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"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists. Its lyrics are about a couple's romance during the winter season.
As a mashup, we have used a melody from the great Bruce Springsteen song: Dancing In the Dark.
"Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. It was the first single released ahead from his 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., and became his biggest hit, helping the album become the best-selling album of his career.
I counted eleven songs, so Broken Peach has been performing Christmas specials even longer than they have Halloween specials. Congratulations on a decade of performing and pleasing their fans!
Ingredients
3 oz Cranberry Juice
.75 oz Creme De Cacao
1/2 oz Peppermint Vodka
Heavy Creame [sic]
Direction
Add all ingredients except Heavy Cream into shaker tin. Shake up over ice. Strain into clean glass. Top with Heavy Cream Garnish with cranberries covered in sugar[.]
Drink responsibly!
Finally, as Broken Peach themselves wrote ten years ago, "¡Feliz Navidad! - ¡Bo Nadal! - ¡Bon Nadal! - Eguberri! …. Merry Christmas!" Now stay tuned for Hanukkah, followed by year-end retrospectives through New Year's Eve.
["Amazon Mafia"] is another video I can recommend to my students. It's just as strong on the environment as In Real Life: Plastic Time Bomb, even if it's weaker on the science. It, like all the other nominated episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, makes up for it by being strong on long-form investigative reporting and crime coverage. In fact, "Fish Pirates" earned a nomination for Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form as well as Outstanding Writing: News and I've already mentioned that "White Supremacy" has nominations for Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage, Outstanding Editing: News, and Outstanding Research: News. I will try to get around to covering those categories, if I haven't already, and embedding their videos.
As much as 30% of our seafood has been caught illegally. Mariana searches for the fish pirates who make billions each year while destroying our oceans.
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About Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller:
TRAFFICKED with Mariana van Zeller is an original documentary series that explores the complex and dangerous inner-workings of the global underworld, black and informal markets. Each adventure follows Mariana on a mission to follow the chain of custody of trafficked goods, understand how to obtain the contraband, or see the 360-degree view of the trafficking world from the point of view of the smugglers, law enforcement and those caught in the crossfire.
Watching this video reminds me that I've been blogging about overfishing since 2013, when I quoted an article about climate change that mentioned overfishing as an additional threat to biodiversity, then quoted another article that detected evidence of it in old restaurant menus from Hawaii. It's been a topic of Earth Overshoot Day and a theme of World Wildlife Day and especially WorldOceansDay. Most recently, I included a video about overfishing I show to my students in Whales and fish, two stories I tell my students. Today's entry fits well with my continuing coverage of this threat to the environment and the global food supply, which means it's another video I can recommend to my students along with "Amazon Mafia."
Now for its competition in its two nominated categories.
Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form
FRONTLINE Afghanistan Undercover PBS FRONTLINE, The Associated Press, SITU Research Crime Scene: Bucha PBS Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha The New York Times Trafficked with Mariana van Zelle Fish Pirates National Geographic VICE News Tonight Above the Law: Investigating the Louisville Metro Police Department Vice
All of the nominees except "Above the Law: Investigating the Louisville Metro Police Department" have another nomination, so I can't use that to handicap the category. Both of Frontline's nominees, "Afghanistan Undercover" and "Crime Scene: Bucha," and the New York Times' Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha are also nominated for Outstanding Research: News, a category that I expect Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller's "White Supremacy" will win. Normally, I'd forecast based on the lack of other nominations that "Above the Law: Investigating the Louisville Metro Police Department," one of VICE News Tonight's 28 nominations, would be the least likely to win, but the video views say otherwise.
Continuing on, here is the other nominated category for "Fish Pirates" as well as one of two nominations for "Cocaine Queens."
Outstanding Writing: News
60 Minutes The Lost Souls of Bucha CBS 60 Minutes Pathogen X CBS 60 Minutes Platform 4 CBS Fault Lines The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Al Jazeera International USA Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller Cocaine Queens National Geographic Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller Fish Pirates National Geographic
60 Minutes has three nominated segments, two of which have two nominations, "Pathogen X" in this category and Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form and "Platform 4" in this category and Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage. "Cocaine Queens" also earned a nomination for Outstanding Editing: News. Using page views to break the tie, I'd say "Platform 4" with 700,899 views is in the lead to walk away from the podium with this award.
That concludes today's installment of this series. Return tomorrow as I plan on looking at the remaining nominations for Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. Stay tuned.
Previous posts about the 2023 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
