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Efforts afoot to secure funds to repair, protect historical Point Atkinson site
Thandi Fletcher, With Files From North Shore NewsPublished: Sunday, July 07, 2013
When Elaine Graham looks at the fading paint and rusted exterior of Point Atkinson lighthouse, she is appalled by how badly the historical site is deteriorating. "It is a shame," the 69-year-old told The Province. "In its heyday, it was very shipshape. It was very prominently white and red, and freshly painted all the time."
Along with her late husband Don, who worked as a lighthouse keeper, Graham has spent the past 33 years living in one of two residences on the grounds of the iconic tower at the tip of Lighthouse Park near Horseshoe Bay.
But today the neglected lighthouse is falling apart as the District of West Vancouver continues talks with the federal government on the future of the historical site.
Point Atkinson Lighthouse in West Vancouver has been officially recognized as a national historical site.
Nick Procaylo, PNG Files
In May 2010, Point Atkinson was one of nearly 1,000 federally-owned lighthouses across the country that Fisheries and Oceans Canada declared surplus to its needs, putting them up for sale as part of a plan to unload their upkeep costs.
The goal is to sell or transfer the structures to individuals, not-forprofit community groups or other governments looking to take advantage of their heritage designation or tourism potential.
But there's a catch. Whoever buys the lighthouse will not only have to pay for its maintenance, but will also be required to offer a "reasonable level" of public access to the site and allow the coast guard access to maintain the light itself, which is still operational, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans website.
Although the lighthouse has been officially recognized as a national historical site, the title doesn't come with any funding for heritage conservation.
Since it went up for sale three years ago, the District of West Vancouver has been in talks with Ottawa about the municipal government potentially taking over responsibility for the site.
Requests for comment from West Vancouver and Ottawa on the lighthouse's current status were not immediately returned.
As it continues to hang in jurisdictional limbo, Graham said trying to secure funding to maintain the tower and its ancillary buildings is an ongoing struggle.
The West Vancouver Historical Society managed to get the district to cover $12,000, with the help of $5,000 from an anonymous donor, to cover exterior repairs on the blockhouse, a small structure on the grounds of lighthouse, that were completed this year.
The blockhouse, along with several other buildings, were built during the Second World War. About 80 troops were stationed at Point Atkinson during the war to look out for enemy ships, said Graham. They never saw any action, said Graham, but the troops' presence adds another layer to the tower's rich history. Point Atkinson's history traces back to 1874 when the first wood-framed lighthouse was erected, more than 20 years before the first settlement of West Vancouver by Europeans. The concrete lighthouse as we know it today was built in 1912.
Ideally, Graham said she would like to see the lighthouse made accessible to the public to learn about its history. But whoever buys the lighthouse will need to take steps to prevent the park, blanketed by a delicate forest of Douglas fir and hemlock trees, from being "trampled to death," said Graham.
"We don't need to be drawing in busloads of tourists," she said.


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The bird feeders at Stephan Picard's Thornburg home have become a favorite place for a black bear to eat.
Stephan Picard shouted at the black bear eating from his bird feeder on Sunday evening.
But the 200-plus pound bear wasn't intimidated. Picard said it looked at him as if to say, "I'm not done with my dinner yet. Give me a break."
That was at least the second visit by the bear to Picard's Spotsylvania County home near Interstate 95's Thornburg exit.
Earlier on Sunday, it toppled a 7-foot pole with bird feeders before being chased by Picard's three goldendoodles. It climbed a tree and then ran into the woods.
Picard knew the bear would return for the fallen birdseed, so he attached a game camera to a tree. He has pictures of the animal chowing down mere feet from his kitchen window.
The bear also rummaged through trash and tore through a hatch door to Picard's chicken coop. The seven chickens are fine. The bear seemed more interested in their grain.
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries estimates the state's bear population at about 17,000 bears. That's a 9 percent increase over the last decade. The Fredericksburg area has a relatively low bear population.
Jaime Sajecki, the department's bear project leader, said the agency has received about 800 calls this year from Virginians who have seen bears.
That's a lot, she said, but sightings have slowed this fall because of an abundance of acorns for bears to feast on--away from people.
