And another one! www.smh.com.au/[...] reports MU777 landing at Sydney today had issues with turbulence. We were on that plane on Saturday!
Seven people have been taken to hospital after a flight hit turbulence as it landed at Sydney Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency crews were called to the airport at 2.40pm.
"Before the landing there was terrible turbulence, and some passengers [were] without their seatbelt and their head hitting the top of the aeroplane," he told Seven News. "You [could] see the cabin was broken. It was terrible."
A spokesman for NSW Ambulance said three patients were treated for neck pain, one for back pain, one for a laceration to their jaw, another for a wrist injury, and one for a minor head injury.
Two were taken to Prince of Wales Hospital, two to St George Hospital and three to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
China Telecom DNS in Kunming is particularly bad at resolving out-of-country domains. I have reported it a number of times but they seem incapable of comprehending the problem.
I suggest that you use 114.114.114.114 and 114.114.115.115 instead of the China Telecom provided DNS servers for native (non-VPN) DNS resolution of foreign domain names within China.
It depends on what your visa is. If as it seems from your post that your visa is a residence permit type because of marriage, then AFAIK you are obliged to register in the capital of the prefecture for which you have a current PSB residence registration.
So if you have a PSB registration in Kunming, you can do it in Kunming. If you have a PSB registration in Xiaguan, Dali or Xuzhou, you would do it in Xiaguan. If you have no PSB registration at all, just use your latest hotel registration.
Also required are identification documentation and original marriage certificate (including foreign notarization and foreign country's Chinese consulate re-notarization if married overseas).
A perfectly legal option is turn up with good books (University of Hawaii had the best when I was self-studying years ago) and self-study on a tourist visa, get a local teacher for 100RMB/hr and/or just hang out with Chinese friends. Australian Chinese consulates should give at least 3 months to tourists, you can extend 1 month here, then you have to hop a border (eg. Chiang Mai), re-apply (3 months) and return. This may work out cheaper than formal study and is more effective if you are motivated and stay away from the foreign drinking trough. :) Get a share apartment ASAP, way cheaper and comfier than hostels/hotels.
Mike you want to get the DEM (digital elevation model) data for free online, then convert the relevant portion to a 3D model file (.stl, .obj). You really need someone familiar with GIS (geospatial information system) software to do this. You could post on an online freelance job board to get cheap quotes from places like Eastern Europe, South America and India. Be sure to specify the dataset as this determines accuracy.
"Cavemen were found near Jianshui" .. actually the location was more like "the lower Yunnense Red River" .. south of the river .. closer to Dienbienphu in Vietnam.
This is mostly interesting as because Baoshan is the southwesternmost major Han outpost referenced in early Chinese historical literature.
Unlike Sichuan, whose great plain was fairly definitively under Han dominance some 1000 years earlier, Yunnan's real Sinification really only began under the Yuan dynasty (1271 or so onwards... though a few decades later would see the beginnings of real change in Yunnan). Despite early references to Han parties reaching Kunming and other parts of Yunnan, evidence of serious Han cultural impact on Yunnan remains limited before that period. And this is *500-600 years* before that period.
For those interested in history, I'd highly recommend reading the Chinese accounts of the Yi people of the Sichuan/Yunnan borderland (still dominating most of far-southern Sichuan, ie. pretty much everything south of the plain), including how their queen wisely facilitated the passage of the Mongols in to Yunnan by brokering introductions to neighbouring ethnic groups to avoid a bloody war. While the Han have erected a "Museum to the Living Fossil of the Yi Slave Society" (or something equally condescending and dismissive) in that part of Sichuan, a quick trip around reveals just how important they must have been in the past.
The Ailao people would have been a known neighbour of the Yi to the west (via the Dali and Lijiang plains), as would have been the Naxi of Lijiang, the nearby Mosuo and the Tibetans to their northwest. Tai peoples migrated ever-south from southern Sichuan onward to the tropics.
This compounds archaeological interest in Yunnan, which this year saw the discovery of the Red Deer Cave People just south of the Red River that drains Yunnan's southeast (from about Dali, down to Hanoi and Haiphong in Vietnam), and the earliest Yunnanese stilted house ruins were recently discovered at Jianchuan (on the old Lijiang-Zhongdian road, just south of the big bend in the Yangtse river southwest of Tiger Leaping Gorge), and are also a major recent archaeological find.
Yunnan, along with neighbouring Myanmar (whose internal issues have caused problems with archaeological research in post-colonial times), probably form one of the most exciting archaeological zones in Asia for the coming decades. We live in interesting times!
Interesting. In Bali right now, just checked that out, couldn't find a fare that cheap from KL to KM over the next couple of months. Maybe expired or sold out already or just a very short-range of dates. Anyway, good to know there's flights.
I know an absolutely exceptional and cheap hostel in KL... folks interested can email for details.
