Yukifood

The blogger was born in 1980s, China. She likes cooking food and always shares her experiences of tasting food on her blog. Her major does not have a thing to do with food but she is good at English and Japanese and she writes articles and post pictures about food for such magazines, such as Food Special Magazine and The Australian New Express. She wants to use the camera to interpret the state of the food that is delicious, is keen to wander with exotic foods all over the world.

Blogger shares all kinds of food from all over the world in her blog, mostly Chinese food. It looks so pretty and makes your mouth water. She shares her cooking experience and also teaches people how to cook the food with more details and pictures step by step.

Her blog is a matter of food and she starts it in 2010. So far, she has almost ten thousands followers and 5,825,752 in traffic. The strength of her blog is attractive with a lot of pictures taken by her and the blog content classification is clear and specific; she also has interaction with the followers.

When I asked her how to start a new blog and share some experience of writing a blog, she told me it is important to create a blog you interested in and you are ready to share your interests and hobbies. She said, she wants to cook all kinds of food and it will bring her a sense of achievement. She also learns to cook such food she doesn’t know from other food lovers. She likes to try any new things, at the same time, she also likes to create her own recipes, even though sometimes failed, but she enjoys the process of cooking.

The easier part of writing this blog is to share the experience, but the most complicated part is to tell people how to cook with pictures and words step by step, it would take more time, Yuki said. When I started my blog in 2010, I was lack of experience, there was a large number of people asked me how to cook it, they can’t figure out such step and I had to explain to them. After a long time, I have more experience. I know what should write on my blog, and tell people what're the key points should be paid attention to in cooking.

She hopes that people can share their experience for her or give her more advices about her blog because she wants to make her blog more professional. And she also follows some food blog and learns some new cooking from other bloggers.

At last, she said, if you want to make your blog more popular or attract people to follow you, you need to write your blog more frequently and make it look more attractive. At the same time, you can share your blog at any social media like Weibo (twitter) and other social network.

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Russell Westbrook Knocked Out Of Game With Knee Injury

Russell Westbrook, whose knee injury kept him out of most of last year's NBA playoffs as well as numerous games this season, had to be helped off the court tonight in Toronto after suffering what the Thunder are calling a knee sprain.

On the play, Kyle Lowry accidentally crashes into Westbrook's knee, causing it to flex in an especially painful-looking manner. Westbrook is coming off a DNP in order to rest the knee, which has been operated on twice this season already.

That's pretty much all anybody knows at this point, and we'll try to provide updates as any more information becomes available.

By Timothy Burke

Federer fades at the Sony Open

Despite stellar play heading into the match, Swiss champ couldn't find his rhythm

 

 KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Heading into Wednesday night's Sony Open tennis quarterfinal, this statistic loomed large: While Kei Nishikori was playing in only his 25th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event, his opponent was looking for his 50th berth in a Masters semifinal.

That vast edge in experience would seem to suggest a Roger Federer victory, but tennis has a way of consistently delivering these May-October encounters in which the outcome is never certain.

And this one wasn't, not until the very end.

Nishikori, who was down a set and break in the second, came back to stun Federer 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

One day after beating No. 4-ranked David Ferrer in a match that went longer than three hours, Nishikori backed it up with a win against the man many feel is the greatest player ever.

Federer's backhand failed him down the stretch and he finished with 39 unforced errors versus only 29 winners. Nishikori was more efficient, with 24 winners and 31 errors. In the end, the highest-ranked Japanese man (at No. 21) carved out one more break of serve (five) than Federer, who at 32 is eight years older.

Ultimately, Nishikori adapted to the conditions better, perhaps because he lives in Bradenton, Fla., which is less than 250 miles away. Federer said he worried too much about the wind.

"Just couldn't find my rhythm on the serve, which was surprising," Federer explained later. "Maybe the [cool, mid-60s] temperature had something to do with it. Haven't played that many matches in the dark. It's a bit frustrating, but Kei did well to stay with me. He was more consistent in the second and the third, which are the ones he won. To his credit.

"The second set just got away from me and the third was a tough battle. It was a tough end for me."

Nishikori did not seem intimidated; his career record against Federer is now 2-1. How many guys can say they're playing better than .500 ball against a 17-time Grand Slam champion?

"Yeah, it was second time to beat him," a low-key Nishikori said afterward. "I was hitting balls deep and striking well. And I was fighting."

With Federer serving at 4-3 in the second set, he broke to level the frame. And then, with Federer serving to reach a tiebreaker, the Swiss champion faded. A double fault and three errant backhands brought tidings of a third set.

There was a nice coming-of-age moment in the third game after Nishikori showed some nerves with a double fault and drew out his complaint to chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani to the extent that patrons began whistling. Standing at net, Nishikori had the temerity to smash the ball at the scuffling Federer, who actually got a racket on it. Nishikori got the point -- and a scowl to go with it -- and eventually held serve.

Perhaps coincidentally (or not), Nishikori fashioned a break point in the next game but pushed a backhand wide. Federer went on to hold. And then the good stuff happened.

