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She added that KTH has about 900 full-time associates, 130 of them "retirement eligible."
The ESG team oversees the maintenance of KTH's 1,100 robots and troubleshooting of mechanical and electrical issues.
Bernardi and Boggs are the first interns that KTH has assigned to work in the ESG department, though the company has had engineering internships for several years, Wead said.
In the Advanced Manufacturing Program at Triad, both interns completed classes in robotics, CNC, manufacturing operations and advanced manufacturing. Their Advanced Manufacturing teacher, Todd Bodey, made them aware of the internship opportunity at KTH.
"I'm not sure where this will take me," Boggs said, "but the robotics will be very interesting. I'm looking forward to working with everyone here."
Bernardi said he also is looking forward to working with the ESG team. "I love problem solving."
The CEP has coordinated other job signing ceremonies for graduates and students at ORBIS, Bundy Baking Solutions and Rittal. The events, patterned after signing ceremonies that colleges conduct for new student athletes, are part of the CEP's workforce development initiatives.
The CEP has been partnering with employers and local schools to better inform students about local employment opportunities and to help schools prepare students for the local workforce.
KTH Parts Industries Inc. makes underbody structural frame components for cars and is Champaign County's largest manufacturing employer. KTH is a Tier 1 supplier of automotive components worldwide.
The CEP hosted a breakfast and awards ceremony last week to review recent successes and recognize manufacturing firms for their efforts in Champaign County. So far this year, local firms have invested more than $80 million and added more than 100 new jobs, mostly through expansions, said Marcia Bailey, economic development director for the CEP.
Much of that success is the result of local companies working together to resolve common challenges, like training and worker retention, she said.
"For the manufacturing partnership we've created, we're seeing the results of that," Bailey said.
Several Champaign County companies announced expansions earlier this year. Most recently, Weidmann Electrical Technology Inc. said last month it will add about 2,600 square feet to its facility at 700 W. Court St. in Urbana. The company, which produces specialty insulation for transformers, will also add 20 new jobs and spend at least $500,000 in new equipment as part of an expansion valued at around $2.7 million.
Navistar also broke ground on a roughly $12 million project to build a new distribution center and add 40 new jobs in Champaign County. Auto parts manufacturers like KTH Parts Industries in St. Paris and Parker Trutec also announced significant investments and expansions in the past 12 months.
Area companies and the CEP have developed several programs to boost the county's workforce, Bailey said, and there is some evidence that's paying off. But she said it's also clear there's still more work to do.
Attendance at a camp hosted by the Champaign Family YMCA has tripled its attendance since it started three years ago, Bailey said. The Inventor's Camp enlists local manufacturing firms to teach students about skilled trades.
Manufacturers also host a booth at the Champaign County Fair to make residents more aware of the products made in Champaign County. And the CEP worked with local companies to develop a website allowing local businesses to post jobs available within the county. Manufacturers have also increasingly sought to provide internships to area high school students to make them more aware of careers in the industry.
Information provided by the CEP shows that the efforts appear to be attracting more young workers. In 2015, only about 5 percent of workers in the industry in Champaign County were between 19 and 24 years old, Bailey said. That number was about 9 percent this year.
Still, attracting skilled workers remains a challenge, she said.
"There's not a competitions for products," she said of local companies. "But we need the workforce to get those products out."
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3,832 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2015
3,725 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2016
4,029 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2017
$64,021 — Average earnings for manufacturing in 2017
By the numbers:
3,832 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2015
3,725 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2016
4,029 — Manufacturing employees in Champaign County in 2017
$64,021 — Average earnings for manufacturing in 2017
KTH is an auto parts maker for Honda that specializes in metal stamping and welding operations. The company is one of the region's largest employers and invested more than $3.7 million to develop a research center in late 2015 as auto makers faced higher fuel economy demands and crash test standards.
The research and design center has 19 employees who develop new ways to blend materials and new manufacturing processes. There are plans to add some additional employees by the end of the year.
"We wanted to separate ourselves from the like suppliers," said Rob Hayes, senior vice president of engineering, quality and production at KTH.
Federal fuel efficiency requirements are pushing automakers to develop vehicles that can achieve 42 miles per gallon by 2020 and 54.5 mpg by 2025. The Trump administration has announced plans to re-examine those requirements, but KTH officials said automakers will likely continue to push for safer, more efficient vehicles regardless of the federal requirements.
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Navistar announced a second deal with GM for a total of 600 new jobs and downtown Springfield has seen significant projects from a new brewery to artist studios and a new seniors center to EF Hutton America relocating its headquarters there. Local leaders also came together to form a nonprofit to target investments downtown.
"It's changed the landscape of downtown," Assistant City Manager Tom Franzen said.
And in Champaign County, KTH Parts Inc. moved forward with a major expansion, one of several significant local projects in the auto manufacturing industry, and created a new economic development partnership.
TIRC to recommend tax agreements remain in place
First Posted on UrbanaCitizen.com: March 13th, 2016
By Joshua Keeran - email@example.com
Under the leadership of the Champaign Economic Partnership (CEP), the combined city of Urbana and Champaign County Tax Incentive Review Council (TIRC) on Thursday voted in favor of recommending the city and county continue all current enterprise zone, Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) and Tax Incentive Fund (TIF) agreements.
In enterprise zones or economically depressed areas where business growth is encouraged through tax relief, the TIRC unanimously voted in favor of continuing agreements with KTH Parts Industries, the American Pan Company and the Ultra-met Company.
Marica Bailey, CEP economic development director, said the deal with KTH, 1111 state Route 235 N. in St. Paris, is a 100 percent tax abatement for 10 years (through Dec. 31, 2016) in which the company agreed to commit over $3 million in real property and retain 92 positions.
"They have a total investment of $23 million at this point," she said. "Everything so far is above what they have anticipated."
Champaign County Auditor Karen Bailey reported the amount of taxes forgone to date as a result of the agreement is $1,265,606.
The American Pan Company, 417 E. Water St. in Urbana, is receiving a 75 percent tax abatement for 10 years (through Dec. 1, 2022) in return for the creation of 33 jobs and the retention of 154 jobs.
"American Pan has met their agreement regarding their employees," Marcia Bailey said.
To date through the agreement, the company has invested $2.2 million, while $103,547 in taxes have been forgone.
Under the enterprise zone agreement with Ultra-met, 120 Fyffe St. in Urbana, the company agreed to invest $510,000 in real property, $1.5 million in personal property, create 22 jobs, and retain 30 jobs in return for a 75 percent abatement for 10 years (through Dec. 31, 2020).
"At this point, they have reported 11 new jobs created, and the investment is on track," Marcia Bailey said.
To date, the deal has resulted in a tax abatement of $23,140.
TIRC members were also informed that an enterprise zone agreement with Parker Trutec, 4795 Upper Valley Pike, expired at the end of 2015.
Marcia Bailey said during the length of the 10-year agreement, the company received a 45 percent reduction in real property taxes in exchange for creating two positions and retaining 88 employees.
"They are now at the 88 retained and have maintained the two new employees," she said, noting the company invested $2.1 million during the agreement.
The total amount of taxes abated over the length of the deal was $289,830.
CRA, TIF agreements
TIRC members unanimously agreed that CRA agreements, tax exemption deals benefiting property owners who renovate existing or construct new buildings, should continue with Gerald Shiffer and White's Service Center.
The deal with Shiffer, which involves a hangar at Grimes Field, is a 50 percent tax abatement for 15 years (through Dec. 31, 2016) in return for a real property investment of $325,000 and the possible retention of two positions.
To date, $75,868 in taxes has been forgone.
"Everything is on track as specified with the agreement," Marcia Bailey said.
The CRA agreement with White's Service Center, 1325 N. Main St. in Urbana, is a 50 percent tax abatement for 10 years (through Dec. 31, 2019). During the length of the agreement, the company has pledged to invest $250,000 in real property and $2,500 in personal property, create one new position, and retain one position.
"They did hire a new person and have retained the other," Marcia Bailey said. "They haven't requested any taxes be abated as of yet, but the agreement will remain in case they decide to do so at a later date."
TIRC members also unanimously voted in favor of continuing the 10-year TIF agreement set up by the city of Urbana to help fund the Scioto Street Improvements Project through 2021.
To date, the six businesses involved in the agreement have paid the following amounts into the fund: Aaron Rents ($35,375), Clark Station ($14,549), Midwest Dialysis Center ($32,756), McDonald's ($38,410), Sonic ($18,516) and Family Dentistry ($28,611).
