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  Around the Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Around the Sun generally received lukewarm critical praise and despite hitting #1 in the UK, it became their first studio album to miss the US Top 10 (reaching #13) since 1988's Green and is still awaiting a gold record.
In many ways, Around the Sun continues R.E.M.'s trend of refusing to be pressed into a stylistic corner and many listeners have found it to be a pleasant, easy-going piece which manages to retain the band's trademark for quirkiness and subtle themes.
In 2005, Warner Brothers Records issued an expanded two-disc edition of Around the Sun which includes a CD, a DVD-Audio disc containing a 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album done by Elliot Scheiner, and the original CD booklet with expanded liner notes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Around_the_Sun   (572 words)

  
 MESSENGER: Around the Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
To an observer on Mercury, the Sun’s apparent motion across the sky is due to both the planet’s rotation and its motion along the orbit.
Generally the Sun appears to move from east to west (the spin generally wins), but near perihelion, where the planet is moving fastest in its orbit, the Sun briefly reverses its apparent motion in the sky.
Because of the difference in distance, the Sun’s gravity is stronger on the closest side of Mercury (the side facing the Sun) and weaker on the opposite side.
btc.montana.edu /messenger/elusive_planet/around_sun.htm   (547 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Around the Sun: Music: REM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Around the Sun is REM's first studio album since the acclaimed platinum Reveal in 2001.
Around the Sun, REM's 13th album, was written by REM and produced by REM and Pat McCarthy.
Around the Sun certainly sounds different to past REM albums: Peter Buck's guitar is often close to absent, leaving piano and synth parts to fill in the spaces and the summery cheerfulness of Reveal has been replaced with a low-key melancholy.
www.amazon.co.uk /Around-Sun-REM/dp/B0002XV2KC   (1882 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Around the Sun: Music: R.E.M.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Around The Sun, R.E.M.’s first new studio album since 2001's gold Reveal, is as emotional and ulti- mately uplifting as its "Leaving New York" single.
Thus, "Around The Sun", is R.E.M., but a variation of the same R.E.M. In fact, those reviewers who are saying that "Around The Sun" is unique are mistaken because it is very similar to "Up" and "Reveal".
Around the Sun retains the elegiac, trance-like qualities of Reveal and the Morrissey-like anguish of Up but the songs are bouncier, more muscular, more resolute and confident of survival.
www.amazon.com /Around-Sun-R-E-M/dp/B0002W4UVG   (1826 words)

  
 Beyond 360° » Globes around the Sun
A circle drawn around the equator is just about 68 kilometers, or 42 miles, longer than a circle drawn through the poles.
But it is evident that the correlation between size and “roundness” is by no means exact, and a substantial body of objects exists in the twilight zone between the clearly spherical or spheroidal, and smaller and definitely irregular objects.
The working definition of a planet might as well be “any body orbiting the Sun which is the size of Pluto or larger.” This tautologously keeps Pluto in the family of planets, but if Pluto is jettisoned, we might as well go on to drop Mercury from the list, or even Mars.
threesixty.yarinareth.net /archives/2005/02/26/globes-around-the-sun   (1596 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Around the Sun [Gatefold Sleeve]: Music: R.E.M.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I would recommend Around The Sun as a fine album, based solely on the 13 songs presented, not by how credible they may be in 2005.
I have been critical of some of the albums put out by the band in recent years for being a tad unfocused, but I am a great fan of 'Around the Sun' due to the fact that they have moved forward and embraced their political identity fully.
The acid test is that 'Around the Sun' has remained on my play-list well after release, whereas the last few records have fallen by the wayside after a couple of weeks.
www.amazon.co.uk /Around-Sun-Gatefold-Sleeve-R-E-M/dp/B0002W4UVG   (1633 words)

  
 Rings around the Sun
The sun was surrounded by an extraordinarily bright, rainbow-colored halo.
Displays in the daylit sky depend on the tilt of the ice crystals in the air and the altitude of the sun.
If you spot a Sun pillar or halo not long before sunset, be alert for rings and pillars around objects in the night sky a few hours later.
science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2002/24oct_sunrings.htm   (1153 words)

