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File Management
Files in General
It's hard to find anyone in the 21st century, who doesn't know what a file is. When we say file, we mean of course, a file on a computer. There may be people who don't know anymore the "container", like a cabinet or a folder, for keeping papers archived in a convenient order. A file on a computer is the modern counterpart of this. It is a collection of information, which can be accessed and used by a computer program. Usually, a file resides on a durable storage. Durable means that the data is persistent, i.e. it can be used by other programs after the program which has created or manipulated it, has terminated.
The term file management in the context of computers refers to the manipulation of data in a file or files and documents on a computer. Though everybody has an understanding of the term file, we present a formal definition anyway:
A file or a computer file is a chunk of logically related data or information which can be used by computer programs. Usually a file is kept on a permanent storage media, e.g. a hard drive disk. A unique name and path is used by human users or in programs or scripts to access a file for reading and modification purposes.
The term "file" - as we have described it in the previous paragraph - appeared in the history of computers very early. Usage can be tracked down to the year 1952, when punch cards where used.
A programming language without the capability to store and retrieve previously stored information would be hardly useful.
The most basic tasks involved in file manipulation are reading data from files and writing or appending data to files.
Reading and Writing Files in Python
The syntax for reading and writing files in Python is similar to programming languages like C, C++, Java, Perl, and others but a lot easier to handle.
In our first example we want to show how to read data from a file. The way of telling Python that we want to read from a file is to use the open function. The first parameter is the name of the file we want to read and with the second parameter, assigned to the value "r", we state that we want to read from the file:
fobj = open("ad_lesbiam.txt", "r")
The "r" is optional. An open() command with just a file name is opened for reading per default. The open() function returns a file object, which offers attributes and methods.
fobj = open("ad_lesbiam.txt")
After we have finished working with a file, we have to close it again by using the file object method close():
Now we want to finally open and read a file. The method rstrip() in the following example is used to strip off whitespaces (newlines included) h the right side of the string "line":
fobj = open("ad_lesbiam.txt") for line in fobj: print(line.rstrip()) fobj.close()
If we save this script and call it, we get the following output, provided that the text file "ad_lesbiam.txt" is available:
$ python file_read.py V. ad Lesbiam VIVAMUS mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis! soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut ne quis malus inuidere possit, cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. (GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS)
By the way, the poem above is a love poem of the ancient Roman poet Catull, who was hopelessly in love with a woman called Lesbia.
Write into a File
Writing to a file is as easy as reading from a file. To open a file for writing we set the second parameter to "w" instead of "r". To actually write the data into this file, we use the method write() of the file handle object.
Let's start with a very simple and straightforward example:
fh = open("example.txt", "w") fh.write("To write or not to write\nthat is the question!\n") fh.close()
Especially if you are writing to a file, you should never forget to close the file handle again. Otherwise you will risk your data ending up in a non consistent state.
You will often find the with statement for reading and writing files. The advantage is that the file will be automatically closed after the indented block after the with has finished execution:
with open("example.txt", "w") as fh: fh.write("To write or not to write\nthat is the question!\n")
Our first example can also be rewritten like this with the with statement:
with open("ad_lesbiam.txt") as fobj: for line in fobj: print(line.rstrip())
Example for simultaneously reading and writing:
fobj_in = open("ad_lesbiam.txt") fobj_out = open("ad_lesbiam2.txt","w") i = 1 for line in fobj_in: print(line.rstrip()) fobj_out.write(str(i) + ": " + line) i = i + 1 fobj_in.close() fobj_out.close()
Every line of the input text file is prefixed by its line number. So, the result looks like this:
$ more ad_lesbiam2.txt 1: V. ad Lesbiam 2: 3: VIVAMUS mea Lesbia, atque amemus, 4: rumoresque senum severiorum 5: omnes unius aestimemus assis! 6: soles occidere et redire possunt: 7: nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, 8: nox est perpetua una dormienda. 9: da mi basia mille, deinde centum, 10: dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, 11: deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. 12: dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, 13: conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, 14: aut ne quis malus inuidere possit, 15: cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. 16: (GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS)
There is one possible problem, which we have to point out. What happens if we open a file for writing, and this file already exists? You can consider yourself fortunate, if the content of this file was of no importance, or if you have a backup of it. Otherwise you have a problem, because as soon as an open() with a "w" has been executed the file will be removed. This is often what you want, but sometimes you just want to append to the file, like it's the case with logfiles.
If you want to append something to an existing file, you have to use "a" instead of "w".
Reading in one go
So far we worked on files line by line by using a for loop. Very often, especially if the file is not too large, it's more convenient to read the file into a complete data structure, e.g. a string or a list. The file can be closed after reading and the work is accomplished on this data structure:
poem = open("ad_lesbiam.txt").readlines() print(poem) ['V. ad Lesbiam \n', '\n', 'VIVAMUS mea Lesbia, atque amemus,\n', 'rumoresque senum severiorum\n', 'omnes unius aestimemus assis!\n', 'soles occidere et redire possunt:\n', 'nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,\n', 'nox est perpetua una dormienda.\n', 'da mi basia mille, deinde centum,\n', 'dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,\n', 'deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.\n', 'dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,\n', 'conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,\n', 'aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,\n', 'cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.\n', '(GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS)'] print(poem[2]) VIVAMUS mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
In the above example, the complete poem is read into the list poem. We can acces e.g. the 3rd line with poem[2].
Another convenient way to read in a file might be the method read() of open. With this method we can read the complete file into a string, as we can see in the next example:
poem = open("ad_lesbiam.txt").read() print(poem[16:34]) VIVAMUS mea Lesbia type(poem)
This string contains the complete content of the file, which includes the carriage returns and line feeds.
Resetting the Files Current Position
It's possible to set - or reset - a file's position to a certain position, also called the offset. To do this, we use the method seek. It has only one parameter in Python3 (no "whence" is available as in Python2). The parameter of seek determines the offset which we want to set the current position to. To work with seek, we will often need the method tell, which "tells" us the current position. When we have just opened a file, it will be zero. We will demonstrate the way of working with both seek and tell in the following example. You have to create a file called "buck_mulligan.txt" with the content "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.":
fh = open("buck_mulligan.txt")
', plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.'
It's also possible to set the file position relative to the current position by using tell correspondingly:
fh = open("buck_mulligan.txt")
'Stately, plump '
#set the current position 6 characters to the left:
fh.seek(fh.tell() -6)
#now, we will advance 29 characters to the
#'right' relative to the current position:
fh.seek(fh.tell() + 29)
Read and Write to the Same File
In the following example we will open a file for reading and writing at the same time. If the file doesn't exist, it will be created. If you want to open an existing file for read and write, you should better use "r+", because this will not delete the content of the file.
fh = open('colours.txt', 'w+')
fh.write('The colour brown')
#Go to the 12th byte in the file, counting starts with 0
content = fh.read()
brown 16 The colour green
"How to get into a Pickle"
We don't really mean what the header says. On the contrary, we want to prevent any nasty situation, like losing the data, which your Python program has calculated. So, we will show you, how you can save your data in an easy way that you or better your program can reread them at a later date again. We are "pickling" the data, so that nothing gets lost.
Python offers a module for this purpose, which is called "pickle". With the algorithms of the pickle module we can serialize and de-serialize Python object structures. "Pickling" denotes the process which converts a Python object hierarchy into a byte stream, and "unpickling" on the other hand is the inverse operation, i.e. the byte stream is converted back into an object hierarchy. What we call pickling (and unpickling) is also known as "serialization" or "flattening" a data structure.
An object can be dumped with the dump method of the pickle module:
pickle.dump(obj, file[,protocol, *, fix_imports=True])
dump() writes a pickled representation of obj to the open file object file. The optional protocol argument tells the pickler to use the given protocol:
- Protocol version 0 is the original (before Python3) human-readable (ascii) protocol and is backwards compatible with previous versions of Python.
- Protocol version 1 is the old binary format which is also compatible with previous versions of Python.
- Protocol version 2 was introduced in Python 2.3. It provides much more efficient pickling of new-style classes.
- Protocol version 3 was introduced with Python 3.0. It has explicit support for bytes and cannot be unpickled by Python 2.x pickle modules. It's the recommended protocol of Python 3.x.
The default protocol of Python3 is 3.
If fix_imports is True and protocol is less than 3, pickle will try to map the new Python3 names to the old module names used in Python2, so that the pickle data stream is readable with Python 2.
