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KANE: ALLI CAN BECOME WORLD BEST
Posted on March 28, 2017 by index
Harry Kane has told ESPN FC that his "unbelievable" Tottenham Hotspur teammate Dele Alli can go on to become one of the best players to have ever graced the football pitch.
Alli, 20, was named PFA Young Player of the Year last season following a remarkable debut campaign in the Premier League, and he has only gotten better this season. The England international has already scored more league goals than he managed in the whole of last season, probably because he is playing closer to teammate Kane.
His goal scoring has earned him comparisons with Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Paul Scholes but he has reached 20 Premier League goals in fewer games than all three, and Kane believes Alli is "his own player."
"He's got so many great attributes, he scores goals, he assists goals, he's got great skills. He's his own player. He's got amazing potential," Kane told ESPN FC at a Lucozade sport event yesterday.
"He's so young and we sometimes forget how young he is. All he has to do is keep working hard, keep his head down, concentrate on the important things on the pitch, playing football. And he'll be one of the best players in the world. The stuff he does week-in-week-out is unbelievable, so he's amazing player who will keep getting better."
Kane is currently Tottenham's vice-captain behind Hugo Lloris but he said he would relish the chance to captain both club and country in the near future.
He hopes that Hugo Lloris will remain at the club for as long as possible but if the French international chooses to leave the club soon or gets injured, he'll like to take up the club's captaincy role.
He feels that there is a connection between him and the Spurs fans and he hopes that their love for him will help him steer the club to glory.
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The landscape changes as you head north from Seronera. Beyond the Orangi River the land opens out into wide open Togoro plains, clear and sunbaked and seemingly perfect cheetah terrain, although they are rarely spotted here. The route continues like this for about three hours, until you reach the hills and huge worn-smooth rock kopjies of the Lobo area, haunt of at least two extended lion prides. Further north is the Mara River, which marks the border between the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara in Kenya. Although a passable road leads across, the border crossing is closed to tourists.
This northern region of the Serengeti is bordered by the Loliondo Game Controlled Area, which extends southwards to meet the northern boundary of the Ngorongoro Conservation area. The landscape in this region is stunning, and barely visited by tourists. Those who do travel the distance are richly rewarded, whether they chose to fly in with Conservation Corporation to enjoy the finery of Kleins Camp, or whether their taste for adventure has led them on a walking and camping expedition with Hoopoe Adventure tours. Hoopoe have developed a Community Conservation Project at Loliondo that was 'Highly Commended' by the British Guild of Travel Writers for their 'Silver Otter' global award for eco-tourism in the year 2000. Here, in return for their extensive co-operational support of the Maasai village of Oloipiri, Hoopoe clients enjoy an exclusive camping concession and opportunities to meet and walk with local tribespeople. Being just beyond the park boundaries, guests are free to enjoy night drives and walking safaris of any duration, and combine their wildlife viewing with village and town visits. The village has developed clean water supplies, medical and educational facilities in return. This region is distinguished by the huge coloured granite rock formations that surround the camp, and the extended views across rolling grasslands and wooded hills and water courses are fantastic.


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The life of a Japanese language learner can be an expensive one. With all the manga and novels one has to import in order to keep a rigorous reading schedule, it can be a burden on the budget. But just as there is an abundance of free papers in Japan, there's a whole world of free material on the internet just waiting to be read. In particular, I want to introduce 4コマ (four column manga) and 立ち読み (reading samples).
4コマ are short manga consisting of four panels, often comical, that can be found both in print and online. There is a wide selection of 4コマ to be found throughout the internet. They are a great way to squeeze some Japanese into the little moments of one's day where your time is limited. Most of these 4コマ have no furigana, providing the opportunity to use them to study kanji. Don't let this intimidate you. Since 4コマ hardly ever have a plot to follow, the kanji is rarely a barrier to enjoying the comic during those times you can only fit in reading without actively studying the material.
The art style of 4コマ can really range from messy to neat, as shown in the example above to the left from 中国嫁日記 and to the right from まるちゃんねる.
The typical 4コマ is written about the artist's life or is a parody of an anime, manga, or video game series. Some series come up with clever nicknames and caricatures to mask the identity of the close ones they are writing about, even themselves. Note in the example to the left from パンダのブログ the artist's identity is masked by a panda caricature and her husband's by a faceless man who's referred to as 夫 (literally, "husband").
立ち読み is a phrase that comes from the act of standing and reading at a bookstore. Since most books in Japan are unsealed, there will be dozens of people in a store just reading. In cases where manga is sealed, sometimes there will be a sample booklet beside it, with the first chapter of a volume from the manga to preview it before one buys. These one chapter samples can also be found online for various series.
Companies such as 花ゆめコミック have a site dedicated to these samples. Other manga series have sites of their own, such as よつばと! and Love So Life. When you run out of new reading material, a good way to browse for new series is to type in the name of a series or company with the word 立ち読み next to it into a search engine.
For those of you who are already reading 4コマ, what are some of your favorites? Mine is 毎日がママレッスン, a 4コマ that follows the story of the artist from her pregnancy onto raising her child, りーちゃん.
Writer and Educator. Learning Japanese using immersion, currently soaking up as many novels and manga as possible in hopes of one day writing her own novel in Japanese. Also because she loves Japanese books.
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It's 立ち読み not 読み立ち. Although if you google for what you want to read with 読み立ち then it'll probably still come up with results..
There are a lot of blogs which use manga to illustrate stuff as well, I like ハラショーな日々 (isn't really updated anymore but you can go back and read the earlier ones, it's written from the perspective of a Japanese woman who is married to a Russian guy, and it's generally about the daft things that he does), and 7人家族の真ん中で (about a woman who lives with her 3 children, husband, mother in law and her… aunt in law? Is that a thing?) . Both of these are true, and the entries can range from really easy to understand to slightly challenging, so maybe they're okay for everyone.
えー! Thanks for pointing that out. I must have switched it in my mind at some point, because checking my own blog, I used to know that last year when I found out about it. And actually, 読み立ち (the incorrect phrase) doesn't even bring up the right results. After all, you have to stand before you can read. It makes sense.
I think Japanese words are weirdly easy to say back to front.. it's probably my most common mistake when I'm speaking (and writing but normally I have time to notice and correct myself). The strange thing is that I recognise the correct word, so it's not like I've remembered it incorrectly or anything. Hmmm! Luckily people seem to understand me anyway most of the time, and normally I get told that those kind of mistakes are かわいい so it's okay!
as always, a great post! and the link to 花ゆめコミック comes really handy for me. Thanks!
These comic shorts are a great idea, thanks!
I've been enjoying reading the パンダのブログ since not only do you get a comic, but you get additional commentary from the artist AND comments from fans. Definitely a great resource.
I'm so glad some people have found the resources I listed helpful (^_^). Happy reading!
Assuming everyone knows about it, but if not; It's about WWI and all the countries are represented as single people. It's mostly comedy with some history in there as well.