"They're spending up to 20 hours a day foraging," she said, noting that bears prefer to not be around people.
Unfortunately for Picard, the bear that trespassed on his property seemed to have a taste for birdseed.
It returned for a third time early Monday morning and tried to rip off a door to Picard's shed, which is attached to his chicken coop. The bear ran off after Picard shined a high-powered flashlight on it.
Picard took the day off from work Monday to repair some of the damage. He also put $200 worth of electric fencing around his chicken coop and may hang bird feeders on trees soon.
"Hopefully, he won't bother us tonight so I can get some sleep," Picard said.
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Bird feeders are a favorite with bears, which eat seeds and nuts in the wild. Sajecki recommends taking down bird feeders for a few weeks if a bear shows up. She noted that in Virginia, no one is known to have been killed by a black bear or attacked without provocation.


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Amazon is reportedly buying a company specialising in touch technologies, and recruiting hard to keep the Kindle at the front of the shelf. Touchco is a New York startup spun out of New York University to exploit "interpolating force-sensitive resistance" to create cheap multi-touch surfaces, which, according to the New York …
It's all moot now
1998 the first ebook reader came to market. They've had 12 years to corner the market, to create the market, but a decade later here comes a multi function device that lets you read ebooks (not as good as a reader), though magazines and newspapers in full colour, surf the web (not as good as a laptop), listen to music, watch video and run various apps, at a price not much costlier than the ereader.
I think it's a little to late - I'd have brought an ereader years ago for £75, but my personal price/value perception of these things is that is the upper ceiling on their worth.
dropping the technology pretty quickly
'If iPad users do decide e-ink is unnecessary for reading books then we can expect to see everyone dropping the technology pretty quickly'
Contrary to what some people believe, the world doesn't actually revolve around Apple. If people did not have a problem reading from TFT/OLED displays for long periods, e-paper technologies would not have got as far as they already have.
Various manufacturers have been developing colour e-paper displays and several are almost ready for prime-time, so they're not far off. With the number of organisations jumping on the band wagon, this class of technology is clearly not disappearing any time soon.
The same can't be said for tablet computers. It seems to me, what with Steve Job's unjustified and nonsensical netbook bashing, that actually Apple are scraping the barrel for a way to justify the iPad's existence. The technologies needed to develop a tablet computer or TFT e-reader have been around for years now. They'd have taken off ages ago if anyone had really wanted/needed them.
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It's an initiative that has been about five years in the making: the arrival of wild turkeys in southeast Saskatchewan.
Garry Leslie of Lampman is an outdoors enthusiast who has been spearheading a pilot project for the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) to bring wild turkeys to the region. The Estevan Wildlife Federation has given Leslie its blessing to proceed with the wild turkey project, and Leslie said the epicenter of the drive to bring wild turkeys is Estevan.
He has also approached the Saskatchewan Ministry of the Environment about the possibility of bringing in the birds, and a risk assessment is currently examining whether the project is feasible.
"We've done a lot of legwork as far as talking to land owners, and making sure that there's going to be a tolerance for introducing these birds onto private property," said Leslie.
Many of the landowners that they have spoken with have been very receptive to the idea, Leslie said. Fourteen of them have signed contracts to allow the birds on their land. There are five potential sites.
Local acceptance was the first hurdle for the project, Leslie said. Without it, the concept would have been dead.
Several other wildlife federations are interested in the project, including the Moose Mountain Wildlife Federation. He has also received interest from people in Maple Creek, Prince Albert and Lloydminster, even though the latter two communities are probably too far away for the wild turkeys to migrate from during the winter months.
There is a large existing population in the Cypress Hills region of southwest Saskatchewan, he said, and there are smaller numbers in North Dakota.
The risk assessment is an important step, too, as it will gauge whether the birds would be suited to the province, and vice-versa. A firm out of Pilot Butte has been hired to tackle the assessment. Leslie said they're very credible, and they have been involved with many similar studies involving wildlife.
"It studies all of the economic impacts, socio-economic impacts, impacts on native species, impacts on other wildlife and domestic livestock, and where they would winter – all of those things that could be potential negatives – and also studies the potential positives as far as having a new bird species on the landscape for bird watching and just the enjoyment of having more wildlife," said Leslie.
Enbridge Pipelines and Glen Peterson Construction (GPS) have stepped forward with financial support for the assessment. Enbridge donated $6,000, while GPS contributed $5,000.
Leslie is hopeful that the assessment could be finished in about six weeks, but that would depend on how much information is received, and if follow-up queries are required. The document would then be scrutinized by the wildlife branches, the SWF and the Ministry of the Environment.
Any possible problems or amendments would then be taken back to the assessment company before the document is given final approval.
Leslie said several biologists with the Ministry of the Environment are on-board with the wild turkey initiative, because wild turkeys are not an invasive species.
"The wildlife federation is 100 per cent against any invasive species," said Leslie. "It's a bird that fits within the Prairie landscape as far as cohabitating with Hungarian partridge and pheasants, and not having any risks for wild boars."
If the assessment shows there are too many negatives, or if the negatives outweigh the positives, then Leslie said he will abandon the wild turkey pilot project. But he suspects the results will be favourable.
"The history of the birds, among other jurisdictions, shows that there are almost no negatives," said Leslie. "They're a very clean bird, they don't carry disease and they don't impact the native species."
Winter sustainability is a key element for wild turkeys. They tend to gather together in the winter, much like deer.
"They'll roost in among the cattle and in and among the bales and things like that, so we have to make sure we have good wintering grounds for them," Leslie said.
Leslie said they'll need a cattle feeding area for the animals each winter. It's another reason why landowner acceptance is critical for the project to happen.
Saskatchewan wouldn't be the first jurisdiction in Canada to successfully import wild turkeys. Ontario trapped and transferred birds from Maine years ago. The numbers in Ontario have reached the point where the province now has a spring hunting season.
Manitoba trapped and transferred some of Ontario's birds, and there is now a thriving and thriving population of wild turkeys in the southern portion of Manitoba.
"If all of these jurisdictions can do it, why can't Saskatchewan?" he said.
Leslie suspects that Saskatchewan would need to trap the birds in Manitoba, and transfer them to this province. Fifty birds would likely be a good number to start with, he said.
If Saskatchewan's wild turkey program proves successful, the long-term goal would include a hunting season, Leslie said. A hunting season for wild turkeys isn't his priority, he said.
"I think they're a cool bird," Leslie said. "They were the original species on the landscape, back in the days when (Christopher) Columbus sailed. It's been proven that they have been on the Prairie landscape, North American-wide, until man took over, and then eventually they moved off."
Leslie does have a word of caution for local landowners. He noted that some are releasing turkeys from their own land, and those animals won't survive in the wild. He is also worried about seeing animals released into the wild that might carry disease.


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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate
T F T Baker, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, M A Hicks, R B Pugh
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'Hornsey, including Highgate: Local government', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 162-168. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22525 Date accessed: 22 November 2014.
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Parish government to 1837.
Local government after 1837.
Manorial government. In 1294 the bishop of London claimed to have
possessed in Hornsey as member of his manor of
Stepney view of frankpledge, infangthief and outfangthief, the chattels of fugitives and outlaws and
waste of their lands, pillory, cucking stool, gallows,
amercements in local courts, and assizes of bread and
ale from time immemorial. Except for gallows his
right was admitted by a jury. (fn. 18) In 1318-19 there was
a separate court for Hornsey, (fn. 19) which may have met
at Stepney where the lord of Farnfields owed suit of
court in 1324. (fn. 20) By 1575 it was held at Highgate in
October. (fn. 21) In 1375 there was a court every three
weeks (fn. 22) and from the 17th to the 19th centuries
there was normally a view of frankpledge and
general court baron in April and sometimes a special
court baron. (fn. 23)
Between 1374 and 1885 there were also courts for
the manor of Topsfield. (fn. 24) Its court rolls were lost in
1703, when minutes and drafts from 1683 were
copied into a book in which subsequent courts were
recorded. The court baron was held from time to
time, but not annually, within the manor from 1750
to 1820, usually at the King's Head and sometimes
at the Three Tuns. Only after the longest gap of 20
years did it become active in local government
between 1820 and 1833, when the homage presented
encroachments and waste.
No courts were recorded for Muswell or Farnfields. The court for Brownswood, which was a
court leet and court baron from 1649 to 1795, (fn. 25)
existed from at least 1569. The last known enfranchisement occurred in 1870. (fn. 26) Under a demesne
lease of 1569 it was to be held quinquennially, (fn. 27) but
it met every three years by c. 1709 (fn. 28) and annually in
1795. (fn. 29) In 1649 it was held at the manor-house (fn. 30) and
in 1795 at Hornsey Wood House. (fn. 31) In 1682 the
lessee had custody of some court rolls over 60 years
old (fn. 32) but none is known to survive.
The court of Topsfield was concerned only with
the conveyance of copyhold land, (fn. 33) which was also
the main business of the courts of Brownswood and
Hornsey. In 1577 an ordinance of the Hornsey court
regulated lawsuits concerning copyholds. (fn. 34) Local
government was the preserve of the two principal
manors and probably the court of Brownswood
exercised similar jurisdiction to that of Hornsey. In
1318-19, 1375, and 1577 offenders against the lord's
woods were presented at the Hornsey court (fn. 35) but
later infringements were ignored. The homage still
protected communal rights in 1797, when it ordered
the reopening of two blocked footpaths; (fn. 36) dunghills
on the highways were denounced as late as 1728 (fn. 37)
and clearance of a ditch was decreed in 1717. (fn. 38) By
laws, each with a fixed penalty, were frequently
promulgated and offenders indicted. (fn. 39) From 1637
there were irregular appointments of overseers of
the commons; they were supported by a tariff of
fines, (fn. 40) as were the pound-keepers mentioned in
1617, when it was an ancient custom to impound
strays. (fn. 41) The Highgate pound mentioned in 1629
needed repair by the lord in 1676. (fn. 42) Another common pound existed at Stroud Green in Brownswood
in 1577. (fn. 43) The Hornsey homage also frequently
presented those who took gravel, loam, fern, turf,
or furze outside the manor; (fn. 44) in 1671 furze was to be
taken only for repairs to the highways. (fn. 45) Usually the
court ordered the frequent encroachments on the
waste to be laid open and unlicensed buildings to be
demolished. From 1786 encroachments were permitted on condition that the full purchase price
should be paid into the wastelands fund. (fn. 46) Such
activity suggests that the court's authority was
effective with tenants of the manor. The numerous
presentments may indicate inability to exact fines
from non-residents, who were the worst offenders,
rather than a level of fines too low to deter profitable
There were two pledges for Hornsey in 1406 (fn. 47) and
an ale-taster occurred in 1442-3. (fn. 48) In 1577 there
were two constables, two chief pledges, later called
headboroughs, and two ale-tasters, one of each being
elected for Hornsey Side, the other for Highgate
Side. (fn. 49) Those officers were appointed annually,
unlike the driver of the commons who occurred
irregularly from 1694. (fn. 50) By 1701 there was one
driver for Highgate Side (fn. 51) and from 1711 there
were two for the whole manor. (fn. 52) There was usually
only one after c. 1770, (fn. 53) who was paid by the parish
in 1803 and appointed by it from 1855 until 1868,
when the local board dispensed with him. (fn. 54) From
1637 to 1712 overseers of the commons were elected
intermittently: (fn. 55) in 1700 there was one for Hornsey
Side and another for Highgate Side. (fn. 56) No ale-tasters
were appointed after 1750. (fn. 57) Constables and headboroughs were elected by the court until 1840, when
they were superseded by the metropolitan police. (fn. 58)
The St. Pancras part of Highgate was administered
by courts of the prebend of Cantlowes, recorded
from 1479 and at which three headboroughs, two
rent collectors, two affeerers, an ale-taster, and a
constable were normally sworn. (fn. 59) It was rare for
officers to be assigned specifically to an area, as they
were on Hornsey manor from 1577. Some division
nonetheless existed within Cantlowes: several
officers were Highgate residents and there were
elections of constables for Highgate in 1531 and
1533 and of a headborough in 1624. (fn. 60) Eighteenthand 19th-century courts were often held at the
Angel, High Street, as well as in Kentish Town; (fn. 61) in
1768 the court met at the Flask. (fn. 62)
Hornsey manor court ordered the expulsion of
some sub-tenants in 1578 (fn. 63) and was active in enforcing
the poor law in the 17th century. A by-law of 1612
forbade any inhabitant to accept a tenant or inmate
unless he gave surety to discharge the parish of
relief. Between 1604 and 1674 the homage presented
at least 34 offences: in 1674 six families were involved and in 1676 a tenant was indicted for dividing
his tenement. (fn. 64)
It was probably to avoid paying expenses that
Hornsey vestry did not permanently take over the
appointment of officers, although it supervised them.
Probably in 1644, when there was no court leet, and
on occasions such as 1755 when those nominated
refused to serve, the vestry appointed constables. (fn. 65)
In 1742 it tried to compel those elected as constables to serve and in 1794 it decided to hold a
special vestry whenever manorial officials failed to
act. (fn. 66) In 1746 the vestry asked the justices to fine
the constables and headboroughs for not attending
the vestry but by the 1780s they were rarely present. (fn. 67)
The justices ordered the provision of a watch-house
in 1682, (fn. 68) and in 1687-8, when there were no stocks,
whipping post, or cage, the homage petitioned the
lord to provide timber for them. The vestry, however, was responsible for the cage in 1773 and the
stocks in 1792. (fn. 69)
Hornsey vestry was
mentioned in 1688. (fn. 70) Minute books from 1739 (fn. 71)
record meetings in the vestry room at the church and
occasionally at public houses or Highgate chapel.
From 1740, when there were 3 vestries a year, their
frequency increased. There were often as many as
7, in 1786 there were 12, but 3 or 4 were more
common from 1835. Attendance increased from an
average of 10 in 1740-5 to c. 20 in 1820. There were
exceptional years, such as 1855, when two vestries
attracted 56 and 47 parishioners. The rector normally
chaired meetings from 1830 but had rarely attended
before 1820, although his curate sometimes had
done so. Churchwardens were present most frequently, followed after 1820 by the overseers. Nonofficeholders were usually in a majority and in 1866
it was alleged that a minority of the well-to-do
dominated the morning vestries that most inhabitants could not attend: (fn. 72) after several motions,
evening meetings were at last introduced in 1889. (fn. 73)
Elections were often disputed, as during the years
1748 to 1751, particularly when they were remunerative: in 1833 a beadle was elected with 125 votes of
256 cast.
Minute books of St. Pancras vestry survive from
1718. (fn. 74) Meetings were announced at Highgate
chapel, (fn. 75) like those of Hornsey vestry, and occasionally took place near by at the Flask or the Fox and
Crown, (fn. 76) although more frequently in Kentish
Town. St. Pancras vestry gradually encroached on
the duties of the steward of Cantlowes manor, who
in 1775 was asked not to dispute the nominations
of constables. (fn. 77) Officers were appointed for the
southern and northern divisions of St. Pancras, the
second in 1718 being termed the Highgate division. (fn. 78)
Churchwardens for Hornsey occurred from 1421 (fn. 79)
and one was intermittently described as upper or
senior churchwarden from 1674 (fn. 80) until at least 1855,
when it was decided that the one for Hornsey Side
should be senior. Separate churchwardens for Highgate and Hornsey Sides were established by 1782.
Early churchwardens performed some of the functions of overseers, (fn. 81) who first occurred in 1612. (fn. 82)
Four overseers were elected in 1742 and eight in
1861 but from 1740 there was normally one each for
Hornsey Side and Highgate Side. The function of
deputy overseer was added in 1788 to that of vestry
clerk, mentioned from 1739, whose duties in 1774
embraced attendance, the preparation of accounts,
and legal business. In 1853 it was recommended that
all his duties should be included in his salary, as he
supplemented his income by performing the legal
business through his own firm, Thomas Tatham &
Sons. Instead, however, his salary, which had grown
from £20 in 1791 to £100 in 1832, was reduced. In
1861 the octogenarian Thomas Tatham, only the
second vestry clerk since 1788, was succeeded by
his son, who died in 1889. Only from 1889 did the
vestry clerk have an office in the parish. (fn. 83) The clerk
of Highgate chapel was paid from 1792 for posting
vestry notices and the Hornsey parish clerk was
salaried from 1739.
The Hornsey homage elected two surveyors of the
highways for Hornsey and Highgate Sides in 1606
but not afterwards. (fn. 84) Presumably the surveyor for
Hornsey Side mentioned in 1668 was elected by the
vestry, (fn. 85) like his successors after 1739. Four surveyors were nominated to the justices in 1740, three
in 1745, and thereafter generally two. In 1797, at the
request of the justices, ten were named, five for each
division. There had been a single salaried surveyor
between 1772 and 1777, an assistant surveyor in
1821, and two assistant surveyors, one for each
division, from 1825.
An apothecary for the poor occurred from 1750,
a master of the workhouse after 1743, and a beadle
from 1774. In addition to his salary, the beadle
received a new hat and coat every three years from
1788 and an allowance for brooms as church cleaner
in 1792. Initially responsible only for supervising
the poor in the workhouse, he was required from
1789 to keep order at church and in the village on
Sundays and from 1790 to attend vestries and assist
the officers. Separate beadles were appointed for the
two divisions in 1812. In 1825 the Highgate beadle
was to go to church every Sunday, escort the poor
from Highgate division, attend all meetings, and
execute orders. An engine-keeper was appointed for
each division from 1813, a collector of rates from
1817, and a public health inspector from 1853.
The cost of salaries increased from £42 in 1776
to c. £200 in 1836-7. Accounting was often slow: in
1821 the vestry ordered that officers should produce
their accounts within the statutory time limit and
should justify each item with a voucher; in 1853,
when it was impossible to audit any accounts, all
parish officers were directed to reveal their annual
In 1674-5 the churchwardens were passing the
poor and prevented the settlement of a pregnant
woman. (fn. 86) Small sums were paid to relieve the sick
and poor in 1664-5 (fn. 87) and in 1669-70 there were
apparently five regular pensioners. (fn. 88) Besides casual
relief, £37 of the total expenses of one churchwarden in 1680-1 consisted of pensions. (fn. 89) Poor-rates
levied up to three times a year amounted to between
2d. and 12d. in the £ in the years 1740 to 1749. By
1785-7 they had risen to between 2s. 2d. and 2s. 6d.
and by 1800-2 to between 2s. 9d. and 5s., but they
had fallen slightly by 1820-1. Over the period
receipts and expenses grew enormously. In 1749 a
rate of 8d. yielded the overseer of Hornsey Side c.
£110; between 1773 and 1823 the income of his
successors rose from £216 to £1,501 and that for
Highgate division from £170 to £1,248. (fn. 90) In 1834-5
expenditure by the whole parish was £1,576. (fn. 91)
It was only in 1730 that the parish leased a house
in Hornsey Lane as a temporary workhouse. (fn. 92) A
permanent site of 1 a. of copyhold land in Hornsey
High Street, with out-buildings, was acquired in
1735 (fn. 93) and by 1743 a workhouse stood there. (fn. 94) The
out-buildings were ruinous in 1778 and eight rooms
were added by 1779, when improvements were
made to the old building. In 1779, however, four
more rooms had to be added and in 1781 a further
extension was needed. A committee was appointed
to consider improvements in 1812. The population
of the workhouse increased from 60 in 1823 to 83 in
1827, when there were 104 others receiving outdoor
relief and an extension to house 50-60 was necessary.
After rejecting a proposal for a workhouse on a
different site, the vestry added a wing for c. 80 poor
in 1827-8.
The workhouse was directly administered through
a master and mistress and from 1812 it was supervised by a committee of the vestry, which met
monthly from 1813. The assent of the churchwardens or overseers had been necessary hitherto
for the admission or discharge of inmates. In 1753
the vestry wanted to keep the paupers as well as
possible and in 1783 they were provided with beer.
In 1744 a fence was built to prevent them from
wandering, in 1754 none was to live out, and in 1748
they were to be badged and in 1782 clothed in
uniform. In 1781 the clerk was to seek suitable
employment and receive the income from the work
of the able-bodied who refused to be discharged.
