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Forums > Living in Kunming > Tulips bloom in Daguan Park

Not sure about Daquan Park but Green Lake Park was awash with tulips during Spring Festival before they allowed all the commercial booths, Spring comes early to the Spring City.

Black Dragon Park, 黑龙潭,has a Spring Festival display of penzai, 盆栽 (original Chinese forerunner of bonsai). Bus 9 and 79 stop at the front gate.

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It took you an hour? How learning challenged you are. It is as easy as writing, "I am proficient in six languages."

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Filing 2014 Taxes

@Xiefei: It isn't a matter of having 40 credits.

On the FICA tax: In Pub 54, chapter 2, page 10:

In general, U.S. social security and Medicare taxes do not apply to wages for services you perform as an employee outside the United States unless one of the following exceptions applies.

There are four exceptions: 1) you worked on an American ship or aircraft, 2) you are working in one of the countries with which the United States has entered into a bilateral social security agreement, 3) You are working for an American employer, 4) You are working for a foreign affiliate (de-fined later) of an American employer.

Working in China as a teacher or any job not connected to the US means you don't need to pay FICA tax.

Self employment, the 15%, is due if you are self employed.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Filing 2014 Taxes

BTW Any pension, Social Security, or disability money you get needs to be direct deposited in a US bank account IF you are in China. Get an ATM card, MC or Visa, and you can get your money in China.

When I got my first SS check it was nearly $10K BOA told me it would take 2 years to clear because US Government checks have a picture of the Statue of Liberty on them.

Next day I bought a bag of Lay's potato chips with a picture of Lady Liberty on it. I bought another bag, went back to BOA and handed it to the lady who told me of the 2 year wait and told her not to eat them for 2 years.

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@bilingualexpat: No need to apologize, ad hominem attacks to be expected when one hold contrarian positions on common knowledge topics and engages in discussions.

Another fun fact for you: In 2016, China ADDED 48GW, or 5.4%, to production capacity of coal fired electricity generation.

To be fair, power production stats in China are soft at best. Circa 2008, when GDP growth around the world were flat or declining, China posted GDP increase of 6.5% AND a decline in electricity production of 16% for the same period. WTF? Trends for GDP and electricity heretofore had consistently tracked. For 4-6 months electricity production was omitted from monthly and quarterly reports.

Sifting through reports, it is difficult find evidence of any reduction in either aggregate capacity or generation. In fact, the Paris deal allows China to keep increasing her carbon footprint until it peaks in 2030. Only then has China agreed to begin reducing use of coal.

China has been importing coal from NORK, In June, China announced she would curtail such imports. Given that in June the demand for coal drops significantly, I believe China.

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@bilingualexpat: Your claim "now you're arguing against EV production in China" is a figment of your ideology warped thought process. I know you need to attack me rather than deal with the unsustainability of EV production but so be it.

You claim a 9% reduction in coal production AND then claim coal consumption has fallen 4.7%. Interesting. Do you seriously claim production has declined so much more than use? Does that make sense?

How does China increase electric generation capacity using coal 5.4% while producing less coal, 9%, and consuming less, 4.7%, coal?

I will leave it to you to dive into the study of China's inconsistent economic statistics. I've been doing it for more than 30 years and usually hit a WTF point sooner than later.

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In 2016, 59% of China's electricity was produced in coal fired plants.

17% of the electricity produced by wind power went unused in China.

In 2016, China increased total electrical power production capacity 7.7% and coal production capacity grew 5.4%, or 39% of the capacity increase.

Unlike Norway, China's hydro generation is only 21% of capacity.

The underlying problem is a power grid built without market considerations. Forcing increased demand for electricity consumption will not ease environmental pressures.

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Watched the Super Bowl this morning with about 30 other fans. Close game, bad result :-(

Thanks to O'Rielly's for getting up early after a late rugby night. Really appreciate having a venue for sports.

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This place really swings from excellent food and great service to crap food and worse service.

I have noticed it depends on if the owner is there. At least the best experience was when he was there.

I do like Indian food but am reluctant to go back.

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Relatively painless, lady spoke usable English, her name is Shen.
Paid more than Elong and about the same as Ctrip but could pay CASH.

They also delivered the ticket.

Elong requires a credit card application and collects fare too much information. CAYA works quite well. Suffer the English and try CAYA.