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2020-2021 Season Concerts
CONCERT II: Dreams & Passion
Posted by edgeAdmin September 25, 2020
Escape into your dreams as the SPSO musically paints the surreal sounds of the music of French Impressionist Claude Debussy. Critically acclaimed Violinist Robyn Bollinger makes her SPSO debut featuring the sultry sounds of tango master Astor Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Discover your inner passion and get your tango on! We all need a little time to dream, escape, and indulge.
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DEBUSSY La Plus que lente+ (More than slow)
DEBUSSY / Schoenberg, arr. Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
**Intermission**
PIAZZOLLA / Desyatnikov, arr. Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)+
Ms. Bollinger, violin
I. Verano Porteña (Summer)
II. Otoño Porteño (Autumn)
III. Invierno Porteño (Winter)
III. Primavera Porteña (Spring)
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Robyn Bollinger Violin
Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra
ROBYN BOLLINGER
Hailed by the press as "daring, versatile, charismatic and passionate," Violinist Robyn Bollinger is recognized for her musical creativity, rich tones, and technical mastery. She came to national attention with her 2014 residency on PRI's Performance Today and several appearances on NPR's From the Top. A recent conservatory graduate, she is recipient of a prestigious 2016 Fellowship from the Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship Fund for her multimedia performance project CIACCONA: The Bass of Time, which she began touring nationally in 2018. This performance marks her debut with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra and the SPSO LIVEstream!. She has recently performed with Maestro Scott and the Helena Symphony Orchestra with works by Piazzolla and Lalo.
Entering his nineteenth season as Music Director of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Allan R. Scott has been noted as one of North America's most dynamic young figures in symphonic music and opera. He is widely recognized for his innovative approach to programming, dynamic vision, and ability to elicit top-notch performances from musicians.
Dividing his time between residences in Helena and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia native also marks his eighteenth season as Music Director of Montana's Helena Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. In addition, he also serves as the Principal Conductor of the Wilmington Ballet Company in Delaware.
KILE SMITH
Composer Kile Smith's The Arc in the Sky with The Crossing received a 2020 Grammy Award nomination for Best Choral Performance, and his Canticle with Cincinnati's Vocal Arts Ensemble helped win the 2020 Best Classical Producer Grammy for Blanton Alspaugh.
Mr. Smith has gained national and international acclaim with commissions from The Crossing, Conspirare, Piffaro, Helena Symphony, Lyric Fest, Westminster Choir College, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, the Pennsylvania and iSing Girlchoirs, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Gaudete Brass, Red Shift, and Cincinnati's Vocal Arts Ensemble, with major choral works heard in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Canada, England, and New Zealand.
Born: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, 22 August 1862
Died: Paris, France, 5 March 1918
About the Composer
Standing as we do at the close of the American century, the hundred year period during which the United States was for the first time a major power and contributor to the world economically, politically, and culturally, the question that composer Antonín Dvořák posed almost a century ago still remains for us: what is "American" music? Ralph Vaughan Williams, the grand old man of English music, declared that music, above all other arts, is "the expression of the soul of a nation." Today, Aaron Copland's name is synonymous with "American music" more than any other composer, even more than George Gershwin or Leonard Bernstein. With the musical world still quivering from the impact of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (1913), Copland sought to recapture an America before the world wars; before its loss of innocence. By comparison, Leonard Bernstein depicted a postwar America, one increasingly divided along racial, religious, and political lines. After studying with Rubin Goldmark (who studied with Dvořák) and Nadia Boulanger (a student of Gabriel Fauré), Copland learned, and eventually preached, the importance of finding one's own musical voice. Like most composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Copland composed initially with little or no regard for the listener – composed for the sake of composing. However, technological advances, such as the ability to permanently record live sound or broadcast it over airwaves, changed the composer's way of listening to and ultimately composing music. Copland is, perhaps, the first major composer who finally realized and appreciated the importance of the listener beyond the concert hall. "I have every reason to be particularly grateful to the creator of the phonograph," he said. "We composers owe a profound debt to Thomas Edison!" This son of Russian Jewish immigrants quickly began to lead many of his fellow artists in a commitment to capturing a wider audience and speaking to the concerns of the average citizen, the everyday American caught up in the world of the dramas of the Great Depression and the Second World War. Copland responded to America's calling for culture, pride, and patriotism. Though he represented the pinnacle of an intense mid-century Americanism, Copland was not an insular nationalist; on the contrary, he was acutely interested in world politics and in how the United States fit into the larger sphere. As the United States crept towards and through World War II, Copland was so distracted by what he read in the papers that he found it sometimes difficult to concentrate on composing. During the 1930's Copland was often associated with more liberal ideas, but he was always honest, saying "musicians make music out of feelings aroused out of public events." During the wars, a time of global uncertainty and fear, Copland produced several works that were specifically and obviously related to the war effort. His Lincoln Portrait, in which a narrator recites Lincoln's thoughts on democracy and duties of citizenship, premiered in 1942, and several months later Copland, accepting a commission "to boost American spirits," composed his world-renowned Fanfare for the Common Man. Copland continued to capture and honor the roots of America's heritage and the soul of the country's present and future with his ballets Rodeo and the Appalachian Spring, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Parallel Events / 1894
Massenet's opera Thais premiered
Union leader Eugene Debs led Railway Union on strike against Pullman Railways
U.S. Congress makes Labor Day a national holiday
Poet e. e. cummings, artist Norman Rockwell, and comedian Jack Benny were born
Coca-Cola first sold
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was originally composed for three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two harps, crotales, and divided strings.
Composer Arnold Schoenberg supervised the arrangement of the chamber version of the work that is scored for one flute, one oboe, one clarinet, piano, harmonium, crotales, and divided strings. It is the latter version that is performed on this program.
There are very few defining moments in musical history that drastically altered the future of music. Certainly, Beethoven's Third and Ninth Symphonies, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and Debussy's Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun, which premiered 22 December 1894.
In a single ten-minute work, the grandiose late-Romantic era shaped by Richard Wagner collapsed, and the sounds of twentieth century were ushered in and, as modern composer and conductor Pierre Boulez often claims, "the art of music began to beat with a new pulse." The thirty-two-year-old pianist, Claude Debussy indeed did create a completely new sound of music with this tone poem that was inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name written almost two decades earlier.
Subject wise, Debussy explains that the music was meant to convey the "desires and dreams of the faun in the afternoon heat. Then, tired of pursuing the nymphs and naiads in their timorous flight, he abandons himself to intoxicating sleep, full of visions finally realized." The subject matter of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun however, is not the main interest of the composer; rather, it is the images left over from the faun's dreams that Debussy attempts to capture, or as Debussy states, "it is the general impression of the poem."
Musically, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun has a very transparent and almost watery quality, with no heavy brass and virtually no percussion. The solo flute gives a vague direction to the work, while the remainder of the orchestra produces swells of colorful non-rhythmic sonorities, moving along without a clear sense of pulse. The effect of this sensuous, fluid, subtly constructed music and supremely refined style of composition became known as impressionism in music, and thereby linking Debussy with painters such as Monet, Renoir, and Seurat.
