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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – San Francisco’s Department of Public Works wants to replace 3,000 existing green trash cans with bigger and better-looking ones. The prototype being considered will cost taxpayers about $20,000 per can. “It’s insane. Insane,” said Fred, a San Francisco resident. READ MORE: San Jose Police In Standoff With Suspect Who Fired From Balcony; Homes Evacuated Too often, residents say trash put into the cans end up on the sidewalks. “They go looking for drugs. They go looking for things to recycle. In the neighborhood I live in, they bust them open, pull things out. Sometimes they...

With high interest in 'cans' and plenty of manufacturers to pick from these days, here's a look at seven of the best units for AR-type rifles. Suppressors, or "cans," are becoming a common accessory on the firearms of professionals and sport shooters. Once viewed as an assassin’s tool used by mobsters and spies, they are now used routinely by military, law enforcement and others. They are not “silencers,” as they used to be referred to. They decrease the decibel level, but they cannot silence a firearm. There are many advantages to running a suppressor on your long gun. In the...

Over 100,000 cans of water will soon be arriving in Texas for victims of Hurricane Harvey. The much-needed water is being donated by Anheuser-Busch, which periodically halts beer production at its Cartersville, Georgia factory to produce canned drinking water for emergencies, according to the company. The water should arrive in Arlington, Texas on Tuesday. About 50,000 cans have already arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in anticipation of the heavy rainfall the area may receive as the tropical storm moves east. ... The donation is being made in response to the American Red Cross’ call for emergency drinking water.

The U.S. Marines put supermodel Kate Upton through her paces on Tuesday during a workout in Detroit to promote the upcoming Marine Week celebration in the city. Upton struggled a bit at the end, but was able to complete the training routine that involved a series of aerobic exercises and running as her fiance, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, watched from afar. Upton joined several other Tigers players' wives and significant others in the session at Wayne State University's athletic complex that was led by Gunnery Sgt. Sara Pacheco, a Marine Corps fitness instructor. "It was (a) very hard workout,"...

Four years ago, the writing was on the wall for beer bottles. Everyone from NPR to Business Insider was covering the environmental benefits and convenience of beer in cans. And that, as opposed to glass bottles, aluminum prevents any light whatsoever from getting through and damaging delicious libations. Local breweries like Discretion and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing have since begun canning some varietals, and Uncommon Brewers—which has only ever done cans—appears more popular than ever. Canned wine has even started taking off. And yet when you go to the grocery store shopping for Deschutes Black Butte Porter or Lagunitas’ Censored...

A man wielding a metal pipe attacked a truckload of beer being delivered to a west side grocery store Friday afternoon, destroying about $2,000 worth of suds, police and witnesses said. While whacking at the cases of canned beer, the attacker scolded the deliverymen for bringing what he called poison into his neighborhood. Not everyone walking past Mid-Town Groceries at the time agreed with the man's characterization of the beer. Several passers-by helped themselves to some of the cases of beer as a deliveryman tried to talk the man into putting the pipe down. "He beat on the beer for...

The chemical Bisphenol A, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we...

Canstruction makes creations out of cans By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 10, 10:03 PM ET NEW YORK - Playing with your food never looked like this. There's the giant lobster — made out of cans of anchovies. The alien and its spaceship are built out of cans of peas. And the milk carton and cookies? What else but cans of condensed milk and tins of cookies? The canned creations are the part of the 13th annual Canstruction event that opened Thursday at the New York Design Center — a showcase meant to raise awareness of hunger issues....

Don't tell the Scouts of the W.D. Boyce Council in Central Illinois that you can't build an entire house from aluminum cans. They know better because they've done it—and a displaced New Orleans family who lost everything in the ravages of Hurricane Katrina last August has a brand-new home as proof. Approximately 2,000 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts collected more than 3.5 million aluminum beverage cans worth more than $50,000. The money was presented to local Habitat for Humanity organizations. In mid-November, volunteer workers from Habitat for Humanity Greater Peoria (Ill.) began building a local Scout-sponsored house for a New...

Two youngsters check out 'We Come in Peas,' a construction of cans of peas and mushrooms, left, and beans, tuna and sardines, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, at 'Canstruction,' the 13th annual NYC Design and Build competition in New York. Architects and engineers compete to see whose team can build the most spectacular structure using little more than cans of food. After the competition and exhibit, which is open to the public, the cans are donated to pantries, soup kitchens, day care and elderly centers to help fight hunger. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

 FRAMINGHAM - Wendy Cobb narrowly avoided the fate of the aluminum cans she was collecting Tuesday when she escaped from a trash compactor seconds before it would have crushed her.      Cobb was Dumpster-diving for cans when a garbage truck came along to make a pickup. She said she didn't hear it coming, and didn't know what was happening until she was tumbling along with the trash into the compactor.      ``I thought I was dead . . . I came inches away from having no life,'' said Cobb, 38. ``I was yelling, kicking, screaming, doing everything I could to get the...

CANNES, France (AFP) - Alexandra Kerry, 30-year-old daughter of US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), walked up Cannes' celebrated red-carpet for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill 2" wearing an off-shoulder black number that turned transparent under the flashes. Kerry, who is showing a short film at the festival, was tailed by the press during her stay at Cannes but French newspapers reported that her staff had warned journalists off questions concerning her famous father. Her film entitled "The Last Full Measure" is being presented in the Short Film Corner section and describes the ravage...

It looks like NippleGate2, folks. Drudge has this photo of Kerry's daughter from the Cannes Film Festival.

THE dishy daughter of US Presidential candidate John Kerry certainly gets our vote. Brunette Alexandra Kerry left movie fans gasping at the Cannes Film Festival in her daring see-through dress. Film director Alexandra, 30, showed at least two reasons why Americans should vote her dad into the White House in November. Democrat Mr Kerry is hoping for a good showing at the polls. His girl is content with just a good showing.

Germany's greens are delighted, but everyone else is cursing a new obligatory tin can deposit law, introduced earlier this year, which is costing consumers millions of euros. Consumers have to pay an extra 17p for drinks packaged in a tin or aluminium can, which they can reclaim later. However, bureaucrat wrangling has seen the rules compromised into meaninglessness, and apathy amongst shoppers has meant the scheme has barely made a dent in efforts to encourage more can recycling. Few consumers have bothered to get their money back after buying a thirst-quenching drink during this summer's heat wave. According to a...

Andy Rooney finally got something right.....blaming the jerks who make bottles, cans, etc...difficult to open