Objects which have been dumped to a file with pickle.dump can be reread into a program by using the method pickle.load(file). pickle.load recognizes automatically, which format had been used for writing the data. A simple example:
import pickle cities = ["Paris", "Dijon", "Lyon", "Strasbourg"] fh = open("data.pkl", "bw") pickle.dump(cities, fh) fh.close()
The file data.pkl can be read in again by Python in the same or another session or by a different program:
import pickle f = open("data.pkl", "rb") villes = pickle.load(f) print(villes) ['Paris', 'Dijon', 'Lyon', 'Strasbourg']
Only the objects and not their names are saved. That's why we use the assignment to villes in the previous example, i.e. data = pickle.load(f).
In our previous example, we had pickled only one object, i.e. a list of French cities. But what about pickling multiple objects? The solution is easy: We pack the objects into another object, so we will only have to pickle one object again. We will pack two lists "programming_languages" and "python_dialects" into a list pickle_objects in the following example:
import pickle fh = open("data.pkl","bw") programming_languages = ["Python", "Perl", "C++", "Java", "Lisp"] python_dialects = ["Jython", "IronPython", "CPython"] pickle_object = (programming_languages, python_dialects) pickle.dump(pickle_object,fh) fh.close()
The pickled data from the previous example, - i.e. the data which we have written to the file data.pkl, - can be separated into two lists again, when we reread the data:
</pre> import pickle f = open("data.pkl","rb") languages, dialects) = pickle.load(f) print(languages, dialects) ['Python', 'Perl', 'C++', 'Java', 'Lisp'] ['Jython', 'IronPython', 'CPython'] </pre>
shelve Module
One drawback of the pickle module is that it is only capable of pickling one object at the time, which has to be unpickled in one go. Let's imagine this data object is a dictionary. It may be desirable that we don't have to save and load every time the whole dictionary, but save and load just a single value corresponding to just one key. The shelve module is the solution to this request. A "shelf" - as used in the shelve module - is a persistent, dictionary-like object. The difference with dbm databases is that the values (not the keys!) in a shelf can be essentially arbitrary Python objects -- anything that the "pickle" module can handle. This includes most class instances, recursive data types, and objects containing lots of shared sub-objects. The keys have to be strings.
The shelve module can be easily used. Actually, it is as easy as using a dictionary in Python. Before we can use a shelf object, we have to import the module. After this, we have to open a shelve object with the shelve method open. The open method opens a special shelf file for reading and writing:
</pre> import shelve s = shelve.open("MyShelve")</pre>
If the file "MyShelve" already exists, the open method will try to open it. If it isn't a shelf file, - i.e. a file which has been created with the shelve module, - we will get an error message. If the file doesn't exist, it will be created.
We can use s like an ordinary dictionary, if we use strings as keys:
s["street"] = "Fleet Str" s["city"] = "London" for key in s: print(key)
A shelf object has to be closed with the close method:
We can use the previously created shelf file in another program or in an interactive Python session:
$ python3 Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 28 2014, 00:22:33) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import shelve s = shelve.open("MyShelve") s["street"] 'Fleet Str' s["city"] 'London'
It is also possible to cast a shelf object into an "ordinary" dictionary with the dict function:
s ≤shelve.DbfilenameShelf object at 0xb7133dcc> >>> dict(s) {'city': 'London', 'street': 'Fleet Str'}
The following example uses more complex values for our shelf object:
import shelve tele = shelve.open("MyPhoneBook") tele["Mike"] = {"first":"Mike", "last":"Miller", "phone":"4689"} tele["Steve"] = {"first":"Stephan", "last":"Burns", "phone":"8745"} tele["Eve"] = {"first":"Eve", "last":"Naomi", "phone":"9069"} tele["Eve"]["phone"] '9069'
The data is persistent!
To demonstrate this once more, we reopen our MyPhoneBook:
$ python3 Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 28 2014, 00:22:33) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import shelve tele = shelve.open("MyPhoneBook") tele["Steve"]["phone"] '8745'
Save the following text containing city names and times as "cities_and_times.txt".
Chicago Sun 01:52 Columbus Sun 02:52 Riyadh Sun 10:52 Copenhagen Sun 08:52 Kuwait City Sun 10:52 Rome Sun 08:52 Dallas Sun 01:52 Salt Lake City Sun 01:52 San Francisco Sun 00:52 Amsterdam Sun 08:52 Denver Sun 01:52 San Salvador Sun 01:52 Detroit Sun 02:52 Las Vegas Sun 00:52 Santiago Sun 04:52 Anchorage Sat 23:52 Ankara Sun 10:52 Lisbon Sun 07:52 São Paulo Sun 05:52 Dubai Sun 11:52 London Sun 07:52 Seattle Sun 00:52 Dublin Sun 07:52 Los Angeles Sun 00:52 Athens Sun 09:52 Edmonton Sun 01:52 Madrid Sun 08:52 Shanghai Sun 15:52 Atlanta Sun 02:52 Frankfurt Sun 08:52 Singapore Sun 15:52 Auckland Sun 20:52 Halifax Sun 03:52 Melbourne Sun 18:52 Stockholm Sun 08:52 Barcelona Sun 08:52 Miami Sun 02:52 Minneapolis Sun 01:52 Sydney Sun 18:52 Beirut Sun 09:52 Helsinki Sun 09:52 Montreal Sun 02:52 Berlin Sun 08:52 Houston Sun 01:52 Moscow Sun 10:52 Indianapolis Sun 02:52 Boston Sun 02:52 Tokyo Sun 16:52 Brasilia Sun 05:52 Istanbul Sun 10:52 Toronto Sun 02:52 Vancouver Sun 00:52 Brussels Sun 08:52 Jerusalem Sun 09:52 New Orleans Sun 01:52 Vienna Sun 08:52 Bucharest Sun 09:52 Johannesburg Sun 09:52 New York Sun 02:52 Warsaw Sun 08:52 Budapest Sun 08:52 Oslo Sun 08:52 Washington DC Sun 02:52 Ottawa Sun 02:52 Winnipeg Sun 01:52 Cairo Sun 09:52 Paris Sun 08:52 Calgary Sun 01:52 Kathmandu Sun 13:37 Philadelphia Sun 02:52 Zurich Sun 08:52 Cape Town Sun 09:52 Phoenix Sun 00:52 Prague Sun 08:52 Casablanca Sun 07:52 Reykjavik Sun 07:52
Each line contains the name of the city, followed by the name of the day ("Sun") and the time in the form hh:mm. Read in the file and create an alphabetically ordered list of the form
[('Amsterdam', 'Sun', (8, 52)), ('Anchorage', 'Sat', (23, 52)), ('Ankara', 'Sun', (10, 52)), ('Athens', 'Sun', (9, 52)), ('Atlanta', 'Sun', (2, 52)), ('Auckland', 'Sun', (20, 52)), ('Barcelona', 'Sun', (8, 52)), ('Beirut', 'Sun', (9, 52)),
('Toronto', 'Sun', (2, 52)), ('Vancouver', 'Sun', (0, 52)), ('Vienna', 'Sun', (8, 52)), ('Warsaw', 'Sun', (8, 52)), ('Washington DC', 'Sun', (2, 52)), ('Winnipeg', 'Sun', (1, 52)), ('Zurich', 'Sun', (8, 52))]
Finally, the list should be dumped for later usage with the pickle module. We will use this list in our chapter on Numpy dtype.
import pickle lines = open("cities_and_times.txt").readlines() lines.sort() cities = [] for line in lines: *city, day, time = line.split() hours, minutes = time.split(":") cities.append((" ".join(city), day, (int(hours), int(minutes)) )) fh = open("cities_and_times.pkl", "bw") pickle.dump(cities, fh)
City names can consist of multiple words like "Salt Lake City". That is why we have to use the asterisk in the line, in which we split a line. So city will be a list with the words of the city, e.g. ["Salt", "Lake", "City"]. " ".join(city) turns such a list into a "proper" string with the city name, i.e. in our example "Salt Lake City".
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A blend of memoir, reportage and oral history, Children of the Holocaust was the first book to examine the inter-generational transmission of trauma. In a starred review Publishers Weekly wrote: "Charts new and sensitive territory as it provides important insights into the long-term effects of the Holocaust on those who survived and the ways their trauma shaped the lives of the next generation. Epstein's courageous, dogged probing of the past is beautifully written, but it is the discoveries she makes and the process of uncovering them that informs her words, that makes the soundings so deep, so human, so haunting."
Originally published in 1979, it has never gone out of print and has been widely translated and anthologized. The eBook, published in 2010, includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
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Assistant professor honored with National Science CAREER award
By Chelsea Stockton
University News Service
July 23, 2009
Nihal Dharmasiri, assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development award by the National Science Foundation.
The CAREER program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.
