Quality control provider Inco-Check rebrands as QC Ally

Inco-Check is rebranding to QC Ally, the company announced Wednesday. Inco-Check, a provider of QC and audit solutions, was founded in 2000 and acquired in May by Narrow Gauge Capital.

“While celebrating Inco-Check’s legacy of high-quality audit services, this new branding reemphasizes our shared goals and collaboration with our client partners to enhance their business,” said Donna Gibson,

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‘Demolition is an act of violence’: the architects reworking

‘Demolition is an act of violence’: the architects reworking

Nestled like a red question mark in the hills of rural Japan, the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre is a recycling facility like no other. A chunky frame of unprocessed cedar logs from the nearby forest supports a long snaking canopy, sheltering walls made of a patchwork quilt of 700 old windows and doors, reclaimed from buildings in the village.

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HELOCs are now “raging back”

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

HELOCs allow homeowners to tap the equity in their home without incurring a much

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I used to think art required natural talent. Then I taught

I used to think art required natural talent. Then I taught

After a lifetime of scribbling on scrap paper, a few years ago I finally started taking drawing seriously. I was backpacking and bought a tin of crayons. I loved it instantly. I spent the rest of the trip sitting in gutters and scribbling wonky buildings; in pubs drawing malformed fellow patrons.

An early self portrait

Many who see me

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Tom O’Donoghue

HW+ Member Spotlight: Tom O’Donoghue

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Tom O’Donoghue, owner at Reverse Loans Now. O’Donoghue has been in mortgage banking for more than 30 years and has been helping and committed to working with Senior Citizens for the last seven years.

HW Media: What is your current favorite HW+ article and why?

Tom O’Donoghue: How inflation could be a net

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‘These cows saved my life’: the Queensland farm offering

‘These cows saved my life’: the Queensland farm offering

Lawrence Fox acted quickly when he found out the cows on a friend’s farm were to be sold for beef.

The 34-year-old had sought refuge on the farm in Goldsborough, half an hour south of Cairns, after feeling burnt out from his job as a business strategist – and had taken to spendings his days in the company of the

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