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Nose around Etsy, the hand-made/ vintage marketplace, also has a top blog, etsy.com/blog/en. Love its weekly get the Look slot (sellers show off their creative pads and, at a click, let you buy their style). new York Magazine’s Design Hunter (nymag.com/homedesign), almost a blog, is also ace for nosing. Rubbish collection Part personal scrapbook (covering [...]

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These 62 photographs have one thing in common: none of them uses more than two base colors. these two colors in tiny dots produce halftones from which all the gorgeous shadows and highlights derive. They’re simple yet striking. This is my entry for the duotone challenge. Living on the water provides lots of photo options [...]

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TARBORO – the Tarborough Junior Cotillion takes the timeless tradition of etiquette and modernizes its lessons for children in the Twin Counties. “Courtesy, respect and manners are three principles of character that cease to age. for the art of etiquette is a timeless tradition,” said Laura Ashley Lamm, executive director of the Tarborough Junior Cotillion, [...]

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By PETER BAUMANN / • Thursday, October 27, 2011 The Laramie City Council and Albany County Commissioners jointly directed city and county staff to investigate implementation of a battery of aquifer protection measures along Telephone Canyon during a joint work session Tuesday night.to mitigate the potential for a contamination disaster due to a traffic accident [...]

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A page from the graphic novel Watchmen. the hand-drawn letters were the basis for the Comic Sans font. Simon Garfield explores the peculiar history of typefaces in his new book, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, published by Gotham Books. in this first of five exclusives excerpts, Garfield looks at child-like lettering that led [...]

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© Dom Romney the smoke, flames and roar of drag racing make for a “full sensory onslaught,” says Romney. Dom Romney quit a short career as a newspaper photographer two years ago to follow his passion for motor sports photography, which covers “anything with an engine—bikes, boats, planes—but mostly cars,” he says. He won the [...]

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 14, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) announces today that the best professional photographers in the business will be featured speakers during its annual convention and trade show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, February 2012. on hand to teach WPPI attendees the tips and tricks [...]

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CBS Evening News anchor reports from Spartanburg Published: Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:31 p.m. Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” made his way across the Wofford College campus to a tent bright with lights. Steps led up to the tent, [...]

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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Johanna Farrell is a Fairfield resident. she submitted this letter in support of the Democratic candidates for the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) in District 9. What makes a good RTM candidate? First, commitment, as the job is certainly time consuming. Fairfield RTM members love our town, and they bring their passion, knowledge [...]

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Digital devices keep getting smaller. yet gadget reviews keep getting longer. I’ve fixed that. I’m publishing the last one or two paragraphs of Monday’s Kindle Fire reviews, below. David Pogue, The new York Times: The Fire deserves to be a disruptive, gigantic force — it’s a cross between a Kindle and an iPad, a more [...]

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