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Costume Construction, BA
I feel that being a student here has really given me the experience and the confidence to be able to become a professional and I can't thank Central enough for that. For example, on placement I worked within wardrobe and costume on the Pinewood Studios film Crooked House which was a fantastic experience and I learnt a lot about the industry.
Lauren Hall
Graduated 2016, recent theatre credits include Beauty and the Beast at The Playhouse Theatre and the UK tour of An Evening of Dirty Dancing.
Studying at Central has prepared me so well for the industry. The collaborative nature of the course, small class sizes, working to real time on public productions and industry placements allowed me to gain the confidence to work in professional environments through a range of experiences. The skills and knowledge I have learnt has given me a great foundation.
Eloise Geffryes
Graduated 2017, film work includes Trainee Costume Maker for Aladdin and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, as Costume Maker for Leicester's Curve Theatre.
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3 years full-time, October start
UCAS CODE:
Institution code: C35, Course code: W460
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Theatre Practice
On the Costume Construction pathway of BA (Hons) Theatre Practice, you will:
Develop skills in costume interpretation and creative
Learn pattern drafting, women's and men's costume making, hat making and accessories
Undertake costume supervision and placements with professional companies and designers
Work closely with students of all other theatre disciplines to contribute to the overall understanding of performance and theatre production.
Technically skilled and creatively inventive 'makers' are an essential part of any production team, sensitive to the stylistic intentions of the designer and director. The training will principally be in theatre, but these skills are widely transferable to different environments, including television, film and major live events.
What is a costume constructor?
The work of the costume constructor is to interpret the given costume designs, whether period or modern, abstract or representational. As part of the production team, you will work closely with the costume designer to interpret the brief and create costumes and accessories to the level of finish expected by contemporary audiences, and are able to research and understand the time, place and narrative of the production through analysis of scripts and creative concepts.
Alongside high-level and varied costume making skills, you will develop skills in time management, resource management, budgeting and scheduling, working closely with students of all other theatre disciplines to contribute to the overall understanding of performance and theatre production.
What is costume construction?
Costume construction is a craft that requires the making of garments suited to the modern body, while achieving correct shapes and silhouettes for particular eras and designs. You will learn to produce garments that are appropriate for the character and comfortable to enable the performer to use costume to enhance their performance. The course does not focus solely on historical garments and is proud of the range of projects included.
Course Leader, Caroline Townsend explains the difference between Costume Construction and Costume Design
Interested in applying for 2020?
You can still apply for this course and be considered through UCAS despite them classing your application as 'late'. You can also register your interest in 2020 entry here and our Admissions Team will then contact you about interview options and further details.
YEAR 1: Projects and workshops
Understand the role of the costume interpreter, including pattern drafting, sewing techniques, dyeing and breaking down skills and taught sessions on costume supervision.
You will work with a professional designer producing costumes for a tableau vivant and adapting a modern pattern block to making period underwear, such as corsetry and crinolines.
You will work as part of a team on a public production, dressing and undertaking wardrobe maintenance.
YEAR 2: Skill development
Developing skills: pattern cutting for men and women, cutting and draping on the mannequin, and tailoring techniques.
You will make outfits for Central's public productions, and costumes chosen based on your personal interest, such as a tutu, frock coat or a prop costume.
You will have the opportunity to undertake a placement with a professional company, or assist a costume supervisor on a professional production.
YEAR 3: Focus on professional development
Acting as Head of Department on a full scale realised production in the Embassy Theatre or Webber Douglas Studio, you will take on the role of Wardrobe Supervisor managing the costumes and students in the costume dressing teams.
You will undertake professional projects and placements, researching and making a costume to their specifications, and working with a professional company to create costumes, or to costume supervise.
You will participate in a public exhibition presenting your work to invited industry employer portfolio of best work to the industry.
Download BA Theatre Practice Programme Specification 2019-2020.pdf (1.19 MB)
Entry Requirements and Admissions
Our standard academic entry requirements range between 120 and 64 UCAS tariff points. You can see how many tariff points your qualifications would gain on the UCAS Tariff Calculator. International qualifications and others not covered within the UCAS tariff can also be accepted. Please email us if you need further clarification.
Please note that we make lower offers (including unconditional) to exceptional candidates and those who have alternative or prior experience to offer. All candidates invited to interview are asked to bring a portfolio. Interview and portfolio are key factors in determining which applicants are accepted on to the course.
We particularly encourage applications from groups currently under-represented in higher education, such as students with disabilities and members of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups. Find out more information on Central's commitment to equality and diversity.
Admission with Academic Credit
For information on alternative entry requirements see www.ucas.com.
Find out more about the interview process for this course.
International Interviews
Each year Central hosts a number of interviews outside of the UK, with a team of tutors from Central travelling to meet applicants. The international interviews are designed to replicate the London-based interview experience in every aspect (other than a tour of our site!). See our Event Finder for listings of upcoming interview locations and dates.
Visit the International Students section to view details of English language requirements for Central's courses.
Industry & Placements
From the second year, you will have the opportunity to arrange placements across a wide range of professional companies that work with Central, allowing access to many performance styles and industry locations.
Previous work placements
These include Costume departments of:
The Royal Opera House
Shakespeare's Globe
The Bloomsbury Theatre
The Royal Academy of Music
Philip Treacy, Hand and Lock
Costume internship with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Costume supervisors' departments on the West End production of Funny Girl and the National Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre with costume supervisor Karen Large and Channel 5 Documentary Inside Holloway with designer/supervisor Karen Hobbs.
Work with professional designers & costume supervisors
Students have also worked with designers and costume supervisors such as:
Bob Bailey (The Happiest Day Of My Life, DV8; Anything Goes, UK Tours)
Sara Perks (American Idol, Arts Theatre; The King And I, Leicester Curve)
Sarah Beaton (Attachment, The Old Vic; This Is Living, Trafalgar Studios).
Hannah McMahon-Major (English Touring Opera)
Rosie Neate (A Little Neck, Goat and Monkey; After Troy, Lifeblood Theatre).
Other opportunities with professional companies
You will have opportunities to work with professional companies across a wide range of productions. The following gives an overview of recent activity in this area:
First-year students have worked with set and costume designer Simon Kenny on the Tableau Vivant Project and costume designer/supervisor Helen Coyston on Friends Of Narcissus at the Minack Theatre;
Second and third year students have assisted costume supervisor Hilary Lewis on The Heresy Of Love at Shakespeare's Globe; assisted costume supervisor Natasha Prynne on Carmen for the Nevill Holt Opera; assisted costume supervisor Samantha Pickering on A Mad World, My Masters for English Touring Theatre; worked with designer Keith Orton making costumes for London Assurance at the Miller Centre and undertaken an internship with Philip Treacy.
Recently second and third year students undertook placements with Hand and Lock, English Touring Theatre, the Royal Opera House, Disney alterations department for Beauty And The Beast, The Conran Shop, The BBC Redux project and the National Theatre costume department.
In the final year, there is the opportunity to work with a professional company to create costumes for one of their productions. For example, many students (and graduates) have undertaken work experience with the White Horse Theatre Company as costume makers and costume supervisors.
Recent Visiting Professionals
Lorraine Westhead, Brigid Strowbridge, Karen Hobbs, Karen Large, Jane Smith, Rachel Young, Kate Flanaghan, Nancy Betton, Lydia Cawson, Simon Kenny, Hannah McMahon-Major, Natasha Prynne.
Graduate Employment
Graduate employment and career pathways include:
Costume Maker, The Nutcracker (Disney), Camden Costumes.
Costume Supervisor, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
Deputy Head of Wardrobe, Opera Holland Park.
Resident Wardrobe Mistress, Hampstead Theatre.
Dressers, The Book Of Mormon.
Wardrobe Mistress, The Tricycle Theatre and tour, The Father.
Archivist, The Fulham Palace Costume Collection.
Internship, Royal Shakespeare Company costume department.
Design Assistant, Hand and Lock.
Costume Assistant, P&O Cruises.
Apprentice Tailor, Roxy Cressy Theatrical.
Recent further study, master's degrees, University of Glasgow, Museum Studies with Dress and Textile Histories.
Notable Graduates
Sophea Bailey (2016) has worked in the costume departments of West End productions including; 42nd Street (Drury Lane Theatre); Kinky Boots (The Adelphi Theatre/Broadway/UK Tour); Dreamgirls The Musical, and Funny Girl (both at The Savoy Theatre). She has also provided costume assistance for music artists and bands including The Black Eyed Peas and Ellie Goulding, as well as being the Wardrobe Mistress for the MTV European Music Awards between 2016 to 2018.
Valeria Cantelli (2014) is a Costume Maker with film credits including Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Beauty and The Beast. She has also worked in the costume departments of English National Opera and The Royal Opera House.
Yiran Duan (2019) runs a business teaching traditional Chinese embroidery and surface decoration skills.
Sarah Ferdinando (2008) is a costume maker with film credits including; Cruella; Wonder Woman 1984, and the next instalment in the James Bond movie franchise, No Time to Die. Her previous film credits as a Costume Maker include Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Megan Howell (2015) has worked for Camden Costume as Costume Maker working on popular TV, Film and Theatre productions. She is now working on a freelance basis and as a Seasonal Tailor at Glyndebourne Opera House.
Jessica Pile (2012) is Production Director at Hand & Lock, London's premier embroidery house providing embellishment services to the Royal Family, top European design houses, the Royal Armed Forces, and Savile Row.
Georgia Smithers (2019) recent television and film work include Trainee Costume Embellisher for Netflix's production of Bridgerton and Junior Costume Embellisher for Fox's production of Cinderella. She has also worked in theatre as Design Assistant for the Fairy Queen at the Waterperry Opera Festival and Costume Maker for Les Misérables in London.
Hanne Talbot (2015) is a freelance Costume Maker/Supervisor with theatre credits including; Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory); Kenny Morgan (Arcola Theatre); Aladdin (Victoria Theatre, Halifax), and Maggot Moon (Unicorn Theatre).
Rhys Tucker (2007) was Head of Wardrobe for the national touring production of Wicked between 2017-19. Rhys has worked in the wardrobe departments of other West End shows including The Rocky Horror Show and The Phantom of the Opera.
Staff on the Course
View profiles of the academic staff who teach on this course. Click on each staff member to find out more about them.
Caroline Townsend, PGCert, PGDip, FHEA
Senior Lecturer, Crafts Costume Construction Course Leader, and BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 1st Year Leader
Dr Jessica Hartley BA, MA, PGCE, PhD, SFHEA
Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies


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Q: Multiple linked sessions/instances of Vim and R with Vim-r-plugin OSX 10.8. MacVim + Vim-r-plugin = Vim sends commands to R. Awesome! (Note I'm here asking about using MacVim and R.app (i.e. w/ Gui), not either in a terminal, since for this purpose I need both to have the usual application UI.)
But: can I launch multiple instances of MacVim, and multiple instances of the R app, and have them linked up correctly? \rf on a new (GUI-)window in MacVim (as in OSX window, not in-vim-window) does not launch a new R session but rather "finds" (and focuses) the existing one, even though the (GUI-)windows of MacVim are to some degree sandboxed (e.g. can't y/p across them). This remains true even when I force an actual new instance of MacVim using open -n -a MacVim. Opening new R instances that way just makes all sent commands (from any of the MacVim windows/instances) head to the newest instance of R.
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Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.
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Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Reviews
Dan Fienberg
The Tupac/Biggie scenes are disproportionately glutted with the rough dialogue because they don't have what ought to be the entire show's spine. There's basically no Tupac or Biggie music to be heard in the whole series.
Verne Gay
Irresolution has its own undeniable power and Hemingway has wisely played the strongest hand he holds. If no one can figure these murders out, that's a good yarn by itself.
The performances here are uniformly strong and the mystery around these two murders remains fascinating all these years later.
David Wiegand
Long and Hemingway take a lot of chances with Unsolved, and sometimes come dangerously close to confusing their audience. But their collective drive pays off.
Allison Keene
A complicated and in-depth take featuring some standout performances, but Unsolved falters as it tries to tell too many stories in three different timelines.
Merrill Barr
The show is competent and well made. It's just nothing we haven't seen many times before. But, it is better than most are likely expecting.

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Estonian transmission system operator (TSO) Elering paid out altogether 8.9 million euros in renewable energy support and high-efficiency cogeneration support in February, almost half of which went to Eesti Energia group subsidiaries Enefit Green and Nelja Energia.
Enefit Green was paid roughly 2.1 million euros and its subsidiary Nelja Energia 2 million euros in renewable energy support. In total, companies of Eesti Energia group received 4.1 million euros in subsidies during the month, which accounted for 46.2 percent of the total amount paid out.
Fortum Eesti and Anne Soojus, Estonian holdings of Fortum Power and Heat OY energy group of Finland, received altogether approximately 1.5 million euros during the month. Utilitas Tallinna Elektrijaam, an 85 percent holding in which was sold by businessman Kristjan Rahu to the EDIF II infrastructure fund managed by the Australian investment company First State in November, was paid 1.4 million euros under the two items by Elering.
The combined heat and power (CHP) generating companies Imavere Energia, Helme Energia and Osula Energia of the Graanul Invest group received altogether 876,000 euros in renewable energy support.
Elering paid out altogether 16.6 million euros in renewable energy support and high-efficiency cogeneration support during the first two months of the year.
Nelja Energia group owns the companies VV Tuulepargid, Aseriaru Tuulepark, Hanila Tuulepargid, Pakri Tuulepargid, Vinni Biogaas and Oisu Biogaas.
During 2018, Elering paid out 78.5 million euros in renewable energy support and 3.5 million euros in high-efficiency cogeneration support, of which a third was received by renewable energy companies of Eesti Energia.
When administering renewable energy subsidies, Elering acts as a paying agency, collecting renewable energy fees from consumers through network companies and paying this as subsidy to electricity plants producing electricity from renewable sources.
Last year, renewable energy charge was paid 0.89 cents per kilowatt-hour, but this year, the fee rose to the same level as in 2017, 17 percent to 1.04 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Renewable energy support and high-efficiency cogeneration support are deemed state aid.


Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) in colorectal cancers (CRC) may account for the failure of treatments because they are resistant to many current anticancer therapies. Salinomycin, a potassium ionophore, was recently identified as a selective inhibitor of breast CSCs.
The human CRC cell lines HT29 and SW480 were treated with salinomycin and oxaliplatin. Cell viability was determined with cell counting kit 8. Fraction of CD133+ cell subpopulations was assessed by Flow Cytometric analysis. Clonogenecity and migration were determined with soft agar and Boyden chamber assays. Molecular changes were assessed by immunofluorescence staining, RT-PCR, and Western blot analysis.
We report that salinomycin reduces the proportion of CD133+ subpopulations in human CRC HT29 and SW480 cells. Furthermore, salinomycin treatment decreases colony-forming ability and cell motility in HT29 cells. Moreover, salinomycin downregulates the expression of vimentin and induces the E-cadherin expression in HT29 cells.
This study demonstrates the ability of salinomycin to selectively target "CD133+" cell subpopulations and decrease the malignant traits in colorectal cancer lines.
Tao-Tao Dong and Hou-Min Zhou contributed equally to this work.
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (No. 30901424) and the Leading Medical Talent Foundation of Shanghai Municipality (No. LJ06038). We thank the members of Bing-Ya Liu's laboratory for helpful comments and discussions, Dr. Zhi-Qiang Chen for reagents, and Xiao-Shuang Yan for technical help.
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (No. 30901424) and the Leading Medical Talent Foundation of Shanghai Municipality (No. LJ06038). The authors declared no competing financial interests.


