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A Tulsa man was jailed early Saturday after allegedly striking a woman in the face, then cutting a man's neck with a pocket knife.Seven teams of robotics researchers across the country have been assigned one Atlas each. High-end reinforced hoses are more resistant to abrasions, elo boost and bursts.Adam Dwight Gladden was arrested on complaints of domestic assault and battery, domestic assault and battery with a deadly weapon and four failure to pay warrants.Gladden, 48, was arrested at 1:50 a.m. in the 1800 block of North Louisville Avenue after police were notified of a disturbance there, according to Gladden's booking sheet.Police were told that a woman there confronted Gladden about smoking marijuana, to which Gladden responded by striking the woman in the face. The report states that a man witnessed this and confronted Gladden.The only surprise here: Brookline beat Cambridge.Starting today, Brookline's ban on plastic bags and polystyrene, better known as Styrofoam, takes effect.Six-foot-two and 330 lbs, Atlas might look like it could crush any buy WoW Gears in a cage-match. No one I spoke to in Brookline yesterday objected, even those lugging about-to-be-outlawed plastic home from Shaw's or CVS or Brookline Booksmith.Carrying her yoga mat, Regina Mitchell of no-ban-yet Cambridge was coming out of Dunkin' Donuts with her medium coffee, which used to be served in Styrofoam cups.

Now it's in double-walled paper and even in yesterday's cold stayed "pretty hot," she said, thus keeping her cozy until she got back to Central Square's "Life Alive," the organic cafe where she gets her brown rice and kale and the "Life Alive" signature dish, The Goddess: Ginger Nama Shoyu Sauce nurturing carrots, beet, broccoli, dark greens and tofu gracing short-grain brown rice, $8.55.Members of Brookline's Pax Coalition, which holds peace flags and "War is not the Answer" signs in Coolidge Corner every Saturday, were on board with the ban. In fact, tireless community activist Kea van der Ziel said many environmental, labor and peace activists met just last week to explore pooling resources to fight for their causes together.You want the perspective of someone who can appreciate that "Brookline is a little ridiculous about these things?" I give you Julia Anderson, 24, of Milton, who cut right to the heart of the matter. "We don't need plastic bags."No we don't. Banning them once seemed the nutty idea of the holier-than-thou, know-it-all crunchy granola set. Now the nuts seem clustered on the other side, very angry nuts at that, screaming "Live free or die" and "Plastic bag bans kill jobs." Where's the evidence?Nearly 90 cities and counties in California, a third of the state's population, have passed bans on plastic bags.Volunteers are an essential part of Targa, he says, "and without them there is Zipper Corsets no way that an event like this can run smoothly. We're still waiting for the job-killing statistics.