and Benjamin Luddy of Scout Regalia, the Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary design practice tasked with outfitting a 4,000-square-foot new construction suite as a comfortable vacation home while maintaining sleek sophistication.
The formal sitting room functions as a transitional space between the living and dining areas, an ideal spot in which to observe a sweeping sunset; Beside the dining area, Phase Design wireframe barstools at the kitchen island offer a graceful transition between the two areas, maintaining a dark frame and incorporating lighter upholstery; Two custom Scout Regalia media cabinets in curly figured maple with sliding panel details are designed to be linked together.
To do this, the designers established a palette of custom furniture pieces, classic vintage finds, and distinctive finishes. "We designed the interiors to create a uniquely familiar space for our clients that could vacillate between formal and casual." As the homeowners' second residence, the family required a floorplan equally suited to entertaining business contacts as well as hosting visiting family members in the three-bedroom penthouse.
Timeless forms, such as a B&B Italia living room sectional, are done in contemporary finishes – like the navy blue leather on blackened legs. "It's a bold take on a standard and it just seems perfect for this space next to the ocean on the warm floor," describes Mizutani. Earthy counterpoints of wicker and natural wovens, like midcentury Franco Albini rattan poufs, are reintroduced intermittently as a reminder of place - yet the aesthetic remains far from a stereotypical tiki island scheme. "The couple didn't necessarily want that, and the site didn't necessarily speak to that even though you have a view of the beach," Mizutani shares.
In the main living room (above), a classic B&B Italia sectional fitting of the expansive penthouse view is given a contemporary update in navy leather. "It's a bold take on a standard, and it just seems perfect for this space next to the ocean on the warm floor," explains Mizutani. The master bedroom has a palette of dark woods to reference the floor for a calm and conservative mood.
An area rug from Woven Accents, like many accents in the space, gives off a neutral impression from a distance, but there are unique details to be discovered upon closer inspection. The carpet is composed of vibrant recycled silk saris woven into the texture, incorporating the rich blue tone of the sectional. A custom low coffee table made of Scout Regalia's signature curly figured maple is set in a powder-coated aluminum perimeter. And in the dining area, Scout Regalia designed the faceted-edge dining table of the same curly figured maple used elsewhere. "It's a geometric play on a live edge table," says Luddy.
With an original composition of custom works, exclusive objects, and time-honored furniture, Scout Regalia created "an exemplary project combining the pieces we've designed and sourced," says Mizutani, "And having those two aesthetics meet together." All overlooking the stunning natural setting, its vital influence is strongly supported.


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MEA dismisses reports claiming arrest of Indian 'spy' in Pakistan
According to Pakistani local media, Raju Lakshman "admitted" himself to be a spy after he was arrested on Wednesday from Rakhi Gaj area of Dera Ghazi Khan district, PTI reported. He was later taken to an undisclosed location for investigation.
By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |Updated: August 1, 2019 7:27:48 pm
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar. (File)
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said it did not receive any information from Islamabad on "unverified reports" claiming the arrest of an alleged Indian spy in Pakistan's Punjab province.
News agency PTI, citing Pakistani local media, reported that Raju Lakshman "admitted" he is a spy after his arrest on Wednesday from Rakhi Gaj area of Dera Ghazi Khan district. He was later taken to an undisclosed location for investigation, PTI said.
Addressing the media during his weekly briefing, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, "We do not react to unverified media reports. We have not heard from the Pakistani side on this. "
Quoting police, the Pakistani media reported that Lakshman was arrested while entering the town from Balochistan province, the same province from where Pakistan claimed it arrested former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Jadhav was sentenced to death on espionage charges by a Pakistani military court in 2017. However, the International Court of Justice last month ordered Pakistan to undertake an "effective review and reconsideration" of the conviction and sentence of Jadhav and also to grant consular access to India without further delay.
Pakistan claimed that its security forces arrested Jadhav from restive Balochistan province on March 3, 2016, after he reportedly entered from Iran. However, India maintained that Jadhav was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.
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This smart fabric steering wheel could stop drink driving
"Excuse me sir, I think you've had one too many," said the steering wheel to the driver
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Christmas is just around the corner – and that inevitably means the festive television schedule will occasionally be peppered with a hard-hitting anti-drink driving campaign that makes you almost choke on your mince pie.
But this drink driving stuff is serious business, with one in every seven road traffic deaths attributed to intoxicated motorists; so it comes as no surprise that the recent winner of the Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award 2014 for innovation went to a gizmo that could detect if a driver has been hitting the bottle.
