Dog and cat daddy, writer/editor and scissor sister if ya know what I mean, living in Canada
Beautiful day on the beach on the South Shore of Nova Scotia
Pete and me on the beach at Beach Meadows on the South Shore on Nova Scotia, Canada
Our Basset hound Hubert catching some early-spring rays on the back deck
Phil is clearly the LeBron James of the weather-predicting marmot game.
From Today’s Wall Street Journal:
More critters are challenging Punxsutawney Phil for the crown of Groundhog Day prognosticator.
In his home state of Pennsylvania, he has rivals including Octorara Orphie of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville, and Sammi II of Monroe County, who was pressed into service after Sammi I died of heatstroke after riding in a parade. Last year, Mel, a groundhog in Milltown, N.J., got into the act. His owner, Jerry Guthlein, is predicting a crowd of 200 in the parking lot of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
“We call them all impostors,” says Bill Deeley, who owns a funeral home and is president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club’s Inner Circle, the name given to a group of businessmen from western Pennsylvania who have been using a groundhog to predict the weather since 1887. “We are the real McCoy.”
How about Pogie Pete from AlmostAnyTown, Atlantic Canada?
“But it’s the wrong question. It’s backwards. The newsrooms of today acquired their size and shape and structure thanks to the business model that supported institutions of their size. The world has changed; that model is vanishing. We shouldn’t be asking ‘What sort of business can support a newsroom online?’ The question is, ‘What’s the best kind of newsroom that the online business can support?”
- Scott Rosenberg, to PBS Mediashift
Hubert on the beach at Beach Meadows, Queens County, Nova Scotia
