New Zealand's Earthquakes

Our group searched New Zealand’s geography. New Zealand is on the circum-Pacific volcano belt so there are a lot of dangerous of volcanic activity, earthquake and so on. I am going to talk about earthquake of them.

There are many earthquakes in New Zealand like Japan. New Zealand has two plates, Australia plate and Pacific plate. Pacific plate is in Japan too. The two plates are always moving each other. When they shed and shake other, an earthquake happen. They say there are more than 150 active faults in New Zealand, and the length of the biggest of these is 650 km. Earthquakes happened magnitude6 class at least once every year, magnitude7 class once in decade in New Zealand. The biggest earthquake of New Zealand happened in Napier on 3 February in 1931, and at least 256(161 in Napier, 93 in Hastings, 2 in Wairoa) people died in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The memorial of the earthquake was built.

The capital of New Zealand is Wellington, and it is on earthquake frequency belt. Wellington is the most dangerous place in New Zealand, but there is organization for search earthquake and lot of earthquake stations all over New Zealand. The earthquake stations always working to guard people live in there. It is also important that you guard yourself. That geothermal activity causes earthquakes and volcanic activity, but it creates grate things like hot spring and beautiful landform and so on. It also helps produce heat for electricity and heating.

Wine Festival of Beaune

I'm going to talk about Beaune where the festival is held. Beaune is in religion Bourgone in France. The capital of religion Bourgogne is Dijon, but Beaune is called a capital of wine. It is a small country town with 20,000 peoples and has still an appearance of past as it is. There is a gradual hill around of Beaune, and the hill is called “Cote D’or”. Its name is “The Hill of Gold” in English and grape fields expand. The grape field is divided with small. The each small division have each colors and those look like pattern of mosaic. A wine is made from the each small division, and is a secret that a lot of kinds come from one religion. There are many wine festivals in Beaune, but the most famous festival is Beaune Wine Festival.

There are museums of wine and about 300 wine cellars from north to south and so on in Beaune. If you visit there, you can taste a lot of kinds of wine. The cellars are opened for tourists who want to know knowledge of wine, want to taste wines. In autumn, the wine tours are planed to tourists three times a day. You can go to the grape fields, the cellars with guide about two hours. Well, how about take part in the tour?

The Festival of Spain

The festival which I recommend you is the Festival of Pilar. It is held in Zaragoza in Spain. I am interested in Spain, because I am studying Spanish as second language in NUFS. I recommend since I have such reason.

The Festival of Pilar is held in before and after a week of 12th October every year. Do you know the festival? It is the biggest festival of hold in Zaragoza. The name “Pilar” means “pillar” in Spanish and come from the legend. The legend is the Blesses Mary appeared at pillar in front of St James who mission in there. The miracle is commemorated and the big shrine and the figure of the Blesses Pilar build. Then, the figure is worship in not only Zaragoza but all over Spain.

In the festival, a lot of events are held. The most famous event of these is “The ceremony of Offer flowers to the Blesses Pilar” which is held in 12th October. Large people give to the figure which is niched in the Pilar square. There are also “the Religion Procession of Glass”, “Giant” and “Top-heavy” which popular among a lot of children. The festival has another events expect these traditional main event. For example, Fireworks, Concert of classic and so on. The most popular among people of these events is folk dance “Jota” which children dance. The competition of Jota also is held. It is very cute and fantastic. Zaragona become full of people who wear folk costume. These costumes are really vivid. I read a lot of web sites and I want to go the festival someday. How about you?

Japanese Movie

I watched “The devotion of suspect X”. It’s called “Yohgisha X no Kenshin” in Japanese. Do you know the movie? It’s a sequel of a TV drama which is called “GALILEO”. Masaharu Fukuyama, Koh Shibasaki, a lot of famous actors and actresses appeared to it. Have you ever seen the drama? It’s one of the favorite TV dramas. The drama’s story is suspense, but the movie’s story is although suspense, but is also one kind of love story. It’s sad love story. I cried very much during I watch it, especially climax. The drama and the movie’s original are the three novels. The novels’ titles are “Detective Galileo”, “Predictive Dream” and “The devotion of suspect X”. These are written by Keigo Higashino. He is one of the famous suspense writers in Japan. Now is called “Autumn of Reading” in Japan and Why don’t you read the novels? However I haven’t ever read these.

This time’s story begin from is found a body which the all fingers and the all toes are burned and the face is crushed. Kaoru Utsumi (Koh Shibasaki) and Shunpei Kusanagi (Kazuki Kitamura) begins to investigate the incident, but break down soon. They can’t break a suspect’s alibi, and they ask a physicist Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama) to help them. The certain man lives a house next to the woman, Yasuko Hanaoka (Yasuko Matsuyuki) who the police think a suspect live. His name is Tetsuya Ishigami (Shinichi Tsytsumi). He and Yukawa were classmates once and he is a genius mathematician. A genius physicist Yukawa says “As long as I know, He is a real genius.”. Yukawa think Ishigami has something to do with the incident, and he challenges to solve the mystery Ishigami sets. The climax has a beyond our expectations and waits us. Can you expect the climax?

“If I solve the mystery, nobody become happy.” Professor Yukawa said. Do you think really thing? In this connection, the movie’s theme song is “Beloved” sung by KOH+. It's suits the movie very much. I want you to listen to the song once and watch the movie.

Favorite Movie

Today, I am talking about my favorite movie. My favorite movie’s title is “Vantage Point”. Do you know that? It released in March 3rd in 2008 in Japan by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The movie’s genre is suspense and action. Do you like suspense and action movie? If you like that, I recommend it very much! It is really exciting! I watched the movie with sub-titled in the day release. The man who acted the main character is Dennis Quaid. Besides, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver and so on appeared at the movie. Do you know them? If you do not them, click their name.

The story is set in Salamanca, Spain. In there, the president of the United States of America attends an anti-terrorism summit. Although when he tries to speak to audiences, he is shot by a gun, then, a loud explosion happens under the platform which the president stood. You watch the scene which the president is shot for 8 times from eight people’s viewpoints.

The first viewpoint is from TV producer Rex. She broadcasts the summit live, and watches the all incident through TV camera. The second is from secret service protect the United States of America. His name is Thomas and he is main character at the movie. The third is from Enrique who police officer of Salamanca. He comes there to meet his girlfriend, but he has a secret in his bag. The fourth is from Howard who American tourist. He films video by his video camera all the time, and he films the criminal who shoot the president. The fifth is from Taylor who is partner of Thomas. He protects the president with Thomas together. Other viewpoint is from Veronica, Javier and Suarez. I do not talk about them, because they have key-points of the movie. If I talk about them, I mean I talk important thing, when you watch the movie, it become boring. Do you want to know who are they? Then, please read below sentence too, and if you interested in the movie, I want you to watch it once by DVD.

Thomas runs, fight and do car-chase to solve the incident and catch the criminal. He meet above people who witness the president is shot. He connects their story like a puzzle, and gradually approaches the truth. However the truth is nobody expect it, of course Thomas too. Besides, the president has the greatest secret. The eight viewpoints bring only the one truth. We can be them. We can stand their position and can know their each mind.

Summer Vacation

This time, I am talking about my summer vacation. At my first day in summer vacation, I went to the bookstore with my grandparents. It was a special day for me, because the book which I reserved a lot of month ago was sold. The book’s name is “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. It is a final number of Harry Potter series and author is J.K.Rowling. I had been waited for long time, because I like “HARRY POTTER” very much. I was very happy when I received the book. My face became all smiles. I was excited before I open the book. I read the book in my grandfather’s car, because I could not wait to get my house, but I felt sick by the car. However I kept read, because I wanted to read it very much. During the way to my house, I felt so sick and I read the book.

