Folk religion consists of beliefs, superstitions and rituals transmitted from generation to generation of a specific culture. It could be contrasted with the "organized religion" or "historical religion" in which founders, creed, theology and ecclesiastical organizations are present. Ethnic religion similarly refers to the religious practices particular to a certain ethnicity Folk religion and ethnic religion alike are characterized by the absence of proselytization, membership being as a rule equivalent to ethnicity.
The folk religion with the largest number of adherents is the Chinese folk religion, accounting for some 6% of world population. Various "primal indigenous" religions (animism, shamanism) account for another 4%, but elements of folk religion exist as part of all religious traditions and should be regarded as popular currents (as opposed to a theological or institutionalized) rather than as separate religions, so that folk religion like "superstition" is a truly endemic phenomenon present in every society.

Folk religion

"superstition"; rituals to ward off the Evil Eye, curses, demons, witchcraft etc.
amulets, protective qualities ascribed to religious objects like the Bible or a crucifix; hex signs
blessing of animals and crops (fertility rites), food, vehicles, buildings etc.
belief in traditional systems of magic (hoodoo, voodoo, pow-wow, Palo Monte and Santería)
ancestor worship
animism, or belief in spiritual beings associated with landscape or specific human domains (saints, demons, angels; in Christianity in particular various local forms of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Literature

belief
civil religion
folklore
folk medicine
Magick
Paganism
superstition
Deep England
Pre-Christian Alpine traditions
Ryukyuan religion
Noaidi
Shamanism in Siberia
Shamanism among Eskimo peoples
Korean shamanism

Tahir "Tie" Domi (born November 1, 1969 in Windsor, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player. During a sixteen-year NHL career when he was known for his role as an enforcer, he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets.

Domi grew up in the Windsor suburb of Belle River, Ontario playing minor hockey for the local Belle River Rink Rats (OMHA). As a 15-year old, Domi played for the Belle River Canadiens Jr.C. (GLJCHL). As a 16-year old, he played for the Windsor Bulldogs Jr.B. (WOJBHL) hockey club.
He was selected in the 7th round (102nd overall) in the 1986 OHL Priority Selection by the Peterborough Petes.
Domi spent one year as a part-time player with the Petes, and playing with the local Peterborough Roadrunners Jr.B. (MetJHL), he didn't become a regular member of the Petes line-up until he was 18-years old.

Selected 27th overall at the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, Domi is known as an enforcer and a fighter who has more penalty minutes than any other player in the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs and third overall in penalty minutes in NHL history.
He played with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League, soon gaining a reputation as an enforcer. He was drafted in 1988 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2nd round, 27th overall.
He was traded to the New York Rangers in 1990. As a Ranger, he made his reputation, when he challenged Bob Probert for a famous fisticuff. He lost that brawl but he received a lot of new fans because of his courage, and his spectacular and outspoken appearance. In 1992, he was traded to the Winnipeg Jets where he earned some of his stripes as an NHL tough guy and was named a fan favourite in 1994. One of the specific roles he was tasked at there was to act as a personal "bodyguard" for Teemu Selänne, and this role was rewarded by Tie Domi giving the assist to Selännes rookie season scoring record breaking goal. When traded back to the Leafs in 1995, he soon became a fan favorite for his crunching body checks and powerful fistfights; among his fans was Don Cherry.
In the closing seconds of Game 4 of the 2001 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Tie rendered New Jersey Devils defenseman Scott Niedermayer unconscious with an elbow to the head. Domi received a five-minute intent to injure penalty, and was later suspended by the league for the remainder of the playoffs.
In the 1997-98 season, Tie set a Leafs single-season record with 365 penalty minutes, passing a mark set by Tiger Williams in the 1977-78 season. Tie has stated in the past that Tiger was one of his heroes.
In his early years, whenever he scored a goal, he usually turned his stick around and sat on it like a horse. He has done it rarely in recent years. After winning a fight he would sometimes twirl his fists as if pretending to be wearing a championship belt.
In the 2000-01 season Tie is well remembered for the "Philadelphia incident". Domi, sitting in the penalty box, had sprayed a heckler with his water bottle, when an intoxicated Philadelphia Flyers fan begin yelling at him and banging on the glass. The glass panel gave way, and the fan fell into the box. The fan was not only pinned by Domi, but also took a few light punches from him. No formal charges were laid, but the fan was ejected from the building, and Domi was fined (but not suspended) by the NHL.
In 1995, Domi was suspended for eight games and fined for a sucker punch that knocked out Ulf Samuelsson of the New York Rangers. Tie allegedly received phone calls from other players in the league thanking him for this, as Ulf was generally disliked by players and fans alike for being a cheap shot artist, and for ending the careers of a few other players this way.
On March 3, 2006, Tie Domi played his 1,000th career NHL game against the Buffalo Sabres.
On March 10, 2006, Domi was a healthy scratch for the Maple Leafs game versus the New York Islanders. It was the first time since the 1999 playoffs that Tie has been made a healthy scratch by coach Pat Quinn. Domi stated publicly that he was not happy with being benched, a fact that was underlined by his staying in his hotel room, not arriving at the game until AFTER the second period. This is widely regarded as a contributing factor in the decision to buy out his contract.[1]
On June 30, 2006, the Toronto Maple Leafs opted to buy out the final year of Domi's contract [2]. Domi became a free agent on July 1, 2006, and on September 19, 2006 at 4PM, Tie Domi announced his retirement from the NHL and his new position in broadcasting on TSN. He added that he could not see himself "wearing another jersey other than the blue and white" of the Maple Leafs.[3]

Domi has tried his hand at acting, appearing in the 1999 independent film Men of Means. He also appeared briefly in the hockey-themed comedy Mystery, Alaska as himself. He has also been involved in a number of other pro and semi-pro sports; he played a full season for Kosovo of the Canadian International Soccer League during the summer of 1995, and appeared in two pre-season exhibition games as a placekicker for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
Though he writes left-handed, he uses a right-handed hockey stick. In 2004, Tie and his wife Leanne filed suit against the "Team 1200" AM radio station in Ottawa after a commentator, Don "Dandyman" Romani, insinuated on the air that Domi beat his wife. The lawsuit was dropped after the station fired Romani, who apologized to the Domis, and said his remarks were an ill-advised attempt at humour.[4]
Tie and Leanne have three children; daughters Carlin and Avery, and son Max. On September 26, 2006, a temporary settlement in their now-messy divorce was struck. Leanne made public that Tie is dating Belinda Stronach after she claimed in court papers that he refused to settle matters quietly. Domi has refused comment. It is also alleged that he had an affair with actress Tia Carrere.[5]
Domi's brother, Dash Domi, was in the Canadian news in 2004-2005, as the lead salesman for MFP Financial Services in the government contracts which led to the Toronto Computer Leasing Inquiry. Tie Domi testified at the inquiry on his brother's behalf.


Tie Domi bio
Tie Domi's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
Tie Domi's Official Website
Tie Domi - Hockeygoon.com
hockeyfights.com - Tie Domi
ESPN The Magazine profile on Domi
Tie Domi at the Internet Movie Database

Bernard "Ben" Sayers (b. 23 June 1856 in Leith, Edinburgh, d. 9 March 1924 at North Berwick, East Lothian) was one of the most successful early professional golfers. He became a distinguished golf teacher, golf course designer and manufacturer of golf clubs & equipment.

Non-playing Career
The Ben Sayers & Son factory has been responsible for creating several revolutionary pieces of golfing equipment, from gutta-percha balls and the "Benny" putter (the first to have a square-edged handgrip) to, in later years, the first set of carbon-shafted clubs and a specially commissioned putter for Jack Nicklaus. Ben Sayers jnr. also designed the first "oversized" driver. After operating from the Ben Sayers factory in North Berwick for 126 years production was moved to China in 2003.

National Public Radio (NPR) is a semi-independent, privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to public radio stations in the United States.

History
NPR is a membership corporation. Member stations are required to be noncommercial or educational radio stations, have at least five full-time professional employees, operate for at least 18 hours per day, and not be designed solely to further a religious philosophy or be used for classroom programming. Each member station receives one vote at the annual NPR board meetings—exercised by its designated Authorized Station Representative (A-Rep).
To oversee the day to day operations and prepare its budget, members elect a Board of Directors. This board is composed of ten A-Reps, five members of the general public, and the chair of the NPR Foundation. Terms are for three years and rotate such that some stand for election every year.
The original purposes of NPR, as ratified by the Board of Directors, are the following:
As of 2007, the Board of Directors of NPR included the following members:
NPR Member Station Managers
President of NPR
Chair of the NPR Foundation
Public Members of the Board

Provide an identifiable daily product which is consistent and reflects the highest standards of broadcast journalism.
Provide extended coverage of public events, issues and ideas, and to acquire and produce special public affairs programs.
Acquire and produce cultural programs which can be scheduled individually by stations.
Provide access to the intellectual and cultural resources of cities, universities and rural districts through a system of cooperative program development with member public radio stations.
Develop and distribute programs for specific groups (adult education, instruction, modular units for local productions) which may meet needs of individual regions or groups, but may not have general national relevance.
Establish liaison with foreign broadcasters for a program exchange service.
Produce materials specifically intended to develop the art and technical potential of radio.
Cephas Bowles; General Manager, WBGO-FM
Tim Eby; Chairman of the Board, NPR; Radio Manager, The WOSU Stations
Dave Edwards; Director/General Manager, WUWM
Rob Gordon; President & General Manager, WPLN
Dennis L. Haarsager; General Manager, KWSU/Northwest Public Radio
Scott Hanley; Director/General Manager, WDUQ
Ellen Rocco; Station Manager, North Country Public Radio
John Stark; General Manager, KNAU
JoAnn Urofsky; Vice-Chair of the Board, NPR; General Manager, WUSF Public Broadcasting
Mark Vogelzang; President and General Manager, Vermont Public Radio
Kevin Klose; President
John A Herrmann, Jr.; Chair, NPR Foundation; Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.
Carol A. Cartwright; President, Kent State University
Judith Winston; Principal, Winston Withers & Associates, LLC
Howard H. Stevenson; Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University
Lyle Logan; Senior Vice President, Personal Financial Services
Eduardo A. Hauser; Chief Executive Officer, DailyMe, Inc. Governance
According to the 2005 financial statement, NPR makes just over half of its money from the fees and dues it charges member stations to receive programming, although some of this money originated at the CPB itself, in the form of pass-through grants to member stations.
Over the years, the portion of the total NPR budget that comes from government has been decreasing. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the government. Steps were being taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. More money to fund the NPR network was raised from listeners, charitable foundations and corporations, and less from the government.

Funding
In 1995, two University of Northern Colorado students started an e-mail chain letter drive to prevent Congress from reducing PBS funding.

Internet funding hoax
In contrast to commercial radio, NPR does not carry traditional commercials, but has advertising in the form of brief statements from major donors, such as Allstate, Merck, and Archer Daniels Midland. These statements are called underwriting spots, not commercials, and, unlike commercials, are governed by FCC restrictions; they cannot advocate a product or contain any "call to action." Critics of NPR have complained that describing public radio as "commercial free" is "transparently false." Since NPR is not as dependent on revenue from underwriting spots as commercial stations are on revenue from advertising, its programming decisions may be less ratings-driven.

