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"..leaving a legacy of good deeds and progress for mankind.."
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-- --> "Didencher teechur larn yu nuffin? - 'Caus ya shoor ain't gonna mount te nuffin nohow, wiffout larnin." -- Mortimer Snerd -- "SAT prep services get into video games" -- --> What it all boils down to is that you want to know what it will all cost? You want to get down to the nitty-gritty bottom line. -- Many a successful entrepreneuer has stated, "If I had only known then what I know now I wouldn't have started?" -- I hope that what you have read, up-to-now, hasn't dissuaded you from chasing your dreams of becoming a successful inventor, for then I would have wasted my time simplifying the pathway for your success. -- Keep going. Inventors are persistent.-- Go to: --> "Inventing the Dishwasher" -- And what is success anyway? Is it living another day without hurt and needs? Is it having more money than you can possibly spend? Is it everybody bowing to you and quoting the words you have spoken? Is it leaving a legacy of good deeds and progress for mankind? -- I think it can surely be the later.-- You can be an 'Inventor' where your name is registered in the patent office..there to be viewed by those who will follow..an example of a step forward in knowledge for mankind. --> --> "Patent, Trademark, and Commercialize your Ideas / Inventions - Harshaw Research" -- In 1914, Henry Ford offered customers of his Model T Ford a famous Hobson's choice, making it available "in any color so long as it is black." -- "In 1924 a new Ford cost $265." -- "Doug Hougen, Inventor" -- You should attempt to follow this great personal example. RCGA: Connecting you to Greater St. Louis
The St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) connects business and civic communities in the 16-county, bi-state region. Whether supporting public policy and infrastructure initiatives, or attracting new jobs, capital and talent -- the RCGA is leading the way to a Greater St. Louis.
-- --> EVENTS:
-- "SBTV - Small Business Television Network" -- YOUR TRUSTED TEAM FOR SMALL BUSINESS ADVICE
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"Ideas have to be reduced to practice to have any practical worth."
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-- -- The question that should be asked is - "For what price do I sell my (invention) product? -- [Note that I didn't say "idea." -- Ideas have to be reduced to practice to have any practical worth.] -- -- O.K., what do we consider 'practical?'
--> "Delphion Gallery of Obscure Patents" --
-- -- -- The what-the-hecks? :-) -- PRICE = PERCEIVED VALUE = AHA! --> -- This is, (I am thinking,) as 'Dr. Doolitle' would have said, "A Push-Me-Pull-You Question?" -- Price makes the difference in the beginning. The product makes the price in the end. -- Get out and determine the cost of making and selling that 'great product' in the marketplace. - Marketing is what it's all about. In the marketplace is where it's at. That's where the money is to be made. --> --> Contact the "Inventor Lady" -
Jan Healzer - call Jan @ 417-827-4498 - e-mail: jannie@jagmold.com
-- A teriffic woman with personality..that's Jan Healzer in Nixa, MO. She has great marketing skills and comes with thirty years of experience that helps Jan make her various connections with Wal-mart and other big box department stores.
-- Jan tries to help new start-ups get a foothold into the door and works with "Ground Floor Opportunities." -- Jan is a broker that has connections for "idea people" - inventors, buyers and manufacturers.
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--> Do you have Inventive Ideas keeping you awake at night? Have you been watching the fabulous TV show "American Inventor" or other invention shows on TV and thought, "I thought of that invention years ago." Or, "I have this great idea now, but how will I ever get my invention onto the market and become RICH, just like what I saw on the Oprah Winfrey Show?" -->
If you are fitting this category or are just plain wildly curious, come on out one Sunday each month and learn about the Invention Process.
--> The Southwest Missouri Inventors Network meets the first Sunday of each month from 1:00-5:00, beginning Sunday, August 5, 2007, at the Springfield, Missouri Library Center, at 4653 South Campbell. --> Jan Healzer - better known as the Invention Lady, and one of the ladies you may have seen on KY3 TV in the morning, is facilitating this Network. You are invited to come, to ask questions and soak it all in. --> As an attendance prize and just for fun, one of the people to this Inventors meeting will receive a unique inventors dream idea that is now on the market!
