Programs

This is the third year that we have been honored to have as Program Chair for the Cincinnati RG and this year's lineup looks to be the best ever. This is a work in progress; please check back later for additions and changes as they occur. If you have suggestions for speakers or questions about the schedule, please contact Heidi directly.

Click here for a pdf version of the RG schedule grid, which was last updated on November 30. Note: changes to the schedule may occur. Please check the date on your copy to be sure it is the latest one.

 

Speakers for the CAM 08 RG

More detailed information about each program, as well as biographical information about each speaker, will be available in the print program. Speakers are presented below in alphabetical order.

 

Non-Vertical Girl, written and performed by local member Renee Alper, is a powerful, quirky and upbeat musical about the world of physical disability. It's a story about rolling with the punches and thinking on your wheels. Come see what having 'four on the floor' is really all about! *Contains adult themes and language.*
Friday at 10 pm.

Adele Bell, BA, math, U.C., is a dreamer, medium, energy healer and psychic healer. She conducts workshops on psychic development, lectures on a variety of metaphysical subjects, participates in spiritual gatherings and travels to sacred places. She has studied with well-known dreamers and authors Robert Moss and Wilda Tanner. She will speak on incubating, changing, remembering, and sharing dreams.
Saturday at 1 pm.

Please join Verona Bennetto and Nancy Core for a Fiber Arts Meet and Greet.
Bring your needlework projects (knit, crochet, embroidery, quilt or other) to show off or ask for help.  Share your favorite resources such as books, patterns, web sites and stores.  No formal program, but instead an opportunity to learn from each other and to exchange stories of successes and failures.
Saturday at 4 pm.

Ohioan Simone Broughton will speak about living and working for 6 months at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Come and discover life on the Ice - from the surreal beauty and intense camaraderie to the effects of extreme isolation, depression and insomnia that plague 'winter-overs.' Simone will not only give her presentation and a 'show and tell' of Antarctic items, but will host a real-time phone chat and Q&A with colleagues still living and working in Antarctica. Karen and Tighe Urelius have accumulated over 4 years ice time, including South Pole Station. You definately won't want to miss this!
Friday at 8:30 pm.

We'll be treated to a presentation by Ed Burns, Sr., a certified Life Coach who will share some tips on identifying and dealing with the little "bugs" that get in the way of our lives. Life coaches work with you to help you discover who you are, what you want to be, where you want to go, what your passion is, and the best way to combine them to get to where you want to be.
Saturday at 5 pm.

'Hidden Ohio: A Paranormal Road Map' is a presentation by Jeff Craig. Jeff will discuss hauntings, strange creatures, UFO sightings, sacred places, old roads, and unexplained mysteries in all of Ohio's 88 counties.
Friday at 7:30 pm.

William L. Dean, Chief of Forensic Sciences in the Hamilton County Coroner's Laboratory, will talk about the View from Inside the Crime Lab as well as Current Issues in Forensic Science, including what forensic scientists do, discussions of the "CSI effect" and privacy issues in the DNA database.
Saturday at 6 pm.

Public key cryptosystems are part of foundations of our modern communication systems. However a future powerful quantum computer can break the public key cryptosystems that are currently being used. In this talk, Jintai Ding, Ph.D., a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cincinnati, will give a general introduction about post-quantum cryptography, where we try to build cryptosystems that could resist the future quantum computer attacks.
Saturday at 4:30 pm.

Nanotechnology is a bit like a pun, science fiction, or magic – you may have to think about it more than once before you get it. Frank Dolinar has been thinking about nanotechnology for over 20 years. As results accrue, he is continuously challenged to understand the latest news, its implications, and nanotech’s growing capabilities. These sessions provide an introduction to the topic and then examine the current state of nanotech, its promise, possible risks, expected benefits, and ways it will affect our daily lives. This is a two part presentation.
Part I - Saturday at 11:30 am.
Part II - Saturday at 3:30 pm.

Karen Everett, education director for the Hamilton County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society and long-time librarian will give a program entitled "Pirates, Buccaneers, Corsairs and Vikings - The Myth and the Reality". From 78 B.C., when young Julius Caesar was kidnapped and held for ransom (and before) to present-day Hollywood films, pirates of one kind or another have followed the lure of gold. Join us for some history about buried treasure and life on the high seas.
Saturday at 1:30 pm.

Surveys have shown that people would rather die than speak in front of people.    CAM member Tiffany Everett is an experienced Toastmaster in the Greater Cincinnati area.  Join her as she shows you some simple tips to help you speak on your feet.  Tiffany can help you learn to answer the cold question and give a presentation.
Saturday at 3 pm.

Patricia Garry, well-known Cincinnati tarot card reader, reiki healer, teacher and writer will give a general overview of intuition and how it really works, and discuss tarot card reading, reiki healing, chakra balancing and more. Her key interest is the practical application of spiritual knowledge.
Saturday at 2 pm.

GenXers - and anyone who wants to get to know us - stop by for introductions, talk, and the usual mayhem. Bring your drinks and snacks, join us and hang out.
Friday at 10:30 pm.

Many amusing animals and one very knowledgeable human. Kate Hammer from the Cincinnati Zoo will bring several animals to share with us as she educates us about them. This is a Cincinnati RG favorite!
Saturday at 10:30 am.

Language, Numbers and Reality - Is the world one? Or is the world many? Are things singular or plural? How does the mind know number, and does number reflect an underlying reality in or about things? Thomas Harsham will discuss the relationship between language and calculation, and how mathematics relates to the world; how it analyzes, grasps and makes sense of reality - and what that reality is.
Saturday at 5:30 pm.