An investigation of the effectiveness of a secondary reading inservice program on teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and teaching behavior.
Bacon, Margaret Ann, "An investigation of the effectiveness of a secondary reading inservice program on teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and teaching behavior." (1978). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 3365.


This is for you current or past Ducati mechanics or knowledge owners. 1992 907ie, professionally serviced 6 years ago with valve adjust, new belts and a bunch of other service items completed. Bike has been ridden approximately 500-800 miles since then (6 years) and always stored in enclosed garage in fair weather climates. I am not inclined to replace the belts now since no use of the bike, no heat cycles, stretching and enclosed by cover of belts on engine. New belts sit for years on dealers shelves then installed as new belts. Not much different than sitting in an unused bike. Under these conditions I don't feel the combination of bad elements exist to require replacing timing belts at this time. Was thinking belts would be good for another 3-4K miles. Am I all wet or on the right track. Bike all original, never abused and has 15k miles on it. Thanks for your opinions.
I'd be inclined to do what you think.
I'd put the bike in gear every so often and move it forward without starting it so that the belts get moved around tight radii, but I wouldn't end up doing that regularly.


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After Exhaustive Investigations, N.H. Officials Find No Widespread Fraud in Recent Elections
By Casey McDermott • May 29, 2018
The issue of voter fraud in New Hampshire — or a lack thereof — was front and center at a meeting of New Hampshire's Ballot Law Commission in Concord. The big takeaway? Top state officials haven't found any evidence that it's running rampant in New Hampshire's elections.
Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards said the investigations her office has reviewed suggest that a number of wrongful voting cases stem from genuine confusion or human error — not a vast conspiracy to rig the state's elections.
"I do believe there are times when people misunderstand where they should vote, which still fascinates me, but they do," Edwards told the commission. "I think certain people believe that if they own property in two towns they should be able to vote in two different elections in two different towns."
Such confusion accounted for one of the four wrongful voting prosecutions the state has flagged so far from the 2016 general election.
As Edwards explained at the Ballot Law Commission meeting, and as previously reported by NHPR, one man who owns residential properties in both Hampton and Salem was fined after he voted in both Hampton and Salem in November 2016.
Edwards said the state has punished at least three other people for voting illegally in the 2016 general election: an elderly woman who submitted an absentee ballot for her late husband and two Dixville Notch voters who no longer lived in the first-of-the-nation enclave.
It also identified one instance in which a Southern New Hampshire University student who lived in Manchester voted in Hooksett because of bad advice he got from a pollworker. While that was technically illegal, Edwards said the state didn't punish the student because he was acting on bad instructions from a pollworker.
(More details on these and other voting investigations dating back to 2006 can be found in this recent NHPR report.)
Ballot Law Commissioners had plenty of questions for Edwards about what to make of these and other investigations, in the context of the claims about the prevalence of voter fraud in New Hampshire.
"It does not sound like a pattern of activity, it sounds like a bunch of idiosyncratic issues and not, quote, 'massive voter fraud,' but just a bunch of idiosyncratic events," Commission Chairman Brad Cook said. "Would that be a fair characterization?"
"That would be. I have testified many times in front of the election law committees for both the house and the senate and said there doesn't appear to be any pattern of widespread voting fraud in New Hampshire," Edwards said.
Cook also asked Edwards whether the state's received any complaints about so-called buses of voters traveling from out-of-state to participate in New Hampshire elections.
"Yes, we have," Edwards said – but those complaints proved unfounded when investigated more closely.
While Edwards couldn't recall any such complaints in 2016, she said they did come up in past elections when political parties worked with out-of-state bus companies to provide shuttles transporting college students to local polling places.
"We've received calls about Vermont buses, Massachusetts buses, and Maine buses," Edwards explained. "Each time we have sent an investigator out to the polling place, and they have been able to determine the situation is that the bus company is from Maine, or Vermont, or Massachusetts, but not the voters on the bus."
Edwards said similar complaints also came in from concerned voters who spotted a fleet of Massachusetts cars parked outside a Salem polling place, right across the Massachusetts border, in 2014.
"It turned out, it was individuals from Massachusetts who had come up and were holding campaign signs outside. They said it wasn't an exciting election in Massachusetts, so they were going to come up and hold signs in New Hampshire. but they weren't trying to vote – they were just out there holding campaign signs."
Cross-referencing 'Crosscheck' data
In addition to the closed cases Edwards detailed, the attorney general's office is also looking into at least three more possible cases of wrongful voting by people who didn't show the right kind of credentials when registering to vote.
State officials are also reviewing 142 names that were flagged through the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program, which is designed to flag people who are registered in multiple states.
It's not illegal, and is in fact quite common, for a single voter have voter registrations on the books in multiple states – but the Crosscheck program aims to identify these matches as a starting point for states to identify cases in which people may have voted multiple times in the same election.
According to Secretary of State Bill Gardner, the Crosscheck program initially identified 94,610 potential matches between New Hampshire voters and those registered elsewhere during the November 2016 election — but that analysis only looked for voters who had the same first names, last names and dates of birth.
From there, Gardner said his office undertook an exhaustive, year-long effort to cull that list down further. To do so, they combed through public records databases, sought information from election officials in other states, reviewed local voter checklists and more.
Ultimately, the Secretary of State's office ruled out illegal voting for more than 99 percent of its original Crosscheck matches. The office is now left with 142 voters who are still "under examination" for possibly voting twice in the 2016 election: 51 of those have been sent to the attorney general's office for further review, and the remaining 91 are still awaiting some additional analysis by the Secretary of State before they decide whether they need to hand them off to the attorney general's office, as well.
"I'm not sure that any state has done what we've just done in the last year," Gardner said of his office's approach to narrowing down its Crosscheck results.
While some other states have rushed to publicize the larger total of their Crosscheck matches, Gardner said he wanted to avoid suggesting that the 94,610 matches the program identified in New Hampshire meant that 94,610 illegal votes were cast – which simply isn't true.
"For the first time, we really have an idea about this. And so it raises the question of, what does someone mean by widespread voter fraud? Does this come anywhere near that? And that's a judgment call that people individually have to make," Gardner said. "But we wanted to make sure that we did everything we possibly could think of to bring this down, so that there wasn't going to be this high number."
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Top state officials will give an overview of recent efforts to investigate potential voter fraud and other election violations at a meeting of the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission in Concord.
As Bill to Restrict Voting Eligibility Advances, Sununu's Position Remains Unclear
By Casey McDermott • May 2, 2018
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One of two bills seeking to tighten New Hampshire's residency standards for voting eligibility passed the State Senate on Wednesday after an hour-long debate during which Democrats accused Republicans of voter suppression and Republicans accused Democrats of promoting false narratives about what the legislation would actually do.
Sec. of State Says He's On Trump Commission Only in 'Personal Capacity'
By Casey McDermott • Oct 2, 2017
Secretary of State Bill Gardner's participation on President Trump's election commission has earned him criticism that he's undercutting his decades of work as New Hampshire's top elections official. Gardner, for his part, says he's taking part in the controversial commission "in [his] personal capacity."
Still, over the past five months since the commission was formed, state workers — including Gardner's staff assistant and attorneys employed by the New Hampshire Secretary of State — have repeatedly been called upon to carry out work related to the commission, apparently on state time.
Voter Fraud in New Hampshire: Rhetoric Versus Reality
By Casey McDermott • Mar 28, 2018
NHPR File
There's been a lot of talk in the past year about the need to pass stricter voting laws and clean up New Hampshire's elections. But there's been a lot less talk about any specific cases of voter fraud. NHPR's Casey McDermott wanted to find out more about what the issue actually looks like.
What Difference Could Four Words Make? A Lot, When It Comes to N.H. Voting Laws
By Casey McDermott • Feb 7, 2017
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At first glance, one of the voting bills introduced by Representative David Bates this week would seem to be just a minor change, removing just four words from an existing statute.
The Windham Republican wants to strike part of the state law defining what it means to be a resident or inhabitant, or what it means to claim residency — specifically, the part that extends that definition to include people who intend to remain in New Hampshire "for the indefinite future." Those definitions, in turn, are used to help decide who's eligible to vote in New Hampshire.
N.H. Election Chief: Voters Should Have to Claim Residency to Participate
By Casey McDermott • Jan 26, 2018
In one of its strongest public statements on the issue yet, the Secretary of State's office said it doesn't believe people who are merely domiciled in New Hampshire should be allowed to participate in its elections and the state should establish a single residency standard for voting eligibility.


