Scanning using home scanners or even "professional" can be very time consuming and often yields fair to poor results. I recommend you find a photo lab with a Fuji Frontier mini lab. The film scanners in those machines are fast, generate beautiful scans with files large enough to easily print 12 x 18's. When I lived in Kunming there was at least one lab with equipment on Renmin Xi Lu less than a block west of Xiao Ximen.
My wife and I went skiing in Yabuli in Heilongjiang province. There are multiple lifts and it was the site of the Asian winter games. It's not Colorado or the Sierras, but it's not bad and there is equipment rental for even large sizes. The biggest drawbacks are daytime temperatures in the -35 range and some spotty snow cconditions.
Non intel Macs cannot be loaded with Lion. The minimum requirements is a Core 2 Duo Intel processor. Actually even Snow Leopard will not run on G5 or earlier Macs. Intel Macs that are Core 2 Duo or newer will have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard because that is the only version of OS X that has the Mac App store. Officially, Apple is selling Lion only as a download through the Mac App store.
Something to think about is that Lion no longer has Rosetta. That means that there is no longer any ability to run Power PC applications. Only software that is "Universal" or Intel will run. If you have an Intel Mac with the appropriate processor and the you've upgraded to Snow Leopard, keep in mind that any Power PC software you may have will not run when you upgrade to Lion.
Hope all this helps. As with any system software change, I would do a complete backup before installing anything new. I'm paranoid enough that I usually skip the .0 version and wait a couple of weeks for the .1 version. Good luck.
One of the very few worthwhile things Mao ever said, "Religion is poison."
iMovie will get the job done. You can combine HD video, stills from iPhoto, add transitions and titles and export the video in various formats from something to show on youtube, add as an email attachment or a full blown HD program to burn onto a DVD. Of course, you have to have a Mac to do it.
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Zen and the Chinese art of motorcycle driving
发布者The Aholes in the "Don't Touch Me" vehicles, especially with white license plates (most likely fake) are a fact of life that none of us are going to individually alter.
My understanding of the history of car culture is that the U.S. Had similar issues with incompetent drivers in the post-WWII period when many first time buyers bought cars. The problem is exacerbated in China because so many new drivers have not grown up in motor vehicles and don't have a good sense of the time/speed/distance sensibilities of an automobile vs a bike.
Like so many other things it will evolve and (hopefully) improve over time.
As the title of your article indicates, the whole thing is a mind over matter issue. Try to do your best to let the craziness wash over you and remind yourself of how wonderful it is to be in Kunming and Yunnan. I, for one, miss it terribly, growing pains and all.
Recipe: Eight Treasures Chicken
发布者I just took delivery and flipped through the pages. It's well written and does a good job giving a bit of the cultural and regional flavor of Yunnan in addition to the recipes. The recipes provide alternate suggestions fo ingredients that may not be available outside of Yunnan. I've already bookmarked a half dozen to prepare in the next two weeks. (I wish the printing of the photos had been a bit better. They are a little too dark, but the originals were probably just fine.). Regardless, if you love Yunnan cuisine and miss it, this is a wonderful resource.
Fearing 'commercialization', monks briefly close Jinning temple
发布者The Chinese government is under no obligation whatsoever to have any, "respect for the integrity of religious practice." Mao himself declared that "religion is poison," and that philosophy has served both theccgovernment of the PRC and Chinese people well for decades.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者Nothing says you've "made it" like putting once-living dead things on display.
Welcome to the new GoKunming!
发布者Patrick, well done. I know how much work goes into designing a new site and transitioning all of the content. It looks great. Thanks for continuing to build on this useful and informative site. For those of us who have some roots in Kunming but don't get back there often enough, goKunming is a great way to stay informed. Again, congratulations on a job well done!