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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
On 50th Anniversary of JFK Death, Dallas Holds
First Memorial (Reuters)
Severe Winds Leave Two Dead, 50,000 without Power
in San Francisco Area (Reuters)
Grant PUD Brings High-Speed Wireless Pilot Program
to Part of Quincy Valley (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Wild Winter this Year? Not Likely, NOAA Forecasts (Associated Press)
How
Rain Strengthens the Cascades Snowpack (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Severe Winds Leave Two Dead, 50,000 without Power in San Francisco Area
- Alaska: Power Restored to Most Homes; Frigid Temperatures, More Wind Forecast for Fairbanks
- Mason PUD 3 Customers Warned of Possible Telephone Scam
- Power Bill Scam Targets Grant PUD Customers
- Controversy over Enloe Dam Power Generation Continues - Group demands dam be breached
- Helicopter to Trim Trees for Mason County PUD 1
- Canada: Smart Meter Critics Seek to Expand Class Action Suit against BC Hydro
- Emergency Outage Has Lasting Effect on Wood Pole Management
- Energy Industry Is on Alert against Increasing Cyber Attacks
- In Search of Woody Guthrie’s America
- Puget Sound Restoration Fund Restores Olympia Oysters, One Shell at a Time
- How Rain Strengthens the Cascades Snowpack
- Skagit PUD Passes Budget; Water Rate to Increase
- Can Mushrooms Help Fight Stormwater Pollution? - Using Wood Chips from Mason PUD 3 Tree Trimming, Donated for Study Purposes
- Salton Sea Failures Hurt California, Audit Shows
- Minnesota: Wind Energy Advocates Urge Renewal of Tax Credit
- Listen Up: The Economics of Solar Hot Water Systems
- Ask Umbra: Are My Newfangled Light Bulbs Making My House Cold?
- Coastal Ocean Acidification: Answering the Seattle Times
- The Earth’s Winds, Visualized in Glorious Detail
- Grant PUD Brings High-Speed Wireless Pilot Program to Part of Quincy Valley
- How Plain, Old Wi-Fi Will Revolutionize the Cellular Industry
- Time Warner Cable Jumps on Comcast Takeover Report
- Fire, Police Officials Get Retire-Rehire Deals
- Best & Worst-Run States: Survey of All 50
- On 50th Anniversary of JFK Death, Dallas Holds First Memorial
- Wild Winter this Year? Not Likely, NOAA Forecasts
- Deadly ‘Knockout Game’ Reported on the West Coast
- I Can Hear You Now - FCC Considers Allowing In-Flight Cell Phone Use
- That Stinks! Roadside ‘Potty Bombs’ Creating Quite a Mess
- Pacific Lutheran, Evergreen, Saint Martin’s - Three South Sound Schools Recognized by U-S News in Rankings of Best Colleges for Veterans
WORD OF THE DAY
Hemidemisemiquaver
• \hem-mee-dem-mee-SEM-mee-kway-verr\ • Noun - Sixty-fourth note.
Some
say music, as love, is an international language. However, a strict British
musicologist may confuse his U-S counterparts by using the term “hemisemidemiquaver”
instead of “sixty-fourth note” when describing the hurry-up nature of the song “Flight
of the Bumblebee.”
Harry
James - Flight of the Bumblebee
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Severe Winds Leave Two Dead, 50,000 without Power
in San Francisco Area (Reuters)
Alaska: Power Restored to Most Homes; Frigid
Temperatures, More Wind Forecast for Fairbanks (Fairbanks News Miner, AK)
Mason PUD 3 Customers Warned of Possible
Telephone Scam (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Power Bill Scam Targets Grant PUD Customers (Crescent
Bar Chronicle, WA)
Controversy over Enloe Dam Power Generation
Continues - Group demands dam be breached (Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune,
Oroville, WA)
Helicopter to Trim Trees for Mason County PUD 1
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Canada: Smart Meter Critics Seek to Expand Class
Action Suit against BC Hydro (CTV, BC, Canada)
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/smart-meter-critics-seek-to-expand-class-action-suit-against-bc-hydro-1.1554040
Emergency Outage Has Lasting Effect on Wood Pole
Management (Bonneville Power Administration)
Energy Industry Is on Alert against Increasing
Cyber Attacks (Sacramento Bee, CA)
In Search of Woody Guthrie’s America (NY Times)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Puget Sound Restoration Fund Restores Olympia
Oysters, One Shell at a Time (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
How
Rain Strengthens the Cascades Snowpack (Northwest Public Radio)
Skagit
PUD Passes Budget; Water Rate to Increase (Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon,
WA)
Can
Mushrooms Help Fight Stormwater Pollution? - Using Wood Chips from Mason PUD 3
Tree Trimming, Donated for Study Purposes (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Salton
Sea Failures Hurt California, Audit Shows (Courthouse
News Service)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Minnesota:
Wind Energy Advocates Urge Renewal of Tax Credit (Minnesota Public Radio)
Listen
Up: The Economics of Solar Hot Water Systems (Renewable
Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Ask
Umbra: Are My Newfangled Light Bulbs Making My House Cold? (Grist Online)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Coastal
Ocean Acidification: Answering the Seattle Times (Cliff Mass Weather Blog,
Seattle, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
The
Earth’s Winds, Visualized in Glorious Detail (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Grant PUD Brings High-Speed Wireless Pilot Program to
Part of Quincy Valley (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
How Plain, Old Wi-Fi Will Revolutionize the
Cellular Industry (Washington Post)
Time Warner Cable Jumps on Comcast Takeover Report (USA
Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Fire, Police Officials Get Retire-Rehire Deals (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Best & Worst-Run States: Survey of All 50 (USA
Today)
GENERAL NEWS
On 50th Anniversary of JFK Death, Dallas Holds
First Memorial (Reuters)
Wild Winter this Year? Not Likely, NOAA Forecasts (Associated Press)
Deadly ‘Knockout Game’ Reported on the West Coast (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
I Can Hear You Now - FCC Considers Allowing
In-Flight Cell Phone Use (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
That
Stinks! Roadside ‘Potty Bombs’ Creating Quite a Mess (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Pacific Lutheran, Evergreen, Saint Martin’s - Three
South Sound Schools Recognized by U-S News in Rankings of Best Colleges for
Veterans (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
DIVERSIONS
Inspiring
Unilever Ad Gives You Hope for Future Children
People
Already Camped Out for Black Friday Admit: “We Are Crazy”
Schedule
of CBS News Livestream of JFK Assassination Coverage
In
Ruins of Palace, a Wine with Hints of Cinnamon & Top Notes of Antiquity
SONG OF THE DAY
Loggins & Messina - Danny’s Song
Paul Anka & Odia Coates - Your Having My
Baby
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