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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and his wife, Callista, listen to former GOP candidate Herman Cain during a campaign rally Saturday in Atlanta, Ga.
ATLANTA, GA – Newt Gingrich, acknowledging his campaign "all hinges on Georgia," campaigned Saturday with a very familiar face in the state, fellow Georgian Herman Cain.
"I think Georgia is a very, very important state," Gingrich said. "We actually have a very good chance of doing well here and that gives us a springboard then to go across the whole country."
But the former House speaker cautioned "there are no slam dunk states anywhere in America."
Gingrich and Cain, a former presidential candidate himself, appeared at three separate events.
The two men, who say they have been friends for years, not only cracked jokes with one another as they passed each other on stage, but also were full of compliments for each other during their speeches.
"Newt is not afraid to engage in a little smackdown when necessary," a smiling Cain told the crowd in Cumming, Ga. "That's bold leadership."
Asked by reporters in Suwanee, Ga., what cabinet position Cain would hold in a Gingrich administration, the former speaker shied away from naming a specific job.
Cain, however, took control of the answer himself.
"My ideal job with a Speaker Newt Gingrich as president of the United States is to be a senior adviser not in charge of anything," Cain said. "That's what I would want to do in a Gingrich administration."
Cain, who dropped out of the race back in November, was one of many presidential candidates who made their way to the top of the pack at some point during the primary season.
Rick Santorum is currently in that front-runner role now, Gingrich said, but told supporters in Atlanta that he "will survive Santorum."
The speaker was quick to criticize the way former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is running his campaign against the former Pennsylvania senator.
Santorum accuses Romney of hypocrisy on earmarks
Romney, Gingrich told a packed event in Cumming, is "now doing to Santorum in Michigan what he did to me in Florida and it is an unworthy way for someone to try and become president of the United States by shrinking their opponents."
Gingrich assured all the crowds Saturday that despite all the ups and downs he has seen in this campaign, where he has been the frontrunner twice and dead twice, that he will continue on the path toward the nomination.
"The fact is I have never seen anything like this nominating process. It has been wild. It will remain wild for a while," he said. "Some places we've won and some places we've lost, but we are in the hunt."
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Rosacea can be a trying condition under the best of circumstances, but it can be particularly vexing to women during menopause and even their monthly cycle.
Many women report more flushing episodes and increased numbers of bumps and pimples during these times, according to Dr. Wilma Bergfeld, head of the clinical research section of the dermatology department at Cleveland Clinic and former president of the American Academy of Dermatology.
"There is no research regarding hormones and their effect on rosacea," Dr. Bergfeld said. "However, it has been widely observed that rosacea is often aggravated at menopause and sometimes during mid-cycle." She noted that by treating the underlying hormonal fluctuations, the physician may in effect be treating the rosacea as well.
Hot flashes, for example, commonly trigger flushing in women going through menopause. Dr. Bergfeld said gynecologists now have a number of options for treating this condition, including hormone replacement therapy, and that she also often prescribes antihistamines.
"Using an antihistamine may be very helpful because it is basically an anti-inflammatory medication," she said. "If you can reduce the beginnings of the flush, you can reduce its severity."
She added that antidepressants may be used to treat the emotional effects of menopause, which in turn may reduce the potential for stress-induced rosacea flare-ups.
Women who experience rosacea flare-ups from emotional stress associated with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may also benefit from medical therapy, according to Dr. Bergfeld. "During the third week of the cycle, estrogen plummets," she explained, noting that patients are usually referred to a gynecologist for treatment of this condition. "For some cases low-estrogen birth control pills may be prescribed to help flatten out the hormonal levels."
Patients may also be advised to chart their symptoms on a calendar and use a diuretic the week before they normally would see the onset of premenstrual symptoms.
Pregnancy poses a more difficult dilemma for doctors treating rosacea because "so many medications are off limits," Dr. Bergfeld said. Often, she will recommend that the patient use an anti-dandruff shampoo containing zinc because the zinc acts as both an anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial agent but does not penetrate the skin barrier.
Studies have found that rosacea is diagnosed three times as often in women, although it is often more severe in men. Dr. Bergfeld said there may be a variety of reasons why more women seek treatment. She noted that women may be more concerned about their facial appearance, while mild cases of rosacea may not be as noticeable in men. "A dark beard can hide a multitude of things," she said.
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Lisle, Illinois ~ When it comes to voting on an issue affecting the general populace, sometimes politicians walk a fine line between their religious background and the interests of the people they represent.
"There's constant conflict in your head," State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) told an audience of students and faculty members recently at Benedictine University. "The Catholic guilt is really real, especially in Springfield because we have a lot of issues that come up that we really have to drop to our knees and think about. There is a lot of Catholic guilt involved in legislating."
Chapa LaVia was joined by State Sen. Michael Connelly (R-Naperville) and Christine Fletcher, Ph.D., associate professor of Theology at Benedictine, to discuss what role Catholicism plays in the legislative process as part of the University's Faith and Politics Series, "Catholic Identities and Public Policymaking: The View from Illinois." The discussion was moderated by Phil Hardy, assistant professor of Political Science at Benedictine.
While the separation of church and state is meant to prevent government interference in the establishment of religious institutions, and religious institutions from running the nation state – it has been left mostly up to interpretation and debate. The idea, which stems from the First Amendment, does not bar politicians from voting according to their religious values.
All politicians bring their own values – whether from life experience, parental upbringing, or their professional training – to the table to evaluate and make decisions. And whether a legislator happens to have been raised Muslim, Catholic or Jewish, it would be inaccurate to say that one can isolate those values from the decision-making process, Connelly said.
"It's not a separation of church from state," said Connelly, whose district includes Lisle, Naperville and other suburbs in DuPage County. "It's separation of church and state and I think we've gotten away from that.
"I think a lot of people come into the public domain and are afraid to admit the truth, which is that we are all creatures of sin. We are people who have received an education from our parents and the community we grew up in. It would be silly to say 'I don't bring my religious experience into the public domain,'" Connelly said. "I think that would be disingenuous."
While legislators may leverage their own beliefs for guidance, they must also listen to their constituents, who are made up of all different religions and backgrounds. Occasionally, this pits legislators in the unviable position of disagreeing with religious leaders of their own faith, Chapa LaVia said.
"Not always do I vote the way I know the Bishop would want me to vote, because I have a constituency that voted for me to go to Springfield to represent them," Chapa LaVia said.
Legislators also must weigh their own party's values with their own religious views – something that may force leaders to make tough and unpopular choices in the eyes of their fellow lawmakers. Such was the experience Chapa LaVia encountered in 2010 when only she and one other Democrat voted against a bill supporting civil unions.
