Life In Top 10

Top Selection of 10 top categories

The Shawshank Redemption

The best movies are the ones that touch the soul. It takes a movie like The Shawshank Redemption to really touch the soul.

Lost

Outstanding, intelligent, layered writing. There are multiple mysteries here, and for every answer we get, more questions emerge.

World of Warcraft

Here is the online role-playing game you should play, no matter who you are. Such high quality simply cannot be expected, nor should it be missed.

Paris, France

Paris is today one of the world's leading business and culturalcenters, and its influences in various aspects all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades.

Justin Bieber - Baby

As of February 2012, Justin Bieber singing "baby" reached 715,980,703 views on You Tube. .

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karennina

Anna Karenina is widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered this book his first true novel..

Mojito

The mojito is one of the most famous rum-based highballs. There are several versions of the mojito.

Facebook

As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users!.

Rendang

Rendang is a spicy meat dish which originated from the Minangkabau ethnic group of Indonesia.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Official Weekly Top 10 List 18/4/12 – 25/4/12

Top Movie
"The Three Stooges (2012)"
While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Writers: Mike Cerrone (screenplay), Bobby Farrelly 
Stars: Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso

Top TV Series
  “Game of Thrones (2011)”
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros.
Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Stars: Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Iain Glen

Top Song
Boyfriend - Justin Bieber
"Boyfriend" was a commercial success, debuting at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 after selling a total of 521,000 digital units of the single. The song is the second-highest-ever debut digital sales week in the United States, and has also charted at number 20 on the Pop Songs component chart.

Top Video
Dramma Piermario Morosini - The tragedy of Piermario Morosini
 826,113 views

Top Book
 "The Lost Years"
In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world. Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing? It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father’s death. Mary Higgins Clark’sThe Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.
   
Top Website
 
"Google" 
Google Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
The order of search results on Google's search-results pages is based, in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank".
The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in Web pages, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability.These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores. 

Top Pc Game
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, with Raven Software having assisted in development.

Top Travel Destination
Jordan
Jordan is classified as a country of "high human development" by the 2010 Human Development Report. and an emerging market with a free market economy by the CIA World Fact Book. Jordan has an "upper middle income" economy. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States went into effect in December, 2001 phased out duties on nearly all goods and services between the two countries. Jordan has also enjoyed "advanced status" with the European Union since December 2010 as well as being a member of the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area.

Top Food
Lobster Bisque

Ingredients
1 cup chicken broth
2 medium slices onion
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pound cooked and cubed lobster meat
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch ground cayenne pepper
Directions
In a small frying pan place 1/4 cup chicken broth and the onion. Cook over a low heat for 5 to 7 minutes.
In a medium size pot over medium heat melt the butter. Slowly whisk in flour. Whisk until a creamy mixture is created.
Gradually pour in broth, whisking constantly. Whisk in milk, salt, onion, lobster meat, Worcestershire sauce and cayenne pepper. Heat until soup is almost boiling. Do not boil the soup as the milk will curdle when boiled.

Top Drink
"Caipirinha"
Ingredients 
Sugar
Lime
Cachaca
Quantities for one drink:

2 tsp Granulated Sugar
1 Lime (8 Wedges)
2 1/2 oz Cachaca
Blending Instructions:
Muddle the sugar into the lime wedges in an old-fashioned glass
Fill the glass with ice cubes
Pour the cachaca into the glass
Stir well

Editor’s Weekly Top 10 List 18/4/12 – 25/4/12

1. Top Movie
 
"Intouchables (2011)"
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Writers: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy and Anne Le Ny

2. Top TV Series
 
"The Vampire Diaries - Season 3"
The vampire brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore, eternal adolescents, having been leading 'normal' lives, hiding their bloodthirsty condition, for centuries, moving on before their non-aging is noticed. They are back in the Virginia town where they became vampires, as high school students. Stefan is noble, denying himself blood to avoid killing, and tries to control his evil brother Damon. Stefan falls in love with schoolgirl Elena, whose best friend is a witch, like her grandma. 

3. Top Song
 
"Adele – Someone Like You"
An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jake Nava and it was filmed in Paris. The video showed Adele walking alone through the streets with a sad look on her face. Critics praised the video for being simple and perfect for the sound of the song. Adele performed the song on several award and television shows including the 2011 BRIT Awards.

