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News Digest Word Cloud for April 14, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Oregon:
Apple Acquires Hydroelectric Project near Its Prineville Data Center
(Oregonian, Portland)
Shooting May Be Cause of Mason PUD 3’s March 28th
Outage (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
High River Flows Pose Challenges to Western
Montana Dams, Bonneville Power Administration Says (Montana Standard, Butte)
Moving Spring Chinook past Columbia River Dam
Drawdowns to Cost $7 Million (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
Battle On to Bring Broadband Internet to Seattle’s
Beacon Hill (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Shooting May Be Cause of Mason PUD 3’s March 28th Outage (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
- High River Flows Pose Challenges to Western Montana Dams, Bonneville Power Administration Says (Montana Standard, Butte)
- Construction of Central Ferry-Lower Monumental Transmission Line begins in May - New line will bring more renewable wind energy west (Bonneville Power Administration)
- Oregon: Millersburg Council Reviews Electric-System Study (Albany De,mocrat-Herald, OR)
- Credit Rating Agencies Affirm Bonneville Power Administration is Stable (Bonneville Power Administration)
- American Public Power Association Mourns Passing of Former CEO Alex Radin (American Public Power Association)
- Arkansas Co-Op CEO: Grid More Than Ready to Handle 21st Century Energy Challenges of a 21st Century Energy Challenges (Insurance News Net)
- Court Says Massachusetts Utilities Can Be Charged for Storm Fund (Associated Press)
- Babcock & Wilcox Slashing Investment in Small Reactor Venture (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
- Moving Spring Chinook past Columbia River Dam Drawdowns to Cost $7 Million (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
- Northwest Power & Conservation Council’s Economic Advisers Urge ‘Economic Considerations’ in Making Fish Programs More Cost Effective (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
- Scientists Tell Northwest Power & Conservation Council Proposed Spring Spill Experiment Not Complete Enough for Implementation (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
- Southeast Alaska Guides Prep for Strong King Salmon Season (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
- Fish Biologists to Reassess Proposed Timberline Mountain Biking (Northwest Public Radio)
- Soundings: Capital Grad Finds Passion in Speaking for Steelhead (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
- New Beaches Forming at Elwha River Mouth (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
- Yakima Wants to Bank Naches River Water in Aquifer (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
- California Looking at Recycled Water to Ease Drought Concerns (Sacramento Bee,
- Oregon: Apple Acquires Hydroelectric Project near Its Prineville Data Center (Oregonian, Portland)
- North Dakota: When Wind Turbines Stop Turning - Regulators Mull ‘Financial Assurance’ to Cover Costs of Decommissioning (Jamestown Sun, ND)
- Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough to Power All Its U-S Stores (Gizmodo)
- United Kingdom: Tidal Array to be Built Off Alderney ‘By 2020’ (British Broadcasting Corporation)
- Los Angeles Ranks Number One in Total Installed Solar, Report Says (Los Angeles Times, CA)
- Virginia: New Street Lights for Historic Downtown (Culpeper Star-Exponent, VA)
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Energy Conservation Standards for General Service Fluorescent Lamps & Incandescent Reflector Lamps (U-S Department of Energy)
- Cost of Fighting Warming ‘Modest,’ Says United Nations Panel (Associated Press)
- Solar-Powered Plane Aims for Round-the-World Flight (Discover)
- Southern California Municipal Utilities Innovate with Decoupling (Switchboard, Natural Resources Defense Council)
- Battle On to Bring Broadband Internet to Seattle’s Beacon Hill (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
- Seattle’s Shiny Economic Future Depends on City-Owned Broadband (Crosscut Seattle)
- Can’t Ask That? Some Job Interviewers Go to Social Media Instead (National Public Radio)
- Facebook Cracks Down on ‘Link-Baiting’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Facing Electoral Challenge, Washington State Senator Chase Touts Sponsorship of Utility Bill (Everett Herald, WA)
- Editorial: Six Californias Measure Would Create the Nation’s Richest & Poorest States (Sacramento Bee, CA)
- Blood Moon Eclipse on Monday Is a Special Event (Northwest Cable News Network)
- El Niño Could Raise Meteorological Hell This Year (Grist Online)
- Oregon Weather Watch: Climate is What You Expect, Weather is What You Get (Oregonian, Portland)
- Deadline to File Tax Returns Has Many Scrambling (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Eastern Washington Business Gives Tour of First Farm Licensed for Marijuana Production (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
- Top 14 Small Cities in Washington State (Cities Journal)
WORD OF THE DAY
Tabula
rasa • \TAB-yuh-luh RAW-zuh\ • Noun - 1: the mind in its hypothetical primary
blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions 2: something existing
in its original pristine state.
Remember
girlfriends, spouses, significant others: tabula rasa is the default state for
us men who are watching TV. Sports, movies, etc. When you ask us, out of the
blue, “What are you thinking?” We’ll normally kick into a stimulus response reaction
and automatically say something like “nothing.” The funny thing, as comedian
Larry Miller notes, is that we’re not kidding!
From
Merriam- Webster - Did you know?
