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Aug 17, 2011

INVENTIONS News, Aug 17, 2011


Rhinestone-studded bra straps win invention competition for wanna-be ...

Winner Jann Lori, left, with model Kristina Byram show Hott Straps during the TeleBrands Inventor Contest Tuesday.

New York Daily News
"Hott Straps" bested inventions including the Automatic Doggie Doo Doo Collector and the Flexible Window Washer. "It was a tough decision," Khubani said. "We were trying to pick the best of the best. We felt it had the best shot. ...
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New York Daily News
The Art of Selling Invention Ideas
PR Web (press release)
Ad-Gen, a marketing and advertising agency focusing on promoting individual inventors'invention ideas, is continuing to grow with the recent addition of Communications Specialist/ Graphic Artist Dan Prokop from Dan Prokop Creative. ...
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PR Web (press release)
5 Little-Known Inventions From Deceased Robot Maker George Devol
Gizmodo Australia
Check out these five little-known inventions developed during his long career. Devol formed United Cinephone and, using photoelectric switches, created the first automatic door. He licensed theinvention to Yale & Towne who used it to produce the ...
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Da Vinci exhibition taking shape
Winnipeg Free Press
Still, Da Vinci -- The Genius, which opens to the public Friday and runs to Oct. 23, showed promise to fascinate visitors with its constructions of 65 of Da Vinci's ahead-of-their-time inventions and analyses of the master's key artworks. ...
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Boulder City man misses fund-raising goal for booth at clean energy summit
Las Vegas Review - Journal
His "Energy Inventions" booth would have allowed summit attendees, including event cosponsor and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to test and observe some of the devices. The Review-Journal featured Vesperman in its Sunday Business section, ...
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Three LI inventions in contest's top 10
Newsday (subscription)
Click here Three LI inventions in contest's top 10 August 16, 2011 8:21 PM By JAMES BERNSTEIN james.bernstein@newsday.com Lots of things have been invented on Long Island, big -- such as the Lunar Lander that took astronauts to the moon, ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Colborne Art Gallery Presents Diverse Inventions By Irene Osborne Starting ...
NorthumberlandView.ca
The Colborne Art Gallery is pleased to present Diverse Inventions, an exhibition of new work by Gallery artist Irene Osborne. "The dictionary defines the word "inventions" in several ways, but I use it here with the meaning "originated by experiment or ...
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Despite the Odds, a Jazz Label Finds a Way to Thrive
New York Times
By NATE CHINEN Steve Coleman and Five Elements were deep into one of their horizonless, hypnotic inventions at the Newport Jazz Festival this month, and the tent-sheltered crowd seemed duly absorbed. Mr. Coleman's alto saxophone slashed through the air ...
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New York Times
Ten Tenets To Live By When Starting a Business
Business Insider
If you want some tips to beat the insurmountable odds, take a look at the following concepts, adapted from Richard C. Levy's book, “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cashing in On YourInventions.” He was talking about inventions, but I think his concepts ...
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The New Inventors
ABC Online
For the past eight years, The New Inventors has launched the best and brightest newinventions from across the country, and this year has been no exception. From hundreds of applications we now have a select group in contention to be The New Inventors ...
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ABC Online
Kodak Worth More in Breakup With $3 Billion Patents: Real M&A
San Francisco Chronicle
17 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co. may hold patents worth five times more than the business itself, making the 131- year-old camera company a target in the billion-dollar hunt for inventionsused in mobile phones. Kodak, which once had a market value ...
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Catching up with old friends 20 years later
KC Community News
I grew up, mind you, in a time before such inventions as compact discs and cellular phones, not to mention the internet and email. I have learned that Facebook can be an incredible tool, getting a message of encouragement out to friends or simply ...
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Elyria man honored after his death for inventing OmniScope
Chronicle-Telegram
One of his best-known inventions was Instant Ocean, which replicates seawater in aquariums, university laboratories and home aquariums. The family owned and operated the WE Kelley Co. that sold and repaired cash registers and adding machines from a ...
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Canada Post puts a stamp on Canadian inventors
Canada NewsWire (press release)
17, 2011 /CNW/ - Four significant Canadian inventions - the electric oven, the electric wheelchair, the cardiac pacemaker and the iconic BlackBerry® - are honoured today with the release of four domestic-rate commemorative stamps in the Canadian ...
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Ameranth Expands Its Patent Enforcements to Include Its 21st Century ...
Review seeker (press release)
'Lawsuit names Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, OpenTable, and others as infringing its patent claims' By PR Newswire SAN DIEGO, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameranth, Inc. announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United ...
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A glimpse of a robotic future
Engineer Live
Robot animals, a self-driving car and a super-sensing helmet that could help save firefighters' lives are coming to the city - and the public are being invited to view these futuristic inventions for themselves. The Towards Automatic Robotics Systems ...
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Google pressed to enforce rights in patent war
Financial Times
The more certified inventions a company can call to its defence, according to this thinking, the greater its chances of fighting off a legal challenge, or of mounting a counter-attack that turns the tables on an adversary. Seen from that perspective, ...
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New Inventors take axing with a grain of salt
ABC Online
The final episode of The New Inventors features the best three inventions of the year and this year, one of these inventions finds a way to use brackish water for agriculture. So what better place to shoot the episode, than a salt pan outside of ...
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ABC Online
Next Gen Golfers Continue to Impress; Ke
FOXSports.com
The holder of more than 600 patents, Oakley is continually seeking problems, solving them withinventions and wrapping those inventions in art. This philosophy has made Oakley one of the most iconic and inimitable brands on the market, with innovations ...
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Robotics pioneer George Devol, a former Greenwich resident, dies at 99
Ct Post
In 2005, Popular Mechanics selected Unimate as one of the top 50 inventions of the last 50 years, putting it right up there with such omnipresent devices as the television remote control, the microwave oven, the jet airliner and even the birth-control ...
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Apple: GOOG-MMI Proof Of Apple Way, Says Barclays
Barron's (blog)
“We believe this deal validates Apple's business model – the development of its own inventions, resulting in integrated software and hardware. In order to compete over the long term in the smartphone era it is clear that patents and inventions are ...
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Why do they call it that? Back to school edition
WTSP 10 News
In 1915, the school was renamed to honor the man whose inventions led to the Florida we know today -- and to some very refreshing ice-filled beverages -- Dr. John Gorrie. Why do they call it that? Now you know. We feature new "Why do they call it that? ...
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WTSP 10 News
Louise Behrend, concert violinist and Suzuki method teacher, dies at 94
Washington Post
Ms. Behrend, a native Washingtonian, grew up in a musical family that included an uncle whoseinventions led to the development of the phonograph. She was a toddler when she tried to enroll herself in violin lessons. Her musical ability earned her a ...
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App gives to charity every time you hit the snooze button
msnbc.com
By Rosa Golijan The snooze button found on most alarm clocks is one of the best and worstinventions this world has ever seen. On one hand, it lets us spend a few more moments in our beds. But on the other hand, there's that temptation to press the ...
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UConn President Establishes Vice Presidency For Economic Development
Hartford Courant
The new vice president will "work with all kinds of industries and disciplines to create jobs and fuel the economy," Herbst said, "but also will help faculty take their inventions to market and form companies. … This is meant to signal that we are far ...
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A Virus Named TOM Sneek Peek
GoozerNation
Scorned, he creates TOM, a virus made to destroy his inventions and bring him retribution for his unjustly termination. As TOM the virus, you'll infect and destroy the machines the citizens of Tomorrow rely on. Raptr has an exclusive Grand Prize for ...
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GoozerNation
August 17 MEMORY BANK
SunHerald.com
The editor wondered if this was going to be the result of the impending air age: “Can they find no other use for these winged inventions than mischief?” Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, ...
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iPhone and iPad ban sought by latest HTC lawsuit filing
T3
"Apple needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its products,” an official statement from HTC's general counsel Grace Lei said. "We are taking this action against Apple to protect our intellectual property, our industry partners, ...
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T3
Ore. conference explores the frontiers of the tiny: nanotechnology | The Republic
The Republic
Still, nanotechnology has already proved its potential with inventions such as solar power paint that turns warehouses into solar power plants and fabrics that automatically clean themselves. The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/p4zPL9 ) that one of ...
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Help Wanted: Head of Sales [Jobs We Love]
PSFK
Launched a little over a year ago to a fantastic response from vibrant online communities, sugru was listed alongside the iPad by TIME Magazine as one of the top 50 inventions in the world in 2010. In its first year, a potential global market has ...
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Romney doesn't want to talk about Perry
msnbc.com
Everything that has made our country great has come from government investment, whetherinventions from NASA or energy from WPA projects to build Hoover dam. Look at what our parents and grandparents left us--and they did it for future generations, ...
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St. Joseph Native To Be On New History Channel Show That Debuts Tonight
WDXE
“We talked about everything — Tabasco sauce, Bear Bryant, Alabama football, religion andinventions. I had no idea a Southerner invented refrigeration,” Cross said. The special aims to answer questions such as “How did the South get its twang? ...
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Don't turn up your nose at rosé
East Valley Tribune
Like many great inventions, it was invented by accident. Back then, the market for white wine far exceeded red, and California producers couldn't keep up. They decided to start making white wine out of red grapes. Sutter Home winery was making a batch ...
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New compound may accelerate bone healing, prevent osteoporosis
Indiana University
The Indiana CTSI provided key support to Yokota's early investigation into salubrinal with a $20000 Research Inventions and Scientific Commercialization Grant. The funds fueled research identifying a chemical partner that combines with the salubrinal ...
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Is social media turning socially dangerous?
CBS News
It's nothing new for unscrupulous people to find a way to misuse new inventions. It's not the technology but the people that are dangerous. by barbaram99 August 16, 2011 11:54 PM EDT I believe in free speech..That is why I post here. ...
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Kentucky State Fair kicks off Thursday with new treats
Louisville Courier-Journal
According to Buss, who originated the term, it's a clever and funny person who imagines crazy concepts and inventions, and turns them into reality, which is what he'll do in South Wing C lobby. In the West Courtyard, there will be the Nerveless Nocks, ...
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Clinical Developments at Enlivex Therapeutics - a Hadasit Bio-Holdings ...
PR Newswire (press release)
HADSY is the domestically traded ADR of Hadasit Bio-Holdings, a public investment vehicle representing a portfolio of biotech companies, all based on inventions developed at Hadassah. Hadasit Bio-Holdings focuses on advancing companies that are past ...
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Mayors With a New Vision of Creativity and Innovation Wanted
Huffington Post (blog)
By recognizing the importance of creativity and innovation, we will attract, nurture or retain the bright and creative people that generate new patents and inventions, innovative world-class products and services and the finance and marketing plans to ...
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Jobs biography released early
Fudzilla
So it is really book about marketing and how you can take lots of peoples inventions and repackage them so that people think that they are getting something different. Jobs being candid includes statements how he was not proud of the fact that he got ...
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Female smokers' bladder cancer risk now equals males'
CTV.ca
"One of the problems that bladder cancer survivors and researchers and the system around it has with this disease is we haven't had any real breakthroughs -- new inventions, a new drug," said Jewett. "And so as a result, the survivors are not in the ...
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Amanda Harrington is loving the new X Factor judging panel, Madonna at 53 and ...
Liverpool Echo
Spanx - probably one of the best inventions ever for girls. They suck you in in all the right places and shape your figure perfectly. Very tight, though! Kim Kardashian breaking out in psoriasis - it's very common and not a nice condition. ...
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Devil's Bookmark: Atheism for Smarties
Religion Dispatches
Applied to religion, this is equivalent to saying “look, when we say we believe in the Bible, we only pretend that we are dealing with facts, but we all agree that they are inventions.” In other words, metafiction lifts the mask from the face of any ...
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Renada Romain Talks Ear Candy Mornings With The Source
The Source (blog)
The internet is one of the greatest inventions, but, like anything else, it can be used as a weapon. I've been on both sides of that. I remember an interview I did with Nelly. I asked him with all that he had been through over the past couple of years, ...
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The Source (blog)
Bozso does Tillsonburg proud
Tillsonburg News
Following her cry about inventions and the innovators who made them a reality in the second heat, Bozso felt it went well despite performing early in the roster. "It can be a disadvantage," she said. "But now I'm not left to wonder how its going to go. ...
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Surprising New Research On Chocolate, Coffee, Vitamin D And Skin ...
By T Goodman
image via independent.co.ukThere's good news and bad news in three of the most recent studies on protecting your skin from sun damage and possible skin cancer. One study, in particular, may cause some concern among those with high ...
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Muslim Inventions Dazzle California Monitoring Desk - science news ...
Muslim Inventions Dazzle California - science news Monitoring Desk Qaumiawaz. info - voice of the people | news from India | news from Muslim world | cricket ...
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English inventions latest news and videos
So how can something that was invented by one employed with the government have trade secret? The fact is since its invention more than 50 years ago. ...
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USA News, Aug 17, 2011


Obama preaches compromise in the Midwest
USA Today
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY PEOSTA, Iowa — As he travels past the farms, churches and corner stores of rural America, President Obama is crystallizing the differences between his style of government and those of the Republicans who want to replace him. ...
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USA Today
Poll: Job approval for Congress at record low
USA Today
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Americans are fed up with the way Congress does its job, giving lawmakers record low approval ratings in the latest Gallup Poll. The 13% approval rating in the Gallup survey ties a mark set in December, shortly after voters ...
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USA Today
Rick Perry Takes On Obama, Romney, Bernanke
ABC News (blog)
“On just day three of his campaign, Rick Perry said he would have allowed the US to default on its debts, and unleashed inflammatory schoolboy taunts at the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Suddenly, the rest of the Republican field is looking ...
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The Debt Ceiling Debacle
Voice X Change (blog)
He predicated dire economic consequences if a deal wasn't reached and the USA received a credit downgrade. Yet Obama had drawn a line in the sand of his own that stopped any deal from being reached. Later he would spin the fear tactics as a strictly ...
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Biden seeks strong China ties under shadow of debt
Reuters
As the largest foreign holder of US debt, China wants sound management of Washington's fiscal problems, and berated Washington this month after its near-default on its debt. Republicans and Democrats in Congress agreed earlier this month on a deal to ...
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Reuters
Bachmann spokeswoman defends reunion comment
Politico (blog)
Second, Michelle Bachmann wanted to default -- a failure to raise the debt limit would've caused a BIGGER downgrade. If you're going to be stupid, at least be coherent, okay? S/P were very clear on the reason the USA rating was drop because Republicans ...
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USA Today News: Obama welcomes Super Bowl champion Packers
Watch USA Today News - Season 2011, Obama welcomes Super Bowl champion Packers: President Barack Obama welcomed the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers to ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Aug 17, 2011

