Local Clarendon County High School Varsity Basketball Season - Winter 2020/21

The SC High School Basketball Season is slowly ramping down. Check out the latest Winter 2020/21 Basketball news, schedule, scores, and statistics on your favorite local Clarendon County high school teams at MAXPREPS.Com  Thanks to all supporters as the season wraps up in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic!  Good Luck and Be Safe.

Clarendon Hall Saints - Varsity Boys Basketball Team                   (1-10)
Clarendon Hall Saints - Varsity Girls Basketball Team                    (2-5) 

Scotts Branch Eagles - Varsity Boys Basketball Team                   (9-3)
Scotts Branch Eagles - Varsity Girls Basketball Team                    (2-6) 

 

Summerton’s Scott's Branch HS varsity boys basketball team clinch tie for Region IV-1A title

Manning High Monarchs - Varsity Boys Basketball Team               (2-8)
Manning High Monarchs - Varsity Girls Basketball Team                (2-3) 

Laurence Manning Swampcats - Varsity Boys Basketball Team     (4-4)
Laurence Manning Swampcats - Varsity Girls Basketball Team      (4-5)

East Clarendon Wolverines - Varsity Boys Basketball Team          (1-10)
East Clarendon Wolverines - Varsity Girls Basketball Team           (8-0)

Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) – Now There’s Mixed Reality (MR)

The following is a brief, high level overview on the topic of ‘Mixed Reality’ for managers, students, and other parties interested in modern technologies.

According to Wikipedia, Mixed Reality (MR) involves the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations, where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. It is a hybrid concoction that encompasses physical reality, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and the use of immersive technology.  

VR and AR meet MR Using a head-mounted display Virtual Reality (VR) is fully immersive, which tricks your senses into thinking you’re in a different environment or world apart from the real world. Augmented Reality (AR) overlays digital information on real-world elements. It keeps the real world central but enhances your view by layering it with selected supplemental digital details seen through some form of head-mounted display or ‘smart’ glasses. Mixed Reality (MR) brings together real world and digital elements using a variety of next-generation sensing and imaging technologies. It provides the ability to have one foot in the real world, and the other in an imaginary place, breaking down basic concepts between what is considered real or imaginary.

Mixed Reality (MR) is a new-wave technology that combines aspects of both AR and VR. People often mistake MR for VR or AR. The key to understanding how these differ is that the two technologies of VR and AR work in tandem to create Mixed Reality (MR) systems. In some ways, MR can be viewed as simply an enhanced, more interactive kind of AR.

Mixed reality has already been used in applications across a variety of fields including medicine, the arts, electronic games, entertainment, immersive training, and by the military.

The following are selected articles on ‘Mixed Reality (MX)’ that you might want to read:

• What is Mixed Reality? - Mixed Reality

• Your Guide to Mixed Reality technology by ZDNet

• Mixed Reality (MR) Market Size by 2025

• What Is Mixed Reality and What Does It Mean for the Enterprise?

Have you tried using MR technology? What was your impression of this emerging technology?

Selected Links for Mixed Reality (MR) Microsoft 'Open Source’ Mixed Reality Toolkit Mozilla: Mixed Reality for the Open Web YouTube: What is mixed reality?

TechnoEthics: Ethics and New Technologies

This article provides a brief high level introduction to the topic of ‘Technoethics’, a sub-field of ethics that is focused on both the professionals working on the development of new technologies and the broader social, ethical, and legal issues related to the role and use of technology by society. The importance of this topic cannot be understated.

New technologies often become integral to organizational business processes before many people have fully considered the ramifications of their usage. The following are selected articles discussing the relationship between ethics and the development and deployment of emerging technologies:

 

• Ethical tech: Making ethics a priority in today's digital organizations

• The Many Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies – Scientific American 2015

• Silicon Valley Raises Questions On Ethics Of New Technology – NPR

Ethics address the issues of what is 'right', what is 'just', and what is 'fair'. Ethics describe moral principles influencing conduct, focusing on the actions and values of people in society, i.e. what people do and how they believe they should act in the world. Technoethics, a sub-field of ethics, is focused on both the professionals working on the development of new technologies and the broader social, ethical, and legal issues related to the role and use of technology by society.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ethics: 5 questions CIOs should ask
• The Next Administration Must Get Science and Technology Policy Right

• A Crisis of Ethics in Technology Innovation – MIT 2020

• Big Tech, Out-of-Control Capitalism and the End of Civilization

We really need to take the time to think carefully about the many unintended consequences of new technologies before we unleash them on society. Think about the impacts of social media, robots, artificial intelligence, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), nuclear fusion, DNA editing, telehealth, drones, implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) technology…

Selected Links Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the Santa Clara University Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Science Stanford University: Ethics, Society and Technology Hub (EST) TED Talk: Can we protect AI systems from bias? Other TED Talks: Videos on New Technology, New Ethics, e.g. Robots, AI, CRISPR...

Kelley Anne's Boutique in Santee, S.C.

Kelley Anne's Boutique in Santee just opened for business. It is located in the Bradford Village Shopping Center, which also houses Food Lion and a variety of other small businesses. The town of Santee is a growing tourism spot located by the shore of beautiful Lake Marion, S.C. Get Directions & Contact Information

The addition of this much needed new business to our local community is truly welcome. The boutique offers a specialty shopping experience for its customers looking for fashionable clothing items, local artworks, jewelry items, gifts, and more. All of these items are unique and hand-picked by Kelley Anne, the boutique’s fashionable owner.

Whether you live in Santee, one of the surrounding Santee Cooper Lake Country communities, or are just passing through, stop by and visit Kelley Anne’s Boutique.

 

 

 

 

Artists Using Drones to Create Works of Art

 Who’d of Thought! Drones in Art.

The emergence and proliferation of drone technology is inspiring a vibrant response from the art world. Drone art includes artworks that are created using drone technology, using drones in photography or film-making, or manipulating swarms of drones to create aerial light shows.

Other ways drones are already being used by artists include:

• In the music industry, drones have been found to add a lot of value when used to record live music performances from a better perspective, as well as to create awesome light visuals for audiences.

• Graffiti artists are taking advantage of the drone technology to create amazing massive artworks on buildings that are unlike anything we’ve seen before.

• Aerial drone displays use swarms of multiple drones, flying in a coordinated fashion for public display at major public events like the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.

* Read selected articles in Drone Life Magazine: Drones in Art

Have you ever used drone technology to create an artwork? If so, please share your experience with us. Inquiring minds want to know more.

 

Selected Articles & Resources Artists Make Elaborate Sand Art Interesting Works of Drone Art Understanding the Drone Through Art KATSU: First Semi-Autonomous Smart Painting Drone How Drones Are Helping Artists in the Music Industry YouTube Videos: Art in the Sky and Drone Art Adventure