Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

Sergeant Neil Howie receives an anonymous letter requesting his presence on Summerisle, a remote Hebridean island famed for its popular and unusually abundant fruit produce, to take the case of a young girl named Rowan Morrison, who has been missing for a number of months.

Patricia Kennealy Morrison, in her science-fantasy series The Keltiad, has a 1986 novel The Throne of Scone, in which the Stone has been transmuted into a throne that her starfaring Kelts have brought with them from Earth.

Whilst some critics have accused Heaney of being " an apologist and a mythologizer " of the violence, Blake Morrison suggests the poet " has written poems directly about the Troubles as well as elegies for friends and acquaintances who have died in them ; he has tried to discover a historical framework in which to interpret the current unrest ; and he has taken on the mantle of public spokesman, someone looked to for comment and guidance ...

In 2004, Chasez released a solo album, Schizophrenic, and has gone on to write and produce for music acts such as Girls Aloud, Basement Jaxx, David Archuleta, Matthew Morrison, and the Backstreet Boys.

As a producer he has worked with U2 ( on their War album ), Van Morrison, Kate Bush, The Dubliners, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane, Patrick Street, Stockton's Wing and fellow Limerickman Richard Harris.

The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from Miami to Chicago, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to Philip Morrison, and much improved graphics.

Morrison has stated that " Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel ," believing that the band did not manage to capture the spontaneity and energy of their live performances on their records.

Morrison has said, " When Astral Weeks came out, I was starving, literally.

Weiland has stated that his vocal style is influenced by Jim Morrison and David Bowie, who also serves as his main fashion influence.

He has also created figures of rock musicians, including the members of Kiss, Alice Cooper, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix and toys related to video games, like Halo 3.

The " Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts " has 2, 000 seats in its primary performance hall, and hosts a wide variety of fine arts performances, including the Broadway in Boise series, concerts and other events.

In 2011, David Morrison, a senior scientist at NASA known for his work in risk assessment of near Earth objects, has written that confidence in the existence of an object like Nemesis has drastically diminished, since it is expected it should have been detected in infrared sky surveys before now.

The label has also found great commercial success with the vocalist Norah Jones, and released new albums by established artists on the fringes of jazz such as Van Morrison, Al Green, Anita Baker and newcomer Amos Lee, sometimes referred to as the " male Norah Jones ".

Since then, it has since become a pop standard, recorded hundreds of times by artists including Cliff Richard, The Four Tops, Isaac Hayes, Jackie DeShannon, Van Morrison, Nat " King " Cole, Brook Benton, Elton John, Mel Carter, Barry Manilow, and Keith Jarrett.

, the status of the film is that Morrison has written the script, but the project appears to have stalled, partially due to concerns over the level of violence.

The decision that the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts were unconstitutional has not been overturned ; on the contrary, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this limited reading of the Fourteenth Amendment in United States v. Morrison,, in which it held that Congress did not have the authority to enact parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

That night, Wayne has a dream in which he meets Jim Morrison ( Michael A. Nickles ) and a " weird naked Indian " ( Larry Sellers ), in which Morrison tells Wayne that his destiny is to organize and put on a big concert.

Another Morrison character, Gideon Stargrave, is one of the few interpretations of the character that Moorcock has issues with, as he considers the character little more than a straight lift of Cornelius.

In 1982, Morrison told Forbes magazine that he had received about US $ 2 million in royalty payments and said: " I wouldn't change the name of it for the world.

Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received ; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances.

Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains.

On Jan. 17, 1962, the firm of Morrison, Hardeman, Perrini, and Level received the prime contract for construction of hardened, underground launch facilities and 15 launch control centers.

Merenstein received a call from Warner Bros. to go see Morrison in Boston and related how eight or nine producers had gone to hear Morrison thinking they were going to hear " Brown Eyed Girl " and " it was another person with the same voice.

When asked by Rolling Stone editor, David Wild why he was performing the album again live after forty years, Morrison replied: " It received no promotion, from Warner Bros .— that's why I never got to play the songs live.

In October 1996, Morrison pled guilty to transporting a loaded firearm in Jay, Oklahoma ; he received a 6-month suspended sentence and a $ 100 fine.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

They were received in February 1830 by Dr. Robert Morrison.

Playing in his sophomore year ( 1994 – 95 ), Morrison improved to 76 points ( 23 goals and 43 assists ) over 39 games and received his first of three consecutive CCHA First Team All-Star selections.

With 72 points over 45 games in 1995 – 96, Morrison received his first of back-to-back CCHA Player of the Year awards.

In recent years, Morrison has received much popularity from his role as the bounty hunter Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ).

Because of the contract he signed with Bang Records without legal advice, Morrison has never ( in his own words ) received any royalties for writing or recording this song.

In 2005, Van Morrison received a Million-Air certificate by BMI as a " Top European Writer " for reaching 7 million US radio and television airplays for " Brown Eyed Girl " and again in 2007, Morrison was awarded another Million-Air certificate by BMI for 8 million air plays of " Brown Eyed Girl ".

In 1881, upon the death of John Morrison Pinkerton, son of Elder James, the academy received a second bequest.

On November 7, 2006, he lost to Democratic challenger and Johnson County District Attorney Paul J. Morrison, who had received more than $ 1. 5 million in campaign support from pro-choice groups ; Kline received 41 percent of the vote.

It is unlikely that either she or Morrison would have received cabinet appointments if their long affair had become public knowledge.

In an article by News Limited Network journalist Ian McPhedran on 30 August 2012, former Staff Sergeant David Hartshorn has received an apology from Australian Army Chief Lieutenant General David Morrison and Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force Mr Geoff Earley for being ordered not to report the hit and run accident.

From the English residents at Macau, Morrison received no assistance either ; for they feared lest, if any complications arose through Morrison, their commercial interests might be prejudiced.

The years 1824 and 1825 were spent by Morrison in England, where he presented his Chinese Bible to King George IV, and was received by all classes with great demonstrations of respect.

Richard Morrison, in his centenary study of the LSO, writes of " stodgy programmes of insipid Cowen, worthy Stanford, dull Parry and mediocre Mackenzie "; they put the Parisian public off to a considerable degree, and the players ended up out of pocket.

The publication caused considerable embarrassment to the incoming direct-ruler Humphrey Atkins and Danny Morrison, the papers editor was forced to go into hiding for several months.

In this way Morrison made considerable progress in speaking and writing one of the most difficult of languages for an English-speaking person to learn.