http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=disc Wed, 22 May 2013 07:55:45 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=disc Tue, 21 May 2013 11:39:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5b_1369149417 Detroit Iron 10:27 AM XAVIANT HAZE Miami is a world famous Mecca of sun, sand, sex and fun outlandish decadence. It's also a very dark town, haunted by real life zombies , third world-esque poverty and a long history of racial segregation and violence . Because of this entropic mix Miami boasts an impressive musical resume, birthing a mix of pirates, tropical wanderers and wayward sons that over the decades have created some of the most groundbreaking, influential and varying musical styles. With a long history of music innovation and violence, it's no wonder that Miami shows up as the spark that helped create Rock n' Roll - in the form of a Suicide note. Late one night in some neon faded Art Deco beach hotel, an anonymous man killed himself leaving behind only a crumbled note in one of his jean pockets. On the note where the words "I walk a lonely street" his last ode to a cruel world. Little did he know his sacrificial death would soon give birth to a whole new generation of music lovers. His unidentified corpse was shown on the cover of the Miami Herald with the headline asking, "Do You Know This Man?" When exactly this suicide happened can't be confirmed and a search of the Miami Herald Digital Archives hasn't provided any help. We know that it was sometime in 1955 when Steel-guitar player, singer-songwriter and failed dishwasher repairman Tommy Durden read the Herald suicide article while working a gig in Jacksonville, Florida. Durden believed the suicide note's line had a dark blues quality and scribbled it down as a future song lyric. He showed the article and the lyric to his friend Mae Boren Axton, herself a songwriter, TV personality, radio host and publicist. Mae immediately was drawn to the lyric, deciding that naturally at the end of a lonely street one would find a "Heartbreak Hotel" and with that verse, a light bulb of creativity exploded in the warm Florida air. Mae wrote the rest of the lyrics while Durden worked out the melodies on his guitar. Within an hour the duo had composed one of the most important songs in the history of music. But Mae was more than just a schoolteacher and part-time songwriter; she was a visionary who saw the 'big picture' before anybody else. That 'big picture' was Elvis Presley and way before the Colonel turned him into a money making machine, Mae Axton was convinced that Elvis was going to be the biggest thing to hit America since the Model-T Ford. Mae first encountered Elvis during a tour she helped set up in Jacksonville, Florida when the relatively unknown Memphis singer was a last minute replacement booked to open for country recording star Hank Snow. As Elvis began his set, Mae Quietly blended in with the crowd at the Gator Bowl, and watched in awe as twenty-year old Elvis completely blew the audience away with his mix of hillbilly swag, bluesy crooning and pelvic shaking lunacy. After his performance, teenage girls chased Elvis back to the dressing room while managing to completely tear off the young stud's shirt. The forty-year old Mae had never seen anything like that in her entire life. Nobody had. She quickly helped get Elvis booked for a return show on July 28, 1955, which caused excessive lines of teenage girls waiting to get inside and irate local preachers screaming about the dangers of Elvis's shaking hips. After another smashing performance Mae interviewed Elvis for a local radio station. She was influential in helping get Elvis's first record "That's alright Mamma" radio airplay in Florida and during the interview the 'King' gratefully acknowledges this fact... "Well, thank you very much, Mae, and I'd like to personally thank you for really promoting my record, because you really have done a wonderful job, and I really do appreciate it because if you don't have people backing you, people pushing you, well you might as well quit." After the interview Mae boldly declared to Elvis that she would write his first number one hit. After concluding the "Heartbreak" writing session with Durden, a local Country singer named Glenn Reeves stopped by for a visit and was immediately put to work by Mae. She asked Reeves to record a demo of the song with her tape recorder in the style of Elvis Presley, Reeves wasn't a fan but being a good friend did the song anyways. The fact that Reeves even knew who Elvis was, is a testament to how much buzz the 'King' had created for himself in the South. After finishing the song, Reeves thought "Heartbreak Hotel" was weird and that Elvis "wouldn't go far" and declined any credit or association with the song. Mae had no intention of ever using Reeves anyways; she just wanted something to show Elvis in the hopes that he would record the song. She approached the popular country duo The Wilburn Brothers and offered them a chance to record a better quality version of "Heartbreak Hotel" but the duo declined, calling the song "Strange and almost Morbid". With no choice but to hunt down the kid on her own, she headed to Nashville where Elvis was being honored as the most promising male country star of 1955 at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention. By this time the Colonel Tom Parker had weaseled his way to becoming Elvis's manager, and shortly after Thanksgiving of 1955 secured for Elvis a record deal at RCA. Since Mae had worked with Tom before as a publicist in the early 50's she was on familiar terms with the Memphis slickster. It's even rumored that Mae is the only person in the world that the notorious Colonel Tom Parker has ever apologized to. After talking with Tom about a song she wanted Elvis to record she was told where to find the kid, and headed out in the rain towards the Andrew Jackson Hotel. Elvis was relaxing in his room and in a jovial mood when Mae showed up with her tape-recorded demo. Upon hearing the rough sounding tape Elvis shouted, "Hot dog, Mae! Play it again!" mesmerized as he played the track about ten times in a row. Elvis said the song reminded him of Roy Brown's " Hard Luck Blues " and agreed to record a version. Mae was delighted and the next day they sat down with the Colonel to hammer out a deal. Though the team of Mae and Durden are responsible for penning the song, Elvis's name appears on the finished record as a third writer. It's common knowledge that the Colonel often insisted his boy get co-writing credits in exchange for cutting a song. Always securing a steady stream of publishing checks for the two of them. However this wasn't the case, Mae was so confident that "Heartbreak" would help establish Elvis as a star she insisted on a shared credit in order to help Elvis buy a house for his mother in Florida. With formalities out of the way Elvis began to rehearse the song and added it his live repertoire, changing one line of the lyric, from "they pray to die" to "they could die" while performing the song for the first time in Swifton, Arkansas on December 9. The small club was packed with over 200 people and Elvis oozing with confidence after singing with RCA rocked the club to the floor. The club's owner and everyone there could sense that something fresh was happening. The 20-year-old Elvis was already a regional star but he had yet to appear on national television. That night in the Arkansas club, Elvis burned through some tracks he'd recorded for Sun, a few covers, and then introduced his new song in that familiar Southern drawl, "I"ve got this brand new song and it's gonna be my first hit." His words were prophetic. A month later Elvis entered the recording studios at RCA, where he was scheduled to record five songs in two days. The studio at 1525 McGavock Street was RCA's first permanent recording facility in Nashville, a town still years away from becoming the recording center of the musical universe. Surprisingly, up to then there were only a handful of studios in town. It wasJanuary 10th, 1956 and Elvis Presley who two days prior just turned 21 was ready to begin recording his debut single for RCA. Mae was also present during the session; interested in watching Elvis record live and curious to how her song would end up sounding. At Sun Records, Elvis had been backed by Sentry Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass. Later a drummer was added -- a position eventually filled by D.J. Fontana on a permanent basis. At RCA, the Elvis combo was joined by legendary Nashville guitarist Chet Atkins on rhythm guitar and future Grammy winner Floyd Cramer on piano, along with a gospel trio consisting of Ben and Brock Speer of the Speer Family and Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires. They recorded on monaural equipment (single track) and the studio was somewhat of a live room with a curved ceiling that created low frequency problems causing bass notes to be boomy and roll around for a long time. They were always in search of a dead spot for the bass. They also had several large curtains hanging on the walls to help "deaden" the room. They employed the use of movable "wall-like" baffles to isolate instruments to minimize sound bleeding into other mics. During that first session RCA was anxious to recreate the "slapback" echo effect that Sam Phillips had created at Sun. To add them to Elvis's vocals Chet and engineer Bob Farris created a psuedo "echo chamber" by setting up a speaker at one end of a long hallway and a microphone at the other end and recording the echo live. It sounded strange to hear it as they were recording live because at Sun studios Sam used to add the effect afterwards. This technique failed to add anything special to the first two songs they recorded " I got a Woman " and " Money Honey " but as soon as they tried it out on "Heartbreak Hotel" goose pimples suddenly appeared on everybody's skin. The heavy overdubbing of echo and the drummer's rim shots created a powerful atmosphere of upbeat despair that effortlessly matched Elvis's heart-rending vocal. It was a perfect blend of haunting lyrics and ghostly music set to the penetrating crooning of a man