Part of being a fan of a series often includes looking for small details in each installment. That what Filup Molina does here, in Star Wars Force Awakens ALL Easter Eggs & References.
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 2.10.16
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater.
Wednesday in town will be partly cloudy with a high of thirteen degrees. Sunrise is 4:57 and sunset 5:20, for 10h 22m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Parks & Recreation Board meets tonight at 7 PM.
On this day in 1763, many of the combatants in the Seven Years War sign the Treaty of Paris, ending several years of global conflict among most of the principal powers of the time:
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, withPortugal in agreement, after Britain’s victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years’ War.
The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years’ War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre,[1] and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.[2] The two nations returned much of the territory that they had each captured during the war, but Britain gained much of France’s possessions in North America. Additionally, Britain agreed to protect Roman Catholicism in the New World. The treaty did not involve Prussia and Austria as they signed a separate agreement, the Treaty of Hubertusburg, five days later.
On this day in 1950, Sen. McCarthy keeps going:
1950 – McCarthy Continues Allegations
On this date, in a speech delivered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to possess the names of 57 U.S. government employees, actively engaged in Communist activities. [Source:Google Newspaper Archives]
JigZone offers a Gazania Sunshine Mix today:
Technology
‘The Clock That Sets Them All’
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Education, School District
The State of the Schools Presentation at Whitewater’s Common Council
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Post 5 in a weekly series.
I’ve embedded a 2.2.16 ‘State of the Schools’ presentation to Whitewater’s Common Council, and a pdf of a brochure that school district representatives distributed at the meeting (and that is available on the school district’s website). It’s unlikely that many people have seen either one until now. I’ll post them today without additional remarks.
THE EDUCATION POST: Tuesdays @ 10 AM, here on FREE WHITEWATER.
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 2.9.16
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater.
Snow showers will end this morning, and we’ll have a day of cloudy skies and a high of eighteen. Sunrise is 6:59 and sunset 5:18, for 10h 19m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1964, the Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show:
It’s 9th February 1964.
With George’s bad throat now, thankfully, better; at 8pm on Sunday 9th February, 1964, the live broadcast of the first Ed Sullivan Show was aired with the full Beatle line-up. The band played five songs (All My Loving, Till There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There and I Want To Hold Your Hand) and made broadcasting history.
Paul: “Seventy-three million people were reported to have watched the first show. It is still supposed to be one of the largest viewing audiences ever in the States.”
Three other British acts completed the show’s schedule – ‘The British Invasion’ was now well under way. By this point, The Beatles were better able to comprehend the phenomenon of their success, in part because Elvis himself had just publicly congratulated them…
George: “We were aware that Ed Sullivan was the big one because we got a telegram from Elvis and the Colonel. And I’ve heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.”
Watch below to see Ed Sullivan famously introducing the USA to The Beatles.
Click through to the website to see more photographs from this now-legendary day: http://gnikn.us/Mv28wS
On this day in 1950, Sen. McCarthy claims he has a list:
On this date Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy claimed, for the first time, to possess a list of 205 names of known communists working for the State Department. He made this allegation during a speech to the Republican Women’s Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia. [Source: History department, University of San Diego]
JigZone offers a butterfly puzzle today:
Television
The Walken Closet
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Just perfect –
Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
‘A Truck Loop Specified for Heavy Truck Traffic’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Post 60 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green.
I mentioned that I would look at a few more aspects of Whitewater’s 12.15.15 meeting on wastewater upgrades and waste importation, perhaps also addressing a few scattered topics, and then collect my set of questions, and pose requests at law where additional information is needed. Those few posts also allow time to upgrade the WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN website, and get it ready for a proper launch. There’s much to do after these questions are collected, and it makes sense to progress more quickly and firmly. Whitewater’s Common Council may take some action on the project in March, but the more one looks at this project, the less reasonable it is to consider the project primarily as a local matter. Local actions are illustrative for comparisons with other communities.
In the video below, a representative of the Donohue engineering firm, a firm paid over one million dollars for consulting on the project in addition to the twenty-million construction cost, describes the location of the plant for the purposes of importing waste:
“Located out on a truck loop really speci…specified for heavy truck traffic….”
Today’s questions begin with Number 292. All the questions in this series may be found in the Question Bin.
Here are a few questions about the Donohue representative’s remarks:
292. What’s the maximum truck volume that this project can accommodate as presented?
293. What’s the actual truck volume that this project would require even under its initial formulation?
294. Why does the Donohue representative (Nathan Cassity) expressly mentions that waste importation would take place on ‘a truck loop really specified for heavy truck traffic’ if he didn’t think that available capacity was relevant and material to the project? (The alternative, it seems, would require one to believe that Mr. Cassity simply utters irrelevant and immaterial remarks in public meetings. If the alternative should improbably be true, perhaps Whitewater’s local government might ask for a discount on the million-plus consulting fee.)
295. After well over two years of discussions and presentations about waste importation – including ten presentations from City Manager Clapper to small, cherry-picked insiders’ groups – City Manager Clapper and Wastewater Superintendent Reel now contend that six or more years of waste importation would be mere experimentation. Isn’t it obvious that use of the term experimentation for their proposed effort is a transparent attempt to downplay a project that the vendor on which they rely candidly admits would use ‘a truck loop really specified for heavy truck traffic’?
WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN: Appearing at whengreenturnsbrown.com and re-posted Mondays @ 10 AM here on FREE WHITEWATER.
Music
Monday Music: Boz Scaggs, Breakdown
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 2.8.16
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday will bring evening snow showers and a high of twenty-six to town. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 5:17, for 10h 16m 54s of daytime. We’ve a new moon today.
There will be meeting of Whitewater’s Ad Hoc Grocery Committee at 3:30 PM, and of the Planning Commission at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1943, the Japanese Empire recedes:
…Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, leaving the island in Allied possession after a prolonged campaign. The American victory paved the way for other Allied wins in the Solomon Islands.
The Japanese invaded the Solomons in 1942 during World War II and began building a strategic airfield on Guadalcanal. On August 7 of that year, U.S. Marines landed on the island, signaling the Allies’ first major offensive against Japanese-held positions in the Pacific. The Japanese responded quickly with sea and air attacks. A series of bloody battles ensued in the debilitating tropical heat as Marines sparred with Japanese troops on land, while in the waters surrounding Guadalcanal, the U.S. Navy fought six major engagements with the Japanese between August 24 and November 30. In mid-November 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, died together when the Japanese sunk their ship, the USS Juneau.
Both sides suffered heavy losses of men, warships and planes in the battle for Guadalcanal. An estimated 1,600 U.S. troops were killed, over 4,000 were wounded and several thousand more died from disease. The Japanese lost 24,000 soldiers. On December 31, 1942, Emperor Hirohito told Japanese troops they could withdraw from the area; the Americans secured Guadalcanal about five weeks later.
February 8, 1858 was not the House of Representative’s finest day:
Just before the Civil War, the issue of slavery tore apart the U.S. Congress. On February 8, 1858, Wisconsin Rep. John Potter (considered a backwoods hooligan by Southern aristocrats) leaped into a fight on the House floor. When Potter embarrassed a pro-slavery brawler by pulling off his wig, the gallery shouted that he’d taken a Southern scalp. Potter emerged from the melee covered in blood and marked by slave owners as an enemy. Two years later, on April 5, 1860, he accused Virginia Rep. Roger Pryor of falsifying the Congressional record. Pryor, feeling his character impugned, challenged Potter to a duel. According to Southern custom, a person challenged had the right to choose weapons. Potter replied that he would only fight with “Bowie knives in a closed room,” and his Southern challenger beat a hasty retreat. Republican supporters around the nation sent Potter Bowie knives as a tribute, including this six-foot-long one. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners by Fred L. Holmes]
Today’s JigZone puzzle is a 67-piece classic cut:
America, Animals, Nature
Footage of the Only Documented Wild Jaguar Living in the U.S.
by JOHN ADAMS •
Via Business Insider.
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Martian
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, February 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Martian @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building.
The Martian is the tale of an astronaut, Mark Watney, who is presumed dead after a fierce storm on Mars, and left behind by a fleeing crew. In fact, Watney survives the storm, and then has to survive after being stranded on the red planet. It’s a tale of resourcefulness, as Watney makes do with limited provisions, and improvises devices and methods to sustain himself until he can be rescued.
The Martian has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, and recently won two Golden Globes.
Enjoy.
Uncategorized
Daily Bread for 2.7.16
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be partly cloudy and mild, with a high of forty-one. Sunrise is 7:01 and sunset 5:16, for 10h 14m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Here’s schedule of posts for the week ahead, with other posts possible (if there are changes to these scheduled posts I’ll explain why):
- Today: DB, Upcoming Seniors in Park Film, evening post
- Monday: DB, weekly Music post, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN post, evening post
- Tuesday: DB, weekly Education post, evening post
- Wednesday: DB, weekly Film post, Revisiting Kozloff’s Dark, Futile Dream, evening post
- Thursday: DB, a restaurant review, Attorney General Schimel’s support for Wisconsin Senate Bill 656, evening post
- Friday: DB, weekly Poll, weekly Catblogging
- Saturday: DB, weekly Animation post, evening post
Friday’s FW poll asked readers which team they thought would win Super Bowl 50. Most respondents picked Carolina (58.82%). Kickoff is around 5:30 this afternoon.
On this day in 1935, Monopoly goes on sale:
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903,[1][4] when American anti-monopolist Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips, created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. Magie took out a patent in 1904. Her game, The Landlord’s Game, was self-published, beginning in 1906.[5] A series of variant board games based on her concept was developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land.[6] Cardboard houses were added and rents were increased as they were added. Magie again patented the game in 1924.
According to an advertisement placed in The Christian Science Monitor, Charles Todd of Philadelphia recalled the day in 1932 when his childhood friend, Esther Jones, now married to Charles Darrow, came to their house with her husband for dinner. After the meal, the Darrows played the game of Monopoly several times with them, a game that was entirely new to the Darrows, and before he left, Darrow asked for a written set of the rules. After Darrow brought his own Monopoly game out, the Todds never spoke to the Darrows again.[citation needed]
….By 1933, a variation on “The Landlord’s Game” called Monopoly was the basis of the board game sold by Parker Brothers, beginning on 6 February 1935.[7] Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast, contributed to the game’s design and evolution, and this is when the game’s design took on the 4×10 space-to-a-side layout and familiar cards were produced. The original version of the game in this format was based on streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
On this day in 1867, a famous children’s author is born:
Wisconsin’s most famous children’s author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born this day near Pepin. Although her family moved away a year later, it subsequently returned in 1870 and remained until 1874. It is this period that is immortalized in her first book, Little House in the Big Woods.
Business, Technology
Google’s Drone Delivery Plans
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animation, Film
Saturday Animation: Symphony No. 42
by JOHN ADAMS •
Symphony no. 42 from Reka Bucsi on Vimeo.
Symphony no. 42 presents 47 observations in the irrational connections between human and nature.
facebook.com/SymphonyNo42
Shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards
Awards 2014 – 2015:
38th Hong Kong International Film Festival HKIFF – Special Mention for Best Short Film
Friss Hús Film Festival 2.0 Hungary – Best film Grand Prix
Monstronal Festival Germany – Best film Grand Prix
Skepto International Film Festival Italy – Audience Award
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile, Minsk Belarus – Best Animation Grand Prix
11th IndieLisboa, Lisbon International Independent Film Festival – Honorable Mention for Best Animation
Mediawave, Hungary – Best Hungarian Animation
Sehsüchte InternationalFilm Festival, Germany – Special Mention for Animation
Anifilm, Trebon – Special Jury Mention
3. Kyiv International Short Film Festival – Best Film of the Festival and Audience Award
Animation Avantgarde Competition Vienna – Audience Award
Schnongs Festival Germany – 3rd Prize for best film
Womanation, Rhode Island – Honorable Mention
7th.International Animated Film Festival Animator – Poland – Silver Pegasus Award
FMK International Short Film Festival – Italy – Best Animated Short and Audience Award
Lago Film Fest – Italy – Special Mention
Melbourne International Film Festival – Best Animation Short
Hiroshima International Animation Festival – Hiroshima Prize
FESA Award for Best Student Film
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival – Audience award
Favourites Film Festival Berlin – Berlin’s Favourite Short Award
Lille International Short Film Festival, France – The First International Prize by Audience
International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival SESIFF, Korea – Grand Award and Animation Award
International Animated Film Festival Krok, Russia – Alexander Tatarskij Prize
Krok 2014 ‘at home harbour edition’, Kiev – Special Jury Prize
Szolnoki Nemzetközi … Filmfesztivál, Hungary – Best Animated Film
St.Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning – Best Student Animation Film
Court mais bon – France – Main Jury Prize and Prize of the city,”court mais bon”
OFFline Film Festival, Dublin – Best International Short
50th Chicago International Film Festival – Gold Plaque
Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS – Best International Animation
Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain – Golden Spike
Primanima, Hungary – George Pal Prize for the most promising Hungarian talent in animation and Best Graduation Film
Anilogue International Animation festival, Hungary – Audience Award and Special Jury Mention
Zubroffka Short Film Festival – Best Animation
XI International Festival of Film Fchools workshop Kinoproba – Grand Prix
Flickerfest’s 24th International Short Film Festival – Best Short Animation
Hungarian Film Critics Awards – Best Animated Movie
Fort Myers Film Festival Florida – Best Short
Vilnius Film Festival – Best Short Film
Leiden International Short Film Experience – Jury Award
Minimalen Short Film Festival – Audience Award
Erarta Motion Pictures Festival – Cinema Jury Special Mention
KAFF Kecskemét Animation Film Festival – Különdíj a legszínvonalasabb képi formanyelvért
Prix Ars Electronica 2015 – Honorary Mention