8 Summary D Following the quote Well if Wikipedia says it, it must be true this article hereby declares that Stephanie Elizabeth Melone is officially, without question, THE QUEEN OF RIGHTNESS. For the purpose of argument, please note that Rebecca Elizabeth Smaill is officially NOT THE QUEEN OF RIGHTNESS. Signed with love The Queen of Rightness xXx Licensing PD self date October 2007 Orphan image Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot ... more details
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In Greek mythology , Ichnaea Iknaia , the tracker was an epithet that could be applied to Themis , as in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo line 94 , or to Nemesis mythology Nemesis , who was venerated at Ichnae, a Greek city in Macedon . At the birth of Apollo on Delos according to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order Dione mythology Dione , Rhea mythology Rhea , Ichnaea and Themis and the sea goddess loud moaning Amphitrite . See also Adrasteia References http www.uni mannheim.de mateo camenaref hofmann i books i 468.html Camena J. J. Hofmann, Lexicon universale 1698 http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 1667.html Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Ichnaea Category Greek goddesses Category Epithets of Greek deities Category Apollo ... more details
Orthotes lang el rightness is a Greek philosophy concept which means approximately an eye s correctness . In Plato s philosophy it is said to be the passage from the physical eyes to the eyes of the intellect. At least this seems to be the interpretation of Martin Heidegger as says Marilena Chaui in her philosophy classes at University of S o Paulo in his http www.stanford.edu dept relstud faculty sheehan pdf 47PLATO.PDF Plato s Doctrine of Truth . In his essay, The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking, Heidegger distinguishes Orthotes from the similar Pre Socratic concept, Aletheia unconcealment , describing it as the correctness of representations and statements. ref Heidegger, Martin, and Krell David. Farrell. Basic Writings from Being and Time 1927 to The Task of Thinking 1964 . London Routledge, 1993. Print. ref philo stub Category Mental content Category Platonism Category Martin Heidegger Reflist ... more details
Arta may refer to Places Arta, Azerbaijan , a village and municipality Arta Region , Djibouti Arta, Djibouti , capital city of Arta Region Arta Prefecture , Greece Arta, Greece , capital city of Arta Prefecture Medieval Despotate of Arta 1358 1416 Art , a municipality on the island of Majorca, Spain Nart Arta in Greek , Albania Ambracian Gulf , also known as the Gulf of Arta, a gulf of the Ionian Sea People Arta Kamuia , elder brother of the 1st century BCE Indo Scythian ruler Maues Arta Dobroshi born 1979 , Kosovar actress Arta Mu aj born 1974 , Albanian actress Other uses Asha also called Arta , concept of rightness and divine order in the ancient Aryan cultures Arta Industrial Group , a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tehran, Iran ARTA may refer to Auckland Regional Transport Authority ARTA Project, an acronym for the Autobacs Racing Team Aguri disambig geo ca Arta de Arta es Arta desambiguaci n fa fr Arta ko he nl Arta ja pl Arta pt Arta ro Arta dezambiguizare ru sv Arta uk ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Juboal Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T seif , usually referred to as Perosteck Balveda , is a character in the science fiction novel Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks . Balveda, as she is usually addressed, is a member of the Culture , an anarchic yet high tech humanoid civilization. She has chosen to work in the faction known as Contact The Culture Contact , specializing in interactions with other cultures, and especially the select group calling itself Special Circumstances , dealing in covert operations, assassinations, etc. Balveda is an active participant in the Culture s war against a non humanoid race, the Idiran s. Deeply ambivalent about the methods employed by her faction in the war, she meets Horza , a humanoid fighting with the Idirans who is as passionate about his opposition to the Culture as Balveda is about the rightness of its objectives, if not its methods. After the end of the war, Balveda s experience during a mission to Schar s World where she accomplishes her objective at the cost of almost all other lives, including Horza s causes her to elect to be put in suspended animation until such a time as the entire war can be justified in terms of eventual benefits. However, like most who take this course after the war, she chooses to euthanize herself a few months after being awakened. The Culture Category The Culture ... more details
