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Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Web design community is strong and hard-working. We have plenty of useful resources, tools and services created, developed and released every single day: apart from goodies such as free fonts or icons, there are also many educational resources and little time-savers that can significantly improve designer’s workflow. We permanently look out for the new projects and support them by presenting them on Twitter, Facebook, in our e-mail newsletter and, evidently, in Smashing Magazine’s posts. Today we are glad to present one of such posts: an overview of handy new resources for web designers; most of them were released recently, but some of them are a bit older. Useful Resources for Web Designers Fonts in UseThis site presents a catalogue for real-world typography samples and innovations in branding, advertising, signage and publishing. FPO: For Print OnlyFor Print Only is a blog that is dedicated to everything related to print design. Last Click Should I Work for Free?

RuffaloCODY List of common misconceptions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. Arts and culture Food and cooking Roll-style Western sushi. Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Legislation and crime Literature The Harry Potter books, though they have broken children's book publishing records, have not led to an increase in reading among children or adults, nor slowed the ongoing overall decline in book purchases by Americans, and children who did read the Harry Potter books were not more likely to go on to read more outside of the fantasy and mystery genres.[21][22][23][24] Music Religion Hebrew Bible Buddhism Christianity Islam Sports

Cultural Trust Update Newsletter How to Get a Real Education at College John Taylor's Duke Page Philanthropy News Digest Welcome to CharityChannel's Mentoring Forum Ask small children what they want to be when they grow up and they are likely to respond with “firefighter,” “vet,” or “astronaut.” Odds are not very likely that they will respond, “grant writer.” Who among us ever intended to be this? I am frequently asked how I got into this line of work. “Wrong place, wrong time” is what I usually quip, but the reality is probably similar for many of us; it’s just something that I sort of fell in to. Although I inadvertently got relevant degrees and spent most of my graduate program researching and writing, I thought I was going to be a teacher. The class was held at a university extension site located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The thing that made this class different from anything offered by your local community college was the willingness of the two professors to be accessible for questions once we went back to town and back to our jobs. Proper mentorship can compensate for many missed classes. Knowledge.

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