It's been quite some time since I actively participated in The Session — 39 of the Beer Blogging Fridays have come and gone over that long period.
I may write a "blog" but I wouldn't consider myself a beer blogger. Hunting down some elusive craft release while standing in line for hours and then writing about it later on this site never appealed to me. I loathe that I am unable to purchase more than one bottle of a brew that used fill my fridge/cellar years ago. I have never waxed poetic about beer. It certainly interests me, of course, but I have never had deep thoughts about where the industry is going or how a product has changed my life.
The Barley Blog was — selfishly — just created back in December of 2006 for myself. It was and is way to keep track of beers I enjoyed and those I didn't.
In the past eight years, I'd like to think that it has remained that way. Yes, more press releases come my way as a conduit for breweries to announce new products and I am lucky enough to have a bottle or two sent my way for review. But, I am not an expert. I am not an influencer of peoples tastes. And, honestly, believing that I am would be pretentious and self-absorbed.
Beer is my drink of choice. I don't care if it's a locally brewed Scotch Ale or a conglomerate-owned IPA, I drink what I like — because it tastes good. I'm just a dude that likes to drink a combination of malts, hops, yeast and water.
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I was inspired by my friend Quincey Deters to join the 1-A-Day project as a self-challenge to post one image to this gallery daily. The images are a reflection of the many subjects and places I love to photograph! Enjoy!
Today was our club's annual outing to the salvage yard. Love photographing rust!
I would sign up for such an outing in a heartbeat. This detail has a suggestion of some strange creature in it, giving it a dynamic feel.
Fun, fun! Love this outing :) Great colours and texture in this rust, Linda.
Super abstract! Isn't it amazing how photogenic rust is? This is super!


When you first enrolled at Campbell Christian Academy you were thrilled. You knew that your child was going to get personalized attention. He was going to be taught the basics of reading, writing, grammar and math, and he was going to master every lesson before moving on.You knew the difference, and now you have experienced the results. You have a child who is very advanced, who loves learning, and can't wait to learn more.
Each week parents come in and tell us how happy they are about the great results that we are getting at Campbell Christian Academy. But then a well meaning friend or neighbor comes along and sows doubts, doubts such as, "At Campbell Christian Academy they just review and review. At my child's school they move on!" Or doubts such as, "It's not enough. They need so much more to be able to get into college."
It's easy to lose focus of what's important and why you love Campbell Christian Academy. Mastery of every subject requires review. You go forward and back and review, forward and back and review. It's like the water at the beach. It goes way out and then it comes back in. It goes way out and then it washes up even farther on the shore.
There's not a subject in the world that doesn't require review, and if anyone tells you otherwise they've been fooled by the number one fallacy of schools today: the more is better theory.
In the coming weeks I am going to be talking about this topic and other topics that seem to surface about this time every year. So be watching for our video blogs.
CCA Pre-K and Kindergartners not only learn reading and math but they also learn about the oceans, the continents, and God's creations.


