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Lollipop Chainsaw: The Kotaku Review
Tina Amini
You could pick Suda51's work—like Killer7 or the more recent No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned—out of a line-up. The art style is cartoonish, as are the characters. Memorable protagonists like the vulgar-mouthed tough guy Garcia "Fucking" Hotspur or the lascivious Travis Touchdown turned juvenile humor into compelling, tongue-in-cheek delight. And the combat in said games was always fun.
So when a seemingly typical vapid, valley girl cheerleader entered the ring of Suda's portfolio to beat up zombies and comical zombie bosses, it felt like the next best Suda game was upon us. Juliet Starling, who is basically the Buffy the Vampire Slayer of her world, was the next Travis Touchdown.
But it's not the protagonist this time that turns a stupid plotline and sophomoric jokes into an endearing experience. It's not the squeaky and unfalteringly chipper Juliet, with her supposed innocence towards the sexualized jokes thrown left and right at her expense, that makes me snort with laughter at the over-the-top, sometimes random humor I've come to be familiar with in Suda's games. It's the boss battles, and the mini-games, and the flavor of personality you see from some of the zombies.
Lollipop Chainsaw is set in a ridiculous enough plotline to fit the stupid-but-endearing style. Juliet Starling, a zombie hunter and high school cheerleader, finds San Romero High overrun by a zombie infestation.
Juliet's entire family is made up of zombie hunters. Her two sisters—the older a sniper expert and the youngest crazed and more obnoxiously "girly" than her middle sister—and father will sometimes show up in the game to help her out. They appear at odd intervals, and not nearly often enough for me to care about them. The best role they play in the game is to drop off gifts that upgrade Juliet's chainsaw. It is her birthday today, after all.
WHY: Slicing up zombies with a chainsaw is incredibly fun, and you get to experience endearingly stupid humor fighting in boss battles.
Lollipop Chainsaw
Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture
Platforms: Xbox 360 (played), PS3
Released: June 12th
Type of game: Hack-and-slash with RPG elements like upgrades.
What I played: Finished the campaign in roughly 7 hours.
Two Things I Loved
Inventive boss battles featuring stereotypical character tropes in a humorous way.
Being a kick-ass zombie hunter with awesome cheerleader/chainsaw combo moves.
Two Things I Hated
Humor that tries to be sophomoric in an endearing way, but often dips into regular old stupidity.
Strange game design ideas, including a lack of save points, unskippable cutscenes and wonky pause controls.
Made-to-Order Back-of-Box Quotes
"I was about to accuse the developer of ripping off of Suda51's style, until I realized the developer was Suda51." - -Tina Amini, Kotaku.com
"Being a vapid cheerleader with pigtails was never appealing until they put a chainsaw in her hands." -Tina Amini, Kotaku.com
Juliet is skilled with a chainsaw. And after she picks up a new birthday gift from a new zone, she can shoot faraway enemies with a blaster and dash to speed through the map. Though the gifts unlock these chainsaw abilities, you can purchase combo moves and permanent stat boosts at shops scattered throughout San Romero.
As skilled as Juliet is with a chainsaw, she's also quite the adept cheerleader. So it's only natural to combine the two skills in combos that you purchase, incorporating slicing chainsaw swings with leapfrogs, spins and twirls. They're as fun to carry out as they are deadly. Juliet's boyfriend's decapitated head swings at her hip, and can be used in battle, too. If Juliet activates a Nick card, the game enters "Nick roulette," where you can choose from Nick's available decapitated head abilities. These include swinging Nick's head around for an attack, or shooting him out at enemies. Upgrades for his moves can be found at the shops, as well. Fighting zombies is never dull, because there's always a new combination of attacks that you haven't tried out, or a new particularly fickle zombie that needs a different attack approach.
There are five main zones in Lollipop Chainsaw. In the midst of hunting and murdering cheerleaders and basketball players that have turned into vicious flesh-eating beings, Juliet will occasionally run into different mini-game challenges. Some are small distractions from the rest of the combat, like placing her boyfriend's decapitated head onto a headless zombie body to control him with button commands. Others are longer and more laborious, like decapitating zombies to score points in a twisted version of basketball. And others are hilarious and satisfying, like running over a horde of zombies on a tractor. After each zone is completed, you can redo it in Ranking mode to run the zone at your best time.
Some of developer Grasshopper Manufacture's humor feels right, in that random and quirky way it's supposed to feel. You'll chainsaw-rip into a zombie right after he oddly proclaims that his favorite president is Warren G. Harding. What? Ok. Teacher zombies yell for apples and tell you to do your homework. It's so misplaced, and yet appropriate, and it tickles me.
I have two favorite zones in Lollipop Chainsaw. I'll only mention one so I don't spoil too much. When you reach the farm zone you'll mow down hillbilly farmer zombies that have an unhealthy obsession with chickens. Heck, they even toss the chickens at you as a weapon. If Garcia Hotspur were here, he'd know exactly how to respond, guaranteed to be dropping a few F bombs. But Juliet never has anything funny or interesting to say. She acts like a bimbo, and I've never found the humor in laughing at the dumb hot chick. Her boyfriend Nick is more likeable than she is. He jokes around about space cake, and his commentary usually resonates with me more than hers. Nick is a body-less belt accessory, but he has more depth than Juliet.
Some of the humor is a swing and a miss. Lollipop Chainsaw feels like it wants to take cracks at overly-sexualized male characters like No More Heroes did, but can't properly emulate it in a way that isn't totally tacky. Travis, a stereotypical otaku, drooled all over himself in front of Sylvia. It was so exaggerated and tongue-in-cheek that it was funny.
But take for example Juliet's creepy sensei, who has convinced her that wearing panties with teddy bears on them helps her fight zombies. In one scene he accidentally flops onto her chest, jiggle physics in full swing. It was apparently considered so funny that they ran the joke twice, just two seconds after. The jokes don't touch on the subtle innuendos of No More Heroes like how Travis charged up his beam katana, or the overt innuendos in the same game that are so over-the-top that you wouldn't feel like a sleaze laughing at them.
I was expecting Lollipop Chainsaw's ditzy protagonist and decidedly dumb zombies to carry my way through the game. Grasshopper Manufacture's particular brand of humor has always struck a chord with my funny bone. But Juliet was more annoying than funny. She held a good grip on her chainsaw, but was at best cute. Garcia and Travis are terribly flawed characters, but it's what makes them great central figures. But Juliet's naive and dimwitted personality isn't as interesting as Garcia's excessive drinking or Travis'...passions for women.
What actually pulled me through Lollipop Chainsaw was the combat, and the boss battles in particular. Juliet moves fast and swift against her enemies. She can attack from the air, and gets good range on swinging attacks once you upgrade them. If she doesn't get hit in the process, Juliet can chain slash lots of zombies, and it's incredibly satisfying to land combos. Most games that excel in combat sometimes struggle with challenging and fun boss battles to match. But in Lollipop Chainsaw, it's an opportunity for even more exaggerated, random humor.
I first met Zed the Punk Rock Zombie—the first boss you'll encounter in Lollipop Chainsaw—during a preview demonstration. I could tell that Grasshopper Manufacture had some interesting ideas in store for boss rounds. I battled Zed by avoiding visualized insults—literally visualized, meaning each insult is spelled out and you have to dodge the oncoming letters—as well as smashing the speakers he stood on. It's both silly and thematic.
The dark purveyors—as the bosses are called in the game—are one of the few times that the Grasshopper Manufacture/Suda51 flavor actually comes through. They're crazy characters with a penchant for insults and violence. However, as fair warning, if you were squeamish about video game dialogue that tosses the term "bitch" around, Lollipop Chainsaw is not for you. Lollipop Chainsaw likes to call Juliet lots of names, and the intent for a fun-sexy tone gets lost in an overuse of them.
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Though the vulgar choice of humor and language sometimes works in moments like sequences with tongue-in-cheek characters like the viking dark purveyor or hippie zombie boss, it doesn't always work. Lollipop Chainsaw tries so hard to be like Shadows of the Damned with its humor. Garcia is tough, and he speaks his mind. He's charming, but not in a way that you would want home around your parents.
But when I rescue a fellow classmate from turning into a zombie in Lollipop Chainsaw and he says something like, "I never thought I'd be saved by someone with such great tits," I just can't bring myself to laugh. Some people will be bothered by the message it sends, and offended by how juvenile it is. I'm bothered that it's not funny. I can see what it's trying to do. I know that the game and its developers don't want me to take it seriously, and I sure don't. But it misses the mark of humor that it's also trying to go for.
Other jokes feel outdated. I'm pretty sure autotune was out even back when it made an appearance in Saints Row: The Third, but I still accepted it. There was lots of missed potential for nonsensical humor that you don't need a wit-receptor to enjoy. The result during most of the game fits this description, just without the enjoyment.
My biggest gripe with Lollipop Chainsaw could have been solved with smart playtesting and more considerate design decisions. There are certain leniencies that Lollipop Chainsaw doesn't give you. You can't always pause the game, only a few cutscenes are skippable, and you can't save the game mid-zone. You have to finish each in one sitting. I can't imagine what the value of limiting a player's control on their own game like that could be, but it's one you will experience in Lollipop Chainsaw regardless.
Lollipop Chainsaw is pretty stupid. It's not a game we will use to convince the naysayers that there is indeed educational, artistic, or otherwise meaningful value in playing video games. This is one you might want to hide from your accusing significant other or parent, because they will undoubtedly not understand the sophomoric humor and base desire for swift and fun combat needed to enjoy the game. And I'm ok with those kind of games.
But you may even want to hide the game from the most loving of Suda51 fans. Because while there are jokes and characters that resemble the style of games like No More Heroes or Shadows of the Damned, the quality and direction can't compare.
Lollipop Chainsaw effectively exchanges the charm of following around a character that can both be loved and laughed at for charm that resides in its enemies instead. You get more Garcia Hotspur style enjoyment in the wacky, crazed and cocky bosses than you do in the lead character. I don't want another Garcia or another Travis. I want a character that is funny for the same reasons those two are funny. Because as dumb, or as hot headed, or as flawed as they may be, they're still enjoyable. Like a class clown that's fun to have around, or someone you'd want to invite over for your backyard barbecue party.
Juliet isn't the star here. That particular style of humor that's so often misinterpreted and dismissed as juvenile still spills through, though not as often or as effectively. Lollipop Chainsaw feels less like a Suda51 game than Grasshopper Manufacture's other titles. Unfortunately, sometimes its humor suffers for that. And yet, I still get a great kick out of professionally sweeping through hordes of my zombified classmates, breakdancing zombies, and quirky boss purveyors.


