It’s
the New Year and the start of a presidential election year and
Republicans are wasting no time getting the official candidate selection
process underway. GOP voters in four states will pick their preferred
presidential candidate this month, beginning this week with the Iowa
caucus, followed by the New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida
primaries all in January. Source Link
The
year 2011 will go down in U.S. history as having the most big-ticket
weather disasters. From floods and tornadoes to blizzards, hurricanes
and droughts, there were 12 weather events in 2011 that topped the
billion dollar mark. Nearly 3,000 weather records were broken last year
with $52 billion in damage from weather disasters. Source Link
Television’s
biggest program of the year will be simulcast online. For the first
time, the NFL will stream the live broadcast of Super Bowl 46 on the web
when the game is played on February 5th. League officials say online
simulcasts have not hurt ratings for Sunday Night Football telecasts and
they don’t expect any loss of TV viewers for the Super Bowl. Source Link
