Ruby Lane Launches Premier Blog Site for Buyers and Sellers of ... From Reuters Notes from The Lane offers educational articles on buying and selling antiques and collectibles and offers ongoing tips on how to succeed as a seller in the online marketplace. Named after his mother, Ruby, and bringing together over 1,700 individually-owned shops offering unique items from around the world, Ruby Lane offers more than 300,000 items in inventory ranging from antique furniture to depression glass, fine china, vintage jewelry, heirloom linens, books, stamps, paintings,...

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Mag Bag: Alimonti Named 'Selecciones' Publisher From Mediapost.com The Reader's Digest Association has named Elaine Alimonti publisher of Selecciones, a Spanish-language magazine available in 20 countries, including the United States, elevating her from her previous role as associate publisher. Before joining RDA in 2007, Alimonti was the associate publisher of Conde Nast's Cookie, helping launch the magazine in 2005. Nick Purdy, who helped found Paste magazine five years ago, is returning to the magazine as publisher after a one-year hiatus. According to...

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Are Americans the Pigs of the World - or the Sheep? From OpEdNews A NY Times article this week spotlights the glaring imbalance in consumption between the developed and undeveloped world, with North Americans as worst-offenders in a planet with quickly diminishing resources. There are approximately one billion people in the developed world, with the other 5.5 billion still living within far less modern and less environmentally taxing means. Even if you don't care about the plight of the third world, the fact is these consumption rates are unsustainable....

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'Antiquing' in Montreal From Canada.com A whole district actually, in one section of Amherst Street, several blocks long, where a series of shops sell such items as chrome lamps, vintage beanbag chairs, eye-popping fabrics from the psychedelic era and "electronics," mostly a lot of old phones, hi-fi sets and televisions that look like astronauts' helmets. Cyr of Jack's, at 1860 Amherst, says it started off with collectors, but the look now attracts a lot of young people just starting out. Karactere, at 1701 Amherst, is a gift shop...

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Corning's New Year's party thrills families From Elmira StarGazette Dan and Kelly Massengale of Horseheads said it is the first time they have gone out for New Year's Eve in five years. The event was rained out last year, but this year was cool enough to be seasonable, but not so cold to freeze fingers and toes. Joe and Eleanor Abelow on Tunkhannock, Pa., regularly come to Corning for New Year's Eve, staying overnight at Radisson Hotel Corning. A new trend in New Year's resolutions among both adults and children are promises to eat better, Reilly said. The...

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