The second most prestigious award given by the NSF, receivers of the CAREER award are then eligible for the outstanding Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
This is the third CAREER award to be received by Texas State and the first to go to the Department of Biology.
Dharmasiri received the five-year, $550,000 grant for his research in plant growth and development--specifically in relation to the plant hormone auxin.
"Auxin is a very small organic molecule, but it has the great ability to control the whole life of plant growth." Dharmasiri said.
According to Dharmasiri, auxin plays a major role in the regulation and development of plants throughout their life cycle. Many natural and synthetic chemicals contain auxin activity, and some of these chemicals are being used as plant growth regulators and herbicides in agro-industry.
Dharmasiri's lab work consists of trying to figure out just howthe hormone auxin regulates plant growth. What are the genes involved in the hormone response? Dharmasiri wants to identify those genes to help determine their function.
The grant money will go toward undergraduate and graduate salaries as well as necessary chemicals and supplies for research. In addition, Dharmasiri is planning to encourage high school students to get involved in science and research through summer programs.
"Basically, with this money we have to make a big impact on education," Dharmasiri said. "And that's why we're trying to reach out to high school students, to make them more interested in science before they come to college.
"So many high school students are afraid of going into science because they think it's hard. So if we bring them here, they can try doing these things. And once they try it, they might become interested in it," he said.
Dharmasiri said that he also plans to use the grant for two experimental modules. One module will be introduced in an undergraduate plant physiology class that he's teaching, and the other will be made for preservice and inservice teachers in collaboration with Sandra West, an associate professor of biology.
"In this way, we can do something for teachers as well," Dharmasiri explained. "Then the teachers will be able to go to their schools and teach it to their students, and then we will have a bigger impact of the work we're doing on education."
As to his now being eligible to receive the prominent NSF PRECASE, Dharmasiri admits that he does not know what the future will hold.
"If I look at my past achievements and also this one, well, who knows," Dharmasiri said with a laugh. "But it's all about the work. What we want is to do a good job for the university."


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Crytek: Crysis 2's Direction "Backfired"
Speaking with Gamasutra, Crytek bossman Cervat Yerli had this to say about the Crysis games: "Crysis 1's intention was, if I were to play it three years later, it looks great. And it does, actually, it fulfilled that. But it made it difficult for entry-level players. So with Crysis 2, we took a different direction, and it backfired a little bit." Yerli explained that the forthcoming high-end 1.9 patch for Crysis 2, which will introduce clevers such as tessellation, realistic shadows with variable penumbra, parallax occlusion mapping, and "Sprite Based Bokeh Depth of Field", is a "gift" to the PC high-end community. "It lifts up Crysis 2 and gives a sneak peak of how PC gaming will evolve in the future," says Yerli, "If you support a high-end preference." I totally support a high-end preference. That sounds like some kind of innuendo, right? Eh? Guys? Mm.
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On Friday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the special counsel, Robert Mueller, delivered a potentially devastating one-two punch against President Trump. Coming late in the day, they made for bracing end-of-the-week reading.
Calling on the court to impose a sentence of substantial imprisonment against Michael Cohen, the president's former personal attorney, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York stated that Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization and the campaign were all directly involved in an illegal scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump. Prosecutors wrote that payments made by Mr. Cohen and other actions were taken "with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election" and pursued "in coordination with and at the direction of Individual 1" — that is, Mr. Trump.
The Trump Organization's reimbursements to Mr. Cohen for payments were fraudulently disguised as legal fees — and, according to the memo, were approved by senior executives at the organization. The New York prosecutors also disclosed that they are investigating additional unspecified matters involving Mr. Cohen and, presumably, the Trump Organization. In light of these disclosures, the likelihood that the company and the Trump campaign face charges is now high.
Although President Trump may avoid a similar fate because the Justice Department is unlikely to indict a sitting president, he could be named as an unindicted co-conspirator, as was President Richard Nixon, or charged if he leaves office before the statute of limitations runs out (most likely in 2022).
In crediting Mr. Cohen with providing "substantial and significant efforts" to assist the investigation, Mr. Mueller's separate sentencing memo details new evidence of collusion with Russia, including a previously unreported phone conversation in November 2015 between Mr. Cohen and an unnamed Russian who claimed to be a "trusted person" in Moscow. The Russian explained to Mr. Cohen how the Russian government could provide the Trump campaign with "political synergy" and "synergy on a government level," and offered to set up a meeting between Mr. Trump, then a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
This newly disclosed conversation directly speaks to the question of collusion — the outreach was explicitly political and was focused on how each side would gain from a potential partnership.
Mr. Mueller also notes that Mr. Cohen provided his team with additional information relevant to the "core" of the special counsel investigation.
The special counsel focuses on Mr. Cohen's contacts with people connected to the White House in 2017 and 2018, possibly further implicating the president and others in his orbit in conspiracy to obstruct justice or to suborn perjury. Mr. Mueller specifically mentions that Mr. Cohen provided invaluable insight into the "preparing and circulating" of his testimony to Congress — and if others, including the president, knew about the false testimony or encouraged it in any way, they would be at substantial legal risk.
Mr. Trump's legal woes do not end there. The special counsel also advanced the president's potential exposure under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for activities relating to a potential Trump Tower Moscow. Mr. Mueller noted that the Moscow project was a lucrative business opportunity that actively sought Russian government approval, and that the unnamed Russian told Mr. Cohen that there was "no bigger warranty in any project than the consent" of Mr. Putin.
If recent reports that Mr. Cohen floated the idea of giving Mr. Putin a $50 million luxury apartment in a future Trump Tower Moscow prove true, both the president and his company could face substantial jeopardy.
In a second blow to the president, on Friday prosecutors also disclosed a list of false statements that Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman, allegedly made to federal investigators in breach of the cooperation agreement he entered into following his conviction for financial fraud and subsequent guilty plea to criminal conspiracy.
Some of the lies that the special counsel spells out in the redacted memorandum appear to implicate the president and those close to him in possible collusion and obstruction crimes. Notably, Mr. Manafort is accused of lying to the special counsel regarding his contacts with the Trump administration.
We don't know the content of those contacts, but considering public statements about potential pardons, it is not hard to imagine they could implicate the president and others in a conspiracy to obstruct justice or witness tampering if, for example, they suggested a potential pardon if Mr. Manafort protected the president.
Contrary to the president's claim that all of this "totally clears" him, the danger to Mr. Trump, his business and his campaign has compounded significantly. For all these reasons, the president is unlikely to have a restful, tweet-free weekend — or a calm 2019, for that matter.
Barry Berke is co-chairman of the litigation department at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, where he is a partner specializing in white-collar criminal defense. Noah Bookbinder is executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former federal corruption prosecutor. Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and author of "The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House."
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The reading club
Set up from Dar El Hikma's opening in 2010, the reading club has for objective to make you enjoy Arabic literature. Every Wednesday evening (from 8pm till 10pm), one of Dar El Hikma's teachers will read a book in Arabic in front of the assembly. Many subjects such as faith, exegesis of the Qur'an but also jurisprudence and history will be covered. The numerous subjects covered will allow you to enhance your knowledge of the Arabo-Islamic culture. Whether it is a complete book or some extracts, this reading club should create the desire for reading in Arabic among the members. Open to all members of the association, this reading club has for objective to make you discover the authors and the greatest scholars from our time and those from the previous centuries.
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I went to California. First I went to legoland. and than I went to the wild animal park. Oh and I was visiting my Nana and Duke. now lets get back to that. Ok and we went to this Dinner.then I went to the fireworks. Then I went to the park. I had so so so so so much fun. So did my brother. At legoland we went on so many rides. my Nana and Duke have 2 dogs. I went to the Beach and made a sand castle.I can't wait to go back.
August 28, 2011
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When I was 13, I would always have early morning tennis practice out on these public courts in east Dallas, and every morning a little old lady would be walking her dog in her wheelchair. We would always say good morning and chat briefly and one day I, in all my 13 and ready to be a grown-up ness, asked "so when did you grow up?" She laughed and replied "Now why would I ever want to grow up? I want to keep growing and learning every day of my life!"
Those simple but impactful words have stayed with me now more than 10 years later and with my 25th birthday rapidly approaching (cue quarter life crisis drum roll) it's something I've been especially reflecting on and thought I'd share few ways to get in touch with your inner child, always stay young at heart and keep learning and growing.
1)Lose the structure: Remember play? Nothing but you, nature and your imagination and maybe your friends' imagination beautifully mingling with your own. No time frames. No places to be. No agendas. Who says we can't still do that? Sure, we have places to be and responsibilities to uphold but how about taking just a few hours sometimes to just be and see where your imagination and musings take you. Laugh and act goofy and swing on a swing. Run and skip when you're supposed to walk. Eat ice cream for dinner without thinking about nutrition or calories – just once –it'll be our little secret.