"You would have thought I just murdered someone in Springfield," Chapa LaVia said. "That was a really tough decision for me to make with people who loved and accepted me as a Democrat, but that was the right decision for my district. That was a really hard thing. It took weeks to get over the stares."
While the state general assembly is made up of representatives and senators who come from many different backgrounds and religions, at the end of the day they must all work together and find common ground on certain issues in order to move the state forward.
When asked about the perceived dysfunction in Springfield, Chapa LaVia and Connelly wanted to make clear that the media doesn't always portray what happens day-to-day in Springfield accurately.
"It's not Fox News and MSNBC," Connelly said. "Maybe for a day or two on a couple of issues, but what we do 99 percent of the time is bipartisan.
"We may disagree on occasion, but by and large there isn't a single person in the House or Senate that doesn't want the same thing for their constituents. We want everyone employed, we want everyone to have the best health care, we want safe streets and we want great quality of life. The difference is the path we take."
Joe Sanders, a junior Political Science major at Benedictine, said the presentation opened up his eyes to just how much influence an individual's religious background and values can have on public policy-making at the state level.
"I knew that it did play a role, but I didn't know quite how much of a role it played," Sanders said. "Even though Benedictine is a Catholic university, there is such a wide dynamic of beliefs and to see how one faith plays into the decision that affects us all directly is huge. It is certainly something that needs to be addressed and understood by young adults and youth that are going to be voting, and it is something that needs to be part of the discussion."
The event was sponsored by the Center for Mission and Identity, the University's vehicle for reinforcing the Catholic intellectual tradition on campus, and the Center for Civic Leadership, which provides programs that help prepare students for leadership roles in public service.
Benedictine University is an independent Roman Catholic institution located in Lisle, Illinois just 25 miles west of Chicago, and has branch campuses in Springfield, Illinois and Mesa, Arizona. Founded in 1887, Benedictine provides 55 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate and four doctoral programs. Benedictine University is ranked No. 1 among the country's fastest-growing campuses between 2000-2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education's list of private nonprofit research institutions, and Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America's Top Colleges" for the third consecutive year in 2013. Benedictine University's Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program is listed by Crain's Chicago Business as the fifth largest in the Chicago area in 2013.
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Do you think the football star was a 'Catfish' victim?
Manti Te'o is the all-star linebacker we were all rooting for during the college football season. He led Notre Dame to glory in the Bowl Championship Series title game despite his perfectly heartbreaking backstory: coping with the death of his girlfriend.
Four days before the big game, Te'o was asked how he was dealing with the loss. "I think whenever you're in football, it takes your mind off a lot of things," he said.
But something about the story proved to be fishy ... or should we say, catfish-y? Yesterday, Deadspin broke the story that Te'o's girlfriend, who allegedly died of leukemia, never in fact existed.
It turns out, Te'o was the victim of an internet hoax. "To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating," he said in a statement. While most of the story is untold, people are now questioning whether he was, in fact, hoaxed by a "catfish" — someone who creates a false online persona, usually in order to lure and trick someone else into a bogus relationship — or if he and the university fabricated the story to capture the media's sympathy during the season (since they desperately covered up the hoax and investigation up until this point).
Confused? We are too.
His story sounds like an episode right out of MTV's hit documentary show Catfish (based on a documentary of the same name, which spawned the term). The show follows filmmaker Nev, who fell victim to a catfish himself, and who helps the virtually heartsick prove to either debunk or prove the online profiles of their lovers. More often than not, these people are sorely disappointed when the turns out to be a person posing as someone else in a sad, deceptive attempt to spark a romantic relationship.
The question is, was Te'o in on it? As much as we'd love to believe that he's the innocent bystander who really got hurt by it all, it's hard to believe. The image that his "girlfriend" was using was actually of an unnamed woman, who has since been interviewed. After she found out her image was being used in the hoax, she called up a good friend Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who told her not to worry. Shortly after, the images of her were gone.
Sources have now found that Tuiasosopo is actually a friend of Te'o's, and a musician who Te'o has promoted via his own Twitter account. Also, they're all from Hawaii. Is it really just a small world or was it all a set up to gain publicity?
So. was Te'o really "catfished"? Tell us what you think below!
Read on to see three tips to prevent yourself from being tricked online.
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The market for existing homes made healthy gains in the first two weeks of October -- then again, this is compared to the angst-ridden days of last October.
According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, GTA realtors reported 3,631 sales of existing homes in the first two weeks of this month. This represents a 34% jump, compared with the same period last year. Buyers were obliged to dig deeper into their pockets, as the average sales price rose to $414,479, a 17% increase for the first two weeks of October 2008.
"While demand for existing homes has remained strong, it is important to recognize the context of current statistics," says TREB president Tom Lebour in a release. "We are now making comparisons to the fall of 2008 when we experienced a marked decline in sales and average price."
Taking the total sales for 2009 thus far, numbers are up to 69,964, a more modest 6% increase on the same period last year. The average price for year-to-date sales in 2009 is $389,687, a 2% rise on last year's number.
"Tight market conditions throughout the GTA will continue to exert upward pressure on home prices in the fourth quarter," says Jason Mercer, TREB's senior manager of market analysis in a release. "Expect more listings in 2010, as homeowners react to the price gains experienced in the second half of 2009."
While the GTA market strengthened, it was a different case for housing activity south of the border.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, building permits decreased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 573,000 in September -- a 1.2% drop on the previous month and a hefty 28.9% dip for last September.
"Building permits are down in two of the past three months [largely due to weakness in multiples], and the number of units under construction continues to decline," says Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. "This could reflect nervousness
ahead of the looming Nov. 30 deadline for the first-time homebuyers tax credit, though the administration has said that it is considering a proposal to extend the credit. The bigger concern likely stems from rising foreclosures in the resale market amid ongoing job losses."
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that housing starts in September reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 590,000. This is just 0.5% above the revised August numbers and a marked 28.2% down on the same month last year.
"More broadly, the sector is stuck in the range of 500,000 to 600,000 with little immediate prospect of a robust exit. While U.S. home prices are finally beginning to rise (with plenty of positive implications for the U.S. economy), it remains considerably less certain whether this will translate into additional construction due to a substantial overhang of inventories," notes Eric Lascelles, chief economics and rates strategist at TD Securities. "And even as the official inventories are whittled down, it seems that banks and builders may be holding on to shadow inventories that will preclude the need for serious construction activity for quite some time."
The traditionally more stable single-family component of the housing starts suggested that there might be a more positive underlying trend.
