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This is a top-down arcade-style football game in which players compete against teams around the country to become the "Tecmo Bowl Champion." Some of the football highlights are depicted in animated cutscenes (with better graphics); a few non-football highlights depict cheerleaders wearing low-cut tops while dancing. And a jumbotron screen displays a 2D swimsuit model with some exposed cleavage.
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But Poulin never looked at hockey as an end. For him, it was only a means to obtain a scholarship to attend university. So he persisted with the game until Notre Dame University opened its doors and put him onto the ice where he skated for the Fighting Irish from 1978 to 1982. He then received an invitation to play for a season in Sweden, an offer he happily accepted, having been overlooked in the NHL Entry Draft.
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At this week's Brussels Forum, Ambassador Marc Grossman appeared on a panel called "Bridging the Trust Deficit with Pakistan" with prominent Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, and UK Defense Minister Liam Fox. The Brussels Forum, run by the German Marshall Fund, is an annual high-level meeting of the most influential North American and European political, corporate, and intellectual leaders to address pressing challenges currently facing both sides of the Atlantic. At the discussion, which centered on the importance of strengthening U.S. and European relationships with Pakistan, Ambassador Grossman remarked that it is of crucial importance to "help Pakistanis have a strong and stable and democratic and prosperous country. And one in which we're working together to fight extremism, not just in Pakistan but all around the region."
When asked about how to bring about a shift in the regional dynamic, Ambassador Grossman commented on the "simultaneity" and interrelatedness of efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the difficulty of taking on any one issue in a vacuum. He pointed to three surges -- military, civilian and diplomatic -- as a means to achieve a political solution in Afghanistan:
"I think as Secretary Clinton said in her speech to the Asia Society in February, the Taliban have a choice. The Taliban who want to come and participate in reconciliation, break with Al Qaeda, stop the violence and be prepared to live inside of Afghanistan's constitution…It's time for reconciliation."
Ambassador Grossman also remarked about the significance of demonstrating a long-term commitment to our relationship with Pakistan. "The Kerry-Berman-Lugar legislation, focuses in on energy and water and jobs because they are the foundations of sustainability."
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Despite the long list of corporate scandals during 2000-2003, consumer trust is on the rise. A survey conducted in September 2002 and re-fielded in January and May 2003 reveals that fewer people said they had "less" trust in corporations and firms in each survey. Fewer people also said they viewed corporate earnings reports as "not credible" in each survey.
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The UC Irvine men's volleyball program has added another All-American in former University of Illinois women's standout Michelle Bartsch, who will be a volunteer assistant for the Anteaters' this season under first-year head man David Kniffin.
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Bartsch was named first-team All-American by Volleyball Magazine in 2011. She helped the Illini reach at least the NCAA Sweet 16 all four seasons at the school.
She was a student coach for the Illini women's team in 2012.
Kniffin said Bartsch plans to compete on the professional beach volleyball circuit in 2013.
Bartsch joins a staff that includes veteran returning assistant Mark Presho and first-year assistant Kevin Burch, who helped Springfield College win the NCAA Division III title in 2012. Burch was later named the American Volleyball Coaches' Assn. Division III National Assistant Coach of the Year.
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I have been running my own travel agency for the last 7 years and have seen an increase in sales in the past 2 years due to our loyal customer base and my 24/7 customer service. It helps that I run my business from my home so I can't seem to escape even if I wanted to. I haven't had a web page designed for me since I have been running hte business. I have used standard web designs and have found they don't really fit me and so I haven't utilized or even directed my clients to my web page. I am sure if you have looked at it you can see that I desparately need a new design/makeover. I and all of my sales reps work out of our homes. We aren't hte cheapest travel agents out there but we definitely come close, we try to sell our clietns are customer service and that they get to know us personally. all of my clients have my cell phone number and my agents give them the same. I am looking for something that would look professional yet maybe give bios of the employees and company without appearing "cheesy" yet be personable. WE don't have to come across like a huge corporation but I don't want to appear like some woman in house slippers running a travel agency out of my garage. I don't consider my self picky. I like clean designs and something that is functional and easy for people to maneuver.
We target churchs, mission organizations, colleges and are just now expanding into the honeymoon, destination trip market. WE specialize in international travel airfare as well as packages to any destination. We are now trying to grow our business to be more than just airfare and move into the cruise market.
I am looking for something innovative and different than the standard travel website but I don't want it to be "too cool" that someone of an older generation 50 or so can't figure out where to access information. So cool and creative as well as functional. I wouldn't mind a place on the main page where I could post specials ect. A link for our clients to enquire for quotes, a spot that could be a brief bio on the ocmpany and maybe one for each agent. I don't like a web page that is too busy though...


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Thu, 02 May 2013 at 12:30 pm
Katie Holmes: Suri School Drop-Off!
Katie Holmes heads out bright and early after dropping her daughter Suri off at school on Thursday (May 2) in New York City.
The 34-year-old actress was spotted heading to an SUV after leaving her daughter's school and going on her way.
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Katie and Suri were last seen out and about at the nail salon with her mom Kathleen late last month.
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I had planned to swap motors with the passenger seat for the fwd/back of the memory seat, after realizing that the motor would stop, at any time, either by memory module or the driver pressing the fwd. button on the side of the seat. When I got into it, I found that all three motors were hard wired together, not by plug ins, and that it was going to be a likely hack job to transfer the motors even if the parts were close, side to side.
I had read a thread on "Digital Corvettes" about a C5 owner taking apart the potentiometer on one end of the front mounted fwd/back motor, cleaning the track of the contacts in the poteniometer and re-lubing them. This owner had good success doing this, so seeing I was running out of time today going after the motor swap idea, I cleaned the contact tracks, and contact spring follower, and re-lubed with dialectic grease.
Put it all back and pressed the fwd seat button- and the seat moved from the all the way back position, all the way to max fwd-without stopping! - This was looking good. Got in and programmed a new setting for the seat track travel, and bingo, worked like a charm.
So don't always think it's module issue - it could just be a dirty resistance meter.


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Highlights: Portland 2-1 Vancouver
PORTLAND, OR - Playing their fourth Cascadia Cup match of the season, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (10W-10L-7D) fell to a very disappointing 2-1 defeat at Pacific Northwest rivals Portland Timbers (6W-13L-6D) in Major League Soccer on Saturday evening.
Goals by Darlington Nagbe and Franck Songo'o guided Portland to their first MLS victory under interim head coach Gavin Wilkinson and in front of a 30th consecutive sell-out of 20,438 at JELD-WEN Field in The City of Roses. This included more than 700 Whitecaps FC fans that made the trip down Interstate 5 to support the Blue and White.
Though Kenny Miller registered his first goal in MLS for Whitecaps FC, it was another Cascadia derby match to forget for the 'Caps, who also finished the match with ten men after substitute Darren Mattocks was sent off in the late stages of the game.
Victory for the Timbers takes them three points clear of second-place Seattle Sounders FC in the three-club Cascadia Cup standings, while defeat for Vancouver makes their chances of winning the fan-based trophy this season very remote.
Playing in gorgeous summer conditions in Multnomah County, it was the Timbers that had the majority of the play up to halftime, as the home side created chances through Nagbe and Songo'o, while Bright Dike headed a close-range effort off the post on 27 minutes.
Vancouver, meanwhile, struggled to find their rhythm in the opening 45 minutes, despite creating chances through Dane Richards and Camilo Sanvezzo.
Portland opened the scoring on 41 minutes from a fine passing sequence that involved Dike, Eric Alexander, and Jack Jewsbury. The Timbers captain found a streaking Nagbe running into the 'Caps box before he slotted home his sixth goal of the season for a 1-0 Portland lead.
Yet, as the match entered first-half stoppage time, Portland's tendency to give up goals before the end of halves this season came back to haunt them again, and it was Miller that finally opened his MLS account with Whitecaps FC.
From a Vancouver corner, the Timbers failed to clear their lines, as DeMerit drove the ball back into the home side's box with a mis-hit shot at goal. It fell kindly to an unmarked Miller, who turned and drove home his first Whitecaps FC goal past Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts for a 1-1 score at the break.
The late first-half equalizer left the match well poised for the second half, but Whitecaps FC were unable to build on getting back to level terms, even though Ricketts made two crucial saves from Barry Robson's corner and Andy O'Brien's header on 50 minutes.
Portland's match winner came from a set-piece that was a dubiously-awarded free kick near the edge of the Whitecaps FC box on 55 minutes. Songo'o stepped up to curl his free kick over the Vancouver wall and under a diving Joe Cannon at the near post for his first goal of the season.
It left Whitecaps FC in need of finding another equalizer. The visitors created good chances through Miller, Richards, Robson, and John Thorrington, while Camilo had a curling strike cleared off the Portland goal line by Timbers defender Steven Smith on 74 minutes.
Yet, any hopes that the 'Caps would find a way back into the match effectively ended on 84 minutes. Mattocks received a red card after match referee David Gantar adjudged that the young Jamaican struck Timbers centre back David Horst in the face with a raised arm. His sending off means the striker will miss next Saturday's important trip to Western Conference rivals LA Galaxy.
Rennie's squad will have to regroup and look to end a three-match losing streak in MLS when they travel to Southern California next weekend, while the Timbers will be pleased to have ended an eight-match winless streak with Saturday's result.
