Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 5:40 AM and sunset 8:02 PM, for 14h 21m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.5% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Unified School District’s distinctions committee meets via audiovisual conferencing at 3 PM.…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 5.3.20
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 5.1.20
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty-five. Sunrise is 5:46 AM and sunset 7:56 PM, for 14h 09m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 57% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1956, the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available…
Bad Ideas, Coronavirus, Medicine, Public Health, Trump
More Deaths, No Benefit from Anti-Malaria Drug That Trump Pushed
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A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it’s the…
Animals, Coronavirus, Public Health, Science/Nature
Prudent Human Changes Concerning Exotic Animals
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Karin Brulliard reports The next pandemic is already coming, unless humans change how we interact with wildlife, scientists say: The new coronavirus, which has traversed the globe to infect more than 1 million people, began like so many pandemics and outbreaks before: inside an animal. The virus’s original host was almost certainly a bat, scientists…
City, Demographics, Television
Broadband Gaps
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There’s a story over at Wisconsin Watch that reports on the broadband gap in rural Wisconsin communities. Peter Cameron reports Broadband gap leaves rural Wisconsin behind during coronavirus crisis (‘Wisconsin’s dearth of high-speed internet in rural areas makes virtual schooling, remote health care and working from home even more difficult’): Already, Wisconsin lags behind the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.30.20
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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of fifty-one. Sunrise is 6:37 AM and sunset 7:19 PM, for 12h 42m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 30.3% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Unified School District’s board meets tonight at 6:30 PM briefly in open…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.25.20
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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of fifty-six. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 7:14 PM, for 12h 27m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1655, Huygens discovers Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Recommended for reading in…
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Daily Bread for 3.23.20
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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of forty-seven. Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 7:11 PM, for 12h 21m 52s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Association meets in a closed session conference call at 5 PM, and the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.22.20
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with a high of forty-one. Sunrise is 6:51 AM and sunset 7:10 PM, for 12h 18m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1854, Eugene Shepard, the creator of the hodag, is born. Recommended…
Coronavirus, Public Health
One Doctor’s Straight Talk About the Coronavirus
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Emily Landon, the chief infectious disease epidemiologist at University of Chicago Medicine, took the lectern after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), who on Friday afternoon announced that the state would undergo a shelter-in-place order for 2½ weeks starting Saturday evening. “The healthy and optimistic among us will doom the vulnerable,” Landon said. She acknowledged that restrictions like…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.21.20
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of thirty-seven. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 7:09 PM, for 12h 16m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 7.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, the 21st, 22nd, and 25th Wisconsin Infantry regiments are victorious…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.18.20
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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered showers and a high of forty-five. Sunrise is 6:58 AM and sunset 7:06 PM, for 12h 07m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 29.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, the Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.17.20
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Good morning. St. Patrick’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 7:04 PM, for 12h 04m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1941, Milwaukee’s airport was named to honor the…