Georges St-Pierre

Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) artist. He is also known as GSP or Georges “Rush” St-Pierre.

St-Pierre had a difficult childhood, attending a school where others would steal his clothes and money. He started learning Kyokushin karate at age seven from his father and later from a Kyokushin Karate Master to defend himself against a school bully. He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu after his karate teacher died and also trained in boxing. Before turning pro as a mixed-martial artist, St-Pierre worked as a bouncer at a Montreal night club in the South Shore called Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to pay for his school fees. 

He is the current Welterweight Champion of the UFC. St-Pierre is ranked as the number #1 Welterweight in the world according to Sherdog. He is also ranked as the #1 "pound for pound" fighter by Yahoo! Sports and the #2 "pound for pound" fighter by Sherdog.

In 2008 and in 2009, he was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet, as well as the 2008–2009 Most Outstanding Fighter by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Georges St-Pierre also won the Fighter of the Year award from the 2009 World MMA Awards.

 Oliver Pellouchoud

THE GOSPEL Song

Hi everybody!

So I'll intruduce you to the origins of the gospel. It's something that I really like!

The gospel is a mix between music and religion.  It comes from the expression “God Spell”. It’s the Black African who begin to sing this song when they were in the fields. Because they were slaves, they pray a lot to God.

The subject of the song can be sometimes sadly but it was the reality of the labours and singing to God was the way that they could support their situation.

The gospel was born in the XIXth century; it becomes the equivalent of the Blues.

The style of this, is the African style, the people sing very loud, they strike hands and feet and slam fingers. There is often a soloist (a singer who sings alone) and the choir which answers him/her. In this music the voices allow all what they want. For example someone can improvise and shout and so on.

Now a day the gospel is always to sing to God but we use it more in the church, even when you are Black or White and we can hear concert of it.

Tina R.

David Villa

David Villa was born on December 3rd in Langreo in Asturias (Northwest of Spain). He is a Spanish football player evolving in FC Barcelona as striker. He begins his career in Real Sporting de Gijon. He plays for this team for five years. Then he leaves this club to join Real Saragossa in 2003. He scores 32 goals in two years in championship.

In 2005, David join Valencia for 12 million euros. He's going to make the beautiful day of the club. For his first season with Valencia he scores 25 goals and finished 2nd better striker of the championship. With those performances, he will be selected in Spain's team.

He competes his first match with Spain against San Marino (victory 5-0). He participates in World Cup inn 2006 in Germany and scores 3 goals in four matchs. During the Euro 2008 in Swiss and in Austriahe scores 4 goals and become the best scorer of the Euro. He injures himself and cannot play finale (victory 1-0 Against Germany). He explodes in the Wolrd Cup 2010 in South Africa with 5 purposes.

After that many rich clubs want him and part in Barcelona in 2010 to help Valencia to fill its debts. (A big soul I says it to you)

This year he is nominated for the Golden Ball and has big chances to win that trophy.


Gilles

Schindler's list

"The list, it is the life"

Schindler's list was realized by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and is inspired by the novel of Thomas Keneally. It is a true story.

 

It is the story of a man, Oskar Schindler, a member from the nazi party, who, during the holocaust, saved 1'100 Jews of death of concentration camps by employing them in his company just for protect them. This man risked his own life to save people and it is a legend. When the war was over, the Jews thank him by hiding him from Americans who punished the nazis of the Second World War.

Steven Spielberg asked for no salary by making Schindler's list, because for him thath would have been a blood money.
Schindler's list was rewarded a lot during its release, partially of 7 Oscars.

This movie is one of the best that I saw. First, because it tells real facts and it is a serious subject about it is necessary to be inform. And then because is very beautiful and moving and it is a very good message of solidarity, it is a lesson of life for everyone.

If one day you want to see a wonderfull movie, look at this one. I am sure that you'll love it and you can't hold on crying.

