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Two Things I'd Like To See From Current Gen Gaming
We are now a couple of years into the current generation of gaming consoles, and there are two things I'd like to see from them that we currently aren't quite seeing…yet.
Star Wars: Battlefront released this week, and while the game itself is around the 75 mark on metacritic (at the time of this writing), many are touting it as the finest looking game of the current generation. I don't think I could argue that point. From the videos I've seen, the game is aesthetically impressive.
When the current gen systems were announced, I wondered how games would evolve. Would we get more than particle effects? Would we get crazy moments with hundreds of onscreen baddies to fight? How would all this new tech bowl us over?
And while I can't argue that games in general look crisper and cleaner on these current gen systems, I'm still waiting to see great leaps forward in two areas: hair physics and cloth physics.
I know, I know, this is the super nitpicky stuff, but it's something I was thinking about, therefore now I'm putting it in front of your face for you to think about too.
I can not even begin to imagine how difficult it must be to program games. There are so many times I marvel at a game I'm playing when I stop to think it was all created by people. Said game didn't just magically spring into existence. Delightful mortals used their combined skills to create it. It's fascinating.
That being said, I can then only imagine how difficult it must be to program certain physics into games. We often see clipping and weird geometry issues, but what gets me most are when clothes will just freak out, or hair will be stock still while there is a tornado or something. It's a minor thing, but it can ruin the sense of immersion.
I've had this on my mind as I play through Rise of the Tomb Raider. Lara looks great, and her facial animations have never looked better, but her hair. It's like it can't stop moving, no matter the occasion. I believe I've seen real people with real hair, and there are definitely times when their hair isn't constantly in motion. However, Lara still has some of the best hair physics I've seen in a game to date. She also has perpetual motion hair, so I don't know if that's a step forward or a lateral one.
I'd love to see how hair physics are programmed so I have a better understanding of how things have to work together to achieve the desired effect. I do have a lot of respect for people who develop that technology. It's remarkable and mysterious (to me).
The other thing is fabric physics. This one is more present in most games (e.g.: Destiny, Assassins Creed), and I wonder how further realism will be achieved. Above is an image of a cloak I have in Destiny. I love it, as it is shiny and puppy-themed, and the bottom is a fetching V shape.
Once when I was running around the tower, I noticed (when my agility was maxed, which causes these vapor trails to…well…trail you) the bottom showed that it was flat across, when in reality, it has the V shape. It was very odd. If you sit down on the ground while wearing a long cape, it often completely freaks out and starts clipping through the environment in a spazzy way. I was in a couple of raids when someone else on the fireteam would run past me, and their cape would glitch out all across my screen and look like they were in Xanadu or something.
Fabric physics must be difficult.
I would love to see where the technology goes in the next couple of years in these two areas. I think facial animations have come so far already (Until Dawn springs to mind), and I can't wait to see where new and future tech takes us.
What areas of current gen technology would you like to see improved? What are you hoping to see?
Tagged as: cloth, destiny, fabric, hair, physics, rise of the tomb raider
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Could not agree more,the issues you said can be annoying.
I just can't wait to see the improvements on these two fronts.
King of the Cave says:
Sure, they might be nit-picky things, but those are also some of those little touches that really sell the world. I'm all for anything that enhances the immersion.
It seems like every generation we get a large number of games that are doing the same thing, only prettier. That's not bad, but I really look forward to different experiences. The problem with different experiences is that they often end up being the critically acclaimed, cult classics that didn't really pan out financially. They never really sell as well as the less innovative "same thing but prettier".
I'm also pretty excited for VR. My expectations for its success are tempered. Realistically it will struggle to find a profitable install base for a number of years and it will likely take some time before developers figure out how to make good games that really take advantage of what sets VR apart. Still, I'm excited to try it for myself.
I absolutely agree.
My concern about VR is a weird personal one: I struggle with migraines and I fear VR will be virtually unplayable for me due to freaking my head out. But who knows? Maybe I will be the biggest VR convert out there? Weirder things have happened. I think.
junambo says:
It really does seem rare to find those games that do hair and clothing physics justice. If only they would learn from boobs.
I don't know anything about gaming boob physics. I'm so glad.


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This N.C. woman was the first 'Jeopardy!' champion. Who is Mary Cabell Eubanks?
BY DAWN DECWIKIEL-KANE The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record
Mary Cabell Eubanks at her home in Greensboro on Nov. 23. Eubanks made TV history by becoming the first "Jeopardy" champion in 1964.
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Mary Cabell Eubanks' journal entry about her appearance on the first Jeopardy game show.
GREENSBORO — The clue: "'Good night, sweet prince' was originally said to him."
More than 56 years ago, Mary Cabell Carlan Eubanks responded correctly on the first episode of the television quiz show "Jeopardy!"
That won her $345 and made her the first "Jeopardy!" champion.
Eubanks calls it "a high point in my life."
"I remember sitting there with the audience out front, and everyone laughing or clapping," she said.