Budweiser Man of the Match: Jay DeMerit
Referee: David Gantar
Attendance: 20,438
Scoring Summary:
41' - POR - Darlington Nagbe (Jack Jewsbury, Eric Alexander)
45+1' - VAN - Kenny Miller (Jay DeMerit)
55' - POR - Franck Songo'o
Match Stats:
Shots: Portland 16 – Vancouver 15
Shots on Goal: Portland 4 – Vancouver 8
Saves: Portland 6 – Vancouver 2
Fouls: Portland 9 – Vancouver 20
Offsides: Portland 0 – Vancouver 0
Corners: Portland 3 – Vancouver 5
32' - VAN - Alain Rochat
65' - VAN - John Thorrington
84' - VAN - Darren Mattocks
Portland Timbers
1.Donovan Ricketts; 15.Kosuke Kimura, 33.Hanyer Mosquera, 12.David Horst, 14.Steven Smith; 6.Darlington Nagbe (30.Lovel Palmer 90+2'), 13.Jack Jewsbury, 17.Eric Alexander (22.Rodney Wallace 79'); 7.Sal Zizzo, 19.Bright Dike (10.Danny Mwanga 86'), 8.Franck Songo'o
Substitutes not used: 23.Joseph Bendik, 2.Michael Fucito, 9.Kris Boyd, 98.Mamadou Danso
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1.Joe Cannon; 12.Young-Pyo Lee, 40.Andy O'Brien (15.Martin Bonjour 61'), 6.Jay DeMerit, 4.Alain Rochat; 27.Jun Marques Davidson, 11.John Thorrington (22.Darren Mattocks 65'); 20.Dane Richards (9.Atiba Harris 85'), 14.Barry Robson, 37.Camilo Sanvezzo; 7.Kenny Miller
Substitutes not used: 18.Brad Knighton, 3.Jordan Harvey, 16.Matt Watson, 31.Russell Teibert


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Bangor Daily News: Jackson joins legislative watchdog panel with oversight of document-shredding, labor probes
By Christopher Cousins
Read more here
AUGUSTA, Maine — Democratic Sen. Troy Jackson, who once called for Gov. Paul LePage's impeachment over allegations that the governor improperly tried to sway unemployment appeals in favor of businesses, has been named to the legislative committee that will determine the path forward for a state investigation of those allegations.
Jackson, the Senate majority leader who lost the Democratic primary for Maine's 2nd Congressional District earlier this month and is not seeking re-election to the Legislature, is replacing his primary opponent, Sen. Emily Cain of Orono, on the Legislature's Government Oversight Committee. Cain recently resigned from legislative committees in order to focus on her congressional campaign.
In addition to the Department of Labor probe, the Government Oversight Committee — composed of six Democrats and six Republicans — is scheduled to decide on Thursday how to proceed on months-long reviews of disputed Healthy Maine Partnerships grant awards in 2013 — which have led to an investigation of document shredding by state employees.
In April 2013, the Sun Journal reported that LePage scolded unemployment hearing officers at a Blaine House luncheon. A few weeks later, LePage appointed a special commission to investigate the unemployment compensation system in Maine.
The U.S. Department of Labor then launched its own investigation, which concluded in February that officials in the executive branch may have inappropriately used their positions to influence Maine's unemployment claims appeals process against workers.
LePage has denied any wrongdoing and alleged the federal investigation was a partisan attack from the Obama administration. The probe caused Democrats in the Legislature and their allies to call for the governor's impeachment.
"I think he should be impeached," said Jackson of LePage in February. "The governor thinks he should be the next [Wisconsin Gov.] Scott Walker, but he should be thinking about being the next [impeached and jailed Illinois Gov.] Rod Blagojevich."
Walker is a Republican, and Blagojevich is a Democrat.
On Thursday, staff from the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, the nonpartisan state government watchdog agency, will brief lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee about the administration's planned responses to the federal probe and blue ribbon commission report on the unemployment benefits system.
In an unrelated case, the Government Oversight Committee is nearing a vote on recommendations related to a document-shredding probe at the Maine Center for Disease Control that originated around questions about whether grants in the Healthy Maine Partnerships program were distributed fairly. CDC employees told the committee in March that they were ordered to shred documents as a method of "version control."
On Thursday, the committee will vote whether to accept an exhaustive OPEGA report on the matter and what to do moving forward, according to Beth Ashcroft, OPEGA director.
Among the committee's choices are determining whether DHHS has sufficiently addressed the issues and root causes of the shredding incident; deciding whether statewide laws that address funding decisions made without a formal request for proposals are adequate; suggesting goals for a records retention working group established by the attorney general's office; evaluating whether there have been violations of Maine's Freedom of Access Act; and deciding to what extent there were violations of expected ethics, accountability and transparency measures.