Lola Cudilleiro

DAFINA ZEQIRI

Dafina Zeqiri was born on April 14th 1984 in Varberg in Sweden. Her nickname is Duffy. She is a Swedish, Kosovar and Albanian singer. She became interested in music at a young age, and being inspired by her mother (once a popular Albanian singer in Kosovo) Dafina took the first steps in this subject.Starting as a writer text Dafina has already managed to become one of the most famous singers.

Prior to her singing career within Kosovo, her first release was "Get It On", which never reached the success of her later hits.

When Duffy began her career in Kosovo she won the 1st place in a competition called Polifest 2007 in Prishtina, Kosovo with her song: "Rrall E Permall". In Polifest 2008 she won the 1st place with her song "Adios". Duffy released her first album KnockDown, in July 2008, where there was a great success.

Some of her hits include "La Vida Loca" sung as a duet with Kosovar Singer Blero and the song "Shum Nalt" which is sung with two famous rappers: 2po2 and Capital T. She is known for hip hop dancing. Her later hits range from the 2009 Summer Hit "Shume Larg" and the 2010 hit "Amazing Girl".

She is now in collaboration with singer-song writer Shaneal and has created a new song titled Rock This Club. Today she is one of Kosovo's most famous young performers in the Albanian community. Her style is hip-hop with r&b flavor. As of now she currently resides in Prishtina, Kosovo and Malmö, Sweden.

This singer already came in Switzerland several times but I have not still had the opportunity to see her.I find that she is very original and I find that she has an exceptional voice. I think that it is one more for her to sing in English set apart the Albanian which is her mother tongue.

You can watch one of his videos if you're interested - " Rock this club "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qsXMtCxcQ

EDINA MUJA

Danakil

Danakil is a french raggae band which was born in 2000 in  a college in Marly-Le-Roi (France, 78) where friends was composing sounds at school. The name "Danakil" comes from a desert in Ethiopia. The group contains 8 members. The most famous is Balik, the singer/song writer.

Balik

The group began his first tour in 2005 in little bars where 1000 demos called "Microclimat" will be sold. Then the band sang in many places in Paris and celebrity came naturally. Teenagers love more and more the way they share their raggae culture and sounds.In 2008 the album named "dialogues de sourds" came out and the success is immediate. They are rewarded with "le meilleur album raggae français 2008" for their hard work. The band don't stop composing sounds and a new album is expected for the end of 2011.

Hope you like it.

Corentin

FERRARI

Ferrari is a car built by Italian car manufacturer. Founded in 1947 by Enzo Ferrari and based in Maranello, the company produced a large number of models for the road and for the sporting event. The good results obtained by Scuderia Ferrari in the world championship of Formula 1, in which it takes part since its creation in 1950.

Ferrari is a luxury car because is made with expensive materials. Even if the number of people that can buy these models aren’t much because their price are very expensive (between 200'000.- and 400'000.-)

The best part of ferrari is the motor because it’s powerful and the sound it’s just amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w56TeN9ZnCg&feature=related Enjoy !!

                                                     (Ferrari F430 Scuderia )

Ferrari is considered "the most famous brands in the history of the automobile"

The company decides year after year the exact number of cars it will sell. To make it even more exclusive.In 2008, 6'600 cars have been sold.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was born 31 August 1947 in Bologna is an Italian industrialist, chairman of Ferrari and Fiat.

************************Mike Mariano********************************* 

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl was created by Josh Schwartz &Stephanie Savage. The series appeared to television in 2007 (States) and in 2008 (Europe). For the moment, there is 4 season. The first three seasons were broadcast and now, there is the season four who is broadcasting on internet. But at first, Gossip Girl was a book. Then, they adapted it on TV.

The story is basic; rich girls who love gossip and every other ‘girl’s things’ and rich boys who love girls and every other ‘boy’s things’. They live in a perfect rich world. The series begin with the arrival of Serena van der Woodsen, who comes back in Manhattan after one year abroad. She finds back her (ex)  best friend, Blair Waldorf. And it’s the beginning of fights, tricks, etc … between them. But the story isn’t just about Blair’s and Serena’s life and what append to them.  There are a lot of other people. Like Chuck, Nate, Dan, Jenny, Vanessa, etc …

The fact who makes Gossip Girl interesting is that, there is an unknown person; Gossip Girl. No one knows her identity. She had a site where she writes gossip about everybody. She has the power of destroyed everyone’s reputation.