On Tuesday, June 7, UWANTGAME hosted its annual Bowling Benefit for NYC high school students at Bowlmor Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. A packed room filled with students from the Business of Sports School, student-athletes from Castle Athletics' 15U AAU team, kids from the Youth Leaders of Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn's South Shore HS girls' basketball team and select youth from the Shawn Carter Foundation mingled with sports business executives, as a game of bingo and — of course— intense bowling competition allowed for the diverse group of kids to learn more about the executives' careers, many of whom work for the NBA, NFL, MLB, Madison Square Garden and Roc Nation Sports, among the multiple of other supporting entities in attendance.
A social media contest — with an XBOX 360 on the line — had guests looking to creatively snap their best photos from the night. In the end, an abundance of photos from the Castle Athletics' 15U team gave them the edge and ultimately took home the gaming console as a group, which they now plan to take with them on the road for when they hit tournaments on the AAU circuit this summer.
A silent auction, with items such as tickets to upcoming concerts, MLB and NFL games, as well as autographed apparel from NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA players (including Kobe Bryant) — among other memorabilia, took place behind the bowling lanes. Participants stopped by the auction after grabbing a bite to eat from the nearby complimentary catered food spread.
We want to thank everyone who attended this year's UWG Bowling Benefit and contributed not only to the organization's future initiatives in the community but also for making it a memorable experience for the HS students in attendance. We look forward to announcing our future partnerships and programs for the 2016-2017 school year in the very near future, and continuing to utilize sports as a vehicle to bring career development and life skills programs, as well as college scholarship opportunities, to high school students.
In the meantime, scroll through the photo gallery above by clicking on the sides of each photo to see moments from the special night!


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Evan is a broadcast journalism student at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Currently he is reporting for Missouri Digital News in conjunction with classes at Mizzou.
Stories by Evan Godt include:
12/ 7/2004: Radio Story - The federal legislation to be voted on in Congress would make uniform standards for all state driver's licenses. One of the provisions would restrict illegal immigrants from getting a license.
11/30/2004: Radio Story - Senator Jon Dolan announced an unusual plan for passing a law to enforce the wearing of seat belts. Dolan plans on attaching the law to another law making the use of helmets on motorcyles voluntary.
11/30/2004: Radio Story - MoDOT director Pete Rahn said they will use Amendment 3 funds to improve road safety. The first major project will be a huge road smoothing project that will improve 2,200 miles of Missouri roads.
11/18/2004: Radio Story - An already hesitant world market might be scared away from U.S. beef by the latest suspected case of mad cow disease announced by the USDA.
11/ 9/2004: Radio Story - Ken McClure, Matt Blunt's transition director, says that he and other aides chosen by Blunt will reflect a desire to use experienced staff.
11/ 4/2004: Radio Story - Governor elect Matt Blunt announced that his Transition Director will be Ken McClure, his high school Suncday school teacher.
10/21/2004: Radio Story - Monday's debate between Claire McCaskill and Matt Blunt was the result of weeks of heated discussion between the two campaigns
10/19/2004: Radio Story - Motor Carriers Association President George Burruss questions the value of toll booths given the side effects commuters would face.
10/12/2004: Radio Story - The state of Missouri can't enforce federal guidelines that say ambulance drivers paramedics should be near the front of the line for flu vaccinations.
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9/ 9/2004: Radio Story - Gov. Bob Holden, in a speech kicking off Preparedness Month, commended the efforts of state emergency response agencies.
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Q: How to match the last occurrence of a pattern on a single line string I am using this command line to get a particular line from an html file which contains various other tags, links etc.:
cat index.html | grep -m1 -oE '<a href="(.*?)" rel="sample"[\S\s]*.*
'

It outputs the line which I want:
Foo Bar

But I want to capture only something/two (the path of the last URL) considering that:

*

*the URLs are not known beforehand (it's a script processing multiple html files)

*the line can sometimes contain only 1 URL, e.g.
Foo

in which case I would want to get only something/one as in this case it is the last one.
How can I do that?

A: Just add
| grep -o 'href="[^"]*' | tail -n1

The first part only extracts the hrefs, the second part keeps only the last line.
If you want to extract only the path, you can use cut with delimiter set to / and extract everything starting from the fourth column:
| grep -o 'href="[^"]*' | tail -n1 | cut -f4- -d/

because
href="http://example.com/something/two/
1          23            4         5

A: If you can use perl, then capturing within a regex makes this a lot easier.
 perl -ne 'm(.*<a href="[^:]+://[^/]*/(.*?)" rel="sample".*
) and print "$1\n";'

The regex is basically the same as would also work with grep.  I've used m() instead of // to avoid escaping the / inside the regex.
The initial .* will greedily capture everything at the beginning of the line.  If you have multiple links on a line, it will capture all but the last.  This works with grep too, but it causes grep -o to output the beginning of the line, since this now matches the regex.
This doesn't matter with the capturing parenthesis, as only the part inside the (.*?) is captured and printed.
It would be used the same way as grep.
cat index.html | perl -ne 'm(.*<a href="[^:]+://[^/]*/(.*?)" rel="sample".*
) and print "$1\n";'

or

perl -ne 'm(.*<a href="[^:]+://[^/]*/(.*?)" rel="sample".*
) and print "$1\n";' index.html

A: On Linux, GNU grep's -P option enables a concise solution:
$ grep -oP '.*<a href="http://.+?/\K[^"]+(?=/"\s*rel="sample".*
$)' index.html
something/two

-o only outputs the matching part(s) of each line that matches.
-P activates support for PRCEs (Perl-compatible Regular Expressions), which supports advanced regex constructs such as non-greedy matching (*?), dropping everything matched so far (\K), and look-ahead assertions ((?=...).

