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The first single and its video, "When the Moment Comes", was released in July. |
"The Moment" was released in August 2012, and it debuted at No. 51 on the ARIA Albums Chart. |
It was nominated for Best Blues & Roots Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2012, and provided two more singles, "Pistol" and "Jesse". |
In August 2013, Dyson collaborated with Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher and formed Dyson, Stringer & Cloher. |
The trio released an EP which featured an individual track from each musician. |
They then took on the road, playing over 40 shows around the country. 2014–present: "Idyllwild" and "If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back". |
Dyson's fifth studio album, "Idyllwild", was released in June 2014. |
Matthew Fiander of "PopMatters" felt it was "another solid album from Dyson, and further evidence that the Australian singer can be both comfortable in her own skin and restless enough to push her boundaries." |
"The AU Review"s Salmond rated it at 8.8 out of 10 and explained, "another beautiful album full of fun rock tunes as well as returning to her roots with slower bluesy ballads. |
Despite being her fifth record, she has created another stunning album that reflects her musical integrity and musical talents... [and has] the freedom to explore and challenge herself musically which has created an interesting array of upbeat bluesy-rock songs that intertwine effortlessly with slower bluesy soulful ballads. |
Her lyrics are more honest and reflective in nature, and this album could be argued to be her most honest yet." |
Dyson released her sixth studio album, "If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back", in March 2018. |
In 2019, Dyson reunited with Stringer and Cloher and the trio recorded an album in eight days at The Loft in Chicago in April 2019 which was released in October 2019 under the title "Dyson Stringer Cloher" and toured nationally. |
AIR Awards. |
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. |
They commenced in 2006. |
APRA Awards. |
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". |
They commenced in 1982. ! |
ARIA Music Awards. |
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. |
EG Awards / Music Victoria Awards. |
The EG Awards (known as "Music Victoria Awards" since 2013) are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. |
They commenced in 2006. |
J Award. |
The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. |
They commenced in 2005. |
NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. |
The Origins program was started in the 1990s. |
So far, it consists of the following missions: Missions marked with * are operational. |
Electrogravitics is claimed to be an unconventional type of effect or anti-gravity force created by an electric field's effect on a mass. |
The name was coined in the 1920s by the discoverer of the effect, Thomas Townsend Brown, who spent most of his life trying to develop it and sell it as a propulsion system. |
Through Brown's promotion of the idea, it was researched for a short while by aerospace companies in the 1950s. |
Electrogravitics is popular with conspiracy theorists, with claims that it is powering flying saucers and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. |
Since apparatuses based on Brown's ideas have often yielded varying and highly controversial results when tested within controlled vacuum conditions, the effect observed has often been attributed to the ion drift or ion wind effect instead of anti-gravity. |
Origins. |
Electrogravitics had its origins in experiments started in 1921 by Thomas Townsend Brown (who coined the name) while he was in high school. |
He discovered an unusual effect while experimenting with a Coolidge tube, a type of X-ray vacuum tube where, if he placed on a balance scale with the tube’s positive electrode facing up, the tube's mass seemed to decrease; when facing down, the tube's mass seemed to increase. |
Brown showed this effect to his college professors and even newspaper reporters and told them he was convinced that he had managed to influence gravity electronically. |
Brown developed this into large, high-voltage capacitors that would produce a tiny, propulsive force causing the capacitor to jump in one direction when the power was turned on. |
In 1929, Brown published "How I Control Gravitation" in "Science and Invention" where he claimed the capacitors were producing a mysterious force that interacted with the pull of gravity. |
He envisioned a future where, if his device could be scaled up, "Multi-impulse gravitators, weighing hundreds of tons, may propel the ocean liners of the future" or even "fantastic 'space cars'" to Mars. |
Somewhere along the way, Brown devised the name Biefeld–Brown effect, named after his former teacher, professor of astronomy Paul Alfred Biefeld at Denison University in Ohio. |
Brown claimed Biefeld as his mentor and co-experimenter . |
After World War II, Brown sought to develop the effect as a means of propulsion for aircraft and spacecraft, demonstrating a working apparatus to an audience of scientists and military officials in 1952. |
A Cal-Tech physicist invited to observe Brown's disk device in the early '50s noted during the demonstration that its motivation force was the well-known phenomenon of "electric wind", and not anti-gravity, saying, “I’m afraid these gentlemen played hooky from their high school physics classes…”. |
Research into the phenomenon was popular in the mid-1950s, at one point, the Glenn L. Martin Company placed advertisements looking for scientists who were "interested in gravity", but rapidly declined in popularity thereafter. |
Since this effect could not be explained by known physics at the time, the effect has been believed to be caused by ionized particles that produces a type of ion drift or ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, electrokinetic phenomena or more widely referred to as "electrohydrodynamics" (EHD). |
Electrogravitics has become popular with UFO, anti-gravity, and government conspiracy theorists where it is seen as an example of something much more exotic than electrokinetics, i.e. that electrogravitics is a true anti-gravity technology that can "create a force that depends upon an object’s mass, even as gravity does". |
There are claims that all major, aerospace companies in the 1950s, including Martin, Convair, Lear, Sperry, Raytheon, were working on it, that the technology became highly classified in the early 1960s, that it is used to power the B-2 bomber, and that it can be used to generate free energy. |
