Chinese media are expressing generally favorable reactions to reports that U.S. President Barack Obamarunescape gold will name Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as
Washington's next ambassador to China. Professor Shi Yinhong of Renmin University said in The Beijing News on Wednesday that Locke has visited China many rs gold times and knows the country "just like the palm of his hand." Zhou Wenzhong, China's former envoy to the United States, also was quoted welcoming Locke's
nomination, calling him knowledgeable and friendly toward China.
Locke, whose father and grandfather were born in China, served two terms as governor of Washington and was the first Chinese-American governor in the United runescape money
States. He strongly promoted trade with China during his time in office, leading several trade missions to the country.
Many commentators said Locke will defend U.S. interests in spite of his Chinese heritage. But a journalist with People's Daily said the new ambassador will runescape items
understand "the tradition and way of Chinese dealing with issues."
However scholar Yuan Peng warned in the Global Times that Locke may try to use his heritage and "Chinese-looking face" to "swindle" the Chinese people. runescape accounts runescape power leveling rs power leveling runescape coin
On Jan. 18 in Columbia, runescape gold Mo., student developer Tony Brown holds an AppleiPhone 4 with the NearBuy app he helped develop with three other University of Missouri students as part of a contest in 2008. The app earned them a trip to Apple headquarters, along with job offers from Google and other technology titans.
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Surveying the nation's job market is a bit like looking at a map on your computer screen: It's not until you zoom in that you can see the details. And when you do zoom in, you can find some very different stories.
NPR's Zoe Chace went looking for people who are hiring and may have found the best job market in the country.
ZOE CHACE: It's opposite day, where undergrads have their pick of jobs and companies are desperate to hire. Take Microsoft, Ederlyn Lacson was an intern there last summer.
Ms. EDERLYN LACSON : Last year, they had a private screening of Cirque du Soleilfor the interns. rs gold (Soundbite of laughter)
CHACE: Lacson is graduating this year from the University of Maryland's Computer Science Program. She had her pick of jobs in the tech sector. Startups were courting court her, big companies were flexing their muscle, hoping to impress.
Ms. LACSON: It was ridiculous. There were people walking by with like, you know, shrimp cocktails - like, the unending stream of shrimp cocktails.
CHACE: Lacson starts at Microsoft this fall. Her classmates got the same treatment. Ray Douglas will be working at the University of Maryland next year. The school offered him a salary in the '50s. He just happened to mention to his boss the offers he'd gotten from other firms, which were starting in the '70s and '80s.
Mr. RAY DOUGLAS (Senior, University of Maryland): And he said, okay, we'll beat that.runescape money
CHACE: He's 22 years old.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. DOUGLAS: I was just asking him. I didn't think he was going to do it.
CHACE: Tech companies, both large and small, can't find enough people to fill their open jobs. The unemployment rate for tech workers is about a third less than the national average.
Mr. JEFF WINTER: I hired three new people last week.
CHACE: Jeff Winter is a recruiter in Silicon Valley. He finds people to fill these openings. It's Sisyphean; for every job the man fills, there is a need for 10 more programmers. So he hired some people to help him hire some people.
Mr. WINTERS: I have, right now on my desk, 12 clients with anywhere between, you know, six to 10 jobs a piece, it seems.
CHACE: Winter says it hasn't been like this since 1999 when the dot com bubble created a similar labor shortage. Startup companies were desperate to hire web developers. runescape items Today's companies are desperate to hire APP developers. Like Unity Technologies in San Francisco. They have more than ten openings. I asked CEO David Helgason for a pitch
Mr. DAVID HELGASON (CEO, Unity Technologies): Unity Technologies is a company that's sort of an engineering-driven company and products-driven company.
CHACE: I played the pitch for the students. Ray Douglas was candid.
Mr. RAY DOUGLAS (Student): It sounded pretty much like every pitch that a software company has given me. They're always like, oh, we do all these fantastic things, everyone in the world wants to use it.
CHACE: Ouch. So what's a tech company to do? One thing: drop the whole years of experience requirement. That makes these jobs harder to fill. And also, you might just be embarrassing yourself, says Ederlan Lacson.
Ms. EDERLAN LACSON: They'll demand a skill set that, you know, for example, 10 years of experience with this programming language. I'm like, this programming language hasn't existed for 10 years.
CHACE: The only thing holding back computer science majors in the job market, Lacson tells me, might be their social skills. Silicon Valley recruiter Jeff Winter says be nice runescape accounts . And he could make you the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Mr. WINTERS: The ones that aren't nice though, they don't get their Zuck. You know Zuck, right?
CHACE: Uh, yeah? Zuck founded Facebook.
Mr. WINTERS: No Zuck for you.
CHACE: Don't I know it. But Facebook is looking for someone. They're hiring a head of their IT department and they haven't been able to find anyone.
Apple's much-anticipated, second generation iPad, that is. But there's still news buzzing about for the first version, its price has been lowered by over 25 runescape gold
percent. And customers who might be feeling buyers remorse because they bought before the announcement, well they don't need to fret. Apple is offering to rs gold
refund them 1,100 yuan or 167 U.S. dollars. Let's take a look at how the Chinese market is reacting.
Apple says the partial refund is available to customers who purchased the tablet within two weeks before the discounted price was announced. That means the runescape money
policy will apply to sales after February 18th and before March 3rd.
The refund will be available to customers who bought iPads from Apple's website, or from direct sales stores.
Dong Lihui, Manager of Appliance Retailor said "The customers can obtain the refund from where they purchased the iPad. It doesn't matter whether they paid
by cash or credit." runescape items
The company doesn't require its authorized dealers in China to give similar refunds. However, some have been quick to follow up, refunding customers at their
own expense.
Suning Appliance, one of the country's major electronics retailers, is one such example.
Yuan Jian, Employee of Marketing Department, Suning Appliance said "Sunning will refund the price difference at its own expense, but it will later negotiate runescape accounts this matter with Apple."
Gome Appliance, Suning's main competitor, announced similar policies. But customers who bought iPads from the grey market or smaller dealers are not as
lucky.
One dealer said "Apple doesn't require us to refund customers."
The iPad has swept the Chinese market, after it was first introduced in April 2010. Data shows, as of February 2011, the gadget dominated China's tablet runescape power leveling computer segment with a 99 percent market share.
Experts say the new iPad 2's release and the price cuts will increase pressure on other tablet computer rivals, including Motorola and Samsung.
Finding others in the same boat-so to speak-can make all the difference. Beijing INN offers all kinds of activities to fit the social needs of new expats. Some opt for an afternoon at the market, a day at the museum, or maybe a chatty coffee morning.runescape gold Today, the INN meet up is a coffee hour held in the Bookworm, a local Sanlitun bookstore. Around twelve women and one man from all different social backgrounds and nationalities gather to sip cappuccino and discuss a variety of topics.
Sara Platto is from Italy and works in Beijing as a veterinarian. Most of her day is filled with work and family responsibilities, which doesn't leave her much time for a social life.
After repeated encouragement from a friend, Platto found herself at her first coffee morning.rs gold
"Well, I like it. It's very informal and everybody can speak anything they have on their mind. And you can have a good coffee and make new friends and exchange ideas. And I was listening, people have holidays in Tibet or Yunnan so it's very good to have new information and especially maybe new friends; it's good."
These coffee meet-ups are also instrumental for meeting people outside of work. This was the case for Jamie Forman from Texas who moved to Beijing four months ago to teach English.
"This is my first time abroad and it's been nice to have other people that can understand the experiences you're going through because they're either going through or have been through it before. My first time was a couple times ago. I was kind of nervous because I'm not good I don't talk a lot during group things. I was the first one to get here and then everyone started coming and everyone was very friendly, so it was nice to get to talk to a lot of other people and it made me feel like I wasn't so alone in this huge city."runescape money Others, like Suzanne Marquard from New York were already familiar beforehand with groups of this kind even before moving to Beijing. Marquard has been thankful for the availability of social groups like INN ever since her first experience as an expat in London.
"It really helped; I had gone through months on my own trying to find places and do things, even in the same language, it really was difficult. And once I met people who had similar experiences, or even people with different experiences. It was so much more open than when you're back home, you tend to stick with people like you."
The wide variety of expats in Beijing means that these similar interest do bring together women from all over the world who wouldn't normally meet.
