Alan Paton Marked With Google Doodle Today, Who Is He?

South African author and activist Alan Paton's honoured by Google Doodle today, He introduced the world to life in pre-Apartheid South Africa, fearlessly speaking out against racial segregation in person and through his books, and propagating universal franchise and non-violence.

Born in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa, Paton became a prominent figure both in the literary and political world through his writings and public addresses that spoke out against apartheid, the South African system of racial discrimination, during the mid to late 1900s.

Later, as administrator of the Diepkloof Reformatory for young black African offenders, he developed a controversial but compassionate system of reform that included open dormitories, work outside the prison walls, and home visitations.

After graduating from the University of Natal and becoming a teacher, Paton became head of Diepkoof, a prison for young black youths, where he introduced reforms that included open dormitories and home visitations.

After the Second World War, Paton toured correctional reform facilities across the world, during which time he started to write Cry, the Beloved Country. The book was published in 1948. ironically the very year in which apartheid was formally institutionalized, beginning four decades of racial segregation in South Africa.

His magnum opus is a moving tale of racial injustice, human suffering, and redemption, as two fathers come to terms with the loss of their sons — one an accidental murder and the other, his unfortunate victim.

Today’s Doodle depicts Paton on a train ride (on which he allegedly gained inspiration to write Cry, the Beloved Country) and celebrates the 115th birthday of a visionary who did much to fight for basic human principles of love, non-violence, and equality.

Profil Marlene Dietrich Si Aktris "Liar" Amerika-Jerman

Marlene Dietrich penyanyi dan aktris Amerika-Jerman yang digambarkan sebagai artis "liar", dan dipuji sebagai bintang wanita kesembilan terbesar di bioskop Hollywood klasik muncul di Google Doodle hari ini. Siapa Dia?

Selama Perang Dunia II, Dietrich adalah penghibur ternama di AS dan juga dikenal karena orang-orang Jerman dan Prancis, memberikan dukungan finansial dan advokasi untuk kewarganegaraan AS mereka.

Dietrich mendapat kehormatan beberapa kali untuk pekerjaannya dalam meningkatkan semangat di garis depan selama perang. Penghargaan tersebut termasuk Medali Kebebasan AS dan Legion d'Honneur Prancis. Dia juga bernama oleh Belgia sebagai Knight of the Order of Leopold.

Pada tahun 1999, American Film Institute menamai Dietrich sebagai bintang wanita kesembilan terbesar di Hollywood klasik.

Lahir di Berlin pada tahun 1901, Dietrich menjalani karir akting, namun juga tumbuh dengan keyakinan politik yang kuat.

Dia menentang Nazisme, dan ketika Hitler mulai menangkap orang-orang Yahudi, dia membantu banyak teman melarikan diri.

Dietrich mengatakan bahwa dia telah ditawarkan oleh agen Nazi untuk membintangi film pilihannya namun dilaporkan menolak tawaran tersebut.

Pada tahun 1939 ia menjadi warga negara Amerika dan meninggalkan kewarganegaraannya di Jerman. Filmnya kemudian dilarang beredar di Jerman.

Pada bulan Desember 1941, AS memasuki Perang Dunia II, dan aktris tersebut menjadi salah satu selebritis pertama yang menjual obligasi perang, sekuritas hutang yang membantu membiayai operasi militer.

Dia menjadi simbol kebebasan orang Jerman bebas dengan membuat siaran anti-Nazi di Jerman, dan dalam tiga tahun dia menjamu setengah juta tentara sekutu dan tahanan perang di Afrika Utara dan Eropa Barat.

'Di garis depan'. Selama dua tur diperpanjang pada tahun 1944 dan 1945, dia tampil untuk pasukan sekutu di Italia, Inggris dan Prancis, kemudian pergi ke Jerman. Ketika ditanya mengapa dia melakukan ini, terlepas dari bahaya yang nyata berada dalam jarak beberapa kilometer dari garis Jerman, dia menjawab, "aus Anstand" yang artinya, tidak sopan!.

