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]]> http://trudat.info/2010/07/summer-2010-newsletter/feed/ 2 Prenatal Care at a Chinese Hospital in Chengdu http://trudat.info/2010/07/prenatal-care-at-a-chinese-hospital-in-chengdu/ http://trudat.info/2010/07/prenatal-care-at-a-chinese-hospital-in-chengdu/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:26:06 +0000 trudat http://trudat.info/?p=1331 My wife is 23 weeks pregnant with our second child. We’ve been in Chengdu now for about one month and we plan to return home to Hawaii for the baby’s birth sometime around the 32nd week. Air China doesn’t allow pregnant women to fly beyond their 35th week. In the meantime, while still in Chengdu we needed to find an OB/GYN to provide prenatal care. in our first week here our first born son was sick so we took him to see family doctor Brian Robinson of the Heart to Heart Clinic (map). It had been a difficult weekend with Noah being ill so when Dr. Robinson saw us on Monday morning we were so relieved. He answered all our questions and was very kind. We chatted with him about various other topics from whether we should have our second baby in China to the mold problem in Chengdu due to damp weather. When we talked about where to get prenatal care, he suggested we look into the Sichuan Provincial Hospital for Women & Children and told us generally where it is but he couldn’t remember what name of the doctor there who speaks English. A few weeks later we attended the International Fellowship and met a lady who gave Elisabeth the name of a woman who recently got prenatal care here in Chengdu and had her baby in Beijing. Through that contact we were able to get detailed information on how to get to hospital that Dr. Robinson had recommended.

Sichuan Provincial Hospital for Women And Children

四川省妇幼保健院 （sìchuān shěng fùyǒu bǎojiàn yuàn）

Website: fybj.net

Dr. Xiao Bing（肖兵）

Dr. Xiao has out patient office hours at the hospital only on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. He is very friendly, helpful and has great English.

When To Go

When you go to see Dr. Xiao on either a Tuesday or Thursday morning, I recommend going early, by 8 am, because it gets VERY crowded. We arrived only at 10:30 am and by that time, his appointment calendar was full for the morning and the registration people weren’t going to allow us to have an appointment. However, because we had already spoken to Dr. Xiao by phone earlier we were able to ask him in person for special permission to register, which he graciously gave us. His nurse then was very kind to help us through the registration process. Takeaway lesson: go early.

Getting There

The hospital is right on the northwest section of the 2nd Ring Road. If you are familiar with the area it is north of the Metro Cash & Carry wholesale store (probably something like a Costco or Sam’s Club) and down the street from the Auchan supermarket (like a Walmart super store).

Hospital Address: 中国四川省成都市金牛区蜀汉路 (map)

Going by Taxi

We were able to take a taxi just by telling the driver to take us to the sìchuān shěng fùyǒu bǎojiàn yuàn. There is a Chengdu city women and children’s hospital also. So the driver may ask to clarify whether it is the Sichuan provincial or Chengdu city women and children’s hospital. You can also tell the driver that the hospital is on the intersection of 2nd Ring Road and Shuhan Road (蜀汉路).

Local Vicinity

On the north corner of the intersection is the Xiqu or West Chengdu Hospital. You don’t want to go there.

To the west of the Xiqu hospital the entire Shuhan street is blocked off for an entire block all the way to Auchan where a subway stop is being constructed. So in the future, it will be convenient to get to this hospital by subway.

On the south corner of the intersection is the women and children’s hospital. Notice the hospital’s sign in red above the building.The three characters say 省 for city, 妇 for mother and 幼 for young/children.

Turn down Shuhan Road (蜀汉路) and you’ll see this sign on the south side of the street just in from the corner.

Registration

The first thing you need to do

Enter the hospital compound via the driveway just to the left of the sign. You will have to navigate around a lot of cars and people coming in and out of the driveway. At the end of the driveway you’ll see this statue.

Look to the right and you’ll see the hospital’s main building.

Walk toward it until you see the ramp and cashier window on the ground floor on the right side of the building.

You’ll need to get a registration form from the information desk which is just opposite the cashier. Notice the girls with the pink caps in the photo below. The registration form is a printed on a half-sheet piece of paper. You may see other people filling out the form there. You’ll need to write down your family name and given name (either Chinese or English is fine). You’ll also need to fill out your date of birth, occupation and residential address. We forgot to bring our passports but in the end we didn’t need to show any form of ID.