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#1983: Willa Cather to Elsie Cather, July 1 [1938]
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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ July 1st My Dear Sister1;
To think that this poor little wraith is still living—and Douglass3 not! Thank you for your dear letter about the services4, dear Elsie. It has given me more comfort than I would have it possible for a letter to give. I shall always keep it, in a big envelope where I have all the boys'5 letters about Douglass' death. They have all been very kind in writing me. Yes, it comforts me to read that letter. We6 are hoping to get off to Grand Manan7 next week. If I can get to working for two hours every morning, will pull me together more than anything else could, even if the work is not very good. But here2 I sleep badly and I can do little toward preparing to go away.
My love to all the boys and to Meta8. Kiss little Margaret9 for me. Do try to see poor Mrs. Bates10, Mother's nurse if you can, dear. It would mean a great deal to her. She was very fond of Douglass.
Lovingly & gratefully W.
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Elsie Cather1
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July 1 [1938]
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Philip L. and Helen Cather Southwick Collection (MS077), University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives & Special Collections, Lincoln, NE
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Douglass Cather's funeral on 21 June 1938 in San Diego, CA, which Cather did not attend.
Person Annotations
Cather, Elsie Margaret (1890-1964) ("Bobbie"). Cather's sister. Born in Red Cloud, NE, shortly before Willa Cather graduated from high school, Elsie attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln from 1908 to 1910, before transferring to Smith College, in Northampton, MA, from which she graduated with an A.B. in English and Latin in 1912. She undertook graduate study at the University of Nebraska in 1914 and in 1916 received her A.M. with a major in philosophy and a minor in English. At both the undergraduate and the graduate level at Nebraska, she studied under Louise Pound. She began a career in high school teaching in 1912, when she took a position in Lander, WY, where her brother Roscoe then lived with his family. She also taught in Albuquerque, NM; Corning, IA; Cleveland, OH; and briefly Red Cloud, when illness in the family brought her home. Her longest tenure as a teacher was at Lincoln (NE) High School, where she began teaching in 1920, with Olivia Pound and Mariel Gere as colleagues. Willa Cather's expectation that Elsie be responsible for aging family and friends and for legal affairs after their parents' deaths sometimes brought the sisters into conflict. Elsie Cather retired from Lincoln High School in 1942. She died in Lincoln.
Cather, Charles Douglas (1880-1938) ("Douglass"). Cather's brother. Born in Virginia and raised in Red Cloud, NE, Charles was third child and second son of Charles and Virginia Cather. As an adolescent, Douglass Cather helped his father supervise rented farm properties and worked as a messenger for the local Burlington & Missouri Railroad office. In 1897 he left Red Cloud for a position in Sterling, CO, and then took a position with at the Cheyenne, WY, office of the Burlington Railroad. In 1908 he traveled to Mexico, an experience that his sister gave to Emil Bergson in O Pioneers! (1913). By 1910 he was living in Winslow, AZ, still working for the Burlington, where Willa Cather visited him in 1912. He later achieved success in the oil business in California. Although he never married, Cather notes that during the last six or seven years of his life he had a relationship with Dorothy Rogers. Douglass visited Cather in New York City in December of 1937. His death in June 1938 left her devastated. Douglass served as a prototype for one of the twin brothers in the Templeton family in "Old Mrs. Harris" (1932) and Hector the messenger boy brother in "The Best Years" (1948). His years working for the Burlington also inspired Cather's many railroad worker characters in her novels, including Song of the Lark (1915) and The Professor's House (1925). Few letters from this important sibling relationship have survived.
Cather, James Donald (1886-1966) ("Jim"). Cather's brother. James was born in Red Cloud, NE, the fifth child and third son of Charles and Virginia Cather. James moved to Wyoming in 1907 to work with his brothers Douglass and Roscoe. In 1913 he married Ethel Garber, and owned and operated clothing stores first in Red Cloud and then Holyoke, CO, where the family settled for a time 1920 before returning to Red Cloud in 1922. The couple had two children, Helen Louise and Charles Edwin. In 1930 the family moved to California so James could work in the oil business with Douglass and his partners. Willa's relationship with James was more distant than that with her brothers Douglass and Roscoe, who were closer to her own age, although she was very fond of his children.
Cather, Roscoe (1877-1945) ("Ross"). Cather's brother. Roscoe was born in Virginia, the second child and oldest son of Charles and Virginia Cather. After graduating from Red Cloud (NE) High School in 1895, he taught country school for two years, attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln for one year (1897-1898), taught high school in Carlton, NE, and Oxford, NE, and finally became superintendent of schools in Fullerton, NE. There he met fellow teacher Meta Schaper, whom he married in 1907. They relocated to Lander, WY, in 1909, where he opened an abstract office and where their three children, Virginia and twins Margaret and Elizabeth, were born. In 1921, they moved to Casper, WY, where Roscoe became president of the Wyoming Trust Company, and in 1937 to Colusa, CA, where Roscoe and his brother Douglass had acquired a controlling interest in the First Savings Bank of Colusa. Roscoe served as president of the bank until his death. Willa visited Roscoe and his family in Wyoming several times and shared important travel experiences with them, including a 1926 trip to New Mexico with Roscoe, Meta, and their children and a 1941 San Francisco vacation with Roscoe and Meta. She also relied on him to handle family-related business as well as personal financial matters, and he was one of her chief correspondents throughout her life. Roscoe served as a prototype for one of the twin brothers in the Templeton family in "Old Mrs. Harris" (1932).
Cather, John (1892-1959) ("Jack"). Cather's brother. Born and raised in Red Cloud, NE, Jack was the seventh child and fourth son of Charles and Virginia Cather. He was nearly two decades younger than Willa Cather, and she was a doting older sister when he was a small boy. Because she missed him after her 1896 move to Pittsburgh, PA, she wrote several poems about him and the story "Jack-a-Boy" (1901). After graduating from Red Cloud High School in 1912, Jack studied for two years at University of Nebraska in Lincoln. With Willa Cather's encouragement, in 1914 he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh to study engineering. Willa Cather was then living in New York City but traveled to Pittsburgh to help him settle in and enjoyed visiting him and supported his decision to change his major to theater. It is not clear whether he graduated from Carnegie Tech but the British government trained him as a chemist so he could inspect munitions factories. While working in Smethport, PA, he met Irma Wells, and they married in 1918. They had two children, Catherine and Ella Faye. After World War I, he worked as a chemical engineer in the oil industry in Cincinnati, OH, Casper, WY, and Bradford, PA. In 1936 he moved to Whittier, CA, and became a business partner with his brothers Douglass and James in an oil production company. He died in Long Beach, CA. Willa Cather mentions him frequently in letters, but she seems to have had little contact with him and his family in later years, and no letters from her to him have surfaced.
Lewis, Edith Labaree (1881-1972). Magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and Cather's domestic partner. Born in Lincoln, NE, to Henry Euclid Lewis and Lillie Gould Lewis, Edith Lewis attended the preparatory school associated with the University of Nebraska, earning college credits from the University before transferring to Smith College in Northampton, MA, in 1899. She received an A.B. in English from Smith in 1902 and returned home to teach elementary school. She met Willa Cather in the summer of 1903 at the home of Sarah Harris, publisher of the Lincoln Courier. Moving to New York City soon afterward, Lewis settled into a studio on Washington Square and found work at the Century Publishing Company. Cather was her guest when she visited the city from Pittsburgh. In 1906, at Cather's suggestion, Lewis applied for a position as an editorial proofreader at McClure's Magazine, and the two women worked together on the McClure's staff for six years. In 1908, they moved into a shared apartment at 82 Washington Place, and then, in 1912, to Five Bank Street. Lewis left McClure's in 1915 to become managing editor of Every Week Magazine, where she stayed until the magazine folded in 1918. In 1919 she began a long career as an advertising copywriter at the J. Walter Thompson Co. In 1926 Edith Lewis acquired the land on which she and Cather built their cottage on Grand Manan Island. When they lost their apartment on Bank Street to subway construction in 1927, they shared quarters at the Grosvenor Hotel when they were both in New York City. In 1932 they took an apartment at 570 Park Avenue. Throughout their relationship, Lewis was closely involved in Cather's creative process, reading and editing her work in pre-publication forms. Cather's will appointed Lewis as executor of her literary estate and a beneficiary of her literary trust. Lewis authorized E.K. Brown as Cather's first biographer and published her own memoir of Cather, Willa Cather Living (1953). She remained in their Park Avenue apartment after Cather's death and died there after a long period of illness and invalidism. She is buried at Cather's side in Jaffrey, NH.
Cather, Meta Schaper (1884-1973). Cather's sister-in-law. Meta Schaper was born in Plattsmouth, NE, the second daughter of Robert and Julia Ramke Schaper. After graduating from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln 1903, Meta Schaper taught at Havelock High School in her hometown of Havelock, NE (now part of Lincoln). She met Roscoe Cather when teaching in Fullerton, NE, and they married in 1907. They moved to Lander, WY, in 1909, where she gave birth to three daughters, Virginia and twins Margaret and Elizabeth. The family moved to Casper, WY, in 1921 and Colusa, CA, in 1937. Willa visited Meta and Roscoe's family in Wyoming several times and shared important travel experiences with them, including a 1926 trip to New Mexico with Meta, Roscoe, and their children and a 1941 San Francisco vacation with Roscoe and Meta. Meta and Willa remained friends until Willa's death.
Shannon, Margaret Cather (1915-1996) (half of the "twinnies"). Cather's niece. Margaret and her twin sister Elizabeth were born in Lander, WY, to Roscoe and Meta Cather, and moved with the family to Casper, WY, in 1921. Elizabeth and Margaret both attended the University of Colorado, graduating in 1937, and visited Willa Cather and Edith Lewis on Grand Manan during the summers of 1936 and 1937. In Cather's later letters to them, she often refers back to their summer visits as a magical time. Margaret moved to Colusa, CA, with her parents in 1937. After she married Richard Shannon in September 1938, she moved with him to Boston, MA, where he earned an MBA from Harvard University in Cambridge. In 1940 they moved to the New York City area, where their first child, Richard, was born in 1943. The Shannons moved to Washington, DC, in 1944, where their daughter Kathryne was born. Cather did not see Margaret again after she left New York, and Margaret's other three children, Patricia, Margaret, and Elizabeth, were born after Cather's death. Kathryne and Patricia became caretakers for a large family archive of letters preserved by their mother, which they donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection.
Mrs. Bates. Mary Virginia Cather's nurse. There is insufficient evidence for a definitive identification, but this may be Mary H. Bates (1865-after 1938). Born in England, Mary Bates, a nurse, was living in Southern California with her husband Charles Bates by 1920. By 1930 Mary Bates was widowed and attending an older man in his home. By late 1928, Mrs. Bates--possibly Mary H. Bates--was nursing Mary Virginia Cather, Willa Cather's mother, at Las Encinas Sanitarium in Pasadena, CA. Willa Cather sent messages and presents to her.
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Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CanadaCather and Edith Lewis frequently vacationed on Grand Manan Island during the summer and early fall for about twenty years, beginning in 1922. For the first few years, they stayed at the Inn at Whale Cove, a collection of cottages with a main house operated by Sarah Jacobus. Cather and Lewis rented Orchardside Cottage from Jacobus until they had their own cottage built. In 1926, Lewis acquired land on Grand Manan, and construction was completed in 1928. Cather and Lewis returned to this cottage almost every summer until 1940.

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The main concept of the book was to document the whole extension of the Amazon River, from its source in Peru, to the rainforest in Brazil.
U.I.WD. established a visual concept for the book, carefully considered and supremely functional, not filled with a lot of stuff, but the stuff that was there, was just right.


Mariam Andghuladze will be announcing the results from Malta at this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Maltese broadcaster TVM has revealed to Eurovoix.com that Mariam Andghuladze will be announcing the voting results from Malta at Junior Eurovision 2017. Mariam is from Georgia, the host of this year's contest.
Maltese participant Gianluca Cilia had his second rehearsal today, where he sang his song "Dawra Tond". Gianluca Cilia was joined by five dancers on stage, who energetic choreography matched the feel of the song. Gianluca comes down the ramp during the Maltese part of the song and sings the second last chorus through a megaphone. He is followed by the dancers and finishes the song there. Read more about how the first rehearsals went here and here.


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This week in Mormon Land: New insights on early black convert Jane Manning James, an apostle's 'lousy' date nights, a trans student's BYU odyssey
(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)
By David Noyce
· Published: February 7, 2019
The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.
Forget about free agency, Freemasonry and freethinking. How about free Dialogue?
The half-century-old Journal of Mormon Thought — published quarterly and primed with prose and poetry about the Latter-day Saint experience — is making its content available online at no charge the moment it is posted.
"This includes content from the immediate past two years' issues, which have previously been restricted for premium subscribers," Dialogue announced on its newly enhanced, more reader-friendly website. "... We hope this will be a hub for some of the best discussions concerning Mormonism."
No average Jane
(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Jane Manning James
The newly unveiled Dialogue website included a Q&A with Quincy D. Newell, associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College, about her new book, Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a 19th-Century Black Mormon, due out in May.
• "James did baptisms for her dead in the Endowment House and in the Logan and Salt Lake City temples, but she was never permitted to receive her endowments or to be sealed in family relationships."
• "She had visions and dreams, spoke in tongues, and participated in faith healings throughout her life. ... Those experiences gave James a sense of connection with God, and a sense of God's favor, and I think that helped make the temple, as well as the priesthood, less important in her religious experience."
• "The hardest part for me to write concerned how James' first son, Sylvester, was conceived. James herself refused to talk about it; different family members told different stories. There were lots of rumors that Sylvester's father was a white man. It's easy to pair those suggestions with the realities of white male supremacy and conclude that James was raped. But I also think we have a stereotype of black women as victims of white male sexual aggression."
Check out the rest of Dialogue's Q&A and add Newell's book to your summer reading list.
The Hollands' 'lousy' dates
(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland displays his iPad screen saver, a photograph of his wife, Patricia Terry Holland, during a Jan. 17, 2019, devotional in the Philippines. "That's my screen saver," he said, "but more than that, that's my lifesaver."
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has the scoop on how to keep a marriage healthy: ice cream.
"Cones saved my life," the apostle told couples during a recent devotional in the Philippines, while recalling his "lousy" Friday night dates with his wife, Patricia, to a nearby ice cream parlor.
Yes, they were cheap outings, but those evenings together and the love exhibited proved priceless — the cherry on top.
The 78-year-old Holland, in the Philippines to break ground on the Urdaneta Temple, told the couples that no relationship in time or eternity equals that of marriage, according to a news release. He said intimacy, expressions of love and time together are essential ingredients in those unions.
Trans at the Y
(Isaac Hale/The Daily Herald via AP) In this Oct. 18, 2017, photo, Andy Winder, a senior at Brigham Young University, who is also transgender, poses for a portrait in Provo.
In a Huffington Post personal essay, Andy Winder recounts "the best of times and the worst of times" from his three years living in women's housing at Brigham Young University as a transgender man.
He started hormone-replacement therapy during his sophomore year and lived in constant fear of expulsion.
"Although the BYU honor code forbids same-sex relationships, it doesn't directly mention transitioning," he writes. "Beyond a ban on gender-confirmation surgery, neither the LDS Church nor the university outlined any discipline for trans people." That was up to his local lay leaders.
Winder gave up his resident assistant job in a female dorm and requested a spot in men's housing. No dice. Not allowed. "Not safe."
"This phrase would follow me throughout the remainder of my housing experience at Brigham Young University," he says. "Although I loved being an R.A., I decided to resign and transition after the semester ended ― which meant moving from my single-person dorm room to living with female roommates again."
It wasn't easy, but he endured.
"My roommates ― understandably ― didn't want a trans guy in their female housing," Winder explains. "But looking back, I like to think we learned from each other in ways that were ultimately for the better."
Now a BYU graduate, he is living in a studio apartment as writer.
"These days, I'm not a perfect Mormon: I don't go to church every week, I drink way too many caffeinated sodas, and I use 'Mormon' even though we're not supposed to anymore," he says. "But I'm still trying to seek God ― if not in the pews, then on my knees in prayer."
Read Winder's full HuffPost account here and a 2017 story from Provo's Daily Herald here.
Guard against 'spiritual apathy,' Soares says
(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visits with a Brigham Young University student in Provo on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. He spoke at a devotional in the Marriott Center.
Young adults today may live like royalty, Elder Ulisses Soares says, but too often they are forgetting the King of Kings.
"In many regards, you live a higher quality of life than ancient kings, queens and emperors," Soares told students and faculty at BYU this week. But "please remember that happiness and peace in this life and in the world to come depend upon remembering the Savior."
The junior apostle, joined by his wife, Rosana, lamented society's "steadily declining moral values," according to a news release, and the "secularism [that] has changed the way people see God's hand in their lives."
"We witness an increasing number of people who are confused about their identity as children of our Heavenly Father," he added. "They also have become confused about what really matters in life, and many who were once strong in faith have developed spiritual apathy."
The 60-year-old Soares, a native Brazilian, became the faith's first Latin American apostle last spring.
A filmmaker's fall
Sterling Van Wagenen on the set of "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" in 2005.
The #MeToo movement has found another offender, this time a prominent Latter-day Saint filmmaker.
Sterling Van Wagenen, executive producer of last year's "Jane and Emma" and director two "Work and the Glory" movies, has admitted to molesting a 13-year-old boy in 1993.
The admission came to light in conversation the victim secretly recorded with Van Wagenen last year and that the Truth & Transparency Foundation released this week.
"I went through the church disciplinary process and was disfellowshipped for about two years," Van Wagenen told the foundation, the nonprofit group behind the MormonLeaks website. "I repented and there were no further incidents. I reported the abuse to the police, as I was instructed to by my stake president, and the parents elected not to press charges."
The victim told The Tribune he he has been haunted by the molestation for more than a quarter century and remains dismayed that the church provided him no help.
"I've always wondered why I was not offered any support or counseling or therapy," he said. "Nothing."
Van Wagenen told him in the recording: "You were the victim, I'm so sorry for that."
Temple updates
A groundbreaking will take place March 16 for the Pocatello Temple, the church's sixth in Idaho.
The others are in Boise, Idaho Falls, Meridian, Rexburg and Twin Falls.
On May 4, turf will be turned for Guam's first temple.
Announced four months ago by President Russell M. Nelson, the temple is set for completion in about two years.
It also will be the debut temple in Micronesia.
"The church isn't big in Guam but is much bigger in nearby Micronesia and the Marshall Islands," independent Latter-day Saint demographer Matt Martinich has said, "places where the church has grown quite well in the last 10 to 20 years."
"As we talk about the Sabbath, this is not a day for all the things you can't do. That would be a pathetic way to see the Sabbath."
Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland
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There were a staggering 7.8 million children across 4.3 million child abuse and neglect cases referred to Child Protective Services in the U.S. in 2018. Of those cases, 2.4 million were deemed serious enough to require intervention. The Centers for Disease Control and Pevention (CDC) estimated that in 2018 over 678k children were "victimized." What role can technology play to address this vicious scourge of society, further exacerbated by the pandemic with so many children hidden in the shadows, not in school? Clearly, better analytics and monitoring solutions should improve public healthcare infrastructure's abilities to fight this type of abuse.
In the very earliest days of the pandemic, before the scope was fully appreciated, school closures in the early spring were thought to be temporary; a significant inconvenience for many, but manageable. The scramble to virtual curricula was challenging, and nearly always a very poor replacement for the in-person classroom experience. By April, though, it became apparent that this impact was going to be meaningfully more devastating with disruption to regular meals, social interactions, and most critically, separation from a social infrastructure of teachers, care givers and other trained professionals.
What a terrible tradeoff: open the schools and risk widespread COVID exposure or keep them closed and introduce a host of other risks. A recent analysis by The 74 Million, a leading non-partisan news site covering the education sector, in partnership with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, found that the long-term economic impact in the U.S. tied directly to school closures to be nearly $14.2 trillion over the rest of this century. Should schools be closed throughout this fall, the cost will increase by another $28 trillion.
What is not fully understood is the incidence of child abuse during the pandemic. Initially, the number of reported abuse cases dropped dramatically. In New York City alone, case count dropped 51% through the summer; California and Texas dropped 45% and 30%, respectively. But while the number of reported cases dropped, the number of actual cases admitted to hospitals remained largely unchanged, a pattern eerily reminiscent of 2008 during the Great Recession. Without the ability of other adults to monitor children, the pandemic has pushed the abuse out of the purview of trained professionals. This week Mayor de Blasio announced a delay to New York City school re-openings and is instituting a "blended learning model" for the 1.1 million school children, 114k of whom are homeless.
What is absolutely understood is the profound emotional and financial costs of child abuse. Often caused by parental stresses, financial pressures, and substance abuse behavior, the CDC considers child abuse (and other domestic violence) "preventable" – really? More than 67% of abuse referrals are made by community professionals such as teachers, law enforcement and social services staff; teachers alone account for over 20% of all referrals. That essential window for many children is now closed.
Importantly, while 83% of abusers are between the ages of 18-44, more relevant is that for 78% of cases, the perpetrators are one of the victim's parents. Women account for 54% of all abusers. Experts are now most worried about "opportunity crimes" with newly unemployed relatives or quarantining college kids back in homes with housebound children who otherwise would be in school.
The CDC tabulated that the economic costs of child abuse in 2015 (most recent year) to be $428 billion of "lifetime economic burden." Setting aside the staggering direct financial costs, the other costs from future violence, increase in substance user disorders, lower education and employment levels, and greater likelihood of future victimization are immeassurable. In 2018, over nine per 1,000 children were victimzed; one in five reported being bullied in school while one in seven were "electronically" bullied on social media. Tragically, 1,770 children died of abuse in 2018; 47% of whom were younger than onen year old.
The pandemic has had other devastating implications for child welfare. The last 20 years has seen significant improvement in the reduction of childhood mortality rates (from mid-70 per 1,000 to the mid-30s per 1,000). According to the global health organization PATH, this progress has been jeopardized by the pandemic, principally by the inability for children to access reliable healthcare services. In models that assume the most "severe disruption" the progress has been set back a decade.
Data: PATH estimates from disrupted maternal, newborn and child health services, drawing on modeling from Lancet Global Health; Chart: Axios Visuals
In addition to losing regular connection with many children who are now homebound, there is a staggering incidence of food insecurity. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 13.9 million children now suffer from food insecurity, an unprecedented level when compared to 2.5 million in 2018 or 5.1 million during the Great Recession in 2008. In June alone, it is estimated that one in three Black children did not have sufficient food access. Perversely, the Trump administration this month made eligiblity requirements more stringent for low-income students to access meals will not in school.
Technology has a role to play here. As much of healthcare delivery has gone virtual during the pandemic, the ability to be connected with children in-home remotely via Zoom and Facetime has afforded the potential for new insights into what children may be suffering, not unlike what is being experienced with elder care. Obviously, inadequate wireless infrastructure and poor access to devices disproportionately affects low income students. In spite of that, novel behavioral health platforms are being deployed to assist families deemed at-risk. Anecdotally, typical no-show rates for medical appointments dropped from ~30% to low single digits with the advent of virtual visits.
Dr. Christopher Greeley, a leading national expert on child abuse at Baylor College of Medicine (and my brother), points to the emergence of better predictive risk modeling in the field of child welfare. Such an approach allows clinicians and policy makers to identify circumstances that create clusters of common characteristics most associated with child abuse. Determining the "gradient of health" in a certain census tract facilitates the deployment of resources (i.e., child care centers) into a particular community. Big data analytics allows for the creation of a "Social Vulnerability Index" to determine how best to prioritize resources. This summer the Office of the Inspector General issued guidance to CMS to utilize Medicaid data to better identify patterns of child abuse, acknowledging the potential of these new analytical tools.
Of course, the proliferation of virtual visits and improved analytics does not solve the "last mile" issues, forever chronic with social services. In addition to enhanced public engagement and education campaigns, there needs to be a strong legislative approach. For instance, corporal punishment of children needs to be more aggressively persecuted. Tax policy can play an important role as well. CDC studies have shown that child tax credits can meaningfully move families with children out of poverty: a $1,000 tax credit can lower childhood poverty rates from 26% to 23%; a $4,000 tax credit can lower it to below 15%.
In addition to the various (often inadequate) public safety nets in place, ordinarily families would look to the private childcare industry for assistance. Barron's recently estimated that school closings may cost the economy up to $700 billion in lost revenue and productivity this year which is approximately 3.5% of GDP. Analysts at the Center for America Progress estimate that roughly half of day care centers will fail which would reduce capacity by 4.5 million slots, leaving 4.2 children for each available slot. The day care industry received $3.5 billion of aid from the CARES Act and only 25% of childcare operators received Paycheck Protection Program loans. Even the private backstops are significantly compromised during COVID.
With everything that we are struggling with today, one thing we absolutely should not have to worry about are ridiculous QAnon conspiracy theories that leading Democratic figures are consuming children for their "Adrenochrome," a magical psychedelic drug in their blood. There are simply too many real-world problems our children face.
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Dan Gebremedhin
Thoughtful approach to a challenging topic!!!
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thanks – always appreciate your reaction!!
Very insightful. It goes beyond the ability of remote medical visits to see people's living situations and get insights into social determinants of health (SDOH), which has been an added value of telemedicine.
really well said. such a critical issue for us to confront.
Bill Asher
Thanks for raising important issues in this forum that we shouldn't lose sight of with all the other bad stuff that people have to deal with. I'm happy to be involved with Boston CASA, a local organization that provides "court appointed special advocates" for court-involved kids in the foster care system in Massachusetts in all phases of their lives. Boston CASA has been able to pivot to virtual support of its clients during the pandemic, very successfully despite the challenges. Although technology is not a substitute for face to face support of kids in difficult family situations, used judiciously and creatively it might enable organizations like Boston CASA to extend its reach when things start to revert to normal.
Very important comments, Bill. That sounds like a powerful initiative and so timely. Well done.
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Marie Bigot de Morogues (née Marie Kiéné), née le  à Colmar et morte le  à Paris, est une pianiste et compositrice française.

