Monday, July 26, 2021

Frank & Nancy Sinatra – Something Stupid (1967)

This beautiful song, sung by the father and daughter duo "Frank & Nancy Sinatra," was released in 1967, but the song was originally written and recorded in 1966 by "Carson Parks" with his wife "Gaile Foote"... (See here) | Page views on YouTube: 16,017,334 | Enjoy!

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You | Official Music Video

@Genesis The Last Domino? North American Fall Tour 2021 – tickets now on sale here. | Views on YouTube: 34,317,532

Nana Mouskouri - The White Rose of Athens

Views on YouTube: 3,123,476



Auf Deutsch: Weiße Rosen aus Athen: Klicken Sie, bitte, hier.

Nana Mouskouri - Plaisir d'amour (1971)

Eine letzte Zigarette: Aufstieg und Fall des blauen Dunstes

Aug 25, 2009 • A Final Cigarette (Swiss documentary) - Das war einmal: Schweizer TV-Moderatoren mit der Zigarette in der Hand, Swissair-Piloten, die sich nach dem Start mit einem Glimmstengel belohnen, Nationalräte im Tabakdunst: DOK dokumentiert den Aufstieg und Fall des blauen Dunstes. Ist die zunehmende Reglementierung des Rauchens richtig oder falsch?

Auf der Terrasse des rauchfreien Bundeshauses stehen schlotternde Nationalräte im Schneesturm und rauchen trotz beissender Kälte. DOK-Autor Fritz Muri vergleicht diese Szene mit Fundstücken aus Film- und Fotoarchiven aus einer Zeit, als mehr als 50 Prozent der Erwachsenen in der Schweiz noch rauchten.

Ein besonderes Highlight ist die Szene, in der Dichter Friedrich Dürrenmatt und Literaturpapst Marcel Reich-Ranicki während einer Fernsehdiskussion einen Studiobrand verursachten. Besonders die Eliten aus Kultur, Medien und Politik waren dem blauen Dunst zugetan. Kettenraucher gab es aber auch unter Piloten und Chirurgen. Models hüpften mit der Zigarette in der Hand über den Laufsteg, und die Werbung verbreitete omnipräsent den Duft der grossen weiten Welt.

Die weltweiten Kampagnien der Tabakmultis hatten damals ihre Gesichter. Zwei davon gehörten Schweizern: Der Berner George Herriger zog als Camel-Man durch den Dschungel, und Beat Wyss lächelte als Parisienne-Protagonist von den Plakatwänden der Luzerner wurde damals unfreiwillig zum Vorzeigeraucher und erforschte später als Professor der Kunst- und Mediengeschichte die Kulturgeschichte des Rauchens. Im Dokumentarfilm wird er zum Experten im doppelten Sinne.

Zu Wort kommen auch Präventivmediziner, Manager der Tabakmultis, der ehemalige Tabak-Lobbyist Edgar Oehler und der vormalige Tageschau-Chef Heiner Hug. DOK zeigt, wie in Büros, Fernsehstudios, Spitälern und Polizeistationen die Raucherinnen und Raucher immer mehr an den Rand gedrängt werden, aber auch wie eine Handvoll Genussraucher auf ein Zürichseeschiff flüchtet, um ungestört ihrem Laster zu frönen.

Fritz Muri schildert in seinem Film zudem die Geschichte des Bündner Volksmusikkönigs Peter Zinsli. Nach 60 Jahren als Raucher kann er heute nur noch mit einer Sauerstoffmaske überleben. Kann sein Beispiel seinen Sohn und seine Enkelin vom Rauchen abhalten? DOK gibt die Antwort.






Tobacco Firm Philip Morris Calls for Ban on Cigarettes within Decade

acek Olczak said the company could ‘see the world without cigarettes … and actually, the sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone’. Photograph: AP

THE GUARDIAN: CEO Jacek Olczak says product should be treated like petrol cars, which will be outlawed from 2030

The chief executive of tobacco business Philip Morris International has called on the UK government to ban cigarettes within a decade, in a move that would outlaw its own Marlboro brand.

Jacek Olczak said the company could “see the world without cigarettes … and actually, the sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone.” Cigarettes should be treated like petrol cars, the sale of which is due to be banned from 2030, he said.

Government action would end the confusion felt by smokers, some of whom still thought the “alternatives are worse than cigarettes”, Olczak told the Sunday Telegraph. “Give them a choice of smoke-free alternatives … with the right regulation and information it can happen 10 years from now in some countries. You can solve the problem once and forever.”

Philip Morris International (PMI) recently said it wanted half its turnover to come from non-smoking products as it morphs into a “healthcare and wellness company” with executive pay tied to its new mission to “unsmoke the world” by phasing out cigarettes. » | Zoe Wood | Sunday, July 25, 2021

Marlene Dietrich - Lili Marlene

Views on YouTube: 6,704,079


Barry White - My First My Last My Everything

Views on YouTube: 40,917,539

Frank Sinatra: Strangers In the Night (Remastered 2008)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group | Views on YouTube: 8,628,489

Brigitte Bardot on Marilyn Monroe

Views on YouTube: 1,875,686

Visiting the Coldest City in the World (-71°C, -96°F) Yakutsk / Yakutia

May 22, 2021 • I'm in the coldest city on the planet; Yakutsk, which is in Yakutia / Siberia / Russia. The lowest air temperature ever recorded here is -96°F (71°C) (SECOND VIDEO) 8 Crazy Ice Experiments at -55°C, -67°F | Views on YouTube: 1,167,914

1961 : Que pensez-vous des jeunes filles ? | Archive INA

Page de la femme | RTF | 06/11/1961 La journaliste Cécile Ibane, pose une série de questions sur les jeunes filles à huit jeunes garçons issus de milieux sociaux différents. Quelle est leur idéal féminin? Est-ce que les jeunes filles manquent de pudeur? Aiment-ils les filles qui se maquillent ? Quelle est la qualité essentielle chez une femme? | ‘Views’ sur YouTube : 770,836


Magnifique ! Comme les temps changent radicalement ! – Mark

Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed.

