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Lloyd is entering his fourth season for the Golden Eagles. His heighth and strength has given him much success in doubles over the years and has overpowered many opponenets on the singles court. He has helped to contribute to consecutive OVC conference fights over the years, and hopes to help lead the team to a championship his final year.
At Tech
Fall 2010 (SENIOR): Lloyd continued to show impressive results in doubles this fall season with an undefeated record of 3-0. Teamed with partner James Crawford, who has shared the court with Lloyd in many doubles matches together since their freshman year (2007-08), the duo captured three consecutive wins at the UTC Fall CLassic earning them the third-flight championship title. Lloyd went 0-4 in singles this fall. He opened up the season with a hard fought battle in the UNCG Invitational before falling 6-3, 1-6, 4-6 to Trent Cobb from UT Chatanooga. Lloyd also proved his success in the classroom, when he was chosen to represent Tennessee Tech at the inaugural NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of this Leadership forum was to enhance leadership skills necessary for the development of student-athletes. Lloyd was one of two athletes chosen from Tech for his academic success and leadership qualities as a student-athlete.
In 2009-2010 (Junior): Lloyd had his best season at Tech this spring, starting off the season with a 6-0 singles winning streak. Playing the six position for Tech, Lloyd ended the fall and spring season with an overall 10-4 singles record. Paired with Alex Chen for the spring season, Lloyd held an overall 12-8 doubles record. One of the oldest on the team, Lloyd knew what it took to help guide the team to the conference tournament where they placed second overall. He did not drop a singles match in OVC matches, with a 3-0 record, and held a 3-3 OVC doubles record as well. Lloyd won the last seven out of ten matches he played and hopes to continue that success on into next season.
Lloyd had an impact in doubles, teaming with Yianni Doropoulos to post a 6-0 record in the fall tournament schedule...went 3-2 in singles.
In 2008-09 (Sophomore): Lloyd saw limited action in the Golden Eagle lineup, posting an 0-4 record in singles matches and going 2-8 in doubles...both of his wins came when he was paired with Alex Chen late in the fall season.
In 2007-08 (Freshman): Lloyd played primarily in a support role during his freshman season... picked up five singles wins...team up with three different partners for seven doubles wins... played No. 3 doubles during the OVC Tournament.
Before Tech: Lloyd attended King Edward VII School of Houghton, South Africa..was flyhalf on the Rugby team and opening batsman for the Cricket team...received Tennis "colours" which are the South African equivalent of varsity letters and also a Tennis team blazer...helped his school Tennis team to be finalists in the Wayne Ferrera Interschool Challenge...ranked top 10 in his class in the first semester of his senior year in high school.
Personal: Son of Bruce and Brenda Harris of Johannesburg, South Africa...born on December 21, 1988... majoring in exercise science with a concentration in physical therapy.


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There will be plenty of folks clad in red and white at the second annual Big Ten Conference Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday night, as the Nebraska Cornhuskers do battle with the Wisconsin Badgers.
Nebraska is appearing in its first Big Ten championship game, but this is the third time in the last four years the Cornhuskers are playing for a conference crown — the other two of course coming when they were members of the Big 12. Nebraska went 10-2 during the regular season, and won the Legends Division crown by virtue of their 7-1 league ledger. It is the Huskers' best conference record since 2001, and included in that impressive mark is a 30-27 comeback victory over Wisconsin in the Big Ten opener in Lincoln on Sept. 29. As a result, Nebraska owns a narrow 4-3 lead in the all-time series.
A win over the Badgers would give Nebraska two wins over the same opponent in the same season for the first time since 1896 (Nebraska Wesleyan). A win in this game would also make the Cornhuskers the first team in FBS history to win a conference title in two different leagues, and it would mark their first conference crown since 1999. Nebraska hasn't been to a BCS Bowl Game since playing for the national title in the 2002 Rose Bowl.
Wisconsin is playing in the Big Ten title tilt for the second straight year (42-39 win over Michigan State), although this time around the Badgers backed in after finishing third in the Leaders Division behind Ohio State and Penn State, both of which are ineligible to participate. Wisconsin finished the regular season at 7-5 overall and 4-4 in conference, and the team has lost two in a row and three of its last four coming into this contest.
Wisconsin is actually seeking its third straight Big Ten title and its third consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl, both of which would mark the first time that has occurred in program history. No Big Ten team has played in three straight Rose Bowls since Michigan from 1977-79.
The Cornhuskers turned up the intensity on defense at Iowa last Friday, holding the Hawkeyes scoreless over the final three quarters and to only 200 yards of total offense in what turned out to be a 13-7 Nebraska victory. Alonzo Whaley posted a career-high 11 tackles and had an interception as well, and Eric Martin logged three TFL, including a sack, for the Nebraska defense, which allowed just 3.2 yards per play.
The Huskers rushed for 200 yards in the contest, as all five of the team's primary ball carriers finished with at least 40 yards. Rex Burkhead led the way in his return from injury with 69 yards and a TD on 19 carries. QB Taylor Martinez had a tough time battling the wind, throwing for just 63 yards on 8- of-14 passing, but he added 41 yards in the running game.
For the season, Nebraska is averaging 35.4 points and 460.9 yards per game. Like its counterpart in this matchup, the Huskers' strength is in the running game, which accounts for 252.2 ypg and 28 TDs. Abdullah surpassed the 1,000- yard mark (1,071) and has eight rushing TDs, which ties Martinez for the team lead. The athletic signal-caller, who has 833 rushing yards, has completed 63.3 percent of his passes for 2,483 yards with 21 TDs and only eight interceptions. Kenny Bell is Nebraska's homerun threat in the aerial attack, and he has 44 grabs for 789 yards, his eight receiving TDs being four times as many as his closest teammate.
On defense, the Cornhuskers have stood their ground against most foes, giving up 22.6 points and 318.3 yards per contest. Their effort against the pass has been particularly impressive as opponents average a mere 152.2 ypg through the air and have scored just 12 TDs. Unlike the Badgers, the Blackshirts have proven to be an opportunistic bunch by forcing 21 turnovers to go with 29 sacks. Will Compton is high man on the team with his 98 tackles, Daimion Stafford has 83 and a club-best four interceptions, and Eric Martin leads the way with 16 TFL and 8.5 sacks.
Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini spoke recently about his team's mental makeup going into this championship game as opposed to title tilts in the past.
"We've come up short the last two times we've gone into the game. We've played two good football teams and lost two tough games. I don't get into dissecting and the psychology. We're either going to make enough plays to win or we're not."
In a game in which Montee Ball became the NCAA's all-time TD leader, the Badgers came up just short in their bid to claim win number eight on the season as they dropped a 24-21 overtime decision at Penn State last Saturday. It was the third OT loss of the season for Wisconsin (Michigan State and Ohio State being the others), actually the third in the last four games. Ball scored his 79th career TD in the first quarter, passing Miami-Ohio's Travis Prentice for first place on the NCAA's all-time list. Ball finished the game with 111 yards on 27 carries, while QB Curt Phillips completed half of his 25 pass attempts for 191 yards, two TDs and one interception.
The UW defense was battered by Penn State RB Zach Zwinak (career-best 179 yards, one TD), and allowed 200 yards and a score to QB Matt McGloin. The Badgers did not force a turnover, and only recorded two sacks as part of their five TFL on the day. Ethan Armstrong was one of three UW defenders with double-digit tackles, which also included Mike Taylor who made 10 of his 11 stops without any assistance.
For the season, the Wisconsin offense averaged 27.5 ppg in piling up 380.4 ypg, the bulk of which came via the run which generated 212.7 ypg and accounted for 29 of the unit's 42 TDs. Ball has amassed 1,528 yards and 18 TDs, while James White has served as a valuable backup in rushing for 693 yards and eight scores. None of the three QBs who have taken snaps this year have really excelled, the collection combining to complete 57.6 percent of their passes for a little over 2,000 yards with 13 TDs and only five interceptions. Jarred Abbrederis is the Badgers' top receiver after making 44 catches for 764 yards and five TDs.
The Wisconsin defense has performed well for the most part this season, yielding just 18.1 ppg behind typical outputs of 111.3 ypg rushing and 196.6 ypg passing. Despite shutting down the opposition repeatedly throughout the campaign, there is a glaring lack of big plays with the Badgers logging only 12 takeaways. Taylor has had a monster year with 115 tackles, 14 of which were behind the line of scrimmage. Devin Smith has three picks to his credit, and Chris Borland has 4.5 sacks.
UW head coach Bret Bielema spoke recently about the advantage of having played in this game before.
"I know our kids really hadn't thought about it much, but one of the things I talked them to on Sunday was the advantage we would have by being in this environment already. It's a really unique experience, more so than any other game I'd ever been involved with, bowl games or anything, just all the different little things that you have to be engaged in, in addition to playing in Lucas Oil Stadium. It's a very different stadium. It's a very, very unique environment and something that our kids have already been there."


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3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1/3 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1/3 cup coconut milk
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5 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
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Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour or spray (with baking spray with flour) 1 loaf pan. In a medium mixing bowl, combine sugar and butter until fluffy. Add the coconut milk, egg and pumpkin, mix until thoroughly incorporated. Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix thoroughly. Pour into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with coconut if desired. Bake 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool in pan about 5 minutes then invert to a wire rack.


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Rant Mode Equals One: I'm a Consumer and I've Been Harmed
Don't Think M$ Impacts Your Daily Work? Think Again.
I've thought about it a lot and I've decided that possibly the 60-plus percent of all Americans polled who don't think that they've been harmed and that Microsoft should be left alone possibly need to hear from at least one of us who has.
According to some polls, a good portion of people don't seem to think that they have been harmed at all by Microsoft's actions. They think the trial is an attempt to pick on Microsoft because it's successful. They think that no adjustment or penalty need be applied to the folks that occupy the Redmond infirmary.
Likely a good portion of this sentiment arises because the trial data is simply too complex and Microsoft has indeed got one of the best public-relations firms available--and tons of cash to say what they want through that firm.
The people who have been hearing Microsoft's side of things through these channels possibly haven't heard my opinion. I will state that I don't speak for everyone in the Linux community--I speak only for myself--and I can tell you this:
I'm a consumer--and I've been harmed.
I would like to walk into one of the chain computer outlets and buy a computer that doesn't have Windows preloaded, or at least has as an option the ability to delete it from the list of options. If a PC is selling for $800.00 with Windows preloaded--I'd like to have the option of removing it and getting that PC without the Windows tax.
I would like it so that illegal contracts and anti-competitive practices were not in place, so that like any competitive industry, I may have a choice of more than just the hardware manufacturer--I would get to choose another operating system. You see, I don't use Windows. I use Linux.
This is not because Linux is hard to use. This isn't because Linux is expensive, unpopular, impossible or whatever--it's because Microsoft would not tolerate choice in an area like the operating system on a new computer.
I'm a consumer--and I've been harmed.
I have spent too much time helping friends debug computer problems that are a black box. I have spent too much of my own time helping people continue the vicious proprietary circle that they cannot leave because they have invested too much in the software they already have.
These people did not know of any choice when they purchased a new PC--the computer came preloaded with Windows, like all other standard PC hardware available. Not because it was the best choice, but because through strong-arm tactics over the years all other competitors had no way to compete fairly.
These people have been harmed and do not know it. The fact that they need my expertise to help them continue sickens me. I hate to say it, but I can no longer help them. I will invest my time in my local Linux user group. In that group there are people that wish to learn and are doing what they can to get out of the cycle they are in.
Why should I waste another hour, no, rather, I will not waste another hour of my life crawling through dialog boxes and obfuscated error messages with a black box on what is supposed to be an "Open" operating system.
I liken the scenario to someone who is a very good auto mechanic. A person who understands all automotive operations in theory. This person can practically assemble his own car from scratch if desired. His friends keep bringing over new and used cars that even the dealer cannot fix. This particular model of car has the hood welded shut. As an expert, this mechanic has found ways of fixing the car anyway--manipulating the pieces under the hood with a coat hanger, for example, or banging on the hood in places like the Fonz in the TV series "Happy Days."
The people are amazed at the mechanic's ability.
They continue to bring him cars, but one day, he says "No, no more." He shows them his car, one that he and a bunch of friends have been working on.
From a design perspective, this car is everything a car should be, except it's still a prototype. It works great, and the hood is not welded shut. It runs on water, it has a top end of 300 miles per hour, it's safe, and environmentally ten times better. The people look over the car in wonder, but shake their heads. They have too much time and money invested in their "proprietary" transportation.
