March 2005 - Volume 5, Issue 2

Yang Desheng <21wyds@sohu.com>
Associate Professor: EFL Instruction
Wenzhou Medical College

My name is Desheng Yang, an English teacher of the Chinese nationality. I started to teach the English language, right after my graduation from Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute, to the Chinese students in Chengdu University of Technology from 1988 to 2000, in Wenzhou University from 2000 to 2002, and from 2002 until now in Wenzhou Medical College(WMC, for short, hereafter ) in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province of China.

Pat McGregor <pat@hayseed.net>
Pat McGregor was educated as a journalist and a student of medieval history, but took a left turn somewhere around 1982 and ended up in network technology and Internet security. Most recently, she spent 10 years at Intel Corporation as a security and privacy architect and government affairs specialist for the Information Technology division. She is now working as a private consultant. With her co-author, Glee Harrah Cady, she has written four books on the Internet, and their most recent book, Protect Your Digital Privacy, is now available in digital form from Pearson Education. She is currently working both on security consulting projects and founding an after school venue and an under-age dance club for local teenagers in her rather isolated rural community.

Before moving to Northern California in 1993 to help found an Internet start-up, Pat worked for the University of Michigan and MichNet, who had the contract to develop the modern Internet backbone from the ARPANET. In her lifetime she's managed a resume writing business, did typesetting and keylining in the era before word and text processors, managed a print shop, was an English TA at Michigan State University, and a news stringer for several radio stations and newspapers, including The Boston Globe. Her history includes founding a cooperative day care and spending time as a DJ, a trial balance bookkeeper, the required term as a waitress, and a school bus driver.

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