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You're a Big Boy Now - Yes You Are
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-- Yep! You've grown up and believe that you can take on the world. That there's nothing you can't handle and you've heard it all. Nobody can pull the wool over your eyes. Hey! You've graduated...you're over 16 or over 18 or over 21 or 27 years old. That's BIG.. Wew!! You even know where babies come from
;-)) and how to make babies.
====================================== ---> One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very sexy nighty. "Tie me up," she purred, "and you can do anything you want." So he tied her up and went golfing.
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---> Prepare for the future. Consider the mistakes you have made. Think about the mistakes you will make. Now try not to make them (again).
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---> "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure." --
-- Tommy Lasorda,
American Baseball Manager
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-- -- Thought of the day: --
-- "Failure is only postponed success, as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." -- Herbert Kaufman,
1878-1947, Writer
=======================================A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check.
He marched straight up to the counter and said, 'Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job.'
The social worker behind the counter said, 'Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You'll have to drive around in his 2007 Mercedes-Benz CL, and he will supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided.
You'll also be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday trips.
This is rather awkward to say, but you will also have as part of your job assignment to satisfy her sexual urges as the daughter is in her mid-20's and has a rather strong sex drive.
A two-bedroom loft type apartment with plasma TV, stereo, bar, etc., located above the garage will be designated for your sole use and the salary is $200,000 a year.'
The guy, just plain wide-eyed, said, 'You're bullshittin' me!'
The social worker said, 'Yeah, well . . . you started it.
-- Slingshot Product Design and Development Group-- Slingshot Product Development Group, (Slingshot PDG), is a one-stop source for product innovation, design, and development. Our Inventor/Start-up division helps inventors and entrepreneurs turn their concepts or products into reality. -- Slingshot PDG's unique start-up method and process harnesses the "entrepreneurial spirit" within inventors and corporations. We focus upon helping the client to reach the market cost effectively and quickly. -- The interest created by the American Inventor television show on ABC Television opened a window of opportunity to inform and demonstrate to the national audience what to do with their ideas and products. Auditions for the second season of ABC's American Inventor started in March of 2007. The "American Inventor" show premiered on June 7, 2007.
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-- Inventors have told us that many intellectual property attorneys applying for patents for the inventor, when asked whom to contact to turn their patents into products, are unable to refer them to a source for design and development of their patented idea. -- Slingshot PDG is a vertically integrated product design and development company ranging from industrial design to electrical and mechanical engineering, encompassing human factors and ergonomics. We are a one-stop source for all device design and development needs for established companies and inventors/ start-ups. Our divisions are Consumer Products, Medical, and Military/Security/Aerospace. Slingshot PDG is one of the only FDA registered product design and development firms of its kind. -- The mission of Slingshot PDG is to rapidly grow a client's profits through new product innovation. Our product development services offer innovation from product concept to manufacturing, and provide individual project elements as required. -- Slingshot PDG specializes in productizing technologies and concepts and can lead the entire process, including brainstorming, conceptualization, form development, ergonomics, prototyping, engineering, manufacturing coordination, and total program management. We are experts in creating the patent embodiments, physical forms, user interfaces, ergonomic features, and other elements of a complete product design.
Additionally, sourcing and manufacturer coordination services are offered through Slingshot PDG's Asia office near Shanghai, China. --
In addition to hard product design and development, our team allows us to offer development capabilities in materials science and materials innovation including: textile & woven products; non-wovens, absorbent disposables, paper; film, adhesives, hard plastics, polymer chemistry, the biological sciences and pure chemical related areas.
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-- This enables us to offer concept development; product design; development; intellectual property strategy, batch sampling and finished product procurement of performance materials for: disposable and semi-durable products, as well as enhancing our capabilities in "hard" product development. --
Some of our corporate clients include: The Coca-Cola Company, Kimberly Clark, CR Bard, Kes-Air, Charbroil, Conair, Plantronics, Lockheed, NASA, L-3, Isonics and many inventors and start-ups. -- Whatever concept, technology, or product, Slingshot PDG can help to identify the market's need, and develop products that address that need. We've designed our development process to minimize risk and budget while maximizing the client's return on investment. -- Please contact me, if you have any questions or if Slingshot PDG can be of service to you.
