Martjin Gerrard Garritsen

Martin Garrix is a very famous Dutch DJ as well as producer. He is mainly known for the track Animals which was successful in securing place in a Top 10 hit in more than 10 countries. In Belgium and the United Kingdom it placed at number 1 and in Ireland it paced at number 3. His single Wizard was produced with Jay Hardway which became successful in numerous countries. He currently ranks at number 4.

Martin was born on 14 May 1996 in Amstelveen, Netherlands. His birth name is Martijin Garritsen. He started generating passion for music since he started playing guitar. After seeing DJ Tiesto playing at the Olympic Games in Athens, he had interest in becoming a DJ. He was inspired from the track “Traffic” and he also downloaded specialist software and started composing. He attended the Herman Brood Academy and have recently finished. Herman Brood Academy is a production school located in Utrecht. Martin uses GRX. He also have ghost written tracks for other artists.

He began his career by the song “BFAM” with Julian Jordan. He won SLAM! FM DJ Talent of the Year Award in 2012. He released his remix of “Your Body” on Christina Aguilera’s deluxe version of her album Lotus. 

He became famous through his own solo release “Animals”. His solo was released on June 16 2013 on Dutch record label Spinnin’ Records. His solo became hit in a number of charts in Europe and he became the quickest and youngest person to reach the No. 1 spot on Beatport. He became successful to list himself as a new entry at number 40 on top 100 DJ’s list 2013. In 2014 he was listed at number 4 on DJ mag’s top 100 list. He signed a deal with Scooter Braun’s Scooter Braun Projects in November 2013. With Jay Hardway, he released “Wizard” in December 2013. In Belgium the song has peaked to number 6 and in the Netherlands it peaked to number 17. 

Garrix also found time to perform and mix the world over, climbing as high as number one in DJ Magazine's Top 100 list 2016. After splitting with Spinnin' Records, Garrix launched his own STMPD RCRDS label, which he inaugurated with the single. Garritsen launched his own record label called STMPD RCRDS in the first quarter of 2016. On 11 March 2016, he released his first single via STMPD RCRDS titled "Now That I've Found You", featuring the vocals of John Martin and Michael Zitron.

On 20 February 2016, Garritsen announced that his debut album will be arriving this year via Twitter after the social media platform asked some of its content curators to use its new video platform to announce their plans for 2016. On 18 March 2016, he debuted a great part of his 2016 debut album at Ultra Music Festival, and chose to use his one-hour set to premiere ten new unreleased tracks, including collaborations with Jay Hardway, Julian Jordan, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, Ed Sheeran, Bebe Rexha and Third Party along with AREA21. On 27 May 2016, he released his second single "Lions In The Wild" with British DJ duo Third Party. He debuted many of these new songs live at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. In July 2016, it was announced Garrix had inked a deal with Sony Music International.

1. What is the text about?
    A. The story behind Martin Garrix's success
    B. The life of Martin Garrix
    C. The people helping Martin Garrix's success
    D. The albums of Martin Garrix
    E. The rise and fall of Martin Garrix

2. What is the purpose of the text?
    A. To explain the process of becoming a successful DJ
    B. To persuade the reader to follow the Martin Garrix's attempt to succeed
    C. To describe who Martin Garrix is
    D. To amuse the reader by Martin Garrix's story
    E. To inform the journey Martin Garrix's success

3. What triggered Martin Garrix to be a DJ?
    A. He attended DJ school
    B. He saw DJ Tiesto's playing
    C. He wrote ghost track for artists
    D. He collaborated with Julian Jordan
    E. He signed contract with big company

4. ... he inked with Sony Music International. Inked is closest meaning to...
    A. Tattooed his body
    B. Scratched on the paper
    C. Signed contract
    D. Thicken a writting
    E. Traced on a paper

5. How did Martin music get recognized?
    A. By collaborating with musicians
    B. By teaching at DJ school
    C. By publishing his music in social media
    D. By letting others download his music freely
    E. By going overseas

A Colurful Idea

On the first Friday in January 1991, Vanessa Hess sat in her seventh-grade science classroom at Stonybrook Junior High and heard her teacher, Mrs. Maurice Marchani, announce that each kid had to do a new project. They had to invent something. “There are only two ways you can avoid this,” Mrs. Marchani said. “You can die, or you can move.” As Mrs. Marchani continued, she made it clear that this was not a science-fair type project. “I never want to see another papier-mache volcano,” she said.

