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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Remnants of Typhoon Will Make for Wild Seattle Weather This
Weekend (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Smell Test: Will Initiative 732 Carbon Tax Spike Household
Electricity Costs? (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Oregon & Washington State Offer Top Tax Breaks to Data
Centers, Report Finds (Oregonian, Portland)
Hurricane Matthew: Substations, Transmission Lines Remain
Source of Major Outages (Florence News & Review, SC)
Political Tornado Swirls in District That Could Determine
Control of Washington State House (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Hurricane Matthew: Substations, Transmission Lines Remain Source of Major Outages
- Rising Natural Gas Production Cause for Coal Industry Decline, Report Says
- High-Voltage Power Lines Proposed to Thread Through Southern Idaho
- Grays Harbor PUD’s $8-Million Capital Budget Aims to “Preserve a Tradition of Reliability”
- Montana: NorthWestern to Seek More Power Capacity Amid Coal Closures
- Crow Causes Downtown Everett Power Outage
- Pacific Northwest Tribes Supply North Dakota Pipeline Demonstrators with Firewood, Smoked Salmon
- Lawsuit Seeks to Stifle Nevada Energy Choice Ballot Initiative
- Enhancements for Upper Columbia River Fall Chinook Salmon Fishery Season
- Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Stocks 915,000 Trout in Washington Lakes
- Bucks for Wastewater: LOTT’s Proposed $83.4 Million Budget Includes Two Percent Rate Hike
- Infographic: Conserving Water
- Wind Power: Working in the Fastest Growing Profession
- Marijuana’s Moment – As Many as Five States Could Approve Its Recreational Use This November
- Smell Test: Will Initiative 732 Carbon Tax Spike Household Electricity Costs?
- Is Cap & Trade Failing Low Income & Minority Communities?
- Climate Change Has Been Making Western Forest Fires Worse for Decades, Study Says
- Drive Oregon Puts Out the Call: They’re Hiring Electric Vehicle Devotees
- Beer Batteries: Colorado Researchers Use Brewery Wastewater to Produce Electrodes
- Oregon & Washington State Offer Top Tax Breaks to Data Centers, Report Finds
- Comcast Apologizes for Early Morning, Widespread Service Outage
- Comcast Fined $2.3 Million to End Probe into Mischarging Customers
- Few Cellphones Lost Service During Hurricane Matthew
- Free Broadband Initiatives for Poor & Rural Areas, With Eye on Future
- Facebook Launches ‘Workplace’ a Business Version of Facebook
- Five Tips to Build More Loyalty with Your Twitter Fans
- NFL Ratings Just Fell Off a Cliff: Why?
- Political Tornado Swirls in District That Could Determine Control of Washington State House
- Washington State Breaks Record with Over 4.2 Million Voters
- Remnants of Typhoon Will Make for Wild Seattle Weather This Weekend
- King County Judge Rules 5-Hour Energy® Violated Consumer Protection Act
- New Lab Will Study Ecology of North Idaho Lakes, Role in Region’s Lifestyle, Economy
- Samsung Finally Kills the Galaxy Note 7
Jaywalk • \JAY-walk\ • verb – To cross a street carelessly
or in an illegal manner so as to be endangered by traffic
No example sentence today, but some fascinating history
about the origin of the word:
Wikipedia – According to one historian, the earliest known
use of the word jaywalker in print was in the Chicago Tribune in 1909. (The
earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1917.) The term’s
dissemination was due in part to a deliberate effort by promoters of
automobiles, such as local auto clubs & dealers, to redefine streets as
places where pedestrians do not belong. It is a compound word of the words jay &
walk; jay referring to a foolish rural person, a rube, unfamiliar with city
ways. An alternative folk etymology refers the word to the letter “J”,
describing the line followed by the pedestrian - going parallel with the road
when the other side is reached
Oxford English Dictionary Etymology (word origin) – What is
the origin of the word ‘jaywalking’? The complete Oxford English Dictionary
traces the word jaywalker back to 1917 & labels it ‘originally US’. There
is a cross-reference to the word jay, which has a number of slang senses. The
relevant one is ‘a stupid or dull person, a simpleton. Also (as adjective)
