Good morning.
Whitewater’s Wednesday will be rainy with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 6:58 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 26m 48s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 29.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1889, the jukebox was first installed for commercial use, at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. On this day in 2006, former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also in 11.23.1889, the first University of Wisconsin football game took place, although it did not end well for Wisconsin (Calumet Club of Milwaukee 27, Wisconsin 0). On November 23, 1909, “A.E. Graham of Janesville was put on trial for selling oleo as butter. Oleo, an early form of margarine, was outlawed in the dairy state of Wisconsin. On January 27, 1910, he was found guilty in federal court and sentenced to 18 months in Fort Leavenworth Prison.”
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Nico Savidge reports that UW-Madison slips in ranking as research spending declines: “Spending on research at UW-Madison declined by more than $100 million between 2012 and 2015, leading the university to fall from the top five of the National Science Foundation’s ranking of research institutions for the first time in more than four decades….Tom Evenson, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker, downplayed the NSF ranking Tuesday, noting that UW-Madison recently rose in a U.S. News and World Report ranking of top public universities and saying the institution “remains a ‘research powerhouse.’”
Jacob Carpenter writes that Inmate families want outside investigation into deaths: “The families of two Milwaukee County inmates who recently died in jail are calling for outside investigations into the unexplained deaths of their loved ones, saying they fear the county Sheriff’s Office won’t conduct thorough, impartial reviews. Leon Limon, the brother of 38-year-old Kristina Fiebrink, and Gail Stockton, the mother of 29-year-old Michael Madden, said a recent spate of deaths at the Milwaukee County Jail has them concerned about the quality of any investigations by the Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail. They are also frustrated at how little the Sheriff’s Office has told them regarding when and how the investigations will be done. Fiebrink died in late August, Madden in late October. “I just don’t feel like it’s going to be fair,” Limon said. “They’re not going to say, ‘My co-worker let this girl die.'” State law allows local agencies to investigate deaths at jails they run, so long as the death didn’t directly result from an officer’s actions or inaction.”
In South Korea, a Samsung Raid Deepens South Korean Political Crisis:
At Trump Tower, there’s been no better time to hawk trinkets, as one reads in At Donald Trump’s Properties, a Showcase for a Brand and a President-Elect: ““I bought it for my two sons,” said Shanon Loggins, 47, of Lufkin, Tex., showing off a golden shopping bag embossed with the Trump crest that carried two bottles of Success by Trump, a fragrance for men. “They need to be successful,” she explained. Business is good for Donald J. Trump. People are flocking to his Midtown Manhattan skyscraper, dining in his restaurants and buying his wares. Reporters are fastidiously chronicling the comings and goings of his transition team, his self-branded properties providing the backdrop for television live shots. Mr. Trump has taken the staid task of preparing to assume the presidency and turned it into an exercise in conspicuous self-promotion and carefully choreographed branding.”
Great Big Story describes The Fire That Inspired ‘Smoke on The Water’:
The Fire That Inspired ‘Smoke on The Water’ from Great Big Story on Vimeo.