Pioneer Previews: Tickets remaining for US Air Force band concert
Bemidji Pioneer
The group will also debut some of the songs from its new CD, which will be released in the near future. Both concerts are sponsored by Headwaters School of Music and the Arts and Lake Bemidji State Park and made possible in part by Region 2 Arts ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Aug 17, 2011


Farm'ton's Nurtur, Duke widen collaboration
Hartford Business
... menu of health and wellness programs and clinical experts. Financial terms of the arrangement weren't disclosed. Duke Medicine's programs cover diet, fitness, lifestyle choices, and integrated medicine, Nurtur's Patricia Simmons said Tuesday.
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Wellness Wednesday - Gastric Ulcers and the Performance Horse
DressageDaily
This week's Wellness Wednesday Brought to you by Uckele Health & Nutrition. Recent studies show that gastric ulcers occur in a surprisingly high percentage of performance horses. Jack Grogan, Certified Nutritionist and Chief Science Officer for Uckele ...
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Father of Raw Plant Based Diet & Wholistic Clinical Research Activist Viktoras ...
RedOrbit
By joining The Green PolkaDot Box you can align yourself with other leaders in the Health andWellness Industry, including organizations like the Organic Consumers Association, Citizens forHealth, the Hippocrates Health Institute and the Living Light ...
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Nurtur Expands Exclusive Relationship with Leading Academic Medical Center to ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
World-class health and wellness programs from Duke Medicine are a marquee benefit for employers to use in supporting a culture of health, enhancing employee satisfaction and recruiting top talent. John McCall, Operations Director, Duke Diet and Fitness ...
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Stopping Childhood Obesity from Hitting Home
Patch.com
“A combination of catastrophic things has led to our population of underfit and overweight children,” said Anne Brucker, M.Ed., exercise physiologist and founder of Brucker Fitness System. “Video games and television time coupled with diets of ...
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Youth complete Get Fit program with HYPE
Dearborn Press and Guide
HYPE also brought in a fitness trainer and wellness coach, Christina Pappas, to address diet and nutrition concerns with the youth. Pre, mid, and post program evaluations were conducted to track progress for the youth. These evaluations included height ...
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Vitamins and Minerals: The Forgotten Vitamin E
Nutritional Outlook
While the tocopherols also contribute to many crucial metabolic functions, it's increasingly clear that neglecting the “forgotten” vitamin E—tocotrienols—is something we do at the peril of our health and wellness.
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Nutritional Outlook
New Study Finds Resistance Training in First Trimester of Pregnancy Beneficial ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Launched in 2010, AnytimeHealth.com is a comprehensive, open-access web portal dedicated to nutrition, fitness, and disease prevention and management. It is essentially a one-stop shop for members' health and wellness needs, and includes a diet tracker ...
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Belleville Resident Discovers Her Life's Purpose, Opens Yoga Studio
Patch.com
Vegetables are missing out a lot in the American diet.” What Serrano offers at InSync is Gentle and Power Yoga. “I offer yoga at the beginner level. A lot of people are afraid; there's a lot of sensationalism. People see how people bend in magazines ...
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