"Tempering the disappointment somewhat is that single-unit construction, which accounts for four-fifths of the total and is a more reliable gauge of underlying trends than the overall figure, rose for the sixth time in seven months, and by a solid 3.9% in September," notes Mr. Guatieri. "It is up a whopping 40% from earlier lows and down just 9% from a year earlier. That said, the near-term outlook remains iffy, as home-builder sentiment dipped unexpectedly in October."
According to the National Association of Home Builders, builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes fell one point to 18 in October. This represented the first decline in the index since June.


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TopQuadrant has released TopBraid Suite 3.0, which includes two significant advancements for Semantic Web application development .
TopBraid Suite 3.0 provides a graphical application assembly toolkit that allows users to dynamically configure Semantic Web applications using pre-built components. In addition, TopBraid Suite 3.0 is the first application development platform to support SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation), a new Semantic Web language with an explicit object-orientated rule model that can link data and domain models.
TopBraid Ensemble, which is part of TopBraid Suite 3.0, is a graphical Semantic Web application assembly toolkit that allows users to configure a variety of Rich Internet Applications. Users do not need to manually program application components using languages such as Java or JavaScript. Instead, they simply select and arrange a set of components on the screen and push the save button to share the new application with others.
A library of components addresses key application functionality, including grids, trees, search and edit forms, maps and charts, a visual query editor for SPARQL and dynamic event relays. This set of components supports building systems for collaborative development and management of controlled vocabularies, search and data exploration, mashups, Semantic wikis and other application areas. Integration with server-side scripts and SPIN rules enables components to be configured for implementing application and context-specific business logic.
SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation) is an open source collection of RDF vocabularies that allow SPARQL users to define business rules for Semantic Web applications. SPARQL is a well-established W3C standard implemented by many industrial-strength RDF APIs and databases. Based on SPARQL, SPIN provides an open source Java API distributed under a dual license by TopQuadrant.
Instead of relying on the textual representation of SPARQL expressions, SPIN offers an RDF schema for SPARQL. As a result, SPARQL queries can be stored as RDF triples together with any RDF domain model. This enables the linkage of RDF resources with associated queries and sharing and reuse of queries as part of Semantic Web models. SPIN also provides meta-modeling capabilities that allow users to define their own SPARQL functions and query templates.


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The Comfort Inn® Fallsview is in the heart of the Fallsview district and is across the street from the Fallsview Casino and steps away from the Falls Incline Railway and Horseshoe Falls. The Fallsview District is home to many fine attractions, including MarineLand, the Skylon Tower, Thundering Waters Golf Club and the IMAX Theatre Niagara Falls.
This Niagara Falls hotel makes a perfect base to explore the area, including the famous Niagara wine region and the Shaw Festival in nearby Niagara-on-the-Lake.
All well-appointed guest rooms have coffee makers, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards and cable television with a free movie channel. Family suites, suites with hot tubs and non-smoking rooms are available. In some rooms, guests can feel the mist from the mighty falls from the balcony.
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Jrow needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
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We are a small IT consulting company that provides high quality and agile solutions for mostly domestic customers. We are pretty relaxed, provide no-nonsense services and aim to make sure customers are happy - thus, our prices are pretty low, and we mostly seek 5 to 10 day engagements, rather than 50 to 100 day huge projects. At times we have 10 to 20 projects simultaneously and multitasking, collaboration and "make it so" attitude are really the key here.
We target small to medium sized companies that are in need of either troubleshooting services or consultancy regarding their technical platform, architecture and future decisions. Our audience is mostly technical decision-makers, CTO's and IT personnel.
The company's official name is "Onsight Helsinki", yet we often introduce ourselves as just "Onsight". It's a (rock) climbing term, which basically means you try to approach an unknown problem without (any) inspection. For us this means a lot of times where we encounter technical problems without much prior knowledge and need to resolve this as quickly as possible - often in a few hours.
What we try to show to our customers is really that we can do extreme solutions in extreme situations, we hang in there during tough times, and we provide solid and bomb-proof solutions for even the hardest problems. And the crux (hardest part) of a project is often where we excel.
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North Korea has its sights set on Austin, Texas, according to reports based on images released from Asia.
In pictures released by the Rodong newspaper and reported by The Telegraph in the United Kingdom, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is shown at what is described as an emergency meeting early Friday morning.
In the background is a map which reportedly reads "US mainland strike plan" and has lines drawn to multiple American targets that The Telegraph purports to point at Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington and Austin.
Earlier, the United States had conducted simulated bombing runs on targets in the country.
North Korea says it has put its rockets on standby.
A statement was released Friday by Josh Havens, a spokesperson with Governor Rick Perry's office. "The governor takes all threats to the people of Texas seriously, and we are in touch with the pertinent federal authorities to safeguard our security," he said. "Rather than threatening the centers of liberty and prosperity in the United States, North Korea should attend to the needs of its starving and oppressed people."
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One of the highlights of a recent trip to New York was attending a Mad Men Remix party hosted by Pop Culture Pirate Elisa Kreisinger. I'm a big fan of the show and so it was great fun to watch the season finale from last year with a group of knowledgable viewers, and then to see Kreisinger's provocative remixes of the show.
Her Internet-ready Mad Men: Set Me Free is a clever remix of the women of Mad Men singing the Motown standard "You Keep Me Hanging On." Devised to be spreadable on social media sites, I suspect this video – which was co-created with Mark Faletti – will quickly communicate to a broad audience the painful gender issues explored in the show.
And that kind of commentary is pretty desperately needed. I recently attended a screening of Missrepresentation, a thoroughly laudable documentary about problematic representations of women in film and TV. I was dismayed to see clips from Mad Men woven into its visual tapestry of media misogyny. I had believed that most viewers of the show recognized that it was quite critical of 60s sexism, depicting it as an appalling problem and creating sympathy for the women who suffered from it (including our own mothers and grandmothers). But just a few days later I found myself having exactly this conversation with a male friend who felt guilty about loving the show because it was so sexist. He said he felt terrible for the plight of women in the show, but it never occurred to him that his response might be the one the show was hoping to elicit.
All too often, I'm afraid, people equate the representation of something with its endorsement. I often used the TV show Married With Children in my pop culture classes to address exactly this issue: the selfish and reprehensible Al Bundy was not depicted as a role model for viewers – instead we laughed at him for being a bad father, and for bringing into stark relief what a "good" dad ought to do. In many ways, Married With Children was as effective at endorsing ideals about the nuclear family as The Cosby Show was.
Pop culture remixers like Kreisinger have a tricky task on their hands, remapping cultural memes in order to draw attention to things we might not have noticed in the slickly produced pop culture objects that make up our media landscape. It is their task to shake us by the shoulders and say "What if?" Such is the case (in spades) with Kreisinger's QueerMen: Don Loves Roger remix. Whether you believe that the remix reveals a "subconscious" sub-plot of the show or not, it gives viewers the opportunity to imagine it. This has long been the strength of fan fiction, which has been taken to entirely new and enticing levels due to ever-expanding access to bandwidth and the rise of robust social media platforms.
One troubling side effect of remixes is that the original can seem a bit less itself after viewing them: or, at least, that was my experience watching the much-anticipated season five premiere of Mad Men last night. Where were the subtle psychological insights we've come to expect? Maybe we have to wait for a remix to reveal them.


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McGinty Named Product Manager of Hayward Commercial Pool Products
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ELIZABETH, NJ — Hayward Commercial announced that Troy McGinty has been promoted to product manager of its Commercial Pool Products group. McGinty has been with Hayward since 2008, when the company acquired Cat Controllers. He joined Cat Controllers in 2003 as Western Regional Sales Manager. In 2005, he assumed product management responsibility with the development and management of the POOLCOMM program.
Hayward Commercial Pool Products General Manager Patrick Sweeney said, "Troy is a well-rounded professional who is active in the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals, the National Swimming Pool Foundation, and the Professional Pool Operators of America. He has been published in several industry publications, and has presented at numerous trade expos and training seminars on subjects including pH and ORP automation, communications with web interfaces, and business development. He is a regular presenter at the World Aquatic Health Conference. In short, Troy is a significant industry contributor on behalf of our team."
In 2007, McGinty earned his CPO, CPOI, and AFO certifications. He has a bachelor's degree from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
About Hayward Commercial
Hayward® Commercial Pool Products was officially launched in January 2010 by Hayward Industries Inc. as a business serving the commercial pool and spa market. Building on a 75-year heritage of producing high quality products for the pool industry and its reputation for customer satisfaction, Hayward's new business offers a line of technologically advanced commercial products for aquatic facilities and businesses. To ensure pool and spa operators keep their facilities running smoothly, Hayward Commercial also provides direct access to the continued support of a dedicated team of knowledgeable representatives.
Hayward's commercial products include a line of pumps, filters, valves, automation, cleaners, automation, sanitization, safety, and color LED lighting products. For more information, contact Hayward at (908) 351-5400 or visit www.haywardnet.com.
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A friend of mine has written under under the religion section of her Facebook page: It's all about the eggs and the bunnies, right ?
Whenever I see it, it makes me smile.
Most Christians would agree that It's all about Easter, if not exactly eggs and bunnies, and that Easter is pretty much all about forgiveness.
Our Western culture often seems far more focused on revenge than forgiveness. Our films and TV is full of examples of getting even and journeys of self-righteous vengeance. In sports people talk about settling scores and payback against the opposition. The debate on prisons and reform tends to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. I know it's hardly science, but type revenge into Google and you get 276 million hits, forgiveness gives 56 million.
This shouldn't be a surprise – revenge is part of our basic human nature, indeed it's one of our strongest emotions. In primitive tribal societies,without any other systems of justice, revenge served as both a way for wronged individuals to achieve emotional satisfaction, and also served as a visible public deterrent to others.
But in our modern complex societies, with rule of law, our desires for personal revenge usually result in far from positive consequences – perpetuating cycles of violence, entrenching division and splitting families. After all, it's not as if those being 'punished' always resign themselves to a rap on the knuckles and changing their ways – frequently the response is further anger, resentment, and a desire to retaliate against the person doing the 'punishing'.
As neighbours fall out, relationships break up and community relations break down, escalation can easily occur – in some cases leading to frosty avoidance or internet slanging matches, in other cases slashed tires or physical violence. It's estimated that around 20% of the murders in the Western World are motivated by revenge !
Obviously societies need to have justice, and sometimes actions need to have consequences – but forgiveness is really about something else.
It's the emotional process of letting go of personal feelings of injustice and resentment. It's what we do in our own heads and hearts.
Research by Dr R Enright and others indicates that people who are more inclined to forgive others are typically happier and healthier, experiencing less stress, less depression and less disease. Forgiving those who we perceive have wronged us also means we're less likely to carry unresolved resentment and anger into new relationships and situations.
It's not so much what we're granting the other person, but what we're granting to ourselves that matters. Freedom to move on – letting go of hurt, loss and bitterness. Ultimately forgiveness is a choice.
Sometimes it might seem impossible.
But we can learn forgiveness, the best teachers being those who have themselves been able to forgive some terrible wrong done to them, such as with Abiola Inakoju or Linda Beihl, or in Sierra Leone, Nickel Mines USA or South Africa and many other places around the world. Many more inspiring and remarkable stories can be found on the website The Forgiveness Project.
The two videos below might also provide food for thought – with the journalist and author Naseem Rakha on the left, or the Christian writer and minster Rob Bell on the right. Many more videos about forgiveness can be found on the Fetzer Institute Youtube Channel.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Ten Days and a Year
For me it's a little hard to recognize my blog's anniversary: it's almost like recognizing myself, which borders on vanity. But of course it's impossible to separate myself from the blog because it's become so much a part of me. I choose the subject matter, the photos, the post contents. More than anything, though, I hope my ancestors have become the biggest part of this blog. I hope that family members who come to look at the photos and read the posts take away with them some little (or big) memory of how they came to be here, that it's because of parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. I hope that stories of ancestors overcoming obstacles will encourage and bolster them; that some of the stories will make them laugh; and that perhaps they'll share with their own children stories from their childhood so that the stuff of family history will continue forward.
Starting and keeping up a blog during this first year has been a true education. It takes time and effort to put together posts that I believe are meaningful and that tell something about the lives, including names, dates, and locations, of our ancestors. Sometimes my time goes to blogging instead of researching. Most often I rely on research completed in the past four years for the content of posts, though I've shared some newly-found information, too. It's been a fun year. I hope there are some people who have enjoyed reading the posts. I believe there are because some of you make return visits.
Happy reading, happy blogging, and happy anniversary to "My Ancestors and Me."
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Happy Blogiversary Nancy!And ,Thank You For Making & Creating Your Fine,Fine Blog. XReplyDelete
The one-year anniversary of a blog is a big deal. A LOT of bloggers don't make it to that milestone.ReplyDelete
So happy anniversary!
Thank you, Tony and Kerry, for your kind and encouraging comments. When I first started blogging I didn't realize how important comments would be in sustaining and encouraging one to continue a sometimes challenging endeavor. So I really appreciate your comments of support.ReplyDelete
I noticed, Kerry, as I looked at a list of gen blogs the other day how many hadn't written posts for a year or more. I guess it's a testimony to the difficulty of keeping up and the need for perseverance and support.
Again, thank you both. I appreciate your votes of support.
Congratulations for staying with it for a year and maintaining your high standards. It's just too bad that you don't live around the corner from me, because I have a cold bottle of champagne that I would love to open in celebration.ReplyDelete
Happy blogiversary Nancy :-)ReplyDelete
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- Words by Mr Stuart Husband
There's a famous photograph of Mr Samuel Beckett taken in Paris, the author's adopted home, by Mr Richard Avedon on 13 April 1979, his 73rd birthday. It's a diptych; in the left panel, Mr Beckett interrogates the lens with a rare intensity, his craggy face - the protruding ears, aquiline nose and piercing eyes - having a monumental quality that his friend, the writer Ms Nancy Cunard, once compared to "a magnificent Mexican sculpture". In the right panel, Mr Beckett looks down, the better for us to admire his leonine quiff and austere-but-dapper get up; dark grey jacket, black polo neck and trousers, glasses tucked snugly into breast pocket. If, as Mr Beckett once wrote, "words are the clothes thoughts wear", then the starkly minimal but painstakingly punctilious quality of his best-known works - Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Endgame - is echoed in his personal style, a sort of hardcore normcore. "He was dismissive of pretentiousness," wrote Mr James Knowlson, Mr Beckett's biographer, "but meticulousness was always one of his most striking characteristics."
If Mr Beckett remains an icon beyond the intelligentsia and pretensia, a quarter of a century after his death, it's because of this sense we have of him as a man of quiet dignity and integrity, as much as the enduring power of his deadpan tragi-comedies anatomising life's toils and strivings. "To all requests for interview, you can always answer no," he wrote to his publisher, and he maintained a visceral loathing for any kind of public attention throughout his life. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, his wife described it as a "catastrophe", and, when press-ganged into a photocall at a Tunis hotel to mark the occasion, he appeared in a sports jacket and turtleneck, smoking a cigar, and refused to speak. "He was gone," said Mr Knowlson, "before the cigar had time to burn down a single centimetre."
Mr Samuel Beckett, Paris, 1979
Photo Richard Avedon. © The Richard Avedon Foundation
But Mr Beckett's horror of becoming a public figure didn't mean that he lived like an isolated ascetic. He was light heavyweight boxing champion at his Dublin school, and, thanks to two cricket tours with his university team, is the only Nobel winner to appear in the pages of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, the sport's annual bible. He displayed physical and moral courage throughout his life, throwing himself from the top of a 60ft fir tree as a boy, relying on the lower branches to break his fall, winning the Croix de Guerre for his work with the Resistance during WWII, and, later, refusing to allow his plays to be produced in apartheid South Africa and speaking out against censorship and oppression. He smoked Gauloises and drank John Jameson Irish whiskey (or "JJ", as he called it) with enthusiasm, and loved reading thrillers by Ms Agatha Christie and Mr Edgar Wallace. He was also immensely attractive to women; despite a relationship that lasted more than 50 years with Ms Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, a former piano student, whom he secretly married in 1961, he had numerous affairs, with the heiress Ms Peggy Guggenheim being one of his conquests.
If Mr Beckett is a stylistic role model for the older man, it's perhaps because, like fellow playwright Mr Alan Bennett (author of The History Boys and Talking Heads), he adopted an "old chap" uniform early on and, over the decades, came to refine it. A student photograph finds him in essentially the same elements - tweed jacket, flannels, round eyeglasses - he would sport as a giant of modernism some 60 years later. And while he had an aversion to "lording the hat" - as he once described dressing up - the fine detail of clothes, as with prose, didn't escape him. In one essay he quoted a favourite fable: a tailor, weeks overdue with a pair of trousers, is reminded that God took only six days to create the world. "Yes," replies the tailor, "but look at the world, and look at my trousers."
Mr Samuel Beckett leaving the Royal Court theatre, London, 1976
Photo © Jane Bown/ The Observer
In his later years, Mr Beckett created a smart/ shabby, old/ new benchmark for seniors to follow. On Moroccan holidays, he'd sport fawn shorts, a white shirt and a canvas bag slung over his shoulder containing his student edition of Dante's Divina Commedia. Back in a wintry Paris, it would be smart grey or blue suits, and everyday wear comprising cream/ grey/ beige sweaters (or two polo necks at once if the wind began to bite), a sheepskin coat, a beret pulled squarely down over his ears (no rakish angles, thank you), corduroys or tweed trousers (on once being complemented on the cut of the latter, Mr Beckett, with something of a twinkle in his eye, informed the admirer that they'd come from a charity shop), and a pair of his beloved Clarks Wallabees. It summed up his work/ life aesthetic perfectly - always committed, never precious - and illustrates why he remains revered by students of both the human condition and elder-statesman élan. To paraphrase his most enduring maxim: "Try again. Fail again. Dress better."


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MINNEAPOLIS — The Orlando Magic obviously didn't like losing to the Chicago Bulls 99-93 Tuesday night in Chicago.
But at least some Magic players also took offense to an attempted 3-pointer by Bulls center Joakim Noah with 3.8 seconds remaining in regulation and the Bulls ahead by six points.
Noah took the shot from 26 feet in order to try to push the Bulls past the 100-point barrier and trigger a promotion that would have won the announced crowd of 21,216 inside the United Center free Big Macs.
"It was unnecessary," Magic shooting guard J.J. Redick said when he was asked Wednesday night about Noah's shot.
Orlando point guard Ish Smith said: "We noticed, and hopefully it won't happen again."
Noah expressed some contrition for his shot.
"I got caught up in the moment," Noah said after the game. "I regret it a little. It wasn't a good shot. You have to respect the game because you never know what can happen.
"I just got caught up in the moment and I was trying to get the people a Big Mac. They really wanted a Big Mac. Not only did I take the shot and miss the shot, we didn't even get the Big Mac. Next time I won't take that 3-pointer."
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau spoke with Noah about the shot.
"I talked to him about it, but I'm going to keep that private," Thibodeau said Wednesday, according to ESPNChicago.com.
K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune contributed to this report. Josh Robbins covers the Orlando Magic and the NBA for the Orlando Sentinel. You can reach him via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and connect with him on Facebook at facebook.com/JoshuaBRobbins. Follow him on Twitter at @JoshuaBRobbins.


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Sunken treasures revisited
"This is a very exciting find," recounted Bruce Lockett, director of the Texas Archaeology Study Association (TASA) and president of the Vidor Historical Society, referring to a wreck site discovered by the group months ago. "We've been searching for this site for quite awhile, and I think we may have finally found what we have been looking for." Lockett told The Examiner in August of this most recent find, but now the TASA team has pictures of artifacts located around the wreck site, items which lead the group to think they have indeed uncovered the object they have spent years searching to find.
Lockett said he and his group have been searching for the sunken Angelina steamboat, believed discarded along the Neches riverbed only a few years after it was commissioned in 1844.
"It made 12 trips, and on the last trip coming back it was lost in transit," he said. Information logged by Lockett and TASA maintain an account of the vessel. "This (August) expedition was searching for the steamboat Angelina, which sank in the same area in 1849," Lockett wrote in a log of the find sent to the Texas Historical Commission. "The expedition's purpose was to photograph and designate possible sites for exploration review to find the steamboat. It is believed the vesel in completely intact with boiler and engine still onboard along with many historical artifacts from the period."
Lockett said a boiler/engine combo recovered from an 1800s wreck site is unheard of to this date, but anticipates that streak to change when TASA is able to explore the site, which is located south of Evadale. While the actual wreck site is under more than 100 years of debris and river sand built up over the past century, team members have collected multiple artifacts for review. And, according to seasoned excavator Lockett, the finds have been consistent with what they expected to locate at the Angelina wreck site. Among some of the objects uncovered at the location were carbon batteries, 10-inch nails, angle irons and rivets, and unidentified artifacts thought to be either whiskey barrels or cotton bales.
The only thing that stand between the group and what they believe is the long, lost Angelina is permission to excavate the site. Lockett said they have been waiting to receive word from the Texas Historical Commission to commence with the dig since August, but he anticipates making a road trip to the state office to seek permission if he doesn't hear back from the state agency before the first of November.
"We are waiting on permission to dig the trench, but from what we are seeing, I feel we have found the Angelina," Lockett said. "We have found many reasons to believe the most recent discovery will be the Angelina, but right now, we have to get all the facts checked with the proper authorities."
Lockett said the Cypress wood found on the site is one indication the find is of the 1800- era steamboat, others come in the form of the trinkets and artifacts discovered near the site, not the least of which is the 10-inch nails.
"You don't use nails like that to build houses or anything else," Lockett said. "We feel they were building something bigger. If this isn't the Angelina, it is definitely something as big as the Angelina."
In the interim, while awaiting THC approval to explore the site believed to the be the Angelina, TASA is making plans to further explore a nearby wreck site dubbed the Williams Wreck Site, also uncovered by TASA in August of this year. Lockett said the next phase of exploring the Williams site will include sending multiple dive teams to explore the wreck where it is currently resting. TASA has been in contact with Marine Archeologist Amy Borgens for the Texas Historical Commission in Austin and officials are also looking into what vessel the team has uncovered.
Lockett said the team has explored 25 wreck sites along the Neches since the organization formed, but according to him, there are still many vessels waiting to be revealed.
"Our studies estimate there is upwards of $40 million in artifacts and wood just off the local shores of the Trinity, Neches and Sabine rivers," said Lockett. "At any given time, people are moving right over it and don't even know it. There's a lot of treasures out there waiting to be found. We just have to be diligent in looking for them."
More pictures available in the Oct. 14 edition of The Examiner.


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Broom and Madame Razz's history together is never fully revealed, but it is established that they had adventures before they met and that they met after Etheria's invasion by The Horde. It is revealed that Broom knew that King Ahgo had seen The Crystal Castle, but Madame Razz didn't know this. Broom is noted for his speed, which comes in very useful for the Rebellion. On one occasion he evades capture while carrying two other people. Madame Razz and Broom have a love/hate relationship mirroring Bow and Kowl's relationship. However, Madame Razz and Broom's good natured bickering is nowhere near as sharp and sarcastic as theirs. In various situations he will comment on Madame Razz's age, or correct her mistakes when she is trying to cast a spell. Broom, next to Light Hope, Kowl and Madame Razz is aware that Adora is She-Ra.
Trivia: Broom was voiced by Lou Scheimer, in the Princess Of Power Filmation series.
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Made for just four years from 1998 to 2001, the Mazda B2500 sport pickup truck aims to compete in the small pickup market against the likes of the Chevy S-10 and other economical trucks that can handle rough driving conditions and decent payloads while offering better towing capacity than a wagon or car.
Mazda first introduced the B-series pickups in 1961. Throughout production, the number in the name has always indicated engine size. Thus, the B2500 uses a 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine to produce power. Early examples had a harder time breaking into the American market due to brand loyalty to the ""Big Three"" American automakers and the mind-set of the average American truck buyer.
The B2500 is part of the sixth generation of pickups produced by Mazda. Mazda eventually partnered with Ford, and the B2500 shares a platform with the Ford Ranger truck, which competes in the same class.
For years, American trucks displayed a ""bigger is better"" attitude and the stated goal of being able to handle increasingly challenging tasks. This mentality is still evident in the hyperbolic advertising campaigns used to sell full-sized pickup trucks, but the Mazda B-Series represents a different type of pickup. Early examples basically pre-sage the compact pickup truck that would eventually grow to sizeable portions as American consumers became more comfortable with the idea of a durable, yet economic, pickup.
Later generations of the B-Series feature rotary engines and a quiet, smooth performance. Such models are collectables, and enthusiasts seek them out. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mazda kept producing interesting pickups that went against the grain of basic pickup ethos. Over time, the continued effort began to pay off as consumers finally accepted these ideas.
In the mid-1980s, after producing rotary engines and bodies for electric powered pickups, Mazda settled into truck production that satisfied American car-buying tastes. These compact B-Series trucks use four- and six-cylinder engines but fit a more traditional mold. Mazda's partnership with Ford makes North American production and access much easier, and the B-Series trucks did well after a huge multi-million dollar effort to redesign the venerable series to appeal to North American buyers.
The B2500 arrived in 1998 and lasted four years, but similar trucks are still available; the short production run can be attributed to constant name changes because of design changes. The model's discontinuation should not be regarded as an indicator of failure or lack of quality. The B2500 no longer exists because of a change in engine size, not a scuttling of the design.
By the time the B2500 came along, these trucks had a dual reputation. On the one hand, customers regarded the B2500 as a Ford Ranger with slight changes and a Mazda emblem on the hood. Then in 1998, when the B2500 was released, Mazda sought to separate its pickup line from the Ford truck siblings that lent a platform to the B-Series. Thus a redesign of the B-Series took place, and the B2500 represents the four-cylinder version of these new Mazdas that have their own look and feel.
