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JPMorgan Chase Commits More Than $1.2 Million to Help Revitalize Detroit's Neighborhoods
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Six JPMorgan Chase-backed programs will help stabilize neighborhoods through targeted efforts that maintain affordable housing, eliminate blight, and attract new businesses.
Detroit, MI (February 23, 2017) – JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced more than $1.2 million for the ongoing revitalization of Detroit's neighborhoods. Six community development programs that support Detroit recovery through housing development, blight removal, new business creation, parent education, and neighborhood beautification projects have received grants as part of JPMorgan Chase's $100 million commitment. The new grants will support Southwest Housing, Vanguard Community Development Corporation, Grandmont Rosedale Community Stabilization Program, Eastside Community Network, Michigan Community Resources, and Community Development Advocates of Detroit.
"These targeted efforts provide Detroiters with the local resources they need to invest in the future of their own neighborhoods and create more widely shared prosperity," said Janis Bowdler, Head of Community Development Initiatives, JPMorgan Chase. "By investing in these programs, the quality of entire neighborhoods can improve as housing prices stabilize, blighted homes are removed or renovated, and education programs offer residents the support they need to own a home."
These investments will provide the necessary capital to local community development organizations to address the drivers of economic opportunity in neighborhoods. The funds will help to finance key programs in neighborhoods such as Cody Rouge, North End, Michigan-Livernois, Hubbard Farms/Hubbard Richard, Marygrove-Fitzgerald and the Lower Eastside.
"There is a lot of work yet to do, but Detroit is on the road to recovery. By investing in programs like this that make a real difference to our neighborhoods, we are seeing progress accelerate," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. "Neighborhoods like the North End and Michigan-Livernois are getting better because of the programs JPMorgan Chase is supporting and the great work of our community partners."
To help stabilize and revitalize Detroit's neighborhoods, JPMorgan Chase's new community development investments include:
Southwest Solutions ($800,000): Southwest Solutions is engaged in a comprehensive effort to improve lives and neighborhoods in Detroit through a broad range of programs in human services, economic development and resident engagement. Among its programs, it provides assistance to Detroiters seeking to better their economic future through homeownership and financial coaching. Southwest Solutions also stabilizes and strengthens neighborhoods through numerous initiatives, including boarding-up abandoned properties targeted for re-use, maintaining and activating vacant lots, and organizing neighborhood beautification activities with residents.
"JPMorgan Chase has been a true partner in our community redevelopment work in neighborhoods across Detroit, providing critical support for our affordable housing, homeownership and financial literacy programs," said John Van Camp, President and CEO of Southwest Solutions. "JPMorgan Chase's substantial investment in Southwest Solutions reflects a shared belief that the wellbeing of people and place are intertwined."
Vanguard Community Development Corporation (CDC) ($150,000): Vanguard CDC collaborates with the city of Detroit Housing and Real Estate Development Department to acquire and rehabilitate vacant housing through their North End HomeBuild program. This program works to preserve the North End's beautiful historic housing stock, create and maintain additional affordable housing, stabilize the community, leverage previous investment, eliminate blight, produce more affordable homes, rescue historic properties, increase economic equity, prevent displacement, and create a welcoming, safe, and attractive community environment.
"JPMorgan Chase has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to help rehabilitate the community in keeping with its unique historic flavor," said Pamela Martin- Turner, President and CEO, Vanguard Community Development Corporation. "Instead of tearing down valuable property, we are glad to work together to fix what's broken and provide more affordable and valuable housing in Detroit."
Grandmont Rosedale Community Stabilization Program ($77,500): This program aims to stabilize housing values, reduce vacancy and blight, encourage affordable home ownership, and attract new businesses to their neighborhood in Detroit. The program acquires, renovates and sells vacant and foreclosed homes to new homeowners and markets the community to new residents to bolster housing demand. With an emphasis on foreclosure prevention and blight elimination, they work to retain current residents and reduce overall vacancy. Specifically, they have coordinated an active task force of local residents to mobilize thousands of volunteer hours each year to clean and maintain vacant properties. By supporting small business development, they also work to revitalize the Grand River corridor.
"We are very grateful for the support we have received from JPMorgan Chase for our neighborhood stabilization program. Vacancy rates are falling, housing values are rising again and new families are moving in to our community every day," said Tom Godderis, Executive Director, Grandmont Rosedale. "Funding from JPMorgan Chase has played a key role in catalyzing these positive trends."
Eastside Community Network ($75,000): Eastside Community Network aims to improve the Mack Avenue Corridor, between Conner and Cadieux, to stabilize existing businesses, improve aesthetics, remove blight, maintain open space, improve green uses, attract new businesses, activate vacant spaces in low market areas, and increase utilization. Partnering with local government, residents, business, and technical stakeholders, they focus on street scape design, green development, branding, commercial marketing and business recruitment.
"Mack Avenue is one of the most traveled and iconic thoroughfares on Detroit's Eastside, linking businesses to a number of historic neighborhoods and connecting Detroit to three Grosse Pointe communities," said Donna Givens, President and CEO, Eastside Community Network. "JPMorgan Chase's seed funding to Eastside Community Network's Mack Avenue Development Strategy, coupled with separate JPMorgan Chase grants to our partners at Tech Town and Michigan Community Resources, will spur the creation of a Corridor Improvement Authority Tax Increment Finance District, increase viability of existing businesses, new business development, and additional investments from public and private partners."
Michigan Community Resources (MCR) ($75,000): MCR provides targeted neighborhood capacity building services to CBOs in Cody Rouge, North End, and the Lower Eastside that perform economic development activities, expanding upon the work completed by the JPMorgan Chase Service Corps team in 2014. MCR develops neighborhood commercial marketing materials, provides technical assistance for site specific marketing, creates customized investment strategies that can be used to target development-ready parcels and key neighborhood assets, and provides legal assistance.
"We believe that the best way to support neighborhood economic development is through a systems approach. This support will help us empower organizations to participate in broader economic development strategies that are currently targeting these neighborhoods," said Jill Ferrari, CEO, Michigan Community Resources. "We are very grateful to JP Morgan Chase for recognizing the valuable role that community based organizations can play in economic development."
Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) ($50,000): CDAD is a membership organization of community development and neighborhood improvement groups and assists its members through community planning, engagement and other support. They also work to increase awareness of public policy issues that support inclusive development, such as community benefits, affordable housing and land acquisition.
