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Singer has said his financial relationships do not influence his research.
ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.
Singer said that his connection to Exxon was more like being on their mailing list than holding a paid position.
" In a letter of complaint to ABC News, Singer said their piece used " prejudicial language, distorted facts, libelous insinuations, and anonymous smears.
In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.
Bernard Williams, who was a critic of utilitarianism, said of Singer that he " is always so keen to mortify himself and tell everyone how to live ".
On September 2, 1997, Singer said that " The possibility that global temperatures could rise because of an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a concern that needs to be monitored ... But there has been no indication in the last century that we've seen anything other than natural climate fluctuations.
In his 1990 edition of Animal Liberation, Peter Singer said that he no longer ate oysters and mussels, because although the creatures might not suffer, they might, it ’ s not really known, and it ’ s easy enough to avoid eating them in any case ( and this aspect of seeking better alternatives is a prominent part of utilitarianism ).
Singer Tom Waits claimed he cried upon viewing it and Eddie Van Halen has said that when he first saw the film, everyone else in the room with him laughed as he failed to see the humor in the film.
Evidently one of these manuscripts fell into William Shakespeare's hands, for that poet made use of it in his Henry VIII, and Samuel Weller Singer even said that Shakespeare " merely put Cavendish's language into verse.
Singer / songwriter Matt Scannell has said that Burning the Days marks a shift in his songwriting, both musically and lyrically.
Singer Tom Hingley said Gallagher owes his own career to the band, since " his business sense, work ethic, message and humour are Inspiral down to the core.
By the end of 1930s, it was said that " There are only three American names that are known in every single corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola, and Elizabeth Arden.
Singer Bryan Adams wrote online, " RIP Jon Lord – incredible organist for Deep Purple, one of my fave bands growing up " while veteran DJ Bob Harris said Lord was " a gentleman.
" If Poland did not satisfy Jewish claims it would be " publicly attacked and humiliated " in the international forum, Singer said according to a Reuters report.
This was said to be not a purely philanthropic act however ; the American company Singer which is famous for the manufacturing of sewing machines had earmarked the land as a potential site for their factory which would eventually be built in nearby Clydebank.
She has said that Singer had put into words what she had felt intuitively for a long time.
* Singer Bob Dylan has said that this film was a large influence on his 1975 surreal film Renaldo and Clara.
When John Singer Sargent's portrait of her was presented by her fellow-workers in 1898, Hill made a speech in which she said, " When I am gone, I hope my friends will not try to carry out any special system, or to follow blindly in the track which I have trodden.
Singer, songwriter, and rapper Estelle said of the difficult position of female rappers “ I think they get a tough ride because some of them don ’ t see themselves above and beyond the bullshit and no one ’ s really given them that break .”
Singer also was said to be a great drummer in a 2008 interview by Peter Criss, despite the fact that Peter Criss is upset about Singer using his image.
Fellow economist Sir Alec Cairncross has said of Singer that " There are few of the developing countries that he has not visited and still fewer that he has not advised.
Singer / songwriter Marshall Crenshaw has said " If I ever buy another guitar it'll be one of these.

Singer and placed
Advertisements were placed (" Singer wanted, must be image-minded and hungry "), and Ian Hunter was selected as lead singer and piano player.
A series of large bronze medallions placed at the top of the columns were alternately rendered in the monogram of the Singer company and, quite inventively, as a huge needle, thread and bobbin.
Two of the AC / DC cover versions on Rock ' n ' Roll Singer were radical re-arrangements of the originals which removed the Bon Scott-penned lyrics from their hard rock context and placed them into gentle, acoustic " folk ballad " settings.
The Ballad and Blues Club became theSinger Club ’ and, in 1961 moved to The Princess Louise pub in Holborn, with the emphasis increasingly placed on English traditional music and particularly on unaccompanied song in the singer ’ s own voice, leading to the creation of strict ‘ policy clubs ’, that pursued a pure and traditional form of music.
Schachter and Singer then manipulated the participants giving them cues which placed them on one of three groups: epinephrine informed, epinephrine ignorant, and epinephrine misinformed.

Singer and exploration
Singer provided Ray with tools for exploring the inner world that were particularly suited to Western spiritual work, such as dream analysis, active imagination and the exploration of the process of individuation.

Singer and space
Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and satellite technology, his questioning of the link between UV-B and melanoma rates, and that between CFCs and stratospheric ozone loss
In a January 1960 presentation to the American Physical Society, Singer sketched out his vision of what the environment around the earth might consist of, extending up to into space.
In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.
In differential geometry, the Atiyah – Singer index theorem, proved by, states that for an elliptic differential operator on a compact manifold, the analytical index ( related to the dimension of the space of solutions ) is equal to the topological index ( defined in terms of some topological data ).
Comet 105P / Singer Brewster, discovered by Stephen Singer-Brewster, should by rights have been named " 105P / Singer-Brewster ", but this would have led most readers to believe it had been a joint discovery by two astronomers named Singer and Brewster, respectively, so the hyphen was replaced by a space.
That same year, Field personally obtained Leiter's remaining interest in the 1879 Singer building and in 1888 started buying the buildings adjoining his for additional floor space.
During the 1920s Singer, restricted by a built-in site acquired other companies for factory space.

Singer and with
Blues Singer # 4 shows a female singer on stage with a white flower on her shoulder and a bold red dress, reminisecent of Ella Fitzgerald.
Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.
Friendly with other expatriate American artists, he summered at Broadway, Worcestershire, England, where he painted and vacationed alongside John Singer Sargent at the home of Francis Davis Millet.
During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.
When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.
Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.
Scheuering writes that Singer cut ties with Moon, and is funded by foundations and oil companies.
Singer responded with a letter to Science saying the IPCC report had presented material selectively.
An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer, Environment & Climate News, February 2001, accessed May 13, 2010.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.
Marx's biographer Francis Wheen considers the " history of the twentieth century " to be " Marx's legacy ", whilst philosopher Peter Singer believes that Marx's impact can be compared with that of Jesus Christ and Muhammad.
The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".
Margaret Singer, who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prisoners of war, agreed with this conclusion: in her book Cults in Our Midst she describes six conditions which would create an atmosphere in which thought reform is possible.
The details are fuzzy, however, and Singer admits that he is " not entirely satisfied " with his treatment.
Consistent with his general ethical theory, Singer holds that the right to life is essentially tied to a being's capacity to hold preferences, which in turn is essentially tied to a being's capacity to feel pain and pleasure.
While Singer acknowledges that there are problems with ensuring that money goes where it is most needed and that it is used effectively, he does not think that these practical difficulties undermine his original conclusion ( that people should make a much greater effort to reduce poverty ).
Singer agrees with Julian Savulescu that elite athletes should be allowed to take whatever performance-enhancing drugs they wish, " as long as it is safe for them to do so.
In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.
In a 2001 review of Midas Dekkers ' Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that " sex with animals does not always involve cruelty " and that " mutually satisfying activities " of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.

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