D-Block and S-te-fan

If you know a little bit of hardstyle, you have to know D-Block and S-te-fan, one of the best DJs in the world I think.

D-Block is Diederick Bakker a man from Holland who was born in 1988.
And S-te-fan is Stefan den daas who is from Holland too. He's 5 years older than Diederick

They met in 2004 after they were yet good DJ with high influence from the "happy hardcore" and other master of the big party (like :Qlimax, DefQon, Decibel, Q-base, Reverze, Misteryland, thrillogy).
Their music is caracterised by big bass and melody. they have many inspirations like (I know it's strange) Bob Marley, Deepack, DJ isaac, Axwell and many more.
They remix a lot of songs

Actually they are classed in 73th position of the best DJs, a list made by Dj mag wich regroups every DJ in the world.

They made the Qlimax Anthem in 2009 (an anthem is THE song of the nights and is elected by loads of people) and they have also participed at all of the big events of hardstyle around the world and they will continue.

Valentin

A typical cake of the English-speaking countries

As excellent cook i will give you a recipe to make CHEESECAKE !
I know it's something very special but when you eat that you are just in the paradise.

You will need:
-175g any sweet wholemeal biscuit
-70g butter
-2 eggs
-340g mascarpone or other cream cheese
-115g fromage frais or soured cream
-85g caster sugar
-1 tablespoon cornflour

What to do:

First set the oven. Break the biscuits to make them into crumbs.
Second melt the butter in a saucepan over a low heat. Turn off the heat and stir the biscuit crumbs into the butter.
Third Grease the cake tin. Tip in the biscuit crumbs and press them down evenly to make a base. Now make the filling.
Fourth whisk egg yolks, mascarpone, fromage frais, sugar, and cornflour in a bowl until smooth.
Fifth wash and dry the whisk or electric mixer, then whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they are stiff and form peaks.
Sixth add the whisked egg whites to the cheese mixture. Fold them in gently with a spoon until they are well mixed.
Seventh spoon the filling on the base and bake for 50 minutes in 150 degrees.

Now i challenge, the one who makes me enjoy the best cheesecake.
Good Luck ;)



                                                    Nadia

Twinz - Conversation(1995)

 Tracklist: 

01) Conversation

02) Round & Round
03) Good Times
04) 4 Eyes 2 Heads
05) Jump Ta This
06) Eastside LB
07) Sorry I Kept You
08) Conversation #2
09) Journey Wit Me
10) Hollywood
11) 1st Round Draft Pick
12) Conversation #3
13) Don't Get it Twisted [ft. New Birth]
14) Pass it On     

In 1990's, The G-Funk become more and more famous, thanks to Dr Dre's "The Chronic" And Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle" albums. 

After the big succes of his album "Regulate ....G Funk Era" on  Def Jam label, Warren G decides to produce a CD for the group Twinz on this same label.

Twinz is a duo formed by Deon "Tripp Loc" & Dewayne "Wayniac" Williams that come from Long Beach,California. In 1995, they release their first and only album: "Conversation". This album is a G-Funk classic. It lasts only fourty minutes.

Warren G,who produce thirteen track on fourteen, puts his best productions for this CD, with deep bass , acute melody & funk and soul sample.

One of the higlights of this album are the chorus, they are amazing on every track(for me the bests track are Eastside LB, Journey With Me & Good Times, but all are great)

I decide to speak about this album because it's for me one of the best ever made. I like relaxing on G-Funk CD and this one is perfect for that. For me the best def jam release, followed by Warren G's "Regulate...G-Funk Era" & Rihanna's " Rated R"

this photo is a photo of the copy that i buy.This album is rare: you can find used album for a very good price, but you can't find a new(sealed) under 65 dollars!

Dylan

It is the second solo album Soprano, (because in fact it is part of a group called "Psy4 de la rime"). I love the music even if it's more pop and a little electro. The lyrics are really well recognizes the writing of Soprano.One of my favorite songs is "Hiro" she talks to Hiro and he would do with his power in the series Heroes.

Early,  the album was to be called "la colombe et le corbeau", but he cut in two album because there were too many texts is the first album and the second "le corbeau" to be released in 2011.

