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Nancy Korpanys road to success began with a move into a timeworn home in Belgravia and a photograph.

I just moved into an old 1950s house that had a very ugly, muted beige bedroom and I thought that would be perfect, the Sherwood Park native explained.

Kicking off earlier this year, Southgate Centre in conjunction with Crate and Barrel launched a home dcor challenge in which more than 45 contestants were asked to submit before and after photographs of a room redesign on the popular social media photo-sharing app Instagram.

We had a wide range of competitors involved in terms of experience, said Claire Kolmatycki, marketing director for Southgate Centre. We had some students from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) involved, along with some more seasoned professionals in the home dcor field.

From the 45 hopefuls, the field was narrowed down to eight semi-finalists who incorporated personal touches, including unique colourways and textiles, to showcase the largest transformation.

Those before and after photos were then posted on the Southgate Centre website, accumulating a total of 2,000 votes in five days to determine a final four.

With Korpany advancing through to the final round, she now had an opportunity to claim $3,000 in gift cards, the chance to design a showroom at Creekwood Showhomes, an advertising feature in Avenue Magazine, a feature in Creeklife Magazine and booth space at the 2015 Edmonton Home and Garden Show.

The finalists were given one of four spring trends including Global Village that incorporated cultural pieces; Wild Orchid, to play off of the Pantone colour of the year; Room to Bloom, a floral trend; and Garden of Light, integrating outdoor spaces to decorate their vignettes with furniture and accessories from Crate and Barrel.

The theme I ended up getting was Global Village, and that was the one that stuck out to me when we were narrowed down to eight and I said if I make it to four, that would be awesome to get that just because I love travelling it would have been something that would come naturally to me, Korpany explained.

However, after shopping for a couple of hours at Crate and Barrel, Korpany, an interior designer at Brinsmead Kennedy Architecture, realized the task was one more difficult than she initially thought.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014, by Spencer Peterson

Photo by William Waldron/NY Mag

The latest New York Magazine Space of the Week pulls back the brush-trim silk curtain on interior designer Wesley Moon's renovation of his 650-square-foot NYC apartment, what he calls a "fantasy of uptown elegance." Moon and his partner, Sal, settled on it after over a year of searching, where "everything we saw in our range was beyond help." Unwilling to settle for the "not bad" and "totally livable" state the apartment was in before, Moon broadsided the small abode with a complete revisionrepurposing rooms entirely, knocking down a few wallsand the result is pretty sublime. In the living room (pictured above) the luxury quotient was given a significant boost by a pair of floor to ceiling curtains, a French Deco area rug from Rug & Kilim, and coffee table found, as with many of Moon's pieces, at the Paris Flea Market in Saint-Ouen. Care to take a tour of the rest?

Before photo by Wesley Moon; After photo by William Waldron/NY Mag Moon gave the ho-hum kitchen what for with a whole lot of marble; marble countertops, a marble backdrop behind the stove, and a floor of 300-year-old reclaimed marble tiles from Paris Ceramics. The new cabinetry he designed himself.

Before photo by Wesley Moon; After photo by William Waldron/NY Mag Reversing the floor plan, Moon turned the original bedroom into a dining area. After remodeling, he brought in 1950s wall sconces of perforated metal from the Paris Flea Market, brush-trim silk drapes from Houls, vintage Italian chairs reupholstered in alligator-embossed patent leather, and a turn-of-the-century claw-foot table from eBay.

Space of the Week: Small Wonder [NY Mag] All Designer Digs posts [Curbed National] All Printed Page posts [Curbed National]

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Interior designer Kathleen Buoymaster founded her La Jolla firm in 1985 and served as its president until 2013. She is now a design associate at Seaside Home on Wall Street. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Interior Designers Guild of Los Angeles.

Kathleen Buoymaster

What brought you to La Jolla? An absolutely wonderful event marriage to my husband 33 years ago. At that time, as CEO of his company, he had homes in New York and La Jolla, which made us bi-coastal. Lovely arrangement!

If you could snap your fingers and have it done, what might you add, subtract or improve in the area? We are so privileged to live in such a beautiful area that it is difficult to want to change anything about La Jolla, but I would love to snap my fingers and bring back The Whaling Bar, so that my husband and I could resume our Friday date night at that special place.

Who or what inspires you? Beauty of all kinds inspires me be it in nature, the arts, or of the heart. What could be more inspiring than a La Jolla sunset, a Renoir painting, or a kind and caring heart seeking to help another human being.

If you hosted a dinner party for eight, whom (living or deceased) would you invite? This is a tough question, as there are many more than eight people I would like to invite to a dinner party. Since the guest list is conservative, I will include others than my family: Elsie de Wolfe, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Lydia Redman (my dear friend, who passed away at age 104 and was Princess San Faustino Santa Maria de Bourbon), Jim Thompson and Nancy Lancaster.

What are you currently reading? English Country House Interiors by Jeremy Musson.

What is it that you most dislike? Easy Answer: Dishonesty.

What is your most-prized possession? Since I cant possess my family, whom I most prize, I must select a different answer for a prized possession. It is without exception, my little creature Sir Barnaby of Midsomer a beautiful Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

What do you do for fun? Interior Design! I love what I do and it is the most fun and, of course, traveling to exotic places to learn about and enjoy other cultures and their creative endeavors.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This spring will look less leafy at 39th and Genessee streets.

Blame the need for Internet speed.

A crew, hired by Google Inc. to make way for the companys overhead fiber optic lines, transformed the neighborhood ginkgo trees into tall stumps one morning last summer.

They butchered em, just butchered em, said Ted Larkin, the owner of three buildings in the neighborhood.

Complaints would ultimately prompt the removal of what was left of the trees, replaced with saplings needing decades to produce the same shade. Those in the neighborhood notice the difference.

