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Daily Bread for 5.9.15

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Good morning, Whitewater.

Saturday in town will be cloudy with a high of seventy-two.  Sunrise is 5:37 and sunset 20:04, for 14h 26m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.4% of its visible disk illuminated.

It’s the birthday of a famous Egyptologist:

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world famous after discovering the intact tomb of 14th century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun (colloquially known as “King Tut” and “the boy king”) in November 1922….

In 1907, after three hard years for Carter, Lord Carnarvon employed him to supervise Carnarvon’s Egyptian excavations in the Valley of the Kings.[6] The intention of Gaston Maspero, who introduced the two, was to ensure that Howard Carter imposed modern archaeological methods and systems of recording.[7][8]

Carnarvon financed Carter’s work in the Valley of the Kings to 1914, but until 1917 excavations and study were interrupted by the First World War. Following the end of the First World War, Carter aggressively resumed his work.

After several years of finding little, Lord Carnarvon became dissatisfied with the lack of results, and in 1922 informed Carter that he had one more season of funding to search the Valley of the Kings and find the tomb.[9]

On 4 November 1922, Howard Carter’s excavation group found steps which Carter hoped led to Tutankhamun‘s tomb (subsequently designated KV62) (the tomb that would be considered the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings).

He wired Lord Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon’s daughter and others in attendance, Carter made the “tiny breach in the top left hand corner” of the doorway (with a chisel his grandmother had given him for his 17th birthday.) He was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. He did not yet know whether it was “a tomb or merely a cache”, but he did see a promising sealed doorway between two sentinel statues. When Carnarvon asked “Can you see anything?”, Carter replied with the famous words: “Yes, wonderful things!”[10]

The next several months were spent cataloging the contents of the antechamber under the “often stressful” supervision of Pierre Lacau, director general of the Department of Antiquities of Egypt.[11] On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the sealed doorway, and found that it did indeed lead to a burial chamber, and he got his first glimpse of the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world’s press, but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter’s reputation with the British public.

Carter’s own notes and photographic evidence indicate that he, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert entered the burial chamber shortly after the tomb’s discovery and before the official opening.[12]

On 5.9.1950, sports come to the Milwaukee Arena:

On this date, in the first sporting event at the new Milwaukee Arena, Rocky Graziano scored a fourth-round TKO over Vinnie Cidone in a middleweight fight that drew 12,813 fans. The new Milwaukee Arena actually opened on April 9, 1950, but with a civic celebration rather than a sports event. [Source: Milwaukee Journal]

Assault Awareness & Prevention, Government Spending, Official Misconduct, University

Budget Problems as a Mask for Internal Problems

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There are significant shortfalls for K-12 funding and state funding for the UW System.

These shortfalls involve hundreds of millions, and that alters the landscape at public institutions (at some more than others).

Still, It won’t be true, because it cannot be true, that every problem one might encounter will be the consequence of fiscal policy. 

Many good events, and many bad ones, will happen apart from a reduction from one budget to another. 

In the case of properly addressing sexual assaults on campus, for example, it’s simply not true that a UW System school’s revenue last year, or next year, will be material in determining whether fair procedures are adopted and consistently executed. 

There is no fiscal reason whatever that any UW System school should find itself less able next year than it was last year to address properly campus assaults. 

It’s very possible that some schools will fail to address these crimes, and fail to respond to the victims of these crimes properly. 

If they should fail, they will not have their budgets to blame, but instead any mistakes will more likely be from their poor priorities, misguided values, or utter laziness.  More troubling, truly: these would be poor priorities, misguided values, or utter laziness in the face of others’ serious injuries. 

One may yet hear, though, that the budget was somehow to blame.  No, and no again: leaders are responsible for proper priorities and allocations, and lack of money has not been our only problem these several years.

Budget problems must not become a mask for serious, unethical, internal problems. 

On this point, there is no reason to give ground, anytime, to anyone.  

