Mental Hospitals for Dissidents + Container Ship Fabiola

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Barbara Demick, China Poised to Limit Use of Mental Hospitals to Curb Dissent; Chinese lawmakers are drawing up laws that would spell out when people can be confined to psychiatric hospitals against their will.
Los Angeles Times, Mar 17, 2012.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... sychiatric-20120317,0,4595712.story

Quote:

"The hardest thing about being imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital is keeping your sanity. Li Jinping knows. The 47-year-old political activist spent seven months in Beijing's Chaoyang District Mental Health Center, heavily sedated. If he refused his drugs, he would be tied to his bed. * * * his family didn't even know he was there; the police had registered him in the hospital under a false name. 'I knew if I got agitated or emotional, they would keep me longer.'

"With no arrest papers and no trials required, Chinese authorities commonly resort to forced psychiatric hospitalization if someone is considered a troublemaker but hasn't committed a crime.

"the profession [psychiatry in China] is still tainted by its image as a tool of repression.

"Nowadays, most of those confined against their will are so-called petitioners. (Instead of lawsuits, Chinese bring petitions to higher authorities in Beijing to contest injustices in their hometowns.)

Note: The report says Mr Li Jinping was "a salt-of-the-earth type that the Chinese like to call laobaixing, basically 'common people.'"

The salt of the earth
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/salt-of-the-earth.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salt+of+the+earth,+ye+are+the

(2) Ronald D White, Mammoth cargo ship arrives at Port of Long Beach. LA Times, Mar 17, 2012.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-big-ship-20120317,0,3028223.story

Quote:

"The Fabiola, owned by Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co., can carry 12,500 containers.

"In Panama, new canal locks that can handle such huge vessels won't be finished for at least two years.

"Mediterranean Shipping, for instance, has become the most prolific buyer of so-called very large container ships. The company, which commands a merchant fleet bigger than theU.S. Navy, with 484 ships it either charters or owns, now owns 43 such mega-ships, or more than twice as many as any other shipping line.

Note:
(a)
(i) Saint Fabiola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Fabiola
(born in Rome; Died 399)
(ii) Queen Fabiola of Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Fabiola_of_Belgium
(1928- ; widow of King Baudouin [1930-1993; reign 1951-1993] of Belgium)
(iii) Fabiola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiola

Both female given name Fabiola and male given name Fabian are derived from Roman family name Fabius.
(b) Yantian District
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantian-District
(one of the seven districts of the Shenzhen City)
(c) The report mentions Wally Baker. Wally is a short form for Walter or Wallace.
(d) Quotations 2 and 3 allude to New panamax category.

(i) Panamax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax
("Panamax" has been in effect since the opening of the canal in 1914. In 2009 the Canal management published the "New Panamax," that will be in effect when the third lane of locks, larger than the current two, are operational from 2014)
(ii) Fabiola, with maximum capacity of 12,500 containers, is of New Panamax category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship
(table in section 2.1 Size categories)