Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy, with scattered morning showers, and a high of 58. Sunrise is 6:41, and sunset is 4:36, for 9 hours, 57 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous, with 65.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
When a dog shakes water off its fur, it is not just a random flurry of movements — nor a deliberate effort to drench anyone standing nearby.
This instinctive reflex is shared by many furry mammals including mice, cats, squirrels, lions, tigers and bears. The move helps animals to remove water, insects or other irritants from hard-to-reach places. But underlying the shakes is a complex — and previously mysterious — neurological mechanism.
Now, researchers have identified the neural circuit that triggers characteristic ‘wet dog’ shaking behaviour in mice — which involves a specific class of touch receptors, and neurons that connect the spinal cord to the brain.
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 58. Sunrise is 6:40, and sunset is 4:37, for 9 hours, 57 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous, with 54.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1938, Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpanas as a sham justification.
Food lover Mark Gevaux known as ‘The Rib Man’ and London’s ‘Godfather of Street Food’ became a butcher at 12. After losing his leg in a car accident he had to find a new way to follow his dream, which led him to become the go-to for making the BEST pulled BBQ ribs for football matches. Foodies, what’s your go-to sauce for the perfect pulled ribs? 00:00 Intro 00:26 Who is the rib man? 1:26 Firing up the BBQ 3:19 The fatal accident 4:03 A new beginning with pulled ribs 4:37 Taste the sauces 5:33 Let’s check on the ribs! 6:39 Taste test! 7:30 Serving up tasty ribs
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:38, and sunset is 4:38, for 9 hours, 59 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 43.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
Emily Warren Roebling was a groundbreaking engineer who took over construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, who had been leading construction, and son died of decompression sickness. On 24 May 1883, Roebling became the first human to cross the bridge during its opening ceremony. But the first creature to cross the bridge did so about a month earlier, when a cat named Ned claimed the honor.
According to a New York Times article dug up by historian Peggy Gavan, a saloon keeper named CW McAuliffe and the city alderman James J Mooney set up the stunt, searching through Brooklyn strays to find a cat that, as they put it, “was inclined to see the world”. The pair stumbled upon a gray cat they named Ned, who, with the blessing of the bridge’s chief engineer, was placed in a basket and let out on the center of the structure, and walked toward Manhattan.
That’s just one tidbit you’ll learn on Gavan’s new Cats About Town walking tour, a two-hour romp through Brooklyn Heights that covers New York City history from a feline’s perspective. Don’t ask Gavan, a licensed tour guide, about architecture or celebrity sightings – over the course of two miles, she only covers cats, which surprisingly play an important role in the city’s formative years.
Tuesday, November 12th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of The Fabulous Four @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Comedy
Rated R (language)
1 hour, 38 minutes (2024)
Two female friends travel to Key West to be bridesmaids in a college girlfriend’s surprise wedding. Sisterhood is rekindled in a fun sort of way! Starring Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Michael Bolton.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:37, and sunset is 4:39, for 10 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 33.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
About 73% of Wisconsin’s voting-age population cast ballots in the 2024 presidential race, with the raw number of voters topping out at the highest in state history, based on unofficial results.
Nearly 3.4 million people in Wisconsin cast ballots in the presidential race won by President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, and the number is likely to increase slightly as the few remaining outstanding ballots are tabulated. Just over 3.3 million voted for president in the 2020 election.
The turnout percentage of 72.6% in Wisconsin, with a voting-age population of just under 4.7 million people, is just below the 72.9% seen in 2020.
The highest turnout percentage since at least 1948 was 73.2% in 2004, based on records from the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Fewer people voted in the two other statewide contests in this year’s election. About 30,000 fewer people voted in the race for U.S. Senate between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde. And more than 193,000 fewer people voted for a constitutional amendment limiting voting to U.S. citizens.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 54. Sunrise is 6:36, and sunset is 4:36, for 10 hours, 4 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 23 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Eight years ago, after an election night, I wrote a post entitled Unexpected and Expected. The first paragraph from that post, with a few changes, is fitting yet again:
Last night’s election results are both [generally] unexpected (nationally) and expected (locally), I’d say. Few thought that Trump would win the presidency, but many of the other results for Wisconsin or Whitewater were easier to predict.
Trump’s victory nationally will be the big topic for years, first about its cause and then about its effects. Because I believe that national shapes local (and that purely hyper-local assessments are short-sighted), Trump’s win (coupled with a Republican Congress [Senate and possibly House] and a conservative Supreme Court) will transform this city as it will much larger places.