Also on Thursday's agenda is consideration of OPEGA's recommendations on the scope of a review of the DHHS Licensing and Regulation or Child Care Providers. Last month, the department hired 16 new child care center compliance investigators in an effort to reduce individual caseloads and comply with federal safety guidelines.
The meeting is at 9 a.m. Thursday in Room 220 of the Cross State Office Building in Augusta.


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This document was updated on the following dates:
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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Amanda Decker (Apex, N.C.) recorded four hits to pace the Lees-McRae College softball team on Saturday afternoon, as Coker College rallied for a doubleheader sweep of the Bobcats in Conference Carolinas play.
Coker (22-12, 11-5 CC) won game one by a score of 9-1 in six innings, before coming from behind in the night cap for a 4-2 victory. The Cobras tallied 16 hits on the day, as Lees-McRae (7-32, 2-10 CC) posted 13 base knocks in the twin-bill.
Decker paced the Bobcats with a 4-for-6 day, as Brooke Sheridan (Rosman, N.C.), Kristen Oakes (Lenoir, N.C.), and Jessica Smith (Gastonia, N.C.) each tallied a pair of hits. Oakes and Sheridan both drove in a run for Lees-McRae, while Kierstie Moon (Oxford, Ga.) celebrated her senior day with a key base knock in game two.
Hollie Crickenberger (Boydton, Va.) got the nod in game one, walking five and striking out four in six innings of work. Oakes took the ball in the night cap, surrendering four unearned runs on six hits and striking out through seven innings.
Sarah Rountree led the way for Coker with a 5-for-9 afternoon, driving in two runs and scoring four others, as Jaclin Poole recorded six RBI to go along with four hits. Sydney Weatherford added three base knocks and three RBI.
Lauren Phillips picked up the win in both contests, allowing one run on four hits in game one, before tossing five shutout innings in relief in game two. Breanna Skipper took the ball in the night cap, surrendering two runs on four hits through two frames.
Game One: Coker 9, Lees-McRae 1 – Six Innings (Box Score)
Coker got on the board with three runs in the third inning, taking a 3-0 lead on a two-run double by Weatherford and a RBI single from Poole. The Cobras would add four tallies in the fourth, stretching the advantage to 7-0 following a three-run home run by Poole.
Lees-McRae answered in the bottom of the inning, trimming the margin to 7-1 on a run-scoring single by Oakes, which scored Sheridan from third. Coker countered with two runs in the sixth, equaling the final margin of 9-1 on a double by Weatherford and sacrifice fly by Poole.
Game Two: Coker 4, Lees-McRae 2 (Box Score)
The Cobras opened the scoring with one run in the top of the first, taking an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Stacy Burr. The Bobcats answered in the second, claiming a 2-1 advantage when Sheridan reached on an infield single, scoring Smith before Crickenberger scampered home on a wild throw by the second baseman.
Coker countered with two runs in the top of the third, retaking the lead at 3-2 following a run-scoring single by Poole and a sacrifice fly by Ashley Gallman. The Cobras would add a run in the sixth, pushing the advantage to 4-2 on a RBI double by Rountree.
The Bobcats started to rally in the seventh, loading the bases on a pair of one-out singles by Decker and Oakes before Phillips rose to the occasion for Coker, retiring the final two batters of the inning to clinch the victory.
Lees-McRae returns to the diamond on Sunday when the Bobcats host Pfeiffer University in a conference twin-bill at 2 p.m. at the Bobcat Softball Field.


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Helium Hands wrote:Rainswept wrote:I found one that sounds good to me, "The Lies of Locke Lamora"
I thoroughly enjoyed that and its sequel, "Red Seas Under Red Skies." Excellent characters.
Agreed, quite liked it, into book 2 now. If he does not trot out the girl soon ill be annoyed tho.


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Fujian, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-chien, conventional Fukien, sheng (province) on the southeastern coast of China, situated opposite the island of Taiwan. It is bordered by the provinces of Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the southwest; the East China Sea lies to the northeast, the Taiwan Strait (between the mainland and Taiwan) to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast. Fujian (meaning "Happy Establishment") is one of the country's smaller provinces, but it occupies a strategic maritime position between the two sections of the China Sea. Its capital and largest city is Fuzhou ("Happy City").
The province is also known historically as Min, for the "seven Min tribes" that inhabited the area during the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 bce). It was, however, during the Song dynasty (960–1279 ce) that the name Fujian was given to a superprefecture created in the area and the basic geographical boundaries of the province were established. The region is one of the most picturesque in Asia, with wooded hills and winding streams, orchards, tea gardens, and terraced rice fields on the gentler slopes. Area 47,500 square miles (123,100 square km). Pop. (2010) 36,894,216.
