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Il est des artistes que l’Histoire n’oublie jamais et qui sont toujours d’actualité dans la mémoire collective des peuples. Parmi ces artistes stars : JOAN BAEZ
Dans les années 60 et 70 : Rien que prononcer le nom de cette star provoquait des cris de joie et d’amour parmi les jeunes et moins jeunes de l’époque.
JOAN BAEZ est plus qu’une artiste. En fait c’était et c’est toujours une militante pacifiste contre toutes sortes d’injustices, d’inégalités sociales, contre toute discrimination raciale, religieuse et communautaire.
Son combat aux côtés de Martin Luther King est à souligner. A l’époque, pas si loin que cela, aux USA : Les enfants noirs n’avaient pas le droit d’aller à l’école. Il fallait leur créer des écoles rien que pour eux. Les noirs adultes et jeunes ne pouvaient pas prendre le bus réservé aux blancs…Oui… Il s’agit bien des USA voici quelques 40 ou 50 ans.
Joan Baez faisait partie de cette lutte. D’ailleurs, on l’accusait d’être “communiste”
(pour la mentalité US à l’époque : Défendre la paix et la cessation de la guerre au vietnam, défendre le port des armes aux USA….Cela signifiait que ces américains militants pour la paix, étaient communistes ou à la solde de l’ex URSS.
Aussi bizarre que cela paraisse.
Revenons à Joan Baez.
Sur une chaine Franco Allemande : ARTE, nous avons eu le plaisir de “re-découvrir” JOAN BAEZ grâce à un reportage ayant pour titre “how sweet the sound”
Une voix pure provenant du ciel.. Cette voix s’est teintée par la suite avec l’âge mais durant plus de 30 ans, sa voix fut une des 3 ou 4 voix pures et limpides que le monde de la musique a pu connaitre ces 100 dernières années.
Sans oublier son jeu de guitare : Les pickings qu’elle maîtrise à merveille. Tous les grands maestros de guitare ont toujours essayé d’imiter sans réussir. Ils l’ont dit, avoué que son jeu est unique. Il suffit de la voir jouer à la guitare pour comprendre.
(Le reportage intégral: ci-dessous )
Joan Baez de mère Ecossaise et de père mexicain a vécu une enfance heureuse entre père, mère et ses 2 soeurs (Mimi et Pauline).
Nous vous proposons de lire sa biographie via ce lien de Wikipedia. C’est plus simple et plus détaillé.
Suite à ce reportage, sur ARTE, nous avons assisté à son concert ayant eu lieu à l‘OLYMPIA en 2018. Un super show où JOAN Accompagnée par son fils Gabriel Harris aux percussions. Accompagné du super talentueux, musicien “multi-fonctions” Dirk Powell ( guitare, banjo, piano, solo guitare, guitare bass… https://www.facebook.com/dirkpowellmusic) .
Racetrack Playa is home to an enduring Death Valley mystery. Littered across the surface of this dry lake, also called a “playa,” are hundreds of rocks — some weighing as much as 320 kilograms (700 pounds) — that seem to have been dragged across the ground, leaving synchronized trails that can stretch for hundreds of meters.
What powerful force could be moving them? Researchers have investigated this question since the 1940s, but no one has seen the process in action — until now.
In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE on Aug. 27, a team led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, paleobiologist Richard Norris reports on first-hand observations of the phenomenon.
Because the stones can sit for a decade or more without moving, the researchers did not originally expect to see motion in person. Instead, they decided to monitor the rocks remotely by installing a…
Acadia National park est une aire de loisirs de la côte Atlantique de 47 000 acres principalement sur l’île des monts déserts du Maine. Son paysage est marqué par des forêts, des plages rocheuses et des pics de granit érodés, le glacier comme Cadillac Mountain, point culminant de la côte est des États-Unis. Parmi la faune sont les orignaux, les ours, les baleines et les oiseaux de mer.
Ce jour, nous avons décidé de tester un produit : Le “smartspeaker” (dit en français : L’assistant intelligent ).