"Community Development Advocates of Detroit is extremely appreciative of JPMorgan Chase's support of community development in Detroit," said Sarida Scott, Executive Director, Community Development Advocates of Detroit. "In this period of investment and development, Detroit's neighborhoods must also be included. This grant will enable us to continue supporting the great work happening by organizations throughout the city."
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Sustainable Finance, a part of Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase & Co., led the Advisory Committee for this report. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.5 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
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This experience made it clear the whole tragic prospect of development of the health and fitness services market in particular.
Today is the time of hype, Instagram & Twitter. The number of views and likes sometimes affects people more than your own mind and common sense. In addition to the global challenges facing humanity, each of us solves local problems of a personalized nature. A huge mass of people becomes fitness instructors, these are former professional athletes, coaches in various sports, enthusiasts of a healthy lifestyle and simply sports, young and beautiful. And there's nothing wrong with that. We for, but there is one thing but…more than 90% of them believe that they know how to conduct personal workout better than anyone.
They can not even solve their problems, and your problems will never be able to solve.
Unfortunately, they are mistaken — they do not know anything about the impact of positive or negative muscle stress on the body and how to achieve it. They also project their personal fantasies on other people, completely different from them in a variety of parameters that can not be determined visually.
Even what is effective for one person can have the opposite effect for another, and there are many factors that we will certainly consider.
All these methods are based mostly on empirical personal experience and are aimed mostly at the development of glycolytic anaerobic muscle fibers. The network has a huge amount of low-quality and junk content. According to our estimates, 95% is more «artistic value» (the joke about the value of) and absolutely useless for you personally.
Note that a lot of people have initially high blood pressure and the so-called «classical scheme» they are simply contraindicated.
In fairness, in the first three months of the workout process, you can engage in almost any program (of course, if it is within common sense and you do not repeat the workout sets of professionals). From such workouts, will be a positive effect and progress. It's almost safe because your muscles are still weak, so you can't hurt yourself yet…Also, unfortunately because of this you are wrong in assessing the competence of your personal instructor / favorite blogger.
Real numerous stories when the actions of personal instructors repeatedly led to total inflammation of the knee, elbow and shoulder joints only for the first 4 months of workouts. We sincerely wish it wasn't you The situation is such that most programs are aimed at the development of glycolytic anaerobic muscle fibers, which together with the principle of progressive load leads to the fact that muscle tone and strength are growing and the weight of the projectile is constantly increasing. At some point, the load is redistributed to undeveloped and weak ligaments.
As a result, everything ends with an injury or inflammation of the joint. The most interesting thing is that glycolytic fibers are useless to you in daily life, they hang on you like a load you have to carry with you. These fibers need to be constantly fed, which often have to use excess protein.
All amounts of protein, exceeding 1.2 grams per kilogram of weight, the kidneys will not be able to absorb and will turn it into urea.
These fibers need to be constantly fed, which often have to use excess protein. Imagine that your anaerobic fibers are like a heavy backpack that's always with you, it's heavier and heavier with every workout. And morally, inside, you kind of have to be happy. But what really: the heavier the backpack, the worse you feel. The heavier your backpack is, the more energy it takes to maintain it. Speaking in plain language: all your energy is taken away by your «favorite», but absolutely useless anaerobic fibers.
But that's not all, once you stop exercising, in two weeks your muscles will start to disappear, losing tone and strength. Question: why do you need it?
Modern health monitoring systems provide more and more data. Why, practically, there is no system of data processing to offer personalized recommendations?
Of course, there are local laboratories that deal with this problem, but their number is too small. So there are personal trainers who think analyze the data, are trained and apply in their practice scientifically based methods. Some fitness centers also train their staff, but it is rather a necessity, as they mostly have nothing to offer their customers in the field of health.
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Jeremy sits down with Joe Berridge – one of the most respected Registered Professional Planners among Toronto's planning and development community. A partner with Urban Strategies, Joe has over 40 years' experience providing advice to an extensive range of government and private sector clients, in Toronto, across Canada and in an impressive number of cities around the world.
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What is the world's most perfect city? New York? London? Shanghai? How about Ontario's capital city? It's a question that obviously has no definitive answer, but it does makes for a great debate. Urban planner Joe Berridge has contributed his ideas in his new book, "Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis." He talks to Steve Paikin about his work.
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The International Kendo Federation (FIK) holds seminars around the world to increase the level of kendo practitioners and improve refereeing skills. As the number of instructors may be small outside of Japan, these seminars are an important opportunity for kendo practitioners to learn from high level instructors. The FIK holds three referee seminars every year—one in Asia, one in Europe, and one in North America—with the aim of nurturing referees for the World Kendo Championships (WKC). At the seminars there is also the chance for instructors and participants to train together (Godo Geiko).
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As we celebrate World Oceans Day today, it is great to see that Ocean research has been gaining increased attention at a political level, with the inception this year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the UN Ocean Conference scheduled for next year, intent on scaling up action for SDG14: Life Below Water.
The growing focus on ocean research comes from a recognition of the ongoing decline in ocean health and the global harm this is causing, and the understanding that sustainable and equitable ocean management can help to turn the tide on this decline and safeguard the ocean's provision of nutritional, economic and social goods. Helping to accelerate solutions to such urgent challenges is central to us at Springer Nature, and therefore we have been keen to represent the work being done in this important area of research in the pages of our journals, utilising not only our dedicated SDG publishing programme, our specific SDG 14 Hub and our multidisciplinary capability, but also our incredible editorial and design expertise.
We were therefore thrilled to play a part in the Ocean Panel project, an initiative which brought together a vast body of researchers and legal and policy experts to answer questions posed by fourteen heads of state about the state of the ocean and opportunities for action.
The project started in 2018, when the Ocean Panel commissioned a comprehensive assessment of ocean science and knowledge with significant policy relevance. The assessment brought in contributions from over 250 experts from 48 countries. We were incredibly proud that Nature and the Nature Portfolio were appointed the publishing partner for this project's initial output - a series of 'Blue Papers' exploring the pressing challenges at the nexus of the ocean and the economy, providing thematic deep dives into a range of topics and offering a robust knowledge base to inform a new ocean report and the Ocean Panel's action agenda.
Publishing research on behalf of research consortia is not new to us, and with this important package we believed we could offer additional value. Instead of merely taking the 'blue' literature from the Ocean Panel and publishing, say, short summaries of the research, we proposed that we use our editorial expertise to publish adaptations of the Blue Papers in the Nature journals, with editors taking them through the full editorial and peer review process. This, we believed, would improve the rigour of the published research and elevate its status, and bring the findings to a new audience. We also believed that by fully utilising our award-winning inhouse design capabilities we could make the research as accessible and compelling as possible to the widest possible audience. This saw us reach beyond the pages of our journals and create immersive infographics, illustrations and a podcast to accompany the work.
The research in this collection will help to shape the new ocean narrative and identify opportunities to facilitate the transition to a sustainable ocean economy. For example, one research paper published in Nature, explores the food production potential of the ocean. The authors find that the ocean could sustainably produce 36-74% more seafood compared with current levels; this is equivalent to 12-25% of the estimated increase in all meat needed to feed 9.8 billion people by 2050. The greatest potential for growth lies with the farming of seafood.
We also ventured into new disciplinary waters with this project. Nature published a Perspective (a type of review article that allows for more opinion) on organised crime in the fisheries sector led by a legal scholar from South Africa. This article put a spotlight on how the many facets of organized crime in this sector, including fraud, drug trafficking and forced labour, are hindering progress towards the development of a sustainable ocean economy. Similarly, an expert Comment in Nature Food highlighted how poor ocean governance enables illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing with negative impacts on seafood value chains, environment, society and global food security.
Overall, hundreds of pages of academic study were turned into a bespoke package of beautifully presented, succinct and accessible research papers, reviews and opinion pieces, and immersive infographics, accessible to a new, large and highly relevant audience. A podcast, recorded with Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway and Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Springer Nature, has been listened to by more than 50,000 people. The future of food from the sea paper alone has been accessed 41,000 times.
To see world leaders talking to researchers and building policy (such as the commitment to sustainably manage 100% of their national waters by 2025) on the back of this has been inspiring. If the pledges made are kept, this project could serve as an excellent example of how the direct collaboration of policy makers, in this case heads of state, and researchers can drive progress towards a sustainable future.
We are building on the momentum of this project with a series of initiatives exploring how science can inform progress towards the SDGs. The Blue Food Assessment is one such initiative. This project takes an in-depth look at the contribution that aquatic foods, traditionally neglected in international food policy discourse, can make to healthy and sustainable food systems. We plan to publish the output prior to the UN Food Systems Summit later on this year, with the intention of feeding into the summit a clearer understanding of where blue foods sit within the global food policy landscape.
Continued collaboration of this kind, between the research, scientific and policy communities, is key to raising awareness and understanding of the issues facing the ocean and we look forward to continuing to foster these dialogues.
Anna Armstrong is a Senior Editor at Nature, handling research papers in ecology, food systems science and sustainability. Before joining Nature Anna worked as an editor on Nature Plants and Nature Geoscience. Anna obtained her PhD in plant ecophysiology from the University of York, and enjoyed a brief spell as a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University.
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By Sarah Posner OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner October 7, 2015
Televangelist Who Prayed With Trump Says It Wasn't Endorsement
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland claims his prayers for Donald Trump at a meeting with televangelists last month was not an endorsement.
At the meeting, Copeland laid hands on the candidate and prayed:
No man can be successful as president of the United States without Your wisdom. And so we ask You today to give this man Your wisdom, boldly. Make sure and certain that he hears. Manifest Yourself to him. And we thank You and praise You for a bold man, a strong man and an obedient man.
Jennifer LeClaire, senior editor at Charisma magazine, which covers and features the writing of charismatic Christians and Pentecostals, including Copeland, writes that her Facebook page was filled with concerned and even "downright nasty" comments about the possibility that Copeland had endorsed Trump. She offered a sampling of commenters skeptical of Trump's Christian bona fides:
"I wonder why they are only laying hands and praying for Donald Trump, but not trying to lay hands on Ben Carson. Who is a born again spirit filled Christian? Hmmm… ?" asked Ashlee Green.
"Kenneth Copeland, I think you need to take a step back. Before you pray for God's blessings on Donald, I think you better be praying for God's conviction to come on him. Why are you counting him as a 'brother' when he hasn't accepted God yet? Donald has stated, 'Why do I need to repent? I haven't done anything wrong.' He's very proudful," wrote Melody Nivens.
"This is a trick to get the Christian vote just like Obama!" argued Chira Johnson.
Copeland protests that his prayer was not an endorsement. A statement on his website says his and his wife's Gloria's "attendance at this meeting does not mean that they are endorsing Trump. Brother Copeland is willing to pray with any candidate that asks for prayer, no matter what the party affiliation. This is according to I Timothy 2:1 & 2."
While the rest of the world gawked at the spectacle of scandal-plagued prosperity preachers laying hands on a leading presidential candidate, Copeland's fans saw something else: one of their most admired men of God approving of a candidate with questionable religious cred, one that might be deceiving voters of his Christianity just like (horrors!) Obama.
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Beatrice is the niece of Leonato, a wealthy governor of Messina. Though she is close friends with her cousin Hero, Leonato's daughter, the two could not be less alike. Whereas Hero is polite, quiet, respectful, and gentle, Beatrice is feisty, cynical, witty, and sharp. Beatrice keeps up a "merry war" of wits with Benedick, a lord and soldier from Padua. The play suggests that she was once in love with Benedick but that he led her on and their relationship ended. Now when they meet, the two constantly compete to outdo one another with clever insults.
Although she appears hardened and sharp, Beatrice is really vulnerable. Once she overhears Hero describing that Benedick is in love with her (Beatrice), she opens herself to the sensitivities and weaknesses of love. Beatrice is a prime example of one of Shakespeare's strong female characters. She refuses to marry because she has not discovered the perfect, equal partner and because she is unwilling to eschew her liberty and submit to the will of a controlling husband. When Hero has been humiliated and accused of violating her chastity, Beatrice explodes with fury at Claudio for mistreating her cousin. In her frustration and rage about Hero's mistreatment, Beatrice rebels against the unequal status of women in Renaissance society. "O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake!" she passionately exclaims. "I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving" (IV.i.312–318).


