Today, The Grandma has been watching some football matches, and she has started with the first match that F.C.Barcelona Femení played at Johan Cruyff Stadium on a day like today in 2019.
Johan Cruyff Stadium, in Catalan Estadi Johan Cruyff, is a football stadium operated by Barcelona in Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, Catalonia. Locatedin the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper,the club's training facility and youth academy, about 7 km from the Camp Nou. The stadium is home to Barcelona Femení, Barcelona B and Juvenil A (U19 A team).
It is named in honour of legendary Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff who died in March 2016.
It is a UEFA Category 3 stadium and houses 6,000 supporters. As part of the Espai Barça project, it is the replacement for the Mini Estadi, which was in front of the Camp Nou and was demolished in 2020, and the land of the Mini Estadi will be used to build the Nou Palau Blaugrana.
Estadi Johan Cruyff broke ground on 14 September 2017 and was completed in Summer 2019.
It was opened on 27 August 2019, with a friendly match between the under-19 teams of Barcelona and Ajax. The match ended up in a 0-2 score where Ajax was the winner.
On 26 August 2019, a day before the stadium was officially opened to the public, Barcelonapaid tribute to Cruyff by unveiling his statue at the Camp Nou.
On 7 September 2019, Futbol Club Barcelona Femeníplayed their first game at Johan Cruyff Stadium against CD Tacón winning 9-1 with AlexiaPutellas scoring the first goal.
It's like everything in football -and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end.
Today, The Grandma has been reading about JohnDalton, the English scientist, who was born on a day like today in 1766.
John Dalton (6 September 1766-27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicistand meteorologist.
He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry. He also researched colourblindness; as a result, the umbrella term for red-green congenital colour blindnessdisorders is Daltonism in several languages.
John Dalton was born on 5 or 6 September 1766 into a Quaker family in Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, in Cumberland, England. His father was a weaver. He received his early education from his father and from Quaker John Fletcher, who ran a private school in the nearby village of Pardshaw Hall. Dalton's family was too poor to support him for long and he began to earn his living, from the age of ten, in the service of wealthy local Quaker Elihu Robinson.
When he was 15, Dalton joined his older brother Jonathan in running a Quaker school in Kendal, Westmorland, about 72 km from his home. Around the age of 23, Dalton may have considered studying law or medicine, but his relatives did not encourage him, perhaps because being a Dissenter, he was barred from attending English universities. He acquired much scientific knowledge from informal instruction by John Gough, a blind philosopher who was gifted in the sciences and arts.
At 27, he was appointed teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy at the Manchester Academy in Manchester, a dissenting academy (the lineal predecessor, following a number of changes of location, of Harris Manchester College, Oxford). He remained for seven years, until the college's worsening financial situation led to his resignation. Dalton began a new career as a private tutor in the same two subjects.
In 1794, shortly after his arrival in Manchester, Dalton was elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, the Lit & Phil, and a few weeks later he communicated his first paper on Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours, in which he postulated that shortage in colour perception was caused by discoloration of the liquid medium of the eyeball. As both he and his brother were colour blind, he recognised that the condition must be hereditary.
Although Dalton's theory was later disproven, his early research into colour vision deficiency was recognized after his lifetime. Examination of his preserved eyeball in 1995 demonstrated that Dalton had deuteranopia, a type of congenital red-green colour blindness in which the gene for medium wavelength sensitive (green) photopsins is missing.
Arguably the most important of all Dalton's investigations are concerned with the atomic theory in chemistry. While his name is inseparably associated with this theory, the origin of Dalton's atomic theory is not fully understood. The theory may have been suggested to him either by researches on ethylene (olefiant gas) and methane (carburetted hydrogen) or by analysis of nitrous oxide (protoxide of azote) and nitrogen dioxide (deutoxide of azote), both views resting on the authority of Thomas Thomson.
The main points of Dalton's atomic theory, as it eventually developed, are:
-Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms.
-Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass and other properties; atoms of different elements differ in size, mass and other properties.
-Atoms cannot be subdivided, created or destroyed.
-Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios to form chemical compounds.