Cats

Friday Catblogging: Purring, Meowing

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At New York Magazine‘s Science of Us blog, Melissa Dahl writes about what cats’ purring and meowing probably means.

On Purring:

The one thing you probably think you understand about how cats communicate — purring means they’re happy! — isn’t exactly right. Cats do indeed purr when they’re happy, but that’s not the most accurate translation of the sound’s meaning, Cromwell-Davis explained. “You can have cats that are happy and content purring, but also a cat that’s injured or sick will purr,” she said.

Instead, purring means something more like, don’t go anywhere, please. It’s more likely a solicitation for care, in other words, than purely an expression of contentedness. “They haven’t got a good way of asking for help — it’s not in their language — so they do the next best thing, they do the purring thing,” said John Bradshaw, a University of Bristol anthrozoologist and the author of Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet. “The meaning is not exactly right, but it’s the closest they can get to it.”

On Meowing:

Cats and their humans develop a secret language of meows. Cats don’t really meow to communicate with other cats, Bradshaw said, which in itself is a pretty surprising little cat-fact. But in his observations of feral cats, he said, “you get a meow about once every hundred hours. They’re very silent.” And yet domesticated cats, as you know if you’ve got one, will often meow their little heads off, all day (and sometimes night!) long. “People think of it as an absolutely classic cat behavior … but it’s something they’ve learned to do to get our attention,” Bradshaw said. “It’s really something they’ve adopted as a way of communicating with humans.”

As such, there’s not exactly a universal cat language when it comes to meows. Rather, as Bradshaw writes in his book, “a secret code of meows … develops between each cat and its owner, unique to that cat alone and meaning little to outsiders.” This was demonstrated in a 2003 study by Cornell researchers, documented in Bradshaw’s book, in which they recorded meows from 12 cats in five everyday scenarios. They then played those recordings to pet owners, and found that only the owners could correctly decipher the scenario in which the meow was recorded.

For more about felines, see Dahl’s Your Cat Is Trying to Talk to You.

Poll, Sports

Friday Poll: Patriots & Deflated Footballs

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An NFL report suggests that Tom Brady likely knew of ‘inappropriate activities,’ Deflategate report says. The report is an examination whether the Patriots deflated footballs they used at the Super Bowl (outside of NFL limits) to gain a competitive advantage. (“The report, prepared by attorney Ted Wells, found that ‘it is more probable than not’ that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was “at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities” of locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski, who has been with the team since 2001.”)

Does this affect how you view Brady & the Patriots?

For an explanation of how deflation might make a competitive difference, see the video below:


ABC Breaking US News | ABC Politics News

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 5.8.15

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Good morning, Whitewater.

The end of the work week in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 5:38 and sunset 8:03, for 14h 24m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 80.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

It’s the 70th anniversary of V-E Day:

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany‘s unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.

On 30 April, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin. Germany’s surrender, therefore, was authorised by his successor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg Government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.

Upon the defeat of Germany, celebrations erupted throughout the world. From Moscow to Los Angeles, people celebrated. In the United Kingdom, more than one million people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European part of the war. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the palace before the cheering crowds. Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her sister Princess Margaret were allowed to wander incognito among the crowds and take part in the celebrations.[2]

In the United States, the victory happened on President Harry Truman‘s 61st birthday.[3] He dedicated the victory to the memory of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died of a cerebral hemorrhage less than a month earlier, on 12 April.[4] Flags remained at half-mast for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period.[5][6] Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt’s memory and keeping the flags at half-mast that his only wish was “that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day.”[4] Later that day, Truman said that the victory made it his most enjoyable birthday.[3]

Massive celebrations also took place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and especially in New York’s Times Square.[7]

Here’s the final game in Puzzability‘s Maternity Test series:

