Xinhua officially blames Xinjiang 'separatist militants' to have carried out the attack, allegedly based on evidence found at the crime site.
I do not like to contribute to hate-mongering. The Uighur have a motive for carrying out a terrorist attack: decades of violent cultural oppression in their own lands at the hands of the Chinese government.
So yes, a few 'goat-herders' (your words) from Xinjiang can carry out such an attack. Just like a few 'goat-herders' set the US on fire in 2001, whether or not that was an inside job.
While I believe that the only way to defuse the situation is to give the Uighur more independence, this attack will probably just have the adverse effect.
People are blaming today's Jews: the Muslims. Reactions on Weibo range from violent ("we should eliminate all muslims") to mild ("let's not judge all Xinjiang people the same way"). But I don't like the racial turn this is taking ...
Dianxin. It's 199 a month and some 500 to install if there's no optical wire running to your dwelling yet. That 500 could've been spent better, as they've run a cable from the distributor box in the hall downstairs, through the main door, four flights up on the outside of the house, in through the window and then through our own door. This way anyone can cut our internet and it looks stupid, a wire waving in the wind.
But at least the bottleneck has been found. Turns out it was the WiFi router. A software upgrade and reset took care of that.
Downloading at 2.5 MB/s now, when the stars are aligned, but otherwise pretty fast too.
20M is pretty disappointing at our place. At noon, some Chinese speedtests report 1MB/s download and 100KB up. But access to the outside world doesn't get a lot faster. My torrents stay at around 500KB/s.
Thanks for the info, I'll definitely go and pay it a visit. However with this kind of articles I've come to expect information such as opening hours. Here they are now:
Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 17h, but they stop admitting visitors from 16:30.
Might go, might go, but the whole accommodation insecurity bothers me. Can I pitch my own tent down? Is there parking if you come with a private vehicle?
Finally I'll let the weather decide. Summer's not known for being kind.
sounds like some sort of pump is in order. Or better agricultural practices to hedge against the inevitable consequences of climate change, to help mitigate it and to protect the highlands that are so essential to our water.
Futures trading was invented as a hedge for those producing the resources. E.g. as a rubber farmer, you would be guaranteed a price for your rubber if you had a future contract with a buyer. The buyer bets that not only does he obtain the product, but he also gets it for the price he was willing to pay and is in modern times of course betting that the market price will be higher than what the future contract stipulates.
First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.
When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.
Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.
The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.
In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.
Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.
Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.
While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.
Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.
Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.
One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.
I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.
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Interview: Great Leaps author Colin Flahive
发布者小Kris could totally pass for a Chinese guy.
Review: Kunming Museum
发布者Thanks for the info, I'll definitely go and pay it a visit. However with this kind of articles I've come to expect information such as opening hours. Here they are now:
Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 17h, but they stop admitting visitors from 16:30.
Closed on Mondays (except for bank holidays).
Preview: 2015 Chengjiang Lakeside Music Festival
发布者Might go, might go, but the whole accommodation insecurity bothers me. Can I pitch my own tent down? Is there parking if you come with a private vehicle?
Finally I'll let the weather decide. Summer's not known for being kind.
Extreme summer weather wreaks havoc around Yunnan
发布者sounds like some sort of pump is in order. Or better agricultural practices to hedge against the inevitable consequences of climate change, to help mitigate it and to protect the highlands that are so essential to our water.
Investors run on Kunming metal exchange for billions
发布者Futures trading was invented as a hedge for those producing the resources. E.g. as a rubber farmer, you would be guaranteed a price for your rubber if you had a future contract with a buyer. The buyer bets that not only does he obtain the product, but he also gets it for the price he was willing to pay and is in modern times of course betting that the market price will be higher than what the future contract stipulates.