-In chemical reactions, atoms are combined, separated or rearranged.
Dalton published his first table of relative atomic weights containing six elements (hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus), relative to the weight of an atom of hydrogen conventionally taken as 1.
Dalton suffered a minor stroke in 1837, and a second in 1838 left him with a speech impairment, although he remained able to perform experiments. In May 1844 he had another stroke; on 26 July, while his hand was trembling, he recorded his last meteorological observation. On 27 July, in Manchester, Dalton fell from his bed and was found dead by his attendant.
Today, The Grandma has been reading the latest news about Alex Morgan, the American professional soccer player, who has announced her retirement.
Alexandra Morgan Carrasco (born Alexandra Patricia Morgan; July 2, 1989) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a striker for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club SanDiego Wave FC, which she was a captain of, and the United States national team.She co-captained the United States with Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe from 2018 to 2020.
Shortly after graduating early from the University of California, Berkeley, where she played for the California Golden Bears, Morgan was drafted number one overall in the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash. There, she made her professional debut and helped the team win the league championship.
Morgan, who was 22 at the time, was the youngest player on the national team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, where the team was runner-up.
At the 2012 London Olympics, she scored the match-winning goal in the 123rd minute of the semi-final match against Canada. She finished 2012 with 28 goals and 21 assists, joining Mia Hamm as the only American woman to score 20 goals and provide 20 assists in the same calendar year and making her the sixth and youngest U.S. player to score 20 goals in a single season. She was subsequently named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year and was a FIFA World Player of the Year finalist.
Morgan also helped the United States win their titles at the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups, where she was named to the Dream Team for both tournaments, while she won the Silver Boot in 2019.
Morgan joined Portland Thorns FC in the NWSL's inaugural season in 2013 and helped the team win the league championship that year. Morgan played for the Thorns through the 2015 season, after which she was traded to the expansion team Orlando Pride.
In 2017, Morgan signed with French team Lyon, where she won the continental European treble, which included the UEFA Women's Champions League.
Morgan joined the expansion team San Diego Wave FC in 2022; she received the NWSL Golden Boot as the league's top scorer that year and helped win the NWSL Shield the following season.
Off the field, Morgan teamed with Simon & Schuster to write a middle-grade book series about four soccer players: The Kicks. The first book in the series, Saving the Team, debuted at number seven on The New York Times Best Seller list in May 2013. Additionally, a film starring Morgan in her acting debut, Alex & Me, was released in June 2018 where she plays a fictionalized version of herself.
In 2015, Morgan was ranked by Time as the top-paid American women's soccer player, largely due to her numerous endorsement deals. Morgan, along with Canada's Christine Sinclair and Australia's Steph Catley, became the first women's soccer players to appear on the cover of FIFA video games in 2015 -Morgan appeared alongside Lionel Messi on covers of FIFA 16 sold in the United States. She was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2019 and 2022.
On September 5, 2024, Morganannounced via social media that she would be retiring and her last match would be September 8, 2024.
Born to Pamela and Michael Morgan in the Los Angeles County suburb of SanDimas, California, Morgan was raised with her two older sisters, Jeni and Jeri, in the nearby suburb of Diamond Bar. She was a multi-sport athlete growing up and began playing soccer at an early age with AYSO, and her father was among her first coaches. However, she did not begin playing club soccer until age 14 when she joined Cypress Elite. With the club team, she won the Coast Soccer League (CSL) under-16 championship and placed third at the under-19 level.
Morgan attended Diamond Bar High School, where she was a three-time all-league pick and was named All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). At the school, she was known for her speed and sprinting ability.
Morgan played for Olympic Development Program (ODP) regional and state teams as well. She later credited the program as an integral part of her development as a soccer player: ... programs like ODP helped me especially because I did come into the club scene late and it was important for me to play as much as possible, play with the best players and learn from the best coaches. That, for me, was crucial to my development.
In 2006, at 17 years old, Morgan was called up to the United States under-20 women's national soccer team.
On January 14, 2011, Morgan was the first overall pick in the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash.
