I was all packed to go to a uni that closed suddenly w/ H1N1. The information I get isn't very clear, but seems that the students are getting the vaccine and...
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Nov 1, 2009 12:15 pm
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For my fellow Yanks in China or wanting to go to China...I just got my new 2010 "medicare and you" and I checked for emergency coverage when you are in a a...
... I just got my new 2010 "medicare and you" and I checked for emergency coverage when you are in a a foreign country (China) and....NONE. Don, It was always...
Replying to my own post below, students & teachers will be vaccinated next month. Any adverse reports about the vaccine? Alan Simpson ... I see vaccinations...
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Nov 2, 2009 3:04 pm
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Alan...I'm curious about what news coverage is occuring in China re. H1N1? Here in the U.S. we are getting very exstensive coverage on the seriousness for...
I found out today on our local NPR station that our Govenor Linda Lingle is traveling to Asia, including China, to promote Hawaii tourism. She is expected to...
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... Judging by the number of job rss feeds I get, there's a shortage of teachers, whthere caused by flu or Shanghai type necessary quals, it's hard to say. If...
A month after school started, a vocational school a long way from most places, new technology appeared in the classrooms. . . Chalk. . . Before that, we were...
These every day practices to reduce the chances of getting the flu have been circulating for a while via email (I have received them from 3 different people),...
Where are you Dave? Alan Simpson ... Dave said: A month after school started, a vocational school a long way from most places, new technology appeared in the...
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Nov 5, 2009 12:39 am
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Don, you should know it's all good news reported in China. Alan Simpson...
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Nov 5, 2009 6:28 pm
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Aloha, A question for all those who have Facebook (FB)and are in China. I see that several of my FB buddies both Chinese and expats are back on -- or at...
Ha,ha...you're right but back in June a seminar I was to attend got canceled because the two U.S. guest professors arriving from the U.S. were on a plane...
I downloaded ExpressVPN here in China. It costs $12.95 per month, or $69.95 for 6 months. Great thing is they give you a U. S. I.P. address, so you can see...
I thought of the discussion on this list about young children exposed to multiple languages when I listened to a National Public Radio (US) clip that shows...
... Good question :-) Yushu, SE Qinghai province. an ETP program at a vocational school, to get kids past Gaokao English in 3 years. There's other ETP programs...
... Interesting. This throws some light on a child-rearing experience I had in China. Friends told us that diapers are unnecessary because babies make certain...
Those of us who can't buy $300,000 apartments in Dalian and then do a $60,000 renovation won't ever get this result, but I thought the story might be...
That's true (babies and diapers) for some Chinese Margaret. Others don't seem to have heard about it (the diversity of China again). My wife had our daughter...
So much for his guanxi. It's always amusing to hear foreigners talk about how they are building guanxi. I bought a nice apartment and renovated in central...
How much credence do universities give to students' personal statements? I'm constantly providing references and filling out other universities'online forms....
Access to Google Blogger was closed down many months ago. Access to some photo sites was closed in early 2008 (or maybe before). Is anyone having trouble...
Yushu, SE Qinghai province. Dave, please enlarge on life in such an out of the way place. It's a tiny town on my map & not mentioned in my guide books. Daily...
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It makes interesting reading to compare his excited statement upon leaving Microsoft to join Google and his recent statement about being the 'wrong fit' at...
Nothing that recent, but this summer I was unable to create any google groups. Marcy Bauman On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 Terence wrote: Is anyone having trouble...
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6:29 pm
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In five or six years, lucky folks in China will be able to go to a Disney theme park...hmmm.... ...