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• A good example of the whole “discover a problem, discover a solu-tion” method of inventing is the “Snap-It Screw.” It’s a method of replacing the tiny, and difficult to handle, screws that hold eyeglasses together.

• The “Snap-It Screw” was invented by Nancy Tedeschi. “The old saying that necessity is the mother of inventions is what inspired [it],” said Tedeschi. She meant it literally, as it was her own mother who inspired the invention’s creation.

• Tedeschi’s mother was overseas doing volunteer work when a hinge screw in her glasses broke. Left with no other immediate remedy, Tedeschi’s mother pulled the pin out of one of her earrings and placed it where the former hinge had been.

• “She wore this dangling bead from the hinge of her glasses for about a year. She traveled to several foreign countries with it in, and people would literally stop her on the streets and ask her where she got this charm,” said Tedeschi. “My mom came to me and said, ‘You have to invent charms for glasses.’” 10 OFF$10 OFF$

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• For Tedeschi, inventing the “Snap-It Screw” was the easy part. The difficult part was doing all the things necessary to produce and market her new invention. She had to set up patents all over the world. She had to set up a factory in China and a warehouse in Seattle, Washington. She had to spend countless hours marketing her idea to retailers. Today, the “Snap-It Screw” is a suc-cess, and Tedeschi says that despite all the hard work, she wouldn’t change a thing.

• “Bling To Go” was invented by Abby Appelt during a period where she was forced to use crutches. She felt the dull metal could use a little pizzazz. So she created some decorative wrap-on decals to give her crutches some personality, and her invention was born.

• Appelt said, “When I wore my crutch décor, I had people stop me, literally everywhere I went, complimenting me on how awesome my crutch-es were!”

• As Appelt notes, people decorate a million differ-ent things with stickers, so it made sense to do likewise with crutches.

• “Bling To Go” works on crutches, canes, walkers and bed poles. It’s a medical grade product that can be sanitized and cleaned, so it presents no health hazard to the user. The company’s slogan is “express your health,” and they back up their words by being active contributors to several physical and emotional health charities.

• Perhaps one of the more pe-culiar and innovative crea-tions making the invention circuit is the “Bogdon Bass.” It’s a standing bass guitar whose main component is a cardboard box!

• The “Bogdon Bass” is literally a large cardboard box sealed with tape, with a wooden neck and vinyl strings. It can be played with or without an ampli-fier. Because of the use of these materials, it is light-weight, inexpensive and recyclable.

• This peculiar instrument was invented by a man named Chris Badynee. He named the instrument after his father, Bogdon.

• “The inspiration to make my Bogdon Box Bass was that I had the desire to own something that I couldn’t afford, so I made one myself,” explained Badynee. “All I wanted was a natural-sounding upright bass for my own home recordings of songs I wrote.”

• After assembling what he thought was just a silly idea only he’d use, Badynee was shocked by how good the makeshift instrument sounded. “[It] sounded so fantastic that I had to tell someone. So I filmed a 60-second video and posted it on the web. I got 1,000 hits on Youtube in less than a day.”

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• Almost immediately after the video was shown on television, Badynee received requests to buy a “Bogdon Box.” He brought in his uncle and a couple of acoustic technicians to help him perfect it. Once they got the instrument exactly right, they began selling it on Ebay to a huge response. Hundreds were sold, almost as quickly as they could turn them out.

• Badynee took the profits from those sales to protect and patent his invention. Eventually, his belief in his invention paid off in praise, when his bass was given a rave review in “Bass Player Magazine.”

• A well-known invention marketed via television infomercials is the Snuggie. This blanket with sleeves solved a problem most people didn’t even know they had.

• Since it covers your entire body but keeps your hands free thanks to its armholes, Snuggie wear-ers stay warm while still retaining the ability to take sip of their drink, change the channel or turn the page of a book.