On March 30, 1964, the show premiered on NBC with Art Fleming as host. It had been taped a few weeks earlier.
The host poses general knowledge clues in the form of answers. The three contestants must phrase responses in the form of questions.
Who knew back then that television's top-rated quiz show and its most recent longtime host, Alex Trebek, would become American icons?
Certainly not Eubanks.
Now 82, the Candor native, mother of two and Greensboro resident has spent her career in public relations and fundraising for a variety of organizations, including the local chapter of the American Red Cross.
She is not a "Jeopardy" watcher.
"I never thought it would last forever and be as popular as it is," Eubanks said. "That makes it special to people."
"It was very special to me and it's preserved in memory," she added. "I don't want to relive it."
But she admired the way that Trebek dealt with pancreatic cancer that claimed his life on Nov. 8, prompting an outpouring of grief from millions of fans.
Trebek's last taped episodes will air next week. Guest-hosted shows will start to air the week of Jan. 11.
"He was determined to be who he was and to do what he was doing as long as he possibly could," Eubanks said.
A little information remains online today of that debut episode with Eubanks.
David Schwartz of Los Angeles, co-author of "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows," has an audio tape of that first episode in his private collection of old TV shows.
"Listening to it, you can tell that they are still struggling with the idea of how the show is going to work," Schwartz said.
The pop culture website Distractify ran an article on Eubanks several months ago at www.distractify.com/p/first-jeopardy-winner that features Eubanks in a photo (far right) taken from a screen shot.
A "Jeopardy!" fan website mentions her introduction as "a housewife from Candor, North Carolina" on the debut show on March 30, 1964.
Listen to her introduction here.
There's a short YouTube clip that shows Fleming introducing the categories, however, Schwartz said that the clip appears to be a test episode because the category lineup does not match the episode for which he has audio.
Schwartz said he is not surprised at how successful "Jeopardy!" has become.
"'Jeopardy,' like 'The Price is Right' and 'Let's Make a Deal,' is one of those simple, basic shows that when you see it you can pick it up right away," Schwartz said. "It doesn't take a lot of explanation as to how to play the game. Those are the games that are most successful."
So, how did Eubanks end up on that first "Jeopardy!" episode at age 26?
Eubanks believes her Southern accent attracted the attention of Fleming. He had been a radio announcer in Rocky Mount early in his career, and told Eubanks that he had lived in Raleigh.
"I am sure that's why he wanted me on the program, because he wanted the Southern accent," Eubanks said.
The audition
Growing up in the Candor area of Montgomery County, Mary Cabell (she uses both names) had graduated from UNC, worked in a bank and taught high school English.
She and her then-husband, Bob Eubanks (no relation to the game show host) went to New York for three months so that he could attend training with his new employer, Merrill Lynch.
During that time, Mary Cabell Eubanks and a female friend spent several days attending game shows, with hopes of trying out.
While in line for "The Price is Right," a man invited them to audition for a new show: "Jeopardy!"
So they did — along with a roomful of other prospective contestants. Fleming, game show creator Merv Griffin and broadcast executives watched.
About 10 days later, Eubanks received a phone call, inviting her to compete on "Jeopardy!"
"I would love to," Eubanks told the caller. "What should I wear?"
"Nothing white," the caller replied.
On taping day, Eubanks was surprised to share the makeup room with Griffin.
She, Fleming and two other contestants taped in a studio filled with invited guests who created a familial atmosphere.
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The audience loved her Southern accent, Eubanks said. "They clapped when I answered anything. They laughed when I pronounced things a Southern way."
Fleming liked it, too.
"I love the way Southern girls say 'fly,'" Fleming said after Eubanks answered a question about the opera, "Madama Butterfly." His wife is from Georgia, he added.
Eubanks was in second place at the Final Jeopardy clue: "'Good night sweet prince' was originally said to him."
Eubanks responded correctly: "Who is Hamlet?"
She won.
They taped another episode. Eubanks led until the Final Jeopardy question about silent movie stars. She didn't know the answer, but a New York cab driver contestant did and she lost.
Everyone in attendance was invited to the famous 21 Club for dinner and drinks.
Eubanks declined.
"I had to go home to fix dinner for my husband," she recalled. "We didn't have cell phones then. ... How could I let him know? I did what I thought I had to do."
She used her winnings to buy theater tickets and see popular Broadway shows.
The premiere of "Jeopardy!" — then a daytime show — aired a few weeks later. Eubanks' mother and grandmother, Mary Bennett Carlan and Gladys Leach Bennett, coincidentally came up to visit — although they ended up watching on a store TV.
Eubanks' sister, Martha "Bennett" Carlan Hollers, wasn't there.
"Bennie," as her family calls her, was in San Antonio, Texas, with her military husband and their new baby.
She had no idea that her sister would appear on TV.
Just as she turned on the TV to nurse her baby, she heard her sister's name announced.
