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Scott Armstrong has a read on his company’s future, and it spells growth.

Pindi Products Inc. is ready with two patents in hand and others submitted for its non-invasive imaging technology, and a new headquarters in downtown Reno where Armstrong and his staff will hold a ribbon-cutting opening tonight.

“We’re pushing to get our first product to market in September,” said Armstrong, Pindi’s chairman and co-founder with President Erin Looney. “We hope to begin licensing our technology. It’s a pretty exciting time in our life right now.”

Pindi Products, launched nine years ago, has developed the ability to scan items, including liquids and the human body, to detect conditions and contaminants without invading any surface by needles, radiation or electrical/chemical means. Read more:

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Grow with RTYPN at the…

2007 RTYPN 
Leadership Summit

September 28th, 2007
Grand Sierra Resort

 

12:30 pm - Registration
1:00 pm - Rebecca Ryan, Engage the Next Generation
2:15 pm - Give, Grow, Attract Break-Out Sessions
3:30 pm - Summit Wrap-Up
4:00 pm - 20 Under 40 Awards
5:30 pm - 20 Under 40 Reception

 

Leadership is developed through a never-ending process of cultivation. With strong fundamental roots, you’ll have the ability to expand your professional leaves and bloom.

Give, Grow and Attract with us at the Reno-Tahoe Young Professional Network 2007 Leadership Summit. As we challenge for change, your experience will help you to flourish and blossom as a young professional in northern Nevada.

5 Excuses to Leave Work Early Friday September 28^th:

• Network with young professionals. Join your peers at the largest gathering of young professionals in Greater Reno-Tahoe area. Find out what you can learn from other young professionals and develop relationships that can impact your career.
• Dynamic Keynote Speaker: Renowned speaker and talent expert Rebecca Ryan (pictured at right), founder of Next Generation Consulting, commands your attention as she shares best practices from young professional organizations across the globe and shows you what’s possible when a few energetic young professionals decide to kick it up a notch in their communities.
• Three Compelling Breakout Sessions: Choose from three diverse breakout sessions sharing how you can GIVE back to the community, GROW your entrepreneurial businesses or professional careers and ATTRACT and retain a young, skilled workforce in our community.  
• Reno Gazette-Journal’s “20 under 40” Awards: Who are your peers that are making a difference in their jobs and our community in the Greater Reno-Tahoe area? Find out at the 20 under 40 awards ceremony hosted by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
• Have Fun! The event concludes with a celebratory cocktail reception included in your registration fees that has access to the Grand Sierra Resort’s newest and hippest club, All City Live. 

View the complete agenda online.

Space is limited. Register today.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) last week announced it will prepare a program­matic environmental impact statement (PEIS) analyzing areas with high potential for geot­hermal energy development. The PEIS will examine the environmental impacts of boosting geothermal leasing in areas with high potential for near-term explo­ration and development of geothermal resources, focusing on areas with high geot­hermal potential, including areas in north­western Nevada.

?The BLM is sitting on the largest supply of geothermal energy in this country, and it is time to launch a program to develop those resources,? said acting director Jim Hughes.

Geothermal resources (steam, hot water) are used directly to heat buildings and in greenhouses and aquaculture, and indirectly to generate electric power. Half of the nation?s geothermal energy production occurs on fed­eral land, much of it in California and Nevada. Nevada?s geothermal plants have a genera­tion capacity of 270 megawatts, enough to power 270,000 households. More geothermal leases are in effect in Nevada than in all the other states combined. During the past ten years, 95 percent of all leases issued in the United States have been in Nevada.

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The Nevada Commission on Tourism last week awarded $1.16 million in grants that will help rural communities across Nevada to market and promote tourist events and attractions.The grants are the first of two funding cycles that will distribute $1.75 million this year, with the second round being awarded in December. Grants require a match of funds or work hours by recipients.

?There are many exciting towns, events and attractions in Nevada that are sometimes overlooked because they do not have the means to market themselves,? said Lt. Gov.Brian K. Krolicki, commission chair. ?These grants are a way that we can help these rural communities help themselves.?

?Cowboy Country,? the tourism territory that includes Elko and communities along the Interstate 80 corridor, was awarded several grants. Cowboy Country will use a $10,000 grant to conduct a tour to bring international tour operators and travel media to Northern Nevada.

?Funding for the Commission on Tourism?s rural grants is generated by the room tax, so the more visitors we attract, the more money we can put into programs like this,? director Tim Maland said.?These grants are a way to ?spread the wealth? among those on the front line of tourism in Nevada.?

Other recipients include Indian Territory, which received $8,675 to conduct a familiar­ization tour of Nevada?s local tribal lands dur­ing the 2007 Governor?s Interstate Indian Council; the Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership, which received $6,950 to develop and print brochures promoting the newly designated National Heritage Region; the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Authority, which received $5,000 to market the Web site www.SweetNevadaDeals.com; and the Laughlin Tourism Committee, which received $20,000 to implement a marketing strategy to promote birding and wildlife in Southern Nevada along the southeast Highway 93 and Highway 95 corridors. 

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Please join us on July 19 for Tech Thursday, Greater Reno-Tahoe’s premier technology and entrepreneurial networking event!

This month’s Tech Thursday will be held at Reno’s Desert Research Institute, with tours of the virtual reality CAVE, and the Ice Core Lab.  We’ll also have an update on DRI’s Incubator Project.

Facts and Figures
Thursday, July 19
5:30 – 7:30 pm 
$10 donation at door

RSVP by Tuesday, July 17 to
Emily Lowe at Emily@NCET.org

Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway
Reno NV
Maps / Directions

  

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