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Case Study: To Do List Part 1
iOS 用户界面设计最佳实践
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课程 3(共 6 门,面向创意企业家的 iOS 开发 专项课程)
You will learn to develop sophisticated user interfaces for iOS, with a focus on user interface design best practices, UI animations, and responsive design. You will learn about the key UI widgets, mapping interfaces and view restoration.
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Very Good content, clear and challenging. But the most important part is that the material is very applicable to real app development
Excellent course. Very detailed round tour of User Interface concepts and recommandations for the best user experience.
Table Views, Core Data and User Interface Integration
In week 4, we will look at table views, core data, and user interface integration. We will cover table views, table views plus core data, and you will finally learn how to put it all together. We will end the course with a peer review assignment called To Do Manager.
Case Study: To Do List Part 120:38
Don Patterson
Sam Kaufman
Partner at Gradient
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[MUSIC] What we'd like to do next is to walk you through a case study of creating a To Do List or a To Do List Manager or To Do Item Manager. In doing this we hope that we will prepare you for a peer review assignment, that's one of the things we're interested in. We also want to give you a chance to synthesis a lot of the different concepts that we've been using independently and put them together into one moderately featured application. We are going to do that, we're going to put those features together and along the way we're also going to discover that there are a few additional things that we're going to have to learn about how the flow of an application works when you get it down end to end. So, the concept that we want to work with is from the big picture an application that looks like this. It's going to have one primary view which has your to do list on it, it will be a table view, it's going to be backed by core data. Each element in the list is going to be representative of some task that the user has to get done. In the example, we're going to use a title for the task and then we're going to have a date for the task as well. So the title going to be on the left, date will be on the right, there'll be a second view, which is a detail view which we handle by a navigation view controller. And that detail view will be the opportunity for the user to edit the details of, well, not just the details, but edit all of the items of the ToDo, the title and the due date. And from there, we're going to make this work so that If you want to delete one of the to do's you go to the edit panel and you hit the trash can button. And that will send you back to the initial to do list and it will be deleted. If you want to edit a to do rather than hitting the plus sign on the To Do List, you'll hit the item itself and it will to the edit page as well, and you'll be able to edit the content that's there. There's a lot of little details we need to get right in this, but this is the basic idea of what we want to do, and in the To Do List it's going to be sorted and it's going to be backed by core data. So that's the big picture, we've got about six steps that we need to walk through in this. We'll probably break it up into six lectures but we'll see how it goes here as we flow. And we'll introduce a few new things along the way, all in preparation for getting your peer review assignment ready. So in terms of the way that we're going about doing this is that we're actually going to do a lot of the heavy lifting ourselves in this application. And by that I mean that, we could ask Xcode to do a lot of it, there's a template that's built into Xcode called the Master-Detail View, now it's really nice because it uses a split-view controller that gives you the option of, when you're on a large screen, showing basically you're to-dos on one side and then your editing panel on the same side both on the same screen when you have a lot of screen real estate. And it naturally builds the structures that when you rotate the device or you're in a view that doesn't have much horizontal space, it goes back to having the to-do list on one view, and then going to detail pane that takes up the entire screen on another view. That comes from the template, and so the problem with that is that you could look at that code and unless you built it yourself at some point, it's really hard to understand what are all the moving pieces that are involved in that templated code. So, unless we're able to do it on our own, it's going to be very difficult to understand what the template is doing, and if you ever want to customize that behavior, it's even more difficult to figure out how to go about doing that. So, we're going to build it from the ground up using a little bit of support from Xcode, but not the full blown template. And while what we are doing is better for learning, I mean clearly it's not going to be as fast as what you could do as if you just dropped in the template at the out go but this is a learning environment and we're not worried in getting the app done as fast as possible yet. And so we're going to go do the heavy lifting, we're going to learn it. And this will give us better foundation for editing the template in the future. All right, so without further ado, what we're going to do is address some challenges. So one of the challenges that we encounter is when we're using core data we know that we have this ManagedObjectContext that moves around. This is our scratchpad where we create new items and we edit them. And then periodically we'll save and we'll need the ManagedObjectContext in order to save those items, those entities to our persistent storage on our device. And moving that variable or a reference to that variable around in our application is a little tricky because remember, it gets created in our AppDelegate method, our AppDelegate File. And that's where it lives, and so we have to pass it to our view controllers, and there is not a real natural way of doing that. And so the we we're going to do it is one of three ways, now the three ways that you could handle this are as follows. So the first one is you could handle all of the code that needs to be executed In the AppDelegate file itself, in principle anyway. You could have all of the table view populated, you can have all of the fetched results handlers, they can all be coming from a singles class, that's one way to do it. Now it's messy and it's poor architecture is putting all of your functionality and all of your concerns into one place. And it becomes hard to edit the code, and it's just your separation of concerns is poor, and in larger projects it would end up being a problem. A second option would be to create a singleton class. So this would be to create a brand new class using Xcode, creating a file. And in that class you would treat it as a singleton, meaning that whenever you wanted access to that class rather than instantiating that class, you would call a static method called get singleton. That would return the one instance of that class that exists within the entire scope of your program. And in that one instance of the class you would put any variables that you wanted to be able to access from anywhere in your app. So basically it's kind of a container for global variables. So what you could do is you could take your ManagedObjectContext and from your AppDelegate you could set it in this global class. And any time you needed to get that ManagedObjectContext, you could get the singleton, and you could retrieve the ManagedObjectContext. Now that's very fast, and it's probably the most practical thing to do, it's not very future proof. There are some instances where you may have multiple ManagedObjectContext moving around, something we're not going to cover in this specialization. And Sam and I were discussing the way we wanted to teach this, we were on the borderline about whether we should use a singleton class as it was kind of the most practical and yet maybe not the best thing. So in the end, at the end of the day, we decided to go with a good architectural model which not the singleton class. It's what we're going to do instead, which is we're going to pass the ManagedObjectContext around through our ViewControllers whenever they're needed so that the ViewController gets it's ManagedObjectContext when it gets instantiated or when it gets rendered. And this is sort of the ideal way to do it. It's going to take a little bit more work, but it's the best architecture and it's the most future-proof if you ever wanted to have multiple ManagedObjectContext. All right, the last challenge that we're going to address is that we're going to drop in a bunch of ViewControllers that are just from an object library. And we're going to need to implement some of that code in order to pass the ManagedObjectContext around. Unless we do something we're not going to have any code, any place that we can write code because these things are built in some of these classes, this ViewController classes are built in to xcode. So we're going to sub class some of those ViewControllers that are built into xcode. Now this isn't hard and it's not particular rocket science but it's new for us, we haven't really done that yet. So we're going to see examples of that In this case study, and then last thing that we going to do that's a little bit different is we're going to do something where we dynamically save our entities Whenever the user edits any field of the entity. So for example, if they're on that edit pane and they change the due date, as soon as they're done setting the due date we're going to update it even if they're still going to be making other changes on that edit pane. And the rationale for this that Sam really recommended is that because at any point your app can be killed, it's nice to have to most current edits that are available that the user had made stored in persistence storage. And so that's what we're going to do, whenever the user makes an edit, we're going to store it in persistence storage. Not just when they're done with their added pane. So that's an example of a best practice that we are going to show you. All right, so step one and we have about six parts to this and we'll tackle them in subsequent videos. So step one we're going to do here. We're going to initialize a Single View project with CoreData, then we're going to ditch the Single View that it gives us. We are going to create the basic storyboard, however. And we're going to subclass the ViewControllers that we need. That's going to create sort of a skeleton space for us to work from, and then we're going to create prototypes for passing variables between the view controllers. So, this is for managing the managed object contexts. Prototypes is not something that we have written before, but this is something that we've used before. These prototypes are another word for interfaces. So whenever we wanted to decide a signature that a class needs to implement, we can say, oh, let's create a prototype that shows the interface that a class must implement. And that's the way that we can just communicate in our architecture and in our design what is important for a class to be supporting, for class to implement as we move it around and you'll see how this works a little bit as we get going. So lets do this, initialize a single view project with CoreData, create a storyboard, subclass ViewControllers and make a product. So we're going to make two prototypes. All right, so let's go to Xcode and let's create our new project. And, like I said, it's going to be a single view application, we'll call it toDoManager. And we will give it a organization identifier. We use objective C, make sure we check use CoreData and hit next. We'll have it build it for us in our standard repository. Maximize our window and go to our story board and see where we start. All right, we got that basic view controller and we want to get rid of that because that's not how we're going to build it and our story board is going to start with nothing. So let's put what we want in there and what we want in particular is a navigation controller. That's going to be our standard point and this is going to come with a navigation controller and it's going to come with a root view controller. And then the last thing that we're going to want is we're going to want our edit window, so we're going to have a basic view controller that's going to hold our editing pane. Let's see if we can make some space for it, all right. Now our navigation controller is our initial view controller so we're going to come over here and click this is the place where application can start. And you can see over on the right we have all three of this things ready to go. So that's our basic storyboard. We have three elements that we're working with. It was single view and now we've created kind of master detail show. What I'd like to do now is I would like to create some sub classes so that we can write code within these different storyboards. So our first item here is a navigation controller. I'm going to click on it, I'm going to come over here and see what type we have. Right now you can see faintly that it says UI navigation controller. So that's the class that we're going to subclass. I come over here and we're going to create a new file. And it's going to be a cocoa, nope it's going to be iOS source, cocoa touch class. There we go. And the class is going, we'll call it MyUINavigationController. We use this pattern repeatedly. All right, and when I do that it wants to change My UI navigation controller. My UI navigation control, there we go, okay. Objective c on the iPhone, great. And create it in our project, over on the left we should see it receives a header and receives it's implementation. And then we want to go back to our storyboard, our main storyboard. And we want to select our navigation controller. And now we want to make our navigation controller be of the type we just created. So now when we edit code for that navigation controller we can come here and it will take effect. So the next thing we've got is this root view controller scene. And this is a table view. The root view controller scene is a UI table view controller. And that's the one that we want to subclass, we want to subclass that whole controller. So we look over here and we see that by default it is a UITableViewController, so that's what we're going to subclass, UITableViewController. So we're going to create a new file, a cocoa touch class. Next, and we will call it, oops. Let me select everything, MyUITable. Actually, it's going to override it, so I'm going to come here. UITableViewController, great. And we'll call it MyUITableViewController. Good, create it in our project and then go back to where there's code for it, the template code, go back to it select the view controller and then make sure it is using our code for that, all right. And just for completeness, we're going to come to our last one, which is our view controller. We're going to select our view controller, and we see here that it is a UIViewController by default. Now, over here, on our project, we have the view control that was created when we initially made our template, so let's just go ahead and delete those so those don't confuse us later. We're going to move them to the trash. Come back to our storyboard. Our view controller is of class UIViewController. So that's what we're going to subclass for our third scene. Create a new file, cocoa touch class is going to be a UIViewController. And we'll call it MyUIViewController, create it in our project, go back to our storyboard, and for some reason it put it up there. So we're just going to move it down here and because I'm that way, we're going to move these down so it's alphabetical, because that's how I roll. All right, and then finally, in our main story board we need to make sure that our view controller is using that class. My UI View Controller, great, so we've laid out our story board, we've sub classed each of those view controllers. Primarily the reason I'm worried about that is so that we can write the code that moves the view context along this sequence, when we want to implement the core data functionality. All right the last thing we said we want to do is implement two different prototypes. So prototype is the equivalent of an interface in another language and it is set, it gives specifications for functions that a class must. If it uses that prototype, it must implement the appropriate functions associated with it. So to do this, we're going to create a new file, when you do this a little bit differently, you go to other. Oh no, I'm sorry, you go to source. And you do an objective c file. And then you do next, and then you have the option of choosing a protocol. I've been saying prototype. Sorry. What we're creating is a protocol, not a prototype. So the protocol which is the same as in. A prototype is like a member variable. Protocol is an interface. So what we're going to do is we're going to use my initials DP just a Convention within IOS. And we're going to say that what we're going to be defining is something that is a manager. So something that receives the managed object context. And well, that's kind of maybe a bad confusion of terms. So we'll say DP, we'll say handles, handles maybe. Managed object context, all right? So this is supposed to say that something that implements this can receive a managed object context. Good, hit next. We'll generate that code and, we have just a dot h file, because there's no implementation for this. And what we need to do is, we need to specify those functions that implement this, what is it that they do? Well, they implement a function called receive manage object context, which as it's parameter takes a NS managed object context, wow, called the incoming managed object context. And what it does with it is it's going to keep a copy of it, so that it can do core data work. All right, so that's the first one that we created. I want to create one more. One more protocol. We're going to call it DPHandlesToDoEntity. This is going to be a protocol that a class can implement if it can hand, if it can receive one of our two DoEntities, which is going to be our basic entity in our core data class. All right, straight forward, and basically this is going to have the exact same signature except it's going to be receive to do entity. And we'll say incoming to do entity. And it is going to be a to do entity. And this will give us an error because we haven't actually defined that thing yet. It's not going to give us an error. It should give us an error. All right, we have two warnings. Let's check those out. What are our warnings? Says scene is unreachable due to lack of entry points. It does not have an identifier for run time access. So presumably, oh, presumably that means that this scene is not accessible, because there's no way to get to it. We'll add that later. And prototype table cells must have reuse identifiers. So that means that we need to give this cell a name. I'm going to select it up here. This cell a name so that we can access it from within code. So we're going to come over here to the reuse identifier. And what we're going to do is we'll call it a We'll just call it a table cell. We'll call it the table cell Identifier so that when we use it in code we can remember where it was that we used this name. Table cell identifier. Okay, and that got rid of one of our warnings. Now, we should be able to run this without any problem. going to be probably the second most boring app in the world but it should run okay. Let's see if it does. Bringing it up on an iPhone 6 plus, see it coming up in the background. And there we go, we got a Root View Controller if I, I don't know if you can see this on the recording, but I, you can see that there's a table view there and there's no way to move around but it's working so far. So that's our first Part 1. We've initialized our Single View project with CoreData. We created the basic storyboard. We subclassed the View Controllers so that we could work with them. And we created prototypes that will help us to describe the architecture for passing variables between ViewControllers. We'll pick up again in the next lecture with Part 2 of the Steps to make our ToDoList manager. Thanks. [MUSIC]