For Debussy, music was rooted in memory. In a letter to a pupil, Debussy wrote: "Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralize variations of color and light within a single picture." This very statement became Debussy's credo, mirroring statements from the impressionist and post-impressionist painters.
Earlier in his largely self-taught compositional career Debussy won the coveted Prix de Rome for composition in 1884; composed in Italy (even playing for Liszt); discovered and rejected the growing Wagnerian cult; then returned to Paris more focused and musically mature. It was then that he composed his well-known string quartet and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. While Debussy's music contains the color and ambiguity of Wagner's harmonies, he avoids its emotional tensions.
Through his own discoveries, musically and otherwise, Debussy learned to prefer suggestion to direct statement. He trusted no "lifeless rules invented by pendants," as Debussy said; rather, it was his instinct that he followed, and in the process he brought to music a unique world of sensibility.
Despite that Debussy was often only admired exclusively for his harmonies, it was his images that were guided by clear melodic passages that contributed to his popularity. Also criticized as being "boneless tonal vibrato," Debussy's music was capable of powerful, but controlled eruptions when needed.
In a note to his publisher, Debussy sums up this quiet musical revolution: "I feel more and more that music, by its very essence, is not something that can flow inside a rigorous, traditional form. It consists of colors and of rhythmized time. There is not theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is law."
China ends slavery
George V becomes King of England
Hally's Comet first visible
City of Tel Aviv is founded
Glacier National Park is established
Matisse's paints La Dance
Picasso's cubist period
Stravinsky composes The Firebird
Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand premieres with 1,026 performers
New York City's Pennsylvania Station opens
King of England Edward VII, nurse Florence Nightingale, novelists Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy die
American composer Samuel Barber and sea explorer Jacques Cousteau are born
Boy Scouts of America is established
La Plus que lente
La Plus que lente is orchestrated for flute, clarinet, cimbalom (played here by harp), piano, and divided strings.
Color is perhaps most associated with Debussy's music. In 1910 he composed a little waltz for piano titled La Plus que lente ("the more than slow" or "slower than slow"). Despite its title of "lente," La Plus que lente was not meant to be played slowly. Debussy uses the word "lente" to the well-known genre in music of valse lente – a slow waltz popular in French society.
Debussy's publisher commissioned a French composer (Henri Mouton) to orchestrate the piano score. While Debussy supported the idea of La Plus que lente arranged for orchestra, he was not happy with the results from Mouton. Naturally, Debussy reworked the orchestration to create a more magical and seductive sound by removing all of the brass instruments and adding a new opening to include the use of a cimbalom (which can be played on the harp).
This miniature is quintessential Debussy with its perfumed atmosphere and exaggerated sense of reality – another dream state. The result sounds like a lazy waltz that could certainly never be danced to in reality, but only in an imaginary world.
Born: Mar del Plata, Argentina, 11 March 1921
Died: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4 July 1992
While Astor Piazzolla was born to Italian immigrants in Argentina, he was raised in New York City where he studied composition and bandoneon (a concertina accordion used in tango) with bandleader and tango musician Carlos Gardel and Bela Wilda, a student of Rachmaninoff. When he was 16 years old, Piazzolla returned to South America where he quickly embraced his Argentinian homeland and began working as a musician playing the bandoneon. He quickly formed his own tango orchestra, Orchestra del 46, and also composed his first tango – the genre that he effectively reinvented and advanced in the 20th century more than any other musician. In his 30s Piazzolla was writing for symphonic forces and traveled to Paris to study with legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. He explained:
Up to then I had composed symphonies, chamber music, string quartets; but Nadia Boulanger analyzed my music. She said she could find nowhere any Piazzolla. She could find Ravel and Stravinsky, also Béla Bartók and Hindemith – but never Piazzolla. Nadia made me play a tango for her, and she said 'You idiot! That is the real Piazzolla!' So, I threw away all the other music and, in 1954, started working on my New Tango.
Also, while in Paris, Piazzolla heard American jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and his octet perform. By 1956 Piazzolla presented his Nuevo Tango – a hybrid tango that incorporates elements of jazz, classical, and popular music – in concert with his own quintet made up of piano, bandoneon, violin, electric guitar, and bass, with whom he successfully toured much of Brazil, Argentina, and the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s. "Traditional tango listeners hated me," Piazzolla recalled. "People thought I was crazy, but the young people who had lost interest in the tango started listening to me."
U.S. adopts 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18
Apollo 13's failed attempt to the moon
Ohio's Kent State University riots spark national protests
Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000 and earthquake in China kills 15,000
Sondheim's musical Company debuts on Broadway
The Beatles release Hey Jude album and "Let It Be" single
Diana Ross & The Supremes perform last concert
Soap opera All My Children, NFL Monday Night Football, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Partridge Family all debut on TV
Films Catch-22, MASH, and Disney's Aristocats premiere
French leader Charles De Gaulle, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and singer Janis Joplin die
First Earth Day
Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires is orchestrated for solo violin and string orchestra.
Piazzolla wrote the first of his Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas ("porteñas" refers to Buenos Aires) in 1965 with the Buenos Aires Summer movement (Verano Porteño). Piazzolla composed it in one night for a recording session that his ensemble was to record for an upcoming production of the play Melenita de oro (Golden Hair) by his friend Alberto Rodríguez Muñoz. Otoño Porteño (Buenos Aires Autumn) followed four years later, and then both Primavera Porteño (Buenos Aires Spring) and Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter) were written in 1970. Originally it was not Piazzolla's intention to write a suite that paralleled Vivaldi's Four Seasons, as they were meant to demonstrate his Neuvo Tango and his Quintet, not an orchestra. Occasionally the Quintet perform the four works together, but it was not until they were arranged for different ensembles that they began appearing under the title of Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires).
In the late 1990s, Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer collaborated with Russian composer Leopnid Desyatnikov to rethink and rearrange Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires as a work that directly relates them to Vivaldi's masterpiece – meaning for solo violin and string orchestra. The use of bandoneon and electric guitar are removed, and the movements of Piazzolla's southern hemisphere seasons are directly associated with the seasons occurring simultaneously in Vivaldi's Italy. In January it is summer in Argentina, while it is winter in Italy. So, the pieces are linked in that relative way: summer with winter, and fall with spring. The arrangement even quotes Vivaldi's virtuosic solo violin passages to make direct connections, hearing Vivaldi's summer in Piazzolla's winter for example.
Piazzolla's electrifying blend of fire and passion with the traditional tango coupled with modern harmonies and edgy textures produced over 750 works – from intimate to theatrical, from violent to sensual, and from witty to melancholy. By the time he returned to Buenos Aires in 1985, Piazzolla was hailed as the musician who revitalized one of the quintessential genres of Latin music, and a true revolutionary figure for tango. While he died of a stroke in 1992, the popularity and excitement of his music is still growing.
