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What Is Augmented/Mixed Reality?

Technology

Just about everyone has heard the term Augmented Reality (AR) in the tech news lately. Whether it be something like an augmented Google map, the game everyone went crazy over, Pokemon Go, or Apple’s AR integrations in the new iPhones, Augmented Reality is coming soon to most all our mobile devices. Well great, but what is it, and how do we employ it for something useful? Augmented Reality Display Augmented Reality is a mixture of virtual reality and the camera on your phone. It simply puts images over your camera view, so you can see images overlaid on the picture. These pictures, or assets, can be anything from images and videos to 3D models and animations. Where VR puts you in a virtual environment in which you can interact with all the various assets, AR mixes the “real real...

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Skewed News-By Kerry Dougherty

Headlines

By Kerry Dougherty Here’s something we can all agree on: Many American newspapers are circling the drain. There are a multitude of reasons. But much of the blame goes to penny-pinching, short-sighted, unimaginative publishers. Dullards who know how to count beans but know nothing about news reporting. They’ve either laid off or bought out most experienced journalists, leaving many newsrooms in the hands of green reporters and editors with little historical knowledge of the localities they cover and without the courage to sometimes say, “Hold on, something about this story doesn’t feel right.” On top of that, pressure to get stories online means more errors - hey, they can be corrected later - asnews outlets join the arms race to spew digital information. If you want to k...

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Focus On Philanthropy

Focus on Philanthropy

Judeo-Christian Outreach Center Helps Vincent Find a New Home By Kristin Ward The Judeo-Christian Outreach Center’s staff, partners and volunteers are celebrating 32 years of feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless! People like Vincent. The week of Thanksgiving was an exciting time for Vincent. He signed a lease and was handed the key to a new apartment at the Housing Resource Center (HRC)! It was beginning to look like Christmas for him. The last ten months had been hard and long. The heavy equipment operator and former truck driver experienced a health crisis in February 2018. After missing too much work, Vincent lost his job and eventually his home. Never expecting to become homeless, he began living in his car in April. With the help of food stamps...

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College Sports and Money

Community

College Sports and Money By: Gary Edwards I don’t want to talk about the FBI’s investigation into college basketball. Everyone seems to be so surprised and shocked about $100,000 payments to recruits, but impermissible benefits to five-star recruits have been going on since our universities decided to dance with the revenue producing devil. Did you know the United States is the only country in the world that sponsors big-time sports at its institutions of higher learning? Perhaps the rest of the world understands it is like mixing oil and water; you can try to do it but it doesn’t work very well. College presidents, please spare me the mock indignation. You and your institutions sold your souls long ago to the television networks and shoe companies. You decided to take...

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Fabulous Find – Vietnam Garden

Food

By Connie Meyer Vietnam Garden is such a treasured, hidden-gem of a restaurant in Virginia Beach, I almost hesitated to write and tell the world about it. A knowledgeable foodie friend of mine, Lisa Richmon, co-owner of Roast Rider Coffee and Tea at Hilltop, clued me in about 15 years ago, and it never disappoints! It’s the kind of family-owned, cozy restaurant that lives in an unassuming shopping center off Virginia Beach Boulevard just west of TJ Maxx. You’d likely never find it, or even venture in, if someone didn’t let you know about it. Vietnam Garden teases the most flavor out of the freshest food imaginable. The menu is authentic and traditional but the dish explanations are in English and the friendly staff is always there to help. Here are some of our family’s favor...

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Habitat for Humanity Family Moves into New Home on Christmas Eve

Community

Proving there’s “no place like home for the holidays,” Lori Boone and her daughter, Kiana, moved into their new Habitat for Humanity of South Hampton Roads (Habitat SHR) house on Christmas Eve 2018. The new home on Lake Kennedy Drive in Suffolk is the last in a nine-home cluster built through Habitat SHR over the past three years. “It’s always special when a new Habitat family takes ownership, but it was extra special to have it happen on Christmas Eve,” said Frank Hruska, the Executive Director of Habitat SHR. “We are so grateful to our many community partners and volunteers who made the Boone home on Lake Kennedy Drive a reality before the end of the year.” Lori and Kiana had lived with Lori’s mother in a two-bedroom house in Suffolk. Lori has worked for the past 18 years ...

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Look What’s New

Business

By Connie & Bruce Meyer I am not sure which was brighter, Versace the lab’s shiny black coat or his loving personality. When Versace passed away too soon last year, puppy parents Ed & Kealy Ore knew they would do something special to honor his name. And special it is! This dynamic couple who brought us the wonderful Great Neck Doggie Day Care has now created a specialty spa for your favorite pooch. There are individual luxury suites where you can bathe your dog yourself. All of the supplies are tucked into their custom-made cabinets for your use. For those of you who do not want to take a bath with your pup, Salon Versace will have one of their expert groomers do it for you. They can even do a full Spa Treatment including oils and specialty soaps. Specialty Spa treatme...

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Virginia Stage Company

Events

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Sweet Indulgence for a Cause!

Focus on Philanthropy

As a child at family gatherings, Mark remembers always checking the cake pan to see if his favorite cake were inside. Mark enthusiastically says, “My Grandmother’s triple chocolate cake was worth the effort to clean my dinner plate no matter how many vegetables were served”. Sharing this sweet indulgence has become a family tradition for the Rosenfields - Mark, Sharon, Hannah (16) and Hayley (14). Together they have baked as many as eighty cakes to give to friends, co-workers, teachers, and neighbors during the holidays. Each year they enjoy delivering these cakes to see the joy it brings. There’s now an additional reason for the Rosenfields to offer these cakes over the next several months. Hannah and Hayley have the opportunity visit France this summer to play soccer and watch the ...