2)Ditch technology and use your imagination: I'm a millennial who grew up on that interesting cusp right before technology become completely pervasive and phone separation anxiety become a daily reality. I played inside and out with nothing but myself and my imagination for company. Who says that has to be gone forever? Can you go a couple hours without be tied to technology of some kind and just see where your imagination takes you? Who knows maybe it will even lead to a new hobby.
3)Come back to now — time isn't running off anywhere: I remember summers in the country in Germany outside with my cousin from dawn until dusk the only mention of time my grandma calling us for supper. Those carefree days flew by while simultaneously having an endless quality of time standing still in the best way possible. Why? Because the day didn't revolve around time. Getting "there" on time, finishing a task on time, having enough time. We just were and let time do its thing. Now that not to say time and deadlines and punctuality don't matter but maybe just maybe we can try to carve out the time to just be a little more, even for a few moments. That deadline will wait 5 minutes.
4)What if you could experience everything as if for the first time? What did it feel like to walk for the first time? How amazingly intricate just the "simple" act of walking is. What about eating ice cream for the first time? Feeling sand or snow? It's interesting how memories work. I have amazingly vivid memories of childhood summers in Germany but sometimes forget what I had for lunch yesterday! Why is that? Probably because as a child in Germany I was very much engaging all my senses even as I was lost in my own imagination. Yesterday lunch was hastily scarfed down at work while thinking about my deadlines for the afternoon… No wonder I didn't remember… How can you remember something after all that you weren't paying attention to in the first place. So why not try a little exercise and go through some "mundane" daily activities treating whatever that action is whether showering or drinking a glass of water or brushing your teeth as if for the very first time. What do you feel? This idea is embodied by the Zen Buddhist concept of Shoshin a word meaning "beginner's mind" and refers to having an attitude of openness, enthusiasm and wonder for the world just as a beginner who has never experienced something would.
5)Bring back arts and crafts time. Well this one is a little ironic because I remember most of the craft kits I received as a child staying in their boxes, but I did love to freestyle draw and paint and had a blast doing so! Recently I got back into my "abstract" painting roots. Can you tell which painting I did as a child vs. now haha?
6)Laugh and let out your inner goofball. Do you remember the last time you had a giggle fit? You know that uncontrollable burst of laughter over something silly and then you just can't stop? Laughter not only releases those feel good endorphins but also improves your immune system by releasing infection-fighting antibodies. So, I invite you to not be so serious all the time and let out your inner child goofball every once in a while 🙂 In fact, the next time you feel you "messed up" instead of getting frustrated why not try laughing at yourself instead?
"Each day I greet my inner child with love and gratitude, I allow the innocence, playfulness and beauty to shine bright. I give my inner child the space to come out and play."


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UTC Oxfordshire has the support of a number of industry and academic partners who are involved in the UTC in a number of ways:
- Consultancy and advice on curriculum design and content
- Employer accreditations
- Access to selected project information to provide real-life case studies, facilitating project challenges and enhancing the students' learning experience
- Coaching and mentoring for staff and students
- Work experience opportunities
- Participating in the governance of the UTC
- Hosting of and participation in student recruitment events
- Providing equipment for testing and modelling at the school in support of the agreed classroom activity
Lead sponsor
Activate Learning
Activate Learning brings together secondary, further and higher education, training and management consultancy, commercial businesses and social enterprise throughout Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It is the lead sponsor for UTC Reading, which opened in September 2013. Its mission is to transform lives through learning.
Lead industry partners
UK Atomic Energy Authority
The UK Atomic Energy Authority carries out fusion research in the UK on behalf of the government and manages the JET fusion project on behalf of the EU at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE). UKAEA is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.
RM Education
For over 40 years, RM Education have created an extensive range of innovative and award-winning products, solutions and services – all carefully designed to meet the specific needs of UK education. From classroom resources, ICT services, and essential infrastructure, to the UK's most popular network and progressive cloud-based solutions, RM Education is a trusted advisor and valued ICT partner.
MINI Plant Oxford
MINI Plant Oxford is the birthplace and heart of MINI production. Manufactured to individual customer specifications, up to 900 MINIs leave the assembly lines each day, off to customers in more than 107 countries around the world. It employs around 3,700 people and since 2001 has made more than two million MINIs.
Reaction Engines
Reaction Engines' mission: Unlocking the future of space access and hypersonic flight
Reaction Engines' goal is to deliver a truly versatile propulsion system – a hybrid air-breathing rocket engine that can power an aircraft from a standing start to over five times the speed of sound for hypersonic flight in the atmosphere, and over 25 times the speed of sound for space access. With its wide range of operation and scalability, the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) represents a defining moment in powered flight.
STFC is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, and their goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people – and more broadly to the world.
Bloodhound SSC
The BLOODHOUND Project is a global Engineering Adventure, using a 1000mph world land speed record attempt to inspire the next generation to enjoy, explore and get involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
In the summer of 2015, BLOODHOUND moved its headquarters from Kingston Upon Thames to UTC Oxfordshire, reinforcing their primary objective to inspire the next generation of scientist and engineers.
Our students take part in a range of projects with BLOODHOUND throughout the year and we host regular projects and events with groups of local schools, including the national BBC Micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition: "Race For The Line".
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.
They discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.
Oxford Space Systems
Oxford Space Systems is a multi-award winning space technology business that's pioneering the development of a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex and lower cost than those in current commercial demand. The company is a fast growing, venture capital backed business that is seen as a 'technology disruptor' in the global satellite industry, having set a world record foe the quickest time to development a new product from scratch and demonstrate it on orbit.
Crown are passionate about helping customers build their brands and connect with consumers around the world. They do this by delivering innovative packaging that offers significant value for brand owners, retailers and consumers alike.
Crown are the leader in metal packaging technology. With operations in 36 countries employing over 24,000 people and net sales of $8.7 billion, they are uniquely positioned to bring best practices in quality and manufacturing to growing economies in Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East and North Africa. Whether improving existing technology or pioneering a new concept, they are committed to working in partnership with customers to drive businesses locally and globally.
Academic partners
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is one of the UK's leading, internationally orientated, research-intensive universities, located in 135 acres of beautiful green campus in Egham. It is one of the largest multi-faculty colleges of the University of London, with students from over 130 countries and departments spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management and economics.
University of Reading
The University of Reading is in the top 1% of universities in the world, reflecting our academic reputation and commitment to delivering an excellent all-round education. A global university that enjoys a world-class reputation for teaching, research and enterprise, they deliver a great student experience and produce highly skilled graduates.
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University has over 150 years of history. They started out as a small School of Art in borrowed teaching rooms and have grown into one of the UK's top modern universities with a local, national and international reputation for teaching and research excellence.
Associate industry partners
OBN is the membership organisation supporting and bringing together the UK's emerging life sciences companies, corporate partners and investors. It has a membership of over 330 companies, spread across the Golden Triangle (formed by the cities of Oxford, Cambridge and London) and beyond to Nottingham, Manchester and Scotland, offering benefits from tailored networking and partnering events, group purchasing, advice, consultancy and advocacy.
If you or your company would like to partner with UTC Oxfordshire, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Oxfordshire County Council
A thriving Oxfordshire is our overriding ambition: a place where people can achieve a decent life for themselves and their families through hard work and the rewards of a growing economy; a place with vibrant, active communities and public services that help improve people's lives
The County Council provides 80% of the local government services in Oxfordshire, including children's services, education, libraries, adult social care, roads and transport, trading standards, waste disposal and recycling.
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils provide a wide variety of important services to its residents. The councils prepare district-wide planning strategies to support the provision of leisure, housing, employment and other infrastructure as well as directly providing key services such as recycling and waste collection, environmental health, planning applications and elections.
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk / www.southoxon.gov.uk


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In national polls, Mitt Romney doesn't have a clear hold on front-runner status. In New Hampshire, though, he's generally had a double-digit lead over a revolving door of second place candidates.
One reason: He's not taking the Granite State for granted.
Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, hasn't rested on his laurels since finishing second here to Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 primary. He's crisscrossed the state holding town hall meetings, and he's campaigned not only for himself, but also on behalf of local candidates, building a solid network of Republican support.
For New Hampshire primary voters, such known brands are appealing, political experts say.
Romney, who attended a forum sponsored by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Friday, is also "a good fit ideologically for the state's Republican voters," says Dante Scala, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
While the label "New England Republican" may earn Romney scoffs among the more conservative wing of the party nationally, among Republicans here, "moderate and somewhat conservative" voters dominate, Professor Scala says. "This is not a state where tea party Republican voters have the upper hand."