Pour ce, nous avons reçu le “smartspeaker” de celui d’Amazon : Alexa. ( Alexa Echo Dot 2e Génération)
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Pour être franc, outre les usages partiels et rapides auprès des entreprises et groupes qui nous avaient montrés à l’époque ce produit, nous n’avions pas eu l’occasion de le tester longtemps et d’une manière plus profonde.
Ce fut une véritable joie et excitation que de paramétrer ce petit joujou, qui du premier abord pourrait nous paraître comme “gadget ” mais au final, nous nous y habituons et il devient partie intégrante du paysage de nos bureaux ( et / ou de nos maisons).
Il a fallu choisir entre la langue anglaise et française ( eh oui…Nous pouvons choisir la langue, cependant, ce qui en découle est important:
=> Si nous optons pour le FR, nous serons connectés directement sur le “amazon shop” de france. Cad nous aurons tous les médias, sites parlant français. Exit , les médias autres que Français cad ceux des US et UK, russie, inde, arabes , hébreux … bref toutes les langues du monde ( A la radio, nous sommes plus que polyglottes et plus de 15 langues cohabitent puisque nous diffusons mondialement et que nous ne sommes pas focalisés sur la France ou l’europe seulement).
Donc, il a fallu paramétrer… Le français fut choisi in fine, étant donné que nous sommes à PARIS ( attention, nous parlons du Test effectué en français, cependant, nos différents “smartspeakers” dans nos studios , sont paramétrés dans diverses langues. Selon la team / le pôle en charge ( Nos équipes sont organisées par “continent + langue” )
Comme vous verrez sur cette vidéo, en saluant Alexa, il a fallu la calmer et l’arrêter 🙂 puisque la machine était paramétrée pour nous annoncer les principaux évènements de la journée, rien qu’en la saluant ( “bonjour” ) : Donc ceci est à revoir
C’est la faute de notre équipe qui a voulu s’amuser. Cependant, en tant normal, Alexa répond “Bonjour + le nom de la personne, qu’elle reconnait par la voix ).
En fait, cet outil est interessant à divers niveaux :
Outre le fait qu’Alexa nous lance , les radios ( dont la nôtre RadioSatellite) , nous avons pu lui demander de rajouter sur notre calendrier / agenda, divers évènements.
Vocalement, nous lui demandons de rajouter” Alexa, rajoute sur la TO DO LIST, mon rendez vous demain à 16h00 à Madame Dupond à l’adresse XX à Londres ou à New York ou Paris…
Ce rendez vous est rajouté immédiatement sur un calendrier déjà créé aussi bien, sur notre smartphone que sur la machine ( Application qu’on a déjà installé, aussi, sur nos smartphones) .
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Ne pas oublier que les “smartspeakers” fonctionnent en harmonie avec les “smartphones” ( ou tablettes) notamment lors du paramétrage du démarrage.
Il suffit de lui demander le matin ” Alexa, il y a quoi sur ma TO DO LISTpour aujourd’hui? ” et voilà…Alexa nous rappelle tout et nous n’avons plus aucun pretexte de louper une réunion ou rendez-vous.
Nous pouvons supprimer “vocalement” aussi un rendez vous. Il sera supprimé (aussi ) du calendrier existant sur notre smartphone.
Pour la France, nous avons pu découvrir un calendrier ( c’est obligé, il faut qu’il y ait un calendrier en SKILL pour le rapprocher avec la machine Alexa.) :
En tout cas, c’est l’une des fonctions … Il existe des milliers de Skills ( Une sKILL c’est l’équivalent des applications pour smartphones). Skills à activer sur Alexa. ( Contrairement aux apps des smartphones, sur ces machines, nous n’installons pas de Skill…Pas de téléchargment…c’est juste l’activation ou la désactivation => Désactivation par défaut )
Pour revenir à Alexaamazon:
C’est un vrai assistant personnel , cet outil. La qualité du son est plus que correcte. Même que nous pouvons connecter Alexa à des enceintes BlueTooth si l’on veut ( ce n’est pas obligé mais c’est une option en plus à notre disposition ).