I read the favorite book from morning till night since the book was sold. One day, I forgot eat my lunch, because I absorbed in read the book. It was very interesting for me. I forgot time passed during I read it. However I stopped read at the three chapter from the end. I did not want to read it. I thought I feel lonely when I finish read the final number. However I wanted to ending of the story, I finally finished read it. It was takes two weeks to read.

Have you ever read “Harry Potter” series? If you have not, I recommend these to read once. I think they are great fantasy. The series are one of the best books for me. Someday, I thought challenge to read those in English. If you dislike read a book, I recommend the movies. They are fantastic as the books. Harry Potter series’ DVDs are sold, and on July in next year, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is showed. Why don't you watch those?

Exercises for Health

There are a lot of exercises in the world. In that, I’m going to talking about TV game’s exercise which increasing these day. I often play Wii. It was developed by Nintendo which is one of the most popular caompany in the world. We use our bodies actually and play tennis, baseball, and so on. If you had a “Wii fit”, you can do muscle-training and play yoga. Do you have ever played Wii fit? It’s very exciting. You can do and play full-dress things in your home and in your free time. I think it is useful for you. It is also measure our BMI, weight and ability of exercise. If you played yoga everyday even a little, you can know change of your body. It is also help us to support sense of our balance.

Sweets

There are a lot of sweets in the world. For example, a cake, a candy, an ice cream and so on. Many people like sweets very much. I am one of them. How about you? Do you like sweets too? These are very delicious, aren’t these? But a lot of sweets are high calorie and have extra things. For example, a bar of chocolate’s calorie is 400kcal and even fruit parfait’s calorie is 450kcal.

Well, how much is it a day’s calorie? It is difference by each other. Click here and check your calorie. If you eat a lot of sweets, you maybe put on weight. You are in trouble, aren’t you? It is account for not only overweight but illness (lifestyle-related diseases, arteriosclerosis and heart trouble). But we want to eat them. Therefore, these days, low-calorie sweets and vegetable cakes are made. They are very popular among people who all over the world, especially in Japan. But if you want to eat meals or sweets which sell in a supermarket, please click this web-page or this web-page, and calculation calorie of what you ate.

About Laughter

☆INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT LAUGHTER

These days, they often said “Laughter makes our health”. It is showing by a lot of doctors and experts in research.
The web pages explain laughter helps we spend happy life by some reason. For example, laughter increases elasticity of blood vessel. If the blood vessel expands, a heart attack and a cerebral accident of risks decrease. Also, laughter helps reduce our stress and pains, make activation our brain.

Michael Miller, a heart trouble prevention leader, in Medical Center of Maryland Collage has been interested in laughter. He and his coworkers used the device of supersonic wave. They showed the funny movie and the boring movie to the patients of heart trouble. Result of the experiment shows clearly benefits of laughter. When people watch the funny movie, their stream of blood more became smooth than usually.
But regrettably, now, we don’t know clearly yet if why laughter makes help our stream of blood vessel.

Research about benefit of laughter include about blood circulation is going on by al lot of doctors and experts.
When do people laugh? - When you watch comedy, don’t you? ↓


☆COMEDY & OTHER FUNNY STUFF

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These are my favorite movie clips. These animations called “THE SIMPSONS”.
Though this is a TV program, is made into a movie. The top URL is that preview. Because this is a review, the story is not connecting. But it is very interesting. The man try to hit a nail and the hammer stick his eye, and the boy trip and strike against a wall, and the man electrocute the fishes and he get an electric shock himself. I think that their facials are very funny. Second and third are the TV program’s short stories.
Please click the URLs and watch their jokes and mischief.

THE SIMPSONS started as short corner of certain comedy TV program in America in 1987. In 1989, it started as a single program. This is a life story of Simpsons family. The member of the family are father Homer, mother Marge, their son Bart, their two daughters Lisa and Maggie. Homer and Bart are rather foolish person, but other family and we never can hate them. Because their actions are very funny though are very fool and impossible. The animation is popular all over the world. Even famous actors and actresses appeared.

There are THE SIMPSPNS's official wab-pages. Please click!
Official in Japanese
Official in English