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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Australia
Kills Off Carbon Tax - Senate makes good on prime minister’s ‘pledge in blood’
to ‘axe the tax’ (The Guardian, UK)
White
House Unveils Climate Change Initiatives (NY Times)
Microsoft to Cut 18,000 Jobs This Year as It Trims
Nokia (Reuters)
Save
Energy & Beat the Heat - Powerful Advice: Energy Insights from PUD 3 (Mason
County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Wildfires Blaze
Their Way across the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- White House Unveils Climate Change Initiatives
- Favorable Score for Tacoma Power in J-D Power Survey
- Pot Law Conflict Leads Wahkiakum PUD to Amend Policies
- Kelcey Lajoie & BPA: Graduating Fellow of the Hydro Research Foundation
- No Fish Tale: Uptick in Northwest Salmon Stock
- Brewing Salmon: Brewster Booms with Salmon Craze
- Olympic National Park Biologists Monitor Elwha Fish
- How the Worst Drought in Decades Impacts Californians
- Federal Way Family Designs Airborne Wind Turbine as Energy Source
- Five Graphs about Wind Energy
- United Kingdom: Wind Turbine Fires ‘Ten Times More Common than Thought’, Experts Warn
- Iowa Supreme Court Clears Regulatory Path for Rooftop Solar Providers, Concluding They Are Not Regulated “Public Utilities”
- Save Energy & Beat the Heat - Powerful Advice: Energy Insights from PUD 3
- Wisconsin: How Badger Meter Cut Its Lighting Bill in Half
- Australia Kills Off Carbon Tax
- 23 States Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling Upholding EPA Utility “Maximum Achievable Control Technology” Rule
- These Oddly-Shaped Pots & Pans Heat Food Faster, Save Energy
- Microsoft to Cut 18,000 Jobs This Year as It Trims Nokia
- Seattle’s New Tech Chief Open to City Broadband Service
- Netflix to FCC: Reclassify Comcast & Verizon So They Can’t Choke the Internet
- Google Opens Washington D-C Lobbying Office (With Meatballs!) on Congress’s Doorstep
- Bitcoin ‘Mining Pool’ Promises to Avoid Majority Control, a Threat to Currency
- Utilities Enter the 21st Century with Mobile Apps
- Ten Reasons to Use Vine to Help You Build Your Brand
- Newspaper Companies Need to Stop Lying to Themselves, Says Longtime Newspaper Editor
- Hamas & Israel Step Up Cyber Battle for Hearts & Minds
- Elway Poll: Washington State Governor Inslee Ratings in Negative Territory
- President Obama Plans Seattle-Area Visit in Middle of I-90 ‘Carmageddon’
- Wildfires Blaze Their Way across the Pacific Northwest
- Oregon, Washington Declare States of Emergency to Battle Wildfires
- Boeing Drones Approved to Monitor Washington State Wildfires
- Five Olympia-Area Freeway Bridges Need Repair after Being Hit by Truck
- Washington State Unemployment Rate Hits Lowest Point in Six Years
- U-S House Votes to Allow Banks to Deal with Marijuana-Related Businesses
- Apollo 11’s Launch to the Moon Celebrated on 45th Anniversary; Moon Landing Remembrances Soon to Follow
Malapropism
• \MAL-uh-prop-ism\ • noun - 1: the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or
distortion of a word or phrase; especially: the use of a word sounding somewhat
like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context.
“What
a waste it is, to lose one’s mind, or not to have a mind is being very
wasteful. How true that is” is among some of the more famous malapropisms to
fall from the lips of former Vice President Dan Quayle. Unfortunately, he made
the statement before members of the United Negro College Fund, whose motto is
actually “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Etymology:
Mrs. Malaprop, character noted for her misuse of words in R. B. Sheridan’s
comedy The Rivals (1775)
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
White
House Unveils Climate Change Initiatives (NY Times)
Favorable Score for Tacoma Power in J-D Power Survey
(South Sound Business Examiner)
Pot Law Conflict Leads Wahkiakum PUD to Amend
Policies (Wahkiakum Eagle, Skamokawa, WA)
Kelcey Lajoie & BPA: Graduating Fellow of the
Hydro Research Foundation (Hydro World)
FISH & WILDLIFE
No Fish Tale: Uptick in Northwest Salmon Stock (Electric
Co-op Today)
Brewing Salmon: Brewster Booms with Salmon Craze (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Olympic National Park Biologists Monitor Elwha Fish
(KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
How
the Worst Drought in Decades Impacts Californians (USA Today)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Federal
Way Family Designs Airborne Wind Turbine as Energy Source (Federal Way Mirror, WA)
Five
Graphs about Wind Energy - A closer look at wind energy worldwide following
elimination of tax subsidies in the U-S (U-S News & World Report)
United
Kingdom: Wind Turbine Fires ‘Ten Times More Common than Thought’, Experts Warn
(The Telegraph, UK)
Iowa
Supreme Court Clears Regulatory Path for Rooftop Solar Providers, Concluding
They Are Not Regulated “Public Utilities” (GTH Energy &
Natural Resources Law Blog)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Save
Energy & Beat the Heat - Powerful Advice: Energy Insights from PUD 3 (Mason
County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Wisconsin:
How Badger Meter Cut Its Lighting Bill in Half (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Australia
Kills Off Carbon Tax - Senate makes good on prime minister’s ‘pledge in blood’
to ‘axe the tax’ (The Guardian, UK)
23
States Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling Upholding EPA Utility “Maximum
Achievable Control Technology” Rule (American Public Power Association)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
These
Oddly-Shaped Pots & Pans Heat Food Faster, Save Energy (Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Microsoft to Cut 18,000 Jobs This Year as It Trims Nokia
(Reuters)
Seattle’s New Tech Chief Open to City Broadband
Service (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Netflix to FCC: Reclassify Comcast & Verizon So
They Can’t Choke the Internet (GigaOM)
Google Opens Washington D-C Lobbying Office (With
Meatballs!) on Congress’s Doorstep (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Bitcoin ‘Mining Pool’ Promises to Avoid Majority
Control, a Threat to Currency (Associated Press)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Utilities Enter the 21st Century with Mobile Apps
(The Energy Collective)
Ten Reasons to Use Vine to Help You Build Your
Brand (Mashable)
Newspaper Companies Need to Stop Lying to Themselves,
Says Longtime Newspaper Editor (GigaOM)
Hamas & Israel Step Up Cyber Battle for Hearts &
Minds (British Broadcasting Corporation)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Elway Poll: Washington State Governor Inslee
Ratings in Negative Territory - But Better Than Gregoire, Lowry after 18 Months
in Office (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
President Obama Plans Seattle-Area Visit in Middle
of I-90 ‘Carmageddon’ (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Wildfires Blaze
Their Way across the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Public Radio)
Oregon, Washington Declare
States of Emergency to Battle Wildfires (Christian Science Monitor)
Boeing Drones Approved to Monitor Washington State Wildfires
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Five Olympia-Area Freeway Bridges Need Repair after
Being Hit by Truck (Associated Press)
Washington State Unemployment Rate Hits Lowest
Point in Six Years (Associated Press)
U-S House Votes to Allow Banks to Deal with
Marijuana-Related Businesses (Associated Press)
Apollo 11’s Launch to the Moon Celebrated on 45th
Anniversary; Moon Landing Remembrances Soon to Follow (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Kids
Run onto Highway after Pilot Accidentally Drops 3,000 Promotional Ping Pong
Balls on Wrong Target
Buzz
Aldrin Once Punched a Moon Hoaxer in the Face
Pit
Bull Saves Deaf Boy from Fire at Indianapolis Home
Johnny
Winter, Legendary Blues Guitarist, Dies
SONGS OF THE DAY
Johnny
Winter - Sound the Bell
Johnny
Winter Blues Lesson (PG-13 Language)
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