According to the count on Romney's campaign website, he's been endorsed by 47 New Hampshire state representatives and 8 state senators. In late October, he officially won the endorsement of one of the most well-known Republicans in the state, former Gov. John Sununu.
Part of Romney's lead can be attributed to the perceived lack of credibility among some of his opponents, says Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. "Voters are starting to figure out that there are a group of people in this race looking to sell books and get a media contract after the election, and Romney isn't one of them."
In New Hampshire and nationally, Romney has also avoided the missteps that have tripped up opponents like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain. And even things like being on time for events make a difference. Mr. Cain kept his supporters waiting over an hour Thursday at a rally in Nashua. But when Romney holds an event, "it's like a Swiss watch," Mr. Levesque says.
Most surveys in recent months show Romney with about 40 percent support among people likely to vote in the New Hampshire GOP primary. A Bloomberg News Poll of 504 such voters conducted Nov. 10-12 showed Romney at 40 percent, Rep. Ron Paul at 17 percent, and Newt Gingrich at 11 percent. By comparison, the same poll also looked at Iowa voters and found Romney with only 18 percent, slightly behind Cain and Congressman Paul.
Some of the social issues that bother more conservative voters don't seem to be a detriment in New Hampshire. Romney has been criticized for supporting abortion-rights in the past and "flip-flopping" to position himself as pro-life. But 74 percent of the likely voters in New Hampshire wouldn't rule a candidate out for changing positions on abortion, the Bloomberg poll shows.
Romney has also taken heat from some Republicans nationally for his support of a mandated health-insurance law in Massachusetts when he was governor. Calling it "Romneycare," his critics have said he's not a good choice to dismantle the national version of health reform dubbed "Obamacare."
But only 46 percent in New Hampshire would rule out a candidate on that issue, compared with 58 percent in Iowa, according to the Bloomberg poll.
None of this is to say that Romney has a definite lock on the nomination here.
"New Hampshire has a way of being quirky," says Linda Fowler, a political scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Hillary Clinton edged out Barack Obama here in 2008, despite being behind in polls, and Senator McCain beat George W. Bush in 2000.
Given Romney's name recognition and the way he's worked the state, "maybe the story is, he should be doing even better," Professor Fowler says.
There are doubts about Romney in two directions, she explains: "Hard-core" Republicans think he's too much of a "Massachusetts Republican," and some independents worry that he's not enough of one anymore, that he's moved too far to the right.
That leaves an opening for a challenger, and the latest who seems to be gaining steam is Mr. Gingrich. Paralleling his rise in national polls, the New Hampshire Journal reports that its new poll shows Gingrich practically neck in neck with Romney in New Hampshire, 27 percent to 29 percent, with a 3.59-point margin of error.
The poll of 764 likely voters, both Republicans and independents, was conducted Nov. 15 and 16. Several polling experts and political scientists say they wouldn't be surprised if Gingrich is moving up, but it would be important to see other polls – conducted over a longer time frame and with interviews, rather than the autodial method this one used – to verify if the New Hampshire electorate has shifted that significantly.


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This past weekend, I was lucky enough to spend time with five established winemakers in northeastern Italy. My summary: WOW!
Nestled in Italy's upper right hand corner is a small wine production zone called Collio. It is a crescent shaped area blessed with great terrain and near perfect weather conditions for making wonderful white wines.
Protected from cold northern air by the Julian Alps, and fed warm breezes during the day and cooler air at night from the nearby Adriatic sea, Collio temperatures are exactly what grapes crave. The soil is described as stratified marl and sandstone. I am no geologist, but I can tell you the wines have a balanced mineral content and strong notes of citrus. These are characteristics I like in a white wine.
The weekend, which was set up for me by the Enoteca di Cormons comprised tasting a single wine from five local producers. It included one out of this world dinner, two nice buffet-style picnics, and entertainment that ranged from funny to deeply moving.
But the star of the visit was the wine, so that's what I am going to talk about.
By the way, all five of these producers import their wines to Europe and North America, so my advice is if you see one of these bottles in your local wine shop, buy it.
The wine is a white blend called either Collio Bianco or simply Collio. This quiet corner of Italy is the only place it is made, and these five producers make it better than anyone. It is a wine not controlled by regulation, meaning each winemaker is free to be creative with the type and percentage of grapes. He can also decide his vinification process based on the conditions each year.
The grapes used are all locally grown and hand picked. The wine can include a combination of Ribolla Gialla, Tocai Friulano, Malvasia Istriana, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, and Pinot Grigio. Four of the five producers use three grapes in varying percentages, the fifth uses four of the grapes at 25% each. Some of the producers age a portion of the grapes in wood for short periods of up to six months. One uses only aluminum throughout the process.
The result is five wines with a common heritage and name, but each with its own characteristics and personality.
Dario Raccaro uses three grape varieties and only aluminum. His Collio has a light straw color, a crisp, refreshing nose, and offers wonderful lemon and pear tastes.
The effervescent Edi Keber ages a small portion of his grapes in oak for three months before assembling the mix with the remaining aluminum aged grapes. Slightly darker in color, his Collio has apples and pears on the nose while the pleasant passion fruit taste is very refreshing.
Roberto Picech uses the same grape blend as Edi Keber, but in different percentages, based each year on the quality of the harvest. His Collio "Jelka" (named after his mother) is crisp and clean on the nose with terrific citrus flavors.
Damian Princic carries his wine under the Colle Duga label. His blend uses four grape varietals each at 25%. Two of the grapes are aged in wood for up to six months then reassembled with the remaining grapes which have aged in aluminum. Slightly darker – almost golden in color, his Collio Bianco has green apple notes on the nose and a smooth, well balanced flavor.
Finally Damijan Podversic leaves his blend of three grapes to macerate on the skins for a while before placing them in aluminum first, then oak for a year, then left to age in the bottle another year. His Bianco Kaplja is a darker wine, a deep yellow that is past gold and nearly brown. The nose is full of banana and peach notes and the full, velvety taste is distinctive enough to pair with many dishes that some people would only serve with a red. If they skipped using this wine because it was white, it would be a mistake.
I enjoyed a stellar five-course meal (each course with a different wine) at Il Giardinetto restaurant in the village of Cormons. The meal ranged from polenta with chestnuts as the appetizer to a chilled Kaiser pear soup with figs for dessert. The simply amazing first course was a crispy egg yolk (flash fried or something but out of this world) with leeks and garlic flowers. I mean, come on! It was fabulous.
A wonderful weekend which leaves me with the following two important pieces of advice to you:
First, go find a bottle of Collio from one of these producers. Then take it home and drink it with friends.
Second, plan your trip to Italy soon. Plan to visit Collio. If you want to use my company, Wine Friends, that is great. Or you could contact the Enoteca di Cormons who can help you set up a great itinerary.
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How to Disclose a Disability During Veterans Job Search
Disclosing a disability when in the midst of the job search is a complex decision. While some disabilities are clearly visible, others are not. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against prospective job applicants with a disability – barring that the applicant meets the employer's requirements for the job including education, training, experience, skill or any necessary licenses, there may be situations when you will need to disclose your disability.
For instance, if your disability limits your ability to meet a specific job requirement, it's best to outline this upfront. While you may not need to go into a detailed account of your specific issues, if you cannot perform a certain job function or will require special accommodations you will need to address this early on. If you are hired and cannot perform the job, this will impact you in the long–run.
Here are some things to consider if you have decided to disclose your disability:
- Research the company to assess their attitude towards those with disabilities. Do they hire a lot of people who are disabled? Do they promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace? Can you find someone within the company that can provide insight into their work culture?
- Take a close look at the job requirements and determine if your disability impedes in any way your ability to do the job. If you will not be able to lift heavy materials, for instance, and this was listed as one of the job requirements, you should disclose this during the interview.
- Discuss if you need any special accommodations. For instance, if your disability concerns your vision, you may want to ask if you will be able to obtain the use of a specific computer monitor. If you need to take periodic breaks, you may want to discuss if this is an option during the interview or early on with your manager.
- Determine how many details of your disability you want to disclose. You may have a disability that is not clearly visible. Since you have decided to disclose, you may only need to outline certain limitations you may have, but do not need to get into details such as the medications you take.
- Prepare what you want to say in advance. Be prepared for the questions that you may be asked, such as why are there are gaps in your work history, and be ready to answer them.
- Focus on your abilities. Even though you have chosen to disclose your disability, it is still best to minimize this part of the discussion and highlight your ability to do the job. You want to divert attention away from disability and toward your skills and experience.


