The latest, named “Prayer” from an up-and-coming Polish Jazz artist Karolina Glazer. The song “Prayer” is a solo vocal only. There is no accompaniment. I think she’s remarkable.
Karlona Glazer was born on June 10, 1982 in Gliwice, Poland. Karolina was brought up within an environment of people involved in art. Her house has always been full of music, dance and plastic arts. She began her adventure with jazz when she was only a teenager, spending time at jam sessions in the Silesian Jazz Club in Gliwice. She was a student of Krystyna Pronko and Anna Serafinska. She also developed her voice during International Workshops in SLS Vocal Technique conducted by American lecturers.
In 2003 she was won a prestigious XXX International Festival Of Jazz Vocalists in Zamość, Poland. It enabled her to continue her musical development and resulted in performances at various concerts in Poland (Smart Jazzpol Festival 2003, Bluse over Bóbr 2004, Gogowskie Spotkania Jazzowe, Pilsner Urquel Jazz 2005, Colours of sound 2006). She has been well received by the critics and journalists (Jazz Forum, Jazzi Magazine). In 2004, according to fusion.pl survey, she classified fourth in popularity ranking (vocalist / vocal group) in Poland. As professionals say: the jazz environment recognizes her as a rising star of Polish jazz vocalism.
Karolina specializes in an instrumental approach to human voice and pays attention to scat improvisation technique. She experiments with her vocals by using her great imagination and a 4-octave scale. Her music is characterized by an improvisational and colourful approach to jazz.
Mobile content key element of cross-platform launch into Poland by kids brand.
MTV Networks International today unveiled the latest addition to its growing portfolio, Nickelodeon Poland.
A content shopfront on the Orange World portal has been launched in support of a new TV channel serving up the likes of Dora the Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants and Jimmy Neutron.
Nickelodeon will also be launching online with a Polish language website which will provide users with an online community, games, downloads and an online broadband video platform.
Bhavneet Singh, managing director of MTVNI’s emerging markets division said: “Our Polish team has done a tremendous job in creating what will no doubt become the standout go-to destination for Polish kids of all ages both on and off-air”.
A household favorite - and now we can watch SpongeBob Kanciastoporty (Sponge Bob Squarepants), Patryk Rozgwiazda (Patrick), Skalmar (Squidward), Pan Krab (Eugeniusz H. Krab - i.e., Mr. Krabs), Gacuś (Gary) and Plankton (Sheldon J. Plankton) the next time we’re in Poland.
I encourage you to check out Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, and if you are so inclined, to join. I have joined, and support the cause, because its aims go beyond party politics to core issues that of concern to all Americans.
In his organizational statement , Ron Paul explains:
The work of the Campaign for Liberty will take many forms. We will educate our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets. We’ll have our own commentaries and videos on the news of the day. I’ll work with friends I respect to design materials for homeschoolers.
We’ll keep an eye on Congress and lobby against legislation that threatens us. We’ll identify and support political candidates who champion our great ideas against the empty suits the party establishments offer the public.
We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape…
People frustrated with our political system often wonder what they can do. I have founded this organization to answer that question, to give people the opportunity to do something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom. Please join me by becoming a member of the Campaign for Liberty. Our goal is 100,000 members by September…
“In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”
Freedom of speech and our ability to imagine a better tomorrow. Note: video contains an off-color phrase…
If you get a chance check out his other videos here. I liked the one about Mitt Romney and “Secret secrets of scientologist …” He also does a good parody of George Bush as Harry Potter. The language in most is rough so use caution.
Pastor John Hagee is a towering leader in the Evangelical Church who has dedicated a great part of his enormously successful ministry to reaching out in love and loving-kindness to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. He has admirably defended our right to our historic homeland even when our enemies have attempted to disgorge us from our homes and drive us into the sea; he has praised the Lord for having imbued us, the “post- Holocaust dry bones of Ezekiel,” with renewed life and vigor… He has organized Christian lobby groups for the only true democracy in the Middle East across the length and breadth of the United States even when a former American President and professors from Harvard and Chicago Universities have denounced our own lobbying efforts as un-American and anti-Democratic.
Pastor Hagee has expressed his profound affection for us even when it has been most unpopular to do so. Can we, the recipients of his heart and goodwill, dare be silent now, when the political frenzy of primary elections hysterically seeks to defame and discredit one of the greatest voices on behalf of Christian-Jewish healing and cooperation? No, for the sake of Jerusalem and for the sake of the God of love and peace we must raise our voices in support of and friendship for the very individual who has never faltered in his support and friendship for us!
Does this mean that I must necessarily agree with all of the theological positions taken by Pastor Hagee? Not at all! True friendship means that I continue to love and even partner with my friend, despite disagreeing with him on even fundamental positions of theology and ideology - as long as his views do not threaten the life or limb of innocent human beings…
We are living in a world divided between those who believe in a God of love and peace, and those who believe in a Satan of Jihad and suicide bombers. Any attempt to marginalize and slander leaders of the camp of the former will only serve to strengthen the camp of the latter, with the future existence of the free world perilously hanging in the balance. And so I continue to proudly shout from the rooftops that this rabbi in Israel stands firmly alongside -his beloved friend, a true friend of Israel and the free world, Pastor John Hagee.
Shlomo Riskin
Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel
Founder: Ohr Torah Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Cooperation.
Three things:
First, I guess it is that easy - all us good, all them Muslim and assorted other folk bad.
Second, who are the innocent human beings the Rabbi wishes to protect? Only those he deems innocent or worthy? That does not count all them there bad people (who are just all bad) I guess.
Third, check out the YouTube video below, especially from time mark 2:13 forward. I’ll take advice from the one Rabbi that matters and not from Rabbi Riskin. See the Ohr Torah Stone Center’s About Us page where he says:
Over two decades ago, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin dreamt of inspiring a new movement of Jewish leadership which would successfully synthesize Halachic commitment with the needs of contemporary Western life, and work toward the unification of the Jewish world by promoting a Judaism based on tolerance, openness and inclusion. In 1983, Rabbi Riskin embarked upon the process of realizing his vision with the founding of Ohr Torah Stone Colleges and Graduate Programs.
The words “Ohr Torah” literally mean “the Torah is light,” and refer to the enlightening beacon which radiates from a true combination of Torah values, Zionist ideals, and a dedication to tikkun olam…
So the Rabbi seeks to tell us that the Torah will enlighten us? I prefer having Christ Who is our light. Faith tells me I am enlightened far beyond anything any man can provide.
“Everyone needs a Rabbi? We have one. His name is… Jesus. I don’t need this guy.”
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson, a superdelegate who supports Hillary Rodham Clinton, said she’s showing “a little desperation” and should give up her effort to count votes from renegade primaries in Michigan and Florida.
Paterson said Thursday that Clinton shouldn’t derail the process by which the national Democratic Party stripped Michigan and Florida of their national convention delegates because they moved their primaries up to January in violation of party rules. The rules were agreed to by all the candidates, including Clinton, before she won the two January contests. Because of the violations, no candidates campaigned in either state and her rival Barack Obama took him name off the Michigan ballot.
“I would say at this point we’re starting to see a little desperation on the part of a woman I still support and will support until she makes a different determination,” Paterson told WAMC-FM. “Candidates have to be cautious in their zeal to win that they don’t trample on the process…”
Gov. Paterson understands the reality of the situation. Ms. Clinton is turning this into an argument over democracy: From the Globe and Mail
Ms. Clinton made the point herself this week at a rally in Florida.
“We believe that casting your vote is the truest expression of your will. Here in Florida, you learned the hard way what happens when your votes aren’t counted. If any votes aren’t counted, the will of the people isn’t realized and our democracy is diminished.”
…which simply is not true. As the Governor states, its about the process, a process that follows organizational rules members are bound to observe. Party nominating fights are not about democracy in the proper sense. They are about membership in the party and following its rules in regard to nominating contests. If Ms. Clinton purports that its about democracy she has no real grasp of the meaning of the term.
To make it simple for the overwrought: You belong to the Elks? You can vote in your Lodge’s elections. To do so you must follow the Elks rules for such things (and I have no idea what they are).
The leaders of Florida’s and Michigan’s Democratic Parties are at fault. They should be held to account by the members of their states’ organizations. They are the ones who blew it for their states. Problem is - they will never own up or be accountable to anyone.
Simple rule of life - if you belong to an organization and cannot follow its rules, quit and join another one whose rules you like better. People do it all the time - because they don’t like the stinkin’ rules. Rules! We don’t need no stinkin’ rules…
Came across an interesting musical group from the Ukraine - Hydamaky. They do a blend of Ukrainian and Carpathian folk, reggae, and punk. As one friend pointed out to me - you have to suffer a lot to make music like this. Soulful, beautiful. Enjoy.
Zaraz wracam