After the WPS later suspended operations in early 2012 due to legal and financial difficulties, Morgan joined her national teammates Hope Solo, Sydney Leroux, Megan Rapinoe and Stephanie Cox on the Seattle Sounders Women for the 2012 season.
On January 11, 2013, Morgan was one of three U.S. national team players to join the Portland Thorns FC for the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League via the NWSL Player Allocation.
On October 26, 2015, it was announced that the Thorns had traded Morgan, along with teammate Kaylyn Kyle, to expansion team Orlando Pride in exchange for the Pride's number one picks in the 2015 NWSL Expansion Draft and 2016 NWSL College Draft as well as an international roster spot for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
On January 5, 2017, Morgan signed with French champions OlympiqueLyonnais (Lyon) for a reported $33,000 per month.
Following the Champions League Final, the Pride announced Morgan's addition to their 2017 active roster on June 21, 2017, waiving Christina Burkenroad to make room on the 20-player roster. After recovering from the hamstring injury she suffered in the final, Morgan made her competitive return for Orlando on July 1 against the Chicago Red Stars.
On September 12, 2020, Morgan signed with English FA Women's Super League team Tottenham Hotspur.
Morgan returned to Orlando Pride ahead of the 2021 season.
On December 13, 2021, expansion team San Diego Wave FC announced the signing of Morgan.
ASSUMIRÀS la veu d’un poble, i serà la veu del teu poble, i seràs, per a sempre, poble, i patiràs, i esperaràs, i aniràs sempre entre la pols, et seguirà una polseguera.
I tindràs fam i tindràs set, no podràs escriure els poemes i callaràs tota la nit mentre dormen les teues gents, i tu sols estaràs despert, i tu estaràs despert per tots.
No t’han parit per a dormir: et pariren per a vetlar en la llarga nit del teu poble.
Tu seràs la paraula viva, la paraula viva i amarga.
Ja no existiran les paraules, sinó l’home assumint la pena del seu poble, i és un silenci.
Deixaràs de comptar les síl·labes, de fer-te el nus de la corbata: seràs un poble, caminant entre una amarga polseguera.
Vida amunt i nacions amunt, una enaltida condició.
No tot serà, però, silenci.
Car diràs la paraula justa, la diràs en el moment just.
No diràs la teua paraula amb voluntat d’antologia, car la diràs honestament, iradament, sense pensar en cap altra posteritat, com no siga la del teu poble.
Potser et maten o potser se’n riguen o et delaten; tot això són banalitats.
Allò que val és la consciència de no ser res si no s’és poble.
I tu, greument, has escollit.
Després del teu silenci estricte, camines decididament.
YOU WILL ASSUME the voice of a people and it will be the voice of your people, and you will be, forever, people, and you will suffer, and you will wait, and you will go through the dust, and a dust cloud will follow you.
And you will be hungry, and you will be thirsty, you will not be able to write poems and you will be quiet for the whole night whereas your people sleep, and you will be the only awake, and you will be awake for everyone.
You were not given birth for sleeping: you were born for staying awake for the long night of your people.
You will be the alive word, the alive and bitter word.
Words will not exist anymore, but the man assuming the sorrow of his people, and it is a silence.
You will stop counting syllables, you will stop making the knob of the tie: you will be a people, walking through a bitter dust cloud.
Life upwards and nations upwards, an ennobled condition.
Not everything will be a silence, though.
Since you will say the proper word, you will say it at the proper moment.
You will not say your word with any will of anthology, since you will say it honestly, irately, with no thinking about any posterity, except for the one of your people.
Maybe they will kill you or they will mock you, maybe they will betray you; these are only banalities.
What is worth is the conscience of being nothing unless you are people.
Today, The Grandma has been reading about BengtLindström, the Swedish artist, who was born on a day like today in 1925.
Bengt Karl Erik Lindström (September3, 1925,-January 29, 2008) was aSwedishartist.
Lindström was one of Sweden's best known contemporary artists with a characteristic style of distinct colours,often including contorted faces.
In 2003, Lindström became disabled due to a stroke and he became unable to paint.
