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Award Winning Economic Development
Everett Christensen of Christensen Communications explains four of the things his company did to improve the community his company serves. By being part of the community, he sees the needs and is continually striving to improve the quality of life for his fellow Madelia, MN citizens. As a result, his company won the 2011 Minnesota…
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Powering Telecom Progress
Power is a critical element to a reliable communications network. This may be even more so in rural areas, compared to urban areas, as the economics of a rural build don’t support multiple last mile networks and the physics of a rural area often don’t allow wireless communications. Nowhere is this more evident than at…
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Wind Power for Off Grid Telecom Applications & More
Electricity generation via wind power is often associated with modern-day version of windmills spread through the hillsides and plains of the country side. Urban Green Energy aims to change that with a product line of relatively low-cost wind turbines. Designed to make little noise and to run at low revolutions per…
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I Can See for Inches and Miles
Innovega demonstrated at CES 2012 nanotechnology designed into contact lenses that, when combined with a special set of glasses, allows one to focus close to read a heads-up display projected on the glasses, while seeing far. They can also be used for delivering full-field 3D or for 360 degree gaming experience. In this video, Randall…
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Youth – And the World Turns
“The Japanese do American better than we do,” so says Kathleen Gasperini, senior vice president and founding partner of Label Networks. She talks about the global youth and how they are different, yet related and how they influence each other. She suggests the Japanese youth take American culture and reinterpret it in new ways. China…
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The Beginnings of Dear Young Me
What started as an experiment and a way to keep one’s software skills tuned, has become a popular website, at least measured by the 2,000+ Facebook likes. Its success has truly been a viral nature. Dear Young Me.com is an aggregation of advice people would give to a younger version of themselves. Ranging from funny…