*

*The combination of \K and (?=...) allows constraining the matching part of the regex to the subexpression of interest.
Note that no grep implementation supports capture groups, but the above, thanks to the features enabled by -P, is an emulation of extracting a single capture-group value.

As for what you tried:

*

*-m1 limits the number of matching lines to 1, but with -o also present, multiple matches on that 1 line are still all printed.

*

*Additionally, while you can use (...) for precedence, that doesn't constitute a capture group in grep, because there's no support for extracting capture-group values in grep.

*Even with -E for extended regex support, advanced constructs such as non-greedy matching (.*?) are not supported.

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Dynamite announces Dawn 30th Anniversary Celebration
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Dynamite announces a strengthened licensing deal with creator Joseph Michael Linsner to help celebrate his iconic indie creation Dawn's 30th anniversary!
This bolsters the already strong relationship that Dynamite and Linsner have shared for years. Including the existing Dawn statue, which Linsner's dedicated fans showed out in droves to support. Additionally available this fall in time for the holidays are collections of Linsner's Dynamite published series, collectible promo trading cards and a premium quality giclée print.
Linsner continues to be one of Dynamite's most treasured and fan-favorite cover artists, with ongoing contributions to the Red Sonja flagship series as well as other recent covers for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Bettie Page. 2014 saw the release of the smash-hit crossover series Dawn/Vampirella, written and drawn by Linsner. The paperback edition of that collection will hit store shelves this November. Together with his writing partner and Vampirella super fan, Kristina Deak-Linsner, he created the critically acclaimed Vampirella: Roses for the Dead limited series which brought the Daughter of Drakulon's cousin Evily the witch back to prominence. The Roses for the Dead hardcover collection released this August.
"I am thrilled to be working with Nick Barrucci and the great folks at Dynamite to help celebrate Dawn's 30th anniversary," said creator Joseph Michael Linsner. "I've known Nick for at least 30 years, so it feels like a friendly reunion getting to put our heads together and come up with new and exciting items. The Dawn statue Dynamite released is my very favorite that I've ever done, so let that be a symbol for the good things to follow. I'm excited — the best is yet to come!"
"Likewise, Joe and I go way back. He has a singular, distinct style and creative drive that is matched by very few in this industry. I have always admired and been impressed with how he has nurtured Dawn, one of the most iconic female characters in comics history. We at Dynamite cannot wait to celebrate this monumental anniversary!"
Linsner created Dawn, the sensual goddess of birth and rebirth, in 1989 for the indie sensation anthology Cry for Dawn. Her indelible design instantly captivated fans thanks to Linsner's talents. As of today, Dawn has starred in half a dozen series and other appearances, helped by one of the most passionate fanbases in independent comics.
Dynamite and Linsner are teaming up for a set of collectible promo trading cards celebrating the legacy of Dawn through these three decades. This limited edition set is also available signed by Linsner himself. And there may be more Dawn trading card news down the line…
Two variations on the hit Dawn statue are out soon! A special black and white artist proof edition of the Dawn statue is slated for release in October. While an artist proof edition of the costume variant statue is out in November. Only around 50 units are being produced of these rare collector's items.
For the Joseph Michael Linsner super fans, Dynamite is proud to produce a giclée of his iconic Dawn/Vampirella #1 cover. Giclée prints are highest-end art reproductions that capture every detail of the original work as humanly, mechanically or technically possible. The resulting print has no perceptible dot pattern, an endless array of richly-saturated color, and every nuance of the original image. Dynamite is now excited to be offering these ultra-premium prints optionally with beautiful frames as well. There are less than a handful of these being made, so they will be among the most exclusive Dawn and Linsner collectibles out there!
Dawn's 30th anniversary coincides with so many other exciting anniversaries in the Dynamite extended family. Including the 15th anniversary of Dynamite's publishing efforts, Vampirella's 50th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of Chaos! Comics (Evil Ernie, Chastity, Purgatori). Stay tuned to Dynamite for more news on Dawn.
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A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records
Cody C. Routson*, Darrell S. Kaufman, Nicholas P. Mckay, Michael P. Erb, Stéphanie H. Arcusa, Kendrick J. Brown, Matthew E. Kirby, Jeremiah P. Marsicek, Gerrit Schoups, More Authors
Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestrial and marine sites, including 381 individual proxy records. The records span at least 4000 of the last 12 000 years (median duration of 10 725 years) and have been screened for resolution, chronologic control, and climate sensitivity. Records were included that reflect temperature, hydroclimate, or circulation features. The database is shared in the machine readable Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format and includes geochronologic data for generating site-level time-uncertain ensembles. This publicly accessible and curated collection of proxy paleoclimate records will have wide research applications, including, for example, investigations of the primary features of ocean-atmospheric circulation along the eastern margin of the North Pacific and the latitudinal response of climate to orbital changes. The database is available for download at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1 (Routson and McKay, 2020).
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N2 - Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestrial and marine sites, including 381 individual proxy records. The records span at least 4000 of the last 12 000 years (median duration of 10 725 years) and have been screened for resolution, chronologic control, and climate sensitivity. Records were included that reflect temperature, hydroclimate, or circulation features. The database is shared in the machine readable Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format and includes geochronologic data for generating site-level time-uncertain ensembles. This publicly accessible and curated collection of proxy paleoclimate records will have wide research applications, including, for example, investigations of the primary features of ocean-atmospheric circulation along the eastern margin of the North Pacific and the latitudinal response of climate to orbital changes. The database is available for download at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1 (Routson and McKay, 2020).
AB - Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestrial and marine sites, including 381 individual proxy records. The records span at least 4000 of the last 12 000 years (median duration of 10 725 years) and have been screened for resolution, chronologic control, and climate sensitivity. Records were included that reflect temperature, hydroclimate, or circulation features. The database is shared in the machine readable Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format and includes geochronologic data for generating site-level time-uncertain ensembles. This publicly accessible and curated collection of proxy paleoclimate records will have wide research applications, including, for example, investigations of the primary features of ocean-atmospheric circulation along the eastern margin of the North Pacific and the latitudinal response of climate to orbital changes. The database is available for download at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1 (Routson and McKay, 2020).
U2 - 10.5194/essd-13-1613-2021
DO - 10.5194/essd-13-1613-2021
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
Routson CC, Kaufman DS, Mckay NP, Erb MP, Arcusa SH, Brown KJ et al. A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. Earth System Science Data. 2021;13(4):1613-1632. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1613-2021


Heritage Motor Coach Resort and Marina, located in Orange Beach, Alabama, has launched a new website in advance of its grand opening. The resort offers a fantastic location and the unique feature of an on-site marina in addition to all the traditional amenities of a luxury coach resort. As well as website design, Heritage benefited from intense public relations efforts and ongoing design support from Kidd Group, in a ramp up of exposure in time for the resort's first guests in October. This coordinated effort is a perfect example of Kidd Group's RV marketing division in action.