Jan Healzer
Invention Lady
(417)725-9274 - jannie@jagmold.com
P. S. If you have inventor friends that need a helping hand, get the word out to them. I would appreciate it. Come one - come all. "Remember to invent is human... to get it on the market and actually sell enough to make a profit is divine." - James O'Loghlin -- Many a "Pet Rock" wasn't patented...it didn't need to be. - A trademark can be much more valuable than a patent. -->
It's called the United States Patent and Trademark Office. -- Think About That! -- Go ahead to: --> "Marketing and Licensing Inventions" -- "Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched." --
Unknown --> "Inventions and Innovation Program" <-- -- "Global Market for Cellphone Ring Tones Is Shrinking - New York Times" --
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"You must have a product that is positively unique, novel, beneficial, desired.." -- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-- Check the marketplace. Find out where your product fits and is sold? Who has one or many similar to yours? Gauge your price on theirs. -- Know the Competition. [I'm gonna sneak in here with some good advice: -- You knew that if you just kept reading long enough, something would come up that you didn't know, and that if you just knew it, you could become RICH? This might be it?!!
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4U2go with Ads2go --> HSN Company Information - The Original Site for Home Shopping at HSN.com Or need I say HSN? --
-- --> "How to become a QVC Vendor"
And to: -- --> "Zephyr Media Group"-- Get in line. If you are at the end of the line, is it worth waiting? Are you going to be a 'me too' inventor? A copycat? -- You must have a product that is positively unique, novel, beneficial, desired -- that can get to the head of the line. If not, give up that fanciful idea. Keep dreaming and you'll think-up something else that will make you stand tall, a head above the many others. You will then find yourself at the head of that line. You'll see. -- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson's words encouraging you to be your best. -- -- "Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, "Why?" Then a voice answers, "Nothing personal. Your name just happened to come up." - Charles Schulz - "Peanuts" creator -->> >--> "The Energizer Bunny Patent Causing Trouble" --> > > -- "In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies." -- Stephen Leacock
-- "Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens."
-- Nick Diamos -- "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." -- Samuel Butler -- "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome." -- William James
1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author Phone Caller: "Do you have a Sexauer, there?"
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"..become an expert in your own enlightened field of real world expertise -- and do something productive.."
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-- George Washington Carver was offered a six-figure income to go to work for Thomas A. Edison. He chose to remain at Tuskegee Institute for a $1500 a year salary. - Carver invented and patented over 300 products using the peanut. -- --> "Got a better idea? -- We'd like to see it." -- -- BIG IDEA GROUP -- -- "Foods That Heal ~ Grandma Faith's Website" -- -- Well, I think that you think that you will find everything you wanted to know from what I have said and what is written in this IASL's website? -- No, not hardly. -- What I have said is only the 'tip of the iceberg.' You haven't gotten it all out of me. -- I can talk for hours. -- And I'm not going to tell you all I know. I'll just keep reading, listening and thinking. So should you. --> You can then become an expert in your own enlightened field of real world expertise -- and do something productive, -- and in your case, charge for it ;-) do your own patent drawings.-- A neighbor, an old Florida cracker, was leaning on the fence watching my progress and asked, "What the heck's that for?"
-- I explained, "It's a sun dial, see the sun will hit that small triangular spike and cast a shadow on the face of the sundial. Then, as the sun moves across the sky, the shadow also moves across the calibrated dial, enabling a person to determine the correct time." -- My neighbor shook his head and muttered, "Huh, what will
they think of next?" -- All kidding aside..get this free publication that may be found inside the lobbies of banks and groceries - "The St. Louis Small Business Monthly" -- Omigosh! There is a goldmine of information there. Pick one up.
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The one key element is YOU. You must want to have it! You have to learn and keep learning..have a deep seated desire for practicle knowledge. -- "Find the experts, check their credentuals, and pay for what they can do for you or tell you."
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-- The one key element is YOU. You must want to have it! You have to learn and keep learning..have a deep seated desire for practicle knowledge. -- I can't tell you everything. I don't know everything.
But what I do know is this: "If you've got something worthwhile, keep it to yourself." -- For once you have given it away, they don't need you anymore. -- Learn the art of giving just enough away so that it will leave you in a comfortable position. This worldly knowledge is found in 'those' books and from those who have written those books. They will give you your cost/price ratios.-- "INVENTION SECRETS FOR INVENTORS #7: GETTING EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING TO YOU -- WorldInventionsCenter.com" -- -- That leaves charging for what you or others need or want? -> You pay them for it or they pay you for it by negotiating the price: e.g., One tosses out a price and then the other comes back and tries to whittle it down or agrees to it. That's simply the way it works. Both parties should feel that a fair deal has been struck. -- Find the experts, check their credentuals, and pay for what they can do for you or tell you. :-)-- You'll get the most comprehensive and sensible 'idea information' when you come to the meetings of the Inventors Association of St. Louis. There you will meet the experts and gain the powers of their expertise. -- And I do hope you will become available to pass on 'your own expert advice' onto the others, to help them to do well. Have a real good day. -- (signed) Robert Scheinkman, President, Inventors Association of St. Louis.-- "I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect." - My wife disagrees ;^) "And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." - Socretes -- -- Sidebar: --> "Trivia Facts" -- a little of this and a little of that. And a lot of what's happening NOW! -- -- "When it comes to politics, when two people think the same, one of them isn't thinking." -- Apothegm: A short, witty, and instructive saying.
"Female Keywords And Their Meanings"
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I hope this clears up most misunderstandings...
"Fine": This is the word we use at the end of any argument that we feel we are right about but need to shut you up. NEVER use fine to describe how woman looks. This will cause you to have one of those arguments.
"Five minutes": This is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your football game is going to last before you take out the trash, so it's an even trade.
"Nothing": This means something and you should be on your toes. "Nothing" is usually used to describe the feeling a woman has of wanting to turn you inside out, upside down, and backwards. "Nothing" usually signifies an argument that will last "Five Minutes" and end with the word "Fine."
"Go Ahead" (with raised eyebrows): This is a dare. One that will result in a woman getting upset over "Nothing" and will end with the word "Fine."
"Go Ahead" (normal eyebrows): This means "I give up" or "do what you want because I don't care." You will get a raised eyebrow "Go ahead" in just a few minutes, followed by "Nothing" and "Fine" and she will talk to you in about "Five Minutes" when she cools off.
:::...... This is not actually a word, but is still often a verbal statement very misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot at that moment and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing."
...::... Again, not a word, but a verbal statement. "Soft Sighs" are one of the few things that some men actually understand. She is content. Your best bet is to not move or breathe and she will stay content.
"Oh": This word followed by any statement is trouble. Example; "Oh, let me get that."... Or, "Oh, I talked to him about what you were doing last night." If she says "Oh" before a statement, RUN, do not walk, to the nearest exit. She will tell you that she is "Fine" when she is done tossing your clothes out the window, but do not expect her to talk to you for at least 2 days. "Oh" as the lead to a sentence usually signifies that you are caught in a lie. Do not try to lie more to get out of it, or you will get raised eyebrows "Go ahead" followed by acts so unspeakable that we can't bring ourselves to write about them.
"That's Okay": This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can say to a man. "That's Okay," means that she wants to think long and hard before paying you retributions for what ever it is that you have done.
"That's Okay" is often used with the word "Fine" and used in conjunction with a raised eyebrow "Go ahead." At some point in the near future when she has plotted and planned, you are going to be in some mighty big trouble.
"Please Do": This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is giving you the chance to come up with whatever excuse or reason you have for doing whatever it is that you have done. You have a fair chance to tell the truth, so be careful and you shouldn't get a "That's Okay."
"Thanks": A woman is thanking you. Do not faint; just say you're welcome.
"Thanks a lot": This is much different from "Thanks." A woman will say, "Thanks a lot" when she is really ticked off at you. It signifies that you have hurt her in some callous way, and will be followed by the "Loud Sigh." Be careful not to ask what is wrong after the "Loud Sigh," as she will only tell you "Nothing."
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Strange Information - Now You'll Know Why
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Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called "pygg." When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as "pygg banks." When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.
Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?
A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave.
Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. And that's where women's buttons have remained since.
Q: Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
A: In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.
Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called "passing the buck"?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would "pass the buck" to the next player.
Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.
Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be "in the limelight"?
A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theater, performers on stage "in the limelight" were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.
Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday"as their call for help?
A: This comes from the French word m'aidez -meaning "help me" -- and is pronounced "mayday,"
Q: Why is someone who is feeling great "on cloud nine"?
A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.
Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called "love"?
A: In France , where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on scoreboard looked like an egg and was called "l'oeuf," which is French for "egg." When tennis was introduced in the US , Americans pronounced it "love."
Q: In golf, where did the term "Caddie" come from?
A. When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl (for education &survival), Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scot game "golf." So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into "caddie."
So now you know!
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