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What is the difference between a website and a virtual directory?
A web site is used if you want to host different IP addresses or domains from your IIS server. A virtual directory is just a subfolder under the web site.
A web site is accessed by typing in the domain name, for example, http://www.marketingpilot.com. If you have a virtual directory called support, you would access it by typing in: http://www.marketingpilot.com/support .
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[Review] 'Black Site' is not the Lovecraftian action movie you're looking for
If you've ever played Mortal Kombat and thought it would be better with Lovecraftian Elder Gods instead of a bunch of assholes from a pseudo-Hell, then Black Site is the movie you've been waiting for. At least, it tries to be…
…The next title from indie genre heavyweight, Dread, Black Site is written/directed by Tom Paton (Redwood), and deals with an alternate universe where Earth has been invaded by Elder Gods straight out of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos, which are basically giant floating octopi with a bad attitude. To combat the creatures, a group named Artemis has been formed, operating at a place known as the Black Site, where they have the ability to create a dimensional rip and send the ugly Elders back to where they came from. The film follows Ren (Samantha Schnitzler), a guard at the site. When soldiers arrive with a human body bound to the Elder, Erebus (Kris Johnson), the creature who killed Ren's family, things don't quite go as planned.
Black Site opens on a gleeful note, with a sequence detailing the Black Site which is reminiscent of the Escape from New York opening that goes over what's happened to New York. Set to an inspired retro score by Max Sweiry, Paton's film immediately washes over the audience with a wave of 80s genre nostalgia. Black Site is heavily influenced by John Carpenter films like Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13, and Big Trouble in Little China, and that love is obvious. Fans will revel in these first few minutes of Black Site, at least I hope so, because the film never quite reaches the same high again.
Immediately missing from Black Site is a character like Snake Plissken, or even Sonya Blade. It isn't that Ren isn't a character we can root for, but more that she, like the rest of the cast, just aren't that interesting outside of basic features, such as the scarred eye of villainous sword-fighter, Ker (Phoebe Robinson-Galvin). Ren has all the typical traits of a badass hero: She's rough, tough, and loves one liners, and she really wants to fuck up Erebus. The problem is, her character lacks in personality, and Schnitzler never quite gets her to pop. What is great about the cast is that Black Site is a film where the women run the show, and are easily more kick-ass than the men. Ren even has a moment where her wimpy partner, Sam (Mike Beckingham), claims he is the hero, to which Ren responds, "dude, you're the side-kick". It isn't often that a film like this has a female heroine, female villain, and a female boss in charge of the Black Site, Wilkinson (Angela Dixon). In fact, the film even features phenomenal actresses Sophia Del Pizzo and Lauren Ashley Carter. It's refreshing to see such a cast, which makes it all the more disappointing that these characters are as dull as the paper they were conceived on.
Set in this underground lab where a cult of over fifty are invading to free Erebus, Black Site works like Escape From New York and The Raid got together to give an Elder God a knuckle sandwich. There are very few guns in this film, relegating our heroes to loads of hand to hand combat, with a few swords mixed in here and there. But all of these characters appear more adept at spouting one-liners than actual fighting, with choreography that leaves a lot to be desired, though isn't too bad for a low-budget film. The crime here is that Paton's film comes across as beyond tame for what should be a gritty, effects-driven explosion. Instead, Black Site is void of any blood or outrageous kills in a movie with a premise that screams over-the-top bloodbath. You can't put a giant octopus monster in the sky and NOT have at least a few drops of blood. Karate Kid has more intense action than Black Site.
And while Black Site isn't exactly slow, the pacing is a bumpy ride at best. Constantly interrupting the action are visions Ren shares with Erebus, or scenes of Erebus giving a good ole exposition dump to Wilkinson. What's worse, is these visions and other interruptions are the same shots being used over, and over, and over again, making the film seem as if it's never moving forward. It's not at all that I'm against plot (there isn't much here), it's that I wish there was MORE plot to wrap our slimy tentacles around, but since there isn't, the film needs to keep the heart-rate going to at least hold the audience's attention. Throwing in scenes like Erebus talking about his dead lover, Nix, add nothing that affects the story, and therefore only works to grind the action to a halt.
Black Site has its 80s-loving heart in the right place, and I don't doubt that Paton's script looked like a blast on paper. But with an unsatisfying ending and action/violence that leaves a lot to be desired, Black Site will disappoint anyone looking for a true homage to the effects extravaganza that was the 80s. The premise is brilliant, and I wanted to love Black Site, but this wasn't the Elder God action movie for me.


