SVT video: Klubbland #11 Robyn. Concert performances and behind-the-scenes with Robyn and her band at the Falconer Salen in Copenhagen, 2010. http://svtplay.se/v/2224575/klubbland/klubbland__11_robyn In this 22-minute program, that also has some spoken English conversations and English subtitles, Robyn sings complete versions of Fembot, Dancing On My Own, and With Every Heartbeat. Just like it says on the Klubblandhemsida,"Gå på konsert varje vecka utan att lämna datorn" - "Go to a concert every week without leaving your computer." Originally broadcast on SVT November 5, 2010, this video is available on SVT Play until Thursday May 5th, 2011.
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SVT video: -Robyn sings LIVE versions of With Every Heartbeat, and Be Mine at the 2008 Fredspriskonserten (Nobel Peace Prize Concert), Oslo, Norway, backed by a symphony orchestra, December 2008. http://youtu.be/pkBwlOFM9D0
Wow! That's what crazy amounts of sheer talent performs like at a big-time event: pitch-perfect!
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http://svtplay.se/t/155215/robyn_-_live_i_stockholm SVT video: Robyn - live i Stockholm (Live in Stockholm) This December 15th, 2010 concert before 3000 fans at Berns Hotel in Stockholm was the climax of Robyn's 2010 U.S. and European tour, and was rebroadcast onSVT April 15th, 2011. It's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Sunday May 15th, 2011 and is just under 57 minutes long.
Song order: Fembot, Dancing On My Own, We Dance to the Beat, and The Girl & The Robot
PetraMarkgrenWangler follows Robyn'scareer as teen idol until her amazing worldwide success of today and talks to her about her life as a popular artist and has lots of great behind-the-scenes footage of her tour.
Originally broadcast on SVT April 15, 2011, it's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Monday May 16th, 2011, and is just over 58 minutes long.
Featured songs include: Dancing on my own, With every heartbeat, and The girl and the robot.
SVT: Carola och Robin Gibb framför "How deep is your love" Robin Gibb and Carola Häggkvistsing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skalvan", February 2011. http://svt.se/2.149571/1.2321117/inga-britt_ahlenius_talar_ut_om_fn_och_carola_aterforenas_med_robin_gibb
Frederick Skavlan's TV program on SVT, Skavlan, had popular Swedish singer CarolaHäggkvist a.k.a Carola, with singer/composer Robin Gibb, who wrote the songs for Carola's 1986 very popular album, Runaway, which was recorded in Miami. Here Robin and Carola sing one of the most-popular songs ever recorded, co-written by him, Maurice and Barry, from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, How Deep Is Your Love. This video is available on the SVT Playwebsite until February 12, 2012. This entire episode of Skavlan from this past week is available at http://svtplay.se/t/102974/skavlan It can be seen on the SVT Play website until May 8th. Robin is the very first guest and the entire interview is in English, with the intro into his segment coming 37 seconds into the program.
The one-and-only original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc
SVT Rapport - Här är Saabs nya stridsflygplan Here's Saab's new fighter plane. http://svtplay.se/v/2307433/har_ar_saabs_nya_stridsflygplan This video ran on Wednesday night's Swedish TV (SVT) thirty-minute national newscast and has some English but is mostly in Swedish.
This particular video is available on the SVT Play website until January 25, 2012, and if you are curious enough to want to watch the entire newscast, which features an interesting report on security in Moscow -at 10:56- following the Chechen suicide bombing last week at the airport, you can see it at: http://svtplay.se/v/2307476/rapport/25_1_19_30_-_textat?cb,a1366518,1,f,-1/pb,a1366516,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2308531/sb,p103263,1,f,-1 I've selected the version of the newscast that has closed-captioning so that you can see what some of the words you are hearing actually look like, as it's more logical than it sounds.You can watch the newscast vid until Tuesday February 1st, and as always, I recommend that you hit the Full screen button on the bottom right marked "Fullskärm." The story on the fighter plane comes on at 19:39.
