Good morning.

We’ll have an increasingly cloudy day with a high of forty-seven.

At 3 PM, there will be a municipal meeting to discuss a marketing program for the City of Whitewater.

At 6:30 PM, there will be a Police & Fire commission meeting.

On this day in 1865, Gen. Grant achieves a Union victory, one in a string that rapidly take the war to its end:

After a ten-month siege, Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his troops on a desperate retreat westward.

The ragged Confederate troops could no longer maintain the 40-mile network of defenses that ran from southwest of Petersburg to north of Richmond, the Rebel capital 25 miles north of Petersburg. Through the winter, desertion and attrition melted Lee’s army down to less than 60,000, while Grant’s army swelled to over 120,000. Grant attacked Five Forks southwest of Petersburg on April 1, scoring a huge victory that cut Lee’s supply line and inflicted 5,000 casualties. The next day, Lee wrote to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, “I think it absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position tonight…”

We’re mid-week in Puzzability’s Breaking Bad series – here’s Wednesday’s game:

This Week’s Game — March 31-April 4

Breaking Bad

You’ll be gathering a rogues’ gallery this week. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the name of a well-known movie villain.

Example:

Regular / pen point / starts a poker pot

Answer:

Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)

What to Submit:

Submit the character name and the smaller words (as “Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)” in the example) for your answer.

Wednesday, April 2

Pecan, for one / choir member’s platform / performed surveillance on

Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be windy, but increasingly sunny, with a high of forty-six.

Whitewater’s Fire and Rescue Task Force meets this evening at 6:30 PM.

Google’s announced, this April 1st morning, an upgrade to their mapping application to find the greatest Pokémon master through Google Maps for Android or iPhone. This may be the among the most competitive job searches of the early twenty-first century.

It’s the founding-day anniversary for Milwaukee’s major-league baseball team:

1970 – Milwaukee Brewers Founded
On this date the Milwaukee Brewers, Inc., an organization formed by Allan H. “Bud” Selig and Edmund Fitzgerald, acquired the Seattle Pilots franchise. The team was renamed the Milwaukee Brewers, a tribute to the city’s long association with brewing industry. {Source: Brewers’ History Page.]

Puzzability‘s Breaking Bad series continues with Tuesday’s game:

This Week’s Game — March 31-April 4

Breaking Bad

You’ll be gathering a rogues’ gallery this week. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the name of a well-known movie villain.

Example:

Regular / pen point / starts a poker pot

Answer:

Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)

What to Submit:

Submit the character name and the smaller words (as “Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)” in the example) for your answer.

Tuesday, April 1

Blend, as in a recipe / online conversation / ship’s wheel / decade components

Good morning.

Monday brings a chance (about twenty percent) of showers in the afternoon, and a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset is 7:20 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with just one-percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1998, a change of leagues –

1998 – Brewers Go National
On this date the Milwaukee Brewers played their first game as a National League Team, losing to the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. The Brewers’ transfer, the first since the American League was formed at the turn of the century, was necessary to create a 16-team National League and a 14-team American League. [Source: “Brewer’s Timeline” on the team’s official Web site].

Puzzability begins a new series entitled, Breaking Bad.  Here’s Monday’s game:

This Week’s Game — March 31-April 4

Breaking Bad

You’ll be gathering a rogues’ gallery this week. For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the name of a well-known movie villain.

Example:

Regular / pen point / starts a poker pot

Answer:

Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)

What to Submit:

Submit the character name and the smaller words (as “Norman Bates (normal / nib / antes)” in the example) for your answer.

Monday, March 31

Electrical unit / evil spirit / lab maze runner

Good morning.

Sunrise today is 6:41 AM, and sunset is 7:19 PM. It’s a new moon at 1:45 PM today. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty-six degrees.

On this day in 1981, mentally ill gunman John Hinckley shot Pres. Reagan in Washington, D.C. Hinckley also shot three other people with the president, including the presidential press secretary James Brady, a police officer, and a Secret service agent.

Looking at pictures and portraits, most people tend to pose with the left sides of their faces toward the camera or painter. (Artists also tend to present their subjects that way in historical pictures and drawings.)

In Why We Tend to Show Our Left Side in Pictures, science writer Sam Kean explains why that might be: