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May 10th 2009

Published: May 10th 2009

I’m a bit rushed today so hopefully I don’t miss any of the bits. I’d already written the first part, about Dongyue temple, so that should be OK. I’m leaving for Almaty tomorrow (Monday), so not sure how often I’ll have Internet access after this. I uploaded more photos but Travelblog is still buggy, and I don't have time to do it again ... there were a about two shots of Tiananmen s... Read Full Entry

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Daniel Gerber

Drinkthewater

UPDATE (April 2013) This site was the blog I kept for my long-term travels, mainly through Asia, in 2009-2010. I'm not maintaining it any more. I've done numerous trips since then but haven't kept them on this blog. I did run my own blog for a year but unfortunately lost that data. END UPDATE For those who're not familiar with blogs, note that this part is only my profile, the blog entries are linked from the bottom of this page (or subscribe, so you'll always know when I have a new one) Having always dreamed about travel, previously mainly done it as three-week or four-week sort... full info

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Forbidden City

This stone carving 17 metres long was apparently carved out of a single rock and transported from its quary by icing the roads and sliding it.

Forbidden City

apparently some of the later emperors had their wedding photos taken under these entwined pines, growing together, so now everyone wants to do it.

Forbidden City

northern moat

11th May 2009

Mark Daly
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Quanjude and girls...
For what it's worth there's a Quanjude restaurant at the top of Queen Street which, according to their signs, are "genuine Peeking duck specialists".. probably part of the same chain. I think the policy re boys/girls is still flawed (better than the previous one of course) since let's assume there is a 50% chance of a boy or a girl and let's assume there is no stacking of numbers through abortion etc. Those families who have a boy first stop breeding. If they have a girl first then they (let's assume) have another child which statistically would make the next child a boy (I'm ignoring the independence of the events, but relying on the 50% chance thing). What you wind up with in general is that every 2 families produce 3 children... 2 boys and 1 girl. Leaving twice as many boys as girls... Not sure if your graph says anything different, but that's my take on it after limited consideration.... Travel safe and have fun.... Mark

11th May 2009

Drinkthewater
Daniel Gerber

re: Quanjude and girls...
Mark D: your logic is obviously flawed because we know that all axe murderers don't understand probability (I'm ignoring here the fact that you're not an axe murderer). ie you can't ignore the independence of events, that's fundamental to the problem! There might be some biological basis for doing so, in which case you have to say that. I don't think such an effect would be significant. The intuitive answer would be that it would give more girls, which is what the government was of course hoping for. But in theory it's simple. Some people are allowed one child, they have a roughly 50% chance of a boy and a roughly 50% chance of a girl. Some people are allowed to try again, they again have a roughly 50% chance of a boy and a 50% chance of a girl. Yes I think Quanjude in melbourne is probably the same chain, I know they had a branch in LA, which I think closed down, I didn't know they had one in Queen st though, is it good?

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