Marcia Bailey said the TIRC's recommendations will be presented to both the Urbana City Council and Champaign County Commission on Thursday for final approval. Council will vote on city agreements only, while the commissioners will vote on county and township agreements.
Joshua Keeran may be reached at 937-652-1331 (ext. 1774) or on Twitter @UDCKeeran.
CEP Honors County Manufacturers
Local manufacturers took center stage on Tuesday at the county Community Center during a "Manufacturers Thank You Breakfast" hosted by the Champaign Economic Partnership (CEP).
The event, attended by state and local officials and representatives from some of the county's 18 manufacturing companies, was organized by the CEP to "honor and thank the employers for their dedication to Champaign County."
"Almost everybody that is represented in this room on the manufacturing side has either had growth this past year – whether it be employees, expansion or new investment in equipment – or is getting ready to," said CEP Economic Development Director Marcia Bailey.
The list of manufacturing companies in the county includes Bundy Baking Solutions, WEIDMANN, KTH, Ultra-met, The Hall Company, Rosewood Machine and Tool Company (RMT), Advanced Technology Products (ATP), Sarica Manufacturing, ORBIS Corporation, Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing, Hughey & Phillips, Parker Trutec, Rittal, Johnson Welded Products (JWP), Robert Rothschild Farm, Colepak, International Fiber Corporation and Honeywell Aerospace.
Bailey remarked that even with an ever-growing list of manufacturers in the county, no one is in stiff competition with the other and, in some cases, local companies are helping one another.
"The uniqueness is still there in that none of you make the same product and some of you are each other's customer, so we want to continue that," she said. "We want to continue the diversity that we have and bring more people here."
Three local manufacturers were highlighted during the event for reaching anniversary milestones in 2015.
Urbana Mayor Bill Bean and Champaign County Commissioners Steve Hess, Bob Corbett and Dave Faulkner jointly presented Ultra-met (50 years in business), JWP (45 years in business) and KTH (30 years in business) with "Keeping Champaign County Strong" proclamations in recognition of their "long-standing dedication and service to the community."
"We thought it was unique that three companies are celebrating anniversaries all in the same year," Bailey said.
Representatives from the three companies were also presented with pumpkins from the CEP painted by local artist Vicki Deere-Bunnell. Each pumpkin was decorated with the company's logo and fall scenes.
Also in attendance was Sandra Brasington, the western Ohio regional liaison for Ohio Gov. John Kasich's office, who presented each manufacturer with a proclamation signed by Kasich and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor.
"On behalf of the governor's office, we want to thank you for your investment in Ohio as businesses in manufacturing," Brasington said. "You guys are the ones making it happen, so we really want to thank each of you."
Brasington also thanked the county's manufacturers for "changing lives" for the thousands of workers they employ.
"You are making a difference," she said. "You guys are doing a great job here in Champaign County, and we want to recognize that."
Bailey presented data showing job creation is on the rise. In 2013, Champaign County manufacturers employed 2,928 people, and by 2014, the number rose to 3,487. As of September of this year, Bailey said, the number of employees working in the county's manufacturing sector stands at 3,832.
"We've had over 900 jobs created in a three-year time period just here in Champaign County in manufacturing," she said.
(Pictured above: Champaign County Commissioner Steve Hess presents Lilli Ann Johnson, president of Johnson Welded Products (JWP), with a "Keeping Champaign County Strong" proclamation during Tuesday's "Manufacturers Thank You Breakfast" hosted by the Champaign Economic Partnership (CEP) at the county Community Center in Urbana. From left are Urbana Mayor Bill Bean, Hess, Johnson and Rachel Lewis, CEP administrative assistant. )
Manufacturing firms in Champaign County have added jobs and had a greater economic impact as the economy has begun to recover, local officials said Tuesday.
Both private and government officials have worked more closely together in recent years, and are working together to address issues like workforce development, said Marcia Bailey, economic development coordinator for the Champaign Economic Partnership.
Representatives from several area manufacturing firms met Tuesday morning as part of a manufacturer's council in which local companies gather with education and government officials and discuss ways to address workforce issues.
Some signs indicate those efforts are already paying off, Bailey said. Information provided by the Dayton Development Coalition shows the industry provided jobs for about 2,900 workers in 2013, and that has grown to about 3,800 jobs this year.
Several manufacturers have worked together to attract younger workers, Bailey said, including hosting displays and a booth at the Champaign County Fair. Drawing younger workers is important because much of the current workforce is aging and there are now too few people in the pipeline to replace them.
"It's going to take a lot to turn it around," Bailey said.
The council also recently hosted a manufacturing day, offering tours at Honeywell sites to area high school students. Bailey also pointed to a new program developed by Trial Local Schools and the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center that started this year to teach manufacturing skills to students in the district as early as middle school.
Making sure there are students interested in the field will be critical to fill vacant jobs as manufacturing becomes more advanced, she said.
The industry accounted for $319 million, or about 33 percent of Champaign County's gross regional product in 2013. That figure represents the goods and services produced in the county. By last year, manufacturing's impact had risen to $399 million, or 36 percent of the gross regional product.
In the past, the city of Urbana had provided much of the funding for economic development in the county. But several companies and government agencies recently formed the CEP, which includes funding from both private and government entities. That should benefit manufacturing firms because it will provide more resources and coordination for economic development, said Todd Michael, president of the Champaign Economic Partnership.
"It's a whole different attitude than we've had in the past," Michael said.
Bailey also recognized three local companies that have a long history of providing jobs in the county.
Ultra-Met, which makes parts for the aerospace, defense and biomedical industries, has its 50th anniversary this year. Johnson Welded Products in Urbana, which makes parts for the heavy truck industry, has been there for 35 years. KTH Parts Industries Inc., in St. Paris, will mark 30 years as a parts supplier for Honda.
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By Jon Averill
1. Harry Partch - I'm Going To Start You Off By Giving You Some Sounds
Harry Partch is an American composer & the first of three of this show's featured musicians who designed & created many of their own instruments. He was was fascinated buy microtonality, creating his own 43-tone scale system.
2. Piano Magic - Exit
Just realised our first track proper is called 'Exit', that's not important. Piano Magic have featured previously on the World Service yet they're somehow still criminally ignored. Their most recent album 'Ovations' is most definitely worth a listen. It features contributions by Brendan Perry & Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance. Also for some reason this track reminds of the XX, which in turn reminds me of Chris Issak's 'Wicked Games'.
3. Lusine - Gravity
Lusine is based in Seattle & releases his music through the very decent Ghostly International label. Occasionally I worry he is drifting too far into the arena of the coffee table but his productions are in the main too good to collapse into the placid zone.
4. 2562 - Greyscale
2562 is a Dutch producer who loosely falls into the category of dubstep. I generally despise most of the cliched 'wobble' stuff but if you look a little deeper than you'll find that some of the most exciting electronic music is happening around the fringes of the scene.
5. LV - Turnaway
Another impressively spacious LV track on the Hyperdub label (home to Burial, Kode9, Zomby) mixing dub, reggae & broken beat. The 'Five Years of Hyperdub' compilation is an extensive but accessible entry point.
6. Dubbel Dutch - Fool In You
Again on the fringes different styles, UK funky, garage & broken beat - its looping vocal and blasting synths are also a big nod (& maybe a little wink) to early rave productions which are a big influence on this genre.
7. Acid Brass - Lets Get Brutal
Acid Brass is an album of rave/techno classics conceived by Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller & executed by The Williams Fairey Brass Band. As with these types of projects some of the tracks fall flat but a scant few of them were worth the toil and serve to enhance the musicality of the originals. This version of Nitro Delux's 'Lets Get Brutal' is the worthiest track from the album.
8. Lucky Dragons - Open Melody
'Art-drone' duo Lucky Dragons have crept up on me to become one of my favourite bands, creating their own inimitable pallet of repeating noises drones & twisting them into something really beautiful. They've recorded 21 albums since 1999 apparently. This is from their most recent 'Rara Speaks'.
9. Quincy Jones - Exodus
The closest thing to jazz we've had on the World Service. Quincy Jones is a man who is as near to the status of a god as a mortal can hope for.He's worked as a trumpet player, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, has 79 Grammy nominations to his name.
