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Invention..Truth or Consequence
-- -- "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. -- -- "A sales technique often employed by marketing firms is the preparation of a product portfolio, brochure, report, etc., as part of the initial service fee. This may not determine whether or not the inventors idea is marketable. BEWARE: Generally, most information is "boilerplate" data with names of inventors/inventions inserted by the computer. Don't be misled by the number of pages in the report. It is the quality of the report that counts, not the quantity." -->

-- The "upfront fees" requested by the idea developer is only the beginning. Log-on here to the United Inventors Association of the U.S.A. website to learn about UIAUSA and their determination to help inventors, honestly. --
-- "What is IFIA?"

-- If you or your company offer professional services to inventor-entrepreneurs, here are seven reasons to join the United Inventors Association:

-- Grow Your Business
Promote your firm to 10,000+ serious inventors, entrepreneurs and 50+ local group leaders.

-- Signal Trust
Inventors can be paranoid. Showcase your trustworthy credentials with UIA-Certification.

-- Keep Good Company
Associate with the most reputable experts and firms. Network with peers to get client referrals.

-- Save Time
Inventors can be misinformed. UIA's educational materials enlighten them, and save you time.

-- Get Published
Contribute educational materials to our national newsletter and digital library.

-- Stay Informed
Get weekly updates from an impartial source on major industry events and opportunities.

-- Have a Say
Vote and participate in UIA governance. You can also stand for election to this top industry body.

-- For more information about UIA Professional Membership, contact:

-- Patrick Raymond
Executive Director, United Inventors Association
praymond@uiausa.org or 646.775.4922

-- -- "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." -- Buddha, The Dharmapada

-- As an Independent Inventor, your passion lies in your idea. But what's your next step? Well, if you joined a local group such as the IASL, that's a great start. Nationally, the United Inventors Association (UIA) can also help you achieve your goals with unique tools and educational materials, including their new 10-part miniseries "What Every Inventor Needs to Know". As a member of a local inventors group, the UIA offers you a 50% discount on the cost of joining their national organization. Member benefits include:

- Inventor:

- $49.50/year, after discount (Regularly $99)

- First 5 episodes of UIA miniseries “What Every Inventor Needs to Know”

- Access to national Directory of Certified Pros

- Access to Resource Center, including many full feature articles

- Access to “Ask a Pro” message board

- Discounts from selected UIA-Certified professional service providers

- Monthly Newsletter & Weekly Industry News Flash

- Local Groups Listings

- National Events Calendar

- Live Member Care Support (24/7)

- Entrepreneur:

- $99.50/year, after discount (Regularly $199)

- All 10 episodes of UIA miniseries “What Every Inventor Needs to Know”

- 1 vote for UIA Board

- Access to national Directory of Certified Pros

- Access to Resource Center, including many full feature articles

- Access to “Ask a Pro” message board

- Discounts from selected UIA-Certified professional service providers

- Monthly Newsletter & Weekly Industry News Flash

- Local Groups Listings

- National Events Calendar

- Live Member Care Support (24/7)

-- To obtain this special discount, ask your Group Leader to send us your name and email address. You will receive the UIA special 50% discount code in an email message. That’s it. It’s automatic! -- The UIA was founded in 1990 in Saint Louis, Missouri, as a national umbrella group for local inventor support groups around the country. Since 1990 it has been dedicated to inventor education and support.

"When you're too busy to take a break, that's when a taking a break will do you the most good.

Sometimes you reach a point at which the fastest way to go forward is to slow down a bit."

"When you rush through your work...
you're likely to make all sorts of mistakes."

-- Go to: --> Inventorprise

-- "How Smart Technology Product Evaluation Invention Assessment Works"

-- "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold, well."
-- Josh Billings

-- --> "Sun settles Kodak's Java suit for $92 million | CNET News.com" --

--> "Webmaster @ uspto.gov Doesn't Send Email!"

-- -- "USPTO Products and Services Price List"

-- -- Thought of the day: --

-- "When you're too busy to take a break, that's when the taking a break will do you the most good. Sometimes you reach a point at which the fastest way to go forward is to slow down a bit. When you rush through your work, never pausing to catch your breath, you're likely to make all sorts of mistakes. Then you'll have to spend time later correcting those mistakes, so the time you gain by hurrying is quickly lost and then exceeded by the toll it takes.

