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Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 11-8-10

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Good morning,

Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly sunny day, with a high temperature of sixty-four degrees.

In the CIty of Whitewater, the library board meets tonight at 6:30 p.m. That agenda is available online.

Whitewater’s district administrator will conduct two listening sessions today, at the district’s Central Office, in English from 5:00-5:45 p.m. and Spanish from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Central Office is located at 419 South Elizabeth Street.

Lakeview School has a book fair this week, as does the Middle School.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1870,

First National Weather Forecast Published

On this date Increase Lapham recorded the first published national weather forecast, calling for “high winds and falling temperatures for Chicago, Detroit and the Eastern cities.” [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride]



We’ve come a long way, as Alexandra Witze at ScienceNews.org reports, in a story entitled, “Hurricane forecasts can be made years in advance,” that

The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they have developed a way to forecast how many Atlantic hurricanes there will be — not just for the upcoming year, as some groups already do each spring, but for several years out.

“This is the first time anyone has reported skill in predicting the number of hurricanes beyond the seasonal time scale,” says Doug Smith, a climate modeler at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, England. A paper by Smith and his colleagues appeared online Nov. 7 in Nature Geoscience.

Weird Tales

Slashdot News Story | The Queen Joins Facebook

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Here’s a post from Slashdot, about Queen Elizabeth —

The Queen is set to have an official presence on Facebook when a British Monarchy page launches on the internet-based social networking site. Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can ‘like’ the service and receive updates on their news feed….

I’m not on Facebook, but then if I were, I wouldn’t ‘like’ the Queen’s page anymore than I’d like the woman who lives the life of an hereditary monarch.



Via Slashdot News Story | The Queen Joins Facebook.

City, Wisconsin

Slashdot News Story: Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits

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The rabbits are from Washington State, near the decommissioned Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Admittedly, this may suggest a drawback to my longstanding proposal to build a nuclear reactor at 312 W. Whitewater Street, in Whitewater, Wisconsin. (See, Go Nuclear!)

There’s no reason residents, and animals, of the Whippet City couldn’t be issued protective apparel.

For more about the west coast rabbits, see Slashdot News Story | Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits.



Press Release

Downtown Whitewater, Inc. Hosts Retail Workshop Presented by Margie Johnson, Wednesday, 11-17-10

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I received the following press release —


Downtown Whitewater, Inc. Hosts Retail Workshop
Presented by Margie Johnson

Whitewater, Wisconsin (November 5, 2010) – Downtown Whitewater welcomes Margie Johnson and her Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop. Margie is a highly acclaimed speaker, trainer, author and consultant. She continues to provide entrepreneurs with the strategies to help their retail business endeavors survive in the competitive market as well as increase performance and profitability levels.

Margie’s firm, Shop Talk, has 25 years of expertise directed at consultations and research in retail, hospitality, health care, and financial industries. She has received numerous accolades including; The Fred Lazarus National Retail Federation Award and Inside Business 2006 Women in Business Achievement Award as well as coverage in the National Retail Federation, WHRO Public Television and NBC’s Today Show. Shop Talk has many clients some of whom include, Dallas Market Center, Denver Merchandise Mart, Farm Fresh Supermarkets, Lord and Taylor, Gray’s Department Stores, Prime outlets and Mayo Clinic. A more comprehensive list may be found on her website; www.shoptalk.org.

The Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop will cover topics that concern independent businesses and the situations that they face. The session will target such focuses as an update on retail sales by industry segments, trends concerning the consumer and the impact of the Internet, issues with customer service, marketing ideas and resources, sales and promotional ideas.

The free workshop will be held November 17, 2010 at the Cravath Lakefront Community Building from 8:00 am to 9:30 am. The workshop is being sponsored by the Wisconsin Main Street program as continuing assistance in recognition of Downtown Whitewater’s Main Street status. The Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop is being offered for the benefit of Main Street District Businesses in an effort to provide skill sets to survive and thrive in a demanding and dynamic marketplace.

Downtown Whitewater was formed in 2006 to Preserve, improve and promote Whitewater’s quality of life by strengthening our historic downtown as the heartbeat of the community.