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On August 21, 2017 LOVE will be the subject of the next online Writing Slipper Camp. I hope you will be 1 of 10 writers who will receive 3 illustrated prompts about LOVE every OTHER morning for 20 days, along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions. You will be writing 1,000 words (2 pages) on 1 of the 3 daily prompts and sending it to me by midnight every OTHER day.
Starts August 21st/ends September 10. Over 350 writers/non-writers have taken this structured online writing class since 2011.
Please email me for further details (lspravina21@gmail.com). $200 for 20 days.
As of 7/28/2017 – No spaces are available!
I started my morning reading this beautiful post from friend Pam L. Houston. As I create the Slipper Camp 2016 – about LOVE – I was struck by Pam's words: May we all engage with the things that allow us to face the world with love instead of fear, as this ship we are all on together swings its big bow today, back toward the sun. Thank you, Pam Houston for this. I needed it today.
The longest night of the year has passed. And these last weeks have seemed particularly dark, filled with, to borrow a phrase from a friend, empty militancy and compassionless ideology. It's been harder than ever to have faith in America. Harder than ever to have faith in a lot of things. My solstice prayer this year is that the return of the light will indeed be the return of the light. A long time ago I met Carlos Casteneda in an airport–I was not particularly a fan–but he told me many things I have never forgotten, including how important it is to face the changes in my life with love instead of fear. I don't always succeed at this of course, but I do try. Dogs help, and music, and great literature, and maybe most of all the natural world. May we all engage with the things that allow us to face the world with love instead of fear, as this ship we are all on together swings its big bow today, back toward the sun.


Mexico has long been one of my favourite destinations and I have spent some time studying Spanish in Cuernavaca and Guadalajara. Mexcio happens to be the number 1 foreign retirement destination for Canadians and Americans,… Read more.
After a restful night I started my first full day – March 1, 2014 – in San Miguel de Allende with a nice breakfast that my hostess Bertha had prepared. We sat down together and… Read more.
Prior to my trip I had contacted the local tourism office of San Miguel de Allende, and they had been extremely helpful in developing a great itinerary for this 11 day trip. Located right on… Read more.
The sun was beaming down on March 1, 2014 when I took the bus into downtown San Miguel de Allende. I jumped off at the Organic Market that is held every Saturday morning. This market… Read more.
I had thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the Organic Market of San Miguel de Allende. Around 1 pm I was picked up and driven to "La Hacienda Purisima de Jalpa", an organic farm and country… Read more.
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March 3, 2014, another gorgeous day, started with a visit to the Mask Museum of San Miguel de Allende. Former advertising executive Bill LeVasseur, who originally hails from Maine, has long been passionate about Mexico,… Read more.
On the way back to San Miguel from my visit to La Gruta and Atotonilco, local expert Pablo and I stopped at La Fabrica Aurora, an old textile mill that has been turned into a… Read more.
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This time of year in particular, we are all reminded to be thankful. The season of giving and gratitude is again upon us, reminding us of the good things in life. At various times in our lives, given the unforeseen obstacles that pop up, keeping perspective can be difficult.


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A pygmy angelfish, fantail darter and kole tang were added to the Moving exhibit!
Fantail darters are native to much of eastern North America and can be found in streams near large slabs of limestone or shale. They are resilient fish that easily adapt to fluctuations in their environment, such as changing oxygen levels and temperatures.
Pygmy angelfish are found in the western Atlantic Ocean. They spend most of their time hiding from predators in reef environments. As omnivores, these fish often eat brine shrimp and algae.
Kole tangs, native to the central Pacific Ocean, live in depths of about 40 feet but can be found in lagoons of varying depths in water highly saturated with oxygen. Though considered to be herbivores, they have been known to feed on more than just algae. They constantly graze along rocks and sand looking for food.


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Plays, Poems & New Writing Research article
Romeo and Juliet: A tale of heaven to hell
Verticality is written into Romeo and Juliet, just as it was built into the playhouses at which the play was first performed
by Professor Farah Karim-Cooper
When Juliet realises in Act III of Romeo and Juliet that her lover is banished and that she must marry Paris, she asks: 'Is there no pity sitting in the clouds / That sees into the bottom of my grief?'.
This simple line, expressing the extent of her anguish, also embodies the play's preoccupation with verticality. In an instant we are dropped from the clouds into the depths of Juliet's grief. Prior to this moment, in the morning after they have consummated their clandestine marriage, Romeo takes his leave of Juliet and the upper stage gallery with the words 'one kiss and I'll descend', just before he goes down to the lower stage, presumably by means of the rope ladder that the nurse acquired for them.A few lines later Juliet prophetically declares, 'Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb'. She then calls upon Fortune, the classical goddess whose wheel determined the good or bad luck of mankind. Juliet can feel her luck shifting at this moment, and as her mother enters, the stage action requires Juliet to descend to the lower stage, suggesting physically her metaphorical movement from the top to the bottom of Fortune's wheel.
The Swan Theatre in a drawing after Johannes de Witt via Wikimedia Commons.
Romeo and Juliet may have been performed at either the Theatre or the Curtain some time between 1594 and 1597. Both these early amphitheatres had a similar stage structure to that of the first Globe: like the Globe, the stage and tiring house façade was a triple-layered playing space with an upper stage gallery, a main stage level and a trap door leading to a hidden performance space beneath the stage. These architectural conditions, pictured in a famous drawing of the Swan playhouse and characteristic of most Elizabethan and Jacobean amphitheatres, imposed a verticality that shaped the plays written for them in very distinctive ways.The audience was also arranged vertically around the stage.As the Shakespeare scholar Derek Peat writes:'rather than an audience shelving away from the stage in the way adapted by almost all theatres before and since, the Elizabethan amphitheatre positioned its audience so that it rose like a sheer cliff wall'. Given these playing conditions, it is hardly surprising that many of Shakespeare's plays exploit a variety of metaphors and poetic devices that reflect both the spatial dynamic of the playhouse and the vertical psychology that characterized the Renaissance and its architecture.
The Globe Theatre stage, depicting the heavens, the earth and hell. Photographer: Pete Le May.
Within this architectural scheme, one might look further into the cosmological metaphor that a playhouse like the Globe invoked. At the new Globe we refer to the stage roof as the 'heavens', the main stage as the 'earth' and the trap door on the stage (serving as a grave, tomb or hell mouth) as leading into 'hell' or a fictional underworld. This vocabulary is hinted at throughout Shakespeare's work.When Hamlet refers to the 'heavens' as 'fretted with golden fire' ('fretted' was a word that denoted the ornamentation on the roof or ceiling of a chamber), he may have gestured toward the stage roof which is likely to have been painted to resemble the night sky. The metaphor of the cosmos helped playwrights suggest the vast settings the texts ambitiously portrayed. Ideas about the universe and the role of humankind within it may have been in a state of constant flux throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, but in very general terms the sense of a universal hierarchy with God at the top, beasts at the bottom and man in between remained fixed.
