Giovanni closes its doors!
The famous fashion agency Giovanni surprised all the world by announcing the end of its activities.The agency represented many models like Irina Lazareanu and it was the most prestigious in Montreal.
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Dominique Bertrand and her autobiography
The former model and radio host Dominique Bertrand just published her autobiography: Démaquillée. A fascinating book but also very motivating to face obstacles of life. The book is for both men and women. A must read!
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Serge Marcil (1944-2010) Tragic destiny!
The former Member of Parliement (Ottawa and Quebec) Serge Marcil known a tragic fate when he died at thee arthquake in Haiti. His colleague from Quebec who accompanied him came down to the 4th floor of the hotel while Serge continued until the 5th. The tremor then occurred ...
Link story La Presse canadienne
Link story La Presse
News Senators in Ottawa - Pierre-Hugues Boivenu
The Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed news Senators and amongst then is Pierre Hugue Boivenu.
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Pierre Karl Peladeau and the Dinosaurs
Pierre-Karl Péladeau is not happy to be compared to a Dinosaur... He wrote an article about it in Le Devoir.
January 28 2010
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The future of computers by Steve Jobs
The computers journalists are not very much impressed by the new iPad presented by Steve Jobs. Here are two analyses.
Link The Wall Street Journal
Link The New York Times
January 27 2010
Barack Obama is back
Barack Obama will not quit the fight for his ideas. His speech to the Congress is the proof of it!
The warrior is back...
Link The Wall Street Journal
Link The New York Times
January 27 2010
Conrad Black become a teacher at McGill University
Conrad Black has been a teacher for 15 minutes at McGill University.
The students did not know in advance but they were very happy!
Link to the National Post story
January 26 - 2010
Rare Picasso painting, 'The Actor,' accidentally torn by woman at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Picasso's 'The Actor' was painted in the winter of 1904-'05 - and damaged by a clumsy art lover 105 years later.
A clutzy art lover tripped onto a rare Picasso painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tearing a hole in the century-old masterpiece, the museum said Sunday.
The unidentified woman was attending an adult education class Friday afternoon when she lost her balance and stumbled into "The Actor," causing a 6-inch tear in the bottom of the canvas.
"Fortunately, the damage did not occur in a focal point of the composition," the Met said in a statement, adding that the damage can be fully repaired.
Pablo Picasso created "The Actor," an unusually large painting measuring about 6 feet by 4 feet, in the winter of 1904-'05.
It depicts an acrobat striking a pose and marks a transition to the artist's rose period.
The artwork, which was donated to the Met in 1952, hung in a second-floor gallery without incident until Friday.
The painting is expected to be repaired in time to go on display in an exhibit of some 250 Picasso works that opens April 27.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/01/25/2010-01-25_she_puts_the_ass_in_picasso_masterpiece_torn_at_met.html#ixzz0dh4DcoWA
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The unidentified woman was attending an adult education class Friday afternoon when she lost her balance and stumbled into "The Actor," causing a 6-inch tear in the bottom of the canvas.
"Fortunately, the damage did not occur in a focal point of the composition," the Met said in a statement, adding that the damage can be fully repaired.
Pablo Picasso created "The Actor," an unusually large painting measuring about 6 feet by 4 feet, in the winter of 1904-'05.
It depicts an acrobat striking a pose and marks a transition to the artist's rose period.
The artwork, which was donated to the Met in 1952, hung in a second-floor gallery without incident until Friday.
The painting is expected to be repaired in time to go on display in an exhibit of some 250 Picasso works that opens April 27.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/01/25/2010-01-25_she_puts_the_ass_in_picasso_masterpiece_torn_at_met.html#ixzz0dh4DcoWA
Switzerland : referendum banned the building of minarets
A poster that was said to have swayed public opinion in a Swiss referendum banning the construction of minarets.
SWITZERLAND stunned many Europeans, including not a few Swiss, when near the end of last year the country, by referendum, banned the building of minarets. Much predictable tut-tutting ensued about Swiss xenophobia, even though surveys showed similar plebiscites would get pretty much the same results elsewhere.
A poster was widely cited as having galvanized votes for the Swiss measure but was also blamed for exacerbating hostility toward immigrants and instigating a media and legal circus. “We make posters, the other side goes to the judge,” is how Alexander Segert put it when we met here the other day. “I love it when they do that.”
He designed the poster in question. As manager of Goal, the public relations firm for the Swiss People’s Party, Mr. Segert has overseen various campaign posters. This one, for the referendum, used minarets rising from the Swiss flag like missiles (“mushrooms,” Mr. Segert demurred, implausibly). Beside the missiles a woman glowers from inside a niqab. “Stop” is written below in big, black letters.
Another poster by the Swiss People's Party, with the slogan: "For More Security." Read more...
Islamic Christianophobia
The world ignores the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.
In Egypt, seven Coptic Christians were murdered yesterday by a Muslim gunman as they filed out of a midnight mass in the southern town of Nag Hamadi. In Pakistan, more than 100 Christian homes were ransacked by a Muslim mob last July in the village of Bahmaniwala. In Iraq that same month, seven Christian churches were bombed in Baghdad and Mosul in the space of three days.
Such atrocities—and there are scores of other examples—are grim reminders that when it comes to persecution, few groups have suffered as grievously as Christians in Muslim lands. Fewer still have suffered with such little attention paid. Now a new report from the non-profit ministry, Open Doors USA, shines a light on the scale of oppression.
In its annual World Watch List, Open Doors ranks eight Muslim countries among the 10 worst persecutors of Christians. The other two, North Korea (which tops the list) and Laos, are communist states. Of the 50 countries on the list, 35 are majority Muslim.
Take Iran, which this year ranks as the world's second-worst persecutor of Christians. Open Doors reports that in 2009 the Islamic Republic arrested 85 Christians, many of whom were also mistreated in prison. In 2008, some 50 Christians were arrested and one Christian couple was beaten to death by security officials. At least part of the reason for the mistreatment appears to be the result of Muslim conversions to Christianity: Apostasy carries a mandatory death sentence in Iran.
In Saudi Arabia (No. 3), all non-Muslim public worship is forbidden. The state forbids the building of any type of non-Muslim house of worship, and Christian expatriates in the kingdom must practice their faith in private. The same goes in the Maldives, where the report notes that all citizens must be Muslim; "the handful of indigenous Christians are forced to believe in complete secrecy." Similarly in Mauritania, conversion to Christianity or any other religions is formally punishable by death.
Little wonder, then, that once-thriving Christian communities in the Muslim world have now largely voted with their feet by fleeing to safer havens, often in Europe or the United States. That's true even in religiously important communities such as Bethlehem, where the Christian majority has largely fled since the arrival in the 1990s of Yasser Arafat's repressive government and the ascendancy of Islamist groups such as Hamas. By contrast, Christians practice their religion freely and openly in Israel, just a few miles distant.
It might seem natural that at least some attention would be paid in the West to the plight of these Christians. Instead, attention seems endlessly focused on "Islamophobia," not least at the U.N.'s misnamed Human Rights Council. In November, much of Europe went berserk over the Swiss referendum to ban the construction of minarets (though not of mosques). But the West's tolerance for its large Muslim populations stands in sharp contrast to the Muslim world's bigotry and persecution of its own religious minorities. That's a fact that ought to be borne in mind the next time Westerners berate themselves about their own supposed "intolerance." Read more...
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