  Gossip Girl was created for girls but I think that men can watch it too. Everybody can watch it. Because I think that Gossip Girl is not just about boys and girls who broke up and want to make the life of the other one a nightmare, it’s not about shopping, gossip, etc… It’s about life. It’s about what happen in life. Bad and good things. And even if we are not just like them, even if it’s just a little TV series, we can identify us to a character.

For the 4 season, they come in Paris for scenes and I just missed them of one day. They turned near where I was, I would have been able to see them.

So, if one day you don’t know what to do, you can go on internet and watch it ;)

Claire

Mozilla Seabird

Concept phone Mozilla Seabird in video 
Across program Concept Series, Mozilla Labs makes available a field of expression for the community and of collaboration for plans intended to push back the borders of the web and the Internet navigator. Billy May, a designer produces and recognized member of the community Mozilla Labs proposes its interpretation of the fact that could be the mobile of future, based on an internet in the free standards. The virtual concept was baptized Seabird and can be discovered through a video of presentation:

Mozilla Seabird in video

The innovation by the video projection with Mozilla Seabird

Seabird has the peculiarity to integrate two mini-videoprojectors grace in which it offers the user-friendliness and the level of interaction of a netbook. This integration is brilliant in its use: an objective takes care to throw the image on a wall while the other one reproduces a complete keyboard next to the smartphone.

In another measure, both projectors can reproduce each a part of the keyboard, on both sides the device. The gratitude of the commands of the user is made by infrared and Seabird so passes of the status of simple smartphone in that of the laptop.

Infrared control mechanism integrated(joined) into Seabird

Finally, the other interesting innovation, the auricle Bluetooth. Integrated behind the smartphone, the auricle Bluetooth can also serve as infrared remote control appreciatively movements (movement, zoom) into the 3D space. A real embarked timekeeper.

The concept Seabird remains virtual and embarks technologies which do not still allow his realization.

Here, I have finished my small futuristic article and the good end of holidays  =(

Luca Desgalier

Rihanna is to Music what Diamonds are to jewelry .

As you can imagine, I'm going to introduce you Rihanna.

She was born in Saint-Michael, Barbados on the 20th february 1988.

Her real name is Rihanna Robyn Fenty. She has been discovered by Jay-Z, the famous rapper, husband of the Diva : Beyoncé Knowles. Who won many awards. (see her best show at the Grammy's Award in January 2010, "If I Were a Boy")

Beyoné Knowles  & Jay-Z

This R&B singer is one of the most famous at the moment, 

she recorded 4 albums :

-Music of The Sun - 2005 (with her first top chart song : "Pon The Replay")

-A Girl Like Me - 2006 (with "Unfaithful", "If It's Lovin' That U Want", "Kisses Don't Lie" or "S.O.S")

-Good Girl Gone Bad - 2007 (with "Umbrella ft Jay-Z", "Shut Up And Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" or "Rehab ft Justin Timberlake"), a reloaded of this album was made and two songs were added : "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow".

-Rated R - 2009 (with "Russian Roulette", "Rude Boy" or "Te Amo")

In november 2010, her brand new album "LOUD" will be on store, you can all imagine that I can't wait no more for it to come out! The first record of this album's called "Only Girl (In The World)" and this song is one of the best she never did.

Rihanna "LOUD" cover

Rihanna 2010

Rihanna changed a lot during her beginning until now, she grown and found who she really is. She had troubles with her ex boyfriend Chris Brown because he hit her (MOFO)!! That love story made a lot of noise in celebrities world. Even Mariah Carey called Rihanna to take care of her (how nice Mariah is!). Her album "Rated R" took influences by this story for the songs' lyrics.

I love Rihanna because she knows how to be herself, I went to her concert in Geneva on 27th april 2010, she's amazing on stage, she looks so beautiful, she sings well, she has a fashion style and in her songs, you have something to understand through the lines.

