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Cats, Uncategorized
Friday Catblogging: Relaxed in Any Situation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Music, Uncategorized
Monday Music: Jon Batiste, The Light Shines Brightest in the Dark (from “Marlowe”)
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Monday Music: ARTEMIS, Balance of Time (Live at MCG Jazz 2/17/23)
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Monday Music: Mrs. GREEN APPLE, Lilac
by JOHN ADAMS •
Music, Uncategorized
Monday Music: Vivaldi, Four Seasons, Autumn
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Friday Catblogging: ‘A Late-Night Sighting, and a Single Hair’
by JOHN ADAMS •
By Andries Hoogerwerf (29 August 1906 – 5 February 1977) – http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/images/javant3.gif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1889781 Jon Emont reports A Late-Night Sighting, and a Single Hair, Rekindle Hopes That an Extinct Tiger Lives On (‘Against all odds, DNA analysis suggests that a giant predator may have survived in Java, one of the most densely populated places…
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South Dakota vs. Vermont: COVID Leadership Matters
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Monday Music: Woody Herman’s Jazz Version of Fanfare for the Common Man
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 11.5.19
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-eight. Sunrise is 6:34 AM and sunset 4:41 PM, for 10h 07m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 60.4% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1862, Pres.…
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Daily Bread for 9.15.19
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 6:35 AM and sunset 7:04 PM, for 12h 28m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1950, United Nations forces under the command of Gen. MacArthur land…
Hunger, Marketing, Uncategorized, University
On a Campus with Genuine Hunger, ‘Hungry’ Shouldn’t be a Marketing Tool
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads in an announcement from Assistant Vice Chancellor Sara Kuhl (that’s her title, truly) that a marketing firm is looking for students’ opinions, and will provide a free lunch or dinner. They’ve got quite the hook: Wanted: Opinionated and hungry students In a place of genuine hunger, with students using an on-campus food pantry,…
Bad Ideas, City, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, State Capitalism, State Government, Trump, Uncategorized, WEDC
Foxconn’s (Overwhelmingly) Low-Paying Jobs
by JOHN ADAMS •
Residents of Whitewater (or at least the ones attracted to corporate welfare) had a chance this winter to hear a state operative extol the benefits of billions in public money for Foxconn. The local 501(c)(6) business league, the Greater Whitewater Committee, brought in a guest speaker to tout the project. See A Sham News Story on…
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Daily Bread for 1.23.18
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with a few flurries, and a high of thirty-one. Wet snow last night means a two hour delay for Whitewater’s schools this morning, but Midwesterners are resilient and bounce back quickly. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:57 PM, for 9h 40m 19s of daytime. The moon…