Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 5:28 PM, for 10h 40m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 71.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}one-hundredth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day.{end-tooltip}
Update: these meetings are for 2.23: Whitewater’s Community Development Authority Seed Capital Screening Committee meets at 4 PM, and the CDA —Board of Directors meets thereafter at 5 PM.
On this day in 1937, Wallace H. Carothers, a research chemist for Du Pont, received a patent for nylon. On this day in 1943, Milwaukee native Mildred Harnack is executed in Berlin for her service in the German resistance.
Jacob Carpenter reports that Wisconsin dog and Westminster winner Rumor conquers New York City: “With their Best in Show victory Tuesday night, Rumor and [owner Kent] Boyles, who runs a kennel between Janesville and Madison, became the toast of New York City, embarking on a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple. Five-year-old Rumor, named after the song “Rumour Has It” by British songstress Adele, became the second German shepherd to claim top dog in the 141-year history of the competition. “To be the old, retired one, and to come out and take on the new champion, it was a whole lot of fun,” Boyles said Wednesday. Working on just three hours of sleep, Rumor made several television appearances, snapped majestic photos atop the Empire State Building and One World Observatory, and kept with tradition by politely noshing on a pair of steaks at Sardi’s. Rumor handled the onslaught famously before crashing in the afternoon, her 65-pound body weighed down by meat and media attention.”
Ana Fifield reports that Airport assassination of half brother focuses new attention on North Korean leader: “For the victim was his older half brother, Kim Jong Nam, traveling on an apparently fake passport that said he was a 46-year-old named Kim Chol. It was an attack that South Korea’s spy chief asserted was directly ordered from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. One of the women grabbed the man as the other sprayed liquid on his face and held a cloth over it for about 10 seconds. In the hullabaloo of the check-in area, no one even seemed to notice. This account of the attack and its aftermath was pieced together from interviews with staff at the airport, police and other official statements, and leaks to the local media. The women left swiftly, but not that swiftly. They went down three sets of escalators, past an H&M and a Baskin-Robbins, and out of the terminal to a taxi stand, where they needed to buy a voucher for their journey before lining up for a cab. They got in and told the driver to take them to the Empire Hotel, some 40 minutes from the airport.
Michael D. Shear observes that After Election, Trump’s Professed Love for Leaks Quickly Faded: “WASHINGTON — As a candidate for president, Donald J. Trump embraced the hackers who had leaked Hillary Clinton’s emails to the press, declaring at a rally in Pennsylvania, “I love WikiLeaks!” To the cheering throngs that night, Mr. Trump marveled that “nothing is secret today when you talk about the internet.” The leakers, he said, had performed a public service by revealing what he called a scandal with no rival in United States history. Now, after less than four weeks in the Oval Office, President Trump has changed his mind. At a news conference on Wednesday and in a series of Twitter postings earlier in the day, Mr. Trump angrily accused intelligence agencies of illegally leaking information about Michael T. Flynn, his former national security adviser, who resigned after reports that he had lied about conversations with the Russian ambassador.”
Charles Blow describes a slow, Drip, Drip, Drip: “In July, at a televised campaign event, Trump said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Then in October, an hour after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tapes of Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women, WikiLeaks began to dump the Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails on the internet. Coincidence? Maybe. But that would be one hell of a coincidence, considering all the other reinforcing “coincidences”: Trump’s inexplicable, inexhaustible praise of Russia and Vladimir Putin; Putin’s failure to respond to Obama’s sanctions; an explosive report last week from CNN that read: “For the first time, U.S. investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent.” What we know only makes what we don’t know feel all the more ominous. But I believe that facts are forthcoming. Reporters are digging like a crew of coal miners hopped up on a case of Red Bull, and sources in Washington are leaking to anyone with a press credential. Drip, drip, drip it goes until the dam breaks and the truth spills.”
These are the bees that give us almonds: