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Groundhog Day or Groundhog’s Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2. If the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter. The origins of the tradition aren’t clear and its not backed up by any scientific facts.

The country’s most famous weather predicting groundhog Willie did not see his shadow when he woke up from his slumber Saturday in Wiarton, Ontario. So there will be an early spring this year. If its true everyone would be relieved a bit when cleaning up their drive ways after yesterdays snow storm.

There is also a movie called Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray.

If you ever wondered what is meant by the phrase ‘American Dream’. Here is a definition from the library of congress website.
In the book The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams used this term first.

“that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

Basically ‘American Dream’ implies material prosperity. But the hard truth is that material prosperity doesn’t always lead to happy life. This is the most efficient platform or system in the face of the planet to become financially successful for an ordinary person. End of that success journey (if there is one) doesn’t guarantee happiness.

The phrase ‘habitual jeans’ has been recently been searched a lot on the web.
What is ‘Habitual Jeans?

Habitual jeans can be recognized by the Maltese cross on the back pockets.Nicole Colovos and husband Michael Colovos created Habitual jeans in 2001 from their studio in New York.

How the phrase formed.
Habitual – after the “habit forming” nature of jeans.”

I always think about how other people think about me. But it is not easy to ask other people and find out. Who is going to tell our not so positive traits on our face?. Encharacter offers a solution for us. It has pretty simple interface. After the sign up we can send email requests from that site to our friends and family. Any one who goes to that unique address given to us can rate our personality traits.(whether we are friendly,lovable,honest …etc etc). From all of the ratings each character displayed as percentage. I found this tool very cool to play with.