                Mrs. Marchani wanted to see original inventions. There must be any number of school across the United State where science teachers encourage students to be creative by saying, “Maybe someday you will grow up to be a famous inventor.” To Vanessa’s dismay, Mrs. Marchani had different advice. Why not try to become a famous inventor right now?

                In the Indianapolis area, Maurine Marchani has made a name for herself by inspiring her kids to become inventors. One of her students, Steve Prater, has been featured in national magazines. Twice, he won prizes in competition for his inventions. One invention was something called a Hand Stabilizer. A device that enabled a friend of his with cerebral palsy to hold a pencil and write responses on true or false or multiple-choice tests. It worked so well patented, the Hand Stabilizer and began developing it commercially. In his honor, the mayor of Indianapolis proclaimed August 23, 1989, Steve Prater Day.

                “But me?” Vanessa asked herself. Once, Mrs. Marchani had instructed her students to figure out ways a to drop an egg from the school roof without the egg breakings it landed. When the teacher, dressed in a bunny suit, tried Vanessa’s idea, the result weren’t so great. “Mine crushed,” says Vanessa.

                In spite of her doubts, however, this hesitant inventor had her idea after only a few weeks. In the classroom, Mrs. Marchani had said that when inventors hit upon a great idea, they sometimes shout a loud and victorious “Ah-hah!” But Vanessa? Her idea came as a soft “Hmmm…” It all started on the last weekend in January, when spring-like weather visited Indianapolis. The warm sunny day found Vanessa and her dad in the driveway, washing and waxing the family car.

                The maroon Olds gleamed as if new. But Vanessa noticed that each scratch in the paint showed up as a white mark, the white being wax left in the scratch. “You ought to cover these scratches,” she said. “Don’t know how to,” her father replied. “Unless I go to an autoparts store and get some touch-up paint. And even then, it may not match.”

“There ought to be a wax with color in it.”

“There isn’t one.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t know.”

And she had her idea. She stored it away inside her head and kept hoping a better one would come along. For a while, she thought of developing something to keep apples from turning brown after paring. But every Friday afternoon when Mrs. Marchani checked on her students’ progress, Vanessa shrugged and didn’t say much.

                As the February due date drew near, Vanessa realized she was running out of time. A few calls to auto-supply stores and a quick check through an auto magazine indicated that no one else seemed to have produced a colored car wax. So far, so good. Vanessa bought a blue Matchbox car and added blue food coloring to some car wax. She scratched up the toy car, then waxed the thing- and it worked!

                That Thursday night, with some encouragement from her mother, Vanessa printed up a posterboard and readied her display. “It wasn’t real nice,” she admits, “just a quick job.” The next day in the classroom she started uneasily at more attractive presentations. But, Mrs. Marchani, moving from student to student, had an eye for true ingenuity. When she poked her face over Vanessa’s shoulder, she started at the display for a moment, taking it in. then in a level tone she prophesied, “You are going to make money from this.”

                Vanessa’s colored car wax won first place in her classroom, and then swept the field in competition against inventions from other classes at Stonybrook. A panel of judges picked Vanessa’s project to represent Stonybrook in the annual contest sponsored by Invent America!, a  national organization that works with school to encourage young people to invent. Her display won that summer at the state level.

                That October, a newspaper article about Vanessa resulted in a phone call to the Hess home. An auto-products company had already been developing colored car wax with an industrial chemist-by coincidence, it was an Indianapolis firm.

                The annals of invention are strewn with better disputes between inventors claiming the same product. But this story has a happy ending. The owners of the auto-products company, two brothers named Dan and Don Huffman, were charmed by Vanessa’s story and decided to ask her to appear in an “infomercial” for Magic Shine, their colored car wax. Contracts were signed, and Vanessa and her mom were well paid to fly to California to help make a Magic Shine promotional movie that was later broadcast on TV all over the country.

                How did the young inventor like moviemaking? Vanessa ponders the days in Hollywood rehearsing and shooting and taking instructions from the British director. “It was kind a nice,” is all she says.

                The success of Vanessa Hess also belongs to her teacher. Maurine Marchani seems to provide classroom experiences that lead to creative thinking. In fact, entering Mrs. Marchani’s classroom is itself an experience. Visitor must find their way past a whole zoo of floppy sculptures that dangle from the wall. A live rabbit hops up and down the rows between the desks. A rabbit? “If you don’t pet her,” says Mrs. Marchani, “she eats your shoelaces.”

                The science teacher has a theory that junior high school kids need more physical attention than they admit. A kid who enters the school from a stressed-out home may need to have a rabbit on his lap the whole period. And she also believes that this is just the kind of place that encourage kids to risk having original thoughts. “In a setting that’s offbeat, its OK to make a mistake,” says Mrs. Marchani. “Kids are afraid of being foolish. If the teacher is sort of silly, then its OK for them. Its OK to risk.”

                She also notes that the students with the highest gradepoint averages aren’t always the best inventors. “I find that kids who do not do well on paper-and-pencil tests do wonderful things with ideas.” Some people view kid inventions as flukes. But, Maurine Marchani disagrees. “Nobody’s told seventh-graders they aren’t creative yet,” she says. To her mind, when it comes to inventing, twelve is the perfect age.

*An original story from Brainstorm! by Tom Tucker

1.    Where did Vanessa Hess study?

A.      Stonybrook Junior High School

B.      Lawrenceville School

C.      Riverdale Country School

D.     Hotchkiss School

E.      Middlesex School

2.    What is the first Vanessa’s idea?

A.      How to drop an egg from the school roof without the egg breakings it landed

B.      Papier mache volcano

C.      How to keep apples from turning brown after paring

D.     A colored car wax

E.      A hand stabilizer

3.    Who is Steve Prater?

A.      Founder of Hollywood

B.      Vanessa’s father

C.      Founder of Hand Stabilizer

D.     A guy who want advertised Vanessa’s invention

E.      Vanessa’s teacher

4.    When did the mayor of Indianapolis proclaim Steve Prater’s day?

A.      August 24, 1778

B.      August 23, 1989

C.      August 25, 1845

D.     August 12, 1665

E.      February 26, 2014

5.   “The science teacher has a theory that junior high school kids need more physical attention than they admit.” The underline word has the same meaning with…

A.      Knowledge

B.      Information

C.      Measurement

D.     Thesis

E.      Proof

Red Panda

Red panda is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. Red panda is a small arboreal mammal that lives on a tree. Red panda has a latin name called Ailurus fulgens. It was the first ever discovered by European scientists. 

Red panda has red and black thick fur with black foot. Its tail is long (30 to 50 cm) with 12 red rings and brown. It eats bamboo, but red panda is omnivorous. It also eats eggs, birds, insects, and small mammals. Its activities are happened mainly in the morning or afternoon. Red pandas spend most of their lives in trees and even sleep a lot. Red Panda is found mainly in temperate forest in the Himalayas, especially in the foothills of western Nepal, southern Tibet, Sikkim, Assam and Bhutan. Red Panda has become extinct in the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi and Qinghai. 

Right now, red pandas are endangered. Red panda is a victims of deforestation. Their natural space is shrinking as more and more forests are destroyed by logging and the spread of agriculture.So, from now. let us save our forest for our bright future.

LENOVO G40

This is a brand new Lenovo G40. This give you plenty of room for both work and play. This laptop use Jaguar APUs. This APU is more about power efficiency rather than trying to set the standard for next-generation gaming.

 

This laptop has a wide screen. The profit of this laptop is light in weight and it has a big storage 320 GB. This laptop is available for 2 colors, white and black. This laptop has a good specification and the price is affordable for anyone who want to buy it.

 

You can also watch my video and my friend's (Haya Sabrina Eka Putri, X MIPA 4) video on Youtube about this laptop. 

https://youtu.be/G2bzPUBUwFM

MEGANTARA

Do you know what is Megantara? Megantara is a culture festival-themed an original culture from Indonesia. It held by SMA Negeri 3 Bandung, on 10th September 2016. Megantara showed us many cultures from each regions of Indonesia.


In Megantara, I was a committee of door to door division. I'm in the charge of collecting funds for Megantara’s event. I was so proud at that day and glad, because I could be a committee of this prestigious event.

I haven't been working on D-day. So, I could play with my friends. I'm so enjoyed this event. Wait a minute, I forgot to tell you something. Actually, I had to come to Lapangan Bali at 5 a.m in the morning because there was a last meeting with all of committees'. But, the meeting begun at 05.30, I guest. Because there are many committees' came late.

Megantara begun at 11.15 a.m. I watched all performances from all SMA Negri 3 Bandung’s extracurricular. All performances were very good. But, the most that I liked was Tiloe’s Theater performance.

In this event, Megantara invited 2 special artists, RAN and The Cangcuters…

Their performances was so great. In the end of moment was an unforgettable moment I think, because of its fireworks. Megantara ended at 10 P.m. I think. But, the committee's got home at 11.30 P.m. I'm so tired, but I also happy. I hope in the next event, SMA Negri 3 Bandung will be better than before.

WTTF ( World Tournament Techno Festival)

Hello guys... Today, I'm gonna tell you about WTTF. What is WTTF? WTTF is an event that organized by OSIS SMAN 3 BANDUNG. However, Im'm not sure if this event was held by OSIS or 3'2017. It is a competition between 3'2018 against 3'2019, which held in SMAN 3 BANDUNG, Lapangan Bali, on Saturday, 20th of August 2016.

We gathered in Lapangan Bali at 06.30 a.m. X MIPA 4, my class, decided to wear a white clothes and black pants, and a little bit face decoration in our face. Before the tournament started, we all prayed together. After that, there was a warm welcome from the chairman of OSIS SMA Negri 3 Bandung.

The rule of this tournament were:
1. Each class of 3'2019 and 3'2018 will compete each other.
2. We have to go to posts where we could get a piece of puzzle.
3. Each class will be given 2 water ballon.
4. There is an alien. If we want to kick them up, we need to throw the aliens with the water ballon. If we throw the water ballon correctly to an alien, we will be given a piece of puzzle.
5. Get a piece of puzzle as much as you can.

Post by post, we got through it. But, unfortunately, I had to go to Bogor, so I couldn't finished that game, and I heard from my friends, the winner of this game was 3'2019. Ooh, I was so happy at that time, because we, 32019 could defeat 3'2018. That's all from me. Thanks

Bali

Bali is one of the most popular tourist destination in the world. A huge number of honeymooners and excursionist come to this island. Bali is famous for its dances and musics, many carvings, paintings, fabrics, as well as metal works, etc

Now, I'm gonna show you about the most interesting places in Bali. First up is Ubud. The village of Ubud, in the uplands of Bali, Indonesia, is known as a center for traditional crafts and dance. Ubud surrounded by rice fields and rainforest, dotted with Hindu temples and shrines, are among Bali's most famous landscape.

Second one is Seminyak. Who doesn't know Seminyak? Seminyak is a beach resort area at the southern of Bali. Many luxurious hotels, villas, and spas, as well as high end shopping and restaurants, are provided there.

Third, is Legian. Legian is a suburban and beach area on the west coast of Bali. Just north of Kuta and south of Seminyak. The area is between Melasti's street and Dyana Pura's street.

Fourth, is Tanah Lot. Tanah Lot is a beach which has wonderful rock formation. It is home to the Hindu pilgrimmage. Temple Pura Tanah Lot is a popular tourists and cultural icon for photography and general exoticism.

So, you just know the beauty of Bali. I just gives a few places that can blow your mind, and attract you to visit the wonderful Bali. You will find paradise in the world, the place that you've never imagine.

Introduction

Hello guys.... First of all, I would like to tell you about my self. My name is Sarah Camela Fadlillah. I was born on 26th of February 2001. I live with my parents on Padalarang. My previous school was SMPN 3 Cimahi, and I atend SMAN 3 Bandung. I still cant believe it. I'm very grateful to GOD, and I will not wasting my golden chance. It means that I will focus on what I'm doing right now.

My family is kind, especially my parents. My parents always care about me and my sister. I'll introduce my family members right now. The first one is my father, my greatest father. His name is Kurnia. my father is a bussiness man. The second one is my beloved mother. Her name is R. Siti . the last one, I will introduce my sister, Delicia.

Now you just know my family. It is my turn to introduce more about my self. I have a lot of hobbies. I like music, mostly EDM music. My favorite DJ is Martjin Gerrard Garritsen. He's so cool! I also like watching movies, especially action genre. the actor I like best is Jason Statham. I like sports, especially swimming and basketball. I'm into animals very much. My sister and I have one kitty, an arwana fish, and koi fish. They need a lot of attention, especially Ipin, my kitty. Actually, my favorite subjects used to be Math and Physics. But, since I have got bad mark on them, I like them less than before.

I would like to live in Germany someday. Because, one of the largest number of industries is there. I can earn some money, and achieve my goal.