destined for greatness. During the opening lines to each verse when Elvis sings acapella, his voice is penetrating, dejected, and completely captures the alienation of disaffected youth. The dark track sounded like it belonged more on a Doors album than a lead single for RCA in 1956. The gloomy song was markedly different from anything Elvis had done previously at Sun Records and when his former label boss Sam Phillips heard an acetate from the Nashville session, he pronounced "Heartbreak Hotel" a "morbid mess." Biographer Donald Clarke writes: The sound quality of that first session was not good, and 'Heartbreak Hotel' is the worst of them all. Chet Atkins played rhythm guitar and Floyd Cramer was added on piano, together with an entirely unnecessary vocal trio led by Gordon Stoker, lead singer of the Jordanaires. Scotty Moore's guitar sounds exceptionally, irritatingly tinny, Cramer is too prominent and the whole track sounds like it was made underwater in a breadbox. It was a disgraceful recording for 1956 but a good song for Presley. On hearing the new songs, the RCA executives in New York freaked out and wanted to scrap the sessions. They told producer Steve Sholes to turn around and head straight back to Nashville to re-record the tracks. Sholes later stated, "They all told me it didn't sound like anything, it didn't sound like his other records and I'd better not release it, better go back and record it again" But Elvis was unfazed and begged the grey-haired executives to trust his instincts and release "Heartbreak Hotel" as a single. Promising that if it sank he would be at their mercy for any song they wanted out of him. Elvis had that Southern charm, and he had it in spades. The RCA 'brass' relented and pressed ahead with the release, albeit with sizeable suspicions. Elvis clearly believed in it, certain that the song was the right one to catapult him into the big time. It was properly mastered and released as a 45 single with the B-side " I was the One " on January 27, 1956 and went nowhere despite Elvis making his network television debut on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show. For the first month of its release "Heartbreak Hotel" barely registered on the pop charts and seemed to prove that the RCA executives were right. But that all changed when Elvis finally had the chance to perform the song on the popular Milton Berle Show. This performance from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hancock in San Diego California, rocketed Elvis to superstardom. His good looks, unique voice and swiveling hips sent the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Californian girls into a frenzy of screams, faints and tears. The men had never seen anything like it and the San Diego Police Chief announced that if Elvis ever returned to his city and performed in the way that he did he would be jailed for disorderly conduct. Like a meteor blast Elvis had hit the mainstream. The fateful string oftelevision exposure (a new medium) undoubtedly helped propel "Heartbreak Hotel" to the number-one spot on Billboard's best-seller list 45 days after its release, where it stayed #1 for eight weeks. The song also reached number one on the country chart and number three on the R&B chart. It became Elvis Presley's first Gold record selling more than a million copies just as Mae Axton had predicted. Considering this is the song that really introduced rock to the mainstream (white public) it's amazing how dark the lyrics really are... Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell It's down at the end of lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel You make me so lonely baby, I get so lonely, I get so lonely I could die And although it's always crowded, you still can find some room Where broken hearted lovers do cry away their gloom You make me so lonely baby, I get so lonely, I get so lonely I could die Well, the Bell hop's tears keep flowin', and the desk clerk's dressed in black Well they been so long on lonely street They ain't ever gonna look back You make me so lonely baby, I get so lonely, I get so lonely I could die Hey now, if your baby leaves you, and you got a tale to tell Just take a walk down lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel "Heartbreak Hotel" put Elvis on the map, and helped forever alter the landscape of Popular Culture. He would perform the song during most of his live shows between 1956 and 1977, including a blistering rendition on his 1968 comeback special. Elvis performed it for the last time on May 29, 1977 at the Civic Center inBaltimore, Maryland. The song and alternative takes have been released on almost every Presley compilation album since the 60's. In 1979, following Presley's death, author Robert Matthew-Walker wrote, "Heartbreak Hotel became one of the legendary rock performances. For many people it is Elvis Presley, and it continues to excite and fascinate listeners. Heartbreak Hotel is a classic performance, yet when it is analyzed it appears so simple that one cannot recall a time when one did not know it." "Heartbreak Hotel" is one of the most influential songs of all time. It single handedly ushered in the era of Rock n' Roll and influenced every key rock artist in its wake. In a 1975 interview, John Lennon recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon said that his family rarely had the radio on, unlike other members of The Beatles who grew up under its influence. Beatty showed Lennon a picture of Presley that appeared along with the charts on the New Musical Express magazine, and Lennon later heard "Heartbreak Hotel" on Radio Luxembourg. Lennon said: When I first heard "Heartbreak Hotel", I could hardly make out what was being said. It was just the experience of hearing it and having my hair stand on end. We'd never heard American voices singing like that. They always sung like Sinatra or enunciate very well. Suddenly, there's this hillbilly hiccuping on tape echo and all this bluesy stuff going on. And we didn't know what Elvis was singing about... It took us a long time to work what was going on. To us, it just sounded as a noise that was great. George Harrison credits "Heartbreak Hotel" with handing him a "rock n roll epiphany" when in 1956, at age 13, he overheard it being played at a neighbor's house while riding his bike. Thus, it was "Heartbreak Hotel" that turned Harrison from a relatively well-mannered schoolboy into a guitar-crazed truant who would audition for John Lennon's Quarrymen the following year. The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards stated in his 2010 autobiography,Life, that "Heartbreak Hotel" was one of the first rock and roll influences he had. Apart from Presley's impact on him, Richards was even more impressed by Scotty Moore's guitar playing, as well as the rest of the band. Richards says: Good records just get better with age. But the one that really turned me on, like an explosion one night, listening to Radio Luxembourg on my little radio when I was supposed to be in bed and asleep, was "Heartbreak Hotel." That was the stunner. I'd never heard it before, or anything like it. I'd never heard of Elvis before. It was almost as if I'd been waiting for it to happen. When I woke up the next day I was a different guy. Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant stated that the song "changed his life". He recalled hearing it for the first time when he was eight years old: It was so animal, so sexual, the first musical arousal I ever had. You could see a twitch in everybody my age. All we knew about the guy was that he was cool, handsome and looked wild. Critic Robert Cantwell wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly: The opening strains of "Heartbreak Hotel", which catapulted Presley's regional popularity into national hysteria, opened a fissure in the massive mile-thick wall of post-war regimentation, standardization, bureaucratization, and commercialization in American society and let come rushing through the rift a cataract from the immense waters of sheer, human pain and frustration that have been building up for ten decades behind it. Paul McCartney says, "It's the way Elvis sings it as if he is singing from the depths of hell. His phrasing, use of echo, it's all so beautiful. Musically, it's perfect." With "Heartbreak Hotel" a certifiable smash Elvis Presley was on his way to superstardom. Over the years he begged Mae to write another song for him, but feeling she could never top "Heartbreak" Mae declined, content that her initial hunch about Elvis was right. Mae continued to write other minor hits through the 60s and 70s while maintaining a career as a schoolteacher and community activist. Proud to have set Elvis on his way but completely nonchalant about writing one of the most groundbreaking songs ever. In a 1982 interview, the song's co-writer Tommy Durden said the song, "has paid the rent for more than 20 years." Citing its cultural significance the Grammy's inducted the song into their Hall of Fameand when then presidential candidate Bill Clinton (the first black president) made his famous appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1992, he chose "Heartbreak Hotel" to play on his sax. He killed it, got the crowd hyped and secured the gig for the presidency... And to the deserted soul who took his own life in Miami, never knowing that his suicide note "I walk a lonely street" would forever change the world by helping to shape & create the phenomena of Rock n' Roll - Thank You. Sadly, your loss was our gain. C'est la vie... http://xavianthaze.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-suicide-in-miami-gave-birth-to.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5b_1369149417 Detroit Iron HOW A SUICIDE IN MIAMI GAVE BIRTH TO "HEARTBREAK HOTEL" AND THE RISE OF ROCK N' ROLL Elvis, Heartbreak Hotel Wed, 01 May 2013 04:56:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc7_1367397015 herseyibuldum (google translate) "DISC" gathered in front of the headquarters of DISK workers early in the morning, with groups that support them at 09:00 Halaskargazi landed Street. The procession walk to Taksim, stopped by the police. DISC talk to the managers of police commissioners, wanted to put an end to a walk. Police were called to disperse the group announced carts. A police officer is not legally walk mikrofanla radio, they announced that they would intervene without distribution after the last warning. Taksim Square, placed a wreath at the front of DISC cortege took place. Group before police intervened with water cannons. Then came gas response. Gas and water at the same time, hundreds of people came on the streets to escape the search. Took refuge in shops and apartment buildings affected by the gas on the road. Beko DISC was also President of the cone of gas may be affected. Ongoing events, too many people took refuge in the headquarters of the DISC. DISC learned that the wounded heart. Asked ambulances to the region http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc7_1367397015 herseyibuldum May 1 Labor Day, Police Pepper Spray disc, police, radio, warning, gas Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:11:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fc_1366961428 haqy A wax-covered disc, dated April 15, 1885, records the voice of Alexander Graham Bell. 'Hear my voice' The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used optical-scan technology to read the sounds recorded on a wax disc that was recorded in 1885. The audio was filtered to enhance the sound quality, but the words are still sometimes hard to make out. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fc_1366961428 haqy 'Hear my voice': Listen to Alexander Graham Bell on 128-year-old record Alexander Graham Bell, wax, disc, 128 years, record Mon, 13 May 2013 23:02:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21d_1368499301 MAKMAK What's not to like about a bunch of happy hippies dropping acid, smoking dope and dancing their asses off in the name of peace & love? Nothing! This classic movie entitled, 'You Are What You Eat' is a 1968 American counter culture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight & Ashbury scene. The film features locally known personalities including well known and somewhat mythical pot dealer Super Spade and musicians of the day including Tiny Tim, David Crosby and Peter Yarrow etc. and radio disc jockey, Rosko.The film soundtrack features music by John Simon and by artists as diverse as Paul Butterfield, The Electric Flag, Eleanor Barooshian, Peter Yarrow, John Herald and Harpers Bizarre, accompanied by several members of The Band." ... ... "You Are What You Eat (1968) is a strange, psychedelic and convoluted film as incoherent as its hippy brethren 200 Motels (1971) and Rainbow Bridge (1972). It belongs with that small collection of movies in which more people own the soundtrack than have actually seen the film. The soundtrack is phenomenal. The bright yellow cover is as eccentric as the vinyl itself that features audio cut-ups, squealing Moog synthesizers, relentless psychedelic improvisations, lounge music, Tiny Tim oddities, and the final appearance of The Hawks before they changed their name to The Band. The list of those involved with the film is an incredible roster of counter culture heroes and weirdos. Tiny Tim, The Electric Flag, Frank Zappa, Peter Yarrow, Paul Butterfield, Super Spade, David Crosby, Hamsa El Din, Barry McGuire, the radio personality Rosko and several others". The full-length movie from which this clip was taken can be seen on youtube. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21d_1368499301 MAKMAK 1960s Psychedelia And The Love Generation You Are What You Eat, 1960s, flower power, music, hippies, love generation, Frank Zappa, psychedelic, psychedelia, acid, LSD, tripping out, drug culture, Haight and Ashbury, mushrooms, cannabis, cult classic, MAKMAK Fri, 10 May 2013 11:59:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=981_1368193226 BloodyPeasant Before the first person shooter there was the second person thinker. GET LAMP is a two-disc documentary about interactive fiction (also known as text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Scott conducted the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, and the documentary was released in July 2010. The documentary and its hours of episodes and bonus footage contain material from roughly 80 interviews of interactive fiction developers, designers, and players. Included in the bonus footage is a nearly 50-minute documentary about Infocom, the best-known commercial publisher of interactive fiction. GET LAMP is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license. (Preceding description courtesy wikipedia) Important note: This video does NOT contain ANY of the bonus features. If you want those you'll have to support this person (who was kind enough to allow this item to be posted) by visiting his website at: http://www.getlamp.com/order/ View similar videos at: http://vintagecomputing.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=981_1368193226 BloodyPeasant (VintageComputing) Get Lamp - The Text Adventure Documentary get lamp, the text adventure documentary, pc, ibm, adventure, colossal cave, haunted mansion, haunted house, text, ascii Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:54:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=554_1366991394 MiST A 128-year-old recording made by the inventor of the telephone has been uncovered by researchers. The wax-disc recording was made in 1885 at Bell's Volta laboratory in Washington and is so fragile that researchers needed to set up an alternative playback system to avoid damaging the disc. Upon playing the recording a voice states - "hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell," as well as a number of other recitals. It is one of the earliest and most historically significant recordings held at the Smithsonian Institution. "Identifying the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who brought us everyone else's voice, is a major moment in the study of history," said National Museum of American History director John Gray. "It enriches what we know about the late 1800s, who spoke, what they said and how they said it." More info can be found here. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=554_1366991394 MiST Alexander Graham Bell recording identified science, history, telephone, inventor Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:17:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ed_1366963906 kaanG He invented a world-changing acoustic device that allows us to send our voices over great distances, but what did telephone creator Alexander Graham Bell's voice sound like? His last living relative who had heard him speak, granddaughter Mabel Grosvenor, died in 2006. The recordings he and his associates made on discs and cylinders (formed of-among other materials-cardboard, wax, and paper) were silent artifacts from which modern technology couldn't extract information. Bell donated more than 400 of these discs and cylinders to the Smithsonian Institution. Though the inventor documented his research well (in case patent disputes should arise in the future), the precise methods used in these early audio recording experiments have been lost for decades. But physicists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California have recently made breakthroughs in drawing sound from these discs. By creating high-resolution optical scans and converting those by computer into audio files, the muffled early attempts at recording-unheard for over a century-are audible. Among the recitations of Hamlet, number sequences and nursery rhymes, the team made a particularly notable discovery. On a 130-year-old disc, recorded on April 15, 1885, is a recording of Alexander Graham Bell's voice. The legendary inventor declares: "In witness whereof-hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell." Even with so few words, much is revealed: Bell's careful enunciation is predictable for a man whose father was a renowned elocution teacher and whose wife was deaf. He lived in England, Canada, and the eastern United States throughout his life, and his voice is tinged with a British accent. For anyone who appreciates Bell's contributions to modern technology, the recording is awe-inspiring, incredible in its simplicity but groundbreaking in its significance. Head over to Smithsonian to hear Bell speak. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ed_1366963906 kaanG Technology Reveals Recording of Alexander Graham Bell's Voice (1885) Alexander Graham Bell's Voice Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:21:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba3_1366496134 BloodyPeasant Wolfman Jack interview from the 80's in which he talks about how computers are destroying radio. For more nostalgic videos, subscribe to: http://nostalgia.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba3_1366496134 BloodyPeasant (Embed)(Nostalgia) Wolfman Jack interviewed by Joel Samuel wolfman jack, wolf man jack, nostalgia, nostalgic, radio, am, fm, dj, disc jockey, 80's Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:50:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=394_1366206268 weshard Drinking birds originated in China, back in the early 20th century, and were originally known as 'insatiable birds'. On a visit to Shanghai in 1922, Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa were said to be fascinated by the toy. The drinking bird was later patented in the US by an inventor-scientist at Bell Lab, Miles V. Sullivan in 1946. The toy is an example of a heat engine that demonstrates several physical laws, such as the Combined gas Law , the Ideal gas Law , and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution . It is often used in basic chemistry and physics education. It exploits a temperature differential to convert heat energy to a pressure differential within the device, and perform mechanical work, through a thermodynamic cycle. The lower bulb contains the chemical compound dichloromethane, which has a boiling point of 39.6 ^0C (103.28 ^0F), enabling its use at room temperatures. The initial state of the system is a bird with a wet head oriented vertically. The water evaporates from the felt on the head, lowering the temperature