Well how many can you identify? I often wondered how many different varieties of fruit can the people identify based on country statistics. Would northerner's not be able to identify as many as people for tropical climates.

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I am not quite sure why the Flickr is not working with this account but it seems it isn't working for everyone too. In that case it is not my lack of knowledge. I thought I try this hot link from my Flickr account just too see how it works. That seemed like a great solution to the Flickr problem! Just find your photo in Flickr and right click on the mouse to display the image location and copy the address. The only problem I suppose is the photos cannit be resized. It would be nice if I could center it at least.

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The recent arrive of heavy rains have brought flooding and power outages to many lower mainland homes and now they have a problem with turbidity and ground water contamination. As with most rich industrialized nations what is their answer? Their answer is but bottled water! Hey well it helps the economy but what about the environmental impact that water bottles, which are made from petro chemicals have on global warming. Our hunger for water is also a hunger for oil, which is the very reason why wars are being waged - all at the expense of the environment. I say stop buying bottled water, boil it. Even better encourage local potters to build ceramic water filters to eliminate bacteria and turbidity. Two such organizations are Potters for Peace and the newly formed Potters Without Borders.

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Well as of today all my documents have been successfully submited and I am officially set to go teach Japanese in China. From now I leave the rest of the work up to the university officials to deal with visa applications and etc etc.
I just heard that PM Stephen Harper's visit to China has been cancelled, he blames it on China calling it the way Chinese do things or something like that. I say BS to Harper because he was the on in the first place who was the only PM in Canada to not visit China after his election. Harper is Bush's puppet. After two years of living in China and many years in and out of Japan I think that I have managed to understand how to do business in the area better than any politician can and even better than in Canada as I have not really lived here much at all.

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