Visioning 2026 Blog
Transformational Change in Manufacturing -- Supercharging Entrepreneurs
Wired Magazine introduced a new trend impacting the manufacturing infrastructure in USA as well as around the world.
Micro manufacturing and prototyping technologies are now allowing entrepreneurs to convert a product idea in to prototype and finished product in months versus years. Small and inexpensive computer aided design, plastic injected molding and computed numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools are allowing entrepreneurs to produce products in smaller lots while maintaining sufficient profit margins. An entrepreneur can now turn to firms in the local area as well as across the globe to collaborate and accelerate the production of finished goods.
Climate Change Due to CO2 Emmissions?
An excellent climate change video discussion (8 mins.) by John Coleman, Founder of the Weather Channel, on the fallacy of CO2 model indicating global warming. He describes that the solar sunspot cycles have a direct impact on our earth's weather temperatures not CO2 emmissions.
http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81175327.html
Norfolk Historical Preservation Community Action Committee
The first meeting of "Preserve Norfolk", a historical preservation community action committee, visited the Karl Stefan Memorial Airport Terminal and listened and discussed the Historical Preservation 101 presentation by a Nebraska Historical Society officer originally from Norfolk. Please refer the following presentation (PDF formatted).
http://www.visioning2026.com/docs/Introduction to Preservation 101 - PP2003 version.pdf
http://www.norfolkairportservices.com/
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KOFK/NORFOLK_AIRPORT_SVCS
The meeting was originally announced in the Norfolk Daily News Article, Preserving historic properties goal of new group, 1/8/2010, written by Cheryl Schmeckpeper, a board member of the Nebraska Historical Society.
The next meeting is scheduled for February 14, 2010, at the McMill Building, the former Norfolk Post Office, with a tour starting at 1:30 PM and a presentation at 3 PM.