To echo Emily from the blog Scoop and Etsy Shop OrangeBeautiful “They’re Back!” Check out the lovely 2nd edition of her Motivate Screen Prints here.

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When in Rome, don’t do as they do…at least not without a lot of practice…
Thanks, Lynda, for sending!!

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…at least according to a new ranking and survey created by Men’s Health Magazine.
There were a number of rankings listed, including number of registered voters, percentage of active voters, resident political contributions, campaign spending, etc. The summation of all of that led to the overall “Most Political” ranking that Raleigh won.
Apparently, North Carolina in general [...]

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) named NC State University as the leader of a national research center to focus on the development of technology to revolutionize the nation’s power grid and speed renewable energy technologies into homes and businesses.
NC State’s Centennial Campus will house NSF’s Engineering Research Center for Future Renewable Electric Energy [...]

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Every year I go to half a dozen trade shows and see thousands of products but only a very few stand out. This year at the Home and Housewares Show in Chicago I spent some time nostalgically looking at Stanley bottles. De rigueur for farmers and construction workers nation wide. I imagine at least one [...]

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