None of us can say how this story unfolds, and in any event it matters still more how we in this small city respond to what unfolds. Each day, one begins anew, confronting the challenges of the moment.
Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon showers with a high of 66. Sunrise is 6:34, and sunset is 4:41, for 10 hours, 7 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 15.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1872, in defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 69. Sunrise is 6:33, and sunset is 4:42, for 10 hours, 9 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 8.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On August 12th, Johnson attended a meeting of the Whitewater Planning Board. At that meeting, Johnson spoke during public comment on a proposed apartment complex on the east side of Whitewater.
“Good evening. I’m Scott Johnson, I’m not from this local community…”
Johnson does not live in Whitewater, and he does not live anywhere else in the district. It’s lawful to do what Johnson is doing, but it’s irresponsible and selfish.
The proper order for a candidacy goes like this: live in the district, learn about the district, and runonly after you have lived here.
This reasonable & responsible sequence applies to Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
All the rest — claims and counterclaims, opposition research and replies — should be secondary and subordinate to a candidate’s residency in this community before he runs for office.
I have always — always — encouraged people to move to Whitewater. Johnson should first sell his out-of-district residence, move here to Whitewater (his best option) or elsewhere in the district (a second-best choice), live here with us, and only then consider a candidacy after living with us.
It’s beautiful here. Whitewater has options for homes and apartments, including among them several senior living facilities.
If Johnson does not believe this district is good enough for a residency-first approach, then this district is too good for Johnson.
An isolated plateau in the highlands of southeastern Uzbekistan in Central Asia, looks like an expanse of rolling hills. But look closer and a shard of pottery or the stony remnant of an ancient wall might hint at an archaeological secret hidden for hundreds of years. Now a team of archaeologists have used drone-mounted LiDAR to virtually peel back the layers of sediment and vegetation. Revealing two ancient cities, much larger than previously imagined, built 2,000 metres above sea level. The finding of these urban centres, called Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, at such high altitudes, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought. Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 60. Sunrise is 6:32, and sunset is 4:44, for 10 hours, 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 4.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1943, five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
The U.S Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will post election monitors in four Wisconsin locations Nov. 5. The news comes as Wisconsin’s top elections administrator says local clerks have been preparing for any potential election day problems since 2020.
The DOJ announced Friday it will “monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws” in the cities of Milwaukee, Wausau and the Rusk County Towns of Lawrence and Thornapple during Tuesday’s presidential election.
The DOJ sued the Towns of Lawrence and Thornapple in September, accusing local officials of breaking federal law for not making at least one accessible voting machine available to voters with disabilities during elections in April and May. The Town of Thornapple is currently appealing a preliminary injunction requiring it to bring the accessible voting machine back for the upcoming election.
Wisconsin wouldn’t need federal monitors it didn’t have crackpots and conspiracy theorists interfering or lying about voting in the state. Yet, as we do have crackpots and conspiracy theorists interfering and lying about voting here, it’s best to have monitors.
Arcadia turns military scrap into iconic Glastonbury stages like the Spider and Dragonfly. Founded by Bertie Cole and Pip Rush, their creations host DJs like Fatboy Slim, thrilling festival audiences worldwide.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 57. Sunrise is 7:31, and sunset is 5:45, for 10 hours, 14 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 1.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The UW-Whitewater Homecoming Parade takes places at 10 AM, beginning at the corner of Prince and Main and ending at the corner of Prairie Street and Starin Road.
On this day in 1960, Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.
Commissioners unanimously approved the communication, which includes information about recount deadlines, information needed to determine recount fees, minor revisions to the recount manual and about how commission staff plans to compile unofficial county results to track recount margins.
A recount must be requested within one business day of the elections commission receiving all the completed county canvasses. The deadline for a recount would be Nov. 30.
“We’ve presented a timeline that shows exactly when the various aspects of a recount would take place, so that again our local election officials and any potential parties to a recount would be able to prepare for that possibility and understand when that recount could potentially occur,” Wolfe said.
The communication will also include information to help clerks make preliminary estimates of the cost of a recount. Wolfe said election officials should plan ahead so that if a candidate is within the recall margin and asks for a recount, officials can produce a cost estimate quickly, which the candidate must pay for. In 2020, former President Donald Trump paid $3 million for recounts in Milwaukee and Dane Counties, which confirmed President Joe Biden’s victory.
“We don’t want to be thinking about it for the first time when there is some type of recount pending,” Wolfe said. “We want to think about it ahead of time and make sure that everybody’s prepared to provide that information in a very expedited way.”
Wisconsin has a decentralized election system with 1,850 Municipal clerks and 72 County clerks — a total of 1,922 local election officials. On election night, municipal clerks will report unofficial results to their county clerks. The Commission plans to go to each county’s website, see the unofficial results that have been posted, and enter the data in a spreadsheet for the federal contest and for any other state-level contest where the margin may be close and post it publicly.
This month, catch planetary views of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, witness a close pass of the Parker Solar Probe by Venus, and get ready for an occultation of the bright star Spica by the Moon. 0:00 Intro 0:20 November planet highlights 1:38 Venus & Parker Solar Probe’s flyby 3:03 Occultation of Spica 4:25 October photo highlights 4:38 November Moon phases.
ALDI. This administration brought ALDI. Whitewater wanted a supermarket and the new administration brought one. Well done. The old guard mucked around for years and brought nothing (but they did benefit from the tax-incremental dollars they fight against elsewhere). SeeSix Points on a Supermarket in Whitewater.
City Administration(City Manager, Finance Director, Municipal Administration). Direct is a benefit, candor is a benefit, and high-level argumentation is a benefit to those who care about good policy. This municipal administration has those traits, and anyone else in the government (city, school district, or university) or those who follow this government (residents including this libertarian blogger) benefits from these traits.
And look, and look, it doesn’t matter whether I agree as much as I and others should expect (regardless of agreement) a high-level of discussion & presentation from this municipal administration. This city manager and this finance director deliver more and better argumentation than their predecessors. Far better.
Whitewater spent a generation with less; this is how a normal government operates. If that’s too hard for the old guard, then it should be a reminder (yet again) to them that they squandered their years on below-average work, above-average self-praise, and conflict of interest after conflict of interest.
Common Council. The new Common Council (since April) is far better run — smoother, more productive, less vindictively obsessive — than the majority before.
Community Development Authority (New Majority).An order of magnitude better than the old guard’s poor performance and ceaseless, dumb-show posing.
Government Speech.Go ahead, city team, keep writing the memos you want the way you want. (Demanding that it all stop and be “Done!” reeks of weakness.)
Let’s say that one day, for whatever reason, this city’s finance director writes a memo outlining 345 reasons that I’m wrong about a topic. (Quick aside: Ms. Blitch, that wouldn’t be economical — you should be able to refute me more quickly and succinctly than that.)
My response to a memo from the finance director (after utter surprise, as I have noting but love in my heart for everyone working in the field of municipal finance) should be either (1) to reply responsively to the points she raised (whether conceding or attempting to refute) or to (2) say nothing.
Whitewater needs more speech, including government speech, not less. Keep going.
Housing. Lots of new building. Keep building! The old guard interfered with market forces for a generation, and hijacked the CDA’s principal purpose for those years, to protect a few incumbent landlords. That’s not a market approach, it’s an incumbent landlord protection racket.
I’d rather there wasn’t tax-incremental spending for these projects, in the same way that I’d rather illness could be cured without major surgery. Major surgery is called for, however, to redress a generation-long oligopoly in this town. Note well: private does not guarantee free markets but can entail impermissible monopoly or oligopoly. (That’s why there’s anti-trust law.)
Individual Liberty. The library held firm against attempted censorship of a movie for teens, and the city and university (along with many businesses) have shown support for an annual Pride Rally. As it should be: individual liberty deserves a defense, and from that individual liberty springs the right to associate freely with others. Whitewater is, and must be, a place for all people. (The Pride Rally started, a few years ago, in the smaller area beside the Birge Fountain. It’s now by Cravath, in a larger and more spacious venue.)
Innovation, Generally. Plaudits are deservedly delivered for trying new things: a startup award and a pedestrian walkway come to mind. Not every new idea will work, but lack of fresh ideas will leave the city only with a stale & stagnant past.
Innovation, Specifically (Innovation Center, Tech Park). No one, no one in our city of 15,000, has been a more consistent (and correct!) critic of the Innovation Center than I have. Go ahead new municipal team (as I believe you’d like): make that Tech Park something beyond the reach of legitimate criticism. You’ve innovated elsewhere, and here’s your chance to bring real innovation to this part of the city. I’d much rather the Park succeed than for it to be a basis for further criticisms.
Referendums. Asking voters is a good idea. Let 15,000 decide (or express an opinion) for 15,000.