• The Snuggie was introduced in 2008 and was an instant success. By 2009, 20 million Snuggies had been sold. But there was actually a similar prod-uct already on the market, The Slanket, invented by Gary Clegg when he was a college freshman.

• Because it is difficult to patent a textile product, Clegg had not patented The Slanket, so the mak-ers of the Snuggie were able to make and market their product legally.

• Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s a safe bet that Clegg felt something other than pride when he first saw the Snuggie.

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• The first example of “home shopping” as we know it was offered by The Home Shopping Network (or HSN). HSN started with humble beginnings in 1977 in Clearwater, Florida, by selling 112 electronic can openers on an AM radio station. This turned into a regular radio shopping show called “Suncoast Bargaineers.”

• In 1981, the televised “Home Shopping Channel” was launched as a Tampa Bay local access cable channel. In 1985, it began broadcasting nation-wide, 24-hours a day on cable and local TV.

• Today, The Home Shopping Network is a $3 billion retailer that stretches across multiple channels and includes online, mobile, catalog and brick and mortar stores. It offers products 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 364 days a year.

• HSN now reaches 96 million homes, and its online site is one of the top 10 e-commerce sites on the web. Its catalog division, Cornerstone, distributes 275 million catalogs a year. That’s a lot of postage!

• In 2010, legendary rocker Rod Stewart was the first popular performer to debut a new album on a shopping channel. He debuted his CD “Fly Me To The Moon” with a live, one-hour concert on HSN. It was the highest viewed program in the history of the network and broke all its music sales records.

The other prominent shopping channel is QVC. It was founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel, founder of the Franklin Mint. Seasoned viewers of late-night TV commercials will recognize the Fran-klin Mint as the seller of commemorative plates, figurines, painted coins and other collectible items.

• QVC’s first live broadcast was shot in a studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The company broke American business records for sales by a new public company. Part of its early success came through an exclusive agreement with Sears to sell their products on the air.

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• Sunset Boulevard is an approximately 22-mile-long, immensely famous street beginning in downtown Los Angeles and continuing west toward the Pacific. It eventually becomes Sunset Strip as it runs through Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Santa Monica and ends at the ocean.

• The boulevard is a direct link between the lower-income areas of Hollywood and the lush, incred-ibly upscale ones. As the road continues west, it undergoes several transformations. It gives tour-ists the ability to experience both sides of Hol-lywood and is rich with sights and attractions all along the way.

• It encompasses a surplus of must-see sites in-cluding Echo Park, Hollywood Memorial Park, Paramount Studios, KTLA Studios, Fox Net-work, Columbia Square and the iconic Sunset Grill made famous by Don Henley’s song.

• It is at least four lanes its entire duration, and thanks to its curvy, winding route and frequent traffic congestion, car accidents are prevalent.

• It is sometimes referred to as “Guitar Row,” as it is home to a wide selection of guitar stores and music-industry-related buildings.

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• Hollywood High School, built in 1904, is on Sunset Boulevard and has a reputation for being one of the most beautiful schools in the state. Many famous entertainment personalities are among its graduates.

• The iconic thoroughfare inspired the popular 1950s feature film “Sunset Boulevard,” starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. There was also a 1993 musical named “Sunset Boulevard” that starred Glen Close.

• Sunset Boulevard has been highlighted on TV shows, album covers and in song names, includ-ing the 1960s TV series “77 Sunset Strip” and the 1990s’ “Below Sunset.”

• The best known section of Sunset Boulevard is Sunset Strip, which before its glory days, was nothing more than scattered buildings and nurs-eries. Once the movie industry took off, studios and glamorous houses began popping up every-where. It was once called Beverly Boulevard.

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You Suppose it’s a True Story?As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from the odd social session over the years.A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends at the Marriott Hotel and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine.Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I’ve never done before: I took a bus home.Sure enough I passed a police road block but as it was a bus, they waved it past.I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise; as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got it.

