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Daily Bread for 5.18.24: Buildings Designed to Limit Catastrophe

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:27 and sunset 8:15 for 14h 47m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s professional journalism site, WhitewaterWise, has been admitted to the Milwaukee Press Club. It’s a well-deserved addition to the oldest continuously operating press club in North America. Bloggers are not journalists (we’re modern-day pamphleteers), but one needn’t be (or wish to be) a watchmaker to appreciate having a watch. Whitewater benefits from professional journalism. (See from 2023 Professional Journalism Returns to Whitewater.)

Whitewater WindUp meets this morning at 9 AM to select the winner of their first startup competition. Best of luck to all the finalists.

On this day in 1804,  Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

On this day in 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, when after nearly three weeks spent encircling Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union forces had bottled up their enemy inside the city and prepared to attack it. Seventeen different Wisconsin regiments were involved in the assault that began the next day (8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 33rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments and the 1st, 6th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries as well as the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry).

The building designed to limit catastrophe:

Animals, Daily Bread, Good Ideas

Daily Bread for 4.20.24: Surviving Extinction in Dubai

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 6:02 and sunset 7:44 for 13h 41m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 2008,  Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

How Did This Animal Survive Extinction in Dubai?:

See Ingenuity’s Flight Map: 72 Helicopter Flights on Mars:

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Daily Bread for 1.6.24: A Capybara Spa Day

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 Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will see flurries in the morning then cloudy skies with a high of 34. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset 4:36 for 9h 11m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 27.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in his State of the Union address.

Capybara Spa Day:

The largest rodent in the world is a Capybara—and they are VERY cute. Native to South America, these semi-aquatic gentle giants are known for their peaceful, sociable personalities. But there’s something special about the Capybaras in Japan’s Izu Shaboten Zoo – here they live a pampered life, drawing crowds of people to see them.

Spending winter days relaxing in their personal onsen (hot bath), eating fruit they relish their time in the warm waters—an activity that has become a tradition in about 20 zoos across Japan since its accidental discovery in 1982. The Izu Shaboten Zoo, where we find ourselves in today’s Great Big Story, is particularly famous for this practice – sit back, relax and get cosy with these cute Capybaras.

Stunning auroras seen during Hurtigruten Coastal Express astronomy voyage:

Cats, Good Ideas, Medicine

Friday Catblogging: Doctor Prescribes a Cat

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Embed from Getty Images Cathy Free reports A Virginia woman was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat (‘Her doctor, Earl D. King, said he wrote it down ‘because people sometimes don’t follow your instructions’): Robin Sipe’s eyes filled with tears as soon as her doctor entered the examining room. “My cat had recently…

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Daily Bread for 7.7.23: Prioritization in a Small Town

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:35 PM for 15h 11m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 76.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson leads his…

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Daily Bread for 7.5.23: Bad River Tribe Provides Free Opioid Reversal Drugs Through Mail

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy, with scattered afternoon thundershowers, and a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 13m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops…