The brown bag seminars
Managing your Digital Photos
Fridays
Jan. 20 and Jan. 27
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
The Intersession brings opportunity for our Travel Guru, an award-winning photographer, to share skills inherently relevant to her wanderlust. Sharon Kinden is here to share the fruits of yet another of her talents—organizing those precious experiences digitally captured while traveling.
The seminars will address the following:
- Transferring photos to a computer
- Editing your photos
- Organizing your photos
- Storing your photos
- Online
- External Hard Drive
- Flash drives
Sharing your photos
Framing your photos
- Determine your motivation
- Determine where you want to display
Sharon Kinden was raised on a farm in northeastern South Dakota and attended a one-room school house. As the only student in her grade, she had ample time to read about intriguing places like Siam, Constantinople, and Shangri-La. She never dreamed she’d actually get to touch exotic places like the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, or Angkor Watt. Coming face-to-face with mortality in 1997 when her husband died of ALS—Lou Gehrig’s disease—she re-ordered her priorities and started traveling. In the ensuing 12 years, Sharon has visited 57 countries and all seven continents. Known as a master writer of travelogues and a master photographer, gratefully, she brings her talents to the Osher Institute for you.
The Drama of Aging: Secrets of the Backstage
Friday
Feb. 3
11:15 a.m to 12:45 p.m.
David B. Oliver will reveal the lighter side of aging while not dodging the realities that assure that none of us get out of this alive. The drama of aging is just that, from birth to death and all the stages in-between. Bodies age, relationships change, the social settings in which we act out our lives can change dramatically and spiritually we hang on to those values that sustain us. The good news is that the vast majority of us will remain functionally healthy for a very long time—and not limited in our daily activities. Backstage to this drama are all the props that from time to time are brought to the forefront, prime time, front stage, to create an aura of mystification that life is good. And it is.
David B. Oliver, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Deputy Director, University of Missouri Interdisciplinary Center on Aging. Dr. Oliver completed his PhD in sociology and gerontology at the University of Missouri in 1972. His BA degree at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri and MA degree at the University of Nebraska in Omaha were in sociology. He was also a National Science Foundation Scholar in Anthropology at the University of Colorado. David has pursued a career that spans the fields of sociology, aging, health care, and religion. He has chaired the Departments of Sociology at The School of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri, and at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He occupied the endowed Oubri A. Poppele Chair in Health and Welfare Studies at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, and was the Executive Vice President with responsibility for all post‑acute and chronic care services for the Heartland Health System in St. Joseph, Missouri. He is currently a Research Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri. He has campus-wide responsibilities as the Assistant Director of the MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging. David has been the author of many professional articles, written chapters for and edited two books, and co-authored The Human Factor in Nursing Home Care with Sally Tureman.
So You Would Like To Invent--But Have Hesitated? An Overview of Inventing Processes
Friday
Feb. 10
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
- Who invents?
- Professional help
- Enhancing your prospects
Join us as we discuss the process of invention. You might just find encouragement sufficiently adequate to pursue your own ambitions. Learn the details of significant inventions by amateurs. The seminar is oriented towards folks who have thought about inventions—tasks that are generally thought to be difficult, risky, and have low probability of success. While this may be factual in ordinary approaches, there is much to be said for an atypical approach. Issues addressed will include:
- How to determine what needs to be invented
- The process of generating candidate concepts
- Narrowing down to the best one
- Doing mental marketing analysis
- Generating conceptual sketches
- Is a proof-of-concept model needed?
- The test for functionality
- Analysis of test data
- Generating the specifications and material list
- Determining the likely manufacturing methods
- Estimating the manufacturing cost, including tooling
- Determining marketability at specific costs
- Generating a list of the salient features
- Protecting your idea
- License the product to a manufacturer
- Watch your mailbox for the checks
Ralph Kalkbrenner, Inventor, Design Engineer, Consultant, Cost Estimator, Evaluator. As an Independent Inventor—2009 to the present—originated and developed:
- An innovative wheelbarrow with easy-loading, convenient transporting and safe and trouble-free unloading features. It is now in the final prototype building phase
- A micro low head hydro kinetic power generator designed to be installed submerged in river or stream, intended to provide electrical power to those without access to an electric grid, worldwide. The drive turbine is in the final phase of performance verification
Awards
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18 US patents
- 1993 Westinghouse Signature Award of Excellence
- 1989 and 1990 Westinghouse Division Total Quality Awards,
- 1983 and 1984 Westinghouse Engineering Achievement Award
Updated 12/22/11