Technology, said Jim Svetlecic of State of the Art picture frame shop, is not painless.

Once Google Fiber fully wires Kansas City with its light-speed-to-the-home Internet network, no other American market its size will boast such broad, broad broadband.

To get there, the Google Fiber technicolor bunny is tree-trimming, jackhammering and trenching its way across the area to hoist, bury and stretch a network of fiber optic lines that zig-zags - so far - for nearly 6,000 miles.

On a given day, city officials say, about 1,000 workers for private companies scatter across the market to climb utility poles, string cables through buried conduit or lace lines into crawl spaces to stitch together Googles network.

Sometimes their work leaves beloved trees denuded. Other times, crews clip electrical, telephone, cable or natural gas lines. On occasion, people nearby have had to clear out of homes or offices when gas leaks were triggered.

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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

Friday's home opener for the Chicago Cubs will bring fandemonium to Wrigleyville. And as the Cubs fans roll in, security will be waiting.

"Everyone's excited," The Irish Oak's Assistant General Manager says of Opening Day. "We've been cooped up all winter. We're getting everything set up right now as you can see, got our Cubs banners out."

Wrigleyville businesses are ready for the crowds.

The Irish Oak, just down the block from Wrigley Field, will open its doors at 9 a.m. Other places will open as early as 7.

Residents are prepared for the drunken debauchery that could take over the streets.

"I'm ready for it, but you kind of put your head down and hope you don't get any puke on your front door," Wrigleyville Resident Kevin Dietz says.

Alderman Tom Tunney's office says thanks to the new Neighborhood Protection Ordinance, residents will see 10 additional Chicago police officers and 10 more Cubs personnel outside after every home game.

"The cops and the Cubs personnel actually do a pretty good job I think of trying to keep things as calm as they can be," Dietz says.

"That's not going to do anything," resident Eric Unger counters. "People pee in the streets all the time it doesn't matter if there's cops that are there."

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Home routers and other consumer embedded devices are plagued by basic vulnerabilities and cant be easily secured by non-technical users, which means theyll likely continue to be targeted in what has already become an increasing trend of mass attacks.

Computer OSes have advanced considerably from a security standpoint over the last decade, with their creators strengthening code and adding a variety of protections. However, routers, modems, wireless access points and other plug-and-forget devices have lagged behind as their makers lacked strong incentives to secure them. As a result, those devices can now pose a significant threat to the online security of users, contrary to the long-held belief that connecting a computer through a home router is better than exposing it directly to the Internet.

Routers and other embedded devices have simply not been on attackers radar until now, at least not on a significantly large scale, but thats starting to change and if the attacks observed this year are any indication, it might be happening at a faster pace than manufacturers can react.

Because routers can affect all other local devices that access the Internet through them, they are a rich target, said Trey Ford, global security strategist at security firm Rapid7, via email. Users expect a website to be authentic, and a compromised router (DSL router, gateway, wireless access point, cable modemtake your pick) allows a malicious party to undermine that trust. The trend of connecting more devices to the Internet only means there is more for attackers to play with.

For instance, in early February incident responders from the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team warned that thousands of home routers in the country had their DNS settings hijacked by attackers in an attempt to intercept online banking connections. Later that month security researchers from the SANS Institutes Internet Storm Center (ISC) discovered a worm that was infecting Linksys E-Series routers and then in March Internet security research organization Team Cymru reported that a global attack campaign compromised 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers.

Other significant incidents this year include thousands of Asus routers exposing to the Internet the content of hard drives attached to them, Hikvision DVRs being infected with Bitcoin mining malware due to a default root password and exposed telnet service, and millions of home routers being exposed to DNS-based DDoS amplification abuse.

This year antivirus companies have also found malware binaries compiled for architectures commonly used on embedded devices like ARM, PPC, MIPS and MIPSEL or botnets that attempt to access routers using easy-to-guess credentials.

Carsten Eiram, the chief research officer at vulnerability intelligence firm Risk Based Security, believes that attackers have begun shifting focus from exploiting vulnerabilities in popular client applications to targeting routers because many software developers have stepped up their game by improving their code and adding security mechanisms to their programs.

Embedded devices like home routers are an obvious choice [as new targets for attackers], Eiram said via email. Theyre used by everyone, the code maturity from a security perspective is usually terrible, and they have no real security mechanisms in place, making exploitation easier.

Device manufacturers are far behind when it comes to secure programming, he said. The vulnerabilities being found are often very basic issues straight out of the 1990s like buffer overflows and OS command injection. Weve even seen reports of blatantly obvious back-door like features.

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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

Friday's home opener for the Chicago Cubs will bring fandemonium to Wrigleyville. And as the Cubs fans roll in, security will be waiting.

"Everyone's excited," The Irish Oak's Assistant General Manager says of Opening Day. "We've been cooped up all winter. We're getting everything set up right now as you can see, got our Cubs banners out."

Wrigleyville businesses are ready for the crowds.

The Irish Oak, just down the block from Wrigley Field, will open its doors at 9 a.m. Other places will open as early as 7.

Residents are prepared for the drunken debauchery that could take over the streets.

"I'm ready for it, but you kind of put your head down and hope you don't get any puke on your front door," Wrigleyville Resident Kevin Dietz says.

Alderman Tom Tunney's office says thanks to the new Neighborhood Protection Ordinance, residents will see 10 additional Chicago police officers and 10 more Cubs personnel outside after every home game.

"The cops and the Cubs personnel actually do a pretty good job I think of trying to keep things as calm as they can be," Dietz says.

"That's not going to do anything," resident Eric Unger counters. "People pee in the streets all the time it doesn't matter if there's cops that are there."

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