For years, physicians have told their patients and mothers have often told their daughters that drinking more cranberry juice is great for a woman’s urinary tract.

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From the day you were born, actually even before conception, there are beliefs and stereotypes that are attached to gender. Pink is for girls and blue is for boys, right?

The color thing is really fascinating. Here is some of the research from my book “GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change”. In the 1800’s babies were all gender neutral, wearing white “dresses” in infancy. They made sense; easy for changing diapers and easy to bleach when they became spotted and dirty.

Then somewhere around the 1920’s Western parents began dressing their children in colors. Pink was associated with boys. You read that correctly, with boys. Here was the rationale; red is a bold color connected with bravery and danger. Pink was the watered down version for the “little men” not yet ready to take on the stronger hue of red.

And what about blue? Ah, this more subdued color was for the girls; cool and quiet it kept hearts beating calmly and not creating lots of tension. And, by the way

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— A Corpus Christi company is adding another shoe-free fun zone for children.

Brinca! now has a second location at 3801 Saratoga Blvd. The store features 4,000 feet of jump space and party rooms, and space for parents to mingle and enjoy free Wi-Fi.

The business kicked off its grand opening with days of events, beginning with a ribbon cutting and open jump events.

Another open jump event is planned for Sunday between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., at a discounted price of $5 per hour, per child.

Brinca! is geared toward children 12 years old and younger. The Saratoga location is in addition to its location at 4855 S. Alameda St.

Is this the image of Jesus Christ?

An Anderson County, South Carolina couple reports that they have seen the face of Jesus Christ… on their Wal-Mart receipt.

Jacob Simmons and Gentry Lee Sutherland claim that the image, which was not there when they got the receipt, appeared three days later.

The couple had some photos developed at their local Wal-Mart branch and left the receipt on their kitchen table. Southerland and Simmons attended a Wednesday night Bible study session and returned home to find an image that looked like Jesus on the receipt.

Right before they were about to start a movie, Sutherland noticed Simmons standing beside the counter.

“I said, ‘What’s wrong with you,’” Sutherland recalled. “He said, ‘Look at this receipt.’ I just looked at it and it looked kind of brown, and he said, ‘No, Look at it.’ So I took a second look and then I saw the face.

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Making a case for more female participation on Boards of Directors, executive groups, strategic committees, project task forces or, well, just about any group, just got a little easier. A recent research study described in June’s Harvard Business Review submits that having a group comprised of more women will ultimately lead to greater success. Why? Because, with women participating – and the more women the better – a group’s “collective intelligence” rises, giving the group a higher score on the tasks they were given. Even the teams which had members with higher IQs didn’t score as high as the teams with women.

Professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone compared the study teams after they asked them to complete several tasks including brainstorming, decision-making, and complex problem-solving. They found th

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