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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Magnitude 6.3 Quake Off Canada’s West Coast
(KING-TV, Seattle)
Cold Brings Chance of Snow to Eastern Washington
(Associated Press)
Mason County PUD 3 Linemen Wrap up Electricity
Restoration to Customers Affected by the Loss of Electricity to Dayton
Substation West of Shelton (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Cowlitz County PUD Expected to Raise Retail Power
Rates by Five Percent (Longview Daily News, WA)
Vestas
to Cut 3,000 More Jobs (Oregonian, Portland)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Mason County PUD 3 Linemen Wrap up Electricity Restoration to Customers Affected by the Loss of Electricity to Dayton Substation West of Shelton
- Cowlitz County PUD Expected to Raise Retail Power Rates by Five Percent
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- Argentine Capital Buenos Aires Hit by Major Power Cut
- The Puffin Charmer
- Clackamas River Water General Manager Seeks Temporary Restraining Order against Water District Board Members
- Man Impersonating Public Utility Worker Asks to Enter Tacoma Woman’s House
- Vestas to Cut 3,000 More Jobs
- This Truck is Bringing Solar Energy to Sandy-Stricken New York
- Video: Stephen Colbert on ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’
- Oregon’s Reed College Signs $5.4 Million Energy Efficiency Contract With Ameresco
- First Things First: An Efficient Abode
- Obama to Continue Efforts to Curb Greenhouse Gases, Push Energy Efficiency
- Ethanol Going Ugly Turns Bush Plan into Obama Test
- New Green Energy Superhero KidWind Manages to Out-Dork Captain Planet
- Internet Data Usage Jumps; Netflix Makes Up One-Third of Bandwidth Use
- Facebook Testing Free Wi-Fi at Retailers
- Microsoft Scraps Instant-Messaging Service, Switches Users to Skype
- How Does High Speed Internet Actually Work?
- A School Distanced From Technology Faces Its Intrusion
- Democrats Likely to Retain Majority in Washington State Senate
- Rep. McMorris Rodgers Makes Move to Climb Republican Leadership Ladder
- Magnitude 6.3 Quake Off Canada’s West Coast
- Cold Brings Chance of Snow to Eastern Washington
- Northeast U-S Storm Brings New Outages for Sandy-Battered States
- NOAA Calls off El Niño Forecast
- Inmate Escapes from Washington Prison in Monroe
- Metal Theft: Tougher Powers Unveiled
WORD OF THE DAY
Frenetic
• \frih-NET-tick\ • Adjective - Frenzied, frantic
“IT’S
THE END OF THE WORLD!” shouted the wild-eyed pundit after his candidate for the
town dog-catcher post lost his race in a pretty straightforward manner. “Can
you imagine,” the frothing media star mouthed at the unblinking eye of the
television camera, “human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass
hysteria!”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Mason County PUD 3 Linemen Wrap up Electricity
Restoration to Customers Affected by the Loss of Electricity to Dayton
Substation West of Shelton (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Cowlitz County PUD Expected to Raise Retail Power
Rates by Five Percent (Longview Daily News, WA)
U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Argentine Capital Buenos Aires Hit by Major Power
Cut (British Broadcasting Corporation)
FISH & WILDLIFE
The Puffin Charmer (Slate Magazine)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Clackamas
River Water General Manager Seeks Temporary Restraining Order against Water
District Board Members (Oregonian, Portland)
Man
Impersonating Public Utility Worker Asks to Enter Tacoma Woman’s House
(KCPQ-TV, Tacoma/Seattle, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Vestas
to Cut 3,000 More Jobs (Oregonian, Portland)
This
Truck is Bringing Solar Energy to Sandy-Stricken New York (Mashable)
Video:
Stephen Colbert on ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ (Midwest Energy News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oregon’s Reed College Signs $5.4 Million Energy
Efficiency Contract With Ameresco (Sustainable Business Oregon)
First Things First: An Efficient Abode (NY Times)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama
to Continue Efforts to Curb Greenhouse Gases, Push Energy Efficiency (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Ethanol
Going Ugly Turns Bush Plan into Obama Test (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
New
Green Energy Superhero KidWind Manages to Out-Dork Captain Planet (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet Data Usage Jumps; Netflix Makes Up
One-Third of Bandwidth Use (Washington Post)
Facebook Testing Free Wi-Fi at Retailers (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
Microsoft Scraps Instant-Messaging Service,
Switches Users to Skype (Associated Press)
How Does High Speed Internet Actually Work?
(Mashable)
A School Distanced From Technology Faces Its
Intrusion (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/vermont-school-cut-off-from-technology-faces-its-intrusion.html
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Democrats Likely to Retain Majority in Washington State
Senate (Associated Press)
Rep. McMorris Rodgers Makes Move to Climb Republican
Leadership Ladder (The Hill, Washington, D-C)
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/266817-rep-mcmorris-rodgers-makes-move-to-climb-gop-leadership-ladder
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/266817-rep-mcmorris-rodgers-makes-move-to-climb-gop-leadership-ladder
GENERAL NEWS
Magnitude 6.3 Quake Off Canada’s West Coast (KING-TV,
Seattle)
Cold Brings Chance of Snow to Eastern Washington (Associated
Press)
Northeast U-S Storm Brings New Outages for Sandy-Battered
States (Associated Press)
NOAA Calls off El Niño Forecast (Washington Post)
Inmate Escapes from Washington Prison in Monroe (Associated
Press)
Metal Theft: Tougher Powers Unveiled (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
DIVERSIONS
Birch Bay Man Buys 10,000 Copies of the Bellingham
Herald to Commemorate Obama’s Victory
Seeing Spots: Polka Dots Are Back
(Audio) App Lets You Write Poetry Like William
Shatner
Dead Candidates Win Elections in Florida, Alabama
SONG OF THE DAY
Weather
Report – Birdland
