Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.

Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, and produced and engineered by Parsons.

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

A number of New York businessmen, including Levi P. Morton, Levi Parsons, August Belmont, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Denison and John D. Rockefeller were interested in extending rail line through Indian Territory, and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, familiarly called the Katy Railroad, began its corporate existence in 1865 toward that end.

In 1874 Parsons became interested in the labor politics as a byproduct of grassroot efforts to force the Chicago Relief and Aid Society to account for millions of dollars of relief aid raised by the group on behalf of victims of the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871.

As an interested observer, Parsons attended the final convention of the National Labor Union ( NLU ), held in Pittsburgh in April 1876.

Parsons was specially interested in Bellah's concept of religious evolution and the concept of " Civil Religion.

The USSR painted itself as a socialist society which emerged out of class struggle, destined to reach the state of communism, while sociologists in the United States ( such as Talcott Parsons ) argued that the freedom and prosperity of the United States were a proof of a higher level of sociocultural evolution of its culture and society.

It was shortly after arriving at Caltech in 1936 that Qian was attracted to the rocketry ideas of Frank Malina, other students of von Kármán, and their associates, including Jack Parsons.

According to columnist Louella O. Parsons, Darnell was " so young, so immature and so naive in her ideas " and was very loyal to her boss, Darryl F. Zanuck.

Some of the most radical ideas in American writing are found in Elsie Clews Parsons ’ " The Family "

Looking for ideas, Parsons visited Wright Field to see Frank Stulen, the head of the Propeller Lab Rotary Ring Branch.

But at the time Parsons had no funds to develop his ideas.

By 1951, Parsons places these earlier ideas firmly into the realm of formal systems theory in The Social System.

At first his ideas took such comparatively mild forms as inducing the pope to send a legate to persuade Elizabeth to return to the fold ; but gradually they grew more violent and treasonable, until Englefield became the close confidant of Cardinal Allen, Parsons and the jesuited Catholics, who advocated forcible intervention by Spain and the succession of the infanta ; in 1585 Englefield thought that Marys succession, peaceful or other, would not be satisfactory unless it were owing to Spanish support and she were dependent on Philip.

It was in Chicago that Parsons developed his anarchist ideas, became a labor activist, and eventually became a founding member of the International Working People's Association ( IWPA ).

" Whilst the secondary role Marx plays in early American sociology may be attributed to Parsons, as well as to broader political trends, the dominance of Marxism in European sociological thought had long since secured the rank of Marx alongside Durkheim and Weber as one of the three " classical " sociologists.

The British ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Sheila Parsons, noted how the Iranians were bemused by her habit of speaking to everyone regardless of status or importance, and hoped the Shah's entourage would learn from the visit to pay more attention to ordinary people.

Finally, Merton thinks that shared values are central in explaining how societies and institutions work, however he disagrees with Parsons on some issues.

In his hugely influential book The Structure of Social Action ( 1937 ) Parsons wrote that " Spencer is dead " and then put the question: " Who killed him and how ?".

Parsons defines the Hawthorne effect as " the confounding that occurs if experimenters fail to realise how the consequences of subjects ' performance affect what subjects do " learning effects, both permanent skill improvement and feedback-enabled adjustments to suit current goals.

Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons used the word gloss to describe how the mind perceives reality.

On the promotional album, " The Complete Audio Guide To The Alan Parsons Project ", Alan Parsons discusses how he did a rough mix of " I Am Your Singer " that Paul liked so much, he used it for the final mix on the album.

NDSCS president John Richman is quoted as saying, " coach's and my conversation consisted of if this was a heterosexual incident, would we come to the same conclusion, and Coach Parsons answer was yes, Mr. Kuntz simply and plainly failed to perform his duties as assigned and was ongoing distraction to the game … Despite how this is being portrayed by some, Jamie's sexual orientation had nothing to do with his dismissal from the football team.

It was scripted into the silver as " Johnny " Parsons ( which incidentally, is how his son's name was spelled ).