Marlene Dietrich melakukan tur ke AS dari bulan Januari 1942 sampai September 1943 (muncul sebelum 250.000 tentara di lepas pantai Pantai Pasifik dari turnya sendiri) dan dilaporkan telah menjual lebih banyak obligasi perang daripada bintang lainnya.

Winter Summer Solstice 2017 - When The Summer Comes?

What is the winter solstice? The winter solstice 2017 marks the shortest day of the year and the official beginning of winter.The days have been getting shorter for months, and now we've finally reached the winter solstice, which means it is the shortest day of the year.

The solstice marks the moment the sun shines at its most southern point, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn.

Today, the sun “stands still” it’s the Summer Solstice! The sun will travel its longest path across the sky, granting people who live in the southern hemisphere with more than 12 hours of daylight. This occurs when the South Pole is most inclined (about 23.4°) toward the sun.

The solstice itself is the moment the sun is shining farthest to the south, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn.

When is the Winter Solstice?
The date of the winter solstice is different every year, falling between December 20th and 23rd.

This year, the solstice is on Thursday, December 21. The sun will rise in the UK at 08:03 GMT and set at 15:53 GMT, giving just 7 hours and 50 minutes of daylight.

Today’s Doodle celebrates the Solstice, which marks the end of spring and the start of summer. On the day with the shortest noontime shadow, everyone gets the chance to soak up the extra rays of sunlight.

Arti Perayaan Global di Bulan Desember Jelang Tahun Baru 2018?

Jika Anda melihat beranda Google hari ini per 18/12/2017 terdapat orat-oret / Doodle yang memberikan ilustrasi Perayaan Global di Bulan Desember, lalu apakah artinya itu bagi kita yang akan segera merayakan pergantian tahun menuju 2018?

Doodle menampilkan animasi slideshow yang menggemaskan dengan dua penguin lucu dan teman burung nurinya, mesin pencari raksasa ini secara resmi menyatakan bahwa mereka, seperti banyak orang lain di seluruh dunia, sangat antusias dengan perayaan liburan dibulan terakhir tahun ini menjelang pergantian tahun baru.

Kisah menarik yang akan membuat kita melupakan sedikit kepenatan dari kesibukan bekerja terpampang di beranda Google lewat animasinya, kedekatan antara anggota keluarga, teman dan kerabat menjadi kerinduan untuk kembaali bersama pada musim perayaan libur nasional.

Gambar pertama menunjukkan antara dua burung penguin yang berada di daerah yang lebih dingin dan burung beo di daerah tropis yang lebih semarak. Sementara itu Slide kedua menunjukkan penguin mengemasi koper dan mereka berkemas untuk bertemu dengan teman mereka.

Dan slide ketiga menunjukkan bingkai foto yang menampilkan semuanya telah berkumpul bersama-sama, di samping kotak hadiah yang ditandai dengan tanggal 18 (yaitu hari ini), 25, 31 dan 1 untuk Tahun Baru.

Seperti dikutip Indobos.com Berikut ini Perayaan Global di Bulan Desember 2017

Tanggal 25 Desember, Perayaan Hari Natal umat Kristiani.
Tanggal 26 Desember, Liburan Natal
1 Januari Perayaan Tahun Baru 2018

Perayaan Global di Bulan Desember Versi Doodle Hari Ini

Google doodle hari ini memberikan ilustrasi anak pinguin yang sedang menelepon keluarganya yang tinggal berjauhan, yup! cerita sederhana ini untuk mengingatkan pada Perayaan Global di Bulan Desember yang menjadi momen paling ditunggu bagi kita untuk mengisi jadwal liburan setelah lama berkutat dengan kesibukan.

Adapun kisah Si anak pinguin versi animasi Google adalah keduanya tinggal di tempat yang berbeda dengan indukannya, mereka dijadwalkan akan bertemu pada hari libur dimana pada even tersebut dikenal sebagai hari libur kerja secara global didunia seperti pada tanggal 18, 25, 31 dan tahun baru 1 Januari 2018.

