Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday brings to Whitewater a mix of clouds and sun with a relatively mild twenty-nine degrees. Sunrise is 7:32 AM and sunset 4:42 PM for 9h 18m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 67.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
When asked in the latest FW poll if they had a preference between cold and snow, a majority of respondents (54.84%) picked cold.
On this day in 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General makes an announcement about cigarette smoking:
For more on the topic, see The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2014.
All this notwithstanding, I’d contend that adults, properly being free to choose, have the right even to choose poorly.
On this day in 1887, a noted conservationist is born:
1887 – Aldo Leopold Born
On this date Aldo Leopold, a major player in the modern environmental movement, was born. A conservationist, professor, and author, Leopold graduated from Yale University and worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the Southwest. He rose to the rank of chief of operations. In 1924 he became associate director of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison. In 1933 he was appointed chair of game management at the University of Wisconsin. In 1943, Leopold was instrumental in establishing the first U.S. soil conservation demonstration area, in Coon Valley in 1934. As a member of the state Conservation Commission, he was influential in the acquisition of natural areas by the state. His reflections on nature and conservation appear in A Sand County Almanac (1949). [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, p.227]