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httpVA/vww.thecharlottepost.com 7C CIEiarlotte $o$t THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006 BUSINESS PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE Bryant A pro at crafting marketing strategies Lockman-Brooks built company with relationships By Erica Bryant SPECIAL TO THE POCT In 1998, Linda Lockman- Brooks launched her successfid marketing strategy consulting firm, Lockman-Brooks Marketing Services LLC. Current clients include the NBA Charlotte Bobcats, Hunt Construction Group and Lowe’s Home Improvement Companies. Lockman-Brooks is one of the honorees for this year's Charlotte Post People of Prominence - Women of Distinction awards Mery 4 at 6 pm. at Spirit Square. Among other things, find out what Lockman-Brooks says is the best advice when it comes to starting a business. The following is the first in a series of interviews with the lion- orees. EB: What are some of your words to live by? LLB: My father was a pio neer, and one of the first blacks to work in the beer industry for Anheuser- Busch in 1951 in St, Louis. The things daddy would say to me often were, ‘You’re young, black and female. You have to do 200 percent just to stay even, so accept it, and get on with it.” Those were words spoken to me early on by someone who I knew loved and cared for me. So, that’s the approach that I took to edu cation and the world of work. EB: What are some mis takes that you’ve seen other people make in the corpo rate world that might have prevented them fiom advancing the way you have? LLB: I think often we may assume that people are reacting to who/what we are. For example, if you are black and female and you have a negative review that is often the first conclusion we jump to. , That may “in fact” be the case, but you have to step back and say ‘What could I have done dif ferently?” So I think it is really important to be fairly self-actualized and be will ing to xmderstand what you don’t do well. That is some thing that I learned. I con tend to be verbose. \ I have a great command of'n the English lai^age, and I had to learn to listen and to give other people a chance to talk- That was feedback that I got finm a boss a long time ^o. EB: How do you achieve balance in yom life with work and family? LLB: We can’t have true balance in our lives. It just doesn’t exist. We have to give ourselves a break and step back. I think it was Maya Angelou who said, ‘You have to remember to breathe.” That’s what I try to remind myself to do more and more, take stock, and remember to breathe. • •Ol Bathtub where assassin stood to shoot M.L. King for sale again THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMPHIS, Tfenn. - The ftop- house bathtub Jam^ Earl Ray stood in to shoot Martin Luther King Jr. is for sale on eBay for a third time. The auction, scheduled to run for 10 days, reopened Monday with an opening hid of $7,500, D’Anny Bailey the Memphis judge who owns the tub, said on Friday A portion of the sale’s pro ceeds are to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Memphis, he said. The tub first went on sale in July 2004 and drew a bid of $152,000, but eBay removed it over concerns the item might be considered offensive, particu larly to King’s Family But the Web site’s operators later decided the item’s historic value met its guidelines. It was put up for auction a second time, but did not sell, Bailey, one of the founders of the National Civil Rights Museum located at the site of King’s death, said he got the tub in 1983. King was shot on the balcony of The Lorraine Motel while in Memphis to help lead a strike by dty sanitation workers in 1968, ILLUSTRATION/JIM HUNT National program educates small businesses on security details By Herbert L. White herb.white® thecharlotteposteom Corporations aren’t the only businesses facing security risks. The Cormcdl of Better Business and Privacy & American Business have laxmehed a national initiative to help entre preneurs improve security and privacy readiness. “Small businesses aren’t quite in step with their larger indus try counterparts in addressir^ data security” said Tbm Bartholomy president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau. “They often believe they’re bet ter protected than they really are, because they don’t have in- house expats to advise them on what else they should be doing beyond locking up their store- fionts. “It’s difficult for them to know where and how to access sup port. This makes us aU vulnera ble, as small businesses are a strong part of our economy Business owners of aU sizes need to be vigilant in protecting their customers, their employees and themsdves,” Security & Privacy - Made Simpler, the BBB initiative is designed to de-mystify the com- pl^ties of data security and give small businesses a non technical roadmap to securing their customer data. The national program includes fi^, easy-to-read security and privacy toolkits, with separate kits focused on customer and employee data protection. The customer data kit is being released now, and the employee kit will be released in the fall. In addition, the program will fea ture a downloadable ‘Svebinar” featuring key topic experts, plus ongoing updates about new security and privacy develop ments that affect small busi nesses. The educational materi als are