If you have any questions you may contact Tami Brodnicki @ 262.473.2200 or e-mail Tami @ director@downtownwhitewater.com

The Triangle

Eat * Shop * Enjoy

Twitter

Recent Tweets, 10-31 to 11-6

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Transparent Conductive Material Could Lead to Power-Generating Windows http://bit.ly/9yyKqF
6 Nov

U.S. Fears Oil Is Settling on Gulf Floor – WSJ.com http://on.wsj.com/9Thbf0
5 Nov

RT @WSJ_Econ: Broader U-6 Unemployment Rate at 17%: The Long-Term Unemployed and the Dark Side of Jobs Report http://on.wsj.com/bCEmPM
5 Nov

RT @CatoInstitute: This is the last weekend to download a FREE digital copy of “The Struggle to Limit Government”: http://bit.ly/aLwdVU
5 Nov

Bedbugs Complaint at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel – Hotel Faces Second Allegation of Bedbugs – Metropolis – WSJ http://on.wsj.com/ckqXEd
4 Nov

Why Whitewater Isn’t a Progressive City; Why Whitewater’s ‘Conservatives’ Hold the City Tenuously « FREE WHITEWATER http://bit.ly/d4IKSv
4 Nov

On the Wisconsin 43rd District Assembly Race « FREE WHITEWATER http://bit.ly/cRtQFa
4 Nov

@radleybalko: Some encouraging election results on criminal justice issues. http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/03/last-nights-good-news-on-the-c
3 Nov

Casting the Ballot in Elections Gone By http://bit.ly/cs2xAl
2 Nov

Scott Rasmussen: A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/cMtqfH
2 Nov

Millard church members work the land to feed food pantry — Walworth County Today http://bit.ly/9qMBIG
2 Nov

Public Meetings

Sustainable Success Strategies Business Workshop

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Whitewater, Wisconsin (November 5, 2010) – Downtown Whitewater welcomes Margie Johnson and her Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop. Margie is a highly acclaimed speaker, trainer, author and consultant. She continues to provide entrepreneurs with the strategies to help their retail business endeavors survive in the competitive market as well as increase performance and profitability levels.

Margie’s firm, Shop Talk, has 25 years of expertise directed at consultations and research in retail, hospitality, health care, and financial industries. She has received numerous accolades including; The Fred Lazarus National Retail Federation Award and Inside Business 2006 Women in Business Achievement Award as well as coverage in the National Retail Federation, WHRO Public Television and NBC’s Today Show. Shop Talk has many clients some of whom include, Dallas Market Center, Denver Merchandise Mart, Farm Fresh Supermarkets, Lord and Taylor, Gray’s Department Stores, Prime outlets and Mayo Clinic. A more comprehensive list may be found on her website; www.shoptalk.org.

The Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop will cover topics that concern independent businesses and the situations that they face. The session will target such focuses as an update on retail sales by industry segments, trends concerning the consumer and the impact of the Internet, issues with customer service, marketing ideas and resources, sales and promotional ideas.

The free workshop will be held November 17, 2010 at the Cravath Lakefront Community Building from 8:00 am to 9:30 am. The workshop is being sponsored by the Wisconsin Main Street program as continuing assistance in recognition of Downtown Whitewater’s Main Street status. The Sustainable Success Strategies Workshop is being offered for the benefit of Main Street District Businesses in an effort to provide skill sets to survive and thrive in a demanding and dynamic marketplace.

Downtown Whitewater was formed in 2006 to Preserve, improve and promote Whitewater’s quality of life by strengthening our historic downtown as the heartbeat of the community.

If you have any questions you may contact Tami Brodnicki @ 262.473.2200 or e-mail Tami @ director@downtownwhitewater.com

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People of Cleveland vs. LeBron James and the Nike Corporation

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Basketball great LeBron James left Cleveland for Miami, and disappointed countless Cleveland residents (and other fans). Perhaps he thought that one of his sponsors, the multibillion-dollar Nike Corporation, could rehabilitate his image with a new advertising campaign.

It’s not that easy. Modern media have empowered ordinary people, and they’re able to produce videos as powerful, if not more so, as those of the largest corporate sponsors and the finest ad agencies.

See what you think — I think it’s Cleveland over LeBron, all the way —

Nike’s Ad —



Clevelanders’ Response —



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