SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Weather Forecast for February 5, 2016
Small Craft Advisory for Puget Sound & Hood Canal
Special Weather Statement: Rain & Landslide Danger
Flood Watch for Skokomish River
Ridgezilla (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Sub-Par Coho Run Forecast for Columbia River in 2016 (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Water Supply Specialists Waving Goodbye to Washington State
Drought with Continued Snowpack Build (KPQ
Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Seattle Council Members Grill City Light Nominee (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Cold Temps Bring Higher Kittitas County Electric Bills –
Winter weather hits customer pocketbooks (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
CenturyLink: Work to Remedy Weeklong ‘Disruptions’ in
Olympia & Tumwater Nearly Done (Olympian
- Paywall Advisory)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Seattle Council Members Grill City Light Nominee
- Cold Temps Bring Higher Kittitas County Electric Bills – Winter weather hits customer pocketbooks
- Snohomish PUD to Hold Special Meeting on Billing Concerns
- Energy Official Says Emissions Rules Could Impact Idaho Electricity Prices
- No Coal. 50 Percent Renewables. What Does the Oregon Legislature’s Big Energy Bill Really Mean?
- Customer’s Lawsuit Challenges Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Use of Smart Meters
- Pacific Gas & Electric May Face Additional Fines in Criminal Trial for San Bruno Explosion
- Pacific Gas & Electric Opens ‘Smart’ Electrical Nerve Center in Placer County
- British Columbia: Peace River Dam Impact Mitigated by BC Hydro-Fort St. John Agreement
- Work Under Way on Endangered Species Act Hatchery Plans
- Sub-Par Coho Run Forecast for Columbia River in 2016
- Editorial: Fisheries Management by Lawsuit is a Blunt Instrument
- Water Supply Specialists Waving Goodbye to Washington State Drought with Continued Snowpack Build
- Arizona Regulators OK SunZia Power Lines
- Government Vigorously Defends “Clean Power Plan”
- Hold that Climate Change Panic, NOAA Has a Solution
- ‘Wrong Type of Trees’ in Europe Increased Global Warming
- CenturyLink: Work to Remedy Weeklong ‘Disruptions’ in Olympia & Tumwater Nearly Done
- Why AT&T’s Attempt to Kill Municipal Broadband in Tennessee Matters to All Americans
- ‘How Clean is the Cloud?’ Amazon, Microsoft Fuel Need for Sustainable Data Centers
- Apple Ordered to Pay $625.6 Million in Patent Case over FaceTime, iMessage Technology
- Read the Fine Print – You Might Get Sued for a Negative Online Review
- Here’s How Brands Should Create Their Real-Time Super Bowl Strategy for Twitter
- Washington State Legislative Committee Clears Bill Limiting Large Public Records Requests
- Obama to Propose $10-A-Barrel Oil Tax to Fund Rail & Highway Projects
- U-S Capitol Portraits, a Perk of Access, Become a Symbol of Excess Instead
- Semi-Truck Driver Arrested for Vehicular Homicide for Deadly I-90 Crash
- Federal Judge Orders Release of Sole Oregon Defendant in Refuge Takeover
- Text-to-911 Services Now Available in Six Washington State Counties
- Pharmaceutical Pariah Martin Shkreli Takes the Fifth before U-S House Panel, Then Tweets about ‘Imbecile’ Lawmakers
- The Most Democratic, Republican Counties in Washington Are…
- Super Bowl 50
Amalgam • \uh-MAL-gum\ • Noun – 1: an alloy of mercury with
another metal that is solid or liquid at room temperature according to the
proportion of mercury present and is used especially in making tooth cements 2:
a mixture of different elements
Urbino squirmed in his seat. His punishment for lying to his
wife about his Super Bowl television purchase was to chew on pieces of aluminum
foil until he revealed the secret location of the big-screen TV in his palatial
home. Each time he bit down, the amalgam in his fillings fired off an
uncomfortable voltaic effect causing him to rue the days of sugar babies,
saltwater taffy and big hunk candy bars.
In the example sentence for the word “amalgam,” we all
squirmed along with Urbino as he was tortured by his wife to reveal the
location of his new, big-screen TV. The punishment was chewing on pieces of
aluminum foil. Why does this cause us discomfort? Here’s the answer from the
web site “How Things Work”:
Biting on aluminum foil can be painful. Why?