"I felt hurt she hadn't let me know," she said with a laugh. "I could have so easily missed it."
The original daytime version of the show aired on NBC until Jan. 3, 1975. A weekly nighttime syndicated edition aired from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival, "The All-New Jeopardy!," ran on NBC from October 1978 to March 1979, according to Wikipedia.
The version airing as of 2020, a daily syndicated show produced by Sony Pictures Television and distributed by CBS, premiered on Sept. 10, 1984. Trebek hosted it until his death.
"Jeopardy!" contestant Ken Jennings made history in 2004 for the show's longest winning streak. He will be its first interim guest host starting Jan. 11.
But Eubanks made show history, too.
"What a wonderful opportunity for me," she said. "What a wonderful chance to have fun."
Contact Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane at 336-373-5204 or dawn.kane@greensboro.com and follow @dawndkaneNR on Twitter.
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China Wants To Deploy Its Own Chips In Autonomous Cars, How Far Will It Go?
According to Bloomberg's report, President Xi Jinping's administration has prioritized self-reliance and set aside a fund of 200 billion-yuan for investments in local chipmakers.
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The technology has advanced with rapid pace and many auto manufacturers have invested enormously in autonomous vehicles. They have been testing their cars on public roads and trying to launch as soon as they can to gain first mover's advantage. The testing phase of Uber has been marred by a killing of a pedestrian by its self-driving car in Arizona. However, the company halted its testing operations in other cities. Other tech giants and auto manufacturers have raised their efforts to launch their autonomous cars and set targets for the next decade. Many of manufacturers launched their manufacturing plants in China owing to its huge user base. The most important part of the autonomous car is the chip on which it works, detects obstacles, and performs other necessary functions. China wants to become a leader in manufacturing chips for self-driving vehicles. It aspires to deploy more than 30 million self-driving cars by the next decade. This will result in growth of the chip industry as well.
According to Gartner Inc., the annual revenue generated from chips used in driverless cars would reach $5 billion by 2021 across the world. The startups such as Horizon Robotics Inc. has been trying to build chips to be used in autonomous cars. The company has been competing with Nvidia Corp. and Mobileye NV as the international trade uncertainty increases and the autonomous driving industry booms. Horizon Robotics is a China's plan for getting ahead in manufacturing value chain by focusing on semiconductors and artificial intelligence for self- driving cars.
"China has to spare no efforts to pick up and develop its own chip technology to improve our own sense of security, especially when the U.S. government is making us fearful about any protectionism against China," said, Wei Shaojun, director of the Beijing-based Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University, at a forum in Shanghai.
According to Bloomberg's report, President Xi Jinping's administration has prioritized the self-reliance and set aside a fund of 200 billion-yuan for investments in local chipmakers. Researchers and experts observing the world's largest electric vehicle market outlined that China wants gain leadership position in development of the chips in autonomous cars. The Chinese government expects the production value of manufacturing chips and sensors would exceed by 100 billion yuan by 2020.
Horizon Robotics have been trying to be at the forefront of the production of chips. Its tiny sized circuit board, Journey 1.0 was installed in a General Motors Co. GMC Yukon XL at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas in January this year. The processor can detect as much as 200 targets such as pedestrians, debris, and lane markings in real time and avoid collisions.
"Chinese companies have been evolving from the positions of made-in-China to created-in-China," said Yu Kai, the founder of Horizon Robotics Inc. "And now we are heading to invented-in-China."
The company has collaborated with Volkswagen AG's Audi, Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., and Ford Motor Co. Along with this, it has collaborated with parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH to get inside self-driving vehicles. Leading auto manufacturers have been collaborating with local manufacturers or suppliers to avail benefits that the Chinese government provided to local market players. As all governments have been looking forward to deploying capital, policies, and talents to gain advantage in the self-driving industry, China is not an exception. It is difficult to predict how far it will go, but it has clarified its intentions.
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Primera Línia (grec Πρώτη Γραμμή, Proti Grammi, PG) fou un partit polític grec d'ideologia nacionalista creat el 1999. El seu cap fou l'historiador, advocat i teòric nacionalista Konstantinos Plevris.

Es presentà a les eleccions europees de 1999 en coalició amb el grup neonazi Chrysi Avyi, i van obtenir 48,532 vots (0,75% dels vots). A les eleccions legislatives gregues de 2000 va obtenir només 12,125 vots (0,18% dels vots).

A part de Plevris, altres candidats del partit han estat: (el 1999) Panayiota Adonopoulou (Παναγιώτα Αντωνοπούλου), Nikólaos Mikhaloliakos (Νικόλαος Μιχαλολιάκος) i Michail Arvanitis-Avramis (Μιχαήλ Αρβανίτης-Αβράμης). El partit actualment està dissolt i molts dels seus membres es van unir al Reagrupament Popular Ortodox, mentre que d'altres participaren en la fundació d'una Aliança Patriòtica.