Soviet Union sidebar People s court in the late Soviet Union is a court of first instance which handled the majority of civil and criminal offenses, as well as certain administrative law offenses. The people s court handled cases by a collegium consisted of a people s judge and two people s assessors . The people s assessors had duties similar to jurors, but decided both any objections and the verdict along with the judge, unlike in most jury systems. Although they were supposed to assess the impartiality and rightness of the judge s decisions, the people s assessors were Party members as well, usually agreeing with everything judges did. In early Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia and Soviet Union the term people s court was used in reference to any court in the new Soviet legal system which replaced the legal syslem of the Russian Empire . At these times there were several levels of courts, accorting to the administrative division of the country local, okrug , and oblast people s courts. ref http www.gumer.info bibliotek Buks History Article dekr sud2.php Decree about the Court No. 2 February 15, 1918 ru icon ref See also Procurator General of the Soviet Union Procurator General of the USSR Supreme Court of the USSR Ministry of Justice Soviet Union Ministry of Justice of the USSR References reflist Category Soviet law soviet stub ... more details
Goodness rightness, desirability, uprightness, benevolence, honesty Beauty rightness, form ..., everything in its right place, just rightness, suitability, justice Necessity inevitability it must ... fairness, suitability, disinterestedness, non partiality, Order lawfulness, rightness, perfectly arranged ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2009 Tempo giusto is a musical term that means in exact time, often directing a return to strict time following a tempo rubato rubato or to play in strict time or suitable time General The literal meaning of the direction is in exact time . It commonly appears after a previous change in tempo directing the performer to return to the previous tempo before the change. However, the meaning of the direction is debated. Some musical critics claim tempo giusto implies more than simply the absence of rubato it has a positive musical meaning in its own right. Instead of translating the term to mean strict time it is translated as right tempo . Accordingly, tempo giusto is a musical term that describes the rate of a piece the tempo at which it slips through the musician s fingers. Thus, tempo giusto instructs the performer to play the piece in question at the right speed. Right speed has been understood by musical critics in one of two ways the term has an objective and a subjective interpretation. Gail Godwin , an American novelist, explains the objective interpretation by writing in her recent work Heart The Italians have a musical notation not found in any other language tempo giusto, the right tempo. It means a steady, normal beat, between 66 and 76 on the metronome. Tempo giusto is the appropriate beat of the human heart . According to Godwin s interpretation, right refers to an objective measure the average rate of the human heart. Critics following the subjective interpretation claim that the rightness of the tempo is a rightness garnered from the musician s intuition. That is, a score which tells the musician to play the piece at the right tempo is telling the musician to use his intuition to figure out the tempo that the notes in the score imply. In this sense tempo giusto refers less to a specific numerical tempo than a rate that can only be induced on a case by case basis by examining the overall character of a composition. It is a speed t ... more details
interpretations exist? ref Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons Interpretation in Cultural Practices ..., Rightness and Reasons , chap. 3, 4. ref ref Michael Krausz, Interpretation and Transformation ... of Rightness , Lanham, Md. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000, chap. 11 ref How does the question ..., an innocuous pluralism occurs. ref Krausz, Rightness and Reasons , chap. 2. ref Where ... of Rightness , chap. 4,5. ref He further shows that the contest between singularism and multiplism ... realism. ref Krausz, Limits of Rightness , chap. 5 9 ref None of the ontologies in Krausz s inventory ... nature. ref Michael Krausz, Limits of Rightness , chap. 13. ref II. Relativism . In addition, Krausz ... media. Bibliography Major Works Rightness and Reasons Interpretation in Cultural Practices , Ithaca ... Publishers, 1996. Limits of Rightness , Lanham, Md. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Interpretation ... more details
to be right things to do rightness may be said to be a property of certain human action theory action ... clear how to physically see, touch or measure the goodness of a novel or the rightness of an action. A difficult question Moore did not consider goodness and rightness to be natural properties ... more details
Image The Doctrine of Awakening Cover.jpg thumb 210px The Doctrine of Awakening The Attainment of Self Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts is a book by philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola . First published in Italian language Italian as La dottrina del risveglio in 1943. It was translated into English language English in 1948 by Nanavira Thera H.E. Musson , and republished in 1997 ISBN 0 89281 553 1 . Table of Contents Translator s Foreword Preface Introduction Part I Principles 1. Varieties of Ascesis 2. The Aryan ness of the Doctrine of Awakening 3. The Historical Context of the Doctrine of Awakening 4. Destruction of the Demon of Dialectics 5. The Flame and Samsara Samsaric Consciousness 6. Conditioned Genesis 7. Determination of the Vocations Part II Practice 8. The Qualities of the Combatant and the Departure 9. Defense and Consolidation 10. Rightness 11. Sidereal Awareness The Wounds Close 12. The Four Jhana The Irradiant Contemplations 13. The States Free from Form and the Extinction 14. Discrimination Between the Powers 15. Phenomenology philosophy Phenomenology of the Great Liberation 16. Signs of the Nonpareil 17. The Void If the Mind Does Not Break 18. Up to Zen 19. The Ariya Are Still Gathered on the Vulture s Peak Index External links http ccbs.ntu.edu.tw FULLTEXT JR EPT richard.htm Review of The Doctrine of Awakening by Richard Smoley in Parabola magazine Parabola magazine . http www.innertraditions.com isbn 0 89281 553 1 Publisher s blurb for The Doctrine of Awakening by Inner Traditions http www.stephenbatchelor.org existence2.html Discussion on The Doctrine of Awakening s translator Captain Nanavira Thera Harold Musson footer Works by Julius Evola DEFAULTSORT Doctrine Of Awakening Category Works by Julius Evola Category 1943 books Category Buddhism studies books reli book stub ... more details
The Ten Year World Crusade 10 Year World Crusade 1953 1963 was launched by Shoghi Effendi in an effort to facilitate an organized expansion of the Bah Faith . Among the goals of the plan, the Bah s began an enormous effort of teaching and consolidating their Faith, and in 1963 the plan culminated with the first election of the Universal House of Justice , which today remains as the highest elected body of the Bah Faith. The four primary goals http reference.bahai.org en t se MBW mbw 24.html gr3 of the Ten Year Crusade were outlined as follows a the development of institutions at the World Centre b consolidation of the twelve countries where the Faith was well established c consolidation of all other territories already open and d the opening of the remaining chief virgin territories around the globe. A further list of goals for the Ten Year Crusade by Shoghi Effendi can be found in his http reference.bahai.org en t se MBW mbw 71.html gr5 Messages to the Bah World . To those Bah s who arose to open new territories to the Faith during the Ten Year Crusade, the title Knights of Bah u ll h Knight of Bah u ll h was given. Before the plan was completed, Shoghi Effendi died in 1957 and the Hands of the Cause continued the Ten Year Crusade following Shoghi Effendi s instructions until the formation of the Universal House of Justice in 1963. After its election, the House of Justice wrote The rightness of the time was further confirmed by references in Shoghi Effendi s letters to the Ten Year Crusade s being followed by other plans under the direction of the Universal House of Justice. ... Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963 1986 , p. 50 Category History of the Bah Faith Bah stub eo Dekjara Kampanjo fr Croisade de dix ans it Crociata decennale pt Cruzada de Dez Anos ... more details
refimprove date March 2009 Orphan date October 2007 Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh c. 1897 &ndash 1980 was a Great Britain British author, primarily of text books, and also of a novel and an autobiography about his experience of World War I . The autobiography, Schoolboy Into War ref name test http openlibrary.org books OL4479304M Schoolboy into war open library . ref is an account of his recruitment at the age of 18, directly from school as an officer in the British Army . He was commissioned into the East Lancashire Regiment in 1915, served on the Western Front World War I Western Front , and was wounded twice. Quote I and my like entered the war expecting an heroic adventure and believing implicitly in the rightness of our cause sounds like Cather s hero Claude we ended greatly disillusioned as to the nature of the adventure, but still believing that our cause was right and we had not fought in vain. In 1921 Mellersh joined the Inland Revenue as a tax inspector. References references http search.ancestry.ca cgi bin sse.dll?db ONSDeath93&rank 1&new 1&so 3&MSAV 0&msT 1&gss ms db&gsfn Harold Edward Leslie&gsln Mellersh& 81004010 1897& 81004030 1980&uidh 000 H. E. L. Mellersh s Rootsweb profile Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mellersh, H. E. L. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1980 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Mellersh, H. E. L. Category East Lancashire Regiment officers Category British Army personnel of World War I Category British writers Category 1890s births Category 1980 deaths England nonfiction writer stub ... more details
Ron Robertson Swann Order of Australia OAM born 1941, Sydney , is an Australian sculptor, best known for his controversial abstract public sculpture Vault sculpture Vault 1980 . ref http www.ngv.vic.gov.au collection pub artistItemListing?artistID 7059 ref ref http www.theage.com.au articles 2002 10 02 1033538671587.html ref His sculpture has been described as being in the Anthony Caro style http www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au sculpture walk , which he adopted after studying at St Martins School of Art , London, in the 1960s. He studied under Lyndon Dadswell and was an assistant to Henry Moore http www.randm.net.au BBPages Vault.htm . He works part time as a lecturer at the National Art School and is the artistic adviser to the popular annual exhibition Sculpture by the Sea http www.sculpturebythesea.com html history.htm . He was a founding member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council http nationalgallery.gov.au Exhibition SculpturePrize03 Default.cfm?MnuID 6&JudgeID 5 and has won numerous awards including the Comalco Invitational Sculpture Award, the Transfeld Prize and the Alice Prize. ref http nga.gov.au Exhibition SculpturePrize03 Default.cfm?MnuID 6&JudgeID 5 ref Graeme Sturgeon , the pre eminent Australian sculpture historian and critic, described Robertson Swann in 1980 as the most consistent of the Classic Formalism art Formalist , that is, the one most concerned to produce a sculpture which, while obviously of its era, transcends considerations of style in search of a timeless sense of rightness. http www.randm.net.au BBPages Vault.htm References reflist Wallis, Geoffrey J. Peril in the square. Melbourne Indra, 2004 2006 External links http www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au BiographyRSwannR.htm Charles Nodrum Gallery http www.accaonline.org.au Vault Australian Center for Contemporary Art http www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au sculpturewalk.html UNSW Art Collection, Sculpture Walk Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Robertson Swann, Ron ... more details
Andrew Thomas Kearney 1892 1962 was the founder of A.T. Kearney , one of the world s oldest management consulting firms. Andrew Thomas Kearney joined James O. McKinsey s firm 3 years after it was founded in 1926. ref http www.atkearney.com res shared pdf Vision 2015 Timeline S.pdf ref Andrew Thomas Kearney was McKinsey s first partner and head of its first office in Chicago. At the time, McKinsey & Company was one of the few firms that focused on management consulting for top level executives rather than specialized consulting in areas such as accounting or law. In 1937 James O. McKinsey died unexpectedly at the age of 48 due to pneumonia. While the company continued to operate as before, Andrew Thomas Kearney and the remaining partners disagreed over how to run the firm. In 1939, the company was split. Andrew Thomas Kearney continued to operate the Chicago office, renaming the firm McKinsey and Kearney. Marvin Bower, the head of the New York office, continued the practice in New York and retained the rights to the name McKinsey & Company in all areas other than the Midwest. In 1947, Bower purchased the exclusive rights to the name McKinsey & Company from Tom Kearney, who renamed his firm A.T. Kearney & Associates. ref http www.vault.com dlcenter excerpt EmpProfiles ATKearney.pdf ref In 1961, Tom Kearney retired and James Phelan became the managing partner of the firm. Tom Kearney, died on January 11, 1962. According to Andrew Thomas Kearney, Our success as consultants will depend upon the ESSENTIAL RIGHTNESS of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good. References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kearney, Andrew Thomas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1892 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1962 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kearney, Andrew Thomas Category 1892 births Category 1962 deaths Category American consultants Category McKinsey & Company people business bio stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 image Utiparadox.jpeg right 250px Illustration of moral schizophrenia The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories 1976 is a popular paper in ethics by Michael Stocker. The central claim of the paper is that some modern ethical theories fail to account for Motivation motive in their theories, producing a sort of schizophrenia because the agent is unable to use his reasons or motives as a basis for his actions. According to Stocker, motive is important to ethics and should be considered as well, rather than only duty, rightness and obligation which he believes are the main focuses of current theories. Stocker believes that this focus is not compatible with the motives required for goods such as love and friendship . Stocker uses the example of a friend visiting you in the hospital. It is nice at first, however he reveals that he chose to spend time with you not out of concern for you in particular, but because he felt it was his moral duty . In this case, we feel that there is something missing in this action we would much prefer to be visited by someone who cares about us directly, not just his duty. John Stuart Mill , in the second chapter of Utilitarianism book Utilitarianism , says, ... utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, References http socrates.berkeley.edu cfrees ets smet h.pdf http socrates.berkeley.edu cfrees ets smet h.pdf See also Immanuel Kant Deontological ethics DEFAULTSORT Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories, The Category ethics ... more details
