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Q: How to force one column layout on custom post type edit page? I've created a plugin using custom post types and I need to force the default two column post page to a single column. At the same time, the Publish metabox must move to the bottom. I need to do this via the functions some how.
I have some solutions from WPSE, but the only solution I've found actually hides the "Publish" metabox. I can't seem to figure out why.
Any ideas of how to do this?

A: There is a filter called get_user_option_meta-box-order_{$page} where $page is the name of the post type. Just make sure that submitdiv is the last value in the array:
add_filter( 'get_user_option_meta-box-order_post', 'wpse25793_one_column_for_all' );
function wpse25793_one_column_for_all( $order )
{
    return array(
        'normal'   => join( ",", array(
            'postexcerpt',
            'formatdiv',
            'trackbacksdiv',
            'tagsdiv-post_tag',
            'categorydiv',
            'postimagediv',
            'postcustom',
            'commentstatusdiv',
            'slugdiv',
            'authordiv',
            'submitdiv',
        ) ),
        'side'     => '',
        'advanced' => '',
    );
}

A: One approach is to remove the original metabox, and then to re-add that metabox, with updated parameters. For example, this will move the "Featured Image" meta box from the side column to the main column, for a custom post type with a slug cpt-slug:
Edit
The parameter for the Publish meta box is submitdiv, and the correct callback is post_submit_meta_box(); I've updated the code below to reflect these correct parameters. I've also changed the add_meta_box() $context parameter from 'high' to 'low', so that the Publish meta box will be added at the bottom:
<?php
function wpse25793_move_post_metaboxes( $post ) {
    global $wp_meta_boxes;

    remove_meta_box( 'submitdiv', 'cpt-slug', 'side' );
    add_meta_box( 'submitdiv', __( 'Publish' ), 'post_submit_meta_box', 'cpt-slug', 'normal', 'low' );
}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_cpt-slug', 'wpse25793_move_post_metaboxes' );
?>

The approach should be the same for the "Publish" meta box. You just need to remove/add the publish meta box instead of the featured image meta box.

A: To answer the second part of the question  - How to force one column, you can do it with get_user_option_screen_layout_{Post_type} filter. Let's say for product post-type:
$func = function( $result, $option, $user ){
    return '1';
};
add_filter( "get_user_option_screen_layout_product", $func, 10, 3 );

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Home Games Board Game News Starfinder on Alexa – 3 New Episodes!
Starfinder on Alexa – 3 New Episodes!
Pojo
STARFINDER, THE POPULAR INTERACTIVE AUDIO ADVENTURE GAME FOR ALEXA, RETURNS WITH EPISODES FOUR TO SIX, AVAILABLE NOW
Nathan Fillion and Laura Bailey are Back for the Second Half of the Season, Alongside a Veteran Voice Cast, including Kevin Pariseau, Elizabeth Evans, Allyson Johnson, LJ Ganser, and Lauren Fortgang
To Celebrate Launch, Customers who Purchase the Starfinder Beginner Box In-game Receive the First Episode of the Audio Adventure Free
REDMOND, WASHINGTON (October 13, 2020): The second half of Starfinder is available starting today, featuring three brand-new episodes. The Starfinder skill for Alexa is a multi-part interactive audio adventure game that transports players to a futuristic science-fantasy world where they can make decisions to advance and influence the outcome of the story just by using their voice. By simply saying "Alexa, play the Starfinder game," customers can play one of the most captivating audio games available on Alexa-enabled devices today. According to Amazon, users have played nearly 2 million minutes of Starfinder, making it one of the most popular Alexa skills this year. Check out the new launch trailer here, and you can also download additional assets for the audio adventure game here.
Starfinder features an exceptional voice cast of 13 actors, with casting led by Audible Studios. Nathan Fillion (The Rookie, Castle, and Firefly) and Laura Bailey (The Last of Us Part II) join a cast of veteran voice actors of Audible, including Kevin Pariseau, Elizabeth Evans, Allyson Johnson, LJ Ganser, and Lauren Fortgang.
Starfinder features an exceptional voice cast of 13 actors, including Nathan Fillion
Paizo, the team responsible for the popular Starfinder tabletop game, and Amazon collaborated to reimagine the game for Alexa. The free-to-play pilot episode of Starfinder, "Scoundrels in the Spike," debuted in December 2019, and episodes 1 to 3 were launched on August 4, 2020 to much fanfare.
For players looking to continue the adventure outside Alexa, the Starfinder Beginner Box can now be purchased from within the skill. With streamlined rules, this deluxe boxed set includes everything needed to explore the futuristic tabletop RPG setting. In celebration of launch, players who purchase the Beginner Box in-game will receive their first episode free.
The full season of Starfinder is now available in the United States and the United Kingdom on Alexa-enabled devices, including Amazon Echo, Fire TV, and the Alexa mobile app (explore more Alexa-enabled devices here); players have numerous access points to the game and can resume playing whenever, wherever. The pilot is free to play, and customers can purchase each episode for $1.99 or the full season for $9.99.
To start playing today, click here.
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package org.lpw.tephra.ctrl.http;

import org.lpw.tephra.util.Logger;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * @author lpw
 */
@Controller("tephra.ctrl.http.security-helper")
public class SecurityHelperImpl implements SecurityHelper {
    @Inject
    private Logger logger;
    @Value("${tephra.ctrl.http.security.jsp.enable:false}")
    private boolean jsp;

    @Override
    public boolean isEnable(HttpServletRequest request) {
        String uri = request.getRequestURI();
        if (!jsp && isJsp(uri)) {
            logger.warn(null, "疑似JSP请求[{}],拒绝访问!", uri);

            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    private boolean isJsp(String uri) {
        int indexOf = uri.lastIndexOf('.');
        if (indexOf == -1)
            return false;

        String suffix = uri.substring(indexOf).toLowerCase();

        return suffix.contains("jsp");
    }
}

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Jetzt Erst Recht () — второй студийный альбом немецкой рок-исполнительницы LaFee.

Исполнительными продюсерами и композиторами данной пластинки, также, как и предыдущей, выступили Боб Арнц и Герд Циммерман. В этом альбоме в большинстве треков содержится сквернословие. В поддержку альбома было выпущено 3 официальных сингла. Также, 23 ноября 2007 года было выпущено специально издание Bravo Edition, в которое вошло дополнительно 6 треков: песня «Es Tut Weh» как бонус-трек и 5 оркестровых версий песен со стандартного издания.

Список композиций

Чарты

Сертификация

Примечания

Альбомы EMI Records
Альбомы Capitol Records
Альбомы на немецком языке

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One of my favorite things about attending the Fly Fishing Retailer Show is the chance to check out all the little accessories that people can come up with. A lot of times, this will be the only chance to see these items, because shop owners often will not restock with $5-10 items unless what they currently have is close to selling out of inventory.
This year's best tiny accessory in my opinion was the Loon Sharktooth Tippet Control System. This was basically an elastic band like those which come on Rio tippet spools; it has a small brass eyelet for the tippet to pass out of. Unlike the Rio system, it also has a small plastic bit attached to the elastic, which contains a (safety-conscious) razorblade. Basically, it's an on-spool tippet cutter: you draw the tippet out, then just pass it through the blade housing to snip it off.
You'd still need to carry regular snips, of course, to cut the tag ends of knots, but the Sharktooth is a simple, pretty inexpensive system which makes life easier without adding bulk. They come in a couple of sizes for different diameters of tippet, and they cost $5 each.


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package cz.pojd.rpi.controllers;

import mockit.Mocked;
import mockit.NonStrictExpectations;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import cz.pojd.rpi.MockObservableSensor;
import cz.pojd.rpi.controls.Control;

public class ControlObserverTestCase {

    private MockObservableSensor sensor;
    private @Mocked Control control;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
	sensor = new MockObservableSensor();
	sensor.addObserver(new ControlObserver(control));
    }

    @Test
    public void testUpdateLightControlSwitchedOn() {
	new NonStrictExpectations() {
	    {
		control.setSwitchedOn(true);
		times = 1;
	    }
	};
	sensor.notifyObservers(true);
    }

    @Test
    public void testUpdateLightControlSwitchedOff() {
	new NonStrictExpectations() {
	    {
		control.setSwitchedOn(false);
		times = 1;
	    }
	};
	sensor.notifyObservers(false);
    }
}


