Honda made a wrong note with his Jazz – The World

Le Monde | 03/09/2015 at 12:50 • Updated 03/09/2015 at 2:39 p.m. | By Alain Constant

The third generation model combines the disappointments.

H istoriquement fond of small multi-purpose vehicles, the French car market has unfortunately not given the Honda Jazz the place it deserves. Appeared in 2001 and 2008, the first two generations of this model adopted a friendly minispace silhouette, small on the outside but big inside, and benefited from mechanical reliability of the Japanese manufacturer’s reputation.

A key, 5.5 million models sold, including 781,000 in Europe. In France, only 33 400 were released Jazz, including 29,000 for the second generation (50% in hybrid version). What for ? Probably because the French market offers very many city models displayed at less elitist rates than those charged at Honda.

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Place, now in the third generation of the Jazz. At first glance, like the following also is disappointment prevails. The pretty well balanced silhouette of the previous generation gives way to an ordinary vehicle to unnecessarily tortured forms. A longer sentence but not exceeding four meters, the newcomer, always handy in the city than previous Jazz, however, advance some arguments that did not have its predecessors.

An improved ride comfort thanks a unique chassis and a little less stiff suspensions; a much more satisfactory soundproofing; an interior finish least cheap; many active and passive safety elements, a new softer gasoline engine and low fuel consumption; not forgetting two new transmissions: a six-speed manual rather pleasant, and an automatic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), a little less painful than the last, but can not totally erase the Traditional effect “roping howling” of this type of transmission as soon as you press a little on the accelerator

Big disappointment:. only available on the European market with the new 1.3 petrol engine liter 102 horsepower, the new Jazz did not even offer hybrid declination. When asked about this lack for the least surprising, some officials of Honda France also have difficulty understanding such a strategic choice, apparently dictated by questions of profitability, especially as the third generation hybrid Jazz has existed for a few months in Japan proves to be very fun to drive!

In our view, the absence of a hybrid model that lends itself perfectly to this type of engine, an area where Honda has built a nice reputation, is clearly regrettable.

Swiss Prime Site: UBS raises the credit rating to “BBB +”, outlook … – Romandie.com

Swiss Prime Site: UBS raises the credit rating to “BBB +”, stable outlook

Zurich (AWP) – Swiss Prime Site (SPS) sees its credit rating raised by UBS to “BBB +” against ” BBB “previously. The prospect associated with debt capacity of the property company is considered “stable”, notes the largest bank in a statement Wednesday.

The group has a dominant position in the domestic real estate market, a portfolio of quality, leases of relatively long duration and a manageable vacancy rate, which ensure stable rental income.

The acquisition of Jelmoli, Wincasa or Tertianum bring further diversifying sources profit, further accentuated by the operation launched on SenioCare. The financial profile of the company has finally improved, although significant use of cash remains a black spot, reports the Swiss number one bank.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 5: a PHABLET difficult to repair – News MeilleurMobile

             
         

The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is passed through the hands of experts disassembly. With this PHABLET it will be difficult to replace the screen yourself.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is a high-end product that enjoys a very good reputation. Neither one nor two when it ships in the US, a Youtube channel called How2Tech has filmed a disassembly session to judge the ease or not to repair the machine yourself . Apparently this is not the case.

How2Tech is the same type of observation as the site specializes in the repair of high-tech objects, and detail the different phases disassembling a product. These handymen will even break the disassembled smartphones when it is difficult to disassemble. Some models of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 have problems with the S-Pen Stylus, the manufacturing quality of the detection mechanism is weak, while the accessory is plastic.

The Korean manufacturer has made the choice for some time to make the back of his non-removable phones. You can imagine that this has an impact on the facility to operate for repair. The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is no exception to the rule, it will take out the tools and a heat gun to loosen its back cover. In addition to glue to remove a screw from twenty obstructs access to the side frame. The video in question shows that after more than 20 minutes of effort, the videographer managed to remove the battery.

The framework covers the battery which is itself glued to the connector. The slab part of one block with the glass, it will be necessary to change the whole in case of breakage. Circuit boards are also easier to access its two elements. Is this a deliberate choice on the part of the Korean company to control the obsolescence of its products? The question legitimately arises.

         
 
         
         

                         
                         
                         
            
                          
 
 
             
 
                     

“If the first note is good, we are happy” – Liberation

Every Tuesday, Wednesday and exceptionally this week, meeting with news of classical music. And to start this autumn, we start with a label ( B Records ), a disc ( Trifonov plays the Variations of Rachmaninoff ), an interview by text ( Quartet Arod ) and organic (that of Georges Bizet ).

label RECORDS B

Young musicians here for early works available in a brand new collection. This autumn, the third title of the record label B offers two pieces by Mendelssohn, Schumann after two discs and Janacek published in the spring. Recorded last year in the Easter Festival / Deauville A musical August, the quartet and sextet for piano and strings, federated around the pianist Ismael Margain, surprise by their vivacity and punch their sound recording, closer musicians. Florent Derex, cofounder of the whole Balcony, “which is more like a band,” but also the label with Baptiste B Records Chouquet, met at the conservatory in Paris, returns to the recording these two works of very young Mendelssohn (then 15 years), composed a few months before the famous octet.

Is it not madness to mount a classical music label aujourd ‘hui?

A little, but is a special B Records label, we do not sign artists, for example. Since the beginning we have a precise approach, live recordings and work with partner festivals: the Schumann album with the Athenaeum Theatre and music Mondays; Janacek and Mendelssohn with the Deauville Film Festival.

When we launched B Records we do not ask questions, it was an instinctive project. We hesitated to launch a completely digital label. And we realized that it was attached to the physical object. Just as the press began its transition to digital with info online but retained paper newspapers, I think it would have been good to have only digital.

How do you live the titles in your collection?

First, we leave a series of albums. Then we will create with our partners, websites, platforms for trace their sound archives. For example, within a year, all the archives of the Deauville festival, created especially by Renaud Capuçon and has 20 years of existence, will be available online. Ditto for music Mondays at the Athenaeum.

The recording of Mendelssohn struck by the vivacity of its execution and the dull nature of its miking …

What are “young musicians’ musicians of my generation (laughs) I logged in the competition record setting, or that I knew at the Conservatory. We wanted to record the sextet with pianist Margain Ishmael, and we then completed with another early work by Mendelssohn, always with Margain. Both concerts were performed in the hall Elie de Brignac, in Deauville, which are also held auctions of thoroughbred horses. Acoustics is special, but if the musicians are approaching the far wall, wood, overlooking the room and which is normally held the commissioner, the sound is really better and the sound is so close.

The picture accompanying the album shows a horse led on a track …

In Elie room Brignac, in Deauville. They sell horses at auction, there records of chamber music. Photo of Charles Aspermont. B Records

Yes, the day we went into the room with the photographer to make the cover, there was just a yearling sale. This picture is a nod to the room. What we wanted, when we decided to keep physical media, was to have a graphic object with a large picture that can serve as a poster. Any additional indications of intent notes, information on the musicians are on our site. The physical content must not be the same as the digital content. Each format has its form

Mendelssohn Quartet No. 3 and op.3 Op.110 Sextet for piano (Ishmael Margain) and strings, Deauville Live 2014 (B Records)

On 11 December 1830, when Mendelssohn wrote this sentence, the ad newspapers did not exist.

CD TRIFONOV OJEU RACHMANINOV

You do not change a team that is changing. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini was played for the first time in November 1934 by the Philadelphia Orchestra with Rachmaninov on the piano. Eighty years later one year, it is this same training that interprets the work in this CD Deutsche Grammophon with the wand the Canadian Yannick Nézet-Seguin and piano Russian Daniil Trifonov, already 24 years. Registration is in line with expectations, that is to say shiny, smooth cornering and explosive in contrasts. The Dies Irae crunch, the Variation 18 deglazing the rachmaninovien juice with a depressive melancholy and the final notes of the last change are placed on the whole as an ironic icing on a cake digestible.

Daniil Trifonov: “I see Rhapsody like a miniature ballet, a dance with destiny over the soul of Paganini. “ (Photo Dario Acosta. DG)

Rhapsodie is completed with works for piano: the Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Corelli Variations, and a composition Trifonov himself, Rachmaniana <. /> em> “I was homesick. I was in the United States for two or three months. I was 18, I was away from my parents for the first time, so far from home, “ Trifonov said in a notice of the press kit, as if to apologize. Rachmaniana “is a kind of homage to Rachmaninov” also uprooted in his time on the lands of the New World. “I would think, continues pianissime, I feel a particular cultural identification with Rachmaninov. I feel close to her Russian character, as well as his love for the language of musical romanticism. “ Where the start of this age-old dialogue between virtuoso pianists. And now composers.

Listening to these five rachmaninoviens movements in the soul and actually not that nostalgic, one wonders what would have thought of such a Russian tribute when In 1897, after the critical failure of his Symphony No. 1, you “spent [a] half [his] days lying on [his] bed, sighing [s] has ruined life. “

Daniil Trifonov The Sergei Rachmaninov Variations with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Seguin (Deutsche Grammophon)

Texto full THE AROD QUARTET

this world saturated with screens, everything goes too fast. It is time to ask, quietly, and out his smartphone to take part in a crazy interview session by SMS. Monday, August 31, three quarters of an hour before a Haydn-Ligeti-Schubert concert at Montreux-Vevey festival, the talented Arod Quartet (Corentin, Alexander and Jordan Samy, 22 years average age) was loaned to play.

Hello everyone. You’ve played musical September

Quartet: No, this is the first time. However, this is our second time in Switzerland! We played at the Verbier Festival one month ago.

How do you get ready just before going on stage?

Quartet : (! Turn your 3G)

It is lit

Samy: Like that

Jordan Victoria Alexander Vu, Corentin Apparailly, photo taken by Samy Rachid.

One senses you are mortified by stage fright !! Being many, it is an asset or a handicap

Corentin: An asset

Alexander: A plus!

Samy: A disability

Arf! How do you compensate if one of you is less willing

Quartet: In reality, it’s still a joy to share this music together on stage . As you say, when one of us does not feel good, others are supportive, the energy flow between us, there is always an exchange. It’s very rewarding

You spend a lot of time together outside of repeat Rooms

Quartet: Yes, in the group psychologist! : P

If you play him Ligeti, the atmosphere must be crazy in the office …

Quartet: As you say ! Haha.

We are very good friends, so we go a bit our life together as brothers …

Haydn, Ligeti, Schubert. Your day directory broad spectrum. How do you compose?

Quartet: This is a program that really holds us heart. We like to connect these three pieces, three times … And then it’s a bit of a challenge in concert, it’s a very intense music!

When choosing the directory, this is a agreement between us. Some shots heart for such works, others for such other … But we still fall very often agree. There are things that do not discuss.

(Alexander the notebook, photo Clément Ledoux, the quartet’s manager)

When you know that the concert will be successful ? From taking in hand the instruments, after few steps

Quartet: If the first note is beautiful, we are happy. Well after, it must also pass all the others, but it’s easier.

You really never know what can happen on stage. It is a space of such freedom that one can predict anything …

But that’s what we love.

Jordan, Alexander, Corentin and Samy cello. (Photo Clément Ledoux)

You contact you for a piece

Quartet: Of course! We communicate even more than before during and after

A good memory scene

Samy.? Our last Schubert ! Rouen

Alexander Vibration Festival in Rouen orangery August 26

Corentin. There will one in two hours!

Very good! Damn you for the next two hours

Quartet. Thank you

This fall, Arod Quartet will be in concert in Chantilly (5 September); Hungary, in Budapest as part of the Franz Liszt Academy (24) and Quartettissimo festival Fehérvárcsurgó (25); Paris and attend the Night of the Quartet, the Orangerie Museum … to 4am. (View from the lodge on Lake Geneva).

It’s organic life GEORGES BIZET

Before the passage of Jonas Kaufmann, on Friday, 11 on France Musique, which devotes a special day, and to better remember the setting dull scene of Carmen installed in July Orange, discover some passages of the opera emblem of French sound, such as picks in the biography of Georges Bizet by Jérôme Bastianelli, who appears September 2 Actes Sud.