Coventry University graduate Nicole Agba, 23, was handed the coveted prize for her 'Steer Right' system, which weaves a Smart Fabrics Interactive Textile into the steering wheel.
Built-in sensors can monitor the driver's heart and respiration rates and detect psychological signals that could indicate fatigue, anger or nervousness. The judging panel recognised that if put into production, the steering wheel could even detect alcohol in the driver's system, immobilising the vehicle if they are over the limit.
The innovative fabric could also work in conjunction with autonomous driving elements, allowing the car to take over the hard work if it detects a drowsy driver.
Runner-up entries included an app that alerts drivers to the presence of cyclists in the blind spot and a gaming console-inspired control system that could one day replace the steering wheel altogether.
Winner Nicole bagged herself £7,500 in prize money and will spend five months on a work experience tour around the research and development departments of Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren Automotive, Peugeot, Skoda and Toyota.
That's a pretty extensive list of deep-pocketed manufacturers that she can pitch her innovative steering wheel to.
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Lot 237 : Princess Diana's Victor Edelstein midnight-blue velvet evening gown.
Princess Diana's Victor Edelstein midnight-blue velvet evening gown. worn to the State dinner at the White House given by President and Mrs Reagan, when the Princess memorably danced with John Travolta, 9th November, 1985, labelled 'Victor Edelstein, London', the lightly-boned bodice with off-the-shoulder straps, the diagonally-swathed velvet skirt hugs the figure tightly to the knee with bow to one side, then flares out into a broad flounce above layered tulle petticoats, bust approx 92cm, 36in, waist 71cm, 28in This is one of the most iconic and important of all of Princess Diana's dresses. Victor Edelstein made dresses for Princess Diana over an eleven-year period. She would often pop into his shop at 3-4 Stanhope Mews and look through the collections whilst her security guard waited outside. The Princess saw this model in his studio in burgundy and requested it be made for her in midnight blue. The fittings for the gown took place in her private apartments at Kensington Palace. At the last fitting, Princess Diana was so delighted with the final result that she rushed to show it to Prince Charles. Mr Edelstein recalls that the Prince, who appeared in full regimental dress (as he had an official engagement that day), told the Princess that she looked wonderful in the gown and that it would be perfect to wear with jewels. In 1985 the Royal couple made their first joint state visit to the United States. It lasted for four days and wherever they went they were greeted by thousands of cheering people. On the first evening of their arrival, with the Princess still suffering from jet-lag, they attended the grand gala dinner at the White House. Diana was the image of sophisticated elegance in her Edelstein gown worn with long satin gloves and a sapphire and pearl choker that she had converted from a brooch that the Queen Mother had presented to her. At the dinner, Prince Charles and Princess Diana met the leading politicians and business leaders of the day, mixed with a sprinkling of Hollywood movie stars and entertainers, including Clint Eastwood and Neil Diamond. However, the most memorable image of the trip was not to be of the married couple but of the Princess and John Travolta, twirling and gliding across the White House dance floor to the strains of 'You Should Be Dancing' from his movie 'Saturday Night Fever'. Unusually, Mr Travolta had not been invited with a companion but he soon understood the reason why. Afterwards, in an interview with chat show host Andrew Denton, he described how Nancy Reagan quietly took him aside and whispered that Princess Diana had only one wish on this American trip - and that it was to dance with him! At midnight, with a little prompting from the First Lady and with his heart pounding, he crossed the floor. He recalled: 'She turned around and she did that look that she did so, so beautifully and I asked if she would care to dance and she said she'd love to and we danced for twenty minutes to a medley of Grease and Saturday Night Fever...I was on cloud nine. She has great rhythm. We did spins and turns. We did a kind of modern fox-trot and she followed me very well. ''Maybe some day we'll get to do this in a less-watched situation'', I said near the end. ''That would be great'', she replied.' Then, as everybody applauded, he thanked her. He described the experience as being 'like a fairy tale'. This highly important gown is one of the most repeatedly worn dresses in her collection. She wore it on at least five more major occasions: in Vienna on the state visit to Austria, 14th-17th April 1986; to accompany Prince Charles to the annual banquet of the Asian Affairs Society, at the Savoy hotel, 5th February 1986; in Bonn on a state visit to Germany, 2nd November 1987; to the Royal Opera House in 1991, when she met Vivienne Westwood; for an official portrait by artist Israel Zohar in 1990. This dress must have been of special significance to the Princess because in 1997 she chose to wear it for her official portrait by Lord Snowdon - with the same necklace she had worn twelve years earlier, when she had so memorably danced at the White House. In this poignant last photograph, the thirty-five-year-old Princess appears self-assured, confident and, of course, dazzlingly beautiful. Provenance: Dresses from the Collection of Diana Princess of Wales auction, Christie's, 25th June 1997, lot 79. Exhibited: Kensington Palace, 'Diana: Her Fashion Story', 24th February 2017 to 17th February 2019.
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About KAR
Life at KAR
20 Years in the OPENLANE
By Peter Kelly, President, KAR Global & Co-Founder, OPENLANE
When my colleagues and I founded OPENLANE in 1999, we hoped it would be a game-changer for the auto remarketing industry. But we never could have imagined just how remarkable and impactful the company would become.
This month, OPENLANE is celebrating its 20-year anniversary, and like the doting co-founder I am, I'd like to take a moment to reflect and, ok – yes, boast on the many accomplishments and highlights from our two decades of growth and innovation.
In 1999, as a student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, my fellow co-founders and I created a plan to improve the wholesale automotive auction experience through digital technology. The more we learned about the industry the more we felt the need for this solution was so strong that we decided to develop our plan into reality and founded what's known today as OPENLANE (formerly known as Autodaq).
While our company was growing and establishing roots in the auto remarketing industry, two other start-ups emerged: AutoTradeCenter (founded in 1999 in Phoenix, AZ) and Onlane (founded in 2000 in Toronto, CA). Our paths crossed throughout the years and eventually the three companies combined, forming the OPENLANE brand in 2008.
The start-up world is one of ups and downs, and we had our fair share of both in those early years. However, we had more good days than bad and over the years OPENLANE was able to grow its customers in the auto remarketing industry by providing state-of-the-art solutions for buyers and sellers of wholesale vehicles. So much so that it caught the attention of many leaders within the industry, including KAR Auction Services (KAR).
In 2011, KAR acquired OPENLANE which ushered in a new period of growth. As a full-fledged KAR business unit, OPENLANE has gone on to set many records for growth, revenue, and volume – selling more than one million vehicles in 2018 and becoming the world's leading online auction platform.
By leveraging the most advanced data and analytics within KAR, OPENLANE has set a new standard for the industry. Our platform offers a fully responsive digital interface that is intuitive and seamless, helping customers make faster, better-informed decisions. As an innovative and nimble organization, I'm confident enhancements to our technology and capabilities will continue at a rapid pace.
During these two decades, we've been privileged to work with the best customers in the industry. Many of these customers – OEMs, financial institutions and fleets, have launched their first online programs with OPENLANE and continue to be our partners today. I'm proud of each partnership we've built, whether long-time customers or newly acquainted ones, they motivate OPENLANE to push the envelope and become better at what we do, and I look forward to continuing our growth together.
OPENLANE's intelligent innovations, trusted technology, and world-class service is made possible only by our phenomenal team members – past and present. This is what I take the most pride in, the team that has rallied around an idea, helped bring it to reality and continues to move it forward every day. Our teams based in Arizona, Indiana and Toronto are the most imaginative, determined and talented in the industry, and their passion and persistence inspire me every single day.
The OPENLANE story is just getting started, and I can't wait to be a part of the exciting opportunities that will drive us into the next twenty years.
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ALL ABOUT THE IHSA
IHSA MISSION
The mission of the IHSA is to provide equestrian competition for all college and university students regardless of riding level, gender, race, sexual orientation or financial status. The IHSA is dedicated to promoting sportsmanship, horsemanship and academic excellence.
IHSA stands with its education partner US Equestrian and practices the same tenets of their statement linked here.
ABOUT IHSA COMPETITION
IHSA welcomes beginners through advanced riders in the hunter and Western disciplines to compete individually or on a team. Men and women compete with and against each other.
IHSA eliminates the expenses of horse ownership. Horses are furnished by host colleges and are chosen by drawing lots. The use of personal tack is not allowed and schooling is not permitted. The format fairly tests the horsemanship of the athletes. Divisions range from Beginner to the Open Division for the more experienced riders.
Full-time undergraduate students of member colleges or alumni who competed in the IHSA as undergraduates are eligible to compete. Riders qualify for the National Championship Horse Show (Nationals) through a point system. During the year, contestants accumulate points at their IHSA local shows to qualify for the Regional Finals in their respective divisions. The top two riders in each class of the Regional Finals move forward to the Zone Finals. The top two competitors in each class at Zones qualify for Nationals.
Each region's high-point team competes head to head with the other high point teams in its Zone for the right to represent the Zone for National champion team honors of winning the Collegiate Cup in the hunter seat division and the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Trophy in the Western division.
Regional high point riders are eligible for the National Individual Championship. The US Equestrian/Cacchione Cup is awarded to the National Individual hunter seat high-point rider. The AQHA Cup winner receives a saddle and a scholarship. The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) awards a Morrison Bronze trophy to the Individual Open Reining Horsemanship class winner. Many IHSA competitors have gone on to play significant roles in the equestrian industry and in business.
IHSA HISTORY
The Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association was established in 1967 by Robert Cacchione while an 18-year-old sophomore attending Farleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. Cacchione developed the prototype competition program with the help of his professor and renowned horseman Jack Fritz.
Launched with just two colleges competing in hunter seat equitation, the IHSA was praised for its innovative competition format and quickly caught on. In 1979 the Western divisions premiered at the IHSA National Championship Horse Show (Nationals). In 1999 IHSA Inc. was established as a nonprofit organization.
The early shows were judged by great horsemen, like Frank Chapot and Michael Page. Originally, Nationals were held at various college facilities.
IHSA now encompasses 40 Regions in 8 Zones with over 400 member colleges in 45 states and Canada and represents 10,000 members in hunter seat equitation, Western horsemanship, and reining. To support the size of the organization, IHSA now requires major venues like Harrisburg, the Kentucky Horse Park and Los Angeles Equestrian Center for its National Championships.
Murray State won the Western Nationals in 1988.
Some of the most notable riders in show jumping and the Western disciplines competed in the IHSA during their college years. Four-time Olympian and two-time Olympic gold medalist Beezie Madden competed for Southern Seminary and won the Cacchione Cup in 1984. Olympic gold medalist Peter Wylde won the Cacchione Cup in 1986 while he attended Tufts University.
Olympic gold medalist Beezie Madden competed for Southern Seminary and won the Cacchione Cup in 1984
IHSA FOUNDER BOB CACCHIONE
Were it not for the tenacity and passion of Bob Cacchione, the IHSA would not exist. Little did he know he would have such a profound impact on the college experience of hundreds of thousands of college students across North America.Cacchione founded the IHSA to continue riding and competing while attending Fairleigh Dickinson College in Teaneck, New Jersey. He traded the use of horses at a local stable in exchange for giving riding lessons. In 1967, he put a small ad in The Chronicle of the Horse about his concept of collegiate horse shows. Six colleges immediately contacted him and the IHSA was born.
The organization now has over 400 participating colleges and universities and 10,000 members. IHSA is comprised of 39 regions in 8 eight zones in 47 states and Canada. Because the IHSA offers all levels of competition, from beginner through advanced, and offers college students a way to learn how to ride, it significantly impacts equestrian sports' grassroots development.
Cacchione worked for Cartier from 1973-1988 and used his network of contacts to help build the IHSA. With Cartier, he hosted lavish parties and rubbed elbows with celebrities. He worked as a ringmaster for top equestrian competitions and cultivated relationships with horsemen like Frank Chapot, Ronnie Mutch and Victor Hugo Vidal. He introduced them to the IHSA and asked them to judge IHSA shows.
As executive director for 52 years, Cacchione proudly led the IHSA, shaking the hands of every competitor at the IHSA National Championship Horse Show and working tirelessly alongside board members who have become lifelong friends. With his devotion to the IHSA and the number of lives it has impacted, Cacchione is regularly recognized and acknowledged during his travels by people from all walks of life who once participated in the IHSA. He stepped down from the executive director role in 2019 and now serves as founder emeritus.
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York
The Cacchione Cup was named in honor of his parents, Marty and Anne, and awarded each year at Nationals to the high point hunt seat rider. Cacchione has been recognized for his commitment to college riding with the USHJA Presidents Distinguished Service Award, US Equestrian/EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award, a Doctor of Humane Letters from Centenary College and the American Horse Publications Equine Industry Vision Award. In 2019, USHJA presented him with the William J. Moroney Visionary award, named after the former USHJA president and current chief executive officer of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF). He also serves as the chairman of the Gentlemen's Committee of the National Horse Show held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington
Bob Cacchione and David O'Connor