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Out of all of my experiences in China, this is something I really can’t do so easily in the United States, specifically in Colorado — I can’t teach in the United States.I checked into it last year in Denver and the answer was always the same, you have to go through the direct licensing (degree) or the alternative licensing (unrelated degree minimum 4+ years plus licensing requirements) to be able to teach. Which is sad, really. It doesn’t matter that I am able to excel in unusual circumstances and achieve what I need to. Lived in Japan and can’t read, write or speak Japanese and you probably wouldn’t want me to make sushi for you either.Korea, in and out getting my visa renewed in ways that will get you detained, interrogated, and deported. I don’t read, write, or speak the language and I can’t stand kimchi.As for China, I can’t read, write, or speak any dialect of Chinese. Listening to stories of the 5,000 years they were better than everyone else makes me want to take a nap. I have been repatriated from China twice, was selected first for every interview above all other candidates for schools all throughout China, was abandoned in Beijing in winter, don’t care for “Hot-Pot” or “Chicken Fingers” and like my cold water with ice, not room temperature. Oh, and don’t listen to anyone but me, if you go to China remember two things: (1.) bring a roll of toilet paper with you or extra pairs of socks and (2.) never go into Tienanmen Square and pull out a bottle of Sprite that nobody saw you walk in with.Like I said, skills that the United States doesn’t appreciate.I have seen this written about so many times, and every time it is so very true more than the last. You are your job, your career, or your degree in the United States.If you've ever spoken with an American, likely one of the first questions they asked you was "what do you do?"In the US, we're obsessed with people's jobs. We want to know all about it. We insist that you tell us what "career tribe" you're in – white collar, blue collar or new high-techy collar. What's your exact title? How do you spend your day? Are you someone speaks the language of law, tech, finance, media, marketing, education, military, government, the arts, etc? Basically, we would like everyone to walk around with their business card attached to their forehead, but since that's a bit over-the-top, we try toglean the same information by asking questions – often lots of them – about your work.But not in China. There was something I was told when I first arrived in Beijing—the answer never got more complex and never got more simple, I was simply told, “Everything is possible in China.”The schools I was teaching at were usually private schools where parents pay large sums of money to give their children any edge they can. If fact, the TPR we used at nearly every school I was at in China, was given special attention to. I went to Youtube and typed in TPR (Total Physical Response) and saw an American woman just waving her arms around as if she was trying to do sign language, but forgot how. Those are not good examples The TPR required lots of energy, with 5 or 6 classes a day I would always be covered in sweat.Any negative thoughts I had about anything were nowhere to be found during my time teaching. My first school was in Nanjing and the agency had myself and another foreigner in Beijing and they were trying to decide which of us would make a better fit for the two schools that desperately needed foreign teachers. So, we both did our demo class.I used my demo class structure which I can knock-out in a 30-45 minute teaching demo:GreetingsClass rules FT = in English CT = Chinese -- stand up, line up, sit down, hand and arms "Who wants to try?" Teacher, teacher...(Entire class using TPR together with CT, before make sure FT and CT are using the same TPR)Introduction, FT + CT, Point Say, "High-Fives"Name + Points (encouragement system: stickers, stars or money)Warm Up, Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes: Demonstrate the motions with CT, emphasis on recognizing + TPR + Phonetic) Stand and practice, then begin.Age 3-5 Parts of the body (explain, recognize, point, say)Introduction to Colors (Phonetic)Colors Activity (Activity Memory, Flash Cards + jump, stomp, elbow)Colors Activity (Activity Memory, Hammers x2, CT - FT demonstrate then use of "Try" to select)Colors Activity (Activity Memory + Phonetic Magic Bottles)Smart Notebook slides for review——They sent him to the university to teach and me to the kinder garden. I asked the agency why, they said he didn't have enough energy to be able to teach at the PreK level. (Note to self, let the other guy go first)For most of my demo classes, I would have 10-15 parents and children.I was a little nervous when doing