The metaphor of the cosmos helped playwrights suggest the vast settings the texts ambitiously portrayed
Sixteenth-century English culture was, to use an anthropological term, a vertical culture: it accepted hierarchies and saw fundamental differences between one person, social class or universal plane and the next. The 17th-century philosopher Thomas Browne describes the place of humanity within this vertical hierarchy: 'we are onely that amphibious piece between corporeal and spiritual essence, that middle form that links the two together, that makes good the Method of God and Nature, that jumps not from extreams, but unites the incompatible distances by some middle and participating natures'. Shakespeare's plays, upon close examination, are preoccupied with the celestial, terrestrial and subterranean domains of the cosmos. His characterization, language and imagery provide a range of examples of the ways in which these vertical structures, architectural and cosmological, figured in his dramaturgy.
There is a great deal of movement between the three levels of the Globe Theatre stage. Photographer: John Haynes.
In Romeo and Juliet, verticality is more than a spatial quality; it is a theme.Throughout the play there are many words that signal verticality, including: 'down','underneath','earth','fall', 'above','sink', 'raise','under','arise', 'high','up', 'stand','ground', 'ascend','bottom', 'heaven', 'descend','look up','prostrate', 'leap' and 'rise'. These vertical signifiers are as pervasive as the indications in stage directions and dialogue for characters to ascend, descend, fall to their knees, fall on a bed, rise up, fall down again, climb up and down, go down into graves and so on. The language of the play provides many examples of the kinds of movements the actors are asked to perform. There is a great deal of movement, for example, between the three levels of the stage; scenes are performed on the upper stage gallery, sometimes with more than one character; at other times, with one character above and one below.
The word 'balcony' was not in use in English until 1618 and the famous 'balcony scene' is incorrectly named
The word 'balcony' was not in use in English until 1618 and the famous 'balcony scene' is incorrectly named given that the only stage direction we have is for Juliet to appear at her window, but because Romeo refers to it as 'yonder' window and refers to Juliet as the 'sun', it suggests he is looking up; thus we know it takes place on the upper stage.
The 'balcony' scene in Romeo and Juliet (2009). Photographer: John Haynes.
Shakespeare's representation of love and desire brings to light the way in which verticality is exploited as a theme in this play. Petrarch, the 15th-century Italian poet, had invented a type of love sonnet (adapted by English poets in the 16th century) that was a vehicle of fictional courtship and mistress worship. The sonnet mistress herself was a perfect beauty, silent, high-born, chaste and unattainable. Romeo is a Petrarchan lover, who conventionally places a vertical distance between himself and his beloved mistress. When we first meet him he is the archetypal melancholic lover. Although the poetry he uses to express his love first for Rosaline and then for Juliet charts his increasing maturity and development, he nevertheless maintains the posture of the lover situated below the mistress, as is spatially conveyed in the balcony scene when he is placed beneath Juliet. The figurative language he uses to express his love for her focuses our eyes upwards towards the heavens: stars, heavenly bodies, the night sky and birds.
Juliet, by contrast, focuses our gaze downwards towards the earth and the underworld; in the first instance, this happens when she enquires after his name and somehow senses 'My grave is like to be my wedding-bed'. In the balcony scene, Romeo ruminates on the celestial quality of Juliet's beauty; Juliet, on the other hand, thinks about his name, his hand, his foot and promises to lay her fortunes at his feet. Although a great deal of Juliet's expressive language also uses celestial imagery, there hovers over her speeches a poignant recognition of her inevitable descent into the grave. The lovers express their profoundest feelings in a language of verticality, while the stage directions, the playhouse architecture and the 'cliff wall' of audience rising above the actors concentrate our attention on the visual or spatial verticality of the drama, which portrays love as a progress from heaven to hell.
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Manuel Gil del Real September 30, 2015 Lifestyle No comments
With so many high-tech attractions and modern destinations any tourist can go to today, why do many travelers still choose to pay a visit to and spend time in the old-fashioned gardens of the world?
Once you have stepped foot inside the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden and experienced its natural beauty and refreshing atmosphere, you would easily know why.
The Botanical Garden inside the University of California campus was established in 1890 and boasts of 34 acres of plants sourced locally and from all over the world. The garden offers a variety of tours to suit different types of visitors and their levels of interests.
The tours for children are usually organized by theme and age or grade level. Since these tours' primary audiences are young students, they're designed to be fun and educational and are aligned with the California State Education Standards.
For instance, the "Awaken Your Senses" tour lets small ones know more about plants from around the world by letting them not just look at, but also touch, listen, smell and have a taste of the garden's treasures. Meanwhile, the tour "Evolution: Plants through Time" will have the kids feel as if they were travelling through time by learning about plants and animals from billions of years ago.
Adults can go on the "Plants of the "World" tour, which takes participants to a trip around the world via the rich plant life from the six continents. The tour "Beautiful Mediterranean Gardening" is designed like a workshop, where you can learn gardening tips from the experts that you can apply at home.
One of the much-awaited events in the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden is the blooming of "Trudy the Titan" – the corpse flower, nicknamed for its unforgettably pungent odor and its gigantic size. When the flower starts to show signs of going into full bloom, the Garden makes day-to-day announcements on its progress and updates eager fans and the general public about the perfect times to visit.
Trudy's smell was once described as being "like mega dirty socks wrapped around a rotting steak," which endeared him (the gardeners says it's a male) more even to people who are not so much into flowers. The much-awaited event happens very quickly; after a few days, Trudy will start to wilt and die, so enthusiasts make elaborate plans, from schedules to parking and even to accommodation, just to witness the one-of-a-kind phenomenon.
But Trudy and the Botanical Garden are just two of Berkley's many beauties. The city's counter-culture, bohemian spirit still lives and continues to enrich the community's culinary and cultural travel scene. To truly experience the best of Berkeley, make sure to book DoubleTree Berkeley accommodations and experience the city in full bloom.
For more information and attractions in an around Berkeley be sure to visit our Berkeley Area Attractions page.
*Image courtesy of Botanical Garden at Berkeley
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Is the perfect storm upon us?
The US faces many challenges. But the one which everyone ignores is plunging fertility.
by Louis T. March Feb 21, 2021 Feb 21, 2021 / 3 mins /
Winslow Homer, 'The Gulf Stream' (1899)
Can we get past 2020? In the past year:
The Dow Jones hit a record high, plunged 37%, then reversed course to new record highs. US debt increased by 61% to almost $28 trillion.
The Covid pandemic struck. Mandatory closings collapsed small business, schools were closed and virtual classes didn't work nearly as well. Expensive offices and time-consuming commutes became unnecessary. Many left the big cities.
Riots raged. Urban crime, especially homicide, spiked as never before. An anti-police crusade led to a shortage of officers just when they were needed most. Firearms and ammunition sales broke all records.
"Cancel culture" was institutionalized. Monuments were toppled, removed, or defaced. Schools, buildings, roads, and parks were renamed as academic and political elites publicly repudiated our Republic's founders, and rebranded as evil America's heritage.
A significant segment of the population did not accept the 2020 presidential election as legitimate.
The President of the United States was impeached twice within thirteen months.
The British medical journal Lancet published a study forecasting "jaw-dropping" declines in fertility rates worldwide.
About that perfect storm? We're smack in the middle of it. Grim tidings, perhaps — but the first step to recovery is acceptance, so we must face reality. We can't move forward without an informed awareness of the current situation. We are in a bit of a sticky wicket, a vastly different world than twelve months ago, but that is not going to ruin my day. As a friend once said, "I've heard there is a recession going on, but I decline to participate." We must face the future with just such a positive mindset.
So from new 2020 realities, what lies ahead in American politics?
There is no escape from it in print, broadcast and online media. On Valentine's Day the venerable UK Guardian greeted readers with the following news story:
'White supremacy won today': critics condemn Trump acquittal as racist vote — Analysts say 'whiteness protects its own' after only seven Republicans vote to convict Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot.
Most folks don't think White supremacy had anything to do with the impeachment. But a media-driven Greek chorus of toxic identity politics will ensure that race and rancor pollute political discourse going forward. The polarizing "oppressor-victim" narrative is here to stay. It is the idée fixe of the Democratic Party, a powerful but uneasy coalition of moneyed corporatists, "woke" Whites, and ethnic minorities known in PC-speak as "marginalized communities." Working-class Whites are not part of the equation. Democratic presidential contender Gov. Howard Dean's 2003 comment "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks…" is ancient history.
People vote their pocketbooks
With the personal finances of millions plunged into chaos, populism will claim sizeable political shelf space. The GOP has an identity crisis. Blue-collar Whites are moving into their column as the party hemorrhages the most affluent suburbanites. In 2020 Republicans gained significantly among Black, Hispanic and Asian voters — so populism is definitely not about race. This trend will continue into 2024, seized upon by ambitious politicos climbing the ladder to notoriety. We're seeing the rise of a multi-ethnic blue-collar/middle-class bloc. The Deplorables persist.
Social cohesion erodes
While corporate media censor news and even try to destroy competing social media (think of Parler), the law of supply and demand will not be defied. Alternative outlets are rapidly growing. The mask of faux "civility" has been ripped from political discourse. "Fake news," "political correctness," "the deep state" and the downside of globalism are openly discussed. Cancel culture tries to stifle it, but the genie is out of the bottle.
Plunging fertility
As for the litany of lament at the outset of this piece, one item stands apart. That is plunging fertility, an existential issue. Failing to replace ourselves could eventually lead to extinction. The world total fertility rate has declined 50 percent in the last 50 years. Fertility in the West and in East Asia has been below replacement level (2.1) for decades. The year 1972 was the last time the US surpassed it, at 2.132. The American population has continued to increase, but only because of immigration, higher fertility rates among immigrants and increased life expectancy. And even that is changing. A just-released study by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that the declining fertility rate of US immigrants fell below replacement for the first time in 2019 at 2.02. Is such a decline the price of assimilation? According to the study's lead author:
"Immigration is no fix for an aging society… [the study] completely shatters the idea that you can use immigration to increase your fertility and make your society much younger."
Much is written about the looming consequences of declining fertility. Yet it is the cultural dimension that begs further study. It seems that over time, society has become family-unfriendly. Globalism's quest for maximum efficiency and return on profit has degraded the human element. Traditional modes of interaction have been supplanted by faceless digital chat. PC culture's moral relativism has confounded formerly set notions of right and wrong. Public confidence is in a tailspin. Elected officials should cease being the problem and search for solutions. Otherwise, we have to ask, what is to become of the vibrant, variegated humanity that we've so long taken for granted?
Demography is destiny, wrote the 19th century sociologist August Comte. Can society reverse the decline in fertility? Stay tuned.
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"I believe that we are stronger and safer as part of the EU and that leaving would be a huge risk. Europe isn't perfect, and I believe there is a real need for reform, but pulling out of the EU would risk millions of jobs, leave us vulnerable to crime and terrorism, and weaken our voice in global affairs.
"The Liberal Democrats' top priority is to build a stronger economy in a fairer society. The Prime Minister's announcement of an ill-defined, protracted renegotiation of Britain's status within the European Union makes that harder to achieve, creating uncertainty for British businesses and international investors deciding whether or not to invest in the UK.
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The accolades are building. Dubbed by Thrillist earlier this year as "One of the Coolest Cities in America that Doesn't Even Know It Yet" and "The best surprise in the Midwest," by ESPN writer Myron Medcalf, Wichita, Kansas, is making its presence known.
Aside from its central location and ease of accessibility, Kansas' largest city has more than 33 museums, 22 attractions, 22 live theaters, eight shopping districts and more than 1,000 restaurants, as well as an eclectic mix of meeting spaces.
"To name a few, meeting planners can host an event among wild animals at Sedgwick County Zoo or Tanganyika Wildlife Park; in a Western setting at Old Cowtown Museum, which features a large Great Room with a magnificent fireplace, outdoor patio and amphitheater; or under the stunning Confetti Chandelier by world-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly in the Great Hall at the Wichita Art Museum," Rosson said.
Earlier this year, Mark Arts, the community's oldest cultural institution, opened a 40,000-square-foot facility, including studios for teambuilding activities, a premier gallery space, an outdoor sculpture garden and event space. Also, Design Build Fly debuted a 5,100-square-foot permanent aviation exhibit gallery at Exploration Place. Groups can learn what it takes to create an aircraft and enter a 10-foot-long 737 fuselage theater to experience stories about the area's storied industry.
Wichita is also adding inventory to its more than 8,000 hotel rooms.
A four-story Hampton Inn Wichita Northwest opened in January 2018 with 85 guest rooms and a 550-square-foot meeting room, and three other new hotels are in the works for 2018: a 98-room Tru Hotel by Hilton; 107-room Home2 Suites by Hilton; and 120-room Hilton Garden Inn.
Housed in the former Calvary Baptist Church—built in 1917 and once the cornerstone of Wichita's black community—the museum debuted in 1997. Today it tells the tale of the Civil Rights era and local African-American community through artwork, photography and sculptures, among other disciplines. There are two meeting rooms and a total capacity of 250.
Nicknamed "Air Capital of the World" for its aircraft production facilities, Wichita can host groups at the Kansas Aviation Museum. Located in the original Wichita Municipal Airport Terminal Building, it offers flexible venues surrounded by historical aircraft and features a conference room as well as an atrium for 240, lawn for 300 or buyout options.
The culture of the Native American Plains Indians is on display at the All-Indian Center, which sits beside the iconic Keeper of the Plains sculpture. The Gallery of Nations level offers a view of the monument and downtown, while the facility itself overlooks the Arkansas River. Indoor and outdoor spaces are available for up to 350, including Keeper of the Plains Plaza and the Outdoor Learning Center.
Spanning three floors and some 4,000 artifacts ranging from Egyptian mummies to dinosaur bones, this museum offers a banquet room that can host events or a dinner for up to 170, and two meeting rooms. The entire facility is available for group buyouts of up to 800.
The Wild West comes to life at one of the country's oldest living-history museums, showcasing Wichita's transformation from a bustling cattle town on the Chisholm Trail into the booming manufacturing city of today. Three meeting rooms can host up to 225 while rental spaces include a Victorian hall, 1870s-style saloon, outdoor gazebo and fairgrounds, or the entire site.