The Nets have guaranteed Spencer Dinwiddie's $1.65 million salary for the upcoming season.
It's a total no-brainer as Dinwiddie put together a real breakout season in the wake of Brooklyn's backcourt injuries. He and D'Angelo Russell could be battling for the starting point guard job in camp (with Russell moving to shooting guard if Dinwiddie performs well enough) but even coming off the bench Dinwiddie will be looking at a sizable role. His low turnovers are a nice bonus for a point guard, and less shot volume will help mitigate his poor percentages. Guard-needy owners should keep Dinwiddie in mind in the back half of standard league drafts.


Baddeley Gavin: Vampire Lovers: Screen's Seductive Creatures of the Night » Plexus » Infanata - лучшие книги интернета!
A new generation lost their hearts to the romantic lure of the vampire genre with Robert Pattinson's soulful vampire Edward Cullen. Vampire Lovers is for all those whose thirst remains unsated. This heady history of undead pin-ups who have stalked our screens and made mortal hearts race is irresistibly illustrated with more than 100 lavish photographs, examining each of the mesmerising performers who have taken on the role of leading vampire. Beginning with Twilight's vampire sweetheart Edward Cullen, continuing through radical characters like Kate Beckinsale's gun-wielding, PVC-clad action hero (Underworld) and Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing's science-crazed villain, the book explores the decadent worlds of Interview with the Vampire, exuding velvet-soft, gilded sadness, and Kiefer Sutherland's sinister seaside playground (The Lost Boys), ending with delectably darkened visions of horror legends Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi. From Buffy's brooding flames David Boreanaz and James Marsters to Stephen Moyer, the pulse-quickening star of True Blood, every intriguing incarnation of the legend is to be found here. Vampire Lovers demonstrates precisely why our fascination with this genre, much like Cullen's timeless love, will never die.


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using namespace std;

namespace mfem
{

// MF Mass Integrator

// MF Mass Assemble kernel
void VectorMassIntegrator::AssembleMF(const FiniteElementSpace &fes)
{
   // Assuming the same element type
   Mesh *mesh = fes.GetMesh();
   if (mesh->GetNE() == 0) { return; }
   const FiniteElement &el = *fes.GetFE(0);
   ElementTransformation *T = mesh->GetElementTransformation(0);
   const IntegrationRule *ir
      = IntRule ? IntRule : &MassIntegrator::GetRule(el, el, *T);
   if (DeviceCanUseCeed())
   {
      delete ceedOp;
      const bool mixed = mesh->GetNumGeometries(mesh->Dimension()) > 1 ||
                         fes.IsVariableOrder();
      if (mixed)
      {
         ceedOp = new ceed::MixedMFMassIntegrator(*this, fes, Q);
      }
      else
      {
         ceedOp = new ceed::MFMassIntegrator(fes, *ir, Q);
      }
      return;
   }
   MFEM_ABORT("Error: VectorMassIntegrator::AssembleMF only implemented with"
              " libCEED");
}

void VectorMassIntegrator::AddMultMF(const Vector &x, Vector &y) const
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When the Universe Sends You a Message: Best Novels of 2016
December 14, 2016 by jenniferpuryear | 6 Comments
Today, one of the most avid and discerning readers I know shares his "Best of" list for 2016. I'm taking notes.
From Sean Kinch: I am a devoted reader of "Best of" book lists. Seeing what others consider the cream of the year gives me a chance to learn what I have missed and provides the inspiration to lift a title to the top of my pile. In 2010, the year-end issue of the Times Literary Supplement convinced me to pick up Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, which became one of my favorite books of 2011. A few years later, I succumbed to the chorus of praise for Elena Ferrate's Neapolitan Quartet and quickly joined the ranks of her devoted fans.
If your reading habits are anything like mine, the number of books you want to read far outstrips the available time, creating a competition among books to vie for your attention. Even the most industrious among us can't read everything worthwhile. As many excellent novels as I've read in 2016, I'm haunted by the ones I haven't, especially new works by perennial favorites like Ian McEwan, Jay McInerney, Ethan Canin, and (most recently) Zadie Smith. And 2016 isn't finished: my Christmas vacation reading begins with Sabina Murray, a grad school comrade, whose new novel Valiant Gentlemen received thoughtful acclaim ("vigorous, audacious, and unpredictable") from David Leavitt in the New York Times Book Review.
Let these picks, then, score some points for the titles I mention. If you have never heard of one of them, add it to your list of possible future reading. If my recommendation is the fifth time a book has been pointed out to you, the universe is trying to send you a message.
My 2016 reading was highlighted by two novels by Nashville writers. The year began on a high note in January with the publication of Only Love Can Break Your Heart, the first novel from my friend and colleague Ed Tarkington. My prediction is that, given its strong characters and elegant structure, it will be adapted by Hollywood. As much as I look forward to seeing the story realized in dramatic form (and to hear its Neil Young-heavy soundtrack), I recommend that you start with the novel to appreciate the nuances of Ed's prose.
This fall brought another local gem: Commonwealth, the new novel by Ann Patchett, Nashville's Duchess of Parnassus. Readers tend to have intensely personal reactions to Commonwealth, making the novel a literary Rorschach test: everyone points to a different scene as her favorite, revealing hidden elements in the reader's personality. My favorite moment is when Teresa Cousins acknowledges the beauty of her rival Beverly Keating by comparing Bev to Catherine Deneuve (personal note: did I marry my wife because she looks like Catherine Deneuve, or do I like Catherine Deneuve because she looks like my wife?). Read Commonwealth and experience your own revelations.
Two novels from 2016 belong on a separate shelf from the rest; in Tour de France terms they are hors catégorie – beyond categorization. Julian Barnes, who lectured at Vanderbilt in March, returned with The Noise of Time, a fictionalized biography of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich that is also a meditation on art, politics, history, and, as always with Barnes, the irreducible subjectivity of truth. Another all-time favorite, Don DeLillo, creates in Zero K the ideal vehicle to exercise his peculiar gift for describing liminal experiences: elective cryo-preservation. DeLillo characters tend to ask, "What does this mean?" His novels ask the more fundamental epistemological question: How do we mean? With White Noise, DeLillo showed us how pop culture obscures communication. Underworld proved that we are defined by what we throw away. Cosmopolis revealed the fictions that undergird the international finance system. With Zero K, DeLillo ponders our communal death wish, the "psychological pandemic" that pushes us toward existential crisis.
This year enjoyed a wave of new women writers who brought fresh voices and innovative re-imaginings of novelistic form. Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing uses an elegant structure – alternating family stories in Africa and the U.S. – to depict the legacy of the slave trade through seven generations. Emma Cline proved worthy of the hype, and hefty advance, that accompanied the publication of The Girls, a novel that follows the outline of the Manson murders but at its heart reveals the vulnerability of a teenage girl seeking an identity. Molly Prentiss's Tuesday Nights in 1980 is perfect for readers who want to indulge in nostalgia for punk-era Manhattan but didn't have the patience for last year's City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg. (NB: Prentiss, born in 1984, and Hallberg 1978, rely on an older generation's memories for accounts of CBGB, Keith Haring, et al.; I can't personally attest to the accuracy of their portrayals, but both feel authentic.)
The most impressive newcomer is C.E. Morgan. Though she had previously published a short novel called All the Living, the scope and ambition of her new novel The Sport of Kings seemed like a lightning strike, a novel that immediately elbowed its way into the American canon. Her multi-generational story, set in the milieu of horse racing, offers a jaundiced view of American race relations. At its intimate heart, though, it dramatizes how love, desire, anger, and loss complicate the already-hazardous business of discovering who you are.
2016 also saw the return of some Kinch favorites experimenting with new styles. Michael Chabon, recently featured in Nashville Library's Salon@615 series, produced Moonglow, a faux-memoir of his "grandfather" that toggles among decades to tell the stories of three damaged people who persevere despite the fantastic, horrifying shadows cast by the Holocaust. Jonathan Safran Foer rendered a more contemporary vision of the destruction of Jewish people in Here I Am, where multiple threats to Israel's existence form the backdrop to a marital crisis. The novel follows a pattern of splintering and healing – nations struggle but survive, families decay and then bloom in new environs – that leaves its hero broken but mildly hopeful.
The novel I most enjoyed reading this year was Richard Russo's Everybody's Fool, which revisits the town of North Bath, made famous in Nobody's Fool two decades ago. In this sequel, Sully's old gang takes a back seat to a younger generation, but the new cast runs the familiar Russovian gamut of reprobates, cast-offs, and trainwrecks. Read it, re-read the original, watch the Paul Newman movie of Nobody's Fool, read the rest of Russo's oeuvre – he is the king of the novel (a throne he shares with John Irving); visiting his domain always rewards the traveler.
I would feel remiss if I didn't add a quick note about my favorite novels of 2015 that I didn't get to until this year: Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Louis de Bernières's The Dust That Falls From Dreams, and Rick Moody's Hotels of North America. I should add, too, that I didn't feel the need to put Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad on this list, not after its National Book Award and run-away best-sellerdom, but I hope that readers who enjoyed it will explore Whitehead's backlist, starting with the startlingly good (and unclassifiable) John Henry Days.
In all, a remarkable year of reading, and it could get better in 2017: Arundhati Roy will release her second novel, a short twenty years after her Booker-winning debut The God of Small Things; George Saunders is publishing a novel, of all delights; and, if the spirits move her sufficiently, Hilary Mantel will publish the third volume of her Wolf Hall novels, to be titled The Mirror and the Light. Yes, I'm already working on my "Best of 2017" list; something tells me, if you've read this far, then you are, too.
For more from Sean Kinch, check out his reviews at Chapter16.org, including pieces on The Noise of Time, Homegoing, Moonglow, and Here I Am. Sean graduated with a BA from Stanford and a PhD from the University of Texas and has taught English at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville since 2002. He organizes the 5th grade Quiz Bowl every Spring, then the prom. You'll have to ask him which one is harder. Sean is a "very popular teacher known for his literary scholarship and his knowledge of popular culture, especially movies and all things basketball," says one colleague. He can still drain the 3.
Pictured at top, at Rosemary Beach (a favorite reading spot): Sean, Samuel, Katherine and Jill Kinch.
Categories: Fiction, Guest Posts | Tags: Best Books of 2016, Best Novels of 2016, Montgomery Bell Academy, Sean Kinch | Permalink
Mary C Palmer
What a wonderful list of books! I've been bouncing back and forth from this article to Audible to update my library. I was happy to see The Dust That Falls From Dreams included in the article. What a wonderful story that is. Knowing that the third book in the Wolf Hall series is on the horizon is a present in itself. This blog is a such a gift to all of us. Thank you, Jennifer!
jenniferpuryear
Hi Mary! Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm so glad you enjoyed Sean's wonderful post today! (Like you, I'm over the moon to learn that the next installment of Wolf Hall may be on its way!) xo
Such excellent suggestions and several messages from the universe to me in the wonderful Dr. Kinch's picks here.(Julian Barnes is one of my favorite – loved The Sense of an Ending) Thank you and still rallying for parents to audit Senior English at MBA. Some of his students will not know until later how lucky they were but you can be sure their parents are fully aware and grateful for his brilliance. Great post today!
Hi BK! What a neat idea to audit his class! And yes, kids will only appreciate later. I'm so glad you found some good reads today! xo
Brian Lomax
Thanks for this great list! I will share with all of my book-loving friends.
Hi Brian! I'm delighted to hear from you, and thank you for sharing with your friends! xo


