Good morning.

Wednesday in the Whippet City will be increasingly cloudy with a high of fifty-five.

Whitewater’s public meetings today show the gap between existing independent businesses and government-backed (and wasteful) efforts to manipulate the local economy to the advantage of insiders’ preferred projects.

Downtown Whitewater’s Board meets at 8 AM, and later today at 3:30 PM the Community Development Authority’s Seed Capital ‘Screening Committee’ meets, followed by a CDA board meeting at 5 PM.

On this day in 1934, a crook gets away:

1934 – FBI rousts Dillinger from Little Bohemia Lodge
On this day the FBI raided the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Vilas Co. They had been tipped off that gangster John Dillinger was hiding at Little Bohemia, but during their raid an innocent Civilian Conservation Corps worker was killed and Dillinger escaped.

Twenty years to the day later, something much better:

1954 – Aaron Hits First Big League Home Run
On this date Hank Aaron, playing for the Milwaukee Braves, hit his first major league home run. Twenty years later he broke Babe Ruth’s career home run record of 714. Aaron ended his career with 755 home runs, a record that stood until 2007. [Source: Sporting News]

Here’s Wednesday’s Puzzability game:

This Week’s Game — April 21-25

Mark Antonyms

We’ve searched high and low for this week’s opposites. For each day, we’ll give definitions of two words that, using different meanings, are antonyms of each other.

Example:

Strange / smooth

Answer:

Odd / even

What to Submit:

Submit the antonym pair (as “Odd / even” in the example) for your answer.

Wednesday, April 23

Acknowledge applause / forbiddingly serious

Good morning.

Earth Day in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of fifty-five, and northwest winds at ten to 15 mph.

The Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:30 PM.

For Earth Day, Google’s published a doodle with links to information about several animals (Rufous hummingbird, veiled chameleon, moon jellyfish, dung beetle, puffer fish, macaques):

Earth Day has a strong Wisconsin connection:

1970 – First Earth Day Celebrated
On this date the first Earth Day was celebrated. The event was organized by a 33-member committee in Philadelphia. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson advocated Earth Day to focus national attention on ecological issues. [Source: Earth Day Information Center]

Here’s Puzzability‘s Tuesday game:

This Week’s Game — April 21-25

Mark Antonyms

We’ve searched high and low for this week’s opposites. For each day, we’ll give definitions of two words that, using different meanings, are antonyms of each other.

Example:

Strange / smooth

Answer:

Odd / even

What to Submit:

Submit the antonym pair (as “Odd / even” in the example) for your answer.

Tuesday, April 22

Traffic signal / villain in a movie

Good morning.

Monday brings a probability of afternoon showers or thundershowers and a high of seventy-five.

SpaceX, a private aerospace firm, had a successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Friday. Two days’ time later, on Easter, the capsule successful arrived at the International Space Station with tons (literally) of supplies and equipment.

Here’s NASA’s video of the Friday launch:

Today is the day (by tradition from 753 BC) on which Rome is founded.

It’s John Muir’s birthday:

1838 – John Muir 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. [Source:  Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 261]

Puzzability has a new series, entitled, Mark Antonyms.  Here’s Monday’s game:

This Week’s Game — April 21-25

Mark Antonyms

We’ve searched high and low for this week’s opposites. For each day, we’ll give definitions of two words that, using different meanings, are antonyms of each other.

Example:

Strange / smooth

Answer:

Odd / even

What to Submit:

Submit the antonym pair (as “Odd / even” in the example) for your answer.

Monday, April 21

Long overhead microphone holder / woman’s measurement