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The Sessions Effect: Trump DOJ Reverses Course In Major Texas Voter ID Case
By Alice Ollstein
For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas' voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters. But its position changed Monday when the department decided to drop its claim that Republican state lawmakers enacted the law to make it harder for minorities to vote.
"This signals to voters that they will not be protected under this administration," said Danielle Lang, the deputy director of voting rights at the Campaign Legal Center, which is challenging Texas' law in court.
The reversal, on the eve of a key hearing in the case, is a clear sign of the DOJ's direction under Attorney General Jeff Sessions—a longtime advocate of voter ID laws and other voting restrictions. The department signaled its intentions last week when it joined with the state of Texas to ask the court to hold off on judging the constitutionality of the law until Republican lawmakers can modify it. The court rejected this request.
Lang told TPM that the DOJ reached out Monday morning to her and the other voting rights groups fighting the law to notify them of their new position.
On Tuesday, DOJ lawyers will appear before U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos and inform her that the federal government is dismissing its claim that the voter ID law was crafted with a discriminatory intent.
"There have been six years of litigation and no change in the facts," Lang told TPM. "We have already had a nine-day trial and presented thousands of pages of documents demonstrating that the picking and choosing of what IDs count was entirely discriminatory and would fall more harshly on minority voters. So for the DOJ to come in and drop those claims just because of a change of administration is outrageous."
In a filing late Monday afternoon (see below) the Department of Justice informed the court that they will drop their claim that the law has a discriminatory purpose, citing "the comity necessary in our system of federalism." The department asked the court to dismiss their claim of discriminatory purpose without prejudice.
The groups suing Texas over the law, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Campaign Legal Center, will continue to fight to prove discriminatory purpose despite the loss of the DOJ's support.
"We will move forward," Lang said. "None of the record evidence has changed. We fully expect to prevail."
Texas enacted the strict voter ID law in 2011, and it has been tied up in court battles ever since. Civil rights groups say the policy, which accepts gun licenses but not student IDs at the polls, discriminates against low-income and minority voters who are far less likely to possess an ID and face difficulties obtaining one. In some parts of the state, the groups argued in court, people would have to drive more than 100 miles to reach the nearest office where they could obtain an ID—a burden many cannot overcome.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the state from fully enforcing the law for the 2016 presidential election—a move that preserved the voting rights of more than 16,000 Texans, according to state records. Last summer, the appeals court agreed with the challengers, which then included the Justice Department, that the law had the effect of discriminating against minority voters, but it sent the question of whether the law was intentionally discriminatory back to the district court for further review after the election. The district court will hear arguments on that question in the hearing scheduled for Tuesday, but the Justice Department will no longer be on the side of voting rights advocates.
This post has been updated with information from the DOJ's court filing.
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One of the things you may want to do if you have a clothing business is to hire models to show your latest outfits. Doing this could be the key to getting the sales you want and having a company that makes money. It's possible that you may have a wide range of clothing types and you'll want to do all you can to get these sold. The key to making this possible may rest in choosing the right model. Being aware of tips to help you do so can be helpful.
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Suspect in custody after 2 gas station robberies in Mequon, at least 2 other crimes elsewhere
By Bret Lemoine
Mequon robberies
MEQUON -- Mequon police said Tuesday, November 28th a suspect has been taken into custody after an armed robbery at the BP gas station in Mequon Sunday night. Police are investigating whether the suspect, 27-year-old Raymond Allan Hartel, is responsible for a second armed robbery at a Mequon gas station less than 10 days prior, and "numerous armed robberies throughout the Milwaukee area." Meanwhile, police in Germantown believe he's one of two suspects who robbed a vape store there, after a robbery at a cigarette outlet in West Bend the same day.
Mequon police on Monday issued a news release asking for help locating the 27-year-old man called a "person of interest" in the BP gas station case -- believed to be operating a black, 2016 Chevy Sonic.
Police said Tuesday a suspect was arrested in Milwaukee on November 27th (on unrelated charges), and Mequon PD is now following up on the gas station robberies. They're working with Germantown police and other law enforcement agencies as well.
Police released surveillance photos and video after the BP gas station robbery Sunday night. Police said it happened around 9:30 p.m., and a single suspect entered the gas station and threatened the attendant on duty with a handgun -- before fleeing with an undisclosed amount of money.
The other Mequon gas station robbery took place on November 17th.
Armed robbery at GT Vapor in Germantown
Meanwhile, Germantown police say the Mequon suspect is believed responsible for the November 18th armed robbery at the GT Vapor store on Mequon Road. Germantown police said the Mequon suspect was identified as a suspect in the GT Vapor robbery prior to his arrest, and an arrest warrant was issued for him out of Germantown.
According to police, around 3:15 p.m. on the 18th, two suspects, one armed with a black handgun, entered the store, confronted a store employee, and took property by force.
A worker frantically called police after the robbery.
"I just got hit in the head with a (expletive) gun!" the worker said.