Many attend the meet-ups for friendships and also for practical tips to make life here easier. It may be as simple as knowing where to buy something or how to open a bank account.
Chetansi Markandeya is leading the group discussion and helps organize activities at INN. She arrived eighteen months ago with her husband also knowing little about life in China.runescape items
"You get to tap into the collective experience of all these people, they come from diverse backgrounds. So, for example, I'm from India and so I think, for my cooking, I have specific needs; I want spices and vegetables. And I had friends who told me, 'Go to San yanli, and you'll find south China vegetables which are similar, kind of similar to Indian vegetables.' And I remember that very clearly, because of these two American ladies who are from Alabama and they have similar vegetables and they said, 'Let us take you,' and I went and that market was the first time I saw local vendors selling vegetables, it was my first Chinese experience."
She notes that women may have an easier time than men socially adapting because they accept that they will need to go and create a new social life.
Suzanne Marquard adds that, luckily, the online world has also helped women to connect. runescape accounts
"The access to the internet anywhere in the world is not the same as it is now. So, all I had to do was Google, 'international groups Beijing,' and I came up with a whole list. Ten years ago, you wouldn't have been able to do that."
INN seeks to try and help those newcomers to feel a bit more a home in this ever-expanding Chinese metropolis that is home to millions. In a city this big, it's nice to know that something as simple as a favorite vegetable or similar taste in films can create an unexpected fellow expat friend.
LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Added and added American adults are adversity from a abatement in all-embracing beddy-bye duration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control runescape accounts and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.
It's recommended that adults should beddy-bye seven to nine hours a night to advance acceptable health, but added than one-third of Americans do not accommodated that
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accident aswell is associated with obesity, added accident of afterlife and added bloom problems, according to the CDC.
"Over the endure 20 years there has been a abatement in all-embracing beddy-bye continuance in adults," said Lela McKnight-Eily, a analytic analyst and epidemiologist at
the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention.
"Within our ability there seems to be a acceptance that beddy-bye isn't a allotment of all-embracing capital health," she said.
McKnight-Eily and her colleagues advised the beddy-bye habits of 74,571 adults in 12 states,rs power leveling 35.3 percent appear sleeping beneath than seven hours.
In addition, 48 percent appear snoring, 37.9 percent said they fell comatose at atomic already during the day the antecedent ages and 4.7 percent accepted to
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Drowsiness or comatose off while active accounts for 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries a year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Any customer who buys pork can get a 15,000-yuan insurance policy, no matter how much they buy. Even when they ask for a slice of pork, they can also get the insurance."runescape gold Gu Linlin is manager of a grocery store in Sichuan, southwest China. He says his store is providing customers with Food Security Liability Insurance, the first of its kind in the city. It aims to eliminate customers' worries about food safety. But is the insurance really accomplishing its goal?rs gold
"We give customers a membership card. When they pay for pork in our shop, the information will be recorded on their membership card. For example, the exact time that they buy the pork. The insurance pay-out is being issued to customers in the event that they become sick after eating pork bought in the our store."
Apart from the insurance, customers can trace the production history of the pork and even know who raised the pig.runescape moneyIt was Gu Linlin's idea to offer free insurance to customers who bought pork. He is not a veteran businessman, but a recent college graduate.
"I am a college graduate of Southeast University in Jiangsu Province. This is the deputy manger of our shop, Lei Tao. He graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China."
So far, there are only three grocery stores in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, where more than 80 percent of the staff are college graduates.
Lei Tao says he had to think hard before accepting a job offer from the grocery store to sell pork and vegetables. runescape items "My family opposed my choice of selling pork when I graduated from college. They thought after so many years of study, I should find a stable job after graduation. But I still stuck to my choice, as I believe I can bring innovation to the industry."
Because of fierce competition in the job market in recent years, more college graduate students have turned to jobs that are traditionally considered less valued.runescape accounts
Premier Wen Jiabao recently encouraged university graduates to start their own businesses, as the country is facing serious employment challenges. He said the government could normally create job opportunities for altogether 9 million people a year. But university graduates alone are more than 6 million.
Statistics indicate that the number of Chinese university graduates will reach an all-time high of 6.3 million this year, posing a grave challenge for the country's employment.