Come away with me - Norah Jones

Love Story meets Viva la Vida

This is a beautiful arrangement of music combining two popular mainstream songs, Love Story and Viva La Vida. This arrangement was composed by Jon Schmidt and is dedicated to Sarah, his 7 year old daughter who loves the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Because of a common rhythm element between the two tunes, he decided he could mish/mash the two. His great friend Steven Sharp Nelson (cello percussion) really makes this tune. Listen to the beauty of the music.

Viva la Vida

Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, is the 4th album from Coldplay, the immensly popular British alternative rock band. Viva La Vida was released worldwide in June 2008, features 10 tracks and sold over 300,000 copies on the first day of it's release! Viva La Vida has already become a number one selling album in 36 countries around the world and is now the most downloaded paid album of all time thanks to iTunes and Amazon digital sales.

The song's Spanish title, "Viva la Vida", is taken from a painting by 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It translates into English as "Long live life".However, the album cover is not this painting and is actually a painting called "Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple)" by a French painter named Eugène Delacroix, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830.

The song has inspired a great deal of debate about its meaning. People have claimed that the song may be about various subjects, such as the French Revolution. The band members themselves do not appear to have corroborated any of these claims, and have referred only to kings and revolutionaries in general, rather than any particular king.

Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44xirQ55IgA

BBC News

Rising clothing production costs

mean 'fast fashion' is out

The world's biggest clothing retailer - Inditex is expected to report a jump of over 50% in first-half net profits later.

The company behind Zara has been growing aggressively.

Rising cotton prices are likely to put the brakes on. Experts at London Fashion week believe that the appetite for fast fashion is about to fade.

Julia Caesar reports.

22 September 2010

Learning the alphabet

ABCs-Typical song

The Alphabet Song

Welcome back

Hi everybody,

It's nice to be here again after the long summer.
Enjoy this new school year and have fun.

World News

How to disconnect from your online life

Between Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and myriad other social networks, people around the world are connected more than ever before.

But what are the effects of spending so much time updating that all-consuming status bar? Have we lost touch with our real lives and become obsessed instead with our virtual personas?

Daniel Seiberg has been taking a closer look.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9003098.stm