Biographie
Marie Bigot naît à Colmar en 1786. Elle épouse Paul Bigot de Morogues en 1804 et réside à Vienne entre cette année et 1809, où elle rencontre notamment Joseph Haydn. Amie d'Antonio Salieri et de Ludwig van Beethoven, son mari est secrétaire-bibliothécaire du comte Andreï Razoumovski pour qui elle joue. Sa facilité de lecture à vue était étonnante. Elle interprète la Sonate « Appasionata » de Beethoven lorsque celui-ci lui fait connaître son manuscrit. Après l'impression, il lui offre un exemplaire avec autographe.

De retour à Paris, elle compose, donne des leçons et contribue à faire connaître la musique de Beethoven au public parisien. Sa maison devient l'un des principaux centres de la vie musicale de l'époque : Cherubini, Auber et Baillot fréquentent par exemple son salon. En 1816, elle donne des leçons de piano à Felix et Fanny Mendelssohn dont elle est très proche.

Elle meurt âgée seulement de 34 ans, en 1820.

Œuvre
Comme compositrice, on lui doit quelques œuvres pour son instrument, dont une sonate et plusieurs études pour piano.

Hommage

 Une plaque commémorative est apposée sur sa maison natale à Colmar.

Notes et références

Article connexe
 Famille Bigot de Morogues

Bibliographie
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 Jacques-Alphonse Mahul, Annuaire nécrologique, ou Supplément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnaires historiques, 1 année, 1820, Paris : Baudoin , 1821, p. 19-21 .
 Robert Perreau, Marie Catherine Salomé Kiéné, Bigot de Morogues, dans le Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 3, p. 222.

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Naissance en mars 1786
Naissance à Colmar
Naissance dans la province d'Alsace
Décès en septembre 1820
Décès à Paris
Pianiste classique française
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Mort de la tuberculose
Décès à 34 ans

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It displays everythin as it should.
But I want to get rid of this index.php in the url, so you can access welcome controller without need to type index.php before /welcome:
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.htaccess:

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.htaccess:

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.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
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What am i missing or doing wrong? First time using .htaccess.

A: Make sure you .htaccess file is under the root folder and not the application folder.
This is something you may not pay attention to.

A: According to CodeIgniter docs, this is one way to do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

A: Well, i've found this information in the FAQ of the host:
On this page
So what i had to do is add this lines before everything:
RewriteBase /projects/thebookshelf/

So now it's looking like this:
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Options +FollowSymLinks
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

I hope this will be helpful to people who use use virtual user home directory paths, as was in my case.

A: This works for me
For your .htaccess file (locate it in root folder)
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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config.php
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$config['index_page'] = "index.php";
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Borrower case study: creating co-living opportunities in London
We recently met up with Reza Merchant, entrepreneur and founder of The Collective – a company that provides high-quality co-living spaces for young professionals in London.
Reza's story
Reza Merchant isn't your average twenty-something. There aren't many 26-year olds who could say they leveraged their parents' home for £1.8 million to fund a fledgling business, appeared on an episode of 'Made in Chelsea' and quit drinking to devote themselves to their work. Talking to Reza it's quite clear that he's been willing to take risks in his life, and now it's certainly paying off.
At LendInvest our mission is to disrupt the mortgage market, and Reza is definitely disrupting property with The Collective. With few affordable housing options for people who want to live and work in the city, Reza saw an opportunity to create co-living spaces for people on modest incomes. We provided him with bridging finance to help fund two of his Collectives in Camden and Acton. Refurbishing old buildings in London, Reza fills them with well-designed, compact, fully-furnished units to make the housing as affordable as possible.
Reza's shared living spaces are targeted at young professionals between the ages of 21-35, who can't necessarily afford to rent a one bedroom flat in London. Offering services such as linen changing and an on-site concierge, his Collectives cater to busy people who want their lives to be as convenient as possible, with all of the life admin taken care of. They also have access to communal areas such as kitchens, games rooms, libraries and cinemas as one of the benefits of sharing. He currently has 5 Collectives up and running, and a number of them in the planning stages.
Reza has used LendInvest for a number of deals, most recently obtaining bridging finance from us to fund his Collectives in Acton and Camden. He chose LendInvest when he needed speed of delivery and reliability. Reza borrowed just over £4 million for the Camden Collective, which released a large chunk of equity to grow the business, grow the infrastructure and work on some exciting projects, such as 'Pop Brixton' – a community campus filled with new eateries and unique shops.
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Sophie's Women of War
Sophie Poldermans Is An Expert on Women Leaders In times of Conflict
She founded her own business "Sophie's Women of War," shedding light on women leaders in times of conflict, crisis and change. She is a best-selling author, international speaker, lecturer and consultant on women and war, women's leadership and business innovation advocating women's rights around the globe.
Poldermans is the author of the New York Post & Amazon best seller Seducing and Killing Nazis. Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII (USA, 2019). She personally knew Truus and Freddie Oversteegen of the book for 20 years and worked closely with them for over a decade as a board member of the Dutch National Hannie Schaft Foundation.
She is residing in the Netherlands and has degrees in Dutch Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights (University of Amsterdam); Peace and Conflict Studies (UC Berkeley, USA); Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC, Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria) and certificates in Women's Leadership (Yale School Of Management, USA), Business Innovation (Columbia Business School, USA) and Negotiation (Columbia Business School, USA).
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The Falmouth (MA) Museums on the Green had the sincere pleasure of hosting Sophie Poldermans for a virtual talk. Her passion, devotion to the story, and dedication to "getting it right" was there for all to see. She told the story of Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen and Freddie Oversteegen in a way that made the reader and listener understand, comprehend and grasp the realities of what life was like for those ordinary citizens whose countries were occupied by oppression--in this case, teenage girls dealing with the realities of Nazi soldiers living in their town. Sophie told a tale of courage, fortitude and devotion to country that made it easy to understand why she found these women so compelling when she first learned of them in her teens. Those in our audience were spellbound as Sophie told the tale of these women and her own dedication to finding out more about them. It was gripping to her Sophie talk of these women--two of which she came to know well--as people, not simply teen heroines. In a year in which COVID 19 has made programming so difficult, Sophie was spectacular in her virtual talk. The Falmouth Museums on the Green was proud to have Ms. Poldermans as a guest lecturer and we could not recommend her, or her book "Seducing and Killing Nazis", enough to those who wish to hear her speak and to read her words.
Mark SchmidtExecutive Director Museums on the Green, Falmouth, USA
I have witnessed Sophie's passion and commitment to telling the true stories of female war heroes through her writing, reporting and public speaking. I have found her to be a courageous and compelling storyteller who reveals the bravery of these unknown sheroes with honesty and integrity.
Lori Sokol, PhDExecutive Director, Women's eNews, New York, USA
We had the pleasure to have Sophie as our guest speaker at the General Motors Women in Finance event which took place in May 2021.The topic about women and leadership is more relevant than ever as our company is striving for a more diverse and inclusive work environment. The story Sophie depicted from her book was so compelling and inspiring. We received great feedback from participants and I personally enjoyed Sophie's passionate delivery of her message.