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Victoria's Secret says it is shuttering 53 more stores
Victoria's Secret is closing 53 more stores, its parent company L Brands announced this week.
The closings announcement comes after 30 Victoria's Secret stores closed in 2018 compared with the average of 15 stores a year, company officials said during a quarterly earnings call with analysts Thursday.
During L Brands' earnings call Thursday, Stuart Burgdoerfer, the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, said the need to close stores was "based on the overall performance of the Victoria's Secret business, not meeting our expectations or having year-on-year declines."
The closings make up about 4 percent of the company's 1,143 Victoria's Secret stores worldwide. L Brands also owns Bath & Body Works.
J.C. Penney closings:24 more stores closing as sales fall and department stores struggle
Gap closings:Old Navy spins off from Gap, as company says it plans to close roughly 230 Gap stores
A list of the closing stores was not released, and company officials did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment Thursday.
"How we go about it is we look at current and projected performance, sales, profit, cash flow," Burgdoerfer said in the call with analysts. "We look at trade area dynamics and how store openings and closings affect nearby stores and to a lesser extent, our online business."
L Brands will continue to invest in Bath & Body Works' White Barn concept, the company said, with "about 200 White Barn projects planned for 2019."
Thursday was a tough day for retail. J.C. Penney announced it would close 24 more stores and Gap said it would close roughly 230 stores as it plans to split from Old Navy.
On Feb. 13, Coresight Research released an outlook of 2019 store closures that said there was "no light at the end of the tunnel." Days after the report, Payless ShoeSource announced it would close all of its U.S. stores.
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Health care and the election: Answering your questions
We field questions about health care from our readers who responded to this week's election text alerts.
by Sarah Gantz
This week, we talked about how health care became one of hottest topics during this mid-term election cycle. Our readers asked great questions in response to our daily election text alerts. Here are some of those questions and the answers.
What portion of Pennsylvania residents are covered by ACA marketplace plans, as opposed to employer-sponsored health plans?
Though it gets a lot of attention, the Affordable Care Act marketplace sells insurance plans to a very small portion of Pennsylvania residents. Individual health plans, including those sold through the ACA marketplace, are bought by people who don't have access to good insurance through an employer and aren't eligible for Medicare or Medicaid. Just 5 percent of Pennsylvania residents have an individual health plan. Employer-sponsored health plans are by far the most common kind of insurance, covering 46 percent of Pennsylvania residents. Medicare (for seniors and some people with disabilities) covers 20 percent of residents. And Medicaid (for low-income individuals, families and children) covers 23 percent of residents. The state has a record-low uninsured rate of just 5.6 percent.
How many people in Pennsylvania opted out of insurance after the removal of the tax penalty?
The ACA's individual mandate required most people to buy health insurance or pay a tax penalty. At the end of 2017, Republicans passed tax legislation that reduced the penalty for not buying insurance to $0 — but that doesn't take effect until January 2019.
Economists and policy analysts expect that without a tax penalty, people who are healthier may drop their coverage or move to less expensive, less comprehensive plans that the Trump administration made more accessible this year. Short-term limited duration health plans have cheaper premiums because they are not required to cover things like prescription medications and pre-existing conditions. Trump eliminated an ACA rule that barred these plans from being used as year-round health insurance.
>> VOTERS GUIDE: View candidates in the 2018 midterm election based on your address, or browse all the action in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
Anyway, if you didn't buy health insurance in 2018, expect to pay a penalty when you file taxes next spring. Penalties vary depending on how long you were uninsured, your income level and the number of people in your family who were not covered. An individual who went the whole year without insurance will pay $695 plus inflation or 2.5 percent of their income, whichever is higher.
Is there anyone in PA promoting a state scheme [individual mandate] similar to the one NJ enacted?
Not that we're aware of. A state-level individual mandate would require legislation and there are no active bills being considered in Pennsylvania's House or Senate to that end. The session is nearly over, so any new bills seeking to create an insurance mandate would likely have to wait until January, when the next session starts.
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and Washington, D.C., have replaced the zeroed-out federal penalty with their own to avoid an increase in the uninsured rate and a spike in premium rates that could result from young, healthy people dropping coverage and leaving only sicker, more expensive people in ACA marketplace plans. New Jersey, for example, said it was able to approve an average premium rate decrease of 9.3 percent for individual health plans in 2019 — as opposed to the 5.8 percent rate increase insurers sought — because of its individual mandate and a reinsurance program that will help insurance companies pay for their most expensive members.
How can voters identify the groups paying for campaign ads and whether they have an anti-ACA agenda?
Every political ad must disclose who paid for it. This detail comes at the very end of the ad and, like the potential side-effects rattled off at the end of a drug commercial, can move quickly, so have your pen and notepad ready. Take to the internet to read up on the groups and their positions on the Affordable Care Act. You can also look up organizations on the Federal Election Commission's website (fec.gov) to see a list of any campaign contributions that group has made to political candidates and parties, which will give you an indication of where they fall on key issues.
Published Nov. 2, 2018
Sarah Gantz
I write about the cost of health care and insurance, including how COVID-19 has affected the way people access and pay for care.