This Week’s Game — May 4-8
Maternity Test
There’s a bit of a generation gap this Mother’s Day week. Each day’s clue is a series of words, each with one letter replaced by a dash. Fill in the missing letters to make a word—one way to get the first (or only) name of a famous mother, real or fictional, and another way to get the name of a child of hers.
Example:
SIDE-AR / BL-CKHEAD / A-OUND / O-LONG / -EARNING
Answer:
Carol & Bobby (Brady)
What to Submit:
Submit the two first names, with the mother first (as “Carol & Bobby” in the example), for your answer.
Friday, May 8
UNDER-INE / SYN-PSES / A-DITION / P-ISONER / -OMINATION / OVERTUR- / -ERIAL

Restaurant, Review

Restaurant Review: Second Salem Brewing Company

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Second Salem Brewing Company is a small, locally-owned brewery that offers several beers from light to dark.  There are two full bars, a gastro-pub with outdoor seating, and a tap lounge & anteroom.  Thinking about the establishment principally as a gastro-pub, or even a tavern, gets Second Salem wrong (very much so). 

It’s not just a pub, so to speak. 

This is a brewing company that offers locally-brewed beers on tap.  Not just offers them, but offers them prominently and proudly.  One wouldn’t have to enjoy beer to enjoy Second Salem, but those who do enjoy beer will appreciate Second Salem far more.

I’ve thought about this brewery  for a while, having watched and visited its predecessor establishments at the location, as well as the evolution of Second Salem’s current offerings from small gastro-pub to brewing company and tap lounge. 

The evolution of Second Salem is in reverse order to its principal offering: the pub came first, then the brewery and tap lounge.  (I reviewed that small pub favorably some time ago.) But it’s the brewery and tap lounge that makes the establishment unique.

On all my visits (lunch, dinner, tap lounge for two flights), I found that most patrons visited the pub.  Some were inside, and others outside, on a patio with a newly-installed pergola.  I took dinner outside on the patio, and it was pleasant overlooking the lake, but it surprised me that the tap lounge was less-frequented. 

From my way of thinking, the brewery and lounge are the heart of Second Salem, and its most unique offerings.  Perhaps because the pub came first, patrons are more accustomed to eating there. 

The tap lounge is beautiful and cleverly decorated with references to Whitewater as a ‘second Salem.’  Even a generation ago, it probably would have been difficult to play on the town’s reputation for spooky tales without creating offense; it’s a sign of progress and confidence that the owners have the humor and wit to tease about our city’s legendary past.

On my supper visit, we arrived (two for dining and beer) when the tap lounge was not yet open.  That had been the purpose of my visit, but it opened later than the stated time of 4 o’clock. 

I would have been disappointed, but a waitress from the pub, noticing that I was curious about the tap lounge, asked me if I wanted to take a look through it.  She might have said nothing, but instead she said just the right thing: would you like to see what it’s like?  I took her up on her offer; her question turned a patron’s slight disappointment into a chance look at the lounge more closely before it opened later that night.

Supper was a burger with provolone, wings, Pepsi, and Beast of Bray Road on the patio.  I asked and received a burger cooked rare, with sweet potato fries.  The meat-averse diner with me chose a cali wrap without the bacon. We shared wings, with ranch sauce for dipping, and iced tea. 

(On an earlier lunch visit, I had the mac & cheese and part of a giant pretzel.  The pretzel is so ample it’s suitable for eating with several others.  Although I’m not certain, a rough estimate is that the pretzel is about one-third the size of Rhode Island.  Bring hungry friends.) 

I chose these selections because they were likely to be popular choices for other patrons, and a better sample for me of what they might request and receive.

Toward the end of the meal, our waitress let us know that the tap lounge was open.  She might have said nothing, but she remembered and let us know.

We went to the tap lounge, and spent a good while there, having a great time.  In fact, just that – a great time.  The bartender was friendly, we ran a tab, and she was attentive throughout our lounge stay.  (She helpfully provided a menu for me to try to read without my glasses, when she overheard that I was being tested over my eyesight.  I passed that test, by the way.) 

That’s a good experience: aware of patron’s needs, friendly, ready to assist even with something silly.

