groundhog day 2011

Punxsutawney Phil is one weatherman that everyone agrees is all style and no science, but he still manages to draw a crowd and the nation's attention on Feb. 2.

Each year the town of Punxsutawney, Pa., emerges to bask in the glow as everyone tunes in to see if the famous groundhog prognosticator will see his shadow on Groundhog Day.The myth goes another six weeks of winter weather is on its way if the groundhog sees his shadow as dawn breaks. No shadow means an early spring.

Phil's prediction will be seen at about 7:25 a.m. ET on Wednesday and will be simulcast on visitPA.com .Wikipedia.com stated that the holiday Groundhog Day was a German custom in Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. It possibly has origins in ancient European weather lore, though prior legends gave the prognosticating job to a badger or a sacred bear, not a groundhog.

There are also other similarities including the medieval Catholic holiday of Candlemas and the Pagan festival of Imbolc, the seasonal turning point of the Celtic calendar that comes between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

The blog The Holiday Spot credits newspaper editor Clymer H. Freas and American Congressman W. Smith with launching the yearly festival in Punxsutawney in the late 1800s.

dfw airport

The Associated Press reports, "DFW Airport spokesman David Magana says work has reopened after a temporary closure .. and crews worked to clear the ice of the others."

AP adds that "the airport, the eighth largest in the world ... earlier Tuesday received hundreds of flights were canceled because of the huge winter storm sweeping the country great."

Delays were also reported in the Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, and about an hour late because Hobby.Storms hobby, and about a half hour delay in Houston according to spokesman David Magana says FAA.Airport crew worked on and managed to land jobs with glazed ice.

obama kill switch

Last week, when the protests began in Egypt, Mubarak is a dictator used the Internet to the kill switch body further protests in Egypt in order to thwart. This is a useless measure of the nation on the brink of upheavel.

Now, some people press the panic button, in the United States - fear that Obama will implement an Internet kill switch, you'll find "The Obama Kill Switch." Indeed, Senator Joseph Lieberman, to find the bill, which the government control the spread of the Internet nearly catastrophic cyber attack in order to avoid press.

Unfortunately, many bloggers and conspiracy theories are taken into account that the Internet is the new boogyman reject - Obama has a kill switch, which is used to thwart protests and uprisings. A blogger from the site Deathandtaxes propose a scenario in which a dual-web "to business as usual, remains" a permanent us plebes were stuck Fail Whale "will be after Obama pushed to kill switch.

Wired.com kill switch under the laws of the Internet back to the table, and the reality that Obama would give the same power to Mubarak in Egypt to use an Internet room.

It's a big stretch to suggest that Obama will implement a so-called Internet kill switch trample on our freedoms. Anyone who knew what kind of infrastructure works will tell you that it is easier said than done. In addition, it stops the economy, which is a domino effect throughout the world. Imagine that the U.S. economy was shut down for one day or several days, the penalty would result in a global economy.

Furthermore, the situation in Egypt is again proves that the conclusion of the internet can not stop mobilizing citizens, which is a testament to the strong man. The human condition than the well-proven technology and the internet before. And it's good without it.