Bagi Anda yang akan mengisi liburan ke daerah wisata laut ada baiknya untuk melirik kawasan yang memang masih alami belum banyak tersentuh upaya modernisasi seperti dikutip https://omediapc.com yang menawarkan keindahan pantai selatan pulau Jawa Barat.

Perayaan untuk mengisi liburan menjelang akhir bulan Desember ditenggarai saat hari Natal tanggal 25 dan satu hari setelahnya yang merupakan libur Natalan yakni tgl 26, setelah itu para wisatawan kembali dihadapkan pada momen pergantian tahun di hari terakhir bulan yaitu 31 Desember dan malam 1 Januari.

Pada tahun 2017, jumlah hari libur terhitung 21 hari, ini melebihi perayaan libur dinegara-negara lain seperti India, Filipina dan Cina yang memiliki tanggal merah, 17 hari.

Perayaan Global Liburan di bulan Desember melalui beranda Google menawarkan peringatan yang sebenarnya telah dimulai pada18 Desember 2017.namun sepertinya akan terus diupdate hingga beberapa hari kemudian untuk memperingati momen liburan disetiap akhir pergantian tahun

Doodle Celebrating Grazia Deledda Italian Winner Nobel Prize for literature, Who Is She?

The story of Grazia Deledda, the most famous Sardinian writer in the world and the only Italian to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1926 after Carducci and even before Pirandello.

91 years ago, in the cold Stockholm, the warm voice of a small Italian woman marks a memorable speech, that of thanks for the Nobel Prize for literature.

That woman was Grazia Deledda and her words began like this: "I was born in Sardinia; my family [is] composed of wise people, but also of violent and productive artists ».

That speech (see video at the end of the page) is perhaps the culmination of the poetic story of Grazia Deledda, an intense and fruitful writer whose fame, in the last century, spread throughout the world. A disruptive figure especially considering the fact that it came from a land and lived in an era that did not reward female ambition.

Although rather sparse of events, Grazia Deledda's life was however particularly fruitful from a literary point of view. She was born in Nuoro on September 28, 1871, the fifth of seven sons and daughters of a wealthy family. After attending schools until the fourth grade, Grazia Deledda continued her studies with a tutor since at the time, even in Sardinia, girls did not attend high school. In fact, his training, especially literary, was self-taught.

Of a quiet and restrained character, his youth was marked by a series of very painful family tragedies: his older brother, Santus, abandoned his studies and became an alcoholic, the youngest, Andrea, was arrested for petty thefts. His father died of a heart attack when Grazia Deledda was only 21 and the family had to face financial difficulties. Four years later, her sister Vincenza also died.

In the meantime, however, the young Sardinian had started to write. He published his first novel in 1886, at the age of fifteen, on a Nuorese newspaper. Two years later he began to collaborate with various other newspapers and magazines, first Sardinian and then Roman, of no particular stature. Then slowly, it begins to become more known and appreciated.

Although rather sparse of events, Grazia Deledda's life was however particularly fruitful from a literary point of view. She was born in Nuoro on September 28, 1871, the fifth of seven sons and daughters of a wealthy family. After attending schools up to the fourth grade, Grazia Deledda

What's Doodle says: When Grazia Deledda submitted a short story to a fashion magazine at the age of 13, she could not have known she was setting the stage for a decades-long career and a Nobel Prize. Today’s Doodle celebrates her accomplishments as one of Italy’s great authors.

As a female writer in the late 19th century, Deledda faced her own challenges as well. Her formal education ended at age 11, and she relied on private lessons and self-study in order to further her craft. Her work, which often touched on themes like temptation and sin — was often criticized by those in her traditional hometown, despite the inspiration she drew from the region.

These obstacles didn’t sway her though, and Deledda continued to produce many highly praised works. In 1926, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, making her the first Italian woman and the fourth woman ever to receive a Nobel Prize.

Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding

Today, during Computer Science Education Week, we celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages were first introduced to the world with a very special creation (and furry friend): our first ever coding Google Doodle! Today’s Doodle was developed through the close teamwork of not one or two but THREE teams: the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch!

