Good morning.
Easter in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:44 PM, for 13h 41m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred ninety-third day.
On this day in 1838, John Muir is born:
On this date John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland. He immigrated with his family to Wisconsin in 1849 and spent his youth working on his father’s farms in Marquette County, experiences that are recounted in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913). In 1868 he moved to Yosemite Valley, California, where he became a conservationist and leader in the forest preserve movement. His work led to the creation of the first national parks, the saving of California’s redwoods, and the founding of the Sierra Club.
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Jake Rudnitsky and Ilya Arkhipov write Mueller Exposes Putin’s Use of Tycoons as Trump Emissaries:
Shortly after news emerged that Hillary Clinton had phoned Donald Trump to concede the presidential election early on November 9, 2016, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund received a message from New York: “Putin has won.”
The exchange recorded in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in which the name of Kirill Dmitriev’s contact has been redacted, captures the jubilation among Kremlin insiders over Trump’s victory following what U.S. intelligence said was a campaign of Russian interference designed to help the underdog. The win set in motion what the report called a “flurry of Russian activity” among businessmen to establish contact with the president-elect’s team.
Mueller’s report, which includes details of Dmitriev’s private correspondence and an interview with billionaire investor Petr Aven, offers a rare glimpse into how President Vladimir Putin uses leading businessmen to act as informal Kremlin emissaries, meeting regularly with them to give directions.
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“It’s an open secret that oligarchs are an important tool not only domestically but in Russia’s foreign policy,” Valery Solovei, a political scientist at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, said. “The merit of the Mueller report is that he exposes this, showing how it functions.”
Scott Simon reports Helvetica, The Iconic Font Both Loved And Loathed, Gets Its 1st Redesign In 36 Years:
It’s been used by brands such as American Airlines, Panasonic and Toyota. It’s all over the signage in the New York City subway system. Even Google, Apple and Netflix used it for a time.
Helvetica is ubiquitous around the world, but despite its popularity, the typeface has some issues: letters scrunch together at small sizes and the space between them can be uneven.
Now, after 36 years, the widely used — and widely controversial — font is getting a makeover.
The upgrade was designed by the the Massachusetts type giant Monotype, which controls licensing for Helvetica. The company has updated each of Helvetica’s 40,000 characters for the digital age, offering three new sizes designed to work on everything from billboards to the tiny screens of a smartwatch. The updated font even has a new name: “Helvetica Now.”