After filling out the form head over to the registration windows; there are three of them. Just to the left of the information desk is the pharmacy. There is a LED electronic screen above it as shown below with windows #1 and #2.

That’s not the registration desk. To the left of the pharmacy window are three windows under and even larger LED electronic signboard. I would have posted a picture of the registration desk but one of the pink-hat girls told me I couldn’t take pictures in there. Look for the Chinese word for registration which is 挂号(guàhào) in the large font in the upper left corner of the LED screen. Wait your turn in one of the lines; we used the far right one which had a nice cool breeze from a nearby vent. Show the lady your registration form. We paid ¥14.5 RMB for the registration fee and were given a medical card with its all-important magnetic stripe (almost everything is computerized) along with a medical records handbook.

Tell the registration person that you want to see Xiao Bing yīshēng (医生) and they will give you a registration ticket if an appointment is available. On the LED informational sign above the registration desk you’ll see scrolling information with doctor’s names and whether or not there are any appointment slots available for a particular doctor. Look for Dr. Xiao’s name which is 肖兵. If you see 有号 on the line where you see his name, there are appointment available. But if you see 无号 in red, then unfortunately his schedule is full.

Going to see Dr. Xiao

Dr. Xiao’s office is diagonally across the courtyard. Go out of the registration/pharmacy/cashier area and follow the circular driveway until you see this little pathway.

Walk down and take the second entrance on your left. Notice the sign that says Obstetric Clinic.

Turn right at the little doorway.

When we went today it was very crowded. This line down the little doorway is a line of people queuing up to see the nurse.

A view of the nurse’s station from another angle.

Show the nurse your medical card, records handbook and appointment slip. She will take your blood pressure. Afterwards you’ll need to wait your turn in the waiting area. Some mothers have to wait hours for their appointment. At some point you might need to use the bathroom. Look for this sign.

We really didn’t understand the system of when you get called for your appointment. But perhaps ours was a special case because Dr. Xiao just squeezed us in. In any case, he came out of his office and called us in when it was our turn. He seemed quite knowledgeable and after reviewing Elisabeth’s prior prenatal care from our time in Japan he determined that she needed blood tests for blood sugar (血糖 xuètáng) levels and for liver and a color ultrasound. He also ordered a test of my blood type (血型 xuèxíng). He used the computer and printer in his office to print out slips of paper for the procedures he ordered and a prescription (处方 chǔfāng) for the sugar to be used in the blood sugar test.

This is Noah in outdoor the waiting area.

Paying at the Cashier

Take the orders and prescription(s) to the cashier at the main hospital building. The cashier will ask you to swipe your medical card and the computer will print out a receipt of charges for all procedures and medicine. Our bill for the visit, blood work, sugar and ultrasound was ¥431 RMB. That’s only about  $67 USD … inexpensive medical care without insurance!

After paying, take your receipt and prescription to the pharmacy to get your medicine.

Ultrasound

Then we went to the ultrasound office to schedule an appointment for the ultrasound. The ultrasound office is just opposite the Obstetric clinic. Look for the sign which says Image Dept. There are multiple offices in this department. The ultrasound office is the one to the left of the main door.

We were able to get an appointment for the very next morning! By the way, if you want to know whether your baby is a boy or girl, ask the ultrasound technician to look for the sex of your baby before they do the ultrasound. As a normal practice, they don’t look for this and are unwilling to inform parents of their baby’s sex because some may choose to abort girl babies due to the one-child policy. But as a foreigner, the technician will tell you if you ask in advance. We didn’t ask in advance and so we weren’t able to find out our baby’s gender.

Blood Tests

In the courtyard, look for the sign which says “Clinical Laboratory”.

Before going into the Clinical Laboratory, you’ll first need to get labels printed for your vials of blood which they will take. So first go to the door to the left of the Clinical Laboratory.

Go in there an swipe your medical card at the window and they will give you printed labels for your blood vials. The labels along with your medical card and blood test orders will look like this.

Then take those labels with you to the Clinical Laboratory.

You’ll see two windows where people line up to get their blood drawn.

It looks like they use brand new needles for each patient (because they rip open a needle package for each patient) but they don’t change gloves between patients.

Here’s Elisabeth getting her blood drawn. Immediately afterward she was instructed to mix the sugar we had gotten the day before in 150 ml of water to drink for the blood sugar test. It was a good thing we had brought a bottle of filtered water of our own to mix the sugar into. They don’t provide cups or water there for you.  You need to bring your own.

Here’s me getting my finger pricked in another window for my blood type test. Yeah, I know…I’m almost 40 and don’t know my own blood type!

Hopefully this post will provide helpful information to any English speaking foreigners who need prenatal care in Chengdu and want to try getting it from a Chinese doctor.

]]> http://trudat.info/2010/07/prenatal-care-at-a-chinese-hospital-in-chengdu/feed/ 11 Chinese Lessons: Renting an Apartment in China http://trudat.info/2010/05/chinese-lessons-renting-an-apartment/ http://trudat.info/2010/05/chinese-lessons-renting-an-apartment/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 08:31:22 +0000 trudat http://trudat.info/?p=1264 How Much Is The Rental Per Month? by AskBenny

Renting an Apartment by Teacher James

Rent House by AskBenny

Rent House 2 by AskBenny

Intermediate: “租房” by CLSPod

Simple-Chinese.com Lesson Lesson 21: Renting Apartment

This written lesson contains a vocabulary list and dialog in both Chinese and English.

Other Video Lessons

Written Lessons

Vocabulary

Type of Buildings(?)

  • 多层住宅 – low rise
  • 小高层住宅 – medium(?) rise
  • 高层住宅 – high rise
  • 别墅
  • 排屋
  • 公寓
  • 商住楼
  • 商铺
  • 厂房
  • 库房
  • 车库

Features/Amenities of an apartment

  • 厨房
  • 床
  • 家具
  • 有线电视
  • 宽带网
  • 电话
  • 热水器
  • 电视机
  • 空调
  • 洗衣机
  • 冰箱
  • 煤气
  • 暖气
  • 汽车库
  • 通水
  • 通气
  • 通电
  • 数字电视
  • 冰箱
  • 沙发
  • 衣柜
  • 厨具
  • 桌子
  • 椅子
  • 防盗门
  • 密封阳台
  • 汽车位
  • 电梯
  • 地下室
  • 花园

Nciku Vocab Lists

How to write Apartment in Chinese by Xi Chen

Room Vocab by by ChineseClass101.com

Where do you live? by Chinese-Tools.com

This short dialog lesson has vocabulary to distinguish between a building (楼房) or a one story house (平房).

Listening Comprehension Practice

康熙来了 2008-02-12 租房给明星好不好

This is a cute skit about two sisters renting an apartment, one of which is crazy about Korean boys. Their pronunciation isn’t that great, but the video is funny.

Renting a House by MandarinTube

This is video is hilarious!

Renting an Apartment by EZY Chinese

Apartment tour translated into Chinese

An American landlord gives a walk-through of an apartment while the Chinese resident interprets in Mandarin.

Related info about Renting in China

Information in English about Renting an Apartment in China

Real Estate Rental Websites (especially ones for Chengdu)

Beware of unscrupulous rental agents. Physically visit the apartment and sign a contract directly with the owner, not just with the agent.

Negotiating the Price by Teacher James

Related Lessons

Ayi by Mandarin Network

Inquiry About Hotel Or Serviced Apartment by AskBenny

Making an appointment by Active Chinese

Intermediate: “Housing Market in China” by ChineseClass101.com

Having lived in Beijing for a year, it’s fun to hear the Beijing “er 口音” accent.

Advanced: “Buying a House” by Popup Chinese

Having lived in Beijing for a year, it’s fun to hear the Beijing “er 口音” accent.

Newbie: “Moving” by ChinesePod

Contains a short dialog about one friend telling another friend that he is moving to Canada.

]]> http://trudat.info/2010/05/chinese-lessons-renting-an-apartment/feed/ 0 Fantastic Resources for Learning Chinese Free Online http://trudat.info/2010/05/fantastic-resources-for-learning-chinese-free-online/ http://trudat.info/2010/05/fantastic-resources-for-learning-chinese-free-online/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 06:07:28 +0000 trudat http://trudat.info/?p=1153 There is an entire UNIVERSE of high quality resources on the Internet to learn Chinese absolutely free. In no particular order here are some of the great resources you can take advantage of to learn Chinese 免費!

ChinesePod is the king of all Chinese podcasts. I love ChinesePod! They used to offer all levels of lessons for free on their podcast, but now they only provide the Newbie level lessons for free. I like their Menu Stealer video series available on their Vimeo account.

Popup Chinese has a free podcast which includes audio lessons for beginner, elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. You can subscribe to the pocast from iTunes page or just listen to the audio lesson from the lesson page.

Yang Yang, a vivacious Beijinger who lives in Los Angeles, has a fantastic Youtube channel. She seems to have blocked most of her videos from her Youtube channel page. However, you can just search for her username “sloppycheng” to get her videos. Here’s a sample video.

Benny has an incredible number of videos uploaded to his YouTube channel … 599 at present count.  Here is just one of them:

Peggy has a fun YouTube channel with scenes from around Taipei. Here’s a lesson:

ChineseClass101.com also has a free podcast. Check out their iTunes page. Subscribe to their YouTube video channel for 60+ high quality tutorial videos. They have a lot of free lessons which you can listen to on their website. They have lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. They also have video lessons.

Learn Mandarin Chinese with CLO, an online Mandarin course from Taiwan, has a podcast with 30 lessons. They allow you to download a LOT of transcripts and word review PDF documents. Check out their YouTube channel for some great cartoon videos! Here’s a sample video:

ActiveChinese has a fantastic Youtube channel with animated cartoon videos for learning Chinese. Here’s a sample video:

Goal tracking. Vocab lists with sample sentences, all with playable audio links. Highly recommended!

CLSPod has a free podcast. Check out their iTunes page.

Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk is a free podcast with 31 lessons. His website has many more lessons, but you have to signup as a member to listen to them.

This commercial Chinese language website has a great YouTube channel with 11 lessons.

LearnChinesePod is a non-commercial blog with a podcast containing 7 episodes. The website allows you to download PDF transcripts of lessons.

The ChineseLingQ podcast has 10 episodes. Their website allows you to download the mp3 files. The iTunes page lets you stream them.

The Learning Mandarin Podcast is a blog by April Zhang with regular, high quality episodes several times per month ever since 2005 until present day. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. You can listen to streaming podcast lessons on PodFeed.

David of FreeChineseBlog.com has created a great website with video Chinese lessons. Although his accent isn’t perfect, he’s got pretty good tones.

iMandarinPod (based in Tianjin, China) provides a free podcast targeted for the intermediate to advanced levels. The podcast lessons are completely in Chinese.

Survival Phrases offers 15 lessons available via podcast. The first three lessons can be viewed on their website.

World Learner Chinese (based in Taipei, Taiwan) has a podcast with just four basic lessons. However their website has an extensive section free beginner level lessons.

Chinese-Family.com has a great YouTube channel with animated cartoon lesson videos. Here’s one:

This is a fun podcast by two Taiwanese sisters has seven episodes which cover Chinese culture and throws in some Chinese language.

Dyejo’s Mandarin Chinese podcast contains episodes in which a former Mormon missionary to Taiwan reads a list of one thousand Chinese words.

This website has 31 lessons.

The Chinese Outpost has an extensive Introduction to Mandarin Chinese tutorial with many lessons.

This website has a large compilation of Chinese language lesson videos from YouTube broken down by level: beginner, intermediate and advanced levels plus sections for writing and PinYin.

The Mandarin Network has a lot of video lessons available for free with transcripts via paid subscription.

World Nomads provides a single audio lesson. The pronunciation by the “traveller” is really bad, but you can learn some survival vocabulary. You can download the MP3 file and a PDF transcript.

Live Mocha offers basic phrases lessons with flash card quizzes.

LanguageBite offers one free newbie lesson on their website and three video lessons on YouTube.

The Rutgers Multi-Media Chinese Teaching System is an extensive course with many lessons organized into four levels, which you have a choice of learning in either simplified or traditional (complex) characters.

