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package com.intellij.execution.actions;

import com.intellij.CommonBundle;
import com.intellij.execution.*;
import com.intellij.execution.configurations.ConfigurationType;
import com.intellij.execution.configurations.RunConfiguration;
import com.intellij.execution.executors.DefaultRunExecutor;
import com.intellij.execution.impl.statistics.RunConfigurationOptionUsagesCollector;
import com.intellij.execution.runners.ExecutionEnvironment;
import com.intellij.execution.runners.ExecutionUtil;
import com.intellij.execution.runners.ProgramRunner;
import com.intellij.icons.AllIcons;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnAction;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnActionEvent;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.Presentation;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.IconLoader;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Pair;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.registry.Registry;
import com.intellij.util.ThreeState;
import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static com.intellij.execution.SuggestUsingRunDashBoardUtil.promptUserToUseRunDashboard;

public class RunContextAction extends BaseRunConfigurationAction {
  private final Executor myExecutor;

  public RunContextAction(@NotNull Executor executor) {
    super(ExecutionBundle.messagePointer("perform.action.with.context.configuration.action.name", executor.getStartActionText()), Presentation.NULL_STRING, IconLoader.createLazy(() -> executor.getIcon()));
    myExecutor = executor;
  }

  @Override
  protected void perform(ConfigurationContext context) {
    perform(findExisting(context), context);
  }

  @Override
  protected void perform(RunnerAndConfigurationSettings configuration, ConfigurationContext context) {
    final RunManagerEx runManager = (RunManagerEx)context.getRunManager();
    if (configuration == null) {
      configuration = context.getConfiguration();
      if (configuration == null) {
        return;
      }
      runManager.setTemporaryConfiguration(configuration);
    }
    else if (configuration != findExisting(context)) {
      RunConfigurationOptionUsagesCollector.logAddNew(context.getProject(), configuration.getType().getId(), context.getPlace());
      runManager.setTemporaryConfiguration(configuration);
    }
    if (Registry.is("select.run.configuration.from.context")) {
      runManager.setSelectedConfiguration(configuration);
    }

    if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
      String configurationClass = configuration.getConfiguration().getClass().getName();
      LOG.debug(String.format("Execute run configuration: %s", configurationClass));
    }
    if (ApplicationManager.getApplication().isUnitTestMode()) {
      return;
    }
    ExecutionUtil.doRunConfiguration(configuration, myExecutor, null, null, context.getDataContext());
  }

  @Override
  protected boolean isEnabledFor(@NotNull RunConfiguration configuration) {
    return getRunner(configuration) != null;
  }

  @Nullable
  private ProgramRunner<?> getRunner(@NotNull RunConfiguration configuration) {
    return ProgramRunner.getRunner(myExecutor.getId(), configuration);
  }

  @Override
  protected void updatePresentation(final Presentation presentation, @NotNull final String actionText, final ConfigurationContext context) {
    presentation.setText(myExecutor.getStartActionText(actionText), true);

    Pair<Boolean, Boolean> b = isEnabledAndVisible(context);

    presentation.setEnabled(b.first);
    presentation.setVisible(b.second);
  }

  @Override
  protected void approximatePresentationByPreviousAvailability(AnActionEvent event, ThreeState hadAnythingRunnable) {
    super.approximatePresentationByPreviousAvailability(event, hadAnythingRunnable);
    event.getPresentation().setText(myExecutor.getStartActionText() + "...");
  }

  private Pair<Boolean, Boolean> isEnabledAndVisible(ConfigurationContext context) {
    RunnerAndConfigurationSettings configuration = findExisting(context);
    if (configuration == null) {
      configuration = context.getConfiguration();
    }

    ProgramRunner<?> runner = configuration == null ? null : getRunner(configuration.getConfiguration());
    if (runner == null) {
      return Pair.create(false, false);
    }

    Project project = context.getProject();
    return Pair.create(!ExecutionManager.getInstance(project).isStarting(myExecutor.getId(), runner.getRunnerId()), true);
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  protected List<AnAction> createChildActions(@NotNull ConfigurationContext context,
                                              @NotNull List<? extends ConfigurationFromContext> configurations) {
    final List<AnAction> childActions = new ArrayList<>(super.createChildActions(context, configurations));
    boolean isMultipleConfigurationsFromAlternativeLocations =
      configurations.size() > 1 && configurations.get(0).isFromAlternativeLocation();
    boolean isRunAction = myExecutor.getId().equals(DefaultRunExecutor.EXECUTOR_ID);
    if (isMultipleConfigurationsFromAlternativeLocations && isRunAction) {
      childActions.add(runAllConfigurationsAction(context, configurations));
    }

    return childActions;
  }

  @NotNull
  private AnAction runAllConfigurationsAction(@NotNull ConfigurationContext context, @NotNull List<? extends ConfigurationFromContext> configurationsFromContext) {
    return new AnAction(
      CommonBundle.message("action.text.run.all"),
      ExecutionBundle.message("run.all.configurations.available.in.this.context"),
      AllIcons.RunConfigurations.Compound
    ) {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(@NotNull AnActionEvent e) {
        long groupId = ExecutionEnvironment.getNextUnusedExecutionId();

        List<ConfigurationType> types = ContainerUtil.map(configurationsFromContext, context1 -> context1.getConfiguration().getType());
        promptUserToUseRunDashboard(context.getProject(), types);

        for (ConfigurationFromContext configuration : configurationsFromContext) {
          ExecutionUtil.runConfiguration(configuration.getConfigurationSettings(), myExecutor, groupId);
        }
      }
    };
  }

  public Executor getExecutor() {
    return myExecutor;
  }
}


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Egyptian artist creates portraits out of burnt tobacco
A portrait of actor Johnny Depp made of tobacco, by artist Abdelrahman al-Habrouk, burns in Alexanria, Egypt August 10, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of paper making portraits with tobacco.
The cigarettes fuel his art; he breaks them in half, painstakingly traces out monochrome images of celebrities or animals with the fine flakes of tobacco, then sprinkles his creations with gunpowder and sets them on fire.
The resulting scorch-marks on the white paper form the portrait.
Habrouk, now 23, started using unusual materials to make images a couple of years ago, experimenting with coffee, salt and sand before settling on the tobacco technique because it is more durable.
"The idea is that I'm trying to make the art live longer," he told Reuters.
"I wanted to make something good out of something that is considered harmful," he added.
Reporting by Sayed Sheasha; Writing by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Andrew Roche

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If Boulder Creek dried up, and the bridge on Broadway spanned nothing but an empty stretch of sand, and it stayed that way for decades, eventually people would forget what it had meant to see a stream running there. To have place to put feet in the water, a green bank on which to sit, a surge to seed the cottonwoods and willows downstream, an exhale from the mountains when the snow unpacks itself into melt water each spring.
That's the way it has been in San Luis Rio Colorado — a city in Mexico of about 160,000 people named for the Colorado River that hasn't seen a consistently wet riverbed since the 1960s. In March, the Morelos Dam near the U.S.-Mexico border made a unique and deliberate release of water. The so-called pulse flow was .7 percent of the annual flow of the Colorado River — a fractional imitation of the spring runoff floods the river saw for eons — but for a few weeks, it brought water back to a river city without a river.
The people threw a party.
"People really turned out for it, I think because they knew it was being sent there deliberately to see the good that it could do, and also because it hadn't flowed like that for a long time," says Jennifer Pitt, with the Environmental Defense Fund, one of the parties instrumental in orchestrating the bi-national agreement between Mexico and the U.S. to allow for this flow of water.
"We're talking about a bed of the river about 200 feet from bank to bank, the bed of the river is virtually just sand, and it has been like that since 1960, with some exceptions of water coming down maybe four times. But from 1960 to now … the Colorado river has been 16 inches wide and 6 inches deep, and you have three generations of people, that's what they've had since 1960, a river that's 16 inches wide and 6 inches deep, then suddenly you have a river that's 200 feet wide and 16 feet deep," says Jorge Figueroa of Western Resource Advocates, who went down to document the pulse flow. Before the water came, people went to the riverbed to use drugs and drink alcohol, run motorcross bikes and jeeps.
"The river literally flushed that out, and brought this wholesome, healthy experience," Figueroa says.
Pitt was there for two weeks to watch as children who had never seen the Colorado River running through their town were brought out to see it, and elders who remembered the river before it began to shrivel up and dry out in the 1960s were brought to see it and remember that past. A month later, photos showed that there were taco stands, live music and a ferris wheel alongside the river, and boats floating in it. They were still celebrating its return.
Western Resource Advocates has worked on Colorado River issues for the last 15 years, beginning with dam operations and endangered species, but also now working on the water use programs designed to help cities live within their means when it comes to water. They're often looking at the issue from the "30,000-foot level," talking in acre feet and wrangling with policy. For this trip to Mexico, Figueroa wanted to focus on a different story — the people.
He also wanted to bring this story home to the upper Colorado River, and helped to convene a panel at the Americas Latino Eco- Festival to discuss the pulse flow and what it meant for the ecosystems and the people far down river. Speakers include himself, Pitt, the Sonoran Institute's Colorado River Delta Program Project Manager Karen Schlatter and San Luis Rio Colorado resident Nancy Saldaña, who led a campaign to clean up the river bed before the water arrived, clearing four tons of garbage that included needles, glass and cars.
Right below the Morelos Dam at the U.S.-Mexico border, there was water most of the year from leaks in the dam, often only about three feed deep. Farther down river, more water dries up. In some areas, the river channel was completely dry all year round. In places in the middle, where groundwater and agricultural return flows are higher, standing water sits in the river bed, continuing to support habitat and wildlife in those areas.
"It's kind of a no-brainer for restoration as far as ecosystems go, because it is so resilient and we're at a point right now where we can do a lot by doing a little bit. We can add water and do these very no-brainer restoration efforts and get really great ecosystem response, so we get habitat established, wildlife coming back," says Schlatter, with the Sonoran Institute, which has led an effort to plant thousands of cottonwood and willow tree seedlings in the area and removed nonnative salt cedar to make space for native vegetation to take root.
From the city of San Luis Rio Colorado, the pulse flow of water continued on down toward the delta at the Sea of Cortez, once 2 million acres of wetlands and riparian habitat. The delta has since gone so dry and dead that it's threatening to the endangered species, including the Yuma clapper rails, Virginia rails and California black rails, and migratory birds such as warblers and flycatchers, that rely on that vanishing thread of green.
"There were still some flows going down there, but really, over the drought over the last 10, 15 years, it got extremely dry and even the remnant habitat that was down there was beginning to disappear," Pitt says.
This spring, for less than 24 hours, while the tide was up and that pulse of river water was reaching for its ancient home, the Colorado River touched the sea.
In 1944, the U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty on how the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana rivers were to be utilized. The treaty failed to provide a share of water for ecological protection, however.
Getting the river to run again took a lot of people working through a lot of issues, says Pitt. The push to get a river for the sake of a river hadn't gone anywhere.
"It kind of became clear to us that just talking about the environment and just having the two countries and getting the attention of the level of policy and decision maker we needed to have to get an agreement could never only be about the environment. It just doesn't rise to the priority level of them expending the effort to get there," Pitt says.
Flexibility for future clarifications or adjustments to the 1944 treaty was built in with an ability for the International Boundary and Water Commission, the enforcement authority created by the treaty, to craft new rules, added to the treaty as minutes. The agreement for the pulse flow, written up in Minute 319 of the treaty, included clarifications on how the U.S. and Mexico would define shortages and surpluses and a provision to allow Mexico to store water in U.S. reservoirs — increased clarity to help water managers plan for the future, and a commitment to binationally share in water conservation and perhaps even water generation projects, including a possible de-salination plant off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
The water for the pulse itself came from a project the U.S. funded with $22 million to line an irrigation ditch in Mexico, decreasing water loss there.
Essentially, Pitt says, the science team was "handed a bucket of water" and told to pour it out how they thought best. The team included scientists from both countries, and one who had worked on the experimental flow program in the Grand Canyon. The advice from that scientist was clear: Whatever you design, it isn't going to be right. His suggestion was to deliver the water in a way that the signal of what the water was doing would be clear.
There's precedent to suggest that the results will be positive. In the 1980s and '90s, flood events brought water to areas of the delta that had been dry for decades.
Figueroa visited a restoration site the size of 15 football fields where trees have grown to 10 or 15 feet in height three years after they were planted.
In the Sonoran Institute's restoration efforts in riparian habitat, removing nonnative species like salt cedar and replanting native ones, the saplings are irrigated for two or three years, and then have root systems deep enough to tap into the groundwater. The area has a level of groundwater favorable to restoration efforts that's fed by agricultural return flows, and Minute 319 also allows for base flows into the Colorado River in Mexico to support those efforts.
The pulse this year was intended to stimulate the germination of native vegetation — cottonwoods and willows require flood conditions to germinate, and the pulse, on a very small scale, simulated the kind of floods that used to hit that region each year.
Work to secure that year-round water has been done by the Colorado River Delta Trust, a private trust established by the Mexico-based conservation group Pronatura Noroeste, which, in addition to the Environmental Defense Fund and the Sonoran Institute, has been buying up water rights to make sure there's a little bit of water in the river to sustain what the intermittent pulse flows, assuming they're approved again, create.
The delta now has just a small remnant of a river left, but the big drink of water it just had is producing green up and down the river. An intensive monitoring effort undertaken by federal agencies from both countries as well as academics and nonprofits is scrutinizing details down to counting seedlings and wildlife, and should start producing numbers to quantify the effort in the coming years. It's tough to know now, Pitt says, where things like the groundwater saw a recharge while the effects of this one-time pulse flow are still being studied.
When the five-year agreement that Mexico and the U.S. have settled on runs out at the end of 2017, they'll be back to the drawing board and making a decision on whether to allocate water for this kind of water event again.
Signs point toward a momentum and support building for it, Pitt says, and the agreement has drawn some attention from the international community as an example of the kind of collaborative work countries can undertake to help preserve endangered transboundary rivers around the world.
The Raise the River campaign is organizing an ongoing effort to help ensure a future for the river. That campaign needs to raise $10 million by 2017 to fulfill their portion of the commitment for Minute 319 and pur chase water rights to support river restoration through the Colorado River Delta Trust. The still-in-development Colorado Water Plan also has fingers that reach to that delta, and adopting a plan that advocates for conservation is going to be key to keeping water in that delta despite a growing gap between supply and demand on the Front Range of Colorado.


STATE 4A SCHOLARS BOWL Here On Saturday!
Wellington High School (Scholars Bowl Coach Sarah House and the WHS Scholars Bowl Team) will be hosting the STATE 4A SCHOLARS BOWL TOURNAMENT on Saturday, Feb. 9th. The tournament action at Wellington will be just 1 of 6 STATE TOURNEY sites on Saturday. Teams competing at each location are listed below.
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WHS Scholar's Bowl Team Finishes Well @ Wichita West!
The WHS scholars bowl team was 1 of 30 teams who competed in the pre-season Entertainment tournament Thursday at Wichita West HS. All questions asked revolved around Entertainment. When all questions had been asked and answered, WHS walked away with 2nd place! Congratulations to team members (L to R) Lydia Dridi, Julia Starnes, Dakota Lynnes, Tanner Dillon, Mason Lough, Gabe Hyer.
It's a great day to be a Crusader!
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TIP! You never want to leave the cords of your drapes dangling down. If your cat plays with looped drape cords, they could get caught around its neck, which presents a suffocation hazard.
In the post adoption phase, many issues arise between cats and families. No one should get a pet without taking the steps to prepare. Of course, it's impossible to avoid each and every little bump in the road during pet ownership. A great idea for you is to read the suggestions here and add a few more tidbits to your list of expectations.
Move any drape cords out of a cat's reach. You should not allow your cat to play with drape cords since they could end up with the cord wrapped around their neck. This could kill them. All drape cords should be fastened and kept away from any harm that might come to the cats.
TIP! Cats can be great pets for children, but some younger children may be a bit too rough with cats. Show your kids the proper way to handle cats.
Prevent your cat from getting zapped by coating exposed wires with bitter apple. Keep your cords covered if you feel like your cat is hellbent on chewing them. Bundle electrical cords together inside a tube. Whenever you aren't using any thin, electronic cords, you should store them away.
TIP! Create a tablecloth that your cats can use. Often, a cat will remove food from his bowl to eat on the side.
Cats can use their claws to destroy furniture and other parts of the house. If you want to prevent or stop your cat from scratching up your furniture, the best thing to do is buy a scratching post or kitty tower for them to climb in. Put cat nip on it to attract them to it. It may take some time and some corrections, but it can usually eliminate the problem.
TIP! Is there a dog in your home, as well as a cat? Dogs will always try to eat a cat's food. You should create a feeding space for the cat that is much too high for a dog to get to.
Location is key when placing a litter box. Place the litter box away from high traffic areas. Additionally, the litter box should be placed away from your cat's food and water. It is also advisable to keep the litter box area ventilated to control odor. Not only will your cat appreciate it but you will too.
TIP! You shouldn't leave a young cat with children unattended. Kids under five should not be left alone with a pet.
Cats spend a ton of time grooming themselves. If your kitty is a long-haired breed, the result of this might be hairballs. If your cat needs assistance with this problem, consider a special diet. There are foods that are made to reduce the frequency of hairballs. It's a smart move for your cat and your sanity.
TIP! Speak to other people if you're having cat troubles. You won't have the knowledge to handle every cat issue properly, so take advantage of the experiences of others.
Prevent crystals from forming in the urine of male cats with the right diet. If they have to pass the crystals it can cause the cat a lot of pain and paying a vet to help with this can cost you a lot of money. Choose a cat food with low magnesium content. Consult the ingredient list. Poultry products are typically lower in magnesium than fish products.
TIP! If your cat's scratching post looks old and worn, don't throw it away immediately. Cats prefer used scratching posts.
If your cat is excessively meowing, try to figure out why. After you have coexisted with a pet cat for a long while, you are sure to figure out its meowing patterns. Possibilities include that she is hungry or wants to be let outside. By listening to your cat, it will be easier to know what they want.
TIP! Give high quality canned food to your pet cat. Dry food is usually cheaper, but canned food boasts a number of benefits.
Think twice before leaving a child alone with a kitten. Up until your child is five, children shouldn't be alone with your pet. They don't know what harm they can do. When they mature, they can spend alone time with the kitty.
TIP! Every cat loves to have lots of play time. Play is important for all mammals, even people, regardless of their age.
Purchase a drinking fountain for your cat to get water from. Cats like running water for drink more than water that is just sitting there. Cats will respond more positively to streams of water. You may have noticed that a dripping sink faucet quickly attracts their attention. Also, drinking fountains are more environmentally friendly and gives them the ability to drink naturally.
TIP! Be aware of your cat stopping their litter box usage. When cats are suffering from something, they may end up going to the restroom randomly outside of their box.
The tips you just read will help you care for your cat, regardless of its age or breed. You have learned basic information that makes raising a cat much easier. Remember though, everyone's cat and circumstances are different requiring certain adjustments. Just remember to enjoy every minute with your adopted kitten no matter what.


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CU Boulder takes first place in 2021 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge
The University of Colorado Boulder won first place in the 2021 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Build Challenge , the third time CU Boulder has placed first in the highly competitive event. The results were announced Sunday by Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, who commended...
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Five students earn prestigious NSF fellowships
Five students in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering have earned a major honor from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. Nathan Bonham, Lianne Brito, Matthew Jungclaus, Sung...
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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort of Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellows
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) is excited to introduce the inaugural cohort of Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellows. Launched in September 2020, the IBUILD Fellowship Program works to strengthen the pool of well-trained, diverse graduate students who are equipped for research-intensive careers in...
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PhD student Kimberly Pugel Honored as 2021 New Face of Civil Engineering by ASCE
ASCE has honored Kimberly Pugel as a 2021 New Face of Civil Engineering. Pugel's work combines environmental engineering, planning, policymaking, and a heavy dose of communication skills, particularly as it relates to facilitating communication between stakeholders and decision-makers.
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Exploring assumptions in financing for urban water utilities in low-income countries
Anna Libey, a PhD student in environmental engineering at CU Boulder, is the lead author on a new paper that compares utilities around the world and advocates for more subsidization in utility operations to provide clean water. The paper – titled "Who pays for water? Comparing life cycle costs of...
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College of Engineering and Applied Science December 2018 Outstanding Graduate Awards
CEAE Graduates Nikki van den Heever and Austin Riley were selected to receive the December 2018 College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Graduate awards. Van den Heever was selected as the December 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the College for her overall strength in academics, service and research while Riley...
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Architectural engineering student makes quick impact for CU alpine ski team
Early in the University of Colorado's ski season, Norwegian freshman Tonje Trulsrud has made an immediate impact on the team while setting herself up for the record books. Though she just started her career at CU, Trulsrud is already taking the mountain by storm. In her first four races, she's finished at the top of her team three times and won the giant slalom on the first day of the Montana State Invitational on Jan. 10.
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All-women team overcomes hurdles to complete Bridges to Prosperity project in Bolivia
During her first trip with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) last summer, civil engineering major Mia Schrilla learned an important lesson that should serve her well in her career. "Prepare for anything," she said. "Things will probably go wrong, and you'll probably get through it." The fourth-year BS/MS student and a...
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Fall update from CU-Boulder chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA
Rwanda and Peru teams carried out successful summer projects, while the Nepal team conquered the challenge of a travel ban following April earthquakes.
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New year, new opportunity for concrete canoe team
After strong showings in the 2013 and 2014 regional competitions, CU-Boulder's concrete canoe team experienced something of a "rebuilding year" this past spring. "When we put the canoe in the water, someone stepped in and punctured a hole in it," said new team captain Victoria Wallis, a senior architectural engineering...
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Q: Inconsistent behaviors for the Choice field which allow Fill-in choices inside modern New/Edit form and inside Quick Edit We have a SharePoint choice field named options which allow Fill-in choices and has 3 choices (A + B + C), as follow:-

Now we have inconsistent behaviors for the Choice field which allow Fill-in choices inside modern New/Edit forms compared to Quick Edit.
So when we create or edit list items using the modern list forms >> the options field will list the choices inside the field definition + the choices that have been fill-in by the user ("MY NEW Choice" in our case):-

while if we create or edit an item using the list view Quick Edit, the options field will only show the choices inside the field definition and will exclude the choices that have been fill-in by the user as follow:-

so how we can fix this inconsistency ? and have a standard behavior ? Also is this a bug?

A: What you are seeing in quick edit is consistent with how choice columns have always worked. When you create a new item and use a fill in choice, that choice shouldn't appear in the field's dropdown when you create future items. Only the options that appear in the column's settings should appear in the dropdown.
The fill in choice appearing in the dropdown in your screenshot, may be a bug. This has already been outlined in the answer to a previous question:
SharePoint Choice field with "Allow 'Fill-in' choices:". Should the Fill-in choice be saved inside the Choice field options?
As stated in the linked answer, potential bugs can be reported to Microsoft via the Microsoft 365 admin center. You can create a new service request via the Microsoft 365 admin portal. In the menu section, you'll see the "New service request" option within "Support".

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from absolute beginner to master teacher.
This year's conference takes place at the Sedona Performing Arts Center | Red Rock High School, giving visitors a singular gathering place from which to explore the city and surrounding area's diverse offerings.
Beginners welcome. Experts, too. No matter where you are in your yogic journey, there's so much to learn at SYF2019. Hatha. Ashtanga. Acro. Adaptive. Restorative. Jivamukti. Kundalini. Yin. Thai. Explore them all.
Focus on a specific body part, a special posture or a specific goal. Whatever makes you bloom… Sedona Yoga Festival will provide.
"Traumatic Stress: Resiliency and Healing with Yoga" is designed to provide teachers with the skills to share yoga with First Responders, Veterans, trauma survivors, PTSD and TBI sufferers and many more. Scientific studies now show that yoga and other mindfulness practices have a significant positive contribution on alleviating PTS and STS symptoms, and on strengthening body and mind resiliency. Students will leave this Sedona Yoga Festival Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Training with the necessary tools to benefit this population.
If gathering for a yoga festival isn't a high enough energy already, Sedona's picturesque landscapes and over 400 miles of world class hiking and mountain biking trails will for sure bliss you out.