Virtually all of Fujian is mountainous except for some narrow coastal plains. The province is crossed by several ranges of moderate elevation that run roughly parallel to the coast. They constitute a part of a system of ancient blocks of mountains trending from southwest to northeast. The Fujian-Zhejiang section forms a part of a raised massif that has been subjected to folding and refolding. A sharp natural boundary exists to the west and northwest between this uplifted block, on the one hand, and the low-lying Jiangxi Basin and the southwest part of Zhejiang province, on the other. Along that boundary run the Wuyi Mountains, which, in the extreme north, include the Xianxia Mountains on the Zhejiang-Fujian border.
The Wuyi Mountains, which form a formidable natural barrier between Fujian and the interior of China, reach an elevation of about 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) in western Fujian and in adjacent parts of southwest Zhejiang. The range forms the watershed between the Min River system to the southeast and the Gan River system—a tributary to the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang)—to the northwest. The few passes across the Wuyi are high and difficult.
The mountain ranges tend to be more compressed in the interior and to broaden out toward the coast. Faults occur both along the axes of the mountains and across them, thus causing an extreme fragmentation of the land surface, so that local relief forms a complicated pattern.
Fujian has a submerged rocky coast that abounds in islands and islets, capes and peninsulas, and bays and havens. The shoreline is extremely irregular, with a total length estimated to be some 1,680 miles (2,700 km). The chief offshore islands are Quemoy (Jinmen; under the control of the government on Taiwan), Xiamen, and Dongshan in the south; and Haitan and Matsu (Mazu; also under the control of Taiwan) in the north.
Rivers are of great importance in Fujian, having for centuries provided the only means of transport. They flow into estuaries that form natural harbours, and their abundant water supplies are used for domestic consumption as well as for the irrigation of the myriad rice fields in the alluvial plains along their courses.
The general slope of the land descends from the northwest to the southeast. The main rivers cut across the intermediate ranges in deep gorges, while their tributaries drain broader intermontane valleys that follow the grain of the relief. The result is an almost perfect example of the trellis pattern of stream drainage, particularly well illustrated in the Min River system.
The drainage area of the Min River of Fujian (to be distinguished from the Min River of Sichuan province) covers about half of the province. It is formed by the confluence upstream of three rivers, the largest of which is the Jian, which flows from its source near the Fujian-Zhejiang border. The Jian has its own subsystem of tributary streams that drain the famous Wuyi tea district. The second source stream of the Min, the Futun, is also called the Shaowu, for the chief city of the region; it flows down the eastern slopes of the Wuyi Mountains. The third source, the Sha, flows from the south and southwest, arising on the eastern slopes of another section of the Wuyi range. The three streams, converging from the north, south, and west, meet at Nanping, their waters uniting to form the Min, which flows southeast past Fuzhou to the sea.
To the south of the Min is the Jiulong River, which has its outlet to the sea at Xiamen (Amoy). To the southwest of the Min is the Han River, which crosses the southwestern border of Fujian province to empty into the sea at Shantou (Swatow), the main port of eastern Guangdong.
After centuries of rice cultivation, soils in the valley plains have been greatly modified. Well-developed gray-brown forest soils are widely distributed in the forest areas of the interior mountains, whereas mature red soils are common in the low hills and on high terraces. White saline soils and salt swamps are found in the coastal flatlands. Their parent rocks are marine saline deposits, penetrated by sea water. Attempts at desalination appear to have been successful, and some soils that were formerly saline are now used for rice cultivation.
Fujian lies just north of the Tropic of Cancer. The climate along the coastal area of the province is semitropical—hot in summer but cool in winter. Mean temperatures in Fuzhou range from about 84 °F (29 °C) in July to about 52 °F (11 °C) in January. There are three seasons in the year. November through February is the cool season; March through May, the warm season; and June through October, the hot season. The growing period lasts throughout the year. The northwestern mountains have a temperate climate but can become cold in winter.
Summer is dominated by a monsoonal (rain-bearing) tropical airflow from the sea. Rainfall increases from the coast to the western mountains and averages between 50 and 80 inches (1,270 and 2,030 mm) a year. There is some precipitation in winter, which occasionally falls as snow in the northwest. The coast is subject to typhoons during late summer and early autumn.
Plant and animal life
The province has extremely varied vegetation, ranging from tropical species to forest and plant types associated with a cold temperate climate. Commercial forests are located upstream in the mountainous and rainier interior, away from rural settlements. The province has subtropical, laurel-leafed forests, as well as many kinds of conifers. In western Fujian the lower elevations support tropical mountain forests. The lianas are purely tropical. Tree ferns grow in the ravines. Higher up, where elevation modifies the climate, deciduous trees, conifers, and rhododendrons occur. Animal life in Fujian is of the subtropical forest variety and is characterized by great diversity, with many kinds of birds, amphibians, and reptiles.
Population composition
Han (Chinese) make up nearly all of the population. The largest ethnic minority group consists of She tribespeople (also known as Ho Ne, or Huonie). Those who live in Fujian are located in the hilly hinterland of the northern coast. Most of them are distributed in the area of Ningde, including Fu'an, Xiapu, and Fuding; most are engaged in farming.
Other minority groups include the Miao (also called Hmong), Hui (Chinese Muslims), and Manchu. The Miao are distributed in the mountainous interior of northern Fujian; the Hui live in the cities of Fuzhou, Xiamen, Putian, and Quanzhou; and the Manchu live principally in Fuzhou, being descendants of Manchu soldiers who garrisoned Chinese cities during the Qing (Manchu) dynasty. The She people, culturally affiliated with the Miao and the Yao (Mian), are distributed in the northern mountains, from the coast to the interior, and are even found beyond the Fujian border in Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang. The "boat people" (Tanka or Danjia), who live on boats in the streams and estuaries, are not recognized as a separate group.
The majority of the population speaks Min languages, principally the Northern Min (Minbei) variation centred on Fuzhou and the Minhou area (corresponding roughly to the area of the former Fuzhou prefecture); and the Southern Min form (Minnan) in the south. The Hakka language is spoken in the upper Han River valley of southwestern Fujian. Lastly, the Henghua dialect is spoken in the Henghua district between Fuzhou and Xiamen. There are also literally hundreds of subdialects, making the province one of the most linguistically fragmented in China.
Settlement patterns and demographic trends
About half of Fujian's population lives in cities and towns, the rest in rural areas. Population densities are lowest in the mountain uplands, increase in the river valleys, and are highest on the coastal plains and estuaries near Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou.
Fujian province is a principal source of the overseas Chinese population. Several million Fujianese live abroad, accounting for some one-fourth of all Chinese living in more than 90 countries. In addition, most native Taiwanese have ancestral roots in Fujian. The greatest concentrations are in Southeast Asia, where most engage in commercial activities or run plantations. Although many overseas Fujianese have lived in humble conditions, the financial investments they have made in their home province have contributed significantly toward industrial development and the construction of new schools, hospitals, railways, and highways.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and mining
Fujian is largely a net importer of food grains despite significant growth in output. Its major crops are sugarcane, peanuts (groundnuts), citrus fruit, rice, and tea. Fujian's sugarcane yields are among the highest in the country. Much of the province's productivity comes from its use of chemical fertilizer. A growing proportion of agricultural output has also come from noncrop sources, particularly from fisheries, livestock, and forest products.
Two crops of rice are harvested each year, the first in June, the second in September. The export of tea from Fuzhou to the European market has become insignificant, but Fujian has continued to be a great tea-growing province and supplies a large domestic market. A special feature is its production of flower-scented teas, which are manufactured at factories in Fuzhou. There are also factories for the manufacture of paper from bamboo pulp.
Forests cover more than two-fifths of the province and contain an enormous timber reserve. The most important woods are fir, pine, and rosewood, which are floated downstream in the form of big rafts to Fuzhou, a great timber emporium. Fujian has abundant fishery resources with more than a hundred species of fish of economic value and ranks as a major area of aquatic production in China, encompassing sea and ocean fisheries of some 50,200 square miles (130,000 square km).
Fujian's mineral wealth is considerable and includes coal, iron, copper, gold, graphite, tungsten, molybdenum, and kaolin (china clay) for making porcelain. Mines are widely scattered throughout the province.
Fujian had little modern industry prior to 1950. A shipyard was built at Fuzhou in 1866, but it was largely destroyed in the 1880s. There was some Russian and Japanese investment in tea and textiles in the 1870s and a spurt of overseas Chinese investment in food-processing industries in the coastal areas in the early 1900s, but overall, the modern industrial base was negligible at the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.
During the 1950s investment in the province was hampered by the national government's decision to emphasize China's inland rather than coastal provinces and by conflict in the Taiwan Strait, which made Beijing hesitant to invest in a possible war zone. Fujian's share of investment was smaller than that of any other province in east China. Gradually, however, for strategic and developmental reasons, the economy began to grow, and regional centres, particularly in the Min River valley, developed. Nanping became a key forest-products centre, acquiring one of the country's most advanced pulp and paper plants. Sanming became the site of a medium-sized iron and steel plant that utilized local coal and iron reserves. The development of a major cement plant at Shunchang laid the foundation for the local building materials industry.
Provincial economic growth increased markedly when the government began encouraging the development of coastal trading cities. Fujian and Guangdong were given special powers in 1979 to attract foreign investment, particularly in export industries, and to establish special economic zones for that purpose. One such zone was set up northwest of Xiamen in the 1980s to develop industrial sites and support infrastructure there. The effect was to double Xiamen's harbour capacity.