To resume, I think that Rihanna is the most talented singer at times, she refreshes everything, makes her own way, and lives her own life. What is important for each of us, is not to care about what people's going to think about us, everyone should make his own life.

Allan Bruni

Ignacio Chollet

Hello,

Today , I am going to introduce you to a swiss humorist : Ignacio Chollet

His real name is Vincent Kucholl, it is a presenter on couleur 3. He is a thirty-year old quiet, elegant, serious and erudite man. He created in particular in 2005 a collection of books of popularization on Switzerland, which were a success.

Now Let's speak about his character "Ignacio chollet" :


Last December The radio "couleur 3" had launched its operation " couleur 3 s'éclate ", consisting in relocating the editorial staff. Vincent Kucholl had chosen to play a guide in Sydney in a new role:
Ignacio Chollet. It's a caricature of a vaudois of Bottens with funny and typical accent from canton Vaud. "Ignacio Chollet in sindney"has been a very big sucess and it has been watched on the web (more or less) 300'000 times. On Facebook, the fan-club Ignacio Chollet counts more than 5000 members.

Fisrt three episodes of Chollet In sidney :

Episode 0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGDUJ8pRH4&feature=player_embedded

episode 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7iH5ItIjk&feature=player_embedded

episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfCACNNUPzE&feature=player_embedded


This is the end of this article, if you like Ignacio chollet you can find the other episodes on youtube or click HERE .

Thanks for reading                    
 
                                                                                                    David Hennard

The New Playbook

Today RIM held the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco. First, what is a developer conference and what is the goal of an event like that? A developer conference is a meeting of developers coming from a lot of different companies to talk about the platform. In this case, this is the RIM OS. You won't see a sum up of these meetings in the Matin or 24 heures because there are more than 48 hours of meeting and the majority of the time, they are talking about technical aspects of the OS. The most interessant meeting for the consumer is the presentation of new products. This year, they came with a reel innovation for them. They presented a tablet called Playbook.

A picture of the Playbook :

The Playbook is smaller than the iPad(7"vs 9.7"), has a 1024 x 600 - capacitive multitouch display, a Cortex A9-based, dual-core 1GHz CPU (the company calls it the "fastest tablet ever"), 1GB of RAM, and a 3 megapixel front-facing camera along with a 5 megapixel rear lens (and yes, there will be video conferencing like Facetime). In terms of interface, this is a mix between the new 6.0 Blackberry UI and WebOS (for the multitasking switch method). The PlayBook will be capable of 1080p HD video, and comes equipped with an HDMI port as well as a microUSB jack, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1. It weights 400 grams.They didn't talk about the autonomy but I am sure it will be as good as the iPad because this is a strong point of the RIM OS.

Here is a video of the UI(User Interface):

I heard once in the classroom this year:"Yeahh, the iPad sucks, it's useless". You use the term useless alone, you'd better say it's may be useless for you. This is why I will explain all the things you can do with a tablet like this...

With a tablet, you can : 

• Browse the web
• Play games
• Do a video conference
• Use apps like Twitter and Facebook
• Read and send emails
• Take picture
• Read a book
• Use as a photo library
• ... a lot of other things

You can say something is useless when it have 250'000 apps available(for the iPad). Blackberry OS has for the moment only 1'600 apps available :/

I hope you have learnt something from this article and I wish you a good afternoon :D

If you want to learn more about the Blackberry Devcon click HERE

If you want to check the dedicated Playground's website click HERE

If you want more informations or want to give me money, please leave a comment and I will answer ASAP...

Sébastien Saez

METROPOP FESTIVAL, Lausanne, 11-12-13 November

Programme

This is going to be THE music event of my automn: Robert Francis live in Lausanne!
You must have heard his first two singles on the radio, "Junebug" and "Keep on Running", I'm sure. If you like them, don't miss the occasion and book your ticket right now.

A few biographical elements on Robert Francis: he was born in Los Angeles in 1987, from a Mexican mother and an American father, who owns the biggest collection of music sheets. As a child, he learnt to play the piano and the guitar, with the help of
family friend Ry Cooder.

