{Rewrite for clarity} A new event, which aired on Speed Channel and was sponsored by Kobalt Tools, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs driving small Legends Thunder Roadster Cars (the creation of Lowe's Motor Speedway president H.A. "Humphy" Wheeler) on the quarter-mile oval in front of the main track's grandstand.
The Acmeists contrasted the ideal of Apollonian clarity (hence the name of their journal, Apollo) to "Dionysian frenzy" propagated by the Russian Symbolist poets like Bely and Vyacheslav Ivanov.
Philippe Dagen, writing in Le Monde about Oehlen's 2011 exhibition in Nîmes, concluded that he was "of only limited importance. With about 30 canvases he reveals his system with absolute, but unfortunately appalling, clarity."
Diamond grading is the specialty of the American Gem Society Laboratories and the Society has developed its own cut, color, and clarity standards.
The Gola National Park has been subject to a study and report into the conflicts and lack of clarity between the mining and forestry sectors in Sierra Leone by Global Witness.
He referred to the German edition of Ludwig von Mises's Theory of Money and Credit and wrote: 'In von Mises there seems to me to be very noteworthy clarity and power. His Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel is an exceptionally excellent book.
The venues for screening include premier spots like the AMPAS, Writers Guild, Chinese Theater and The Clarity Theatre.
He is best known for his books on American music - Harry Partch: a biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and other writings on music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP.
The BC NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt.
"What Would I Say To You Now" originally appeared on a 1997 split-7" EP with Jejune, and also later appeared on the rarities compilation Singles and as a bonus track on the 2009 reissue of Clarity.
Come Clarity was named Best Swedish album of the Past Decade by readers of Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
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The song "Take This Life" is featured in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and music videos were produced for this song along with "Come Clarity".
It was later confirmed by Robert Weinberg, the writer of Cable at the time of the Dark Sisterhood storyline, that he had indeed originally intended Finality, as well as her brother Clarity, to be the maternal ancestress of the Grey family, but he was forced to cancel the story at the last minute.
The CIBJO or the International Confederation of Jewellery, Silverware, Diamonds and Stones developed the International Clarity Scale for grading diamonds.
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), a French painter in the classical style whose work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color; served as an alternative to the more narrative Baroque style of the 17th century.
Wilhelm claimed that his grandfather deserved to be recognized as a key precursor to Romantic music, although some critics challenged his assessment because of a lack of clarity over what elements in the edited works were original and which were added by Wilhelm.
Writing 30 years after Richter's death, Camille Paglia paid tribute to her "for her clarity and rigor of mind; her fineness of sensibility and connoisseurship; her attention to detail and her power of observation and deduction; her mastery of form and design."
Between 1847 and 1852 Bond and pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple used the Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.
Many of the New York crystals are known for their extreme clarity, and Wiccan and New Age belief systems often ascribe specific occult properties and a wide variety of mystical powers to them.
Another example of this graphic clarity is shown on the race cars themselves, the most notable being Red Bull (on Saubers) and Nokia (on Tyrrells) logos.
Between 1847 and 1852 Whipple and astronomer William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, used Harvard's Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.
Since he began his career during a time when Spanish churches were adopting the Roman liturgy as prescribed by the Council of Trent, his music reveals an attempt to reconcile Spanish polyphonic traditions of the sixteenth century with Tridentine preferences for clarity of text and brevity of statement.
A peak of approximately 6 dB at 6-8 kHz is considered beneficial for compensating loss of clarity when chest-mounted, as is a peak of a few decibels at 10–15 kHz when mounted in the hair above the forehead.
In his solo performances, Mike's song list showed off the clarity and purity of his voice with songs as diverse as Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and the haunting Scottish ballad, "Wild Mountain Thyme".
The Austrian daily Der Standard lauded the resulting mash-up, stating the play’s "masterful blend of condensed fairytales, biographical notes, and exquisitely transfigured personae from Andersen’s universe is achieved through clarity of dramatic structure, the lightness of the 'show' form, the outstanding dancers and performers, and the subtle music of Larry Steinbachek".
Susan Neiman (2008) Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Harcourt Inc.
It remains controversial to this day, continuing to inspire some anarchists (notably the platformism tendency) because of the clarity and functionality of the structures it proposes, while drawing criticism from others (including, at the time of publication, Voline and Malatesta) who viewed its implications as too rigid and hierarchical.
The cathedral altarpiece paintings documented, along with a picture of the Nativity, allegedly signed with an "N" in a hymnal of the collegiate Basilica of San Isidoro, helped define his style of painting, which combines the clarity and Italian Flemish attention to detail, and attribute some other works, among which the Altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin and Saint Francis (Museo del Prado), from Chapel Farm Esteva of Delights in the vicinity of La Bañeza.
A charitable project organized by the city and the Sisters of Our Lady of Clarity of the Good Pastor of Angers, the establishment of a women's jail, was completed by architect José Montblanch in 1906.
Maxim Gorky called On the Hills "the glorious poem of Russia" and urged young authors to take lessons from Melnikov-Pechersky and Nikolai Leskov, learning from them "the clarity and richness of language".
Katenin was an avid theatre-goer who spurned Shakespeare as vulgar and obscure and admired Corneille and Racine for their noble diction and clarity.
Brand loyalty depends upon the ability of the company to establish and maintain clarity of communication with the consumer regarding their brand; and to maintain and expand the points of difference that define the brand.
Robert Beverly Hale cited the drawing, particularly the structure of the eye, for its attention to anatomical detail and the clarity with which the orbital cavity is described.
The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.
Note that in R v Woollin (1998), the House of Lords replaced "infer" with "find", for greater clarity in the model direction.
Writing in the New Statesman, Professor David Crystal observed that although it contains valid points about ambiguity, honesty and importance of clarity, inconsistencies permeate the book.
In recent years internationally known professional, London based musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Academy of Music and BBC Concert Orchestra, to mention a few, have played concerts in the Church because they appreciate the exceptional clarity of the acoustics.
He published his research in 1856 and was congratulated for the clarity and practicality of his work by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was building the South Devon Railway at the time.
On the other hand, using Gabor transform causes an improvement in the clarity and readability of the representation, therefore improving its interpretation and application to practical problems.
Vignetting in photography, any process by which there is loss in clarity towards the corners and sides of an image