To learn more about the history and importance of kids coding languages, we invited Champika Fernando, one of the project’s most passionate collaborators at MIT, to share her thoughts:

My first experience with coding was in a free after-school program back in the eighties when I was nine years old. We programmed a little green turtle to move around and draw lines on a black screen. That programming language was called Logo.

In the 1960’s, long before personal computers, Seymour Papert and researchers at MIT developed Logo - the first coding language designed for kids. With Logo, children could program the movements of a turtle, giving them the opportunity to explore ideas in math and science. Papert and his colleagues envisioned that computers could eventually be used by all children as a powerful tool for learning. They saw coding as a way for kids to develop confidence and fluency with a piece of powerful, modern, and one-day ubiquitous technology.

With today’s Doodle -- the first coding Doodle ever -- we celebrate fifty years of coding languages for kids by “Coding for Carrots.” In the interactive Doodle, you program and help a furry friend across 6 levels in a quest to gather its favorite food by snapping together coding blocks based on the Scratch programming language for kids.

Like Logo, Scratch was developed at MIT and builds on Papert’s early ideas about kids and computers. It’s designed to be less intimidating than typical programming languages, but just as powerful and expressive.

Kids programming on computers must have sounded futuristic and impractical in the 1960’s when Logo was first created. In fact, even in the 1980’s when I wrote my first lines of code, my working-class parents questioned how coding would ever benefit their nine-year-old daughter.

Today, computers are used in almost every aspect of our lives. We have them in our homes, at work, and in our pockets. My early experiences with computers gave me confidence that I could create with new technologies, not just interact with them. Those early experiences not only influenced my career path, but provided me with new ways to express my ideas and influence the world around me.

After working as an engineer at Google for some time, I now work on the Scratch Team at MIT, where we’re focused on developing new ways for kids to express themselves creatively through coding. With Scratch, kids can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations, using coding blocks just like the ones in today’s Doodle. They can also share their projects in an online community with millions of other kids around the world. We believe all kids should have the opportunity to develop their confidence with the technology that surrounds us.

This week, millions of people around the world can and will have their first experience with coding. It makes me happy to think of all of the nine-year-olds who will get their first coding experience playing with today’s Doodle. My hope is that people will find this first experience appealing and engaging, and they’ll be encouraged to go further. In some ways, it’s very different from my first coding experience many years ago, but I hope it will be just as inspiring and influential for them.

Gertrude Jekyll - Most Acclaimed Garden Designer in The World, Honoured By Google Doodle

Gertrude Jekyll

Google pays tribute to Gertrude Jekyll today (born November 29, 1843), one of the most prestigious London Garden Designer (landscaper) of the Arts and Crafts period, thanks to her association with British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, for whose projects she created numerous gardens .

Jekyll has been described as "a first influence in the design of gardens" by American and English enthusiasts of this particular art.

She is remembered for designing nearly 400 gardens that are directly linked to impressionism. From the theoretical perspective, her vision is related to the theories of color and her ideas responded to the harmonization experiments that were being proposed for the time when she made her arrangements.

"When the eye is trained to perceive a pictorial effect it is often seduced by something - a certain combination of groupings, light and color - that are considered essential to have that complete aspect of unity and beauty that for the eye of the eye. artist forms a painting, "he wrote in Color Schemes for the Flower Garden (1914).

He spent most of his life in Surrey, England, later moved to Munstead Wood, Godalming. He ran a garden center and raised many new plants. Some of its gardens have been faithfully restored, totally or partially, and can be visited in different parts of England. The Godalming Museum has many of its notebooks and copies of all its garden drawings, while the original drawings are at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gertrude Jekyll - Honoured By Google Doodle

His brother the Reverend Walter Jekyll was a friend of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and he borrowed his last name for the main character of his famous novel Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

What's Doodle says: A woman of innumerable talents, Jekyll was also an accomplished musician, composer, woodworker, metalworker, and botanist. Her foundation as a budding artist greatly influenced her breathtaking creations. As a student, she took inspiration from the landscapes of English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner, capturing the seasons, the light, the textures, and the hues of every growing thing on her canvases. Jekyll brought that painterly sensibility to her life’s work, designing about 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S., which were documented in photographs, over a dozen books, and thousands of magazine articles.

Google Doodle Honors Pedro Infante The Mexican Idol Today

Pedro Infante was a Mexican idol left recorded 351 songs and participated in some 60 films. They remember him for his charisma and simplicity.

Infante was born on November 18, 1917 in the city of Mazatlan and early showed a vocation for music. He learned to play guitar, piano, violin and drums in a "natural" way, proving that he had a "gift", Sergio Solís, producer at Warner Music Mexico, told EFE news agency.

The great Mexican idol Pedro Infante would be 100 years old today. He recorded 351 songs - from genres such as boleros, rancheras, corridos and huapangos - and he participated in some 60 films from the "golden era" of his country's cinema. But he is remembered, above all, for his charisma and his simplicity. These qualities are more than enough for Google to join the anniversary and dedicate their doodle today.

"Obviously, people did not want to see him playing behind the drums, people wanted to see him in front, with the microphone singing, because he had a physical presence that they liked and they too," Solis continued with a smile.

The voice of Infante, who did not reach high records, interpreted genres such as rancheras, ballads, waltz and huapangos. Some of the themes for which he is remembered are One Hundred Years, Dear Dove, My Sweetheart and Letters to Eufemia.

It is known that Infante had an amazing facility to learn the songs and record them in an agile way, although it was not like that in the first audition he made for a movie, when he was almost overcome by panic. But those initial fears did not last and Infante participated in some 60 films, including Los tres García, Nosotros los pobres and Pepe el Toro.

He was known for his charisma, which continues to trap people many decades after his death on April 15, 1957, when he was the victim of a plane crash. I was only 39 years old.

When he asks why Mexicans are still such a close figure, the explanations coincide in pointing out the personality of the idol. Eurídice Cervantes, daughter of the composer Alberto Cervantes - who knew Infante from a young age - defends the singer and actor as a simple person. In addition, he helped anyone who approached him, with work or money, but "he was not proclaiming it," he says. "It is very difficult for you to find an artist today who has all these qualities: simple, honest, humble, supportive," he says.

Much talked about the alleged rivalry of Infante with Jorge Negrete, another of the idols of the so-called "golden age" of Mexican cinema and who coincided in the movie Two types of care, in which the two are enzarzan in a remembered duel of couplets. Negrete's voice "was much more important than Pedro Infante's, but Pedro Infante's emotion was unique", reflects the tenor Fernando de la Mora.

To commemorate it, the Pedro Infante Museum in Guamúchil will be inaugurated, which will have objects that belonged to the artist, while in the capital of the country the exhibition "Por siempre, Pedro Infante" will be presented at the Bellas Artes subway station, and a mass will be celebrated in the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Chinua Achebe in Google Doodle Today - Who is He?

Chinua Achebe in Google Doodle Today - Who is He? Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart, often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

The son of an evangelical priest, Achebe started writing in the 1950s. His most famous work, the 1958 book Things Fall Apart, has been published in more than 50 languages.

"One man took it upon himself to tell the world the story of Nigeria through the eyes of its own people," wrote Google in a blog post explaining Thursday's doodle.

Doodle's say: One man took it upon himself to tell the world the story of Nigeria through the eyes of its own people. Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) was the studious son of an evangelical priest. A student of English literature, he started writing in the 1950s, choosing English as his medium but weaving the storytelling tradition of the Igbo people into his books.

Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okinkwo, a village chief in Nigeria whose world is destroyed by the introduction of British colonialism and Christian missionaries. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

His characters were insiders, everyday people such as the village chief (in Things Fall Apart), the priest (in Arrow of God), or the school teacher (in A Man of the People). Through their stories, we witness a Nigeria at the crossroads of civilization, culture, and generations.

His pen brought to life the land and traditions of the Igbo: the hum of everyday village life; the anticipation and excitement of sacred masquerades; the stories of the elders and the honor of warriors; the joy of family and the grief of loss.