The year 2004 saw the release of a film about Bengt's life: Lindström-Le Diable de la Couleur et de la Forme (Lindström-A Hell of a Feeling for Colour and Form).
Lindström was born in 1925 at Storsjö kapell, Härjedalen, Sweden. He was only three days old when Sámi King Kroik, his godfather, administered the Baptism of the Earth, where the child is placed between two roots of a tree to grant him protection from the Gods.
Bengt grew up in the vast landscape of Sápmi (sometimes referred to as Lapland), with mountain ranges, glistening lakes and endless forests. He went to school in Härnösand, where he started writing short science-fiction stories, became an athlete and started to draw and paint. The Sámi people, as well as local lumberjacks, would tell Bengt about the tales and legends of the Great White North. All this created the basis for the major influence of Sámi culture and traditions in Bengt's work.
In 1944, he moved to Stockholm to study under the Swedish painter Isaac Grünewald. He also participated in drawing lessons given by Aksel Jörgensen at the Copenhagen Fine Arts School in Denmark.
In 1946, Bengt travelled to the United States to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and was inspired there by the work of De Kooning.
In 1947, he moved to Paris, where he studied under the French painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger.
Bengt was granted a scholarship by the Swedish magazine Aftontidningen, which helped him move into a workshop in Arcueil, France. In 1953, he returned to Paris, to a workshop in Rueil-Malmaison, where he continued the development of his unique style of painting. Soon after, he started collaborating with the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris and Tooth & Sons Gallery in London. He developed his most known figurative art with masks, gods and monsters in France at Savigny-sur-Orge.
As from 1968, he started dividing his time between his workshop in France and his atelier in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Lindström was influenced by and often based his work on the ethnic traditions of the Nordic world and Sámi culture. He was also influenced by the paintings of the COBRA group, active in the period Bengt studied in Copenhagen.
COBRA was represented in Copenhagen by Asger Jorn and includes the famous artist Karel Appel, artists who were about 10 years older than Lindström. Unlike the COBRA group, Lindström used his paint by the bucket, with heavy applications of mostly primary and secondary saturated colours, using his fingers as well as big brushes.
[...] I work with extremely pure and intense colours. When I juxtapose them, it often gives the impression of 'having no soul', isn't that so? something too decorative. Thus red against green, against blue may create harmonies which must not become too beautiful or too pleasant. No, something more must be added to the work, it must have a soul, yes, a soul you can feel, in order to be moved.
His work became internationally well respected because of its powerfulpresentation of human themes, depicted in vivid colours.
Lindström is probably best known for his large works, such as oil and acrylic works, mural paintings and colourful sculptures, but he used a great variety of media, including glass, dry point, tapestries, graffiti art, lithography and engraving. His most famous sculpture is probably the massive Y-sculpture at Midlanda Airport north of Sundsvall, Sweden.
On 29 January 2008, Lindström died at his home in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Today, The Grandma has been watching one of her favourite TV series, Schitt'sCreek, the Canadiantelevision sitcom.
Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy,that aired on CBC Television from 2015 to 2020. Itconsistsof 80 episodes spread over six seasons.
Produced by Not a Real Company Productions and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it follows the trials and tribulations of the formerly wealthy Rose family. After their business manager embezzles the family business, Rose Video, the family loses its fortune and relocates to Schitt's Creek, a town they once purchased as a joke. Now living in a motel, Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O'Hara) -along with their adult offspring, David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) -must adjust to life without wealth.
The series concept came from Dan Levy who wondered how wealthy families, as frequently depicted on American reality television, would react if they lost all their money. He developed the series with his father Eugene before pitching it to several Canadian and American networks. It was first sold to CBC Television in Canada and secured final funding to start production in its sale to Pop in the United States. Although limited in popularity for its first few seasons, its regional appearances on Netflix after its third season is credited for its rise in stature (the so named Netflix bump) and a dynamic social media presence.
Schitt's Creek received critical acclaim and garnered a cult following,particularly for its writing, humour and acting. It has won various prizes, including two ACTRA Awards and 18 Canadian Screen Awards.
It is the first Canadian comedy series to be nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series. It also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and a total of 19 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series twice.