  
 R.E.M. is ON!
Around the Sun - the new album - General information
"Around The Sun" is the thirteenth full-length R.E.M.'s album and the third recorded without Bill Berry.
Finally, "Around the Sun" was released October 4th, 2004 (internationally) and October 5th in the United States.
www.remison.com /newalbum/newalbum.php?mode=2   (216 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- SETI: the Solar System
Planets forming in different regions of the disk, however, should have had varying chemical compositions because areas farther from the Sun were much cooler than those close in.
Closer to the Sun was the region where the higher-melting-point elements would condense out -- elements such as iron, nickel, aluminum, silicon and so on.
The giant planets must have formed before the Sun could completely dissipate its cocoon, as these giant planets (again, especially Jupiter) incorporated some of the cocoon's nebular material to gather their atmospheres.
www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_solarsystem_010108.html   (810 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Circumstellar Habitable Zones: Our Home Around the Sun
The Sun is equivalent to 80 billion hydrogen bombs exploding every second, but it is just a little star what astronomers call a "dwarf" or "main-sequence" star.
Planetary scientists generally define the livable region around the Sun as the distance at which liquid water can exist on a planets surface for long periods of time.
This is due to the balancing act between gravity, which pulls the Sun inward and nuclear explosions, which push it outward.
www.space.com /searchforlife/doyle_seti_001127.html   (627 words)

  
 Could Earth be Revolving around the Sun?
He gave the first estimate of the distance of the Moon (section (8c)), and it was his careful observation of a lunar eclipse--pin-pointing the Sun's position on the opposite side of the sky--that enabled Hipparchus, 169 years later, to deduce the precession of the equinoxes).
However, one could guess why he believed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the central body around which the other one revolved.
Knowing the Sun's motion across the sky, Aristarchus could also locate the point P in the sky, on the Moon's orbit (near the ecliptic), which was exactly 90 degrees from the direction of the Sun as seen from Earth.
www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /stargaze/Sarist.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Close-Up Film Reviews-A
There is also an impressive and subtle use of low-budget special effects, particularly in the case of the policemen who appear and move in negative against a natural backdrop.
While effective in its component parts the experience of 33 X Around The Sun as a whole is not always a fulfilling one.
33 X Around The Sun invites its audience into a surreal playground and for those content to sit back and enjoy the ride there is enough innovation and entertainment here to carry you over the bumps.
www.close-upfilm.com /reviews/a/33xaroundthesun.htm   (774 words)

  
 Years Around The Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Years Around The Sun was formed in 2004 as an outlet to the members' more prominent projects.
Over the course of its development a more refined sound began to surface which gained immediate support within the local circles.
Seeing the band live demonstrates their true ability and brandishes the power of the music, but until you have the opportunity to do so, "Introstay" demonstrates the band's creative direction.
www.yearsaroundthesun.com /band.htm   (197 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
CECsci.154 TITLE: Discovering the Earth's Journey Around the Sun AUTHOR: Mark Whitener, IXL Elementary Arkansas City, Kansas GRADE LEVEL: 5 OVERVIEW: The revolution of the earth around the sun is a phenomenon that is hard for students to deal with concretely.
The angle of the suns rays to the earth changes from week to week.
Hence in spring the shadow will show that the angle between the rays and earth has grown bigger and the sun is more directly overhead thus producing warmer temperatures.
www.col-ed.org /cur/sci/sci154.txt   (286 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Around the Sun Belt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The special teams were bad all around as they gave up punt returns of 76 and 69 yards last week at South Florida.
ULL is the preseason favorite to win the Sun Belt Conference and could still end up in the New Orleans Bowl.
On a weekend when there were near misses in terms of Sun Belt teams winning on the road against BCS teams, Louisiana-Monroe was right in the mix.
www.usatoday.com /sports/college/football/sunbelt/home.htm   (3884 words)

  
 Another Trip Around the Sun
Is it no wonder that some of mankind’s first gods were the sun and the actual vehicle we ride around on itself.
It means that like a bronco rider, we have managed not to fall off and have ridden her around the sun one more time.
We have worshipped the moon from respect of her ability to move the tides and for somewhat controlling the cycles of reproduction.
www.tomorrowsedge.net /another-trip-around-the-sun.html   (779 words)

  
 Once Around The Sun
Our most recent studio effort, Once Around The Sun is ready for your ears.
Reaching the end of a project like this begs an answer to the question, “What next?” This is what I found myself asking in November of 2003 upon completing Things I Meant To Say.
After traveling once around the sun, that question is answered by this recording, which I feel is better than anything we’ve done so far.
www.jenifleming.com /oats.html   (301 words)

  
 Trip Around The Sun
This T-Bucket was the Ship for the Trip Around the Sun.
Sun Trip Side Trip – Meeting of the Interfaith Counsel in Escondido
During this entire Trip Around the Sun, I have been
www.triparoundthesun.com   (951 words)

