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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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Is Nushu still around today?
How big can a goldfish grow?
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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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Who actually invented Nushu?
No one knows for sure. Some say the writing system is
thousands of years old. Others point to a beautiful
concubine who belonged to an emperor of the Sung dynasty
(960-1279 AD) as the inventor. According to legend, the
concubine was confined to the palace and developed the
writing system as a means of communicating with her sisters.
Later, women continued to use Nushu as a way of maintaining
privacy amongst themselves. The secret writing also gave
them the freedom to express heretical ideas about marriage
and society.
Why were Nushu texts destroyed during China's Cultural
Revolution?
In the 1960s, followers of Mao burned Nushu texts in
bonfires, fearing the secret writing was really a secret
code for international espionage. The Japanese also were
suspicious of the women's writing. When they occupied China
in the 1930s, they took measures to suppress it, fearing it
could be used to pass along military intelligence.
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1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2 TITLE ARTICLE . . .
Around The Net
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing…
A Few Basic Essentials To Keep In Mind
PART 7 of 12
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
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TITLE ARTICLE . . .
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Around The Net
The Dirty Secret of China's Economy
The mainland's rapid growth has only worsened its
environmental problems, and the government expects pollution
to quadruple by 2020
The 2008 Beijing Olympics is being billed as one of those
glorious defining moments in history that will signal
China's arrival as an economic power. But what if the global
media pack and the millions of tourists who descend on China
two years from now take away a less-than-flattering
impression of the Middle Kingdom?
Yes, China is a remarkable growth story. But it is also fast
becoming an ecological wasteland, home to world-class smog,
acid rain, polluted rivers and lakes, and deforestation.
Environmental problems play a role in the death of some
300,000 Chinese people each year, according to World Bank
estimates.
China's torrid growth statistics—the mainland clocked
10%-plus growth in the first quarter—also mask the huge
economic costs of this evolving environmental crisis. On
June 5, China's State Environmental Protection
Administration (SEPA) issued a report that the mainland's
pollution scourge costs the country roughly $200 billion a
year, or some 10% in gross domestic product, from lost work
productivity, health problems, and government outlays. That
is a staggering admission.
DEEP IMPACT China, of course, isn't the first high-speed
developing economy to grapple with the tradeoffs between
prosperity that lifts millions out of poverty and
environmental damage that degrades living standards (see
BusinessWeek.com, 2/27/06, "Is Beijing Greedy for Oil?").
Think of Japan in the 1960s. What's different is China's
outsized impact on the global environment.
China's economy is only about one-fifth the size of the U.S,
but is already the second biggest emitter of carbon dioxide
in the world, second only to the U.S. China's emissions
jumped 33% during a 10-year period ended in 2002, according
to the latest World Bank figures. A miasma of dirty air from
China is spreading across East Asia and even reaching the
West Coast of the U.S.
There is no denying that Chinese President Hu Jintao's
government takes the problem seriously. Not only is it bad
for the mainland's international image, but it could be an
explosive political issue later in the decade if left
unresolved.
RENEGADE POLLUTERS Pan Yue, vice-minister of SEPA,
predicted last summer at an environmental conference in
Beijing that "the pollution load of China will quadruple by
2020" if nothing is done. Some 20% of the population lives
in "severely polluted" areas, according to SEPA estimates,
and 70% of the country's rivers and lakes are in grim shape,
figures the World Bank.
Changing all this will require a tremendous amount of
political focus by Beijing. It will need to crack down on
environmental renegades inside Chinese industry, encourage a
move from high-sulfur coal as the mainland's primary energy
source, and push to secure the most environmentally friendly
technologies from abroad (see BusinessWeek.com, 8/22/05, "A
Big Dirty Growth Engine").
The "policy elite has realized that China, with its huge
scale of economic development and emissions, cannot consume
energy and pollute the earth the way traditional economies
have done in the past," says Wenran Jiang, director of the
China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada, who
made a presentation on climate change in early June to
Chinese and World Bank officials.
PRESSURE TO COMPLY The good news is that some effective
measures can be taken without huge outlays of government
spending. Last November, for instance, China agreed to
expand a promising pilot program, dubbed GreenWatch, started
in 1998, from 22 cities to nationwide by 2010. The program
is designed to expose the worst industrial polluters by
publicly disclosing once-confidential information on factory
emissions, and by ranking companies on their environmental
performance.
The idea is that public pressure on the laggards will yield
improvement. Some sort of pressure is desperately needed in
China, where 60% of companies violate mainland emission
rules, according to data compiled by World Bank senior
environmental economist Hua Wang, who wrote a recent paper
on the program. Similar approaches launched in the mid-1990s
by the Philippines and Indonesia improved corporate emission
law compliance by 50% and 24%, respectively, Hua points out.