Underwriting spots vs. commercials
On November 6, 2003, NPR was given over US$225 million from the estate of the late Joan B. Kroc, the widow of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation. This was a record—the largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution. NPR has dedicated the earnings from the remainder of the bequest to expanding its news staff and reducing some member stations' fees. The 2005 budget was about US$120 million.

Joan Kroc Grant
NPR's major production facilities have been based in Washington, D.C. since its creation. On November 2, 2002, a West Coast production facility, dubbed NPR West, opened in Culver City, California. NPR opened NPR West to improve its coverage of the western United States, to expand its production capabilities (shows produced there include News & Notes and Day to Day), and to create a fully functional backup production facility capable of keeping NPR on the air in the event of a catastrophe in Washington, D.C.
According to a 2003 Washington Monthly story, about 20 million listeners tune into NPR each week. On average they are 50 years old and earn an annual income of US$78,000. Its audience is predominantly white; only about 10% are either African American or Hispanic. Many of its listeners consider NPR to be at the apex of journalistic integrity. While Arbitron does track public radio listenership, they do not include public radio in their published rankings of radio stations.
From 1999 through 2004, listenership has increased by about 66%. This increase may have been the result of any of a number of factors, including audience interest in coverage of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent military actions, a general lack of interest in other terrestrial radio outlets, and an increase in NPR news and talk programming (instead of jazz or classical music). NPR attracted these new listeners at the same time that the size of the overall radio audience in the United States was decreasing rapidly as people abandoned the medium in favor of MP3 players.
In recent years, NPR has made some changes to appeal to younger listeners and to minority groups. From 2002 until 2004, Tavis Smiley hosted a show targeted towards African Americans, but left the network, claiming that the organization did not provide enough support to make his production truly successful. (Smiley returned to public radio in April 2005 with a weekly show distributed by PRI.) NPR stations have long been known for carrying classical music, but the amount of classical programming carried on NPR stations and other public radio outlets in the U.S. has been declining. Many stations have shifted toward carrying more news, while others have shifted to feature more contemporary music that attracts a younger audience.

Programming

Programs produced by NPR
NPR produces a morning and an afternoon news program, both of which also have weekend editions with different hosts. It also produces hourly news briefs around the clock. NPR formerly distributed the World Radio Network, a daily compilation of news reports from international radio news, but no longer does so.

All Things Considered, hosted by Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block.

• Weekend All Things Considered, hosted by Deborah Elliott
  Day to Day, a collaboration with Slate news magazine; hosted by Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand originating from Los Angeles in mid-morning
  Morning Edition, hosted by Steve Inskeep and Renée Montagne
  
  
  
  • Radio Expeditions (with the National Geographic Society)
    Weekend Edition Saturday, hosted by Scott Simon
    Weekend Edition Sunday, hosted by Liane Hansen
    Talk of the Nation: public affairs call-in (host Neal Conan)
    
    
    
    • Science Friday science issues call-in (host Ira Flatow)
      News and Notes: minority issues (host Farai Chideya) News and public affairs programs
      
      All Songs Considered, hosted by Bob Boilen
      In 2000, NPR co-produced and distributed 2000X, a Hollywood Theater of the Ear production of science fiction radio plays, presented as part of NPR Playhouse
      Earplay: innovative radio drama anthology (1971–1981)
      Jazz Profiles (host Nancy Wilson, NPR Jazz)
      NPR World of Opera: (host Lisa Simeone)
      The Thistle & Shamrock: Celtic music (host Fiona Ritchie)
      Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: the (humorous) NPR News quiz (with Chicago Public Radio) Cultural programming
      
      Programs distributed by NPR
      
      On Point: public affairs call-in (host Tom Ashbrook, (WBUR)
      The Diane Rehm Show: public affairs call-in (host Diane Rehm, WAMU)
      Fresh Air: interviews (host Terry Gross, WHYY-FM) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the show is known for interviews with guests from literature, politics, journalism, science, music, film, and more.
      Latino USA: Latino issues (host Maria Hinojosa, KUT)
      Justice Talking: legal issues (host Margot Adler, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center)
      On the Media: media issues (hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, WNYC)
      American RadioWorks: provider of documentaries on Morning Edition and All Things Considered (host Ray Suarez, (American Public Media))
      America Abroad: international affairs programming with host Ray Suarez (distributed in the U.S. by PRI and internationally by NPR Worldwide) News and public affairs programs
      
      Car Talk: (hosts Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi), humorous car advice (WBUR)
      JazzSet (host Dee Dee Bridgewater, (WBGO)
      Only A Game: sports issues (host Bill Littlefield, WBUR)
      Piano Jazz (host Marian McPartland, South Carolina Educational Radio)
      Says You!: word game show (WGBH)
      Selected Shorts: dramatic readings (host Isaiah Sheffer, Symphony Space, WNYC)
      Sunday Baroque: Baroque music (host Suzanne Bona (WSHU)
      The Business: film industry news (host Claude Brodesser, KCRW)
      World Cafe: (host David Dye, WXPN) Cultural programming
      Individual NPR stations can broadcast programming from sources that have no formal affiliation with NPR.
      Many shows produced or distributed by Public Radio International, such as This American Life , Living on Earth and Whad'Ya Know?, are broadcast by NPR member stations, although the shows are not affiliated with NPR. Other popular shows, like A Prairie Home Companion and Marketplace, are produced by American Public Media, the national programming unit of Minnesota Public Radio. The Pacifica Radio Network also provides some programming to some NPR affiliates, notably the news program Democracy Now!.
      
