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Science/Nature
Baby Bats Rescued After Being Orphaned By Australian Flood
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130 baby bats orphaned by a flood off the Gold Coast of Australia were saved by the Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre in the past weeks….
The babies will be kept hanging on clotheslines or in special intensive care units for about four weeks until they are ready and able to fly again.
Via Baby Bats Rescued After Being Orphaned By Australian Flood (VIDEO). more >>
Politics
State Senator Says Public Employees Should Work on MLK Day
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A national holiday for 25 years; first designated a national day of service in 1996.
When asked if he had any plans to honor King on Monday, Grothman answered that he’s “got kind-of a busy schedule.”
WI Senate Senator Glenn Grothman (R- Selma West Bend)
Via Politics blog: State Senator says public employees should work on MLK Day.
Uncategorized
Green Bay Packers Made Super Bowl Favorites Over Steelers, Jets, Bears – Bloomberg
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Very early – 3 points over Bears, 8-5 to win Super Bowl.
Via Green Bay Packers Made Super Bowl Favorites Over Steelers, Jets, Bears – Bloomberg.
City, Crime, Police
Authorities investigating Whitewater bank robbery, bomb threat
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Officers responded to a robbery at about 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Westside branch of Whitewater Commercial Bank, which is located at Sentry Foods at 1260 W. Main St., Whitewater, a news release from the Whitewater Police Department said.
The suspect reportedly was carrying a brown paper grocery bag and a computer bag containing two blue cylinders. During the incident, the suspect told a teller that the computer bag held a bomb, Whitewater police reported.
The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash from a teller and fled through an east exit at the grocery store.
Via “Authorities investigating Whitewater bank robbery, bomb threat” by Latest News — GazetteXtra.
Music
Monday Music: Sophie Milman – It Might As Well Be Spring
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 1-17-11
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Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a snowy day, with an estimated accumulation of one to three inches, and a high temperature of thirty-one degrees.
The Consumer Electronic Show’s finished now, and that extravaganza showcased note merely new devices, but new ones that use old technology. An example would be a turntable from TDK. Someone with LP records could still play them on the turntable, and could convert them to mp3 files at the same time. (I don’t have an LPs, but for those who do, the turntable is an opportunity to play the old format, and covert it to something new.)