Wichita is located three hours southwest of Kansas City, two and a half hours north of Oklahoma City and six hours north of Dallas, and is easily accessible by major highways.
Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport is the largest airport in the state and has nonstop service from more than 12 U.S. cities on six major airlines.


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Review: The End of the F****** World Season Two
By Hattie Gomme • Nottingham Contributor • Entertainment November 26, 2020 at 4:00am
After the cliff hanger ending in season one following Alyssa and James' epic adventure in running away from the law, I was intrigued and excited to see how the next season would follow.
The end of the f***ing world is based on the comic books series by Charles Forsman and as mentioned, follows the life of James, a boy who is convinced he is a psychopath and Alyssa, a girl misunderstood by her family, with a strong-willed attitude and a personality that can often come across as rude and stubborn.
In season one we see James and Alyssa getting themselves in a sticky situation when they run away from home and stay the night in a house that they break into. The house is owned by the pretty twisted Professor Clive Koch who, after finding explicit photographs of him assaulting and raping women leaves the pair worried for the rest of the evening. Upon his return and discovery of the two youngsters, Professor Koch proceeds to attack Alyssa resulting in James killing him.
Whilst this is an essential plotline in the first season, I did not expect it to form the basis of the second season. In the first episode, we are introduced to Bonnie, who, as it later emerges was one of Clive's lovers but was unaware of his awful actions against other women. We then learn of her dark and twisted mind and her psychological issues developed from her childhood such as the fact that she is a pathological liar. The plot centres around her seeking revenge from the two individuals responsible for her lover's death.
As a fan of the first season, I had high expectations for the second season. It was nice to see some changes and developments in the storyline such as the improvement in the relationship between James and his Father as well as the appearance of Josh Dylan (Mamma Mia 2 fans will know what I mean). However, overall, the second season was just a bit samey. James and Alyssa reunite, run away on an adventure together…again. We are again, left questioning the 'love' that they have for each other – is this platonic or more? And although the season delves deeper into the past of Professor Koch and his relationship with Bonnie, it just doesn't seem like a lot actually 'happened', particularly when compared to the previous season.
All this being said, however, the new season was still as binge-worthy as the last. The twenty-minute episodes really are a trap – before you know it, you've been watching the same show for hours! The show has retained its dark humour and grit, and the way the characters thoughts and feelings are portrayed remains clever and enticing, as if we all know James, Alyssa and this time Bonnie, on a personal level. However, the show simply lacked something different and new and as much as I hope there will be a third season, I also hope there will be some new plot twists.
You can watch both seasons of the end of the f***ing world on Netflix and 4OD.
Rating: 3.5/5.
Hattie Gomme (Nottingham '21)
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4 Signs That Your Ex Is Completely Over You (And How to Handle That)
Signs That Your Ex Has Moved On and Is Over You
Some people believe there are two stages to every persons breakup: when you first break up, and then when your ex gets over you. And while the second portion of the breakup doesnt receive as much notoriety as the first, it can feel just as devastating (if not more so).
As a result, people who are freshly broken up with often expend an immense amount of emotional energy trying to figure out if their ex still has feelings for them. While it can be difficult if not impossible to know for sure if your ex is over you or not, its worth asking whether there are, in fact, key things to look out for.
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In order to better understand the signs that your ex has moved on, we spoke with three dating experts, and two people who went through difficult, extended break-ups. Heres what they had to say.
What It Means to Be Over Someone
In order to truly understand when someone moves on, how and what it looks like, first we need to understand what it means to truly be over an ex.
According to dating expert Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D., its less a sign that youll never feel another single feeling for this person, and more that theyre simply not holding you back from seeking out other people.
Being over someone means that you are no longer emotionally invested in them to the extent that it is causing you to put other relationships (or the pursuit of finding new relationships) on hold, says Cohen. You may always be emotionally connected to an ex, especially if you were in a loving, securely attached relationship with them.
For Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of Dr. Romance's Guide to Finding Love Today, its also about no longer being in a dark, post-breakup place associated with your ex.
Being over someone means that you're no longer in emotional turmoil or pain about the relationship, you've done your grieving and you're open to new things in your life, she says.
It doesnt mean you dont have any regrets or that you dont care about the other person at all. Instead, it means that the old relationship and the breakup arent taking up a lot of emotional space for you anymore, and instead, youre moving forward and focusing on other parts of life.
As Jennifer, one of the people I spoke to about a difficult breakup, told me, an ex you're still in close contact starting to move oncan be bittersweet but it can also help you move on.
I feel like we reached a stage where he sort of wanted more (not really from me, just in life) and I wasnt quite ready to want more. I had really just settled into our comfortable routine. It didnt feel dramatic, it didnt feel fraught, it just sort of was an easing out of a comfort zone. It was sort of sad to say goodbye to that stage, but I wasnt angry or scared and I think not feeling those two emotions makes it easier for me to be a bit more relaxed about it.
Signs Your Ex Is Over You
Thats all very well and good when its happening to you, but what about when its happening to your ex?
Right after a breakup, it can be heartbreaking to watch someone you used to have a deep, meaningful connection to move on (or seem like theyre moving on) from afar, without any real access to what theyre actually thinking and feeling. Most likely, even if you were to ask them if they still had feelings for you, they wouldnt necessarily be honest or forthcoming.
All you have to go off of are signs and signals. Thats things you see your ex post on social media, things you hear about them doing from a mutual acquaintance or clues you can pick up from things that have changed.
However, as Cohen points out, signals arent that clear-cut.
When we send messages to another person, we have to consider the senders intention, the receivers perception and contextual information, she says. Therefore, a person may be attempting to signal that theyre over the partner by publicly displaying that theyve moved on with others. This may all be a carefully curated facade, and may not actually mean that the person has healed and is moving on from the relationship.
Basically, anything you see or hear of your ex doing after a breakup could be misinterpreted.
Theyre going on dates? It could be in an attempt to numb the pain of missing you, or it could be that theyre enjoying meeting new people. Theyre staying in a lot? They could be crying themselves to sleep, or catching up on some of their favorite books and movies. They blocked you online? Maybe they hate your guts, or they miss you so much that seeing your profile picture would feel devastating.
It could also just be all of the above. That being said, there are a few signs that are relatively good indicators of an ex having truly gotten over you:
1. Communication Dwindles
Relationships are built on interactions, and if youre not in touch in one way or another in person, on the phone, or elsewhere theres not really a relationship. Accordingly, when you break up with someone, your conversations typically become shorter and more infrequent.
However, sometimes people keep in touch an ex long after a breakup, and that can be a sign that one or both partners isnt fully over the relationship yet.
After breaking up, its normal for one or both partners to cling to the scraps of connection by continuing to text or talk, says Connell Barrett, dating coach for The League. If your ex has halted small-talk messages (Hey, you Hows your day?) and no longer shares life updates with you, its a sign that youre in their rear-view.
