{"id":7,"date":"2011-11-14T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:01:43","slug":"my-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"My Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Prof-Young-Stephen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prof Young &amp; Stephen\" src=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Prof-Young-Stephen1-136x300.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My name is Stephen C. Callender.\u00a0 I am a Medical Technologist and received my BS in Medical Technology from C. W. Post\u00a0College (branch of Long Island University) and did my hospital internship at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.\u00a0 I am a certified MT(ASCP) #875339 by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. I have worked at the New York Blood Center, and then I later worked at Neometrics (later bought by Natus Corp), a computer company producing custom Newborn Screening for Newborn Screening at State Health Departments across the United States.\u00a0 I worked as a customer support expert resolving their many diverse problems remotely connecting to their personal workstations or by their network servers.\u00a0 I currently work in the laboratory at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. My hobbies are Chinese Calligraphy and Computers. \u00a0 My best friend (Thomas Lee) gave me the Chinese name\u00a0\u53f2\u63d0\u82ac when I was 13 yrs. old.\u00a0 The Chinese culture intrigued me from the first day I met him. I later studied on my own and practiced writing Chinese characters. \u00a0\u00a0 I studied Chinese Calligraphy for 23 years under the late Dr. George Young <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/sc3\/scallender\/gyoung.html\">(\u694a \u88d5\u82ac <\/a><a title=\"Show information about all characters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mdbg.net\/chindict\/chindict.php?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=0&amp;wdqb=professor\">\u6559\u6388) <\/a><\/strong>learning the four major styles.\u00a0 Above is a picture of Prof. Young and myself with the Four styles of Calligraphy in the background.<\/p>\n<p>below I am writing in Chinatown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"524\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?attachment_id=524\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1760,1168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;MG5300 series&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1361473685&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Writing Chinese in Chinatown\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown-1024x679.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-524\" alt=\"Writing Chinese in Chinatown\" src=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown-452x300.jpg 452w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing-Chinese-in-Chinatown.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This picture was also included in the Chinese Newspaper (World Journal)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?attachment_id=526\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1276,985\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chinese Article(SCC)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC-1024x790.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-526\" alt=\"Chinese Article(SCC)\" src=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC-388x300.jpg 388w, https:\/\/scallender.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-ArticleSCC.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Stephen C. Callender.\u00a0 I am a Medical Technologist and received my BS in Medical Technology from C. W. 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