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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Ted Coates Named New Tacoma Power Superintendent
• Mason County PUD No. 3 Wins Clean Bill Of Health in Latest State Audit
• Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD's Rev Notes 'F1+'
• Michigan Utility Companies Offer Electric Outage Service Credits
• Opponents Knock Study That Says Snake Dams Don't Stifle Fish Survival
• Tribes Restore Central Washington Fish Run
• New York Times Editorial – Ten Years, 430 Dams
• Seventeen Miles of Maine's Kennebec River Restored
• More Birds Mowed Down Along the Oregon Coast
• Chelan PUD Water Tank - Big Dig for a Lotta Water
• Over 20 Kayakers to Paddle Chelan Gorge This Weekend
• Chesapeake Bay Is a Threat to Humans, Too
• Oregon Governor Might Veto Two Energy-Related Bills
• Rural Electricity Cooperatives Add Wind, Cautiously
• Green Ink: Horse Trading, Wooden Pellets, and Big Hydro
• Alaska - Homesteaders to Build Hydroelectric Plant
• Editorial - Get America Running On Clean Energy from the Midwest
• The Biomass Thermal Energy Movement Is Picking Up Steam
• European Union Slaps Five-Year Import Duties on US Biofuel
• Six Points to Consider In Choosing a Clothes Dryer
• Save Money on Home Cooling
• Microsoft Opens Hohm to Energy Monitoring
• Is Energy Harvesting Moving Into the Smart Home?
• Push and Pull in Senate May Recast Climate Bill
• World's Rich Targeted In New Model for Carbon Cuts
• Duke Energy Files Plans for Carbon-Storage Study
• U.S. Government Launches New Broadband Website
• Bandwidth envy - home buyers consider high-speed Internet connections
• North Carolina Town Raises Offer for Apple Data Center Site
• Scotland Lures ‘Green’ Computer Centres
• Microsoft Warns Of Serious Computer Security Hole
• Gmail Drops 'Beta' Label to Woo Business Customers
• US Justice Department Eyeing Telecom Probe
• Bottle Rocket Caused Capital Hill Fire in Shelton That Destroyed Garage
• Weyerhaeuser Slashes Dividend 80%; Stock Plunges
• Washington to Get Federal Funds for Storm-Related Repairs
• Possible Non-Binding Vote To Gauge Support for Longview/Kelso Merger
• New Home for Tri-Cities’ Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory
• Oregon Teen Accused of Seizing Social Network Pages
WORD OF THE DAY
Cloying • \ \ • adjective – Disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess; also: excessively sweet or sentimental
“Oh, Archie,” purred Edith to her temperamental husband. Her cloying efforts to calm him only acted to fuel his outrage, leading to yet another politically incorrect episode of “All in the Family.”
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Ted Coates Named New Tacoma Power Superintendent (Tacoma Public Utilities)
http://www.ci.tacoma.wa.us/newsline/
Mason County PUD No. 3 Wins Clean Bill Of Health in Latest State Audit - Over 30 years without a finding (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=568
Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD's Rev Notes 'F1+' (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fitch-Rates-Snohomish-County-bw-3216732971.html?x=0&.v=1
Michigan Utility Companies Offer Electric Outage Service Credits - For those who frequently lose power or go days in the dark (Flint Journal, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2009/07/utilities_offer_electric_outag.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Opponents Knock Study That Says Snake Dams Don't Stifle Fish Survival (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090707/NEWS02/707079964/
Tribes Restore Central Washington Fish Run (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009426958_apwasalmonrestoration.html
New York Times Editorial – Ten Years, 430 Dams “…NOAA…has raised hopes that it may now take aggressive — if politically risky — steps to protect salmon on the West Coast by ordering the removal of four big dams on the Lower Snake River…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/opinion/04sat3.html
Seventeen Miles of Maine's Kennebec River Restored (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106131942&ft=1&f=1003
More Birds Mowed Down Along the Oregon Coast (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/50117297.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chelan PUD Water Tank - Big Dig for a Lotta Water (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090707/NEWS04/707079979/-1/SPORTS?Big-dig-for-a-lotta-water
Over 20 Kayakers to Paddle Chelan Gorge This Weekend (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090707/NEWS04/707079982/-1/OP?20-plus-kayakers-to-paddle-Chelan-Gorge-this-weekend
Chesapeake Bay Is a Threat to Humans, Too (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070602931.html?nav=rss_email/components
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Biomass & Wind Subsidies - Oregon Governor Might Veto 2 Energy-Related Bills (Associated Press)
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9999TG80.html
Rural Electricity Cooperatives Add Wind, Cautiously (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/rural-cooperatives-add-wind-cautiously/
Green Ink: Horse Trading, Wooden Pellets, and Big Hydro (NY Times)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/07/07/green-ink-horse-trading-wooden-pellets-and-big-hydro/
Alaska - Homesteaders to Build Hydroelectric Plant (Electricity Forum)
http://www.electricityforum.com/news/jul09/Homesteaderstobuildhydroelectricplant.html
