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Knee surgery went well. Recover is going good. Doing my exercises and physical therapy. Hoping to be back at my desk towards the end of next week.     A long time ago, people who sacrificed their sleep, family, food, laughter and other joys in life were called:   SAINTS   now they are called:   Engineers

        It is time to recognize all of our Top Community Engagers and Contributors of 2021!   The PTC Community Team has been reviewing all of our 2021 community stats (incuding posts, replies, kudos, accepted solutions, and overall community contributions).  It was exciting to see new usernames show up on top and some members climbing higher than they ever have across the various product categories.  Keep up the great activity!  2022 has just begun!   This year the annual awards are divided into Primary Awards, additional "Best in Category" awards, and Honorable Mentions 🙂  Give yourself and your fellow community members a shout out via kudo or reply when you find a familiar username on the list!                Primary Awards (activity in the most popular product discussion boards)   Recognition Award Recipients PTC Community-Wide   Top Contributor 2021 @Vladim

Hi PTC Community!!   As 2022 rapidly approaches, the extended Community Management team wanted to wish you and yours all the best during this holiday season.       In the spirit of the season, our Community moderators have engaged in an internal contest on who shared their favorite 2021 memories the best. Your PTC Community Management Team joined in too, but we are definitely focusing on our super fun moderator team for this contest! Please take a few minutes and weigh in on who you think from the PTC Community team shared their 2021 memories best!   You can view the contest entries here, and we look forward to hearing what you think!   Wishing you every happiness this holiday season and throughout the coming year.     On behalf of your (extended) PTC Community Team, Leigh   @Jaime_Lee @olivierlp @AndrewK @Hedy @vnamboodheri @anursingh @rpathare_7727 @Simona @Iuliana Nuta @Corina_Ionescu @sl

A favorite family picture!  Onam is an annual harvest festival and major event for Keralites.  It the official festival in the Indian state of Kerala.    

Did I mention that I was able to meet up with our new Online Community Director, @olivierlp  in Boston last month? The oval building in the background I am pointing to is our PTC Boston Seaport Headquarters.     It was a beautiful night, warm in the high 60s before the first December frost crept in over that weekend.              

Hi, PTC Community,   This is our last "Top Engager" post for 2021. We are taking a break next month to review the entire last year contributions and pass out our Annual Recognition Badges for 2021. If you have been following our Recognition Series  you might have some guesses on who the 2021 honor recipients might be!   But for now, we want to end the year on a Good Note and recognized November 2021 Top Engagers!   Thank you for all your great engagement!  Hope to see you continue making music(?) with us next year!   @VladimirN @StuartBruff @ValeryOchkov @Werner_E @TomU @LucMeekes @MartinHanak  @Fred_Kohlhepp @JS_9824412 @StephenW @tbraxton @Patriot_1776 @ysinitsin @Dale_Rosema  @LawrenceS @Sathishkumar_C @JD_2779181 @BenLoosli @ttokoro @BG_9869104 @avillanueva  @RPN @KenFarley @STEVEG @muser  @Sergey @Mukul_467346 @kdirth&

The Shanghai STAR Committee had a great "Office Escape" Christmas Event in Shanghai!  

Where do I start???  2021 had its challenges - but those just made the really special moments that much more!   🎓 Pre-School Graduation!  🎓     🎆Watching my son really experience 4th of July Fireworks for the first time!  🎆     🚀  Walking around on Halloween in a blow up rocket to encourage my sons love of space!  (Guys - no joke - waddling around, in what basically amounts to an adult size balloon for 3 hours, is definitely NOT a walk in the park!). 🚀     🎄And last, but not least, successfully organizing man and beast for a family Christmas picture to share on the PTC Community.  As a side note - the fact that Bella (our dog) kept that bow on her for longer then 5 minutes is proof positive that miracles really do exist.  🎄     🎉. I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and look forward to working with all of you in the New Year!  🎉

The best part of Christmas is celebrating with loved ones!    

