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Tianjin travel guideTianjin (Chinese: ; pinyin: Tinjn) is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People’s Republic of China. It is governed as a direct controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea.As a dual core city, Tianjin is divided into the old city and the Binhai New Area. Binhai New Area is a new Blue Suede Roche Mule 120mm growth pole in China, and it maintains an annual growth rate of nearly 30% of the GDP. As of the end of 2010, 285 Fortune Global 500 companies have established branch offices in Binhai. It is a base of China’s advanced industry, financial reform, and innovation.In urban population, the city ranks sixth in China and its urban land area (Binhai New Area is not included) is fifth after Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Guangzhou. Tianjin’s urban area is located along the Hai River, which connects to the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers via the Grand Canal in Tianjin. Tianjin was once home to foreign concessions in the late Qing Red Leather Vicky Botta 120mm Dynasty and early Kuomintang (KMT) era. The municipality incorporates the coastal region of Tanggu, home to the Binhai New Area and the Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area (TEDA).Tianjin’s climate is similar to, though slightly warmer than, its neighbour Beijing. Overall it can be described as continental; winters are cold and dry, as nights below 10 (14 (100 are not uncommon, and summers are hot and humid, with days reaching above the upper 30’s not out of the question.The opening of the Gray Suede Vicky 120mm Grand Canal of China during the Sui Dynasty prompted the development of Tianjin into a trading center. Until 1404, Tianjin was called "Zhigu" (), or "Straight Port". In that year, the Yongle Emperor renamed the city Tianjin, meaning "the Heavenly Ford", to indicate that the Emperor (Son of Heaven) forded the river at that point. This is because he had indeed forded the river in Tianjin when in contention for the throne with his nephew. Later, a fort was established in Tianjin, known as "Tianjin Wei" (), the Fort of Tianjin.Tianjin was promoted to a prefecture in 1725. Tianjin County was established under the prefecture in 1731.In 1856, Chinese soldiers boarded The Arrow, a Chinese owned ship registered in Hong Kong flying the British flag and suspected of piracy, smuggling, and of being engaged in the opium trade. They captured 12 men and imprisoned them. In response, the British and French sent gunboats under the command of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour to capture the Taku forts () near Tianjin in May 1858. At the end of the first part of the Second Opium War in June of the same year, the Treaties of Tianjin were signed, which opened Tianjin to foreign trade. The treaties were ratified by the Emperor of China in 1860, and Tianjin (known as Tientsin) was formally opened to Great Britain and France, and thus to the outside world. Between 1895 and 1900, Britain and France were joined by Japan, Germany and Russia, and even by countries without Chinese concessions such as Austria Hungary, Italy and Belgium, in establishing self contained concessions in Tianjin, each with its own prisons, schools, barracks and hospitals. These nations left many architectural reminders of their rule, notably churches and thousands of villas. Today those villas provide an exotic flavour to Tianjin.The presence of foreign influence in Tianjin was not always peaceful; one of the most serious violent incidents to take place was the Tianjin Church Incident (). In June 1870, the orphanage held by the Wanghailou Church (), Our Lady of Victories, in Tianjin, built by French Roman Catholic missionaries, was accused of the kidnapping and brainwashing of Chinese children. On June 21, the magistrate of Tianjin County initiated a showdown at the church that developed into violent clashes between the church’s Christian supporters and non Christian Tianjin residents. The furious protestors eventually burned down Wanghailou Church and the nearby French consulate and killed eighteen foreigners including ten French nuns, the French consul, and merchants. France and six other Western nations complained to the Qing government, which was forced to pay compensation for the incident.In June 1900, the Boxers were able to seize control of much of Tianjin. On 26 June, European defense forces heading towards Beijing were stopped by Boxers at nearby Langfang, and were defeated and forced to turn back to Tianjin. The foreign concessions were also under siege for several weeks.In July 1900, the Eight Nation Alliance recaptured Tianjin. This alliance soon established the Tianjin Provisional Government, composed of representatives from each of the occupying forces (Russian, British, Japanese, German, French, American, Austro Hungarian, and Italian). The city was governed by this council until 15 August 1902 when the city was returned to Qing control. Eminent Qing General Yuan Shikai led efforts to transform Tianjin into a modern city, establishing the first modern Chinese police force. In 1907, Yuan supervised China’s first modern democratic elections for a county council.Western nations were permitted to garrison the area to ensure open access to Bejing. The British maintained a brigade of two battalions in Tianjin, and the Italians, French, Japanese, Germans, Russians, and Austro Hungarians maintained understrength regiments; the United States did not initially participate. During World War I, the German and Austro Hungarian garrisons were captured and held as Prisoners of War by Allied Forces while the Bolshevik government withdrew the Russian garrison in 1918. then sent the 15th Infantry Regiment, less one battalion, to Tientsin from the Philippines.Tianjin was established as a municipality of China () in 1927.Garrison duty was highly regarded by the troops. Army Chief of Staff, served at Tientsin in the 1920s as Executive Officer of the 15th Infantry. Marine Corps contingent from the Embassy Guard at Bejing.On 30 July 1937, Tianjin fell to Japan, as part of the Second Sino Japanese War, but was not entirely occupied, as the Japanese for the most part respected foreign concessions until 1941, when the American and British concessions were occupied. In the summer of 1939, there occurred a major crisis in Anglo Japanese relations with the Tientsin Incident. For a time, the 1939 crisis appeared likely to cause an Anglo Japanese war, especially when reports of the maltreatment by the Japanese Army of British subjects wishing to leave or enter the concession appeared in the British press. The crisis ended when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was advised by the Royal Navy and the Foreign Office that the only way to force the Japanese to lift the blockade was to send the main British battle fleet to Far Eastern waters, and that given the current crisis in Europe that it would be inappropriate to send the British fleet out of European waters, thus leading the British to finally turn over the six Chinese, who were then executed by the Japanese. During the Japanese occupation, Tianjin was ruled by the North China Executive Committee, a puppet state based in Beijing.On 9 August 1940, all of the British troops in Tianjin were ordered to withdraw. On 14 November 1941 the American Marine unit stationed in Tianjin was ordered to leave, but before this could be accomplished, the Japanese attacked the United States. The American Marine detachment surrendered to the Japanese on 8 December 1941. Only the Italian and French concessions (the local French officials were loyal to Vichy) were allowed to remain by the Japanese. Japanese occupation lasted until 15 August 1945, the surrender of Japan marking the end of World War II.Tianjin holds the annual Meeting of the New Champions of World Economic Forum (also called Summer Davos) from 2008. Each district has a unique culture and could be a large city in its own right. Within each district individual neighborhoods, some only a few blocks in size, have personalities lauded in culture and cuisine.The 7 districts in urban Tianjin are: Gray Suede Vicky Botta 120mmHedong (Urban district)As the district lies east of the Hai River, its name literally means "District east of the river". Parts of the district were once part of the Russian Concession during the colonial period in the early 20th Century. Hedong District hosts Tianjin Railway Station, Tianjin Customs House and General Mail Office of Tianjin. It also hosts Tianjin Conservatory of Music and Tianjin Polytechnic University (which used to be a branch of Tianjin University, the oldest university of China).Nankai (Urban district)Nankai District borders the Hai River in the east and Chentangzhuang Railway in the west and south. A number of important Tianjin landmarks lie in the district including the Tianjin Museum, Tianjin Radio and Television Tower, Tianjin Water Park, Tianjin Zoo and Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium. Nankai is also home to the city’s most prestigious educational institutions including Tianjin University and Nankai University. The Tianjin New Technology Industrial Area, a 12 precinct, is also located in Nankai.Historically, northern parts of Nankai District were located inside ancient Tianjin. The Tianfei Palace or Palace of the Queen of Heaven of the Yuan Dynasty was built in north eastern Nankai in the year 1326. In the Ming Dynasty, the heart of the city of Tianjin was set up in Nankai. Nankai became part of the military garrisons during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the city wall served as a major defense system against foreign invasion in the late 19th century.Nankai District is located in the south west corner of the urban Tianjin, bordered by Hongqiao District to the north, Hebei and Heping Districts to the north east, Hexi District to the east and Xiqing District to the south west. It occupies an area of 40.64 The natural topography is characterised by higher elevation in the north of the district and a lower elevation in the south, with the average altitude being 3 metres.Nankai District has been one of the fastest growing districts in Tianjin since the formation of the People’s Republic of China. The population was 220,000 in 1949. In 2006, the population was 925,000 and the density was 19,621/km.

