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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Fire at Seattle City Light Substation (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
President Obama
Declares Federal Disaster for Washington State Wildfires (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Smart Grid
Oregon Becomes Smart Grid Northwest (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Tacoma to Require Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (News Tribune,
Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Users Unhappy
with Social Media: Report - Privacy Concerns & Ads (Christian Science
Monitor)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Fire at Seattle City Light Substation
- Smart Grid Oregon Becomes Smart Grid Northwest
- Cowlitz Hearing on $5 PUD Rate Hike Draws One Opponent
- Regulators Recommend Avista Rate Reduction in Washington State
- Methow Valley News Trying to Get Paper Out without Power
- Oregon Company’s App Adds Thermal Imaging to iPhone
- Modern Electric Grid Fighting Cyber Vulnerabilities
- British Columbia: Hyper-Abundant Pink Salmon Outcompeting Wild Sockeye
- Bonneville Power Administration Funds Float Downriver for Salmon Habitat Restoration
- California, Feds Unveil Central Valley Salmon Restoration Plans
- Are the Feds Simply Shielding Columbia River Dams from Wrecking Balls?
- Editorial: Reality Foils Kitzhaber’s Gillnet Assumption
- Solar Energy ‘Lighting Up’ Professional Sports
- Solar Power Takes Road Trip
- South Dakota: Wisconsin Wind Power Not Mandated
- Bats Get ‘The Bends’ from Wind Turbines
- Geothermal Industry Grows, with Help from Oil & Gas Drilling
- Making Energy Efficiency More Cost-Effective
- Is Antarctica Getting Icier? New Study Sparks Debate
- Setting State Carbon Pollution Targets
- Tacoma to Require Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
- Forget the Death Spiral: Electric Vehicles Offer a Major Growth Opportunity for Utilities
- The Switchboard: Google Wants to Turn NYC Pay Phones into Wi-Fi Hotspots
- This Box Can Hold an Entire Netflix
- Users Unhappy with Social Media: Report - Privacy Concerns & Ads
- What the Internet Can See from Your Cat Pictures
- Teen Slammed for Taking Smiling Selfie at Auschwitz
- Oregon Initiative to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use Cleared for November Ballot
- President Obama Declares Federal Disaster for Washington State Wildfires
- Obama Promises Electricity Aid in Washington State Fire Areas
- July Storm Brings Heavy Rain, Lightning to Washington State
- Mason County Pot Farm Moratorium Lifted
- Last Victim of Deadly Washington Mudslide Believed Found
Procrustean Bed • \pro-KRUSS-tee-un - bed\ • Noun - A
scheme or pattern into which someone or something is arbitrarily forced.
From Myth-Web: Procrustes - A host who adjusted his
guests to their bed. Procrustes, whose name means “he who stretches”, was
arguably the most interesting of Theseus’s challenges on the way to becoming a
hero. He kept a house by the side of the road where he offered hospitality to
passing strangers, invited to a pleasant meal & a night’s rest in his very
special bed. Procrustes described it as having the unique property that its
length exactly matched whosoever lay down upon it. What Procrustes didn’t
volunteer was the method by which this “one-size-fits-all” was achieved, namely
as soon as the guest lay down Procrustes went to work upon him, stretching him
on the rack if he was too short for the bed & chopping off his legs if he
was too long. Theseus turned the tables on Procrustes, fatally adjusting him to
fit his own bed.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Fire at Seattle City Light Substation (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Smart Grid
Oregon Becomes Smart Grid Northwest (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Cowlitz Hearing
on $5 PUD Rate Hike Draws One Opponent (Longview Daily News, WA)
Regulators Recommend
Avista Rate Reduction in Washington State (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Methow Valley
News Trying to Get Paper Out without Power (Wenatchee World, WA)
Oregon Company’s
App Adds Thermal Imaging to iPhone (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Modern Electric
Grid Fighting Cyber Vulnerabilities (Bloomberg News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
British
Columbia: Hyper-Abundant Pink Salmon Outcompeting Wild Sockeye (Victoria Times
Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/hyper-abundant-pink-salmon-outcompeting-wild-sockeye-1.1255450
Bonneville Power Administration Funds Float Downriver for Salmon Habitat Restoration (The Daily
Astorian, OR)
California,
Feds Unveil Central Valley Salmon Restoration Plans (Sacramento Bee,
CA)
Are the Feds
Simply Shielding Columbia River Dams from Wrecking Balls? (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2014/07/23/environment/120744/columbia-river-why-it-may-be-time-let-dams-tumble/
Editorial: Reality
Foils Kitzhaber’s Gillnet Assumption (The Daily Astorian, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Solar Energy ‘Lighting Up’ Professional Sports (Renewable
Energy World)
Solar Power Takes Road Trip (Associated Press)
South Dakota: Wisconsin Wind Power Not Mandated (Aberdeen
News, SD)
Bats Get ‘The Bends’ from Wind Turbines (The Telegraph, UK)
Geothermal Industry Grows, with Help from Oil & Gas
Drilling (NY
Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Making Energy
Efficiency More Cost-Effective (The Philadelphia Enquirer, PA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Is Antarctica Getting Icier? New Study Sparks Debate (Mother
Nature Network)
Setting State Carbon Pollution Targets (The Energy
Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tacoma to Require Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (News Tribune,
Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Forget the Death Spiral: Electric Vehicles Offer a Major
Growth Opportunity for Utilities (GreenTech Grid)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The Switchboard:
Google Wants to Turn NYC Pay Phones into Wi-Fi Hotspots (Washington Post)
This Box Can
Hold an Entire Netflix (Gizmodo)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Users Unhappy with
Social Media: Report - Privacy Concerns & Ads (Christian Science
Monitor)
What the
Internet Can See from Your Cat Pictures (NY Times)
Teen Slammed for
Taking Smiling Selfie at Auschwitz (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Oregon Initiative
to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use Cleared for November Ballot (Oregonian,
Portland)
GENERAL NEWS
President Obama Declares
Federal Disaster for Washington State Wildfires (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Obama Promises
Electricity Aid in Washington State Fire Areas (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
July Storm
Brings Heavy Rain, Lightning to Washington State (Associated Press)
Mason County Pot
Farm Moratorium Lifted (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Last Victim of
Deadly Washington Mudslide Believed Found (Reuters)
DIVERSIONS
Darth Vader Is Polling Higher than All Potential 2016
Presidential Candidates – Jar Jar Binks is more popular than Congress!
“The World’s Largest Bottle of Catsup” Can Be Yours for
Only $500,000
The Starter Guide to Classic Black & White Films
Video Teasing Kim Jong-Un Goes Viral
SONG OF THE DAY
Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
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