A second special economic zone was established in southern Fujian adjacent to Shantou, Guangdong province, and was similar to those set up in Shanghai and the Pearl (Zhu) River Delta. It was designed to orient economic growth in the region toward the production of light industrial goods for export. A similar development pattern took place in Fuzhou, which was designated one of China's "open" cities in 1984 and which has been creating an economic and technical development zone near the port city of Mawei.
There has been a major push since the 1980s to develop plants manufacturing electronics, synthetic fibres, garments, plastics, and precision instruments. Another area of significant growth was in value-added reexport manufacturing (i.e., processing imported raw materials or assembling imported parts and components into finished products for reexport). Much of this development was accomplished through joint ventures with foreign companies and by acquiring advanced technology and equipment from abroad. The result has been the formation of a comprehensive industrial production system in the province focused on light industries.
Fujian has long been known for the high quality and great variety of its traditional arts and crafts products. Notable are "bodiless" lacquerware (a method of molding objects out of pure lacquer), Shoushan stone carvings, cork pictures, Xiamen bead embroidery, Quanzhou puppets, bamboo and rattan wares, toys, fireworks, and art pottery. These products are all well known in China and are exported in large quantities.
Fujian's overseas trade was virtually halted after 1950, the result of the Korean War and the partial blockade of the Fujian coast by the United States Navy and by Chinese Nationalist forces based on Taiwan. Fujian's trade patterns consequently turned inland, especially after the completion in 1955 of the Xiamen-Yingtan railway, which was built across the Wuyi range to link the province with the Chinese national rail network. A branch line of this railway later extended southeastward from Waiyang (west of Nanping) to the capital city of Fuzhou in 1959. Another major line completed in 2005 north from Ganzhou in Jiangxi province enters Fujian southward and then turns southwest to connect with the city of Longyan, and then it connects farther southwest with a line completed in 2000 to reach the cities in Guangdong province as well. Fujian's traditional isolation has also been breached more recently by the construction of modern highways, linking it to neighbouring Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces; in addition, an express highway along the coastline now connects Fuzhou with Xiamen. Air services centre on the chief airports at Fuzhou and Xiamen.
Fujian's rivers remain important to the province's transportation network. The headwaters of the Jin River, a tributary of the Futun River, are navigable for small boats up to the foot of the Wuyi Mountains, despite the river's rocky channel and many rapids; boats bring downstream the tea grown on the slopes of the mountains. Below Jianning, larger boats of special construction are employed for the tea trade.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Within provincial jurisdiction, there are nine prefecture-level municipalities (dijishi). Below that level are districts under a municipality (shixiaqu), counties (xian), and county-level municipalities (xianjishi).
Health and welfare
Public health has improved considerably since the establishment of the People's Republic, and malnutrition, once a serious problem, has been eliminated. Health care facilities have improved considerably with the growth of the province's economy.
One of the most notable institutions of higher learning in Fujian is Xiamen University. Fuzhou, renowned since the Song dynasty as a cultural centre, is the site of Fuzhou University, Fujian Medical University, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fujian Teachers University, and the Fujian Institute of Epidemiology of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Illiteracy has generally been eliminated among those citizens born since 1950.
Cultural life
Traditional Chinese culture reached a high level in Fujian during Song times. Certain unique traditional customs evolved that gave women a stronger social position than that of the women in North China. The province's long literary tradition centres around the events of its local history that have been recorded during the past thousand years.
At least two distinct provincial subcultures are still recognizable, reflecting linguistic and historical differences among Fujian's regions. The Minbei, or northern section of Fujian focused on Fuzhou, was an early centre of Buddhism and, because of close contact with Japanese culture through the Ryukyu Islands, still shows some of those influences in culture and cuisine. As the seat of administration, the Minbei has tended to be more conservative and, with its seafaring history, has supplied many of China's greatest naval officers.
In contrast, the Minnan, or southern Fujian, centred on the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou triangle, has the reputation of being more commercial, adventurous, and hardworking. With its strong linguistic differentiation from the north, it is home to a rich operatic and balladic tradition of its own. Much of the modern history of the region has been shaped by the close continuing contact between Minnan peoples and their overseas relatives who began emigrating to Southeast Asia in the 16th century.
Fujian cuisine is considered to be one of China's five main regional cooking styles, though it is not well known outside China. Characteristic of the style are the use of seafood and such ingredients as bamboo shoots and mushrooms that are gathered from mountainous areas; light seasonings that bring out the savory character of the ingredients; ingredients that are thinly sliced to enhance their flavour; and soups and broths.