The BBC has a website for learning several languages including Chinese. They have a great starter multimedia interactive slideshow built in Flash that’s reminiscent of multimedia CD-ROMs from the mid 90s. Videos don’t play if you’re not in the UK. The multimedia slideshows are at the newbie level.

YY Sophie’s Chinese Lesssons

Sophie, from Taiwan, has a great YouTube channel with many Mandarin Chinese lessons.

Two Chinese Characters

These guys are hilarious! They even sing. Their YouTube Channel is quite amusing. Here’s one of the lessons.

Live Tutoring

This now defunct website still has 11 lessons on its YouTube Channel. Here’s one of them.

Video Carter

Who knows why they are called “Video Carter” but they have language learning videos and a pretty sizeable YouTube Channel. Just turn down your volume as their sound levels are distorted. Here’s one of them.

Hanzi6688 YouTube Channel

Integrated Chinese

ChinesePod created a series of lessons based on a two-year Chinese course called Integrated Chinese. Quite a LOT of educational institutions use the course in their Chinese curriculum. ChinesePod’s blog on Integrated Chinese has a lot of audio lessons.

Resources

Perapera-kun Popup translator for the Firefox Browser

I highly recommend that you install the Perapera-kun Popup translator add-on for the Firefox browser. With this add-on, you can just position your mouse over any Chinese character and a tooltip box will appear containing PinYin so you can know how to pronounce the character (or set of characters) and it will include an English translation. You can read the installation instructions for details.

After you install Perapera-kun, just enable it in the bottom bar of Firefox by selecting the Chinese flag.

Then you can position your mouse over any Chinese characters.

Some of Chinese language resources just list English and Chinese vocabulary without pinyin. However if you install the Perapera-kun Popup translator for Chinese, all you need to do is put your mouse over the Chinese character to see the pinyin and English translation.

Character Stroke Order Lessons

  • Arch Chinese is an AMAZING website with animated stroke order characters, printable PDF character writing worksheets
  • Animated Chinese Characters
  • MyMandarin – click on a character and the popup will animate the drawing of the character with a calligraphy brush and even read the character aloud for you.
  • Learn to write Chinese Characters
  • The University of Southern California Chinese Department has an interesting website with lessons for teaching character stroke order broken down into lessons for both simplified and traditional characters, showing just one character per page. For each character, they have a video which shows you the proper stroke order to writing the character by hand. If you have Real Player installed on your computer, you can listen to each character spoken.
  • Writing Chinese Characters

PinYin

Or just watch this video!

Numbers

Chinese Dictionaries

Searchable English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries

The Arch Chinese website doesn’t even have a logo, but it is the most incredible Chinese-English dictionary I’ve come across so far. You can search by English, PinYin or characters. The search results have PinYin, characters and audio links that let you hear the pronunciation. And for every character it will display a animation of the character’s stroke order. Sample sentences are also available.

Nciku is a modern website with a great dictionary. Chinese characters have mouseover tooltips with PinYin pronunciation. Many English and Chinese vocabulary words have audio links so you can hear them. You can even draw a character with a mouse and matching characters will appear in real-time on the side for you to select. Clicking on a match will enter the character for you in the search box. Fantastic! Apparently you can sign up for a free account which allows you to create vocab lists for yourself.

Dict.cn is very nice modern website where you can search by characters or English. search results contain sample sentences (if available) and links to related words.

MDBG Chinese-English dictionary

MDBG provides a pretty good Chinese-English dictionary including a version for mobile devices.

Radical Lookup

I spent countless hours in high school and college painstakingly looking up characters in a dictionary first by figuring out what the radical was, counting the number of strokes in the radical, looking up the radical by stroke count, flipping to the page with the list of characters with that radical, squinting to find the right character in the list that used a tiny font and finally flipping to the character’s page. It was a colossal waste of time. If only I had MDBG’s radical/stroke’s lookup page back in 1983!

MIT provides many semester long course materials online.

Foreign Service Institute

Courses developed by the United States government for training foreign service workers have been made freely available to the public. The FSI Mandarin Chinese course is very extensive and they even have a course for Cantonese. The Mandarin course has the following modules below, each of which  contains a PDF document which you can use to read along with the audio lesson. It seems that they focus on spoken proficiency as their textbooks only contain romanized Chinese in pinyin. Some direct links to their resources are provided below.