For the third consecutive year, Pop-Ups are taking place at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting! Pop-Up talks are brief, informal talks organized by students for the AGU community. The goal of pop-up talks is to open a space for sharing well-articulated ideas in short five minute presentations. Pop-Up talks are popular beyond AGU and take place at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, the Ocean Sciences Meeting, and at the Gilbert Club. Anyone is welcome to give a pop-up talk, from undergraduates to senior scientists, and everyone in between. We encourage non-traditional presentation formats!
You have stimulating conversations with your lab mates that fall outside the realm of what you publish, and you want to share these ideas with the world.
You have insight on what works or doesn't work so well on issues you're passionate about.
You want to practice public speaking in a friendly environment.
Giving a pop-up talk is both fun and great practice for giving oral presentations. We suggest the following tips: pick three main points or a take-home message; start preparing early; think about body language; nail the first seven seconds, and practice, practice, practice! Here are some more resources to guide you when preparing your pop-up: http://watersciences-popups.blogspot.com. Also check out the Young Hydrologic Society's YouTube channel for previous years' talks: https://goo.gl/jk9PNJ.
A note about our selection process. The pop-up sessions conveners select talks based on the quality of the abstract, relation to session theme, and the diversity of the topic and/or speaker. We hope that pop-up talks this year will feature students, researchers, industry and AGU community members from all walks of life and career stages.
Please consider submitting an abstract! The deadline is August 3rd. For more information and to submit an abstract, visit: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/students/events/pop-up-talks/.
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OUTSTANDING personal development and pupil wellbeing has led to Preston Primary School being described as a "little gem" by inspectors in its latest Ofsted report.
The report highlights the efforts of teachers in helping children to become "confident and self-reliant young people" with exemplary behaviour where older pupils readily take on responsibilities to help care for the younger pupils.
Inspectors noted how pupils are keen to take part in the decision making process of the school through the school council which was instrumental in securing and designing new toilet facilities.
The report also highlighted how the "excellent" Parent Teacher Association made "Outstanding provision… to enrich the curriculum through clubs and activities" as part of the schools excellent overall approach to learning.
The school also makes full use of educational visits and guest speakers as well as links with nearby schools and Preston Hall Museum.
The leadership of the school was also highlighted as being excellent with the headteacher providing strong clear leadership as well as both Governors and teachers committed to "providing the best for each pupil."
There is excellent communications between all aspects of the school with parents being kept very well informed. This has led to parents being highly supportive and appreciative of the schools efforts.
Shirley Winters, headteacher for Preston Primary School, said: "We are delighted the inspectors recognise the great strengths of our school in educating the whole child. Preston Primary School has a tremendous team of staff parents and governors who work tirelessly for the benefit of all our children."
Councillor Alex Cunningham, Stockton Borough Council's cabinet member for children and young people, said: "This is a great result for Preston Primary School and really highlights the care and efforts parents and teachers take to ensure pupils have the best educational experience possible. I want to congratulate everyone at the school for their efforts."
The report highlighted the need to increase the pace of some lessons as well as the need for evaluations of schoolwork to focus closely on the impact on pupils learning and experiences.


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For a traveler, traveling is the joie de vivre of life and the more they travel; more places are left for them to travel. It is a love saga that has no end and every place you end up in teaches you more about the world.
If the world's a stage, there are many plays occurring simultaneously at different parts of the world. For a traveler, nothing can be more pleasurable than partaking in these plays and getting to know about the various people and culture of the world. Traveling gives you an insight into the different lifestyle, society, and cultures and makes the whole world your neighbor.
Broaden your horizons: Traveling makes you come across various cultural practices and social customs. A well-traveled individual would know about different places and their traditions. Knowing about different practices and different notions of societal custom will make you a well-rounded person. It will be easier for you to accept and adapt to situations that are different from the one that you practice in your everyday life. Accepting the difference amongst cultures is one of the biggest lessons that traveling can give you.
Discover new, beautiful and exciting places: The best part of traveling is finding new virgin locations in a remote countryside. Imagine finding a lagoon or secluded part of a beach, the joy of discovering a new place and the beauty of the site would be a moment that you will cherish for your life.
Better understanding about yourself: We as individuals live in a pigeon cooped understanding of our existence. A traveler who has traveled many different places will come to meet a variety of people and will know about their likes and dislikes and would also need to communicate with them about his or her identity. The more different people we meet it helps us to know more about our self as through communication with them the traveler will understand how he or she relates to different people and how he or she handles emotions.
Make new friends: Travel buddies are one of the most fantastic parts of traveling. Meeting other fellow travelers who share the same passion as you and loves to travel the world will not only give you a friend you can incessantly talk to about new places and new cultures but would also be a great partner for your next journey. These friends who are not a part of your everyday circle and do not come from the same locality as you grew up in, will bring a fresh perspective of how you look at life. The shared experience of cultures and upbringings with your travel buddy will make you see life and its teachings from a newer angle.
For the love of food: Tasting multiplicity of cuisine is the bonus point for any traveler. A new place would mean new types of food that the locals swear by. Tasting locally cooked food and local delicacy is a must for a traveler as it will give you a better understanding of the people and will also teach you more about the local flora and fauna and their impact on livelihood as most of the items you eat will be locally produced.
Unleash a skill you never knew you had: The challenges and opportunities you are to encounter in your travel spree will lead you to discover who you are deep down. It is only when you are far from home on some remote mountain climbing trip and cannot call for the services of a modern lifestyle that you realize the importance of cooking, washing, and cleaning after yourself. Your cushy life will never teach you this.
Learn a new language: In some distant Chinese locality explaining to the waiter what exactly you wish to eat and the waiter bringing you that exact order has a thrill of its own. In your travel make it a point to pick up the local dialect or at least few words about it, not only will that make your trip easier but you will come back home with a new knowledge you can be proud of.
The best education on life: No geography classes will give you a better understanding of the map than your travel guide book will provide. Traveling is adventurous, exciting, enlightening and a great stress buster. Seeing the world with your own very eyes will give you a better learning experience than any book can provide.
I love traveling. I think it can change your total perspective of seeing the world. Travel and observe things, people, place, food, culture. This is the best experience you can have.
Solo traveling is the best. Go on a vacation alone, you'll enjoy it more. Try it once.