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Trump Didn't Hesitate to Act Like a Ventilator 'Shipping Clerk' When It Benefited a Republican Senator
Aaron KellerApr 8th, 2020, 1:36 pm
President Donald Trump on Wednesday tweeted that he was "immediately sending 100 [v]entilators to Colorado at the request of Senator [Cory] Gardner" to treat patients infected with COVID-19, the novel coronavirus which has caused a global pandemic. The tweet led to denouncements that Trump was playing politics with COVID-19 supplies. Our analysis begins, however, with federal law.
Will be immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request of Senator Gardner! https://t.co/Nj4EPxfZl6
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2020
Trump announced the move after previously saying it was not his administration's job to function as an "ordering clerk" or as a "shipping clerk" for emergency medical gear. Despite federal law saying otherwise, Trump and his son-in-law advisor, Jared Kushner, have said states and local governments should be the primary point stockhouses for medical supplies in such a medical emergency.
Law&Crime has reported — many times over again — that federal law requires the Trump Administration to be both an "ordering clerk" and a "shipping clerk." (The precise term in the law is "effective and timely supply-chain management.") The relevant section of the United States Code, passed mostly after the 9/11 attacks but updated because of the Coronavirus, more broadly requires the federal government to keep a "national stockpile" of medical supplies to "optimize the emergency health security of the United States" in the event of a "public health emergency."
Given this legal backdrop, it is no surprise that Trump's critics used the tweet to resurrect complaints that Trump is favoring so-called Republican states and/or Republican politicians. Many accused Trump and his administration of ignoring official requests from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, for medical supplies. Polis has for some time called the situation in Colorado "dire" and "far worse than we imagined." He said his state's "comparatively smaller population" resulted in "staggering increases in cases and deaths … not fully registering in national models" which attempt to track the virus's spread. Polis issued his requests for supplies on March 28th to Vice President Mike Pence through a letter carbon copied to Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner. Sen. Bennet, another Democrat, was later among those who also officially petitioned the Trump Administration for supplies in a separate letter dated April 7th. Sen. Gardner is the Republican to whom Trump gave a shout out in his tweet.
Read the letters from Polis and Bennet to Trump at the bottom of this page.
Though Trump said he was responding to a request by Gardner for ventilators, a search of Gardner's website reveals neither a press release nor a letter requesting ventilators from the Trump Administration. Law&Crime reached out to the office of Sen. Gardner to clarify whether he did, indeed, request ventilators. We have not yet received a response.
Trump said during a daily coronavirus press conference early Wednesday evening that Gardner phoned in the request. Trump made that comment after saying he wasn't getting calls seeking ventilators.
"The ventilators, we're all set; we have a lot to go if we want; but — I'm not getting calls where they need ventilators anymore, so we were right on those ventilators," Trump said, despite a review of national stockpile supplies by the House Oversight Committee which suggested there were not enough ventilators.
"I just sent 100 ventilators to Colorado, and that was great. A senator there, who's a terrific senator, Cory, Cory Gardner, called me last night and said, 'could you get 100 ventilators for Colorado,' and we just sent them out, and they'll be there very shortly," Trump continued. "It looks like we're in great shape from the ventilator standpoint," Trump later added.
"The numbers, they're coming way down," Trump said of COVID-19 illnesses, despite a CDC chart which explicitly warns the full tally of new infections after March 28th "may not yet be reported."
The focus of Sen. Gardner's COVID-19 efforts appears to be on economic matters involving farmers, the National Guard, FEMA grants, and similar concerns. Gardner also requested an investigation into why some ventilators in the national stockpile have apparently not worked properly. Gardner lodged his demand for a review of those ventilators with the Principal Deputy Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services, Christi Grimm. She is the same official Trump trashed on Monday for spearheading official documentation of medical supply shortages.
Gardner has also argued that rural hospitals should receive coronavirus-related support because they could take patients from stressed and crowded urban hospitals. Gardner, furthermore, has admitted that the national stockpile did not have enough material to combat COVID-19.
Some assessments indicate Gardner is at risk of losing his senate seat to Democratic challenger John Hickenlooper, Colorado's former governor. Others have ranked the Colorado senate seat occupied by Gardner as among those to watch this fall for a possible change in power. Another poll says the majority of Americans — 55% — believe the federal government has done an increasingly "poor job" of dealing with the coronavirus.
With this as a backdrop, Gardner promptly thanked Trump for sending the ventilators.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump, 100 ventilators and approval of our National Guard assistance is outstanding news for Colorado.
Coloradans are standing together as we get through the #COVID19 pandemic, even if we have to stand six feet apart. https://t.co/0d26KtMeEM
— Cory Gardner (@SenCoryGardner) April 8, 2020
The criticism of the president was typically fast and furious.
So, when a Democratic governor makes the request weeks ago, nothing? We just have to hope we have a Republican senator up for reelection to get attention?
This Administration is corrupt to the core. https://t.co/WlV7mRM7EJ
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) April 8, 2020
Are these the same ventilators you seized less than a week ago? Are we supposed to sing your praises? When pigs fly…https://t.co/pvSOUZAz6U
— Jeanine (@arabnhorse1) April 8, 2020
The Governor of Colorado has been pleading for ventilators for days, but this sociopath is now saying he's sending them at the request of Senator Gardner. Playing politics with people's lives.
— Chidi® (@ChidiNwatu) April 8, 2020
Hickenlooper is up by 13 points in the race for the Senate in November. trump is just trying to prop up his sycophant.
— s.richart (@Ssrichart11) April 8, 2020
The Democratic governor of Colorado has been pleading for ventilators for days, but Trump says he's sending them at the request of their Republican senator https://t.co/rKvLGxzpNp
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 8, 2020
Gardner voted against impeaching Trump in February. In a statement at the time, he decried "partisan accusations, investigations, and endless acrimony."
Colorado Governor Polis Let… by Law&Crime on Scribd
Bennet, Democratic Senators… by Law&Crime on Scribd
[Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images.]
[Editor's Note: This piece has been updated to reflect Trump's comments during his Wednesday coronavirus briefing. It has also corrected an erroneous reference to Trump's tweet as occurring on Tuesday, April 8th. The tweet was Wednesday, April 8th.]
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Most popular Social media News websites reported that the new Facebook email service will be definitely a challenge to the current giant email services like Google's Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail etc. This is because it's very easy for Facebook to attract its own 500 million plus users to it's products. Facebook's new full-fledged Email service – Titan will have some outstanding features than all current Email services. Social News Media website TechCrunch.com called Facebook's new email Service as "Gmail Killer".
I have published the news of Facebook Email Service among my friends here on my village and they have asked some questions about it to me. Here I'm sharing those questions and the answers that I gave them. These answers might not be exactly true, but are the best of my knowledge.
When is Facebook Email Service going to Launch?
News reports says that the Facebook Email service will be launching on coming Monday, 22-11-2010.
Will Facebook's E-Mail Service kill Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail and Hotmail?
No – As per knowledge that I gained after analyzing the recent news about it, Facebook's email service won't kill popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail etc.
Why Facebook Email Service won't kill popular Email Services?
I'm using Gmail since long time and it's my favorite personal email service. This is because Gmail is fast, secure and more over I'm using Google's many services. So it's very comfortable for me to use a single account with all Google's services and with Gmail. At the same time, I'm using Yahoo Mail and is my favorite for contacting my clients and Hotmail for my business purposes. Also I use Yahoo's many services with a single yahoo mail account. Yahoo mail is advanced and is best for chatting on-line. And I use Hotmail for my business purpose because I feel Hotmail is the most secure mail service for business purpose. So I use all these three popular service Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail every day for different purpose. I never use AOL, but I heard it's having a lot of fans and some of my friends recommend me to use it and they claim it's the best service for them. Like me, most of my friends use emails on different service for different purpose. So even though Facebook email became popular, no-one is going to leave old email services… Who is going to leave his old powerful favorite Bullet even-after he got a brand new Bike as gift? All these email services are free and so no one is going to leave anything.
Do I use Facebook Email Service?
Yes, definitely I will use Facebook Email Service. Do you say No to your father when he is offering a new bike to you as a birth day gift even-though you are having a car?
What are the uses of Facebook Email Service?
You can expect some outstanding features for facebook email service.
More uses can be shared with you only after using it. So please be patient.
Despite very rare news reports against the upcoming email service of Facebook, many news medias and people are awaiting for it's launch.
Update 1: As per the information that we received Facebook Email Service would have been available to it's users by 22-11-2010, but till now they haven't launched.
It is seen that face book has not launched e mail so far. Even after its launch no one is going to leave gmail, yahoomail and hot mail as they are most popular. They have other features also.


Sorted was launched at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast in 2007, by British entertainer and motivational speaker, Steve Legg. Through its associated charity, Breakout Trust, thousands of free magazines are sent into 70 Prisons, to members of HM Armed Forces and into Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centres throughout the UK.
Also available in hundreds of WHSmith stores nationwide and in newsstands globally, in a relatively short space of time, Sorted has been voted the world's most wholesome men's magazine with 100,000 readers in 21 countries.


There are CCTV cameras at the entrance of each block and the entrance to the garage. The tapes are not monitored routinely, only when an incident occurs. The cameras are linked to the TV system so the images can be viewed from any of the flats.
The electricity meters are in the cupboards in the communal areas. These are kept locked so if you need a reading, please call Action Property Management. They will usually provide one on the next working day.
The fire alarms are in the stair wells and by the front doors. When the alarm is activated, extractor fans also come on in the communal areas. The alarms are tested briefly once a week. If a real alarm occurs, the assembly point is the entrance to the church yard on the opposite side of the road.
If you need a new zapper, or you need to reset the code, call Action Property Management.
The flats have under-floor and ceiling heating. Water is heated using low cost electricity overnight, with the option for a manual boost of water heating during the day if necessary.
Help on controlling the floor and ceiling heating and maintaining/replacing the water heater will be posted in the 'Maintenance' category of the website.
The lifts at Langtons were installed in 1992 and they do break down from time to time. Please help avoid this by not wedging the doors open (just cover the sensor if you need longer to move things in and out).
If the lift does break down when you are inside, follow the instructions. Do not call the Fire Brigade as this is expensive and the Firemen will damage the lift in order to release you.
Please note that you need to keep your garage zapper with you as you won't be able to get to your car if the lifts are broken.
101 (Local Police) for low level crimes or incidents.
0113 2413101 (direct line to City NPT) for issues relating to our neighbourhood. Note that this is an office line it is not always manned. You can also contact the NPT through their website www.wypnpt.org, by email at cacommunity@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk or on Facebook.
The two large recycling bins are for paper, cardboard, plastic items and cans. At the moment, Leeds can only recycle plastics of type 1, 2 or 4 – other types of plastic have to go in the grey bins. Tetra packs cannot be recycled either. The small green recycling bins are for glass of any colour.
If you have large items like old fridges or mattresses to dispose of, please do not leave them in the garage as they will not be picked up in the routine collection. If you have the use of a car, the nearest tip is in Stanley Road (near St James's Hospital). If not, you can call the council on 0113 222 4406 to arrange collection.


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Home / Sarcee Operations Workplace Centre Administration Building
Sarcee Operations Workplace Centre Administration Building
Located on an existing gravel quarry, the Sarcee Operational Workplace Centre Administration Building is a three-storey, 40,000 ft² facility featuring exposed structural steel framing.
Designed to accommodate both current and future tenant requirements, commercial space is programmed on the second and third floors, with space for the Development and Building Approvals (DBA) Business Unit and a future office for the City of Calgary. Amenity spaces are located on the ground floor, with a lunch room, exercise room, and large men's and women's locker rooms with showers.
The City of Calgary identified the Sarcee building as a pilot project for integrated project delivery (IPD) design, procurement, and construction. Working collaboratively with the geotechnical consultant, Entuitive developed an economical foundation of driven steel H-piles, fill material, and a structured ground floor slab, and designed strategies that create efficiencies in construction sequencing.
Aiming for LEED® Gold
3,700 m² (40,000 ft²)
The Mark Boutin Architectural Collaborative; Perkins + Will
The City of Calgary
Structural Engineering and Building Envelope Consultant
Contact us to learn more about this project.
Human-induced floor vibrations were a consideration given that the floor system consists of long-span cantilevers and no orthogonal secondary steel beams. An open concept floor system with very limited floor-to-ceiling partition walls minimizes damping effects.
To increase the mass of an effective floor area susceptible to floor vibrations, hangers were detailed to interconnect the second and third floors with the roof framing. These hangers also serve to provide support for the ribbon curtain wall system and are concealed within the aluminum curtain wall vertical mullion system.
The Sarcee Operations Workplace Centre is located on a former gravel quarry. Unconsolidated, non-native, and variable fill material was used to bring it up to its current elevation. The fill thickness underneath the building footprint is up to 10 metres deep.
Structural steel driven H-piles were used as the foundation system. The H-piles were advanced through a thin layer of leftover bedrock lens to ensure consistent soil resistance properties. The ground floor slab is a structured slab at grade to eliminate the risk of excessive settlement.
Learn more about how Entuitive approaches engineering challenges, and discover why Engineering Performance matters for your project.
From new to renewed structures, we design for the future.
Our solutions address all stages of your asset's lifecycle and our team of experts can help you achieve optimal return on your investment.
Uncover the limitless potential of the built environment.
The world we envision includes a built environment that does not compromise the natural environment, or the ability of future generations to thrive.
Discover Engineering Performance
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Passion-fuelled.
We are Entuitive.
Our culture and commitment enable us to achieve progressive solutions to the most complex challenges.


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import pytest

import salt.config
import salt.loader

@pytest.fixture
def matchers():
    opts = salt.config.DEFAULT_MINION_OPTS.copy()
    return salt.loader.matchers(opts)

def test_sanity(matchers):
    match = matchers["confirm_top.confirm_top"]
    assert match("*", []) is True


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The Oldsmobile Intrigue is a mid-size sedan that was manufactured from 1997 through 2002 by Oldsmobile. The Intrigue's design cues were first seen in 1995 with the Oldsmobile Antares concept car, being unveiled in production form in January 1996 at the North American International Auto Show. The Intrigue was the first casualty in the three-year phase-out process of Oldsmobile; Olds' remaining models would last an additional year or two.

The Oldsmobile Intrigue was introduced on May 5, 1997 as a 1998 model, and replaced the aging Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It rode on the second-generation of the W-body, which it shared with the Buick Regal. The Oldsmobile Intrigue was supposed to compete with upscale Japanese and European imports such as Acura and BMW. The Oldsmobile Intrigue was heavily inspired by the Oldsmobile Aurora and the 1995 Oldsmobile Antares concept.

History

The Intrigue was available in three trim levels: base GX, mid-level GL, and high-end GLS. All models were equipped with standard features such as V6 power, antilock brakes, 4-wheel independent suspension, dual front airbags, and full power accessories. GL trim included the addition of a 6-way power adjustable driver's seat, 6-speaker audio system, foglamps, and dual-zone automatic climate control. Top-line GLS added 6-way power front passenger seat, faux woodgrain interior trim, steering wheel audio controls, leather seating, full-function traction control, and a six-speaker Bose sound system.

All Intrigues were built at the GM Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, where the Grand Prix was also built (the Buick Century and Regal, and the Chevrolet Impala and Monte Carlo were all built in Oshawa, Ontario). For the 1999 model year, a new  3.5 L DOHC engine was introduced. It was a six-cylinder design based on Cadillac's Northstar V8, which was nicknamed the "Shortstar". The 3.5 L engine became standard for 2000, giving the Intrigue the most powerful standard engine of any W-body car.

Another exclusive was a standard 140 mph speedometer. With the Autobahn package the Intrigue came with larger 12-inch front brake rotors, being the first 2nd Gen W-body to incorporate bigger brakes. For 1998-99 models the Autobahn package consisted of a 3.29 differential ratio opposed to the standard 3.05, H-rated tires, 12-inch front brakes with ceramic pads, and a 128 mph speed limiter. For 2000 it was renamed Precision Sport Package which included everything from the Autobahn package except the larger 12-inch front brake rotors, and added the Precision Control System (also known as Vehicle Stability Control (VSC)). For 2002 the Intrigue Final 500 Collector's Edition cars came in a unique Dark Cherry Metallic paint and featured Aurora-styled 17x7.5-inch chrome wheels.

On June 14, 2002, the final Intrigue rolled off the assembly line as part of the Final 500 Collectors Edition.

Year-to-year changes
1998: The Oldsmobile Intrigue was introduced as an all new model. Available in GX (base), GL, and GLS trim, all featured the 3.8 L V6 and 4-speed automatic transmission standard.
1999: For the beginning of this model year, the DOHC 3.5 L "Shortstar" engine was standard in the top-line GLS and optional on mid-level GL and base GX models. Early GLS models could be ordered with the 3.8L instead of the standard (for GLS) 3.5 L, but later on the 3.8 L was phased out and the 3.5 L became standard on all models. Decklids now wore a small Oldsmobile badge. In the previous model year, there was a complaint that some people couldn't tell that Intrigues were Oldsmobiles. If you look closely, you can read 'Oldsmobile' molded in the backup light lens in the taillight housing on all model years. All models now got a thicker, leather-wrapped steering wheel. An integrated rear radio antenna was standard this year and after.
2000: New wheels featured a fancier six-spoke design. New to the option list for 2000 was an antiskid system called the Precision Control System. Precision Control System was designed to help keep the car on its intended path by selective braking of one or more individual wheels. Though optional on all models, GX buyers had to order optional traction control to get the new antiskid system. Heated power front seats were now standard on GLS models. Standard leather door inserts trim not cloth, Retained accessory power was standard this year. "Oldsmobile" emblem on deck lid is larger than on 1999 models, although some early 2000 models carried the smaller version. A new gold-trim package was also available. New automatic headlights were now standard on all models.
2001: On GX models, traction control became standard instead of optional. Premium Leather and Precision Sport option packages were also available for this year. OnStar is now available as an optional feature.
2002: GLS models now featured a two-tone interior with sterling accents, as well as standard HomeLink, sunroof, and driver lumbar. All models featured new family of radios with RDS and standard CD player (borrowed from the newly redesigned Aurora). Tropic Teal and Indigo Blue were two new exterior colors. All models had new LATCH (Lower Anchor and Top tether for Children) in three rear seat positions. Sun & Sound package was available on GL models (includes Bose sound system and sunroof). New winchester headliner was inside. Production of the Intrigue ended in June 2002 as part of the phaseout of the Oldsmobile brand. The Final 500 Collectors Edition versions came in a unique Dark Cherry Metallic paint with special classic-style Oldsmobile emblems and featured Aurora-styled 17-inch chrome wheels. Owners also received a special commemorative packet.

Final 500 #499 was the last retail model and was special-ordered by a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America.

One-Off Variants

Intrigue Saturday Night Cruiser Concept (1998) - A modified version of the Intrigue that features a body kit, exhaust pipes relocated to the side skirts below the rear passenger doors, custom 6 spoke rims with Oldsmobile logos in the center, and a sunstrip on the windshield with 'Oldsmobile' printed in white text. It is unknown what engine is used in the Intrigue SNC, as next to no information on the car exists. The whereabouts of the Intrigue SNC are unknown.

 Intrigue 442 (1999) - A customized Intrigue wearing a body kit similar in design to the Oldsmobile 442, much like the Alero 442 show cars. It debuted at the 1999 SEMA show. It is painted in Pearl White and Gold for a Hurst style motif. It rides on custom 6 spoke rims. The Intrigue sports 6 Oldsmobile Tilted Rocket logos on its body: two on the front bumper below the turn signal lamps, two on the rear bumper below the corners of the rear fenders, and two small ones on the driver and front passenger doors. These door logos also sport '442' text in a brighter white to contrast against the car's main body color. The logos on the doors are also embroidered into the headrests of the front seats, and is featured prominently on the engine cover. In total, the Intrigue 442 features 9 Tilted Rocket logos (11 if the standard bumper badge and steering wheel logo are counted). On the windshield is a sunstrip with 'GM SEMA PROTOTYPE THE LAST OLDS 442 BUILT' printed in white text. It is powered by a 550hp Cadillac Northstar V8. The Intrigue 442 was sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2009 auction, and again at the Mecum Auction in 2022.

 Intrigue OSV (1999) - A custom Intrigue created as part of "Oldsmobile Specialty Vehicles", an experiment in an aftermarket tuning brand for Oldsmobile. It debuted at the 1999 SEMA show. It features an Eaton supercharger fitted to its engine, raising its horsepower to 260, 13" cross drilled Brembo breaks hidden behind custom 19" RH Evolution C6 wheels with Oldsmobile center caps and fitted with Michelin Pilot XGT Z4 tires, Koni oilover struts and springs, Borla center exit exhausts, an aggressive body kit, and OSV fender badges, and is painted in a special cherry red paint, like the OSV Alero and OSV Silhouette. Inside, the OSV Intrigue is trimmed in red, gray, and beige leather, and features custom 8-positioned, climate-controlled Recaro seats with OSV-upholstered headrests, two-tone leather wrapped steering wheel, and titanium pedals. Standard features on the OSV Intrigue are: power windows/locks/steering/sunroof, cruise control, and a Delco AM/FM CD/Cassette stereo. It was sold at the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach 2009 auction, and again in 2019 by Pinmaniac in Jacksonville, Florida.

 Intrigue OSV II (2000) - Another Intrigue modified for OSV, this time painted in dark green. Little information exists on the Intrigue OSV II, but it appears largely the same as the 1999 Intrigue OSV. It is part of a second batch of OSVs alongside the Alero OSV II, and Silhouette OSV II. The engine used in this version of the Intrigue is the same V8 engine that came from the Aurora. The whereabouts of this OSV Intrigue are unknown.

Engines
 1998–1999 OHV 3.8 L L36 (231 in³) V6 195 hp at 5200 rpm, 220 lb·ft at 4000 rpm
 1999–2002 DOHC 3.5 L LX5 (212 in³) V6 215 hp at 5600 rpm 234 lb·ft at 4400 rpm (according to the Intrigue's owner's manual)

Sales

In popular culture

 The Oldsmobile Intrigue is featured in several scenes and promotions for the 1998 film The X-Files: Fight the Future.  As the model's launch coincided with the release of the film, its producers and GM's executives at the time felt the car's name and appearance fit with the aesthetic of the X-Files franchise. Their creative teams launched a national campaign which included an expo tour around "'alternative' venues such as decomissioned military bases and airplane hangars [throughout the United States]."

References

External links

Oldsmobile Forums
Automotive Forums
1998-2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue Reviews
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/oldsmobile/112_9704_1998_oldsmobile_intrigue_comparison_test/index.html
http://www.edmunds.com/apps/vdpcontainers/do/vdp/articleId=43901/pageNumber=1?synpartner=edmunds&pageurl=www.edmunds.com/reviews/comparison/articles/43901/article.html
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=43960#9.html

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Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair: October 18-23, 2004
March 26, 2011 ~ 41 Comments
Mell's really mean to Dave sometimes. Helen is right to chastise her.
I've mentioned this before, way back in the commentary, but I had the idea in the back of my head that Mell may have dated the little Dave-like character from my high school comic, North of Space, when she was in high school. This may be a factor in her extreme and vocal disinterest in Dave. Still, Mell and Dave hooking up romantically would be amazing, wouldn't it? I can't even begin to imagine how that would work.
Okay, I'm sorry, but this commentary is nothing but spoilers. Sometimes, in this storyline, there's no getting around it.
NOTHING BUT CRAZY SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT:
The Tinasky study is named after Wanda Tinasky, a supposed bag lady in Mendocino County, California who wrote colorful letters to the local newspaper and literary magazine in the 1980s. At the time, Wanda was widely rumored to be Thomas Pynchon, although I don't know why Pynchon would care so much about the politics and arts scene of Mendocino County. Don Foster–forensic linguist, Shakespeare scholar, and one of my favorite college professors–investigated the Wanda Tinasky mystery and ultimately decided that Wanda was an obscure former Beat poet named Tom Hawkins. Foster's excellent book Author Unknown goes into more entertaining detail, and I'm sorry for giving away the ending but so does the Wikipedia entry on Wanda Tinasky, so what can you do?
I picked "Tinasky" as the name on the study because it was a case of a man using a female pen name, and the situation here is a woman using a male pen name. Other references to pseudonymous writers come up throughout this storyline.
Man, tons of little illegible book titles in the first panel here. I've totally forgotten writing these, so forgive me if I can't remember the significance. As far as I can make out, from top to bottom they are:
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Presumably chosen for HAL, a character Lovelace quotes directly (from the movie) in "Professor Madblood and the Everlasting Ices of the North."
Something by Vonnegut. Don't know what I was thinking of, but I'm a big Vonnegut fan, so maybe I just wanted to plug Vonnegut some more. If I was riffing on pseudonymous writers, I should've gone with Venus on the Half-Shell by Vonnegut's alter ego Kilgore Trout, a book actually written by Philip Jose Farmer. It's complicated.
Demon Seed by Dean Koontz, for the AI angle again. I confess to a sick fascination with the movie, to the point that, when I wrote up bios of the characters for the eternally-unfinished Narbonic RPG, I established Professor Madblood's origin as that of the Demon Seed baby.
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, for the online romance between Michael and Barcode. You know, I was flipping through that novel again recently, and it's pretty good. When I was in college, the characters were my model of what I wanted my adult life to be, only, you know, without all the computer programming. I more or less managed to do this.
Dr. Sbaitso's Guide to a Happy Love Life, which as far as I know does not exist. Also, I misspelled "Sbaitso," but can you blame me? I used to love playing with language generator "chatterboxes" like Dr. Sbaitso and ELIZA. I cried a little when Watson won Jeopardy a couple of weeks ago, I was so happy. I wanted to work more references to these old-school AI programs into this storyline, but most of them had to be cut for space. I lose more gratuitous references that way.
In the background: posters for Gremlins 2: The New Batch and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Because Helen is a sequel. And also because I just really love Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
The books on the file cabinet are just programming manuals: Java and Visual Basic. You can't really make it out, but the wastebasket has Darth Vader on it. I think Andrew drew it in when I asked him to put some random image on the wastebasket. Usually, when I ask for something like that, he draws Spider-Man.
I own that adorable Hulk doll on the file cabinet. He makes this little "waah" noise when you squeeze him.
The little round and wedge-shaped magnets on the file cabinet are those tokens you collect to get free pizza at some pizza places. These ones in particular are based on the tokens from Pizza Orgasmica in San Francisco. I've never managed to get enough of those together for a pizza.
Some years ago, I came across a journal my mother had kept when I was around two and three, all written from my point of view. It was very unfortunate. I don't like to talk about it.
Man, Helen's managed to get a lot of books down into that disused storm drain. There are a lot of copies of staple mad-science journals The Journal of Malology, The New Journal of Malology, Transthanatology Today, and Maniagnosis, which appear in the backgrounds of many other strips. The books in the last panel are collections of The Journal of Irreproducible Results, a title I don't think I used anywhere else. Too bad; that's a pretty good one.
This is one of the very autobiographical strips. I like the way Dave sums up the premise of the storyline in the first panel.
On Dave's desk in the first panel are binder collections of Who's Who in the DC Universe. They have no significance to the story; I just thought Dave should have them.
SPOILERS: Helen doesn't say she hasn't done any groundbreaking research. She just says her name isn't associated with it. Sly, that.
HOLY CRAP FRIENDSTER THIS COMIC IS OLD.
For the record, Lovelace is the same computer that was running Madblood's moonbase in "Doppelganger Gambit." I never specifically established that because it's not really important to the story. Dave tinkered with Lovelace's programming on the moonbase, which may be a contributing factor to her interest in him.
Lovelace's appearance, at least in this storyline, is based on actual supercomputers.
SPOILERS: One problem I had in plotting this storyline is that the central mystery–who is Milo Tinasky?–is pretty easy to figure out, or at least I thought it was. I mean, there's only so many people it could be. One way I tried to obfuscate things was to open with another, smaller mystery–who is Lovelace?–have Helen brought up as a possible answer, and then have it turn out to be someone else. My hope was that this would leave readers less inclined to suspect Helen in the other mystery. I have no idea whether it worked.
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41 thoughts on "Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair: October 18-23, 2004"
Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert)
@Shaenon: You can't even begin to imagine how that would work?!! If that were true, Andrew wouldn't be smiling in all those pictures.
The mere possibility of Dave and Mell making moves on each other wouldn't be entirely without precedent.
Eric Burns (ericburns)
I was going to make comments, but I realized they were all spoilerish. So instead, I'm going to go out and buy shoes.
I can't even begin to imagine how that would work.
Why not? Dave can make weapons!
Rob (rrreed)
Remember the Kzinti Lesson:
A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive. —Larry Niven
Even the things Dave makes that aren't intended as weapons could probably be used as ones by Mell. After all, if you're surrounded by nails targets, you're probably going to start looking around for something to use as a hammer gun…
(TUNE: "Maria" from "West Side Story", Bernstein & Sondheim)
Tinasky …
Discussing the work of Tinasky!
He tries to find out why
A clever girl or guy
Goes mad!
He studies mad genius, Tinasky!
When we go off the brink,
Somehow, he seems to think
That's bad!
Tinasky!
If the genes can be isolated,
Then my foes can be e-lim-i-na-ted!
Just who is, we ask, he?
Truly, to have the powers of malevolintelligence, of unholy omniscience, in one's full control, would be the ultimate mad science. The great vault inside of which lies either humanity's great mental ascension, or its irrevocable mental destruction.
All that remains to be asked, though, is why mad genius has the innocuous formal name of "Walton's disorder".
P.S: I've often wondered how Artie can sit comfortably on the side of Helen's dome. I feel he'd be much more comfortable if Helen got into the habit of wearing a sombrero more often.
Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)
I enjoyed Venus on the Half Shell back in high school. The pictuere of "Kilgore Trout" on the back is marvelous.
Chris Reed (animeraider)
Pizza Orgasmica! With the cushions that make it feel like an opium den! I love that place!
tune: "Weird science," Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo, Dead Man's Party, 1985)
I am an experiment
They want to see how it went
I'm my momma's favorite clone
Now I'm fully grown
Lab rats of my own
I'm full of
The Tinasky study shows
An insane brain grows
Inside the next generation
Mother knew what I would do
Study mad brains too
Of this concept, I'm proof
N-A-M-S-S will see
Helen Beta (me)
Her creation . . . Am I mad?
I'm her creation . . . her creation
I'm her creation
One of my favourite lines in the secret story is "If this disorder is genetic then there is a 100 percent chance that I have inherited it." It's great not just because of Helen's distant, clinical tone of resignation, but also because of the oxymoron of "100 percent chance".
Silent Penultimate Panels: 32. Yes, but what a lovely panel it is! Helen's underplayed reaction nicely counterbalances Dave and Mell's overreactions.
il biggo (biggo)
Wait… Visual Basic? There's a MANUAL for that?
Matthew Mather (madtinkerer)
To the tune of The Incredible Hulk animated series circa 1996:
Dun… dun dun dun!
Dundundundun, dundundundun.
Hulk! Do dooo, doodoodoodoo-doo, Adorable Hulk!
Do doo, doo doo doo DOO DOO Hulk! Adorable Hulk!
Lalala laaa, lalalala laaalaa, lalala LAALAA LALALADUN
DUNDUN DUUN
BOMBOM (Hulk) BOMBOMBOMBOM BOMMM, Adorable! Adorable Hulk BOM!
Lalalalalalalala, BOMBOM BOMBOMBOMBOMBOM, ADORABLE HULK!
Poor Helen.
(TUNE: "I've Got No Strings", Harline & Washington)
I've got no genes
To call my own!
They're hand-me-down,
'Cause I'm a clone!
I blow things to smithereens,
'Cause I've got crazy genes!
I got these genes
From Mommy dear,
Who makes the world
Cry out in fear!
She brings death, and violent scenes,
And now I've got her genes!
Hey, hey, my DNA,
Is the same my mother had!
Yes, yes, when under stress,
I just went completely mad!
I turned out just
Like Mama planned,
Because my genes
Are second-hand!
I know what my genome means,
I've got these pre-owned genes!
Pete (westrider)
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is one of the very, very few cases of a sequel being better than the original. Excellent Adventure wasn't bad, but Bogus Journey is just awesome.
Brand Willis (brandyllyn)
I'm confused as to how that's a Gremlins 2 poster, when that's so clearly a visible 1
I suppose it's possible it's a skewed 2 and I'm being a sh*thead for pointing out.
If so, my bad
I just wasn't good at drawing tiny numbers in backgrounds seven years ago. Sorry.
And, we learn more of Helen's back-story. Where is the filename story living these days, anyway?
Pete: Well, both B&T movies were basically surface romps with surprisingly serious undercurrents. BTEA was one of the few movies I've seen where they got short-range time-travel right! "The future belongs to the winners". And then in BTBJ, we see how a couple of highschooler rockers become qualified to start a new religion. (Come on, if surviving and defeating Death doesn't cut it, what would?)
Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker)
David: http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/narbonic.txt
It's also the only non-original one: http://www.jir.com/
I wonder if I knew about that. I can't remember anymore.
A lesser comic contriver would have probably ended this episode at panel 3. The last panel serves a nod of respect to the reader, to denote that the punchline isn't just Dr. N's maternal ridiculousness, but Helen's sheer shame in it being her scientific debut.
Maniagnosis is a beautiful name. I especially like that its component word is ambiguously either "gnosis" or "agnosis".
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
There's also the Annals of Improbable Research, http://improbable.com/ , home of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.
IIRC, the Annals derive from when the Journal's staff had a fight with their publisher, and decamped en masse to found a new journal (taking the Ig Nobels with them).
Johnn Reynolds (sleepyjohn)
The journals from the puberty years probably kept a lot of mad scientists up late.
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom)
She would have a mutant army named after her by now if only her name was palindromic.
It's sort of a shame that Helen doesn't wear that bun for the entire rest of the webcomic. It gives her head a rather pleasing shape. Combined with her bangs and her two hair tentacles, it's almost reminiscent of a squid.
(TUNE: "Walking In Memphis", Marc Cohn)
Put on my Evil shirt, and
Put up my hair …
I'm only a clone, as I sigh and moan
In my subterranean lair!
I'm already thirty,
And my maddest work's been done!
I should at least have a mutant army
To threaten Washington!
But a flesh-eating algae
Named after me, that would suffice!
Yes, a flesh-eating algae
Named after me, would be so nice!
I guess a tea-drinking slime mold doesn't cut it?
Sam, thanks for the link. Also, it seems Happygoth — a prior collector of the filename story — is now guest-starring over at The Devil's Panties!
Andrew Cole (andy4hire)
@mental_mouse: There's been a Happygoth character in The Devil's Panties for years; presumably she's a friend of Jennie Breeden's. Whether she's the same Happygoth as the one who collected the filename story, I have no idea.
(confusador)
It may have worked too well on me, I didn't even notice that there was such mystery around Tinasky until rather late in the storyline (after Titus shows up). I figuredhis cover was just so that he'd be a more effective foil to play on Helen's insecurites as a clone, which is where I thought you were really going. I just assumed she would have to confront her mother someday.
So, yeah, good work.
To tell the truth, I don't think I even suspected Helen of being Lovelace throughout these three weeks of strips. Consider that Lovelace has been established as A) a hacker, and B) someone Helen appears to be jealous of, even outside Dave's presence. To be secretly conducting a grand scientific experiment throughout the entirety of this webcomic's run is one thing, but to pull off a ruse of this magnitude is unthinkable.
Bet let's not forget the other important revelation in today's strip: Lovelace's voice has been upgraded to Chicago. Madblood has finally accrued a modicum of taste.
(TUNE: "Somewhere" from "West Side Story", Bernstein & Sondheim)
Where's Lovelace online?
Can't find a trace online!
Tracing IP's and worm attacks …
She's quite good when she hides her tracks!
Does she … seek me?
My name is googled by Lovelace,
Checking on Friendster and MySpace,
We race …
As we try to go
Identify our foe,
Search for Lovelace distracting me,
Won't ask, "Who can Tinasky be?"
Who's he?
Who's she?
Similar to confusador, I never had any reason to think that there was any mystery around Tinasky's identity. I don't think this was due to the Lovelace mini-mystery though.
Man, Friendster. Apparently they've rebranded themselves as a "social gaming portal," as if that isn't also a space completely dominated by Facebook. (Or maybe they're going after Kongregate's much-smaller slice of the pie.)
Also the idea of a supercomputer as a singular giant monolithic entity is also pretty dated now. Even the big iron from IBM (the only real contender in the classical "supercomputer" space anymore) is really made up of a giant cluster of smaller regular desktop-class PCs. Today's large-scale computing infrastructure isn't about single gigantic units of computation, it's about breaking up your computation in a way that thousands of normal-sized units can work on it effectively. (If you have ever heard the computing terms "Beowulf" or "MapReduce," that's what those are about.)
Wayne (wayne)
I went to the Los Alamos labs in 2002 and accidentally walked in to their live supercomputer datacenter lab. It was awesome! 2 or 3 Connection Machines, very cool (to a computer geek). The actual Los Alamos museum had their first supercomputer, a Cray, on display, which was also totally awesome.
@fluffy: I take it you haven't seen an HP Superdome? Big chassis, lots of computational blades inside the guts. Very little cubage required in your data center, maybe 90 cubic feet. But it is more common for discrete units, like the USAF's new PS/3 supercomputer, some 1700 Playstations networked together. Guitar Hero SXSW! Every band AT THE SAME TIME! At the fair grounds SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Ladies half-price!
(sort of sorry, it's early and my brain is still sorta free-wheeling.)
Steve Ford (fordsfords)
For what it's worth, it floored me (well … seated me) when the Tinasky mystery was revealed. Not sure if that is due to your obfuscatory skills; I tend to immerse myself in good stories and experience them as the characters do.
@Wayne I think a blade counts as the very embodiment of "lots of small computers working in concert," and not "giant single-core monolith."