dull, unsophisticated; inferior, poor’. This is labeled ‘US colloquial’, &
there is evidence of use from 1900. So persons who stupidly ignored traffic
regulations were given (in Boston, it seems) this compact name.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Hurricane Matthew: Substations, Transmission Lines Remain
Source of Major Outages (Florence News & Review, SC)
Rising Natural Gas Production Cause for Coal Industry
Decline, Report Says (Pittsburgh Business Times)
High-Voltage Power Lines Proposed to Thread Through Southern
Idaho (Associated Press)
Grays Harbor PUD’s $8-Million Capital Budget Aims to “Preserve
a Tradition of Reliability” (Grays Harbor PUD, Aberdeen, WA)
Montana: NorthWestern to Seek More Power Capacity Amid Coal
Closures (Associated Press)
Crow Causes Downtown Everett Power Outage (My Everett News,
WA)
Pacific Northwest Tribes Supply North Dakota Pipeline
Demonstrators with Firewood, Smoked Salmon (Northwest Public Radio)
Lawsuit Seeks to Stifle Nevada Energy Choice Ballot
Initiative (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Enhancements for Upper Columbia River Fall Chinook Salmon
Fishery Season (Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife)
Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Stocks
915,000 Trout in Washington Lakes (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Bucks for Wastewater: LOTT’s Proposed $83.4 Million Budget
Includes Two Percent Rate Hike (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Infographic: Conserving Water (Pacific Gas & Electric)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Wind Power: Working in the Fastest Growing Profession (Atlantic
Magazine)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Marijuana’s Moment – As Many as Five States Could Approve
Its Recreational Use This November (Atlantic Magazine)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Smell Test: Will Initiative 732 Carbon Tax Spike Household
Electricity Costs? (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Is Cap & Trade Failing Low Income & Minority
Communities? (The Energy Collective)
Climate Change Has Been Making Western Forest Fires Worse for
Decades, Study Says (Washington Post)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Drive Oregon Puts Out the Call: They’re Hiring Electric
Vehicle Devotees (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2016/10/drive-oregon-puts-out-the-call-were-hiring.html
Beer Batteries: Colorado Researchers Use Brewery Wastewater to
Produce Electrodes (Utility Dive)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Oregon & Washington State Offer Top Tax Breaks to Data
Centers, Report Finds (Oregonian, Portland)
Comcast Apologizes for Early Morning, Widespread Service
Outage (Consumerist)
Comcast Fined $2.3 Million to End Probe into Mischarging
Customers (Associated Press)
Few Cellphones Lost Service During Hurricane Matthew (USA
Today)
Free Broadband Initiatives for Poor & Rural Areas, With
Eye on Future (NY Times)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Facebook Launches ‘Workplace’ a Business Version of Facebook
(Associated Press)
NFL Ratings Just Fell Off a Cliff: Why? (Atlantic Magazine)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Political Tornado Swirls in District That Could Determine
Control of Washington State House (Northwest Public Radio)
Washington State Breaks Record with Over 4.2 Million Voters (KOIN-TV,
Portland, OR)
GENERAL NEWS
Remnants of Typhoon Will Make for Wild Seattle Weather This Weekend
(KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
King County Judge Rules 5-Hour Energy® Violated Consumer
Protection Act (North Central Washington Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
New Lab Will Study Ecology of North Idaho Lakes, Role in
Region’s Lifestyle, Economy (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Samsung Finally Kills the Galaxy Note 7 (Gizmodo)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
‘Creepy Clowns’ Are Ruining Our Livelihood, Say Professional
Clowns
McDonald’s: Ronald McDonald Keeping a Lower Profile
The Hot New Selfie Trend Is a Great Way to Destroy Your
Phone
People Are Using Britain’s New Plastic Money to Play Vinyl
Records
SONG OF THE DAY
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
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