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Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School top a new list ranking law reviews. Yale Law Journal is in the No. 8 spot on the list, behind the law reviews of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Texas, in that order. A TaxProf Blog post provides a list of the top 25 law schools according to the Google Law Review Rankings.
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Davis is inactive after the team announced he would be out for "non-injury reasons."||||||| Davis has been bothered by a hamstring, and was also reportedly involved in an altercation with wide receiver Brandon Marshall in practice.

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PLATTSBURGH — A long planned Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant is finally under construction.
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The restaurant is being built by the Hada Group, based in the Albany area. Director of Operations Bill Rabbit said they hope to open sometime in early fall.
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Rabbit said they are likely to hire 45 to 50 full- and part-time employees, including a manager and two or three assistant managers.
The Hada Group originally had City of Plattsburgh Planning Board approval to locate at the former Carsana's location at the intersection of Cornelia and Broad streets. They backed away from that location due to concerns about below-ground contamination from a service station formerly located on the property.
That property has since been cleaned up, with the contamination removed.
They then turned to the former Mangia building and planned to construct a 1,200-foot addition to that structure to allow for inclusion of a TCBY yogurt shop. That plan was approved by the Town Planning Board in December 2012.
That month, Hada purchased the property from David White of the Albany-based White Management Group.
The plan changed due to an issue with access to the property and a State Department of Transportation right-of-way because of its proximity to the on-ramp to Interstate 87. Hada decided to demolish the Mangia building and put up a new structure.
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Town Supervisor Bernie Bassett said he is excited to welcome Five Guys to the town at last. He said visitors to an area often look for franchises with which they are familiar, and Five Guys meets that criteria.


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Everyone but Mayor Lee sees SF's worsening "housing affordability crisis"
There was a clear theme that ran through yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting from beginning to end, something understood equally by renters, homeowners, and politicians from across the political spectrum: San Francisco has a crisis of housing affordability that is forcing people from the city.
And the only person who doesn't seem to understand or care about that is the person with the most power to deal with the situation, Mayor Ed Lee, who opened the meeting by essentially dismissing both short- and long-term gentrification forces and claiming "our city has some of the toughest anti-displacement laws in the country."
It was a claim that Lee made twice, first in response to a question by Sup. Eric Mar about Plan Bay Area and the massive displacement of current San Franciscans that it would create by 2040. And it was also how he answered a question by Sup. John Avalos about rents that are now skyrocketing beyond what most San Franciscans can afford.
I followed Mayor Lee back to his office, asking him to explain his claim, and he cited the city's "elaborate" rent control laws and the Rent Board recently hiring new personnel as he briskly retreated toward his office. But surely he's aware that displacement is already happening and getting worse, I told him, citing Rent Board figures showing that evictions are now at a 12-year high.
Lee looked at me dubiously and said, "I'll have to check the figures on that." I followed up today with Press Secretary Christine Falvey to ask whether Lee did check those figures -- which show 1,757 evictions in the last year, up from 1,395 the previous, both numbers representing returns to the mass displacement of the last dot-com boom -- and I'll update this post if/when I hear back.
"It shows he's out of touch with what's happening in San Francisco," Avalos told me in response to the mayor's remarks.
Lee seemed to bristle at the suggestion that his aggressive economic development policies might have a downside that he's going to have to deal with at some point. He touts the 44,000 jobs the city has added during his mayoral tenure, even deflecting criticism that he's too focused on the technology industry by citing estimates that every tech job creates at least four other jobs (seemingly oblivious to the fact that most of these are low-wage service sector jobs, the very people who are being forced from the city).
"I'm just hoping you're not blaming the 44,000 jobs we helped created," Lee told Avalos, saying that he understands the concern about the rising cost of living, "but those are 44,000 people drawing a paycheck and taking care of their families."
Yes, Mr. Mayor, but those paychecks are having an increasingly tough time paying for housing in San Francisco. That concern animated the condo conversion debate that took place later in the meeting, voiced by those focused on the lack of affordable homeownership opportunities and those focused on reducing the city's rental stock to create those opportunities.
"I don't think saying 'it's good that we have a growing economy' is enough to address the issue," Sup. David Campos said during the condo debate, referring to Lee's earlier remarks.
Speaking near the end that discussion, Campos summarized the concerns expressed by both sides and sought to put the legislation into perspective: while important, the condo deal is a drop in the anti-displacement bucket. "We are only dealing with the issue of affordability in San Francisco on the margins," he said, later adding, "I don't think we're doing enough to deal with the fundamental issue of who gets to live in San Francisco."
The debate on the condo conversion began with its original author -- Sup. Mark Farrell, who represents District 2, the wealthiest and most conservative in the city -- explaining his desire to help middle class people who want to own homes remain in the San Francisco.
"This is the most affordable form of home ownership in San Francisco today," Farrell said of tenancies-in-common, the fiscally and legally precarious middle step between an apartment and condominium. Later, he said, "We need more affordable homeownership opportunities and not less."
Farrell argued that "this didn't need to be a zero sum game," but that's exactly what the stock of rent-controlled apartments is in San Francisco, where only housing built before 1979 is protected from the market forces that can drive rents up to whatever a landlord demands.
"We have a fixed rent control stock. Every apartment that converts to a a condo is one less unit," said Board President David Chiu, who worked with Sups. Jane Kim and Norman Yee and tenant group to amend Farrell's legislation to help both renters and homeowners.
"These units were once the homes of tenants who were displaced," Kim said, objecting to the notion that one person's apartment should be another person's affordable homeownership opportunity and arguing that the city should be building more condos for first-time homebuyers instead of cannabalizing the homes of the nearly two-thirds of city residents who rent.
Like Chiu and Kim, Yee said that he wanted to help the TIC owners of today without simply clearing out of the backlog and letting the condo lottery continue unabated, which would green-light even more conversion of apartments. "We want to curb the speculation," Yee said.
That idea that the city should help people who live in the city, without simply feeding the speculative investors who profiteer off of housing in San Francisco, was a strong theme among critics of condo conversion.
A pro-tenant crowd packed the Board Chambers. Although barred by board rules from addressing the condo legislation directly (that occurred at the committee level), one commenter said, "Giving any more power to the real estate market in San Francisco should be considered a crime."
To help ward off real estate speculators once the annual condo conversion lottery resumes in 2024, the legisation also limited future conversions to buildings of less than four units, instead of the current cap of six units, a change that Farrell resisted.
"This is not an academic exercise anymore," Farrell said of the condo conversion restrictions that were added to the legislation. "This will negatively impact thousands of TIC owners in the city."
Farrell's original co-sponsor, Sup. Scott Wiener, had a more pro-tenant point-of-view, objecting to the changes that Chiu inserted on more narrow grounds. In his comments, he noted how close the two sides were and how they share the same basic goal: preventing displacement of current city residents.
"The one thing we can all agree with is we have a housing affordability crisis," Wiener said, praising the city's rent control and tenant protection laws, but adding, "TIC owners are also part of this city."
The price of dealing with the rapid growth in the city -- whether it comes to infrastructure or housing affordability -- was also a point that Wiener made earlier in the meeting as the board approved the term sheet for a massive office and residential development project proposed at Pier 70.
"We are not doing what we need to do to support the public transportation needed for those projects," Wiener said, also referring to other projects along the waterfront (the Warrior Arena at Pier 30 and the Giants/Anchor Steam project at Pier 46) and in the southeastern part of the city. "We don't have the transit infrastructure to support our current population, let alone new growth."
It's about striking a balance, as Chiu said he did with the condo legislation, and not just a balance between renters and TIC owners. It's about striking a balance between how to protect the San Francisco of today while planning for the San Francisco of tomorrow.
Yes, that means working with market rate housing developers, and it also means diverting some of their would-be profits into the city's affordable housing fund and its infrastructure needs. Yes, it means private-sector job creation, but it also means more public sector jobs and providing a safety net for people without jobs or who work as artists or social workers or other professions that are being driven from the city. And it means beefing up our public housing and turning around the exodus of African-Americans, concerns raised at the meeting by Sup. Malia Cohen.
We at the Guardian last year looked at how Oakland has become cooler than San Francisco, largely because of the displacement from here. And now, even many people within the tech community have begun to decry the gentrifiction that is being driven by Mayor Lee's narrow economic development vision.
"Plan Bay Area is an opportunity to think regionally and strategically about planned growth," Lee said when addressing Mar's question, sidestepping the direct answer that Mar sought on a set of specific proposals for mitigating some of the displacement planned for San Francisco and maintaining this city's diversity.
Yes, we do have an opportunity to think strategically about the city we're becoming and who gets to live in it, but only if we don't think "jobs" is the answer to every question.
Even more so than for Farrell, this is a huge setback for Weiner.
It may have been Farrell's original legistlation, but Weiner is the one who put everything he had into trying to get this passed. He failed. Massively.
and that was achieved. But the price paid was too high, and they simply should have walked away.
Every TIC unit currently waiting would have gone condo in the next decade anyway. So why make the sacrifices?
That said, this will lead to a big bulge of Ellis evictions from owners who now see condo conversion as being 20 years away. Why wait? Just Ellis and be done. So tenants will lose as well.
What a crock - so San Francisco, so inept.
I'm no fan of Weiner, but I was at the hearing, and he went out of his way to sound pro-tenant even as he voted no. Good enough, even if it's just out of fear. At least we have his ear. Farrell, on the other hand, sounded angry everytime he spoke. He oozes contempt for everyone but the lily white yuppies that live near him. Which is probably why I don't visit his district, ever. Oh, and the frat boy vomit you have to step over on weekends.
Weiner did lose, but I gained a little bit of sympathy for him after how he conducted himself.
I'm no fan of Weiner, but I was at the hearing, and he went out of his way to sound pro-tenant even as he voted no. Good enough, even if it's just out of fear. At least we have his ear. Farrell, on the other hand, sounded angry everytime he spoke. He oozes contempt for everyone but the lily white yuppies that live near him. Which is probably why I don't visit his district, ever. Oh, and the frat boy vomit you have to step over on weekends.
Weiner did lose, but I gained a little bit of sympathy for him after how he conducted himself.
I'm going to guess you are young and white.
Self hate is a strange thing, but quite common among progressives.
not examples of displacement at all. They were tenant "at fault" evictions such as non-payment of rent, habitual late payment of rent, nuisance, noise, breaches of leases and criminal behaviour.
Only a small proportion of those are "displacing" evictions like OMI's, condo conversions and Ellis evictions.
so if you are really worried about all these evictions, why not focus on the major cause of them - tenant behaviour? And not landlord behaviour.
As for the rest, people have always come here and left here and a certain amount of turnover is healthy for the city. And, as you admit, many of those displaced simply moved to Oakland, a few minutes away.
Non issue,
The author lacks journalistic integrity.
You're right fellow Guest. This is classic. In the article where Steven links to "Rent Board figures showing that evictions are now" (at a 12 year high) it links to a city report that does show 1,757 evictions.
But what he doesn't tell you is that it shows a solid 71% of them are because of tenant behavior and a grand total of 7% (126 evictions) are Ellis or condo conversion. Another 185 were owner move-ins but yes, that does happen some time.
But even assuming that every Ellis, condo conversion and OMI were nefarious they still amounted to 18% of evictions. Steven will probably try to say that every one of them was done out of greed but those of us who are reality based will feel otherwise.
Note to Steven: In the future avoid linking to documents showing that your argument is bogus.
of the housing units in SF. So SF in fact shows a remarkable stability in it's occupation of homes and very little turnover by the standard of most cities.
So Steven is 100% wrong in his scaremongering here, which of course is really just yet another attempt to attack a Mayor whom they disagree with, but who is very popular with the people.
It's odd then that so many of my customers and friends are leaving their homes, often the city altogether or getting harassed by their landlords who want to dramatically raise their rents. One, an elderly man who is taking care of his live-in partner who is dying from cancer.
Well said and I completely agree with you.
Not to be overly mean but every time I see one of Steven's attempts to "get" Ed Lee it reminds me of Wile E. Coyote trying to get the Road Runner.
But, they also do not count any of the thousands of renters who are bought out of their rent controlled apartments under threat of Ellis. These folks are choosing the buy out to help them with moving and move-in costs that are much higher than what the Ellis payout offers.
The majority of these renters are forced to leave San Francisco because of the rental market here. And, many of these new owners do not even live or work in San Francisco.
When someone was born and raised in San Francisco, being forced to move to Oakland is a BIG issue.
the US, Oakland and SF would simply be different parts of the same city. The Bay Area is balkanized which means we have all these cities and counties that people think are different, when really it's all one big city of 5 million. moving between different parts of the same urban area is no big deal, and what makes you being in SF so special that someone else has to subsidize it?
And tenants being paid off is fine if both parties are happy with the deal - that doesn't require legislation. In fact, Chris Daly tried that and failed.
And the two reasons why we don't have enough of them are:
1) Rent Control, which deters landlords from renting out homes, and
2) Restrictive land use regulations
Both are progressive policies. The blame is firmly placed with you, Steven, and not with Lee.
A deeper analysts of rent board figures show a massive increase of so-called lease violations, which now are a bigger share than just about all other evictions combined. This has happened only since Scott Weiner started promoting the condo legislation on the. A paying trail in 2010. Lease violations don't include nuisance, nonpayment of rent, illegal use, or failure to allow reasonable access. The question is: what exactly tenant behavior is causing these evictions. We tenants surmise that it is technical infractions whose sole purpose is to recover possession of the unit. Probably people who have been having roommates for years who suddenly get evicted for this normal use and don't know how about available help.
and in particular, your example of having roommates for years and then "suddenly" getting evicted for it is not legally supported, There is a concept in law which says that if a LL knows about illegal roommates (or unapproved pets, or any other breach of the lease) and then does nothing about it for a reasonable period of time, then he is effectively deemed to have accepted the roommate, pet etc.
A LL must ask promptly when he learns of a lease violation, or he is estopped from bringing it up later.
That is not to say that some LL's won't try, and perhaps succeed if the tenants do not mount a credible defense. But the law does not allow such evictions "years" later.
But you are right to focus on tenant misbehaviour as the cause of most evictions.
I'm not a legal expert but wouldn't the judge be satisfied if the illegal roommate just moved out?
would have to issue a 3-day notice to "cure or quit". The TT could simply comply by getting the sub-tenant to move out, whereupon the issue goes away. However there are two problems with that:
1) The master tenant has no power to evict a sub-tenant in just 3 days, and perhaps not at all, regardless of whether the sub-tenant was approved by the LL or not
2) The master tenant now has to pay double rent.
In practice the master tenant would fight the eviction. The crucial determinant in any trial would be whether the LL approved the sub-tenant or not. If the LL had not explicitly approved the sub-tenant, the master tenant would argue that the LL knew the sub-tenant was there for (say) five years and never said or did anything.
That would be a decent defense, especially in front of a jury which is typically 2/3 tenants/
David Campos' and your vision of social engineering and a utopia, where you get to "choose who gets to live in SF" is sick. And you propose government subsidies for artists and other professions so they can live in SF and not move to Oakland - based on coolness? Do you even read this crap yourself?
seriously suggests that we should all pay more taxes so that a few bad artists don't have to move to Oakland.
On the contrary, Oakland is perfect for gritty bohemians who want to be near SF but clearly cannot afford it.
You're right - Campos is trying to micro-manage the city's demographic, presumably to further his career. He could not get elected, or probably even get a job, in any other city. And he knows it.
The city did put a measure on the ballot in November to increase affordable housing subsides in the city, and it was overwhelmingly approved by voters. Notwithstanding the views of a few capitalist thugs who like to dominate our comments section, most San Franciscans don't want to leave this city's future up to the desires of profit-motivated developers, who will only build housing for the rich if we let them. Similarly, if the comments of heartless landlords who predict mass Ellis Act evictions comes to pass, there will be a strong backlash against that as well, perhaps even triggering reform of that law. The people and their elected representatives are still in control of this city, not the landlords, developers, and real estate speculators, and we will assert that control if this city continues down this path. It's happened before (developer greed triggered 10 years of a progressive majority on the Board of Supervisors starting in 2000) and it can happen again. Don't underestimate the majority of San Franciscans, who have a growing awareness that greed is fucking up this city.
The Ellis Act itself isn't really that important. It was merely the codification and formalization of an important court ruling. That ruling was that a municipality (in that case, the City of Santa Monica) could not force a privately-owned building to be rented out if that was contrary to the wishes of the owner of that property.
Such interference was regarded as a "taking" for which the municipality has to provide compensation. Since the city in that case paid no compensation, it's laws that it could force a rental use on a building was constitutionally rejected.
So even if you repealed the Ellis Act, a landlord could still not be forced to rent out a building. If you want to stop Ellis evictions, you will have to change the CA constitution and, even then, SCOTUS might over-rule that.
Why can't you accept some balance here, Steven? Control of rents but a "get out of jail" card for landlords who are stuck with low rent tenants?
Actually, Guest, you've got it exactly backward: the Supreme Court ruled in the Santa Monica case that landlords didn't have the right to evict all the tenants from a rent-controlled building, finding that their remedy to get out of the rental business was to sell the building. The Ellis Act was a reaction to that ruling pushed by property owners. And if the state now wants San Francisco to accept a huge influx of new people and housing over the coming decades, it should give us the tools we need to prevent displacement of the working and creative classes and protect the cultural diversity that has made this city what it is. Housing should be a basic right, and landlord profits should be secondary to that right. Don't like it? Go invest somewhere else. It's time to reform the Ellis Act.
inability to do anything about Ellis, because it is a State Law, your analysis of the history of Ellis is 100% wrong. Ellis merely ratified a court finding that a municipality has no right to demand that a landlord be compelled to rent out properties that he owns.
And if a LL cannot be compelled by local statute to rent out a unit then it follows that he cannot be estopped from evicting said tenants on the grounds that he wishes to exit the rental business.
The fact that a LL can also sell the building is irrelevant. The point of Ellis is about the limits of any city to "take" from a property owner the right of self-determination.
The rest of your argument, frankly, is self-serving fluff.
Argue the point. You know how to research and debate an issue, right? After all, you're a trained journalist with 22 years experience.
Act and it's constitutional underpinnings:
In retrospect, I should have invoked my Ellis rights years ago. The rental business and conversion laws only get more punitive. The current legislation is the final straw and I plan to contact my attorney once it becomes law.
Ellis now because you can never go condo under the new rules. TIC is the best you'll ever get, at least until rent control gets repealed or the condo conversion process overhauled.
So yes, you might as well Ellis now with 5 or more units. There is no restriction on the number of units you can Ellis,.and I believe a 20-unit building was Ellis'ed in North Beach. Not sure what happened to it.
For 2-unit buildings, on the other hand, nothing has changed and you can still condo after one year without a lottery, as long as both units are owner-occupied. So 2-units will become more valuable, and they are quite easy to empty out without Ellis, especially if one unit is already owner-occupied.
That just leaves 3-4 unit buildings which, if they are not yet in the lottery and therefore get a bypass, are probably now 20 years away from going condo. Might as well Ellis those as well unless you are a teenager.
None of the above applies if you have turnover and/or good rents, of course. We're talking about LL's who are stuck with lifers, losers and squattors.
What arrogance you have, thinking that you, or David Campos, or anyone else should be able to choose who lives in SF. What right do you have to say who deserves to live here. And why should the city pay 1 cent to anyone, based on the fact that they say they are artists? Who for that matter has the right to say what is art? And more subsidies? There is so much fraud in social programs now, I'll bet we could cut 50% without hurting anyone with real needs. Let's start with the family on my block, where a grandmother owns a flat. Her daughter "lives" with her in the upstairs flat, and receives ADFC because her husband abandoned her and their 4 children. Except he lives in the downstairs flat - with her and their kids! They game the system because they have different addresses. Or the chinese restaurant owner around the block, who gets food stamps because he is unemployed! I'll bet there are thousands of these stories. None will be reported by the Guardian
First, that he thinks that he speaks for the people of SF when, for example, they voted overwhelmingly for pro-growth, pro-development Mayor Lee, while Steven wanted the anti-jobs Avalos.
And second, the sheer arrogance of suggesting that some tattooed lesbian who produces bad art is somehow more vital to this city than people who actually produce and contribute.
The arrogance I see is from people who feel that property ownership gives them the right to exploit and displace the people of this city simply out of greed, classism, racism, or spite. The people of this city and their elected representatives have the ultimate right to decide how this city is developed and who it is developed for, not the capitalist assholes who see this city as merely a place to make money. All of you greedy bastards out there plotting evictions and other schemes that feed your worship of money can go to hell, which is where you'll surely be headed if such a place exists. Shame on you.
enter into a rational discourse without becoming an obscene ranting maniac?
What happened to the much-vaunted San Francisco tolerance of diversity? Why can you not share this city with those with whom you disagree politically?
I've spent my entire 22-year newspaper career engaging in rational discourse with people of all political stripes, but that isn't the kind of discourse that usually occurs in this comment section or among a certain subset of overentitled property owners in this city. So sometimes I fight fire with fire, usually after giving you trolls a long leash. But I would be happy to show up in any public forum that any of you would want to arrange and engage in a rational discourse with y'all, as I've also done with great regularity throughout my career.
Surely if 22 years experience of balanced debate has taught you anything, it is the value of restraint, composure, empathy and compromise.
I might think you to be wrong but I do hate you, nor am I angry with you, not do I feel any need to throw obscenities at you.
There are competing forces at work in this city and, while you no doubt are convinced that you are right, the people and voters of this city have not elected a progressive mayor since the ill-fated Agnos. At some point, don't you have to accept that maybe your values aren't shared by a majority here?
The demographics of this city are changing and we must build homes to suit that. That may indeed mean more million dollar market-rate condo's and less rotting, rent-controlled fleapits for bad artists who then move to Oakland.
Do you have the maturity to accept that inevitability?
This is not a Satanic plot. It is simply a rebellion against failing housing policies.
No, it's just naked greed coupled with a lack of empathy and basic humanity. I'm not really a believer in Satan.
The world isn't a giant right-wing conspiracy to cause pain and suffering, you know?
There is nothing so greedy as a parasitic tenant who thinks his ability to keep using valuable property through unjust enrichment, is threatened by the actual owners of the property. Maybe they would be happier in CUBA?
Private owned housing is NOT public property. If the city keeps trying to treat it as so , no wonder every owner is ELLIS ACTING….
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Updated June 5, 2013: The Joplin Farmer's Market is open for business. Just a few vendors came to the first Wednesday market but others are planning to join in the weeks ahead.
Among those selling is Erv Langan of Keltoi Winery. Langan pulled four cases of wines to sell at the market, something new for him but successful for other vineyards.
The city hopes to entice more vendors by waiving all fees, offering free spaces.
Officials say rain has been a problem but more produce and items will come soon.
"Everything from poultry and eggs, we have a honey producer - that will be wonderful," says Becky Brill, the Joplin grant coordinator. "We also have planted flowers, planted vegetables, herbs, vegetables, fruits, you name it. I think it's going to be a lovely assortment."
The market is open from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday's throughout the summer.
Those interested in selling at the Joplin Farmer's Market should contact Becky Brill with the city at 624-0820, extension 23. Again, this year there is no fee to be a vendor.
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There is no fee this year to be a vendor in the Joplin Farmers Market, and interested parties may contact Becky Brill at 417-624-0820, ext. 203.
"Joplin Farmers Market provides area citizens with a great opportunity to support local vendors while enjoying produce freshly harvested from area farmers. We know how much our citizens appreciate having the local farmers market, and we're glad that we can offer it this year," said Becky Brill, coordinator for the market. "We are hopeful that the market will continue to grow."
In addition, there is no fee this year to be a vendor in the Joplin Farmers Market, and it's not too late to get involved in participating in the Market. Interested parties may contact Becky Brill at 417-624-0820, ext. 203.
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Nuclear panic on Portland: Residents tell of fear
10:00am Friday 12th March 2010 in News By Laura Kitching
TERRIFIED Portlanders feared they had been hit by a nuclear attack amid scenes of chaos.
Residents barricaded themselves in their homes and made desperate phone calls for help during the scare.
Elderly and vulnerable people in the Fortuneswell area feared 'bombs were going to drop' when 'alarmist' information booklets were pushed through their letterboxes after dark.
And they were furious when they found out the panic had been caused by an emergency exercise.
They have accused organisers of the Nuclear Accident Emergency Plan exercise on Wednesday evening of 'scare-mongering.' The exercise, led by Dorset County Council, the Royal Navy, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the borough council and other nuclear officials, involved a leaflet drop to 1,200 residents living within 1.5km of Portland Port.
The situation was exacerbated by Wessex Water officials making loud hailer announcements about water being turned off at the same time and radios being used by officials.
John Morris said: "I went outside when I heard the loudhailer announcement. I was handed this leaflet about nuclear leaks by a bloke who said nothing and there were several people talking on radios. It looked serious and it's no wonder people panicked. The organisers dealt with this in an utterly incompetent manner."
Vivien Hawkins, 78, of Artist Row, said: "It was frightening.
"I heard this awful noise, opened my front door but couldn't understand what they were saying.
"After that a booklet came telling me to shut all the windows and douse fires. It was frightening, did they want me to freeze?
"I called my son who works at Winfrith, and he wondered if a submarine was leaking in Portland Port."
One elderly man said: "I came home from work and found my wife in tears, she's distraught.
"All I know is there's a radiation emergency on Portland Port. I've had to give my wife a sleeping tablet to help with the shock.
"They've given us a whole list of things to do if an emergency happened, like do not leave the area and put out or damp down fires.
"My wife's reading all this stuff and she's scared. She's going to have nightmares tonight."
Louise Armstrong, 45, of King Street, said: "It was very strange, there was no prior warning.
"It would've been nice to have a letter before these leaflets."
Ashley Reed, 42, said: "The impact of these leaflets coming through our letterboxes is the real crux of the anxiety generated.
"The first impression when you pick it up is this is because of a radiation leak and these were delivered at night and after dark.
"It's not what you expect and it's just the sheer absurdity of it – as if these alarmist booklets could bring any comfort."
A King Street resident added: "When I got the leaflet I thought 'When's the bomb going to drop?'"
Fortuneswell resident Geoff Buckley, 73, a former senior commissioner engineer with Vickers, said: "If people don't know what's going on it scares them.
"Instead of using pamphlets, they should spend a bit of time going around to visit people."
Winifred Groves, 81, of Fortuneswell said: "It's disgusting. It was very scary."
The exercise was a pre-cursor to a much larger exercise on Tuesday, April 27, to validate the Portland Port off-site reactor emergency plan and the site-specific aspects of the Royal Navy's emergency plan.
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10:18am Fri 12 Mar 10
b+w geezer says...
Great way to start a Friday
10:24am Fri 12 Mar 10
maximan says...
10:32am Fri 12 Mar 10
bungy says...
firsts reaction to get sombody to put leaflets through doors in a contaminated area.
Still this is portlanders
10:34am Fri 12 Mar 10
17th Earl of Fortuneswell says...
It was announced that these leaflets were to be dropped a couple of weeks ago but no lets all puff our chests out and run to the Echo like a load of bantam ****.
I do hope that the people of Wyke, Weymouth et al don't split their sides too much.
10:44am Fri 12 Mar 10
b+w geezer says...
"I've had to give my wife a sleeping tablet to help with the shock."
10:46am Fri 12 Mar 10
Duckorange says...
In fact, I led an orderly procession to Ferrybridge, and was ready to blow the charges in order to keep the irradiated hordes on the island when the authorities had me stand down.
All in a day's work.
I am not mad.
11:00am Fri 12 Mar 10
ballstoit says...
Weymouth residents must be positively weting themselves - at least moreso than usual.
11:10am Fri 12 Mar 10
HotBeaver1 says...
11:26am Fri 12 Mar 10
free wessex says...
11:29am Fri 12 Mar 10
potterguy says...
11:33am Fri 12 Mar 10
niblick says...
11:51am Fri 12 Mar 10
Genghis says...
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PortlandYoof says...
11:59am Fri 12 Mar 10
ballstoit says...
12:14pm Fri 12 Mar 10
I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T LIKE THE NEW ECHO WEBSITE says...
12:48pm Fri 12 Mar 10
likeitornot says...
1:03pm Fri 12 Mar 10
CHEVAL says...
1:12pm Fri 12 Mar 10
biggestoaf says...
1:14pm Fri 12 Mar 10
biggestoaf says...
1:17pm Fri 12 Mar 10
portlandresident says...
1:30pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Dorset Boy says...
1:41pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Tremendous Eddie Tremendouson says...
Still makes you laugh though at the stupidness of some people.
Still what can you expect in a day and age when the likes of Al Gore are seen as truthful messiahs and people get their information from the Sun, Mirror, BBC etc.
1:43pm Fri 12 Mar 10
boxfile says...
2:09pm Fri 12 Mar 10
lellski says...
is in Portland harbour not WEYMOUTH BAY!!!!
2:23pm Fri 12 Mar 10
crazyhorse99 says...
2:27pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Stoneman says...
HotBeaver1 wrote:About a CREDITable as your football club. We all know why your not a Rock-Ape moosh You Failed the Intelligence test
Another nail in the coffin of any credibility that "rock apes" once had. How they manage to run a council when they can't tell a publicised exercise from the real thing I don't know - but then I am not a rock ape!
3:37pm Fri 12 Mar 10
likeitornot says...
Stoneman wrote:One up to you Stoneman nice one.
HotBeaver1 wrote:About a CREDITable as your football club. We all know why your not a Rock-Ape moosh You Failed the Intelligence test
Another nail in the coffin of any credibility that "rock apes" once had. How they manage to run a council when they can't tell a publicised exercise from the real thing I don't know - but then I am not a rock ape!
5:13pm Fri 12 Mar 10
nigefromdorchester says...
5:35pm Fri 12 Mar 10
daddykingcool says...
nigefromdorchester wrote:I know, I think I have injured myself laughing so much at these dip-sticks - anyway I thought that Portland was already contaminated or are they naturally stupid.
Tee Hee.... I laughed so much that I spilt my coffee all over the keyboard and have just finished clearing it up. Thank you to the people of Portland for cheering up a dull Friday....you really are priceless.
5:40pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Chalbury says...
I cannot beleive such rubbish was printed. I used to buy this paper every day - now I only look at it when someone else has discarded a copy. This type of headline is the reason why I do not waste my money on the Dorset Echo any more.
The people who contributed to this story must be dying of embarrasment - which is more likely than any nuclear attack.
Anyway - if an attack was likely to occur - don't you think that it would have a mention on National News broadcasts???
8:20pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Hemlock Sholmes says...
8:45pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Get a grip says...
9:06pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Captain Sensible says...
9:20pm Fri 12 Mar 10
niblick says...
9:36pm Fri 12 Mar 10
nigefromdorchester says...
Tee Hee..... I'm not sure that it is on the check list of Nuclear antagonists to send a leaflet prior to launching a nuclear attack.....
I must remind Kim Jong-Il to ensure that he delivers every one a colourful glossy brochure before he launches his arsenal of Taepodong missiles.
9:53pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Genghis says...
9:04am Sat 13 Mar 10
GrahamC says...
niblick wrote:It already has ..... Daily Mail is running it. Will try to give you a link below
This story has got to be picked up by the nationals then the whole country can have a good laugh at these dimwits.
9:09am Sat 13 Mar 10
james the thirst says...
9:11am Sat 13 Mar 10
HarryN12 says...
I laughed out loud when I read this - as did my colleagues when I circulated it round the office "scenes of chaos" "Residents barricaded themselves in their homes and made desperate phone calls for help"
On a more serious note, I would suggest that the Editor either sends Laura Kitching on a report-writing course, or tells her to "calm down, dear!"
9:13am Sat 13 Mar 10
james the thirst says...
9:14am Sat 13 Mar 10
james the thirst says...
9:32am Sat 13 Mar 10
Tremendous Eddie Tremendouson says...
james the thirst wrote:And in the home; turn the sofa over and get underneath it! Of course in those days the sofa material was highly inflammable! And all in the "Protect & Survive" manual. A nuclear blast-proof sofa - don't see many of them these days!
Do we remember the advice we were given during the days of the so called 'cold war'? stand with your back to the blast with your feet approximately 18 inches apart, arch you upper body forwards, tuck you head between your legs and kiss your a**e goodbye
10:09am Sat 13 Mar 10
biggestoaf says...
GrahamC wrote:Ah, the Echo and the Daily Mail - together setting the highest standards of responsible news reporting. Only surprise is that the Mail didn't try to suggest the leaflets were distributed by a team of asylum seekers.
niblick wrote: This story has got to be picked up by the nationals then the whole country can have a good laugh at these dimwits.It already has ..... Daily Mail is running it. Will try to give you a link below http://www.dailymail .co.uk/news/article- 1257540/Residents-Do rset-town-left-terri fied-fake-nuclear-em ergency-staged-follo wing-distribution-al armist-leaflets.html
11:28am Sat 13 Mar 10
PORTLAND ROVER says...
5:16pm Sat 13 Mar 10
niblick says...
PORTLAND ROVER wrote:Ooooooh! Get Her.
I find it amusing that all you Weymouth and wyke lot, are having a good laugh at the (if the Echo is to be believed) stupidity of these Portland folk! It is a known fact, that there are very few real Portlanders left, the large majority of people who live on Portland are from the mainland, so whilst you sit at your computers laughing away, you lot, who live on the mainland. Are only laughing at yourselves! No wonder the grey horse is facing away from Weymouth! That is the direction I would want to go having seen your cruddy town!
7:56pm Sat 13 Mar 10
captainsea says...
7:28am Sun 14 Mar 10
Joey_dobe says...
Security word
2:02pm Sun 14 Mar 10
Octave says...
Hope they dont carry out the same exercise in Sutton Poyntz...
4:43pm Sun 14 Mar 10
Get a grip says...
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creamcheese says...
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maximan says...
11:43pm Thu 18 Mar 10
wes_mantooth says...
I think the key is the leaflet says in LARGE WRITING - "Information in the event of..."
Face it, Portlanders, this does make you look a bit silly.
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"Got 16 children. All has attended Norris Elementary," said Christine Thomas who has lived across the street from Norris Elementary School for 54 years.
Similarly, resident Hughes Golden has lived in the neighborhood for 55 years, and all five of his sons went to Norris Elementary.
"For (the kids') safety and convenience, yes I would hate to see it closed," said Golden.
Now the campus is on the list for possible closure, much to the dismay of the surrounding neighborhood.
"It would really, it would hurt us," said Thomas.
Besides history, many neighbors said they oppose Norris closing because they worry about current students' safety.
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At the risk of alienating some people with an account of a "my summer activities," I would like to mention a number of occasions I have had in the last two months to experience the riches of oblates and Benedictines throughout this country and in the process try and whet the interest of you to explore some of these riches.
In June I was privileged to give the community retreat for the monks of Mount Saviour Monastery in Elmira, NY. This was a community started by Father Damasus Winzen in the 1950s with the express intent of living a full liturgical life in a contemplative setting. It was one of the first monasteries to attract large numbers of oblates and they remain very much a supportive part of the monastic community today. July 11-12 I was at St. Joseph Abbey in Covington, Louisiana, to talk to oblates of that abbey for one of their two yearly Days of Recollection. I was mightily impressed to see well over one hundred oblates come into the church to listen to my comments and to see that over thirty new oblates were professed. Obviously the oblate program at St. Joseph's is alive and well. From July 24-27 I took part in the Convention of the American Benedictine Academy. There was a pre-convention workshop devoted especially to oblates that I was able to attend in part. Four different oblates, including Kathleen Norris, gave presentations on aspects of their oblate life. During the convention proper, there was a superb presentation by Sr. Julia Upton on a Profile and Analysis of Benedictine Oblates in the United States. I think many of the oblates would find these presentations of interest. If you would like to have access to these presentations in either a CD or by print I can provide you with an appropriate link. Finally, I gave a retreat to the Benedictine Sisters of the community of St. Walburg in Covington, KY, from Aug. 3-8. Here too I was impressed at the active interest shown by the oblates of the community in the liturgy and life of that community.
There is one other upcoming opportunity I want to make known to you. On Sept. 5-6, Fr. Michael Casey will be giving a two-day workshop on the Tools of the Spiritual Craft at the St. Benedict Center in Schuyler, Nebraska. Those of you who know my affection for Fr. Casey will realize that this is a rare opportunity to encounter the Australian Trappist spiritual scholar on things Benedictine. If you are interested in pursuing this, go to www.StBenedictCenter.com.
There have been a lot of comings and goings at the abbey this summer. I will start on a note of sadness over two departures. On July 11 Br. Jairo, a monk in temporary vows, left our community of San Jose in Guatemala. On July 31, Br. Bruno Perez, also in temporary vows, left the Abbey community. Both of these young men left on their own accord and were extremely grateful for their experience of monastic life. We wish them well and pledge our prayers for them in their future.
It has been good to have Fr. Thomas home with us for the summer. He continued to practice his woodworking skills during his stay. He returned to Conception Abbey this week. Fr. Paul also had a week with us with us in late July and August. He will soon have a tour of duty that will take him to Germany. On July 17 Fr. Marcos passed his oral exams at Mundelein, in preparation for his License in Sacred Theology. He needs only to complete his thesis now. Br. Antony Maria and Br. Theodore will return to St. Meinrad in the coming week to resume their theological studies. Br. Oscar has been appointed as Sacristan to the community and will work at the Academy in the coming year.
In addition to the prayers requested for the sick of our abbey and oblate communities, I think it particularly appropriate to pray for the many Christians of the Middle East, as well as those in other parts of the world, who are being subjected to such abject persecution and violence. Recognizing our Benedictine motto of peace, let us pray that peace will come to these suffering communities of faith and they will have the freedom to worship and live without threats and injustice.
Pray too for the successful start of another school year at our Academy. The first day of classes will be on August 19 and prior to that we will have our usual busy days of meetings and registration.
We have had renewed interest in the oblate program shown by a number of people over the summer and I hope we will see some new faces at our first meeting on Sunday, Sept. 21. I will have more information on that meeting in our next Oblate Letter.
I want to remind you as well that if you have any changes in your phone numbers, e-mail, or mailing address, please pass them my way.
May you all enjoy the rest of our summer and foster the rhythm of prayer, leisure and work that St. Benedict would endorse.
In Christ,
Fr. Joel, OSB


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Daniel Radcliffe has been featured at the Britain National Portrait Gallery, and will become the youngest person other than members of the British royal family to have an individual portrait there, when Stuart Pearson Wright's new exhibition opens at the famous London gallery.
Stuart Pearson Wright has drawn Jo Rowling several times, most notably in the recent portrait unveiled at the National Gallery; he has captured Radcliffe "wearing jeans and a T-shirt and looking thoughtful in an armchair in his studio, two years ago," says the Daily Telegraph.
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9:30am Saturday 29th September 2012 in United News By Mark Edwards, Sports Editor. Call me on 01865 425451
DAMIAN Batt says that Oxford United 's poor run is one of the toughest times of his career.
The right back has been involved throughout the team's rise out of the Conference and back into the Football League.
But Batt says their current sequence of defeats has really hurt the squad.
And the 28-year-old is determined to play his part at Rotherham today as the U's bid to avoid an unwanted club record of six consecutive league defeats in one season.
"It has been a hard month," he said. "There's no doubt about that.
"We have a team full of winners here and whether it's in training or on a match day, we all want to win all the time.
"Going through this run of defeats has been hard, but we are all determined to put it right."
Batt has been part of a defence which has conceded 15 goals in five league matches, something else that has tested the resolve of the back line.
"We pride ourselves on keeping it tight at the back and that hasn't happened of late," he said.
"It's been very unlike us – ever since I have been here we have had a solid defence and we certainly need to get back to that."
Although they have been hit hard by injuries, Batt admits that the players who have been involved over the past month know that they are under-performing.
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"It's been hard with the injuries and it has affected us," he said.
"But the players who go out there on the pitch have to take responsibility as a group and we know we have not been good enough.
"You can over-think about things though. When you are winning games, you go out and just play and things happen naturally.
"But when you're losing, you over-analyse and it can be something that affects you.
"We are all going to Rotherham in positive mood though, and hopefully we will get the right result."
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Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection, Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. The collection draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie, and is in part an elegiac tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope. Duende (2007) won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body's Question (2003) was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005.
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Smith's poems embody the lyrical, rhythmic quality of masters such as Lorca. At times political, whimsical, and always meditative, they speak largely to the role of art and to the conception of what it means to be American, dealing with the "evolution and decline of the culture we belong to." Her work also explores the dichotomy between the ordered world and the irrationality of the self, the importance of submitting oneself willingly to the "ongoing conflict" of life and surviving nonetheless. For Smith, in her own words, poetry is a way of "stepping into the mess of experience."
After her undergraduate work at Harvard, Smith earned her MFA at Columbia before going on to be a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1997 to 1999. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, and has also taught at Columbia, City University of New York, and the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Brooklyn.
Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry.Her most recent collection, Life on Mars, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Duende won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body's Question was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005.
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|Trail Weight
3 lb 12 oz / 1.70 kg
|Packed Weight
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|Interior Area
30.5 sq ft / 2.83 sq m
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8 sq ft / .74 sq m
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20 in
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Highly recommend for the ideal solo backpacker's tent. Also can sleep two with one or two backpacks also inside across head of tent (if a bit cramped). Just 4.6lbs with footprint and fits in small compression drysack, yet design looks and feels like structure would hold up in a 40mph windstorm (others' reviews confirmed this). Very small vestibule.
- Weighs just 4.6 lbs (incl. footprint, 8 MSR needle stakes, and size S eVent compression dry sack)
- Optimum design with ideal dimensions given tent weight
- Stake sides of fly close to tent body and stayed really warm down to 30°, OR stake fly several inches from sides and good ventilation with little condensation
- Small vestibule
- Make sure don't stake entrance corners of tent too widely, or may be hard to zip entrance
- Fly touches two sides of tent mesh unless two stakes hold out sides of fly
I take this for a solo tent on 5-6 day backpacking trips in the Rockies, and used it a total of perhaps 20 days in the wilderness so far the past three years and it still looks practically like new. Just camped with it up to 11,000 ft last week at Mirror Lake and Mummy Creek Pass in RMNP.
It's the ideal tent for the solo backpacker and I couldn't be much more pleased with it. I take 8 MSR (red) "needle" stakes and the tent weighs just 4.6lbs including footprint and size S eVent compression drysack, yet it's 7 and 3/4 ft long end to end, and 38in at one end is just tall enough I can do reverse crunches inside (I'm 5'11"). It would be a bit cramped but could sleep two in a pinch. It's wide enough for two 20in wide sleeping pads and long enough two people might still fit one or two backpacks across the entrance (a good thing, since the vestibule is pretty small).
The tent body and fly fit in a size S eVent compression drysack (so in case tent must be packed up wet the rest of my pack stays dry), and I even crammed them into my size XS eVent drysack once by mistake (meant for my down sleeping bag). The great small packed size mattered to me even more than the weight, since I go for nearly a week with all food and gear in a 65-liter pack and don't like a lot of stuff hanging on the outside. The poles are pretty short and are the only part I strap to the outside of my pack.
Sets up in no time and easy to figure out. The fly is reinforced heavily at a few key places where poles touch the fly and though I haven't been through a really terrible windstorm yet, I read several other reviews say it can stand up in storm winds better than most others in this weight class. I trust this tent in extreme wilderness conditions. While the tent has only one entrance, it's at the head so neither person has to climb over the other.
If I have one real gripe, it's that if I stake the four corners out too taut, the front door doesn't zip closed very easily. So at the door end, just learn not to put the corner stakes of the tent too far apart, either for the tent body or the fly. If I stake the sides of the fly close to the tent body I stayed really warm down to 30° but got some condensation, you have lots of flexibility here and can choose to stake the sides several inches away from tent body and then got very little condensation. Have also used when it was 80°s and humid with rainfly pulled to side, but ready to pull over tent quickly in case of a storm.
I had this tent for the past three years and it's…
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I had this tent for the past three years and it's still goes strong.
Pros: Light, Long! (hard to find) and in packs small. It sets up in 3 minutes.
Cons: I would love to have a longer rainfly.
Super easy to pitch up. Freestanding. The vestibule could be larger.
Not sure how long others owned the tent to write their…
Price Paid: $330
Not sure how long others owned the tent to write their reviews, but I'd be curious to see what they have to say after getting several uses in.
I bought the XL version of this tent since I'm a tall guy and the specs on this tent are awesome.
Let me start by saying that I take very good care of my gear and especially my tents. Always use the footprint underneath and makes sure there is not grit or debris in/on the tent before repacking and hang to dry before storing.
I have about 20+ nights in on this tent and there are small holes forming in the floor. I have heard the ultralight tent materials are more delicate than non-ultralight types, however, I did not expect the floor to literally just start to disintegrate in some places.
It is a shame too, because the design and specs of this tent are awesome, if only it would hold up so that it could be used for its intended purpose.
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Offering 5 sq. ft. of additional floor space yet weighing only 7 oz. more than the regular-size Vapor Light 2, the Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 XL tent is built for tall backpackers. Despite its lightweight design, the Vapor Light 2 XL offers a roomy 30.5 sq. ft. of floor space with an internal height of 38 in.; XL size is 10 in. longer than regular size. All-mesh body eliminates weight while keeping you cool on warm summer nights. D-shaped door provides easy access without the need to crawl over your tentmate; 8 sq. ft. vestibule stores gear close by. Light yet strong, DAC NSL poles are anodized without the use of harmful acids. Taped rainfly seams and a PVC-free, seam-sealed floor offer weatherproof protection. Reflective trim aids nighttime visibility. Internal pockets keep small gear organized. Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 XL tent includes stuff sacks, guylines, tent stakes, user guide and setup instructions. Closeout.
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Designed to be lightweight and extra-long for taller hikers, the Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 XL Tent is for those looking to shave a few pounds from their kit. Built with Jake's Foot pole-attachment tech, this easy-does-it rambler sets up in a jiff and offers worry-free protection from the elements and critters without weighing you down during the day.
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On Sale. Free Shipping. Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 Person XL Tent DECENT FEATURES of the Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 Person XL Tent PVC-free seam tape Superseal floor Reflective door trim and guy outs Hanging pockets Long floor length Ultralight d-door Color-coded main door Ultralight clips Jakes foot pole attachment Ball cap connector Sunflower hub The SPECS of the Sierra Designs Vapor Light 2 Person XL Tent Season: 3 Capacity: 2 Person Trail Weight: 3 lbs 12 oz / 1.70 kg Packed Weight: 4 lbs 1 oz / 1.84 kg Packed Dimension: 20 x 6in. / 50.8 x 15.2 cm Number of Doors: 1 Interior Area: 30.5 square feet Vestibule Area: 8 square feet Peak Height: 38in. Floor: 40D Nylon, 3000 mm Body: 20D Nylon Fly: 40D Nylon, 1500mm Poles: DAC Featherlite NSL
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9:18am Sunday 25th November 2012 in News By Alex Winter
DORSET escaped the worst of this weekend's bad weather, with Devon and Cornwall suffering the largest areas of flooding.
However, fire crews spent the night dealing with a number of incidents, including a man trapped in his vehicle on the A3030 Bishop's Caundle near Sturminster Newton just after 3.30am.
Matchams Lane in Christchurch has been closed off overnight due to very deep water and a fallen tree and powerlines.
Busy crews were also forced to make a visit to Yetminster in Somerset to help rescue a man trapped in his car in slow-moving flood waters at 2.23am.
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Who's offended when you refer to it as a Christmas tree?
Originally published: Nov 27, 2012 - 12:02 pm
You don't have a right in this country to not be offended.
There's going to be a tree lighting ceremony at the Rhode Island Statehouse after all.
It probably won't be called a Christmas tree though.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Tuesday she erred when she told The Associated Press and other news outlets Monday there wouldn't be a tree lighting ceremony this season.
Chafee said the term "holiday tree" was meant to honor Rhode Islands origin as a sanctuary of religious tolerance.
Is the idea we have to argue over what to call the tree ridiculous?
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Our mission is to improve what matters most to people in their lives. We make wearable and mobile technology that gives them advanced understanding of their wellness. We offer much more than trackers. We give people comprehensive, science-backed experiences that help them tap into their energy and feel great.
How lark started
"I started lark technologies out of necessity. I had just moved in with my fiancé and his alarm clock. Every morning at 5:30, the incessant beeping would wake me up as well (and his constant snoozing wasn't helping either). I wasn't sleeping well, which was making me irritable and depressed. I saw my productivity at work drop and I started gaining weight.
I was sure there had to be a better way, but, as I looked around, I couldn't find any product on the market that fit our particular needs. It was then, at 5:30 am one fateful Saturday, that I began to develop the lark silent alarm clock. Working alongside a team of engineers and sleep experts, our goal was to provide the best silent alarm clock available.
In a few short months, the original lark hit store shelves, and what had begun as a vibrating silent alarm clock grew to become one of the most popular sleep sensors available. Our product has grown to become a more comprehensive sleep product including the best sleep coaching available.
At lark, we heard time and again about how our products changed peoples lives -- the couples who could sleep together in peace, the hard of hearing who found a reliable way to wake up, those who suffer from sleeping disorders and just regular people looking for a more natural way to wake up each morning.
With our newest product, larklife, we built upon our sleep expertise in developing the original lark and created a more comprehensive product that coaches our users 24 hours a day to help them feel better and get more out of their days. larklife recommends small, achievable improvements in their nutrition, activity and sleep. larklife was the logical next step for lark as we move towards our goal of better health for all with smarter technology."
Julia Hu, CEO of lark
Whether your goal is more quality time with the kids, a big promotion or just having enough energy for a big night out on the town, our products help you celebrate the little daily victories in sleep, diet and activity that lead to big results in how you feel.
lark products work with you and your busy schedule. From reminding you to take breaks to coaching you to better sleep, larklife, lark pro and lark help you get that extra energy to make the most of every day.
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2570 El Camino Real, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94040
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