XOS Digital Technologies Inc., a digital media management firm in Lake Mary with 57 workers, plans to add 46 new jobs through 2014. Salaries will average $60,833 and include engineering, sales and digital media-related positions.

In addition, XOS expects to spend $3.3 million to build out and furnish 25,000 square feet in the GAI Building in downtown Orlando. The company was approved for $126,000 in local incentives and will seek an additional $299,000 from the state in the coming weeks.

Central Florida is a step closer to getting its proposed northwest rail system — the 36-mile, $55 million Orange Blossom Express.

the route, which would run from Eustis to downtown Orlando and tie into Central Florida’s $1.3 billion, 61-mile SunRail commuter rail.

Christine Betow Seerveld recently moved to Orlando, FL where she spends her days making metal art. She studied music theory and mathematics at Whitman College and outdoor recreation at Western Washington University. Somehow from this hodge podge of interests she took a love of form, structure, geometry, and the natural world and has applied it to her art. She first attended Burning Man in 2006 where she saw The Flaming Lotus Girl's piece, Serpent Mother. This is what first inspired her to take up welding.

All of the large arts organizations in our area have summer camps. The Orlando Repertory Theatre alone has over 50 summer camp offering for students. The Orange County Regional History Center brings history alive with their artistic process. Students – ranging from 5 years of age through middle school – learn about ancient Egypt through maps, mummification and the painting of hieroglyphs. The Orlando Shakespeare Theater is teaching Shakespeare, make-up, history and costuming through an innovative “Zombie Shakespeare” camp. Crealdé, a local visual art center, has a finely tuned model.

Maglev as a Central Florida transit option first was talked about in the early 1980s as an airport-to-Disney route. The subject disappeared and then resurfaced several times throughout the years, with companies proposing privately funded projects priced from $500 million to $600 million.