Fujian is also known for its strong educational tradition. During the Ming and Qing dynasties many of China's great statesmen and scholars came from the province. Of note are the 12th-century philosopher Zhu Xi, the 17th-century statesman Hong Chengchou, and the 17th-century military leader Zheng Chenggong.
Fujian's scenic beauty is epitomized by that of the Wuyi Mountains, which present a delightful contrast of crimson mountains and green waters and incorporate many of the marvels of China's other famous scenic spots. The range, a major tourist destination, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999. In addition, several dozen historic circular earthen houses in southwestern Fujian, called tulou, collectively were named a World Heritage site in 2008.
The area now called Fujian was first mentioned in the Zhouli, a classic traditionally dated to the 12th century bce but now thought to have been written about 300 bce. Its text mentions the seven Min tribes together with "eight barbarian peoples" in the south.
During the latter part of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period (770–476 bce) one of the feudal states within the China area was the kingdom of Yue, located south of Hangzhou Bay; it included what is now Fujian province. The lord of Yue was nominally a vassal of the Chinese king. The Yue and their culture are considered by some to have constituted one of the principal elements that merged to form the contemporary Chinese ethnic and cultural complex.
In the last quarter of the 5th century bce, Yue became a powerful kingdom after its conquest of the state of Wu (473 bce) to its north. During the era known as the Zhanguo ("Warring States") period, Yue was, in turn, conquered by the kingdom of Chu (c. 334 bce) to the northwest. Wuzhu, one of the sons of the vanquished Yue king, fled by sea and landed near Fuzhou to establish himself as the king of Minyue. When Zhao Zheng (who, as Shihuangdi, became the first emperor of the Qin dynasty) conquered the kingdom of Chu in 223 bce, the Chinese domain was finally unified within the bounds of a monolithic state. Li Si, the famous prime minister of Qin, deposed the king of Minyue, establishing instead a paramilitary province there called Minzhong Jun. The collapse of the Qin dynasty (207/206 bce) was followed by the war between the famous general Xiang Yu and the crafty Liu Bang (known by his temple name Gaozu), the founder of the Han dynasty. Wuzhu, the deposed king of Minyue, sided with Gaozu, who defeated his rival and became emperor of China; he reestablished Wuzhu as the king of Minyue, which consisted roughly of the present area of Fujian. During the reign of the emperor Wudi (141–87 bce) a rebellion by the Minyue tribes was put down, and the tribes were resettled in the inland region far to the north between the Huai and Yangtze rivers.
During the Six Dynasties period (220–589 ce) the region remained in the Chinese domain, but true Sinicization did not come about until the Tang dynasty (618–907), when intermarriage between the Tang settlers from the north and the local people became common.
After the fall of the Tang, the territory of Fujian reemerged as the kingdom of Min, with its capital in Fuzhou. In the mid-10th century it was subdivided into the state of Yin, controlling the Minbei, and the state of Min, controlling southern Fujian from Zhangzhou. The region grew rapidly in importance as the economic hinterland of the Nan (Southern) Song capital, Lin'an (modern Hangzhou). Fujian became a key supplier of rice to the region following the introduction of a fast-ripening variety, called Champa rice, from Southeast Asia. It also became the major producer of sugarcane, fruit, and tea. Because of the importance of trade to the Nan Song, the province was also important as a shipbuilding and commercial centre for both overseas and coastal trade. The port of Quanzhou, known to the Venetian traveler Marco Polo as Zaitun, was one of the world's great ports in this period, with more than 100,000 Arab traders living in the area.
Fujian's decline began with the Ming dynasty ban on maritime commerce in 1433 and was reinforced by the Qing dynasty's policy of isolation, which particularly affected the province in the late 17th century, when Ming dynasty loyalists occupied Taiwan and the islands off Fujian. The economy revived somewhat in the mid-19th century when Fuzhou and Xiamen were opened as treaty port cities, but the modern shipbuilding industry established at Mawei by the Qing was destroyed by a French fleet during the Sino-French War of 1883–85. In 1886 the island of Taiwan was separated from the province to set up an independent province of Taiwan.
In the aftermath of the Chinese Revolution of 1911–12, Fujian was a pawn in the struggles of local warlords and was divided into political and military fiefdoms. In the early 1930s, part of western Fujian was incorporated into the communist-controlled territory of the Jiangxi Soviet. A revolt of Nationalist troops stationed in the province against the Nationalist government in Nanjing in 1933 led Nanjing to assert its control over the province and to expel communist forces. After 1938 the Japanese occupied the coastal centres of the province, while the provincial government retreated inland to Yong'an in central Fujian in 1941; from there it administered the interior of the province for the remainder of the war. In 1949 the communist-led Third Field Army took control of the province.Frederick Fu Hung Victor C. Falkenheim The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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