The former Jewish quarter of Segovia, Spain. The country was once home to one of Europe’s most thriving Jewish communities, which for centuries produced major poets, historians and philosophers. Credit...Emilio Parra Doiztua for The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In 2015, Spain said it would give citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. Then rejections started pouring in this summer.

MADRID — María Sánchez, a retired mental health therapist in Albuquerque, spent the past four decades tracing her Jewish ancestry from Spain. She created a vast genealogical chart going back nearly 1,100 years, which included three ancestors who were tried in the Spanish Inquisition. Her findings even led her to join a synagogue in the 1980s and to become a practicing Jew.

So when Spain’s government said in 2015 that it would grant citizenship to people of Sephardic Jewish descent — a program publicized as reparations for the expulsion of Jews that began in 1492 — Ms. Sánchez applied. She hired an immigration lawyer, obtained a certificate from her synagogue and flew to Spain to present her genealogy chart to a notary.

Then, in May, she received a rejection letter.

“It felt like a punch in the gut,” said Ms. Sánchez, 60, who was told she had not proved that she was a Sephardic Jew. “You kicked my ancestors out, now you’re doing this again.” » | Nicholas Casey | Saturday, July 24, 2021

Facebook Wants You to Connect with God. On Facebook.


THE NEW YORK TIMES: The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience.

Months before the megachurch Hillsong opened its new outpost in Atlanta, its pastor sought advice on how to build a church in a pandemic.

From Facebook.

The social media giant had a proposition, Sam Collier, the pastor, recalled in an interview: to use the church as a case study to explore how churches can “go further farther on Facebook.”

For months Facebook developers met weekly with Hillsong and explored what the church would look like on Facebook and what apps they might create for financial giving, video capability or livestreaming. When it came time for Hillsong’s grand opening in June, the church issued a news release saying it was “partnering with Facebook” and began streaming its services exclusively on the platform.

Beyond that, Mr. Collier could not share many specifics — he had signed a nondisclosure agreement.

“They are teaching us, we are teaching them,” he said. “Together we are discovering what the future of the church could be on Facebook.”

Facebook, which recently passed $1 trillion in market capitalization, may seem like an unusual partner for a church whose primary goal is to share the message of Jesus. But the company has been cultivating partnerships with a wide range of faith communities over the past few years, from individual congregations to large denominations, like the Assemblies of God and the Church of God in Christ. » | Elizabeth Dias | Sunday, July 25, 2021

Phil Collins - One More Night (Official Music Video)

May 11, 2010 • @Genesis The Last Domino? North American Fall Tour 2021 tickets on sale now here | Views on YouTube: 73,966,697

La Belgique de nouveau frappée par des inondations après de violents orages

Un homme nettoie une maison ravagée par les inondations, à Pepinster le 24 juillet. JOHANNA GERON / REUTERS

THE FIGARO : Dix jours après les inondations qui ont fait 36 morts, de fortes pluies ont touché 11 communes de la vallée de la Meuse samedi. D'impressionnantes images de rues transformées en torrent ont circulé sur les réseaux sociaux.

De violents orages ont touché la Belgique samedi 24 juillet au soir, provoquant des dégâts dans la province de Namur (sud), dix jours après des inondations qui ont fait 36 morts dans le pays, ont indiqué les autorités. Aucune victime n'était à déplorer, a déclaré à l'AFP un porte-parole du centre de crise national vers 23 heures (21 heures GMT), précisant que les orages étaient terminés et la situation «stabilisée».

Ces fortes pluies ont touché en début de soirée 11 communes de la vallée de la Meuse, où elles ont provoqué des inondations. D'impressionnantes images de rues transformées en torrent ont circulé sur les réseaux sociaux, rappelant les scènes vécues dix jours auparavant dans la province de Liège. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 25 juillet 2021

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

Apr 3, 2012 • Up Where We Belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes is the theme song for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). This music video meshes scenes from the film and Top Gun (1986). Both films were huge success at the box office. Up Where We Belong became the #1 hit song on the Billboard that year. Video made by: fkwk101 (Yukon Audio-visual Workshop). | Views on YouTube: 21,867,762

James Taylor - How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)

Mar 4, 2010 • Siccome trovavo solo versioni live, ho pensato di caricare la canzone originale. Tutti i diritti riservati © | Views on YouTube: 2,936,065

Foreigner - I Don't Want to Live without You (Official Music Video)

Jan 26, 2020 • You're watching the official music video for Foreigner - "I Don't Want to Live Without You" from the album 'Inside Information' (1987) | Views on YouTube: 2,961,943

Fox Is Killing Us

Jul 22, 2021 • It's past time for America to stop watching.


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