It received 15 of these nominations for its sixth and final season, setting a record for most Emmy nominations for a comedy series's final season. For its portrayal of LGBTQ+ people, it received three nominations for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, winning twice.
At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the series' final season swept all seven major comedy awards. It was the first time a comedy or drama series received all seven awards; Dan Levy notably received Outstanding Comedy Series, Writing and Directing for a Comedy Series (sharing the last with Andrew Cividino). It set records for winning all four major acting categories (Lead Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress) for O'Hara, Murphy and both Levys -a first for a comedy or drama series; for most Emmy wins by a comedy series in a single season (beating The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's 2018 record), and for most Emmy nominations and wins by a comedy series in its final season.
The wealthy Rose family -video store magnate Johnny (Eugene Levy), his wife and former soap opera actress Moira (Catherine O'Hara), and their pampered adult children David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)- lose their fortune after being defrauded by their business manager. They move towards rebuilding their lives with their sole remaining asset: a remote town named Schitt's Creek somewhere in Canada, which Johnny bought for David's birthday in 1991 as a joke.
The Roses are forced to relocate to Schitt's Creek, moving into two adjacent rooms in a run-down motel. While the family adjusts to their new lives, their well-to-do attitudes conflict with the town's more provincial residents, including mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Elliott), his wife Jocelyn (Jenn Robertson), and their son Mutt (Tim Rozon), the motel's clerk Stevie Budd (Emily Hampshire), town council members Ronnie Lee (Karen Robinson) and Bob Currie (John Hemphill),veterinarian Ted Mullens (Dustin Milligan), and Jazzagal member and Café Tropical waitress Twyla Sands (Sarah Levy).
Dan Levy came up with the idea for the show while watching reality television. I had been watching some reality TV at the time and was concentrating on what would happen if one of these wealthy families would lose everything. Would the Kardashians still be the Kardashians without their money? He turned to his father Eugene to help develop the show, who came up with the series title. Dan decided to make the location of Schitt's Creek vague, but has said that it is in Canada.
Schitt's Creek is produced by Not a Real Company Productions in association with the CBC and Pop TV. Pop TV joined the production team in season two after the series' first season was produced solely in association with the CBC.
I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Today, The Grandma has been watching some films interpreted by Vittorio Gassman, the Italian actor who was born on a day like today in 1922.
Vittorio Gassman (1 September 1922-29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italianactor, director, and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements.
Gassman was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer from Karlsruhe), and an Italian Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron, born in Pisa. While still very young, he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre.
In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, while only one year later he appeared in five films.
In 1948 he played in Riso amaro.
It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakespeare and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri). He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen).
With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, followed by rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.
Gassman, Giovanna Ralli and Alberto Lattuada awarded at the 1957 Grolla d'oro.
In 1956 Gassman played the title role in a production of Othello. He was so well received by his acting in the television series entitled Il Mattatore (Spotlight Chaser) [it] that Il Mattatore became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Gassman's debut in the commedia all'italiana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958). Famous movies featuring Gassman include: Il sorpasso (1962), La Grande Guerra (1962), I mostri (1963), L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Profumo di donna (1974) and C'eravamo tanto amati (1974).
He directed Adelchi, a lesser-known work by Alessandro Manzoni. Gassman brought this production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a newer edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). His productions have included many of the famous authors and playwrights of the 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and the Greek tragicians. He also founded a theatre school in Florence (Bottega Teatrale di Firenze), which educated many of the more talented actors of the current generation of Italian thespians.
In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger. When Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre.
In the 1990s he took part in the popular Italian Rai 3 TV show Tunnel in which he very formally and seriously recited documents such as utility bills, yellow pages and similar trivial texts, such as washing instructions for a wool sweater or cookies ingredients. He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.
In 1994, Gassman voiced Mufasa in the Italian dubbed version of The Lion King. Gassman's voice was redubbed in several of his films by historical Italian actors and dubbers which include Emilio Cigoli, Sandro Ruffini, Gualtiero De Angelis, Stefano Sibaldi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Pino Locchi.
On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77. He was buried at Campo Verano.
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