Blue Crabs in Chesapeake Bay Have Tripled Since Crisis of Black Patent Lillian 120mm 2007CBF is not responsible for the contents of any linked Web, or any link contained in a linked Web site, or any changes or updates to such Web sites. The inclusion of any link or comment is provided only for information purposes. CBF reserves the right to edit or remove any comments and material posted to this website and to ban users from the site without notice. Partisan, pornographic or other inappropriate content, product or service promotion, foul language or bad behavior is expressly forbidden and will be removed.The White Leather Lillian 120mm number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay has over the last years to the highest in nearly two decades. 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That was when the numbers hit such a low that the federal government declared an economic emergency and provided funds to help devastated watermen.In response to that crisis, O’Malley and then Virginia Governor Tim Kaine in 2008 imposed restrictions on catching female crabs. These regulations the harvest of females by 34 percent, outlawed recreational catching of female crabs in Maryland, and banned the wintertime dredging for fertilized females hibernating at the bottom of the Bay in Virginia."It is encouraging to not only see an improving crab population but also a management system that is working," said Bill Goldsborough, director of Fisheries for the . "We applaud DNR and Governor O and encourage them to stay the course and continue the science based management approach that has lead to this resurgence in the Chesapeake blue crab."Tom O’Connell, Director of the Fisheries Service at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, said at the press Black Leather Lillian 120mm conference that the state agency will continue with a policy of protecting females, although he said it may tinker slightly with the rules to allow some more flexibility for watermen."As we go forward, we are looking at maintaining a status quo situation in Maryland this year," O said.Current Virginia Governor Robert F. 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This huge increase in young crabs came despite a decrease in the estimated number of spawning age female crabs perhaps the result of fluctuations from year to year in the accuracy of the survey system that scientists use to estimate crab populations.2) The increase in the total number of blue crabs in the Bay over the last year came at a time when the Chesapeake had record poor water clarity because of heavy rains, including Tropical Storm Lee (as noted in yesterday’s Bay Daily). In part because of sediment washed into the Bay during these storms, the University of Maryland gave the Bay a "D plus" health rating for 2011, down from the "C minus" grade the year before. fact that blue crabs increased despite these murky waters suggests that they are hardy and mobile creatures, capable of moving away from "dead zones" easily than other bottom dwellers, said Lynn Fegley, Deputy Director of the Fisheries Service at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources."Blue crabs are an extremely resilient species, and the water quality was difficult this past year. But crabs are relatively tolerant of that," Fegley said. 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5 Real Coincidences That Prove God Has a Sick Sense of HumorEven if you’re an atheist of Dawkinsian proportions, there’s a good chance that at some point in your life, you’ve encountered a set of circumstances that made your eyebrows do that weird scrunchy thing that they do. You know, a story so full of irony and/or karmic justice that not only does it suggest the existence of some higher power pulling our strings for its own tepid amusement, but that said higher power’s sense of humor is completely fucked up.5. Hundreds Contract Food Poisoning at the Food Safety SummitFood safety is a big deal. Why? Well, because at some point along the timeline of human evolution, we became giant pussies. Long gone are the days when we were happy gnawing on month old meat and washing it down with water from the shit lagoon. Somewhere along the way, we also invented things like reading and the arts, which quickly supplanted our former most popular pastime (explosive diarrhea)."And you don’t see the correlation here?" nfl jerseys chinaSo yeah, food safety is a big deal. Such a big deal, in fact, that all the food industry bigwigs gather for an annual summit to discuss innovative and effective ways of storing, preparing, and serving food safely. We’re guessing they have an awards ceremony where they hand out trophies shaped like the Ghostbusters logo, except with a salmonella bacterium in place of the ghost.At the 2014 Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, nearly 1,300 food safety professionals from organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and McDonald’s (we’re assuming that guy snuck in the back) gathered to discuss how to feed people without also painfully incapacitating them (again, we’re looking at you, McDonald’s guy). On the second day of the convention, the attendees tucked their napkins into their collars, slathered themselves with copious amounts of hand sanitizer, and proceeded to dig into a delicious buffet lunch without so much as a second thought as to the un rottenness of the food. We’d think having "food safety expert" on your business card would make you leery of any food simmering over a sterno, but hey, what do we know?Maybe low heat kills all germs. We’re not the chef of surgery.The following day, the poop began. More than 200 of the attendees found themselves in a newly committed relationship with their hotel room toilet, wondering when their lower intestines had become sentient wholesale nfl jerseys and capable of hate, while simultaneously wishing for a more loving God.Apparently, the chicken Marsala was to blame for their potty pyrotechnics. It turns out attendees had traveled from as far away as Mauritius and Costa Rica to learn all about how to serve food safely, but instead learned everything they never wanted to know about Clostridium perfringens, a shitty little bugger often found on raw poultry. And since more got sick than had even eaten the chicken, it seems likely that there was some cross contamination going on, to boot. So much for all that "employees must wash hands" business.4. A Dude Gets Crushed by an Ironic National Health Service BillboardIn an effort to increase public awareness, Britain’s National Health Service kicked off a campaign of placing billboards across the country encouraging people to live healthier lives. The billboards which the Brits refer to as "hoardings," because apparently everything in England needs to sound like something straight out of a dragon’s lair simply suggested that readers contact their doctor if they were feeling under the weather. They looked something like this:Only much bigger and much, much heavier. The "heavier" part will become painfully important in a moment.Back in February of 2014, on a particularly windy and rainy afternoon (read: an afternoon) in Leicester, England, a man was walking down the street when he noticed that one such billboard was coming detached from the wall it was affixed to and had begun "flapping about." The man went into the building to report the loose sign, after which he and the building’s owner came out and stood beneath it, wondering what should be done about it.They didn’t have to wait long for an answer, and that answer was "RUN!" That’s because, at that precise moment, the 15 by 30 foot sign came flying at them like a Kaiju had just finger flicked it. It missed the building’s owner by inches, but Mr. Good Samaritan wasn’t so lucky it landed plumb on top of him, crushing him beneath it and opening a nasty gash on his head. Shocked bystanders popped their monocles and ran to his aid, some saying the impact was so loud that it sounded like a car crash.All signs point to "this is not your lucky day."Luckily, the man survived and was taken to the hospital to treat his injuries, but that doesn’t change the fact that he had just become the victim of one of the most impossibly ironic accidents ever. To recap: the sign’s purpose was to encourage Cheap NFL Jerseys CHINA people to stay healthy. It did so by asking if the reader was "under the weather." The weather blew it down. A guy got fucking crushed by it (possibly the unhealthiest thing that can happen to a person), along with any hopes he may have had of not being a victim of attempted murder by the cosmos.Uh huh. "Go outside," our moms always said. "You’ll like it out there," they said. Yeah, that’s probably what that dude’s mom told him, too.3. A Thief Gets Robbed by an Act of GodThis is a tale of an Old Testament style smiting from Heavens that would probably have gotten cut from the Bible for being too on the nose. It begins in Kingsport, Tennessee, where the residents of one neighborhood started noticing something strange about their stuff specifically, that they didn’t have it anymore.Then, in July of 2014, a tornado touched down in the neighborhood that leveled the home of Ed’s neighbor, Jerrod Christian. Luckily, Christian wasn’t home at the time. Less luckily, it was because he’d been arrested the previous day. During that incident, Christian told the arresting officer that he was going to "stomp [his] teeth out, stomp [his] mother’s teeth out and rape [his] children." So just in case you were feeling a pang of pity about Mother Nature curb stomping this guy’s house, there’s that.

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