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Edition : Thursday the 21st of January 2021 will be published tonight at midnight

 

 

Attempting to write the Caousou Times using 34 students to work simultaneously on Google Docs to publish faster!

 

 

Here are a group of students working on today’s edition. Aliénor, Philomène, Eléonore and Salomé.

 

Inauguration Joe Biden

 

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in at the US Capitol. Harris made history as the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. He was the first president in 150 years to boycott his successor's inauguration. The American anthem was sung by Lady Gaga and the patriotic song our sacred  land was sung by Jennifer Lopez. Many celebrities supported Joe Biden like Lebron James and Steph Curry 

Here's what to expect from the Biden administration in the first 10 days

In addition to executive actions and memoranda President Biden signed today, the Biden administration has an ambitious slate of additional actions for the first 10 days in office, many of which will roll back key policies established by his predecessor. 

Starting Thursday, each day through the end of the month, with the exception of this weekend, will center around a specific theme, with a set of corresponding actions and directives, 

Here are the themes: 

        Jan. 20: Inauguration

        Jan. 21: Covid

        Jan. 22: Economic Relief

        Jan. 23-24: Weekend

        Jan. 25: Buy America

        Jan. 26: Equity

        Jan. 27: Climate

        Jan. 28: Health Care

        Jan. 29: Immigration

        Jan. 30-31: Weekend

        February: Restoring America’s Place in the World

This Thursday, the theme of the first full day of the Biden presidency will be about coronavirus. There will be six executive orders and one presidential policy directive.

The executive orders include things like a review of supply chain, additional data collection and transparency, and support for additional Covid-19 treatment research and supply. A presidential policy directive will call on agencies to “strengthen efforts to combat COVID-19 globally and strengthen global pandemic preparedness.” 

Then on Friday, the “Economic Relief” day, there will be two executive orders.

One directs agency action on Medicaid, Pell grants, SNAP benefits and unemployment insurance. The second executive order will restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees and initiate action to roll back former President Trump’s Schedule F executive order – which gave the Office of Management and Budget and federal agencies leeway to reclassify key roles.

 

Alexandro, Félix, Antoine and Axel

 

Biden sets to work on reversing Trump policies with executive orders

 

 

After less than 24 hours in office Biden has signed over 15 executive orders mainly to reinforce Covid-19 measures and to cancel Trump's administration policy on climate change and immigration. He has done more in one day than most of the previous presidents did in 2 weeks (see the graphic).

He has stopped the construction of the wall between Mexico and USA, and he has ended the travel ban with some Muslim countries. He rejoined the Paris agreement (an agreement against global warming). He has also rejoined the WHO (The World Health Organization) in addition to his other executive order to slow down Covid-19 spreading. He justified all he's actions with "I will take action - not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration - but also to start moving our country forward". Joe Biden’s presidency is starting with big changements, it announces a very active mandate from this new president. 

 

Jean Belleau and Jules Remazeilles 

 

Cookie recipe :)

 

* This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever! No funny ingredients, no chilling time, etc. Just a simple, straightforward, amazingly delicious, doughy yet still fully cooked, chocolate chip cookie that turns out perfectly every single time

 

Ingredients :

• Vanilla sugar one sachet
• 150 g of flour
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

 

Preparation:

1.Cut the chocolate into chips.

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (thermostat 6).

In a salad bowl, put 75 g of butter, the sugar, the whole egg, the vanilla and mix everything.

2.Gradually add the flour mixed with the baking powder, salt and chocolate.

3.Butter a baking sheet and form the cookies on the baking sheet.

4.To form the cookies, use 2 tablespoons and make small piles spaced apart from each other; they will grow when cooked.

5.Bake for 10 minutes of cooking!!!

 

Enjoy!!!

Tabatha Bouëdo, Stella Castaignede and Emma Lissarrague 

 

Brookie Recipe (for 8 people)

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

For the brownie dough:

Dark chocolate :125g

Eggs: 2

Sugar: 125g

Flour: 75g

Salted butter: 75g      

Pecan nuts: 50g                                                                                  

 

For the cookie dough:                                                        

Flour: 165g

Brown sugar: 135g

Baking powder: 1 tsp

Salted butter: 120g

Egg: 1

Chocolate chips: 100g

 

PREPARATION:

Preheat the oven at 180 ° C. 

Butter a 23cm square mold.

 

Prepare the brownie dough: melt the chocolate and butter, then add the sugar and mix well. Incorporate the eggs one by one, then the flour and the pecan nuts. Pour the preparation into the mold, smoothing the surface.

 

Prepare the cookie dough: cream the butter and sugar with an electric whisk, add the egg and mix. Finish with the flour and the baking powder and finally  the chocolate chips, mix quickly. Sprinkle the brownie dough with large crumbs like a crumble.

 

Bake for more or less 20 minutes. The blade of the knife should come out slightly damp if you want a nice brownie. Let it cool before cutting into squares.

 

Enjoy

 

BON APPETIT !

 

Philomène GROSSIORD, Aliénor HUPPERT, Eléonore PEZET, Salomé VALMORIN

The inauguration of Biden’s presidency 

 

 

Yesterday a concert was organised to mark the beginning of Joseph Biden’s presidency. The concert was performed by Foo Fighters, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato and Bon Jovi.

The concert was about unity and to thank the workers that helped during the pandemic, who presented the show to say they were hosting the american ideal. They sang the lyrics of a song first performed in 1999 because it reflected the inspiration of the new administration, some of the lyrics : « Leave behind your sorrows / Let this day be the last / tomorrow there’ll be sunshine / and all this darkness past. »

Now Joe Biden is OFFICIALLY the new president of the United States of America.

 

Joséphine Priarollo, Bertille Chevrin, Celia Souifa—Sojo, Grace-Lily Tracey and Léonore Simancas 

Serie recommendation : Alice in Borderland

 

 

You can find it on Netflix. It's about 3 ordinary best friends (Arisu, Chiota and Karube), suddenly transported into a similar world to theirs, but where everybody has disappeared. 

To survive, they have to play games where they risk their lives, with different levels of difficulty. 

Through them, they'll have to make very tragic decisions that will hurt their daily life.

 

We really recommend this series, it is very interesting and you'll find yourself attached very quickly to the story and characters.

 

Chloé B and Emma B

Biden Again!

 

     On the twentieth of january, President Biden was inaugurated. After a national hymn which was sung by Lady Gaga, Biden swore an oath to serve the US. Later on the same morning, the new first poet recited a touching poem about how life was going to be with Biden as president and how she couldn't believe what the Trump supporters had done. At the ceremony, three former presidents were present : Barack Obama, Bill Clinton  and George W. Bush. It was surprising that the former president, Donald Trump was not present. Before leaving the Capitol, Mike Pence, former vice-president, said goodbye to Kamila Harris, the new vice president, a gesture that was symbolic between old and new presidents but couldn't be done because of Trump's absence. The president then went to the tomb of the unknown soldier to pay his respects as had done all the other presidents before him.

In the meantime, Biden's team was preparing the white house, putting back for example the portrait's of the other american presidents that Trump had taken down. After his inauguration, Biden signed Flurry of Executive Orders, for instance the Paris Climate accord. Kamala Harris, on her side, already elected two new democrat electors

 

Hugo Vitoux, Thomas Silva Sifontes

 

The land of stories

It's the story of two wonderful twins. A boy named Conner and a girl Alex.They were complete opposites. Alex was a genius while Conner was very bad at school. Their father died a long time ago. One day they fell through a book and landed in a land of stories. They have adventures to try to get back to the normal world. Really fun book that once you have started it is impossible to stop. There are seven books and a film adaptation .

Cristina, Sigrid and Chloé H

 

January Caousou’s News

 

• The « Brevet Blanc », an exam which gathers all the knowledge of middle-school in Year 10 began yesterday on the 20th of January 2021.

 

• Middle-school lockers were placed in classrooms last Wednesday. Formerly, the lockers were in the corridor and were disturbing the passage of the students and the Caousou’s staff.

 

• Because of the recent speech of the Prime Minister which doesn’t allow indoor sports, some activities in sport were removed such as basket-ball and badminton. PE professors are now obliged to choose different activities and have to think back on new sports that would be allowed.

 

Hadrien Artico and Naoki Borie-Duclaud

 

Google’s threatens to pull out their search engine from Australia 

 

Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation's attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers. Australia is introducing a world-first law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.Though Australia is far from Google's largest market, the proposed news code is seen as a possible global test case for how governments could seek to regulate big tech firms.

Paul du Plessis, Louis Bellot

 

 

China mine rescue 

 

On the 10th of January, miners were trapped in a mine in Hushan in the Shandong province because of an explosion. They are going to have to stay in the mine for 2 weeks. The rescuers drilled holes to give them food and medicine. Today nobody knows the cause of the explosion. Out of the 11 miners, only one died. The group discovered alive told rescuers they had established communication with a lone miner about 100m below them, but had since lost touch with him.

 

Paul vermeersch and Joaquin gomez-Roca

 

Fluffy pancakes recipe

 

Ingredients:

 

• 290g of all purpose | plain flour
•   60g of granulated sugar or sweetener 
•   4 teaspoons baking powder
•   1/4 teaspoon baking soda
•   1/2 teaspoon salt
•   440ml of milk
•   60g of butter
•   2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
•   1 large egg

Instructions:

 

•   Combine together the flour, sugar (or sweetener), baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large-sized bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the milk, slightly cooled melted butter, vanilla and egg. 

 

•   Use a wire whisk to whisk the wet ingredients together first before slowly folding them into the dry ingredients. Mix together until smooth (there may be a couple of lumps but that's okay).

 

(The batter will be thick and creamy in consistency. If you find the batter too thick)

 

•   Set the batter aside and allow to rest while heating up your pan or griddle. 

 

•   Heat a nonstick pan or griddle over low-medium heat and wipe over with a little butter to lightly grease the pan. Pour the batter onto the pan and spread out gently into a round shape.
•   When the underside is golden and bubbles begin to appear on the surface, flip with a spatula and cook until golden. Repeat with remaining batter
•   Enjoy with the sirop of your choice!

 

Paola Faÿsse, Maxence Bon and Talia Taheri Desmaison

 

 

Edition : Thursday the 21st of January 2021 will be published tonight at midnight

 

 

Attempting to write the Caousou Times using 34 students to work simultaneously on Google Docs to publish faster!

 

 

Here are a group of students working on today’s edition. Aliénor, Philomène, Eléonore and Salomé.

 

Inauguration Joe Biden

 

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in at the US Capitol. Harris made history as the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. He was the first president in 150 years to boycott his successor's inauguration. The American anthem was sung by Lady Gaga and the patriotic song our sacred  land was sung by Jennifer Lopez. Many celebrities supported Joe Biden like Lebron James and Steph Curry 

Here's what to expect from the Biden administration in the first 10 days

In addition to executive actions and memoranda President Biden signed today, the Biden administration has an ambitious slate of additional actions for the first 10 days in office, many of which will roll back key policies established by his predecessor. 

Starting Thursday, each day through the end of the month, with the exception of this weekend, will center around a specific theme, with a set of corresponding actions and directives, 

Here are the themes: 

        Jan. 20: Inauguration

        Jan. 21: Covid

        Jan. 22: Economic Relief

        Jan. 23-24: Weekend

        Jan. 25: Buy America

        Jan. 26: Equity

        Jan. 27: Climate

        Jan. 28: Health Care

        Jan. 29: Immigration

        Jan. 30-31: Weekend

        February: Restoring America’s Place in the World

This Thursday, the theme of the first full day of the Biden presidency will be about coronavirus. There will be six executive orders and one presidential policy directive.

The executive orders include things like a review of supply chain, additional data collection and transparency, and support for additional Covid-19 treatment research and supply. A presidential policy directive will call on agencies to “strengthen efforts to combat COVID-19 globally and strengthen global pandemic preparedness.” 

Then on Friday, the “Economic Relief” day, there will be two executive orders.

One directs agency action on Medicaid, Pell grants, SNAP benefits and unemployment insurance. The second executive order will restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees and initiate action to roll back former President Trump’s Schedule F executive order – which gave the Office of Management and Budget and federal agencies leeway to reclassify key roles.

 

Alexandro, Félix, Antoine and Axel

 

Biden sets to work on reversing Trump policies with executive orders

 

 

After less than 24 hours in office Biden has signed over 15 executive orders mainly to reinforce Covid-19 measures and to cancel Trump's administration policy on climate change and immigration. He has done more in one day than most of the previous presidents did in 2 weeks (see the graphic).

He has stopped the construction of the wall between Mexico and USA, and he has ended the travel ban with some Muslim countries. He rejoined the Paris agreement (an agreement against global warming). He has also rejoined the WHO (The World Health Organization) in addition to his other executive order to slow down Covid-19 spreading. He justified all he's actions with "I will take action - not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration - but also to start moving our country forward". Joe Biden’s presidency is starting with big changements, it announces a very active mandate from this new president. 

 

Jean Belleau and Jules Remazeilles 

 

Cookie recipe :)

 

* This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever! No funny ingredients, no chilling time, etc. Just a simple, straightforward, amazingly delicious, doughy yet still fully cooked, chocolate chip cookie that turns out perfectly every single time

 

Ingredients :

• Vanilla sugar one sachet
• 150 g of flour
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

 

Preparation:

1.Cut the chocolate into chips.

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (thermostat 6).

In a salad bowl, put 75 g of butter, the sugar, the whole egg, the vanilla and mix everything.

2.Gradually add the flour mixed with the baking powder, salt and chocolate.

3.Butter a baking sheet and form the cookies on the baking sheet.

4.To form the cookies, use 2 tablespoons and make small piles spaced apart from each other; they will grow when cooked.

5.Bake for 10 minutes of cooking!!!

 

Enjoy!!!

Tabatha Bouëdo, Stella Castaignede and Emma Lissarrague 

 

Brookie Recipe (for 8 people)

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

For the brownie dough:

Dark chocolate :125g

Eggs: 2

Sugar: 125g

Flour: 75g

Salted butter: 75g      

Pecan nuts: 50g                                                                                  

 

For the cookie dough:                                                        

Flour: 165g

Brown sugar: 135g

Baking powder: 1 tsp

Salted butter: 120g

Egg: 1

Chocolate chips: 100g

 

PREPARATION:

Preheat the oven at 180 ° C. 

Butter a 23cm square mold.

 

Prepare the brownie dough: melt the chocolate and butter, then add the sugar and mix well. Incorporate the eggs one by one, then the flour and the pecan nuts. Pour the preparation into the mold, smoothing the surface.

 

Prepare the cookie dough: cream the butter and sugar with an electric whisk, add the egg and mix. Finish with the flour and the baking powder and finally  the chocolate chips, mix quickly. Sprinkle the brownie dough with large crumbs like a crumble.

 

Bake for more or less 20 minutes. The blade of the knife should come out slightly damp if you want a nice brownie. Let it cool before cutting into squares.

 

Enjoy

 

BON APPETIT !

 

Philomène GROSSIORD, Aliénor HUPPERT, Eléonore PEZET, Salomé VALMORIN

The inauguration of Biden’s presidency 

 

 

Yesterday a concert was organised to mark the beginning of Joseph Biden’s presidency. The concert was performed by Foo Fighters, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato and Bon Jovi.

The concert was about unity and to thank the workers that helped during the pandemic, who presented the show to say they were hosting the american ideal. They sang the lyrics of a song first performed in 1999 because it reflected the inspiration of the new administration, some of the lyrics : « Leave behind your sorrows / Let this day be the last / tomorrow there’ll be sunshine / and all this darkness past. »

Now Joe Biden is OFFICIALLY the new president of the United States of America.

 

Joséphine Priarollo, Bertille Chevrin, Celia Souifa—Sojo, Grace-Lily Tracey and Léonore Simancas 

Serie recommendation : Alice in Borderland

 

 

You can find it on Netflix. It's about 3 ordinary best friends (Arisu, Chiota and Karube), suddenly transported into a similar world to theirs, but where everybody has disappeared. 

To survive, they have to play games where they risk their lives, with different levels of difficulty. 

Through them, they'll have to make very tragic decisions that will hurt their daily life.