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Date of Web Publication 7-Aug-2017
Keywords: Bruxism, mouth breathing, thumb sucking, tongue thrusting
Vishnoi P, Kambalyal P, Shyagali TR, Bhayya DP, Trivedi R, Jingar J. Age-wise and gender-wise prevalence of oral habits in 7–16-year-old school children of Mewar ethnicity, India. Indian J Dent Sci 2017;9:184-8
Vishnoi P, Kambalyal P, Shyagali TR, Bhayya DP, Trivedi R, Jingar J. Age-wise and gender-wise prevalence of oral habits in 7–16-year-old school children of Mewar ethnicity, India. Indian J Dent Sci [serial online] 2017 [cited 2021 Jan 15];9:184-8. Available from: http://www.ijds.in/text.asp?2017/9/3/184/212393
Oral habits since long have been the topic of interest to the dentist in general and pediatric dentist and orthodontist in particular. The controversies related to oral habits range from the simple genetic or nongenetic origin to underlying psychological cause.[1],[2],[3],[4]
However, there is a universal agreement regarding the deleterious effects they produce on the oral cavity as well as on the craniofacial region. Oral habits are known to cause certain types of malocclusion such as Angle class II malocclusion, increased overjet, open bite, posterior cross bite, and narrow maxillary width.[5],[6] Even the normal posture of the child can be affected by mouth breathing habit, where the child postures the head forward to breathe.[7],[8],[9],[10] Normal physiological equilibrium (Buccinator Mechanism) between the tongue and the oral musculature is altered [11] leading to the unesthetic appearance (mask-like appearance) of the face as well.
Vast number of studies have explored the prevalence of oral habits in young children worldwide to develop an effective preventive community measure to stop the development of these habits. Efforts have also been made to understand the etiology behind the development of these oral habits to combat the problem from the root.[1],[2],[3]
There are very few studies on the prevalence of oral habits in Indian children,[12],[13],[14],[15],[16] owing to this factor, the current study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of the oral habits in 7–16-year-old school children of Udaipur city, India and to propose the model for the combating of such problem if persisted.
A descriptive cross-sectional study design was followed to quantitatively analyze the presence or absence of different oral habits. A total of 1029 (661 males, 368 females) participants of age 7–16 years were selected from urban and rural schools of Mewar region of Rajasthan, India. The Mewar region is located in the south-central Rajasthan of India. The population found here is mixed as it includes the certain part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh as well. The participants were randomly selected by multistage stratified cluster sampling design. The pilot study was performed on 100 children to check the feasibility of the study and to decide the final sample size.
The study was undertaken after approval of the Institutional Ethical Committee. The examinations were conducted with permission from the education authorities and the principals of the respective schools, and with the informed consent of the participating child's parents. The inclusion criteria for the selection of the participants were presence of deciduous canine and deciduous second molar in primary and mixed dentition, presence of the first molar in permanent dentition, participants of Rajasthan ethnicity and the participants who had not undergone orthodontic treatment. The participants having craniofacial anomalies were excluded from the study. For each subject, a registration chart was designed. It comprised of an anamnestic questionnaire and the child's personal data. The presence or absence of oral deleterious habits such as tongue thrusting, thumb or digit sucking, mouth breathing, bruxism, lip biting or lip sucking, and nail biting was recorded.
Descriptive statistics were calculated for every recorded variable. Categorical variable was analyzed using the Chi-square test of Pearson to determine differences in prevalence rates between different age groups and the gender. P value for statistical significance was set at 0.05. All the statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS version 21 IBM SPSS Software. To examine the intra-examiner reliability, the data were collected twice for the total ten participants consecutively with in the period of 2 weeks and was subjected to kappa statistics which accounted for 89%.
The descriptive statistics of the sample examined is shown in [Table 1]. A total of 1029 participants, 661 males (64.2%) and 368 females (35.8%) of 7–16-year-old with Mewar ethnicity were examined.
Table 1: Demographic data
[Table 2] represents the data pertaining to the overall prevalence of each oral habit. Oral habits were present in 594 participants (57.73%). Eighty-seven male (58.55%) and 207 female (56.25%) children had the oral habits [Table 2]. Among the oral habits, the highest prevalence rate was registered for tongue thrusting habit (296/28.8%), which was followed by nail biting (201/19.5%), thumb sucking (128/12.4%), mouth breathing (109/10.6%), lip biting (85/8.3%), and bruxism (29/2.8%).
Table 2: Prevalence and distribution of oral habits in the total sample
Gender-wise distribution of oral habits is depicted in [Table 3]. The male participants showed a greater prevalence rate for the oral habits than the female participants (58.55% vs. 56.25%) and the difference found was statistically nonsignificant (P = 0.788). In particular, tongue thrusting habit (P = 0.378) showed a nonsignificant but greater prevalence rate in female participants (30.4% vs. 27.8%).
Table 3: Prevalence and distribution of oral habits by gender
The prevalence of oral habits according to the age is depicted in [Table 4]. There was a significant difference in the prevalence of tongue thrusting (P = 0.002), thumb sucking (P = 0.000), and mouth breathing and bruxism (P = 0.000). The oral habits were more prevalent in older children than in the younger children.
Table 4: Prevalence and distribution of oral habits by age
The objective of the present study constituted the assessment of the prevalence of oral habits by means of the anamnestic questionnaire and to record the presence or absence of oral habit. A total of 594 participants (57.73%); 387 males (58.55%) and 207 females (56.25%) showed one or the other kind of oral habit. The earlier literature was explicit with such findings in different population groups.[16],[17] Compared to the current population, Albanese school children and the Brazilian school children (2617 subjects)[18] showed much greater prevalence of oral habits (78.9% in males and 82.1% in females; 87.4%, respectively).[19] Contrastingly, a very low prevalence of oral habits was reported in Nigerian children (9.9%),[4] opposite to this finding in the Nigerian children belonging to Lagos the prevalence rate of oral habit was 34.1%.[20] There are several other studies done within the Indian subcontinent that quote a lower prevalence of oral habits.[13],[15],[21],[22] This difference in the prevalence of the oral habits in different population group can be either attributed to the difference in the calibration or the ethnicity of the population being examined or the geographic location where the population is based or the variation in the sample size of the examined population.
The education and the awareness of the parents matters a lot in controlling such deleterious oral habits in children. Apart from this, the socioeconomic condition of the population does play a major role in the prevalence of such habits. The facts that the oral habits are the causation of lack of the social and emotional security can be linked to the low socioeconomic group parents, the working class parents, and the large family groups. The degree of modernization and the ability of the child to cope with such a society without the mental tension is the major factor in determining the presence or absence of habit, as the oral habits act as mental stress releasers. The mentioned reason might cause the variations in the noted prevalence for the different oral habits.
In our sample, among the oral habits, the highest prevalence rate was registered for tongue thrusting habit 296 (28.8%) which was followed by the nail biting (19.5%). Contrastingly, lower prevalence of tongue thrusting was noted in different population groups.[13],[15],[16],[21],[23] The tongue thrusting habit is known to cause the functional imbalance in the oral cavity, thus possibly causing the development of malocclusion.[20] This again is debatable as the frequency of the tongue thrust habit is the main factor for the causation of malocclusion than the habit itself. The prevalence of nail biting was low in the earlier studies in comparison to the results of the present study.[16],[21],[22],[23] The nail biting habit if persists for long can lead to midline diastema, resorption of the roots, the parasitic infections of the intestine, and the temporomandibular disorders. The prevalence of thumb sucking in the present study group was by 12.4%. The thumb and digit sucking habit was reported to be less frequent than the other habits, and the results of the current study are in agreement with this finding.[4],[15],[16],[18],[21] Even though the prevalence is low, but it still warrants the need for the further monitoring as the thumb sucking is known to cause the anterior open bite and the posterior cross bite tendency in the developing occlusion.[22],[24],[25],[26]
Mouth breathing is considered to be the etiological factor for the craniofacial anomalies.[27],[28] and there are reports on the association of the posterior cross bite tendency with the mouth breathers.[27],[28] The prevalence of mouth breathing in the current sample was 10.6% (109). However, higher prevalence rates of 23.2%, 17%, and 13% were observed in few of the earlier studies of similar nature.[18],[21],[22] The contrasting findings of lesser prevalence rates of mouth breathing were seen the literature with the prevalence as low as 6.6% and 4.3%.[15],[16]
The prevalence rate of lip biting was low in the earlier studies, contrastingly high prevalence of lip biting was seen in a current group of participants (8.3%).[4],[15],[18],[21] In our sample, among the oral habits, the least prevalence rate was recorded for bruxism (2.8%). When the results were compared with the other population groups, varying results were appreciated with 17.3% prevalence in Chhattisgarh population [21] and 0.4% prevalence in Karad population.[16]
On considering the gender-wise distribution of oral habits, statistically nonsignificant difference was found between males and females, with male participants showing a greater prevalence rate than female participants (58.55% vs. 56.25%). This finding is in accordance to the earlier report on the oral habits in different population groups.[18],[21],[22] A couple of other studies [4],[16] contradicted our results, where they found greater prevalence of oral habits in females than in males. Nevertheless, both male and female children had higher prevalence of tongue thrusting and nail biting habit in comparison to other habits in the present study. However, female children had the higher prevalence rate of tongue thrusting and nail biting habits than their male counterparts. In one of the earlier studies, the statistically significant difference was noted for the gender-wise prevalence of nail biting habits, with high prevalence rate in case of female children.[22] Similar findings of statistically significant difference for the gender was noted for the thumb sucking in the earlier studies by Laganà et al.[18] showing significantly higher male to female ratio (12.3% vs. 8.3%) and by Kharbanda et al. (2003)[15] showing significantly greater female prevalence than males (1% vs. 0.4%). The increased prevalence of mouth breathing habit for the males in the current study is support by the similar findings in the earlier studies.[16],[18] However, the difference noted was nonsignificant.
There was statistically significant difference in the age-wise prevalence of the oral habits such as tongue thrusting, thumb sucking, mouth breathing, and bruxism. These habits were more prevalent in the older age group children than, the younger age group. The reason behind this greater prevalence in the older age group is the stronger association with the years of the indulgence in the particular habit. The literature pertaining to the age-wise difference in the prevalence of the oral habits is scanty.
The study did not explore the relationship between the frequency of oral habits and the consequence of the same on the occlusion and status; this was the minor limitation of the study. This limitation can be the aim for the future studies of similar nature.
Oral habits were detected in half of the examined population (57.73%), there was a significant difference for the age-wise prevalence of oral habits, with older age children indulging more in such kind of habits. Among the oral habits, the highest prevalence rate was registered for tongue thrusting habit. These findings warrant the need for educating the children and the parents about the deleterious effects produced by indulging in such habits. Parallel to this preventive and interceptive procedure to tackle the oral habits have to be planned meticulously to prevent the further damage caused by such habits to the structures of the orofacial region.
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Who had sereously worked on gtx980m mxm 8gb clevo i need your help.
Got the card with unknow issue. All i can tell that it has no sereous shorts or something but vbios chip gets only 1.0v and it should get an 3.3v to start correctly. I tried the chip on the programmer and read and write tests are sucessfull i also tried to replace it with another chip but no luck. Only 1.0v is going to it. I checked all voltages on card and it has 3.3v 5v and 19v present. The laptop will post only with igpu. I also checked wit same working card and laptop detects it with no issue. So there must be an ic or voltage regulator which powers on an bios chip but i dont know which one is it. As there are 5 controllers on the card and swapping each is pretty hard.


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Opening of the appeal trial of the Mediator in France
The appeal trial of the health scandal of the Mediator, a drug from Servier laboratories accused of having caused the death of hundreds of patients, opens Monday for six months before the Paris Court of Appeal.
The hearing, which takes place in the "room of the great trials" of the Palace of Justice, which has already hosted the trials of the attacks of November 13 and Nice, must begin at 1:30 p.m.
Marketed as an antidiabetic in 1976 but unduly prescribed as an appetite suppressant until 2009, the Mediator has caused serious side effects on thousands of patients suffering from cardiac or pulmonary pathologies and sometimes led to their death.
It has been prescribed to approximately 5 million people during its thirty-three years of marketing.
At first instance, Servier laboratories and their former number 2, Jean-Philippe Seta, were found guilty of aggravated deception and manslaughter and involuntary injury. Servier was fined 2.7 million euros, Mr. Seta a four-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 90,600 euros.
The group was also ordered to pay a total of more than 183 million euros in damages to the victims.
In its judgment, the Paris Criminal Court considered that the Servier laboratories "had from 1995, enough elements to become aware of the mortal risks" linked to the Mediator.
The second French laboratory, on the other hand, was acquitted of the offenses of improperly obtaining a marketing authorization and fraud, in particular to the detriment of the French Social Security, which led the Paris public prosecutor's office and civil parties to appeal.
In their wake, the pharmaceutical group also appealed.
Sentenced to a fine of 303,000 euros for having delayed suspending the marketing of the Mediator despite its toxicity, the French Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM, ex-Afssaps) did not appeal.
More than 7,500 civil parties
Only the Servier group and Jean-Philippe Seta will therefore be tried before the Court of Appeal chaired by Olivier Géron.
"The Servier laboratories and Mr. Seta still deny having deliberately deceived patients and prescribing doctors about the dangerousness" of the Mediator, François De Castro, one of their lawyers, told AFP.
"On the first day of the marketing of this drug, they had the perfect knowledge of the extremely serious side effects" of the drug, estimates on the contrary Jean-Christophe Coubris, lawyer of approximately 2500 civil parties.
More than 7,500 civil parties were constituted before the opening of the hearing. As for the trials of the attacks of November 13 and Nice, they will be able to follow on a web radio the debates scheduled until June 28, at the rate of two and a half days of hearing per week.
About fifty civil parties are expected to testify at the bar for four days at the end of February.
The pulmonologist Irène Frachon, who had revealed to the general public the extent of the scandal, will come again to testify at the bar, even if she confided to AFP to have "lost confidence in the capacity of justice to condemn this type of offenses commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses committed".
"The mountain gave birth to a mouse" in the first instance, she said, regretting "the modesty of the sentences", below the requisitions of the prosecution, and a missed opportunity to "give a strong signal" to the industrialists of the medicine that does not respect the rules.
In a column published in the Sunday newspaper, the practitioner of the Brest-Carhaix hospital (west) asked French President Emmanuel Macron to modify the code of the Legion of Honor in order to posthumously withdraw this decoration from Jacques Servier, the founder of the laboratories of the same name, died in 2014 without being accountable to justice.
For the lawyers of the civil parties, the stake of the trial is to obtain the confirmation of the judgment of first instance, the maintenance of the minimum compensation paid to their clients and that Servier be found guilty of fraud.
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VC YOUNG ARTIST | Jiafeng Chen, 26 - Sibelius, Wieniawski, Indianapolis, Menuhin & Queen Elisabeth Prizes - The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009.
26 year old Chinese violin virtuoso Jiafeng Chen is firmly establishing himself as one of the new generation's most gifted young concert soloists.
A student of Jan Repko, Cho-Liang Lin and Ronald Copes at London's Royal College of Music and the Juilliard School, Jiafeng is a former prize winner at the Sibelius, Wieniawski, Indianapolis, Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competitions.
His recent solo engagements include performances with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Belgium.
He currently performs on a 1752 Nicolo Gagliano violin – on generous loan from a syndicate of private investors.


Another crunk dance video showing two crunk heads dancing to some crunk music. This type of dance is called snap dance but the crunk dudes on this video clip mixed other styles in it too.. Learn more about snap dance.
Now, c'mon snap your fingers!
Here's another snap dance video clip.
Watch the video clip below to see snap in action.
This video shows you how to snap dance. Farrah, Fallon, Felisha and Neosha are ladies from Atlanta who will teach you how to snap dancing, in seconds. Snap dance came from Atlanta and has been there for quite some time. It's becoming more and more popular, the more crunk music gets spread around the world. Now these ladies are going a step forward by teaching the whole world how to dance the southern based snap dance.
Snap Dancing 101? Oh, I think I like it!
Snap dancing is very well explained in this video. It gives you all the dancing basics and tricks you need in order to get started quick. Enjoy!
Another Snap Dance video clip. The boy doing the snap dance on the video is called Chris Jamison.
Well, do you think you could battle this boy?
Watch Fa-bo, a member of D4L (Down 4 Life), Snap dance to his favourite song Laffy Taffy.
D4L is a dirty south rap group based in Atlanta. One of their best hits is the "Laffy Taffy", which went 3 times Platinum.
For those who don't know what Snap dance is, watch this video clip and learn.
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Supporting rural vitality and making an impact in our community is a core value for Minburn Communications. To support this, the company established a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) capitalized at $360,000. Through the RLF, Minburn Communications is seeking to improve the quality of life in rural areas by contributing to the long-term improvement of the economy to benefit job creation and retention, diversification, improving the education and skills of the local workforce, and upgrading the public infrastructure to improve the health, safety, and/or medical care of rural residents in Minburn, Woodward, Perry and rural Dallas County.
The $360,000 is comprised of a $30,000 grant from Ripple Effect, a $30,000 match from Minburn Communications and a $300,000 USDA grant. The Revolving Loan Fund gets its name from the revolving aspect of loan repayment, where the central fund is replenished as individual projects pay back their loans within 10 years, creating the opportunity to issue other loans to new projects.
The minimum RLF loan available from Minburn Communications is $25,000, the maximum is $150,000 and the project must include a minimum of 20% funding from other sources.
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Q: Attribute disappeared after setting to memcache? I am using Appengine's memcache.
I have a class, TaskGroup, which I will be setting an attribute dynamically.
from mempo.models import Task, Order, TaskAction, TaskGroup
from google.appengine.ext import ndb
from google.appengine.api import memcache

tg = TaskGroup.query().fetch(1)[0]
print 1, tg
setattr(tg, TaskGroup.JSON_TASKS_KEY, {'hello': 'world'})
print 2, getattr(tg, TaskGroup.JSON_TASKS_KEY)

KEY = 'mc_key'
memcache.delete(KEY)
memcache.set(KEY, tg)

tg2 = memcache.get(KEY)
print 3, getattr(tg2, TaskGroup.JSON_TASKS_KEY)

This is the output from the interactive console:
1 TaskGroup(key=Key('TaskGroup', 4504974016905216), order=Key('Order', 5491235947020288), order_entry_serial=u'fc5766b2bbad4905be8753f9a6300009', orphaned=False, state=TaskGroupState(UNSTARTED, 10))
2 {'hello': 'world'}
3Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vng/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/python/request_handler.py", line 216, in handle_interactive_request
    exec(compiled_code, self._command_globals)
  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
AttributeError: 'TaskGroup' object has no attribute 'json_tasks'

AFAIK, pickle dumps attributes set dynamically as well:
class Foo():
    pass

f = Foo()

pickle.dumps(f)
Out[4]: '(i__main__\nFoo\np0\n(dp1\nb.'

In [5]: setattr(f, 'hello', 'world')

In [6]: pickle.dumps(f)
Out[6]: "(i__main__\nFoo\np0\n(dp1\nS'hello'\np2\nS'world'\np3\nsb."

Can someone tell me why appengine's memcache is not pickling my JSON_TASKS_KEY attribute?

A: This has to do with how ndb handles pickling. ndb.Model implements __getstate__, which allows it to overwrited how it is pickled. In particular, ndb handles it by converting to it's internal serialized representation, then encoding that. This internal representation only stores the properties it knows about.
If you want to use dynamic attributes with ndb, you should have your models extend ndb.Expando instead of ndb.Model.


2009: Greg's Austin, TX office closes and he puts in a job transfer for the London Office.
2010-2012: London. After we get pregnant we decide being closer to family would be nice. Transfer to the San Francisco office. Good thing, too. The London office closed months after we left and we would've been deported. Ha!
2013-2015: Bay Area (San Mateo, CA). Love the weather and the long months of fruit season. But we never felt settled or a sense of belonging. Transfer to the Seattle office.
2015- Seattle. Home. Finally. Finally feeling at home after six years of being on the road, it seems. And with that feeling comes the need to throw down some roots. So…we bought a house! The Seattle housing market is BANANAS. Houses barely last a couple of days. The renting market isn't any better, landlords taking deposits before an open house starts. With rent sometimes increasing at about 30% a year, owning a house made the most sense. And we've been itching to own a home for years now. So it feels good to finally be able to put nails in the walls without worry. And paint the walls. And possible start a garden.
It also means I can finally work on the ideal sewing space I've always wanted. My sewing rooms have been away from O's play area, so sewing while he played was never an option. But it will be now. I staked claim to the only room on the ground level. Bonus, it has sliding doors to the yard. So ideally I can sew and watch him play outside. Do you hear that? Those are angels singing.
Another bonus is that the sewing room leads into the kitchen, allowing for me to bake and sew. WHAT? Two loves combined. Hosting sewing friends will be super fun too, with this set up. Now, to decide what goes where. And if I really need that peg board I've always dreamed of.
A lot of changes but they are so welcomed. I cannot wait for the calm after settling in. We move in two weeks and I'm already dreaming of my unpacked house, with its new couch (adulting! what?!) and gray owl painted walls.
But for now…I'm hating packing.
That is so wonderful for you and for your entire family. Carlos and I loved Seattle. Perhaps at some future date we'll make a return trip there and see you at the same time. Love from the Davis-Mateo family back home in Brooklyn.
Thank you. It will feel so so good to build memories around a family home. And to really become part of a community. I miss that so much about growing up in Brooklyn. Neighbors knew you and helped you when needed. That's all I want for us, a wonderful network. And it's been a long search, but happy we found a place that can offer that.
We'd love to host you if you ever come to Seattle!
Thanks! The ducks are lining up in a row and it feels good.
Come on over! Please know you're always welcome to come for a visit. We have a guest…basement. I know, doesn't sound glamorous but it's cool and private 🙂 And I'm so glad the straightners are treating you well. They are such a life-saver on humid days.
Your sewing space sounds great! How exciting to be moving into a new house! I am glad that you've finally found a hometown. Seattle is so beautiful – I can see why you would like it!
Thanks! Feels good to find the place we want to raise our family in. Such a relief!
Thank you! I hope you're all nice and settled in your new home!
congratulations! Feeling at home is the best feeling in the world. Good luck with the move!
Feeling at home really is one of the best feelings ever. That sort of relaxation you get from it is hard to come by.
So excited for your move! We just moved houses last month as well, one town over to San Mateo. It's been madness, but blissful madness.
Congratulations! How exciting! I wish I could see it. Your last house was lovely but I imagine so is the current one. Hope you're doing well. I'll drop you a proper email soon!
Thank you. I am sooo looking forward to not having to move or pack for a very very long time.
Hey Rachel! Packing DOES take forever. Luckily we've had quite a bit of time to pack (4 weeks total) so it's coming along. Greg's company moved us all those other times so we never bothered to purge or downsize. Eeek! I've been gifting so many things just to get rid of stuff. Feels great but still, lots of work.
Great news, good for your whole family.
Thanks! We are pretty excited!
Seems like you and your husband have great instincts with jobs and moving! Glad to hear it's all worked out! I finally visited Seattle last year and absolutely loved it. I can see why people fall in love with the area. Congrats on the new house and upcoming baby. Can't wait to see what you do with your new sewing space.
Thanks! I regret not sharing my current space (before I packed it all) because it was very serene. But I hope to make it more functional, and share it, next time.
Thanks so much. If you're ever in Seattle I'd love to have you over.
It is so nice to find a place that feels like home. Congrats!
Thanks. I really took for granted that "home" feeling when I lived in Texas. I thought it would be easy to replicate. Nope! You live you learn!
It really, really feels great. Never realized that "home" feeling would steer clear of us for so long.
Thank you! We are really looking forward to that next chapter.
Thanks! I love how Patty constructed a floor plan of her future sewing room. I've done the same but not as well. I have to tweak it a bit.
How wonderful…life is really falling into place. Good luck with the move. Packing is awful….but worth it for your own space.
It will! We have just decided to move so I feel your pain. I'm house hunting and trying to organise the last of the renovations to get ours ready to sell. I just keep remembering that at the end of it I'll have a sewing room too. Hurrah!
EEEKS! So exciting! That sewing room/kitchen combo sounds like heaven!
I hope it proves to be!
Congratulations! I completely feel you on the packing! I hate moving!!
Thank you! Packing is such a chore! Rewarding, but such a chore.
Man, you've had so much upheaval in such a short time! I'm so glad that you're feeling settled- that must feel AMAZING!
Yay! Congrats on the new house Mela. How exciting! And yay for having your own creative space in both kitchen and sewing room!
I'm late but congrats! Owning your own space is so great, I can't wait til we ditch renting and get our own place.