10. Yamasuki Singers - Yama Yama
The booklet for this cd says 'educational-bubblegum-multi-cultural-psycho-rock-opera' & anything I offer beyond that will be valueless.
11. The Upsetters - Tight Spot
The fabulous Upsetters with the even more fabulous Lee Scratch Perry at the controls.
12. Library Tapes - Terese
Scratchy soliloquy from Library Tapes 'Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky' album.
13. Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner
We finish this podcast with a redemptive psychedelic triumph. I'd never heard of Top Drawer until his track was made available on a compilation entitled 'Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges'.


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To be perfectly honest, if you have:
- Friends who will spend hours listening to you without telling you to go find a coach or therapist
- A partner or spouse who will consistently and lovingly help you problem solve roadblocks and obstacles to meeting your dreams
- A support network of people who will encourage you constantly and tell you the truth in a way that is useful
- Someone who asks you great questions that spin your head into new ways of thinking
- Total self-motivation to go it alone and build your dream
- Been successful in meeting your goals and creating your dreams and are right on track
You probably don't need a coach.
Then there are most of us, who find our friends, family, and support network are great cheerleaders but don't have the time, energy, or ability to coach us to success.
Any great athlete, needs a coach to push them along, help them see their potential and overcome obstacles. There is not an Olympic athlete, a senior executive, a master teacher or a great artist who has not used a coach to help them reach their goals. So why do we think that to reach our highest potential, to go after our life dreams, to create a change and new lease on life we can (or should) do it alone.
Coaching seems like a luxury to many of us. The idea of investing in ourselves after University is not the norm. We're smart, we are educated, we pay for expertise in areas of finance and health care, and professional training. However, when it comes to seeking expertise and coaching to design our life, we fall short.
Think for a minute, if you were training for the Olympics (which you are with your life) would you go it alone? Would you be able to sustain the effort that is needed? Would you be able to achieve your goals without a supportive coach to question you, spur you on, and encourage you to keep on moving forward.
At different times in our lives we are motivated, focused, disciplined and committed to a clear goal that drives us on. We are surrounded by supporters who possibly act as coaches when needed. At other times, we are drifting without a clear direction, not knowing which way to turn and what actions will support our life purpose and goals.
If you have been wrestling with an idea for awhile without any substantial movement, maybe it's time for a coach.
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Frederick Family
1726 - 1864
Unsurprisingly, the surname Frederick comes from the same personal name. Though English, it has Germanic roots, from the words 'frid' or 'fred' meaning 'peace' and 'ric' meaning 'power'. It was introduced to England by the Normans, probably after the Norman invasion of 1066. According to the History of Columbiana County, Ohio by Harold B. Barth, our Frederick family were originally from Germany and immigrated during colonial times to escape religious persecution, which means the name may have originally been the German spelling Friedrich.
Our family begins with Noah Frederick who is believed to have been born in 1726 in Jonestown, when it was in Earl Township in the County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (it is now in Lebanon County and Earl Township of this area no longer exists). His parents may have been Johan Georg Frederick and Anna Maria Hoos but this is unconfirmed. Noah married Margaretha Becker on February 8, 1751 in the town of Bethel, not far from Jonestown, and had one known child, born later that year:
In 1756 when Thomas was only four years old, his parents were killed by Native Americans and he was abducted and held prisoner by his parent's murderers. His released was later secured at Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania, which means he could not have been with the Natives for more than two years since Fort Duquesne was replaced with Fort Pitt in 1758. At the time, Jonestown and the surrounding area was still mostly unsettled and very much on the frontier where attacks and abductions from Native Americans were not uncommon. Now an orphan, Thomas grew up in the safety of Philadelphia under unknown guardianship, though he returned to Lancaster County at some point where he married Ann Margaret Tibbens in 1774. They may have then settled in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and had twelve children together:
Only two years after his marriage, the Revolutionary War broke out and Thomas served his country by joining the militia and fighting for independence.
In 1804, Thomas and his family moved to Centre Township, Columbiana County, Ohio and settled on some land just outside the town of New Lisbon, now known simply as Lisbon. Here again was an area only just beginning to be settled at the time and one wonders if, given his childhood experience, Thomas ever had fears of Native American attacks. It is noteworthy that his patch of land was only one lot away from town. However, given that he grew up an orphan, he probably inherited nothing and therefore it is not surprising he sought the opportunities of the frontier where land was often given away cheaply or even for free in attempts to settle and establish areas further west as quickly as possible, not only to push the Natives out but also stake claim on the land before other nations could move in and secure it.
Unfortunately, Thomas did not have much time to see his new opportunity blossom as he died just four years later, on May 3, 1808 when he was only 57 years old. He is buried in the Frederick Family Cemetery in Columbiana County, Ohio. His wife survived him by 18 years, dying in 1826. She never remarried and is buried with Thomas in the Frederick Family Cemetery.
John Frederick bought his father's land and married Sophia Charlotte Gloss sometime around 1810 and they had eight known children together, as named in John's will:
Much like his father, not long after marrying and starting a young family, John enlisted to serve his country by fighting in the War of 1812. Fortunately, John did not follow in his father's footsteps when it came to his life expectancy. He died in 1864 at the age of 76 in Centre Township, Columbiana County, Ohio and is buried in the family cemetery. His wife Sophia died the year before him in 1863 and she is also buried in the family cemetery. John had willed one third of his personal estate to wife Sophia, one hundred dollars to his granddaughter Sara Crook, and one hundred acres of his real estate to his son Benjamin, excluding the Brick House and two acres which he reserved for his son-in-law Robert G. Eells. He instructed that the rest of his 365 acre property, excluding the one acre where the Frederick family burial lot stood, be sold off and the profits divided among all his children apart from Benjamin. This meant 264 acres was sold off. He named Benjamin and his sons-in-law John Myers and Robert Eells as executors of his will. John Myers was the husband of Hannah, they had married in 1854 and had at least two children together. Robert was the husband of Sarah and they had several children together after their marriage in 1852.
Benjamin married a woman named Hannah (not to be confused with his sister Hannah) but they seemingly had no children which makes it interesting that the only significant amount of land his father willed to anyone was to Benjamin, knowing his son would have no heirs of his own to pass it onto. In fact, he specified that should Benjamin have no heirs, the hundred acres would be sold off and the profits divided among the rest of his children. This may have been because Benjamin was his only surviving son and most of his daughters had married other prominent land owners. The only one who seemingly didn't was Sarah, which is likely why they lived in the Brick House on John's property. While John obviously trusted his son-in-law Robert Eells enough to make him an executor of his will, they obviously weren't close enough for John to leave them anymore land than a mere two acres.
Sophia married a man named Charles Crook sometime around 1845 and initially settled in Fairfield Township, where they had several children, but after her husband's death, she moved back to Centre Township. Maria married John C. Pike on February 13, 1834 when she was 23 years old and he was 24. To read more about their life together after marriage, see the Pike family chapter.
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Frederick Photos and Documents
1860 map of Centre Township, Columbiana County, Ohio showing the Frederick land outlined in red. Thomas Frederick likely owned all three lots before he died.
Maria H. Frederick Pike in her later years when she was married to John C. Pike.


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RICHMOND, Va. (9/23/14)--Virginia Credit Union League board members sank shovels into dirt last week to ceremonially begin construction on the league's new headquarters in downtown Richmond, Va.
Construction, which will cost $2.6 million, will include the renovation of four former row houses that sit two blocks from the state Capitol. Once complete, the headquarters will feature 9,000 square feet of office space and 1,000 square feet for the reception area.
"This project represents a milestone for our member credit unions and for our organization," said Karen Orie, league board chair and president/CEO of Hampton (Va.) Roads Educators' CU, with $32 million in assets. "Our primary mission during our 80-year history has been representing credit unions at the General Assembly and working with state agencies to ensure success of Virginia-based credit unions.
"We believe a permanent presence in the heart of Richmond only enhances that mission, allowing us to build on already-solid working relationships with our lawmakers and state agency officials."
Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones also attended the groundbreaking ceremony and said the new headquarters will be a "wonderful addition" to the city.
Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones salutes the start of construction on the Virginia Credit Union League's new headquarters, just two blocks from Capitol Square. (Virginia Credit Union League Photo)
The league and its member credit unions "are really adding to the vitality of this street and this area," Jones said. "To have the Virginia Credit Union League here in the city only adds another feather in our cap."
When the league proposed moving the headquarters from Lynchburg--where a number of the league's employees will remain--to the heart of Richmond, members were very supportive, according to Rick Pillow, league president/CEO.