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Public Meeting 2016
Carrickmacross Cancer Society Chairman, Pat Drury welcomed over a hundred people to the Annual Public Information Meeting in the Shirley Arms Hotel on Thursday, April 7th at 8pm. In his opening address Pat sympatised with members of the audience who had lost relatives and friends in the last twelve months. He expressed his appreciation to all the dedicated fundriasers and donors who provided money to enable the Society to continue to support in a very practical way people in the community living with cancer. He then introduced Michael Mc Mahon,the Society Assistant Secretary, to outline the structure of Carrickmacross Cancer Society. (CCS)
Michael traced the origins of CCS from November 24th 1986 when a small group got together to raise money to help a friend pay for a particulaly expensive cancer treatment. After the friend lost a brave battle with the disease it was decided to use the unspent money to help other people in the Community. A constitution with clear guidlines and rules for the conduct of the Society was drawn up and submitted for legal review to solicitor Enda O' Carroll. The Constitution was accepted in 1992 by the Revenue Commissioners and charity status was granted. While the membership of the Society has changed over the years the basic structure remains the same. Unfortunaly Mary Kirk and Pat Ward, two former Committee Members, have gone to their eternal rewards RIP. As other members left the society for one reason or another, new members were co-opted. Client confidentiality is thus maintained and is an absolute component of the Society operation.
Pauline O' Hagan, who was a member of the inaugural group is still a member and is the current Honorary Secretary. Pat Drury is Chairman, Pauline Fox is Treasurer. Pauline gets considerable assistance from husband Jim in counting coins and keeping financial records. Marian Maggs is P.R.O and takes care of equipment provision and maintenance with help from Reggie & David Maggs. Michael, who as well as Assistant Secretary helps out in other ways as required, emphasised that no committee member is paid or remunerated apart from getting out of pocket expenses or costs incurred. The accounts are professionally audited annually by David Mc Sharry & Co and submitted to the Revenue Commissioners. Carrickmacross Cancer Society is registered with the Charity Regulatory Authority and details are published on the Authority Website.
The Committee Members do not actively participate in fundraising themselves. They rely on funds raised by individuals and groups in Carrickmacross, Corduff-Raferagh, Inniskeen, Donaghmoyne, Broomfield, Lisdoonan, Killanny, Magheracloone and all places in between. Some money is also raised through PayPal. Fundraising events for 2016 include The Friends of Carrick Cancer former greats football match on Saturday, April 16th in Corduff, the North East Truck Fest on Saturday April 30th and Sunday May 1st in Lisdoonan Centre and the Border Counties Grassmen countrywide tractor drive October 23rd to 30th inclusive. For information on those and other events see www.carrickmacrosscancer.ie or check out on Facebook.
Pauline O' Hagan then addressed the meeting. She highlighted the value of the professional service provided by local taxi drivers. She made particular mention of the variety of ways the drivers help those they take to and from appointments in a variety of caring and meaningful ways.
In her Treasurer's Report Pauline Fox reported an expenditre of 160,000 euros for the year. While expenditure exceeded income last year the Society is in a good financial position to meet claims as they arise thanks to the great fundraisers.
Marian Maggs reported on another successful National Daffodil Day on March 11th and thanked all who sold flowers and pins.
Guest Speaker Dr. Kieran Mc Mahon in a most informative talk outlined details of a variety of cancers both from a G.P's prospective and what patients should look out for themselves. He described signs and symtoms in clear language that we should look out for – examples; change in moles, spots that don't heal up or bleed easily, soars that last for some time , lumps and pains etc. He strongly advised people to go to their doctor if they suspect something unusual.
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Finger food and beverages were then served and some cheque presentation photos taken.
He introduced Doctor Kieran Mc Mahon as the guest speaker for the night. Before Kieran