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This isn't actually another political post, though Allen conceding to Webb is certainly happy news, and something to be thankful for.
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UPDATE (Wed 29 April): As friends and family of the Urbanos and Kanes have been arriving here via web searches, I wanted to provide a compendium of individual obituaries and plans for visitation and funeral.
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Snowing enough to stick here.
Spring is early calendar-wise, but for folks who tend to blame the sun for global (northern?) warming, the summer is getting longer because it's robbing minutes from spring, not the colder seasons of autumn and winter.
The "warm seasons of spring and summer combined are 7.573 days longer than the colder seasons" in the article doesn't change appreciably on the human-lifetime scale. The perihelion-equinox cycle that drives the season length is more like once cycle in 21240 years.