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

As they prepared to play the nation's largest sports arenas, the Burritos played to dwindling nightclub audiences ; one night Jagger had to literally order Parsons to fulfill an obligation to his group.

Upon reaching the Cap Rock section of the park, they attempted to cremate Parsons ' corpse by pouring five gallons of gasoline into the open coffin and throwing a lit match inside.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic describes Parsons as " enormously influential " for both country and rock, " blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other.

Fenton judges the Parsons based on their attractiveness and is agitated when they do not “ fulfil stereotypical female roles ,” as author Anne Cranny-Francis describes it ( Feminist Science Fiction, 30 ).

Sociology ’ s theorists such as Talcott Parsons and Karl Marx have both come up with theories for why they believe norms are needed in society.

" The Byrds further outraged the Opry establishment by breaking with accepted protocol when they performed Parsons ' song " Hickory Wind " instead of the Merle Haggard song " Life in Prison ", as had been announced by Tompall Glaser. Grand Ole Opry House

Over the next two years they recorded the albums The Gilded Palace of Sin ( 1969 ) and Burrito Deluxe ( 1970 ), which helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career.

Hubbard became involved with Parsons ' mistress Sara Northrup and they would later marry.

Some of those press members turned on him in the 1980s as the punk rock revolution led to widespread dismissal of the old guard of rock, Townshend attacked two of them, Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons, in the song " Jools And Jim " on his album Empty Glass after they made some derogatory remarks about Who drummer Keith Moon.

Similarly, British industrial band Godflesh often utilized a drum machine and two primary members, although they did at times record and tour with a second guitarist ( Paul Neville of Loop ), and near the end of the band's life they began working with real drummers ( Bryan Mantia and later Ted Parsons ) almost exclusively.

Day's message was intercepted by Shepard's men, so the militia of Shays and Parsons, some 1, 500 men, approached the armory on the 25th not knowing they would have no support from the west.

While most avoid the tedious tasks of reading Spencer's massive volumes ( filled as they are with long passages explicating the organic analogy, with reference to cells, simple organisms, animals, humans and society ), there are some important insights that have quietly influenced many contemporary theorists, including Talcott Parsons, in his early work " The Structure of Social Action " ( 1937 ).

Parsons determined that each individual has expectations of the other's action and reaction to his own behaviour, and that these expectations would ( if successful ) be " derived " from the accepted norms and values of the society they inhabit.

Gouldner Holmwood, 2005: 103 thought that Parsons ’ theory specifically was an expression of the dominant interests of welfare capitalism, that it justified institutions with reference to the function they fulfill for society.

" Oswald succeeded in persuading Horace to leave his job with Parsons, and in November 1908 they registered their partnership under the name Short Brothers.

Parsons and his road manager, Phil Kaufman ( Johnny Knoxville ), made a pact in life that whoever died first would be cremated by the other in the Joshua Tree National Park, an area of desert they both loved and cherished.

It is notable however that Parsons refuses to analyse the illumination experiments, on the grounds that they have not been properly published and so he cannot get at details, whereas he had extensive personal communication with Roethlisberger and Dickson.

Two thousand Continental Army troops under the command of Generals Samuel Parsons and John Fellows arrived from the north, but at the sight of the chaotic militia retreat, they also turned and fled.

Chris Thomas, who was brought in to assist Alan Parsons in mixing the album mentions that they were actually in mixdown at the time.

Parsons and Martha got along well, and in November 1929, they too were married at the Norfolk Navy Chapel.

That same year they released an album of new material, Hymns, which featured the precise drumming of new band member Ted Parsons ( formerly of Swans and Prong ) and brought the band back to its slow and heavy roots while retaining elements of its experiments with electronica and hip-hop.

When Parsons saw what Stulen was doing with the punched card machines, he asked Stulen if they could be used to generate an outline with 200 points instead of the 17 they were given, and offset each point by the radius of a mill cutting tool.