2. Interactions Become Less Fun
Theres another way for two peoples conversations to dwindle: by losing intensity, as well as frequency. You might be talking about the same amount, but if these start to feel less and less fun, that could be a sign that your exs heart is no longer in it.
Another sign its over for them is that the flirtation is gone from your texting and messaging, says Barrett. Any interactions are logical and informational, without the humor, teasing or playful banter that happens when two people are romantically attached to each other.
Thats something that Marcus, another person I spoke with who went through a difficult breakup, noticed.
Three months post-breakup, I realized that although we hung out regularly, she only contacted me when she wanted to hook up, or needed some kind of practical help with something (transportation of a new bed, for example). I was still contacting her for other kinds of activities (art galleries, dinners, etc.). For a while, it still felt like a diverse relationship, in a way, until I noticed that imbalance.
Though sex was still part of the picture, the relationship between them was no longer romantic for his ex a clear sign that things were over in an emotional sense.
3. Interactions Become Less Awkward
Another sign that your ex has moved on is that your interactions might get better.
While this is more likely to happen after a lengthy period of silence immediately following the breakup, a positive uptick in tone or frequency of interaction might be misread as your ex wanting to get back together with you. In reality, it means theyve processed their emotions around the breakup, and are ready to be friendly.
If your ex is still in contact, and is no longer pining over you, blaming you or stalking you, they're probably over you, says Tessina. If your ex is ready to be friendly, especially with someone new you are dating, then they're definitely over you. If your ex was incommunicado, and is now making contact, they're probably over you.
Depending on where youre at emotionally, that could be the start of a wonderful friendship with your ex or it could be heartbreaking.
4. They Get Serious With Someone Else
Perhaps no sign is more conclusive of an ex being fully over you than their getting into a serious relationship with someone else.
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While its possible to still be pining for your ex when you start dating after a breakup, typically, the further into a serious relationship you go, the more your feelings for your ex (or exes) will fade as the new person in your life takes priority.
One sure sign that theyre over you? Theyre in a new relationship, says Barrett. Theyre not just going on dates but are now seeing someone. Youll know this if they start posting couple-y photos on their social media.
However, as Marcus explained, even going on non-serious dates can signal that a big shift has occurred.
The really obvious moment [I realized she was over me] was about six months post-breakup, when we were still occasionally hooking up (but less often than during the first few months), and she casually mentioned going on a date with someone else. [She] started to tell me about it as if that was a completely normal thing to do (which for her, I'm sure it was.)
Depending on whether you were monogamous or not, and your exs relationship to casual dating, that might be totally meaningless. In Marcuss case, his exs comfort talking about this other date signalled that something had seriously shifted.
How to Deal With Your Ex Being Over You
If the above signs sound familiar to you, your ex might well be totally over you and thats OK.
Maybe thats the outcome you were hoping for, but if youre one of the many, many people who dont want their exes to have moved on just yet, it might feel strange to imagine a world where someone who was once so important to you simply doesnt hold you in their heart like that anymore.
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But as Tessina says, its time to start embracing the future yourself.
You must let them go, she advises. The relationship you had with this ex is over. If your ex comes back later, you'll need to begin a brand new relationship on new terms; this old one is over.
So what does that look like?
Be distantly friendly when you encounter each other, she suggests. Do not attempt to work out unresolved relationship issues with your ex. Let it be. Don't bad mouth your ex to friends. It will get back to them, and you'll look bad. Change your focus to the future.
Barrett agrees that looking forward is the best approach to realizing your ex has moved on, and that it can even be a net positive in your life.
If your ex moves on first, face it its going to sting, he says. But you can reframe it as a kind of gift. Dont isolate yourself socially reconnect with friends and family because spending time with loved ones keeps your emotions in a good place. Avoid relationship reminders dont swipe through your phone looking at photos of you and your ex, and stay away from places that the two of you went to together. And when youre ready, take new actions to start dating again. The secret to moving on is to move forward.
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King Albert on this team of Belgian talent and THAT chip
to bamboozle Peter the great
By John Edwards
Published: 19:01 EST, 1 June 2012 | Updated: 19:01 EST, 1 June 2012
Philippe Albert, the Belgian who wowed England with that chip for Newcastle against Manchester United 16 years ago, talks John Edwards through the golden generation of Belgium footballers who take on England at Wembley.
Party time: Philippe Albert celebrates his strike against Manchester United
But first, that goal in 1996... Manchester United were already trailing 4-0, before a disbelieving St James' Park crowd, when Newcastle's imposing centre back transferred a Rob Lee pass on to his left foot and nonchalantly chipped a stranded Peter Schmeichel from more than 20 yards to round off one of the performances and results of the 1990s.
'I only ever had one thought in mind, after getting the ball and taking a couple of paces towards their area,' said Albert. 'I knew Schmeichel would expect me to thump it and would come off his line to try and cut down the angle, so it was always my intention to chip him.
'Sure enough, he moved forward quickly and that was my chance. I just needed to execute it properly, and fortunately I did. It was a magical moment, seeing it float over him and drop into the net, and I just went on a slalom run, past one team-mate after another, before sliding along the turf near the halfway line.'
Safe hands: Belgium's keepers Simon Mignolet and Thibaut Courtois
Now a forthright television pundit in Belgium, Albert expects the current squad to reach the 2014 World Cup finals:
Just edging out Thibaut Courtois, which goes to show we have two excellent young goalkeepers who are going to serve us well for the next 12 to 15 years. Great reflexes make him an excellent shot-stopper but he needs to work a bit on dealing with crosses.
Guillaume Gillet
The full back positions are our main problem. Toby Alderweireld was pencilled in for right back before being injured but is actually a centre half. Gillet will replace him but he's a right-sided midfielder. Not ideal, but the experienced Anderlecht man is steady enough and won't let anyone down.
Needs little introduction after his fantastic season for Manchester City. Never found wanting for pace, good in the air, sure in the tackle and can bring the ball out of defence. There's not much more you could ask of a centre half. Will surely lead us to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.
Solid as a rock: Vincent Kompany is a key part of the Belgian defence
Rightly regarded as a key component of Arsenal's defence and I just hope he can repeat his club form at Wembley. He should be one of the reasons for being optimistic about our World Cup campaign, but I'm not sure Vermaelen always produces the same level for club and country. He's not the only one, either.
Jan Vertonghen
As I was saying, full back is a problem. This guy is a top centre half, skipper of Ajax's title-winning team, but he will be playing left back today. Fortunately for us, he still looks a class act wherever he plays, and if Tottenham finally manage to sign him, they will be getting an accomplished defender.
Dynamic performer for Everton and very important part of our midfield. I'm just not convinced he reaches the same level for the national team as he does in an Everton shirt. Whatever the reason, that needs putting right, because he really is crucial to the chances of this Belgium squad fulfilling their potential.
Hair raising: Marouane Fellaini (left) impressed for Everton last season
Axel Witsel
A real all-round midfielder who can tackle, take care of the ball, win his share of headers and score goals. There has been interest in him from English clubs and no wonder. But I'm not sure we see his Benfica form at international level. Another challenge for whoever gets the manager's job.
