Archive for November 26th, 2008
Mom Gives "Girlfriend" Advice To African-American Women
newsday.com: When Bay Shore resident Kimberly Seals-Allers was pregnant with her first child in 2000, she needed straightforward advice geared toward modern, professional, sophisticated African-American moms-to-be. She says she couldn’t find what she craved anywhere. Her own mother’s experiences were geared to a different generation, Seals-Allers says. “She was just appalled that I wanted to [...]
Mom Invents Worlds Easiest Luggage Tag
PRWeb: Travel isn’t getting any easier except for one bright spot called a Luggage Hugger. Divorced and left with nothng but optimism, Lucia Burns, inventor and mother of two sons, spotted an opportunity when planning a trip. After buying new black luggage she realized if it was the only bag on the carousel she still [...]
Inventor Turns Ashes Into Photo Frames
This Is Nottingham: Nick Cranham, of Cinderhill, is giving families the chance to keep their loved ones close after death – by turning their ashes into photo frames. The engineer only used to offer the service to grieving pet lovers but now has applied for a worldwide patent for the idea, which also includes pendants, [...]
Your iPod Can Make You More Productive
LifeHack: The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. Looking at the iPod from an organizer’s point of view, there are some great ways it can help you be more productive too. Here are a few: • Drown out [...]
U.S. Entrepreneurship Rate Down
Inc.: U.S. entrepreneurial activity fell from 12.4 percent of the total workforce in 2005 to 9.6 percent in 2007, according to a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges. Despite the decline, the nation’s rate of entrepreneurship was 50 percent higher than in other comparable countries, the study reported. While more businesses were founded in [...]