Gina Frazier, Director of Marketing, Start-Ups
Slingshot Product Development Group
1665 Lakes Parkway, Suite 102
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
(404) 317-9312
ginaf@slingshotpdg.com
www.slingshotpdg.com
-- Resourceful Information --
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INVENTORS: Jot down your inventive ideas before forgetting them. Use your head, THINK! Are you the only one in the world that has had these great ideas? Do your RESEARCH! Go to: www.uspto.gov - at the top of this page, click-on "Site Overview - New Users" then click-on "Inventor Resources." Link and read everything. -- Research http://www.inventorsconnection.org - the Website of the "Inventors Association of St. Louis (IASL)." -- Enter this world of inventive knowledge. Are you satisfied that you aren't about to re-invent the wheel? -- Begin your Inventor's Diary. -- Research the competition, - they made a pathway showing that there is a marketplace for your invention. --> Go to www.willitsell.com -- research helps with all your great ideas. --> It's both "what you know" as well as "who you know." Knowledge and persistency counts in getting around roadblocks. -- The IASL will help you.. --> Protect your ideas with: 1. A "Letter of Confidentiality," also known as a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), drafted by your attorney. 2. Your witnessed Inventors Diary or Journal is very good for proving that you are the "First to Invent." 3. A better choice, the mailing of a provisional application for patent (PAP) to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO. The PAP now costs $110.00. It protects you as the 'first to invent' only up to a one-year-period and allows for "Patent Pending" or "Patent Applied For" protection. -- Allows you to publish and expose your invention under favorable conditions. You may get your invention into a trade show and into various other marketplaces, testing the waters to see whether it is worth your while and fortune to apply for a U.S. Patent? [Patents are Issued; Trademarks are Registered] --> Before sending your PAP to the USPTO, it is advisable to have a Patent Attorney or Agent check it over; - a flawed PAP is worse than having no patent protection at all. 4. A non-provisional patent application, the application for a Patent, drafted by a Registered Patent Attorney or Agent who you should go to once you have performed your own preliminary research, - whose own research will satisfy whether it is worth going forward for your Issued Patent. --> Why patent? Because there may be bigger markets for your invention, that lasts longer than fads of six months. --> Research the marketplace. Who-are and where-are your customers and buyers and competition? -- You should understand that you can protect Intellectual Property (IP) with more than Patents; - with Trademarks, Service Marks, a Trade Name and Copyrights. 5. You can always keep your idea on the back-burner as a "Trade Secret" until you are ready. - Of course, even as you work diligently upon your idea, somebody might get their patented similar invention into the marketplace ahead of you? Hopefully not, ;-) -- There's no law that says that you must get a patent, just don't infringe. Without the PAP, placing an unguarded invention into the marketplace and then applying for your patent within the year is risky. - You may lose out on the International Marketplace. -- What the heck? - Here in the U.S.A. is the worlds' greatest marketplace. --> The reason that YOU are doing all this work is that no one pays for ideas. Would you? Ideas are a dime a dozen and they must be reduced to practice. Registered Patents and Trademarks are unique and become valuable when one knows the invention scheme. --> It's your move. Go forth prepared and tempered by the mentorship of the Inventors Association of St. Louis (IASL). --> Join, become an IASL Member. --> Go to scheduled IASL Meetings. Read and re-read until you understand. --> Good Luck.
-- THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO: -- There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for
survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: FIRST
Emergency
-- The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself
out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number
112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. SECOND
-- Have you ever locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. --
Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and
the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone
from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car
door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding
it near the mobile on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone
from having to drive your keys to you. -- Distance is no object. You
could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has
the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the
trunk).
Editor's Note: "It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
over a cell phone!" THIRD
Hidden Battery Power:
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#
Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a
50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge
your cell next time. FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
-- To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits
on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.
This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it
somewhere safe. When your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service
provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your
handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be
totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least
you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. -- If everybody
does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. FIFTH
-- Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411
information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a
telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more
of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply
dial (800) FREE 411 or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at
all. --> Program this into your cell phone now. -- This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it
on to your friends and family. -- "10 Tips: Stay safe during power outages" --
40 STRANGE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles
the company once had.
3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise
it will digest itself.
4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
8. A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.
9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
10. Every person has a unique tongue print.
11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
12. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an
albino.
13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
14. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in
the distance.
15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
will kill a small sized dog.
17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
18. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
21. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because
in the time when all original print had to be "set" in individual
letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the
case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
22. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.
23. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
24. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a
recorded Wendy before!
25. Leonardo Da Vinci took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
26. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
27. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
28. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
29. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
30. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.
31. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
32. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece
of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
33. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
34. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
35. Guinness Book of Records holds the record... for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
36. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game.
37. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
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http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/lie/lie.html
-- Translators for Traveling through China -
Learn Chinese in 5 minutes (You MUST read them aloud)
~~~~~~ English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chinese
~~ That's not right ! ~~~~ Sum Ting Wong
~~ Are you harbouring a fugitive ? ~~~~ Hu Yu Hai Ding
~~ See me ASAP ~~~~ Kum Hia Nao
~~ Stupid Man ~~~~ Dum Fuk
~~ Small Horse ~~~~ Tai Ni Po Ni
~~ Did you go to the beach ? ~~~~ Wai Yu So Tan
~~ I bumped into a coffee table !! ~~~~ Ai Bang Mai Fu Kin Ni
~~ I think you need a face lift ? ~~~~ Chin Tu Fat
~~ It's very dark in here ! ~~~~ Wai So Dim
~~ I thought you were on a diet ? ~~~~ Wai Yu Mun Ching
~~ This is a tow away zone! ~~~~ No Pah King
~~ Our meeting is scheduled for next week! ~~~~ Wai Yu Kum Nao
~~ Staying out of sight ~~~~ Lei Ying Lo
~~ He's cleaning his automobile ~~~~ Wa Shing Ka
~~ Your body odour is offensive ~~~~ Yu Stin Ki Pu
~~ Great !! ~~~~ Fa Kin Su Pa
~~ Where's the red light district? ~~~~ Ai Wan Pu Tang
PASS IT ALONG. DON'T LAUGH BY YOURSELF
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