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Local Bounty 2007

Once again this year, Bay Weekly begins the season with our annual guide to holiday happenings from Thanksgiving to the New Year to help you plan this magical season.



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Volume 15, Issue 50 ~ December 13 - December 19, 2007

This Week's Features:


The Season’s Best Gifts: The Traditions We Share

Cultural, religious or unique to our families, honored for generations or innovated, our cherished traditions herald the holiday spirit. As that special feeling fills our hearts, we are reminded that it doesn’t come from the decorations at the mall, from holiday commercials or even from opening presents — even the perfect ones.

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A Thousand Points of LED Light

Since the early 1940s, we’ve been stringing our Christmas trees with tiny incandescent bulbs much like the one that Thomas Edison lit up in 1879. Now, technology will illuminate our homes and towns with energy-efficient LED — that’s light emitting diode — lights that burn greener, brighter, longer and more safely.

by Carrie Madren

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The Lesson of the Plum

I procrastinate, but only once did I come up short at Christmas

Louisa May Alcott’s words gave merchandising its biggest boost ever. You’d think every shop everywhere would have a statue of her at its entrance.

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Keep Your Shrubs Watered in Winter

Chemicals can’t replace good old TLC

Now is the time of year when advertisements urge you to spray plants with anti-desiccants or anti-transpirants to protect foliage during the winter months. The theory is that these materials seal the surface of the leaves to keep in moisture. The concept may seem sound, but repeated testing has clearly demonstrated that it doesn’t work.

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Lighting Up a Slow Revolution

Fluorescent lights aren’t in every socket, yet.

Analysts at the nonprofit Earth Policy Institute estimate that the United States could close 80 coal-fired power plants if Americans switched over en masse to compact fluorescent light bulbs. A global shift, says the Institute, could close some 270 power plants worldwide. Compact fluorescent lights use less than a third of the energy required to power a traditional incandescent light bulb to produce the same amount of light.

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Fire in the Sky

The Geminids light up the night

The waxing crescent moon sets early at week’s end, leaving a dark backdrop for this year’s Geminid meteor shower, which peaks between nightfall Thursday the 13th and daybreak the following morning.

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The Thrill is Worth the Chill

Live-lining eels for big rock at Cape Charles

The orange fishing floats bobbed like a row of ducks swimming to our starboard. They marked a half-dozen live eels that hovered at various depths, each with a sharp, 7/0 hook inserted lightly under the skin behind their heads.

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Earth Journal
by Gary Pendleton

Chesapeake Snowbirds

Our winter’s just right for juncos

The great migration begins in October. From the mountains of Oregon to the hills of Pennsylvania, snowbirds begin the seasonal shift from their summer territories to warmer climes. Human snowbirds might load up their cars to drive from Maryland to Florida, with occasional stops at the Cracker Barrel. Avian snowbirds don’t pack anything; they simply gather in small flocks and fly away.

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Way Downstream

Baby Jacob illuminates Calvert Hospice’s 19th annual Festival of Trees … Area band’s musical try out for documentary movie I.O.U.S.A. … Have your say: Should Maryland ridges be leased for wind turbines? … A handful or reasons why sailboats sink … Sen. Ben Cardin says put brakes on the ethanol bandwagon … Fairfax asks Virginia to save Potomac River fish from androgyny … plus, this week’s Creature Feature: From Kenya, a whole new breed of spitting cobra.

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Editorial

Silent Night and LED Light

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  • Please Help Make a Merry Christmas for the Gray Family
  • “Happy Whatever”? How about Happy Holydays?s

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Reflection

Dressing Down

These days, only Santa bothers to dress up

By Allen Delaney

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Curtain Call

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