-- Consider taking a break, clearing your mind and energizing your body. The work will still be there when you get back, and by getting away from it for a while you'll be in a much better position to handle it effectively.

-- It's great to be ambitious and eager to get the job done. Yet there is nothing to be gained by working until you drop.

-- The more you focus on the deadline itself, the less likely you are to meet it, so put your focus on getting the job done at a steady and sustainable pace. Instead of worrying about running out of time, completely let go of the worry and make calm, deliberate use of the time.

-- Don't put yourself behind by attempting to go too far too fast. Move at a pace that enables you to be your best, for that is what will move you ahead most quickly." -- Ralph Marston

-- -- Computer assistance: --

-- "Today, people do most of their writing on a computer with a word-processing program that checks spelling and grammar. But if you dislike typing, consider using a speech-recognition software program that lets you dictate into a microphone attached to your computer. The program converts what you dictate into a text file.

-- If your computer doesn’t have a speech-recognition program, you can buy one for about $50 to $200 from Staples, Office Depot and other retailers. The leading program is Dragon Naturally Speaking made by Nuance Communications." (www.nuance.com)

-- "Secrets from the Memoir Coach: How to Write Your Life Story" --

Inventors with Great Ideas and Inventions -- -- Protect Yourself - The Justice Files -- Go to: --> "Consumer Sentinel"

-- -- "GreatIdeaGear.com - Great Books and Software for Inventors with Great Ideas and Inventions" --Consider the alternative - Read first: "Will It Sell?" -- For one hell of a bargain -- "Five MAGIC Market Secrets"

-- -- "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments. -- Roman Engineer, Julius Sextus Frontinus, 10 A.D.

-- -- "Childhood passion grows into pop culture craze"

-- -- "Thomas Register INDUSTRIAL Market Trends"

-- -- "Product Evaluation Inventor Assessment Rating System"

-- How to Investigate and Evaluate a Resource

-- Type "research a company" at the Google search-engine prompt, and press the Enter key. Review the return listings and scroll to ones that meet your needs, such as where you will find a business research tutorial presenting a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the World Wide Web! Other research options include:

--Check the company complaint lists at www.InventorEd.org and www.bpmlegal.com/pinvmktg.html.

-- Visit your state's web site to research a business. Type the format www.state.xx.us, where xx is the USPS abbreviation for the state (e.g. www.state.mo.us). The current web site for the state will appear or a link to it. Find the Business link to search for company filings.

-- Visit www.sec.gov and search for company filings.

-- Visit your county clerk online or in person to search for legal documents such as releases, judgments, liens and many other transactions.

-- Visit the county clerk online where the company is located (corporate and local addresses).

-- Search the BBB online where the company is located (corporate and local addresses) to search for consumer complaints and company standing.

-- Contact industry groups in which the company may have membership. Is the company a member in good standing? Do they participate in member functions?

-- Use a search engine like Google and type the company name with location (e.g. Hines Faucets Florida). Look for information about customers of the company on the web pages listed.

-- Use a search engine like Google and type the company name followed by the word 'complaint' or 'customer' or 'customer service' or whatever else you want to learn about the company. No web sites found is a good indication but is not conclusive due to search engine rankings and website availability.

-- Remember that Internet information is updated constantly.

-- Visit your public library and ask the reference librarian to guide you to books with information about the company/industry of interest. They will direct you to the Thomas Register and industry specific books that may be of use. Also, ask about periodicals and newspapers relevant to the company's industry.

-- Contact Chambers of Commerce in the area via email to inquire of the company's membership and community presence.

-- If the company has a web site, search it for a client list, business address, contact person, telephone numbers and email address. The client list may offer a hint of where the client may be contacted. Try contacting the client. If the website lacks contact information (such as no geographical address, named individual or telephone number), move on.

-- Contact a nearby competitor of the company and suggest that you are calling because the company seemed a bit pricey for the products/services offered.

-- When you speak to a company representative, ask for three clients you may call for references. If they give you three references this is a positive indication, although they could be ringers.

-- Network: speak to your other team members and business associates about the prospective company; they may know about the company or can ask someone who may know.

-- When you introduce yourself at the next inventor meeting, ask the attendees if any of them know anything about the company!

-- Make inquiries through an inventor forum or business forum relevant to the product/service the company provides. Be sure to use a brief, specific and meaningful title for the subject field of your posting.

-- Attend a business fair that this company would likely show its products/services and make inquiries of other vendors, perhaps by way of comparison. You need to be familiar with the offerings of the company you want to evaluate. -- from a Newsletter of the Inventors Society of South Florida

-- "I would think that mankind has a built-in genetic powerhouse of thinkers who could and should push and advance civilization!" -- To see if a company has been investigated by the Federal Government, visit www.ftc.gov/search -- then type in the word "invention" -->

-- -- "Patents Inventors Resources and Information" [ COMPLAINTS ] --

-- "Walruses are world's most unusual snoozers - Discovery.com" --

-- The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and opossums. They spend 80 per cent of their lives sleeping or dozing. I find that some humans have been compared to these very same tired animals (in a pejorative manner of speaking.) These people live in a passive existence.

-- Still worse are many humans that get good ideas into their heads and won't take the time to timely investigate and research whether their ideas could be advanced into the marketplace - into desired products; - creating for all, jobs and industry. I find that this non-active humanity is appalling.

-- I would think that mankind has a built-in genetic powerhouse of thinkers who could and should push and advance civilization to its limits! - Wrongfully so, I find that there are idiot religious zealots blowing themselves up, destroying themselves and others for their dormant religious purposes, borne from over 500 past years faulty teachings brought in from the vestiges of the Dark and Middle Ages.

-- Aren't we humans supposedly in an Age of Super Enlightenment? I implore each and every one of you having a glimmer of mental understanding, to be a mensch and perform something humanely wonderful to positively advance civilization. - H.R. Scheinkman

-- "Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." -- Helen Keller

-- "Changing lives one loan at a time" --

-- "Attacks kill dozens of Iraqi pilgrims - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com" --

You Are "..one of this nation's greatist natural resources ---------->> Americans with creative minds and entrepre-neurial spirits."

-- "It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only one way." -- Aristotle, Nicomacheam Ethics

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-- "Always look both ways when crossing a one-way street--somebody may be backing up?" -- H. Robert Scheinkman
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-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -- Howard Aiken

-- "The Top Ten Reasons Inventors Succeed" "Or Fail"

- Improvise - Modify - Adapt - Overcome - You Are "..one of this nation's greatist natural resources - Americans with creative minds and entrepreneurial spirits."

-- Invention Will Change Your Life --

-- -- "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." -- Herman Cain

-- "Back in my day, they hadn't invented electricity. We had to watch television by candlelight. We had something better than the phone back then. If you wanted to get something 'cross town, you just told a woman it were a secret and it gossiped across." -- Thomas Alva Edison
[R-i-g-h-t - Don't you believe a word!]

-- -- " Medieval trivia.doc" --

-- -- "Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it..." -- Mark Twain

-- "You think that's funny?!!

-- -- "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure." Mark Twain

-- --> "Nigerian Loan Scams - 419 Scam Information"

-- --> [Read how-the-tables-were-turned on a Scammer in the e-mails of "Scam o Rama"]
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EXAMPLE OF FRAUD LETTER
From: WEMA BANK/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS REIMBURSEMENT PAYMENT DEPARTMENT
Subject: SCAM VICTIM REIMBURSEMENT PAYMENT
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:08 PM

THE BENEFICIARY.
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OUR REF: 10667FV
YOUR REF: 89007

Attention,
SCAM VICTIM
REIMBURSEMENT PAYMENT

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USD (fIVE Hundred ThouSand Dollars)
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WARNING !! DO NOT RESPOND TO THE ABOVE SPAMM ==============================================
-- " Identity Thieves Target Job Seekers - BusinessWeek" --

SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE -- I hope you never need to use this procedure but it's good to know how to do it just in case:

-- A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this article sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.

-- Read this...It could save your life!! --

-- Let's say it's 6.15 PM and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.

-- Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest, that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only a few miles from the hospital nearest where-ever you are. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

-- HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

-- Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

-- However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

-- A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. -- A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

-- Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.

-- In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

-- Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

-- BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE. -- I JUST DID.