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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Music
Monday Music: Three Versions of Happy Together
by JOHN ADAMS •
Turtles, Mel Torme, Johnny Panic:
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.4.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
The week begins with a slight chance of thunderstorms and a high of seventy-seven.
Whitewater’s Parks & Recreation Board meets today at 4:00 PM.
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway began, concluding days later in a decisive victory for the United States over Japan.
The Wisconsin Historical Society marks 6.4.1861 as first for medicine:
1861 – First Recorded Kidney Removal Occurs
On this date Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott, a Milwaukee surgeon, performed the first recorded removal of a diseased kidney. [Source: History Just Ahead: A guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 22.]
Google’s daily puzzle asks about civil strife: “Which of these countries–Greece, Switzerland, Finland–had the most recent civil war?”
Public Meetings
Whitewater’s Pig in the Park
by JOHN ADAMS •
Public Meetings
Community Development Authority Meeting
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, City, Food, Hip & Prosperous, Press Release
Pork in the Park: September 21-22, Cravath Lakefront
by JOHN ADAMS •
Something delicious for the beginning of fall, from Downtown Whitewater —
Downtown Whitewater. Inc. Announces New BBQ Pig in the Park State Championship Cook-off Sanctioned by Kansas City Barbecue Society
Downtown Whitewater, Inc. will host the area’s first BBQ Pig in the Park Cook-off, which was sanctioned by Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) 2 weeks ago, and this week became a State Championship event. The event will be held September 21-22, 2012 in Downtown Whitewater, on the beautiful award-winning Cravath Lakefront.
“This is a wonderful endorsement for Downtown Whitewater, Inc., to receive the sanctioning status from KCBS and the state championship status from the Governor’s office. A sanctioned contest brings fair scoring, integrity, experience, a built in base of cookers and judges and a support system of other organizers and members,” said Tami Brodnicki, Executive Director of Downtown Whitewater, Inc.
“Downtown Whitewater, Inc. is beginning the Annual Pig in the Park BBQ Cook-Off Competition for two reasons,” Brodnicki explained. “First we want to promote our lakefront, the downtown and the merchants.” “Second the BBQ Cook-Off will be a fund-raising event for our organization, we want to continue providing programs for the community, merchants and property owners.”
The Kansas City Barbeque Society, a nonprofit organization, sanctions over 400 barbeque contest coast- to-coast throughout America. From volunteering to actual event production, their members also offer assistance to civic and charitable organizations who organize events.
For more information about KCBS you can visit www.kcbs.us and for more information about our Pig in the Park BBQ Cook-Off or if you would like to volunteer for the event please visit www.piginthepark.net.
Downtown Whitewater was formed in 2006 and is a non-profit, community-based organization devoted to preserving, improving and promoting Whitewater’s quality of life, by strengthening our historic downtown as the heartbeat of our community.
The Triangle
Eat * Shop * Enjoy
Recent Tweets, 5.20 – 6.3
by JOHN ADAMS •
3 Jun
RT@dailywisconsin
Bizarre: Weekend before recall election, State Journal’s top story is about a 78-year-old juggler http://bit.ly/L5wfEd
31 May
RT@dailywisconsin
But no Obama – source to WisPolitics: Clinton to campaign for Barrett tomorrow in Milwaukee http://bit.ly/JU70Fn
30 May @FREEWHITEWATER
The Fitzgerald-Compas Debate in the 13th Senate District » FREE WHITEWATER http://bit.ly/LV7MUE #wirecall
29 May @FREEWHITEWATER
Whitewater’s Online Commitment to Budget Transparency » FREE WHITEWATER http://bit.ly/JTsjFd #opengovernment
29 May @FREEWHITEWATER
They will: Toppers aims to win over Chicago pizza snobs – Crain’s Chicago Business http://bit.ly/MWqFsp
27 May @FREEWHITEWATER
Pleasures of beautiful morning: cycling through Whitewater countryside, lush beauty of created order, shrimp salad, iced tea
23 May @FREEWHITEWATER
5.26.12 @ 10 AM Guided tour of Whitewater’s Effigy Mounds Preserve — Walworth County Today http://bit.ly/KpvAjg
23 May RT@dailywisconsin
‘This is me’: Accused Wisconsin thief leaves video of himself on stolen camera http://bit.ly/LfqNOE
22 May RT@dailywisconsin
Creator of University of Wisconsin Bucky Badger mascot, William Sachse, dies at 85 http://post.cr/L2mJVh #bucky
Cartoons & Comics
Sunday Morning Cartoon: Merrie Melodies – A Corny Concerto (1939)
by JOHN ADAMS •
History, Human Nature
Franklin on Success
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a famous saying, of Benjamin Franklin, that “success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”
It’s very true, and evergreen: one often comes upon new examples of this observation. Human nature has not changed, these intervening centuries, and it likely never will.
How telling, that for all our many advances, our supposed sophistication, people still fall prey to making claims that Franklin thought presumptuous hundreds of years ago.
Cats
Friday Catblogging: So, how smart is your cat anyway?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Yahoo!, there’s a quiz that you can take to see how smart your cat may be:
But how smart are cats? Sure, they can groom themselves, have a natural inclination to use the litter box and are easily amused, but not too many have a repertoire of tricks or follow commands. Those who have more than one catprobably differentiate their kitties in terms of their smarts (being “the dumb one” doesn’t mean you’re loved any less!), so just like any other animal, we know there is an intelligence hierarchy.
There’s no scientific method to determine how brainy your cat actually is — but we can try to figure it out! CatChannel.com devised this clever IQ test, which could indicate you’re housing the feline Einstein. Find out if your cat is about to take over the world . . . or just that comfy sofa cushion.
Your cat will be just as lovable, or just as ornery, regardless of a quiz score, of course.
(I’m assuming that you’ll be completing the quiz about your cat; cats able to complete the quiz themselves would be in a class of their own. If you have a cat able to do so, feel free to let me know at adams@freewhitewater.com, or just ask the cat to drop me a line.)
Poll
Friday Poll: Will you vote in the recall election?
by JOHN ADAMS •
The state’s Government Accountability Board expects a recall voting level of around 60-65%. That would be a much larger percentage of voting-age residents than for the last gubernatorial election (then, about half of the voting-age population.)
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.1.12
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Whitewater’s end to the week will be partly cloudy with a high temperature of sixty-five.
On this day in 1980, CNN launched, beginning a revolution in, and transition to, cable news programming for millions of viewers.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about navigation: “The strong winds that blow between the southern latitudes of 40 and 49 degrees helped create a famous sailing route. What’s that route called?” more >>