REVIEW Her Rightness STATECRAFT Strategies for a Changing World, By Margaret Thatcher, HarperCollins 512 pp., 34.95&pqatl google title Her Rightness STATECRAFT Strategies for a Changing World, last ... more details
For the consequentialist theory that views state stability as a moral good State consequentialism refimprove date September 2010 Consequentialist justifications of the state are philosophical arguments which contend that the State polity state is justified by the good results it produces. The justification of the state is a term that refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government . Typically, a justification of the state explains why the state should exist, and what a legitimate state should or should not be able to do. Consequentialist justifications of the state focus on the results that are achieved when certain institutions are put in place. They are based on consequentialism consequentialist theories such as utilitarianism . Consequentialism is sometimes confused with utilitarianism, but utilitarianism is only one member of a broad family of consequentialist theories. Consequentialist theories usually maintain that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on whether or not the results of the action are desirable. They are frequently contrasted to deontology deontological theories of morality, which typically hold that certain actions are either forbidden or wrong wikt per se per se . Justifications of state In law and political theory, a state or sovereignty sovereign is an institution that legitimates a particular government. Sometimes arguments about legitimacy have a mystical side to them, as when kings claim divine right of kings divine right . Different political philosophies have distinct opinions concerning the state as a domestic organization Monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force monopolizing force . As an example, consequentialists might observe that the state builds bridges. They would ask whether those bridges would have been built in the absence of the state and whether those bridges are valued by those who use them. If the bridges would not have otherwise been built and they are valuable to those who use ... more details
Deleted image removed Image nevermindnirvana.jpg right thumb Never Mind Nirvana cover. Never Mind Nirvana is the third novel by Mark Lindquist , published in 2000. Plot introduction Never Mind Nirvana is set in the Seattle music scene and chronicles the misadventures of a former musician who becomes a prosecutor. Stylistic quirks include real characters from the Seattle scene interacting with fictional characters. One of the many pleasures of Never Mind Nirvana is in its rightness of local details.... Lindquist s penchant for the truth pays off, for his novel gives us a Seattle we can recognize. Claire Dederer, Seattle Times Blurbs on the book were written by Peter Buck of R.E.M. , filmmaker Peter Farrelly , and authors Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz . Author reading LA Weekly Reading Pick of the Week Every detail, down to a stripper s multiple piercings, rings true. Though not autographical per se, the novel, in part, parallels Lindquist s own life. Lindquist gained admittance to the Brat Pack literary literary Brat Pack , which included Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis , with his first novel, Sad Movies , 1987 . But after the publication of a second novel, Carnival Desires , Lindquist put his writing on hold to attend law school, and became a deputy prosecutor in the Pierce County Special Assault Unit. His first hand knowledge of legal procedure as well as the Seattle rock scene, and his sense of irony combined with an ability to nail a character s quirks make Never Mind Nirvana laugh aloud hilarious. In addition, the reading will be a homecoming of sorts Lindquist spent much of the mid 80s in Los Angeles as a screenwriter, alternately hobnobbing with the movie biz elite including then love interest and ex movie Brat Pack actors Brat Packer , Molly Ringwald and slumming around the underground Hollywood rock scene he was a fixture at L7 gigs and after hours haunts like the Zero One . At readings, Lindquist s delivery is deadpan and witty. Pleasant Gehman, L ... more details
Roseanne Skoke born September 11, 1954 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia , Canada was the Liberal Party of Canada Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons MP for the riding of Central Nova from 1993 to 1997. Central Nova had been considered a safe Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Progressive Conservative riding, but its popular MP, Elmer MacKay , did not run for reelection in 1993. Skoke was elected in the gigantic Liberal landslide of that year as the party swept Nova Scotia and won all but one seat in the Atlantic provinces. She was one of the more social conservatism Canada socially conservative , homophobia homophobic members of the Liberal caucus, drawing great controversy for her remarks on homosexuality in 1995, calling it unnatural and immoral. ref Kimber, Stephen. The rightness of Roseanne Skoke, Chatelaine , September 1, 1995 http gay.hfxns.org RoseanneSkoke ref Due to redistricting redistribution prior to the Canadian federal election, 1997 1997 federal election , Skoke was forced to run against fellow Liberal MP Francis LeBlanc for the Liberal nomination in her riding, which was renamed Pictou Antigonish Guysborough . She was defeated due, in part, to controversies surrounding her. this needs to be sourced A large number of homosexuals and NDP supporters bought Liberal memberships in order to defeat her in the 1997 Liberal nomination meeting. She refused to campaign for LeBlanc in the 1997 election leading some Liberals to blame her for LeBlanc s defeat at the hands of Peter MacKay . Skoke attempted a political comeback by running for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party later that year. ref Harder, Steve. Skoke wades into race, Halifax Chronicle Herald , May 15, 1997 ref She placed third. In 1998, she unsuccessfully attempted to win a seat in the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly by running against John Hamm in Pictou Centre during the Nova Scotia general election, 1998 provincial election . References reflist Persondata Metadata see ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Image Audiopax logo.png thumb 250px Audiopax logo Audiopax is a Brazil ian manufacturer of innovative hi fi audio amplifier s and speakers. The company s products are designed by its founder Eduardo de Lima. The company s flagship amplifier, the Model 88 monophonic vacuum tube tube power amplifier, incorporates several unique circuit and component designs aimed at increasing the emotional and technical immediacy and accuracy of sound reproduction ASTAT Asymmetrical Series Twin Amplifier Topology each Model 88 monoblock is made of two completely independent power amplifiers housed in one chassis and series connected at the output. ASTAT combines very carefully controlled but slightly different output transformers connected in series. PTS Perfect Triode Simulator output stage circuit this output stage clones a virtual perfect audio triode , blending the midrange of a classical 300B tube with the increased power and ease of presentation of a top class 211 tube without impacting rightness of tone such as produced by the 2A3 or 45 tubes. The PTS output stage uses two KT88 tubes in a proprietary circuit to achieve this goal. MPS Matched Power Supply the amplifier has an independent matched power supply for each output tube enabling higher than typical transient speed and waveform definition with exceptionally low noise. Timbre Lock This circuit enables adjusting the bias of each of the twin internal amplifiers separately in real time for tuning the interaction between the amplifiers and whatever loudspeaker they are connect to. These adjustments have a subtle but profound impact on musical articulation, high frequency smoothness and bass extension. Several reviews of the model 88 are available in specialized magazines in print and online and acknowledge the innovative design of this amplifier. The Stereophile Recommended Components, the reference USA magazine for audio high end, has been listing the model 88 since 2003 in the highest category for ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2007 Criminal procedure trial In criminal law , guilt is entirely externally defined by the State polity state , or more generally a court of law. Being guilty of a criminal offense means that one has committed a violation of criminal law , or performed all the elements of the offense set out by a criminal statute . ref See generally http caselaw.lp.findlaw.com cgi bin getcase.pl?court 1st&navby case&no 942217 United States v. Rivera Gomez, 67 F.3d 993, 997 1st Cir. 1995 . ref The determination that one has committed that violation is made by an external body a court of law and is, therefore, as definitive as the record keeping of the body. So the most basic definition is fundamentally circular a person is guilty of violating a law, if a court says so. Philosophically, guilt in criminal law is a reflection of a functioning society and its ability to condemn individuals actions. It rests fundamentally on a presumption of free will , in which individuals choose actions and are, therefore, subjected to external judgement of the rightness or wrongness of those actions. An adjudication of guilt is more than a factual determination that the defendant pulled a trigger, took a bicycle, or sold heroin. It