 

 

The list of songs: 

01 La Colombe Et Le Corbeau
02 Crazy
03 Darwa
04 Sur la lune Feat Constantine Windaman
05 Hiro
06 Starting Block Feat Redk (Carpe Diem)
07 Chateaux De Sable Feat Awa Imani
08 Je Rêvais
09 Ce qu'on laisse a nos mômes
10 Speed
11 Je serais là
12 On A Besoin De Toi Feat Amadou et Mariam
13 A La Hussen Bolt Feat Psy 4 de la Rime -
14 Accroches toi a mes ailes

Zinedine Zidane : Return on an exceptional career

Zinedine Yazid Zidane is born the 23rd of June 1972 in Marseille. He's a French international footballer and named among the biggest football players of all time and listed among 125 better still living worldwide players in 2004. Playing the post of offensive middle, he was the compere of prestigious European clubs, as Juventus of Turin and Real Madrid, with which he won many national and international titles.

He played in four different clubs during his career. In Cane since 1988 to 1992, in Bordeaux since 1992 to 1996, in Juventus since 1996 to 2001 and in Real Madrid since 2001 to 2006.

Zidane comes of an Algerian family. He is married to Veronica Lentisco and is father of four boys. He signs his first licence in 10 years in a club near his cartier. He played in France since his seventeen years.

Famous number 10 of Overalls, he puts an end to his career further to the World cup in 2006 , in the course of which he distinguishes itself and gets title of better player of the worldwild.

He becomes quickly the idole of all supporters and is wooed by all patrons.

The 9th July on 2006, he plays his last match on the occasion of the final of the World Cup comparing Italy in France. He shows himself in a ambivalent way by registering his 31^th purpose under the French vest by a successful "panenka", but also by his eviction on red card this time for a headbutt to Marco Materazzi's thorax.

He is now the sponsor of the European Association against Leucodystrophies

( ELA ). Since 2001, he is also "Ambassadeur de Bonne Volonté" of the Program of United Nations for development beside Ronaldo with whom he organizes since 2003: the Match against Poverty, match of football which unites the biggest names of football and the harvested funds of which finance plans of conflict against poverty across the world.

Zidane, a player in the impressive honours list and a personality who stays and who will stay in the heart of the French.

He thinks now of the possibility of becoming coach. Anything is still made but the thing who is sure is that Zizou is always there!!!!!

                                 MARION

Jeux d'enfants

Jeux d'enfants is one of our favourite movie! It's a french romantic comedy directed in 2003 by Yann Samuell. The two principal actors are Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard.

Yann Samuell is a French film director and scriptwriter. He was a storyboard before becoming a director. He has first realised a few short films but Jeux d'enfants is his first feature film.

This story talks about two children : Julien and Sophie, both being 8 years old. Julien must live with his mother's disease who has a cancer and Sophie is rejected by her whole classroom because oh her origine. Naturally they make friends with each other and become inseparable. They decide to create a game (named cap ou pas cap) where one gives a challenge to the other and it's relative to tricking the adults and so on.

This will continue until they grow up but Sophie begins to be tired of these little challenges who are more and more cruel. On the contrary, Julien refuses to become mature and to recognize that they fell in love with each other. Finally they decide as a last challenge not to meet during ten years.

Both begin a new life ; Sophie is married with a famous rich footballer while Julien has a wife and two children. In spite of their great and comfortable life, neither of them can forget the other. But the day passes. Ten years later they meet again, start playing again their game and they won't quit anymore.

We have really loved this movie because it’s romantic and funny. We know since the beginning that the characters have to be together but they can’t tell each other that they are very in love. We can feel their emotions and at the same time it’s very funny because of the game, sometimes dangerous and cruel ! We can see their evolution from the beginning to the end. The end of the story is very surprising, you’ll see but so romantic, too.

Manon & Induja

Sonisphere Festival Jonschwil 2010

Thursday, 17th June 2010. Everybody was sleeping at home and taking advantage of a well deserved rest. But not us. We had an appointment at the railway station of Lausanne at thirteen o’clock and then took the train to Jonschwil, a little village (3000 inhabitants) in the canton of St-Gall. Here took place the Sonisphere Festival, a very important metal festival, which takes place in many places in Europe every summer. The “Jonschwil edition” took place on a field; 70’000 metal fans replaced a few dozens of cows during two days.

(Jonschwil on Google Maps: http://maps.google.ch/maps?hl=fr&q=jonschwil&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Jonschwil,+Wil,+Saint-Gall&gl=ch&ei=6CHETJK7A4GXOoHM8f0L&ved=0CBoQ8gEwAA&z=13) 

24 bands were scheduled on two days:

-          6 on Thursday for a “Warm Up Party” (The Sorrow, Job For A Cowboy, 36 Crazy Fists, Unearth, Over Kill, Airbourne)

-         18 on Friday on two stages (Smoke Blow, Devil Driver,  Hell Yeah, Atreyu, As I Lay Dying, Anthrax, Bullet For My Valentine, Alice in Chains, Stone Sour, Slayer, Megadeth, Motörhead, Rise Against, Metallica, Volbeat, Amon Amarth, 3 Inches of Blood, Dear Superstar)

It was the first time in history that the “Big Four of Trash”, the four most important trash metal bands (Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica) played in the same day on the same stage.

Already in the train, we met many other metal fans who we were ready to pass three mad days.  We ate potato chips, drank beer and sang metal songs during the whole journey. Some people in the train were a bit scared by seeing all these young fans dressed in black. Finally, after a 4 hours-trip and after walking for a quarter of an hour, we arrived! The “Devil’s field”, where we would see many of the biggest metal bands of all times!

Just when we arrived at the ticket check, the rain began to fall. And, of course, the nice green meadow started to turn into mud… It quickly became a real mess. We installed our tent and then walked in the direction of the stages.

From the end of the afternoon, the first bands started to play. At one hour in the morning, the Warm Up Party was finished. All the metal fans went under the tents where there was…metal disco! And many metal fans, dressed like cow-boys, Angus Young, Devil or anything funny, sang and danced on AC/DC, Metallica, and others big groups. It was really funny and friendly. Everybody spoke with everybody, drank beer, spoke again, and drank again and again. At 4 o’clock AM, we went to our tent and tried to sleep with our wet, cold and disgusting clothes. We slept five hours.

At 9 o’clock, we got up and went back to the stages. We stayed there all day listening to the bands, drinking some beer, eating sausages and buying a few T-Shirts. It did not stop raining between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon.

At last, around 6:00 PM the rain stopped falling, and, before the Motörhead show, we moved to find a good place near the main stage for their show, and also for the Metallica show, for which we had been waiting for several weeks. So, after the Motörhead concert, which was absolutely great, we waited another hour with the band Rise Against.

Finally, at 9:00 PM we could hear the song “The Ecstasy of Gold” from the film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, which is used as an introduction to every concert of Metallica. And the band (Lars Ulrich – drums, Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, Robert Trujillo – bass and James Hetfield – rhythm guitar + vocals) appeared on the stage. Then followed 2 hours of pure awesomeness. They played a lot of their old hits, like Fade To Black, Master Of Puppets, Enter Sandman and many others and some songs from their last album, Death Magnetic. Although our feet were stuck in 15 centimeters of mud, the atmosphere was more than great.

(The song starts at 1:00)

After these two epic hours, we stayed to listen to the last bands of the festival, especially Amon Amarth (Sweden) and 3 Inches Of Blood (Canada). During these last two concerts, we burnt the last drops of our energy before going back to the metal bar for the last time. At 4 o’clock we walked to our tent and decided to sleep a bit, but we couldn’t sleep in the tent because we were too muddy. So we tried to sleep on a military tarpaulin placed on the ground, but the rain began to fall again. In consequence, after checking the trains’ timetable, we dissembled the tent and took the first train to Lausanne at 6:00 AM.

The return trip was quite an adventure too, as we didn’t want to dirty the coaches. Consequently, we had to stay in the little space at the extremity of a coach for the whole trip. And when we had to change trains in Biel, it was quite hard to run on the platforms while carrying our bags, the tent and the big (25 m²)  tarpaulin... But we finally got back home and slept to recover from these two crazy days. 

The field before the festival

 

The field during the festival, with the two stages

The camping after the festival, on saturday morning

Robin & Jules

Les petits mouchoirs

Les petits mouchoirs is a movie realised by Guillaume Canet.

Guillaume Canet is an actor, a movie director and a scriptwriter. He is french, and he is 37 years old.
We are used to see him in movie, like Jeux d'Enfants, Joyeux Noël or Ensemble C'est Tout. But this time, he is behind the camera. It isn't his first movie as a director, but it's the first that I see.

The movie is at the cinema since the 20th October 2010, and the actors are Marion Cotillard, Jean Dujardin, François Cluzet, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte, Valérie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot, Joel Dupuch and Anne Marivin. Guillaume Canet wanted to make a movie with some actors that he well know.

This movie tells a story about a group of friends living a drama. Ludo (Jean Dujardin) has an accident in moto, and he is seriously injured. But his health is stable, so his friends decide to go on holliday like every years in a house beside the see.
But the stay don't happen like usual; some secrets, confessions and olds conflicts back to the surface and this people haven't relaxing hollidays.
The title mean that the characters have to remove their softs that they put on their secrets and their lies.

I really like this movie. It's emovant, funny, ironic. We can identify to them,  feeling their sorrow and their joy... Every character is interesting, every have his own problems. They are all connect to Ludovic, they all think about him.

Guillaume Canet put a dramatic surrounding at the beginning and the end of the story, but between there are a lot of jokes, funny scenes and we laught during the movie. But we also cry. I cry a lot of time! I'm sensible, it's true, but everyone cry in the cinema. The end is really surprising.. But I won't say what happening, go to see the movie! ;-)

Pauline

The Hangover

I am going to talk to you about a movie that I just simply love. It's one of my favorites, it's 'The Hangover', 'A Very Bad Trip' in French. It's an American comedy movie made in 2009 by Todd Philips. The four principal actors who are starring in this film are Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha.

It's a story about a guy called Doug who was going to get married. And to celebrate the last night of his single life, his three friends, Phil, Stu and Alan, decided to take him to Las Vegas. The day after their arrival there, they woke up in a hotel room which is completely messed up. And they soon realize that there's one of them is missing... and the more important one, the groom, Doug. So during the two days that they still have left, they will have to find him but to do that that they are going to retrace every step that they have take the night before. And it's not going to be easy because they don't remember anything!

And I'm not going to tell you more. If you like comedy movies, you really should see this one!

It is based on a true story. The true history happened to Tripp Vinson a friend of the film's producer. Vinson had disappered from his bachelor party and was found in a striptease bar in Las Vegas, with a big bill to pay.

The Hangover was a critical and commercial success. It became the tenth highest-grossing film of 2009, with a worldwide gross of over 467$ million. The film won multiple awards included the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy.

Next year, there will be a Hangover 2 and I'm really looking forward to see it!

Diana.

Esther or (Orphan) by Jaume Collet-Serra

My favorite movies are thriller and it is one that I really loved !

It's about a woman, Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) who lost her third child at birth and it lacks a lot and she decided with her husband John ( Peter Sarsgaard ) to adopt a child.
Then they go to the orphanage and they adopt a little girl called Esther ( Isabelle Fuhrman), and they see that it's a girl who is like no other but they appreciate that side.
At home everything is fine until the Sister Abigail (the orphanage) comes home from Coleman to tell them that something is not right with this kid. She told them that  before Esther lived in Russia with a family and her house was burned and nobody knew the culprit so there are a lot of mistake.
And after that Esther was very angry and she decided to kill the Sister with her little sister Maxine ( Aryana Engineer ) who is deaf. ...( the scenes aren't censured )... Esther tolds Maxine to say nothing at mom.
And gradually Kate realizes that Esther is a girl completely crazy, she seeks information on the internet about the orphanage and she sees that it's a psychiatric hospital.^^ Meanwhile Esther tries to kill his brother, danny (Jimmy Bennett ) but it fails because Kate arrives on time. After that Kate and all the family go to the hospital. Esther succeeds to have money for buying a drink. But she enters to the room of danny and she stifles him. After that john Maxine and Esther go back home (without Kate because she had slaped Esther at the hospital). Overnight , Esther makes up and dresses very provocatively to seduce her father.
During this time Kate gets a call from the psychiatric hospital and he said that Ester is a woman of 33 years. She is a proportionate dwarf, and she has killed several family by the same pattern : she always kills the children after the mother and she tries to seduce the husband and then burns the house.....

I've told the story quite detailed but I did not say everything! I really liked this movie. I love the movie who there aren't a lot or very little special effects. I prefer stories that are closest to reality. And for this movie I was really transported from beginning to end.