 

We really recommend this series, it is very interesting and you'll find yourself attached very quickly to the story and characters.

 

Chloé B and Emma B

Biden Again!

 

     On the twentieth of january, President Biden was inaugurated. After a national hymn which was sung by Lady Gaga, Biden swore an oath to serve the US. Later on the same morning, the new first poet recited a touching poem about how life was going to be with Biden as president and how she couldn't believe what the Trump supporters had done. At the ceremony, three former presidents were present : Barack Obama, Bill Clinton  and George W. Bush. It was surprising that the former president, Donald Trump was not present. Before leaving the Capitol, Mike Pence, former vice-president, said goodbye to Kamila Harris, the new vice president, a gesture that was symbolic between old and new presidents but couldn't be done because of Trump's absence. The president then went to the tomb of the unknown soldier to pay his respects as had done all the other presidents before him.

In the meantime, Biden's team was preparing the white house, putting back for example the portrait's of the other american presidents that Trump had taken down. After his inauguration, Biden signed Flurry of Executive Orders, for instance the Paris Climate accord. Kamala Harris, on her side, already elected two new democrat electors

 

Hugo Vitoux, Thomas Silva Sifontes

 

The land of stories

It's the story of two wonderful twins. A boy named Conner and a girl Alex.They were complete opposites. Alex was a genius while Conner was very bad at school. Their father died a long time ago. One day they fell through a book and landed in a land of stories. They have adventures to try to get back to the normal world. Really fun book that once you have started it is impossible to stop. There are seven books and a film adaptation .

Cristina, Sigrid and Chloé H

 

January Caousou’s News

 

• The « Brevet Blanc », an exam which gathers all the knowledge of middle-school in Year 10 began yesterday on the 20th of January 2021.

 

• Middle-school lockers were placed in classrooms last Wednesday. Formerly, the lockers were in the corridor and were disturbing the passage of the students and the Caousou’s staff.

 

• Because of the recent speech of the Prime Minister which doesn’t allow indoor sports, some activities in sport were removed such as basket-ball and badminton. PE professors are now obliged to choose different activities and have to think back on new sports that would be allowed.

 

Hadrien Artico and Naoki Borie-Duclaud

 

Google’s threatens to pull out their search engine from Australia 

 

Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation's attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers. Australia is introducing a world-first law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.Though Australia is far from Google's largest market, the proposed news code is seen as a possible global test case for how governments could seek to regulate big tech firms.

Paul du Plessis, Louis Bellot

 

 

China mine rescue 

 

On the 10th of January, miners were trapped in a mine in Hushan in the Shandong province because of an explosion. They are going to have to stay in the mine for 2 weeks. The rescuers drilled holes to give them food and medicine. Today nobody knows the cause of the explosion. Out of the 11 miners, only one died. The group discovered alive told rescuers they had established communication with a lone miner about 100m below them, but had since lost touch with him.

 

Paul vermeersch and Joaquin gomez-Roca

 

Fluffy pancakes recipe

 

Ingredients:

 

• 290g of all purpose | plain flour
•   60g of granulated sugar or sweetener 
•   4 teaspoons baking powder
•   1/4 teaspoon baking soda
•   1/2 teaspoon salt
•   440ml of milk
•   60g of butter
•   2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
•   1 large egg

Instructions:

 

•   Combine together the flour, sugar (or sweetener), baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large-sized bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the milk, slightly cooled melted butter, vanilla and egg. 

 

•   Use a wire whisk to whisk the wet ingredients together first before slowly folding them into the dry ingredients. Mix together until smooth (there may be a couple of lumps but that's okay).

 

(The batter will be thick and creamy in consistency. If you find the batter too thick)

 

•   Set the batter aside and allow to rest while heating up your pan or griddle. 

 

•   Heat a nonstick pan or griddle over low-medium heat and wipe over with a little butter to lightly grease the pan. Pour the batter onto the pan and spread out gently into a round shape.
•   When the underside is golden and bubbles begin to appear on the surface, flip with a spatula and cook until golden. Repeat with remaining batter
•   Enjoy with the sirop of your choice!

 

Paola Faÿsse, Maxence Bon and Talia Taheri Desmaison