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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Alcoa Stock Up After Surprise Profit
• PenLight to Hold off Increase until April
• Gunshots Cause Castle Rock Power Outage
• Dam's Lock Closure Hurts Northwest Shippers But Could Have Been Far Worse
• Hydropower Allocation Triggers New York Plant Expansion
• Texas Power Suppliers Facing Wind Challenges
• Governors Adopt Energy Road Map for Midwest
• Looking for Salmon Success? Better Converge On the Cowlitz
• Columbia Basin Brimming With Steelhead
• Editorial - Regional Plan for Steelhead Recovery Is Right Approach
• Darigold Ammonia Leak Kills Fish in Issaquah Creek
• Is Someone Targeting Ducks In Lake Washington?
• State Of The Beaver
• Alaska: Habitat for Sea Otters
• Pacific Seafood to Appeal Oregon Plant Waste Fine
• A Researcher in Our Back Yard
• Olympia Man Pursuing Biomass Plant in Longview
• Clark County Students Learn About Ethanol by Producing It
• Something New Under the Sun, A Way to Finance Solar Power
• Maryland Energy Administration Stops Solar Incentives
• States Have the Wind at Their Backs in the Offshore Debate
• Replica Sword Brandished At Wind Turbine Inquiry
• Australia to Launch Trades in Renewables Certificates
• Idaho Is In the Vanguard for Energy-Efficient Building Codes
• Ohio Delays Potentially Evil Expensive Light Bulb Program
• Westar Unveils Offering Free Programmable Thermostats in Kansas
• Chimney, Fireplace Should Be Checked Before Winter Sets In
• Green Tech Execs Press for Climate Change Bill
• Changing Alliances Shape Climate-Change Debate
• White House Aid Urges Cap-And-Trade System
• ‘Forest Offsets’ Would Aid Bottom Line, Report Finds
• America's Greenest Colleges
• Saudis Ask for Aid If World Cuts Dependence on Oil
• Snohomish County Puts Plug-In Prius to the Test
• Washington State's 'Pirates' ship too dirty for California
• Tacoma's Click! Cable Television Bills May Rise Twice In 2010
• FCC Chairman Warns of 'Looming Spectrum Crisis'
• Justice Department Examining IBM's Computer Market Conduct
• E-Mail Passwords Leak Not Limited to Hotmail
• 100 Arrested in Online Fraud Crackdown
• Google, Amazon Top Public Cloud Surveys
• Shelton Elk Hunter and Others Held at Gunpoint near Brinnon
• 21-Year-Old Brinnon Man -- brother of elk hunter detained by tribal police -- Dies In Unrelated Highway Crash
• State Auditor Says Port of Shelton Did Not Comply with Open Public Meetings Act
• Evergreen Professor on Leave in Wake of School Trips to Chile
• Flu Strikes Tenino Schools Hard
• Providence St. Peter Hospital Workers Plan 1-Day Strike
• Builders To Take Campaign-Finance Lawsuit To Trial
• Did Olympia Extortion Plot Inspire Blackmail Attempt On Letterman?
• Gun-Toting Pa. Soccer Mom, Husband Found Shot Dead
• Crash of Lunar Probe to Bring Out Amateur Astronomers
• NASA Downgrades Threat of Large Asteroid
WORD OF THE DAY
Crick • \KRIK\ • noun – A painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back)
After four hours of craning his neck to install overhead can lights in his kitchen, Mel complained that he had “more cricks in his neck than a teen-aged boy watching the girls on a Brazilian beach.”
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
Alcoa Stock Up After Surprise Profit “…The company, which has curtailed metal production by more than 20 percent and cut its workforce by about 30 percent…said there were signs that key markets are stabilizing…” (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE5965T920091008?feedType=nl&feedName=usbusinessearly
PenLight to Hold off Increase until April (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/908211.html
Gunshots Cause Castle Rock Power Outage - Police Are Looking For Whoever Shot Electrical Equipment (KPTV-TV, Portland, OR)
http://www.kptv.com/news/21233763/detail.html
Dam's Lock Closure Hurts Northwest Shippers But Could Have Been Far Worse (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/post_1.html
Hydropower Allocation Triggers New York Plant Expansion - The low-cost power will boost the production of batteries for electric vehicles (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/hydropower-allocation-triggers-new-york-plant-expansion?cmpid=rss
Texas Power Suppliers Facing Wind Challenges - A doubling of wind-generated electric capacity will alter operations of every power plant in the state (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE59701B20091008
Governors Adopt Energy Road Map for Midwest (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI)
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/63689297.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Looking for Salmon Success? Better Converge On the Cowlitz - Large number of Coho and Chinook returning (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/letstalkfishing/story/996684.html
Columbia Basin Brimming With Steelhead (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091008/SPORTS/710089962/1008/SPORTS02
Walla Walla Union Bulletin Editorial - Regional Plan for Steelhead Recovery Is Right Approach: This is the type of effort needed across the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/10/07/opinion/daily_editorial/091007editorial01.txt
Darigold Ammonia Leak Kills Fish in Issaquah Creek (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010025374_webfishkill08m.html?syndication=rss
Is Someone Targeting Ducks In Lake Washington? (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100709WAB-duck-attacks-kirkland-KC.1f5dd2b1b.html?rss?npc
State Of The Beaver - Here in the Beaver State, Castor canadensis is both loathed and loved, even apart from his role as a university mascot (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/21024701-35/story.csp
Alaska: Habitat for Sea Otters (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/08brfs-HABITATFORSE_BRF.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pacific Seafood to Appeal Oregon Plant Waste Fine (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/07/financial/f183252D72.DTL&feed=rss.business
A Researcher in Our Back Yard - Washington Sea Grant’s Teri King combines research with education to drive home the water-quality protection message (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/oct/07/researcher-our-back-yard/?partner=RSS
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Olympia Man Pursuing Biomass Plant in Longview (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/08/area_news/doc4acd4bbf40cc2963201452.txt
Clark County Students Learn About Ethanol by Producing It (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20091008/NEWS02/710089948/
Something New Under the Sun, A Way to Finance Solar Power (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5985-something-new-under-sun-way-finance-solar-power/