of the glass head. The temperature decrease causes some of the dichloromethane vapour in the head to condense. The lower temperature and condensation together cause the pressure to drop in the head. The higher vapour pressure in the warmer base pushes the liquid up the neck. As the liquid rises, the bird becomes top heavy and tips over. When the bird tips over, the bottom end of the neck tube rises above the surface of the liquid. A bubble of warm vapour rises up the tube through this gap, displacing liquid as it goes. Liquid flows back to the bottom bulb, and pressure equalises between the top and bottom bulbs. The weight of the liquid in the bottom bulb restores the bird to its vertical position. The liquid in the bottom bulb is heated by ambient air, which is at a temperature slightly higher than the temperature of the bird's head. My videos on my other scientific toys: Gyroscope Euler's Disc http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=394_1366206268 weshard The Greatest Invention in the World! Drinking bird, scientific toy, heat engine, Simpsons, thermodynamics Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:45:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f48_1365824374 ConspiracyTardLL Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer confirmed today that the Missouri Highway Department did in fact share confidential CCW lists with the federal government in violation of Missouri law. The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said Wednesday. Questioning in the Senate Appropriations Committee revealed that on two occasions, in November 2011 and again in January, the patrol asked for and received the full list from the state Division of Motor Vehicle and Driver Licensing. Schaefer later met in his office with Col. Ron Replogle, superintendent of the patrol. After the meeting, he said Replogle had given him sketchy details about turning over the list, enough to raise many more questions. Testimony from Department of Revenue officials revealed that the list of 185,000 names had been put online in one instance and given to the patrol on a disc in January. "Apparently from what I understand, they wanted to match up anyone who had a mental diagnosis or disability with also having a concealed carry license," Schaefer said. "What I am told is there is no written request for that information." How is it that agencies who answer directly to Governor Jay Nixon were allowed to repeatedly break Missouri law unless sanctioned by the governor himself? Missouri state law prohibits the full compliance with the Real ID act, so who gave these departments the go-ahead and will Attorney General Chris Koster uphold Missouri law and take action? Previously on this topic: MO Department Of Revenue Delivers On SubpoenasBREAKING: MO Senator Subpoenas Department Of RevenueMissouri Department Of Revenue Saving Biometric Data In Violation Of State LawMissouri House To Investigate DOR, DHS, Backdoor Gun RegistrationEXCLUSIVE: DHS Plans Backdoor Gun Registration? *UPDATES*UPDATE: This just in from Senator Schaefer's office: Sen. Kurt Schaefer to Hold Press Conference on Department of Revenue Investigation JEFFERSON CITY-State Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, will host a press conference tomorrow (4-11) to discuss recent developments in the ongoing investigation of the Department of Revenue regarding the collecting and scanning of private documents. Senator Schaefer has spearheaded the inquiry into allegations concerning the department's unauthorized collection and sharing of protected personal information. Press Conference Who: Sen. Kurt Schaefer What: Department of Revenue investigation When: Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 9:45 a.m. Where: Sen. Schaefer's Capitol Office, Rm. 221 Questions regarding this press conference may be directed to Sen. Schaefer's office at (573) 751-3931. *REMINDER: Missouri is the same state that issued a report naming tea partiers, libertarians, and anyone who flew the military authorized Gadsden Flag as potential domestic terrorists. SOURCE: http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/04/10/missouri-secretly-shares-entire-ccw-list-with-feds-against-state-law/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f48_1365824374 ConspiracyTardLL Missouri Secretly Shares Entire CCW List With Feds Against State Law conceal carry, gun control, jay nixon, kurt schaefer, missouri, registry, second amendment Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:05:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=093_1364824782 Pined In this video series the currently accepted theories of physics and astrophysics are shaken to the core by a radical new theory of the fundamental forces in all matter. You will be amazed as a magnetic model of the dome at CERN is used to create a 100 mm diameter plasma Sun with a 300 mm diameter equatorial disc of plasma around it! All the plasma videos are actual footage with no enhancement or manipulation other than speed. In other words, this is real thing. 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