Love the balletcize. She is British, with that nice soft accent and so graceful. What an inspiration. Glad I don't have a mirror in the living room to spoil the mood.
1 Peter chapter 4 - The Christians in those days were living on borrowed time. They had a much more urgent message for one another, and we should probably do the same, no one knows when their time is up, so - "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
1987 - On this day, I picked up Pete's grandmother, Xana, and took her to Mt Carmel hospital. Her husband, Kostya, was there in last stages of cancer. They were from Russia, and although they lived in a very modest home in south Warren, they had an air of aristocracy about them, they had been wealthy in the Ukraine a long time ago. Kostya had actually skied out of a Siberian camp with another man, that wrote a book about their escape. Now, there he lay, in terrible pain dying with cancer. Neither of them spoke English very well, so I went to the nurses station and begged them to ease his misery with more pain relief and told them his story. It worked.
Parenting - now there was an interesting family. Pete's. His mother and grandmother were originally from the Ukraine, (if I'm wrong they will both be here to haunt me soon.) They were wealthy, and you could tell, well brought up. Their manners and mannerisms spoke of good breeding. Tatjiana, Pete's mother had been a ballerina, (coincidentally) and showed me pictures of herself as a child. It must have been precious little memories that they had been able to escape with. They traveled to Chechoslovakia, where Peter was born and then on to Germany until they were able to escape to the United States. Pete was so catered to by both women, they fought over his attention, which is why I think he always had to have more then one woman in his life. Didn't fly with me.
Vancouver - current news - Vancouver, British Columbia, is one of the handful of major North American metropolises with no damaging earthquakes since modern seismic monitors were invented.
Without an earthquake record to provide insight into how the ground under the city shakes during quake, scientists aren't sure what will happen buildings in the City of Glass when a future earthquake strikes. Recent earthquakes in other cities, such as Christchurch, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, show that damage can concentrate in zones defined by buried geologic structures, such as sedimentary basins (lows or valleys filled by sediment). Basins increase shaking by focusing seismic energy, like a magnifying glass focuses light. Seismic waves can also ping-pong back and forth inside a basin, like waves sloshing inside a swimming pool.
A new study seeks to better understand how the big Georgia Basin surrounding Vancouver will fare in the next earthquake. The Georgia Basin is a shallow, wide bowl filled by silt, sand and glacial deposits. With computer simulations, researchers discovered that the city could see three to four times greater shaking during an earthquake than if the basin wasn't there. The findings were published today (Jan. 20) in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
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