The following are seven essential truths about the news today that Kamarck and Gabriele explore in detail:
Print newspapers are dinosaurs
Hard news is in danger
Television is still important
And so is radio
News is now digital
Social media allows news (and “news”) to go viral
For the younger generation, news is delivered through comedy
It’s worth noting that print is failing both because it’s not interactive, and because it no longer has even the inquisitive sensibility toward the powerful of once-lauded, but still top-down, publications. (When online publications ape the incurious, fawning presentations of print publications, they consign themselves to the same fate as print.)
Thursday will be cloudy and windy, with a high of forty-nine. Sunrise is 6:43 and sunset 4:34, for 9h 50m 33s of daytime. We’ve a new moon again today, with just .6% of its visible disk illuminated.
…Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s.
On January 2, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore, from Ireland, became the first person to pass through the newly opened Ellis Island, which President Benjamin Harrison designated as America’s first federal immigration center in 1890. Before that time, the processing of immigrants had been handled by individual states.
Not all immigrants who sailed into New York had to go through Ellis Island. First- and second-class passengers submitted to a brief shipboard inspection and then disembarked at the piers in New York or New Jersey, where they passed through customs. People in third class, though, were transported to Ellis Island, where they underwent medical and legal inspections to ensure they didn’t have a contagious disease or some condition that would make them a burden to the government. Only two percent of all immigrants were denied entrance into the U.S.
Immigration to Ellis Island peaked between 1892 and 1924, during which time the 3.3-acre island was enlarged with landfill (by the 1930s it reached its current 27.5-acre size) and additional buildings were constructed to handle the massive influx of immigrants. During the busiest year of operation, 1907, over 1 million people were processed at Ellis Island….
On this date territorial governor, Henry Dodge, signed the first law passed by the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. The law prescribed how the legislators were to behave, and how other citizens were to behave towards them. For example, it authorized “the Assembly to punish by fine and imprisonment every person, not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect, disorderly or contemptuous behavior, threats, in the legislature or interference with witnesses to the legislature; also to expel on a two thirds majority in either house a member of its own body…” This did not keep the members from vociferous arguments, fist fights, or even shooting one another (see this This Day in Wisconsin History for February 11th).
Here’s the Thursday game from Puzzability‘s Chinese Takeout series:
This Week’s Game — November 9-13
Chinese Takeout
May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
Example:
Google or Bing, for example; wrath
Answer:
Search engine; anger
What to Submit:
Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.
Thursday, November 12
Breakfast pastry with creamy topping; Greek god of the underworld
The Journal Sentinel was a sponsor of a recent Honor Flight, a program that takes veterans to Washington, D.C. without charge to see some of our nation’s principal monuments and meet with other veterans:
Washington — World War II is always with Erv Casper.It’s in the memories he carries in his heart and it’s in his leg, where he still carries shrapnel from a daisy cutter bomb that landed near him and his comrades on Okinawa.
A member of the 2nd Marines, Casper was heading to Japan to take part in the expected invasion when he noticed his ship was turning around. The war was over. He wasn’t going back into battle, he was going home.
And in a way, on Saturday he had another homecoming.
“Now I understand it more,” an emotional Casper, 89, said Saturday at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. “All the heroes are dead. That’s the sad part. We all tried our damndest to survive.”
Casper was among 76 veterans who traveled to the nation’s capital Saturday on a Stars and Stripes Honor Flight. The organization provides a free one-day trip to Washington for World War II and Korean War era veterans.
So far the group has taken 4,200 veterans on 37 flights. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was a sponsor of Saturday’s flight….
We’ll have an even chance of afternoon showers, and a high of sixty-one this Wednesday. Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset 4:35, for 9h 52m 49s of daytime. We’ve a new moon today.
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
On this date the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed. According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, “Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones’] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacophony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts.” The reporter continued, “Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody – but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat.” [Source: Milwaukee Journal November 12, 1964, p.14]
May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
Example:
Google or Bing, for example; wrath
Answer:
Search engine; anger
What to Submit:
Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.
Here are the two important answers about the main debate (an undercard debate will begin at 6 PM CST):
When and how long is the debate?
The prime-time debate will last two hours and begins at 9 Eastern time [8 CST]. There are a few changes to the format: Candidates will not make opening statements, but they will have more time to make arguments. For an initial answer to a question, they get 90 seconds, in addition to 60 seconds for rebuttals. There will be short closing statements at the end of the debate.
How can I watch the debate?
It will air on Fox Business Network and be streamed for free on foxbusiness.com. No cable subscription is necessary. To capitalize on the ratings surges from earlier debates, FBN is also widening access to the channel for its pay-TV partners such as DirecTV. This will allow viewers who normally can’t access the network a chance to tune into the debate.
Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen. Join me today in studying the master, possibly the greatest composer of motion in film history.
Tuesday will be sunny, with a high of fifty-five. Sunrise is 6:41 and sunset 4:36, for 9h 55m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Parks and Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM, and her Zoning Code Update Committee at 7:00 PM.
Washington, Nov. 10 — President Reagan stopped by the National Cathedral to listen for a while to the reading of the names of the Vietnam war dead this evening.
His motorcade sounded fast and far-off heading northwest to the cathedral in the dusk as Tom Toohey, unheeding in another part of town, stepped up to the glossy dark wall of the war’s freshly completed memorial with its long listing of its dead, touching it for the name, he emphasized, of ”one good lieutenant.”
”There,” said Mr. Toohey, his fingers brushing the name of Richard H. Housh. ”A real good lieutenant. I saw him jump up with his pump shotgun one time and blow away four guys coming at us. He was somebody else, one good lieutenant.”
Ceremony by Candlelight
While the President journeyed to one part of the capital’s weeklong commemoration of the Vietnam dead, the continuous reading of their names in a candlelighted chapel at National Cathedral, Mr. Toohey and hundreds of other Americans continued to arrive at the wall even after darkness fell tonight, the eve of Veterans Day. They bore the slow grief of the Vietnam time and indulged the simplest sort of human memorial, the act of touching stone, feeling the cold, stony texture of the engraved names of the dead that showed up by flashlight and in the wavering glow of matches struck in the dark.
On this date angry citizens protesting a War Department order for 300,000 additional troops, rioted in Port Washington, Ozaukee County. As county draft commissioner William A. Pors drew the first name, cannon fire resounded and a mob of over 1,000 angry citizens wielding clubs and bricks and carrying banners scrawled with the words “No Draft!” marched through the streets. The mob stormed the city destroying buildings, setting fires, and gutting the interior of homes and shops. Troops were brought in the next day to quell the violence. The Ozaukee rioters were captured and remained prisoners at Camp Randall for about a year before they were finally released. In all, more than a half-dozen homes were damaged and dozens of citizens were injured. [Source: Ozaukee Country Wisconsin]
May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
Example:
Google or Bing, for example; wrath
Answer:
Search engine; anger
What to Submit:
Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.
Post 44 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.
Last week I posted a video explanation from Whitewater City Manager Cameron Clapper about a digester-energy project. At the end of that post, I mentioned that I’d write about his remarks, more particularly today. Needless to say, I will write about those remarks in detail, but not today.
Over the last two weeks, there have been developments elsewhere in the state worth mentioning, about factory farms, water quality, and efforts of Wisconsinites to protect their homes from environmental risk (and consequently declining property values).
In both comments and email that I have received over the last week, people have asked questions about the goals of the WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN series. Events in other parts of the state help explain some of the goals of the series.
First, what’s happening elsewhere? There are, and have been, large protests in other parts of the state against factory farms (concentrated animal feeding operations, called CAFOs for short), dumping of manure, aerial spraying of manure, and collapsing water quality from waste dumping.
Many of these issues are universal, no matter the (highly unconvincing) efforts to recast local plans.
In Whitewater, almost none of this has been mentioned. For other parts of the state, it’s a significant, growing concern. I have watched and followed these developments for the last few years, from around the time that former City Manager Brunner, and then Acting City Manager Clapper, unsuccessfully sought to bring an additional digester to Whitewater.
WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN will lead to an ebook and a video documentary, and will describe Whitewater’s project not only on its own terms, but in comparison and contrast to how other communities are approaching these issues. Messrs. Reel, Clapper, the Whitewater Council, the Whitewater CDA, etc., are not acting in a vacuum, or on a distant island – this is a much bigger topic than locally described.
(So much bigger, in fact, that failure to address matters contextually looks like willful ignorance.)
The posts so far in this series are notes along the way to those other works.
Those works will describe this city’s approach and the (very different) approaches of other Wisconsin and other beyond-Wisconsin communities.
People choose, but not all similarly; people choose, but not all wisely.
Below are just two links to accounts from other communities, of their response to many of these issues. (I’ve written on one of these communities – Lexington, Massachusetts – briefly before.) These concerns from other communities are the telling and unmentioned background of all what’s happening closer to home.
Monday in town will be sunny with a high of fifty-six. Sunrise is 6:39 and sunset 6:37, for 9h 57m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 4.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets this evening at 6:30 PM.
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation:…English: “Crystal Night“) or Reichskristallnacht…, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht… or simply Pogromnacht… and Novemberpogrome…was a pogrom (a series of coordinated deadly attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.[1][2] The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.[3]
Another draft was instituted in the State of Wisconsin. Unlike the 1862 conscription, it did not have a set quota. 14,933 men received draft notices, but the vast majority were exempted on medical or other grounds, paid a legal fee to be exempted, or simply failed to show up. Another 262 paid someone else to go in their place. Just 628 who were drafted actually served. [Schoonover, Lynn. History of the Civil War Draft in Wisconsin, page 56].
On this date one of the strongest earthquakes in the central United States occurred in south-central Illinois. Measured at a magnitude of 5.3, press reports from LaCrosse, Milwaukee, Port Washington, Portage, Prairie Du Chien, and Sheboygan indicated that the shock was felt in these cities. [Source:United States Geological Survey]
Puzzability begins a new weekly series entitled Chinese Takeout, with Monday’s game:
This Week’s Game — November 9-13
Chinese Takeout
May we take your reorder? For each day this week, we started with a phrase, removed the seven letters in CHINESE, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
Example:
Google or Bing, for example; wrath
Answer:
Search engine; anger
What to Submit:
Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Search engine; anger” in the example), for your answer.
Monday, November 9
Animated movie about a superhero family; comic strip office drone