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Cleveland Museum of Art
January 5 & 6
|Offering sophisticated analysis in an accessible format.
Thirty-three years after they broke up, the Beatles hold a place in popular culture like no other band – rock, pop, classical, and everything in between. Beyond the standards they added to the musical repertoire and sales records that remain unbroken and enduring technical innovations, the Beatles embody the spirit of the Sixties, an era when old restrictions and boundaries were swept away in an exhilarating wave of openness, experimentation and fresh ideas that still resonate today.
What's been lost in the intervening years is the artifice behind the art; that is, the breadth and depth of the Beatles' oeuvre, the influences that informed their music, the intelligence that shaped it, and the enormous work that went into creating a seemingly straightforward, three-and-a-half minute song. Which is where Scott Freiman comes in.
A soundtrack composer for film and television who also runs his own recording studio, Freiman has developed a series of lectures called "Deconstructing the Beatles" in which he takes a detailed look at the group's creative efforts. After talks on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles (aka The White Album) drew big crowds at the Cleveland Museum of Art last year, Freiman was invited back for three presentations this past weekend that focused on the band's early years and the incredibly productive period in 1966 and 1967 that produced Revolver and seminal works like "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "A Day in the Life."
For aficionados, there is not much new in Freiman's talks. Many books have recounted the Beatles' history, music and recording sessions. What's compelling about Freiman is the way he splices together sound, visuals and a running patter of commentary and explanation filtered through a geeky but accessible engineer's sensibilities to show how songs were created in the studio, often starting with a simple demo. This is the best part of his presentations: rare demos and early takes demonstrating how an idea that began with one or two chords and a few rough lyrics on a home recorder could blossom into a masterpiece like "Tomorrow Never Knows."
Freiman also does a great job of putting the music in context. He tosses off endless references – some specific, like Bernard Herrmann's Psycho strings showing up in "Eleanor Rigby," and some speculative, like the television "Batman" theme possibly inspiring some of the vocals in "Taxman." He draws in many of the Beatles' contemporaries, like Brian Wilson, David Crosby and Mick Jagger, and elucidates the influences of avant-garde composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. He sets the scene in swinging London and follows John Lennon into the Indica bookstore, where Lennon discovers Timothy Leary's The Psychedelic Experience and the lines "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream..."
Not surprisingly, the central figure in all this is George Martin, the EMI producer who made many of the Beatles' aural dreams come true. With the help of engineer Geoff Emerick, Martin was willing to work with the band at a time when no one else would accommodate their demands for pushing boundaries. Slowing down or speeding up tracks, adding tape loops, running drum or guitar solos backwards – none of it was too weird for Martin. He could write a string octet arrangement for "Eleanor Rigby" as skillfully as he could expand four recording tracks to eight or even 12, or push Lennon's voice through a Leslie speaker to get a never-heard effect. Freiman also did a great job recounting Martin's use of a 40-piece classical orchestra on "A Day in the Life," which Martin multiplied by five in the final mix to get that ominous, frenetic sound.
Freiman's attention to detail is such that even the warm-up music playing as the crowd filters into the auditorium helps set the proper mood. For Sunday's "Trip Through Strawberry Fields," the selections included prime psychedelia like "Pictures of Matchstick Men," "Psychotic Reaction" and "2,000 Light Years From Home."
Space precludes more than this brief recap of a wealth of stories and information – and the sheer joy of watching the promo videos for "Strawberry Fields," "Rain," and other songs that changed the course of pop music. Freiman did a brilliant job deconstructing them. But as the capacity crowds at the museum again this year demonstrated, their enduring appeal remains beyond mere words to capture or explain.
For more on Scott Freiman: http://beatleslectures.com
And the official Beatles website: http://www.thebeatles.com


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Debunking links between menopausal hormone therapy and cancer
Women are enduring the crippling effects of menopause unnecessarily because of fear and ignorance of the benefits of menopausal hormone therapy, the Australasian Menopause Society says.
The experts blame a flawed study by the US Women's Health Initiative study, published in 2002, for setting off a mostly unfounded scare about the link between MHT and breast cancer. The media story spread like wildfire and pharmaceutical companies stopped distributing MHT and GPs stopped prescribing it.
Clinical associate professor Sheila O'Neill chaired this month's 21st AMS congress in Sydney that set out to explore the research around menopause, debunk the myths and present GPs with the latest in evidence-based treatments. Read more…


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Last week, news crews zeroed in on a recount that ousted a future House speaker. This week, politicos have their eyes trained on a Treasure Coast recount that could turn U.S. Rep. Allen West out of office.
But, hey, there's a recount here in Pasco County, too!
The office: Lexington Oaks Community Development District, SEAT 2.
After 2,178 neighborhood voters cast their ballots in the Nov. 6 election, Bob Hendrick led neighbor Ray Dolente by a mere three votes.
"Was this a hotly contested race?" said Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley. "Is this like a Bush/Gore 2000 thing?"
Hendrick smiled: "No, nothing like that." No campaign signs. No nasty accusations from either candidate.
"Actually, it was a very quiet campaign," he said. "I guess it was a lot of face-to-face for both me and Ray."
Only Hendrick and fellow board member Peter Henzel showed up for Wednesday's recount at the elections service center in Dade City. Dolente is on vacation in Orlando and said he trusted officials to properly conduct the process.
The day began with Dolente picking up one vote from an overseas military ballot. Corley then explained how different groups of ballots would be reviewed.
"I'd prefer anything but a tie because then it gets a little interesting," he said.
Election office lawyer Dan Dwyer said, "The last time we had that, I think we flipped a coin."
Besides Corley and Dwyer, about 10 members of Corley's staff helped count the ballots.
A court reporter recorded the proceedings. A county commissioner and judge were on hand as part of Pasco's election canvassing board.
A sheriff's deputy even showed up to keep the peace. You know how feisty CDD elections can get.
"All of this," Hendrick said, holding his arms wide. "I almost feel bad."
CDD board members aren't paid, but it's not a pointless job. The quasigovernmental agency handles an annual budget of more than $1 million that comes from homeowner assessments.
That money is used to repair and maintain common areas such as a swimming pool and a new fitness center. Money also helps hire off-duty sheriff's deputies for patrol and for landscaping along Lexington Oaks Boulevard.
"That's hugely important," he said. "It's nice to know when you come into a community that it looks nice and it looks like it's well maintained."
Back in the elections center, staffers fed all of the ballots through tabulation machines as part of the automatic recount. Dolente picked up one more vote. The tiny margin triggered a manual recount.
Most people think that requires reviewing all of the ballots by hand. It doesn't. Staffers and canvassing board members only look at so-called undervotes and overvotes.
Undervotes are easy. Most of the time, that means a voter simply didn't vote in that race.
Overvotes are more tricky. This race had two such ballots.
Both ballots had full circles next to Hendrick's name. Canvassing board members decided that small marks next to Dolente's name were not enough to show a vote for both candidates. Two votes went to Hendrick.
After all the hullabaloo, the final margin remained the same: three votes. Corley shook Hendrick's hand and congratulated him.
Reached afterward, Dolente laughed when offered condolences.
"Life goes on," he said. "We're both trying to do what's right for the community. I feel fortunate I got as many votes as I got. Sure, I'd like to have won. But what it is, it is."


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I have had this problem for a couple weeks and now i can't use my phone at all. I contacted Verizon about this and they gave me a new sim card, then I went and got a new SD card thinking that would help solve the problem. HA nope 5 SIM cards, 5 SD cards and 5 factory resets later i have a paper weight. I contacted Samsung and they said it is a problem with the hardware. Is there a way to fix this... Please help im starting to go crazy.


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Good day,
we are EU guild (www.futilez.com) currently occupied with forming a GW2 all-timezone alliance based on EU servers with aim to present a strong competitive WvWvW force to bring the selected by alliance members server to victory.
We are recruiting guilds from different time zones to aid each other and protect each others holdings all time of the day and for that we need a dedicated pvp guilds willing to take part in the cooperation alliance are we are planing.
For communication with allied members and to answer questions regarding the alliance, please feel free to visit and register on following forums : www.pevepe.net
We hope you give it a though and notify us of your decision.
With respect,
I realize you are probably already were in contact and maybe in agreement with other alliances already, but will just add it here so`d you knew all your options. Fave fun in GW2!
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|#6478772 Aug 01, 2012 at 08:52 AM
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Hi there!
Which server were you thinking of playing on?:)
|#6478810 Aug 01, 2012 at 09:05 AM
Community Me...
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Hello Futilez,
Thank you for showing an interest in Semper Dius as a possible alliance.
