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The third and final span of the old Hurricane Deck Bridge at the Lake of the Ozarks is set to come down at 9 a.m. on Thursday.
Route 5 over the new Hurricane Deck Bridge near Sunrise Beach will be completely closed in both directions for approximately 15 minutes at the time of the blast, and water traffic will be prohibited in a 1,500-foot radius around the bridge for approximately one hour.
Once the area is secured, more than 47 pounds of explosives will be detonated to drop the 700-foot center steel truss span, weighing about 1.28 million pounds, into the lake. The contractor, American Bridge, will then spend several weeks retrieving the metal, which will be placed on barges, processed and salvaged as scrap metal.
Tomorrow's blast is the third and final of three blasts to demolish the old Hurricane Deck Bridge, built in 1936. The first and second blasts took place on Dec. 7, 2013 and Dec. 21, 2013, respectively.
The new Hurricane Deck Bridge opened to traffic on Sept. 10. It carries an average of 10,000 vehicles per day.
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Each have their own look. I own Rolleiflexs with both, and for most things prefer the Tessar. It just has a certain look to it that I love. That particular camera was made during the war, in 1945, and those lenses are legendary. The Planar is a completely different look, although still has that Zeiss bokeh.
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I find the bokeh when shot wide open, to be softer with the Tessar, (more natural), but then I rarely use any lens wide open, except for portraits/head shots (etc). For landscapes I prefer a Tessar. Architectural, I use the Planar.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Micron Technology (MU - Get Report) shares weakened after Thursday's closing bell after the Boise, Id.-based chip maker posted a surprise quarterly loss on flat sales and declining margins.
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- Grand jury said to recommend charges against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane [Philadelphia Inquirer, more, earlier here and here]
- Orin Kerr analyzes Obama admininstration proposals to expand law on computer crime [Volokh Conspiracy and more]
- "Religious Liberty Isn't a 'Dog Whistle' – It's a Necessary Practice of a Free Society" [Scott Shackford, Reason vs. Frank Bruni, New York Times]
- Scalia, Epstein, many others: videos now online from the Federalist Society's recently concluded 2014 National Lawyers Convention;
- List of firms with non-disparagement clauses (of highly dubious enforceability) purporting to forbid negative comments from customers [Tim Cushing, TechDirt]
- "Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans" [Philip K. Howard, The Daily Beast]
- I've written on this irony: antitrust lawyers collude among themselves to boost their fee take [Daniel Fisher]
New York Times on the AG-trial lawyer alliance
The close working relationship between some state attorneys general and private trial lawyers — in which the AGs hire the lawyers to represent their states for a percentage fee of the haul — is not a new topic to us here at Overlawyered, but it's nice to see it getting aired at length in the Dec. 18 New York Times piece by reporter Eric Lipton. The title gives a good introduction: "Lawyers Create Big Paydays by Coaxing Attorneys General to Sue" and in fact the private lawyers who commonly pitch the suits are themselves sometimes former state attorneys general, such as Michael Moore of Mississippi (of longstanding fame here), Patricia Madrid of New Mexico, Patrick Lynch of Rhode Island, Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, and Peg Lautenschlager of Wisconsin. A few excerpts:
- Law firm donations to AGs or "party-backed organizations that they run" "often come in large chunks just before or after" inking contracts to represent the state. A sidebar chart, "Political Gifts from Plaintiffs Lawyers," confirms that most of the money flows to partisan attorney general associations ($3.8 million to Democrats and $1.6 million to Republicans over a decade) or state parties ($1.5 vs. $445,000) as opposed to candidates directly ($2 million vs. $240,000, not counting AGs running for governor).
- When various AGs signed a brief to the Supreme Court supporting the plaintiff's side in a securities litigation case, it was after being sedulously cultivated to do so by the lawyers.
- "…at least three former attorneys general are pitching painkiller abuse cases to states nationwide, although no state has yet publicly signed up." More on the Chicago and California-county painkiller cases here.
- Yes: "'Farming out the police powers of the state to a private firm with a profit incentive is a very, very bad thing,' said Attorney General John Suthers of Colorado, a Republican and a former United States attorney."
Full article, again, here. Michael Greve has further commentary on why it's often AGs from small states who take the lead and whether business really started it all.
Jim Hood, a go-to guy for Hollywood?
Who'd have guessed that movie studios would entrust populist Mississippi Attorney General and longtime Overlawyered favorite Jim Hood with a key role in pushing their rights as copyright owners against online services and search engines? Not I [Eli Lehrer, Weekly Standard] More from Mike Masnick at TechDirt: "it appears the MPAA and the major Hollywood studios directly funded various state Attorneys General in their efforts to attack and shame Google." Related: The Verge.
Sequel: Google goes to court to block a sweeping subpoena from Hood [ArsTechnica, HuffPost (Hood: "salacious Hollywood tale")] "One of Hood's letters critical of Google, published earlier this week by The New York Times, was 'largely written by lawyers for the movie industry,' the company points out." More: Hood vs. Google, from our archives.
December 10 roundup
- "Judge dismisses 'American Idol' racial bias lawsuit" [Reuters]
- "Don't sue your art dealer, because you won't win" [Shane Ferro, Business Insurance on fate of Ronald Perelman suit against Larry Gagosian]
- Lawyer with big case pending before West Virginia high court bought plane from chief justice's spouse [ABC, Charleston Daily Mail, WV Record]
- Remembering Bruno Leoni, classical liberal known for theory of superiority of decisional law process over legislation [Cato panel this summer, Todd Zywicki/Liberty and Law]
- "If I ever shoot your wedding, I'll be sure to add a clause of 'You cannot sue me for $300,000.'" [@GilPhotography on PetaPixel coverage]
- "Court Unconvinced by Lawyer Dressed as Thomas Jefferson" [Lowering the Bar]
- Arizona attorney general to GM: gimme $10K for every vehicle you've sold in my state [Bloomberg]
Politics roundup
- Latest Yank expatriate to get caught in IRS's overseas tax/FATCA trap? None other than London mayor Boris Johnson [Robert Wood, Forbes]
- "He washes any hint of influence-peddling through the purifying font of his law firm, just as other Albany leaders do." [Mark Cunningham, New York Post]
- Now why would Texas trial lawyer Steve Mostyn spend $1.2 million trying to get Charlie Crist elected governor of Florida, a different state? [Nancy Smith/Sunshine State News, earlier on Mostyn]
- Yes, that opinion-TweetWatch project at Indiana U. funded with federal NSF dollars was intensely if covertly political [Charlotte Allen, Minding the Campus]
- Qui tam/whistleblower plaintiff bar finds bright spot in election with elevation of Iowa Sen. Grassley who has so often been helpful to them in past [WSJ Law Blog, earlier]
- Considerable turnover in election results for state attorneys general (due to open seats, of course; you thought incumbent AGs get defeated?) [NAAG, Bingham McCutchen/Lexology]
- "John Doe froze conservative speech, targets say" [M.D. Kittle/Wisconsin Reporter, earlier]
Politics roundup
- Weekly Standard runs my parody song about the local governor's race, "Show Me the Way to Frederickstown, or, Lost in Maryland"; Update: Here's Lauren Weiner's rendition, to the tune of "Sweet Betsy from Pike." Freelance writer Lauren Weiner has lived in Baltimore since 1992. [improved YouTube link with video]
- Also on Maryland governor's race: it's not every day a GOP challenger blames a Democratic incumbent for issuing too few pardons [Radley Balko; more on clemency]
- Harry Reid forces are latest to demagogue Stand Your Ground laws and role of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), but Glenn Kessler calls them on it with Four Pinocchios [Washington Post "Fact Checker"]
- Enough non-citizens vote illegally "that their participation can change the outcome of close races." [Jesse Richman and David Earnest, Washington Post Monkey Cage; a response]
- State attorney general offices are now politicized and targets of lobbying, and why should we be surprised at that given all the power they've grabbed for themselves as business regulators in recent years? [David Boaz, Cato] Hot state-AG races this year include Wisconsin, Nevada, New Mexico, Arkansas [John Fund]
- Two views on Alabama proposed Amendment One, curbing use of foreign law: Paul Horwitz (adds nothing to Alabama constitution not already there), Quin Hillyer (insurance against bad judicial decisionmaking);
- More about the Greg Abbott tree-fall settlement called into question by opponent Wendy Davis [Hugh Kelly, TLR, earlier]
- Long Island legislator withdraws from State Senate race after charges of high-dollar law-firm misconduct [Newsday]
- Defaulted mortgages: "Coakley lawsuit has ties to key backer's interests" [Boston Globe via Funnell] Flashback: Radley Balko in 2010 on Martha Coakley's awful prosecutorial record (up to that point) [Politico; related, Harvey Silverglate on prosecutors who run for higher office; earlier]


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The Oakland Raiders have traded quarterback Terrelle Pryor to the Seattle Seahawks for a seventh-round draft pick in April's draft, ESPN.com reported on Monday night.
The Seahawks later confirmed the deal.
The Raiders were expected to release Pryor on Tuesday if a deal wasn't worked out, but the organization found a last-minute trade partner in Seattle. The 24-year-old quarterback passed for 1,798 yards, seven touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 11 games for the Raiders last season.
The Raiders added former Houston Texans starter Matt Schaub to the bench in March, accompanying rookie Matt McGloin and veteran Trent Edwards on the QB roster. Pryor adds even more, possibly unnecessarily so, depth.
The 2010 third-round pick took to Twitter to show some love for the Raiders organization after the trade was announced.
The Seahawks now have three quarterbacks on their roster — starter Russell Wilson, Tarvaris Jackson and B.J. Daniels.
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Le Luong Minh, secretary general of Asean, said the proposal was not discussed by foreign ministers in their meeting on Friday because there was already a mechanism in place to curtail actions such as land reclamation and building on disputed islands and reefs.
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Most claimants have flouted those guidelines, leading to rising tension in the South China Sea between four Asean claimant nations and China, which claims 90 per cent of the sea.


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Not a good game! But still better than it's prequel!
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The whole game is a major improvement on Test Drive. I admit that this game was pretty fun, now for more than just minutes, and I guess it's addictive too. Different scenery! The game is also quite a bit more challenging & much more enjoyable to play...
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There are hardly any cars, the graphics are no good (no excuse for this, Prince of Persia was released at about the same time), scenery is still not good, the game doesn't flow well, resulting in a somewhat boring game.


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