The tornado from the second season finale is still affecting Cloud 9, and in tonight's episode the employees hold a memorial service for one of their co-workers.
The episode begins with a memorial service for Brett. Sandra sings "Creep" by Radiohead, which is random, making it fitting for the show. Glenn keeps insisting that Brett could still be alive, which is really funny. Mateo and Cheyenne hilariously pretend they were close with Brett so they don't have to do as much work. However, this somewhat backfires when Glenn asks things about Brett. There is also a hilarious resolution here, when it turns out that Brett is somehow alive.
Amy grows concerned about Dina, and when she tells Glenn she's concerned, he hilariously tries to turn a guide on workplace shootings into one on workplace tornadoes, replacing "shooting" and "guns" with "tornadoes". In the end, Dina finally tells Amy about her issues. It is great to see this bond between the two of them, but of course Dina is still Dina, so this ends up being a one-way sort of thing.
Jonah becomes curious about why Garrett uses a wheelchair, and he believes that the two are close enough that he should know. Jonah asks other people about it, which leads to funny moments. Myrtle ends up reminiscing about the good old days, and Sandra lies about what she and Jonah were talking about when Garrett shows up. The ending to this story, however, was fairly anti-climatic.
Glenn was hilarious this week, definitely my favorite character in this episode, and I really enjoyed Mateo and Cheyenne. Amy and Dina's story wasn't that great at first, but had a great ending, while Jonah had some good moments, but the ending of the story with him and Garrett wasn't very good.
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James Lever, 1887 - 1917
My grandmother named her son Jim after her favourite brother, who was killed in the Great War. I believe this man, dead before my father was born, occupied a prominent place in dad's conciousness.
James Lever was a runner on the Western Front, France 1917. This was not a position with good prospects. Runners were the line of communication on the battlefield and an obvious target. He met an almost inevitable end a few weeks short of his 30th birthday. This letter from Sister Reid, at the British Expeditionary Force Casualty Clearing Station, explains what happened. How many such notes must this poor woman have written? The envelope is interesting too. In case you can't read it, the mark in the lower left corner says 'Passed Field Censor', signed by Sister Reid herself.
Official notification of the death of Private Lever was provided by the army. The Director of Graves Registration also supplied a photograph. I assume the wooden cross was subsequently replaced with a headstone by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.
These newspaper clippings give insight into how the war was reported at the time. I'm guessing one came from a local paper in Southall. The other appears to be from a London evening paper.
If a Memorial Plaque was issued to every dead British serviceman's family, presumably about a million were made. Surprising then, that this is the only one I have seen outside of a museum. It is bronze, weighs a bit over 12 ounces, and is four and three quarter inches in diameter. There is an enclosed note from King George V.
Mr. & Mrs. Lever evidently never felt the inclination to return the tear off acknowledgment strip for receipt of their son's war medals.
Sadly, my grandmother suffered from dementia before she died. She could not follow a current conversation but her memories of childhood were intact and her reality. My father, visiting her in hospital, was thought to be her brother Jim, not her son. 6 years after his mother died, my dad traveled to France in 1991 to visit the grave of his Uncle Jim. An honoured soldier he could never have emulated.
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Pursuant to an express provision of the embryo disposition contract they both signed, a husband and wife had to petition the court for instructions because they could not reach an agreement about what to do with frozen embryos when they divorced. The trial court awarded the pre-embryos to the husband and the Court of Appeals affirmed this decision. However, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the pre-embryos should be thawed out and allowed to expire because the dispute had not been resolved within a five year time frame prescribed by the Cryopreservation Agreement.
Litowitz v. Litowitz (2002)
In a dispute over the allocation of cryopreserved preembryos, the Supreme Court of Washington resolved the case of David J. Litowitz v. Becky M. Litowitz (2002) by reaching a decision that neither party wanted. David Litowitz sought to find adoptive parents for two cryopreserved preembryos created during his marriage to Becky Litowitz when the couple was attempting to have children using in vitro fertilization (IVF). Becky sought to implant the preembryos in a surrogate in an effort to parent a child.
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In the 1971 court case United States v. Milan Vuitch, hereafter US v. Vuitch, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Washington, DC law was constitutional by overturning a 1969 district court decision. Beginning in the early twentieth century, Washington, DC, prohibited abortions except for abortions performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman. In 1969, Milan Vuitch, a physician in Washington, DC, was convicted of criminal abortion for providing an abortion when the woman's life was not endangered.
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Q: Как удалить из таблицы chat записи по id полученные из select запроса? Я пытаюсь удалить пользователя из приложения, но сперва мне нужно удалить все связанные с ним записи из таблицы chat. (т.е. для удаления пользователя мне нужно удалить все сообщения из задач в которых он участвует -> удалить все задачи в которых он участвует -> удалить его из всех проектов -> и наконец удалить его из таблицы users).
Я делаю следующий запрос:
SELECT C.*, PT.user_id, PT.project_id FROM chat C LEFT JOIN projects_tasks PT ON C.task_id=PT.id WHERE PT.user_id=27

Он мне показывает те данные, которые я хочу удалить из таблицы chat.

Теперь, я хочу удалить записи из chat по полученным id
DELETE FROM chat WHERE id IN (SELECT C.*, PT.user_id, PT.project_id FROM chat C LEFT JOIN projects_tasks PT ON C.task_id=PT.id WHERE PT.user_id=27)

Но выдается ошибка:

Как мне решить эту проблему?
Моя структура БД:

A: Ответ найден, спасибо @InDevX и https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4429319/you-cant-specify-target-table-for-update-in-from-clause
Нужный мне запрос: DELETE FROM chat WHERE id IN (SELECT C.id FROM (SELECT * FROM chat) C LEFT JOIN projects_tasks PT ON C.task_id=PT.id WHERE PT.user_id=27)


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But guess what, there are so much of of precisely most of these good girls who've nice jobs and who use Thai Friendly to discover a overseas boyfriend. Like all the women with workplace jobs in Bangkok, if you see them within the metro or strolling down the streets, they appear too busy and infrequently lifeless critical and you just don't really feel comfy speaking to them. How to behave in a gents membership, according to a gentlemen membership. We let you know what's allowed, what's off-limit, and what you are able to do to have the most effective thai woman expertise. But don't overlook to get there early to get one of the best women. And you'll be shocked how wild Thai ladies, even so-called "good girls", can get when they exit. Office girls have common jobs, such as receptionist, assistant, or waitress, and they exit with their pals in the evenings and on weekends.
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Thailand's female inhabitants constitutes 47% of the nation's workforce, the highest percentage of working ladies in the Asia-Pacific region. However, these girls are additionally confronted by hiring discrimination and gender inequality in relation to wages as a outcome of being "concentrated in lower-paying jobs".
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In the next 24 hours, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ will go on sale in markets around the globe. Samsung has decided to release its latest flagships quite soon after they were unveiled, but for those who have pre-ordered an S9 or S9+, the wait no doubt has still been excruciating. March 16 is almost here, though, and the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ will soon be reaching the doorsteps of many consumers and become available for purchase from retail stores and carriers, so it's not surprising that Samsung has begun rolling out the first Galaxy S9 update in more countries.
This is the same update that was released almost a week ago in Germany and also to the T-Mobile variants in the US earlier this week. It brings the March 2018 security patch and improves face unlock and camera stability. The latter is especially important, as the camera on the Galaxy S9 and S9+ can act up at times on the software that it runs out of the box, going as far as getting stuck during video recording and causing a reboot on repeated launches. The update hopefully improves the stability of the fingerprint reader as well, as we have run into several instances of the fingerprint sensor failing to work and requiring a restart of the device on one of our units. And, of course, the March security patch means the S9 and S9+ will also have the latest security fixes when they go on sale.
If you have received your Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+ in the last couple of days, be sure to check if the update is available by going into the Settings » Software update menu. It's nearly a 250 MB over-the-air download, and once installed, the update will bump up the software version to G960FXXU1ARC5 and G965FXXU1ARC5 on the S9 and S9+ respectively.
Still undecided on whether the Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+ deserve your hard-earned money? Check out our review, and if you're on a Galaxy S8 or S8+, see three reasons why we think the Galaxy S9 and S9+ are worthy upgrades over their predecessors.
i am very sorry for my choose. my phone is s8. samsung you should first update s8.
my next phone is not for samsung company.
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The end of the road for "link back" subscriptions? Google's money grabbing knows no bounds, so webmasters need to stick together and fight the monster that it has become.
I want to introduce a new abbreviation and phrase into the SEO's lexicon: CTBLs - Cloaked Traffic Back Links. It is is an extension of the term BLs (Backlinks) - this is commonly used shorthand; check out Webmasterworld or any other SEO forum for lots of examples of BL in-use.
I'm doing it as a pre-emptive strike. Now that Google is advising webmasters NOT to create and distribute useful widgets for whatever service they provide and include a backlink, it is only a matter of time before Google decides that any "link back" subscription is "against the rules".
This is the same Google that monetised the hyperlink, sold out, became evil, made billions and is now wasting billions of hours of people's time as they have to scroll past adverts or watch video advertising. Google have disavowed their past and are trying to pull the ladder up behind them as their shareholders demand ever-increasing profits.
I'm an old master of the "link back" subscription model - in 2003 I started using it on my site http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk - it's called the Free for Life scheme and it still running on there today. The site is number one on Google UK for the main keywords. The site offers Bed and Breakfast owners a completely free listing forever if they maintain the link.
This created what I call the "circle of love": Bed and Breakfast owners get on for free, Google sees all the relevant backlinks, we come top of Google for the relevant terms, and we make money from big-chain hotels who we could never get to talk to by using normal affiliate marketing links via people like Booking.com, Laterooms.com and others.
Will it stay number 1 there if my crystal ball gazing is correct? Who knows if Google will clobber the model. Their past history suggests they want us to play the game by their rules, not ours.
For a new site of mine called 301redirect.website, which is a smart way for webmasters to migrate a complex website to a new host, I'm introducing CTBLs. I just want help in promoting my site, if the traffic is hidden from Google, so much the better.
So CTBLs can be links from private posts in Facebook or from logged in areas on a website that Google can't see, they can be emailed to people as recommendations in newsletters or even word-of-mouth discussions between people.
Cloaked Traffic Back Links - your new friend in online promotion.
If you are a webmaster and have some clients who want to 301 redirect some site to another - you will have lots I'm sure - and don't mind bartering with me some traffic for the service, come along to https://301redirect.website and check out what it can do.


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Conference: 1AD1 Snake River Conference
Classification: 1A D1
Head Coach: Kade Craner
Previous Experience: 10 Years at Oakley
State Titles: 1985, 2007, 2009
Mitch Bedke
Zane Mitton
Nick Greenwell
Jake Nyman, OL/DL, 12
Sam Mitton, RB/LB, 12
Austin Bedke, RB/LB, 11
Tate Cranney, QB/DB, 11
Chandler Jones, WR/DB, 10
Jake Nyman, All-Conference OL and All-State OL
Austin Bedke, All-Conference LB and All-State LB
Every senior on the roster
Photo By: Steve Conner - #2 Tate Cranney
Written by: Sven Alskog
It may not be flashy for the Oakley Hornets on a yearly basis, but one thing you can bet is that the Hornets will stick to their game plan on a weekly basis and play their brand of football.
A highly esteemed senior class has departed for Oakley, leaving a great opportunity for players on both ends of the field to step into larger roles for a team that hopes to remain competitive in a wide-open 1AD1 Snake River Conference.
On the front line All-Conference Honoree Jake Nyman is back to create holes to run through.
Sam Mitton and Austin Bedke will have the duties of running behind him and the rest of the line for the Hornets, with the duo giving Head Coach Kade Craner plenty of optimism.
"We have always been a ground and pound team and with Austin Bedke, Sam Mitton, Daxton Gillette and Josh Nyman we can still do that behind a line led by Jake Nyman."
But it's not just the run game that defenses have to worry about this season.
"We are excited about the possibilities we have of throwing the football after turning the reigns over last year to sophomore Tate Cranney and seeing the results," said Craner. "The receiving core will get a boost from Chandler Jones, who as a freshman last year started in the state title game for us."
In that state title affair with Raft River, the Hornets fell 46-18, leaving the returners hungry to get back onto the big stage.
As a scheduling note, both those teams will square off with each other twice this season, with the September 1 battle at Raft River not counting towards conference standings.
Craner and the Oakley fans are excited for those matchups for obvious reasons.
"They are the state champs, longtime rivals with an excellent program. Our kids know and see each other all the time. It is always good to see where you measure up to."
Slowing down the Trojans was difficult due in large part due to the Hitt duo, which fortunately enough for everyone else in the conference will be the last time it's a concern, as Kayden and Kolten have both graduated.
But for the Hornets, they know in order to take the next step it has to start on the defensive end.
"Our pass coverage at times wasn't good. We are looking to shore that up scheme-wise and put those kids in a better position," said Craner.
Speed shouldn't be a problem.
"We will be deep and faster than we have been in the past to the football. We have a lot of kids who have played various positions as underclassmen at the varsity level, so our knowledge of the scheme we are trying to run should be at a high level."
While a talented senior class has exited, don't expect the Hornets to fall too far, as the players who do return earned valuable playing time and experience during a run to a state runner-up finish last season, something that has far greater value than may meet the eye.
It also helps that the chemistry on the team is as strong as ever.
"We have a great group of kids that have been playing together for a while with good success. The combination of upperclassmen and the young kids coming in has been great. We learned a lot of important lessons last season that were driven home, both good and bad," added Craner.
In a conference with as many talented student-athletes and quality coaches as the Snake River Conference has, reaching the top is a tall task. Expect the trio of Raft River, Valley and Oakley to again be at or near the top of the conference, with one or two additional teams having sleeper potential.
"Our conference is tough with many good programs and coaches," said Craner. "The focus has to be week-to-week and you need a lot of things to go right."
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Archie The Eagle to Celebrate 25th Birthday at Cornish Attraction
Published: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Written by: Catherine
A bald eagle named Archie is celebrating his 25th birthday at the popular Paradise Park attraction, near Hayle, this weekend, a landmark in a life that has been full of heartbreak, adventure and happiness.
The plucky predator was hatched in a Canadian forest in April 1988, only days before a serious fire raged through the habitat. In a last ditch attempt to control the blaze, firefighters felled a swathe to create a fire break, bringing Archie and his new world crashing down with it.
Fortunately, the hatchling was rescued by forest rangers and taken to the Thompson Zoo in Manitoba, Canada, where he was hand-raised for eight months, before transferring to his current home at Paradise Park.
He has since become one of the park's most adored residents and regularly wows crowds with daring flying displays. Be sure to wish Archie a happy birthday whilst on a break to one of the wonderful Cornwall cottages over the coming months.
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Ekokamu Oy is a start-up company established in 2017 that is developing biowaste containers based on vacuum technology. The containers will be initially produced for domestic use and, eventually, also for professional applications.
Ekokamu was founded by Annukka Pakarinen, MSc (tech.), PhD, who developed the concept, and Elina Voutilanen, MSc. The Ekokamu's operating mechanism, based on vacuum technology, was invented by Annukka Pakarinen. The invention itself was born long before Ekokamu Oy was established, when Pakarinen, a mother of four children living in a single-family house, started to think about ways of making it easier to recycle biowaste. Pakarinen has a Master's degree in chemistry and a Doctorate in agricultural biotechnology. Her interest in utilising the various organic side streams created in the food chain arises from a combination of strong professional expertise and a desire to solve the problems she encounters in her own everyday life, and this has resulted in the method used in the Ekokamu biowaste containers which makes possible the almost odour-free handling of biowaste without any extra moisture.
The commercialisation of the product began in the summer of 2017, when Elina Voutilainen, the other founder of the company, joined the project. Voutilainen has a strong background in product development and project management in large organisations, first with the Finnish Defence Forces and later with the KONE Corporation. For the last few years, she has run her own consulting company that offering services related to project management and the commercialisation of new products for technology companies.
As a product, the Ekokamu biowaste container is still in its infancy, but its operating method is based on extensive research and testing. The vacuum method used by Ekokamu enables a completely new way of handling household biowaste. The product development is continuing, and the concept is now being developed intensively.
In addition to Pakarinen and Voutilainen, Ekokamu Oy's partners include Riikka Krenn, who is responsible for marketing, Ville Ansaharju, who is in charge of product development and production chain management, and Juha-Matti Saario, who is responsible for market research and business development.
Ekokamu's product development partner is the Jalaka Oy design company from Lahti, which has collaborated with Ekokamu to create the first prototypes as well as the visual appearance of the product.
Right now, Ekokamu Oy is building the production and distribution chain for the new product and is looking to reinforce its financing. The opportunities on the international market have been, and are still being, mapped thoroughly. We expect the actual production to start during 2019. Soon, the first Ekokamu containers will find their way into people's homes. Ekokamu has gained a lot of national and international attention, and the company has received funding from Keksijäsäätiö, the city of Hämeenlinna and from EU's Climate KIC Accelerator Programme. In 2018, Ekokamu took part in Kasvu Open, a Finnish start up growth programme, where the company was selected to be one of the most promising start up companies in Finland.
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Up-and-coming boy band NCT 127 was a special guest at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival in New York City's Central Park on Saturday (local time) ― the first K-pop group to perform at the event. The 10 members captivated the 60,000 audiences with its latest releases "Superhuman" and "Highway to Heaven" from the album "We Are Superhuman." The album ranked No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart. British rock band Queen, American singers Adam Lambert and Alicia Keys headlined the show.
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The Global Citizen Festival is an annual charity concert organized by the Global Poverty Project, which aims to end extreme poverty. The star-studded event premiered in 2012. "It's very heartwarming to be able to participate in an event like this for such a good reason," Canadian rapper Mark was quoted as saying. "As much as it's for a good cause, we're going to give it our all today. I hope everyone feels that from us today, and I hope everyone can relate to this well."
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Fume Extra Blueberry Mint Disposable E-Cigs Vape Device
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Whether you're looking to stop smoking altogether or just want a little more flavor in your cigarette, you'll love the Fume Extra. It's got a battery that can hold 7.5 packs of cigarettes and offers a variety of flavors. It also doesn't need to be charged or refilled.
It doesn't require filling or charging
Using a disposable vape is a great option for a newbie vaper who wants to try out different flavors without having to worry about a full size e-juice bottle. Disposable vapes are also a lot more portable than a standard rig. They are also much less expensive than full size e-juice bottles.
The Fume Extra has some very impressive features. It is the first disposable vape to feature a temperature controlled vape box. The device also features a very slick battery. It also comes with a snazzy USB-C charging port. The best part is that it has been designed to be a reliable and dependable device.
There are actually two versions of the Fume extra, a full size version and a pocket sized version. The latter has a larger battery, meaning you can have more fun with it. The former boasts an 850mAh built in battery, which is more than enough to get you through your day.
It has a variety of flavors
Whether you're new to vaping or a seasoned veteran, Fume Extra has a flavor that's right for you. The flavor isn't overly sweet, but it still maintains the perfect flavor balance. This makes it a good choice for beginners who are switching from traditional cigarettes.
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It has a battery capacity of 850mAh
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It holds 7.5 packs of cigarettes
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There have been several attempts at Dueling Pianos in Hoboken, NJ, but none have lasted very long. This room has been going since March of 2016, and we have high hopes for it. Equipped with 2 upright pianos on a small stage, a modest sound system, and a night that begins with a dinner crowd, and a show that ends at 11 PM, you might be understandably skeptical. And yet, this room really works! Hoboken is a young town, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. While it is an expensive town to live in, it's cheaper than Manhattan, and young, well-paid Manhattan professionals move here to get more space than they would score in the Financial District or Midtown. Off a couple blocks from the late night bar scene of Washington Avenue, this Texas BBQ joint has developed a nice following among locals and their guests, and this dueling piano show does well. On a recent weekend night the family-style picnic tables were full with 30-somethings, the pianos were covered with requests, and the crowd was singing their hearts out to 90's music.
Come early, as the show must stop at 11pm due to a noise ordinance on the waterfront. After 11, they have a DJ that spins until 2 am. Also, bring an appetite, as this is some of the best BB-'Que in New Jersey.


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San Diego project showcases seismic zone design
By ROBERT BOURDAGES
Poggemeyer Design Group
Photo courtesy of Poggemeyer Design Group
When finished next spring, Acqua Vista will have 387 residential units in twin 18-story towers — all on a potentially active fault line.
Parts of Southern California are known for their strong and frequent earthquakes. So, what does it take to design a modern building in quake country? The answers can be found in a project under construction in San Diego.
The project, Acqua Vista, is a 387-unit residential building located in the Little Italy district of San Diego. It is a cast-in-place concrete building with twin towers extending 18 stories above grade and two levels of underground parking. The towers are connected up to level eight, where an open courtyard and pool level are located. The building footprint is 200 feet by 300 feet.
Earthquake country
Acqua Vista's site is situated within 2 kilometers of an active fault and is directly over an ancient fault line that has not been active for more than 125,000 years.
The dominant tectonic system in the local area is the Rose Canyon Fault Zone, a fault zone associated with the general San Andreas Fault system. These faults are identified with the Pacific-North American Plate margin in Southern California. The western side of the San Andreas Fault moves northward relative to the eastern side at an estimated rate of 50 millimeters a year. Earthquakes here tend to be shallow, strong, and frequent with short duration. Aftershocks are common.
The Seattle tectonic setting, by comparison, is characterized by subduction, where the heavier Pacific Plate moves westward and under the North American Plate. Earthquakes here generally are deep seated, moderate in strength, and are longer in duration. Aftershocks are less common than the Southern California quakes.
For this project, the lateral load resisting system was required to resist seismic forces prescribed in the California Building Code: Zone 4, Downtown Special Fault Zone. Wind loading was specified at 70 mph (basic wind speed), exposure C. Wind loading did not control the lateral design.
The underlying soils were classified as Bay Pointe Formation, beginning about 15 feet below the existing grade. These materials are good bearing materials for conventional spread footings and have an allowable bearing pressure of 6,000 pounds per square foot. The soils were identified as severely corrosive. The ancient fault running through the site was determined to be inert (classified as potentially active) and therefore no setbacks or other mitigating measures were required.
An 84-inch-diameter sewer interceptor buried 50 feet below grade passes through a portion of the site. There was about 22 feet of clearance between the top of the pipe and the bottom of the mat foundation. The city of San Diego required that the building not adversely affect the deteriorating concrete sewer main, and it was necessary to prove that a pipe failure from degradation would not unravel the overburden materials and undermine the footings.
Temporary earth shoring within the city right of way was required to be removable.
The 200-by-300-foot site was shored with removable soil nailing. Seams of loose sand were encountered during the soil nailing installation, which added a degree of difficulty to the stabilization of the excavation. Typical nail spacing was 6 feet vertical, except at the sand layers where the spacing was narrowed down to as little as 2 feet. Some movement was detected at the north wall, requiring additional soil reinforcing.
Under a portion of the north tower, drilled concrete piers were used to support a large mat footing that spans over the sewer interceptor pipe. The south tower was supported by another large mat footing, and balance of the structure is supported by conventional spread footings.
The lateral resisting system was provided by a building frame system with concrete shear walls founded on mat footings. Tower shear walls were located at elevator cores, stairwells and demising walls. Shear walls were typically 18 inches thick with heavy boundary reinforcing. Number 18 bars were used at shear wall boundary elements at the lower levels. Rebar congestion was evaluated in the design phase and coordinated with the concrete subcontractor prior to construction. The execution of rebar placement and formwork went very smoothly.
The floor system and roof is cast-in-place post-tensioned flat plates supported by concrete columns. Typical bay spacing ranges from 26 to 34 feet. Slab thicknesses were typically 8.5 inches. Each floor and roof level was designed using finite-element post-tensioning software that provides for faithful modeling of actual geometry, including floor openings and changes in slab thicknesses. Slab closure pours were used at large slab areas to minimize the effects of concrete shrinkage.
Portions of the level 18 penthouse floor were offset from columns below, such that the slab was suspended with tube steel tension elements to the roof.
The building is expected to be finished next spring.
Poggemeyer Design Group provided the preliminary and final structural design and construction administration services. Matt Schmitter was the project engineer.
Robert Bourdages is senior vice president of Poggemeyer Design Group, a multi-disciplined design firm with offices in Washington, Nevada and Ohio. He is president of the Seattle Chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Washington and chairs the Architects and Engineers Legislative Council of Washington.


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MUSEUM DE REEDE
Museum De Reede, which opened on Friday 9 June 2017, focuses on the work of three masters: Francisco Goya, Félicien Rops and Edvard Munch. The work of these artists is presented as that of critical observers of the times in which they lived, each within its own artistic and social context. The museum will put its work in dialogue with current expressions of society and culture. Temporary exhibitions will be both monographic and thematic.
The museum, located at Ernest van Dijckkaai 7, in the historic centre of the city of Antwerp, is in an apartment complex called 'De Rede'. This building dates from 2000, a design by the Antwerp Architects' Atelier, and has come on the site of the former offices of shipping companies dealing with inland navigation on the Rhine and other major rivers.
The name Museum De Reede is as much inspired by this historical background as the name of the building complex. It is, coincidence or not, a great sign of kinship to have another museum as a neighbour, the Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum, located in 'Het Redershuis', headquarters of the 'Royal Belgian Shipowners' Association'.
With the 16th-17th century in mind, the era of the rise of international shipping in the Low Countries, the writing of the time was chosen, the place where ships anchored to get ready for a journey usually full of adventure.
Get carried away at Museum De Reede in an adventure full of art.
FRIENDS OF MDR
Support the museum by becoming a member. An annual contribution of €50 gives you unlimited access to the museum including a free catalogue. You will also be personally informed of our new temporary exhibitions and various activities.
By transferring funds to account number BE50 0018 0911 0018, stating your name and e-mail address, you automatically become a "Friend of MDR".
FIELD OF PARTICIPANTS
The field in which Museum De Reede operates is called that of 'graphic art' or 'works on paper'. This places the museum among a nationally and internationally limited group of institutions that have made graphic art their speciality.
Graphics collecting dates back to the 16th century, with one of the oldest examples being the Royal Collection of Graphic Arts in Copenhagen. A century later, Basel's Kupferstichkabinett emerged, followed not long after by similar initiatives in Dresden and other European capitals. In the 19th century, specialised graphic collections often emerged from educational institutions, such as the collections of the universities of Leiden, Princeton and Harvard.
Most of these graphic collections became part of larger museums from the 19th century onwards. In addition, several museums started collecting prints themselves. An example is the Stedelijk Prentenkabinet in Antwerp, which was founded from Museum Plantin- Moretus. The Rijksprentenkabinet as part of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is another example. Some graphic collections were housed in libraries. We find an example of this in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.
Museum De Reede believes to be a worthy addition to the globally exhibited graphic arts collection for three reasons. Firstly, because of the exclusive nature of its objective, 'graphics', because of the nature of the composition of its collection and because the entire collection is directly visible to the public without restriction. The latter sets the museum apart from similar initiatives elsewhere, where many works almost always remain hidden from the mainstream public.