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Money Won't Make You Happy, But These 12 Traits Will
10 Ways You May Be Shortening Your Life
25 of the Best Stress-Relief Techniques
4 Types of Journaling, Plus How to Find the One That's Best for You
6 Morning Habits of Highly Successful People
4 Science-Backed Hacks to Strengthen Your Self-Control
Written by Joe Donatelli
Self-improvement often requires willpower, a word the dictionary defines as "energetic determination," but in modern times has come to mean "the ability not to inhale a donut every time you see one."
As important as willpower is for establishing good health habits, Americans know little about it.
Acquiring willpower is not something that is taught in public schools or discussed in many homes, and – outside of sports – it is seldom a theme in popular culture. Like annuities or kale, willpower is a thing that we know we should have more of, but don't.
So what happens? We make New Year's Resolutions and break them. We work out to get the perfect body, but end up wearing a huge T-shirt to the pool. We try to make it to lunch without drinking soda and fail. Beer? Five, please.
Then we blame ourselves for being failures, but the truth is we're not failures. We're willpower amateurs in a world of professionally-packaged temptation. It's us, with zero training, against a $15 trillion economy that gets better at selling us things and capturing our attention every day.
Want to eat right? Hit the gym regularly? Get a proper amount of sleep? Finish that passion project?
Want to ignore the donut?
You need more willpower. The good news? You can get it. Willpower is something you can study, understand, use and strengthen.
You can, for lack of a better word, trick yourself into better behavior.
The Willpower Workout
In their book "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength," Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney disclosed the idea that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened.
The authors argue that the mental equivalent of high-rep, low-weight training can boost willpower. Their method: Start small, then build. Little willpower wins over the course of a day, week, or month can lead to larger gains down the road.
As an example, Baumeister and Tierney cite performance artist David Blaine. When he trains for his strange public feats —such as spending 64 hours inside a giant ice cube—he does so by practicing small acts of willpower, such as not drinking alcohol. "Getting your brain wired into little goals and achieving them helps you achieve the bigger things you shouldn't be able to do,'' Blaine said. "It's not just practicing the specific thing."
If your goal is to diet and lose weight, you can build your willpower by doing seemingly non-related things – like taking a walk every day, or cleaning your home every night.
If you're Blaine, maybe you shave your creepy facial hair every day. Whatever works for you.
4 Proven Willpower Hacks
POSTPONEMENT OF DESIRE - You can, for lack of a better word, trick yourself into better behavior. Nicole Mead of the Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics and her colleagues say that postponing consumption of an unhealthy snack to an unspecified future time reduces snack intake. Mead believes that reducing desire, rather than strengthening willpower, is an effective strategy for controlling unwanted food-related cravings.
Postponement gives the brain a cooling-off period that leads to more snack no's than yesses, Mead told WebMD. She adds that the postponement should not be specific. In other words, you shouldn't say, "I'll eat that entire Fudgie the Whale Carvel Ice Cream Cake in 30 minutes." You should say, "I'll eat the cake at some point later."
FLEX YOUR MUSCLES - But there's another trick you can use if you feel your willpower slipping: Flex your muscles. Iris W. Hung of the National University of Singapore and Aparna A. Labroo of the University of Chicago conducted a study in which participants were who were instructed to tighten their muscles, regardless of which muscles they tightened, demonstrated a greater ability to withstand pain, consume unpleasant medicine, attend to disturbing but essential information and overcome tempting foods.
The researches theorize that the body primes the mind.
USE MENTAL IMAGERY - Mental imagery, used by athletes worldwide, is another willpower hack. According to Harvard researchers, people who do a good deed or who imagine doing a good deed are better able to perform tasks of physical endurance.
In a strange twist, those who envisioned themselves doing something bad had more endurance than those who envisioned themselves doing something good. In this case, researchers believe that the mind primes the body.
The findings are based on two studies. In the first, participants were given a dollar and told either to keep it or give it to charity. They were then asked to hold a five-pound weight for as long as they could. Those who donated to charity held the weight for an average of almost 10 seconds longer.
In a second study participants held a weight while writing fictional stories in which they helped another person, harmed another person or did something that had no impact on other people.
Participants who wrote about doing good were significantly stronger than those whose actions didn't benefit anyone. Researchers were surprised to learn that the people who wrote about harming others were even stronger than the participants who envisioned helping someone.
"Whether you're saintly or nefarious, there seems to be power in moral events," researcher Kurt Gray said when the study was published. "People often look at others who do great or evil deeds and think, 'I could never do that' or 'I wouldn't have the strength to do that.' But in fact, this research suggests that physical strength may be an effect, not a cause, of moral acts."
So next time you're jogging and getting tired, picture yourself on a heroic quest to save the princess—or murder her father, the beloved king.
MODIFY YOUR ENVIRONMENT - You can also trick your brain by modifying your environment. Consumer psychologist Brian Wansink discovered that people eat and drink more out of bigger containers.
In one of his studies people lost weight when they ate off salad plates instead of large dinner plates, kept unhealthy foods out of sight, moved healthier foods to eye-level and ate in the kitchen or dining room instead of in front of the television.
Willpower Depletion
Like your muscles, your willpower can tire out. According to a study co-authored by Baumeister, the more frequently and recently people resisted a desire, the less successful they will be at resisting subsequent desires. He believes people only have so much willpower to use during the day.
How can you tell if your willpower is depleted?
People with low willpower feel things, both physically and emotionally, more intensely. Baumeister and his colleagues found that people with low willpower reported more distress in response to an upsetting film and rated cold water as more painful during a cold-water immersion test.
Making choices isn't the only way to burn through your willpower. Another culprit: hunger. Another Baumeister study concluded that acts of self-control reduce blood glucose levels and low blood glucose levels predict a lack of self-control. It's the proverbial vicious cycle.
The good news is that glucose is sugar, which is fuel for the brain, and it can be replenished. Ideally your sugar should come from a healthy source, such as fruits.
Don't drink a regular soda to avoid eating a cookie.
What you want to do is ward off decision fatigue. McMaster University associate professor of kinesiology Kathleen Martin Ginis says that having to make many decisions can cause a person to cave into temptation.
In his efficiency book "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity," David Allen urges busy people who want to be more productive to create folders in their email, and in their file cabinets, into which they can file decisions that don't need to be made until later.
Allen's tactic acknowledges that it takes a lot of energy to focus on the present and remain productive. Folders remove the burdens of constant decision-making.
Ginis said making regular plans to exercise at the same time every day also nets positive results.
The Depletion Debate
Not everyone agrees with the Baumeister camp. Many researchers believe that willpower, in fact, can not be depleted. For example, Stanford psychologists found that people who think willpower can be depleted are more likely to be tired when performing a tough task. People who think that willpower cannot be drained easily stay on task longer without losing focus.
So which one are you?
Can you stay focused on one thing for long periods of time? If you can, you're in the Stanford camp. Soldier on.
Do you find that your energy drains quickly when you're focusing? If so, you're in the Baumeister camp. Grab an orange.
The Future of Willpower
It has only been three years since Caltech scientists pinpointed the parts of the brain that regulate willpower—the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
"After centuries of debate in social sciences, we are finally making big strides in understanding self-control from watching the brain resist temptation directly," researcher Colin Camerer said on discovery. Camerer hopes his research will lead to better theories on how self-control develops and how it works for various types of temptations.
Until science makes a willpower pill, find hacks that help you will your way past the donut.
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Boston University School of Public Health. The Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change). Updated September 2019.
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Joe Donatelli is a journalist in Los Angeles and the publisher of the Humor Columnist website. His work has appeared in Salon, Cracked.com, DAME and other publications. Donatelli is a graduate of Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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Madelynn Bernau (Racine, 1 de junho de 1998) é uma atiradora esportiva estadunidense, medalhista olímpica.

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Bernau participou dos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 em Tóquio, onde participou da prova de fossa olímpica em duplas mistas ao lado de Brian Burrows, conquistando a medalha de bronze.

Atiradores olímpicos dos Estados Unidos
Atiradores nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020
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The following behavior guidelines identify principles Machine Aquatics expects all members (swimmers, coaches, parents) to demonstrate and uphold. These remind us of why we are involved in youth sports, especially in the midst of competition.
Strive to make every team activity serve as training for life.
Respect the integrity of swim officials by assuming decisions are based on honest, objective evaluations of performance. Only coaches may approach meet officials for clarification of rulings.
Promote good sportsmanship by setting an example and by helping others to do likewise. Machine swimmers win gracefully, lose graciously and congratulate their opponents either way.
Assist the coaches in conducting effective practices by ensuring swimmers arrive and leave on time, and bring the proper equipment.
Arrive at meets in time for check in, stretching and warm-ups.
Assist the coaches by not talking with or motioning to swimmers during practices unless clearing it with a coach first.
Opposing teams, including their swimmers, coaches, and fans, want the same positive experiences for their swimmers as we do. Help Machine Aquatics achieve our goals by avoiding criticism either verbally or by gesture. Look for opportunities to build rapport with teams that we compete and work with.
Know and uphold Machine Aquatics code of conduct, policies and coach directives that are designed to maximize the experience for all swimmers and parents.
Realize that swimmers become easily confused when coached by parents and benefit most from positive reinforcement of the professional coaching staff's instructions and advice. Your unconditional love and support before and after races will help them best.
Support your professional coaches as they strive to do what is best for each Machine Aquatics swimmer. Our expectations and methods are based on USA Swimming, the American Swim Coaches Association and other recognized swimming authorities.
Maintain open and honest communication among all members of the Machine Aquatics family. We reach our common goals by working together.
Refrain from illegal or inappropriate behavior that detracts from a positive image of the team or is detrimental to our performance objectives.