Saab delivers nEUROn fuselage to Dassault Aviation
Also read this story on the $4 billion sale of 36 fighter jets to Brazil from France that may be on the verge of collapsing under new Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the possibility that Saab or Boeing will swoop-in and take it from Dassault, lock, stock and lavalier.
"Rousseff has indicated she wants to review the political agreement between the two heads of state and "start over" the evaluation process that pitted the Rafale against Boeing Co.'s (BA) F-18 and the Gripen made by Sweden's Saab AB (SAAB-B.SK)"
Dassault Workers' Bonuses Hinge On Rafale Export Deal January 25, 2011, 10:29 A.M. ET By David Pearson of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110125-710700.html
Gripen's current website -in English- at http://www.gripen.com/en/index.htm is moving to http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen
Photos of Gripen is at: http://www.saabgroup.com/Air/Gripen-Fighter-System/gripen-downloads/Image-bank/
There's a video in Portuguese on Saab's website about their efforts and capabilities there: http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen-for-brazil
Here's the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in Flight [HD] Saab JAS 39 Gripen (Griffin) Fighter in Flight [HD] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSJ4i8IExjY
The first five photos above are screenshots I took ofAmanda Römmesmo Diaz (as Lucia) from Tuesday morning's St. Lucia concert at Kungsholms Church in Stockholm, that was broadcast LIVE by SVT -at 7 a.m.- in an event officially titled, Luciamorgon i Kungsholms kyrka.
The ridiculously cute St. Lucia icon/photo directly below those photos of Amanda is from Elina Thorsell's blog post Tuesday, as the flute-playing member of Timoteijrecounts what she was up to today on one of the biggest days on the Scandinavian calendar.
This was updated in December 2015
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Lucia
Av Elina den 13/12/2010
Idag är det den 13 december och julen närmar sig med stormsteg! När jag gick upp imorse så var tv.n på och luciafirandet strömmade ut ur högtalarna. Så fint!... Read the rest of Elina's post at:http://www.timoteij.se/2010/12/13/lucia/
In Elina's particular case, the celebration of the Queen of Light amidst supernatural forces, included her going to her little brother's school to listen to him and his classmates sings some festive traditional holiday songs. What a sweetie she is!
As the ever-adorable Elina alludes to in her post, Swedish TV was in full St. Lucia mode today from the get-go, and one of those features was SVT's fabulous one-hour broadcast this morning featuring the Södra Latin Chamber Choir -conducted by Jan Risberg- singing traditional Lucia and Christmas favorites like, well, yes, angels, even as the St. Luciaaction holds our attention, as our brunette Lucia, Amanda, stays perfectly still throughout the ceremony, with four burning candles on her head wreath.
Good job, Amanda!
Also appearing this morning to sing some traditional Christmas favorites and give it some oomph were some very popular singers like Darin, Sonja Aldén, Shirley Clamp and Sanna Nielsen.
As always when I recommend an SVT program for your enjoyment here on the blog, once you have pulled-up the SVT web page, click the word "Fullskärm" to the bottom right in order to make it "full screen." Though some of the program is in Swedish, obviously, you'll still be able to appreciate the songs without knowing a single word of svensk.
I really urge you to watch some of it -if not the whole thing- as a means of not only reducing your own holiday stress, but gaining some Scandinavian cultural awareness, PLUS, and I can't emphasize this enough, the audio and video production qualities of this are just flat-out amazing! Especially considering thatSVT had this entire program up on their website within hours of it airing!
(I have a future blog post on the amazing technical quality of SVT and SVT Play's programs and website that features plenty of examples of why they win so many design and technical awards.)
There's no heavy-handed VO narration by some un-seen quasi-celeb, nobody in the audience aping for the cameras, nobody in the church trying to steal the limelight from the kids performing. In a sense, it's almost like watching a documentary on another culture, with cameras that are carefully hidden to prevent anyone from acting un-naturally. The video is available for watching on the SVT Play web page until January 11, 2011, so you only have a month to catch it before it goes buh-bye!
