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MARCH2016

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What’s In Typhoon Club This Month? Editorial

4 World News You will get a feeling of travel and transport
6 Down To Earth in this March issue of Typhoon Club. We
8 How Do You Feel? begin with a report on an historic Indian
10 Science aircraft carrier that has been turned into
12 I Want To Be ... a brand new motorbike rather than being
16 Where in the World assigned to the scrap heap. From ships, we
18 Sports Communication move to trains and review how the world
20 Popular Culture famous Flying Scotsman has been brought
22 Whose Birthday? back to life after ten years in the workshop.
24 Know Your Typhoon Club And then we join long distance adventure
26 Word Search runner, Jamie Ramsay, who has recently
27 Sudoku completed a mammoth journey covering
Canada and both North and South America.
8 20
Whilst crossing the border between
Canada and North America, we took some
time off to take a look at Niagara Falls.
Something unusual is about to happen there
in the next few years. You can find out what
in Where In The World.

We also meet a very interesting man whilst
in America. He likes snakes. As an amateur
scientist Tim Friede has been conducting
a very unusual and dangerous experiment.
Find out if you would like to join him in How
Do You Feel?

Happy Reading!

Publisher Mark Cowley / Cho Moon Sook
Cyclone Publishing Ltd.

Editor Louise Stern
Chinese Editor Winnie Tsui
Designer Johnny Chan
Games Editor George
Printer Takkai Company Limited
Photos AFP
Front Cover Stref, from JM Barrie’s Peter Pan:
The Graphic Novel, 2015, published by BC Books
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NEWS REPORT

Photos: AFP

Let’s recap some of the recent top news stories from around the world.

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monkey faces and multi-
coloured spheres depicting a
theme of “Love and Care.”

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DOWN TO EARTH

The retired aircraft carrier on
the way to the ship breaker

From Sea
To Shore

The new Bajaj V motorbike

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What do you do with an aircraft years later she was sent to a ship breakers.
carrier once it is too old to sail? However, an Indian motor company called
Often, they are sold to professional Bajaj Auto purchased her. It was decided that
ship breakers that pull them to pieces and the metal from INS Vikrant would be turned
melt them down as scrap metal. In one case into a new motorbike, the Bajaj V.
(which Typhoon Club wrote about in 2006), an
old American aircraft carrier called the USS Motorbikes are the preferred method of
Oriskany was sunk in deep water to help create travel in many parts of India. In fact, 23
an artificial reef. We recently learnt of yet million motorbikes were sold there in 2015.
another retired aircraft The Bajaj V is going to be very special though
carrier being disposed of in
an interesting way. The INS as it is made from a piece
Vikrant, once the biggest of history. A statement
warship in the Indian from Bajaj Auto read,
navy, has been turned into
motorbikes! “We at Bajaj were
determined not to let
The INS Vikrant was history fade into oblivion.
originally built by the British navy and was So we took the INS
called HMS Hercules. She was launched in Vikrant’s metal, melted it
1946, just after World War II. In 1957 HMS down, and gave it a new face.”
Hercules was sold to the Indian navy and The Bajaj V was launched last month with
renamed INS Vikrant. She famously took part a retail price of HK$6,800. Each motorcycle
in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan, will carry a small stamp confirming that
but by the late 1980s she was spending more it has been made from the INS Vikrant. It
time in the dockyard being repaired than at seems to Typhoon Club a great way to help
sea, guarding the coastline of India. celebrate part of India’s history and to keep
this famous warship in the minds of a new
The INS Vikrant became a floating generation. But that will not be too difficult.
museum, but this proved very expensive and The INS Vikrant is so famous in India that a
the museum was closed down in 2012. Two new aircraft carrier that has now been built
will carry the same name.

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HOW DO YOU FEEL?

The Immunizer

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Thirty-seven year old Tim Friede is an Collecting snake venom
unemployed factory worker who likes to
keep snakes in his home in Wisconsin, rattlesnakes and cobras. Because of the
USA. When speaking to his friends, he frequent number of bites to his body, his body
regularly uses the motto, “What does not has started to develop a natural immunity to
kill you makes you stronger.” There is a very snake venom.
good reason he says this, for Tim regularly
encourages some of the most venomous As you may imagine, there are a number of
snakes in the world to bite him, injecting their negative side effects to what Tim is doing. In
poison into his blood stream. In fact, for the 2011, he self-administered not one, but two
past 16 years different snakes have bitten him bites from a highly venomous cobra. He soon
went into a coma and nearly died. Most bites
more than 160 times – all in the name still cause incredible swelling in the areas that a
of scientific research. snake bites him – normally his arm or his hand.
Bites from venomous snakes
cause over 100,000 deaths One other side effect of keeping so many
every year. Most of these poisonous snakes in his home is that his
are in poor countries where wife of 20 years decided to leave him. She
hospitals cannot afford to said, “The children and I never came first,
buy antidotes that can sometimes not even second. The snakes
prevent death. These always came first.” Such is the price of
antidotes are difficult to scientific research in your home.
make and expensive. For
example, an anti-venom A swollen and
called CroFab costs nearly painful hand
following a snake bite
HK$15,000 per injection.
Why are antidotes so expensive? First,

venom is taken from snakes. The venom
is then injected into sheep that produce
antibodies. Later, the antibodies are
extracted from the sheep to form the basis of
the anti-venom. In the case of CroFab, the
snake venom is extracted in America. It is
sent to Australia where it is injected into the
sheep. The sheep’s antibodies are then sent to
England where the anti-venom is developed.
It’s an expensive business.

But back to Tim Friede. Tim considers
himself an amateur scientist. He believes
that if he injects himself with enough snake
venom, his body will become immune. His

blood could then be used to help create
anti-venom. He keeps
a number of different
snakes in his home. These
include black mambas,

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SCIENCE

Most of us in Hong Kong will have The Diet
celebrated both Christmas and
Chinese New Year with a few resist eating out on a regular basis? How can
delicious meals with our family and friends. we make sure we eat a balanced diet?
Now that the festivities are over we may be
thinking about losing some weight. Today, An answer may soon be available through
our diet is recognised as being one of the most the use of a small gadget and an app called
important health issues we should consider the Diet Sensor. Its primary purpose is to
throughout our lives. Becoming overweight
or obese can be the root of several chronic
illnesses including heart disease, diabetes and
some forms of cancer.

Your doctor will tell you that to avoid
becoming overweight, it is important to be
careful about what you eat. You should also
exercise regularly. With Hong Kong’s climate
and limited space, it is often very difficult to
exercise regularly. Similarly, on every street
in every district of Hong Kong you will find a
variety of different restaurants. How can we

Sensor its nutritional value. This information is
then displayed through the app and indicates
help users manage their health by providing the amount of calories in the food. The whole
accurate information about what they eat. process takes about ten seconds.

The Diet Sensor is no bigger than a pack of This sounds like a very easy way to manage
playing cards. With it, you can scan food with what you eat. It can help you decide how big
an infrared beam. This beam is able to identify a portion you should eat of something, or to
the composition of the food and calculate keep away from that delicious looking slice of
cake. You could even call it life changing!
Did You Know?
At the beginning of 2016, the Consumer
39 per cent of the Hong Kong Electronics Show in Las Vegas named the
population aged between 18 and Diet Sensor as the most innovative gadget
64 are classified as being either in the world. Will we all be carrying one
overweight or obese. around with us in the near future? You will
have to decide whether you want to spend
about HK$2,000 for the Diet Sensor plus a
monthly subscription fee of HK$145 for the
app. But if it helps you lose weight or keeps
you at your correct weight, you may consider
that it is money well worth spending.

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I WANT TO BE...

Mabel Lucie Attwell from Peter
Pan and Wendy by JM Barrie,
1921 © Lucie Attwell Ltd

Drawing On

Childhood

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Photos courtesy: The Foundling Museum

Illustration by Jim Kay for Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK
Rowling © Bloomsbury Publishing

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I WANT TO BE...

Angela Barrett, Snow White’s Mother,
1991 © Angela Barrett

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Have you ever noticed that many Great children’s stories are often
of our favourite characters in complemented by brilliant illustrations.
children’s stories are either orphans There is a new exhibition at the Foundling
or have somehow been separated from Museum in London that celebrates many
their parents? Think about it for a moment. of these. A foundling is a child that has
There is Harry Potter, Cinderella and Oliver been abandoned by its parents and is
Twist. Tarzan was an orphan as well, as was discovered and cared for by others. The
Clark Kent (otherwise known as Superman) Foundling Museum – originally known
who was separated from his parents. as the Foundling Hospital – first opened
in 1739 and it is a fitting place to host this
Orphans and children who have been exhibition. It was England’s first children’s
separated from their parents are sometimes charity and when it first opened, many
leading artists of the day donated their
called ‘Looked after characters.’ They work to help raise money for the children.
are very useful in a story because they The composer, George Frederick Handel,
have more freedom – they do not also gave concerts there for the same reason.
have loving parents to stop them from
starting a crazy adventure. What’s The skill of any story illustrator is to
find the perfect moment within a story to
more, an author can always write illustrate. They help bring the story to life
a happy ending with a looked and make it even more enjoyable. On these
after character by reuniting pages you will find some of the illustrations
the child with a long lost from the exhibition. Are you familiar with
parent. They can all live the stories? What would your favourite
happily ever after. story or character be to illustrate?

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WHERE IN THE WORLD

Turning Off TheTap

Most of us are familiar with Niagara for the 28 million tourists that visit each year.
Falls. Situated across the borders of But this is about to change.
Canada and USA, it is made from
three different waterfalls: The Horseshoe One hundred and fifteen years ago, two
Falls, The American Falls, and The Bridal bridges were built over Niagara Falls from
Veil Falls. With an average drop of 50 metres, where people could watch the magnificent
225,000 cubic feet of water spills over the display of falling water. These bridges
Falls each second, making a spectacular view are now in need of repair and the only way
to do this will be to stop the water on The

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American Falls section. It’s difficult to literally millions of small coins that people
imagine what Niagara Falls will look like had thrown into the water when making a
when this happens. wish. That was the first surprise. The second
surprise was not so pleasant. There, lying on
To stop the water, a 182-metre dam will be the dry waterbed, were two human skeletons.
built from 28,000 tonnes of rock and earth. No one knew who they were. Let’s hope there
The work is scheduled to take place between is no such surprise this time around.
September 2019 and April 2020.

One question on everyone’s lips is whether
the work will mean fewer tourists. Do
people really want to come and see the world
famous Niagara Falls when one-third of the
water is not falling? A loss in the number
of visitors will inevitably lead to a loss of
income for the many businesses that are
linked to Niagara Falls. Officials are hopeful
that the answer may be that even more
tourists will come and take a look at this
unusual view.

In fact, this will not be the first time that
one of the Falls has been closed. Forty-seven
years ago, one section was closed so that
experts could investigate the damage done to
the land beneath all the rolling water. They
wanted to see if the constant flow of water
eroded the land beneath it.

When the water was dammed and the
engineers were able to view the hard ground
that had been hidden for millions of years,
they had a few big surprises. There were

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SPORTS COMMUNICATION

The Hairy Runner

During his 20s and early 30s, British were resting days. On each running day he
born Jamie Ramsay worked in the would cover more than the distance of one
financial industry. He worked hard marathon (42.195 kilometres) pushing a
and often late into the night and admits specially designed pram where he kept all his
that he sometimes smoked, drank alcohol personal belongings.
and did not eat healthy food. Ten years ago,
Jamie started to run in marathons, but after
a while he found them boring. He wanted to
do something different and experience a new
challenge. He decided to run from the city
of Vancouver in Canada to Buenos Aires in
Argentina, a distance of 16,538 kilometres.

The journey took him 472 days. 367 of
these were actually spent running; the others

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Photos courtesy Jamie Ramsay stopped shaving and grew a very large beard
– something he said he wore as a badge of
honour.

On some days he saw very few people and
he was often worried that he would become
lonely. When he felt like that, he would stop
and write some messages on his social media
page where his friends were able to reach
out and encourage him. Some parts of his
journey were very dangerous. Once, when he
was running in Peru, he had to be escorted
by the local police through a particularly
dangerous part of one town.

But many good things came out of Jamie’s
run. He was able to raise money for three
of his favourite charities. If you would like
to learn more about Jamie and his chosen
charities, you can visit his website:
http://jamieisrunning.com/

Here are some fast facts about Jamie’s
journey:
• He wore out 17 pairs of trainers
• He burnt about 6,000 calories each day
• He ran across 14 different countries
• He ran across two different continents

Each morning before he started running,
Jamie would look at the map and decide
where he would sleep. Sometimes he was able
to stay in cheap hotels, but often he had to
sleep in the tent he carried in his pram. On
one occasion, he went for 12 nights without
a shower or change of clothes. He also

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POPULAR CULTURE

The Flying LOCOMOTIVE
Scotsman
Returns Definition: A powered vehicle used
to pull trains
For train enthusiasts, it was a happy
day on the 8th January when one of the
world’s most famous locomotives made
a public appearance following a ten-year
refit. We’re talking about the Flying Scotsman
that was once the fastest train in England,
pulling thousands of passengers the 630
kilometres between London and Edinburgh,
the capital cities of England and Scotland.

The first train service to run between
London and Scotland began in 1862 and

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steam locomotives pulled the trains in those Photos courtesy National Railway Museum
days. The service was known as The Flying
Scotsman. The journey took ten hours and
thirty minutes which included a thirty minute
stop for lunch half way through the journey.
Over the years and with the improvement
of the steam engines, the journey time was
reduced to eight hours and thirty minutes.