Servers and bartender were excellent, putting aside any concerns about service. 

Sometime during the evening, I put aside the idea of a review – thinking about particular points or experiences – and simply enjoyed the stay.  It’s the first time from among those places that I’ve reviewed that I had that feeling so strongly.  (I’m analytical by nature; I don’t have many moments where I set that nature aside.  It’s a welcome feeling, now and again.)  

My recommendations among the six brews I sampled (in two flights of three each): The Beast of Bray Road (an amber ale), Witchtower Pale Ale (an ale with a slightly lower alcohol content than BoBR) and the Old Main Golden Ale, which is light and a good choice for anyone not used to ales. 

Long, rectangular, with seating, fixtures, and lighting that reflect a new-yet-old tavern feel, the tap lounge is beautiful.  A lot of care went into the selection of furnishings in this lounge.  (That same care is evident in how the brewery brands itself, with shirts and posters displaying logos or silhouettes of the Beast of Bray Road.  Servers all wear clothing with the logo or the depiction of the BoBR.)

Located at 111 W. Whitewater Street, it’s one of the best spots in the city: near Cravath, at the intersection of Main and Whitewater, it’s visible to almost anyone traveling through the city, and is easily accessible by walking to anyone in the old city or campus.  There is parking on either side of the building, in a private lot of the Mill  Pond lot closer to Main Street.)

A few quick suggestions, all minor: (1) the sign outside for parking should display the restaurant’s current name, (2) the display of brewing equipment from windows along Whitewater Street, or from inside the tap lounge, should be softly illuminated to showcase a unique feature of the establishment, (3) hours posted for the lounge should match actual hours, and (4) the hallway between the lounge and pub should be better illuminated to make traveling from pub to lounge more inviting (it’s a long hallway, and relatively dim).

A big suggestion, not minor at all: At every turn, this brewery should, as a matter of branding, emphasize the tap lounge’s availability and offerings.  Why not lead with what’s unique to the brewery?  Open as much as possible, sign illuminated, welcome and inviting. 

Second Salem will benefit from a community expectation that the tap lounge is open (and visibly open from Whitewater Street). 

I’ll be back, for food, ale on tap, and a growler.

Highly recommended.

LOCATION: 111 W. Whitewater Street
Whitewater, WI 53190, (262) 473-2920.

Online:
secondsalem.com
facebook.com/SecondSalemBrewing
twitter.com/secondsalem

OPEN: 

Tap Lounge Hours
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Closed
Wednesday – 4 PM – 10 PM
Thursday – 4 PM – 10 PM
Friday – 3 PM – 10 PM
Saturday – 11 AM – 10 PM

Restaurant Hours
Sunday – 11 AM – 4 PM
Monday – 11 AM – Close
Tuesday – 11 AM – Close
Wednesday – 11 AM – Close
Thursday – 11 AM – Close
Friday – 11 AM – Close
Saturday – 10 AM – Close
Sunday – 10 AM – Close

PRICES: Main dish and a beer for about $12-20, depending on selection.

RESERVATIONS: Unnecessary.

DRINKS: Locally-brewed beers, full bar, sodas.

SOUND: Moderate, with background music, but one can still hear one’s companions.

SERVICE: Helpful, congenial, obliging.  With moderate seating, I found the level of attention just right. 

VISITS: Two (one lunch in pub, one supper on patio & stay at the tap lounge).

RATING: Recommended — 3.75 of 4.

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RATING SCALE: From one to four stars, representing the full experience of food, atmosphere, service, and pricing.

INDEPENDENCE: This review is delivered without financial or other connection to the establishment or its owner. The dining experience was that of an ordinary patron, without notice to the staff or requests for special consideration.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 5.7.15

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Good morning, Whitewater.

Thursday in Whitewater will be warm and mostly sunny, with a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 5:40 and sunset 8:02, for 14h 22m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.6% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6:30 PM.

