Noble Ray Price(January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013)
On December 2, 2013, Price entered a Tyler, Texas, hospital in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, according to his son, then left on December 12 for home hospice care. He died at his home on Monday.
"For the Good Times" is a 1970 song written by Kris Kristofferson. It was awarded “Song of the Year” by the Academy ofCountry Music and was Price’s fifth #1 single and spent a total of nineteen weeks onthe country chart. “For the Good Times” crossed over to the pop chart at number eleven. It became Ray Price’s only release to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
(FoxNews) – The reign of the windshield wiper could be coming to an end.
The McLaren automobile company is working on a vibrating windscreen designed to clear away water and debris,
McLaren chief designer Frank Stephenson says the design is based on fighter plane technology that uses high frequency sound waves to repel rain, bugs and other potential obstructions.
The windshield wiper was invented in 1903, and the concept has changed very little since its introduction.
Originally a hand-cranked device, electric motors were soon added, but major advancements since have been limited to intermittent systems and rain-sensing capabilities, none of which has affected the basic idea of the wiper blade itself.
By removing traditional wipers, the aerodynamics of a vehicle can be greatly improved and its weight reduced.
But while it sounds very advanced, one expert tells the Times that it could require only a small transducer to send 30 kHz sound waves across the glass and cost as little as $15 per car.
No word on when it will be put into production, or details if it would work effectively at low speeds or just on the highway and racetracks, but the first cars that use it aren’t likely to be cheap.
McLaren’s current lineup of supercars runs from around $230,000 to $1.15 million, although it is working on one said to be in the $125,000 range.
The Bearded guitarist who plays for the Texas blues and rock band ZZ Top was called the next hottest guitarist by Jimi Hendrix. Instead of using a regular guitar pick, he has used an old five pesos coin (below).
The pilot for Dragnet, "The Human Bomb" aired on NBC-TV as a special presentation of the variety series Chesterfield Sound-Off Time. The show garnered such high ratings that sponsor Liggett & Myers Tobacco dropped the variety show and went with the police drama. The series officially began on January 3, 1952 and ran until 1959.
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