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L'École de Lingnan () est une école de peinture chinoise traditionnelle du Guangdong, fondée par  (高剑父) (1879–1951),  (陳樹人) (1884-1948) et Gao Qifeng (1889-1933) qui s'est, tout d'abord fondée dans le sud de la Chine, à Guangzhou (Canton). Ces peintres ont, tous trois, eu un engagement politique précoce. Après leur formation en tant que peintre, d'abord auprès de Ju Lian et Ju Chao, puis un voyage au Japon, dès 1906, ils rejoignent tous la Tongmenghui de Sun Yat-sen. Leur activité de peintre, pour Gao Jianfu et son frère, a servi, à cette époque, de couverture à leurs activités politiques. Au Japon ils trouvèrent un courant artistique stimulant, qui préservait les traditions de peinture japonaises, rejetant la peinture à l'huile, par exemple, et néanmoins, ouverte à des innovations venues de l'Occident, le courant nihonga. Ce furent des impulsions initiales et déterminantes.

Précurseurs
Cette école tient son nom de la région du Lingnan, au sud des monts Nanling. La région, ainsi nommée à l'époque des Tang, couvrait les provinces chinoises modernes du Guangdong, du Guangxi et de Hainan, ainsi que le nord du Vietnam moderne, mais aussi une partie du Hunan et du Jiangxi de la Chine centrale. Pour ce qui concerne cette école de peinture il s'agit de peintres de la région de Guangzhou (Canton). Mais cette appellation, qui aurait pu s'appliquer à une école repliée sur une région, régionaliste, ne plaisait à aucun de ses membres, lesquels préféraient se considérer comme « école éclectique » (zhezhong) ou « nouvelle peinture nationale » (xin guohua).