      Earth & Sky: A clear voice for science, nature and people in a complex world, with hosts Deborah Byrd and Joel Block
      The Sound of Young America: Interviews and comedy, host Jesse Thorn, Santa Cruz, CA.
      Music from the Hearts of Space: New Age (host Stephen Hill), Sausalito, CA.
      Here and Now: news, current affairs and culture (host Robin Young, WBUR)
      Jazz from Lincoln Center (Wynton Marsalis, host Ed Bradley, Murray Street Productions)
      The Merrow Report: education issues (host John Merrow, Learning Matters Inc.)
      Forum: Call-in panel discussion show, wide-ranging national and local topics (host Michael Krasny), KQED.
      Planetary Radio: space exploration radio show (host Mat Kaplan, The Planetary Society, Pasadena, CA), KUCI, WMUH, WSDL, KAWC.
      Ask Dr. Science: nonsequitur science humor
      The Radio Reader: Long-running program featuring readings of recently released books Public radio programs not affiliated with NPR
      Many NPR affiliates offer the programs they produce as podcasts. NPR produces a series of podcast-only programs distributed by NPR, such as On Gambling with Mike Pesca, Groove Salad, and Youthcast. They are designed to appeal to a younger audience.
      
      Criticism
      
      American Public Media
      Australian Broadcasting Corporation
      BBC Radio
      Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
      List of NPR personnel
      List of NPR stations
      Pacifica Radio
      Public Broadcasting Service
      Public Radio International

Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize medallion; an award generally considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Architecture. He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Buildings and works

Tomishima House, Osaka, Japan, 1973
Uchida House, 1974
Uno House, Kyoto, Japan, 1974
Hiraoka House, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1974
Shibata House, Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 1974
Tatsumi House, Osaka, Japan, 1975
Soseikan-Yamaguchi House, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1975
Takahashi House, Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1975
Matsumura House, Kobe, Japan, 1975
Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan, 1976
Hirabayashi House, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1976
Bansho House, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 1976
Tezukayama Tower Plaza, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan, 1976
Tezukayama House-Manabe House, Osaka, Japan, 1977
Wall House (Matsumoto House), Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1977
Glass Block House (Ishihara House), Osaka, Japan, 1978
Okusu House, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 1978
Glass Block Wall (Horiuchi House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan, 1979
Katayama Building, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1979
Onishi House, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan, 1979
Matsutani House, Kyoto, Japan, 1979
Ueda House, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1979
STEP, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, 1980
Matsumoto House, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, 1980
Fuku House, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, 1980
Bansho House Addition, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 1981
Koshino House, Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1981
Kojima Housing (Sato House), Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1981
Atelier in Oyodo, Osaka, Japan, 1981
Tea House for Soseikan-Yamaguchi House, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1982
Ishii House, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 1982
Akabane House, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 1982
Kujo Townhouse (Izutsu House), Osaka, Japan, 1982
Rokko Housing One, Rokko, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1983 map
BIGI Atelier, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
Umemiya House, Kobe, Japan, 1983
Kaneko House, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
Festival, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, 1984
TIME'S, Kyoto, Japan, 1984
Koshino House Addition, Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1984
MELROSE, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Uejo House, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1984
Ota House, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1984
Moteki House, Kobe, Japan, 1984
Iwasa House, Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1984
Hata House, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1984
Atelier Yoshie Inaba, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
JUN Port Island Building, Kobe, Japan, 1985
Mon-petit-chou, Kyoto, Japan, 1985
Guest House for Hattori House, Osaka, Japan, 1985
Taiyō Cement Headquarters Building, Osaka, Japan, 1986
TS Building, Osaka, Japan, 1986
Chapel on Mount Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 1986
OLD/NEW Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 1986
Kidosaki House, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 1986
Fukuhara Clinic, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 1986
Sasaki House, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, 1986
Main Pavilion for Tennoji Fair, Osaka, Japan, 1987
Karaza Theater, 1987
Ueda House Addition, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1987
Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaidō prefecture, Japan, 1988
GALLERIA akka, Osaka, Japan, 1988
Children's Museum, Himeji Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1989
Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1989 [1] [2] map
COLLEZIONE, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
Morozoff P&P Studio, Kobe, Japan, 1989
RAIKA Headquarters, Osaka, Japan, 1989
Natsukawa Memorial Hall, Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, 1989
Yao Clinic, Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1989
Matsutani House Addition, Kyoto, Japan, 1990
Ito House, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
Iwasa House Addition, Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1990
Garden of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan, 1990
S Building, Osaka, Japan, 1990
Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1991 [3] map
Atelier in Oyodo II, Osaka, Japan, 1991
TIME'S II, Kyoto, Japan, 1991
Museum of Literature, Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1991
Sayoh Housing, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1991
Minolta Seminar House, Kobe, Japan, 1991
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 1995 [4] [5]
Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92, Seville, Spain, 1992
Otemae Art Center, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1992
Forest of Tombs Museum, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, 1992
Rokko Housing Two, Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 1993
Vitra Seminar House, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1993
Gallery Noda, Kobe, Japan, 1993
YKK Seminar House, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 1993
Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1994
MAXRAY Headquarters Building, Osaka, Japan, 1994
Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1994
Kiyo Bank, Sakai Building, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1994
Garden of Fine Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1994
Museum of wood culture, Kami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1994
Inamori Auditorium, Kagoshima, Japan, 1994
Nariwa Museum, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, 1994
Atelier in Oyodo Annex, Osaka, Japan, 1995
Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan, 1995
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum Annex, Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, 1995
Meditation Space, UNESCO, Paris, France, 1995
Shanghai Pusan Ferry Terminal, Osaka, Japan, 1996
Museum of Literature II, Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1996
Gallery Chiisaime (Sawada House), Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1996
Museum of Gojo Culture & Annex, Gojo, Nara Prefecture, Japan, 1997
TOTO Seminar House, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1997
Yokogurayama Natural Forest Museum, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, 1997
Harima Kogen Higashi Primary School & Junior High School, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1997
Koumi Kogen Museum, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 1997
Eychaner/Lee House, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
Daikoku Denki Headquarters Building, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 1998
Daylight Museum, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, 1998
Junichi Watanabe Memorial Hall, Sapporo, Japan, 1998
Asahi Shimbun Okayama Bureau, Okayama, Japan, 1998
Siddhartha Children and Women Hospital, Butwal, Nepal, 1998
Church of the Light Sunday School, Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1999
Rokko Housing III, Kobe, Japan, 1999
Shell Museum, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 1999
FABRICA (Benetton Communication Research Center), Treviso, Italy, 2000
Awaji-Yumebutai, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 2000 map
Rockfield Shizuoka Factory, Shizuoka, Japan, 2000
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, 2001 [6]
Komyo-ji (shrine) Saijo, Ehime prefecture, Japan (2001)
Ryotaro Shiba Memorial Museum, Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 2001
Teatro Armani-Armani World Headquarters, Milan, Italy (2001)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, 2002 [7]
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002 [8]
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, UK, 2003
4x4 house, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2003
Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 2004 [9]
Langen Foundation, Hombroich near Neuss, Germany, 2004 [10]
Morimoto restaurant in the Chelsea Market, his first project in Manhattan, opened January 2006.
Omotesando Hills, Jingumae 4-Chome, Tokyo, Japan, 2006

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via radio waves) in which a television antenna is required. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephony and similar non television services may also be provided.
The abbreviation CATV is often used to mean "Cable TV". It originally stood for Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by mountainous terrain, large "community antennas" were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.
It is most commonplace in North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia, though it is present in many other countries, mainly in South America and the Middle East. Cable TV has had little success in Africa, as it is not cost-effective to lay cables in sparsely populated areas, and although so-called "wireless cable" or microwave-based systems are used, "direct-to-home" satellite television is far more popular, especially in South Africa.

Cable television deployments

Americas
Cable television had its origins in the 1960s, when a CATV service started to operate in Junín.

Argentina
Cable television is distributed in Brazil by various companies.

Brazil

Main article: Multichannel television in Canada Canada
The first cable system started to operate in the early 1960s in Monterrey, as a CATV service (an antenna at the top of the Loma Larga, which could get TV signals from South Texas). Most of the other major cities didn't develop cable systems until the late 1980s, due to government censorship. By 1989 the industry had had a major impulse with the founding of Multivisión—a MMDS system who started to develop its own channels in Spanish—and the later development of companies such as Cablemas and Megacable.
Over the past few years, many US networks have started to develop content for the Latin American market, such as CNN en Español, MTV, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and others. The country also has a DTH service called SKY (Televisa & News Corp. owned). Recently DirecTV merged with Sky. The dominant company nowadays is Megacable and Grupo HEVI.

Mexico
The majority of American television viewers get their signal from CATV.

Main article: Cable television in the United States United States

Asia
There are many cable operaters as Tbroad, C&M, CJ, etc in Korea. The CableTV subscriber is approximately 14 million. The cable operater provide TPS to subscriber in Korea.

Korea
Only one traditional cable provider operates in Hong Kong, i-Cable Communications Limited (branded as "CableTV"). Another three operators offer pay-TV via DSL and Ethernet, they are Now Broadband TV (PCCW), HKBN Digital TV and TVB PayVision.
Many people in Hong Kong subscribe to satellite TV services like STAR TV.

Indonesia
StarHub Cable Vision is the sole cable television operator in Singapore, where private ownership of satellite dishes is banned. StarHub Cable Vision was formed as a result of a merger between StarHub and Singapore Cable Vision on 15 May 2002. The latter first began broadcasting as a terrestrial pay-television operator in 1992 as the first cable network was not completed until 1995. Around 15% of households and offices in Singapore are connected to the StarHub network.

Singapore
Lanka Broadband Networks is the only pay television broadcaster using cable networks to serve 10,000 customers.

Sri Lanka
Truevisions[2] is only exclusive CATV in Thailand, formerly known as UBC (United Broadcasting Corporation). Truevision is a subsidiary of True[3] provides CATV only in Bangkok area while DSTV (Digital Satellite TV) outside Bangkok.

Thailand
Mega TV was launched in 1996 by TV3 as the only cable television service. However, it fail to expand its content, and so, it closed down in 2001, replaced by its competitor, the satellite television network Astro.

Malaysia
According the European Audiovisual Observatory, there were 58 million cable households in the European Union as of 31 December 2004, i.e. a rate of penetration of 32 % of the television households. 5.7 millions were connected to digital networks.

Europe
Belgium is the second most dense cabled country in the world after the Netherlands with over 99% of all households connected to cable television networks. Cable television was deployed nationwide in 1972 as a measure made by the government to eliminate the millions of antennas. Currently most cable companies are active on the triple-play market, offering television, telephone and internet services. Currently the analogue services are phased out to make way for digital television services and high definition television.