Philosophers
have been arguing that babies are born with minds that are essentially blank
slates since the days of Aristotle. (Later, some psychologists took up the case
as well.) English speakers have called that initial state of mental blankness “tabula
rasa” (a term taken from a Latin phrase that translates as “smooth or erased
tablet”) since the 16th century, but it wasn’t until British philosopher John
Locke championed the concept in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in
1690 that the term gained widespread popularity in our language. In later
years, a figurative sense of the term emerged, referring to something that
exists in its original state and that has yet to be altered by outside forces.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Shooting May Be Cause of Mason PUD 3’s March 28th
Outage (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
High River Flows Pose Challenges to Western Montana
Dams, Bonneville Power Administration Says (Montana Standard, Butte)
Construction of Central Ferry-Lower Monumental
Transmission Line begins in May - New line will bring more renewable wind energy
west (Bonneville Power Administration)
Oregon: Millersburg Council Reviews
Electric-System Study (Albany De,mocrat-Herald, OR)
Credit Rating Agencies Affirm Bonneville Power
Administration is Stable (Bonneville Power Administration)
American Public Power Association Mourns Passing of
Former CEO Alex Radin (American Public Power Association)
Arkansas Co-Op CEO: Grid More Than Ready to Handle
21st Century Energy Challenges of a 21st Century Energy Challenges (Insurance
News Net)
Court Says Massachusetts Utilities Can Be Charged
for Storm Fund (Associated Press)
Babcock & Wilcox Slashing Investment in Small
Reactor Venture (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Moving Spring Chinook past Columbia River Dam
Drawdowns to Cost $7 Million (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
Northwest Power & Conservation Council’s
Economic Advisers Urge ‘Economic Considerations’ in Making Fish Programs More
Cost Effective (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Scientists Tell Northwest Power &
Conservation Council Proposed Spring Spill Experiment Not Complete Enough for
Implementation (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Southeast Alaska Guides Prep for Strong King
Salmon Season (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
Fish Biologists to Reassess Proposed Timberline
Mountain Biking (Northwest Public Radio)
Soundings: Capital Grad Finds Passion in Speaking
for Steelhead (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
New
Beaches Forming at Elwha River Mouth (KONP Radio,
Port Angeles, WA)
Yakima
Wants to Bank Naches River Water in Aquifer (Yakima
Herald-Republic, WA)
California
Looking at Recycled Water to Ease Drought Concerns (Sacramento Bee,
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon:
Apple Acquires Hydroelectric Project near Its Prineville Data Center (Oregonian,
Portland)
North
Dakota: When Wind Turbines Stop Turning - Regulators Mull ‘Financial Assurance’
to Cover Costs of Decommissioning (Jamestown Sun, ND)
Ikea
Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough to Power All Its U-S Stores (Gizmodo)
United
Kingdom: Tidal Array to be Built Off Alderney ‘By 2020’ (British Broadcasting
Corporation)
Los
Angeles Ranks Number One in Total Installed Solar, Report Says (Los Angeles
Times, CA)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Virginia:
New Street Lights for Historic Downtown (Culpeper Star-Exponent, VA)
Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking: Energy Conservation Standards for General Service
Fluorescent Lamps & Incandescent Reflector Lamps (U-S Department of Energy)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Cost
of Fighting Warming ‘Modest,’ Says United Nations Panel (Associated Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Solar-Powered
Plane Aims for Round-the-World Flight (Discover)
Southern
California Municipal Utilities Innovate with Decoupling (Switchboard, Natural
Resources Defense Council)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Battle On to Bring Broadband Internet to Seattle’s Beacon
Hill (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Seattle’s Shiny Economic Future Depends on
City-Owned Broadband (Crosscut Seattle)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Can’t Ask That? Some Job Interviewers Go to Social
Media Instead (National Public Radio)
Facebook Cracks Down on ‘Link-Baiting’ (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Facing Electoral Challenge, Washington State Senator
Chase Touts Sponsorship of Utility Bill (Everett Herald, WA)
Editorial: Six Californias Measure Would Create the
Nation’s Richest & Poorest States (Sacramento Bee, CA)
GENERAL NEWS
Blood Moon Eclipse on Monday Is a Special Event
(Northwest Cable News Network)
El Niño Could Raise Meteorological Hell This Year (Grist Online)
Oregon Weather Watch: Climate is What You Expect,
Weather is What You Get (Oregonian, Portland)
Deadline to File Tax Returns Has Many Scrambling (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Eastern Washington Business Gives Tour of First
Farm Licensed for Marijuana Production (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Top 14 Small Cities in Washington State (Cities
Journal)
DIVERSIONS
KFC’s
Drumstick Corsage a Chicken Chic Prom Fashion Accessory
Confirmed:
Tweeting Al Qaeda Jokes at Airlines Will Get You Arrested
The
Forgotten Man Who Almost Became President after Lincoln
Electrical
Squirrel Suicide Causes $300,000 worth of Building Damage
SONG OF THE DAY
Green
Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
LINKS & PAYWALL ADVISORY
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the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some
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broken links in the future.
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may not be available without forking over some cold hard credit card cash.
However, some sites will allow a certain number of story accesses per month
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