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Pineau:
The old palace was in Shenyang. The summer palace is in Beijing. I have seen them both.  I think the replica here is modeled after the one in Beijing.

Something interesting happened when I was looking for tourist attraction there. the website trip adviser grabbed my Facebook ID and used it to access all of my contacts back home.  (without my permission)

So here is a good idea if your going to be browsing the net, log off of everything that you don't want seen. I guess if they can do this with your Facebook account they cant grab your contacts from Hotmail and you account balance from your bank. I did not know this was possible until now. And possibly if you have auto logon in some of your online accounts the information in you cookies could be used to log in for you. This is scary.

stay away from this website.

lfputman3:
that's why I never use auto logs, don't save passwords. granted, when you lose internet at the house (because they can't block the vpn) you have to wing it and then PayPal sends you an email that they stopped all payments and purchases and flagged your account as being used for fraud...  really annoying. At least my bank knows and they send me texts, prior to trying to lock down the account.

as for pollution, The air outside Handan is great, especially up in the mountains to the west. As for Handan itself, you'll want a heavy supply of meds before arriving. I take a vitamins and some even pack allergy pills, maybe it has something to do with a "small" town of 8,000,000 in an area that is 1/4 the size of Detroit and the multiple steel mills. of course I could be mistaken...

when my wife gets to America and her lungs get the chance to recover from living here, she is gonna hate her visit home to see her mama and nainai. Then she will understand why I cough so much.

Lloyd

Pineau:
LLoyd,
I know what you mean by the supply of meds but I have been here and my supply of everything is gone.  I just got back from the clinic. I have another lung infection. I get about one a month here. I had an earache last week that my body managed to suppress but most infections here my body has never seen before and my immune system does not know how to cope.  I am dying (literally) to get out of here and go home.

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