But we miss the real spirit of the reformation if we do not see the element
of the renaissance with its acceptance of man's natural life as essentially good and the scene of his creative action.
Fortunately this doesn't seem to be the case and, if anything, the hypercar is currently enjoying something
of a renaissance with the likes of Bugatti and Koenigsegg setting top speed and acceleration records seemingly just for the hell of it.
Thanks mainly to the no frills airlines, Nice is going through something
of a renaissance with thousands of Brits a week pouring into the city looking for sun, entertainment, real estate opportunities and in some cases even a new life.
His painting practice merges subtle compositional references to religious art
of the Renaissance with a contemporary secular sense of the spiritual.
«Having studied Florentine Painting
of the Renaissance with Millard Meiss as well as Dutch and Flemish Painting of the 17th Century with Julius Held as a graduate student at Columbia University, Motherwell was familiar with this genre.
Curators from both institutions have worked on this exhibition which will reflect their different specialisms, and aims to reveal the continuities
of the Renaissance with both the medieval and earlier ages.
Past exhibitions recall in - situ artworks
of the renaissance with their emphasis on classical form, dynamism, and turgidity.
Not exact matches
Walmart has been enjoying a
renaissance of sorts recently,
with U.S. comparable sales rising eight straight quarters, and online sales growth taking off again.
Even as its groovy formula for urban
renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often
with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations
of Brooklynization verge on cliché.
Year - to - date, 36 companies have gone public,
with deals on average priced twelve percent below the midpoint
of proposed ranges, according to Kathleen Smith, principal at
Renaissance Capital.
«I actually believe CEO Kevin Plank has a chance to lead a
renaissance of the company, and
with the stock down at $ 13.75, I think it's running out
of downside,» he said.
With all in sustaining costs hitting a record low
of A$ 912 an ounce last month, cash is pouring into the company and setting it up for a
renaissance year.
However, as wet shaving has undergone a bit
of a
renaissance lately, newer companies are throwing their hats into the ring
with their own high - quality and competitively - priced options.
A full - service
Renaissance could cost about $ 50 million, compared
with $ 15 million for a similar - size Fairfield; that's a cost difference per room
of $ 250,000 vs. $ 120,000.
Where to stay: The business hotel
of the moment is the elegant
Renaissance Zurich Tower
with a giant main - floor space perfect for lunch meetings.
By 2011, Simon and Parish had met
with some
of the world's leading authorities on the
Renaissance masters, including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the National Gallery in London.
But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist
with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number
of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.
THE
renaissance of hedonistic feasting has arrived in South Perth
with the «Chef's Table» at the Charthouse Restaurant within the Windsor Hotel.
Taleb's contemporary classic is enjoying something
of a
renaissance after Brexit and Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election,
with its argument that humanity rarely sees the truly life - altering shifts coming.
Such optimism must somehow reconcile
with all the forces conspiring against Canadian oil: the lack
of pipeline infrastructure or «takeaway» capacity, the occasionally gaping price discount applied to Western Canada Select, the
renaissance in oil production unfolding in the U.S., rising Canadian production costs and the flight
of investor money out
of commodities.
And while no one is suggesting the job is done,
with large swaths
of the city still languishing years later, New Orleans is having a remarkable
renaissance.
And that licensing really isn't needed at all - imagine the absurdity
of the government telling
Renaissance Technologies, the most successful hedge fund
of all time staffed mainly
with mathematicians and physicists, that they can only hire CFA charter holders.
BOSTON (Reuters)-
Renaissance Technologies LLC, one
of the world's most prominent hedge funds,
with roughly $ 27 billion in assets, told investors on Tuesday that it is closing its
Renaissance Institutional Futures Fund, because it has not been a hit
with investors.
Due to our investment in North American Rescue, LLC, a leading supplier
of mission - critical tactical medical products to the military and law enforcement, and our relationship
with Renaissance Strategic Advisors, one
of the most influential defense consultancies, we are well positioned to identify, win and manage opportunities in this sector.
The
Renaissance Venture Capital Fund was formed
with the philosophy that venture capital is important for economic growth and that Michigan and many other major regions are underserved in the amount
of venture capital available to fund exciting new ideas and technologies.
In this role, Vince leads the connection
of Renaissance stakeholders
with new technologies and start - up companies.
Vince Nystrom is the Vice President
of Business Development
with Renaissance.
The Kode
with Klossy community is a collective
of renaissance women and girls, who are leaders, and at the frontline
of the coding revolution.
She also became friendly
with Rebekah Mercer — the daughter
of Robert Mercer, co-founder
of the
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund, a major donor in Republican circles.
Matt Therian
of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets
with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition,
of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track
with investors.
With a growing backlog
of IPOs, and economic indicators continuing to show signs
of improvement,
Renaissance Capital says it anticipates «another dynamic year for the US IPO market in 2014.»
Summary
of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile
of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest
of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation
of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated
with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]
For Virgin Hyperloop One, the new joint venture
with DP World is another sign
of the company's continued
renaissance since bringing Virgin aboard.
REVPAR at the company's comparable systemwide North American full - service and luxury hotels (including Marriott Hotels & Resorts, The Ritz - Carlton and
Renaissance Hotels & Resorts) increased 5.5 percent
with a 3.7 percent increase in occupancy and an average daily rate decline
of 0.3 percent.
In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy
Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but
with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades
of drilling ahead.
Three years ago, New Rochelle's City Council selected RXR Realty, along
with Renaissance Downtowns, as the «master developer» for the city's $ 4 billion downtown revitalization
of more than 10 million square feet
of space.
This week on our Masters in Business podcast, we speak
with Jeff DeGraaf, founder and chief technician
of Renaissance Macro.
This week on our Masters in Business podcast, we speak
with Jeff DeGraaf, founder and chief technician
of Renaissance Macro.He was formerly Chief Technician at Lehman Brothers.
All
of this — the outward gaze
of the writers in the Catholic
Renaissance, and the inward gaze
of the next generation — had consequences that remain
with us, even now.
While it is regrettable that he never made his peace
with Italian classicism» one wonders what Cram might have learned from the delicate austerity
of Florentine arcades or the freewheeling geometric brilliance
of Borromini» his early embrace
of the Mexican Baroque (spurred by his partner Goodhue), his late interest in the Iberian
Renaissance, and his numerous forays into American colonial revival show he was no mere Gothic fanatic.
According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion
of the New Testament was most completely fused
with the Platonic tradition
of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product
of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms
of medieval Roman Catholicism and
Renaissance Protestantism.»
While best known for their
Renaissance - era dress uniforms - brightly striped, puffy - sleeved shirts and pants - along
with their ceremonial battle axes, they are a formidable modern security detail, according to Widmer, who now runs the entrepreneurship program at the School
of Business and Economics at the Catholic University
of America.
Before the invention
of the novel, verse provided the vehicle for throwing philosophical and theological truths into their enacted, experienced forms, which is why I've profited so much from medieval and
Renaissance poems, especially those I've recommended, all
of which are allied
with the chanson de geste, tales
of heroism and adventure that delight as much as they inform.
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $ 40 What I discovered,» writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian
Renaissance paintings
of the saints, «were images often infused
with tenderness, exquisite sentiment, erotic vigor, but....
In a formal sense, the age
of concentration can be compared to the
Renaissance, but
with a significant difference: What is being resurrected is not antiquity but the Middle Ages.
It looks specifically at the impact
of Jewish beliefs upon the pursuit
of knowledge and the role
of natural knowledge in encouraging interaction
with other cultures and faiths such as Islam during the Medieval period and Christianity during the
Renaissance.
He had read
with pleasure and intelligence Yeats (maybe most
of all Yeats) and hundreds
of serious works by Claudel, Peguy, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Francois Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, Belloc, Maritain, Yves Simon, Romano Guardini, Sigrid Undset, and Heinrich Böll — all the writers
of the «modern Catholic
Renaissance.»
Paideia proved compatible both
with the more social understanding
of human personhood that marked medieval life and
with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much
Renaissance culture.
He associates this
with the «spirit» dimension
of the «
Renaissance - Platonic» view
of the human person as body - soul - spirit, as retrieved by de Lubac.
When an autonomous nature and an infinite space dawned in the
Renaissance, the world was no longer manifest as the creation, and
with the subsequent triumph
of modern science, contingency in the medieval sense has disappeared from view.