the demo classes, because I have never had an environment with Chinese families all sitting at the back of the room or looking through the windows just staring at me. And, you may not believe this, but I am telling you it is true -- the demo classes were only to have children age 3+....but I could always see that they would schedule children younger! The difference between the learning capabilities of a 2 year old child and a 3 year old child is very noticeable!I found myself in various schools across China: Xiamen, Chengdu, Xian, Nanjing, Shanghai, Jinghua, Yuncheng, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi and was being asked to come back to Beijing this year (2016) and work for RMD as the foreign teacher manager and work with them on setting up recruiting systems using my SEO[1][1][1][1] / Marketing background, allowing some of these schools that are not part of bigger organizations, like "EF" be able to recruit in unconventional ways in western social media besides spamming Craigslist. (Note, I was walking around Denver and saw a big EF logo, just like the EF logo used all over China. They are the exact same organization but branded differently. In Denver, they are "Education First" and in China they are "English First".Though I really wanted to teach at the university level, the closest I ever got was in Qinhuangdao teaching some variation of "Business English" to adults using the IELTS testing book that they had on-hand. There were private/personal classes and if the company employees were busy I would be sent over to the GOT&E building and conduct classes there once or twice a week. GOT&E is a company that businesses here in America might use to outsource things like plastic molding injection. Their dilemma was that their management couldn’t read, write, or even speak basic English. And so, these mandatory classes for them, might have been more than a suggestion or hint. from the “company” to the management to learn.In Yuncheng I was teaching in what we might see as a middle school / high school age range. I had 70 students per class and about 3,000 students in total. The students lived at the schools in a sort of dormitory style. This is where I learned that the teachers change classes and the students do not. The best part about this was that the school told me that there were no requirements, just "vocational English" and let me tell you, I had a lot of fun with that. I had all sort of "Let's discipline the naughty students" games, "Let's learn what happens to late students" games, "Hit any of your friends with the magic ball and force them to speak English with John" games.The students never knew what was going to happen next, one day I even had all of my students (70+) standing in front of their tables dancing to “Continental Drift” from Ice Age. In Liaoning, there was a singing club where students could come and learn songs. In Jinhua, one of the parents had heard I was living in Japan for awhile, and I didn't ask how, but her daughter spoke some simple Japanese and her daughter could almost sing "A Little Love." She would bring her daughter to keep practicing the song and I would sing with her and she would watch my TPR and follow me. In China, I found things to be surprising almost daily, some good and some bad. Well, I was told that the school had a stage being set up and a date set and the entire community was going to come watch her sing, in English. She was 7 years old if I recall. That day came, she looked a mix or happy and nervous, I was just barely in her view so if she needed she could watch my TPR for guidance. I don't think I have ever seen anything like that before. She was so happy, the school, the community, the family. Not a scene you will see in a movie r TV show about China.There was something else I wanted to mention about the school in Yuncheng, In the mornings the students would be in what I saw as a military formation standing at the position of attention as orders were being barked at them, signaling them to do things. Every morning after the barking ended they would run in formation and do all sorts of exercises while the school staff just stared at them. You know, I just couldn't let it be that way, so I went downstairs and I would run along side them in formation around the track. Pretty much all of the staff were confused or just had confused looks on their faces.The students look confused, but I am quite sure they weren't confused by what I was doing, they knew I was their crazy American teacher. No, I think they were confused that, in front of everyone who barks orders and treats them with little or no dignity, just had to watch John the American win the respect of thousands of students--and wasn't afraid to show the school "authority figures", what really makes me so much more different than them.I never liked the way I saw children treated in China, arms being yanked, constantly being screamed at.One day I woke up, went downstairs and saw the school campuses completely empty, I was told that they go back to their homes during that time of year, I didn't even get to say goodbye. My CT would write my QQ address on the board at the start of every class. he never gave me the QQ login information.My CT never gave me the QQ login information and I don't believe her or the school ever intended to.This right here is something I will never get to do here in the United States. In the beginning I told you what was always told to me, that everything was possible in China. In this folder, there is a JPG titled Qinhuangdao[2][2][2][2], that is the last school I taught at. There was a coffee shop downstairs and directly under the school and a hidden tunnel that linked the two, so that you could move from locations within the building without ever having to exit the building and be seen. Why? Because everything is possible in China.Footnotes[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boulder-bridge-house-ready-work-custom-url-facebook-john[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boulder-bridge-house-ready-work-custom-url-facebook-john[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boulder-bridge-house-ready-work-custom-url-facebook-john[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/boulder-bridge-house-ready-work-custom-url-facebook-john[2] John[2] John[2] John[2] John

*Rolls eyes*Land of the free, yeah? Really?Ready for a long list? Read on. It’s quite a long list of what we can do that you can’t. And I’ve only scratched the surface.You haven’t had a mass shooting reported by the world’s media in nearly four weeks! Wow! What a long time! You must feel so proud of yourselves! Only the last two, or is it three, in Texas as well, brilliant! So freeeeee.It’s been almost a week since a black man was shot dead by police. Wow! Your cops have such self-control and good training and de-escalation skills for it to be that long. Fantastic. Such good aim, to spot a black man and shoot him in the back, must take some training.UK cops can’t even shoot themselves in the foot without facing disciplinary procedures.We have a boring dull life in the UK, we haven’t had a mass shooting since the school in Dunblane in 1996. How dull and restricted our life is here. And, we’d had to wait since 1987 for the previous massacre, in Hungerford. What on earth did we do all that time without mass shootings? Our schools are dull boring and safe. Nobody has to wear bulletproof clothing. Clearly that’s not freedom, is it?My youngest boy is at school, and he doesn’t get active shooter drills. He hasn’t even got a bulletproof school bag, I feel so scared for his life every single day. Not.Way to go America, way to go. America's gun culture in chartsWhat can I do that you can’t?I can cross the road wherever I want. Except on motorways. I was taught the Green Cross Code: Stop, Look, Listen.I can use a knife and fork at the same time. I don’t have to swap hands. I’ve seen it on Youtoob, it really is a thing! I couldn’t believe it. The same guy was then swapping hands to eat a cake! Wtf???I can pronounce words like new, tube, nuclear, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leicester, Worcester, Tuesday, and a whole lot more, correctly. The clue to pronunciation is the OU type sounding most of them. You you can say “YOU”, what’s so hard about the other similar words? Where did TUBE become TOOB? When I vomit, do I puke or do I pook?Why didn’t they just call it YouToob? It is an American company after all. Maybe “Yootoob” would look a bit silly?Do you pronounce CRICKET as crykit? Perhaps some of you do.I can buy a bite to eat with a coffee, and sit at a table with them, both on a crockery plate and in a crockery cup, without having to take them outside in a plastic container and plastic straw and plastic lid, that will eventually end up in the oceans, slowly killing our seafood. That plastic they eat? Guess what, its pathogens end up in our stomachs when we eat the seafood or the seafood that ate the one that ate the plastic.War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita - Series 1: Episode 1Yep I’ve seen that on Youtube too. You buy your coffee in plastic cups only to sit outside the same outlet at a table with your plastic. Don’t they allow cups and saucers and plates to be taken to the tables outside?? They allow it here, and everywhere else in the world.I can take my drink outside wherever I want. I don’t have to put it in a brown paper bag. Some parts of the UK have no street drinking bylaws in high streets, but this is the exception, not the norm.I can walk up to a cop, or tap on his/her car window, and ask for directions, and not get shot. Edit: after comments made, I might not actually get shot, but the cop might be stepping backwards with his hand over his weapon, and will shoot me if I look at him/her in the wrong way. You guys in the US are well publicised on the news for shooting, and killing, perfectly innocent, non-threatening, and unarmed members of the public. /editUK cops have a red button on their radios, and if they press it, it cuts radio traffic from every cop on that channel so that the responders and control can hear the cop in trouble’s radio, even without keying the mic and broadcasts an unmistakable squeal to every radio. Every single cop in the area will drop every non-emergency job they’re dealing with and rush to the rescue. That includes the armed cops. Yes, we do have armed cops. Our cops also wear video mounted cameras, but these are used for in court for evidence, NOT for someone’s funeral when they’ve been shot dead just for knocking on a cop’s car window to ask a simple question, such as how do I get to xyz street, or help me please I’ve been robbed.No British cop wants to hear that squeal on their radio, as it means a colleague is in serious trouble and needs help NOW.US policeman jailed for Australian's murderI’ve walked up to a cop in the street to report a crime, and wasn’t placed face down on the pavement (sidewalk) with a gun pointed at me. The cop did have a close look at my cigarette though, because it was a Marlboro and they can have a slight whiff of weed about them.If a UK cop has to shoot you, as a very last resort, it will be to disable and stop you. Not to kill you. Yes, our cops can carry guns, or have immediate radio access to armed police. They’re called ARV - armed response vehicles. During the Westminster bridge attacks, they had the terrorists shot within three minutes of the first call. In that instance, yes they had to be shot dead, it was the only option to stop the bloodbath that was occurring. It was believed that the terrorists were wearing suicide belts, they were wearing “belts” but they turned out to be fake.Edit Nov 29 2019, London Bridge terror attack. Yes, our cops will shoot to kill if they need to. The attacker was wearing (yet again) a fake suicide belt. The cops had, again, no other choice. “You’re stopping right there pal, goodnight Vienna.”. /EditARVs have their guns in a locked cabinet in their cars, between the front seats. and have to radio for authorisation to get them out. More guns are kept in the boots (trunks) of their cars.A man ran amok with a machete on a train station platform in London, and was stopped with a taser and a well-aimed truncheon and pepper spray. In America, he would’ve been shot dead. Dead men can’t answer questions about their accomplices or motives.Remember Lee Rigby? The terrorists were all shot in the leg and arrested, despite running directly at the cops with machetes and shouting Allah is great. They wanted to be martyrs. Not on our shift, you’re going to be spending time at her Majesty’s pleasure, gentlemen. Our cops are polite that way, you’re called Sir or Madam, even when being walked, frogmarched or carried, down to the cells. There’s none of this “get down on the F@&!ing ground now!” screaming from them.Being black, autistic, disabled, Down's syndrome, deaf, blind, etc etc etc does not make someone a threat to police in my country. Our police are well trained and not trigger happy. If someone acts strangely, they might not understand what the police are saying, or are overwhelmed by fear or uncertainty. It’s not a reason to shoot and kill them.UK cops prefer to negotiate calmly rather than shoot first and ask questions later. They are a police service, not FORCE. Ours is not a police state. A snarling angry 20 stone German Shepherd dog with very sharp teeth will halt most crims in their tracks. Even some cops are frightened by their colleagues’ dogs.One thing I can’t do, is call myself a British Irish/Scottish just because the next door neighboUr has an ancestor who lived next door to the bloke next door to the sister of the friend of the jockey who won a horse race had a great grandfather who was Scottish or Irish. I can’t call myself Scottish yet even though I live here. I was born in England. But I do pay my bills etc in Scotland, so if we get independence I will be able to get a Scottish passport on account of living here. THEN I can call myself Scottish.I actually do have Scottish, and Australian, grandparents. but that doesn’t make me Australian or Scottish. I could also use the grandparent visa route to get Aussie citizenship, but I’ll still be a pom. Even though I can speak perfect Australian with an Aussie accent. I was after all, engaged to a true Aussie who’d pull me up if I sounded a bit Brogan or Ockerish. That’s Australian speak for redneck if you’re American,I can get pulled over by a cop and not get shot. The worst that will happen - if I or my car have a marker for drugs, weapons, or violence - which I haven’t, or if the car is reported stolen, if I don’t exit the car, is they’ll pull me out of it, through the window - which they’ve smashed, if necessary. With a snarling angry police dog watching me, and ready to attack on the word of his handler. Not happened to me, but it does happen. And I still won’t get shot. I might get red dotted with a taser or pepper-sprayed if I fight the cops - which I won’t, but that’s all. Last time I was pulled over by the cops, because their ANPR hadn’t been updated with my correct insurance details, they came to the side of the car, I told them I’d just bought the insurance, an hour ago which I had, they checked, and went on their way.I can get a stopover in an airport and not get interrogated for hours for my connection. If an airport cop comes up to me, with his Glock over his shoulder because I’m smoking in the wrong area, I’ll thank him for reminding me, and move to the correct smoking area. I won’t get shot. Airport cops ARE armed.Only America requires you to go landside just for a connection. Everywhere else in the world, you stay airside which means not having to go through border control, both coming off the plane and again to board your connection. That way I can be certain of making a connecting flight in about 20–40 minutes, however I prefer a 2 hour stopover to give myself time to relax and have a drink. My luggage automatically transfers to my connecting flight. I don’t have to get it off the carousel, go through immigration again, and then check it in again.When my Australian fiance came over to stay with me for a few weeks, she complained that she was interrogated for about five minutes over why she was here and what she was here for. Five minutes. The bloody cheek of them! Over FOUR MINUTES!! How dare they? She also got interrogated for at least two minutes when we went to Iceland, Spain, Rome, Ireland, Paris (when it was on a high terror alert), just for having an Australian passport! The bloody cheek of them! Two whole bloody minutes FFS. Insane!They knew she was travelling with someone, me, but she had to go through the non-EU passport desk whereas I was at the EU passport desk, so that’s why they were suspicious and questioned her. She just said she was with me, and pointed to where I was standing waiting for her to come through.I can drive a car where I can control what gear it’s in. And, steer it without looking through a mascot on the bonnet to see where I’m going. Unless it’s a Mercedes, those bonnet mascots are useful for aiming at pedestrians and cyclists.I can have a car with a 2L engine that has more horsepower than a massive petrol-guzzling v8 6L engine that doesn’t have as much hp. And it can steer around corners too. It goes around right-hand corners as well, not just circular tracks where all they do is drive around left corners for hour after hour. How boring is that?What is the process and how long does it take for an American to learn and obtain a driver's license in any British owned country?My country has fairly good standards of driving, our driving test as above is extremely tough to pass, it’s not just go round the block twice pressing go and stop a couple of times in auto and turn the wheel twice and you’ve passed. Oh no, it’s 45 minutes of rigorous and thorough testing.I know what the indicators on my car are called, and how to use them. I also know horses can’t see from side to side when they wear blinkers. Why do American cars have such huge ugly indicators when nobody uses them?I can say the word “toilet” and not offend anyone. I don’t have to give a toilet a stupid name like washroom or bathroom or restroom. It’s a toilet. I use the toilet to take care of nature, I don’t rest or have a bath in there, but I do wash my hands afterwards. I’d rather not wash my face in the toilet.If you’re so offended by a bit of nudity on the tv, or the beach, and by the word toilet, I suggest you look at your values a bit more closely. I’m more offended by some Americans’ arrogant, argumentative, rude, loud, can’t even say please or thank you, direct, ‘est of everything approach.I can buy something from a shop and know exactly how much it will cost. Tax (VAT) is included in the retail price. Anywhere in the world except for the US. The price on the shelf is the price I will pay, it would be illegal for the store to sell it at any other price. If it’s close to the sell-by date, and discounted, the cheaper price will be shown on the barcode and price sticker.I can go to a rock concert and won’t get shot. I’ve been to a lot.I can, and do, have a non-Xian religion and not get shot. In my country, having a religion is like having a penis. It’s fine to have one, but you don’t go waving it around in public.I can have black friends, and Muslims, and Sikhs. We are not being run by sharia law in the UK. despite what your faux news is telling you. We are not being overrun by Muslims, yes they do live here, along with Polish people, and many other ethnic people, and, in general, they are lovely hard-working people. I do know one Polish chap who is an arsehole, but the exception proves the rule.I can use the word arsehole without having to asterisk out the letters. We have an awful lot of stronger words which are offensive, and we’re quite imaginative with them! And, I know what the word bollocks means.I can have a meal in a restaurant and not have to pay the server’s wages. We have a legal minimum wage. As does virtually everywhere else in the world.I can see and peruse the menu outside a restaurant without having to go inside and then ask on Quora if it’s ok if I can walk out of the restaurant having seen the menu at the table and not fancied anything on it, or the prices. Prices which include service - that’s servers who are paid a living wage, which I know is a bit of a strange concept to Americans.I can have a drink at the age of 18 (I’m 53 now but laws haven’t changed). In fact, I can legally have a drink with a meal from the age of 6.I don’t need to, at the age of 53 have to provide ID to buy a drink to prove my age. My grey hair colour is a bit of a giveaway!I can spell colour, centre, neighbour, behaviour, fibre, harbour, criticise, and a lot more. We speak and spell according to the Oxford English dictionary, not a simplified pidgin English from Webster.I can end a telephone or chat conversation by saying bye and thank you and see you later, without having to just hang up very rudely without a word.My furniture is older than your country.I can buy a house that’s older than your country, And it’s made of bricks and mortar (or wattle and daub), not wood - so it doesn’t blow down in a hurricane. We don’t get many hurricanes here, but we did have some strong winds in 1986.I can collect rainwater, and solar power too.I can have cancer - which I actually do have, without going bankrupt. When I need a regular CT scan to check up on it, that’s free too. And hospital food is fantastic! Homemade soup, chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate custard, after a roast dinner, bring it on. All for free. The surgery, and recovery post-op was free too. As were the scans which diagnosed the cancer.I can see my doctor for free. If I need an ambulance, it’ll arrive in minutes or even seconds, and the conversation with the paramedics is based around my condition, not my insurance or credit card details. I don’t even have medical insurance, or a credit card, just a debit card. I have the NHS, which is paid for by my taxes.If I call the emergency services, I don’t get put into a call queue, I’m answered straight away.I have free prescriptions, everyone in Scotland does as do people meeting the criteria in England and Wales.I can use a chip and pin debit card. I’ve had one since at least the mid 90s if not longer.I can transfer money or pay bills instantly, and it doesn’t cost me anything. I don’t have to drive my tiny car on the wrong side of the road to a bank to do it.I can control the volume of my voice, and wait until others have finished speaking without interrupting them or rudely talking over the top of them.I can have a political leader who doesn’t grab pussy or try to cause wars, or host parties with underage girls. I can have a political leader who doesn’t want to have sex with a Princess - And I certainly wouldn’t demand to know whether she’s had an AIDS test or not.I can go to a political rally and not have a large orange balloon of my PM - ok that one’s debatable. Maybe someone has a blonde balloon of our new PM Boris Johnson. Boris, unlike Trump, is highly educated, and very intelligent. And he can read.I can watch the BBC with no adverts. In a quality higher resolution TV format, PAL, not “Never The Same Colour” NTSC. Our tv programs even have the set lit too, not everything is in a dim unlit set. And replays are only shown a maximum of one or two times, often only once (we saw it the first time) without stupid thrash metal “music”.I can see bare boobs and more, and fannies aren’t bare bottoms - they’re vaginas, on tv, or hear swear words after 9 pm. Underwear is called pants, outerwear with legs is called trousers. Only Superman wears his underwear over his trousers. I can’t go outside with my underwear over my trousers.I know where England, Scotland, and Wales are, and what they’re called. And Northern Ireland - the clue is in the name. I know what the UK consists of, and Great Britain.I know the proper names and titles of our Royal family. Some of them, anyway.I CANNOT walk in front of the Queen, and I wouldn’t be late to see her. I don’t try to shake her hand either.I can wear a rounders hat the right way round.I can welcome a foreign leader without him/her having 82 armoured cars that can’t drive over speed humps.I can choose not to sing along to a boring national anthem.I know what biscuits and gravy are. Biscuits get dunked in tea. Gravy goes on my roast dinner. Savoury scones made with suet are dumplings, and served in a casserole or stew. Though you can also get scones. They’re served with cream and jam and a pot of tea. The jam goes on first. (ducks, wars have been fought over which goes on first. You can’t spread jam on cream. End of. Oggy Oggy Oggy.My house isn’t “quaint” just because it was built in the 15th century. The first house I grew up in was built in the 14th century, and owned by Queen Elizabeth 1st. You read that right. 1st not 2nd. It’s in the property deeds.I don’t have to eat wallpaper paste disguised as something called grits.I can buy chocolate that actually has cocoa powder in it and it doesn’t taste like chemically sweetened vomit. I can also call it chocolate, not candy. Ok, our chocolate isn’t the best in the world, you’ll have to go to Belgium or Switzerland for that. Forget Belgium, it’s the most boring place in the world outside of Jean Claude Van Damme. Don't pick a fight with him.I can have chicken that hasn’t been chlorinated. Chlorinated chicken is illegal here. We have a stupid ting called animal welfare for when the poor thing is still alive.I can buy eggs from a shop that haven’t been washed - washing them removes the bacterial protection from them as the skins are porous. I don’t have to keep them in a fridge.I can eat food that Monsanto (Bayer) hasn’t poisoned, and has no high fructose corn syrup in it, or GM ingredients. Ever wondered why the Harlem Globetrotters are all 9ft tall? GM food.I can tell the difference between a shrimp and a prawn. Potted shrimp is quite a delicacy, and king prawns go well on a BBQ - ask any Australian. I’ve never heard of a king shrimp. Maybe that’s GM food again?I know what climate change is, and what causes it. Also, I don’t deny the UK has anything to do with plastic pollution in our oceans. In fact, Parliament is doing something about it. That’s not the case in America.I can live in a culture where we don’t have the angriest. most extreme, most fanatical, most vicious, most crazy, most wtf, rudest, most call the manager, most screaming, blah blah blah culture of ‘est everything. We don’t go shopping in our pyjamas here, especially not in ones with signs of accidental bowel issues. And I can spell pyjamas.I can live a life without the typical rude arrogance and false sense of superiority of people who ask questions like this, blindly assuming that they are the best of everything. Ever played an online game and heard all the trash-talking going on from American gamers? I can live my life being friendly and polite and respectful. And I’m not arrogant about it.If a sport has a world cup, it actually has (gasp) other countries taking part, not just one token team from Korea or somewhere. If a tv program is about the world’s ‘est people, it actually has clips from several countries, not just a couple of random countries the director has heard of - but never been to.I have Sir David Attenborough to watch on tv, he’s as old as the Queen. I also have Professor Brian Cox, Professor Alice Roberts (she’s cute, and a redhead). Kate Humble (phwoar). All for free on the BBC. Yes, we pay a licence fee but how much do you pay for your cable inferior NTSC broadcast format? I bet you pay more than we do.I bet our income tax is lower than yours as well, unless your name is Donald. And our NHS is still paid for by our taxes.Your healthcare? You might’ve heard of healthcare. Look it up. It’s spelt socialised, there’s no Z in it.BBC does have excellent nature programs, and as the BBC is filmed worldwide, often include the drawl, and spelling and Webster’s dictionary use of “English “, whereas my school education (in Oxford) can be (and was) from the Oxford English dictionary, not Webster’s pidgin simplified English. Luckily the rest of the world is also covered by the BBC and I can understand the other scientists they film and interview. I have subtitles for the American mumbled drawl.I can do all of these things, anywhere in the world, well almost everywhere anyway. Did I mention not getting shot? Here we go again… Deadly mass shooting at US shopping mall this week’s mass shooting in America. Guns make you safer? Yeah right. Tell that to the folks in El Paso and everywhere else there’s been a mass shooting.And another.Trump condemns US mass shootings amid criticismAnd another,At least five dead in latest Texas mass shootingFor free hot air to dry your hands on, press below:“Later, Vice President Mike Pence said he and the Trump administration "remain absolutely determined to work with leaders in both parties in Congress to take steps that we can address and confront this scourge of mass atrocity in our country".Yeah, we believe all that old bollocks that gets rolled out every time. It’ll get rolled out after the next one too…and the next one, and the next one, and….YAWN! Where and when is the next one going to be? What do you mean, there hasn’t been one on the world news for at least a week? It must be the world press is bored with them and doesn’t report on them as much. The same goes for Trump’s tweets.That’ll do me for now, I’ve added a few things that I can do that you can’t do in America, if you’ve read this before.Land of the free? Yeah right. Perleeease.Have a nice day y’all.If you like this answer, which a lot seem to have done, why not leave a little comment as to which bit you liked?

Urine Antigen EIA test for Blastomycosis from Mira Vista. Indy, INMRI - lungs, eyes including optic nerve, brain, bones of specific area if limp present. (Can be CT scan too).Tracheal Wash - to obtain yeast form of pathogen from lungs.cytology of wash (look at slides.).Culture the yeast found in wash (initial Dx (diagnosis), do once.)Assay by way of EIA Antigen test from MiraVista, on either the wash to test recovery stage, or on the grown microbial yeast culture from the ‘wash’, to support initial diagnosis Dx. This is on the sputum wash or cultured organism, not the urine as above. It will support the Dx that you have Blasto in the lungs and that it’s not concurrent cancer, which is very rare, and so most vets skip this step.Ag-Ab binding test on culture to ID genus and species of fungal pathogen.These involve no blood work but the animal will need to lie still for the MRI and that requires anesthesia.The MRI is cost prohibitive for most dog owners as you are talking about a canine patient. For humans it’s common place.Most vets use the Urine Antigen test (1) above. However, please note that false recovery from disease can be indicated if the sampling of urine changes. Try this, to have it done in a similar way each time:NPO after Midnight to concentrate the urine.Catch first void of urine mid-stream in the AM. Take Pooch out earlier than they usually go so the time difference is always the same. Ex; 6AM Using the very same washed, well rinsed, air dryed Tupperware container that’s easy to slip under pooch, catch some of the urine in the middle of the stream of voided urine. It’s not perfectly sterile but it will have less debris. (Beforehand, ask vet how much you need. It’s not really that much.) Don’t go crazy, just do the best you can. Consistency is what’s important.Back at the kitchen, transfer urine to a sterile or new, from your vet, plastic (don’t use glass) urine screw top container. It should be pre-labeled with a sticker (or information) from your vet. You don’t want your vet to transfer it again if possible.Put sample in the refrigerator, until you are able to take it to the vet. Don’t shake it.Make sure your vet is sending it to their local lab for continued travel to MiraVista in Indianapolis on the same day as the prior months. Or better yet discuss transportation to Indianapolis with your vet and have it sent directly from the vet’s office to MiraVista. Try to always send on the same day of the week.The quantification of of the result is based on Blasto Antigen detected per milliliter of of your pet’s urine. If you want it to be reliable, then all these things help to make it more uniform. If your vet does not agree with these comments, don’t argue. Just take your dog to the vet once a month when you know the same staff will be there and let them get the sample. They will do it pretty close to the same way each time. It’s not rocket science.But, if you are comparing a EIA result from an emergency or specialty vet hospital where sometimes a cystocentesis is performed while the dog is asleep for X-rays, to one a month later at your local vet where it may have been a (needle) surapubic aspiration or (tubing) catheterization, or expressed (squeezed out by abdominal pressure) there may be a significant difference. Best to get a new baseline at your local vet and then compare later tests to that number for consistency.But guys, it’s not that fancy. You can get great results with the clean catch I described above. It’s also called midstream urine sample. ‘Same’ is the key word. It’s easier on the dog, cheaper on your bank account, and your vet will love you for it.Glass containers, shaking, freezing or elevated temperature, can all affect the protein MiraVista is assaying so we are trying to minimize differences in sampling technique to address those variables.