Robbery of Germantown vape store
The suspects fled the area in a 2009-2014 Chevy Aveo with minor damage to the front of the car, with an unknown license plate number. As the suspects were fleeing the area, a Germantown officer attempted to use a tire deflation device on the suspect's vehicle. The suspects aimed their vehicle towards the officer -- almost striking him. The officer was not injured.
A vehicle pursuit occurred, but was later terminated by Germantown officers because of the high speeds -- and the pursuing officer lost sight of the vehicle.
Police say the suspects stopped at a gas station nearby before the robbery -- which is where the below surveillance pictures were captured.
Work is still ongoing to identify the second suspect wanted for the GT Vapor robbery.
Police said before the GT Vapor robbery, the two suspects targeted the Cigarette Outlet store in West Bend. That robbery also happened on the 18th, and the suspects struggled to take everything they wanted.
"I've been the manager here 15 years and I've never been scared. Literally, never been scared. Now, I don't know," manager Janine Paczelt said.
Ashley Peters, a cashier held at gunpoint, was happy to learn of an arrest in the case.
"Even coming to work, I felt a huge relief," she said. "The guy that they got was the scary, scary guy."
Surveillance video shows one man entered the store on the 18th around 2:15 p.m. and talked to the cashier.
Ashley Peters
"He said...if we had Newports here. I'm like 'yeah, we have Newports here,'" Peters said.
Then a second man stormed in with his hood up and gun out. He demanded money.
"Gun out right away. Stood here by the counter and pointed the gun over the counter -- said 'give me all the money,'" Peters said.
Shaking and in tears, Peters struggled to open the register. The man with his face covered went to the back of the store, as the other suspect left with a stand full of lighters.
"He just grabbed them all. He drops them all over the ground. Then they are both 'doo da doo,' trying to pick up all these cartons of cigarettes," Peters said.
Peters said the man now in custody is the man who had the gun.
"Oh yeah, that is definitely the guy with the gun. I mean, even the way he was moving his hands with the gun when he was yelling -- the exact same thing he did standing in front of me," Peters said.
Robbery of Cigarette Outlet in West Bend


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Armless Guitarist Performs With Musical Heroes, The Goo Goo Dolls (VIDEO)
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Amazing armless guitarist, George Dennehy, became a YouTube music sensation earlier this summer after the Internet passed around a viral video of the 18-year-old performing a beautiful cover of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls and accompanying himself on guitar using only his feet.
Dennehy's story and stamina inspired artists and viewers throughout the world. Among them were some of his own heroes, the Goo Goo Dolls, who invited George to join them as a special guest performer during their Musikfest set.
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U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry is trouncing Democratic challenger Greg Sagan in the midterm election Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry trounced Democratic challenger Greg Sagan Tuesday in midterm elections.
Thornberry, R-Clarendon, garnered 81 percent or 161,744 votes, besting the Amarillo business consultant's 17 percent or 33,908 votes with 91 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Texas Secretary of State's Office.
"I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to continue to work for the people of the 13th District of Texas," Thornberry, Wichita Falls' congressman, said.
"Our country's facing a lot of challenges, and it will be important that we work together to meet those challenges," he said.
In Wichita County, Thornberry received 73 percent or 24,746 votes to Sagan's 25 percent or 8,345 votes.
The race marked Sagan's first bid for public office. He is a former naval officer and Vietnam veteran.
"I have to compliment the Democratic Party in the state of Texas for fielding a very strong slate of candidates," Sagan said.
He said he came into he race as an underdog, so any showing that indicates he is a political force is positive.
"Win, lose or draw, we're starting the new campaign tomorrow for 2020," Sagan said.
Libertarian Calvin DeWeese garnered 3,044 or 1.5 percent of the statewide vote with 91 percent of precincts reporting, and, in Wichita County, nearly 2 percent or 665 votes.
Wichita County voters threw their weight behind Thornberry, giving him 16,585 votes or 75 percent of the total. Sagan received 5,103 votes or 23 percent.
Voters are sending Thornberry back for his 13th term representing Congressional District 13.
The more than 40,000-square-mile district covers a large swath of the Lone Star State stretching past Gainesville and encompassing most of the Panhandle.
First elected in 1994, Thornberry is the first Texan from either party to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He took the reins of HASC in 2015.
Control of the House is projected to swing toward Democrats, bumping Thornberry from that leadership position to likely become ranking member.
In his HASC chairman role, Thornberry was instrumental in shepherding the 2019 bill setting defense policy and troop numbers through the House and Senate more quickly and efficiently than in recent memory.
Besides national defense, he has been active in foreign policy, cybersecurity, homeland security and intelligence issues.


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I am using Java JSON library provided by google for google app engine. My JSON output somewhat looks like this:
{"data":[{"name":"John"},{"age":10}],"status":"success"}

Not human-readable and hard to debug. How can I turn the output into something like this?
{
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         "name":"John"
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         "age":10
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Or some other form instead of "one-line output".

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The Dental Library serves the research needs of the faculty, staff, and students of all twelve academic departments of the Dental School. These departments include: Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Community Oral Health, Endodontics, General Restorative Dentistry, Microbiology, Oral Medicine, Oral Surgery and Pharmacology, Orthodontics, Pathology, Pediatric Dentistry, and Periodontics. The Library supports the curriculum for the Doctor of Dental Medicine degree, and also supports ten post-graduate programs in advanced dental education. Research support for clinical needs is provided, as well as support for the basic science research efforts of the faculty and their research associates.
The D.M.D. program enrolls approximately 100 students per class. As a four year program, about 400 students are enrolled during any given year. The post-doctoral programs enroll another 35 students per class. Most of the advanced programs are of two year's duration, so that there are approximately 70 post-doctoral students at any one time. A program for foreign students who are studying to obtain U.S. licensure enrolls about 35 students in each of two classes for a total of 70 additional students.
The Dental Library endeavors to collect most English language monographs that are published in the area of dental medicine and oral biology, along with a selection of relevant supporting titles from the basic sciences. The Library also attempts to collect most substantial dental and oral biology journals, as well as primary medical journals, and additional major journal titles published in the basic sciences that are studied as part of the D.M.D. curriculum.
Emphasis is placed on the current research and practice of dental medicine, but information relating to the history of the field is also acquired.
The core book collection is in print. Electronic versions of selected books are also being added, as they become available. Dental journals are currently collected in both print and electronic formats. New subscriptions to non-Dental journals are being added in electronic format only. Penn also provides access to many comprehensive databases, full-text resources, and links to useful Penn and non-Penn web sites organized by broad subject areas. All networked resources are accessible from the Dental Library website. Upon faculty request, electronic publications on CD-ROM are purchased, if they are curriculum-related. Electronic publications requiring site-specific web access are not normally purchased. Audio-visual material, examination reviews, handbooks, laboratory manuals, loose-leaf services, programmed texts, and workbooks are purchased selectively. Microforms are excluded.
No limitations. But the emphasis is on literature from the United States and Western Europe.
Monographs are currently purchased only in the English language, although the collection includes many historic foreign language texts, especially French and German monographs. The majority of current journal subscriptions are in English, although we currently subscribe to some select foreign language journal titles. The historical journal collection covers a wide range of foreign language titles.
Current literature is acquired almost exclusively. Material older than five years is purchased only by specific patron request.
The principal supplier for monographs is J.A. Majors, Company, with whom we have an approval plan. EBSCO handles most domestic serial subscriptions, and a network of foreign dealers provide most of our foreign serial titles.
Faculty and student input is of primary importance in selecting and reviewing titles and periodicals for acquisition. The Dental School Library Committee offers suggestions, as do faculty on an informal basis. Other selection tools include book reviews in dental and scientific journals, the J.A. Majors Company approval website, acquisitions lists from other health sciences institutions and from the American Dental Association, and publishers' announcements and catalogs.
No areas of dental medicine or oral biology are excluded.
The Dental Library depends on other campus libraries at Penn, such as the Biomedical, Veterinary, and Engineering libraries to provide additional support in the areas of Biomedicine, Veterinary Dentistry, and Materials Science. The Dental Library endeavors to be fairly comprehensive in the field of dental medicine and therefore generally does not depend on particular cooperative arrangements with other collections. But through the National Library of Medicine's interlibrary loan system, Docline, many Dental and Medical school libraries support us by lending needed material.
The Dental Library is a member of the Health Sciences Libraries Consortium and the Regional Medical Library Program.


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Big Think: Celebrating Kootenay Tech Entrepreneurs. Part 4 – Scott Sommerville of SunMine
In: All Departments, Climate, Culture, Environment, Feature Well, Issues, People, Profiles
Where some see the future as uncertain, or even imperilled, others see opportunity and hope. This Kootenay entrepreneur is boldly going where no plan has gone before, and he wants us all to come along. This story by Matt Coté first appeared in KMC's Summer 2019 issue. Photos by Bryce Duffy.
Fire. It is one of the first technologies humans ever used. Long before we knew how to start it, we scampered to harness naturally occurring flames to keep our torches burning. Eventually, we learned how to make fire on a whim and how to control it. From that moment on, we learned the truth about technology: it can warm the house, or burn it down. While it's been eons since we discovered that duality of innovation, it remains the same today.An axe can split wood, or cause you to lose a finger. A car can get you across town, or put you upside down in a ditch.The energy in an atom can power entire nations, or blow up the world. In the spirit of continuing this ongoing dance of techno-optimism, where we forever hang our hopes on our species' ingenuity and benevolence, we bring you the Kootenays' leading tech champions. They are tackling some of the world's biggest problems caused by said tech, with incredibly techie solutions.
Scott Sommerville: City of Kimberley's SunMine
From Netflix to furnaces, we live in an energy-craving world. Between 1990 and 2013, electrical demand in Canada increased by 28 per cent. In places like coal-powered Alberta, that's a big problem for the climate. In British Columbia, however, almost all power comes from "green" hydroelectricity. The problem is, British Columbia is running out of rivers to dam.
"We were looking to fill future needs," says Scott Sommerville, chief administrative officer of the City of Kimberley in southeast British Columbia. Under his direction, the city built Canada's largest tracking solar array: the SunMine, whose 4,032 panels tilt throughout the day to follow the sun's path for maximum exposure. Since 2015, the $5.3-million award-winning facility has been producing a gigawatt of electricity at peak daylight, in the hopes of growing a new local industry. "Particularly in the Kootenays, we're really aware of the damage that happens when you flood arable land," Sommerville says, noting one of the major impacts of damming our rivers. "Being born and raised in Nelson and having Russian heritage and knowing about how not just the Doukhobors but the First Nations were shuffled off the flood plains, I know we can't grow crops on them anymore. Some of our best land has been used up. It's the same thing they're protesting at Site C."
The Site C Dam is a controversial $9-billion dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John, British Columbia, that has angered many. The logic of the SunMine, on the other hand, was easy to get behind. Its location — the old concentrator site from the now-expired Sullivan Mine, which was the largest lead-zinc mine in the world for 100 years — was sitting empty, and the Canadian Rockies International Airport just outside Kimberley records the most sunny days per year in Canada, over 300. A solar farm was the perfect fit. "It's come full circle," Sommerville says. "We ran out of a resource our community was built upon, and somebody realized the sun is a resource. And we are loaded with it here."
"We've got heaps of potential," says Scott Sommerville. "SunMine could be 200 times bigger than it is right now."
The SunMine currently has a contract with BC Hydro to double in size. But since the provincial government approved Site C in 2018, the utility company — which is a provincial monopoly — has lost nearly all interest in solar energy and isn't encouraging the SunMine to expand anymore. The province predicts a 10,000 gigawatt-hour increase in power demand by 2050, much of it for liquid natural gas development. Site C represents one-ninth of that demand. Kimberley's SunMine, as is, only represents one five-thousandth.
Meanwhile, a British Columbia-Alberta feud over the Trans Mountain Pipeline has killed plans for a better hydropower transmission line from the Kootenays to Alberta, which the SunMine was counting on to expand. In October 2018, the citizens of Kimberley decided to sell the SunMine to Teck, the company that owns the land, which is better positioned to continue the expansion without BC Hydro's support. "We've got heaps of potential," Sommerville still insists, proud of his baby. "SunMine could be 200 times bigger than it is right now, if we had a customer [wanting] that amount of power."
This is the fourth in our series called "Big Think" celebrating technological entrepreneurs in the Kootenay region. Matt Coté is a technological agnostic based in Revelstoke, British Columbia. He believes if there is a second coming, it'll be a robot.
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Matt is the associate editor at Forecast. He's been penning and editing ski, adventure and mountain culture-based stories for over a dozen publications for the last decade.
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Acorn Arcade forums: Games: Magic Pockets patch released
Magic Pockets patch released
swirlythingy (15:42 24/8/2013)
sirbod (17:59 24/8/2013)
tlsa (17:39 25/8/2013)
Martin Bazley Message #122577, posted by swirlythingy at 15:42, 24/8/2013
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Posts: 460 Do you own a copy of Magic Pockets? Do you hardly ever play it because you simply can't be bothered to hunt for an aged floppy disc before the game will deign to start? This patch is for you!
Also applicable if you want to play the game on an emulated system, or if your original floppy disc has (as is not unlikely) bitten the dust.
Copy protection is, more often than not, the single thing which is most likely to keep me from playing a game. After removing it from Magic Pockets, I found the game much more accessible, and consequently enjoyable. It's also nice not having to endlessly fret about whether this will be the day the disc finally stops working!
Jon Abbott Message #122578, posted by sirbod at 17:59, 24/8/2013, in reply to message #122577
Posts: 563 Sorry, not directly related to the patch, but to the game...
JASPP will be releasing Magic Pockets at some point, free to all, for use under ADFFS. It's one we have rights too.
We currently have it working up to RO3.5, what's preventing RO3.6+ up working is the tracker module it uses - we have 32bit tracker module shims in development.
I've not tried it on the Pi yet (as we need the tracker shim), but we'll be starting on Pi video translation very soon, so fingers crossed its one that we can get working early on.
Martin Bazley Message #122579, posted by swirlythingy at 23:27, 24/8/2013, in reply to message #122578
Posts: 460 I have it working on RO4.39 with a StrongARM.
I'm not sure what version of the game you've got.
Posts: 563 We have the boxed original. If your copy runs from the original floppy past RO3.5, please send me an ADF of it to compare. If its a later version, we can arrange to take an image with the protection intact.
EDIT: I've just checked the image, there's no specific version mentioned, but the file date on Pockets is 17:20:58 05 Nov 1993
[Edited by sirbod at 12:22, 25/8/2013]
Posts: 460 Hmm, interesting. There appears to be a difference between the program on the original floppy and that on my hard disc. The installed version has two files, "PM" and "PM_old", the latter of which identifies itself as "TrackerModule 4.09 (25 Dec 1992) [dev] (Mercier, Fiennes & Farrow)" and is datestamped 22:26:37 08 Jan 1993, and the former of which is "TrackerModule 4.09 (17 Dec 1996) [dev/C]" and is datestamped 20:43:18 14 Jun 1998". The floppy version only has the latter, this time named "PM". Also, the floppy version crashes.
(The "Pockets" datestamp matches yours.)
I have no idea at what stage it could have been replaced, except that I would not have had the technical knowledge to work out that it was solely the player module at fault for myself, and I didn't own Magic Pockets in 1998 anyway.
Personally I don't see the point of meticulously preserving every single aspect of old games, including all the bits which don't work. There are limits to what an emulation layer can achieve, and from what I've heard about what ADFFS does to one's system in order to trick games into working (doesn't it replace the ADFS module, and what's all this business about memory remapping?), I'm not at all sure I'd want to run it on my computer!
I can remember the days when an expected consequence of launching a game on your Archimedes was that you'd have to cold-reset the computer afterwards, and I don't miss them.
Posts: 563 Thanks for that info, it sounds like you have a patched TrackerModule, could you please eMail me a copy of it?
As Pockets is the original, it does at least confirm that once we shim TrackerModule it should work up to RO4.39/SA and possibly even on the Pi.
ADFFS doesn't replace the ADFS module, it sits between FileCore and ADFS and handles requests to ADFS::0 should a floppy image be mounted.
Memory remapping...it's identical to GameOn and only enabled if you explicitly turn it on. As we've not released any games yet, there should be no reason to use it. We've gone a bit further than GameOn, in that we've fixing overscan issues, but essentially it's identical.
I agree with you about consequences of launching a game on an Arc, most games mess about with modules, memory or CMOS. Module and CMOS changes can be blocked by ADFFS, but there's nothing we can do about poorly written code or games that don't provide a means to exit cleanly. I could provide a means to break out of a game and return to the OS, but it will probably be hit and miss as the Desktop doesn't recover very well after mode and Dynamic Area 2 changes.
I wouldn't advise running any game on a work machine, if your a casual user, just make sure you close everything first and have a backup of your CMOS on floppy or an accessible ADFS drive. There's next to no protection or isolation in Risc OS, so any badly behaved code could render your machine unbootable without a CMOS reset.
My advice would be to run games under emulation, or on a dedicated games machine. Under emulation you'll see the benefits of ADFFS, as it will allow you to play protected games without having to hack them or find a patch to do it.
When we start releasing games to the public, the point of ADFFS will become clear. You could of course mount them under ADFFS, hack them and then run them from a HD; provided they're not used for commercial use, people are free to do as they please with them.
Michael Drake Message #122586, posted by tlsa at 17:39, 25/8/2013, in reply to message #122584
Posts: 1096 There used to be a few sites with patches for making old games work with StrongARM and RO4. One was by Darren Salt, and another by Alex Macfarlane Smith. I think there was at least one other.
Those sites have now vanished, but many of the patches were on one of the Acorn User CDs.
I think there was at least one other.
Was probably: http://home.wanadoo.nl/tvdb/.
Another related tool was NoDisc (the WIMP SA compatibility aid for 4th Dimension/CJE/FedNet games) by Richard Wilson: NoDisc CSAG threads.
To Quote Richard in one of the threads:
> What games does it make run?
A lot of 4th Dimension titles, and helps SF3000 too. It basically removes
the self modifying code at the start of the files and optionally removes
the key-disc code which causes problems on certain disc drives.
[Edited by tlsa at 19:17, 25/8/2013]
As Pockets is the original, it does at least confirm that once we shim TrackerModule it should work up to RO4.39/SA
Well, for a certain value of "work". The video code of the ROL fork includes an unfortunate 'feature' which causes redraw of non-background objects (the player, monsters, text, etc.) to flicker severely. It disagrees with some other games as well.
and possibly even on the Pi.
No chance. It's stuffed to the brim with non-32-bit-compatible code.
I'm actually amazed it runs on the StrongARM, what with the amount of self-modifying code it includes, none of which calls OS_SynchroniseCodeAreas. I think the logical distances between the modification code and its data may be larger than the cache, thereby accidentally sidestepping the problem.
The video code of the ROL fork includes an unfortunate 'feature' which causes redraw of non-background objects (the player, monsters, text, etc.) to flicker severely. It disagrees with some other games as well.
That may be the screen caching that RO4 enables, I'm currently working on a fix.
It was screen caching causing the flickering and is now fixed in ADFFS 2.18, although there's a lot of testing to do before we can release it to the public.


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