"Our credit unions understand the importance of our mission in Richmond and what it means for their future," Pillow said. "After years of leasing space here in the city, we've very proud to see our credit unions' vision realized for a permanent, visible presence."
The first floor of the new facility will be designated the Credit Union House of Virginia and will feature reception space, a kitchen and a history room that celebrates credit union service.
Credit unions from throughout the state are also submitting names of individuals to be included on the Credit Union House Wall of Fame.
The wall will recognize men and women who have played extraordinary roles in building up their credit unions, or who have served the state or national credit union systems.


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The China smart cities market is projected to reach USD 59.9 billion by 2023 from USD 30.4 billion in 2018, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.5%. The China smart cities market is driven by various factors, such the increase in population, need for rapid urbanization, and governments' investments and several policies to speed up the successful implementation and development of smart cities projects. Whereas, indigenous development policies of the country for foreign technology companies are the major restraints for the growth of the China smart cities market.
The smart infrastructure segment has the largest market share during the forecast period
The Government of China is supporting policies under the Made in China 2025 initiative to assist industrial R&D and strive for Fifth Generation (5G) commercialization by 2020. The country is more intended toward implementing the 5G technology for a multitude of life-transforming applications, such as 3D video to immersive media, autonomous vehicles, and the enablement of smart cities with ultra-high data rates, enhanced capacity, and reduced latency. China is expecting to reach 576 million 5G connections by 2025, which covers almost 40% of the 5G connections globally. China's telecommunication industry is dominated by China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. These players are the initiators of the 5G technology and hold the largest subscriber base in China.
Another technology, i.e., cloud computing, is able to fulfill the need for rapid processing of massive data required during the construction of smart cities. It improves the computing capabilities and storage use by leveraging virtual technologies to perform dynamic allocation of computing requests. Cloud computing offers complete cybersecurity by monitoring and protecting the stored data. This technology is widely used across various sectors in smart cities, specifically in healthcare, insurance, and government.
The breakdown of the profiles of the primary participants is as follows:
-By Company Type: Tier 1: 20%, Tier 2: 55%, and Tier 3: 25%
-By Designation: C-level Executives: 45%, Directors: 36%, and Others: 19%
The major smart cities market in China solution providers include Advantech (China), Kontron (Germany), CRRC (China), Hollysys (China), Nari Technology (China), China Railway Electrification Engineering Group (China), Hikvision (China), Dahua Technology (China), and Seavo Technology (China). The study includes an in-depth competitive analysis of these key players in the smart cities market in China, along with their company profiles, recent developments, and key market strategies.
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Syracuse Geologists Shed Light on Formation of Alaska Range
Paul Fitzgerald says range's 'dramatic topography' is 25 million years in making
Nov 17, 2014 Article by: Rob Enslin
Geologists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have recently figured out what has caused the Alaska Range to form the way it has and why the range boasts such an enigmatic topographic signature. The narrow mountain range is home to some of the world's most dramatic topography, including 20,320-foot Mount McKinley, North America's highest mountain.
Professor Paul Fitzgerald and a team of students and fellow scientists have been studying the Alaska Range along the Denali fault. They think they know why the fault is located where it is and what accounts for the alternating asymmetrical, mountain-scale topography along the fault.
Their findings were the subject of a recent paper in the journal Tectonics (American Geophysical Union, 2014).
In 2002, the Denali fault, which cuts across south-central Alaska, was the site of a magnitude-7.9 earthquake and was felt as far away as Texas and Louisiana. It was the largest earthquake of its kind in more than 150 years.
"Following the earthquake, researchers flocked to the area to examine the effects," says Fitzgerald, who serves as professor of Earth Sciences and an associate dean for the College. "They were fascinated by how the frozen ground behaved; the many landslides [the earthquake] caused; how bridges responded; and how the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline survived, as it was engineered to do so."
Geologists were also surprised by how the earthquake began on a previously unknown thrust-fault; then propagated eastward, along the Denali fault, and finally jumped onto another fault, hundreds of kilometers away.
"From our perspective, the earthquake has motivated analyses of why the highest mountains in the central Alaska Range occur south of the Denali fault and the highest mountains in the eastern Alaska Range occur north of the fault—something that has puzzled us for years," Fitzgerald adds. "It's been an enigma staring us in the face."
He attributes the Alaska Range's alternating topographic signatures to a myriad of factors: contrasting lithospheric strength between large terranes (i.e., distinctly different rock units); the location of the curved Denali fault; the transfer of strain inland from southern Alaska's active plate margin; and the shape of the controlling former continental margin against weaker suture-zone rocks.
It's no secret that Alaska is one of the most geologically active areas on the planet. For instance, scientists know that the North American Plate is currently overriding the Pacific Plate at the latter's southern coast, while the Yakutat microplate is colliding with North America.
As a result of plate tectonics, Alaska is an amalgamation of terranes that have collided with the North American craton and have accreted to become part of North America.
Cratons are pieces of continents that have been largely stable for hundreds of millions of years.
Terranes often originate as volcanic islands (like those of Hawaii) and, after colliding with one another or a continent, are separated by large discrete faults. When terranes collide and accrete, they form a suture, also known as a collision zone, which is made up of weak, crushed rock. During deformation, suture-zone rocks usually deform first, especially if they are adjacent to a strong rock body.
"Technically, the Denali fault is what we'd call an 'intercontinental right-lateral strike-slip fault system,'" says Fitzgerald, adding that a strike-slip fault occurs when rocks move horizontally past one another, usually on a vertical fault. "This motion includes a component of slip along the fault and a component of normal motion against the fault that creates mountains. Hence, the shape of the fault determines which of the two components is predominant and where mountains form."
In Alaska, the shape of the accreted terranes generally controls the location of the Denali fault and the mountains that form along it, especially at the bends in the trace of the fault.
"The patterns of deformation help us understand regional tectonics and the formation of the Alaska Range, which is fascinating to geologists and non-geologists alike," says Fitzgerald. "Being able to determine patterns or how to reveal them, while others see chaos, is often the key to finding the answer to complex problems. ... To us scientists, the real significance of this work is that it helps us understand the evolution of our planet, how faults and mountain belts form, and why earthquakes happen. It also provides a number of hypotheses about Alaskan tectonics and rock deformation that we can test, using the Alaska Range as our laboratory."
In addition to Fitzgerald, the paper was co-authored by Sarah Roeske, a research scientist at the University of California, Davis; Jeff Benowitz, a research scientist at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; Steven Riccio and Stephanie Perry, graduate students in Earth Sciences at Syracuse; and Phillip Armstrong, professor and chair of geological sciences at California State University, Fullerton.
Housed in Syracuse's College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Earth Sciences offers graduate and undergraduate degree opportunities in crustal evolution and tectonics, environmental sciences and climate change, hydrogeology, sedimentology and paleolimnology, geochemistry, and paleobiology.
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P.O.L.I.C.E. Club
The P.O.L.I.C.E. (Practice of Leadership Integrity and Character Education) Club is an organization at the high school level available to Wylie ISD students in ninth through 12th grade.The club is sponsored by the Wylie Police Department's School Resource Officers. The organization gives students a better understanding of the law enforcement profession from the local to the federal level. The organization also teaches students the importance of good leadership and character traits. If your child is interested in joining the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club email SRO Michael Stewart.
The main purpose of the organization is to build better student leaders in our schools. This is done by educating the students on what it takes to be a good leader and how they as students have a major role in shaping the atmosphere of their school campus. This organization will get students involved in their schools and in the community. It will allow students to make a difference and change the community they live in and the schools they attend for the better.
Overall, the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club is a great opportunity for students to learn about important issues that are affecting their lives today and will in the future. It gives the students a voice in dealing with the issues in their schools that the students see as problems. It allows the students to form a positive relationship with their School Resource Officers, which in turn, makes for a better and safer school environment for both students and staff members.
Texas School Safety Center Spotlight Award
Student/Peer-Led Groups and/or Programs Winner (2nd Quarter - FY2019)
The Wylie ISD P.O.L.I.C.E. (Practice of Leadership Integrity and Character Education) Club has been recognized by Texas State's Texas School Safety Center's Spotlight Program. This award recognizes individuals, schools and districts that foster education and learning through safe and secure campuses. Quarterly recipients will be considered for their annual overall awards presented at the Texas School Safety Conference in June 2019. Wylie ISD and Wylie PD won for Student/Peer-Led Groups and Programs. Officer Michael Stewart and Officer Mike Hashimoto run the program.
Sponsor/Donation Opportunities
The Wylie P.O.L.I.C.E. Club hold several events throughout the school year to raise money for worthy causes and people in the community in need of assistance. These events include but are certainly not limited to the following:
- The annual Parents Night Out/Toy Drive to benefit families at Christmas
- The annual Slow Pitch Softball Tournament
- Fundraisers for Fallen Officers
- Fundraisers for the Collin County Child Advocacy Center
If you are your company are interested in sponsoring an event or need help with an upcoming event please contact Officer Stewart.
If you would like to make a general donation to the Wylie P.O.L.I.C.E. Club to assist with their continuing efforts to support our community please contact Officer Stewart to learn how.
Wylie Police Association Scholarship
The Wylie Police Association, founded in 2012, is a nonprofit organization whose resolution is to foster a positive relationship between its members and the community they serve. In 2013, the Wylie P.O.L.I.C.E. Club was established and is sponsored by the Wylie Police Department's School Resource Officers. This club is an organization at the high school level available to Wylie ISD students in ninth through 12th grade. These students give up countless hours to work community events and fundraisers throughout the school year in an effort to make our community better. The Wylie Police Association has established a scholarship to recognize a Wylie P.O.L.I.C.E. Club member who has gone above and beyond in their efforts to help other people. The Wylie ISD senior selected to receive this award has shown to be a shining example of character, leadership, intelligence, and hard work.
The 2018 Wylie Police Association Scholarship was given out to three Wylie ISD seniors this year. P.O.L.I.C.E. Club Captain Valerie Korte, P.O.L.I.C.E. Club Lieutenant Carolina Serna and P.O.L.I.C.E. Club member Brianna Elder were the seniors chosen to receive the scholarships.
Valerie has been a member of the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club all four years of high school (WHS) and served as their Captain for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school year. Valerie will be attending the University of North Texas where she will pursue a degree in Criminal Justice.
Carolina has been a member of the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club all four years of high school (WHS) and served as their Lieutenant for the 2017-2018 school year. Carolina will be attending the University of North Dallas where she will pursue a Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry as she starts her path to becoming a Doctor.
Brianna has been a member of the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club all four years of high school (WEHS). Brianna will be attending Collin County Community College and then transfering to Tarleton, where she will major in Agriculture Services and Development with the ultimate goal of becomeing an Agriculture Teacher.
P.O.L.I.C.E. Club Events (2018-2019 School Year)
Wylie P.O.L.I.C.E. Club Car wash 2018 Wylie High Homecoming Parade 2018 Group Dynamix Lock-In
2018 National Night Out 2018 Wylie Championship Rodeo 2018 Wylie East Homecoming Parade
2018 Boo on Ballard 2018 "Parents Night Out" Event Christmas Shopping for Adopted kids
To view picture of events from previous years please visit the P.O.L.I.C.E. Club's Flickr page


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Would you like to have access to one "card catalog" that lets you search libraries from all over the world? You can do just that at WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org). This site not only lets you search, but when you find an interesting book, it will list the closest libraries having a copy.
That's pretty amazing, but that's not all. If there's a digital copy of the book, WorldCat will let you know. Need a citation for a book? WorldCat does that too – in a number of different formats. And, if you create a free account, you have even more functionality, like building your own lists of useful reference books.
There are also free mobile apps available for iOS and Android devices so you can take WorldCat with you.


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Members of the Mothers' Union throughout the world have celebrated the 140th anniversary in many different ways. In Norfolk, services of thanksgiving, garden parties and other events have all played their part in thanking God for the years of service they have been able to give.
Norwich Diocesan president Marguerite Phillips said, "It has been a year of raising awareness, of reaching out and of sharing the faith. Long may our work continue."
The Cycle Challenge raised £5,600 to enable disadvantaged young people to spend time at the Horstead Centre enjoying its facilities, surrounded by the peace and love of Christ. Marguerite said, "As always, our members rose to the challenge and found innovative ways of joining in the challenge despite some being unable to cycle."
Mothers' Union joined the We Say No to Gender Violence campaign and is calling on the government to redress the injustice in the new child maintenance system for victims of domestic abuse. Members marched to Downing Street to deliver the petition signed by over 3000 MU members drawing the government's attention to this unfair payment and requesting that that victims be exempt from the 'collect and pay' charges for using the statutory Child Maintenance Service, as they may have no other option to receive or make payments for their children without further risk of abuse or violence.
Local MU members joined the vigil outside the Forum in Norwich on November 25 when various women's organisations stood in solidarity with all women who suffer from any form of gender based violence. They were joined by a fire-crew - men showing their support for their female colleagues. Speeches by a female police chief, a council representative and a Norwich MP were followed by a candlelit two-minute silence. Marguerite said, "We struggled to keep our candles alight in the cold wind but it was good to be there, representing all Mothers' Union members in the Diocese."
As Christmas approached, MU volunteers packed 112 presents for Angel Tree on behalf of prisoners at Wayland Prison. Angel Tree supports prisoners in their family relationships by providing a way for them to give Christmas presents to their children.
Looking to 2017, the Mothers' Union will be involved with assisting the five Syrian families (the first tranche of 50 refugees coming to the city) who will arrive late January or early February with supplying homewares and helping get the accommodation ready.
If you would like to get involved in Mothers' Union, visit http://muenterprises.org/norwichmu/
Pictured: The Angel Tree team wrap up gifts, Mary Dorrell of the WI takes a turn on the exercise bike at Celebrate with Marie-Lyse and Marguerite


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"This is how it starts. A young man sits alone in an airport lounge. The seat beside him is empty. Someone sits down." That person is Alison, the girl the young man is going to fall in love with very soon.
In 2015, Tess sits in an airport lounge in Colombo, alone. It's very late where she was, and very early where she is going, and she is stuck in a terminal for the next four hours. Tess has intimacy issues. Mostly, she doesn't like sharing her time or her emotional energy. She doesn't have much of either.
Her phone dies, so Tess opens her book (the one she bought, not wrote), The Bit In Between. It's a romance and it will remind her of romantic feelings. Holding a first novel by a young writer like Claire Varley is strange – like someone snuck into her brain, found her fantasy and made it tangible. Two fantasies: writing a book and falling in love, wrapped around each other.
Somewhere in the sky above Bali, halfway between Colombo and Sydney, Tess gets a weird feeling about Alison and Oliver.
Tess suspects that Alison is less invested in this relationship than Oliver.
Tess doesn't like Alison.
Alison is directionless, inconsiderate and worst of all, reminds Tess of herself. Tess is jealous of Alison, and Alison and Oliver, and everyone who is on the plane and is not alone.
I am Tess.
I am not in love, and haven't been for a while. I suspected a romantic novel would be painfully boring, or too painful. I was wrong.
"Coffee turned into dinner, dinner turned into drinks and drinks turned into hurried, meaningful sex on the floor of Oliver's aunt's guest room. And then they slept in each others arms with the exhausted familiarity that comes once in every relationship after that first intimate moment."
The two main characters in The Bit In Between are twenty-something and attractive. Alison lacks direction, Oliver is a struggling writer. They fall in love.
Varley is clever about their love: even though the back cover says "Immediately. Inexplicitly. Irrevocably," it seems, thankfully, that their love is none of these things.
Them falling for each other isn't a surprise: that's not the point of the book. The point is "the bit in between", after the chase and before the break-up. This is usually not an interesting part of a love story; Romeo and Juliet never argued about getting Thai for dinner.
But Romeo and Juliet did fall in love irrevocably. I think it would be much easier to fall madly in love with someone you don't have to spend any real time with. Alison and Oliver face the opposite problem: they move to the Solomon Islands together, with only each other for company. Everyone is terrible to live with, but especially the person you are supposed to be in love with.
It's also what makes their love entirely revocable. That's really what The Bit In Between is about: choices. Alison is not very good at making choices that stick, and if there's tragedy to be found, it's that Oliver can't make her choose him. He can't make her "settle down." As a reader, I felt compelled to dislike Alison for this. I was expecting her to turn around and love the man who loved her; I expected her to realise that should be enough. I barely paused to question why I expected so much from her. After all, it is an absurdly warped view of love that dictates a woman is there to be "tamed" and that not complying makes her a failure.
Oliver was asking a lot: to move to the Solomon Islands for his book. It's presented as a mutual decision, and that Alison is excited for the adventure. But I suspect that the move was really because of Oliver, and that Alison would have followed him to the middle of a desert. It's unfair to dislike Alison for feeling trapped and wanting out, especially after the loss of her best friend's unborn child, an event Oliver fails to support her through, but we do.
In contrast, Juliet is as loved as Romeo. She chooses to follow him in the most permanent, literal sense of the phrase, because he made a mistake. This is romance. Juliet is always loved for giving up her freedom; Alison can only be disliked for taking hers. It makes me uncomfortable that my first instinct was that Alison was being wasteful somehow, rather than that Oliver had put her in an emotionally untenable situation.
Perhaps it was just that, secretly, I want Oliver – and Alison giving up on him insults my deluded fictional crush.
I graduate from uni and have to look for a proper job.
After two weeks, I take one at a café. As I put latte after latte down, overhearing conversations about stressful three-story "renos" and "this phe-nom-en-al winery in the Hunter" and "increasing digital brand engagement" and the "bitchy" thing Cait said I start to think more about my jealousy and The Bit In Between.
I know what you're thinking.
I shouldn't be jealous. Just because I am a recent law graduate serving coffee in the Eastern suburbs latte-belt doesn't mean I have failed. Sure, Oliver had a law degree and a novel under his belt by my age. And a book deal that funded a stint living in the Solomon Islands to focus on only his writing and nothing else, for months. But so what? He's not real.
"Excuse me? I asked for soy?"
Okay, so I am jealous of a fictional character.
The real source of my jealousy is Oliver and his successful writing career. I know that's the wrong thing to be jealous of. Bloodless and passionless and papery jealousy.
But that's what it is.
""You know who I am? I'm a mess. I pretend I'm not but I am. And one day you'll see that and not want me anymore. I'm ridiculous… I sometimes piss on the toilet seat because I get distracted." Alison looked at him bewildered."
We get a glimpse into the "artist's struggle" through Oliver, who has gotten a sizeable book advance for his second novel. He also has a law degree.
But his struggle only seems to exist on the surface. It's never real, or pervading, or actually all that messy. Thumping your head in frustration and throwing paper on the floor is untidy, but mess – the proper, scary, deeper kind – is a different beast. For me it looks like scattered thoughts, vague schedule, and ambiguous ambitions and a temporarily misplaced, hopefully not lost, sense of purpose.
There is an excellent book about that kind of mess called Art and Fear. Someone who is by all accounts a very successful writer, and said it helped her immensely in understanding why her process always felt like such a mess, recommended it to me.
This uncertainty and disorganisation is so often dismissed as the enemy of productivity, as something to be eliminated from our lives with a wall planner and a set of highlighters, or maybe a full-time job and a pantsuit (is that the correct term – 'pantsuit'?)
But, in Art and Fear, the writers argue, "Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art."
Mess is a precondition for art. But is the corollary really that lack of mess prevents art?
It seems like Oliver, as a character, challenges the idea that a struggling artist always has to be struggling. Spoiler: he finishes the book. Spoiler: he thinks it's great, the book he was "meant to write".
The front cover of The Bit In Between says "Writing a love story is a lot harder than living one."
I wonder if this is a front cover, or it is what Varley was really trying to communicate. If her process was meant to be reflected by Oliver – ever-confident, undoubtedly talented and already published – then I call bullshit. I don't believe it's ever like that. But maybe my reaction says more about me; is it just jealousy talking?
Tess has a friend who is brimming with faith. She is content with her partner and her job, she doesn't pine for adventure or find pantsuits itchy and constrictive.
Tess does very badly with certainty. She finds it boring, repetitive, draining. She tells her friends "I don't know how you do it", and they smile knowingly as she scrambles for change to pay for dinner. She is arrogant and naïve and her friends think she is entertaining to be around, even if she's not on their level.
Alison lacks faith, too. She runs away from stability and into whirlwind romances. She is avoiding herself.
Usually, it Alison's job to comfort Oliver through his (relatively speaking) dark days. This kind of thing is why Tess hates relationships; she needs to preserve her emotional integrity to get it down on the page. She believes writing is important, and that a solitary existence a worthwhile sacrifice. Tess resents Alison for not preserving herself in the same way, but she'd never admit it, because if she did it means she has misplaced her faith in art and paper, instead someone real.
Eventually, understandably, Alison grows restless in the Solomon Islands. It seems that somehow, at that point, his love is not quite enough for her. This is easily the best and most subversive part of the book, Tess thinks: a twenty-something woman who is not satisfied by love, despite being a central character in a love story.
When she collects her bags, Tess sees a young man at the carousel, and he seems familiar. He is wearing headphones and she looks at him, meaningfully. He glances up but doesn't register her stare, and leaves. Tess is at an airport in Sydney, alone.
I put down a latte and think, "I have a law degree." Then, "I am a writer." "Oliver is a fraud." "I want to be Oliver."
I read the whole book in three days, and then again. I wanted to read a romantic novel, because I was lonely, and now I am jealous. But what am I jealous of? Oliver's love for Alison the ingrate? Or his fantastical writing career?
If I were Alison, I would hate to be feel obliged to stay on an island for romance – even sticking around in Australia seems too much of a commitment and I breathe rapidly at the thought. As far as writing a historical fiction novel goes, a la Oliver, it's not quite my thing..
As a novel, The Bit In Between shows that for romance to work it has to be slightly disingenuous. That's not on Varley, either – as much as people hate to admit it, we're not reading romance novels for reality, but for romance.
It's only problematic when you mistake jealousy for desire.
Em Meller is a writer, journalist and editor whose work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Junkee, Overland, The Australian and other places. She has just finished a Writing and Cultural Studies/Law (Hons) degree, writes regularly for The Justinian and edits the Flashers column at Seizure.


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Black Friday Deals for O&O Software Products. 50% Off Entire Catalog
The Black Friday Specials are coming in faster than I can read/delete them. A couple of good ones caught my eye like the entire O&O Software catalog on sale for 50% Off. That is a pretty sweet deal considering it covers O&O Defrag, O&O DiskImage, O&O SafeErase and others. These guys make some really good software not only to keep your system running smoothly, but to resurrect it from the dead if something goes wrong. O&O DiskImage is a personal favorite of mine to take snapshots of the entire drive so all I have to do is boot from the Recovery CD and restore the image. I've actually had to do this more than once and it's incredibly easy to use and restored all my files perfectly. I currently have DiskImage cloning the drive in my main machine and putting the image file on a data disk.
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Radware at Amazon Re:Invent
If you're attending this week's AWS re:Invent, check out our session on Alteon VA for AWS at AWS Marketplace – Booth 228 at 2:15 pm on Thursday, November 13, 2014. At the session, we'll discuss and demonstrate Alteon VA for AWS.
Here at Radware, we recently announced the availability of Alteon Virtual Appliance (VA)® for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Alteon VA is a cloud-based application delivery controller that enables organizations to run applications across private and public cloud infrastructures, while improving overall quality of experience for users accessing business applications. Its availability on the AWS Marketplace allows our customers to deploy mission critical applications on the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with ease. Now even more flexible and scalable, the Alteon VA also offers two different payment models – "Pay as You Go" and "Bring Your Own License" (BYOL).
Radware's Alteon VA for AWS provides advanced application delivery capabilities to meet challenges of application deployment such as local and global server load balancing, SSL offload, application security and application acceleration for mission critical applications on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Don't miss our session at Amazon re-Invent to learn even more about this solution and for a full hands-on demonstration. Hope to see you there!
Prakash Sinha
Prakash Sinha is a technology executive and evangelist for Radware and brings over 29 years of experience in strategy, product management, product marketing and engineering. Prakash has been a part of executive teams of four software and network infrastructure startups, all of which were acquired. Before Radware, Prakash led product management for Citrix NetScaler and was instrumental in introducing multi-tenant and virtualized NetScaler product lines to market. Prior to Citrix, Prakash held leadership positions in architecture, engineering, and product management at leading technology companies such as Cisco, Informatica, and Tandem Computers. Prakash holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from BIT, Mesra and an MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.


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Khatta Meetha Review
When Priyadarshan and Akshay Kumar join hands, you expect the cineplex to reverberate with laughter. Let's not forget, the team has regaled us with some terrific entertainers in the past. Naturally then, you expect Khatta Meetha to take the legacy forward.
Unfortunately, Khatta Meetha is noise (the actors scream a lot in this movie), more noise (the great promotion) and only noise, while the content takes a complete backseat. Although Khatta Meetha shouldn't be compared to this combo's earlier works, since this one's a satire, I have to add that this is their weakest film to date.
The first question I asked myself once the movie got over was, what's the story? Okay, okay, neither did Priyadarshan's last few films had a story to tell, but when you attempt a satire, when one talks of the hardships faced by the common man, when one talks of corruption in society, there HAS to be a story in place. That goes without saying!
Khatta Meetha raises a finger at the corruption in government establishments, but what it tries to say, or expose, has been witnessed over and over again. In fact, it's the writing -- sorry, the absence of it -- that makes matters worse. The beginning is good, the middle falters and the end is exasperating.


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Word of Mouth helped me create my digital presence from scratch, I'm a free-lance aerosol artist and required help on how to showcase my work online and now have a great looking website & logo to do so. Cheers!
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Welcome to our weekly gallery of amazing art by our great collection of artistic talent, all working from YOUR suggestions!
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is - if you don't, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page... http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person's Twitter account) - myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad Nevett, Kelly Thompson, Bill Reed, Greg Burgas and Sonia Harris
I update the blog's Twitter account updates whenever a new post is put up on the blog, so it's an easy way to keep up with the blog. In addition, I post new content on the blog's Twitter account.
Now on to the bit!
So every week, I ask a question here. You reply to it on our Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply) and our artists will each pick one of your suggestions and I will post their drawings based on your suggestions here every week. So every week you will have a new question and you will see the choices picked from the previous week. Here is an archive of all the previous editions of The Line It Is Drawn!
To qualify, you have to be following us when you reply - so go follow us and then give your answer to the following question/challenge (All suggestions due by 3pm Pacific Friday).
The topic for the next Line is...
As suggested by Nick Perks, just like how DC has Earth-3, with evil versions of the Justice League, come up with an Earth-3 equivalent for other superheroes, like an evil version of Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc.
Read on for the drawings that came about courtesy of the last question/challenge!
In honor of the new Ghostbusters, gender reverse a film's cast!
I'll put them in alphabetical order based on the name of the Twitter user who made the suggestion.
All copyright and trademarks of the following characters are held by their respective owners! Click on any image to enlarge it!
BigMike20X6 suggested
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
Nick Perks is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
BigMike20X6 suggested
Edward Scissorhands
The art for this one is by Dan Hogan. His website is here.
BigMike20X6 and RBPropst suggested
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The art for this one is by Conan Sinclair. His website is here.
keath suggested
Blade Runner
Axel Medellin drew this one. His website is here
keath suggested
Nick Perks is also the artist for this one. Here is his website.
keath suggested
The Bride of Frankenstein
Chaz is the artist for this one.
KeithAlanMorgan suggested
King Kong
Nick Perks is also the artist for this one. Here is his website.
therealAstrozac suggested
Lethal Weapon
The art for this one is by Matt Sandbrook. His website is here. Matt couldn't stop at just ONE Lethal Weapon piece, though, so he did a whopping FOUR!
Great work, everyone! What a bunch of neat-looking movies!
Okay, people, go tweet us suggestions for next week!


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Helping people connect
Our new brand identity visualises how Oricom help customers stay reliably connected. In a market dominated with red and blue we saw Oricom green as an important equity to refresh. The typography was hand-drawn to reflect the circular nature of the connective symbol.
Old logo and competitor research
Brands in this sector are skewed towards a 'hi-tech' masculine style. Given Oricom sell baby and care monitors, we believed a softer approach to the brand identity was more appropriate and would help differentiate them from competitors.


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From shoots to events, this is what an entrepreneur's day looks like.
Beck Wadworth, Founder of An Organised Life, is a one-woman powerhouse. Given that she manages all facets of her business, from design to production (and even accounts), the entrepreneur tries to keep some routine across her busy schedule. Here, Wadworth gives Vogue the low-down on the beauty routine that helps her get prepped in the morning, her evening beauty tips for events and reveals her secret weapon: Carolina Herrera's Good Girl fragrance.
What does your beauty morning routine look like?
My day begins with some sneaky emails in bed followed by my go-to morning beauty routine. Skincare-wise, I start with a hydrating cleanser, followed by toner, and a refreshing face moisturiser with SPF. I'm all about calming products that have extra hydration for my fast paced life. I'm often travelling and my environments can change so these staples are essential.
I like my daytime make-up to be natural and glowy with brown hues and a defined brow. I finish my look off with bronzer, illuminator and a touch of mascara - simple but effective.
My go-to fashion look is usually a classic black blazer, paired with a casual tee and high-waisted denim jeans. I throw my sling back heels on and finish off with a dusting of the new and powerful Carolina Herrera Good Girl scent. A scent can really determine the mood of your day and get you off on the right foot, so it's important to choose the right one for you. This scent gives me energy and confidence allowing me to really get in the zone to power through my tasks and deadlines.
What does an average day look life for you?
Most of the time I head straight to meetings, appointments and quite often photoshoots. For example, today I'm directing our latest An Organised Life campaign shoot with some absolute beauties who represent the brand so well - chic and powerful, yet fun and free.
Post-shoot, on my way into the office I give myself another dust of the Carolina Herrera Good Girl scent to get me motivated and in the zone for the afternoon. Once I'm at the office it's straight to my to-do list. First up, –
(everyday) sending my online orders through to the warehouse to dispatch. Next, designing or refining a product for An Organised Life.
Once my creative brain has had enough I'm onto Sales - creating our weekly EDM and updating the social media plan for our Instagram account. This is also the time I chat to our amazing wholesale accounts too.
PR + Marketing is next on the list. Today is all about creating a calendar of tasks and deadlines to keep me on track and organised for an upcoming product launch.
Do you do any touch ups during the day or are you more low maintenance?
I definitely carry a small beauty bag of essentials with me for touch ups during the day! It includes a mini bronzer that I also use as an eyeshadow, concealer (which is a must), an eyebrow pencil and clear gel for shaping, a mini illuminator for those cheekbones, mascara to define my eyes and, of course, my Carolina Herrera Good Girl scent. This little beauty usually ends up sitting on my desk at work too for when I need a little freshen up or bit of inspiration!
Do you usually leave the office on time?
I'm a workaholic but today I'm out the door on time and heading straight home to freshen up and get ready for a cocktail event!
Talk us through your evening routine when getting ready for an event.
For my evening routine, I always begin by taking my daytime make-up off and starting fresh again. First is a hydrating moisturiser followed by a higher coverage foundation that hides redness and shine. I always opt for a bold smokey eye, highlighted cheekbones and a nice natural lip too. I give my brows a little touch up and add some statement earrings. Tonight's look is a feminine silk suit, and a powerful black pump to finish. A spritz of my Carolina Herrera Good Girl scent is needed (I love it for day and night) and then I'm out the door into the car.
Event complete, I head home to catch up on the last few emails for the day and to write my to-do list for tomorrow. Getting ready for the crazy but amazing routine to start all over again. It's a powerful feeling.


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At some point, you'll want to use your MakerBot Replicator 2 to print an object with multiple parts or multiple objects at the same time. This is possible to do and can shorten build times. However, there are some things you should take into consideration when printing multiple items at one time.
We printed a desktop cannon with multiple parts that are different shapes. You can find the 3D printable cannon on Thingiverse.com. When you download this project, it comes with all of the parts in one file, and each part as separate files.
We originally added the file with all of the parts to MakerWare and tried to print the parts at one time. There are some advantages and disadvantages to doing this. The advantages are the parts are well organized on the build platform and, in theory; everything should print in one print making it faster and easier.
However, there are some significant disadvantages to printing multiple things at one time—especially things that vary in size and shape. If one part fails, it can impact the other parts and you may lose all of the parts instead of 1 or 2 parts. Additionally, some parts may print better on a raft, while other parts don't require a raft. You don't have the option to print some pieces on a raft and some pieces without a raft in a single print.
As we printed the cannon on the MakerBot 3D printer, one of the cannon ball halves and the plunger knob separated from the build plate during the print. The MakerBot continued to print as if the parts were still there creating tangles of filament. This ultimately resulted in canceling the build and wasting a lot of time.