Biting on aluminum foil can be painful and is usually
noticed if you have metal in your mouth from dental work (e.g. fillings, crowns).
Basically, when you bite on foil, you set up a battery in your mouth and the
electrical current stimulates nerve endings in your tooth. Here is what
happens:
- Pressure from biting brings two dissimilar metals (aluminum foil, mercury in fillings or gold in crowns) in contact in a moist, salty environment (saliva)
- The two metals have an electrochemical potential difference or voltage across them
- Electrons flow from the foil into the tooth (i.e. electrical current)
- The current gets conducted into the tooth’s root, usually by the filling or crown
- The current sets off a nerve impulse in the root’s nerve
- The nerve impulse is sent to the brain
- The brain interprets the impulse as pain
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Seattle Council Members Grill City Light Nominee (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Cold Temps Bring Higher Kittitas County Electric Bills – Winter
weather hits customer pocketbooks (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Snohomish PUD to Hold Special Meeting on Billing Concerns
(My Everett News, WA)
Energy Official Says Emissions Rules Could Impact Idaho
Electricity Prices (Twin Falls Times-News, ID)
No Coal. 50 Percent Renewables. What Does the Oregon Legislature’s
Big Energy Bill Really Mean? (Oregonian, Portland)
Customer’s Lawsuit Challenges Sacramento Municipal Utility
District’s Use of Smart Meters (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
Pacific Gas & Electric May Face Additional Fines in
Criminal Trial for San Bruno Explosion (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Pacific Gas & Electric Opens ‘Smart’ Electrical Nerve
Center in Placer County – New “smart” operation speeds response (Auburn
Journal, CA)
British Columbia: Peace River Dam Impact Mitigated by BC
Hydro-Fort St. John Agreement (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Work Under Way on Endangered Species Act Hatchery Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Sub-Par Coho Run Forecast for Columbia River in 2016 (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Editorial: Fisheries Management by Lawsuit is a Blunt
Instrument (Daily Astorian, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Water Supply Specialists Waving Goodbye to Washington State Drought
with Continued Snowpack Build (KPQ
Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Arizona Regulators OK SunZia Power Lines (Arizona Daily
Star, Tucson)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Government Vigorously Defends “Clean Power Plan” (SCOTUS
Blog)
Hold that Climate Change Panic, NOAA Has a Solution (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, WA)
‘Wrong Type of Trees’ in Europe Increased Global Warming (British Broadcasting Corporation)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CenturyLink: Work to Remedy Weeklong ‘Disruptions’ in Olympia
& Tumwater Nearly Done (Olympian -
Paywall Advisory)
Why AT&T’s Attempt to Kill Municipal Broadband in Tennessee
Matters to All Americans (CIO)
‘How Clean is the Cloud?’ Amazon, Microsoft Fuel Need for Sustainable
Data Centers – cheap, clean power & low land prices (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Apple Ordered to Pay $625.6 Million in Patent Case over Facetime,
iMessage Technology (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Read the Fine Print – You Might Get Sued for a Negative
Online Review (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
Here’s How Brands Should Create Their Real-Time Super Bowl
Strategy for Twitter (AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Legislative Committee Clears Bill Limiting
Large Public Records Requests (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Obama to Propose $10-A-Barrel Oil Tax to Fund Rail &
Highway Projects (Washington Post)
U-S Capitol Portraits, a Perk of Access, Become a Symbol of Excess
Instead (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Semi-Truck Driver Arrested for Vehicular Homicide for Deadly
I-90 Crash (KIRO Broadcasting,
Seattle, WA)
Federal Judge Orders Release of Sole Oregon Defendant in
Refuge Takeover (Oregonian, Portland)
Text-to-911 Services Now Available in Six Washington State
Counties (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Pharmaceutical Pariah Martin Shkreli Takes the Fifth before U-S
House Panel, Then Tweets about ‘Imbecile’ Lawmakers (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
The Most Democratic, Republican Counties in Washington Are… (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Super Bowl 50 (CBS Sports)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Maurice White, Founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
Sea Lion Takes a Booth at San Diego Restaurant on the Beach
Activists Get Animal Shelter Chief Fired for $1,000 Purebred
Collie
The Sad, Lonely Story of Super Bowl I’s Lost Recording
SONGS OF THE DAY
Earth Wind & Fire- Shining Star
Earth Wind & Fire -That’s the Way of the World
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