Mark Matson is a respected financial expert who helps thousands of people to survive and thrive in today’s turbulent financial environment. In a world where protecting your investment portfolio from the dangers of a roller-coaster financial market is becoming harder every day, Mark Matson provides viewers with strategies for separating “the wheat from the chaffe”.

In this 60-minute pledge special (90-minute pledge event), Mark Matson helps viewers to navigate through the dangerous waters of today’s economy to achieve their goals for financial security.

Create, manage and position your wealth and retirement to minimize tax burden. Get valuable tips for choosing safe places for your money in these times of great change. Position yourself to be in a good place to grow your wealth when new opportunities materialize.

The Canadian singer/songwriter recently released “Days to Recall”, his first album in the U.S. and Tracy Smith reports how his music and story, will inspire you. Check out the video, here!

Coming to Public Television in the Winter of 2011, THE FAIRYTALE deftly weaves folklore and music from around the world into a lush and eclectic symphonic journey. A moving, musical love story, The Fairytale is the epic saga of an unusual couple who fall in love, lose each other, and are finally reunited in an altogether different world…

by NPR STAFF (Original Article here)

Some young female musicians in Belgium experienced a small career change one day, when their classical choir morphed into a rock cover band. Conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied on piano by his brother Steven, the group collectively known as Scala & Kolacny Brothers has built a career on transforming rock radio hits into otherworldly choral pieces.

Scala & Kolacny Brothers had its breakout moment in the U.S. this past year, when its cover of Radiohead‘s “Creep” was featured in the trailer for the film The Social Network. The choir’s reinterpretation transforms the song’s self-loathing lyrics into something sweeter, but as Steven Kolacny tells Morning Edition guest host Linda Wertheimer, lyrics weren’t the group’s main focus.

“The most important thing is the mood. We tried to find another mood, another feeling … something completely different,” Kolacny says. He adds that the group’s philosophy when choosing songs is all about finding styles that contrast with its own. “If you go to the more popular songs likeMadonna or Michael Jackson, I don’t think that will work for Scala. But if you go to Metallica, Muse, Radiohead, maybe even more alternative rock sounds like Marilyn Manson, that works very well.”

Kolacny says Radiohead was a key part of the once-classical ensemble’s transition to rock covers, which came about after a friend gave him a CD with some of the band’s live recordings.

“My question was, how is it possible that a choir these days is not able to sing rock music?” he asks. The answer, Kolacny says, was easy: “There are no scores — that’s it. You need somebody making the right scores of the right songs for the right choir.”

The group does have a few originals in its catalog. One standout track from its new self-titled album is “Seashell,” whose organ riffs and bouncy rhythms recall another European group: ABBA. Stijn Kolacny says it’s all part of Scala’s mission to entertain above all else. ”I think there is [enough misery] in the world,” he says. “When people come to a show and listen to Scala, it’s great that they’re moved or that they smile and step out of a venue and are happy. Maybe only for a moment — but we did our job.”

Regardless of one’s religious background or orientation, Jesus towers as a figure of paramount importance in human history. From International Media comes a compelling, thought-provoking documentary produced for the BBC that examines the life of Jesus and places him in an historical context, offering new archeological and social insights from world-renowned scholars.

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