Considered by many to be the father of modern African literature, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2007. Surrounded by iconic images of his most famous literary works, today’s Doodle celebrates his legacy on what would have been his 87th birthday.

Hole Punch History: Today is 131st Anniversary of The Hole Puncher - Wonderfull Stuff From Centuries

Hole Punch History: The hole puncher is familiar with office tool that is used to create holes in sheets of paper, often for the purpose of collecting the sheets in a binder or folder. A leather punch, of different construction from one designed for paper, is used for leather goods, cloth, or thin plastic sheeting. Hole punch tools are also made for use on sheet metal, such as aluminum siding or metal air ducts

It’s a familiar scene with a familiar tool: the gentle rat-tat-tat on the table as you square up a dangerously thick stack of papers, still warm from the printer. The quiet anticipation and heady uncertainty as you ask yourself the ultimate question: can it cut through all this? The satisfying, dull “click!” of the blade as it punches through the sheets.

The series of crisp, identical holes it produces, creating a calming sense of unity among an otherwise unbound pile of loose leaf. And finally, the delightful surprise of the colorful confetti byproduct – an accidental collection of colorful, circular leftovers.

In 1992, a young woman and professional paper-craft-artist, Bernadette Chenard, who originally used leather punches and standard hole punches to create shapes from paper, grew tired of the sound of the hammer pounding to the paper and the difficulty achieving professional results.

In search of a solution, Bernadette contacted many die companies in the hope of purchasing some small decorative punches not aware there was none such for home use. Having been repeatedly told that decorative die punches were only used by large manufacturers such as Hallmark, she finally contacted the president of one of the largest die manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and shared her concept and suggestion that making small decorative paper punches available to the general public would prove to be a successful market. A year later the first decorative paper punches appeared on the market and a new generational trend was born.

Hole Punch History - Today we celebrate 131 years of the hole puncher, an understated – but essential – artifact of German engineering. As modern workplaces trek further into the digital frontier, this centuries-old tool remains largely, wonderfully, the same. (Doodle - Wikipedia)

Tentang Apa Itu Studio Musik Elektronik Yang Diperingati ke-66

Apa Itu Studio Musik Elektronik?

Hari ini Rabu 18 Oktober 2017 adalah ulang tahun ke-66 Studio for Electronic Music. Apa Itu Studio Musik Elektronik? Pertama kalinya studio ini dinamakan Musik Elektronik Radio Jerman Barat yang berlokasi di Cologne dan merupakan studio musik elektronik pertama di dunia.

Konsep studio itu dibangun untuk membuat musik elektronik bisa dicetak oleh komposer Werner Meyer-Eppler, Robert Beyer, dan Herbert Eimert. Mereka selama bertahun-tahun telah melakukan aktivitas untuk memenuhi persyaratan secara teknikal menjawab tantangan tersebut.

Studio musik pertama ini menjadi wahana berlindung bagi musisi dan produser yang berinovasi dari seluruh dunia. Oleh karena itu maka suara disintesis secara elektronik telah mengalami percampuran hingga menciptakan genre musik baru yang banyak dinikmati pendengar dari berbagai kalangan.

Seniman yang berkumpul di studio menciptakan irama dan ritme terobosan baru, mengedit dan mencampur suara dengan menggunakan peralatan dan komposisi musik dengan teknik yang baru. Bukan hanya itu para komposer dan produserjuga datang dari berbagai kalangan menjadikan studio jadi tempat berkembang bagi musik itu sendiri.

Sampai tahun 2000, Studio Musik Elektronik terus mendorong batas-batas musik dan mengembangkan suara dan memasukan ide dan gagasan yang lebih baru lagi. Dan perayaan akan ulang tahunnya yang ke 66 di abadikan oleh ilustrator Doodle, Henning Wagenbreth yang bertempat di Berlin, merayakan keragaman pemikiran dan imajinasi yang membangun studio ini dan mengubah musik menjadi hal yang memungkinkan untuk terus berkembang.