Google Today, on November 9, 2014

Wow!

And from GOOGLE, these cool notes:

• Seeking inspiration for this doodle we took a short bike ride from our Mountain View, California headquarters to our local public library to study an actual piece of the Berlin Wall.

  
  This graffitied chunk of concrete, once a literal division, has been transformed into a symbol of unity, a reminder to passersby of the triumph of the collective human spirit.  It was moving to see it in person and, appropriately enough, spray-painted on this special slab are the German words “Wir lieben dich” — “we love you”. 
  
  Determined to share this experience on the doodle and others like it around the world,

   we enlisted several folks and are grateful for their help. 

  Our friends at veed.me arranged 17 international film crews to gather footage. 

  The German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) provided powerful archival 

  photographs by Klaus Lehnartz and Heiko Specht to set context for the video. 

   

  Googlers from around the world translated more than 50 international versions. 

  Morgan Stiff edited it all together.
  
  We’re especially indebted to Nils Frahm, who composed the video’s beautiful music.

  Nils grew up in Germany and had this reflection of the event:
  
  I was 7 years old when thousands of East German signature cars arrived in my hometown Hamburg and filled the air with odd smelling blue smoke. I saw strangers hugging strangers, tears in their eyes, their voices tired

  from singing. I was too young to understand, but I felt that life was different now and that different was better. 

   

  Now it is our obligation to tell this story to all those who couldn't be there, 

  who could not feel the spark of the peaceful revolution themselves 

  and more importantly who can't remember how existence feels 

  when its incarcerated by concrete walls.

   

  It is time to celebrate 25 years of unity. 
  
  We couldn’t have said it better.  Ryan Germick & Liat Ben-Rafael, Google Doodle Team

Balloon Music: 99 Luftballons mal anders

 Andrew Huang .... ist jetzt in Deutschland. 



Gunnerrola

Songtext von Nena:  Sing mit!

Hast Du etwas Zeit fur mich,
dann singe ich ein Lied für Dich
von 99 Luftballons
auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont.

Denkst Du vielleicht g'rad an mich,
dann singe ich ein Lied fur Dich,
von 99 Luftballons
und dass so was von so was kommt.

99 Luftballons
auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont,
hielt man fur UFOs aus dem All
darum schickte ein General

'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher,
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so wär,
dabei war'n da am Horizont
nur 99 Luftballons.

99 Düsenflieger,
jede war ein grosser Krieger.
Hielten sich fur Captain Kirk,
das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk!

Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft,
und fühlten sich gleich angemacht,
dabei schoss man am Horizont
auf 99 Luftballons.

99 Kriegsminister-
Streichholz und Benzinkanister-
hielten sich fur schlaue Leute,
witterten schon fette Beute.

Riefen, Krieg und wollten Macht.
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht,
dass es einmal soweit kommt
wegen 99 Luftballons?

99 Luftballons
99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
ließen keine Platz für Sieger.
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr,
und auch keine Düsenflieger.

Heute zieh' ich meine Runden,
seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen.
Hab' nen Luftballon gefunden,
denk' an Dich, und lass' ihn fliegen.

.........

Read more: Nena - 99 Luftballons (german) Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Barbara singt ,In Goettingen' und bringt Frieden

Dank Barbara und ihr Lied sind Frankreich und Deutschland heute keine Feinde mehr.
[Thanks in part to Barbara and this song, France and Germany are no longer enemies today.]



Und Barbara bekam den Medal of Honor fuer ihr Lied.

Hier, die Deutsch-Franzoesische Fernseh Sendung Arte bringt das Lied auch vor:

TED Talk: Julian Treasure: Time to Teach Listening

5 Ways to Better Listening



These notes are intended to enhance your listening to Mr. Treasure.

A.  We recognize patterns; we listen to differences.
       We also use these filters in our listening:
   • culture
   • language
   • values
   • beliefs
   • attitudes
   • expectations
   • intentions

B.  He suggests these 5 ways we can work on improving our listening skills:
    1.  Recalibrate our listening abilities by holding 3 minutes of silence per day.
    2.  Listen carefully to determine which and how many different "channels" you can hear at any one time.
    3.  Savor, enjoy, even celebrate even mundane sounds.
    4.  Change your listening position to one that is most appropriate for the information you are extracting.
    5.  Follow this acronym, which, in Sanskrit, stands for "essense":
           R    Receive
           A    Appreciate
           S     Summarize
           A    Ask questions afterwards

C.  He suggests we need to teach listening skills, in order to connect to and understand others on this planet, and to help us with the very important work that is required to maintain peace.  He says that when we don't bother to listen to others, our world develops into something quite scary, indeed.