At 4-all, Federer snuck into net and hit a forehand volley so delicate it might have evaporated before the ball boy got there. Nishikori responded with two terrific volleys of his own and took an on-serve lead of 5-4.

And here is how Nishikori won it:

First, he smoked a forehand winner, then Federer blew a makeable forehand approach shot to fall in a love-30 hole. An unreturnable wide forehand made it love-40. Federer managed to save two match points but the third skittered away from him when Nishikori, right leg hitched, pounded a backhand winner.

What's the difference this year? 

"I think I am stepping more inside the court and serving well," Nishikori said. "Today I saved a lot of important points with my serve."

In his news conference, Federer predicted that Nishikori would soon be a top-10 player.
Federer, however, is still formidable.
With his recent finals appearance at Indian Wells, Federer has now reached at least one Masters final for 13 years running. Federer has collected an ATP-high 22 match wins; last year he won his 22nd match at Roland Garros -- in June.
"I mean, if I look at the big picture, since the beginning of the year, I'm very pleased with how I'm playing," Federer said. "So it's a good start to the season, no doubt. So I want to keep it up now for Geneva when I play next week, and then clearly we will shift over to the clay finally after a long stretch on the hard courts."
Nishikori, who is ranked No. 21 among ATP players, reached the fourth round of the Australian Open (losing to Rafael Nadal) and won the title at Memphis.
"Yeah, that was a great match," Nishikori said. "I was playing different tennis, I think, from that match against Rafa in Australia, step in more, aggressive like today. And, yeah, the game changed my tennis."
And he'll need his best, considering his semifinal opponent is Novak Djokovic.
"Yeah, he just won Indian Wells, and I guess he's playing well, no doubt," Nishikori said. "I don't know. I played him a long time ago, maybe three or four years ago in Basel, and, you know, I beat him before, so hopefully I can play good like today."

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Mark Mazzetti

Pulitzer Prize winning  reporter  Mark Mazzetti working for New York Times. In late 2007, he broke the story of the CIA's destruction of interrogation video tapes depicting torture of Al Qaeda detainees. The story launched a Justice Department investigation into the episode, and he won the Livingston Prize for National Reporting for his work on this story. 

The Puntland Government (Somalia) criticized a piece by Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt that portrayed the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) as a “private army” that was “abandoned” by its major donors. Puntland officials clarified that the PMPF still is "part and parcel of Puntland Government’s security forces" and that they still receive the financial support from their backers. They also criticized the authors for not acknowledging any of the PMPF's success and for neglecting to contacting any Puntland Government officials to comment on the story.
In 2011, he furnished the pre-publication text of an opinion column written by Maureen Dowd concerning the making of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" to CIA spokesperson Marie Harf for review with the comments "see, nothing to worry about," "this didn't come from me... and please delete after you read." Dowd had reportedly asked Mazzetti to fact-check a detail in the column for her. Times managing editor Dean Baquet dismissed the incident as "much ado about nothing," but the Times' public editor expressed strong disapproval of Mazzetti's actions.

Another Dubai Title for Federer

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 1, 2014

Roger Federer won the Dubai Championships for a record sixth time Saturday, beating Tomas Berdych, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Federer’s title, the 78th of his career and his sixth in Dubai in the last 12 years, extended his record of consecutive years with at least one event win to 14. The tournament victory was Federer’s first since last spring, when he won in Halle, Germany, for his only title of 2013.

Berdych’s loss ended the longest winning streak of his career at 11 matches.

■ Top-seeded Tommy Haas retired with a shoulder injury and lost, 6-3, 3-2, to Paolo Lorenzi in the Brazil Open semifinals in São Paulo. Lorenzi, 32, ranked 114th, will play in his first ATP final against Federico Delbonis.

■ Klara Zakopalova won her third WTA singles title, beating Garbine Muguruza, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0, in the Brazil Cup final in Florianópolis. The 32nd-ranked Zakopalova won 11 straight games, securing her first trophy since 2005. (AP)

■ Top-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia beat the American Christina McHale, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4, in Acapulco to win the Mexican Open.

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Dr. Kurt Hochenauer talking about blog

      Dr. Hochenauer is a blogger who works in Oklahoman and blog for several years. He will do his blog but he doesn't know how long will continue. He said the Oklahoma issue make him keeping his blog until now.
      He write his blog three times a week on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. He doesn't spend too much time to write his blog, he may spend about 2 hours each time. He did some research and think about some topics on his blog. Also he always talk about the Oklahoma stuff on his blog.

      He has 700 followers in his Facebook and do his comments with the followers, but he usually use twitter. He follows with Washington post, some journalists bloggers, New York Times, look at Oklahoman issues in his blog.

      Dr. Hochenauer said good writing can get more people to read your blog, writing would be  the NO.1 things to make your blog popular. If people want to make their blog more popular or get traffic, they just need to keep blogging.  If you post something on the Internet, it still here.

      When talking about the blogging in the future, Dr Hochenauser was not sure. He said the blog still has the space and it may become more independently and he doesn't know what's going to be happen in social media. The blog are still here, people can do whatever they want. He doesn't care about the negative comments, it doesn't bother him.