When I moved to NC from CO, I threw away my ugly sweater...but I have this one!  😬     A big 2021 memory for me is joining PTC and getting to know the extended PTC Community Support Team!   and I make friends easily… 😃  

Two big celebrations!    My wife and I celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary.  The day started with traditional blessings, followed by a big party!         ________________________________________________________________________________________________     An unexpected surprise 45th birthday party - still trying to figure out how my wife and kids made that happen since we were in Covid lockdown!     Not pictured in the below is Dollar, our dog, chasing me as I protect my "birthday bottles"!  😃    

                    My name is Maple and I am pawsitively excited to share with you my 2021 thoughts.             2021 went by so fast! I actually loved it.  My mama was still 100% working from home so I loved curling up by her feet. I would start licking her fingers and flip flop...naked toes if I thought she was working too long and needed to go for a walk.  When the shiny box starts talking, I enjoyed meetups with @Leigh .  She seems so very knowledgeable and such a devoted mom to the little blonde boy that pops on from time to time.  He really reminds me of my boy.  My boy is 8 years older, but still I would really love to jump through the screen, lick his face, and play frisbee with him too  some time!  I know my mama doesn't think of Leigh as just a coworker but a friend!  This year I saw two more faces on the shiny box @AndrewK and&nb

What’s makes my Autumn mood? Cool, crisp walks through Moscow area with my wife. After watching our walk, please add your own foliage pictures 🍁.       Several photos from the video are presented below and in the attachment. Here, behind the photographs, the following music should sound for autumn mood: Explosions in the Sky - "Chisos" (2021), link - https://bit.ly/3lFG0nl    

This is my family's favorite time of year! Every year we look forward to spending time together during the holidays. Everyone takes a break from work and school and we get together with family and friends to celebrate.  

Romania in the winter season has great light displays!  My favorite part of winter!             

The Christmas Season always recalls two fond memories of my son when he was younger.  He's all grown now!  😊          

  ....I have a funny picture......             AND.....a collage of what Christmas means for me.  🤗        

  My favorite holiday of the year is CHRISTMAS , because I get to see the family reunited, give and receive gifts as well as eat traditional food like sarmale and the best of the best COZONAC!!! 😃    

 

I couldn't decide which tradition I enjoy more, so invited my Halloween date to share in my Christmas celebration!        

Holi is a popular Indian festival, also known as the "Festival of Love", the "Festival of Colors" and the "Festival of Spring". Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blossoming of love and for many, it is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. The festival also celebrates the beginning of a good spring harvest season. It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon Day) falling in the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna, which falls around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar.          

Diwali is the festival of lights. This festival is celebrated all over India and Indians all over the world. It symbolises the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. “Diwali” is also known as “Deepawali” which means "row of lights/lighted lamps”. It is celebrated in memory of victory of "Lord Ram" over the demon "Ravan".     The Ganesh festival marks the birth of Lord Ganesh, the god of wisdom and prosperity. It falls in the Bhadrapada month of the Hindu calendar, which falls in August-September and lasts for 11 days. Lord Ganesh is considered a symbol of wisdom, writing, travel, commerce and good fortune.      

This may be my last post for the year. We'll see how I fare after tomorrow. I am getting a total knee replacement on the right side, so I'll be out of the office until after the first of the year. Have a blessed Christmas celebrating with your family and friends.   Why do engineers often confused Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25! 

Hi,,,,before everyone in the U.S. unplugs I wanted our October 2021 Top Engagers to help wish everyone a  "Happy Thanksgiving!"  We appreciate the contributions from all our PTC Community Members!   @VladimirN @StuartBruff @ttokoro @LucMeekes @ValeryOchkov @TomU @Werner_E @StephenW    @MartinHanak @Fred_Kohlhepp @Dale_Rosema @pshashipreetham @Chris3 @KenFarley @tbraxton @AP_9587236    @Marco_Tosin @BenLoosli @STEVEG @KB_10074140 @BG_9869104    Well Done! (....not Over Done ;)....can you really "over do" engagement?  NOPE.  Can turkey be overdone?   Perhaps  🙂 Check out Dale_Rosema' s  Thanksgiving post on tips for cooking the best turkey from an engineering perspective!     Be sure to add your turkey pictures and Thanksgiving blessings!      

Have a blessed weekend. Watch a Christmas pageant or two. Enjoy this little ones in the sheep, shepherd  or wise men costumes.    Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"   One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up