How about something delicious in the morning? I’d say this would do the trick:

See, also, Melissa Clark’s recipe @ NYT.

On this day in 1864, soldiers from Wisconsin are among others who saw an end to intense fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness:

1864 – (Civil War) Battle of the Wilderness Ended
he fighting on May 5-7, 1864, produced nearly 30,000 casualties without giving either side a clear victory. The 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Infantry regiments fought at the Battle of the Wilderness.

Here’s Puzzability‘s Thursday game in its Maternity Test series:

This Week’s Game — May 4-8
Maternity Test
There’s a bit of a generation gap this Mother’s Day week. Each day’s clue is a series of words, each with one letter replaced by a dash. Fill in the missing letters to make a word—one way to get the first (or only) name of a famous mother, real or fictional, and another way to get the name of a child of hers.
Example:
SIDE-AR / BL-CKHEAD / A-OUND / O-LONG / -EARNING
Answer:
Carol & Bobby (Brady)
What to Submit:
Submit the two first names, with the mother first (as “Carol & Bobby” in the example), for your answer.
Thursday, May 7
CA-OLING / P-STURE / IN-URABLE / SHRIN-

Government Spending, Libertarians, Local Government, State Government

The Well Runs Dry

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As expected, a weak economy, despite four years of talk about spending to create jobs, jobs, jobs means that Wisconsin can expect no additional state revenue to lessen the impact of cuts to education, etc. 

In fact, revenue projections are below estimates.

Here’s the news from the Journal Sentinel this morning (emphasis added):

Madison — State lawmakers can’t count on any additional money to bail them out of budget cuts proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office reported Wednesday.

For months, the GOP governor and Republicans who run the Legislature have said they believed the state would take in more money over the next two years than originally projected, allowing them to prevent or mitigate cuts proposed by Walker for K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin System.

But the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Wednesday that it believed the initial estimates would hold.

In a memo to lawmakers, Bob Lang, the veteran head of the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office, said that tax revenues for this fiscal year are actually running slightly behind projections.

During this fiscal year ending on June 30, tax revenues were expected to grow by 3.7% and so far they are growing at a rate of 3.4%, the fiscal bureau reported.

This year may yet pick up slightly but meanwhile the national economy now appears set to grow at a slower rate than expected over the 2015-’17 budget, leaving no reason to look for more money, Lang reported.

That means lawmakers will have to stick with Walker’s cuts or find others, raise taxes or fees or use borrowing and accounting tricks or some combination of those things. Republican leaders have stood firmly against raising taxes, leaving them few sustainable options except to make cuts….

This is a problem for Wisconsin all around: (1) less for what’s most needed, (2) no appetite among state leaders for reducing what they have mistakenly prioritized, and (3) a climate in which any cuts are stigmatized as bad cuts.

That’s where big-government conservatism has left this state: a stagnant economy, a continuing state fiscal mess, spending and cutting priorities that most residents reject, and no certainty of much better next year, either.

For those who genuinely want smaller government, and who would have cut hundreds of millions in big-ticket road-building, who would have eliminated the WEDC, who would have reduced the size of the state workforce rather than shift costs locally, these are frustrating times. 

This budget could have been balanced differently.  Yet here we are.

To each and every big-government conservative, to each and every Republican who has been more like Nixon than Goldwater, to every proud so-called conservative in Whitewater who’s extended his clammy hands for another treat, gobbling whatever he could find: you have only yourselves to blame for this. You betrayed better principles for nothing more than a few lying headlines in an unread local paper.

Handed a golden opportunity after Gov. Doyle, these few have thrown it away on big spending of a different kind. 

Those of us, libertarians and others who have never been under the sway of a major political party, who have always believed truly and sincerely in smaller, limited government, will be here long after this mediocre class of self-promoters and self-dealers finds all its work consigned to the trash. 

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 5.6.15

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Good morning, Whitewater.

We’ll have an even chance of rain today, and a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 5:41 and sunset 8:01, for 14h 19m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.4% of its visible disk illuminated.

