April 17, 2010 GSI China Trip – Day 7 Nihao (hello) Xian, Zaijian (goodbye) Beijing By Maria Vandervert Leaving Beijing early this morning (4:30 wakeup call) was bittersweet. I’m excited to experience new adventures, but will miss Beijing and Julia, our tour guide who now has a place in my heart. Julia said, “There are […]
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April 16, 2010 China Trip Day 6 – Part 4 Yes – A Very Busy Day, and Pray By Maria Vandervert After our wonderful lunch, we traveled by bus to the Lama Temple, constructed during the 17th century and converted into a Tibetan lamasery in 1744. We went through three? halls. One contained three very large
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April 16, 2010 China Trip Day 6 – Part 3 Most Heart Warming Experience By Maria Vandervert Our group was privileged to take a tour of the Hutong countryside by Rickshaw. This is one of the oldest areas of Beijing. Hutong homes are created by the walls of courtyard houses, which are now state-owned. If the
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April 16, 2010 China Trip Day 6 – Part 2 70% Prevention, 30% Cure By Maria Vandervert “Warm Congratulations: Tong Ren Tang Pharmacy Culture of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been approved as China National Grade Non-material Cultural Heritage.” Today our group went to a famous TCM or Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmacy. The Chinese philosophy is
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April 16, 2010 China Trip Day 6 – Part 1 One dollar, three dollar, Rolex Watch By Maria Vandervert “Three for 10 dollar! Rolex watch, Gucci bag for 5 dollar, Chairman Mao watch – only one dollar!” Today in Beijing on the way to the Temple of Heaven, we walked through a busy park with
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April 15, 2010 Greater Spokane inc. China Trip Day 4 We learned there was an earthquake last night in a western province, far from where we are located in Beijing. At least 400 people died. Seems very strange that we don’t know more about it, but China is also a very large country. This morning
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April 14, 2010 Greater Spokane inc. China Trip Day 3 Our group had a fascinating, very productive day in Beijing. We all traveled together like ‘sticky rice’ and went to the largest public square (90 acres) in the world – Tian ‘an Men Square (the gate of heavenly peace) and the Forbidden City (was once
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After 5500 miles, and 11.5 hours, the GSI China Trip group finally made it to Beijing! 36 of us have had a very long day, in fact we crossed the International Date Line and lost a day(I think). I’ve stopped counting how many hours I’ve been up! The flight was wonderful from fresh warm towels before
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After months of preparation and countless phone calls and emails to schools and businesses the big day arrived. No pressure…only 1400+ students from as far away as Newport, Rosalia and Clark Fork, Idaho, were signed up to arrive at the National Guard Readiness Center throughout the day. These 7th – 12th graders were coming to learn about the careers and education programs in the Spokane Region.
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At Desautel Hege, workforce flexibility has always been an important value. Our founder, Jim Desautel, knew the importance of work-life balance, particularly ensuring one had time for an appropriate amount of golf. All kidding aside, we work in a demanding business and have high expectations of all our team members. Our work often includes evening and weekend commitments and periods of converging deadlines. We have always felt strongly about providing our team with flexibility, both because it’s the right thing to do for our people AND because it makes good business sense.
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