St Louis Dispatch Editorial - Get America Running On Clean Energy from the Midwest
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/8D75DFC4F812C0F7862575EB007D841D?OpenDocument
The Biomass Thermal Energy Movement Is Picking Up Steam (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/national-hydrogen-association-1881/news/article/2009/07/the-biomass-thermal-energy-movement-is-picking-up-steam?cmpid=rss
European Union Slaps Five-Year Import Duties on US Biofuel (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/07/07/ap6625812.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Six Points to Consider In Choosing a Clothes Dryer (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/homegarden/2009424673_dryerbuyingtips06.html
Save Money on Home Cooling (WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, PA)
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/consumer/save_with_6abc&id=6878368
Microsoft Opens Hohm to Energy Monitoring (C/NET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10280237-54.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
Is Energy Harvesting Moving Into the Smart Home? (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS109659598620090707
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Push and Pull in Senate May Recast Climate Bill - Dealings Could Erode Ecological Aims (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603514.html?wprss=rss_business
World's Rich Targeted In New Model for Carbon Cuts (CNN Technology)
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/07/carbon.emissions.allocation/
Duke Energy Files Plans for Carbon-Storage Study (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/07/06/daily12.html?ana=from_rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
U.S. Government Launches New Broadband Website - 226 Days until we actually have a broadband plan (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Government-Launches-New-Broadband-Website-103277
Bandwidth envy - It’s not surprising to hear that home buyers consider high-speed Internet connections via fiber to be an important amenity (Telephony Online)
http://telephonyonline.com/residential_services/commentary/bandwidth-envy-0706/?cid=hcom
North Carolina Town Raises Offer for Apple Data Center Site (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/06/financial/f173720D59.DTL&feed=rss.business
Scotland Lures ‘Green’ Computer Centres (Financial Times of London, UK)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ee552e6-6a7b-11de-ad04-00144feabdc0.html
Microsoft Warns Of Serious Computer Security Hole (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/technology/19969752/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_1_06000207062009&ts=H
Gmail Drops 'Beta' Label to Woo Business Customers (Yahoo! Technology)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090707/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_google_beta_no_more_2
Abuse of Market Share? US Justice Department Eyeing Telecom Probe (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5654LK20090706?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
GENERAL NEWS
Bottle Rocket Caused Capital Hill Fire in Shelton That Destroyed Garage (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7721/reftab/1632/t/BOTTLE-ROCKET-CAUSED-CAPITAL-HILL-FIRE-THAT-DESTROYED-GARAGE/Default.aspx
Weyerhaeuser Slashes Dividend 80%; Stock Plunges (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009427362_apusweyerhaeuserdividendcut1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Washington to Get Federal Funds for Storm-Related Repairs (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_070609WAB-storm-repair-funds-SW.1496a505.html?rss
Officials Planning Non-Binding Vote To Gauge Support for Longview/Kelso Merger (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/07/07//area_news/doc4a52eca2dccd7342317801.txt
New Home for Tri-Cities’ Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_rattlesnake_mountain_observatory.html?source=pimail
Oregon Teen Accused of Seizing Social Network Pages (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/903200.html
DIVERSIONS
British Spy Chief's Cover Blown On Facebook
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56403820090706?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
$17,300 Stolen From Tacoma Highland Games' Funds (Beware Of Angry Scotsmen!)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/802737.html
Law Students Study Jackson's Dance-Move Patent
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106333912&ft=1&f=3
Business Booming For Aussie Jackson Impersonator
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090706/od_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonaustraliaoffbeat_20090706063246;_ylt=AlTWWfoYlFxfyon.nfCGqYSgOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNqc3JjbzE5BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDcwNi9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50dXNtdXNpY2phY2tzb25hdXN0cmFsaWFvZmZiZWF0BHBvcwMxMwRzZWMDeW5fcGFnaW5hdGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNidXNpbmVzc2Jvb20-
SONG OF THE DAY
He Went To Paris - Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMozCfz0cZM
Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJpDMug1YMA
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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