This is how I view Windows and Linux now. I can no longer waste my life shoving coat hangers into cracks in an attempt to fix Microsoft's smog-belching gas guzzlers. Why am I helping what I view as a disease? Why am I furthering more computer addiction to products that are heroinware at best?
No, I cannot help some of my friends any longer. I tell them of Linux and I know that soon there will be choice for them, but until then I have places to constructively spend my time. If they must run Windows then let them find the so-called "gurus" to help them with their plight. I will not be one of those people--my life, my time, my morality is simply too expensive to be wasted there.
In a more competitive world, these things would not be tolerated. These people would have been able to make quality choices. The fact that Windows 2000 has been described as more stable is no magical gift from Microsoft--you can bet your bottom dollar that without Linux breathing down Microsoft's neck stability would simply not be a concern. You can bet that Windows 2000 would be just as unstable as Windows NT, or possibly worse.
Competition is good--even for Microsoft. In the meantime, my friends have also been harmed.
I'm a consumer--and I've been harmed.
I've received yet another file via email in Microsoft Word format. It's a document that I use quite frequently, so I load it in another application and convert it to HTML, so that I can place it on my local intranet and refer to it from time to time. In Word format it's bloated, the HTML is a mess. I try emailing the person responsible, but the next two revisions come out in Word file format anyway.
The Word file format is not just hard for me to read--it's unsafe. Viruses get transmitted via unsafe email clients. The files themselves clog my hard drive. The file format is being used as a weapon, and the ignorance of the general population a tool in a pointless attempt to force me, a person who believes whole-heartedly in open standards, to switch to an operating system platform that runs Microsoft Office.
This is ignorance by the consumer and it is used against me far too often.
When the files come from outside of my company I simply delete them and ask for HTML or plain text versions. I have only had one instance where I actually needed the Word format, and was able to simply print it in another product without much trouble. Even still, this is a weapon, and the inmates of the Redmond infirmary know it. They use it against the unknowing public daily and daily the public responds by buying more Microsoft products, in a never ending cycle.
Eventually, gone are open standards if this is left unchecked. Gone is choice. In the meantime--I have been harmed.
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This is probably going to sound harsh, but without any kind of back-up or support, I wouldn't trust Jack Chick to interpret a greeting card, let alone any kind of scholarly work. There was one tract of his on D&D, "Dark Dungeons" is the title that listed Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as authors whose works were "satanic". He'd been told this by someone and accepted it without question. In a later edition of this work that note was taken out.Ebor
I hope you'll go ahead and write a little something about how you view Halloween.
Write a little something! You knew that was going to happen.
Does anyone know anybody who can bake a white chocolate ice cream cake?
I can. I also do something that I have dubbed (thanks to Homestarrunner.com) "This Brownie Might Kill You", which is hommade brownie filled with Tin Roof ice cream, coverd in ganache, and topped with almonds and chocolate sprinkles. And whpiied cream, when the mood suits.
BTW, the movie EVENT HORIZON gave me the jibbluies more than the above listed movies. It's just that scary.
Oh man... I made the mistake of watching that in college when I was home alone. I shut it off halfway through and slept with the lights on... when my roommate came back the next day, we finished it together and I still had to sleep with lights on for a week. Interesting concept for a film, but very disturbing.
Tell me about it. the most disturbing part for me is when I fugured out the message in Latin "Liberate tutte lei ex inferis" with all that blood and gore spilling out. "Save yourselves from Hell". AndI saw it in the theatre with only three other people inthe actual room with me. Complete strangers. I think we all slept with the lights on that night.
"Dark Dungeons" is my favorite one, by far. The fact that there are not one but TWO female players in the game as presented in the story is bad enough, but one of them is actually the Dungeon Master! (FYI: for those non-RPG types, the DM is the person who creates/narrates/presents the storyline/gameworld in which the players play) Such displays of horrid scholarship turned me against Chick Tracts forevermore
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Turn your monitor upside down while you type? Ebor
Indeed...a friend of mine gave me the website on Jack Chick and I read the first thing which was anti-RC concerning a son who watched his mom die while suffering some sort of possession. It was the strangest thing, and it was a great turn-off. It's sad that our sources in rejecting Halloween comes from irrational and mentally deranged sources like Chick.
Volume I of a series on the life and work of Alberto Rivera, I believe. I read it and believed it when I was a gullible kid. Now I recognize it as the stuff one would wipe out with toilet paper.
Volume I of a series on the life and work of Alberto Rivera, I believe. I read it and believed it when I was a gullible kid.
Why don't they call them "Boredementalists"- They're hardly "fun".
I sure hope you're not setting up a Christmas tree this year, because that comes from pagan ritual and, therefore, evil. I hope you don't dare dye easter eggs because that also comes from pagan ritual and, therefore, evil. Come to think of it--the name Easter is a pagan Anglo-Saxon word and, therefore, evil.Nice. Perhaps you should forward that to the "What's your favorite Evangelical bumper sticker" thread.
I don't observe christmas anymore nor easter. That is one of the reasons why I went through the process of writing what I wrote.
I am not an Orthodox Christian, I am simply Christian who tries to live by the Bible and not a particular church's way of doing things.
Complete contradiction in terms. You cannot "live by the Bible" and not be "within the Church", since the Epistles are addressed to the Church. Therefore, you cannot even be Christian. There is no such thing as a Christian outside of the Church.
I guess what OzGeorge is saying is that there is no such thig as "your" Church and "my" Church - there is only one Church, visible, tangible, hierarchical, with one Bread and one Cup.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
The Silk Scarf
This is an item from the past. If my memory is correct, the story about this scarf goes like this. It was given to Dad by a "dudene" who had come to the dude ranch in Sunlight in the late 1920's. He was pretty smitten with her, but it turned out to be a summer romance. When Dad met Mother, he gave her the scarf. She used to wear it tied around her head with her hair in a knot at the back of her head.. Later, when I was in high school, and it was the fashion to wear a small scarf knotted at the neck of your blouse or sweater, I inherited the scarf, and wore it for many years. As you can see, it is shredded at the edge, and now is only good for a memento of the past.
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- Judy said...