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Rubin: While the Charter lets us dream, the Access to Information Act is a nightmare
Tend to agree, given my much more limited experience from outside government. Of course while in government, I dreaded the extensive vetting I had to do for some files:
Two pieces of once-promising Canadian legislation have turned out very differently 40 years on. One is Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, enacted on April 17, 1982, and the other is Canada's Access to Information Act, given royal assent on July 7, 1982.
Both claimed to advance and protect individuals from the state's excesses; one by placing Canadians' rights in a Supreme Court-guided constitutional framework, and the other a government-controlled law claiming to give Canadians new access to government records –while in reality gatekeeping what Canadians are allowed to know.
Both acts were born under Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government, one through his leadership and legal beliefs (the Charter); the other (the Access Act) was delegated to his finance minister Mitchell Sharp, secretary of state Francis Fox, and their senior mandarins. These public officials disliked access-to-information legislation (ignoring the public's demand for it) but needed a legal secrecy code to protect against the growing government leaks.
As part of the access-to-information lobby group, ACCESS, I remember that debate well.
The senior mandarins were the real winners and birth fathers of restrictive public access to government records. An earlier attempt at an Access Act by the Joe Clark government bore their imprint.
The Access to Information Act allowed bureaucrats to run the show. Public officials and corporations gained special privileges and consultation rights, allowing little leeway for the public to gain a glimpse into Ottawa's information holdings.
Corporations successfully lobbied for special rights to object and to prevent the release of commercial data held by government.
The provinces also had a hand in drafting the secrecy provision in intergovernmental relations affecting them, making those records mandatorily exempt. They agreed with federal authorities that the vast number of federal-provincial agreements and meeting records were outside coverage of any access acts. In 40 years, it has never been suggested that all jurisdictions should agree to regularly work together to adopt more progressive disclosure terms.
Other special interest groups also gained rights. Lawyers were increasingly granted special secrecy for a range of solicitor-client privileges. Crown corporations, both federally and provincially, negotiated more favourable and broader exemption terms. Law enforcement and security agencies, especially after Sept. 11, 2001, successfully pushed for more secrecy.
And at every turn, bureaucrats broadened their policy advice protection terms. They successfully lobbied for excluding immediate release of draft or final unpublished internal government audit reports, thus diminishing the role of their internal watchdogs.
This in contrast to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, where law enforcement agencies were not given freer rein, bureaucrat and PMO plans received no free passes, lawyers had to make public cases of their arguments, and Crown corporations–even Parliament—could not expect special privileges without a challenge.
Judges blossom under Charter, rubber-stamp under Access Act
The Charter let the courts blossom with progressive purpose interpretations and few disappointments. But on the Access Act side, the courts have mainly sided with the secrecy claims of governments and corporations to the public's disadvantage.
Just look at the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court which recently ruled the province's information commissioner has no business in reviewing solicitor-client numerous cases of secrecy (the Newfoundland commissioner is appealing the ruling). Or look at how the Supreme Court of Canada (John Doe v Ontario (Finance), 2014) approved Ontario and other jurisdictions' application of broader policy advice exceptions. This ruling emboldened provinces like Quebec and British Columbia to amend their Freedom of Information Acts and bring in wider policy advice exemption terms.
Further, in access cases, the courts are unable to review cabinet records or in-camera hearing secret evidence. Even in matters like ministerial mandate letters which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has released for his cabinet, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants his kept secret, the courts' hands are tied. While the Supreme Court recently gave challengers leave to appeal, it is unlikely it will go against the lower courts and buck cabinet confidentiality to order the release of Ford's mandate letters.
Judges may be seen as too powerful under the Charter, though they mainly take their decisions from precedents, society and from the hope and purpose that the Charter offers. Judges in Access cases have bleak precedents, little leeway and may not even get to see the most key records hived off as cabinet or security-enabled secrets.
What's also possible in Canadian Access acts aided by the provincial legislatures is the ability of a growing number of laws passed that override access laws. One such act concerns the Canada Infrastructure Bank, whose operations are largely secret.
Passed in 2019, Bill C-58, an Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, neatly hived off whole realms of public information, like records in the PMO, from ever publicly surfacing.
In the early days, the media greeted access legislation as a wonderful tool, giving Canadians legal access to public records. It did not take long, especially once more journalists began using access legislation, to realize that these access laws really did not stand for public disclosures. People like me tried to warn the media that access laws were primarily secrecy laws. Back in September 1975, before joining ACCESS, I presented a brief to the Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations on the federal government's excessive secrecy. Even then, I realized that legalizing public access to government records would mean officials creating laws very similar to Canada's vaguely-worded Official Secrets Act.
Over 500 ways to say 'no'
The dark aspects of the Charter's notwithstanding clause have rarely come to the forefront, whereas the over 500 ways of saying "no" under access legislation are a daily occurrence. The tools of review under access legislation are kept weak. Access users are considered wards of the state rarely given access to government records. Whereas a litigant under the Charter can use it to challenge prevailing laws and gain greater rights.
The Charter provides a place for sorting out issues that top-down government officials alone cannot handle. Access laws are the exact opposite—they're an exercise in executive-style government predominating, with only some rights to independent review of record denials.
While the Charter has not brought about, for instance, all Indigenous rights and recognition changes needed, it tries. Canada's access laws hardly try to allow the public, including Indigenous people, real legislated access or rights. Bureaucrats are in control and do not want access laws being extensively used, even if it is for access to historic data on land claims.
Access laws stifle Canadians' right to information. Bureaucrats' daily subversion of public access largely goes on without being penalized and no one effectively challenges their failure to record much government activities.
The Charter is more welcoming and well-regarded. It lets you dream, fight and win better rights that can effect everyday living. In contrast, Access laws only speak of reasonable secrecy and limited service to assist, knowing full well that the public becomes the loser, the state the clear winner.
Rarely have I, in court actions, referred to the Charter. In one case, though, I cited the Charter's Sec. 15 equality provision in an unsuccessful challenge for gaining equal costs as a lay litigant (Rubin v. Canada (Attorney General), 1990). In another case, in Ontario, I was successful in citing the Charter's Sec. 2 (b) guarantee of freedom of expression provision in an action that sought to have my filing FOI requests declared as libellous and subject to damages because the commercial party did not like my seeking under municipal FOI his government contracts (Sept. 20, 2019, Ontario Superior Court court ruling, CV-18-595693)).
The Charter protects my right of access to the courts. Most access laws now allow exclusion of users whom they and the information commissioner consider as abusive, frivolous, too-frequent users or as putting in requests in bad faith.
The Charter, in the courts, has been used to challenge governments' day-to-day controls and has in judgments developed a living doctrine approach to grow and protect individual rights. In contrast, it is government information management directives that limit access, giving marching orders to government agencies to delay, delete and uphold secrecy.
The Treasury Board's federal directives, for instance, offer dry defensive language designed to say "no" and prevent public employees from serving the public, properly documenting their actions. Daily, I have to contend with getting small morsels of information about the behind-the-scene efforts of hundreds of agencies, third parties and governments.
I would like to see access laws given a constitutional underpinning, an enshrined purpose which would help put Canada on the path to much greater disclosures. Access to information would become a full-fledged public right and a common tool of free expression and inquiry.
While the Access to Information Act and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were born from the same parent a few months apart, they have not acted together as one co-operative friendly force. Forty years have passed and even greater gulfs growing between the two acts.
The Canadian Charter garners international respect as a model to adopt; the Access to Information Act ranks dismally low as a model to avoid.
It's time to put the two acts on the same page so that Canadians' rights to know can no longer be ignored, trampled on or based on the state controlling what Canadians get or not get disclosed.
Ken Rubin has followed both the Access to Information Act's rough 40 years and the Charter's 40-year evolution. He can be reached at kenrubin.ca
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LANETT, Alabama – Building on a solid period of rejuvenation, Alabama's Chambers County attracted more than $171.3 million in new capital investment last year, spurring the creation of 119 new and future jobs, economic development officials said.
In addition, the Chambers County Development Authority (CCDA) reported that it has developed an active pipeline for 2017. The group says it is now working on 31 projects – 19 industrial, six retail, and six commercial.
During 2016, the CCDA says the east central Alabama county saw continued growth in its broad-based auto supply chain, infrastructure improvements, the development of a new industrial park, and other promising developments. Local schools will see $3 million in new tax revenues from the activity.
Last summer, Chambers County landed the largest solar energy project in Alabama history. A subsidiary of Miami-based Origis Energy, AL Solar A, is investing $140 million to build a 72-megawatt photovoltaic facility as part of a project put forward by Alabama Power and Walmart.
The Origis-operated solar farm near LaFayette will provide renewable energy to Alabama Power, which in turn will sell it to the retail giant. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year.
Georgia Plating Co., which provides zinc and nickel plating of metal parts for Tier 1 auto supplier Mando, announced plans for a $6.3 million manufacturing facility in the Huguley Industrial Park that will create a total of 45 new jobs.
Plastic injection molding company PSR Plastic Solutions announced plans last July to open a $1.7 million facility in LaFayette with 30 jobs.
Expansion activity was brisk, with Leehan America, Ajin USA, Great Lakes Metal Stamping and C&C Fabrication all launching 2016 growth projects. Total investment in these projects approached $19 million, with 31 new and future jobs.
"We always get excited when we announce new industries, but what is just as exciting is that here again we find our cities and county announcing the growth and expansion of our existing industries," CCDA Executive Director Valerie Gray said.
Chambers' unemployment rate – recorded at 5.2 percent in December – has long functioned as a key indicator of the county's economic fortunes.
Chambers, which borders the Georgia line and stands 80 miles from Montgomery, suffered stiff job losses in its textile/apparel industry starting in 2007. By February 2009, the county's unemployment rate approached 20 percent, with more than 2,800 people out of work.
The arrival of auto suppliers like Ajin and Leehan, as well as the restart of Knauf's insulation plant in Lanett, have largely replaced the county's lost textile plants. Only eight counties in Alabama had a lower unemployment rate in December, according to state Department of Labor figures.
Last year, the City of Valley purchased 400 acres to develop the Valley Industrial Park, which has received the state's AdvantageSite designation, meaning it is prepared for industry.
The roads in Huguley Industrial Park were completely repaved for the first time in 20 years, representing a significant improvement in the county's infrastructure.
The CCDA's Small Business Grant program assisted 16 businesses with grants totaling $65,000 last year.
Plans are coming into shape for the development of a countywide business incubator that would facilitate growth among small businesses and entrepreneurs.


Julen Lopetegui led Real Madrid to victory over Roma in his first Champions League match in charge.
ISCO'S PERFECT FREE-KICK paved the way for Real Madrid to start their latest Champions League defence with a 3-0 home win against Roma, with Gareth Bale and Mariano Diaz also on target.
Madrid are aiming to win the tournament for the fourth year in-a-row and Julen Lopetegui's side cruised to a comfortable Group G victory at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Isco took set-piece duties following the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus, and on the same night his former team-mate was sent off against Valencia, the Spain international whipped in a superb strike from 25 yards just before the break.
And Bale, scorer of a brace in Madrid's defeat of Liverpool in last season's final, made sure of the points with a placed finish after racing through on goal from Luka Modric's pass, with substitute Mariano going on to add a third in stoppage time.
Bale had a great chance to open the scoring in the fourth minute, but he rifled wide after collecting an excellent lofted pass from Toni Kroos, then Robin Olsen brilliantly denied Isco.
Kroos and Bale wasted further chances but while Olsen showed off his acrobatics to tip over a Sergio Ramos header he was helpless as Madrid took the lead on the stroke of half-time.
Daniele De Rossi brought down Isco and the Spain star curled a brilliant free-kick into the top-left corner, Olsen seemingly deceived by the strike.
Keylor Navas was selected in goal rather than Thibaut Courtois and he parried away a drive from Cengiz Under, with Bale's deflected shot then bouncing back off the crossbar.
But the Wales star would not be denied again when Modric sent him clear, Bale arrowing a shot home with his trusty left boot.
Substitute Marco Asensio almost added a late third with a delightful no-look finish, but Mariano did wrap up the scoring in the first minute of added time with a fantastic turn and strike into the top-right corner on his first appearance since returning from Lyon.
Real next travel to CSKA Moscow on 2 October, after the Russians came back from two goals down to salvage a 2-2 draw at Viktoria Plzen, with Everton loanee Nikola Vlasic scoring an injury-time penalty.
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