His selection would appear to be down to his performance in the last game against Montenegro, when Belgium drew 2-2. Mirallas scored and was a constant threat. He can play wide or up front, where he shone for Olympiakos last season as the Greek league's top scorer and player of the year.
You are about to see what all the fuss is about. Never mind playing for the team, it's the other way round with him. Just give him the ball and let him show how, technically, he's already one of the best in the world. A real No 10 and that must be his position for Chelsea. You build a team round a talent like this.
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Another emerging talent who is making a favourable impression at PSV Eindhoven and now has the chance to show he can thrive on the international stage, in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley. He's not a left-sided midfielder but may have to play there, such are the options in the central positions.
Mousa Dembele
It's better for him that he is used in his best position, as an attacking central midfielder, but may find himself leading the line today. Was often played out of position under the previous coach, which did him no favours. Fulham use him properly, and just look how he responds. Great talent.
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I live in New York City, and for me, there's nothing that compares to its culture, energy and convenience. I'm not alone in feeling this way — more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas.
But I also know that when it comes to mental health, the urban lifestyle may not be such a good thing. City dwellers tend to be more stressed and have higher levels of mood disorders and psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those living in rural or suburban areas. And now researchers say they have uncovered certain changes in brain activity that could potentially help explain why.
In an international study, researchers at University of Heidelberg and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute at McGill University report in the journal Nature that people who live or were raised in cities show distinct differences in activity in certain brain regions than those who aren't city dwellers.
Those who currently live in the city, for example, showed higher activation the amygdala, the brain region that regulates emotions such as anxiety and fear. The amygdala is most often called into action under situations of stress or threat, and the data suggest that city dwellers' brains have a more sensitive, hair-trigger response to such situations, at least when compared with those living in the suburbs or more rural areas.
The study also found that people who were raised in the city during their first 15 years of life were more likely to show increased activation in another brain region, a more global regulator of stress known as the anterior cingulate. In these individuals, the change appears to be more permanent than in people who move to cities later in life, says Jens Pruessner, director of aging and Alzheimer's research at the Douglas Institute and one of the study's co-authors, because it occurs during an important period of development. Living in the city during your early years "means you will become more alert to [stress] situations via the anterior cingulate for the rest of your life," he says.
The researchers came to their conclusions after conducting a stress test on volunteers while their brains were imaged with functional MRI to detect which areas of the brain were more or less active when the participants felt stressed. The stress was applied by asking people to solve difficult math problems, either under time pressure or while enduring criticism from researchers for their bad performance.
The research team then correlated the participants' brain scan results with information they provided about where they currently lived or where they were raised. Activation of the amygdala increased in step with the population density of participants' home towns: from rural areas to small cities to large urban settings.
The researchers think it is the social aspects of urban living — the stress of living and dealing with lots of people, and feeling more anxiety, fear and threat as a result — more so than other urban factors like pollution or noise that explains the higher stress-related brain responses among the city dwellers.
Although it would seem that the more people were faced with stress, the more they might tolerate these annoyances and even become immune to them — thus lowering, rather than increasing their threshold for triggering the stress response — the new findings suggest otherwise. Even after years of city living, people remained highly alert and anxious, which indicates that the stresses of city life may be both constant and diverse and not easy to adapt to.
That sounds good, but in the city, that's a lot easier said than done.


Are We There Yet??: What a Tangled Mess We Make!
Oh good lord woman. I am going to call the Martha Stewart police on you.
Just remember-a perfect house is a sign of a wasted life.
You don't expect anything to look tidy after Christmas, do you?
Besides you have to hustle back to the third day because I answered your question and found a gift for the ladies that fits the theme.
your house looks like a happy family lives there :) Just popped in to say hello!!
Geez...you should see my house...it looks like Santa's elves had a free-for-all in every room. And my problem? I don't have teenage girls to blame for this mess!
It doesn't look bad at all! I won't post a photograph of the room I'm in now.
Well, to my eye it looks like people live well there. But, as the son of a Virgo, I understand the need to make the place look like a summer home that you only visit once a year for two weeks.
Lol you should see behind my TV! I just got some new toys for Christmas and I just hooked everything up in a hurry. I have freaking cables everywhere, what a mess!
I like you have absolutely no ambition to fix it.
I tidy more in other peoples houses than my own. I am the perfect house guest (hint) lol!
Come visit sometime, it'll make you feel oh-so-much-better!
And I loooove that cute little pink sewing machine!
Your house looks WAY better than mine, girlfriend!!


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Q: SQLite: Get all dates between dates I need some help with a SQL (in particular: SQLite) related problem. I have a table 'vacation'
CREATE TABLE vacation(
    name TEXT,
    to_date TEXT,
    from_date TEXT
);

where I store the date (YYYY-MM-DD), when somebody leaves for vacation and comes back again. Now, I would like to get a distinctive list of all dates, where somebody is on vacation. Let's assume my table looks like:
+------------+-------------+------------+
|    name    |   to_date   |  from_date |
+------------+-------------+------------+
|    Peter   | 2013-07-01  | 2013-07-10 |
|    Paul    | 2013-06-30  | 2013-07-05 |
|    Simon   | 2013-05-10  | 2013-05-15 |
+------------+-------------+------------+

The result from the query should look like:
+------------------------------+
| dates_people_are_on_vacation |
+------------------------------+
|          2013-05-10          |
|          2013-05-11          |
|          2013-05-13          |
|          2013-05-14          |
|          2013-05-15          |
|          2013-06-30          |
|          2013-07-01          |
|          2013-07-02          |
|          2013-07-03          |
|          2013-07-04          |
|          2013-07-05          |
|          2013-07-06          |
|          2013-07-07          |
|          2013-07-08          |
|          2013-07-09          |
|          2013-07-10          |
+------------------------------+

I thought about using a date - table 'all_dates'
CREATE TABLES all_dates(
    date_entry TEXT
);

which covers a 20 year time span (2010-01-01 to 2030-01-01) and the following query:
SELECT date_entry FROM all_dates WHERE date_entry BETWEEN (SELECT from_date FROM vacation) AND (SELECT to_date FROM vacation);

However, If i apply this query on the above dataset, I only get a fraction of my desired result:
+------------------------------+
| dates_people_are_on_vacation |
+------------------------------+
|          2013-07-01          |
|          2013-07-02          |
|          2013-07-03          |
|          2013-07-04          |
|          2013-07-05          |
|          2013-07-06          |
|          2013-07-07          |
|          2013-07-08          |
|          2013-07-09          |
|          2013-07-10          |
+------------------------------+

Can it be done with SQLite? Or it is better, if I just return the 'to_date' and 'from_date' column and fill the gaps between these dates in my Python application?
Any help is appreciated!

A: You can try that:
SELECT date_entry
FROM vacation
JOIN all_dates ON date_entry BETWEEN from_date AND to_date
GROUP BY date_entry
ORDER BY date_entry

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