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The International Interior Design Association New York chapter (IIDA NY) has appointed Rebecca Dorris Steiger, IIDA, LEED AP, as its president. Steiger, a senior interior designer and associate at Gensler, has been an IIDA member for more than 14 years. She succeeds Steven South, IIDA, LEED AP, a senior interior designer and associate with Perkins+Will.

While living in San Francisco, Steiger served as vice president of membership and vice president of communications for the Northern California chapter. The native New Yorker returned home in 2005, joining the IIDA New York chapter and acting as its vice president of communications since 2006.

We look for someone who is a strong leader, someone who can represent the organization well, and who is able to move the organization forward, South said in a statement. With years of experience on the board, she comes to this role with a great depth of experience and knowledge of IIDA. Rebecca will be a great spokesperson for the chapter.

The newly inaugurated president is asked to create a theme each year. Steiger has selected a focus of Membership at All Levels, seeking to develop a program for designers with eight to 15 years of experience to help them continue to grow as professionals, and as leaders within their own firms and community, she said in a statement. A holistic focus on professional development will help strengthen the value that our chapter brings to the New York design community, not only in New York City, but also in our Buffalo and Rochester city centers and our new RIT Campus Center.

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Last spring, Toronto-based architect and interior designer Dee Dee Taylor Eustace had an epiphany: At age 50, it was time for a life change.

And that meant moving to New York City.

Eustace a Canadian TV regular who has hosted a pair of HGTV shows and also appeared as a guest on Oprah began the hunt for the perfect Manhattan live-work space last summer.

After looking at 10 apartments in one day with Sothebys agent Brigitte Goldenberg, Eustace found her Manhattan dream rental: A two-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,000-square-foot duplex set in a charming, 1894 brownstone on tree-lined East 80th Street.

The sun-filled home once gallerist Dominique Levys live-work space immediately caught Eustaces eye, thanks to its sprawling south-facing living room with bay windows.

I walked in here, she says of the apartment, which occupies the entire third floor and half of the fourth floor, and I saw the 11- foot ceilings, three fireplaces, the bedroom upstairs and the courtyard in the back. I saw it for five minutes, and I said, OK! Ill take it! Architecturally, it was one the most interesting homes I saw.

New to the Manhattan real estate scene, Eustace admits, I had no idea how real estate works here. I paid a year of rent in advance!

At approximately $15,000 a month, that was a sizeable check to cut. But it was worth it, and in August 2013, she moved in.

The building also met one of the doting mothers most important criteria: Proximity to the Hewitt School on East 75th Street, where she enrolled her daughter, Rachael, then 13, in the ninth grade (her son Jake remains in Canada for university).

The one thing I said, was that I want to walk my daughter to school every day, says Eustace.

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Making a sale means pulling out all the stops, and putting together a marketing plan that could include boat rides, private planes or, for one realtor, a strategically placed lingerie model.

Jack Cotton, a realtor in Cape Cod, Mass., will take potential buyers out on his powerboat. He works with properties on the high end, which he defines as the top 10% of the market.

"That's kind of our secret weapon," he said of his boat. His clients enjoy cruises of the nearby inland waterways to "experience the lifestyle of being here."

He mentioned his counterparts in Colorado will take their clients out skiing, and Manhattan realtors take potential buyers out in limos.

Ken DeLeon, a realtor in Atherton, Calif., the highest-earning zip code in California, recently took delivery of his own private plane. He uses it to give buyers -- particularly overseas investors -- aerial views of what could essentially be their next backyard.

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Realtors are now using drones, and drone technology, as a way to stay on top.

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Making a sale means pulling out all the stops, and putting together a marketing plan that could include boat rides, private planes or, for one realtor, a strategically placed lingerie model.

Jack Cotton, a realtor in Cape Cod, Mass., will take potential buyers out on his powerboat. He works with properties on the high end, which he defines as the top 10% of the market.

"That's kind of our secret weapon," he said of his boat. His clients enjoy cruises of the nearby inland waterways to "experience the lifestyle of being here."

He mentioned his counterparts in Colorado will take their clients out skiing, and Manhattan realtors take potential buyers out in limos.

Ken DeLeon, a realtor in Atherton, Calif., the highest-earning zip code in California, recently took delivery of his own private plane. He uses it to give buyers -- particularly overseas investors -- aerial views of what could essentially be their next backyard.

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(Home Minister Rajnath Singh)

NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry is keen that it should be the nodal agency to look after the crucial issue of security of airports in the country instead of the Civil Aviation Ministry.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh was today given a presentation on the matter and he is believed to have asked officials to coordinate with the Civil Aviation Ministry to take the idea forward, official sources said.

It was felt that Home Ministry should be the nodal agency to take charge of the security of airports as the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was under its administrative control, the sources added.

The security of airports is at present being managed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

The BCAS chief is an IPS officer and, hence, the home ministry, which deals with internal security of the country, would be ideal for coordinating the security of airports, it has been reasoned.

In 2012, the Ministry of Civil Aviation had pushed for a proposal to create an exclusive Aviation Security Force (ASF) for airports in the country, although the idea was objected to by CISF.

Sources said that after assessing the security situation, MHA was of the view that a change of guard at airports could pose a security hazard.

The paramilitary force, too, had written to MHA stating that there was no need to hand over airport security to a special force.

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