What would it be like to move to rural Japan, alone, without the ability to speak Japanese and live there for more than a decade? World traveler and language educator Susan M. James relates her insights and experiences as an expatriate and curious student of Japan while providing a visual tour of its traditions, modern and ancient culture, and language.
Saturday at 6:30 pm.

Palin's Yahoo hacked! Hilton and Lohan's Myspace exposed! Much of your personal information is electronic, online, and not safe - even if you think it is. Eric Marschall will walk through the biggest caveats of putting your life online, some of the basics of keeping your computer secure, what you collect every time you visit the internet, and how to get rid of it.  Includes a take-home sheet on some of the best free programs to keep your system clean. And schadenfreude.
Friday at 9:30 pm.

Tom Nehrer can actually explain how we can clear out inner mechanisms propagating struggle and conflict in or lives. Indeed, we all create patterns throughout life - health, relationships, success/failure. He will point out specifically how that flow works, as we imprint our own nature on real events and relationships that constitute our lives. He will take a look in depth, often critically, at the various healing disciplines, common cultural "truths" which aren't, and the teachings of others who have come before - showing value where it exists, but exposing fallacy as well. This talk will take place in two parts.
Past Teachings - Saturday at 2:30 pm.
How Life Works - Saturday at 7:30 pm.

Ho, ho, ho. Yes, we’re walkin’ in a weekend winter wonderland. Whether you celebrate Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Solstice, Yule or Festivus (for the rest of us), who can resist a jolly, bearded guy in a red suit? If you want to visit Santa, tell him what you’d like for any of the aforementioned holidays, get your picture taken (bring your camera) or just discuss the political correctness of the winter holiday season, Santa is here for YOU.
Saturday at 1 pm.

Snow Ball? Winter Waltz? Sub-Zero Disco? Call it what you like, tag-team DJs John Sheely and Lorena Bellamy will spin your favorites. Dance away those winter blues.
Saturday at 9 pm.

Have you ever wondered what all of those black tee shirts are all about?  Attend the meeting for current and potential HELL's M's and Skinner wil help you find out.  You will learn out what is going on with the party SIG.   If you don’t already know you will find out what we are, how we got started, and what we do.
Friday at 8 pm.

We started out with stone tools 2.5 million years ago.  Today we have cars, microwaves and computers.  Are we that much different?  Are their skills and tools our ancestors had that would serve us well today?  The hunter knew where he was in the world, his survival depended on it.  Do we really know where we are in the world today? Does the Hunter have something to teach us that will help us survive in the world today and the world that is approaching? Join Skinner as he explores these questions with the audience.
Saturday at 7 pm.

In this interactive, trivia-laden talk, Ian Randal Strock will take the audience on a verbal journey through 219 years of the US Presidency, pointing out interesting facts and fascinating connections. He'll also present a contest with prizes. Strock is the author of The Presidential Book of Lists and the keeper of the blog at this site. His fascination with the Presidents dates to his childhood, but when he realized he was unlikely to ever become President himself, he turned to studying and writing about them.
Saturday at 4 pm.

Ian Randal Strock is an author, but he's also an editor. He's seen the good, the bad, and the truly outrageous ways authors sabotage their own careers, and shares the best, worst, and funniest in his program: Stupid Author Tricks: How to Keep Yourself from Getting Published. He's been collecting stories about authors (as opposed to stories by authors) for twenty years, and shares them to be both instructive and entertaining (no names will be used). Non-writers welcome (after all, the world needs far more readers than writers).
Saturday at 8 pm.

Sheriden Cave, located in the Great Lakes region of North America, contains direct positive evidence of an extraterrestrial impact and individual species response to Younger-Dryas climate change. A layer containing magnetic grains suggests they are a stratigraphic manifestation of an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago. This layer overlies a carbon-rich surface that contains Clovis artifacts and the last remnants of Rancholabrean fauna. Dr. Kenneth B. Tankersley, a Carnegie Mellon Lecturer and a Foreign Delegate for the National Academy of Sciences, will explain the significance of these findings.
Saturday at 11 am.

Sasha Telnov, a Research Physicist at Princeton University will speak on the History of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Dr. Telnov is visiting the University of Cincinnati for a Colloquium and is honoring us by staying in the city an extra day
JUST to speak to our group! He will present with Dr. Michael Sokoloff of the University of Cincinnati.
Friday at 7:30 pm.

Increasingly, we are recognizing that every person is an individual and has indivisual responses to medical therapies. Some of this is environmental while some is genetic. Dr. Bradley Tinkle, Assistant Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Division of Human Genetics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will discuss how we are learning to predict which therapies may be appropriate for what person (i.e. personalized medicine).
Saturday at 2:30 pm.

Come hear George Webb talk about the glacial geology and bedrock geology of Cincinnati. Our discussion will begin two million years before present, with the impact of each of the three continental ice sheets. We will then focus on the Ordovician aged (450 million years before present) bedrock of the Cincinnati area and its unique characteristics.
Saturday at noon.

Pierre Wevers from Awakenings Coffee and Wine in Hyde Park and Joe Clark from Cutting Edge Selections, one of the leading importers and wholesale distributors of fine wine serving Ohio and Kentucky, will educate us about wine as we discuss the wines brought to the tasting. Please bring your favorite bottle to share.
Saturday at 7 pm.

David Yockey, AB, M.Ed., MA, DS and retired department head from Milford High School is an experienced world traveler who will provide travel tips on how to find the best prices, information about "hot" destinations, and how to save money on car rentals, rail travel, etc. Questions will be welcome on all aspects of travel. 
Saturday at 12:30 pm.