NEVADA INVENTORS ASSOCIATION
April 2002 Newsletter

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Internationally recognized inventors' advocate, teacher and speaker Lawrence J. Udell will be the primary presenter at NIA's April 27 meeting.
Udell is executive director of both the Center for New Venture Alliance and the California Invention Center. He Is an active member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) and is cofounder and managing director of the Silicon Valley Chapter of LES. He has created and taught courses in New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at institutions throughout the U.S. and Canada. Other courses he teaches include Technology Marketing and Technology Transfer and Comrnercialization. He also lectures overseas for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), part of the United Nations.
As founder of more than 20 corporations, he regularly shares his knowledge and experience as a consultant for companies ranging from start-ups to those listed in the Fortune 500.
Among the organizations he has spoken for are the Nevada Electronics Conference and the (Nevada) Governor's Conference on Economic Development.

Udell grew into his business

Lawrence Udell became involved with the business of invention as the son of a successful inventor. His father invented several tools used by the U.S. government during World War II, including a high-speed camera and the gyroscope used on torpedoes.

The younger Udell founded the International Inventors Association in the early 1950s, and went on to found the California Invention Center and the Center fro New Venture Alliance among others. One colleague described him as "almost a spiritual advisor" to inventors.

Udell is quoted as saying, "I have three criteria in life. Have fun in what you're doing, help people whether or not you know them, and make a couple of bucks along the way."

Carol Foldvary-Anderson will display one of her Paper and Mixed Media sculptures at Reno's New Medium Art Gallery's Must See Sculpture Show and Artist's Reception from 6:30—9 p.m. April 26 at 940 Matley Lane, Ste. 16.

Carol, who serves NIA as Program Director, has won a number of awards for her work including 2001 Artist of the Year of Carson City. She also designed the 2000 Silver Millennium Coin minted at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and was one of only four Nevada artists selected to create a Christmas ornament for the White House Christmas Tree.

Beyond her duties as NIA Program Director, Carol has helped several members with various stages of the development of their inventions.

In her non-NIA life, Carol paints, illustrates, writes books, and teaches calligraphy, drawing and children's fun art classes. She also creates "Gigantic Paper and Mixed Media Sculptures" and has more than 35 of them to her credit. "The sculptures are only temporary and meant for the moment, and at the same time they represent stepping outside of the box," she says. Recently she has been creating these sculptures in the schools in Carson City and Minden.

If you are one of the l9 members whose mailing label begins with 'DUES are due JAN 02,"
NIA Treasurer Vince Chemist has his eye on you.
He is considering methods of motivation and imposition of penalties, including cutting you off from the next issue of this newsletter.
In reality, however, this organization belongs to its members and for it to remain truly beneficial to all, everyone needs to contribute fairly—and that means paying your past-due fees or letting Vince know you are no longer interested in belonging to NIA.

For a limited time, the United Inventors Association is offering a special advertising rate to independent inventors with new products. Inventors who don't belong to NIA can post their product for $29.95 and post image files for $5 each for a total of $34.95 annually. Members are eligible for a free listing, but still must pay for the image files. • For information go to http:/ lwww.uiausa.org/ NPSpecialSubmissionForm.htm.

A 25-pound foot-operated water pump that sells for $38 is making a large difference in quality of life for many Kenyans.

Instead of relying only on rainfall or buckets of water toted from the nearest source, they can water their small farms from a small well they can dig themselves. While the initial investment of $38 seems remarkably small to us in the west, it is substantial to the average subsistence farmer in Kenya.

But the rewards can be substantial. Improved yields can be sold for cash which in turn can allow the farmers' children to attend school—and perhaps allow the farmer to buy land, expand crops and buy livestock.

For decades, western aid programs have been generous with quantities of money for many developing nations, but their very size may have gotten in their way. Westerners are not used to thinking of $38 as more than one-month's wages, so many historical solutions were either priced beyond reach of the average Kenyan or created unforeseen problems that only made things worse.

But a nonprofit company named Appropriate Technologies for Enterprise Creation—short ened to Approtec—developed its pump, sold with the appealing name MoneyMaker Plus, by making it affordable, low maintenance, readily portable (it can be taken indoors at night to prevent theft) and easy to understand in a no-tech environment. This simple tool is allowing numerous Kenyans to gain economic independence. —For more information, see Wired Magazine, April 2002

President Dr. Bill Torch 329-4060
Vice President John Martinson 747-1650
Secretary/ Treasurer Vince Chemist 677-0123
Sergeant at Arms Floyd Krebs
Programs Carol FoldvaryAnderson 1 -775-267-5365
NIA Founder Don Costar 322-9636
Web Master Vince Chemist 677-0123
Newsletter Editor Connie Benedict 787-3640 ccbenedict@775.net

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