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Shannon Vandiver, of Ted’s Pet & Feed in Schererville, said the store has had quite a few customers looking for a harness for cats.

“In the years ahead, fabrics will deliver value-added services and will no longer just be selected for aesthetics and comfort,” said Yoel Fink, Rein’s research adviser and CEO of Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, a not-for-profit affiliated with MIT.

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Compartments: The inside zipper pouch divides the wide compartment into two parts. The zipped and opened wall pockets are sufficient in size to keep your stuff.

“Most of all, they’re easier on the dog, as they don’t dig into the arms or stomach,” she said.

Perhaps at this point, they can afford an iPhone case or a backpack. It’s all about awareness for us, especially in the U.S., and trying to better tell our story. This is the one major thing we have to focus on: to market to new generations, and always staying innovative in everything we do. I remember a while ago when people started advertising on Snapchat. I wasn’t at Rimowa then, but if I had been, we would have been the first to develop a special filter. I’m always trying to be the first one in a lot of different things. You know we’re the first LVMH brand that doesn’t do print [advertising] anymore? That hasn’t hurt as at all, so far.

There’s an old saying that every creature has its rightful place, and in that place, it becomes beautiful. The Psalmist put it another way: “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:14. Either way, it’s an affirmation of our unique gifts and our innate worth in this life.

And then with respect to cost of shipping. Cost of shipping is an important element of the efforts here around operational excellence. We need to mitigate the rising cost of shipping by increasing store pickup penetration. We’re doing that with BOPUS and our recent BOSS launch. We need to minimize split shipments and manage our cost per package, which is part of the operational excellence work that is under — that we’re undertaking. We need to help with speed to customer and driving the overall costs down.

"Huge market. A+ team and founders. Tremendous interest from customers," says Munichiello. "AI and learning approaches are powering tremendous enterprise gains and will require new platforms to keep up."

Points and perks are great, but you need cards that work in real life. Three, each with no foreign transaction fees, are worth consideration: the Reserve (mine came with a $27,000 limit); Capital One Quicksilver (a good backup with modest cash back and no annual fee); and something from this list with chip + PIN capabilities since you can’t use automated kiosks in Europe without one. Also consider a Charles Schwab Investor Checking Account — they reimburse your A.T.M. fees. For more, the team at Wirecutter, a New York Times Company, has an in-depth guide to travel rewards cards and their perks.

The rest of Texas would derisively refer to the People’s Republic of Austin, a label that locals wore as proudly as the Keep Austin Weird bumper sticker they later embraced. Those same detractors streamed into Austin to party whenever the occasion called for it, because even rednecks, peckerwoods, bulletheads, and reactionaries recognized that Austin people knew how to have a good time.

Accompanying Austin’s ascendance was a significant spike in population, traffic, rents, and housing prices — the usual stuff that comes with economic growth. More and more newcomers didn’t care where they happened to be. Austin’s unique qualities, amenities, and attractions had nothing to do with them being where they were. They just wanted work. The city that had the lowest cost of living of the one hundred largest cities in the United States in 1970 happened to be the hottest jobs market in the United States during the aughts and teens.