According to a story at CNBC.com, medical marijuana dispensaries are springing up in Colorado’s major cities like coffee shops, nail parlors, tanning salons or taco shops. Though Colorado voters amended the state Constitution to allow the use and sale of marijuana for a variety of medicinal reasons ten years ago, the number of patients and […]
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The red-and-white poles that adorn barber shops may be iconic, but they’re fast fading into a nostalgic relic according to a story at CNNMoney. William Marvy Company, the last known manufacturer in North America of the poles, typically sells 500 of them each year, down from 5,100 in the company’s late-1960s heyday. Bob Marvy, a
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The business card creativity stream keeps on flowing…. On the heels of the business card catapult and business card penny cannon – and not to mention the resignation letter cake – there’s now the locally baked business card cookie! The Boston Herald says Danvers pastry chef Kelly Delaney, owner of the Cakes for Occasions bakery,
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Some food bloggers are known for their restaurant reviews, others for their creative recipes, but Amy Cao of AmyBlogsChow.com is known for her “Stupidly Simple Snacks” videos, says The NY Daily News. I happen to be a food blogger who doesn’t cook, and people get a kick out of that,” says the Brooklynite. While Cao
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In 2004, the poker craze was at its peak. “You could not go into Walgreens without seeing poker chips everywhere.” Despite the proliferation of poker games at home, Steve Roelle also noticed a lack of poker decor, and began to formulate a plan for a new business, reports The Courier Press. In the beginning, Roelle
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The ‘Made in China’ tag has become synonymous with massive factories staffed by thousands of workers, stuff rolling off assembly lines in container-load quantities, reports The Vancouver Sun. But one home-based Vancouver company is chipping away at this widely held image. Twinklebelle Design Inc. is a tale of two sisters, a small sewing group and
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NicheGeek: Chuck Gordon, then an art student at UCLA, balked at the thousands of dollars he would have to pay to store his belongings while spending a semester in Singapore two years ago. He ended up stowing his stuff in friends’ homes and garages. Gordon thought plenty of people with extra space would rent it
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Cultivateadate.com (Cultivate a Date) is a dating website for people with a shared interest in gardening, horticulture, botany, and the environment. From the site: The newest and freshest way of finding people with a common interest in the world of flowers — in its widest connotation, anything botanical whether it be as basic as having
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In 2005, new college graduate Angela Carr and her slightly younger sister Christina Cummings found themselves buying the rights for a small, super-absorbent hair towel from Pittsburgh Plastics, a company that the sisters felt was vastly underutilizing the product, according to a story at Inc.com. The women renamed the hair towel the Turbie Twist and
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As the era for electric transportation begins, Mahi Reddy hopes to fill in a big piece of the electric car puzzle, reports The Washington Post. Sure, homeowners can run a cord from an outlet to the environmentally friendly vehicle, but what if you don’t have a garage? What if you live in an apartment and
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