If you hadn't written this post, no one would have ever known the significance of that old, faded scarf. I do remember you wearing it with your cardigan sweater that went everywhere with you. I am always amazed at the power pull items from the past have.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:28 AM
- Ann said...
I'm with Judy. I had no idea this scarf had such a history. What fun it is to know "the rest of the story". Thank you. I am equally amazed you still have the scarf. It is amazing what survives the years of moving, cleaning out the unnecessary stuff, and just plain disappearing.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM
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Any idea who's currently the longest tenured manager with one team in MLB? It's Mike Scioscia. He's been at the helm of the Angels the past 13 seasons.
In the long history of the Cubs only one of its managers lasted as long as Scioscia has in Anaheim. Cap Anson skippered Chicago for 19-straight seasons from 1879-1897. Quite awhile ago.
Meanwhile, the present runner-ups to Scioscia include Twins manager Ron Gardenhire who's lasted 11 seasons in Minnesota, Charlie Manuel with 8 seasons in Philadelphia, Jim Leyland with 7 seasons in Detroit and Joe Maddon with 7 seasons in Tampa Bay.
Outside the Top 5, however, there's a noticeable decline in manager's staying power. In fact, the average length of time spent on the job for current managers heading into 2013 is less than 3.5 seasons.
Only five managers exceed that average: Ron Washington in Texas (6), Bruce Bochy in San Francisco (6), Bud Black in San Diego (6), Joe Girardi in New York (5) and Dusty Baker in Cincinnati (5).
Otherwise, two-thirds of the league's managers have been on the job three seasons or less. Six begin their inaugural season with their respective clubs next spring, half of which are rookie bench bosses: Bo Porter (Houston), Walt Weiss (Colorado) and Mike Redmond (Miami).
I became interested in this topic thinking about how much string Dale Sveum will receive as the Cubs manager? Epstein and Hoyer reiterate they envision Sveum as'the guy' when the team finally turns the corner from rebuilding, which still appears several seasons away.
If we project the Cubs to be .500 or better in 2015 Sveum will have already been on the job three years. And if he's lasted that long there's reason to believe he'll be retained with a team poised to compete for the postseason.
That could put Sveum on path to near the head of the class for the league's current list of longest tenured managers with one team, assuming the Cubs continue to win.
On the other hand, as the Cubs climb closer to being competitive the patience of the rebuild will have worn thin on Team Theo and the fans. Everyone will expect a winner given the talent on the field and the tedious wait to assemble a competitive roster.
Sveum, needless to say, will have little room for error if he's to become the Cubs' version of Mike Scioscia vs. the latest quadrennial skipper. Of course, all he needs to do is win a World Series. And how hard can that be?


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Tracy McGrady has decided to hang up his shoes and call it a career after 16 seasons in the NBA. He of course had his career start here with the Raptors as first round selection for the club. He would leave not feeling the love once his distant cousin Vince Carter arrived on the scene and took the spotlight away from him. He would sign with the Orlando Magic at 12:01am the first possible time he could do so when free agency opened. This after a season of saying he would strongly consider re-signing with the Raptors.
That was of course a lie you have to conclude given how quickly he made his exit stage left. He before it was cool to hate Vince Carter years later was Raptor fans public enemy number one. He thrived on that hate and said it was only because Raptors fans loved him and missed him that they booed. Speed ahead to modern day and many folks that are Raptors fans and heaping praise on him Even the Raptors via social media threw out the topic of if McGrady should be a Hall of Famer. He would be the first Raptor to earn that honour if it were to happen.
I fail to understand why people have so much love for a guy that turned his back on this franchise. In the reality we only got to see the start of what turned out to be an NBA Superstar and 7 times he was an All-Star…all of which came not as a Toronto Raptor.
McGrady will be a great case study to see if Vince Carter ever makes it to the NBA Hall of Fame someday. The distant cousins have a lot in common in terms of their NBA Careers. Both never truly had playoff success in their prime years in the league. McGrady famously never making it out of the first round for years and years as the man in Orlando and than Houston. While Vince Carter never got past the second round until the very late stages of his career with the Orlando Magic McGrady won a scoring title but never an MVP award. Carter of course won a Slam Dunk crown back when than that meant something but never a MVP award on his resume either.
While both have longevity and numbers to make them worthy of consideration for the Hall of Fame to me I would pass on both. In the end whatever Hall of Fame you want to talk about from the Basketball Hall of Fame to WWE Hall of Fame it involves in one form or another politics and opinions.
For me personally what defines a Hall of Famer is being the best of an era, a proven winner when it counts in the playoffs and after that will check your stats. Often Hall of Fames seems to work in reverse to that thinking. In baseball unless you are a suspected or proven steroid user or bet on baseball you are a lock if you reach certain milestone numbers. You hit 500 Home Runs, Win 300 games or get 3000 hits you are a virtual lock to make it.
Tracy McGrady was a capitalist first and loved the game second. I don't mean that as harsh as it sounds but in his early young days McGrady was immature and in it to get paid. I will give credit to him as his career went on however as the injuries racked up he could have easily walked away and called it a career. He also late in his career accepted that his time had past and he was accepting of a role player. That is something that some stars like an Allen Iverson as an example could not do. He matured and I believe grew to love the game.
He even won some people back by trashing another Raptor Villain in the form of Chris Bosh. He stated that he never trashed the city or said anything bad about it like Chris Bosh had done. Vince Carter whether you choose to believe it has never either and we have certainly given him reason too. Vince Carter also inspired a generation of Canadians that we are starting to see emerge in the NBA and for Canada Basketball. Tracey was part of that at the start of things as well.
In recent years on OTR on TSN they had a show which featured Carter, McGrady and Charles Oakley in a sort of Raptor Reunion type show. In the context of that show you saw both Vince and Tracey kind of admit a little regret on what could have been in Toronto.
Kobe Bryant years earlier was quoted as saying that he believed had Carter and McGrady remained together he fully expected his Lakers with Shaq to be battling year in and year out with the Raptors for a title. That is perhaps what stings most of all for Raptor fans to this day.
But unlike Bryant who has an incredible killer instinct and many championships on his resume to his credit Carter and McGrady don't. For my money both Carter and McGrady were satisfied to live off there freakish athletic ability and not as driven as Kobe Bryant, Lebron James or Kevin Durant. Two players that at the end of the day had great NBA careers but could have and should have been so much more.
That to me does not scream hall of Famer. It could still happen for both and would be a historic moment for the Raptors in being first players the Raptors drafted to find their way to the Hall of Fame. It would be a bitter sweet thing though if it happened. I don't suspect you would ever see Tracy's number 1 hanging in the rafters at the ACC. Mainly because most of what he accomplished in league came after he left. We only got a glimpse of what was to come. Vince likely never sees that day come either but there might be a little window of hope of that as time passes.
If it is possible to separate the bad blood that many feel towards both it still to me at least doesn't make them Hall of Famers. I understand you can make a case for both but I just don't see it for my money. That said in the time since both have been here not one player including Chris Bosh comes even close to this kind of consideration in my opinion.
In any case love or hate Tracy McGrady I do give him credit for fighting through so many injures to continue to play the game when he clearly never had too in the last few years. He has done a lot of growing up from the immature kid that turned his back on Toronto.
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The impact of Alabama's immigration law on schoolchildren is a key factor in why the Obama administration asked an appeals court on Friday to immediately stop implementation of the law, which began this week.
The Alabama legislation is considered by many to be America's toughest immigration law. Among other things, it requires that school officials determine the immigration status of students when they enroll. The checks aren't meant to identify children, state school officials say, but will instead be used for statistical analysis about the costs of illegal immigration in the state.
In a challenge filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, the US Justice Department alleged that Alabama's law "is highly likely to expose persons lawfully in the United States, including school children, to new difficulties in routine dealings."
News reports have described frightened Hispanic immigrants leaving the state. And many are drawing up powers of attorney to establish guardianship for their US-born children, should they be identified as illegal immigrants by Alabama authorities.
On Monday, as the law took effect, more than 2,000 Hispanic children were absent from school. But that number dwindled to about 1,500 midweek.
Last week, federal judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn had cleared the way for the law's toughest rules to take effect. Now, the Obama administration's challenge is likely to force the courts to further clarify the extent to which state immigration laws can impact citizens – as well as the ability of the federal government to regulate immigration if state laws cause immigrants to "self-deport" to other states.
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Despite Judge Blackburn's view that the Alabama law, for the most part, is copacetic with existing federal law, the Justice Department's appeal said parts of the state law run counter to federal immigration rules. For one thing, the appeal said, "attempts to drive aliens 'off the grid' will only impede the removal process established by federal law."
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The Alabama law targets legal citizens, Hispanic activists point out, because it affects family groups of "mixed documentation" – where some people have legal papers and some do not. Thus, the interests of the entire group veer toward the plight of undocumented family members. Activists describe a "culture of fear" running through Alabama's Hispanic community. "Even here in Alabama, we are all reeling from the impact that this [law] had had in the few days since it's been in effect," said Sam Brooke, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Brooke spoke during a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...lice--violenceA day of anger over a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in suburban St Louis turned to mayhem as people looted businesses, vandalized vehicles and confronted police in riot gear who tried to block access to parts of the city.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...brown-shootingTwo reporters were arrested and teargas was fired at demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, five nights after an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by an officer from the towns predominantly white police force.
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The response to this is a hands raised protest.
The most interesting part of this to me, aside from people in Gaza using twitter to advise americans how to cope with teargas, is the militarisation of the police.
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2014/08...uburbs/375855/According to a public information officer with the St. Louis County Police Department, the county dispatched two armored vehicles on Saturday in response to "unrest." Yet it was not until Sunday that some grieving community members answered perceived injustice with violence, looting about a dozen shops. As of Saturday, when the BearCat took to the streets of Ferguson (population 21,000), protesters were assembling peacefully.
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- Larry said...
Do Mt. Charleston for Olga and I. I made us turn around in a whiteout last year after we gained the ridge from the north since I didn't know the "line" and we had lost the trail in knee-deep snow. Olga will disagree with me on the "losing the trail" part since she was hypoxic. ;) Have FUN!
- April 12, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- olga said...
aw, Sue, this sounds so awesome! And the Red rocks and Mt Charlsten, bring so many memories from just a year ago! pack snow gear just in case, we hit a snowstorm at charlsteon loop:)
- April 12, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- RunSueRun said...
Couldn't do Mt. Charleston - there was still snow at the trailhead (!!) and I didn't bring my snowshoes, crampons, or ice axe. Next time...
- April 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- olga said...
You know, you may have talked me into doing C2M 100k option, darling:) Keep me posted on when it's opens up, please.
It was awesome meeting you and Chris in person, and yes, we could have had a hoot being around closer!
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I cannot remember a time when my nose wasn't buried in a book. My parents fostered my love of reading from an early age and I devoured everything I could get my hands on. I adored children's classics like the Anne of Green Gables series and The Secret Garden. I loved Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven, the adventure books by Willard Price and the Sue Barton nurse books by Helen Dore Boylston. Most of all I loved the wonderful pony books that kept me entertained for hours on end...authors like Mary O'Hara, Ruby Ferguson and the Pullein-Thompson sisters. They inspired my dreams and fired my imagination. Then came more grown-up books, fiction and nonfiction, plus the escape to the world of Mills & Boon romances! I read avidly but always knew that I had to write. Ever since December 2005, when I received the phone call telling me that Harlequin Mills & Boon were to buy my manuscript for their Medical Romance line, the months have flown by! It was a dream come true and one, after twenty years of writing novellas for My Weekly Story Collection and Linford large print, plus serials and magazine short stories for The People's Friend, I believed would never happen. I was stunned, tearful, in shock...and so excited! It took me a while to prize myself off the ceiling! My first Medical Romance, The Italian Doctor's Bride, was published in the U.K. in October 2006 and received a CataRomance Reviewers' Choice nomination. My second book, A Doctor Worth Waiting For, won the CataRomance Award in 2007. Since then I have continued to develop a series of loosely linked Medical Romances set in the fictional rural Scottish town of Strathlochan and the surrounding villages, creating a real sense of community. A double bill of Strathlochan stories, The Emergency Doctor Claims His Wife and The Rebel Surgeon's Proposal were released in June and July 2009 respectively, and I have just finished my ninth Strathlochan story, Italian Doctor, Dream Proposal, which will be released in November 2009. And more Strathlochan stories are in the pipeline. Before I return to Strathlochan, however, my first writing project for 2009 involves a welcome return to the wonderful Brides of Penhally Bay series set in Cornwall. The first twelve books were such a success that we are being allowed a return, and four new books will be released, one a month, beginning in November 2009. My contribution will be the fourth book, A Mother for the Italian's Twins. Due out in February 2010, this will be my twelfth Medical Romance. All the Strathlochan stories are loosely linked, with familiar characters popping up again from time to time. It's a fictional world I hope readers will enjoy discovering as much as I love writing. I have chosen to stay with southern Scotland as the setting for most of my books because I love the feel of close-knit communities and medical professionals for whom caring is more than a job. As well as the natural beauty of the area, the people are wonderful, and I have loved the place since my very first family holiday there as a youngster. A long time ago! It's a hard life having to sit and stare at a picture of a yummy man all day long and write romantic and sexy things about him! I have a great selection of photos to call on and on which I base a look or a mood or a trait for my characters. My disappointment at having to file the pictures away when the manuscript is done is only eased by throwing myself into the next set of characters and getting out a new hero photo to begin work on! And it is good to know that it isn't really goodbye-my characters will live on and reappear in future. Although I have never worked as a medical professional, I have rather too much experience as a patient! I also have some very good friends working in various health fields who are extremely generous, providing any information I need and answering my endless questions. Having a passion for learning makes researching an involving pleasure and I love developing new characters, getting to know them and setting them challenges to overcome. Romance writers are a terrific bunch of people. I feel very blessed because writing has brought me many joys and many special friends who have been so generous with their advice and so unstinting in their support. And I am honored to be sharing shelf space with some of my very favorite category romance authors whose books I have read and enjoyed and found an inspiration for so long. I am also so grateful to my wonderful editor for believing in me and for all her encouragement and support. Aside from writing and reading books, my hobbies include listening to music, debating current affairs and watching sport, especially football (soccer), athletics, golf and motor sports. I hate cooking, housework and hot weather but I love the countryside, crisp autumn days and Innocent smoothies! I have a passion for animals and would love a whole menagerie, but at the moment my experiences are with the animals I foster. I sponsor six orphan elephants and a baby rhino with the fabulous David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya (www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org). The elephants are called Lualeni, Kimana, Suguta, Shimba, Sinya and Dida, and the baby rhino is Maalim. I also sponsor Grendon, an orphaned orangutan baby in Borneo, and a puppy called Megan who is in training with Guide Dogs for the Blind in the U.K. Thank you very much for your interest in my books. If you would like to e-mail me, I would love to hear from you at firstname.lastname@example.com. Best wishes, Margaret.
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Derek Loosvelt
August 06, 2013
Just over a handful of years ago, working on Wall Street carried nearly unmatched prestige for undergraduate and MBA students. It was widely accepted that only the best and brightest from the top schools in the country were admitted into skyscrapers housing the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and a defunct firm formerly known as Lehman Brothers. But come 2007, when it was discovered that those same firms played more than a small part in bringing the U.S. economy to its knees, resulting in billions of dollars in financial losses, as well as millions upon millions of job losses, respect for working on Wall Street took a massive nosedive.
Consider that, in 2008, on Fortune's annual World's Most Admired Corporations list, Goldman Sachs, then the top-ranked bank on the list, ranked No. 10, but in 2011 Goldman ranked No. 25 and this year fell to No. 34 (J.P. Morgan, now the top ranked bank, placed No. 28). Also consider that, in 2008, 45 percent of Harvard Business School's graduating class took jobs in financial services while 10 percent took jobs in investment banking. But this year only 27 percent of new HBS grads went into financial services and 5 percent went into banking. Meanwhile, the percent of HBS grads going into tech has skyrocketed: 8 percent in 2008 vs. 18 percent in 2013.
In addition, consider that banks are still in the news almost weekly for their misdeeds, regularly paying tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to settle cases connected to the financial crisis (UBS settled yet another case yesterday, this one connected to misleading investors about a mortgage-related security) as well as new cases not connected to the crisis (such as J.P. Morgan's settlement last week for allegedly manipulating electricity-market prices), which underscore just how little has changed when it comes to reining in greed and hubris on Wall Street. The latest Wall Street case to hit just about every major headline was one involving an ex-Goldman trader named Fabrice "Fab Fab" Tourre, who was found guilty last week on six counts of securities fraud in connection with his participation in Goldman's infamous subprime mortgage-backed deal known as Abacus. The verdict was yet another blow to Goldman, as well as to Wall Street, as it served as yet another reminder to the public that the largest investment banks in the U.S. were largely responsible for the financial crisis and that they've done little, if anything, to change their ways in the past five years, not to mention offer an apology.
And, perhaps worse, the verdict might have created an entirely new image problem for Wall Street.
In the aftermath of the Tourre verdict, many industry observers were quick to note that the ex-Goldman trader, just 28 years old when he last worked for the firm, became the one and only Wall Street banker to have been convicted of any wrongdoing in connection with events that led to the financial crisis. Perhaps for this reason, and for the fact that Tourre was so young during his tenure at Goldman, many observers of the case as well as at least one juror on the case called Fab Fab, in post-verdict interviews, a "scapegoat" (which seemed to be an apt description of the Fabulous Frenchman). Meanwhile, another juror called Tourre a "cog" in a machine but a "willing" cog. And yet another juror, a school principal, speaking on behalf of her fellow jurors, said, "We don't think [Tourre] deserved to take the blame for everything, but he did play along."
All of which isn't such great news for Wall Street banks, as it seems to indicate that just by going along with your firm's operations, you could be the one, in addition to your firm or in lieu of your firm, of taking the heat if said operations are deemed illegal in a court of law. This means that young wannabee Wall Streeters will now have additional concerns when deciding whether or not to join the rankings of investment banks worldwide.
Already, they have to deal with detractors that believe the industry is filled with blood-sucking mollusks. They also have to deal with the prospect of losing their jobs; post-crisis, Wall Street has continued to expand and contract (a/k/a hire and fire), making a job on the Street a not very secure one. Then there's the problem of financial regulation, which has many industry insiders and wannabee insiders concerned to afraid, as the future of Wall Street and its varied products and services (many of which have been deemed dubious) remain uncertain.
And, yes, there's also the extremely sad fact that, on average, a job on Wall Street doesn't pay as handsomely as it did prior to 2008; and even when it does pay as handsomely, it doesn't pay in as much cash as it once did, since deferred stock is increasingly becoming the payment method of choice when it comes to bonus time on the Street. (Incidentally, Fab Fab Tourre, once upon a time, while working for Goldman, earned $1.7 million a year—which I imagine couldn't have helped him while he tried to ingratiate himself with the jury of his so-called peers).
In any case, two things seem clear: that Wall Street banks have a lot of hard PR work ahead if they plan to keep pace in the young-talent war, and that if they don't stop racking up the settlements and losses in and out of court, the talent war is one they're going to lose, and lose badly.
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Penguins Invite 54 Players to Training Campby Staff Writer / Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins have invited 54 players (30 forwards; 18 defensemen; 6 goaltenders) to training camp, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero.
Included are 21 players who were members of the Penguins' Eastern Conference finals roster, headlined by captain Sidney Crosby, co-playoff team scoring leaders Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang and 2012-13 NHL First-Team All-Star left wing Chris Kunitz.
The Penguins also return NHL plus-minus leader Pascal Dupuis, the team's regular-season goal-scoring leader James Neal, two-way blueliner Paul Martin, alternate captain Brooks Orpik and the goaltending tandem of Marc-Andre Fleury and Tomas Vokoun.
Other invitees who suited up for the Penguins last year are forwards Craig Adams, Beau Bennett, Tanner Glass, Dustin Jeffrey, Jussi Jokinen, Brandon Sutter and Joe Vitale; and defensemen Robert Bortuzzo, Simon Despres, Deryk Engelland and Matt Niskanen.
Two players – defenseman Rob Scuderi and forward Chris Conner – return for their second stint with Pittsburgh. Scuderi was a key member of the Penguins' 2009 Stanley Cup championship squad, while Conner had the best NHL season of his career with Pittsburgh during the '10-11 campaign.
Following Pittsburgh's participation in the rookie tournament in London, Ontario, the team released seven forwards from their amateur tryout contracts - Cameron Brace, Richard Nejezchleb, Liam O'Brien, Connor Rankin, Carter Rowney, Scott Simmonds and Cody Sylvester.
Forward Jean-Sebastien Dea, who also participated in the rookie tournament, will attend training camp on an amateur tryout contract.
Click here for a complete training camp roster.
The Pittsburgh Penguins will report for training camp, Wednesday, Sept. 11, and will take the ice for the first practice of the 2013-14 season on Thursday, Sept. 12.
The Penguins' practice sessions and scrimmage on Saturday, Sept. 14 at CONSOL Energy Center will be open to the public with gates opening at 8:30 a.m.


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Release date:November 9
New Miss Wayland "humbled" by her title
Ashley Wood never set out with high hopes to win the title of Miss Wayland Baptist University. But on Nov. 3, she did just that, becoming the 30th young woman to hold the title.
Wood, a sophomore speech communications major from Gordon, said she entered the pageant with her friend and roommate Melissa O'Brien "just for fun" after both heard about the event last year. That same fun prevailed until the pageant got closer.
"After everything started, that competitive nature kicked in and we realized that everyone had a chance to win," she said. "There was no one person who stood head and shoulders above the rest that we all thought would win."
After the judges had narrowed the field to five - and Wood was still standing - her hopes dimmed after seeing the other four girls with her. But in the end, it was Wood who wore the crown.
But for her, the biggest reward of the pageant was the experience itself.
"Just getting to know all those girls better and watching God work in so many ways was rewarding," she said.
As far as holding the title of Miss Wayland 2002, Wood said she is mainly just humbled to have been chosen.
"I'm excited and humbled to have this position - to represent the school that's my home, the people that are my friends and God, who gave it all to me," she said. "But it's very humbling, because I know there are so many girls who could do just as good a job."
In the coming year, Wood will make numerous appearances for civic groups, churches and official university functions and she is excited to be able to share the musical talents with which God has blessed her with the public. A songwriter, Wood performed one of her own compositions for her pageant talent.
"I know God put me in this position for a reason, and ultimately that's to glorify him," she said. "I'm excited that through all this I can go out and share my testimony and share what Wayland means to me and share my music talent. That's neat to me."
Wood is a member of the musical ensemble Rejoice, Student Foundation, the Baptist Student Ministries Leadership Team and Wayland Singing Women. She is also sophomore class president and sings in several praise bands at the university.
Junior Miranda Turner of Tulia was named first runner up in the pageant, and junior Andrea Turner of Plainview was second runner-up. Other awards given at the post-pageant reception were honors for Miss Congeniality, which went to sophomore Melissa O'Brien. Best Talent was presented to Ashley Applewhite and Best Evening Gown was given to Amanda Barker. Leah Nichols received the award for Best Interview.
Besides a $750 scholarship from Wayland, the new Miss Wayland received a nine-meal cafeteria plan from Sodexho, $200 from Five-Star Auctioneers and numerous other gift baskets and gift certificates from local merchants.


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North Korea prepared to lay longtime ruler Kim Jong Il to rest while the hermit state's official media on Tuesday lauded his son and heir apparent as a person "born of heaven" — suggesting the transition to a new leadership was under way.
The streets of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, were quiet Tuesday morning as thousands grieved the death of their "Dear Leader." With an 11-day mourning period in effect, flags flew at half staff, shops were closed and streams of mourners — some wailing — placed flowers at memorials around the city.
"Today, as well as yesterday, the Korean people have been coming here to Mansu Hill in deep sorrow at the loss of the benevolent father of our nation with the infinite feeling of longing," said Ri Ho Il, a lecturer at the Korean Revolutionary History Museum. "Our General (Kim Jong Il) is our people's benevolent father. He defended our people's happiness, carrying on his forced march both night and day."
Kim died Saturday of a massive heart attack brought about by overwork and stress, according to the North's media. He was 69 — though some experts question the official accounts of his birth date and location. The state funeral is to be held on Dec. 28.
North Korean officials say they will not invite foreign delegations and will allow no entertainment during the mourning period.
Kim's death and the possibility of a power struggle in a country armed with nuclear weapons and known for its unpredictability has heightened tensions in the region.
President Barack Obama agreed by phone with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to closely monitor developments. Japan's government also said it was being vigilant for any "unexpected developments."
North Korean state media have given clear indications that Kim's third son will succeed him.
The Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday described Kim Jong Un as a "a great person born of heaven," a propaganda term only his father Kim Jong Il and his grandfather Kim Il Sung had enjoyed. The Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party, added in an editorial that Kim Jong Un is "the spiritual pillar and the lighthouse of hope" for the military and the people.
It described the twentysomething Kim as "born of Mount Paektu," one of Korea's most cherished sites andKim Jong Il's official birthplace. On Monday, the North said in a dispatch that the people and the military "have pledged to uphold the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un" and called him a "great successor" of the country's revolutionary philosophy of juche, or self reliance.
Whether the transition would be a smooth one remained an open question, however.
South Korea's military has been put on high alert, and experts warned that the next few days could be a crucial turning point for the North, which though impoverished by economic mismanagement and repeated famine, has a relatively well-supported, 1.2 million-strong armed forces.
"The situation could become extremely volatile. What the North Korean military does in the next 24-48 hours will be decisive," said Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has made several high-profile visits to North Korea.
Kim was in power for 17 years after the death of his father, the charismatic founder of the North Korean nation.
His death could set back efforts by the United States and others to get Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. It also comes at a sensitive time for North Korea, which is preparing for next year's 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung.
Concerns are high that Kim Jong Un — being young and largely untested — may feel he needs to prove himself by precipitating a crisis or displaying his swagger on the international stage.
North Korea conducted at least one short-range missile test Monday, a South Korean official said. But South Korea's military sees the firing as part of a scheduled routine drill, instead of a provocation, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a policy that bans commenting on intelligence matters.
Some analysts, however, said Kim's death was unlikely to plunge the country into chaos because it already was preparing for a transition. Kim Jong Il indicated a year ago that Kim Jong Un would be his successor, putting him in high-ranking posts.
South Korea's president urged his people to remain calm while his Cabinet and the Parliament convened emergency meetings Tuesday.
The Defense Ministry said the South Korean military and the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea had bolstered reconnaissance and were sharing intelligence on North Korea.
The White House said in a statement that it is closely monitoring reports of Kim's death. The Obama administration may postpone decisions on re-engaging the North in nuclear talks and providing it with food aid, U.S. officials said.
The administration had been expected to decide on both issues this week, possibly as early as Monday, but the officials said Kim's death would likely delay the process.


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Lot's of people, or #foreveralone?
TL;DR: Facebook Spaces, the recently released virtual reality app for Facebook-owned Oculus Rift, is basically a bit like AltspaceVR, but with Facebook bolted in.
That is to say, you get to go to a 'space' where you can hang out with your Facebook friends in virtual reality with an avatar.
The space you occupy in Spaces is a virtual table where you get to share photos and videos and chat and play with friends who also are logged to Oculus at the same time. You can draw in 3-D and you can take virtual selfies, (which I will never ever call 'vrelfies' so don't even). You drag your photos and videos to the center of the table to display them. If they're in 360 degrees, they're spheres, and when you drop them in the middle of the table, the photos surround you, as do the videos.
There is an option to hang out with Messenger for those who don't have an Oculus (aka, most people) and, from my limited experience, this currently means you're going to be mostly hanging out by yourself. This is an interesting contrast to Altspace or Rec Room, because, in those platforms, everyone has a VR device, but they're strangers. #foreveralone
CONTENT: All your 360 photos and 360 videos work in VR in 'Spaces', but this means the quality of images and movement in video ARE now an issue for those who would experience the content like this. That means that awesome 'Star Wars' racer video from a while back doesn't look good if you're inside it while in 'Spaces.'
- Ricoh Theta S photos posted to Facebook look OK but expect some blurriness.
- Insta360 Nano static videos are OK, but relative distance from camera to subjects is important, unless, like with photos, you don't mind gigantic humans and/or cats.
LIVE: 360 FB live streams don't work in VR if you try to watch them later. And since quality is lowered for a live feed, it's just not compatible and won't be for the foreseeable future.
The 'space' tries to render those videos into a cube but it doesn't know how to place the video in the six panels. But even if it got fixed, I don't see this working properly until the platform can support live streams in at least 2K, and that would only work if you had a strong data or wireless connection.
SEARCH: You basically have to 'save' a bunch of 360 videos and photos that are not yours if you'd like to find them, (unless you're not a big publisher *shakes fist at cloud*). Your profile stuff is there. I manage some pages with 360 content and could not get to the photos and videos, so I had to "save" things within Facebook to be able to access it in "Spaces."
JOURNALISM/OTHER USES?: I can certainly see groups with common interests having a ~meetup~ in such a space that could be streamed out with Open Broadcast Software for the rest, which would, again, would be a bit like AltSpaceVR. It would have to be more of a lifestyle or fun side of the news spectrum, as it would be awkward and unnecessary for a cartoon journalist to interview a source.
Also, can't find a 'stach for my avi.


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With the exception of no 2. Pottery Barn and 4. Pinterest
Tack för inspiration ! Nu är jag redo att möta julen :)
So lovely to hear an update from your neck of the woods on the blog yesterday! I'm feeling even more Scandi-inspired after reading this lovely post you've written for us all. Thank you, lovely Charlotta! Hugs to you! :) xo
Oh, Charlotta, we all need a more simple, serene life, I think, and these images capture this feeling perfectly. LOVE YOU !!
Love it! Must remember to add silver decors in my list. :D Got my eye on your next posts.
Gorgeous images Charlotta. Love the way Scandinavians do things; minimalism + nature = Christmas bliss.
Hope you are well Sweets in your part of the world xx
wow great .nice designing style i love all the pic which u share. thanks for post
Hi Charlotta - you know I always love a Scandinavian theme! These images are wonderful and so evocative. That snow!! No snow here and I am not holding my breath for it! We did get frost however... ;-) Lou x
Scandinavian designs are my favourite. Love the products and shops! You describe it well Charlotta )man-made and natural materials).
Bear hugs back!


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We live in very complex times. As much as we talk about integrated insights, it only seems to be getting worse.
If I sound a little bleak it's because this statement has been shared ad nauseam: digital marketers are literally drowning in data.
Data sources range from anecdotal and trivial to scientifically precise, and span numerous systems both on premise, in the cloud, and property of third-party data providers. Using several approaches to arrive at a single truth (to within a reasonable variance, I might add) is extremely difficult. Continue reading The Pros and Cons of Big Data Democratization