  
 Playbill News: Once Around the Sun Is Broadway Bound
Once Around the Sun, according to production notes, concerns "an invitation from a beautiful stranger [that] offers a struggling New York musician the opportunity to escape his disappointments and take a leap of faith into his dream — but at the risk of betraying family, life-long friends and true love.
The Once Around the Sun performance schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 PM, Saturdays at 3 and 8 PM and Sundays at 3 and 7 PM.
In related news, a portion of the mezzanine seats at each performance of Once Around the Sun will be available for a minimum donation of $10.
www.playbill.com /news/article/95110.html   (581 words)

  
 R.E.M.: Around the Sun [2004] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
That feel permeates Around the Sun; it's an album coated in mellow, muted tones that aim for the languid atmospherics of, say, Air, but instead achieve a state of lite-rock somnambulism.
I want it to be brilliant / I want it to be sweet." It feels churlish to point out that Around the Sun falls short of those goals; moreover, it doesn't express any kind of musical wanderlust whatsoever.
Its sporadic pockets of accessibility aside, it's difficult to listen to Around the Sun without hearing it as a holding pattern, or worse, a piece of product released simply to keep the R.E.M. brand out among the public.
www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2004/rem_around_the_sun_2004.html   (494 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/rem
The band's latest record, Around the Sun, continues the R.E.M. tradition of exploring, reaching, yet remaining true to the sound which has brought them success for the last 24 years.
Around the Sun is their fourteenth studio record and will be released on October 4th internationally and October 5th in the United States.
round the sun was the best cd of 2005 in my not so humble opinion.
www.myspace.com /rem   (2053 words)

  
 Corona around the sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Corona around the sun imaged by William Trost at New Carlisle, Ohio USA in November 2002.
With the sun neatly hidden behind the ball of the lamp bracket, the corona reveals its features.
There is an intensely bright central aureole fringed with straw colours dimming into red.
www.sundog.clara.co.uk /droplets/corim4.htm   (58 words)

  
 Around The Sun by R.E.M. CD
The follow-up to 2001's laid-back REVEAL, AROUND THE SUN finds R.E.M. mining a similar vein of dreamy, mellow rock.
Other standout tracks include the haunting "The Outsiders" (which features rapper Q-Tip, recalling OUT OF TIME's "Radio Song" with KRS-One in execution if not in tone) and the folky, defiant "Final Straw," a blatant condemnation of fear-instilling governmental policies.
Not as exploratory as other latter-day R.E.M. albums NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI (1996) and UP (1998), AROUND THE SUN occasionally echoes the ensemble's lauded AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE's laconic feel, though it doesn't quite match that record's gravitas.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6827225/a/Around+The+Sun.htm   (342 words)

  
 REM / AROUND THE SUN - HMV Australia - Top Dog for Music CDs, CD Singles and DVDs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The core members of the group (Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills) have been joined by drummer Bill Rieflin and instrumentalists Ken Stringfellow and Scott McCaughey on what promises to be one of the albums of 2004.
Around The Sun is already one of my favourite albums of all time.
"Around The Sun" combines the best elements of the recent "Up" and "Reveal" along with a political edge and a stunningly beautiful layered approach.
www.hmv.com.au /product/rockpop.asp?sku=938301   (461 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Around The Sun [Digipak] - R.E.M. at Epinions.com
Around The Sun [Digipak] by R.E.M. Overall rating:
Around the Sun is another disappointment in the R.E.M. post Bill Berry catalog.
So now, the band is back with Around the Sun, and sad to say, there are once again more valleys than peaks.
www.epinions.com /content_160595545732   (758 words)

  
 Xlibris.Com Bookstore
Gathering intelligence as her own search for ethnic identity unfolds, Emily returns to the greatest game of all, as hidden in a desolate cave in the Afghan mountains is the reason the fight against terrorism must continue.
“Circle Around The Sun” marks the fictional debut of Emily Cowan, a charismatic and often highly deviant legend in the making.
With biting wit, candor and firsthand knowledge of her subject, M. Johnson has created a spy thriller masterpiece with a brilliant cast of characters.
www2.xlibris.com /CIRCLEAROUNDTHESUN   (107 words)

  
 JUST ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN
I'm not a number or calendar-worshipper, that's why I call a birthday merely a "Trip Around the Sun," but there are many who appreciate numbers and attach significance to them.
My own has not meant much to me, as I regarded it as just a coincidence of the man-made calendar - a trip around the Sun - not 365 days - not any exact number of days, but 365.25????
What's interesting to me is that in all the writings of this group pertaining to the Mormons, there appears to be a pride in the similarities.
www.triparoundthesun.com /SunTrip18.htm   (1470 words)

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