The Magnetic Fields is essentially a vehicle for Merritt's songwriting, along with various side-projects, such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies.

Thus, the magnitude of weight change from loss of air during a dive varies from roughly 4. 3 kg ( 9. 5 lbs ) representing the total air content of a steel 15 litre cylinder at 230 bar / 3500 psi ( in practice, reserve requirements dictate that only about 8 lbs of this will be breathed ), to about 5 lbs difference for the smaller 80 ft < sup > 3 </ sup > aluminum-80 ( AL80 ) tank ( 11. 1 litres internal capacity ) pressurised to 200 bar / 3000 psi, and again assuming that only 5 / 6ths of the air in the tank is used, leaving a typical safety reserve.

He created and played principal roles in the bands The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.

The first release was by Factory stalwarts The Durutti Column, the other main acts on the label were Hopper and Space Monkeys, and the label also gave a UK release to the first album by Stephin Merritt's side project The 6ths, Wasps ' Nests.

The treatises begin from a premise of parallelism and then move on to suggest better ways of making the organum, involving boundary tones, and the vast majority of musical examples in the treatises in fact use intervals of 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths ( by inversion / octave doubling ), to create a more artistic result.

In 2000, he performed " As You Turn to Go " ( written by Stephin Merritt ) on The 6ths ' album Hyacinths and Thistles and " Mnemorex " ( his own lyrics ) on Kreidler's self-titled third album.

In 2000, Mould sang " He Didn't " ( written by Stephin Merritt ) on The 6ths ' album Hyacinths and Thistles.

The ADR has its roots in a demonstration in Luxembourg City on 28 March 1987, held to protest at the disparities between the 5 / 6ths final salary scheme enjoyed by civil servants and the basic state pension received by everyone else.

* 1966 – Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter ( The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, and The Gothic Archies )

* The House of Tomorrow-The official site of Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The 6ths, and The Gothic Archies

The music of Stephin Merritt can also be heard throughout the series, including songs from his projects The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and The Gothic Archies.

Other artists she has worked with include Handsome Boy Modeling School on the album So ... How's Your Girl ?, DJ Towa Tei, Stephin Merritt's The 6ths, The Baldwin Brothers, Beastie Boys, Blackalicious, Peter Daily, Greg Kurstin ( Action Figure Party ), Forró in the Dark, John Zorn, and The Incredible Moses Leroy.

In 1995, Timony recorded the song " All Dressed Up In Dreams " with Stephen Merritt, on The 6ths album Wasps ' Nests.

However he also has a typically Germanic liking for singable melodic passages in parallel imperfect intervals ( 3rds and 6ths ).

In 1986, Robert Bakker estimated it as making up 5 / 6ths of the large dinosaur fauna at the end of the Cretaceous.

* The 6ths first album Wasps ' Nests includes a song called " San Diego Zoo ", which features comprehensive directions on how to get to the zoo.

Music written to include rich harmonic colorations, such as bebop, often calls for the player to sound the upper parts of a musical chord's harmonic series ( 3rds, 6ths, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths, for example ) without playing the fundamental pitch.

( Note that these six categories have accounted for approximately 125 entries — or 5 / 6ths of the players in the final field.

McKay loses Sheppard's trust in " Trinity " after he refuses to listen to Dr. Zelenka and assures both Weir and Sheppard that he can make a piece of Ancient technology (" Project Arcturus ") work on an alien planet, but the device explodes and destroys 5 / 6ths of the surrounding star system.

On 12 November 1989, the name was amended to ' Action Committee 5 / 6ths ' ( Aktiounskomitee 5 / 6 ), reflecting its increased attention to other concerns.

* Miss Lily Banquette-" My Secret Love " on the Grace of My Heart Original Soundtrack, and " Oahu " on The 6ths album Hyacinths & Thistles.

The present proceeding is concerned with the standard broadcast ( AM ) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc..

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

A band viscometer is shown in Figure 2.

When in place, a well-cemented band actually protects the part of the tooth that is covered.

Usually this is a thin band of wire attached to the molars and stretching across the teeth.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles.

The band is set to begin writing a new record this year.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.

Absolute magnitude ( also known as absolute visual magnitude when measured in the standard V photometric band ) is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness.

BrE: The Clash are a well-known band ; AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.