 

It’s Orson Welles’s birthday:

George Orson Welles … May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media: in theatre, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast “The War of the Worlds“, one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films.

Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded theMercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented an acclaimed series of productions on Broadway through 1941. Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells‘ novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although some contemporary sources claim these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated,[2] they rocketed Welles to notoriety.

His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. Because of this, he struggled for creative control from the major film studios, and his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such aschiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. He has been praised as a major creative force and as “the ultimate auteur“.[3]:6 Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 and Touch of Evil in 1958. Although the three are generally considered his greatest works, some film critics have also argued other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai (1947)[4] and Chimes at Midnight (1966),[5] are under-appreciated.

In 2002, Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics,[6][7] and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time.[8] Well known for his baritone voice,[9] Welles was a well-regarded actor in radio and film, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor, and an accomplished magician noted for presenting troop variety showsin the war years.

On this day in 1947, Wisconsin shakes:

On this date an earthquake centered due south of Milwaukee near the shore of Lake Michigan, caused minor damage but no major injuries. The tremor shook buildings and rattled windows in many communities throughout southeastern Wisconsin. There were reports of broken windows in Kenosha. The shock was felt from Sheboygan to the Wisconsin – Illinois border. [Source: U.S.G.S. Earthquake Hazards Program]

Here’s the Wednesday game from Puzzability:

This Week’s Game — May 4-8
Maternity Test
There’s a bit of a generation gap this Mother’s Day week. Each day’s clue is a series of words, each with one letter replaced by a dash. Fill in the missing letters to make a word—one way to get the first (or only) name of a famous mother, real or fictional, and another way to get the name of a child of hers.
Example:
SIDE-AR / BL-CKHEAD / A-OUND / O-LONG / -EARNING
Answer:
Carol & Bobby (Brady)
What to Submit:
Submit the two first names, with the mother first (as “Carol & Bobby” in the example), for your answer.
Wednesday, May 6
OVERPA-S / PR-POSITION / PIC- / BLO-DIES

City, Corporate Welfare, Economy, Free Markets, Government Spending, Local Government, Marketing, Poverty, University, WEDC, Wisconsin

Wisconsin on Pace for Most Layoff Notifications Since WEDC Created

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Now I thought, as it’s what I have heard again, again, and again, that the WEDC was the Laser-Focused Semi-Private Job Creator of Wisconsin™. 

How odd, then, to read that since the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s inception, Wisconsin is on pace for more job layoffs than ever. 

What a shock: who would have imagined that the grand claims of cronyism would meet their refutation in actual human experience?

When the first round of WEDC funding hit Whitewater (it’s been many trips to the trough since), one heard how this was to be a grand and astonishing triumph for the city.

It was, instead, what anyone might have guessed: water on sand, negligible and of no benefit to the many thousands of this city. 

The P.R. men, 501(c)(6) big-business lobby, and sycophantic officials who peddle these shoddy goods will keep trying.

It is impossible, nonetheless, that dollops of money preferentially allocated will produce a meaningful, lasting result for Whitewater. 

That’s why I have described these white-collar welfare schemes as an expression of a gutter ideology – they are such, as they are both intellectually, ethically, and in practice inferior to alternative methods of allocation.  (See, along these lines, Local Crony Capitalism via the WEDC (and similar schemes).)

I have every confidence in allocation of capital, goods and labor through free markets. 

However, to be clear, almost any allocation to the poor would be vastly better on moral and practical grounds than a compulsory allocation through taxes to well-fed, avaricious, big-business leaders and their unctuous flacks.

Jobs, jobs, jobs?  Not through the WEDC.

Film

Film: F for Fake

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Toward the end of his career, Orson Welles filmed F for Fake, about frauds of various kinds. The full movie is embedded below. One can’t say it’s his best film, but it is among the most intriguing films Welles or anyone else ever made.

Odd, but captivating: