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'Strip Prince Andrew of his Duke of York title' say leading councillor and MP
Thursday 13 January, 2022 @ 7.51 pm by YorkMix in News
Prince Andrew at York Minster in July 2019. Photograph: Richard McDougall
Prince Andrew should no longer be known as the Duke of York, a leading councillor said today (Thursday).
It follows news that the Queen had stripped Prince Andrew of his honorary military roles and he gave up his HRH style in a dramatic fallout from his civil sex case.
The move comes after the lawsuit against him took a major step forward on Wednesday when a judge threw out the duke's motion to dismiss the sexual assault case and ruled it can go to trial.
Councillor Darryl Smalley, executive member for culture, leisure and communities at the City of York Council, has now called for the Duke of York title to be urgently removed.
Prince Andrew became the duke, the title traditionally carried by the British monarch's second son and held for life, when he married Sarah Ferguson in 1986.
Coun Smalley said: "York's unique connection to the crown and the monarch is an important part of our city's legacy, history and a great source of pride.
Prince Andrew learns about the Minster restoration in 2015. Photograph: Duncan Lomax / ravageproductions.co.uk
"No one is above the law and all allegations should rightly be fully investigated, particularly following the recent distressing court cases. We stand with all victims, whose harrowing stories have shocked us all in recent months.
"Whilst Prince Andrew remains innocent until proven guilty, Buckingham Palace and the Government must consider the implications of these troubling allegations moving forward.
"Having been stripped of his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, he should also now relinquish his title as Duke of York."
And York Central's Labour MP agrees. Tonight, she tweeted:
It's untenable for the Duke of York to cling onto his title another day longer; this association with York must end. There's a very serious allegation made against this man of privilege & entitlement. I'm working with agencies to tackle sexual violence & misogyny. #NotInYorksName
— 💙Rachael Maskell MP (@RachaelMaskell) January 13, 2022
Major blow
The Queen's decision, announced today, represents the duke's complete removal from official royal life, and an attempt to distance the royal family from Andrew, who was once second in line to the throne as the spare to the heir, in the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
The development is a major blow for the duke who is facing a court showdown after a judge ruled on Wednesday that Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit against him could go ahead.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday: "With the Queen's approval and agreement, the Duke of York's military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen.
"The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen."
Here is the list of the 12 honorary military roles which the Duke of York has returned to the Queen:
British military affiliations
– Colonel of the Grenadier Guards
– Honorary air commodore of RAF Lossiemouth
– Colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment
– Colonel-in-chief of the Small Arms School Corps
– Commodore-in-chief of the Fleet Air Arm
– Royal colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland
– Deputy colonel-in-chief of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
– Colonel-in-chief of the Yorkshire Regiment
Overseas honorary military roles
– Colonel-in-chief of the Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)
– Colonel-in-chief of The Royal Highland Fusiliers Of Canada
– Colonel-in-chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
– Colonel-in-chief of the Princess Louise Fusiliers (in Nova Scotia, Canada)


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ICP Presents #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis
Drawn from ICP's popular open call, photographs printed in-gallery can be viewed in virtual contexts until ICP—currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic—reopens to the public.
Garry Lotulung, Muslim women wearing face masks pray to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, at a residential area amid the spread of COVID-19. May 24, 2020, Bekasi, Indonesia. © Garry Lotulung
On March 20, the International Center of Photography announced an open call for imagemakers around the world to post and tag imagery of their experiences as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. The hashtag #ICPConcerned was named in recognition of ICP's founding principle to champion "concerned photography"—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world.
Then, on May 25, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer and millions came out of isolation to gather in anger and defiance of centuries of systemic racism and white supremacy. Thousands of #ICPConcerned images of the demonstrations were shared.
Photojournalism and documentary pictures sit with staged and more metaphorical photographs. Amateur smartphone pictures are being uploaded alongside the work of professional imagemakers from around the world. A whole range of emotions are present: anger, despair, loss, confusion, frustration, boredom, loneliness, strength, and resolve.
Now, ICP has initiated an evolving exhibition, #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis. One thousand images are being chosen by a wide range of ICP staff—curators, administrators, and educators. No one can visit yet, as ICP remains closed to the public due to the pandemic, but the process and the installation are being documented and shown online, taking the images back to the worldwide audience that made them. Eventually, the returning public will be able to come see a visual account of this tumultuous era.
Visit icp.org to view photographs and installation videos and images.
In June 2020, ICP initiated the show in its largest gallery space. The exhibition was announced to the public on August 11, 2020. It is the intention that when ICP is able to reopen its space, which is currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show will continue to be on view, growing and evolving with submissions to #ICPConcerned.
While ICP is closed, the physical exhibition remains inaccessible to the public. During this time, we are reporting on the process and installation on icp.org and @ICP on Instagram. We are also hosting a series of virtual curator's tours and other related public programs. When ICP reopens, we hope all who are able will visit the museum and explore the images and stories there.
1000 images, printed on 17 x 22" paper and hung chronologically in a grid. Each image is accompanied by a caption that includes photographer's name, Instagram handle, caption or title from the photographer, date, and location the image was photographed.
Curatorial Team
Images for this evolving exhibition are being chosen by a wide range of ICP staff—curators, administrators, and educators—coordinated by David Campany, managing director of programs, and Sara Ickow, curatorial coordinator.
Curator's Tour—#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis (Online)
Friday, August 28, 1–2 PM EST
ICP Talks: On Curating Photography (Online)
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We look forward to announcing additional programming in the coming weeks. Visit icp.org/events for the latest information.
Hear directly from a selection of contributing photographers to learn more about the stories behind their images in the #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis audio guide, which will continue to expand alongside the physical exhibition. The audio guide includes perspectives from alumni of ICP's Full-Time Programs and past Continuing Education students as well as members of the ICP community residing across the United States and abroad, including Pakistan, Indonesia, France, and Peru. Transcripts and translations are available in up to 10 languages through Gesso, ICP's audio guide host.
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis has been made possible by the generous support of the ICP Exhibitions Committee.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional exhibition support is provided by the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
On Reopening
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICP's museum is temporarily closed and classes have been moved online. We look forward to opening our museum when it is safe to do so. For updated information, visit icp.org
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Stay connected with ICP's exhibitions and education programs online. Take a class, register for online events, watch videos, engage with our collections, and more. Visit icp.org/anywhere.
About ICP
The International Center of Photography is the world's leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to champion "concerned photography"—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through our exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
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The International Center of Photography is on the island known as Mannahatta (Manhattan) in Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape people. ICP pays respect to the original stewards of this land, Lenape and other indigenous peoples, and is committed to supporting the inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous communities that continue to thrive in New York City. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of dismantling the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism through our exhibitions, classes, and programming.

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I attended Graves Road Elementary School for grades 1-8 from 1956-64. When my daughters were about 5 years old, I took them to Memphis for a visit, and we went to see my old elementary school. They weren't impressed. I thought it had shrunk. I distinctly remember the ceilings being higher and the halls being wider and longer. Maybe I'm just wider. And the playground wasn't as big as I remembered either. Oh well.
My mother saved a box of my stuff and shipped it to me when she moved from Whitehaven in 1997. Inside was one of my old wallets which contained a bunch of pictures. Some of them were taken in high school, but a few were from Graves. I have scanned these and a lot of other old and recent photos of Graves alumni. Most of these are listed in the menu above.
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A giraffe has been born at Paignton Zoo – and the crucial moment was captured on video by staff. The as yet unsexed calf was born to mother Sangha on the morning of Wednesday 19th April.
The Zoo's giraffe house is likely to be closed for a few days while mother and calf bond. It's hoped that visitors may be able to see the calf from this coming weekend. The rest of the Zoo's herd will be out and about.
Since the tragic fire in early 2006, which claimed the lives of three giraffes, animal experts have patiently rebuilt the Paignton Zoo herd. A male, Yoda, came from Givskud Zoo, Denmark in September 2006. Two females, Sangha and Janica, came to Paignton Zoo from the Czech Republic.
This is the tenth birth in seven years. Two males, Tonda and Valentino, have been moved on to other collections and three females, Joanna and Otilie (both born to Sangha) and Eliska remain at Paignton Zoo with their parents, making a herd of six. One calf died and three sadly had to be put to sleep for different veterinary reasons. This good record in breeding giraffes is in no small part due to the patient hard work and dedication of animal and veterinary staff.
For the keepers, the birth is just the start. The early hours are crucial: it's vital that the youngster connects with mum, suckles and receives colostrum, the special milk that contains antibodies to protect the new-born against disease; it is lower in fat and higher in protein than ordinary milk.
The gestation period for a giraffe is between 400 and 460 days. The mother gives birth standing up – the fall breaks the umbilical cord. It's an unceremonious way to enter the world, a head-first drop to the ground, but the calf is on its feet within a few hours and is nearly six feet tall at birth.
Rothschild's or Baringo giraffes have recently been reclassified as Northern giraffes. They are officially Endangered; Paignton Zoo is part of the European Endangered species Programme for the Northern giraffe.


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7 Issues That Could Signal an Impending Divorce
divorce signals of divorce Dec 17, 2019
Over the years of working with people going through a divorce, I've heard repeatedly that one of the parties was blindsided by the other spouse's request for a divorce. With that said, a relationship headed for an impending divorce will often show multiple signs of challenges and issues, if you're paying attention.
7 issues that could signal an impending divorce:
1. You feel emotionally detached from your spouse.
One of the most frequent complaints is that love has faded. Know that it's normal for relationships to change over time. Your love will also change. The first feeling of romance will turn into a deeper kind of love. However, it shouldn't disappear. A relationship that has lost its love altogether is in danger.
2. Mutual resentment has reached high levels.
Anger and resentment can do immense damage to a relationship. If you both resent each other, then it's a strong sign the marriage is in trouble.
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Sunshine Coast Team working together
Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester visited the Sunshine Coast to meet with the Sunshine Coast team and see first-hand some of the priority infrastructure projects we are lobbying for, including:
· Duplication of the North Coast Rail Line
· Six laning of the Bruce Highway from Pine Rivers to Caloundra.
My federal colleagues Ted O'Brien and Andrew Wallace have already made good on their promises to prioritise funding for further upgrades to the Bruce Highway.
In addition to the $1.134 billion project which will take place over the next four years to upgrade the Caloundra and
Sunshine Motorway interchanges and widen the highway to six lanes, a further $187 million in funding has been locked in to develop a business case for the Maroochydore Road interchange upgrade.
The Bruce Highway – Maroochydore Road Interchange Upgrade – Stage 1 project is jointly funded with the Australian Government contributing up to $149.6 million and the Queensland Government up to $37.4 million
A key feature of the Maroochydore Road interchange will be a new four lane eastbound bridge over the highway at a signalised roundabout with the Nambour Connection road to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion.
New service roads east and west of the Bruce Highway would also link the Mons and Maroochydore Road interchanges and remove local traffic from the highway, further improving safety.
Planning work on this project will complement the Pine River to Caloundra Road planning study that is already underway, and will build on Caloundra Road to Sunshine Motorway upgrade which starts year.
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0-0 Draw For City's Cup Opponents
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Arlesey Town, who face Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday in the FA Cup First Round, drew 0-0 in an FA Trophy Second Qualifying Round game today.
A crowd of 150 including scouts from the Sky Blues watched the game at Cray Wanderers which will have to be replayed.
Tickets for the game at the Ricoh Arena, which kicks off at 3pm, are on sale priced at Adults £10, Concessions £5, Juniors £1, Under 7s £1.
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Q: Convert right side of join of many to many into array of objects I have 2 tables:
Table subjects: id, class_id, title, created_at, updated_at
Table marks: id, student_id, class_id, mark, created_at, updated_at, subject_id
I want to query subjects table and have it return all of its columns and also marks column, that is of type array (and the values in it are supposed to be objects) that has essentially the result of the query
select * from marks where marks.subject_id = subjects.id;

So a result row looks something like this:
 (5,3,"Subject 1","2022-01-25T12:05:11.000Z","2022-01-25T12:05:11.000Z"
, [{id:15, student_id:12, class_id:3, mark:5, created_at:"2022-01-23T12:05:11.000Z", updated_at:"2022-01-23T12:05:11.000Z", subject_id:5}
 , {id:23, student_id:12, class_id:3, mark:5, created_at:"2022-01-21T12:05:11.000Z", updated_at:"2022-01-21T12:05:11.000Z", subject_id:5}
  ])

The question is similar to Convert right side of join of many to many into array

A: The best solution depends on missing details. A plain correlated subquery is one of various options (especially good for small selections).
Using json_agg() to aggregate rows into an array of objects:
SELECT *, (SELECT json_agg(m.*) FROM marks m WHERE m.subject_id = s.id) AS marks
FROM   subjects s;

To use only a subset of columns, see:

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*Select columns inside json_agg

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A gray situation
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.
About Author: American author, narrator, and lecturer
Atomic bomb on Japan
Leó Szilárd
Interviewer: Dr. Szilard, what was your attitude in 1945 toward the question of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan?
Leó Szilárd: I opposed it with all my power, but I'm afraid not as effectively as I should have wished.
Interview to Dr. Leó Szilárd: President Truman Did Not Understand, New York
U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960, pages 68-71.
About Author: Hungarian physicist
Cool but determined
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
Delegate pledged their lives
To this noble end the delegate had pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
Different world
I think, if we had not dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and instead demonstrated the bomb after the war, then, if we had really wanted to rid the world of atomic bombs, I think we could probably have done it. Now, whether this would have led to a better world or not, I don't know. But it certainly would have been a world very different from the one we have now.
Entitled to freedom
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948
About Author: American General of the Army
We must carry ourselves with colossal assurance and say, 'Look at us, the Eurasians! ... The meeting of both cultures, the fusion of all that can become a world civilization.
A Many-Splendored Thing, 1952
About Author: Chinese author
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
The Crippled Tree, 1965
Exploits are often irrational
The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.
Virginibus Puerisque, Crabbed Age and Youth (1881)
About Author: Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
Facts and personages appear twice
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napolean, 1852
About Author: German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and revolutionary
Forever a child
To be ignorant of the past is to forever be a child.
M. Tulli Ciceronis Orator Ad M. Brutum, 46 B.C.
About Author: Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist and constitutionalist
History can be well written only in a free country.
Letter to Frederick the Great
About Author: French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
George Washington had no illusions
Washington had no illusions about the difficulties to be faced. He was gravely, realistically apprehensive about the magnitude of the enemy force in route.
George Washington performed role to perfection
Washington had performed his role to perfection,. It was not enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.
Great events should be described truly
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Preface to The Great Crusade (1940)
About Author: American author and journalist
We cannot escape history.
Annual message, Dec. 1, 1862
About Author: 16th President of the United States
Author Photo Source: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
About Author: American author and humorist
History of revolutions
The history of revolutions — which politically spells out the innermost story of the modern age, could be told in parable form as the tale of an age-ole treasure which, under the most varied circumstances, appears abruptly, unexpectedly and appears again, under different mysterious conditions, as though it were a fata morgana
Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought, 1968
About Author: German Jewish political theorist
Italy and Britain
Even the whole conquest of the empire by the English has no decisive importance toward the ending of the war. This is a vendetta of strictly personal character which could have no influence on the results of a war which has dug even deeper chasms between Italy and Britain. I cannot tell you today when or how, but I affirm in the most categoric manner that we shall return to that land bathed by our blood and-Our dead shall not go unavenged.
Speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, Rome, Italy, 10 June 1941
Source: New York Times, 11 June 1941
About Author: Italian politician and Leader of the National Fascist Party
Italy attacking
On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
Commencement address at the University of Virgina, Charlottesville, June 10, 1940. On June 10, Italy declared war against France
About Author: 32nd President of the United States
Author Photo Source: wikimedia.org
John Brown and slave insurrection
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate.
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860 Cooper Union Address
The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another
Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, 24th of July 2008, Time Magazine
About Author: 44th and current President of the United States
Author Photo Source: stern.de
Only I had the courage
Only I had the courage ... to scream against the general contempt for Eurasians
TIME Magazine. 60 Years of Asian Heroes
President Truman did not understand
Interviewer: Would a United States Government today, confronted with the same set of choices and approximately the same degree of military intelligence, reach a different decision as to using the first A-bomb?
Leó Szilárd: I think it depends on the person of the President. Truman did not understand what was involved. You can see that from the language he used. Truman announced the bombing of Hiroshima while he was at sea coming back from Potsdam, and his announcement contained the phrase — I quote from the New York Times of August 7, 1945: We have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history — and won. To put the atomic bomb in terms of having gambled 2 billion dollars and having won offended my sense of proportions, and I concluded at that time that Truman did not understand at all what was involved.
Protection of mother and children
It is therefore necessary to take great care of the future of the race, starting with measures to look after the health of mothers and infants. This is the purpose of the National Organization for the Protection of Mothers and Children
The Ascension Day Speech, Il Popolo d'Italia, 26 May 1927
Qualities of a general
The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
Reflections on the French Revolution
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 1791
About Author: Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher
See things as they are
Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington's salient strengths.
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
Letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855
The many enemies of ancient Egypt
In the south were the black hordes of Africa, in the north along the coast of the great sea were the piratical sea-people, and along the lower reaches of the Nile the legions of the false Pharaoh. In the west were the treacherous Bedouin and the sly Libyan, while in the east new hordes seemed to rise up daily, their names striking terror into a nation grown timid and hesitant with defeat. Assyrians and Meads, Kassites and Hurrians and Hittites - there seemed no end to their multitudes.
River God (1993)
About Author: Zambian-British novelist
Author Photo Source: Graeme Robertson
Unconditional surrender of Japan
Interviewer: Do you feel that President Truman and those immediately below him gave full and conscientious study to all the alternatives to use of the atomic bomb?
Leó Szilárd: I do not think they did. They thought only in terms of our having to end the war by military means. I don't think Japan would have surrendered unconditionally without the use of force. But there was no need to demand the unconditional surrender of Japan. If we had offered Japan the kind of peace treaty which we actually gave her, we could have had a negotiated peace.
Proletarian and Fascist Italy stands up a third time, strong, proud, and united as never before. The single order of the day is categorical and obligatory for all. It already spreads and fires hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean; Victory! And we will win, in order finally to give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, and to the world.
Declaration of War on France and England, 10 June 1940
Suppose Germany had developed two [atomic] bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it.
The World Set Free (1914)
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Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century
Maria Kefalas (Editor) Jennifer Ann Holdaway (Editor) Mary C. Waters (Editor) Patrick Joseph Carr (Editor)
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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places-New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota-to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.
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Q: What determines the order for sound devices in windows when using winmm.dll? I am trying to use NAudio to create a multiple sound output application.  We have 8 USB sound cards installed.  NAudio lets me use all 8 but I can't figure out a pattern for determining which device index is which card.
The cards will be hooked up to different hardware so it is important to make sure you know which card you are using.
I have been trying to use WMI to poll for the information but I can't seem to locate any information that determines the order of the sound devices.
Update:
I forgot to include some information about this problem. The sound cards are all USB sound cards hooked up through a 12 port hub.

A: The order of devices is non deterministic for all versions of Windows.  For Vista and above, the devices are typically ordered by the DSound GUID (more-or-less) so they're effectively random.

A: I'm assuming you are using WaveOut? You can call WaveOut.GetCapabilities(deviceNumber) to get hold of the name of the device, which might help you out.

A: This is what I have come up with so far and it works for us.
Using WMI you can get the DeviceID from Win32_SoundDevice. Then using that you can access the registery at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ENUM\'DeviceID' and get the string value named "Driver".  This value contains the ClassGUID plus a number at the end.
Example: {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0015
If you strip off that last number*(15)* for all of you sound devices and order them, that is the order that the devices are listed from NAudio with uses winmm.dll.  There is also a location for these sound devices, either in the registery at the same key or from Win32_PNPEntity using the DeviceID.
In our case the location lets us determine which port of the USB hub that sound device is plugged into.

A: Have a look at this MSDN article.  It uses DirectSound to enumerate the audio devices:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb318674(VS.85).aspx


Rosalind West, a physio for NHS Exeter, has this morning embarked on a challenge to row across the Atlantic as part of a four-woman team called Row for the Ocean.
The Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge began at La Gomera in the Canary Islands and will end 3,000 miles away in the Caribbean island of Antigua.
'We are aiming to get two world records, one of which is the fastest female crew to cross the Atlantic,' she told Frontline.
The team are also fundraising for environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) to raise awareness of the hazards of plastic waste in the ocean.
'We are a team from Devon and Exeter and we have seen the first-hand effects of plastic in the water,' Ms West said on the SAS website earlier this month.
Ms West is skipper of their boat Liberty, in charge of navigation and communications.
She is most looking forward to 'the simple life, away from technology, phones and work', she told SAS. The daily routine will be 'eat, sleep, row, repeat.
Frontline hopes to speak to Ms West when she arrives in Antigua.


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THE 200-foot-high Pictured Rocks stand in stark contrast to the miles of white sand beaches passed driving the 40 miles east from Marquette to Munising on state road M28.The Pictured Rocks National Shoreline national park extends for 47 miles east from Munising along Lake Superior to Grand Marais and includes a 13,500 acre island. You can view these multicolored cliffs that rise up to 200 feet out of the lake from hiking trails on top, or take a cruise boat from Munising and view the layers of colored rock from below. The sandstone cliffs are millions of years old. The different concentrations of feldspar, copper, manganese, calcium, and iron cause rainbow-like colors. There are trails for hiking along the lake shore, backpacking, and camping. You can take a ferry to Grand Island for backpacking and primitive camping. On shorter hikes you can find observation points, beaches, rivers, natural waterfalls as well as spectacular wildflowers, forests, and wildlife. "It's so pretty, and there's not many people here. We do this trip every year - fish brook trout in [novelist Ernest] Hemingway's stomping grounds - the Fox and the Two-Hearted rivers," says Dave McCann, a 22-year-old University of Michigan graduate school student. Mr. McCann and his pal Mike Beckert, a senior at Michigan Technological University, were among tourists visiting the Munising Falls, one of the side hikes at the park. The two-mile hike is uphill on hard-packed earth trails, with benches for resting along the way. The scent from the surrounding tall cedars is so intense, it smells as though you're inside a cedar chest. Wildflowers are scattered alongside the path - Queen Anne's Lace, blue and purple Chicory, Clover, blue and purple Thistle, Black-eyed Susans, Goldenrod, Thimbleberries, and yellow Cowslips. Wild watercress borders the stream as well as the entire south wall of the waterfall. The water drops about 50 feet from the top of the cliff to the bottom of the stream. There's a ledge behind where you can walk and look through the falls; it's like looking through a heavy rain to sunlit forest and stream beyond. ROY SATHER, from Elmhurst, Ill., says he and his wife have come here every summer for 27 years. "There are the most breathtaking sunsets here I've ever seen - the clouds are lit up by the sun and it causes a brilliant variation in colors," says Mr. Sather. "Tourism is the second largest industry in this county," says Ray Berg, director of the Munising Chamber of Commerce. "We don't have any empty store fronts now, motels are virtually full, restaurants are filled and doing good business, gift shops are doing well, and all the parks are full, so the grocery stores are doing a good business, too."
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A number of our Expo exhibitors have great opportunities. For example, CDK Global has high school interns. Portland Parks & Rec offers summer jobs. PCC Structurals has job opportunities for students 18 and up. Others have volunteer opportunities or are willing to do job shadows. What do you have?
More than 6,900 students from 65+ high schools in Oregon and Southwest Washington have already signed up for this statewide career-exploration event. Employers use the Expo to connect with these smart, diverse young people who could be their future interns, applicants and leaders.
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simulations of complex fluid flow, such as turbulence or multi-phase-flow. For developing modeling of multi-scale data from experiments or for optimization and control of fluid-dynamical processes.
The Mechanical Engineering Program is recruiting outstanding faculty members into our multi-disciplinary and internationally collaborating faculty, to continue building one of the world's finest teaching and research institutions and to fulfill its educational and research missions. KAUST offers superb research facilities, generous research funding, and internationally competitive salaries.
The Mechanical Engineering Program currently has 13 full-time faculty members, over 53 postdocs and research scientists and more than 140 graduate students. The Mechanical Engineering Program (http://me.kaust.edu.sa) focuses on the following areas: combustion and energy, fluid mechanics, materials and solid mechanics, and dynamics and control. The Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) carries out cutting-edge research on all aspects of combustion from flame study to modeling.
The Physical Science and Engineering Division comprises seven Degree Programs: Material Science and Engineering, Applied Physics, Earth Science and Engineering, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Science, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. These disciplines provide the foundation for our Division's quest to address some of the major challenges that we face in the world today, including those related to energy and the environment. Specifically, our faculty members and their research teams work on photovoltaics, super capacitors, porous materials, clean combustion, atmospheric modeling and other topics.
A relevant Ph.D. degree. Proven track record in managing a research group as well as publishing high-impact papers.
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        prefHostStreaming.setSummary(R.string.hostStreamingDescription);
        prefHostStreaming.setDefaultValue("");
        prefHostStreaming.setKey(keyPrefix + "hostnameStreaming");
        toCategory.addPreference(prefHostStreaming);