“Nietzsche opposed Bizet to Wagner, the music of the French, “perfect, smooth and polished, do not sweat,” to that of the German, made of deception, grimaces and “lies of the grand style”. To “mist” Germanic, he preferred “dry air, air limpidezza” that transmits Carmen . “

” However, it is not only found in this opera evocations of Spain fantasized. Du Locle, Director of the Opéra-Comique, unconvinced by his new production, saw a different origin: “This is the Cochin music, one understands nothing at all!” ”

“The painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, who attended the premiere of the opera March 3, 1875, what was said that night the reaction of composer Faust: “After the air Micaëla in the third act, which was encored, Gounod leaned forward and applauded enthusiastically, so that all might see, and then sat back and added: ” This melody is from me ! Georges robbed me! If we remove the Spanish airs and mine of the score, there is nothing left to put in the account of Bizet, the sauce that puts the fish! ‘”

It should be said that both men already had a case of analogy to the fire. Anyway, three months later, Bizet died at 36 years. His Carmen is then moderately welcomed. Today it is the second part of the most up opera in the world. After La Traviata Verdi. Before the Magic Flute by Mozart.

Georges Bizet Jérôme Bastianelli Actes Sud, 168 pp., € 17.80

When the teacher notes Vergès candidates – Clicanoo

He Health Paul Vergès. Energy to spare. Judge for yourself: in this election pre-campaign period, the Communist senator, in his nineties, takes an average of two press conferences a week. That of yesterday was designed to assess candidates in the regional. To do so, the Communist leader has put on academic dress and is allowed to assign grades. Finally, a note. Obviously, professor is demanding. Torque political Bello-Annette and Didier Robert candidate, he put them … Guess? A zero points (see article on page 10).

Paul Vergès has however kept noting Thierry Robert, Patrick Lebreton, Jean-Hugues Ratenon and all others such as Joseph Grondin (National Front) Anyel Boyer (Nasyon Réyoné) … who have already declared yet. The explanation is simple: the note from Paul Vergès is very subjective. In fact, it is well known that zero is a pass mark at any exam. By assigning a zero Huguette Bello and Didier Robert, Paul Vergès tries – in her mind at least – to eliminate them because these candidates make it to him and to those with whom he wants to cozy up, shade. This self-satisfied and this virtual elimination of its opponents. And think that public opinion will follow his potential rallies with Patrick Lebreton Thierry Robert, or because the PCR has not much choice.

An alliance with Huguette Bello? Not even in dreams. “She broke the PCR in two and today divides the PS,” said Ary Yee Chong Chi Kan (Akouet for short). In the closed circle of PCR, worth remembering that Huguette Bello is seen as the devil himself. An agreement with Didier Robert? Paul Vergès has almost dared everything in his career (Rally, Alliance Meeting otherwise embraced with Jean-Louis Debré …) but not too much of it. He will not push the cap up siding with the “demolition” of the tram-train, its tram-train

This leaves him three possibilities:. “Dealer” with Thierry Robert (LPA) to a common list left-PCR Centre, negotiate with Patrick Lebreton (Progress) to try to eliminate the Bello-Annette torque after the first round of voting. Or, third and last possibility: to appear under its own banner in the hope of the second round, deal with the deputy mayor of Saint-Leu or the deputy mayor of St. Joseph. But especially not with Huguette Bello that remained to him across the throat since the latter slammed the door of the Party to the nose.

But Thierry Robert has already found in the person of Philippe Robert (son the former mayor of La Possession), the Communist he needs. Not sure he wants to make common road with the PCR, the party electorally devalued today. However, it would be more interested in a ticket with Huguette Bello in the second round. Patrick Lebreton, meanwhile, would see probably no harm in taking a few Communists on his list, but the question remains whether the PCR is ready to make peace with Senator Michel Vergoz (Progress) that Paul Vergès holds primary responsible for his defeat in the 2010 regional face Didier Robert, besides the new mayor of Sainte-Rose was also the destroyer of bidépartementalisation in 2000 and the tram-train there five years. The doors close.

The PCR is in a very uncomfortable position because it is no longer able to impose its choice or choose their potential allies. Foul up a list for now, Paul Vergès therefore notes his opponents. Everyone has fun as it can

Yves Mont-Rouge

LG G4 Note: The trademark was registered in the United States – Frandroid

Already mentioned by Korean media last March, the LG Note G4 seems to become a reality. After Stylus G4, the Korean brand apparently wants to start in the field of high-end phablettes with stylus.

LG G4 Stylus

While Samsung abandons the stylus in Europe by not selling its Galaxy Note 5, the alternative could also arrive from Korea with a new PHABLET provided with its small pen for touch screen. Already glimpsed a few months ago, the LG G4 Note begins to take shape officially.

As the specialized site Phandroid discovered, the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office registered) published this Monday a file for trademark registration G4 Note. If this does not provide any concrete information on the phone itself, it confirms that the smartphone is indeed in the pipeline and will arrive in the West in the coming months. In addition, this trademark is accompanied by a logo, typography taking the usual range

Although the technical details of this phone are not known at present, it is not hard to imagine that this will be a high-end as well as LG G4, and able to compete across the Atlantic with the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. It should therefore not vampirize sales of LG Stylus G4, unveiled last May, and himself with, as the name suggests, a stylus, but for the entry-level segment.

Read: Test LG G4

Perhaps learn -we more during IFA 2015, which will open this week in Berlin, but this remains to be confirmed given that the brand has just been filed.

The features that you appreciate the Samsung Note 5 and … – Geeks and Com ‘

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Samsung took advantage of the summer to introduce two new highly anticipated phones in the market: the Galaxy Note 5 focused on productivity with its stylus and the Galaxy S6 edge + oriented entertainment with its screen with curved edges <. /> p>

Available from 21 August Videotron Mobile, both phones are based on the same technical characteristics, but beyond the design, some features also help differentiate them. So we put in scenes some practical features of Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge + to help you make your choice if you still hesitate between the two phones.

ejectable Stylus and easy note taking on the lock screen – Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Whether you’re at home or outside, you do not always have the time (or inclination) to turn on your phone and launch an application to take notes. This is the case for example when you want to quickly note the place where you parked your car or to add the products that you are missing when you open the door of your fridge.

So The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 now includes a stylus which simply press to pop out of the phone and automatically start taking notes even when the screen is locked.

Screenshot with scroll page – Samsung Galaxy Note 5

If you come across a web page or an interesting conversation on your favorite social network, you may want to share all of what you see. Obviously, you can manually make several screenshots, but this is quickly consuming and not always with the result that you want. The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 now includes a screen capture functionality with scroll page up to 20 times, which makes it possible to save and share all the content you want.

Light ID the caller with automatic refusal message – Samsung Galaxy S6 edge +

The curved edge allows for easy access to their favorite contacts to call or send them a message. But it also lets you know who’s calling at a glance. So when your phone is placed on the screen, the border will turn the color of your contact when a call or message. You can even easily reject the call and send a text message of apology by putting your finger on the flash. Very handy when your mother calls in the middle of your date

curved border with shortcuts to favorite applications – Samsung Galaxy S6 edge +

In addition to favorite contacts, it is now possible have their favorite applications directly accessible from the curved edge. So no matter what you do on your phone, you can now access key applications you use in a slip of the finger from the edge of the screen

Night Clock. – Samsung Galaxy S6 edge +

Whether you are in the middle of your night or just a nap, you do not have to be dazzled by your phone if you want to check the time. Indeed, the Samsung Galaxy S6 + edge to display the hour discreetly on the curved edge of the screen. What can go back to sleep more easily

Live Stream on YouTube – Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 edge +

In addition to quickly start the duplicate camera clicking the center button of the phone, it is now possible to broadcast live directly on YouTube that you are filming. Whether you are a sports event or just on holiday, you can choose to share publicly or with only a few people your live broadcast.

Here are some features we have appreciated particularly on these two phones at Videotron Mobile. And if you still hesitate, you can end the test of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 bn also that of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge on Geeks and Com + ‘.