Charles Berlitz devoted an entire chapter of his book on The Philadelphia Experiment ("The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility") to a retelling of Brown's early work with the effect, implying the electrogravitics effect was being used by UFOs. |
The researcher and author Paul LaViolette has produced many self-published books on electrogravitics, making many claims over the years, including his view that the technology could have helped to avoid another Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. |
Criticism. |
Many claims as to the validity of electrogravitics as an anti-gravity force revolve around research and videos on the internet purported to show lifter-style, capacitor devices working in a vacuum, therefore not receiving propulsion from ion drift or ion wind being generated in air. |
Followups on the claims (R. L. Talley in a 1990 U.S. Air Force study, NASA scientist Jonathan Campbell in a 2003 experiment, and Martin Tajmar in a 2004 paper) have found that no thrust could be observed in a vacuum, consistent with the phenomenon of ion wind. |
Campbell pointed out to a Wired magazine reporter that creating a true vacuum similar to space for the test requires tens of thousands of dollars in equipment. |
Byron Preiss, in his 1985 book on the current science and future of the Solar System titled "The Planets," commented that electrogravitics development seemed to be "much ado about nothing, started by a bunch of engineers who didn't know enough physics". |
Preiss stated that electrogravitics, like exobiology, is "a science without a single specimen for study". |
Ricinolein is the chief constituent of castor oil and is the triglyceride of ricinoleic acid. |
Castor oil, the expressed natural fatty oil of the seeds of "Ricinus communis" also contains mixtures of the glycerides of isoricinoleic acids and much smaller traces of tristearin and the glyceride of dihydroxysteric acid. |
Ricinolein is the active principle in the use of castor oil as a purgative and solvent for several medically useful alkaloids. |
Emulator X is a software-based audio sampler that was produced by E-MU Systems from 2004 to 2009. |
Emulator X software is compatible with PCs running the Microsoft Windows operating system. |
The sampler can operate as a stand-alone program or as a VST instrument and, as of Emulator X3, is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. |
For the software to run, one of several sound cards sold by E-MU was originally required. |
The sound card acted as a hardware dongle to prevent unauthorised use without the purchase of an E-MU branded device. |
This requirement was later dropped with the release of Emulator X3. |
Versions. |
Following E-MU's decision to end sales and production of its hardware sampler line in 2003, Emulator X was released as the company's first entry into the software sampler market in 2004. |
Emulator X2 was released in 2006, followed by the third and final incarnation, Emulator X3, in 2009. |
The product has since been discontinued and is no longer available to purchase from either E-MU or its parent company, Creative Technology. |
Functionality. |
Emulator X was largely based on E-MU's hardware sampler operating system, EOS. |
As such, it replicates or expands upon most of the design and features available in the final revision of the operating system, EOS 4.70. |
An example of this is the inclusion of E-MU's highly publicized "Z-Plane" filters, with Emulator X containing over 25 new filters not available in EOS. |
It is also capable of importing and exporting bank files in EOS format for compatibility with E-MU's legacy hardware samplers such as the Emulator IV and E4 Ultra series devices. |
It is the last software sampler produced that retains the ability to directly sample other sources, in contrast to current software samplers, which require existing samples and are therefore more akin to traditional ROMplers. |
Among the more noteworthy sampling features added in Emulator X2 is SynthSwipe, a tool which gives Emulator X the ability to sample from connected MIDI devices such as hardware synthesizers by sending a series of notes at differing velocities via MIDI and automatically recording the device's output to create a new fully mapped sample bank. |
Wiang Kum Kam (; ) is an historic settlement and archaeological site along the Ping River, which was built by King Mangrai the Great as his capital before he moved it to Chiang Mai. |
It was flooded and abandoned more than 700 years ago; that move became more understandable in 2005, when the ancient city was flooded three separate times as the river overflowed its banks in that area of Chiang Mai. |
History. |
Wiang Kum Kam is an ancient city ( "wiang" "walled city") located in Saraphi District in the northern region of Thailand, around south of the southeastern corner of Chiang Mai's city centre. |
According to the chronicles and archaeological evidence, the old city was built by King Mangrai around the latter part of the 13th century. |
The city was established as a new capital by the King after his victory over the Mon people's kingdom of Hariphunchai, modern Lamphun. |
Due to repeated flooding, a new capital, Chiang Mai, was built a few years later. |
Wiang Kum Kam flourished during the reign of the Mangrai dynasty until the late 16th century. |
The old city was then lost from history for many years after Chiang Mai was conquered by the Burmese in 1558. |
There is a presumption that it was seriously flooded again at this time and was finally abandoned. |
The people were moved back to this area again more than 200 years later with a new community, and it was then named Chang Kham village (). |
In 1984, the Department of Fine Arts Unit 4 discovered remnants of the old city around Wihan Kan Thom () at Wat Chang Kham () and afterwards excavation was begun; since then many new remains have been found and restoration has proceeded since that time. |
The main temple of the town is Wat Chedi Liam (originally Wat Ku Kham), which is still occupied by monks. |
List of sites. |
Note that this list is definitely incomplete. |
Wat Chang Kham. |
Wat Chang Kham (; "Elephant-Propped Temple") is within the grounds of a working modern temple. |
It is adjacent to the Wat That Noi site. |
The name is derived from elephant figures supporting one of the structures. |
Wat Chedi Liam / Wat Ku Kham. |
Wat Chedi Liam (; "Temple of the Squared Pagoda"), formerly known as Wat Ku Kham (; "Temple of the Golden Stupa"), is named after its ancient five-level "chedi" (or Buddhist pagoda) of Mon style, which was copied from a similar structure at Wat Phra That Hariphunchai in Haripunchai (modern Lamphun). |
It is apparently the only ancient temple in the Wiang Kum Kam archaeological area that remains a working temple with resident monks. |
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