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Michael B. Calyn
Network Consultant/Level 2/3 Deskside Support
MBCalyn@MBCalyn.com
Summary
Information Services & Technology Professional
Certified Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Dell, IBM, Lenovo, and A
Specialties
A diverse technical background.
Strong logical analysis and troubleshooting experience.
Ability to assimilate new technologies quickly and accurately.
A great "bedside manner" in a front line support role.
A knack for explaining technical issues in lay persons terms.
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China loses out as Canada joins US in halting oil pipeline construction
British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super, Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.” That’s potentially big trouble in a nation where oil exports amount to $73 billion annually and the industry employs more… Read More ›
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China moves cautiously ahead on nuclear energy
From 2005 to 2011, China rapidly developed its nuclear power capacity. In 2010 alone, it began operations at two new reactors and broke ground on 10 more, accounting for more than 60 percent of new reactor construction worldwide and making… Read More ›
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China warns North Korea against “troublemaking” on peninsula
China warned against “troublemaking” on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula. But in the midst of what some described as an… Read More ›
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Crude drops below $90 on signs of slowing Chinese growth
West Texas Intermediate crude fell below $90 a barrel for the first time in 2013 as service industries in China expanded at the weakest pace in five months, adding to speculation that demand growth is slowing. Prices declined for the seventh time… Read More ›
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China becomes the world’s biggest trading nation
China surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s biggest trading nation last year as measured by the sum of exports and imports, a milestone in the Asian nation’s challenge to the U.S. dominance in global commerce that emerged after the… Read More ›
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China fines flat-screen manufacturers for price-fixing
One of Beijing’s economic planning agencies, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said Friday that the aforementioned South Korean firms plus Taiwanese companies Chimei, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, AU Optronics and HannStar were being fined for their actions between 2001… Read More ›
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China’s taste for pork serves up a pollution problem
Fan Jianjun points to a concrete pipe jutting from the lake bank. Sludge spews from its mouth and arcs across the water, the surface bubbling with the bodies of flies. Fan has lived in Houtonglong village all his 31 years…. Read More ›
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Obama eyes $108 billion annual Asia prize vying with China trade
More than a century and a half after Millard Fillmore dispatched an emissary to Asia to transform commerce across the Pacific, a U.S. president again sees an historic opportunity to strengthen America’s role in the region. Barack Obama sent his secretary of state,… Read More ›
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Signs of changes taking hold in electronics factories in China
One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back. At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake. But when… Read More ›
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Chinese officials find misbehavior now carries cost
The Chinese have become largely inured to tales of voracious officials stockpiling luxury apartments, $30,000 Swiss watches or enough stolen cash to buy their mistress a Porsche. “Something has shifted,” Zhu Ruifeng, a Beijing journalist who has exposed more than… Read More ›
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China set to surpass US in R&D spending in 10 years
China‘s overall R&D is a little more than half that of U.S. and growing rapidly; U.S. is stalling. It was a ghost who revealed to Ebenezer Scrooge the “shadows of what may be,” but today we rely on studies for… Read More ›
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China economy shows signs of strength
China released a series of figures on Sunday showing continued economic strength as it prepares for new leaders tasked with sustaining the country’s dramatic growth. There was a double-digit increase in production at factories, workshops and mines for the first… Read More ›
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China pledges rural reforms to boost incomes, consumption
China will give farmers better protection over the land they till, raise their incomes and improve public services for them to help close the gap with urban areas and narrow the rich-poor divide. The government will ensure farmers earn “reasonable returns”… Read More ›
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China holds test run on world’s longest high-speed railway link
China tested its 2,298-kilometer (1,428-mile) high-speed rail line, the longest in the world, as it prepares to start passenger service in two days. Bullet-trains on the line from Beijing to southern Chinese city of Guangzhou can run at an average speed… Read More ›
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Southern China officials called on to be monogamous
An anti-graft official in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou called on government and Communist Party officials to be faithful to their spouses after a slew of local scandals, the China Daily reported today. Mei Heqing, a standing member of the communist… Read More ›
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China: Diggers pile up unsold after Caterpillar adds capacity
Caterpillar Inc, Komatsu Ltd and other construction-equipment makers have built enough capacity in China to satisfy global demand twice over while sales in the country are falling, according to a research company. Manufacturing capacity in China is almost 600,000 excavators a… Read More ›
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Chinese college dropout turns market blog into pundits’ favourite
When Hu Bin started his blog in early 2008, he was a skinny 22-year-old college dropout with a perpetually sceptical look on his face and little doubt he’d soon be a household name. The previous year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had been… Read More ›
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Almost 1,000 doomsday cult members arrested in China
Police in China have carried out further arrests of members of a doomsday cult for spreading rumours about the imminent end of the world, state media say. Almost 1,000 members of Christian group Almighty God have now been detained. State… Read More ›
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Great Firewall upgrade hits China’s web users
Chinese internet users who are skilled at evading the country’s online blocks have suddenly found they are again being denied access to some websites. In China, if you want access to forbidden websites including Facebook or Twitter, one of the… Read More ›
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GM to boost Cadillac showrooms in China by 25% to challenge Audi
General Motors, the largest foreign automaker in China, will increase the number of Cadillac dealerships in the country by about 25 percent as it competes against German luxury automakers led by Volkswagen AG’s Audi. The Detroit-based company will add about 40 dealers… Read More ›
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China makes 500 doomsday cult arrests
Chinese police have arrested more than 500 members of a doomsday cult for spreading rumours about the imminent end of the world, state media say. At least 400 followers of the Almighty God Christian group were detained in western Qinghai… Read More ›
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China bans some hospitals from raising more debt
China ordered county-level public hospitals to stop borrowing money after an audit showed some of them took on too much debt when upgrading facilities, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. The National Development and Reform Commission, the finance and health… Read More ›
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New China edict: No more pomp and circumstance
For many years top Chinese politicians have lived a bit like rock stars, without the paparazzi. Never mind that few of the political elite have swagger like Jagger, China’s leaders have long enjoyed walking red carpets, waving before enthusiastic (if… Read More ›
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US Intelligence: China economy to surpass US by 2030
A report on global trends prepared by the U.S. intelligence community notes that by 2030 China is likely to have surpassed the United States as the world’s largest economy. The report suggests the United States would likely serve as “the… Read More ›
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