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At the Admiral: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
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Winter Perks
As we watched the snow pile up higher than it had for many years, we worried about getting out to the supermarket and we cancelled our holiday parties. But after everything settled down we began to notice what was really important---that the sky was no longer hanging with smog from cars rushing past and the trees and shrubs were glistening like diamonds. The ruby throated hummingbirds came to the feeder outside our breakfast window finding the red liquid delight that we put out for them and our indoor bulbs were shooting up with buds ready to bloom.
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After it snowed
Driving through White Center this week I saw and felt the jolt of 17 chuckholes on Ambaum Boulevard between the city limits with the county at Roxbury and 116th Avenue Southwest where the highway becomes Burien.
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NEW Common Cents: "Rules of the Road" for investors
Provided by Jon Gerhardt
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 NEW A Garden for All: Oh, the weather outside is ... Perfect!
Today, I'm out to save those wee holiday trees. You know the one that you got as a gift, a couple of weeks ago, the one that’s still on the kitchen counter? Ya, that one.
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 NEWWinter Weather and Animals
The length of the day is determined by the tilt of the earth and the position of the earth in relation to the sun during the year. Our solar calendar, invented during Roman times with final modern adjustments made by Pope Gregory in 1582, has determined when winter falls. So even though the weather may seem like winter in November, the calendar is based on arithmetic (counting the days as basic units of time) and the seasons on solstices and equinoxes, dividing the year into 4 parts. Winter officially began on December 21 at the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
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