Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be cloudy with a high of fifty-five. Sunrise is 5:34 and sunset 8:07, for 14h 33m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Parks and Recreation Board meets this afternoon at 5:30 PM.
Instagram user Momentaryawe contends that his iPhone fell 400 feet to the ground while he was recording from a skyscraper, and that the phone kept recording all the way down. I don’t know if the recording is of a genuine fall, but it’s compelling to watch —
It’s reformer Florence Nightingale’s birthday:
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (…12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers.[1] She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of “The Lady with the Lamp” making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.[2]
Some recent commentators have asserted Nightingale’s achievements in the Crimean War were exaggerated by the media at the time, to satisfy the public’s need for a hero. Nevertheless, critics agree on the decisive importance of her followup achievements in professionalizing nursing roles for women. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King’s College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday. Her social reforms include improving healthcare for all sections of British society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish prostitution laws that were over-harsh to women, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.
Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She also helped popularise the graphical presentation of statistical data. Much of her writing, including her extensive work on religion and mysticism, has only been published posthumously.
Here’s the Tuesday game in Puzzability‘s Prom Going series:
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This Week’s Game — May 11-15
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Prom Going
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We’re having a senior moment this week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, removed the four letters in PROM, and rearranged the remaining letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the longer one first.
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Example:
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Julie Kavner’s cartoon alter ego; quality of the taste of venison
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Answer:
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Marge Simpson; gaminess
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the longer one first (as “Marge Simpson; gaminess” in the example), for your answer.
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Tuesday, May 12
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