Maryland Energy Administration Stops Solar Incentives (Washington Business Journal)
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/10/05/daily75.html?ana=from_rss
States Have the Wind at Their Backs in the Offshore Debate (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/08/08climatewire-states-have-the-wind-at-their-backs-in-the-o-69324.html
United Kingdom - Replica Sword Brandished At Wind Turbine Inquiry (Hull Daily Mail, UK)
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/environment/Replica-sword-brandished-turbine-inquiry/article-1400029-detail/article.html
Australia to Launch Trades in Renewables Certificates (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/08/australia-renewable-certificates
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Idaho Is In the Vanguard for Energy-Efficient Building Codes (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/928816.html
Ohio Public Utilities Commission Delays Potentially Evil Expensive Light Bulb Program (Consumerist – Note: Comment section may contain PG-13 Language)
http://consumerist.com/5376681/ohio-public-utilities-commission-delays-potentially-evil-expensive-light-bulb-program
Westar Unveils Offering Free Programmable Thermostats in Kansas (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Westar-unveils-offering-free-apf-2195991931.html?x=0&.v=1
Chimney, Fireplace Should Be Checked Before Winter Sets In (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH)
http://www.cleveland.com/insideout/index.ssf/2009/10/chimney_fireplace_should_be_ch.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Green Tech Execs Press for Climate Change Bill (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13510349
Changing Alliances Shape Climate-Change Debate (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/BUN51A20MQ.DTL&feed=rss.news
White House Aid Urges Cap-And-Trade System (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100702090.html?wprss=rss_politics
‘Forest Offsets’ Would Aid Bottom Line, Report Finds - Companies could cut emissions more cheaply by saving rainforests (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/08/forest-offsets-would-aid-bottom-line-report-finds/
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
America's Greenest Colleges - As the U.S. becomes greener, some colleges and universities are leading the way (Forbes Magazine – Note: report needs to distinguish offsets or “indulgences” from actual green energy purchases)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/07/greenest-colleges-harvard-business-energy-evergreen.html
Saudis Ask for Aid If World Cuts Dependence on Oil (Seattle Times – This is a joke, right?)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010021692_apasclimatetalkssaudisinneed.html?syndication=rss
Snohomish County Puts Plug-In Prius to the Test (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/710089882
Washington State's 'Pirates' ship too dirty for Calif.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2010021075_ladywashington08m.html?syndication=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Tacoma's Click! Cable Television Bills May Rise Twice In 2010 (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/908735.html
FCC Chairman Warns of 'Looming Spectrum Crisis' (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/07/financial/f130123D15.DTL&feed=rss.business
Justice Department Examining IBM's Computer Market Conduct (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13514515
E-Mail Passwords Leak Not Limited to Hotmail (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/181337.asp?source=pimail
100 Arrested in Online Fraud Crackdown (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/internet/08phish.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Google, Amazon Top Public Cloud Surveys (Information Week)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301599&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
GENERAL NEWS
Shelton Elk Hunter And Others Held At Gunpoint: Local men were acting legally in Brinnon, say state and county law officials (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=25332&TM=43167.45
21-Year-Old Brinnon Man -- brother of elk hunter detained by tribal police -- Dies In Unrelated Highway Crash (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091008/news/310089994
State Auditor Says Port of Shelton Did Not Comply with Open Public Meetings Act (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333:port-of-shelton-did-not-comply-with-open-public-meetings-act&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Evergreen Professor on Leave in Wake of School Trips to Chile (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2010021166_chile08m.html?syndication=rss
Flu Strikes Tenino Schools Hard - There have been a couple of cases of confirmed seasonal flu, many students home sick (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/996618.html
Providence St. Peter Hospital Workers Plan 1-Day Strike (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/996651.html
Builders To Take Campaign-Finance Lawsuit To Trial - At issue is money that backed Dino Rossi (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/996605.html
Did Olympia Extortion Plot Inspire Blackmail Attempt On Letterman? (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21233875/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000110082009&ts=H
Gun-Toting Pa. Soccer Mom, Husband Found Shot Dead (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/996544.html
Crash of Lunar Probe to Bring Out Amateur Astronomers (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13507258
NASA Downgrades Threat of Large Asteroid (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2256182~NASA_downgrades_threat_of_large_asteroid.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
What's Up, Doc? Radioactive Rabbit Poop at Hanford (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410808_radioactivepoop5.html?source=rss
Irish School Asks Pupils to Bring Own Toilet Roll
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE59558I20091006?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Go Before You Go? Flush Before You Fly?
http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/181333.asp?source=pimail
Cage Fighters in Drag Wallop Drunken Duo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091007/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_drag
SONG OF THE DAY
Leif Garret - I Was Made For Dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hihp_Jjdnsg
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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