is a moral judgment that the individual is blameworthy. Our collective conscience does not allow punishment where it cannot impose blame. Our concept of blameworthiness rests on assumptions that are older than the Republic man is naturally endowed with these two great faculties, understanding and liberty of will. Historically, our substantive criminal law is based on a theory of punishing the sic viscious will. It postulates a free agent confronted with a choice between doing right and wrong, and choosing freely to do wrong. ref UNITED STATES v. LYONS , 739 F.2d 994, 995 5th Cir. 1984 Rubin, J. dissenting internal citations omitted . ref See also Cotton, Michael, A FOOLISH CONSISTENCY KEEPING DETERMINISM OUT OF THE CRIMINAL LAW, 15 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. ... more details
Alastair Norcross is an Associate Professor of philosophy specializing in normative ethics , applied ethics , and political philosophy . In 2007, he transferred to University of Colorado at Boulder from Rice University , where he had been since 2002, after teaching for ten years at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was the Easterwood Associate Professor of Philosophy. Before that, he taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY , while finishing his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1991. He is a descendant of William Wallace . In ethics, Norcross defends a version of act utilitarianism known as scalar utilitarianism , which is the theory that there are no right or wrong actions, only better or worse actions ranked along a continuum from the action or actions that contributes most to overall utility to the action or actions that contributes the least. Selected works 2006 Scalar Act Utilitarianism . In Henry R. West ed. Blackwell Guide to Mill s Utilitarianism . ISBN 978 1 4051 1949 8 2006 Reasons Without Demands Rethinking Rightness . In Jamie Dreier ed. Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory . ISBN 978 1 4051 0179 0 2005 Peacemaking Philosophy or Appeasement? Sterba s Argument for Compromise . International Journal of Applied Philosophy ,19 2. 2005 Contextualism for Consequentialists . Acta Analytica , 20 2 . 2005 Harming in Context . Philosophical Studies , 123 1 2 . 2004 Puppies, Pigs, and People Eating Meat and Marginal cases . Philosophical Perspectives 18. 2003 Killing and Letting Die . In R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman eds. , The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics 451 463. 2002 Contractualism and Aggregation . Social Theory and Practice , 28 2 303 314. 1999 Intransitivity and the Person Affecting Principle . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , LIX 3 769 776. 1998 Great Harms from Small Benefits Grow How Death can be Outweighed by Headaches . Analysis 152 158. References http spot.colorado.edu norcross Norcrosscv.ht ... more details
Cantata Profana subtitled A kilenc csodaszarvas lang en The Nine Splendid Stags lang de Die Zauberhirsche Sz ll sy Sz. 94, is a choral work for tenor , baritone , choir and orchestra by the Hungary Hungarian composer B la Bart k . It was written in 1930 and first performed on BBC Radio on 25 May 1934 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Aylmer Buesst . The Hungarian language Hungarian text is based on a Romania n Colinde colinda a type of Christmas carol about a father who teaches his nine sons the art of hunting. One day they cross a haunted bridge deep in the forest and are turned into nine stags. Their father arrives and aims his bow at them but when he learns that they are in fact his sons he begs them to return home. The stags reply that this is no longer possible since their antlers would not fit through the door their new life is in the forest. The critic Paul Griffiths writer Paul Griffiths believes Bart k was attracted to the story because it shows the accordance of dignity and rightness to a natural as opposed to a civilised state the implicit elevation of the peasant above the townsman... Griffiths p.140 . Bart k s musical style in Cantata Profana was influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach Bach s Passions, though as the title of the work suggests it is more pagan than Christian. The great technical difficulties the piece presents mean it has had few performances. Recordings Cantata Profana with The Wooden Prince John Aler tenor , John Tomlinson bass John Tomlinson baritone , Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Pierre Boulez Deutsche Grammophon, 1992 Cantata Profana Tam s Dar czy tenor , Alexandru Agache baritone , Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV K lm n Strauss, chorus master , Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti London, 1998 Cantata Profana with Samuel Barber s Prayers of Kierkegaard and Ralph Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem Richard Clement tenor , Nathan Gunn baritone , Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Atlanta Symphony ... more details
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