As takeaway, women don't need to be in a position of power to exercise leadership as these heroines (from Sophie's book) did. Our task is to find that warrior and power within ourselves!
Thank you, Sophie! It was an honor having you at our event!
Elena LaraFinancial Assurance Manager, General Motors, USA
Sophie is an incredible leader whose passion and commitment to empowering women led her to write the inspiring story of the 3 young women who formed resistance against the Nazis during WW2. She is one of the leading influencers and thought-provokers around the value of female leadership in tackling global challenges particularly as it relates to geopolitical conflicts. Sophie's voice is a powerful one in our world today and a force to be reckoned with, and a next-generation pioneer in what it means to be a compassionate and value-based leader.
Dr. Camille Wardrop AlleyneDeputy Manager of Commercial LEO Development Program, NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
I am grateful for Sophie's participation as a panelist at our recent Women's History Month celebration. Sophie shared her experience of women in leadership and the challenges women face in the workplace. Sophie's energetic and dynamic style provided broader perspective on women's plight for equality and how to support career advancement. Last year, I had the opportunity to meet Sophie while taking the Women's Leadership program at the Yale School of Management. Sophie has a pleasant demeanor and engaging personality. I would recommend Sophie as a speaker for a group discussion or leadership conference.
Imelda Castro ScottDirector of Accounting, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, USA
On International Women's Day 2021, Barnet Libraries, welcomed Dutch author Sophie Poldermans for a poignant and thought provoking online discussion & presentation about her stunning book, Seducing and Killing Nazis. A huge big thank you, it was fantastic!
Mark J NagleLibrarian, Barnet Libraries, London, UK
I have had the pleasure of working with Sophie in my radio work. Sophie is responsive, supportive and approachable. She is clearly committed to illuminating the lesser-explored women's history, amplifying marginalised voices and to securing a female interpretation of global history. Her commitment to the subject of the 'Three Women' since high school is reflective of her determination and ability to be inspired.
Rosie MacLeodFreelance journalist, credits include Women on Writing, East London Radio, Making Contact Radio Project, London, UK
During the International Transitional Justice tour, Sophie Poldermans demonstrated high critical analytical skills while interrogating the history of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and the mechanisms adopted to address its consequences, and at the same time, she was very compassionate while interacting with both the victims and suspected perpetrators. Her open-mindedness greatly benefited other members of the group. Second, with regard to teaching, it was great to observe her passion in sharing knowledge and mentoring young people, she is a very well organized and dedicated lecturer who pays special attention to all details of learning Poldermans demonstrated commitment to sharing knowledge and supporting a good learning environment. Third, her writings and continued dedication to promotion of women's rights especially those of victims of conflicts are admirable. Poldermans has an exceptional commitment to higher values of human rights, diversity and respect for the dignity of others especially those who are most vulnerable. She is very efficient, optimistic, forwarding looking and pragmatic in proposing solutions that can better other people's conditions.
Alphonse MuleefuAg. Principal, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
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Meyrick Jones – A long, long way from "OK"
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Meyrick Jones grew up playing Rugby.
At the age of 21, on a holiday in San Francisco, Meyrick Jones's life would change forever. A cable car ran away from a maintenance yard without a driver and the runaway car slammed into the cable car Meyrick was riding in. He was stuck there in the wreckage for 90 minutes and ended up losing his left leg in hospital later that day.
Since then, in what Meyrick calls his "recovery", he has competed in hundreds of endurance events around the world – mountain biking, swimming, marathons, Ironmans, world championship races in triathlon and cross country skiing, and, his favourite, cycling. Along the way he became a coach, mentor, guide and an inspiration to many.
Last August, on the 20th anniversary of his accident, he competed in the oldest bike race in the world – Paris Brest Paris. The 1230km event, held every four years, is considered the pinnacle of ultra-cycling.
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Urbis Manchester by day No2
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in Acrylic,Ink by Andrew Alan Matthews 6 Artist Reviews
an impressionistic urban, cityscape, landscape painting of Urbis and the Printworks. Manchester, we love Manchester. painted using acrylic and ink using the croquis method to allow the characters to evolve and emerge from the paint, varnished for protection Urbis was an exhibition and museum in Manchester, England, designed by Ian Simpson. The building opened in June 2002 as part of the redevelopment of Exchange Square known as the Millennium Quarter. Urbis was commissioned as a 'Museum of the City' but visitor numbers were lower than ex-pected and a switch was made in 2005-6 to presenting changing exhibitions on popular-culture alongside talks, gigs and special events. Urbis was closed in 2010, after the opportunity arose for Manchester to host the National Football Museum. In 2012
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Andrew Alan Matthews a Manchester based Artist was employed in the textile design industry reproducing accurate, fine quality, hand painted Artwork for many years. He reproduced Artwork for all the leading textile companies in the UK. He then undertook a B.A.Hons Textile Degree at Manchester Metr...
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