2015 Update: Excerpts from SVT's 2010 Luciamorgon, i Kungsholms kyrka, via 398asa YouTube Channel
SVT's holiday webpage,http://svt.se/2.114277/julen_i_svt_2010 is chock-a-block full of interesting things and as usual, is not only clever and colorful -while a bit cheeky- but also well-produced, but NOT busy and cluttered, unlike the Miami Herald andSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel'sweb pages these days, which cause me to get a headache at the complete waste of resources in an area like South Florida that is crying out for real news coverage, not more syndicated photo files of B-List celebs or amusing animals.
Will someone please put a stop to that madness before the shareholders finally find out what's been going the past few years?
Tell them that the second-rate websites and the duplication of stories isn't fooling anyone about the actual quality of the product anymore?
We see thru the self-serving lies, the ridiculous fallacies, clear-cut news mis-representation and the longstanding charade that most of the reporters, columnists and editors really want to bring compelling stories to the public's attention -they don't.
That dog doesn't hunt anymore, plus, it's so, so painful to wade thru all the junk online plus seeing links to so-called Breaking News that's already 18 hours old.
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I know that I am remiss in this, and I've already received some emails from overseas the past few days asking me why I haven't said anything yet about the suicide bombings in Stockholm.
Well, I'm working on something right now in regards to that specifically, as well as the larger change in Swedish political and social culture. I think it'll give you some real insight into some matters that you won't find elsewhere in South Florida, though that clearly isn't really much to brag about these days, is it?
All-in-all, I think at least some of you of a more serious bent will be surprised at what you learn -as well as disturbed- and find out how much has been going on in a modern democratic European country like Sweden that you haven't been hearing about in the American mainstream media, print and electronic.
For instance, the efforts by certain non-native groups that aren't particularly keen to assimilate and adapt to Swedish norms of democracy and civics, to actually prevent people from being able to speak freely at public forums, and inciting violence so that they can then be cast by the news media as victims. There has been an awful lot of that! Whether you haven't seen it in print or on TV already in the U.S. because of journalistic laziness, editorial myopia or that old alibi, lack or resources, I can't say. But after you read a bit and see some videos I have in mind for you all, you won't be able to say that you didn't know. And the facts are pretty compelling, especially when you have the video that tells the tale.
If you think the mainstream news media in the U.S. is condescending and ideologically against the interests of the average American, you have no idea how much worse it is in Sweden, as the election coverage showed.
As Christmas nears in the U.S., nobody-but-nobody wants 'legacy media' in their Christmas stocking, not even their own employees. It's the same thing in Sverige.
To paraphrase ABC Sports' Keith Jackson, when you have Aranäs vs. Hammarby andSävehof vs. Spårvägen in handball, "you just have to throw out the record books!" Tell me, again, why is the U.S. uncompetitive in this sport internationally?
Trust me, you won't see these particular scores in theMiami Herald on Saturday, and not just because their Sports Dept. seems to go to sleep early around the weekends, often not reporting scores of ballgames in the paper the next day that finished well before 11:30 p.m.
Like one of the two 2010 NCAA Women's Basketball National Semifinals, to name but one example of many, which the New York Times somehow managed to get into print down here, along with a game story and photos, while there was NADA in the woebegone Herald. (More on the awful Herald Sports Dept.is coming soon! When it rains, it pours!) Just saying...
Meanwhile, SVT's video of the Spårvägen vs. IK Sävehof Women's showdown...
Story at:http://svt.se/2.21095/1.2191771/femte_raka_segern_for_savehofs_damer?lid=senasteNytt_1891271&lpos=rubrik_2191771 Next game is Sunday at Dinamo Volgograd
How many times have I written here on my humble blog,"You can't stop Sävehof'sIsabelle Gulldén, you can only hope to contain her."
IK Sävehof official team website, Men & Women: http://www.savehof.se/ SVT'shandboll homepage: http://svt.se/2.21103/handboll
European Handball Federationofficial website: http://www.eurohandball.com/
EHFVideo highlights and entire games free of charge at: http://www.ehftv.com/
