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Is there some reason you can't cook that roast yourself?????

Ling is very careful about the amount of oil she uses. She stir-fry's a lot of stuff but with the no-stick pans she's learned that a teaspoonful is usually plenty---and only corn oil for her.

Good luck!

Just before Ling and I departed for America, my family took me out for a birthday dinner celebration. They fed me a big meal and had a nice cake. THEN they brought in a big bowl of "traditional" birthday noodles I was supposed to eat. I managed to get her younger brother to help me eat the noodles. So as far as I know, only the noodles and absence of presents were different than here.

There's a city just 7 miles from here named "Boring". I've been tempted to move over there......

A two child limit will still reduce the population over the long haul. Yes, it allows one child to replace each parent but there will always be a percentage that will only have 1 or 0 either by choice for for medical reasons.

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I've been to China 7 times. I've only been propositioned twice--not interested.

http://www.userfriendlyonline.com/pics/congarat.gif I'm very jealous!

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Maybe Jim found out he's under indictment for tax evasion and can't go to America........ j/k......well a little anyway.......

While in Guanzhou, we had to make an urgent emergency run just before the hospital closed because they determined that the head was too big and not enough of her shoulders showed. It was a big panic 5 block run and then some extra $$$ to grease a couple of palms to get some new pics-quick! Pics are cheap and easy to get. Why take chances? Give the .gov exactly what it wants and save the possibility of grief later.

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A similar case in Houston, with more dramatic results. Oh my god! That is absolutely insane! And in a hospital elevator. Irony beyond belief. I guess I should be extremely thankful the Chinese elevator then were of very cheap construction. Otherwise I might have been sliced in half too as I tried to exit it. Kurt, as for the Buddha, I'm not sure--as it was a while ago--but I suspect I probably saw it. http://www.userfriendlyonline.com/wuxi10704/

A similar case in Houston, with more dramatic results. That's terrible. What a horrible way to go. And it sounds like the woman was stuck alone in the elevator with the guy's head.

This would be the "might makes right" doctrine. I'm a little surprised to see this from you Brother Curt. When in China I try to do what the locals do and do what Lao Po tells me. She tells me to push, I push....I can't help it if I'm big enough to be really good at it..... Ok, if it's sanctioned by your wife, I suppose it's ok. Now, as for the topic of elevators, one time I was in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. This was a ways back (1993). I was in one restaurant--multiple stories--and took the elevator up a couple stories. Upon reaching the 3rd floor and exiting, the doors immediately began to shut, before I had barely enough time to start existing the elevator. So it was basically closing in on me while I was just walking over the threshold. I was a little pissed and brashly extended by hands/arms out to strongly protest this closure with some force. Well, wouldn't you know it, the construction of the elevator was just terrible. By my mild use of force, I broke the doors. It wouldn't close then. I had broken their elevator. Remind me to never get you really mad at me.... Speaking of Wuxi, that was one of the few places I've been where I was told bluntly, "Do not go out after dark alone." Of course I did but not too far from my hotel. Did you go out to see that huge Buddha on Tai Lake? That is freakin' awesome!

This would be the "might makes right" doctrine. I'm a little surprised to see this from you Brother Curt. When in China I try to do what the locals do and do what Lao Po tells me. She tells me to push, I push....I can't help it if I'm big enough to be really good at it.....

At least one advantage we Americans have in this mayhem is that most of us are much bigger than the average Chinese, so once we learn to push like the natives--we always win.

That would be H1B's only correct?

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My timeline is below.

Many people have difficulty seeing anything but the worst of "other" and the best of "us". What they report is usually significantly true but simultaneously highly exaggerated.

In regards to the sponsorship issue. The .gov isn't going to cut you any slack on the ex because she's currently doing ok financially. The whole purpose of the sponsorship is to make certain that the .gov isn't on the hook financially if that changes. No one at the .gov is going to look at your application and say, "Well, the ex is doing ok so we'll exclude her from the financial picture." In fact, they aren't going to ask for her financial condition at all. They won't have any idea that she's doing ok. Nowhere in the paperwork is the question of the ex's income mentioned.

I got stuck in an elevator for 45 minutes once. But I was lucky. It was one of the glass ones on the outside of a building so at least I had a nice view while I waited for my rescue. Speaking of elevators, why do elevators in parking garages have braile on the buttons????