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Can this Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich be trademarked?  October 17, 2025

 

Hello, sunshine. Welcome to the show. I'm Coy Wire.

 

This is CNN 10, your 10 minutes of news where I tell you the what, letting you decide what to think. Rise up. It is Friday.

 

Happy Friday to you. Let's get you your news. We begin today in Alaska, where one of the most significant airlifts in the state's history has successfully moved hundreds of people from coastal villages, which have been ravaged by high surf and strong winds.

 

airlift [ˋɛr͵lɪft] n. （因战争、水灾等原因交通不便时运输物资或人员的）空运

 

More than 1000 people have been displaced by remnants of Typhoon Halong last weekend, which brought hurricane force winds topping 100 miles per hour.

 

remnant [ˋrɛmnənt] n. 残余（部分）

 

Meteorologists are now wondering if a decrease in weather balloons due to a lack of staffing at some National Weather Service offices after the government shutdown could have affected their forecasts. Our Allison Chinchar explains.

 

Looking at some of these numbers, 93, 81, 100 mile per hour wind gusts that were reported along several communities in western Alaska and even a few communities that reported roughly six feet of water inundation.

 

inundation. [͵ɪnʌnˋdeʃən] n. 淹没，泛滥

 

Now, when a lot of folks make these weather forecasts,they get the data from weather balloons. All of these blue dots you see here indicate a weather service location that has two daily weather balloon launches every single day.

 

And that is standard practice for all National Weather Service locations across the country until earlier this year.

 

That's when we started to see the transition to more of these yellow dots indicating only one weather balloon launch per day, or even in some cases the red dots indicating no weather balloon launches anymore on any given day. Now we also have this one lone orange dot here.

 

This means that location normally would have had a weather balloon launch, but due to communications and technical issues, the data was just never received by the weather service location as it normally would.

 

The concern here is we use that data for these forecasts and it is vital. Basically, those weather balloons measure all of the weather in the upper atmosphere.

 

You're talking winds, temperature, humidity, all of those things that are vital to making forecasts. It's kind of like baking a cake without flour. Flour is one of the basic ingredients needed to make a cake.

 

Well, weather balloon data is one of the basic ingredients needed to make forecasts. And unfortunately, the better the output, the better the forecast.

 

But if we don't have the input because we don't have the data, the question becomes, how good is the actual forecast?

 

Pop quiz, hot shot.

 

What snack was co-created by a North Dakota State University football player?

 

Cheetos, Cheez-It, Pretzel Bites, or Uncrustables?

 

pretzel [ˋprɛts!] n. 椒盐脆饼

 

If you said Uncrustables, that's the joint, that's the jam. Len Kretchman won three Division II national titles as a receiver for the Bison. He and friend David Geske's business and patent were acquired by Smucker's in 1998 for a reported $1 million.

 

receiver [rɪˋsivɚ] n. 接球手; Football. a player on the offensive team who catches or is eligible to catch a forward pass.

 

Next up,a battle of peanut butter and jellies. Smucker's is suing Trader Joe's over its PB&J. Smucker's says the grocery chain's crustless peanut butter and jam sandwiches are too similar to their Uncrustables.

 

jelly [ˋdʒɛlɪ] n. 果冻；果酱

PB&J 花生醬和果醬 (peanut butter and jelly) 的缩写

crustless [ˋkrʌstlɪs] adj. 无硬皮的；无外壳的;去边的(吐司)

 

In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, Smucker's says both the design of Trader Joe's PB&Js and packaging violate its trademarks.

 

Smucker's is seeking restitution or payment for their financial losses. And get this, the company wants a judge to require Trader Joe's to deliver all current PB&Js to Smucker's headquarters to be destroyed.

 

restitution [͵rɛstəˋtjuʃən] n. 归还；赔偿

 

What do you think? Packaging, Trader Joe's, Smucker's. How about shape? Let's see. And... How about taste? This could take a minute.

 

I hope this all works out amicably. They both are delicious. I'm gonna need a minute.

 

work out 能夠解決

amicably [ˋæmɪkəb!ɪ] adv. 和平地; 心平气和地

 

The international photography competition that showcases nature's weird, wacky, and wonderful moments just announced its winners.

 

weird [wɪrd] adj.【口】奇特的；不可思议的; 超自然的

wacky [ˋwækɪ] adj.【俚】发疯的；古怪的；乖僻的

 

London's Natural History Museum highlights a huge range of photos in its Wildlife Photographer Awards. From the absurd, like this pic of an orphaned anteater, to the more startling, like this shot of a room full of rattlesnakes.

 

absurd [əbˋsɝd] adj. 不合理的，荒谬的；可笑的，愚蠢的

anteater [ˋænt͵itɚ] n. 食蚁动物

startling [ˋstɑrt!ɪŋ] adj. 令人吃惊的

 

The judges chose this photograph of a rare hyena in an abandoned mining town in Namibia as the best image out of more than 60,000 submissions.

 

hyena [haɪˋinə] n.【动】鬣狗，土狼

 

Another standout, though, was this captivating image of an orb-weaver spider in its web, shot by 10-year-old Jamie Smart from Wales, who won the 10 and under category. Here she is explaining how she pulled it off.

 

orb-weaver spider 圆蛛科蜘蛛

 

And I always check the weather forecast to make sure it's going to be a good morning. And I found that it was a really cold night. We got up early and the garden was just full of water droplets.

 

So we went out to look for bugs. Then I spotted this little funnel on the top of a dead Dock leaf stem. And I didn't even see the spider at first.

 

funnel [ˋfʌn!] n. funnel-shaped web (此處指的是漏斗网)

Dock [dɑk] n.【植】酸模，羊蹄; 在植物學中屬於Rumex 屬）是一種常見的野生植物，通常被視為雜草，在英國和許多地方都很普遍。

 

I just saw this funnel covered in dew droplets. But when I looked closer, I spotted a teeny tiny little spider tucked up, trying to keep warm because it'd been such a cold night. I thought it made a really cute image, so I tried to capture it.

 

dew [dju] n. 露，露水

teeny tiny 非常小的，极小的

tuck [tʌk] v. 把……舒服地裹好[（+in/up）]

 

I had a little bit of a struggle, though, trying to get the light to penetrate into the funnel so you could actually see the spider. So I was changing my angles and my settings to be able to have the light to get in so you could see the spider. And I did manage to capture this image.

 

In sports news, the Milwaukee Brewers are facing the LA Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. And the Brewers have an in-game tradition that changed the game. Five sausage mascots, yes, racing around the warning track.

 

in-game [ˈɪnˌɡem] adj. 比赛中的，比赛内的

 

And the fans love it. When they started back in 1993, nobody was doing such a thing. But now more than half of MLB teams have some kind of mascot race.

 

During the sixth inning of every home game, a bratwurst, an Italian, a Polish, a chorizo, and a good old-fashioned hot dog turn on the jets.

 

bratwurst [ˋbrætwɝst] n. 腊肠

chorizo [tʃəˋrizo] n. 西班牙辣香肠

turn on the jet: suddenly accelerates (指用尽全力、跑得飞快)

 

And CNN's Don Riddell was able to track them down, the man who came up with the idea and won the very first race.

 

track ..down 找到（某個難找的人或物）; 追蹤到

 

You know, there was already this cartoon of the sausages running across the skyline of Milwaukee.

 

And it ended up at the back door of what was then County Stadium. And I think everyone that went to a game that saw that thought, you know, it would be really cool if they ran in.

 

And I just happened to go with the kid that worked for me whose father was a vice president of the Brewers.

 

And he sat with us and I just talked him into it. I mean, he was pretty reluctant at first. It was the end of the season.

 

talk .. into 劝得(某人)做某事

 

And he didn't call me back till the next March telling me that, OK, it's a good idea. And then now think about he's like, OK, I guess it's a good idea. And now what it is.

 

Can you remember the reaction when he came through the gate?

 

Oh, my God. You know, I'm in a tube of foam rubber and you'd think the noise would be have been just completely muted. But the place went crazy.

 

It was a race to home plate, but we were to race right through the center of the field. And like I said, the players didn't know this was going to happen, nor did the umpire. And he was quite unhappy about it.

 

He thought it diminished the seriousness of the sport, which, you know, I guess it did.

 

This was a first. Nobody was doing this right.

 

And now I think maybe more than half the teams do some kind of mascot race. Arguably, you've had an impact on the way the game now looks in the United States. How do you feel about that?

 

I mean, I really do think it had it changed the tone of baseball in a lot of ways.

 

If you need a feel good story or an escape or just want to be able to tell your friends you've read a tantalizing tale about sausages, see Don's article at cnn.com/ sport.

 

tantalizing [ˋtænt!͵aɪzɪŋ] adj. 逗人的；惹弄人的；撩人的

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. Don't mean to be cheesy, but it's a slice of ingenuity that will float your boat and lift a pizza your heart.

 

cheesy [ˋtʃizɪ] adj. 乏味的，俗气老套的

 

Floodwaters made roads in little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, impossible to drive. But this pizza delivery driver decided no pie would be left behind when his car reached a foot of water. He got out with a little pep baroni in his step, but then was offered a kayak by a neighbor.

 

pep in one’s step: a happy, confident, and enthusiastic mood or manner, as indicated by the carefree way one walks.

pep [pɛp] n.【美】【口】活力，銳氣，勁頭

 

It was just a pie. It was just a plain pie. It was easy to carry.

 

I had put it on my lap and started rowing. You got to do it. That's the world we live in now.

 

You got to problem solve as quick as you can as efficient as you can.

 

Paddling his way to the customer, the pizza was delivered. It was dry, delicious, and unfloat gettable.

 

That's what I'm talking about.

 

All right. Our Friday shout out of the day is going to some of our homeschoolers out there all the way from Tucson, Arizona.

 

The Stratton family and our Sonoran Desert homeschool friends sent me this. I look pretty darn good with a beard, I must say. You complete me.

 

All right. Play that Friday music, Nadir. Shine bright.

 

Make someone smile. You never know when or how, but you may be the spark of joy someone needs. Make it a fantastic weekend, everyone.

 

I'm Coy Wire, and we are CNN 10.