Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a sunny Tuesday in Whitewater with a high of eighty-six. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset 8:32, for 15h 16m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 52.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5:30 PM this afternoon.
I’ve added a video to When Green Turns Brown, in response to a request, showing the principal discussion of Common Council on 6.2.15 regarding a public meeting about upgrades to Whitewater’s wastewater plant. The video is also available on the right sidebar of this page. (There’s a later discussion, toward the end of the 6.2.15 Council meeting, that’s worth posting and considering another time.) I’ve also updated yesterday’s post from the WGTB series to include the video.)
It’s worth mentioning again that When Green Turns Brown in a series about a small town’s digester energy project, based on the importation of waste from other cities into Whitewater. Other facility upgrades are not primarily a concern of this series, but are secondarily important only as they implicate managerial ability.
On this day in 1973, Secretariat became a Triple Crown winner by taking the Belmont Stakes. American Pharoah, of course, just won his own Triple Crown.
Here’s how the two horses ran the Belmont, with side by side video that the Wall Street Journal crafted:
On this date guitarist Les Paul (aka Lester Polfus) was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Best known for the guitar that bears his name, Les Paul was a country-music guitarist, jazz-pop musician and pioneer in music technology. In 1941, Paul built his first solid-body electric guitar and over the next decade he developed revolutionary engineering techniques such as close miking, echo delay, and multi-tracking. Paul was also well known for recording with his wife, singer Colleen Summers (a.k.a. Mary Ford).
Their biggest hits included “How High the Moon” (1951) and “Vaya Con Dios” (1953), both reaching #1. The recordings of Les Paul and Mary Ford were not only popular hits, they also showcased Paul’s pioneering use of overdubbing, or the layering of guitar parts one atop another. In 1952, Les Paul introduced the first eight-track tape recorder as well as the solid-body electric guitar he is known for. Built and marketed by Gibson, the Les Paul guitar has been used by such guitarists as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. [Source: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]
Here’s Tuesday’s game from Puzzability:
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This Week’s Game — June 8-12
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Disappearing Acts
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They’re all trick questions this week. For each day, we started with the name of a magic or mentalist act as it would be billed. We removed all the letters that appear more than once, leaving just the singly occurring letters. Each day’s clue gives the unique letters in order (with any spaces removed), along with the word lengths of the act’s name in parentheses.
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Example:
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AYOUDN (5,7)
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Answer:
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Harry Houdini
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What to Submit:
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Submit the name (as “Harry Houdini” in the example) for your answer.
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Tuesday, June 9
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