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OU women lifters qualify for nationals
By The Herald Staff
WICHITA — The Ottawa University women's powerlifting team qualified all seven lifters for the USAPL Collegiate National Championships.
The Lady Braves qualified on the strength of their results Sunday from the USAPL Kansas State Championships on Sunday. Bryana Houser earned Best Lifter in the 84+ kilo division.
Competing in her first collegiate meet, Cindy Vazquez finished second in the 72 kilo junior division. She went 8-for-9 in attempts with a total of 305 kilos. Jeni Laha earned a finish of second in the 84 kilo teen division. She went 8-for-9 in attempts with a 30 kilo personal best of 307.5 kilos. Laha also had PRs in squat and bench.
Britney George, competing in the 84 kilo teen division, finished first. She went 8-for-9 in attempts, and had a total of 370 kilos for her first collegiate meet. Katie Martin finished second in the 84 kilo junior division with a 75 kilo PR of 385 kilos. She went 9-for-9 in attempts and had personal bests in all three lifts.
Andrea Beasley went 7-for-9 in attempts and finished second in the 84+ kilo junior division with a total of 415 kilos in her first collegiate meet. Jaqui Carey earned a finish of third in the 84+ kilo teen division. She went 8-for-9 in attempts and had a total of 400 kilos and a PR in the deadlift. Houser earned first in the 84+ kilo division and earned best lifter with a total PR of 422.5 kilos. She went 8-for-9 in attempts with a PR in squat, bench, and deadlift.
The women return to action on Jan. 25 at the USA Powerlifting State Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.


If there's ever a book that fits perfectly into my "tragically beautiful" bookshelf, this is it. Wow. What an emotionally charged story. A breathtaking ride that kicks off with the feelz hitting the red line from the very first chapter…and it never slows down. Easton creates a compelling tale about two broken souls who discover the immense healing power of love. Their journey is full of heart twisting and tugging but the closing pages are worth every bit of pain.
Josh is barely an adult but he was forced to grow up years before he should have. It was always just him and his mom until it was just…him. When he abruptly loses his mother, best friend and entire family the ground shatters beneath him. He's hanging onto life by his finger tips and he's at peace with letting go. He's ready to fall.
His plan is coming together until an act of kindness from a stranger throws him off-balance. He has been able stay to his course only because he hasn't allowed himself to feel anything. Frozen. Numb. Without sensation. When Mark warms him, thaws him and makes him feel again, his world tips upside down. He's lost without a compass now. Before he had a direction but now everything has changed. Domino effects of events take him exactly where he planned to be and yet now he wishes he had been less successful. Can he change the future before it's too late? Only time will tell.
The characters are marvelous. Both Josh and Mark have suffered greatly. They both deserve to be loved and to be happy. In case a HEA is critical for you, I'll tell you a secret. *whispers* They get one. The secondary characters are just as incredible as our two amazing MC's. I adored Josh's mother and loved Mrs. Fisher to pieces. Even Mark's unpredictable family strengthened the cast. The New Hampshire setting was vivid and brought a smile to my face. Autumn is my favorite season and it warmed my heart seeing the guys love it as much as I do.
The bond Josh and Mark forge is fierce and fast. It didn't feel so much like instalove as it was instaright. They are perfect for one another and I'm so grateful fate brought them together that crisp fall day. Josh needs a reason to live. Mark needs a reason to fight. Their relationship is fragile at first due to the circumstances of their situation but soon they build something…something strong. It's put to the test sooner than expected. Love is indeed powerful but is it enough? I would highly suggest you find out.
A sense of haste. I believe my copy was prior to final edits. Therefore I will disregard the polishing that was needed but…things felt slightly off here and there. Such as the drinking age (is 21 not 18 in NH) and Irish coffee for a vegan? And the cover? Why is Josh wearing a leather jacket with a brown satchel? The details didn't seem to match up. It should also come to your attention that this story involves several triggers. Suicidal plans. PTSD. Loss of a parent. I wouldn't allow any of these to discourage you from picking this one up, but it's best to be forewarned.
I almost want to categorize this as YA but it's not really…it toes the line though. Coming of age, coming out or simply coming alive…it's magnificent to witness. It's hard. It's beautiful. And it's so very much worth it. If you're an angst addict as I am, you won't want to miss this one.


They say a blogger should write nothing but useful and unique content.
They say that you're better off not posting at all than to post something you're not entirely happy with.
Well, I'm afraid I'll be transgressing all of these rules tonight, guys.
For sometimes, you know, sometimes, life gets in the way.
Sometimes, a blogger's daughter officially leaves the nest and moves into her very own apartment, and said blogger spends a bit of time helping said daughter paint her brand new bedroom and move stuff into that new place that she now (almost) calls home.
Then there's no time left for that perfect blog post.
But still, there's material worth sharing that's itching to be shared! And there's people waiting for said material to get shared, too.
And sometimes, well, pictures of the material that is to be shared don't turn out quite as good as photographer would've liked, but the material that was "ill-captured" was not at all "ill-flavored" (in fact, it was absolutely delicious) and it would be a shame to let the recipe go to waste.
Soooo, "not-so-great-pictures" get published anyway.
Does this become a case where a two negatives make a positive?
(And seriously, guys. My daughter is officially moved out of the house and into her very own apartment!
Oh, and have some carrot salad, won't you?
I'm telling you people, that carrot salad is the bomb!
First off, you need to grate or finely shred/chop your carrots, cabbage and rutabaga. While this can very well be achieved with a box grater, you might want to take the heavy artillery out of the cupboard and use the grating disk of your food processor!
When all your veggies have been prepped, add them, along with the rest of the ingredients, to a large mixing bowl and mix with your hands (or a very large spoon) until very well combined.
You can serve this salad immediately or leave it in the refrigerator for a few hours to allow for flavors to fully develop.
This salad will keep very well in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.
I made this carrot salad to go alongside yet another delicious Beef Liver recipe.
That stuff is really growing on me, but I figured I would give you guys a little bit of a break before I put it on the menu again.
How does next week sound to you, my friends?
I don't think there is anything wrong with your pictures!
What a great post! I bet your daughter enjoyed then time you spent together. Your pictures are gorgeous.
Really love your site, by the way. Off to explore some more!
Hope you (and your kids) love this salad. I know I can't get enough of it!
I love carrot salad! And I happen to have a carrot surplus at the moment!! Can't wait to make this.
Who says we have to follow rules…nope..I love your pics and your recipe. But there's nothing to love about your little one moving…. then again, they are growing up right..
What are you talking about Sonia! Your picture are always GORGEOUS!
O that must be an exciting time Sonia… Daughter moving out of the house and all!
As for this carrot salad… I loooove carrot salad. I made one this week too and they're the best… And seriously there is nothing wrong with those pictures. They make me want to eat the salad and that is all that a pic is supposed to do right? 🙂 I'm definitely making the salad, if I can find rutabaga here anyway… It's essentially the same as turnip right?
Say, how's that Whole30 workin' out for you so far?
O trust me I won't leave the coconut out. I'll be making this next week for sure I think.. Have a stash of carrots waiting to be used.
And it's going good… We're at day 11 now and I'm really happy that Tom is joining me for the most part as well. And he's really getting into it too, so love that! Food is good and I love the challenge in coming up with new meals, although sometimes when you're tired after a long day it can be somewhat daunting. But I haven't cheated once…:) Found some good meat sources as I was totally shocked at the number of meats that had sugar in them! Not to mention all the other stuff…. Anyway, sorry for the long comment… Lol… I even stayed strong during baking sessions I had to do with a client. Not licking the spoon was the hardest thing to do!! So yes loving it and thanks for pointing me there!
OMG, so happy to hear all this, Simone! Seriously, don't be sorry for the long comment, reading this just made my day! I'm so happy to have inspired you to give this a try and am absolutely thrilled that Tom also decided to join in. But most of all, I'm extremely happy to hear that things are going great for you and that you are enjoying the experience. I truly hope that this will have a significant impact on your life like it's had on mine.
ps… I just realized that I'm not getting your posts in my inbox anymore. Hmmm… gotta look into that! For some strange reason, I seem to have lost many of my subscriptions when I moved my site to a different host. Off to resubscribe right this minute!
I actually liked the picture and took a chance on the recipe. I was craving carrot salad (not a common craving for me), and needed something for a tennis party for my son. I've been eating Whole 30 and figured if they had burgers, and I brought a compliant side, I'd be good to go! I hoped that others might at least taste a healthy dish, but to my surprise, they loved it! A couple of people asked for the recipe! Since there is no mayo, it could stay out for a while. Perfect solution! Thank you!


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The incidence of leukemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found.
But the study, to be published soon in the International Journal of Cancer, fell short of establishing a causal link between the higher incidence of leukemia, a type of blood cancer, and living near nuclear power plants.
France has used nuclear power for three decades and is the most nuclear-reliant country in the world, with 75 percent of its electricity produced by 58 reactors.
The study, conducted by the French health research body INSERM, found that between 2002 and 2007, 14 children under the age of 15 living in a 5-kilometre radius of France's 19 nuclear power plants had been diagnosed with leukemia.
This is double the rate of the rest of the country, where a total of 2,753 cases were diagnosed in the same period.
"This is a result which has been checked thoroughly and which is statistically significant," said Dominique Laurier, head of the epidemiology research laboratory at France's nuclear safety research body (IRSN).
in children living near nuclear power plants.
"But we are working on numbers which are very small and results have to be analyzed with a lot of care," said Laurier, one of the authors of the study.
Laurier said the findings indicated no difference in risk between sites located by the sea or by rivers, nor according to the power capacity of the plant.
The IRSN said it recommended a more thorough study of the causes of the leukemia cases found near nuclear power stations and hoped to set up international research collaboration.
"It's a rare disease and working on a bigger scale would allow more stable results," said Laurier.
A 35-year British study published last year found no evidence that young children living near nuclear power plants had an increased risk of developing leukemia.
The research, conducted by scientists on the Committee of the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), found only 20 cases of childhood leukemia within 5 km (3.1 miles) of nuclear power stations between 1969 and 2004.
The scientists said the rate was virtually the same as in areas where there were no nuclear plants.
Studies have been conducted around the world into possible links between the risk of childhood blood cancers and living near nuclear plants.
A study on Germany, published in 2007, did find a significantly increased risk, but the COMARE team said these findings were probably influenced by an unexplained leukemia cluster near a nuclear plant in Krummel, north Germany, that lasted from 1990 to 2005.
Excluding Krummel, evidence for an increased leukemia risk among young children living close to German nuclear power plants was "extremely weak," it said.


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Interview in The Rialto, 1998
My new book, Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, solved something for me about subject and form: the way they are together. I don't expect it's got solved for ever. But some things seemed to work that hadn't before.
I didn't start out as poet; or maybe I did but it went underground. For twenty years, most of my energy went into researching and writing a lunaticly large-scale book, whose first chapters eventually became two books about ancient Greek tragedy, religion, science and the mind (In and Out of the Mind and Whom Gods Destroy, both Princeton University Press paperbacks). This meant years of research into anthropology, psychology, and history of thought. Checking out someone else's mental world pluges you into workign out some historically balanced view on where your own came from. I thought a lot about the relation of love and baffled tact between what you study and what you are, and was pleased the reviews picked up on this, in phrases like "making new connexions", "portraying an alien mental world", "making vivid foreign patterns of thought". I lived by teaching Greek and lecturing in universities here, mainly Oxford; or teaching English in Greece. I didn't apply for a job or think about careers: I just had to finish that work.
It was mad. But I suppose all that connexion-making and investigating foreignness was my particular run-up to poems. All that time, poems came only at odd moments. I'd written poems at school and learnt poets I studied by heart, especially Tennyson, Keats, Donne, Hopkins, T.S. Eliot. I discoveed Auden, Yeats and Pound for myself. I didn't "do" English at college: every new poet was a major accidental discovery for me and I'd carry the work round with me wherever I happened to be. Plath, Bishop, Basil Bunting, Macneice, Geoffrey Hill. But I never sent poems anywhere and read new work very eclectically. Universities asked me for articles and lectures, and the energy to read new and think new went into that.
I was living a lot in Greece, off and on, and the poetry I took with me there was often Elizabethan – Shakespeare, Wyatt, Raleigh. There was also Greek poetry, Seferis, Cavafy, Ritsos; plus the ancient stuff I worked on. And Latin, especially Ovid and Virgil, when Oxford twisted my arm to teach it. My world then was a funny to-and-fro between Anglo-American academe and backwater Greece. I spent time with friends in Crete and Athens, but also travelled a lot alone, taking work with me through landscapes full of history but isolated and humanly inconsequential now. In the Seventies I knew Greek pop songs better than anything here. In the early Eighties I did try for a couple of years to be a professional academic, at Birkbeck College. I thought evening teaching would leave time to write but it didn't: you had to do all that admin and preparation in the day. My first pamphlet of poems Alibi (published by John Welch at the Many Press, to whom I'll always be grateful), came out the year I left Birkbeck. "Alibi" means "somewhere else": and that was where I always was, place and work.
Aegean landscape, plus the anthropological compulsion to make the alien familiar and draw attention to the accidental, historical strangeness of our own ways of seeing, went into my first collection, Summer Snow. A lot of it was fired by Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns, but the poems had little forward-moving music. My head was too full of other language somehow. I'd always done music. My father comes from a Central European tradition of music-making, there've always been professional musicians in the family. He taught us stringed instruments and chamber music. I found how crucial singing was to me, myself: as one poem in Rembrandt describes ("Will Ye No Come Back Again?"). I'd always learned songs by heart, always sang in choirs or informally with people everywhere I'd lived, especially in Paris (where I lived for a year on a scholarhiop, doing research) and in Greece, where I learnt a lot of songs and sang in the Heraklion Town Choir. We did the first Cretan performance of Handel's Messiah in Greek. In Oxford and Cambridge I was very lucky to be in choirs that did wonderful a cappella sixteenth and twentieth-century stuff.
In Summer Snow there were lots of things I hadn't joined up, above all music and poetry. But some personas there reappear in the next two books. Herodotus the traveller, remembering home in a foreign place, gave the background story to a sinister poem in Angel called "What We Did". A European doctor caught in the Turkish siege of Rhodes came back in Fusewire as a Muslim doctor in the siege of Sarajevo. And the colonization theme was there from the start. A poem about Cyprus and its betrayal by Britain must have prepared the ground for the whole theme of Fusewire as well as many poems in Angel (say, "Indian Red", "Trial", "Rosa Silvestris Russica" and the Gulf War poems. Angel was a very battle-oriented book.) In Summer Snow, the colonization was mainly Balkan. In later books it moved closer to home.
I didn't know then that foreignness, which I dealt with all the time in my prose work, brings with it questions of power and its abuse. "It is a hard responsibility to be a stranger", says John Hewitt in a poem set in Greece. One of my brothers, an anthropologist, did his Masters degree in Delhi, whose anthropologists have a perspective very different from that of post-colonial Britain on who you study and why: on the power relations behind any anthropological enterprise. Which I think includes poems. Poets plunder other people's lives: it's one of the worries driving Heaney's Station Island. You acquire unfair power over people by putting them in a poem. You have to be very careful.
A bit of this got fought out in Angel, whose background landscape is Thatcher's increasingly alienating late 80s Britain. Reviews brought out the anthropological strangeness, saying it "explored the rub between two cultures or people: where imbalance of power leads to a corruption of relationship in which one voice persistently drowns out another." I wrote Angel as I was writing Whom Gods Destroy, about madness in different cultures. Angel's mad voices spotlight the inhumanity of Thatcher's Britain as it hit me. Reviews also identified a "disturbed surreal" tone: the book "described an absurd nightmare-country, where things in equal parts ludicrous and terrible occur, then made you recognize contemporary England." Now I look back, Angel was trying to find my way of making the familiar strange. People started using the phrase magic realism about the work.
I'd been very lucky to be invited by Matthew Sweeney to join his workshop, which he took over from the Irish poet Robert Greacen, and ran at his home and local pub. Matthew also asked me sometimes to teach with him. I learned so much from Matthew about listening truthfully to strangeness, and from his ruthless way of making words justify their place in a poem. He'll frisk a poem with a 600mm scalpel for laziness of language or thought. Matthew kindly agreed to be an external editor for Fusewire and Rembrandt, and I'm always grateful for his criticism. He has an infallible infra red radar for the weak spot in a poem. In his group I met Mike Donaghy, Sarah Maguire, Don Paterson, Vicki Feaver, Lavinia Greenlaw and Jo Shapcott and other poets bringing out their first books. Their work and criticism, all very different, exploratory and original, was utterly exciting. I find their work, and that of other poets who started publishing the same time like Ian Duhig, and younger poets, some of the most exciting: because (I think) I identify with what they're all trying, in their individual ways, to solve. And admire and learn from what they come up with.
I went to Ireland because it was where poetry came from. I now had a child and couldn't get to Greece so much. Fusewire focussed my colonization/power-struggle subject (which I still wasn't really aware of) into Ireland, found a way of eroticizing history, moved everything closer to home and somehow raised the stakes of what I wrote about. As in Angel's "Tudor Garden, Southampton", I was now writing about being child of an abusive colonizing power; about being held responsible for colonialism. The history of the victor isn't easy to identify with. Irish and Scots poets can write about history – famine roads, clearances – with anger not guilt. What about descendants of the power that did all that abusing and invading? I read Roy Foster's history of Ireland, and a book about the history and siege of Derry. (Another siege. There must be something about the image of the city, standing for human risk, that's important to me). One Northern Irish journalist has called Derry "Stroke City" (as in Derry/Londonderry). The poem that came out of that is one of the weakest in the book, but was important for me because it blended the book's two themes, the personal and the historical, sex and war.
Being asked, increasingly, to write and lecture on feminist issues in my academic hat, I was lucky to work out feminist things for myself first in that environment, not while worrying about being a woman poet – the sort of thing Eavann Boland explores in Object Lessons. I was in another country. For me, feminist consciousness evolved in a context of study, of history, classics, opera studies, among some very inspiring and generous women in universities (especially America), who were absolutely sure of their worth and what they were writing. Gender studies was a growing subject; their own institutions were promoting women. In both Oxford and Cambridge, most Professors of English are women at present. After being a research Fellow in various Oxford colleges, where I was the only woman (one college had to change its sixteenth-century statutes for me) I had met some nasty patches of velvet glove misogyny, but mainly ignored it – I just found it unteresting, and learned to recognize and despise men clutching the external tokens of power.
I think I was lucky to do this in an academic context (or in Crete) rather than poetry: in both, the only power that's interesting is power that came from someone's work. Power that isn't earned by the work, that comes from someone's command of PR or their position, isn't real. I didn't have to bother with kneejerk chauvinism in male-dominated institutions. Feminist issues came alive for me first in work; then in life. But when Jo Shapcott and I went to a lecture Eavann gave recently, and Eavann asked if it was still true in Britain that most poetry editors are men, we had to say it was. The three of us asked Michael Schmidt, Eavann's editor: who was reviewing Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters for P.N. Review? We betted it was a man. (The male reviewing of that book has been extraordinary – a sort of boys' club saying "these poems prove feminism is wrong" – or even, "Since, as we all know, feminism is a Bad Thing, these poems must be good"). Michael looked sweetly sheepish and said he couldn't remember.
You meet instinctive male conservation of power much more in the poetry than the academic world. A lot of male poets who started publshing in the Seventies or early Eighties still can't really hear women's work. Sean O'Brien's recent book The Deregulated Muse is a fine landscape of recent British poetry, but – as he knows – it is in a way very autobiographical, adn has the strength and gaps that come from that. It's what excites him, what he's learnt from. He's a wonderful critic, he always comes up with a completely fresh and important angle on particular voices and style. But the imbalance of men's and women's work in that book is – let's say, unrepresentative of the important work that's been done.
By the time I wrote Rembrandt, I was living by reviewing and journalism, much more in this country than out of it. Rembrandt cares less about power-conflict. There's sexual politics in it, a confrontation of self and other; but things are more equal. No poems about sieges for a start. It's more to do with tenderness, with being together rather than opposed. "Waterloo Bridge" decides that despite the attandant sadnesses, it's a good thing, whatever "city" is. Its tensions are constructive, not antagonistic. As with the relation of subject and form in these poems (I hope), personal tensions and misunderstandings work with rather than against joy. They become part of each other.
Rembrandt was a sort of breaking of form. After Fusewire, in that awful gap after finishing a book, I felt imprisoned in three-liner poems. Did I "naturally" think in that shape? Claustrophobia city. Matthew said, "You're hung up on it. Try something completely different." So I did the most unnatural-feeling things I could, capital letters at the beginning of lines, indentation, complex internal rhymes. It was great. I began to find my mind racing into formal patterns and relations ahead of me. One poem ("Don't Fence Me In") ends on the sound "go". It wasn't till I finished the first OK draft that I realized the poem had, on its own, prepared for that sound in every stanza all the way through – except one which pulled the "o"-sound into "Joseph". It was amazingly freeing. I found I could get all sorts of things into a poem that I hadn't before, especially teasing and humour. I found I could go over the top on the massed imagery that's always been one of my vices; and laugh at my own language from inside the poem. The poems became freer to think, when I cracked a new formal whip at them. There was room for more longer poems. All my books have one long one; Rembrandt has several. Mixing disparate things like humour and baroque imagery gives you space, somehow. to have fun varying tones and tensions. This brought back the "magic realist" side of things, which Carol Rumens picked up on in her review.
I think it's got something to do with the way my particular obsessions click on metaphor and image. In Colm Toibin's preface to his collection of essays on Paul Durcan, The Kilfenora Tea-Boy, he describes how Durcan stopped using "like". ("Paul, would you ever stop saying things are like things? They either are or they're not".) Metaphor is a way of connecting home and foreign. I know it's what I think with first. If it's so damn important to me it ought to be real. It's more risky and alive to stand behind what you're saying, as Durcan always does, if you drop the "like".
The prose book I'm writing now is about women's lovesong[ in fact, this got transmuted to men's rock music in "I'm A Man"], and that's everywhere in Rembrandt. Listening to people like P. J. Harvey, Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Michelle Shocked, Laurie Anderson, and see how they go at things, has been a revelation. They have the same problems women poets have, in a more violent form: the bulk of what's gone before has been made by the boys. You value the work, but have to find yourself in reacting to it.
Most voices that influenced me early on were inevitably Their words in me gave a particular take on women-in-a-poem. I used to think this didn't matter. Now I think that's where you start: from your awareness that men's creativity got there first. Before you sing out, you have know, in technicolour and 3D, exactly what that's done to you. How male art made you see yourself.
Luckily there are now, increasingly, more lyric voices with a black laugh and strength in them, like Plath, Bishop and Carol Ann Duffy, who have led some ways. In Rembrandt I found I was writing love poems – a way of looking at a man which is I hope as strong as, but different (maybe more teasing) from male poems' traditional ways of looking at women – in which love and sex became a new springboard for me. Into describing the world as a mix of ordinary-life objects, things you see in the street, the home and the media (CDs, faxes, Esquire, Jeye-cloths, Safeways, Guardian journalists, Spice Girls, Barclays Bank, the computer Deep Blue) and other things which were always important to me because I'd spent so much of my life doing all that often irrelevant-seeming research, but hadn't found a live way of bringing in before. History (the French resistance, Cathars, Malory); science (the speed of light, the Periodic Table); ancient myth (Pan, Echo, the Mahabharata); ecology (doomed tigers and dolphins). Plus art. Rembrandt and his use of shadow. Peter Rabbit, Chrétien de Troyes, St Augustine, The Horse Whisperer. Billie Holiday, Mary Black, folk songs, Stravinsky, Bach. There's also the weird way love makes you think about death. Loving someone, you don't want them ever to stop being.
Death and dying are around me in a lot of places just now. The last three poems in the book are about that. Rembrandt solved (probably only for a while, I imagine) an unease I had about exoticism – that it can be too easily bought. What I wrote about in Summer Snow looked over here like exoticism, but it was actually more familiar to me than anything here. Because of how I'd lived, I was at home elsewhere. In Fusewire, two countries and people misunderstand each other across a sea of history. Going out from your own culture or self (or a sentence), into faraway places (or far-out imagery), seems to me a creative way of tackling central home things. In Durcan's Going Home to Russia, Russia is metaphor for Ireland, like Argentina in Toibin's novel Story of the Night. In Muldoon's poem about mum washing his hair, "Brazil" stands for the mystery of sex faced by a kid. Elizabeth Bishop got there first, in her brilliant Crusoe poems. For me, poetry's about going completely out there, into other places and people: a sort of muddle of imagination, generosity and risk. Creativity, like love, comes from being and staying at risk. I don't see the point of playing safe, in a poem or anywhere else. You've got to risk losing what's yours, what is you, by going out into the other: the lover, the other country with other maybe savagely different values. The worthwhile thing is making the connexion. What you find there, what you do with other people: that's where the music is.


Ejowvokoghene Divine Oduduru, Nigeria's fastest man missed out on a spot at the 200m finals after coming 7th at the semi-finals heat early this morning at Rio 2016.
In his semi-final heat, Usain Bolt, Andre Gasse and Adam Gemili finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively with a time of 19.78secs, 19.80secs and 20.08 secs respectively while Oduduru, Nigeria's only hope at this event finished 7th with a time of 20.59 seconds.
Nigeria's Oduduru wowed Nigerians when he qualified for the semi-final of the Men's 200m heat of the Rio 2016 Olympics, finishing second behind Usain Bolt.


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Q: Sequelize two sources of truth ( migration and model ) Why sequelize has 2 sources of truth, so if you wanted to do a migration, you should also edit the model which is frustrating, what is the proper way to deal with that issue?

A: In local environment, you are probably use a "forceUpdate" option (I don't know the real name) from Sequelize to see your changes in your db editing your models directly. Models are just defining db schema with properties for your tables, associations between them... Often in local environment it's faster, and more comfortable to use this option for adding more features.
But in production environment, the "forceUpdate" option has to be disabled so as to avoid to loose data refreshing your database models. So migration files are the way to update your db schema and offer a way to rollback your changes if there is a problem.