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Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 2.7.12

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Good morning.

For Whitewater, a chance of flurries today with a high of thirty-three; for Madison, that same chance, but a predicted high of thirty-one.

In Whitewater, Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.

It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and Google celebrates with a doodle:

For Google’s puzzle today, some geography: “What single state is home to all of the following U.S. cities: Madrid, Toronto, Cincinnati, Denver, Hartford, and Norway?”

In Wisconsin history, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, another birthday:

On this date, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was born in Milwaukee. Kohl received a BA in Business Administration from UW-Madison in 1956 and an MBA from Harvard in 1958. A businessman, president of an investment company, owner of a profesional basketball team, and former president of a business corporation, Kohl also served in the Army Reserve from 1958-1964. A Democrat, he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988 and reelected in 1994, 2000 and 2006. [Source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-98]

America, Business

Chrysler’s Clint Eastwood Commercial, It’s Halftime, America

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I held this commercial from the preceding post of my other favorites, because it’s both longer and different: its political themes separate it from a conventional commercial, even a conventional Super Bowl commercial (if there should be such a thing).

There’s an optimism in this commercial that is, I think, justified: despite the most difficult times since the Depression, we are a resilient people sure to bounce back.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 2.6.12

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Good morning.

Whitewater’s forecast calls for a cloudy day, with a high of thirty-nine.  In New York, it’s a sunny day ahead with a high of fifty-one.

The Wisconsin Historical Society records that on this day in 1967,

…nationally known activist Stokely Carmichael spoke at UW-Whitewater as part of a forum series entitled “Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement.” The chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee at Whitewater motivated students in attendance, stating that blacks must reclaim their identity and history, and organize to control local political offices, especially in large cities. [Source: Janesville Gazette]

The city’s still standing, all these years later.

On this day in 1952, Britain’s King George VI died, and was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.  Of that daughter, there’s a Twitter parody from “Elizabeth Windsor,” @Queen_UK, “Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, wife of the DoE, mother, grandmother and author of http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144473895X .”

Some of her recent Tweets:

  • Yes, Prince William is on route to the Falkland Islands. Don’t even think about sodding around, Argentina.
  • Someone get one a bacon and mushroom roll and a cup of tea. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
  • Working from home
  • Goodness, it’s gone Gin O’Clock
Google’s daily puzzle is for the especially musical: “You are playing Philario in Cymbeline when suddenly you forget your lines and start to ad lib blank verse in a nubbing. What should you say at the end of the nub?”

 

 

History, University, Wisconsin

On This Day in Wisconsin History: University of Wisconsin Opens

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Happy Birthday:

1849 – University of Wisconsin opens

On this day in 1849 the University of Wisconsin began with 20 students led by Professor John W. Sterling. The first class was organized as a preparatory school in the first department of the University: a department of science, literature, and the arts.

The university was initially housed at the Madison Female Academy building, which had been provided free of charge by the city. The course of study was English grammar; arithmetic; ancient and modern geography; elements of history; algebra; Caesar’s Commentaries; the Aeneid of Virgil (six books); Sallust; select orations of Cicero; Greek; the Anabasis of Xenophon; antiquities of Greece and Rome; penmanship, reading, composition and declamation.

Also offered were book-keeping, geometry, and surveying. Tuition was “twenty dollars per scholar, per annum.”

For a detailed recollection of early UW-Madison life, see the memoirs of Mrs. W.F. Allen [Source: History of the University of Wisconsin, Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1900]

Via Wisconsin Historical Society.

Drink, Recipe

The Michelada

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From the website that touted the Pickleback, comes the Michelada. The NYT’s Toby Cecchini describes it as “a cousin of the Bloody Mary, or a spiced-up version of a Midwestern staple, the Red Eye.” (For a more cautious take on the drink, see Eric Felten’s A Curious Treat From Down Mexico Way.)

There are several variations, but here’s one from Cecchini:

Use a pilsner or other tall beer or cocktail glass; a 20-ounce cooler or imperial pint works beautifully in that it allows for the ice, the additives and an entire 12-ounce bottle of beer. Cut a small lime wedge and use it to moisten the rim of the glass, then invert it onto a saucer of kosher salt, or salt mixed with chili powder. Fill the glass with as much or little ice as you wish. Then use whichever of the following ingredients fit your mood, pouring the beer in last. Do experiment with lavish versions compared to more stripped-down ones to see which you like best. Salud!

— Fresh lime juice, about an ounce, or one lime’s worth. I like to save the squeezed half-hull to cap the drink, to incorporate the aromatics of the oil into it as well.

— Maggi Seasoning

— Salsa picante (bottled hot sauce)

— Worcestershire sauce

— Soy sauce

— 1-3 ounces tomato juice

— Beer, 12 ounces.

Perhaps something to enjoy while watching today’s game.

Enjoy responsibly.

Twitter

Recent Tweets, 1.29 to 2.4

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Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation Dropped: Prosecutors Close Inquiry, No Charges Filed huff.to/yFeTDg

Utter disgrace: Milwaukee attorney banned from federal courts – bit.ly/z0SRf5

RT @js_watchdog: No Quarter: As governor, Thompson touted benefits of collective bargaining. Now, not so much. (bit.ly/A5YrmG)

Japanese govt expects population to shrink by one-third by 2060, 40% ttl over 65

Lasse campaign release on suspension of U.S. Senate campaign misspells hometown De Pere as ‘Depere’ bit.ly/xLjDC9