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Millions in Asia and the western United States including the Bay Area watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Sunday evening.
The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across Asia early Monday. It then moved across the Pacific and was also seen in parts of the western United States Sunday afternoon.
Viewing parties were held in Reno, Oakland and elsewhere. In some parts of the U.S., special camera filters for taking photographs have been sold out for weeks in anticipation of the big event.
People from Colorado, Oklahoma and as far away as Canada traveled to Albuquerque to enjoy one of the best vantage points at the Petroglyph National Monument, home to one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America.
Members of the crowd smiled and cheered and children yelled with excitement as the moon crossed the sun and the blazing halo of light began to form.
"That's got to be the prettiest thing I've ever seen," said Brent Veltri of Salida, Colo.
Albuquerque city officials had urged residents to go to organized events or watch one of the many live webcasts to avoid damaging their eyes.
The eclipse cannot be viewed with the naked eye or even sunglasses. And solar glasses, which make the sun look like a huge orange disc, are a rare commodity in communities along the eclipse's path.
In Japan, "eclipse tours" were arranged at schools and parks, on pleasure boats and even private airplanes. Similar events were held in China and Taiwan as well, with skywatchers warned to protect their eyes.
The eclipse was broadcast live on TV in Tokyo, where such an eclipse hasn't been visible since 1839. Japanese TV crews watched from the top of Mount Fuji and even staked out a zoo south of Tokyo to capture the reaction of the chimpanzees — who didn't seem to notice.
A light rain fell on Tokyo as the eclipse began, but the clouds thinned as it reached its peak, providing near perfect conditions.
"It was a very mysterious sight," said Kaori Sasaki, who joined a crowd in downtown Tokyo to watch event. "I've never seen anything like it."
At the Taipei Astronomical Museum in Taiwan, the spectacle emerged from dark clouds for only about 30 seconds. But the view was nearly perfect against Manila's orange skies.
"It's amazing. We do this for the awe (and) it has not disappointed. I am awed, literally floored," said astronomical hobbyist Garry Andreassen, whose long camera lenses were lined up with those of about 10 other gazers in a downtown Manila park.
Hong Kong skywatchers weren't so lucky.
Several hundred people gathered along the Kowloon waterfront on Hong Kong's famed Victoria Harbor, most of them students or commuters on their way to work. The eclipse was already underway as the sun began to rise, but heavy clouds obstructed the view.
The eclipse will follow a narrow 8,500-mile path for 3 1/2 hours. The ring phenomenon will last about five minutes, depending on location. People outside the narrow band for prime viewing will see a partial eclipse.
"Ring of Fire" eclipses are not as dramatic as a total eclipse, when the disk of the sun is entirely blocked by the moon. The moon is too far from Earth and appears too small in the sky to blot out the sun completely.
Doctors and education officials have warned of eye injuries from improper viewing. Before the event started, Japan's Education Minister Hirofumi Hirano demonstrated how to use eclipse glasses in a televised news conference.
Police also cautioned against traffic accidents — warning drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:59:28 -0700
A teenage driver was attacked by a group of motorcyclists after he knocked down two motorcyclists on Highway 101 Sunday morning, authorities said.
California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel said the trouble began around 8 a.m. when a 19-year-old man behind the wheel of Toyota Prius was shooting video of the motorcyclists as they made their way north on the highway through Belmont.
Montiel said as the teen was recording the video, he lost control of his car, knocking down two of the motorcyclists.
After the accident, some of the motorcyclists attacked the teen, punching him in the head and threatening him with a knife. Montiel said when officers arrived there were about 20 motorcyclists at the scene, including at least two members of the Hells Angels.
The teen was cited for distracted driving. He and the two motorcyclists were treated for minor injuries.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:22:37 -0700
Dozens of people who live and work in North Beach are rallying around a homeless man who is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run accident last Saturday.
The family of the victim, 62-year-old Selester "Les" Rowe, flew into town to be by his side and said they had no idea he was living on the streets.
Everyday on her way to work Paulina Krol used to pass a homeless man, Rowe, but Krol said he never asked her for money.
"I would walk by him every day and he would say,'Have a nice day' and there were days when I walked by and I wasn't having a good day and Les would made me feel better," she said.
Krol said Rowe has been homeless for at least five years and she would sometimes bring him food.
"I asked him if he had a place to stay, and he said, 'No.' I asked how much would it cost to come into a shelter and he said '$12,'" she said. "I gave him a 20. He said, 'I don't want your money.' I said take my money. He said, 'I don't need $20, I need $12.' He didn't want to take the extra $8 from me."
A shrine of flowers and get well letters have up piled in the place where Rowe would stand. Last Saturday, at around 11:15 p.m., Rowe was crossing Columbus Avenue and Stockton Street when he was hit by a white SUV that fled from the scene.
Police described the car as a late 90s model white Chevrolet with tinted windows. It has a California license plate with the last two numbers two and four.
Rowe is in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital suffering from brain trauma, broken bones and leg injuries. His family said he is heavily sedated and it's unclear if he will survive.
"I'm really devastated, because we just talked to him, me and my daughter," said La-Creaser Rock, Rowe's sister.
Rowe's sisters and mother flew in from Alabama to be by his side at the hospital.
Rowe's sisters said he graduated from college with a degree in engineering and when they spoke on the phone to him, Rowe would tell them things were good.
"You have a loving brother, an educated brother went out and did wonderful for himself, what happened," Rock said. "What happened in his life here that made him go this way because he had a home."
The community is pulling for Rowe, who remains unconscious. Krol started collecting donations to help support his family while they stay in San Francisco. Rowe's sister sai d she wants the driver responsible to know people love him.
"He is important to other people, to me, my sister, my brother and the man upstairs," Rock said. "If he didn't he wouldn't be hanging on right now."
The family and the north beach community hopes that driver feels remorse and comes forward. All they can do now is hope Rowe has the strength to survive.
To donate money to help the family who flew from Alabama to be by his side, visit Citibank and donate to account 42001814260.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:34:18 -0700
A new state law taking effect this year allows California's district attorneys to take a hard hammer to the increasingly high profile problem of chronic truancy.
Among the very first to wield that hammer is a Bay Area district attorney who has already filed criminal charges against two mothers and said he may charge more parents if the problems persist.
Chronic truancy is defined by missing 10 percent or more of school without a legitimate excuse. The Contra Costa County district attonrey said Kisha Whittenberg failed to get her son to class 30 percent of the school year starting last fall.
"Keep in mind that many, many efforts have been taken to try and remedy the situation already." said district attorney Mark Peterson. "The school officials have gotten into it, they've had meetings with the parents, so I come in only as the last resort."
Early this year, Peterson filed criminal charges against Kathyrn Marie Faria of Crockett and Kisha Whittenberg of Rodeo.
Faria seems to have disappeared, but Whittenberg took time to talk about the case and how she has turned her son's situation around.
"I'm a single parent of two boys and I don't have a vehicle at the moment,” Whittenberg said. “If I have a doctor appointment, I have to get on a bus or find a ride and there's days when my youngest son gets real sick and I have no one to watch him or maybe my boy do miss a day of school. It was OK to me, but maybe not to them."
Once Contra Costa authorities served Whittenberg with an arrest warrant and told her she could face a fine of $2,000 and spend a year in the county jail if her son didn't start going to school every day she decided to change.
"So, I mean, I had to do what I had to do because I have two kids I can't leave behind cause nobody gonna treat them the way I treat them," she said.
Despite still having some medical problems and bullies on the school bus from the west county projects, Whittenberg's son is doing exceptionally well in class, according to the principal, who described the third grader as “very bright.”
The child of the other woman charged -- Kathryn Faria -- is still not attending class.
Authorities agree chronic truancy is a problem that can destroy a life and the lives of others.
Although it is true the most vulnerable grades are in middle school, a study released last week by Johns Hopkins University confirmed earlier reports that an astonishing number of truants are elementary school children who fall into a hole they may never escape.
"If you just raise the graduation rate 10 percent you can reduce crime by 20 percent, which means you'll have less murders, assaults, you'll save money in the long run,” said Contra Costa district attorney Peterson who’s aghast at the numbers.
"It now costs $50,000 a year to house somebody in prison, that's more than a Berkeley education,” Peterson said.
There is a bit of an irony here Kisha Whittenberg and her third grader. Whittenberg said her son, like most young kids, loves school.
"He wants go to college and everything," she remarked. "I have a child that wants be successful in life." "He loves school because he wants be a lawyer when he gets older."
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:27:55 -0700
A shooting in Oakland Saturday afternoon left two people with non-life-threatening injuries, police Sunday this morning.
The shooting was reported at 3:25 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Market Street, Officer Kevin McDonald said.
Police said two people were struck by the gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital to be treated. Both are expected to survive.
No suspects have been located in connection with the shooting.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:51:46 -0700
A shooting in Oakland Saturday afternoon left two people with non-life-threatening injuries, police said this morning.
The shooting was reported at 3:25 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Market Street, Officer Kevin McDonald said.
Police said two people were struck by the gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital to be treated. Both are expected to survive.
No suspects have been located in connection with the shooting.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:18:46 -0700
Police and U.S. Coast Guard officers rescued four boaters in a small, disabled boat just outside of the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday afternoon, police said.
Officers aboard the Sausalito Police Department's patrol boat, Marine One, got a report of a disabled dinghy under the Golden Gate Bridge just after 4:20 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Police said high winds were pushing the small boat farther and farther out into the ocean.
The Marine One crew - Sausalito police Officer Brandon Rodgers and Coast Guard Petty Officer Cory Demery arrived on the scene in about five minutes.
The dinghy had drifted about 200 yards west of the bridge into rough seas, police said.
The officers transferred the boaters - an adult, a four-year-old child and two senior citizens - onto the patrol boat and took them to the Golden Gate Coast Guard station.
No injuries were reported.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:15:08 -0700
A change in the weather is delaying what will probably be the final voyage of the U.S.S. Iowa.
The historic battleship was expected to be towed through San Francisco Bay Sunday on its way to what will be its new home in Southern California.
But officials with the Pacific Battleship Center, the nonprofit organization that has been restoring the ship, say the Iowa's departure has been postponed because of a storm system approaching the West Coast.
Spokeswoman Lisa Lacher says high waves and strong winds expected with the approaching system would make it difficult to tow the 887-foot long, 58,000-ton battlewagon in the open ocean.
Lacher says officials will be evaluating the weather conditions on a day-to-day basis.
When the Iowa does make it to its final destination at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro it will be transformed into an interactive naval museum.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 10:20:43 -0700
A San Mateo County liquor storeowner was robbed at gunpoint by two suspects Friday night, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
The strong-armed robbery was reported at 9:01 p.m. at One Stop Liquors at 390 Fourth Ave. in the unincorporated North Fair Oaks near Redwood City, according to sheriff's officials.
The owner told deputies that one suspect pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at him and demanded he open the crash register, sheriff's officials said.
Once the register was open the second suspect reached inside and removed an undisclosed amount of cash.
The pair then fled on foot in an unknown direction.
Deputies searched the area and did not find the suspects, according to the sheriff's office.
No one was injured at the liquor store, officials said.
The suspects were described as 25 year-old black men both about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds. One suspect was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with black jeans and black gloves, according to the sheriff's office.
The second suspect was wearing a white and gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the sheriff's office detective bureau at (650) 599-1536 or the sheriff's office anonymous tip line at (800) 547-2700.
Published: Sun, 20 May 2012 09:59:22 -0700
Firefighters raced to a two-alarm house fire in San Francisco's Bayview District early Saturday evening where at least two people were sent to the hospital.
Dispatchers received the call at 6:30 p.m. and arrived at the home on Lucy Street to discover heavy flames, at least two burn victims and power lines down in the street.
"I looked out the window and I saw flames going everywhere," said witness Justice Mickels.
As flames poured out of the bottom floor of the home, it became clear some people were still inside.
"I heard some screaming and when I came out, I see somebody running across the street," said neighbor Willie Dickens.
Neighbors said one man was burned trying to save others in the home.
Witnesses told KTVU 12 people were inside, some of them out-of-town family members attending a party
"We conducted searches of the building, transported two people immediately and just transported a third complaining of smoke inhalation," said the SFFD’s Tom Siragusa.
Firefighters were still investigating the possible cause, but neighbors said someone had been working on a car in the home's garage about 30 minutes before the fire started.
Some live power lines down that came down near the burning home made things even more dangerous for everyone at the scene.
Firefighters said and there was still no word on the condition of the people burned, but neighbors said one victim's injuries appeared to be severe.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 22:25:30 -0700
A woman's body was pulled from the waters off Point Diablo this morning after being seen by fisherman.
The body was retrieved by the Coast Guard 7:45 a.m., from a location about one mile west of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Coast Guard said.
The body showed no signs of life, according to the Coast Guard.
The Monterrey County Coroner would not release further information about the body, pending identification and notification to the woman's next of kin.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:05:26 -0700
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, the person said.
Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby," according to the person.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate Chan's graduation but were told after they arrived that the event was in fact a wedding.
"Everybody was shocked," the guest said.
Rather than his trademark hoodie, Zuckerberg wore a suit for the ceremony, while his bride wore a traditional wedding dress.
Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant. The two had been planning the marriage for months but were waiting until Chan had graduated to hold the wedding, the guest said.
The timing wasn't tied to the IPO, since the date the company planned to go public was a "moving target," the guest said.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was selected as Time's Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.
Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 19:31:02 -0700
Drugs and alcohol do not appear to have been a factor in a fatal crash that killed a cement truck driver Friday morning, according to Fremont police.
The cement truck driver, a 39-year-old man whose identity has not yet been released by the Alameda County Coroner's Office, was traveling north on the 47100 block of Kato Road around 8:30 a.m. when he collided with a southbound flatbed big rig hauling a boom crane, according to police.
Officers arriving on the scene found the cement truck driver unresponsive, suffering from a major head injury. He was declared dead at the scene by fire personnel.
The big rig driver, a 51-year-old man, was admitted to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The crash remains under investigation but drugs and alcohol do not seem to have been a factor, according to police.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 17:53:48 -0700
A young bicyclist was struck by a car around 3:05 p.m. Saturday near Monroe Street and San Thomas Expressway, according to the Santa Clara Fire Department.
The minor male has been transported to the hospital for minor injuries, according to the Fire Department.
The fire department said the boy was wearing a helmet.
The California Highway Patrol reported the bicyclist was 12-years old, but that age could not be confirmed.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 17:40:54 -0700
The western United States and eastern Asia will be treated this weekend to a rare solar spectacle when the moon slides across the sun, creating a "ring of fire."
But scientists caution would-be viewers to be very careful because the sun's damaging rays will remain powerful even during the annular solar eclipse. The advice: Either wear specially designed protective eyewear or attend a viewing event -- at a planetarium or amateur astronomy club, for example -- to avoid risk of serious eye injury.
The solar spectacle will first be seen in eastern Asia around dawn Monday, local time. Weather permitting, millions of early risers in southern China, northern Taiwan and southeast Japan will be able to catch the ring eclipse.
Then, the late day sun (on Sunday in the U.S.) will transform into a glowing ring in southwest Oregon, Northern California, central Nevada, southern Utah, northern Arizona and New Mexico and finally the Texas Panhandle.
For 3 1/2 hours, the eclipse follows an 8,500-mile path with the ring-of-fire phenomenon lasting as long as 5 minutes, depending on location.
Outside this narrow band, other parts of the U.S. and portions of Canada and Mexico will be treated to a partial eclipse. The Eastern Seaboard will be shut out, but people can find online sites that plan to broadcast the event live.
It's impossible to know how many people plan to make an event of the ring-of-fire spectacle, the likes of which hasn't been seen in the continental U.S. for nearly two decades.
One clue to demand might be found at the planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, which had to order another 10,000 solar viewing glasses after it sold out of them -- 17,000 pairs at $2 each -- last week.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 16:55:56 -0700
Rescuers were trying Saturday morning to rescue a body from the Guadalupe River in San Jose.
San Jose Police received reports at 10:32 a.m. that there was a dead body in the Guadalupe River, between W. Santa Clara and W. Julian streets.
The victim was spotted by volunteers cleaning the Guadalupe River and its banks.
Members of the San Jose Search and Rescue team responded to the scene and were trying to retrieve the body from the water.
Police said the identity of the body was unknown and they aren't sure if foul play was involved.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 14:23:16 -0700
A Sig-alert has been issued for a closed off-ramp on eastbound Interstate Highway 380 in San Bruno late this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A crash involving three vehicles, including at least one big-rig, was reported at 11:27 a.m. at the El Camino Real off-ramp. An alert was issued at 11:38 a.m. when the entire ramp was closed, according to the CHP.
Minor injuries have been reported, however, it appears no one in the crash has been hospitalized as of 12:15 p.m., according to the CHP.
The CHP also reported a dog at the scene that appears to be involved in the accident and has requested the county's animal control to assist.
There is no estimated time when the ramp will reopen. The CHP advised drivers find an alternate route and avoid the area.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 12:47:03 -0700
A Sig-alert was issued for a hit-and-run crash on northbound U.S. Highway 101 near the San Francisco International Airport, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash involving three vehicles that injured one person was reported at 10:08 a.m. Saturday. The alert was issued at 10:37 a.m. and canceled by 11 a.m., according to the CHP.
One person involved in the crash was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with a complaint of pain for what appears to be minor injuries, the CHP said.
The suspect vehicle that fled from the crash is described as either a white SUV or station wagon, according to CHP officials.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 11:21:56 -0700
A 39-year-old man who was stabbed in the head early Saturday morning in East Palo Alto is expected to survive, according to East Palo Alto police.
Police found the East Palo Alto resident suffering from a stab wound to his head in the 500 block of Weeks Street after a 2:16 a.m. call about a stabbing, police said.
The victim was taken to a hospital with an injury that is not believed to be life-threatening, police said.
Police said the victim had been sitting in his car when he was approached by two suspects who demanded money.
When the victim refused to hand over any cash one of the suspects pulled a knife and stabbed the man. The victim then managed to put his car in gear and flee from the suspects, police said.
He drove about a half block and exited his vehicle when a passerby saw the injured man and called police.
Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call East Palo Alto police Detective John Norden at (650) 798-5954 or police dispatch at (650) 321-1112 or by email at epa@tipnow.org. To send an anonymous text message or voicemail contact (650) 409-6792.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:55:55 -0700
A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.
A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. Would-be customers can then check their smartphones for real-time updates on the crowd size, average age and men-to-women mix to decide whether the scene is to their liking.
The Austin, Texas-based makers of SceneTap say the app doesn't identify specific individuals or save personal information. But in a city known for its love of both libations and civil liberties, a backlash erupted even before the first cameras were switched on from bar-goers who said they would boycott any venue with SceneTap installed.
SceneTap's ability to guess how old people are and whether they're men or women relies on advances in a field known as biometrics. A camera at the door snaps your picture, and software maps your features to a grid. By measuring distances such as the length between the nose and the eyes and the eyes and the ears, an algorithm matches your dimensions to a database of averages for age and gender.
SceneTap CEO Cole Harper says the app doesn't invade patrons' privacy because the only data it stores is their estimated ages and genders and the time they arrived -- not their images or measurements.
"Nothing that we do is collecting personal information. It's not recorded, it's not streamed, it's not individualized," Harper said.
Whether the company's promises are comforting or SceneTap still seems creepy, it portends a near future when any camera-equipped smartphone will have the ability to recognize faces with a click of the virtual shutter.
Already the iPhone's camera app will highlight a person's face on the screen with a green box before the picture is even snapped. And Apple's iPhoto software will try to recognize the faces of the people in users' pictures to categorize photos automatically by who's in the shot.
Facebook also uses facial recognition software that tries to identify any friends in a photo a user uploads.
SceneTap's San Francisco debut came the same day Facebook went public. Privacy experts say social media has played a major role in making it easier to attach a face to a name.
"Ten years ago if I walked down the street and took a picture of someone I didn't know, there was little I could do to find out who that person was. Today it's a very different story," said Lee Tien, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who focuses on surveillance technology and privacy.
Tien says facial recognition technology has advanced to the point that having your picture taken potentially offers up the same degree of identifying information as giving someone your fingerprints. Computer programs can break down high-resolution images in minute detail to identify the distinctive features of individual faces.
Those patterns, rather than the images themselves, make possible the tracking of individuals even without knowing who they are. In theory, a program could also match that pattern to identifiable online images such as a Facebook profile picture.
The threat to privacy from an app like SceneTap depends not just on what's being stored but how easily the system could be converted to become more intrusive, whether by a hacker or under a court order.
"Even if everything is happening the way it is supposed to, then the next question is, gee, is that good enough?" Tien said. "Is that something that you're comfortable with?"
Along with the visual images being deleted nearly as soon as they're snapped, SceneTap's sensors aren't sophisticated enough to recognize individual faces in any case, Harper said. Detecting basic characteristics like gender and age takes much less digital work than identifying individuals, he said.
The 28-year-old CEO argues SceneTap doesn't come close to intruding on personal privacy the way many other ubiquitous technologies already do. Many bars already have video cameras that record customers' every move, creating an archive that could, for example, be subpoenaed in court. And anyone who uses Facebook or Gmail is turning over reams of sensitive personal information to large companies every day.
SceneTap's business plan also hinges on the data it collects. Facebook and Google make money by targeting individuals as precisely as possible. Harper says SceneTap only has the combined data on bar customers' genders and ages. The company hopes advertisers will ultimately covet that data to target bar-goers through the app. The bars themselves can use the statistics to determine what mix of people come in when to adjust their inventories, advertising and promotions, Harper said.
SceneTap is already in use in six other cities across the country, including Chicago and several college towns.
Charles Hall, general manager of Bar None in San Francisco's Marina District, said he decided to install SceneTap to give potential customers another way to interact with the business. He said his decision to use it depended on the company's promise that no information was being collected on individuals.
"I have nothing to gain from doing something that people are going to be up in arms about," Hall said the day before the official launch.
A few hours later, the bar briefly got cold feet because of the negative attention SceneTap had received in the local media. But as of 10 p.m. Friday night, Bar None was "lively," according to the app: a little less than half full, a nearly even mix of sexes, average age 22.
Published: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:48:23 -0700
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