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Welcome to our first magazine… This year promises to be a new departure for students…. Especially because the IT services doesn’t control our articles…

The main idea of the magazine is to show you that there are many things you can learn, maybe about sports, music, fashion, environment, countries and more…

Nowadays it is important to learn about everything!

Also the articles could be interesting for you because they were written by different people from different cultures!

So, we want to introduce you to our articles, we hope you enjoy them!

First, you can find French recipes, as you know, the French cuisine is one of the best of the world… next, you will find information about the “Eurock”, one of the most famous events in Europe!.... You will also find information about travels, global warming, places to visit and also some advices about how to keep your body healthy and fashion!

We wrote the articles with a lot of pleasure and we hope you enjoy them with the same one!

Enjoy it!

Alejandra, Emilie (Rikkugirl83), Alexandre (Editor) & Mélissa

THE FRENCH RIVIERA -LOCATION-

One of the most famous resort areas in the world, the French Riviera continues west from the Italian Riviera and Menton through Monaco, Nice, Antibes and Cannes, along the Mediterranean coast of the Alpes-Maritimes département. The French Riviera is very famous for it climate, because it's a temperate winters and a hot summers.

CITIES

CANNES

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, famous for the hotels, cars, beaches, and visitors. Cannes has become one of the busiest tourist destinations and especially during the annual Cannes Film Festival. Its old town, Le Suquet, is also a great place for its panoramic, where you can see all the city and the sea.
Cannes has night is a veritable centre of activity after the sun’s gone down. Casinos are very popular, and the most famous casinos in the city include Casino Croisette at the Palais des Festivals, Palm Beach Casino at Pointe de la Croisette, and Casino des Princes on boulevard de la Croisette. If a more traditional night out is your thing then you’ll find plenty of good bars across the city.

NICE

The city is a major tourist centre on the French Riviera. It is the historical capital city of the County of Nice. The Promenade des Anglais ("Walk of the English") is a celebrated promenade along the Mediterranean at Nice. Before Nice was urbanized, the coast at Nice was just bordered by a deserted band of beach covered by large pebbles.
Place Masséna is the main square of the city, a two-minute walk from Promenade des Anglais, old town, town centre, and Albert I Garden (Jardin Albert Ier). It is also a large crossroads between several of the main streets of the city.

MONACO

Monaco is the world's most densely populated country and second-smallest independent nation. With a population of just 32, 543 and an area of 2 km2. So, with 15 851 hab./km2 Monaco is the world's smallest, French-speaking country. The flag of Monaco reflects the heraldic colours of the Grimaldi family. It is one of the world's oldest national flag designs.
The distinction between the State and City of Monaco is just theoretical. The state in fact consists of one municipality (commune) only. According to the constitution of 1911, the principality was subdivided into three municipalities:
-Monaco (Monaco-Ville), the old city known as the Rock of Monaco, where the palace is located.
-Monte Carlo, the principal residential and resort area with the casino in the east and northeast
-La Condamine, the northwest section including the port area.
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco acceded to the throne following the death of his grandfather, Prince Louis II, in 1949. A new constitution, proclaimed in 1962, abolished capital punishment, provided for women's suffrage, and established a Supreme Court to guarantee fundamental liberties. In 1993, Monaco became a member of the United Nations, with full voting rights. By 31 March 2005, Prince Rainier III had become too ill to exercise his duties and relinquished them to his son Prince Albert (the son of the late actress and princess Grace Kelly). On 6 April 2005, after a reign of fifty-six years, Prince Rainier died and his son succeeded him as Albert II of Monaco. The flag of Monaco reflects the heraldic colours of the Grimaldi family. It is one of the world's oldest national flag designs.

ANTIBES

Anibes is a town located between Cannes and Nice, that is a favourite place for the holiday makers. There is a lot to see in the old town with its fortifications along the coast, little lanes with lovely shops, sidewalk cafes and restaurants. Today Antibes is called “Antibes-Juan-les-Pins”. The Juan-les-Pins part is the area that many tourists go to the beaches and where the nightlife can be found.There are 48 beaches along the 25km of the cost of Antibes and Juan les Pins. There are small family beaches, sporting beaches, long beaches with fine golden sand, which are perfect for sunbathing. Most of the good beaches are private, but you can stay here if you rent a mattress for the day. The main public beach is La Salis, on the edge of the Cap d’Antibes. Antibes still has a decent number of pubs, piano bars and even a couple of nightclubs. Piano bars seem to be the most popular type of hangout, followed by the Colonial Pub, a favorite of British expats and tourists alike. If you really want to party in Antibes, head to Casino La Siesta, where you can dance, eat, drink and gamble in the casino.

EVENTS

Festival du film

The Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1939, is one of the world's oldest, most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is annually (usually in the month of May) at the “Palais des Festivals et des Congrès”, in the resort town of Cannes.The Cannes Film Festival is organised in various sections:
-Firstly The Official Selection (The main event of the festival)
-Secondly the Parallel Sections ( these are non-competitive programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema).
So, during 2 weeks there are a lot of films on competition, to win various prices, like: Grand Prize of the Festival, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Jury Prize and Best Short Film. And The most prestigious award given out at Cannes is the Palme d'Or("Golden Palm") for the best film.

Fete des citrons

The Lemon Festival takes place every February in Menton. The festival change of theme each year: past themes include Viva España, Disney, Neverland, and India. The festival lasts a few days, with different bands passing through Menton's streets on foot or on truck trailers. The Casino Gardens in the centre of town is decorated in the theme of the festival, using lemons, and statues are built covered with citrus fruit.

Monaco Grand Prix

Since 1929, the Monaco Grand Prix has been held annually in the streets of Monaco. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world, along with the Le Mans 24 hour race. Only two drivers have ever crashed into the harbour, the most famous being Alberto Ascari in 1955 (Ascari would lose his life four days later at Monza). The other was Paul Hawkins during the 1965 event.

Festival of Jazz

Jazz à Juan remains one of the top jazz festivals in the world. Since its creation in 1960, it has attracted the greatest legends of jazz each year to play outdoors in this beautiful setting (July).

Carnaval of Nice

The Nice Carnival is the top winter event on the French Riviera. The city comes alive during a fortnight of festivities, with carnival processions, flower parades, concerts and fireworks, attracting over a million spectators.
Music flows from every street corner and huge papier mâché characters with giant heads parade through the city. Some on floats, some dancing with the crowds on the streets. The 2008 theme is "King of Bats, Cats, Rats And Other Legendary Creatures" (Roi des Ratapignatas, Raminagrobis et autres ramassis de Rats masqués).Spectacular processions take place along the seafront “Promenade des Anglais” and include the Bataille des Fleurs, a huge parade of flowers accompanied by marching bands and majorettes. The culmination of the carnival sees the papier mâché giants dance their last dance as their carnival king is taken down to the beach on his throne and ceremonially set alight, bringing the event to a close among a flurry of fireworks.

SOCCA & RATATOUILLE

--- SOCCA ---


Ingredients For 8 persons :

- 250 g of chick-pea flour
- 1/2 l of water
- 6 Soupspoons of olive oil
- 1 Teaspoon of table salt
- Ground pepper

Preparation:

In a bowl, put the water and the chick-pea flour, and mix with a whip. After, add the oil, the salt and the pepper. The paste must have the consistency of milk not skimmed. If it is too compact, adds a little bit of water and mixes again. Put the paste on one or two circular plates, pour the contents of four spoons with olive soup oil. Distribute and charge during 5 minutes. Withdraw furnace, cut out and are useful with pepper abundantly.

--- RATATOUILLE ---


Ingredients (for 4 persons) :

- 2 eggplant
- 2 zucchini
- 2 peppers (1 red, 1 green)
- 3-4 tomatoes
- 4 little onions
- 10 black olives
- 3 clove of garlic
- salt, pepper
- 6 soupspoon of olive oil.

Preparation :

Wash the vegetables, and cut the eggpplant, the onions, the tomatoes and the zuchinni in piece, in a form of cube. In the end, you meet yourselves with full of small cubes of vegetables. Cut finely the garlic and the black olives, then put the olive oil in a jumper and make return all the vegetables to average fire.

THE EUROCKS!!!

Hey, as I promised you, I'm going to write a article about one of the best festival all over the world which is called "les Eurockéennes de Belfort". You can go there every first weekend of July, in fact it's a three days festival. If you want to discover new bands or to see your idol it's possible, you just need to check the program before. It's based in a nature reserve in Malsaucy.

For example of some bands or singer who came to this festival :
-Muse
-Marylin Manson
-Arcade Fire
-The Hives
-Justice
-Daft Punk
-Editors...

One of the advantage of the Eurocks is that now you can find different types of music, from the Rock of course, to the Rap and also Electro. That's why more and more people come there, being sure to enjoy themselves.

I think it's one of the best place to go with your friends. Men or Women, you'll be able to find what you're looking for. Not only the day, you'll spend three days non-stop listening music, eating and drinking. If you don't know where to sleep, you can stay on the camping fitted out for this event.

Have you ever tried it?If not, you really should. I'm sure that you won't be disappointed.

GLOBAL WARMING

ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS CHALLENGES FACING US TODAY!

Maybe when you listen “global warming” you think about science fiction movies or maybe you think that it’s just the nature or maybe that it is going to be along time when this problem comes true. Maybe you’re wrong. The layer that covers the planet is called atmosphere and its function is to keep the rays of the son inside the planet so it maintains a temperature of 15°C. Without this layer the temperature of the planet would be of -18°C. Without the greenhouse gases the planet won’t be able to function and this could cause a big disaster.

The increase of the greenhouse gases is caused principally by three effects: the gases that industries produce, the cut down of the trees and the population’s increase. This last effect implies that people need more natural resources like water, wool, food, etc. And here we have an important point: technologies.
Industries burn 2,500 million of tons of carbon dioxide per year, and cars burn 1,500 million of tons of CO2.

What are consequences of the global warming?

When the rays of the sun are kept between the planet and the atmosphere, the temperature increases, there is a shortage of water, the ice melts, and on the other hand there is also acid rain.
The rays of the sun get directly into the water of the planet and this make that the water evaporates quickly. So, when an hurricane occurs and collide with hot water it gets bigger! Also, the water of North and South poles melt. This effect makes that polar bears and seals die because they need the ice to survive.

Moreover the level of the sea increases causing more flooding. So, If the level of the sea increases 6 meters places like Florida, San Francisco, Beijing, Holland, Bangladesh, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and more could be completely flooded.

You can keep cheating you, or maybe you can just keep thinking that these things won’t happen. But we have to start taking action right now!

Here are some tips that you can take to help your planet:

1. Change your light bulbs for those that save energy.
2. Turn off the computer, television, radio, etc if you are not using it.
3. Try not to use the heater or the air conditioning.
4. If you can, buy a hybrid car with automatic motor (engine).
5. Keep the wheels inflated.
6. Share your car, use public transport, walk or ride a bike.
7. Don’t waste water when you take a shower.
8. Recycle.
9. Wash your cloth with cold water.
10. Plant one tree.
11. Take care of the animals. Let them live!

... We are wasting the resources that our planet gives us! We have to start to do something and
we have to do it now!

You can check in www.myfootprint.org how many worlds do you need to can live... Please, take conscience of this problem!! You live here, your kids will be living here, please take action!