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To: abuelita who wrote (72637)	2/27/2010 2:39:03 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I find it bizarre that they are warning people to stay away from the water all around NZ after the Peruvians have already called off their tsunami warning. Roughly speaking the energy of a wave like this decays as the square of distance, which implies that the coast of Peru is enormously more vulnerable than NZ's to this quake. Distance is not the only factor, but it's a major one.

To: abuelita who wrote (72637)	3/1/2010 11:40:39 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Rose, Congratulations on the memorable Winter Olympics and the outstanding performance of the Canadian athletes! That mime hauling up the balky torch at the closing ceremony was sure funny, and Neil Young was great. The Russian choir singing their national anthem was majestic, however Vladimir Putin is upset about his athletes relatively poor performance and reacting with the traditional purge and banishment to Siberia for those deemed responsible. Folks are wondering if they can recover in time, as the spotlight now focuses on the curious choice of Sochi for 2014... Vancouver Olympics: Embarrassed Russia looks to 2014 Sochi Olympics news.yahoo.com Sochi – no snow, lots of corruption"It would be very hard to find a place in Russia that has no snow in the wintertime, but that's just what Putin did," says Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, Sochi native and co-author of a critical report on the Olympic preparations around Sochi. "Sochi is the warmest place in Russia, with no infrastructure, no experience in winter sports – it doesn't even have a hockey team – and many other problems," he says. Among those he lists corruption, which he says has reached Olympean heights amid the scramble for the kind of gold that comes from construction contracts.