We ended up grouping the parts and doing 3 separate prints. We grouped the parts based on similarity, whether or not the parts required a raft, and how the parts were oriented on the build plate. For example, we used rafts on the cannon barrel and the plunger and rotated the cannon ball halves so the openings were down. We had much better results by grouping and printing similar parts versus printing everything in one print.
The only part we were unable to print was the plunger holder. We couldn't get it to stick to the build plate, even with a raft. We altered the design of the plunger holder and made it square in order to print the part successfully. We also reprinted the plunger with a UV-cured resin 3D printer. The original plunger and spring printed successfully, but the PLA material was brittle and didn't flex like we hoped it would for the spring.
In the end, the desktop cannon successfully shot a cannonball, but don't expect to shoot your coworkers unless they sit within 2 or 3 feet of you. We liked the looks of the cannon, but it still needs some design work to make it function well.
Nevertheless, we learned some important lessons on 3D printing projects with multiple parts and hope these tips help you as well.


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Genius Diagnostics dispatches its first Liquid Nitrogen Vapor Shipper/
One of the challenges of studying the biochemistry of plasma is that it must remain frozen until ready to use. This presents a logistics problem- how to prep and freeze samples within an hour of the blood draw, and how to move them from the clinic to the lab without thawing?
Most samples get shipped across the country on dry ice. Dry ice doesn't melt to a liquid, but it goes directly to CO2 gas that dissipates into the air. In the closed environment of an airplane, the rise in CO2 concentration would wreak havoc on pilot and the other travelers. This is why dry ice is considered a hazard, and is strictly regulated.
The other problem with dry ice is that 10 pounds of it only lasts a few days. So, it means shipping a heavy box using the MOST EXPENSIVE shipping services available, via overnight or expedited couriers.
So, what's the alternative? Liquid nitrogen vapor shippers!
Liquid nitrogen is another option for shipping frozen samples. Modern LN2 vapor shippers have an absorbent material packed inside that absorbs the liquid nitrogen and renders it completely safe for shipping. The best part is that the shippers have holding times ranging between 17-32 days! This means that shippers can be dispatched directly to a clinic or a patient, allowing the recipients to load their samples and return the shipper back to the lab.
The round-trip cost of a LN2 vapor shipper is less than the cost of one-way overnight on dry ice. Best of all, the long holding times in a LN2 vapor shipper provides an extra margin of safety. This means that bad weather delays, or an extra day held up at customs (for international shipping) will be less likely to ruin a sample.
Genius Diagnostics is conducting a few practice runs with LN2 vapor shippers. We only have two of them so far, one for domestic use and the other for international shipping. We're guessing that the cardboard outer boxes will get a little beat up after a few excursions. But if this works, then it means that patients from anywhere on the globe will be able to sponsor their own biological samples for medical research.
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The garden is the place where you can experiment with your creativity. Instead of purchasing expensive decorative items used home things to create a beautiful homemade garden. You can reuse unwanted plastic bottle as a flower pot. There are many waste thing, which can use to decorate the garden.
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The rustic old watering jar can be used as a mini fountain. The ceramic dishes are thrown out ones they broke. You can use those broken pieces to give a classy look in the garden. There are many such homemade things for garden décor.
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The old dressing table is the perfect base for plantation with the three-tier garden look. A shoe organizer can be used to make a vertical garden. You just have to fill the shoe space with the soil and then add some plants. The vertical garden can create in any of the small corners of the apartment.
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The hanging garden is a simple and easy way for DIY small garden décor. Use plastic pot for plantation and hang them in the wall, front porch, windows and in the balcony top.
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Climber in the hanging garden adds extra charm. Kids old plastic portable pool can be used as a plantation. The sides can decorate with stone and pebbles. Kiddie pool garden can be used as a pool in the summer.
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On 2015: A Year In Review/
So another Christmas has past and New Years Eve is only a few days away. Everyone is busy planning or setting intentions for the things they hope to achieve in the 2016 - or trying to decided how to bring it in.
I'm not really one for big New Years Eve parties, and to be honest I hope to spend the night at home with a couple of my besties watching Madonna movies and drinking Sailor Jerry's in my pyjamas.
But before any of that happens, I like to spend some time reflecting on the year that was. I think that this is really important, because it's really easy to just allow the days to float on by with indifference, but when I stop and take stock I'm always struck by just how much has happened.
To put it bluntly, 2015 has been one hell of a strange beast.
There have been challenges, tears, fears and moments of depression, but on the whole this year has been amazing.
On The Business Front
It's been almost 12 months since I hosted my first ever live group coaching event, 'A Rad Bitch Tea Party', and I've since gone on to host events in 3 major Australian cities, including my first sold out workshop in Brisbane.
I spoke at both The Artful Business Conference, and The Brisness Women's Breakfast with Rachelle Panitz.
Launched a You Tube channel, and stepped into the world of hosting live online events - something I've recently started doing again.
The Rad Bitch Girl Gang has grown and it still blows me away that so many incredible and creative women feel so safe to share and connect in there.
2015 has seen me work towards and achieve some huge goals like stepping away from my Nanny job after almost 6 years, and face some huge fears like speaking about my experience in an abusive relationship.
I've worked with and alongside some seriously incredible women, and thanks to the power of the internet and social media, I've connected with awesome babes like Anastasia Amour, and I totally fangirled when Harnaam Kaur commented on one of my facebook posts.
I think that the experience that I'm most grateful for and blown away by, has also been the most surprising, yet seemingly simple. Earlier in the year I joined in on Gala Darling's Radical Self Love Instagram Challenge, one of the prompts around halfway into the challenge was to share a #NOMAKEUPSELFIE. On the surface, this probably doesn't seem like that big a deal - especially considering that I share photos of myself in my pyjamas and without make up pretty frequently.
This became a big deal because I chose to share an incredibly honest photo - one that I would probably never have shared otherwise. The lighting was harsh, my hair was messy and I stood in front of a bright white wall, so every single wrinkle and remaining spot of my hemangioma stood out. It was also the first time I used, or looked at the hashtags #HEMANGIOMA or #STRAWBERRYMARK.
This was the day that I realised that medical and surgical treatments of vascular birthmarks are not only still a thing - but that they've become a really common thing.
This was the day that I realised just how much fear lives in the hearts of parents of babies with strawberry marks, and how much the medical industry is preying on those fears.
This was the day that I felt as if I needed to start sharing more of this part of my story on Instagram.
I'm honestly so glad that I stepped so far out of my comfort zone to do that, as I've had way more parents than I ever anticipated reach out to me.
The thing I'm most proud of this year, is that the very first mum who reached out has gone from editing her daughters hemangioma out of photos because she was afraid of what her people might think, to feeling so confident that she's started writing and sharing photos of her gorgeous little girl publicly.
On Collaborating
One of my absolute favourite things about working for myself is the freedom to collaborate when and how I choose, and to support the businesses of people I love. Most recently, that's been the Rad Bitch Hot Mess collaboration with my Best Girl, Emma. There is soooooo much yet to come, and I'm seriously so goddamn excited to get stuck into creating and writing new things!
On The Personal Front
Personally this year has brought some mental health ups and downs, but nothing too overwhelming. On the whole, I feel as though I've become fairly good at recognising what I need in each moment and respecting that.
I'm also incredibly grateful that I have a partner like Jordan who makes the effort to understand, but also knows that sometimes there's nothing more to do than just be here. He challenges, encourages and supports me while bringing healthy doses of his own brand of Real Talk every now and then.
This year we've travelled around our own city like tourists, explored the state and created big dreams for our future. Together we've celebrated more weddings and birthdays, he's spun me around on dance floors while we've grinned and laughed hysterically, and we've talked late into the night.
I've reconnected with old friends, re-established old friendships, and started to heal some old hurts.
On The Year Ahead
Twenty-Sixteen is a year of Making Shit Happen.
It's going to be a year of pulling up my socks, doing the fucking work, and reaching as many people as possible.
I'm excited about hosting more events, both on line and live in person.
There will be more collaborating, more expanding, more growth.
I'm committing to having my writing published for a wider audience, working with more one on one coaching clients, and embarking on new adventures.
In the short term, I've decided to take the first week of the year off social media in order to focus on creating, holding sessions with clients, reading the books I was given for Christmas, connecting with the people I love and maybe even catching a movie.
I want to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you who has come along for the ride so far, your support means so, so very much.
Wishing you all a happy, safe and abundant 2016.