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*fingers crossed*

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Nice pics. I've been told to never take any pics inside a temple. How'd you pull those off TB?

The I-797C's for AOS & EAD arrived today. Now it's time to focus on getting Ling's daughter a passport and her shots and figuring out exactly when we'd like the follow to happen.....

But you and Carl are giving advise on improving the grammar of a sentence that would still be grammatically incorrect after your recommendation. The point is moot.

Neither sentence is grammatically sound. Try: I had a blood test done last week. The results, which came back today, show that my blood is normal.

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I've had clients using voice recognition software to write with Word and other apps for years. I think it may be better than you think. If what we see on CC were computer translated, specific phrases would not be ignored like I saw last night. Duh........I should have thought to actually look for info to begin with.... I was right. It is done by typists--not voice recognition software: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mclosedcaption.html And as I said in my last post. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the work is being outsourced. The most commonly skipped content I've noticed are colloquiallisms and slang. This reinforces my suspicion that the typists are not native-English speakers.

Hloogjwk is a small town near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales. In the early 1950's it had it's ten minutes of fame hosting the International Slate Festival. I thought you were up on these things, Curt ... Wo bu zher dao! (can I say that with a Sgt. Schulz accent?) I watched a baseball game last night.....the CC was FAR worse than normal. And everytime one announcer used a specific phrase, no trace of it appeared in the CC. No, it certainly isn't being done by voice recognition. I think the reason it lags so far during sports broadcasts is because of the live action. Other programming, being pre-recorded, can be CC'd ahead of time. During the baseball game I got the feeling the CC was being done by a non-native English speaker. After the game I saw the CC was done by a company in Vancouver, B.C. At this point I'd bet the CC operator was Asian or Indian--certainly by someone unfamiliar with baseball.

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Yeah, I'll make sure to insist to whatever CS we end up using that all my wife needs are the shots, that she will NOT need a physical exam. BTW, the actual I693 form shows a lot more than just 3 shots. What about the rest on the form? They are not needed? The CS gave us a table that made it clear. Different inoculations are required depending upon the age of the recipient. Ling got 3 vaccines and a TB test.

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Ling can read and write English better than she speaks it so I turned on the TV Closed Captioning to help her better follow what she was hearing. Holy crap! It is work outsourced too???? I thought some of the guys here were poor spellers! But you guys are all English Majors compared to what I'm seeing on my TV screen every day. I would think that with advancements in voice recognition software, closed captioning should be a piece of cake today but apparently, someone listens to, and transcribes everything manually because there is no way a computer can spell that bad--wrong words such as here/hear, sure. But far too often I see stuff like "Hloogjwk". So far, Ling hasn't asked what "Hloogjwk" means.......

They approached me when I first walked in a few days before our interview. I told them I didn't need help and turned my back and they never bothered me again. It seems like some people aren't just very convincing when they say no. *shrug*

Ten days after delivery, the Return Receipt finally arrived today. The checks have still not been cashed.

Rochester is one of the fastest in the country (next to Buffalo).. I'm not sure you need to apply EAD since the GC could be very fast. Just a thought. I did some looking at VJ's timelines for AOS Buffalo and looks much like 2 months start to finish on average. http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/aoslis...p8=Buffalo%20NY Though Portland OR looks to be not much slower, about 3 months. http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/aoslis...8=Portland%20OR Was that clock starting before or after we get our receipt from the Post Office?

What is this thing called "medical insurance"? Wo bu ming bai. Why do you say that Curt?...Not that it is something I'm familiar with myself since I've been without it for almost seven years now...I should finally be getting it again soon along with Yan... By the way, me and Yan were just looking at your GUZ photos in your sig and boy did it bring back memories!...After the stress of the interview I must admit, I enjoyed the next few days in GUZ!... Last time I had health insurance was when the Ford Motor Company facility in Seattle I worked for closed it's doors in 1986. I had a stomach bug for 4 of the last 5 days we were in Guangzhou. Ling went shopping everyday with Clare's Lisa while I did my best to sleep and get better.

What is this thing called "medical insurance"? Wo bu ming bai.

Mailed on the 4th Signed for on the 9th Return Receipt still not arrived Checks not cashed

Yes. It was sent to a P.O. Box. All of their mail goes to a box. Someone goes to pick it up every day first thing in the morning and signs the receipts on the ones that require it then takes all the mail back to the office. At least that's how the rest of the country does it. Supposedly. It says it was signed for at 2:12am. So the .gov has a graveyard shift huh? But it only works on Wednesdays apparently. Oh well, not like I don't have lots of experience waiting for the .gov..... Yes - it is usually advisable to NOT request signature verification for this reason. Delivery confirmation works just fine for this part of the country. Which is why I didn't ask for signiture verification--just delivery verification.

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Yes. It was sent to a P.O. Box. All of their mail goes to a box. Someone goes to pick it up every day first thing in the morning and signs the receipts on the ones that require it then takes all the mail back to the office. At least that's how the rest of the country does it. Supposedly. It says it was signed for at 2:12am. So the .gov has a graveyard shift huh? But it only works on Wednesdays apparently. Oh well, not like I don't have lots of experience waiting for the .gov.....