Relocating heavy industries like steel away from population
centers is another option. In early 2005, for instance, the
government ordered Beijing-based steelmaker Shougang Group
to wind down its iron and smelting operation in the capital
by 2007 and transfer the facilities out of the city.
Shougang plants, mainly fueled by coal, belch out 18,000
tons of dust and contaminants a year.
PLAN FOR NUCLEAR While China can't do much about its
ravenous energy demand, it could do a far better job of
shifting to cleaner technologies and using its power more
efficiently. China consumes more than three times the world
energy average to produce one dollar of gross domestic
product—4.7 times the average for the U.S., 7.7 times the
average for Germany, and 11.5 times the average for Japan
(see BusinessWeek.com, 4/11/05, "China's Wasteful Ways").
Beijing has mapped out a plan that calls for hiking reliance
on natural gas from 3% to 10% by 2020. Plants fired by gas
burn fuel twice as efficiently as turbines fired by coal,
which now accounts for two-thirds of China's fuel. The plan
also calls for building 30 new nuclear reactors. Cummins
(CMI) imports and makes diesel engines for mainland buses
that are 30% more efficient than gas engines.
Royal Dutch Shell Group (RD) is licensing technology to
fertilizer plants that converts coal into synthetic gas,
which burns more efficiently. General Electric (GE) is
making a killing selling gas turbines. And both GE and
Veolia, of France, are marketing technologies that will
harness the methane gas produced from decomposing garbage
and sewage, as well as the huge amounts of gas that escape
from China's coal mines.
PROFIT OR PRIDE? That said, there are some inside the
Chinese government who think the country should get rich
first and leave the environmental clean-up for another day.
Skeptics wonder whether post-Olympics Beijing will lose
interest.
"The world will either benefit from a responsible rising
China or it will suffer from a China that continues to
pursue profits at the expense of the climate and
environment," says the University of Alberta's Jiang. It
will also make a critical difference to the lives of
millions of ordinary Chinese citizens.
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To love one, is human. To love an enemy is wise. To love all
equally is to be God.
---- Ken Darby
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing…
A Few Basic Essentials To Keep In Mind
PART 7 of 12
Each item to be cleaned or disinfected, needs to be
evaluated for its past use (where was it just now) and
future use (where is it going to be used next). And the
process shouldn’t harm the item itself. (I wonder how
may of us have destroyed plastic containers in a
microwave or a dishwasher?) Incidentally, both can be
considered for special cleaning practices, but ask for
further directions first. You may recall a relative
“sterilizing” the jam jars or “sealing” the salmon jars
at preserving time: same concept. You also need to
consider the use of the item for the next time. Does it
need to be kept sterile? How would you do that at home?
Suffice to say that most products when they come into
contact with soap and water, clean or remove germs by
simply washing them away!
Let’s look at some precautions. These products are not
without possible harm, to you personally or to your
environment. And to make sure you realise that these
are serious issues, cautions are printed on every
container…by law!
First, do NOT ever HEAT these products. Their actions
will be increased and expand. They become more
powerful! Heat expands them. These soft, tiny particles
now spread through the air. You inhale or breathe them
into your lungs. That is very dangerous! Another
caution is for your skin. Do NOT allow any of these
chemicals to remain on your skin. Rinse them off
quickly. They can be absorbed into your body. They are
designed for solid, inanimate items, not for your skin
which is very “porous”. Protect your eyes! Have you
really read the labels on one of these containers?
Really read them? Ask yourself why a manufacturer would
have to print these precautions on every container.
Believe me; they would prefer not to have to do that.
It should make you stop and think, and wonder if you
really need something so strong. These are chemicals:
harmful to germs. They get rid of dirt. Do you think
they might also possibly be harmful to you personally?
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca
Health Information Newsletter.
http://www.prescotts-inc.com
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
-----------------------DISCLAIMER
Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.
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While mostly negative as always, the news does, sometimes
have its opposites. For example Dick Cheney is downplaying
the missile testing concept by North Korea, yet the U.S. has
the largest war games in its history going on in
international waters just outside North Korea.
Presumably the show of force will give cause for the North
Koreans to think about launching that rocket.
Well guys, don't change your mind after having a vasectomy.
It has been shown that causes a gene change and genetic
faults. I guess you won't like the results.
Science has found the world's oldest spider web complete
with the prey it caught. It was found in a piece of 110
million year old amber.
The earth is now hotter than it has been in the last 400
years, possibly millenia.
And finally, Boeing is looking at the possibility of having
internet access on planes. Just think folks, soon, we won't
be able to get away from it.
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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The allusion is to a shipwreck. When a ship is wrecked and
has to be abandoned, all distinction of class must be
abandoned as well. Each man must accept and share the common
fate - they're "all in the same boat."
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