Just a few questions from myself;
Firstly, what is your name? I'm guessing Futilez is the name of your guild and Fubar is associated with your alliance.
How many members do you currently have? Are they grouped into certain roles? (i.e. core/casual/pvp/pve?)
All the best,
Ray :)
|#6478848 Aug 01, 2012 at 09:18 AM
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Hi there, from what I can see the alliance is located in Gandara.
Rodasta Champion Magus
Aeroda Campion Illusionist
Gray Fulbuster your personal Tank!
|#6484656 Aug 02, 2012 at 08:41 AM
485 Posts
Well, hello. :) I see you've created your alliance profile here. That's quite a few guilds you've got there.
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Event Details
Baobab Suites in Adeje are hosting a Mercado de Arte with over 160 art works on offer from 33 of Canaries best local artists as well as some internatonal pieces from Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Cantabria on the mainland.
The prices vary from 3 Euros to 6000 so there is something for every budget! Why not come along and treat yourself to something beautiful - you deserve it!
The market, which forms part of the International Creative arts award will take place on Saturday 5th November from 1pm to 8pm.
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Silver Lake, Echo Park is Your Father meme
"Silver Lake, Echo Park is Your Father" is a meme created by Echo Park Forums and originally published on Instagram for the Echo Park, Los Angeles area.
"Silver Lake, Echo Park is Your Father" is a meme created by Echo Park Forums and originally published on Instagram for the Echo Park, Los Angeles area.
Bandit is a 4 month old puppy looking for a home in/around Echo Park. See pictures, read his story, learn about his personality. Adoption details included.
Taix French Restaurant (1911 Sunset Blvd) are hosting a Halloween Costume Contest Friday, October 31 at 10p. The winner receives a $50 gift certificate!
Echo Park Rec Center Halloween – October 31 4-8p, all ages. Activities include face Painting, music, games, haunted house, photo booth and costume contests.
2014-2015 basketball season is here at the Echo Park Recreation Center. View these flyers for registration deadlines and price information.
Gobble Gobble Give organizes the biggest potluck ever as it serves warm meals and giveaways to the homeless on Thanksgiving morning. 2014 event at The Echo.
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Tony Pin from Manly and Sons Barber Company in Echo Park, Los Angeles comes on the Echo Park Podcast to discuss the shop's opening, services and products.
The LA Dodgers organization is holding a community forum to address neighborhood concerns over the postseason, plus address the traffic and security plans.
Interview with Janice Sapigao, co-founder of Sunday Jump, a Filipino-founded open mic in LA's Historic Filipinotown in Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA.
Friends and family of Carlos Arellano, the skateboard theft victim who died from stab wounds in Echo Park, are holding a skate fundraiser on September 13.


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I went to A.P. Leto High School in suburban Tampa, Florida. Who was A.P. Leto? I haven't the slightest clue. Did it matter much to the students? Not really. I suppose it would have been cool if our school was named for the geographic town or community in which we lived, but it wasn't. Would we have formed a better community had the school been named differently? Probably not.
I got excited when I discovered this new local blog, the New Milton High School Blog run by Andy Young. (Seriously, I do get excited by new blogs). It's about the new high school being built along Bethany Bend in Milton. Construction is progressing fast. Miltonites are starting to ponder names for the school, thus the new blog's very focused theme. The author supports the notion that the new high school should have the word "Milton" somewhere in the name. Does it matter? What's behind this idea?
New City Identity
I've written a few times about how I think Johns Creek and Milton struggle to establish identity for themselves. It manifests itself in issues like new zip codes. I think the high school is no different. The boundaries for the school have not been set but there is a good chance that most students will live within the city limits of Milton. I say most but I'll bet you can find some from Alpharetta. Nevertheless, this is a chance for Miltonites to find yet another way to identify themselves. That might not be possible if the school were to be called something else.
Piggyback on the Milton HS Prestige
Let's face it, Milton High School is an awesome school. They rank nationally in many areas; academics, athletics, arts, etc. It would be a bummer to have middle school-aged kids today, knowing that they might miss a chance to go to Milton HS. The next best thing might be to create a "North Milton" and "South Milton". That's an idea being kicked around on the blog. Which one gets which designation isn't clear. I find it interesting that both schools are geographically east/west of each other. I don't know why this north/south divide is popular now.
Would it be fair to the current Milton High School to change their name? The school has a rich history dating back to 1921, a little bit before the creation of the city of Milton (duh). After all, the school was named for Milton County. I'd imagine suggesting a name change of ninety year old school would be met with some resistance. That fight will be fun to watch from the sidelines.
Does it Really Matter?
High school is a formative time for children. Like I mentioned above, students will bond around their high school regardless of the name.
I contend that the new high school, whatever it is called, will be an academically terrific school. I wrote back in October that good parents raise smart kids which create good schools. That will most certainly be the case with the new school. The name or boundary are immaterial.
So what's my take on the name? I don't have an opinion one way or another. It will be interesting to see what political pressure the Milton residents bring over this, if any. Will it matter, considering that they realistically don't get much of a say? At the end of the day I think parents will care more about how the district lines are drawn. I expect some in Milton will seek for the school's boundaries to closely match those of Milton's jagged city limits. It's all about identity in Milton.


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Celebrate Cocopah
Celebrate Cocopah Fundraiser – An Event Not To Be Missed – Thursday, April 9, 5-8pm
Celebrate Cocopah Fundraiser is an event for the whole family that showcases all the wonderful accomplishments at Cocopah. Please mark your calendar to join us for a memorable evening.
Online Auction is currently open.
Please visit cocopahmiddleschool.24fundraiser.com to register and start bidding. Over 100 items are available: jewelry, vacations, parking spaces, spa days, student artwork, Camelback Golf Club, The Village and much, much more. You can't win if you don't bid!
Classroom Basket will be on display in the cafeteria Monday-Thursday
Raffle tickets are $1. Take your chance to win Game Stop Mania, Let's Golf "Top Golf", or a Money Jar – jar filled with CASH!
Visit Book Fair in Media Center
Love to Read? A Book Fair will be going on in the library. They will have all your summer reading available. All proceeds go to the library!
Volunteer at the Event
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Northampton School for Boys
Psychology (2ZXQ)
PGCE with QTS full time
- Accredited body
- Northampton Teacher Training Partnership
- Financial support
- Student finance if you're eligible
- Qualification
PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 8 October 2019
- Date course starts
- September 2020
- Website
- http://nsb.northants.sch.uk
- About the course
- Interview process
- How school placements work
- Fees
- Financial support
- Requirements
- About the training provider
- Training with disabilities and other needs
- Contact details
- Apply
- Support and advice
About the course
On the NTTP Social Sciences course, students will train towards a professional teaching qualification, achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). The course requires a study of academic literature and completion of professional assignments, alongside two school based placements. The course is designed to show that trainee teachers demonstrate that they have met the standards for Qualified Teacher Status.
Training to teach Social Sciences, you will be required to consider how you can develop student's ability to become analytical and evaluative thinkers. Throughout the course you will be trained to devise creative and inspiring activities to teach theory, research and the methodology of the social sciences. A fundamental feature of your training will be creating your capacity to develop within students their ability to understand and apply learning in a scientific manner. You will learn how to engage and inspire your students through a wide range of strategies in order that they become independent critical thinkers.
The course will focus on training you to teach your main social science subject (usually psychology and/or sociology) at A level. You will also be provided with the opportunity to develop your teaching practice in a second subject through teaching psychology at GCSE, alternatively there are opportunities to contribute to relevant vocational qualifications and Key Stage 3 humanities or science.
You will receive a practice-led, hands-on experience. Trainees are supported by a Subject Based Tutor within school, the Professional Tutor of the school and from NTTP SCITT, by the Lead Subject Mentor and the Programme Facilitators. Subject Studies and General Professional Study sessions enhance your knowledge of teaching and learning and help to develop your pedagogy.
You will spend the majority of your course in the classroom; working with dedicated professionals. This is the best place to learn the art of teaching. During your placements you will teach pupils in the 11 to 18 age range.
Subject Studies are delivered as twilight sessions so that you have the tools to succeed in your school placements. Sessions are delivered by your Lead Subject Mentor and other experienced teachers. A selection of subject studies sessions are as follows:
- Understanding and teaching the maths requirement in Social Science
- How to teach the topic of memory incorporating experiments
- How to deliver research methods effectively
- How to key stage 4 Psychology
- How to teach students to answer the extended questions
Interview process
The format of the interview with NTTP is usually with the Lead Subject Mentor and the Programme Manager.