@nailer is being unfairly dismissed: they are certainly fallible. At one point they were well managed and the only game in town, and their outdoor bar had an interesting social vibe. Recently, none of these is the case (was given a bad bill to the tune of ~300% - no managers present and a subsequent complaint resulted in a less than ideal outcome, many more places are now open, and the outdoor bar is closed). Unless you are specifically seeking faux-Americana (often far better examples elsewhere) or two degrees removed faux-Mexicana, there's little reason to go there. How come French Cafe can serve a great sandwich for 24元 but Sals requires 50元 for a pretend-exoticized nibble? Certainly the business will continue, but the hey-dey is clearly gone. Romaniticizing the past aint gonna help. E-waste recycling by shipping (non carbon neutral) junk across the country? Puh-lease. Garbage processing people here recycle anyway! I applaud the ethical stance of one of the managers, but the place has frankly lost its mojo.
Called the number provided on a Friday at 2:15PM while a 10% discount was advertised "on Friday and Saturday" (listed in GoKunming specials).
A Chinese person answered the 'English' phone number in Mandarin then explained in broken English that you need to order 3 hours in advance. (Subtext: As their business is so slow)
Grumble. False advertising. Waste of time. Seems 100% Chinese run. Probably bad pizza.
The listing here is wrong! Teresa's are not defunct, they are just back to being one store instead of two stores on Wenlinjie now! They are still in business, still answer on this phone number, and are still delivering! Points for consistency, it's been years! As of right now, it's 68元 for the more toppings vegetarian at the largest size. They will do thin or thick crust. Yes, it's not to everyone's taste, but I always used to find adding dried chilli powder and some extra salt brought it up to tasty. Might go for a dash of Sichuan pepper oil to spice it up this time around. (You know you've been in China too long when...)
Honestly, I wish them the best of luck, but I do think the staff are poorly managed and the owners have the wrong attitude and a clear lack of experience in service-oriented business. While the pizza is OK, everything else I have tried (including overnight stay) can be had cheaper and better elsewhere, and the pizza at Roccos is better in my opinion. The service has always fluctuated between acceptable to don't care.
Since they don't have their situation resolved yet, and it has been a few years, I have made the decision not to go there anymore or send anyone else. It's just not worth the hassle, given the crappy location (masked as private or lost). Better pizza with more quiet and privacy on Roccos' terraces.
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2012: The Year in Review
Posted by"Cavemen were found near Jianshui" .. actually the location was more like "the lower Yunnense Red River" .. south of the river .. closer to Dienbienphu in Vietnam.
Bronze Age relics unearthed in Baoshan
Posted byErr make that 1700-1800 years. Damn lack of edit feature. (Boo, hiss!)
Bronze Age relics unearthed in Baoshan
Posted byThis is mostly interesting as because Baoshan is the southwesternmost major Han outpost referenced in early Chinese historical literature.
Unlike Sichuan, whose great plain was fairly definitively under Han dominance some 1000 years earlier, Yunnan's real Sinification really only began under the Yuan dynasty (1271 or so onwards... though a few decades later would see the beginnings of real change in Yunnan). Despite early references to Han parties reaching Kunming and other parts of Yunnan, evidence of serious Han cultural impact on Yunnan remains limited before that period. And this is *500-600 years* before that period.
For those interested in history, I'd highly recommend reading the Chinese accounts of the Yi people of the Sichuan/Yunnan borderland (still dominating most of far-southern Sichuan, ie. pretty much everything south of the plain), including how their queen wisely facilitated the passage of the Mongols in to Yunnan by brokering introductions to neighbouring ethnic groups to avoid a bloody war. While the Han have erected a "Museum to the Living Fossil of the Yi Slave Society" (or something equally condescending and dismissive) in that part of Sichuan, a quick trip around reveals just how important they must have been in the past.
The Ailao people would have been a known neighbour of the Yi to the west (via the Dali and Lijiang plains), as would have been the Naxi of Lijiang, the nearby Mosuo and the Tibetans to their northwest. Tai peoples migrated ever-south from southern Sichuan onward to the tropics.
This compounds archaeological interest in Yunnan, which this year saw the discovery of the Red Deer Cave People just south of the Red River that drains Yunnan's southeast (from about Dali, down to Hanoi and Haiphong in Vietnam), and the earliest Yunnanese stilted house ruins were recently discovered at Jianchuan (on the old Lijiang-Zhongdian road, just south of the big bend in the Yangtse river southwest of Tiger Leaping Gorge), and are also a major recent archaeological find.
Yunnan, along with neighbouring Myanmar (whose internal issues have caused problems with archaeological research in post-colonial times), probably form one of the most exciting archaeological zones in Asia for the coming decades. We live in interesting times!
Getting Away: Lincang
Posted byI second Cangyuan and Mengding.
Cangyuan has loads of neolithic paintings nearby, some traditional Wa villages, and a huge cave.
Mengding has the only maintained ming-era administrator's home I'm aware of in all of Yunnan, and it has been turned in to a great little museum.
AirAsia in Yunnan - better late than never
Posted byInteresting. In Bali right now, just checked that out, couldn't find a fare that cheap from KL to KM over the next couple of months. Maybe expired or sold out already or just a very short-range of dates. Anyway, good to know there's flights.
I know an absolutely exceptional and cheap hostel in KL... folks interested can email for details.