Joy

"Where rainbows end" by Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern is young Irish writer. She is only 29 years old have already written seven great books and won some Awards. She is the one who wrote PS:I love you. She is the co-creator and producer of the comedy Samantha Who.  She had sung too. 


Some informations:


Of course, I have read this wonderful book in french! The all book is written by letters, mails, sms, and small things that you write during the lessons at school. There is no narration. 
The story last since the two protagonist are nine years old until they have grey hair!


A short summary:


It is a story about two kids who are best friends, Rosie and Alex. They did all the stupidities possible and unbelievable. They grew up together in Dublin. But unfortunately Alex had to move on to America because of his father. But they got in touch with mails and letters. They tried to see each other but almost every time there were a problem with flight, or work or girl/boyfriend. So it is sad because we, the readers, know they were in love but they didn't and got married with the bad people and it finished always by a divorce. But at the end of the book we are amazed by something I don't want to tell because it sells the all thing and that isn't funny !


My opinion: 


I really liked reading that book not only because the story is nice but also because every massages you read, you are always surprised. I like they way is written too. No narration is easier, faster and we can imagine how they are, how it looks like. 
It also made me think about choices we do every day and how it can change your life. It is crazy how every choices you take is important, even the most small. 

Cécile Greco

Katherine Pancol

Katherine Pancol was born in Casablanca, in Morocco. At the age of 5, Katherine moved to France.

She makes literary study, becomes a French-Latin teacher and one day, at random of a meeting, she became journalist.

One day an editor asked her to write a book. First she wrote « Moi d’abord » in 1979. The success is very fast. She went to New-York to know a new world, a new language and a new way of living.

She took courses and met some writers, editors, scriptwriters..

In 1981 she wrôte « Le Barbare » , « Scarlett, si possible » and « Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues. »

She has two kids, a girl and a boy. She got married, came to France, divorced, but she continued to wrote novels : « Vu de l’extérieur », « une si belle image », «Encore une danse », « J’étais là avant », « Et monter lentement dans un immense amour », « Un homme à distance », « Embrassez-moi ».

In 2006 she wrote « Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles » , in 2008 « La valse lente des tortues » and in April 2010 « Les écureuils de Central Park sont tristes le lundi ».

I read the last three books and I LOVED them.

It’s a kind of trilogy. Funny, exciting, and when I began to read the first, I couldn't stop ! I love the way she writes and think that all the people who like to read some funny stories, will love these three !

These books are about a woman, who's just separated from her husband. She has two girls. She must find a job to satisfy at the needs of her family. Her sister is a rich woman with a good situation and ask her to write a book for her. She writes it and becomes famous, but a lot of events happen and trouble the well tidied-up life of this woman: her best friend has troubles too, several people are murdered, she falls in love with a strange man...! And if you want to know the continuation, read the books!

I advise you to go fast to buy them and to plunge you into this exciting universe! :-)

 

                                                                                                                                                        Audrey

Maxime Chattam

HE's my favourite author! (the "he" capital is because I consider Chattam as a god.)

Until the age of fifteen I had never read a detective stories. I often read sci-fi books or..., no it was all. And then a friend of mine showed me "Le 5ème Règne" that was a book with science-fiction and which was actually a detective story with sci-fi. I always used to read it during the day because I was so frightened to read it at night. When I finished this book, I had stars in my eyes (if I can say it so? ) So, I began to read every book that had titles like "Murderers, crime, night, knife, blood". I am scary girl, aren't I? Well, when I was reading these books I was the SCARED girl. ^^

Until now I have read all the stories by Chattam.

I choose to present you Maxime Chattam because I think he's the best author I've ever read, so, here is a little biography:

Maxime Guy Sylvain Drouot, french writer, was born the 19th February 1976 in Herblay, in the Val-d'Oise. He went to university and studied Criminology (by the way, it's one of my study choices, that or medecine).
During his childhood, he often went to United States. He always went to Portland, Oregon. Near Portland there is a little city called Edgecombe, it's there that he wrote "Le 5ème Règne".

After he published "Le 5ème  Règne", he began to write detective stories like "L'Ame du Mal", "In Tenebris" and "Maléfices". Books that revolutionize my way of thinking!

Now he continues to write beautiful and terrific stories that I'll read soon.

As a piece of advice (or as an order) to end well my short article:
                    READ AND ENJOY Maxime Chattam :-) !

                                                                                                                                                     Jessica