Abstract: A drink lid dispenser assembly includes a lid housing which contains a stack of drink container lids. A lid dispenser unit is movably integrated into the lid housing. The lid dispenser unit includes a lid screw which engages a bottommost lid in the stack of drink container lids thereby facilitating the bottommost lid to fall outwardly from the lid housing to deliver the bottommost lid to a user. A straw dispenser is coupled to the lid housing and the straw dispenser contains a stack of drinking straws. The straw dispenser includes a screw engaging a bottommost straw in the stack of drinking straws. The screw in the straw dispenser urges the bottommost straw outwardly from the straw dispenser when the straw dispenser is turned on to deliver the bottommost straw to the user.

Abstract: A tool composed of silicone to apply cosmetics to the skin is disclosed. The invention described here reduces waste and the effort required to re-use a foam or foam-like cosmetic tool by being composed of silicone material that does not absorb cosmetics and is resistant to stains from most liquid, gel, or cream cosmetics. This results in decreased effort, decreased waste, increased cleanliness and longer use of the cosmetic tool.

Abstract: A lottery ticket is printed onto two substrate sheets where the sheets are laminated together with both of equal length and with the top sheet approximately half the width of the bottom sheet and arranged along one side edge of the bottom sheet leaving approximately half of the bottom sheet exposed and free to fold over the top sheet. A series of break open windows is provided in the front surface of the top sheet which can be opened by a player to expose some of the game indicia printed onto the front face of the bottom sheet and covered also by a layer of scratchoff. Some of the game indicia is located on the front surface of the bottom sheet and is covered by a layer of scratchoff material so that it is on the inside when the bottom sheet is folded over.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to enzymes involved in the fructan biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes. The present invention also relates to regulatory elements and, more particularly, to promoters capable of causing expression of an exogenous gene in plant cells, such promoters being from a gene encoding an enzyme involved in the fructan biosynthetic pathway in plants. The invention also relates to vectors including the nucleic acids and regulatory elements of the invention, plant cells, plants, seeds and other plant parts transformed with the regulatory elements, nucleic acids and vectors, and methods of using the nucleic acids, regulatory elements and vectors.

Abstract: Methods and systems of enrolling a participant in at least one benefit plan. A method of enrolling at least one participant in at least one benefit plan including electronically receiving benefit plan information from a plan sponsor, electronically providing benefit plan information to the at least one participant, receiving benefit plan need information from the at least one participant, receiving needs priority information from the at least one participant, and electronically providing benefit plan suggestion information to the at least one participant.