The miracle of the waltz

April 4th 1917 - Wisconsin State Journal - seems there was a state wide vote on what towns were going to go DRY.

I have watched the Kens Burns documentary on Prohibition but that was from the fed level. There must have been some sort of State issue BEFORE the federal prohibition? 

Columbus is in the WET TOWN STAY WET along with Beaver Dam and Portage (remember the area was full of hop and barley farms and of course The Kurth, one of the largest breweries in America) 

Madison was wet and voted to go dry. Lake Mills dry and will stay dry along with Fall River.  Up north city WERE dry and decided to go wet.

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I just gotta post this as it was funny (at the time) .  In my golf tour simulation you can pick GHOST players to play with you.  These are real people that have already played in your event.  You don't know who they are or how they did.  All you have is a screen name.

So Elweed and I picked 3 random players Saturday.  I'm on the far left.  I have knickers on as ONLY people who purchased the simulation on day one can wear knickers.  TYPICALLY most players look pretty normal and "I" am the one dressed . . outside the norm.

WELL - NOT THIS TIME

I got my ass handed to me in the round.

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Many people know that symphonic music is like the CBD oil of music.  There is anecdotal evidence that plants grow faster with orchestral music and there have been studies in babies doing better.

Symphonic music has the same rhythms as your bodies rhythms and PARTICULARLY waltzes.

Well, I know a child that is dealing with autism. She is 3 and only recently has she had a slight GLIMMER of the outside world.  She loves her iPad and is learning a good bit but not showing it to the outside world.

But last week her teacher introduced her to the waltz.

All music tells a story.  The composer has a story to tell and tells it through music.  sadness, adventure, stress, excitement and jokes.  All emotions are in orchestral works. 

So the teacher puts on the waltz and all is normal . . . . until . . there is a "joke" that lasts a few bars.

Sort of like when Dick Van Dyke enters the room and trips over the ottoman.

WELL, Bailey BREAKS out laughing!!   WHAT?  this is a first!  and every time those few bars come about she just starts laughing!   BREAKTHROUGH!!

She would never eat unless she was diddling with her iPad.  NOW - they can put on a waltz and she eats without the iPad.

The wonders of music.  But here is the more weird thing.  DJs dad LOVED Andre' Rieu. Listened to Andre' all the time and had ALL the DVD, CDs and so forth.

So I was thinking maybe Bailey would love all teh colors and action on an Andre' Rieu DVD. We ordered a DVD.  If you have never listened to seen Andre' here is one waltz.  Full of pretty colors and movement and smiles.  This not THE waltz but gives you an idea.

DJ's dad is helping.  Is this part of esoteric astrology.  Was his goal in life to help Bailey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYxkkzS35Q




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WELL - Columbus was all over the news this weekend talking about our "FAILING" downtown.  WHAT?   Last time I counted there was a 70% occupancy rate that Beaver Dam AND Lake Mills would LOVE.

The problem is that there are no stores you WANT to go to and there is zero advertising of WHAT is down there.  In Lake Mills they have (or had) a monthly insert that TELLS people what is downtown as stores were closing right and left.

It's not how many store front but what is in them that is the issue with Columbus.  Insurance, horse stuff, antiques stores that are closed. bars, and so forth.  People complain that there is nothing downtown and they wrongly believe it is because the store fronts are empty,

Have they been to the Columbus Historic Society building?  The library? The Workshop?  I hear complaints about the Capri but . .when was the last time you went there?  Sharrows Downtown closing . . .I shopped there every few weeks, GREAT place for gifts and cards and good coffee . . .but the places was always empty. 

If you want ta vibrant downtown people really need to GO downtown once and a while.  The comic book shop is closing after 4? years.  GREAT place to buy gifts for young people AND adults.  It's not closing because of lack of business as it was a money maker.  But people say REALLY? 4 years?  YEA - have you been downtown much?

Perhaps if people WENT downtown and actually saw what was there . . . . . . .

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I saw the trailer from Mortal Engines.  Looked pretty cool but . . was it a game spin off?  I did not understand the whole concept ever though it looked pretty . . . interesting.

WELL - it totally 100% bombed.   Cost 100 million and it's first big weekend took in 7.5 million

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if they taxed 0.1% (0.001) on each transaction in the stock market a typical investor would not even notice it. YET - it would raise $777 BILLION  in revenue for the Fed.

It would totally fund Food shares.  Republicans are against it as it takes money away from the wealthy and the banks.

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88% of Trump supporters support shutting down the Government to fund the border wall.

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61% of Americans are worried about higher health costs yet 14 of the top prescriptions drugs have all gone UP in costs since Trump was elected.

61% of  America, according to a YouGov survey,  believe Walker and his old white Republican cronies misused their power and curbing what the newly elected Governor power.  But Republicans do not care about it's citizens, only gaining power. 

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Vaping is HUGE among the youth of today and is becoming a big problem . . . .yet . . . in the same news opiate usage is dropping significantly.

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Weather - pretty much EVERYWHERE in America will be experience warmer then normal tamps the next 10 days and this INCLUDES Canada.  The only real cold spot in the world is Russia.

We have a couple days of 40 coming Tuesday and Wednesday and cooling off on the weekend to 30 and half sun half clouds  a little rain Thursday morning and maybe 10 days out but there are 5 storms that will track across America in the next couple weeks, all going south.

1-3 inches of snow on Christmas.  We COULD have a white Christmas.

Cheers

(oh - NBA system - now 42-22  65.6%)