4. Top Video
 
"Lionel Messi - From an Ordinary Boy to a Legend"
805,887 views 

5. Top Book
"Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time"
Was there a beginning of time?, Could time run backwards? and Is the universe infinite are just some of the questions considered in this book for the non-scientific layman. The author begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein and then delves into the secrets which lie at the heart of space and time.
Publisher: Bantam Books

6.Top Website
 "Booking.com"
Priceline is the parent company of the European organization Booking.com. Established in 1996, Booking.com is the world's leading online hotel reservations agency by room nights sold, attracting over 30 million unique visitors each month via the Internet from both leisure and business markets worldwide. Booking.com offers many types of property, ranging from small independent hotels to a five star luxury through Booking.com. The Booking.com website is available in 41 languages and offers over 180,000 hotels in 155 countries.

7. Top Pc Game
"Microsoft Flight"
The game was officially released on February 29 2012. Previously limited details were released on Flight, but Microsoft suggested that its realism and accuracy will appeal to flying enthusiasts, while new types of gameplay will appeal to newcomers. The game is integrated with the Games for Windows – Live platform, which allows players with Live accounts to join and host multiplayer sessions using a Gamertag. The introduction of Live means that the GameSpy client will no longer be in use.

8. Top Travel Destination
"Cuba"
Cuba is considered a tropical paradise which it is the most famous and largest of the West Indies islands, located immediately south of the Tropic of Cancer in the Caribbean Sea and separated by the Strait of Florida USA which has a length of 145 km. It is a slightly arched island, 1255 kilometers long, with an inclination to the southeast. The nearest neighbor of this country is Haiti, which is 77 km, area 110 922 km2 of Cuba offers visitors a variety of landscapes worth admired. 

9. Top Food
"Shrimp Linguine Alfredo"
Ingredients:
40 small shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 (12 ounce) package linguine pasta
1/4 cup butter, melted
4 tablespoons diced onion
4 teaspoons minced garlic
1 cup half-and-half
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
6 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
4 sprigs fresh parsley
4 slices lemon, for garnish
Directions: 

Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water until al dente. Drain.
Meanwhile, melt butter in a large saucepan. Saute onion and garlic over medium heat until tender. Add shrimp and saute over high heat for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Stir in half-and-half. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens.
Place pasta in a serving dish, and cover with shrimp sauce. Sprinkle with black pepper and Parmesan cheese. Garnish with parsley and lemon slices.


10. Top Drink
 "Margarita"
Ingredients:
 Oz Tequila
 1 Oz Orange liqueur (always prefer cointreau, but a simple triple sec is good enough)
Juice of 1 lime or lemon (we always prefer limes!)
 0.5 Oz of simple syrup or Lime Cordial
   8 Ice cubes or crushed ice
Directions:
     Step 1: Pour all ingredients into the shaker.
     Step 2: Add 8 ice cubes
     Step 3: Add the fresh lime juice or just squeeze a whole lime inside
     Step 4: Shake it hard! 12 times at least
     Step 5: Strain the cocktail into your chilled glass or strain over ice (margarita on the rocks)
     Step 6: Place a lime peel on the rim of the glass or put salt on the rim of the glass. If you want to "salt your rim" check out our cocktail guru tip at the bottom of this page.
     Step 7: Drink or serve it, your Perfect Margarita is ready to drink!
     You can also use:
Premium tequila's like Patron or Don Julio, they cost more but you will be sure to taste their quality.


Friday, April 13, 2012

Extra! The 10 most environmental movies ever!

Dedicated to our fellow students
http://forecolife.blogspot.com

1. Instinct(1999)
When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist to get through to him.
Director:Jon Turteltaub
Writers:Gerald Di Pego (screenplay), Gerald Di Pego
Stars:Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland 


2. Avatar (2009)  
  A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. 
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Stars:Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver


3. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
Director:Davis Guggenheim
Stars:Al Gore and Billy West 


 4. Into the Wild (2007) 
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Director:Sean Penn
Writers:Sean Penn (screenplay), Jon Krakauer (book)
Stars:Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Keener 


5.The Cove(2009)
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Director:Louie Psihoyos
Writer:Mark Monroe
Stars:Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos and Hardy Jones




 6. WALL·E (2008) 
In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Director:Andrew Stanton
Writers:Andrew Stanton (original story), Pete Docter
Stars:Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight and Jeff Garlin
 
 7. The 11th Hour (2007)
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.
Directors:Leila Conners, Nadia Conners
Writers:Leonardo DiCaprio, Nadia Conners, and 1 more credit »
Stars:Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenny Ausubel and Thom Hartmann

8. King Corn (2007)
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil.
Director:Aaron Woolf
Writers:Aaron Woolf, Jeffrey K. Miller, 
Stars:Bob Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz and Dawn Cheney
               
9. Addicted to Plastic (2008)
For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. Addicted to Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.
Director:Ian Connacher

10. Dances with Wolves (1990)
 
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Director:Kevin Costner
Writers:Michael Blake (screenplay), Michael Blake (novel)
Stars:Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell and Graham Greene


Friday, April 6, 2012

Official Weekly Top 10 List 5/4/12 – 12/4/12

Top Movie
Wrath of the Titans
Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
Director:Jonathan Liebesman
Writers:Dan Mazeau (screenplay), David Johnson (screenplay)
Stars:Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Rosamund Pike

Top TV Series
  “NCIS Los Angeles
The Naval Criminal Investigation Service's Office of Special Projects takes on the undercover work and the hard to crack cases in LA. Key agents are G. Callen and Sam Hanna, streets kids risen through the ranks.
Creator:Shane Brennan
Stars:Chris O'Donnell, Daniela Ruah and Barrett Foa 

Top Song
“kelly Clarkson - What doesn't kill you”

Top Video
M&M'S "Just My Shell" Super Bowl Commercial
 3,144,570 views
Top Book
 "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest"
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in Swedish: Luftslottet som sprängdes, in English: The castle made from air that (was) exploded) is the third and final novel in the best-selling "Millennium series"by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. The novel is the sequel to The Girl Who Played with Fire. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2007 and in English in the UK in October 2009.
The US and Canadian editions, published on May 25, 2010, are titled The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, with "hornet" in the singular form.
   
Top Website
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and social media website and services. It is one of the largest websites in the United States.

Top Pc Game
Yesterday
Yesterday is an adventure game by origin with cliché story and characters. This game starts with showing you weird images of pentagrams lying around directly referencing to alchemy and indirectly telling you that something is seriously amiss. It doesn’t take too long to realize that this is just another cliché story with something bad is going on. This is further proven when you start getting introduced to the characters of the game, which sound a lot like old movie characters, again reminding you of something that already has been used. I tried and played this game through and here is my review for it.

Top Travel Destination
Sydney,Australia
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people.Inhabitants of Sydney are called Sydneysiders, comprising a cosmopolitan and international population.

Top Food
Burger
A burger is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat (usually beef, but occasionally pork or a combination of meats) usually placed inside a sliced bread roll. Hamburgers are often served with lettuce, bacon, tomato, onion, pickles, cheese and condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup and relish. 
Method
Place the beef in a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients.   Mix it all together until just combined. This is best done by hand but don't over-work the mixture or you'll get a tough burger.
Wet you hands then shape the mixture into burgers by flattening the mixture in your hand about 2cm or 1 inch thick and smoothing he edges.
The burgers can now be cooked either on a griddle pan, non-stick frying pan with a bit of oil, or even a barbeque. Make sure you pre-heat the fying pan, griddle pan or barbeque to a medium heat.
Cook the burgers for about 5 minutes on each side, turning them once only.
And that is the Classic Burger Recipe. You can serve the burgers in buns with salad. Enjoy...
Ingredients 
  • 1kg minced beef (it is best not to use the lean mince as fat will help to keep the burgers moist)
  • 1small onion, finely chopped
  • 4tbsp fine bread crumbs
  • 1egg, lightly beaten
  • 1red chilli,finely chopped
  • 1tsp salt
  • 1tsp mustard power or mustard
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
Top Drink
Pina Colada
The piña colada was created in Puerto Rico and in Spanish it means, strained pineapple: piña, pineapple + colada, strained) is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice.
Method
Pour rum, cream of coconut and pineapple juice into a blender with one cup of crushed ice. Blend until smooth, and pour into a collins glass. Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a maraschino cherry, and serve.
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz light rum
2 oz Coco Lopez® cream of coconut
2 oz pineapple juice
1 cup crushed ice

Twitter Delicious Facebook Digg Stumbleupon Favorites More