Have you shared your idea lately? Here's my pizza vending machine idea - thank goodness for people, ideas and pizza

“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.”
~~ ~~ Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, (b. February 11, 1847, d. October 18, 1931) inventor of phonograph, motion picture camera, and the very, very, long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park."

From writings on napkins to professional proposals, and presentations - peoples' ideas, concepts, and innovations come in all sizes and shapes. They are never too small or too big and can never be over-shared or over-expanded on.

So please help make this idea a reality by sharing, visiting and giving thanks this Thanksgiving by voting for this pizza vending machine idea "Pizza Vending Machine" idea that I recently posted on the Quirky.com site.

You can click the link or copy/past this in your browser http://www.quirky.com/invent/767110/action/vote/query/sort=ending_soon&categories

And I encourage you to post your ideas on Quirky.com.

To give you an idea of what it is about, below are parts of the Pizza Vending Machine idea that I posted on Quirky.com, the idea site that helps folk's inventions become a reality.

PITCH
Own a pizzeria without the headache of 24/7 that will also make pizza lovers on the go happy.

WHAT PROBLEM DOES YOUR IDEA ADDRESS? Omnipotent pizza! Pizza anytime, anywhere! FOR MORE OF MY INFORMATION ON THIS SECTION VISIT http://www.quirky.com/invent/767110/action/vote/query/sort=ending_soon&categories.

HOW DOES THIS PROBLEM SOLVE IDEAS? Everyone loves pizza! An innovative pizza vending machine with quality made pizza, that delivers freshly baked slices or individual pies in minutes... FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THIS SECTION, VISIT http://www.quirky.com/invent/767110/action/vote/query/sort=ending_soon&categories


BESIDES THE IDEA I POSTED HERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT PIZZA


According to Wikimedia.org, the word pizza (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpittsa], from the Latin verb pìnsere, to press and from the Greek pēktos, πηκτός, meaning "solid" or "clotted") is Greek in origin. The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. In Byzantine Greek, the word was spelled πίτα, pita, or πίττα, pitta, meaning pie. The word has also spread to Romanian as pită, Turkish as pide,and Bulgarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

The Romans developed placenta, a sheet of dough topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves. Modern pizza originated in Italy as the Neapolitan flatbread.

A popular urban legend holds that the archetypal pizza, Pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). Supposedly, this kind of pizza was then named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita,[4] though recent research casts doubt on this legend. (Photo right courtesy of Wikimedia.org)

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The Innovator’s Path – How Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Can Make Innovation Business-as-Usual Book Review by Gloria Buono-Daly GBDaly Smile Rating - 5 smiles Up )))))

“If innovation is to happen in our businesses, we must become – and our team members must become – an organization of listeners.”
~~ Madge M. Meyer, Founder & Owner of Madge Meyer Consulting, LLC, award winning corporate innovation leader; Speaker and Author of The Innovator’s Path – How Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Can Make Innovation Business-as-Usual

The Innovator’s Path – How Individuals, Teams, and Organizations can Make Innovation Business-as Usual by Madge M. Meyer is an insightful and intriguing cross-cultural look into unique perspectives on how innovation happens and leaves readers uplifted by the wonder of “cross-cultural phenomenom,” a term that has become synonymous with the author.

Meyer shares how her experiences including her family life in Asia-- born in Shanghai, China, and then moving to Hong Kong in her teens -- have influenced her as leading business innovator.

As a former Chief Innovation Officer and distinguished corporate leader in information technology and telecommunications for IBM, Merrill Lynch and, most recently, Executive Vice President for over a decade at State Street Corporation, Meyer is also an award winning corporate innovator who is passionate about making innovation “Business-as-Usual.”

Meyer’s eight chapter book introduces eight essential disciplines -- Listen, Lead, Position, Promote, Connect, Commit, Execute, and Evolve -- in a very unique yet practical way; Besides the creative theme Chinese Ideograms alongside each opening chapter title, Meyer shares her thought processes, approaches, and her experiences behind her successes and innovations. Also included are Meyer’s interviews with many prominent business leaders, who were also contributors to her book.

I was particularly impressed by the way Meyer shares how her mother’s advice “Love life and love people,” has taught her to become a better negotiator and to build trust with people in business, and develop mutually supportive relationships which ultimately lead to valuable lasting connections throughout her business career and in her personal life.

“…people prefer to do business with people they know and trust. We all are more likely to go the extra mile for respect … When we treat vendors fairly and honorably, they can truly become our strategic partners.”
~~ Madge M. Meyer, The Innovator’s Path (page 101)

The big smile factor in the book was when Meyer shared a story of when one of her colleagues, a CEO of a technology company was referred to as "Santa Clause" for all the innovations he contributed to his client.

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Whether you are seeking to improve on your career, your company’s product, or have an idea you want to expand, The Innovator’s Path by Madge Meyer will provide you with the knowledge, strategic thinking and wonderful stories behind innovations that will motivate and inspire you to want to move forward in your projects. The Innovator’s Path – How Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Can Make Innovation Business-as-Usual by Madge Meyer is on sale now.

RESOURCES:
●   Official Madge M. Meyer Web site
●   The Innovator’s Path by Madge M. Meyer on Amazon.com



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Happy B-Day Robert Arthur Moog! American Electronic Music Legend – born in NYC on May 23, 1934

Happy 78th B-Day to the world’s grandfather of electronic music, Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005). This American pioneer of electronic music who founded Moog Music, changed music forever with the invention of the Moog Synthesizer.

To honor Moog, Google celebrates with this interactive doodle of a replica of the Moog Synthesizer – visit google.com and go ahead -- click the keys!

Photo, left of the Minimoog,a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog, released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. (Moog Music after 1972); In 1981 production was stopped. It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager. The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments.

Bands such as The Beatles, which would eventually use a Moog machine on the album "Abbey Road," (released September 29, 1969), wanted a psychedelic sound, and the Moog could provide it. Today, Abbey Road is known as the best Bestles album. Many musicians would adopt Moog machines: including Herbie Hancock and Sun Ra, the jazz greats; the Monkees and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, the rock groups; even the Beastie Boys, the rap group formed in 1981.

A native of New York City, as a child his mother encouraged him to study music and he learned to play piano. He also spent time with his father,an electrical engineer at Con Edison, whose hobby was tinkering with electronics. At the age of 14, Bob built his first theremin. Photo left, Moog with his Boy Scout group in 1945 at 11 years young.

When he was 19, Bob published his first article named "The Theremi" in Radio and Television News, in January 1954. That article engendered requests from readers for Bob to create a theremin kit for sale, and thus R.A. Moog, Co. was born. Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York, graduating in 1952. Moog earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania). Pronunciation of Moog rhymes with “vogue.” Photo right, 18-year young Moog with his theremin (1952).

More Info
♫ MoogMusic.com
♫ The Christian Science Monitor: Bob Moog: How he changed music forever
♫ The Bob Moog Foundation http://www.moogfoundation.org/
♫ Bob Moog Goodle doodle Demonstration: How to use it! – YouTube demonstration of Moog Synthesizer
♫ Inventor of the Week Archive
♫ SearchEngineWatch.com Bob Moog Rocks Google Homepage with Synthesizer Logo You Can Play
♫ Moog on Facebook
♫ Interview with Bob Moog
Photo left, Moog high school graduation portrait, 18 years young (1952)

In 2002 Bob Moog was honoured with a Grammy Award for technical achievements. He died of a brain tumour on August 21, 2005 at 78 years old. Photo right, Moog lecturing at York University, in Toronto, Canada (1974).

Happy 100th B-Day Mary Blair!

Happy 100th B-Day to Mary Blair, American artist known for producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, and drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella.


After the completion of Peter Pan, Mary resigned from Disney and worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, creating advertising campaigns for companies such as Nabisco, Pepsodent, Maxwell House, Beatrice Foods and others. She also illustrated several Golden Books for publisher Simon & Schuster, some of which remain in print today, and designed Christmas and Easter sets for Radio City Music Hall. Several of her illustrated children's books from the 1950s remain in print, such as “I Can Fly” by Ruth Krauss. Blair was honored as a Disney Legend in 1991.

Born Mary Browne Robinson on October 21, 1911, in McAlester, Oklahoma, her family moved to Texas while she was a small child, and later to California. In 1934, she married another artist, Lee Everett Blair (October 1, 1911 – April 19, 1993).


She was the sister-in-law of animator Preston Blair (1908–1994). Mary Blair died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 26, 1978 at the age of 67.

Today, October 21, 2011 would have been Blair’s 100th birthday, Google paid homage to Blair's life and works with a doodle themed with colorful patterns.

Click here for more information about Mary Blair.

Happy 90th B-Day to Art Clokey - Creator of Gumby

Happy B-Day to Arthur "Art" Clokey, ) innovative pioneer in stop motion clay animation.

In 1955 Clokey produced Gumbasia, an experimental film about claymation. This film help him and his wife, Ruth,come up with the idea of his clay character, Gumby. Gumby and his horse Pokey became popular on American TV and later they got their own series “The Adventures of Gumby.” In the 1980s American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live. In the 1990s Gumby: The Movie was released, sparking even more interest. Born Arthur Charles Farrington in Detroit, Michigan on October 12 , 1921 he died in his sleep on January 8, 2010, at age 88, at his home in Los Osos, California after suffering from a recurrent bladder infection.
On October 12, 2011, which would have been Clokey's 90th birthday, Google paid homage to Clokey's life and works with an interactive logo doodle in the style of his clay animations.

More information about Clokey can be found at the following links:

Art Clokey: How Gumby got his name by Chris Gaylord, Christian Science Monitor
Art Clokey – Wikipedia
Art Clokey: Creator Extraordinaire