accessible online at: www.bbb.oig/security&privacy The program was developed in partnership with privacy and security experts Alan F. Westin, foimder of Privacy & .American Business, and Lance Hoffinan, Distinguished Research Professor, George Washington University The toolkits will be distributed through the 116 local Better Business Bureaxxs across the coimtry reaching a potential audience of 380,000 small busi nesses and thousands of other small businesses nationwide. Ihgh profile data breaches at major corporations have largely edipsed small business vulnera bilities. Yet, a 2005 survey by the Small Business Ifechnology Institute reports that more than half of aU small businesses in the U.S. experienced a security See EDUCATION.8C Alabama lawsuit charges funeral home discriminates against black customers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOBILE, Ala, - A class action lawsuit alleges that a Mobile County funeral company dis criminates against blacks. SLG Group Inc. owns and operates Serenity Funeral Home, Serenity Memorial Garden, Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens and Gulf Coast Vault Co. in Mobile Coxmty The lawsuit, filed March 16, alleges that Sesrenity Funeral Home “attempts to bury only Caucasians in Serenity Memorial Gardens and only Afiican-Americans in Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens.” “Almost all, if not aU, of the deceased bxuied in Serenity are Caucasian- Almost aU, if not all, of the deceased buried in Lawn Haven are Aftican-American,” the lawsuit sa}^, ‘T have not received a sum mons at aU either in the mail or See LAWSUIT/8C Teens haueeyes en design By Aisha Lide THE CHARLOTTE POST Tia and Tamia Haygood turned a class project into an entrepreneurial opportunity 'TKH Designs is an appaiel business that cre ates custom shirts, crochet, scarves, blankets, and bags. Tia is a senior at North Mecklenbui^ High School, and Tamia is a junior at Northwest School of the Aits. “Our business is still under construction,” says Tia. As of right now the sisters create custom designs for private clientele. Between the Haygoods mother, Georgia, and 'TLa’s high school fashion show project TKH was ori^ated. Tia had to create six garment designs for a high school project her sophomore year. Georgia Haygood was interested in them learning the skills for financial purposes, Tia said, and the sisters formd the industry inter esting. Georgia acts as the recruiting director of TKH Designs. She brings in almost 80 peixent of clients. . While Tia is more proficient at sewing, Tamia ismoi'eai'tisticaU.yindined. She makes most of the designs, “She draws really well,” said Tia, who is teaching Tamia how to sew. TKH services older clientele while in the beginning their designs were geared more to young people. While finding thdr creative niclre the girls would give gifts to their fiiends. TKH does not have a land based store howev er, “That would be really nice,” said Tia. Tia has been accepted into Western Carolina University UNC Greensboro, and Appalachian State University She does not plan to pursue a career in the fashion industry but Tamia more than likely wOl try her hand at design. “Tamia is definitely into it 100 percent,” says Tia. “For me the demand for fashion design is beyond my capacity” High on the hog: Making healthier bacon through genetics, cloning By Paul Elias THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - A team of geneticists using the latest cloning techniques say they have created pigs that can produce healthier bacon and other pork products. The researchers inserted genetic material from the microscopic roundwoim C. elegans into pig fetal cells, which were then used to create 10 cloned pigs. Six of the cloned swine produce significant amounts of omega-3 falL acids, a hearr-friendly substance normally found in salmon and other oily fisb. The scientists are also genetically engineer ing cows and chickens to make more oiuega-3 in a bid to better xmderstand hmnan disease and improve the quahty of meat, milk and eggs. “We all can use more omega-3 in our diet,” said Dr. Jing Kang, the Harvard Medical School researcher who discovered the omega- 3-making gene in the worm. Kang is one of 17 authors of the paper appearing in an online edition of the jornmal Natm*e Biotechnology. The researchers also said their creations can be used to better understand hiuuan dis ease. The cloned, genetically engineered pigs are the latest advance in the agricultural biotech nology field, which is struggling to move beyond making esoteric products such as soy that’s resistant to weed killers and bug- repeUing com. Hoping to create healthier, cheaper and tastier products that consumers crave, Monsanto Inc. of St. Louis and its biotech farming competitors like DuPont are develop ing omega-3-producing crops that yield healthier cooking oils. Kang said 30 academic laboratories are working with his omega-3 gene, presumably pursuing similar projects. “Consumers have responded pretty positive ly when asked their opinion of food modified ' to improve food quahty and food safety” said Christine Bruhn, director of the University of California, Davis’ Center for Consumer Research. “Just as long as the taste isn’t altered negatively.” Earlier experiments have succeeded in See PURSING/8C
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