Belgium
Romania has very high penetration rates for cable television in Europe, with over 79% of all households watching television through a CATV network in 2007 . The market is extremely dynamic, and dominated by two giant companies - Romanian based RCS&RDS and US based UPC-Astral. Both additionally offer IP telephony over coaxial cable and Internet services. The national CATV network is being improved, and most households are being migrated towards digital cable solutions. Digital DTH satellite service is available throughout the country, and accounts for an additional 10-15% of the market, with only about 5% being attributed to terrestrial analogue television. Digital satellite DTH is provided by a number of companies. It is possible that Romania will not migrate to digital terrestrial systems, but completely discontinue this service, since th said investments provide limited appeal.
The reasons for this appeal started in the early '90s. After the fall of the communist regime, in 1989, there were only two state owned TV channels available (see TVR), one only being available in about 20% of the country. Private TV channels were slow to appear, because of lack of experience and high start-up costs (most startups were radio stations or newspapers). Thus, for the first three years, over the air, one would get one or two state channels and one or two local, amateurish private channels, broadcasting only a few hours a day. In this environment, cable TV companies appeared and thrived, providing 15-20 foreign channels for a very low price (at the time 2 USD or less), some with Romanian translation, offering high quality news, entertainment and especially movies or cartoons (one of the ways cable companies advertised was the availability of a cartoon channel, Cartoon Network, appealing to children, which in turn would appeal to their parents). The first two companies to provide CATV were Multicanal in Bucharest and Timiş Cablu in Timişoara, both out of business today. Many small, startup firms gradually grew, and coverage increased (coverage wars were frequent in the early period, with many cable boxes smashed, and new cable networks offering "half off for twice the channels" and immediately wiring the building for any willing persons). However, this period soon ended, with consolidation around 1995-1996. Some large companies emerged: Kappa and RCS in Bucharest, Astral in Cluj, UPC in Timişoara, TourImex in Râmnicu Vâlcea. This consolidation came with gentlemen agreements over areas of control and pricing, with claims of monopoly abounding. This process of consolidation was completed around 2005-2006, when only two big suppliers of cable remained: UPC-Astral and RDS. Internet over coaxial cable has been available since around 2000, and IP telephony (over the CATV infrastructure) since the deregulation of the market in 2003. Currently, cable TV is available in most of the country, including most rural areas (where lives roughly 50% of the population). Satellite digital TV appeared in 2004, providing coverage for the rest of the country, with both RCS&RDS and UPC-Astral having a stake in these companies. IPTV (over DSL) is also planned by Romtelecom through its TV service (Dolce), after offering Satellite digital DTH TV. However, IPTV will not be much of a competition, since the other two big ISPs are also the two biggest CATV providers.
Cable TV is very cheap for all standards, the standard/basic service, offering about 50 channels, is around 20-30 RON/month including VAT (about 7-10 €), with the most expensive service, offering 10-15 channels more, including some pay-per-view such as HBO or Cinemax, costing no more than 60-70 RON/month (around 20-23 €).

Romania

Main article: Cable television in the Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland
In Switzerland, virtually all households have cable TV. Ironically, despite this good coverage, Switzerland has only a few public TV stations (two each for the German, French and Italian-speaking parts of the country); additionally, there is now only one upstart commercial network with coverage comparable to these state-run channels. To watch news or political information, Swiss channels are preferred, but in the entertainment sector (feature movies, comedies, talk shows), private TV stations from Germany, France and Italy are dominant.

Switzerland
In the UK Cable Television had its origins in 1938, when the first Community Antenna TV systems were set up in towns including Bristol and Hull, for homes which couldn't receive transmissions over the air, operating on the national standard 405-line system. In the 1960s Rediffusion Vision was set up to provide cable television in the newer 625-line and PAL formats.
In the early 1980s Rediffusion Vision supplemented its service with other channels including The Music Box, Mirrorvision, Lifesyle Screensport, Sky Channel and TEN. The service was renamed as Rediffusion Cablevision.
In the United Kingdom, the current generation of cable television began in the late 1980s with the issue of franchises to many local operators. These small operations proved uneconomic and there was a continuing process of consolidation and re-financing.
By 2000 the two principal cable operators were NTL and Telewest. NTL's cable service was originally known as CableTel and grew rapidly through the acquisition of, among others, ComTel (which itself had bought Telecential), Comcast, Diamond Cable and finally, in 1999, the residential and small business operations of Cable & Wireless. Telewest acquired local cable operators including Eurobell (Plymouth and Sussex) Cable London (North franchise) Birmingham cable and large franchises in the North East and North West of England. The original Telewest cable company was created after mergers of United Artists and General Cable in the mid 1990's.
In 2005 it was announced that NTL and Telewest would merge, after a period of co-operation in the preceding few years. This merger was completed on 3 March 2006 with the company being named ntl Incorporated. For the time being the two brand names and services were marketed separately. However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on 2007-02-08 creating a single cable operator covering more than 95% of the UK cable market.
There are a small number of other surviving cable television companies in the UK outside of NTL including Kingston Communications (East Riding of Yorkshire), WightCable (Isle of Wight) and Smallworld (previously WightCable North) (Ayrshire, Carlisle and Lancashire).
Cable TV faces intense competition from BSkyB's Sky Digital satellite television service. Most channels are carried on both platforms. However, cable often lacks "interactive" features (e.g. text services, and extra video-screens), especially on BSkyB owned channels, and the satellite platform lacks services requiring high degrees of two-way communication, such as true video on demand.
However, subscription-funded digital terrestrial television proved less of a competitive threat. The first system, ITV Digital, went into liquidation in 2002. Top Up TV later replaced it, however this service is shrinking as the DVB-T multiplex owners are finding FTA broadcasting more profitable.
Another potential source of competition in the future will be TV over broadband internet connections; this is known as IPTV. Some IPTV services are currently available in London, while services operated in Hull ceased in April 2006. As the speed and availability of broadband connections increase, more TV content can be delivered using protocols such as IPTV. However, its impact on the market is yet to be measured, as is consumer attitude toward watching TV programmes on computers instead of television sets. At the end of 2006, BT (the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company) started offering BT Vision which is digital freeview TV using an aerial, but also incorporates on demand TV, delivered over a broadband connection and displayed on a Television. This service was started due to high broadband speeds in the UK. There are plans for a 100 MB/s to be offered.

United Kingdom

Oceania
Cable television services have been available in Australia since 1991 or 1992, with Galaxy TV being the first. It became insolvent in 1997, due to decreasing popularity with the launching of Foxtel and Austar in May of 1995, two cable services that offered more variety than Galaxy TV. Foxtel immediately commenced in supplying programming to Galaxy's subscribers on an interim basis. In 1999 Foxtel was able to significantly boost its customer base by acquiring Galaxy TV's subscribers from the Australis Media liquidator and commenced offering its services on a satellite television platform. There are currently two major and four minor cable television providers in Australia - Foxtel and Optus TV. Minor providers include Austar, TransACT, Bright Telecommunications and Neighbourhood Cable, which only operate in limited areas.
Like the United Kingdom, cable is a minority means of receiving access to subscription television in Australia. Satellite distribution is more common.
Due to its history, financial backing and market dominance, most local versions of channels are either owned directly by Foxtel and Austar or through related companies.
In terms of coverage, Foxtel's cable network covers parts of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. Optus's network covers small parts of Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, though its restrictive subscription rules means that many people living in apartments or confined living areas may be unable to be connected.
Austar is available by satellite in most of regional and rural Australia, but does have a small cable network in the city of Darwin. TransACT is only available in the city of Canberra, where a custom cable network was developed. A similar situation used to exist in Perth where a small area was covered by Bright Telecommunications (however they closed down after lack of funding) as well in parts of Geelong, Ballarat and Mildura that are reached by Neighbourhood Cable.

Australia
TelstraClear operates a cable television network in Wellington, Kapiti and Christchurch. Customers can subscribe to plans incorporating between 25 and 95 channels. Most content is offered on behalf of Sky Network Television, however, some channels such as TBN, Discovery Travel and Adventure and Deutsche Welle are broadcast exclusively through TelstraClear.

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Fujian (help·info) (Chinese: 福建; Pinyin: Fújiàn; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal map spelling: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian comes from the combination of Fuzhou and Jian'ou, two cities in Fujian. The name was coined during Tang Dynasty.
Most of Fujian is administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, the archipelagoes of Quemoy and Matsu are under the control of the Republic of China (ROC) based in Taiwan. Thus, de facto there are two provinces (in the sense of government organizations) with the same name. The two sides are rendered in different Romanizations of Mandarin. The PRC side renders the name of the province in Hanyu Pinyin, yielding "Fujian", while the ROC side renders the name of the province in Tongyong Pinyin, Wade-Giles and Postal map spelling, resulting in "FuJian", "Fuchien" and "Fukien", respectively.
The existence of two parallel Fujian provincial governments is a result of the Chinese Civil War. After losing mainland China (including most of Fujian) to communist forces in 1949, the Republic of China (ROC) retreated to Taiwan while retaining control over a few offshore islands of Fujian. Since then, the PRC (mainland) and ROC (Taiwan) have maintained separate provincial governments for Fujian. This article is concerned mainly with Fujian administered by the PRC; see Fujian (ROC) for more information on the ROC's province of Fujian.
Fuzhou is the provincial capital of PRC-controlled Fujian while Quemoy is the seat of the ROC-controlled Fujian, though in practice most powers in ROC-controlled Fujian are delegated to the two counties of Quemoy and Matsu Islands.

History
The province is mostly mountainous, and is traditionally described to be "Eight parts mountain, one part water, and one part farmland" (八山一水一分田). The northwest is higher in altitude, with the Wuyi Mountains forming the border between Fujian and Jiangxi. The highest point of Fujian is Huanggang Peak in the Wuyi Mountains, with an altitude of 2157 m.
The province faces East China Sea to the east, South China Sea to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the southeast. The coastline is ragged and has many bays and islands. Major islands include Quemoy (controlled by the Republic of China), Haitan Island, and Nanri Island.
The River Min Jiang and its tributaries cut through much of northern and central Fujian. Other rivers include the Jinjiang River and the Jiulong River. Due to its uneven topography, Fujian has many cliffs and rapids.
Fujian is separated from Taiwan by the 180-km-wide Taiwan Strait. Some of the small islands in the Taiwan Strait are also part of the province. Small parts of the province, namely the islands of Quemoy and Matsu are under the administration of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Fujian has a subtropical climate, with warm winters. In January the coastal regions average around 7-10 °C while the hills average 6-8 °C. In summer temperatures are high, and province is threatened by typhoons coming in from the Pacific. Average annual precipitation is 1400-2000 mm.
Major cities:

Fuzhou (Foochow)
Xiamen (Amoy)
Quanzhou
Zhangzhou
Putian Geography
The People's Republic of China controls most of the province, and divides it into nine prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities:
All of the prefecture-level cities except Longyan, Sanming, and Nanping are found along the coast.
The nine prefecture-level divisions are subdivided into 85 county-level divisions (26 districts, 14 county-level cities, and 45 counties). Those are in turn divided into 1107 township-level divisions (605 towns, 328 townships, 18 ethnic townships, and 156 subdistricts). Note: these are the official PRC numbers. Thus, Quemoy is included as one of the 45 counties and Matsu as one of the 334 townships.
Quemoy County is nominally controlled by Quanzhou prefecture-level city, but it is administered in its entirety by the Republic of China on Taiwan. The PRC-administered Lianjiang County, under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou prefecture-level city, nominally includes the Matsu Islands, but Matsu is in reality controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan, which administers Matsu as Lienchiang County (same name Romanized differently).
See List of administrative divisions of Fujian for a complete list of county-level divisions.