Flashcards and Quizzes

Learning Chinese by Topic

Business

Discussion Forums for Chinese Learners

Blogs for Chinese Learners

Games

Chinese Proficiency Tests

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) – 汉语水平考试

HSK is China’s proficiency test.

Some Newbie Lessons

Click on a phrase to hear the audio. You’ll have to go back each time you do though.

]]> http://trudat.info/2010/05/fantastic-resources-for-learning-chinese-free-online/feed/ 0 Multiple Wildcard Self-Signed SSL on MAMP http://trudat.info/2010/05/multiple-wildcard-self-signed-ssl-on-mamp/ http://trudat.info/2010/05/multiple-wildcard-self-signed-ssl-on-mamp/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 02:25:15 +0000 trudat http://trudat.info/?p=1119 I use a MacBook Pro (MBP) to develop a SaaS product that runs on PHP and Apache. Some pages, such as login forms, require SSL. For years, up until yesterday, I had to specially configure my local development machine to specifically not use SSL during testing because I had not setup the laptop to support SSL. However, yesterday I finally did it! Here’s how I did it, in case it is a benefit to anyone.

I need two domains for my purposes: one for the app itself and another one for the CDN server. So I figured out how to set up two SSL vhosts on the same MAMP Apache server.

Using these instructions, you’ll be able to use https://anysubdomain.fake-domain-1.com/ and https://fake-domain-2.com:4043/ for testing locally. There must be a way to get around using the different port for the second vhost, but I couldn’t figure it out. But it works! If you want to add on more SSL vhosts, I’m sure you could just use different ports.

On the MBP, I run MAMP (the free version).

Setup Local Domains

I test my app locally using a fake domain names. First, you need to establish your fake domain name as a local domain. To do so, you need to add it to your hosts file.

To open up your hosts file in TextEdit while logged in with root permission, enter the following in Terminal:

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

Your hosts files might look something like this:

127.0.0.1    localhost
255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0    localhost
127.0.0.1 mamp fake-domain-1.com anysubdomain.fake-domain-1.com fake-domain-2.com

Just add the domains you want after 127.0.0.1 mamp. Once you update your hosts file, you’ll need to enter this in Terminal.

dscacheutil - flushcache

Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates

Create a directory to store your SSL certificates at:

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl

Then create directories in his folder for your various local domains:

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-1.com
/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-2.com

Log into Terminal. Sign in as root by using the su command. cd to one of the directories you just made and enter in these commands taken from Justin Samuel’s website. When you are prompted for a Common Name, enter “*.fake-domain.com” (where, of course, you substitute the domain you want to use). The * makes it a wildcard certificate for use with any subdomain on that domain. And don’t forget to enter a valid email address when asked for it. I just hit enter the first time I tried it and no files were generated.

(umask 077 && touch host.key host.cert host.info host.pem)
openssl genrsa 2048 > host.key
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 3650 -key host.key >  host.cert
openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -text < host.cert > host.info
cat host.cert host.key > host.pem
chmod 400 host.key host.pem

Configure Apache

Edit the Apache config file at /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf. Add this or uncomment relevant lines.

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
Listen 443
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl    .crl
SSLPassPhraseDialog  builtin
SSLSessionCache         dbm:/Applications/MAMP/logs/ssl_scache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300
SSLMutex  file:/Applications/MAMP/logs/ssl_mutex
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName fake-domain-1.com:443
ServerAdmin you@fake-domain-1.com
ServerAlias *.fake-domain-1.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/fake-domain-1.com/%-3+
ErrorLog /Applications/MAMP/logs/ssl_error_log
TransferLog /Applications/MAMP/logs/ssl_access_log
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
SSLEngine on
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-1.com/host.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-1.com/host.key
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE*." nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</VirtualHost>

Listen 4043

<VirtualHost *:4043>
 ServerName fake-domain-2.com
 ServerAdmin you@fake-domain-2.com
 DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/fake-domain-2.com"

 SSLEngine on
 SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
 SSLCertificateFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-2.com/host.cert
 SSLCertificateKeyFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl/fake-domain-2.com/host.key
 SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE*." nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Restart Apache

You can use the MAMP tool to restart servers.

Accept Self-Signed Certs in Firefox

Try out your your domain on https in your browser. It will throw an error, but if you add an exception to use the cert you won’t get anymore errors.

In order to accept the self-signed certificates in Firefox you’ll do the following. Go to the URLs at https://anysubdomain.fake-domain-1.com/ and https://fake-domain-2.com:4043/ using Firefox. Firefox will tell you that the connection is untrusted.

Click on “I Understand the Risks”.

Then click on “Add Exception”.

Wait a while for the cert to load up, then click on “Confirm Security Exception”.

Do this for all the domains you’ve setup.

]]> http://trudat.info/2010/05/multiple-wildcard-self-signed-ssl-on-mamp/feed/ 0 Josephat Gwajima http://trudat.info/2010/05/josephat-gwajima/ http://trudat.info/2010/05/josephat-gwajima/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:04 +0000 trudat http://trudat.info/?p=1110 We went to a well-attended conference today in Miyoshi, a suburb of Nagoya, where the main speaker was a pastor from Tanzania named Josephat Gwajima whose church, Glory of Christ Tanzania Church (old website), has some twenty six thousand members and 4,800 leaders.

Pastor Gwajima told an incredible story of how he was paralyzed from the neck down for six years as a child. One day after the doctors told him he was going to die, he had a dream. In his dream, he was below a man on the cross whose blood flowed down on him. The man told him that by his stripes he was healed. When he woke up, his neck started to shake. His arms and legs began to work. He sat up and went to his parents door shouting. His dad and mom looked through the window at him and didn’t believe it was their son even though he told them, “I am your son Josephat!” Finally they went out and terrified, asked him what happened to him. He said over and over: a man on a cross, a man on a cross. “Who is this man on the cross?” the father asked. Josephat said, “I don’t know.” Josephat was one of twelve children and lived in a village with no church. No one in the family had ever been to church. But the youngest daughter said, “It is Jesus!” And she told the family that they had to believe in Jesus and be saved. Incredibly, she apparently led the family to Christ even though she had never been to church or heard the gospel! So the whole family knelt down and believed in Jesus. Afterwards, Josephat laid awake that night unable to sleep but ended up speaking in tongues nonstop for two days. Then he went to Bible school, became a pastor, raised people from the dead and now is leading a huge church and traveling the world doing revival meetings. What an incredible story!

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Q1 2010 Grade A Office Rentals

source: DTZ
City RMB/m2/month
Shanghai 185.54
Beijing 145
Hangzhou 117.71
Guangzhou 117.3
Xi’an 112.32
Chengdu 107.34
Tianjin 102.55
Nanjing 93.38
Qingdao 90.07
Dalian 86.91
Chongqing 62
Wuhan 56.4

Conventional Leased Offices

Normally leased office space require lengthy contracts and comes empty (i.e., you need to furnish the office with furniture and equipment).

According to DTZ, as of Q1 2010, Chengdu has 360,600 m2 of Grade A commercial office space with a 17 percent vacancy rate. Rent averages at 107 RMB/m2/month (this down from RMB115.9/m2/month in Q4 2008) and is projected to rise by 5 percent by the end of 2010.

For an explanation of the difference between Grades A, B & C of office space read “Categorization of office space is flexible“.

Serviced Offices

Executive suites or business centers, where office space is fully furnished and then rented out to other companies, are called serviced offices in China. Serviced offices normally allow for flexible rental terms.

Serviced Office Providers in Chengdu

  • TheMoveChannel
    • South Lippo Tower: 元 3800-8500/workstation/month
    • Times Plaza: 元 2500-4500/workstation/month
    • Shidu: 元 880-1500/workstation/month
  • Regus -
  • serviced-offices.com.cn – four options
    • Times Plaza, Zonfu Road, Jin Jiang District
    • Shangri-La Office Tower, Binjiang East Road, Jin Jiang District
    • Lippo Tower, Kehua Bei Road, Wu Hou District
    • Beixin Street, Jin Jiang District

Chengdu Real Estate Market Studies

News/Trends

Real Estate Companies

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