The B2500 is rather capable for a four-cylinder pickup, and offers decent towing capacity. Through its four years of production, no major design flaws surfaced, speaking to the reliability of the vehicle. Like most examples in class, this vehicle doesn't have massive power, but it will accomplish most basic truck tasks without a lot of expensive fuel.
In keeping with Mazda company themes of the time period, the sporty B2500 handles reasonably well and is fun to drive. With pickups, sportiness amounts to playing in the dirt. In this respect, the B2500 always handles itself well enough and can provide truck-driving pleasure for those enthusiasts who want to test this truck in rougher conditions.
While Mazda compact pickups still show success in the market, the B2500 model ended production in 2001. There are still Mazda pickups to intrigue potential buyers for model year 2012 trucks, but this Mazda compact pickup model is only available as a used vehicle.
Over four short years that barely represents a whole generation for the B-Series Mazda pickups, not much changed with the B2500. In fact, a major change necessitated a name change according to Mazda's naming philosophy. Throughout its production run, the B2500 always remained a four-cylinder compact pickup with ""Mazda sportiness"" and respectable reliability, with only minor changes in cosmetics or standard features and options.
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The B-Series is Mazda's line of pickup trucks, from small to full size models, in production from 1961 through 2006 when the line was replaced by the BT25.
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HOUSTON — Memorial space flights for four-legged loved ones will start this fall by a Houston company that already sends human remains out of this world.
Celestis Inc. on Wednesday announced Celestis Pets. Rockets carrying cremated remains of dogs and cats are touted as a way for owners to "celebrate the life of their pet."
Spokeswoman Pazia (PAH'-zee-uh) Schonfeld says the cost will be about the same as for human remains sent into space and returned, starting at about $995.
Celestis Pets is working with a California company, Into the Sunset Pet Transition Center of San Diego, for the doggie and kitty cremations.
Celestis for years has offered a rocket service that takes partial human remains into space and brings them back, including ashes of "Star Trek" TV show creator Gene Roddenberry.


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Boston Red Sox: The Salary Payoff PitchBy Mel Duvall | Posted 2004-05-14 Print
Keeping track of stats in the numbers-obsessed world of baseball is nothing new. But Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein has amassed a collection of personnel data utilizing the right blend of enterprise software and business intelligence applications other teams and corporate business managers can only dream about. This is the story of how success is created by blending intelligent analytical technology against employee performance management.
Boston Red Sox: The Salary Payoff Pitch
In addition to finding and developing talent, one of the key uses of a statistics system for personnel is figuring out how much to pay people.
The Red Sox, and for that matter any major league team, will not reveal exactly how they decide a player's worth. Market forces certainly play a major part, but teams must also decide whether paying tens of millions of dollars to a player will generate appropriate returns. Oakland A's GM Beane said recently at the conference in Chicago that he knows exactly what a player is worth to him based on how many wins he'll contribute to the team in a season. "But I'm not going to tell you it," he laughed.
However, the fact that the Sox hired Bill James provides some insights into how they may be tying their analysis to their checkbook. James has created several methods to estimate the value of a player, including a formula he published in 2002 called Win Shares. Win Shares takes a mathematical approach to evaluating the contribution of an individual player to a team's overall performance. It considers a variety of statistics, including pitching, hitting, walks and defensive contributions, and adjusts them for a particular ballpark and the league. Some parks are more hitter-friendly, such as Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, where the thin air allows batted balls to carry farther.
At its basic level, a single Win Share is one-third of the credit for winning a game. So if the Red Sox win 95 games this year, there will be 285 Win Shares to spread among players. Spread across the 25-man roster, an average player might wind up with 10 Win Shares.
But consider the Sox' acquisition in the off-season of star pitcher Curt Schilling. According to James' system, Schilling achieved 24 Win Shares in the 2002 season and 15 in 2003, for an average of 19.5. To get Schilling, the Sox had to assume his $12 million salary. Other pitchers with similar Win Shares in 2003 were the Sox' Pedro Martinez (20 Win Shares, $17.5 million salary), the Yankees' Mike Mussina (19, $16 million) and Seattle's Jamie Moyer (18, $7 million). Schilling's $12 million price tag is at the low end of the range.
Alex Rodriguez led the league with 32 Win Shares in 2003 and the Sox would have loved to sign him, admits GM Epstein. The bottom line, however, is that the team would not cross its threshold of $20.25 million a year, and had to walk away from the table.
Corporations play out their own version of Win Shares every day. A new salesperson isn't hired unless it is calculated that he or she will bring in more revenue than the cost of that person's compensation. Boards of directors must determine whether paying $28 million for a new chief executive will provide an appropriate return in shareholder value. There just isn't the level of sophistication with business statistics as there is in baseball.
And the Sox are using all the data at their disposal and applying statistical analysis to find the best and brightest. It's how they decided to cut Jose Offerman and John Valentin, two underperforming infielders with combined salaries of $6 million, and were able to pick up sluggers David Ortiz and Kevin Millar for a combined $3.25 million. Together, Ortiz and Millar contributed 162 runs in 2003, while Offerman and Valentin had contributed 66 runs in 2002.
Indeed, stereotypes and conventional thinking are being tossed aside, unless the numbers back it up. As James states, the goal is to let the data take on the power of language— to let it determine what is true and what isn't.
The guidelines are being set because the data says it's the key to winning.
The baseball season is underway, and most Red Sox fans don't know or care what kind of computer or software Epstein and his crew are using behind the scenes. It's the results that matter. And only one is truly acceptable: a World Series title.
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Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance
National Gallery, London 19 February – 11 May 2014
'Beauty: a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, which please the aesthetic senses, especially the sight'
Oxford English Dictionary, 2013
What exactly makes a work of art beautiful? And how can this perception radically alter due to the changing world its viewer is living in? These are the intriguing questions being posed by 'Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance' at the National Gallery this spring.
This collection-focused exhibition takes a fresh look at paintings, drawings and prints by well-known artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder – examining the striking changes in the ways these works were perceived in their time, in the recent past, and how they are viewed today.
More than 30 loans from UK collections will help visitors explore these fascinating themes. Key works coming to 'Strange Beauty' include the
Matthias Grünewald drawing of 'An Elderly Woman with Clasped Hands' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), (2nd from the left)
the renowned Holbein miniature of 'Anne of Cleves' (Victoria & Albert Museum, London),
'Portrait of Young Man with a Rosary' by Hans Baldung Grien (Royal Collection Trust on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen)
and a collection of fine drawings and prints by Holbein, Dürer and Altdorfer (British Museum, London).
The German Renaissance was part of the cultural and artistic awakening that spread across Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. German artists such as Dürer developed an international reputation, their fame reaching all parts of Europe, while renowned humanist scholars such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the patron of Hans Holbein the Younger, played a leading role in reviving the study of classical texts in the service of Christianity.
Paintings such as
'The Ambassadors' by Holbein, '
Christ taking Leave of his Mother' by Albrecht Altdorfer,
'Cupid complaining to Venus' by Lucas Cranach the Elder,
'Portrait of a Man' by Hans Baldung Grien
and 'Saint Jerome' by Albrecht Dürer
were highly valued in the 16th century for qualities such as expression and inventiveness. However, by the 19th and early 20th centuries German Renaissance art was receiving a very mixed reception. Some viewers admired the artists' technical mastery and their embodiment of a perceived German national identity; others perceived these works of art as excessive or even ugly, particularly when compared to works of the Italian Renaissance.
Views such as these – alongside the shifting attitudes towards the German nation in the UK following the First and Second World Wars – were to have a direct effect on the formation and growth of the Gallery, and indeed all the UK national collections.
This was strongly evidenced in 1856 when the Trustees of the National Gallery sold the Krüger Collection – the only time in its entire history that the Gallery has had an Act of Parliament passed to de-accession and sell pictures. This group of 64 early Westphalian paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries was acquired for the Gallery by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Gladstone, in 1854. However just three years later, 37 works were sold as they did not fit in with the 'present state of the Gallery' (as National Gallery Trustees Minutes noted at the time). Rarely publicly displayed contemporary documents from the National Gallery archive will be featured in the exhibition in order to illustrate this episode.
A highlight of the exhibition will be, for the first time ever, a reconstruction of the Liesborn altarpiece.
This work was created after 1465 and originally formed the high altarpiece in the Benedictine Abbey of Liesborn in Germany. In 1803, on the suppression of the monastery, it was dismembered, sold and scattered across the globe – eight pieces remain at the Gallery as part of the Krüger Collection. Now for the first time, visitors will be able to visualise the completed altarpiece as it might have looked during the 15th century.
The first room of 'Strange Beauty' introduces the types of paintings that were admired in 1824, when the Gallery was founded. Room 2 presents some of the German Renaissance painting acquisitions finally made by the National Gallery during the 19th and early 20th centuries – not all of which were immediately appreciated or admired. The third room focuses on the qualities of expressiveness and technical and stylistic invention which are so important within German Renaissance art. The masters of this genre, Holbein, Dürer and Cranach, will be exhibited in Room 4, highlighting their distinctive style. Past letters and documentation continue to reveal the historic reception to these paintings. Room 5 discusses themes of beauty and nature, examining the distinctive interpretation of these concepts by German Renaissance artists.
The final room of 'Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance' will be an interactive experience, inviting today's visitors to comment, and vote, on their reactions to German painting.


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Denel Sees High-Tech Opportunities in Developing Countries
South African arms manufacturer Denel Dynamics says it is working toward producing a family of surface-to-air and air-to-air defense missiles amid a larger push to expand collaboration with nations in South America, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere in Africa.
Denel says its new missile technology system, called Marlin, should lead to surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) for armies and navies and air-to-air missiles (AAMs) for air forces.
Denel, which is wholly owned by the South African government, specifically seeks collaborations in South America, China, Russia, Nigeria and the Middle East, where a joint venture weapons development program is underway with a company based in the United Arab Emirates.
The Marlin development program is under contract from the South African Defence Department and intends, through collaboration with state-owned arms industries in Brazil, to produce a world-class weapon that should be ready for use by the participating nations defense forces in four years, the company said.
Denel Dynamics CEO Jan Wessels said the Marlin program forms the core of the companys technology demonstrator program, which aims to build on the recent development of high-precision, short-range missiles such as the A-Darter, R-Darter and Umkhonto missile families.
Wessels said Denel Dynamics, which also produces UAVs, is seeking a joint venture with a friendly country to help finance programs and share the risks in developing the new missile technology system into a full-scale, world-class program.
An assessment of South Africas recent history of collaborative defense relations shows that Brazil, already a partner in the joint development of the A-Darter air defense missile system, is a favorite for nomination as a partner in developing the new missile technology system.
Besides Brazil, Denel in 2008 was reported to be working with China in developing the T-Darter missile system. In the UAE, Denel is collaborating with Tawazun Dynamics in developing and improving precision-guided munitions such as the Al Tariq.
Also, two months ago, Russian Helicopters opened its first Africawide maintenance, repair and overhaul center for Mi-8/17 and the Kamov family of helicopters at Denel Dynamics industrial complex.
The service center is a joint initiative that allows Denel to be the sole continental service center for Russian Helicopters.
Wessels said there is a huge scope for new weapons development programs in collaboration with other arms industries in the developing world.
As seen with the A-Darter program [with Brazil], this type of initiative can sustain and grow industry, he said. Competitive, indigenous guided-missile design and development capability serve a number of strategic objectives for both South Africa and other advanced developing nations.
Locally developed defense products translate into improved technological capability for both countries and create an independent defense capability that is of strategic importance, Wessels said. With that comes skills growth and industry job opportunities.
The A-Darter program with Brazil is in the qualification phase and is scheduled for completion in 2014.
Meanwhile, Denel and UAE company Tawazun Dynamics have announced that they have successfully tested a new version of the Al Tariq precision-guided munition, which both companies said executed a difficult mission test during a flight evaluation program.
Tawazuns Al-Tariq program manager, Coenie Loock, said the weapon, which was tested against a laser-designated target, scored a direct hit with the miss distance narrowed to less than one meter.
He said the Al Tariq was launched off the track of the target and was programmed to enter the target area from a different direction during the terminal phase of the test, a maneuver Loock said the weapon successfully executed.
This implies the missile had to perform a dog-leg maneuver and the flight path had to be calculated dynamically on the fly, he said.
According to the Al Tariq website, the missile is a family of strap-on bomb kit systems and can be used on US-standard MK81, MK82 and MK83 bombs.
Before the latest upgrade, the standard versions of the Al Tariq had a range of 40 kilometers, while the long-range versions had a range of 100 kilometers.
Denel Dynamics said the accuracy of the new version of the munition is more refined as it operates independently of the weapon range.
Source: By OSCAR NKALA - BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, defensenews.com News - 6 June 2013
Photo: The South African Air Force Saab Gripen fighter jet /Denel Dynamics A-Darter air-to-air missiles The first A-Darter fifth-generation short-range air-to-air missile is launched from a South African Air Force Saab Gripen fighter jet. Denel Dynamics is a division within the Denel Group and is a leader in systems technology. (Photo by Denel Dynamics)


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