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Middle Kyushu Japan Earthquake

It was very shocking to hear about the Huge earthquake that hit the Middle Kyushu, Japan,  mainly Kumamoto area on April 14 and 16.  and small earthquakes have still been continuing. Huge one happened twice within a short time. and first one was magnitude 6.4 ,  earthquake, and the second one was magnitude 7.3, with an intensity on the Japanese scale of 7. According to the news, nearly 1,200 houses had been destroyed. and after 1 week past, 48 people died from it. and while people were taking refuge in shelters, there were 11 people who died from their injuries from the earthquake. Over 1,310 got serious injury. In the present, about 81,253 people are in shelter in all the areas that got damaged by the earthquake.  and many people who could not be in the shelter centers are staying outside. and also recently, almost same week as  Japan,  Ecuador was hit by 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week and 646 died and around 12,500 people were injured and left 130 missing along the co

My review - 2016 World figure skating Championships - Men

  Here is my review for some of men's world figure skating championship below, Men  Overall Results   1. Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 314.93  2. Yuzuru HANYU JPN 295.17  3. Boyang JIN CHN 270.99  4. Mikhail KOLYADA RUS 267.97  5. Patrick CHAN CAN 266.75  6. Adam RIPPON USA 264.44  7. Shoma UNO JPN 264.25 4  8. Max AARON USA 254.14  9. Michal BREZINA CZE 237.99  10. Grant HOCHSTEIN USA 237.25  Congratulations on all the medallists !  In this men's world championship,  Shoma Uno  My favorite is Shoma Uno 's performances, both SP and FP.     Yes, he made some errors but the way he moved on ice was charismatic and impressive. I've watched both of his performances a few times already.  I love the short program music, it's very unique and the choreography is interesting. His movements are well-balanced.  His first spin combo , especially bent let lay back camel spin looked

My review - 2016 World figure skating Championships - Ladies

We were watching World Figure skating championships in the beginning of th is month  on NBCSN and NBC channel.   It was nice to see Johnny & Tara in the commentary, but was wondering what happened to Terry Gannon ?  We both always love to see all three together.  About competitions, I liked the ladies competition this season the most.  The location is Boston, USA, so I was guessing it will be a great opportunity for top two USA skaters to be on the podiums.  Maybe except for France, all the other countries Russia, Canada, Japan, China also do the same thing , when the location is their hometown, usually the hometown skaters who are the top two can get bonus scores.  and this was the USA skater's turn.  Ladies Overall Results  1.  Evgenia MEDVEDEVA RUS 223.86  2.  Ashley WAGNER USA 215.39  3.  Anna POGORILAYA RUS 213.69  4.  Gracie GOLD USA 211.29  5.  Satoko MIYAHARA JPN 210.61  6.  Elena RADIONOVA RUS 209.81  7.  Mao A

Yummy Banana Smoothie

Today, I made a banana smoothie ! We had a mixer but I haven't been using it since we bought it a long time ago.  I didn't even open it until today. Somehow, suddenly I started getting interested in smoothie recently. It was my husband's day off today, so he also drank it. Here is the ingredients of the banana smoothie below, Ingredients * Banana -  2 * Plain Yogurt - 4 table spoons * Honey - 2 or 3 table spoons * Milk -  300 cc * Virgin coconut oil  - 1 table spoon * Ice cube -  4 or 5 Just put all the ingredients into the mixer. Also if you prefer sweeter taste, good to put one table spoon of vanilla ice cream over the smoothie. It's very yummy !  My husband also really loves it. For a while , I will drink the smoothie for my brunch , and will make many kind of smoothies.