Readers may recall the Animals’ House of the Rising Sun, recorded in 1964. There’s much uncertainty about the origin of the song, whether it refers to an actual building in New Orleans (of whatever name), and what activity may have occurred there.
What’s undisputed, I think, is that the song is memorable.
Honor Flight is a feature-length documentary, to premiere on August 11th at Miller Park, about a volunteer effort “to honor living World War II veterans, one last time. The film follows a devoted team of Midwest volunteers as they race against the clock to send every local WW II veteran to the Washington, DC memorials built in their honor.”
The film will be more than a worthy veteran’s tribute, or even a commendation for those who helped these veterans visit Washington. It will be just as much a worthy Memorial Day tribute. The veterans in the documentary necessarily recall not only their service, but that of their comrades who gave their lives in defense of this free country and her way of life.
Tickets for the August premiere are available online.
Embedded below is the trailer for the documentary.
Good morning.
It’s a warm Memorial Day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-nine, and a forty percent chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Whitewater’s Memorial Day Parade begins at 10:30 AM along Main Street, from First Citizens Bank at 208 W. Main Street to American Legion Post 173 at 292 Wisconsin Street.
Google’s daily puzzle is right up a marine biologist’s alley: “What’s the only mammal you’ll find living in the world’s deepest lake?”
Those who contend that America’s best days are behind her couldn’t be more wrong: Here’s video of the privately-created SpaceX Dragon supply capsule docking with the International Space Station. There are no crew inside the capsule, and the docking is automated.
Many peoples cannot yet design and launch automated capsules like this, and America has now done so privately, and with an efficiency and skill that will make other, even greater projects possible.
So very admirable —
Posted originally on 5.25.12 at Daily Adams.
Watched over sixty-three million times, here’s the one, the original, surprised kitty video. Enjoy.
For those who are grilling this weekend, here’s a poll about some of the likely possibilities to grace the grill. Multiple answers are possible.
What will you be grilling?
At the House of Dissenting Opinion, we’ll have steak and fish, but lamb is always tempting if one can find something suitable…
Good morning.
It’s a mostly sunny day ahead in the Whippet City, with a high temperature of seventy-eight.
On this day in 1977, with Memorial Day approaching, Star Wars first hit theaters:
Google’s daily puzzle asks about how a watchdog was once distracted: “In Roman mythology, what pastry did Aeneas and Psyche use to distract a three-headed watchdog?”
So how do you keep a group of dancing robots in synchronization? It’s a Bacterial Trick [That] Keeps Robots in Sync:
You don’t have to watch Dancing with the Stars to know that keeping in sync is tough — and it’s even tougher for a robot. A new approach keeps several robots in step, and even enables a dancing robot that loses its footing to seamlessly rejoin its synchronized peers.
One way to synchronize a group of robots is for each to communicate with one another about their positions, but distance between the robots can lead to time delays. And when many robots are involved, the complexity of this communication network grows. To skirt such problems, researchers from MIT have taken inspiration from bacteria that synchronize their behavior not by checking in with each other, but by checking in with their environment….
Similarly, MIT’s Jean-Jacques Slotine and Patrick Bechon coordinated the behavior of eight dancing humanoid robots by having the bots send information to — and get information from — an external computer server. The work was posted May 14 on arXiv.org.
Harm it does – creating unnecessary barriers to entry, and higher costs for consumers. Equal costs hit those with less most acutely.
Posted originally on 5.24.12 at Daily Adams.
Good morning.
Whitewater’s Thursday will be warm and windy, with a high temperature of eighty-seven.
At 4:30 PM today, Whitewater’s Community Development Authority will meet in closed session for negotiation with potential CDA directors.
On this day in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was first opened to traffic.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a way to measure wealth: “How much was your personal fortune worth if you wore ruffles in the New England colony settled in 1630?” more >>
Good morning.
It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater this Wednesday, with a high temperature of seventy-eight.
The Wisconsin Historical Society marks today in 1854 as a transportation milestone:
1854 – First Railroad Reaches Madison
On this date the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad reached Madison, connecting the city with Milwaukee. When the cars pulled into the depot, thousands of people gathered to witness the ceremonial arrival of the first train, and an enormous picnic was held on the Capitol grounds for all the passengers who’d made the seven-hour trip from Milwaukee to inaugurate the line. [Source: Waukesha Chronicle, May 24, 1854; Wisconsin State Journal, June 1, 1924]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about the month of a moon as a people described it: “Native Americans had a name for the moon associated with the most widely grown crop in America. During what month would you see that moon?”
Last Friday’s poll asked whether Facebook seemed a fad. Most respondents said no, but almost as many said that it was, or that they weren’t sure. Commenters were, I’d say, skeptical of the company.
Well, fad or not, all the world’s talking about the problems FB’s stock is having. (I didn’t think it was a fad, but I don’t have any stock in the company, either.)
Finance blogger Barry Ritzholtz @ The Big Picture gives it to Facebook, and anyone standing nearby:
Thus, what we see are a series of bad decisions made by Facebook’s executives going back many years. The insiders got greedy, too clever by half, in how they used secondary markets. They picked a bad banker and an awful exchange. The stock broke syndicate on Monday morning, and I would not be surprised to see it eventually cut in half from the way-too-high offering price.
Via The Big Picture.