En tant qu'enseignant, le peintre  (1828-1904) et son cousin  (1811-1865) ont été au fondement de cette école, car ils en ont formé la première génération. Leurs œuvres témoignent de l'influence de Song Guangbao (act. 1820-1830) et de Meng Jinyi (act. 1870s), qui étaient aussi installés au Guangdong et qui se plaçaient dans la filiation de Yun Shouping, un peintre de fleurs et de paysages, célèbre pour ses peintures de fleurs dans la tradition des peintres de la cour des Song, tels Li Di (). Avec cette formation initiale les peintres de l'école de Lingnan ont comme principale source d'inspiration le courant japonais nihonga.

L'apport de l'école de Lingnan : vers la modernité

Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren et Gao Qifeng ainsi que leurs amis et leurs élèves, tous cantonnais, ont eu des pratiques diverses qui ont introduit une vigoureuse rénovation de l'art chinois selon une voie proche de celle impulsée par le nihonga au Japon. Tous se sont consacrés à la création d'une nouvelle peinture chinoise (xin guoliua).

Dans les premiers temps ils ont su rénover la peinture de fleurs et oiseaux, traditionnelle en Chine. La peinture de « fleurs et oiseaux » est au moment de leur apprentissage, essentiellement une peinture de fleurs étudiées avec un grand naturalisme, mais avec une technique dite « sans os ». C'est un procédé classique en Chine, où les couleurs liquides appliquées sans contour sont souvent modulées par un apport d'eau, afin de produire des nuances sans forme au sein de la zone de couleur. Cette méthode se distingue d'une construction des formes par des lignes de contour, des traits et des points, qui parait plus contrôlée. Ces jeunes peintres chinois font un passage plus ou moins long dans l'archipel où l'on expérimente depuis les années 1880 une forme « nouvelle » de peinture, nihonga. Cette « école » (à l'École des Beaux Arts de Tokyo) valorise les procédés de peinture traditionnelle, à l'encre et couleurs sur papier et en particulier cette peinture « sans os » , mais en intégrant des éléments de l'art occidental, dans le prolongement de l'école Maruyama-Shijō. Gao Jianfu reprit la peinture « sans os » de Yokohama Taikan (1868-1958), bien qu'il ait rendu une visite très admirative à Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942) lors de son séjour, sur trois années discontinues, à partir de 1906. Il emmène son frère l'année suivante. Ils seront de retour en 1908 sur la demande de Sun Yat-sen afin de fonder une branche locale révolutionnaire.

Lors de leur séjour au Japon, on est alors en pleine ère Meiji. Les apports de l'art du mouvement japonais nihonga et de rayonnement prolongé depuis la fin du  de l'école Maruyama-Shijō, font le choix d'un traitement naturaliste, avec des effets de profondeur, parfois avec effet de perspective linéaire,  avec des modulations de l'ombre et de la lumière et une peinture « sans os », et en optant pour l'introduction du lavis afin de rendre les ambiances lumineuses, et l'atmosphère plus ou moins humide, voire brumeuse, atmosphère du Japon comme du sud de la Chine.

Les figures majeures de la scène artistique de Kyoto, plus ou moins directement de tradition nihonga, sont alors des héritiers de l'école Maruyama-Shijō (et ses subdivisions ultérieures telles que l'école Kishi (Ganku) et l'école Mori) : Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942), Tsuji Kakō (1870-1931) -élève de Kōno Bairei (1844-1895)- et Yamamoto Shunkyo (1871-1933).

En résumé, ces peintres de l'école de Lingnan effectuent le passage entre la tradition et la modernité dans l'art chinois, mais dans une attitude radicalement ouverte sur une modernité internationale, et surtout extrême-orientale.

La génération suivante a été touchée par ce premier groupe, dont Li Xiongcai () (1910-2001),  () (1912–2000) qui a reçu un enseignement de Gao Jianfu, li Xiongcai, Huang Shaoqiang, Zhao Shao'ang, et  () (1913-2004) qui a été influencé dans sa jeunesse par Gao Jianfu et Gao Qifeng.

 () (1905-1998), après avoir bénéficié de l'enseignement de Gao Qifeng en 1921, à l'âge de , a fondé sa propre école de Lingnan en 1930 à Guangzhou (Canton).

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Articles connexes
 Peinture de la dynastie Qing (1644 - 1912)
 Peinture chinoise

Liens externes
lingnanart.com  Site consacré à l'école.
Chen Xin, peintre de l'école Lingnan.
Exposition « L'École de Lingnan : L'Éveil de la Chine moderne » au Musée Cernuschi de Paris
  Official website of Guangdong Museum. Très importante collection de peintures de l'école de Lingnan au Musée du Guangdong à Canton.

Peinture chinoise

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After buying some beautiful rainbow chard at the farmer's market, I started searching for interesting recipes. Winter greens like chard, kale, and collards are densely packed with nutrients that stave off cancer and other diseases. Dressing them up with full-flavored ingredients like garlic, lemon and cream helps to balance their bitterness.
This is another Martha Stewart recipe that I tweeked for convenience. Using rainbow chard instead of Swiss chard throws a bit of pink in the layers and looks really pretty, making this meal a good Valentine's Day option. I also used a combination of sweet and hot turkey sausage to cut some calories and fat. And I can never resist adding fresh ricotta to homemade lasagna.
To remove the stems from the greens, fold the leaf in half, and cut the stalk from the edge. It's fairly easy to find fresh lasagna noodles at the grocery store to save time. Be generous with the Bechamel, because the pasta will soak it up in the oven.
1. Preheat the oven to 400°. Make the filling: Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add sausage, and cook, stirring until golden and cooked through, 5 to 6 minutes. Transfer sausage to a paper-towel-lined plate.
2. Reduce heat to medium, and add shallots to drippings in pan. Cook, stirring often until softened and translucent, about 4 minutes. Add chard and cook, stirring frequently, until just starting to wilt, 2 minutes. Add garlic, lemon zest, and salt, season with pepper. Cook, stirring often until chard wilts completely, about 3 minutes. Stir in lemon juice. Transfer to a colander to drain.
3. Make the Bechamel: Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, salt, red-pepper flakes, and cook, stirring occasionally until onions are slightly translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in flour and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Whisk in the milk a little at a time, until incorporated. Bring to boil, stirring often, then reduce heat to low. Simmer, stirring gently and often, until thickened and creamy, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
4. In a 11 x 8 inch baking dish, spread 6 tblsp of bechamel in dish and top with a noodle. Spread half of the chard mixture evenly, then 1/2 the sausage, then dot with ricotta. Top with 4 tblsp Bechamel, then another noodle. Repeat with chard, sausage, ricotta and Bechamel, then another noodle. Spread another 2 tblsp Bechamel over the top, then sprinkle with the Fontina.
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What's more satisfying than hitting a game-winner against a former teammate? How about hitting a game-winner for an injury-riddled, mediocre team against the best team in the league riding a seven-game win streak?
The shot also matched Waiters career-high of 33 points, which was set in his last game.
As an encore, Waiters scored 14 points in the 4th quarter of the Heat's 14-point comeback against the Nets. The last 3 of the 14 was another game-winner.


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Consensus in science revisited
A year ago I wrote this article: What consensus in science really means. It has proven more popular than most and has an afterlife of its own, ticking up hits every week. It is nice to see that enquiring minds are looking to see what I think.
The thing is, although science itself doesn't proceed by consensus, it would be weird if consensus did not emerge as more and more results come in from more and more investigations and observations. That it does happen is one of those things, like death and taxes, that is inevitable.
Even Richard Tol agrees that much.
The mad thing is, some deniers still don't get this. They still don't get the idea that scientists might look at the evidence and agree with one another. Perhaps this is because deniers hardly agree with anything or anyone. That might explain why the usual WUWT daily postings look like the reheated left overs of a burger joint - no one really wants to have them but they fill a need for the intellectually starved that congregate there.
If none of this makes sense to you, then you can, should you so wish, point your browser at the Oregon Petition. I won't bother giving you directions. You find it if you feel you need to. What you do need to know is that dbstealey, aka Smokey, aka lots of other things, moderator and sock puppeteer par excellence, thinks the Oregon Petition is the bee's knees.
For some reason, Smokey doesn't understand that, if science doesn't work by consensus, it surely cannot work by persuading a list of people to sign a petition. Petitions work when there is something to have a difference of opinion about, or to demand that something be done. Scientific questions are not solved by getting a bunch of people to say we agree with it.
Hang on a minute. Haven't I just said that scientists do say they agree with something? Indeed I have. I did say that scientists fall in line behind the idea and profess a "belief" in such and such theory. And they do. But it wouldn't matter, and the theory would be no more correct, if they signed a petition to say they agree with it. Because scientists are not saying they agree with or accept a theory. They are saying this is the best theory we have. And they don't care about signing a petition. The science is in the scientific journals and conference presentations.
I love those letters you sometimes get to the newspapers. 150 people say this... with a handful of signatories listed and an instruction to visit the paper's website for the remainder. Wow, I go. Some celebrity or academic has circulated one of those chain letter things that you had as a kid. Now let's read it. No, let's not bother. It's the argument from authority writ large. The argument may or may not be strong. Ten, fifty, 31,000 names makes no difference.
In the end it doesn't matter what the number of the consensus is. What matters is what the evidence tells us. It speaks quite clearly. You have to be deaf, or not willing to listen, to ignore what it says, yet there are plenty who are not willing.
If Tol is so concerned that Cook & al (2013) are wrong, then he can rerun the thing. Sample 12,000 abstracts in the way sampled by Cook & al, using their criteria and see what you get. I think I can predict the result. 97% +/- a bit. And if that fails, perhaps Tol can try this paper which reports a consensus of 91%:
This could get recursive.
And Then There's Physics 7 June 2014 at 16:00
I'm pleased to see you got the word "recursive" into your post. I plan to try and use it as often as possible. I think it should become the defining word of this debate :-)
Catmando 8 June 2014 at 00:01
Seemed appropriate in more ways than one. Tol is certainly displaying recursion over Cook & al.
Lars Karlsson 8 June 2014 at 05:26
I looked up the definition of "recursive" in my dictionary, but it only said:
recursive (adjective) see 'recursive'.
Lars, your dictionary may be displaying a sense of humour. Recursive means repetitive so recursive behaviour is one that repeats itself. Example, toddler tantrums over eating their greens. Or Lord Monckton.
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