Robert says: "I got the idea in my head that I wanted to drop out of school and travel when I was 10 years old." When he was around 17, he met a girl: "It was a really tumultuous romantic relationship that lasted on and off for a few years," he says. "Then it just sort of fizzled out. I started writing songs the first time I figured out how to pinpoint that feeling of loss. I guess I was just waiting to make music until I had something to say. From then on, I realized I could write songs that really meant something to me."

In 2007, One By One, recorded at a friend's studio, was released and earned positive critics. Atlantic Records heard about him and a contract was signed.

Robert was then able to write and record Before Nightfall, released in 2009, which is a total hit all over the world: "When people listen to the album, I want them to feel happy," he says. "I feel uplifted when I hear these songs; they don't bring me down. I hope people will be able to relate to them and feel as though whatever is going on in their lives is going to be okay."

I can't wait to be there!!! His music touches me so much, and I can't realise he's so young (only 23!!!) and yet his voice is so rich and deep, his lyrics are so moving. Before Nightfall and Mescaline are my favourite tracks. As soon as the music starts, it feels like I'm in the south of America, somewhere between Texas and Louisiana, lost in the dampness of an episode of True Blood.

Cynthia

"REMEMBER ME"

When I was invited to see "Remember me", I couldn't help being a bit prejudiced. Twilight star Robert Pattinson and Lost blond actress Emilie de Ravin reunited? What a cheesy love story for early teenagers it must be! Well, I was completely mistaken. As it turned out, it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
I was surprised to see that there wasn't any seat left in the cinema: the room was packed! And the audience wasn't as young as I had expected. As soon as the film started, I couldn't focus on anything else than Tyler's (Pattinson) juvenile and rebellious looks.

The love story of Tyler and Ally (de Ravin) is such an unusual one and their couple is so authentic, you can't help liking them. And Pierce "James Bond" Brosnan is brilliant as Tyler's heartless businessman father. I won't say anything about the plot here, because I don't want to ruin the suspense. However, I can tell you I loved the spaghetti fight scene! We have all at least once dreamt to do that... And I completely agree with Ally about desserts.

But the ending... It's so unpredictable! I swear, when the lights came back, I could see a tear shine at the corner of everyone's eyes, including myself.

My advice is: rent or download this movie and watch it with your partner, best friend or little sister, they'll love it. Make sure you don't forget tissues, you'll need them for certain.

Watch the trailer here.

Cynthia

SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts

As you probably know, I love reading! I was delighted when I was given "Shantaram" as a Christmas present. It's a thick book, with a colourful cover and it looks really promising.

It's the real story of Gregory David Roberts, an ordinary Australian man who ended up in a New Zealand prison in 1981, after getting in trouble in Australia. His addiction to heroin led him to commit armed robberies after his wife broke up with him and left with their baby daughter.

An intelligent and determined man, he escaped from prison several times and fled to India, where he arrived in 1982. The book starts at this point.

Set in the poor and dusty streets of Bombay, the story then takes us to other exotic locations, following the adventures of Gregory David Roberts. It is a spy novel, a detective story, a love story and a documentary at the same time. The author meets Prabaker, a young Indian man who will become his best friend and guide through Bombay, the beautiful yet mysterious Karla, the international crowd at Leopold's, powerful and dangerous men who will accept him as one of their own, Indian mafia dons, a bloodthirsty serial killer, an invisible Asian pimp and guerrilla soldiers in Afghanistan.

From hotels to slum, from Karla's bed to a heroin den, from the snowy mountains to a nightmare jail, Roberts goes through so many incredible adventures he seems to be living 1000 lives simultaneously: drug addict, lover, doctor, killer, soldier, benefactor...

The movie is supposed to be out soon, I can't wait! I really hope I won't be disappointed, as it's often the case with adaptations of books to films. In the meantime, if you're looking for a tremendous read, run to your favourite bookshop to get Shantaram, you won't regret it!

Cynthia