Fuzhou (Simplified Chinese: 福州市; Hanyu Pinyin: Fúzhōu Shì)
Xiamen (厦门市 Xiàmén Shì)
Zhangzhou (漳州市 Zhāngzhōu Shì)
Quanzhou (泉州市 Quánzhōu Shì)
Sanming (三明市 Sānmíng Shì)
Putian (莆田市 Pútián Shì)
Nanping (南平市 Nánpíng Shì)
Longyan (龙岩市 Lóngyán Shì)
Ningde (宁德市 Níngdé Shì) Administrative divisions
Fujian is hilly and farmland is sparse. Rice is the main crop, supplemented by sweet potatoes and wheat. Cash crops include sugar cane and rapeseed. Fujian leads the provinces of China in longan production, and is also a major producer of lychees and tea. Seafood is another important product, with shellfish production especially prominent.
Fujian is one of the wealthier provinces of China. Xiamen was one of the first cities in China to be classified as a Special Economic Zone. Because of the closeness both geographically and culturally with Taiwan, Fujian receives much investment from there.
In 2005, Fujian's nominal GDP was 648.7 billion yuan (US$81 billion), a rise of 11% from the previous year. [1]

Economy
Han Chinese make up most of the population. Hakka, a Han Chinese people with its own distinct identity, live in the southwestern parts of the province. The She, scattered over mountainous regions in the north, is the largest minority ethnic group of the province. Genetic studies have suggested that a significant proportion of Han Chinese ancestry in Fujian descend (predominantly matrilineally) from pre-Sinicization aborigines.
Many ethnic Chinese around the world, especially Southeast Asia, trace their ancestry to Fujian. Descendants of Fujian emigrants make up the majority of the majority ethnic Chinese population of Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia. Fujian, especially Fuzhou, is also the major source of undocumented Chinese American aliens residing in the United States.

Demographics
See also: Music of Fujian, Hakka architecture, and Dog Kung Fu
Because of its mountainous nature and the numerous waves of migration from central China in the course of history, Fujian is one of the most linguistically diverse places in all Han Chinese areas of China. Local dialects can become unintelligible within 10 km. This is reflected in the expression that "if you drive five miles in Fujian the culture changes, and if you drive ten miles, the language does". Classification of these various dialects have confounded linguists. In general, most dialects of Fujian are put into a broad Min category, then subdivided into Min Bei, Min Dong, Min Zhong, Min Nan, Pu Xian, and Shao Jiang. (The seventh subdivision of Min, Qiong Wen, is not spoken in Fujian.) The Fuzhou dialect is part of Min Dong, but some linguists classified it as Min Bei; the Xiamen dialect is part of Min Nan. Hakka, another subdivision of spoken Chinese, is spoken around Longyan by the Hakka people who live there.
As is true of other provinces, the official language in Fujian is Standard Mandarin, which is used for communication between people of different localities. During the Qing dynasty, traders in Fujian also used pidgin English as a common language, although this is now extinct.
Several regions of Fujian have their own form of Chinese opera. Minju (Fujian Opera) is popular around Fuzhou; Gaojiaxi around Jinjiang and Quanzhou; Xiangju around Zhangzhou; Fujian Nanqu throughout the south, and Puxianxi around Putian and Xianyou County.
Fujian cuisine, with an emphasis on seafood, is one of the eight great traditions of Chinese cuisine. It is composed of traditions from various regions, including Fuzhou cuisine and Min Nan cuisine. The most prestiged dish is Fotiaoqiang (literally "Buddha Jumps Over Wall"), a complex dish making use of many ingredients, including shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, and Shaoxing wine (a form of "Chinese alcoholic beverage").
Many famous teas originate from Fujian, including oolong, Wuyi Yancha, and Fuzhou jasmine tea. Fujian tea ceremony is an elaborate way of preparing and serving tea. In fact, the English word "tea" is borrowed from Min nan language. (Standard Mandarin and Standard Cantonese pronounce the word as chá.)
Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware, a famous type of lacquerware, is noted for using a body of clay and/or plaster to form its shape; the body later removed. Fuzhou is also famous for Shoushan stone carvings.

Culture
Places of interest include:

Guanghua Temple, mainland Putian
Gulangyu Island, Xiamen
Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou
Mount Tailao, Fuding
Mount Wuyi, listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites (1999)
Nanshan Temple, Zhangzhou
The Matsu pilgrimage centers around Meizhou Island (Putian Municipality), because she was born there (and died on Matsu Islands).
Yongquan Temple, Fuzhou
Hakka architecture Tourism
The province also has a tradition of educational achievement, and has produced many important scholars and statesmen since the time of the Song dynasty, such as:

Zheng Qiao (1108-1166), historian.
Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Confucian philosopher.
Hong Chengchou (1593-1665), Ming dynasty official.
Lin Zexu (1785-1850), scholar and official.
Lin Shu (1852-1924), translator.
Yan Fu (1854-1921), scholar and translator.
Zheng Zhenduo (1898-1958), literary historian.
Go Seigen (born 1914), pseudonym of Go champion Wú Qīngyuán. Colleges and universities

"Uniting China to Speak Mandarin, the One Official Language: Easier Said Than Done", New York Times Article by Howard W. French, July 10, 2005.