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Reading Time: < 1 minute John Mackey, the founder and CEO of Whole Food Markets (WFMI), allegedly used pen name “RahoDeb” (his wife name is Deborah) publishing his opinion on the stock at Yahoo Message Board. Here is the link to the mesages. Of course, the thing really hits news is his comments about competitors, such as Wild Oats and

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July 11, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes I bought my first stock back in 1994 when I worked for a manufacturing company in Shanghai, and I got to buy 250 shares when the company went public. After that between 1996 and 1997 I did some trade in stocks because at that time the Chinese stock market was very hot, if not as

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July 11, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since today is a good day (7-7-07), I want to do something special. I have planned this thing for a while: create an investment partnership or the sorts. Right now I’m the only partner in this venture. But I’m open to new investors with similar investment philosophy. Why do I create this Equity partnership? Well,

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July 7, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tomorrow, July 7, 2007, is a “triple seven” day, the winning number of slot machine. More importantly, some people claims this occurs once a century. There will be a lot of people get married this day. Unfortunately the stock market will be closed. I guess you can always go to the gas station to get

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July 6, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is what I saw from the Visa Bulletin, I expect lots of angry people, epecially those guys (gals) did not submit theie EB based cases in last 2 or 3 weeks. ====== The sudden backlog reduction efforts by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices during the past month have resulted in the use of almost

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July 2, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I am getting the Hepatitis B vaccine shot lately, already got two shots done, and will have the last one in about 6 months. Each shot cost me $35.00. Note this is the rate at County Health Dept, other places will be more expensive. Vaccination is not my favorite thing when I was a pre-school

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July 2, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes In about a month, I am going to come back to China and get married. Since I have been in the US for almost 10 years, attended couple weddings, I have some ideas about the financial side of the wedding here. Registry: when I first heard of it in 2000, I thought this is probably

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June 28, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tomorrow is Father’s day. My parents are wonderful parents, they did all they can to support me and my brothers’ education, under difficult circumstances. But everyone has his/her limit, my dad is no exception. I think from “personal finance” point of view, my dad is a good saver, but he does not know much about investing (that’s understandable because

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June 15, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update June 6) The bumper is on the way now. It’s from: USAUTOPARTS NETWORK, 17150 S. MARGAY AVE, CARSON CA90746, as shown from agsystems. Not UPS or Fedex.   (Original June 5) No I have not involved in car accident or anything. I merely demaged the front bumper because of my own carelessness: in the parking lot. Last time when

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June 5, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute When I was in Shanghai in March, I watched a special program on China-CBN (Di Yi Cai Jing) talking about “school for migrant workers’ kids”. Not surprisringly, the schools’ condition usually are much inferior to same level schools attended by “city kids”. The Shanghai Municipal Goverment gave 60 m Yuan this year for the “migrant kids’ school”. This is

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May 24, 2007
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