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Congratulations to the Loveland Ford Player of the week, Jr. defensive back for the Windsor Wizards, Blake Bundy.Blake had a solid defensive performance in a tough loss to the Wheat Ridge Farmers. He had 7 tackles but what earned him this week’s Loveland Ford player of the week was a huge play on special teams. With less than 3 minutes left in the game, the Wizards were down by 7 points. The Windsor defense stopped the Farmers on third down and Wheat Ridge elected to attempt a 45 yard field goal. After the wizards blasted through the line and blocked the kick, Blake Bundy scooped the football and ran it back for 65 yards and a touchdown! The huge play set up an opportunity for Coach Jones and the Wizards to win the game, but the Farm-ers stopped the two point con-version making the final score; Wheat Ridge 17, Windsor 16. Find out who our Loveland Ford player of the week will be next week when KFKA brings you Platte Valley and Weld Central.

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“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,” sang the Beatles back in 1965. It’s easy to recall their melancholy lyrics and haunting melody because we all have our yesterdays.

Why is it that we either over-romanticize how idyllic life was in the past (“Love was such an easy game to play”) or we over-mourn its sadness and woe (“Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be”)?

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s my wife and I lived in Livingstone Zambia in cen-tral Africa. It was some of the best years of our lives. When we talk about it we often over-state how wonderful life was back then. Because we were so happy there, we over-look the many serious problems we faced such as malaria, the night the marching ants invaded our home, the time I was arrested and held at the border for no reason, and the afternoon when several Canadian tourists were shot to death only a few miles from our home and my wife heard the gunfire.

Then there were the years we lived in Texas and Wyoming – not nearly as pleasant as those days in Zambia. Financial problems, unfulfilling labor, no real friends, lousy climate (Texas was too hot, Wyoming was too cold and both were too windy). I could whine on some more, but you get my drift.

The truth is Zambia wasn’t as idyllic as we cause ourselves to remember and Texas and Wyoming weren’t as bad as we recall.

Do you know the most significant thing about your yesterdays? Whether your yesterdays are over-romanticized or over-mourned, still they


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are over. They cannot be reclaimed nor can they be relived but they can become the chains that hold you back.

If you want to focus on your future you must get your past in perspective. I believe the only reason to consider your past is to equip yourself for the future. It makes sense to draw lessons

from your past; but it makes no sense to either glory or wal-low in it. Or as Publius Syrus said back in the first century BC, “Today is the pupil of yesterday.”

So, when looking at yester-day, ask only two questions: What worked, and what didn’t work? The rest is either over-rated bliss or under-managed bitterness.

Now here is this week’s “swift kick in the pants” - It’s OK to look at yesterday – but con-sider it only for a moment. Enjoy the fond memories or glance briefly at the sorrows, but do not linger long on either one for if you look constantly at the past, your eyes are diverted from today and by so doing you steal from your tomorrows. I’m suggesting you yield your yester-days.

By the way, would you like to know what God wants to do with your past? He wants to fix it for today. He wants to make everything right again. Just read the 23rd Psalm and consider these four words: “He restoreth my soul.”

Yield Your Yesterdays

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Commander Les Cogswell, Officers Chris Bashkov, Lisa Aguirre, Les Esch, Juan Fortanel, Ricardo Me-lendez and Deputy Adam Wills. The Sheriff ’s Of-fice believes in working with the community and building partnerships to improve the quality of life of all citizens. The Sheriff ’s Office has participated in the Tip a Cop event for over 9 nine years. The next Tip a Cop event will take place at the Red Robin Restaurant in Greeley on Saturday, October 13, 2012. The public is encouraged to attend.

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Ron & Amy RossAll inquiries: 970.475.4829 or 720.934.7677

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Harry JohnstonNo...I’m not retired! I’m now the General Manager of Loveland Ford & Lin-coln! Stop in and I’ll show you a great line of made-in-America Fords and Lin-colns and some exception-ally well-priced used cars, vans and trucks.

New General Manager

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Greeley Tidbits Issue 843