A new locomotive was built in 1923 and
it was named after the service, The Flying
Scotsman. It was a very special train and
offered a number of services to its passengers.
It had a cinema car. It also had a hairdresser
on board! The Flying Scotsman became a
‘must see’ for train spotters that waited along
the railway line each day to watch her fly past.

In 1934, the Flying Scotsman became the
first passenger train to reach 100 miles per
hour (160.9 kilometres). She was the fastest
train in the world.

The Flying Scotsman was in operation until
1963 when diesel engines began replacing the
old steam locomotives. From then, it was a
bit of a bumpy journey with promotion trips
around the world that, while unsuccessful,
still bankrupted at least one train enthusiast.
Finally, she was bought by the National
Railway Museum in 2006 and for the past ten
years, she has been patiently renovated.

Many enthusiasts who watched the Flying
Scotsman in January were asking why the
engine was painted in black rather than its
original apple green colour. She was painted
black during World War II – like all other
trains – to try and hide her from enemy
planes. She will return to her original colour
later this year when she goes on public
display in the Museum.

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WHOSE
BIRTHDAY?

I am an English poet, playwright
and actor
My date of birth was probably
23 April 1564
My parents’ names were John
and Mary
I had seven brothers and sisters
I was a well-respected
businessman and property
owner in my hometown of
Stratford-upon-Avon
When I died, I left my wife only
our bed and its bed sheets
I wrote at least 37 plays
People often refer to me as The
Elizabethan Playwright
I introduced nearly 3,000 words
into the English language
Typhoon Club will be writing
about me next month to
celebrate the 400th anniversary
of my death.

Who am I?

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KNOW YOUR TYPHOON CLUB

This month’s issue of Typhoon Club contains lots of 1 4
information. How much of it have you remembered? 9 12
Write the answers to the questions into the correct
boxes in the grid.

Across
1. What is the name given to the

vehicle that pulls a train?
3. What is the name given to snakes

that can inject poison into a person
or animal?
5. What is the name given to the
person that draws pictures for
storybooks?
7. Two bites from this kind of snake
sent Tim Friede into a coma.
9. Name the gadget that can help you
manage your diet.
10. Name the train that broke a speed
record in 1934
12. In which city was the Consumer
Electronics Show held this year?

Down
2. Where did Jamie Ramsay’s long run

begin?
4. The Horse Shoe, The American

and what other waterfall make up
Niagara Falls?
6. What was the name given to a child
that had been abandoned?
8. What did Jamie Ramsay push during
his run?
9. What will be used to stop the flow of
water over part of the Niagara Falls?
11. Niagara Falls is located between
USA and which other country?

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WORD SEARCH ANNE SHIRLEY JANE EYRE

In I Want To Be… this month Typhoon BATMAN LONE RANGER
Club takes a look at the exhibition at
the Foundling Museum in London. We CINDERELLA MARY LENNOX
discover that many of our favourite
stories include as their main character CLARK KENT MOWGLI
an orphan or child who has been brought
up by adults who are not their parents. FRODO BAGGINS OLIVER TWIST
In this Word Search, 15 such characters
are hidden. Can you find them? Words GREEN HORNET TARZAN
can go from left to right, right to left, up,
down and diagonally. HARRY POTTER TOM SAWYER

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Word Sudoku Each grid should be
completed so that each
The Typhoon Club Sudoku word this month is: row, column and 3 x
3 box contains every
MAGNITUDE letter to make the
word: MAGNITUDE.
DEFINITION: Good luck!
The great size or extent of something

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VOCABULARY

In the left hand column you will find the highlighted words taken from the different
features in Typhoon Club. Look up these words in the dictionary and write their
meanings in the right hand column.

WORD CHINESE ENGLISH DEFINITION
被遺棄
abandoned 準確的
accurate 抗體
antibodies 解毒劑
antidotes
artificial reef 人工礁石
badge of honour 榮譽勳章
balanced diet 均衡膳食
bankrupted
beard 破產
coma 鬍鬚
complemented 昏迷
composition 配合
dockyard 構成
donated 造船廠
Enthusiasts 捐贈
eroded 熱衷者
escorted 侵蝕
gadget 押送
immune 小工具
income 具免疫力
innovative 收入
magnificent display 有創意的
motto 壯麗的表演
nutritional value 座右銘
oblivion 營養價值
public appearance 被遺忘
renovated 公開露面
separated 修復
ship breakers 分離
tourists 拆廢船工場
venomous 遊客
有毒的