Pour notre part, il nous sert pour l’instant de calendrier, de moteur de recherche vocal pour nous trouver un bon restaurant tous les midis, les itinéraires, les grèves et pannes de transports en commun ou routiers. Evidemment pour écouter les flash infos ou les radios etc..
Pour résumer, Alexa est utile. Ce n’est pas “uniquement” un gadget à offrir à sa famille. C’est aussi un outil de travail pour une meilleure productivité et un calendrier vocal / écrit que les équipes peuvent mettre en commun pour le suivi des journées, rendez vous et TO DO LISTS
Listeners by country and by connection for RADIO SATELLITE
Reminder: Radio Satellite plays “instrumental” music (#JamesLast, #FaustoPapetti, #EnnioMorricone, #Zamfir….)
Radio Satellite2 : Plays Oldies Pop Rock music and also Some soft jazz programs and blues. (#Eric_Clapton, #Elton_john, #JohnDenver, #Abba, #BeeGees, #TheCarpenters, #TheEverlyBrothers, #The_Statler_Brothers, #Beatles, #BarryWhite, #TomJones and more…)
Elizabeth Alice “Ali” MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist.
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She first gained attention with her role in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reached international fame in 1970’s Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre after having been in just three films. She went on to star in the popular action films The Getaway (1972) and Convoy (1978) as well as the romantic sports drama Players (1979), the comedy Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and the historical novel-based television miniseries The Winds of War (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.
MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein; 1901–1980) and Richard MacGraw.
She has one brother, Dick, an artist. Her father was adopted. Her maternal grandparents were from Budapest, Hungary, of Jewish heritage.
MacGraw’s mother chose not to disclose her true ethnicity to her father, instead professing ignorance about it. “I think Daddy was bigoted,” MacGraw has said.
Her mother was considered a “pioneer” as an artist, who had taught school in Paris before settling in Greenwich Village.
Her parents married when her mother was 40: “My gorgeous father: a combination of Tyrone Power and a mystery, a brilliant artist and a brain beyond brains.”
He was born in New Jersey with his childhood spent in an orphanage. He ran away to sea when he was 16 and studied art in Munich. MacGraw adds, “Daddy was frightened and really, really angry. He never forgave his real parents for giving him up.”
As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents.
She described her father as “violent”.
Beginning in 1960, MacGraw spent six years working at Harper’s Bazaar magazine as a photographic assistant to fashion maven Diana Vreeland.
She worked at Vogue magazine as a fashion model, and as a photographer’s stylist. She has also worked as an interior decorator.
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MacGraw started her acting career in television commercials, including one for the Polaroid Swinger camera. MacGraw gained critical notice in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 when she starred opposite Ryan O’Neal in Love Story, one of the highest-grossing films in U.S. history.
MacGraw was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for that performance. Following Love Story, MacGraw was celebrated on the cover of Time magazine.
In 1972, after appearing in just three films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. She then starred opposite Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972), which was one of the year’s top ten films at the box office.
Having taken a five-year break from acting, in 1978 MacGraw re-emerged in another box office hit, Convoy (1978), opposite Kris Kristofferson. She then appeared in the films Players (1979) and Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), directed by Sidney Lumet.
In 1983, MacGraw starred in the highly successful television miniseries The Winds of War.
In 1985, MacGraw joined hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as Lady Ashley Mitchell, which, she admitted in a 2011 interview, she did for the money.
She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character was killed off in the infamous “Moldavian wedding massacre” cliffhanger episode in 1985.
MacGraw made her Broadway theatre debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration).
In 2016, MacGraw reunited with Love Story co-star Ryan O’Neal in a staging of A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters.
In 1991, People magazine selected MacGraw as one of its “50 Most Beautiful People” in the World.
In 2008 GQ magazine listed her in their “Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever” edition.
Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her early 50s, MacGraw produced a yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body.
This video was a bestseller upon release and still popular more than a decade later. The video’s impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice’s recent popularity in the United States.
In July 2006, MacGraw filmed a public service announcement for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), urging residents to take their pets with them in the event of wildfires.
In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book Pawprints of Katrina by author Cathy Scott and photography by Clay Myers about Best Friends Animal Society and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.
An animal rights advocate throughout her life, she received the Humane Education Award by Animal Protection of New Mexico for speaking out about animal issues.
MacGraw has acknowledged having had an abortion in her early twenties, at a time when the procedure was illegal.
After college, she married Robin Hoen, a Harvard-educated banker, but they divorced after a year and a half.
Ali and Kris Kristofferson in Convoy
On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer Robert Evans; their son, Josh Evans, is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
They divorced in 1972 after she became involved with Steve McQueen on the set of The Getaway. She married McQueen on August 31, 1973, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and divorced him in 1978.
MacGraw’s autobiography, Moving Pictures revealed her struggles with alcohol and sex addiction. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center.
When former husband Evans received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002, she accompanied him. Their grandson Jackson was born in December 2010 to Josh and his wife, singer Roxy Saint.
Since 1994 she has lived in Tesuque, New Mexico, after “fleeing Malibu” when a house she was renting burned down.
Antoine “Fats” Domino, Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter of Louisiana Creole descent.
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He had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40, and five of his pre-1955 records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold. During 1955 to 1960, he had eleven top 10 hits and his record sales were reportedly surpassed only by Elvis Presley. During his career, Domino sold over 65 million records.His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums.
Video : Source Youtube : Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
NCIS: New Orleans is an American television series combining elements of the military drama and police procedural genres that premiered on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, following its parent series NCIS. The pilot was written by Gary Glasberg. ( Gary Glasberg died the 28th September 2016 RIP)
The series’ executive producers are Glasberg, Mark Harmon, Jeffrey Lieber, and James Hayman. The series is set and filmed in New Orleans. It is the third member of the NCIS franchise.
On January 12, 2015, NCIS: New Orleans was renewed for a second season, that premiered on September 22, 2015.
Daryl Mitchell and Shalita Grant, who had been recurring cast members, became series regulars.
On March 25, 2016, CBS renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on September 20, 2016.
Zoe McLellan, who plays Agent Brody will leave “for creative reasons”, and Vanessa Ferlito will join the cast as Special Agent Tammy Gregorio, a series regular.
NCIS: New Orleans follows a fictional team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents stationed out of New Orleans, Louisiana. The NCIS office handles cases from the Mississippi River to the Texas Panhandle.
Living and working out of his office, Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride (Scott Bakula) heads a team of special agents including Christopher LaSalle (Lucas Black), a former sheriff’s deputy recruited by Pride following Katrina; Tammy Gregorio (Vanessa Ferlito), a Washington FBI Agent assigned to Pride’s team at his request;
Meredith Brody (Zoe McLellan), a transfer from the NCIS Great Lakes field office, has worked as a Special Agent Afloat and is keen to leave her past behind as she moves to New Orleans; Sonja Percy (Shalita Grant), a former ATF Special Agent and LaSalle’s partner; and Patton Plame (Daryl Mitchell), a computer specialist.
They are assisted by Dr. Loretta Wade (C. C. H. Pounder), a forensic pathologist and medical examiner, and Sebastian Lund (Rob Kerkovich), a criminalist and forensic investigator assigned to the Jefferson Parish Medical Examiner’s Office.
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Cast and characters
Main article: List of NCIS: New Orleans characters
Scott Bakula as Dwayne Cassius Pride, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent.
Lucas Black as Christopher LaSalle, NCIS Special Agent.
Zoe McLellan as Meredith Brody, NCIS Special Agent (seasons 1–2).
Rob Kerkovich as Sebastian Lund, forensic scientist.