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        suffixStreamingPort.setDialogTitle(R.string.suffixStreaming);
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Italian energy major ENI will acquire half of BP's Libyan oil and gas license, the company said in a statement on Monday.
The companies, together with the national oil company of Libya – The National Oil Corporation signed a letter of intent in London to launch the process which will see Eni acquiring a 42.5 percent stake in BP's Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) in Libya.
BP holds a 85 percent interest of the second party share in two blocks, with the Libyan Investment Authority holding the remaining 15 percent.
All agreements will be finalized by the end of the year, with the aim of restarting exploration activities in contractual onshore areas A and B, and offshore C next year.
"This is an important milestone that will help to unlock Libyan exploration potential by resuming EPSA operations that have remained suspended since 2014. It contributes towards creating an attractive investment environment in the country, aimed at restoring Libya's production levels and reserve base by optimizing the use of existing Libyan infrastructure," Eni CEO Claudio Descalz said.
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RPG Site Awards 2016: Readers' Choice in Detail
by RPG Site Staff, 03 January, 2017
As part of our 2016 end-of-year awards to mark what the biggest and best RPGs of the year were, we also reached out to you, our readers, to find out what you felt the very best RPGs released throughout 2015 were. With thousands of votes cast and counted, the winner was decided extremely closely, as previously featured in our previous Game of the Year posts.
Our readers' top games differ somewhat from those picked by our site staff. You can see our picks in a variety of categories through these links in Part One and Part Two of our full Game of the Year coverage. But what about beyond that? What was the top ten for our readership, and what other interesting facts can be observed in the voting? Here, we'll reveal a bit on all that. Here's your voting for the RPG of the Year for 2016.
Your Top Ten RPGs of 2016
10. Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir - 3.8% (Atlus / NIS America - PS4, PS3, Vita)
9. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE - 4.2% (Nintendo / Atlus - Wii U)
8. Fire Emblem Fates - 4.4% (Nintendo / Intelligent Systems - 3DS)
7. Dark Souls III - 6.5% (Namco Bandai / FromSoftware - PC, PS4, Xbox One)
6. Stardew Valley - 6.8% (Chucklefish Games - PC, PS4, Xbox One)
5. Pokemon Sun & Moon - 7.8% (Nintendo / Game Freak - 3DS)
4. The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine - 8.4% (CD Projekt RED - PC, PS4, Xbox One)
3. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - 9.4% (Atlus - 3DS)
2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II X - 11.3% (Falcom - Vita, PS3)
1. Final Fantasy XV - 12.9% (Square Enix - PS4 / Xbox One)
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Bolstered by a huge quantity of released RPGs this year and the top-placing RPG Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix garnered more votes than any other publisher. Square also released one of the least-voted RPGs of the year, however, with Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness - it picked up just 0.2% of the vote.
Last year's most-voted publisher Nintendo was close behind Square as the second most prolific publisher thanks to a year of Fire Emblem, Yokai Watch and Pokemon.
The Witcher 3's Blood & Wine Expansion and Stardew Valley are the only Western RPGs to make our top ten. Tyranny almost made it, but other Western RPGs such as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Darkest Dungeon struggled to pick up votes, with the former even being outclassed by tiny budgeted efforts from its own publisher such as I Am Setsuna.
Despite not technically being an RPG, XCOM 2 picked up a number of additional votes from you all.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgunity, Part Eleven
News by Jim Rossignol Contributor
Published on 16 Jan, 2010
Post Eleven of the Shotgunity diary - chronicling the progress of our Unity-based RPS game - and I'm starting to feel the cold damp breath of a deadline on the back of my neck. With only three weeks left on our schedule the process has become a mad rush to cram stuff in. The project, and the already busy mess of my brain, have both collapsed into deeper shaft of chaos. Still it's Saturday, and that means you're due Build 06. Find out what's been making me sweat after the cut...
In game development process terms, our experiment with Unity is about as casual and relaxed as you can get but I'm still feeling the pressure as our deadline approaches. Whenever I've been at a dev studio during similar periods, those times before some milestone or other when everyone's just throwing assets at the thing, when the mood gets as black as the coffee and you want to curl up in a corner and weep softly til the bad men go away, I've always thought 'why keep doing this?' I think it must be the shear rush of pulling it off, the release of pressure when it does all come together. For me, this project has been characterised by a 'fits and starts' nature. Because I'm learning everything as I go along - often through brute force trial and error - I've faced more or less constant bottlenecks each week, daily dams of ignorance that gradually give way to floods of insight and move things along. As the deadline approaches for the end of the project this previously pleasant pattern is starting to feel like an indulgence. I find I'm rushing to get things done so I can move onto to that OTHER thing that needs doing and this has inevitable consequences.
It was clearly madness to attempt a shooter as a learning project. Maybe not if I'd just made some RPS-y levels and draped them over the Unity FPS tutorial skeleton, but I foolishly tried to do more. No wait, not foolishly. There's glory in doomed ambition, right? I'm proud of and amazed by how much has actually come together in the past month. This was always going to be about learning and showing that anyone could have a go and achieve something. If anything it shows just how approachable Unity is that we could even attempt it. And three weeks left is still three weeks left... Fight! Win!
There's so much I wanted to get into this build but I ran out of time. For example I wanted to redo the respawn system to make use of this spiral generating script which is all kinds of pure awesome. But the project folder was fugly enough already without adding more. Build 06 is far and away the messiest build to date. In terms of finding what's new you'll have to wander around the Tutorial level to see anything on the surface (you might want to wear a hat in the Paper Room...), though there's more to see in Project Files. The trouble is that everything you will find is half-done. Until this build I've always tried to finish things off (to a reasonable level) before putting them in the build for the weekend. This time I've not had that luxury. The project is increasingly a mess of assets - my assets and things supplied by forumites - all thrown together higgledy piggledy. You'll find twitching, paralised monsters waiting to be properly assembled and animated, aerial movement scripts in a state of flux, AI pathfinding in the middle of an overhaul and everywhere the rubble and detritus of what this really is at the moment, a building site.
This is something that's going to have to get worse before it can get better. I need to get more assets in, more mess, while simultaneously organising it into something more presentable. This will be the real challenge and pressure for the last weeks of Shotgunity, can we get enough in, and still keep it together?
There's more information on the official forum, and more about today in the build thread.
RockPaperShotgUnity


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La Wonder Neovolta è stata un'azienda italiana produttrice di valvole elettriche ed elettrodomestici di consumo.

Il suo logo consisteva nella W maiuscola.

Storia
Fondata nel secondo dopoguerra a Milano, nacque come piccola impresa dedita alla progettazione di valvole elettriche. Con l'avvento del consumo di massa, infatti, molte grosse imprese necessitavano di sistemi affidabili per la gestione dei flussi di acqua e vapore.

Successivamente, si dedicò alla progettazione e alla vendita di elettrodomestici completi. Buona distribuzione ebbero, negli anni sessanta, le lucidatrici a sogliola, le spazzole aspiranti, i ventilatori, gli aspirapolvere.

Raggiunse la massima espansione fra la fine degli anni sessanta e la prima metà degli anni settanta. All'inizio degli anni settanta, in un'epoca di concentrazione del settore in mano a poche grandi aziende, era fra le poche imprese di stampo artigianale ad essere ancora considerata - in base agli studi commissionati dalla Commissione delle Comunità Europee - fra le principali aziende del mercato.

Al pari di simili realtà industriali, quali Menowatt, anche Wonder Neovolta non riuscì a reggere le importazioni dall'estero, soprattutto di componenti. La produzione si ridusse e la Wonder entrò in liquidazione nel luglio 1986. Gli edifici amministrativi e parte dello stabilimento produttivo di via dei Crollalanza, in parte riconvertiti ed adibiti ad uffici e abitazioni, appaiono riconoscibili nella loro funzione originaria.

Wonder Neovolta applicò un sistema di garanzia al cliente della durata di un anno, precorrendo i tempi di quella che sarebbe divenuta la garanzia obbligatoria. Inoltre, già nei primi anni sessanta, Wonder si dedicò alla miniaturizzazione dei propri oggetti. Frutto di questa filosofia di sviluppo furono alcuni micro ferri da stiro da viaggio e di spazzole per i vestiti di dimensioni ridotte.

Note

Aziende italiane di elettrodomestici del passato

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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This just popped up in my recommendation list.
Nice find, really enjoyed that.
Great looking tables and miniatures. Wish I could get there.
Was that Rigg's Shrine I saw from the second Citadel compendium?
It was nice to see those old "Space Marine" epic buildings and they bring back fond memories of that old and dear warlord titan and the landraiders. If theres another one next year, and I could make it to Nottingham, would it alright to join you all?
Ha starts with a rear shot of Tammy!
I like the way Garth was saying that oldhammer figures are up until 2000 then rocked up with this beauty made from modern parts!
Yeah, skipped over the part where there are some companies around making new figures in the oldhammer vibe, but maybe he's just a true archaeogamer at heart.
Bits and bobs from an Imperial Knight!
Love that term Archeogamer. I worked as an Archaeologist back in the mid 80's. Best job I had. Got to the stage I could not travel around any more so I settled down with factory work.
Those tin huts look great. It's always the buildings and scenery that grab my attention. They really make the games tables into something special.
rattylee66 wrote: Was that Rigg's Shrine I saw from the second Citadel compendium?
yes, it was. thantsants has been working on it for many years.


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Home News & Events The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) is Comin...
The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) is Coming to Brisbane!
From September 27-30, KOFFIA will showcase the best and latest release Korean feature films including past classics. Held at Brisbane's iconic Tribal Theatre, the festival will invite audiences to discover their connection to Korean cinema and culture.
The festival will begin with an Opening Reception and screening of the epic action flick War of The Arrows – the highest grossing film at the 2011 Korean box office. The festival will close with a screening of The Frontline, Korea's official submission to the Academy Awards which tells the story of the final days of the Korean War. Closing Night ceremony will also celebrate Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) with a special performance by the Arirang Quartet (Queensland Korean Orchestra) to mark this special occasion.
A range of Korean films will feature during the four days of KOFFIA from the feel good comedy of Scandal Makers, to the ultimate revenge and cult classic Oldboy. The 2011 APSA winner for Best Animated Feature Film, Leafie A Hen Into The Wild, a family animated adventure will be shown, as well as the intense courtroom drama The Client. The 2012 program will look at various aspects of Korea's rich history and culture, as well as its growing film industry.
The KOFFIA program will also present a variety of cultural performances, live music events and industry talks featuring special guests including Jeong In-hee (Line Producer of Oldboy), Dr. Tim Milfull (Queensland University of Technology) and Garry Williams (4ZZZ-FM).
The KOFFIA team has generously made 5 double passes available to APSA subscribers for the Opening Reception.APSA Artistic Director, Maxine Williamson and Chair of the 2012 APSA Nominations Council Prof. Kim Hong-joon (Korea National University of the Arts) will be present on the night to talk about the valuable connection between APSA and the Korean film industry.
For your chance to receive a double pass please answer the following question: Which film won the 2011 APSA Best Animated Feature Film and is also being screened at KOFFIA?
Email us at [email protected] with KOFFIA as the subject line!
For more information about KOFFIA, visit www.koffia.com.au
Tickets are priced between $10 – 14 and multipasses are available for groups of four. Tickets are available online via Tribal Theatre or by visiting the box office at Tribal Theatre, George Street, Brisbane.
Maxine Williamson
Hong-Joon Kim
Leafie, A Hen into the Wild


I don't know why I thought parenthood would be much different from my past jobs in terms of progress. I know I've had a short run as far as the job world is concerned but all my jobs have been working with people that don't change/improve quickly. Being a Catholic Worker, a case manager for Meals on Wheels, a high school teacher, and now a mother, I've learned to revel in small victories.
It's such a weird thing that you have to teach babies how to sleep. As essential as water, sleep is such a biological necessity that you would think that babies would instinctively do it. Nope. Especially not the Squeaker. She has been a bad sleeper from day one.
From the day she was born, she would not sleep by herself or put herself to sleep. Those few nights in the hospital consisted of me and Kraft sleeping off and on an hour to hold her because every time we'd put her in the little bassinet, she would start wailing.
When we brought her home. Same thing. She would not stay asleep unless she was in someone's arms. For the first three weeks of her life, we alternated between having her sleep on her diaper pad in our bed between me and Kraft and in our arms. I would take the 1-4am shift and Kraft would take the 4-7am shift. We realized quickly that we needed more sleep than this.
Then I figured out how to sleep on the couch sitting up propped up by pillows while holding her so that she wouldn't roll off of me during the night. This lasted a couple more weeks.
Then I could rock her for a couple hours and lay her down (extremely carefully) in our bed and she would stay asleep maybe an hour at a time. Of course she would wake up at the slightest noise. A car alarm going off, people walking by the apartment and talking too loudly, a cat meowing, anything would wake her up. So there I would go again to the rocking chair for a few more hours until she was sound asleep. I got so sick of this rocking chair. Cracker Barrel sure can sell a sturdy, cheap rocking chair but man is it uncomfortable and hard on the back. There were some nights that I totally thought I was going to go crazy from rocking for hours then putting her down only to wake up 5 minutes later.
One night out of sheer desperation I swaddled her. She had fought this like a fiend before this point. She would scream as if we were killing her when we had tried the swaddle previously. But magically this time, she was fine. In fact, she slept like 4 hours straight. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Between 3.5 and 4.5 months she started sleeping super well. She was sleeping about 5 hours stretches at night in a swaddle.
Then she started learning how to break out of the swaddle and by 5 months we couldn't do it anymore. Damn. After coming to hate rocking O to sleep, I figured out how to nurse her to sleep lying down in our bed and then sneaking away when she was asleep. This still took forever but at least I could lay down during it and rest while trying to get her asleep. Now, of course, she cannot fall asleep unless she is nursing. She won't even fall asleep rocking anymore, which while I hated rocking before, now means that Kraft cannot help with putting her to sleep. Damn, again.
For the last month we've been following Elizabeth Pantley's No-Cry Sleep Solution techniques to wean O from having to nurse to sleep. Pantley said it would be a gradual weaning and, man, it sure is. Here we are one month later and we have made very little progress in that department.
However, yesterday was a glorious day. It took two hours to get O to finally fall asleep around 9pm. She did not wake up until 3:30am, at all. I kept going in to make sure she was still breathing because it was so unbelievable. Of course tonight she woke up 5 times in 4 hours but that is neither here nor there. She slept six and a half hours yesterday without waking up.
I will take this one small victory and pray for more in the near future.
Two really fabulous books are: Sleeping Through the Night by Dr. Jodi Mindell (love.her.) and Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child (can't remember the author). You will figure this out. I won't even bore you with the crazy things we did to get son #2 to sleep. Good job, momma.


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/**
 * @file
 *
 * @brief Contains the @ref launch_configuration_t class and some auxiliary
 * functions for it.
 *
 * @note Launch configurations are  used mostly in @ref kernel_launch.hpp .
 */

#pragma once
#ifndef CUDA_API_WRAPPERS_LAUNCH_CONFIGURATION_CUH_
#define CUDA_API_WRAPPERS_LAUNCH_CONFIGURATION_CUH_

#include <cuda/api/constants.hpp>
#include <cuda/api/types.hpp>

#if (__CUDACC_VER_MAJOR__ >= 9)
#include <cooperative_groups.h>
#endif

#include <type_traits>
#include <utility>

namespace cuda {

struct launch_configuration_t {
	grid::composite_dimensions_t dimensions {0 , 0 };

	/**
	 * The number of bytes each grid block may use, in addition to the statically-allocated
	 * shared memory data inherent in the compiled kernel.
	 */
	memory::shared::size_t      dynamic_shared_memory_size { 0u };

	/**
	 * When true, CUDA's "cooperative launch" mechanism will be used, enabling
	 * more flexible device-wide synchronization capabilities; see CUDA Programming
	 * Guide section C.7, Grid Synchronization. (The section talks about "cooperative
	 * groups", but you should ignore those, as they are simply C++ library constructs and do not
	 * in the compiled code).
	 */
	bool                        block_cooperation { false };

	// In C++11, an inline initializer for a struct's field costs us a lot
	// of its defaulted constructors; but - we must initialize the shared
	// memory size to 0, as otherwise, people might be tempted to initialize
	// a launch configuration with { num_blocks, num_threads } - and get an
	// uninitialized shared memory size which they did not expect. So,
	// we do have the inline initializers above regardless of the language
	// standard version, and we just have to "pay the price" of spelling things out:
	launch_configuration_t() = delete;
	constexpr launch_configuration_t(const launch_configuration_t&) = default;
	constexpr launch_configuration_t(launch_configuration_t&&) = default;

	constexpr launch_configuration_t(
		grid::composite_dimensions_t grid_and_block_dimensions,
		memory::shared::size_t dynamic_shared_mem = 0u,
		bool thread_block_cooperation = false
	) :
		dimensions{grid_and_block_dimensions},
		dynamic_shared_memory_size{dynamic_shared_mem},
		block_cooperation{thread_block_cooperation}
	{ }

	constexpr launch_configuration_t(
		grid::dimensions_t grid_dims,
		grid::dimensions_t block_dims,
		memory::shared::size_t dynamic_shared_mem = 0u,
		bool thread_block_cooperation = false
	) : launch_configuration_t(
		{grid_dims, block_dims},
		dynamic_shared_mem,
		thread_block_cooperation)
	{ }

	// A "convenience" delegating ctor to avoid narrowing-conversion warnings
	constexpr launch_configuration_t(
		int grid_dims,
		int block_dims,
		memory::shared::size_t dynamic_shared_mem = 0u,
		bool thread_block_cooperation = false
	) : launch_configuration_t(
		grid::dimensions_t(grid_dims),
		grid::block_dimensions_t(block_dims),
		dynamic_shared_mem,
		thread_block_cooperation)
	{ }

   // These can be made constexpr in C++14
   launch_configuration_t& operator=(const launch_configuration_t& other) = default;
   launch_configuration_t& operator=(launch_configuration_t&&) = default;
};

/**
 * @brief a named constructor idiom for a @ref launch_config_t
 */
constexpr launch_configuration_t make_launch_config(
	grid::composite_dimensions_t grid_and_block_dimensions,
	memory::shared::size_t      dynamic_shared_memory_size = 0u,
	bool                        block_cooperation = false) noexcept
{
	return { grid_and_block_dimensions, dynamic_shared_memory_size, block_cooperation };
}

constexpr launch_configuration_t make_launch_config(
	grid::dimensions_t         grid_dimensions,
	grid::block_dimensions_t   block_dimensions,
	memory::shared::size_t     dynamic_shared_memory_size = 0u,
	bool                       block_cooperation = false) noexcept
{
	return { { grid_dimensions, block_dimensions }, dynamic_shared_memory_size, block_cooperation };
}

constexpr bool operator==(const launch_configuration_t lhs, const launch_configuration_t& rhs) noexcept
{
	return
		lhs.dimensions == rhs.dimensions and
			lhs.dynamic_shared_memory_size == rhs.dynamic_shared_memory_size and
			lhs.block_cooperation == rhs.block_cooperation;
}

constexpr bool operator!=(const launch_configuration_t lhs, const launch_configuration_t& rhs) noexcept
{
	return not (lhs == rhs);
}

namespace detail_ {

inline void validate(launch_configuration_t launch_config) noexcept(false)
{
	if (launch_config.dimensions.grid.volume() == 0) {
		throw ::std::invalid_argument("Launch config specifies a zero-volume grid-of-blocks");
	}
	if (launch_config.dimensions.block.volume() == 0) {
		throw ::std::invalid_argument("Launch config specifies a zero-volume block dimensions");
	}
	// TODO: Consider adding device-specific validations here, like checking for
	// block size limits, shared mem size limits etc - by taking an optional device
	// as a parameter
}

} // namespace detail_

} // namespace cuda

#endif // CUDA_API_WRAPPERS_LAUNCH_CONFIGURATION_CUH_


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Alumni entrepreneurs: Farm fresh food to craft brewed
Whether you're looking for some great eats or a cool one to wet your whistle, enterprising alumni at our colleges may have something to fit the bill. And what a palatable endeavor it is to feature some of them now that summer is upon us.
Finnegan's Irish Amber - Jacquie Berglund '87, Augsburg College
Sociable Cider Werks - Wade Thompson '07 and Jim Watkins '07, Carleton College
Fair State Brewing Cooperative - Matthew Hauck '06, Macalester College (along with Carleton alums Evan Sallee '06 and Niko Tonks '06)
Belly Up Club - Noah Miwa '08, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Bollito's Tuscan Red Sauce - Zachary Cizek '11, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Farm fresh food - Amy Doeun '03, St. Catherine University
Witness Tree Vineyard - Dennis Devine '61 and Carolyn (Hanson) Devine '60, St. Olaf College
Finnegan's Irish Amber
Jacquie Berglund '87
"I read this article in Time magazine, interviewing all of these 80- and 90-year-old people," said Jacquie Berglund '87. "The overwhelming feedback from their question, 'If you could change one thing, what would it be?' was that they all wish they had taken more risks."
That was 1983, when Berglund was in her first year at Augsburg College. Since then, she has faced many risks on her way to building one of Minnesota's most successful social enterprises—an enterprise that uses beer sales to fund its community foundation.
One of her first risks? Backpacking through Europe during her sophomore year in the face of parental disapproval.
"My parents didn't want me to do it," Berglund said. "[My English professor] said, 'Jacquie, you should absolutely do it. Let's come up with a way for you to get credit for it here.'"
With that, Berglund ventured across the Atlantic for six weeks under the banner of an Augsburg creative-writing course. Her experience fostered a travel bug that would lead her back for a seven-year stay in France after Augsburg. "[Backpacking] helped me to think globally and really changed my perspective," Berglund said. "That was a powerful turning point for me."
Read the full article on Augsburg's website.
Wade Thompson '07 and Jim Watkins '07
To craft beer enthusiasts, hard cider is something of a black sheep. "Cider is like Zima," says Jim Watkins '07, who launched Sociable Cider Werks last November with Wade Thompson '07. "It's a four-letter word. It's considered the drink of choice for college girls."
But Sociable is not your sorority's cider. For one thing, unlike mainstream ciders such as Woodchuck and Angry Orchard, which are made from juice concentrate, Sociable is made from fresh-pressed apples grown in the Midwest. Second, the business is licensed as a brewery, not as a winery, which is more common among cider manufacturers. With fruit as its main ingredient, cider might logically be made like wine, fermenting the apples over time. But Thompson and Watkins introduced an unusual step. "We add a brewed component," says Thompson. "We make beer 'wort' or starter, pump it into our apple juice, and ferment them together."
The process results in, as Sociable's tagline suggests, a "decidedly different" concoction. Freewheeler, the brand's signature brew, tastes like one might expect a cider to taste—but bolder and not as sweet as those mainstream brands. "Sweet apples, such as Honeycrisp and McIntosh, are mainly for eating and lack tannins, which contribute to bitterness," says Watkins. "Bitterness is essential for structure or body. It engages the back part of the tongue and gives the beverage some weight. When we couldn't get that bitterness from the apples alone, we thought, 'Well, let's brew it in.' "
Read the full article on Carleton's website.
Fair State Brewing Cooperative
Matthew Hauck '06 (along with Carleton alums Evan Sallee '06 and Niko Tonks '06)
Matt Hauck '06 admits to being a little scared. The brewery he cofounded with Evan Sallee and Niko Tonks — Fair State Brewing Cooperative — has been winning awards, paying the founders actual (if not lavish) salaries, and garnering fans across Minnesota and beyond. Now they are taking a big step: expanding beyond their popular Northeast Minneapolis location to develop a 25,000-square-foot brewing site in St. Paul's Midway district, opening this spring.
Although "the Northeast neighborhood has been great for us," says Hauck, director of operations, the larger production facility will allow the co-op to increase its capacity by five times and establish its own canning line—a money-saver. Fair State will keep its taproom at the Central Avenue location and also use that facility for developing new brews. Although by law, a brewery can have just one taproom, the Fair State owners hope to host occasional tastings and tours at the St. Paul site.
It all began with three guys who met playing rugby — Hauck for Mac and Sallee and Tonks for Carleton. A year after they graduated, the three were brewing beer in the backyard of their Minneapolis four-plex. By 2009 they had moved on to graduate schools, but reconnected at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. There they visited Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery, the first cooperative brewery in the U.S. Before long — over a few beers, naturally — they were hatching plans to launch Minnesota's first co-op brewery.
Read the full article on Macalester's website.
Belly Up Club
Noah Miwa '08
Belly Up, a new club for grown-ups created by Noah Miwa '08 and Dave Ostlund, is the ultimate way for cocktail- and beer-lovers to explore the best drinks around the Twin Cities.
When did the idea of Belly Up start?
Dave: We started the idea of Belly Up in September 2016. It took a couple of months to get everything put together. We had to pivot a couple of times because your initial idea will almost never be the final product. We did a lot of refining.
What was the vision behind the project?
Noah: Dave and I go way back in the food scene. We started a group called the Minnesota Food Dudes, which soon became a club, and it had just three requirements: love food, be in Minnesota, and identify as a dude. It's a restaurant crawl with about eight to twelve people that show up every time we go out. We'd make reservations for three or so places and go in and order about fifteen or twenty things off the menu and just share with everyone. Throughout the night, we'd probably taste about fifty different dishes, which is where the idea of Belly Up came from.
Belly Up is a drink club in the twin cities. Members of the club get different benefits. One of the benefits is free drinks, and depending on what level of membership you're at you can either get free beer, free cocktails, or both. Another part of the membership is that you get limited-edition, local-artist-designed glasses. With the Beer Belly membership you get four pint glasses, and with the Booze Belly (cocktail membership) you get four highball glasses. All of the glasses are designed by local artists, and a lot of them are MCAD alumni.
Bollito's Tuscan Red Sauce
Zachary Cizek '11
Zachary Cizek's dream of selling delectable sandwiches and sauces started with a study abroad trip to Florence, Italy in the summer of 2009. The marketing major and self-proclaimed "foodie" had a great study-abroad experience, but what stuck out most in his mind was a special sandwich he'd tasted there, made from a tender brisket, slowly simmered with wine and vegetables, which added a memorable flavor.
His senior year of college, when Cizek needed to come up with a small-business plan for a business entrepreneurial class, he chose to investigate selling this unforgettable sandwich. "I knew I had a strong passion for food and this sandwich," he said. "I called it a Taste of Tuscany. I still have (my final report and research)."
Following graduation, Cizek worked diligently to perfect his sandwich while working full-time as a medical sales representative. It was while listening to a pep talk from life coach Tony Robbins that he decided to "go for it" and enter the sandwich-selling business; Robbins advised him that if there was something he was really passionate about and couldn't stop thinking about, he should do it.
Cizek obtained his food manager license, took classes on safe food management, and begin selling sandwiches at a booth during a Twin Cities festival. He attended four food fairs and events in Minnesota and then relocated to Chicago (with his full-time job) and continued spreading delectable dishes at festivals further south.
Farm fresh food
Amy Doeun '03
When Amy Doeun '03 graduated from St. Kate's with an English degree, she never guessed she would become a farmer. She lived the typical "city girl" life, complete with her pick of Twin Cities' restaurants, vibrant nightlife and skyscrapers. She edited the newsletter in St. Kate's English department, and wanted to become a writer.
However, in her junior year, Doeun's life took a sharp turn when she met her husband, Proeun, a Cambodian immigrant in Minneapolis.
"We had a kind of whirlwind romance," recalls Doeun. "We were engaged in 10 days, married 9 months later and had our first baby 11 months after that." It was that child, a happy little boy with a love for garden plants and sunshine, who inspired their Crazy Boy Farm in Rush City, Minnesota.
Neither Doeun nor her husband had ever owned a farm. However, farming was in their DNA: her Minnesotan grandparents and Proeun's parents were farmers. The couple attended the Minnesota Farm Association's New Immigrant Farmer Training Program in 2009, and in three years learned how to turn backyard gardening into full-scale community-supported agriculture, or CSA, which connects urban dwellers to fresh produce and gives farmers a steady source of income.
Today, their 40-acre farm is alive and growing. It produces 50 types of fruits and vegetables. It's home to goats, chickens, cows and sheep. "The sky is so blue here," notes Doeun. "It's total peace and quiet."
Read the full article on St. Kate's website.
Witness Tree Vineyard
Dennis Devine '61 and Carolyn (Hanson) Devine '60
Late one Sunday summer afternoon nearly 40 years ago, Dennis '61 and Carolyn Devine '60 took a fateful drive north from San Francisco. Dennis worked for a pharmaceutical company and had to fly out to Saskatoon, Canada, the next day to monitor a clinical study of a veterinary antibiotic. Driving Highway128 through the Alexander Valley north of Santa Rosa, they passed a little vineyard called Johnson's.
"Carolyn saw some pretty cars in there," Dennis says. So they spun around and drove in. The vineyard was having an open house and car show. The car that caught Carolyn's eye was a forest green 1939 Jaguar, with a rakish hood and chrome head lights. The car may have drawn them in, but the vineyard itself made the real impression. The Devines can still recall joining other visitors as they spread a blanket on the ground, ate tasty cheeses, drank wine, and listened to a tiny orchestra. In the midst of it all, a cat ran through the scene, chased by three dogs and a passel of shouting kids.
"I said to Carolyn, this is so Rockwellian I can't stand it," Dennis remembers. "Someday, we're going to do this."
And so they did. In 1994, the Devines bought Witness Tree Vineyard, not only fulfilling their dream, but creating an outpost of St. Olaf alumni in Oregon's Willamette River Valley near Salem. Their winemaker and vineyard manager, Steven Westby, is another St. Olaf grad. He and his wife Sonja, raised three children — Nelson, Maren, and Swan — on the vineyard property and two, Nelson '09 and Maren '12, have graduated from St. Olaf.
Read the full article on St. Olaf's website.


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