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San Francisco: Ad banner falls from plane, causing power outage

2013-01-27 08:57:23| Energy - Topix.net

Almost 2,000 customers were briefly without power Saturday after an advertising banner being towed by an airplane fell to the ground.

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San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city

2013-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PBS: SPENCER MICHELS: Each year, Americans throw away about 250 million tons of garbage. That's roughly four pounds per person per day. You can find all manner of trash in a landfill, old bent music stands, plastic bags, and a lot of items that could have been recycled, like bottles and cardboard. Beyond the obvious blight they cause, landfills create environmental damage and emit harmful greenhouse gases. They are monuments to waste. Those concerns have prompted San Francisco and a handful of other...

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San Francisco Bay Bridge + 25,000 algorithmically controlled LEDs = The largest light show on earth

2013-01-23 18:49:05| Extremetech

Starting March 5th, the San Francisco bay bridge will sport an absolutely mind-boggling light show. The bridge's west span will feature LED lighting that is just under two miles wide and upwards of 500 feet high. For the next two years, over fifty million people will experience these LEDs flashing on the bridge. The craziest part is that the lighting pattern is algorithmically generated from weather, wildlife, and traffic, so the patterns never repeat.

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Marin City Man Arrested for Alleged Robbery and Rape in San Francisco

2013-01-14 03:51:00| IT Services - Topix.net

By Bay City News Service Police in San Francisco have arrested a 25-year-old man who allegedly broke into a Telegraph Hill apartment on Saturday night and assaulted a woman who lived there.

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