The Interview process will entail:
- Presentation - "Why I want to become a teacher"-5 minutes
- Presenting a 'Starter' of your choice -5 minutes
- Interview -40 minutes
- You may be asked to lead a microteaching session, sit a GCSE paper within your subject, or present a portfolio of your work. Your interviewers will be looking for you to demonstrate a number of qualities. You should therefore try to tailor your answers and contributions to reflect these qualities. They are:
- A commitment to and understanding of secondary education and the role of the teacher
- Good personal, intellectual and communication skills
- A positive attitude towards children and working with children
- An enthusiasm for and understanding of your subject (s) and teaching in general.
How school placements work
To qualify for QTS, you must spend at least 120 days in schools. As we feel this is the most important part of your training, we exceed this minimum requirement with two placements totalling 28 weeks. During these, your progress will be tracked against the Teachers' Standards for the award of QTS.
You will train with pupils in the 11 to 16 age range, however, in many of our partnership schools there will be the opportunity to experience Post 16 Education too.
You will be allocated to your placement school as a result of an initial induction and skills audit conducted early in the course which aims to identify the best schools that will be able to support you. Your placement school will be identified to meet your needs and may not geographically be your nearest school.
Financial support
You may also be eligible for a loan while you study – note that you'll have to apply for undergraduate student finance.
Find out about financial support if you're from outside the UK.
You must have an Honours Degree at class 1 or 2, relevant to the subject you wish to train for and preferably a minimum of 50% of your degree being in that subject. Your A-Level grades will also be taken into consideration.
It is preferable to have had some experience of working with secondary aged young people If you hold a non UK degree and/or other qualifications, you should check its validation with NARIC (www.naric.co.uk) who will inform you of its UK equivalence.
About the training provider
Northampton School for Boys, an Ofsted 'Outstanding' school (Nov 2014) is the Lead School for our SCITT - Northampton Teacher Training Partnership (NTTP) which is an Ofsted 'Outstanding' ITE Provider (2018). Your training will be with NTTP, a School-Centred Teacher Training provider based on the school site. We offer a one year full-time Secondary (11-16) teacher training course with a Post Graduate Certificate in Education validated by Newman University. Many of the partnership schools have ex-trainees as members of staff, some of whom work as School Based Tutors for us. The partnership is comprised of schools which offer a wide range of different experiences for our trainees.
The vast majority of trainees who successfully achieve both QTS and an academic award, gain employment in local schools, which is a huge strength of the partnership together with an excellent completion and retention rate.
Our Key Strengths are:
- Trainees professionalism - trainees develop good relationships with staff and pupils encouraging high expectations of the learners.
- The pivotal role of administrative support - facilitating excellent communication across the partnership that benefits support for and attainment of the trainees.
- Consistently good quality school placements, providing a range of contrasting experiences and carefully match them to the individual needs of the trainees.
- The expertise of school-based tutors in coaching the trainee towards improvement
- Strong shared ethos of pastoral care facilitating swift and effective intervention and support for trainees.
About the accredited body
The Post Graduate Certificate in Education is validated by Newman University, Birmingham.
Training with disabilities and other needs
We encourage applications from all spheres of the community regardless of age, race, disability, religion and gender.
We support trainees with a wide variety of needs both during centre-based training and on school placements. The programme is personalised to be supportive and challenging for each trainee. We work closely with Newman University (PGCE Validating body) to ensure that trainee needs are met.
Contact details
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- Telephone
- 01604230240
- Website
- http://nsb.northants.sch.uk
- Address
Northampton School for Boys
Billing Road
Support and advice
For questions about this course you should contact the training provider using the contact details above.
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Register with Get Into Teaching, the Department for Education's free support and advice service, for personalised guidance from teaching experts. They can help you to prepare your application, book school experience, and access exclusive teaching events. You can also call them free of charge on 0800 389 2500, or speak to an adviser using their online chat service, from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday.
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Happy Felt Club
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Welcome to The Happy Felt Club
My name is Whan Tothill. I'm a product designer and felt artist living in Wells. I started The Happy Felt Club in 2016 to offer fun & friendly needle felting workshops in and around Wells. Needle felting is very fun & easy craft which suitable for people at all skill levels. We have many regular members who come to our workshops every months as they feel the workshop allow them to be creative as well as socialize at the same time.
The Happy Felt Club runs a monthly needle felting workshop at the Bishop's Palace & Gardens.
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Easily obtain soil water samples from the root zones of crops. The collected samples can then be analyzed for nitrate levels, salinity, EC, and other chemical elements associated with soil water management in irrigation (fertigation). Simply place the soil sampling access tube in the soil and use the soil sampling vacuum pump to create a full vacuum for capturing the sample. A ceramic tip allows soil water to enter the tube. Each soil sampling access tube comes complete with a suction line, stopper, and clamp. Remove the sample using a disposable soil sampling syringe.
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February 2018
Sustainability and environmental protection are becoming increasingly important in the textile sector. The look has to be right, but factors like the repercussions of textile production on our health and the planet are playing an ever-increasing role. This will also be apparent during Yarn Expo Spring 2018, which is taking place this March. Peter Dong, Marketing Director of the Aditya Birla Group, an Indian fibre and yarn manufacturer, is expecting fierce competition within the textile industry in 2018 due to the total production rising by 15 to 20%. To stand out from its competitors, the company is focusing on ecologically correct and sustainable fibres. The Birla Viscose fibre, which will be presented at Yarn Expo Spring 2018 by six exhibitors in the Birla Planet pavilion, is free from heavy metals. And Sateri, the biggest manufacturer of viscose fibres in China, is also expecting to have a successful season with products that are both innovative and environmentally friendly. Following the success of their debut at the previous Yarn Expo, this time Sateri is presenting skin-friendly hygiene products made of viscose fibres in the Sateri pavilion. With three factories and an annual capacity of 550,000 tonnes, the company is one of the industry's leading players.
The most popular product by fibre and yarn manufacturer Yibin Grace, the Gracell fibre, is made of 100% wood pulp and therefore completely biodegradable. Due to its special properties – extremely strong but also soft at the same time – the fibre can be used for knitwear, woven wool fabrics, interior textiles, face masks and premium-quality fabrics for jeans, trousers and shirts. And Qian Min, Director of Marketing at textile fibre producer Jiangsu Guowang, already started noticing an increase in the demand for sustainable products at previous editions of Yarn Expo. The company's response to this is product innovations like fibres that are free from heavy metals or dyed at a low temperature. With 430 exhibitors from more than 10 countries and regions, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, around 22,000 expected professional visitors are guaranteed a wide-ranging selection of yarns and fibres. For leading companies that want to hold their own on the market, a product segment that provides environmentally friendly textile solutions will be elementary in the future.
Yarn Expo Spring 2018 is taking place together with Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles, the clothing fair Chic and knitwear fair PH Value from 14 until 16 March 2018 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai. Yarn Expo Spring is organised by Messe Frankfurt and the CCPIT textile association.
Find out more here:
Press release: Leading suppliers of eco-friendly synthetic & specialty yarns to feature at next month's Yarn Expo Spring


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Paisley is an evergreen print and fabric for all seasons. As see on Vicky is this paisley print skirt cutely styled with a blazer and winter long sleeve.
Paisley is an evergreen print and fabric for all seasons. As see on Vicky is this paisley print skirt cutely styled with a blazer and winter long sleeve.
Fashion blogger Vicky P wears our dark floral lace fabric as seen on this dress. Dark florals are a great addition to any winter dress or outfit.
As seen on Vicky P, this floral fabric kimono by Nouveau Fabrics is a great accessory to any seasonal outfit.
Vicky pulled off what was supposed to be a bodycon dress into a gorgeous mid-skirt! We love the way it fits!
Ganesh, Indian Elephants and East Indian prints are making their rounds around the fashion community. From embroidery to screen prints, we are seeing more and more of them come this Fall and Winter 2014.
Embroidery isn't something you just see in your grandmas closet or on furniture anymore! We've seen it on the runway with Sass & Bide, Dolce & Gabbana and Jonathan Saunders. This embroidery trend will be sticking around for 2014 without a doubt!
The fabulous Houston based fashion blogger Lynne Gabriel featured one of our fabrics on her blog! Check out the floral pattern chiffon fabric used for this dress. Head on over to see her entire outfit
Key colors for this Fall/Winter 2014 are bright, flirty and fun. Bright pinks, oranges, and deep greens are making their rounds on the runway. Here we see a floral fabric with that flirty color combo.
Nouveau Fabrics is on Instagram (@NouveauFabrics) and Facebook! Follow and Like us for special updates and behind the scenes photos of Nouveau Fabrics.