Several who did not work were referred to the
justices in 1782 and in 1804 an agreement was
reached to farm the idle and disorderly to the
master of the City workhouse in Islington. The
mistress was allowed 10 per cent of the issues of the
poor's work in 1785 and the master as much as 50
per cent in 1803.
By will proved 1608 James Skeffington devised to
the parish a cottage inhabited by two widows (fn. 95) but
in 1623 the homage presented that John Richardson
had no licence to devise his cottage on the waste to
the poor. (fn. 96) There was a parish house in 1668-9,
when the occupant was evicted by a churchwarden. (fn. 97)
Ten parish houses were occupied by the poor in
1697 (fn. 98) and five from 1725 to 1773, (fn. 99) when two stood
on the ½-a. site of the former manorial bowling
green in Hornsey High Street and the others in
Southwood Lane. (fn. 1) Repairs were made by the vestry
in 1758, 1766, and 1810. Two of the cottages in
Southwood Lane were demolished in 1815 and
replaced by one in 1818. Seven new cottages were
built in 1818 there and near by in Muswell Hill
Road, (fn. 2) three being for the poor of Highgate and
four for those of Hornsey. Two more were erected
in 1828. Unlike the older cottages, rent-free in 1795, (fn. 3)
the new ones were let cheaply. Four cottages at
Muswell Hill built by 1817 and devised to the parish
by James Wright were refused by the vestry, as they
were subject to fines at the will of the lord of Topsfield. The Southwood Lane cottages were paid for
out of the wastelands fund, established in 1786 from
fines for licences to inclose the waste. (fn. 4) The fines
were fixed in 1810 at £80 per acre by the vestry and
the fund was used for the poor under a trust deed of
c. 1790. In 1806 a lawyer advised that the proceeds
could not serve to reduce the poor-rate. One
suggested use had been to provide cottages: in 1803
the vestry asked the bishop of London for a site and
in 1806 trustees were admitted to 1 a. in Southwood
Lane. (fn. 5) The fund had grown to £730 by 1817,
mainly in stock, of which £600 was spent on building
the cottages; afterwards their rents swelled the fund.
As both cottages and fund remained the responsibility of the parish after the formation of Edmonton
union, their later history belongs with that of parish
Rates in 1750 occasioned an appeal to quarter
sessions. Assessment by 5 per cent of the purchase
price, although customary, was considered unfair
to owner occupiers. After an appeal to the justices
in 1793 the rate was quashed and the vestry appointed an impartial committee, which carried out
a general survey but overruled the objectors, for
whom in 1796 (fn. 6) another rate was quashed. A further
appeal occurred in 1803 and there were more disagreements about assessment in 1817. The vestry of
Hornsey also opposed the Bill to turnpike Green
Lanes in 1789 (fn. 7) and Bills to extend the metropolitan
sewer system in 1814 and 1822. (fn. 8)
Hornsey parish's cage stood on the west side of
Highgate High Street. In 1770 St. Pancras vestry
agreed to contribute towards its repair and in 1775
both cage and stocks were to be moved nearer the
watch-house, (fn. 9) presumably to the site later occupied
by no. 59, from which the cage was moved in 1811 to
the site of no. 61. (fn. 10) Offenders were also kept in the
Gatehouse. (fn. 11) Highgate residents subscribed to a
fund for the conviction of robbers from 1737, when
they bought stock which had doubled in value, to
£80, by 1761. Rewards were advertised and payments made for feeding and escorting prisoners
before trial. (fn. 12) Later the Highgate and Whetstone
turnpike trust maintained horse patrols: (fn. 13) on winter evenings they operated between Highgate and
Islington, whence another patrol led travellers to
and from London, and Kentish Town. (fn. 14)
In 1803 Hornsey decided to erect its own stocks
by the church and a cage in the workhouse garden. (fn. 15)
In 1825 the cage was repaired (fn. 16) but in 1833, after
prisoners had escaped, it was found unsuitable for
even temporary confinement. To make better use of
its restricted site, shared with the watch-house, the
vestry agreed to its rebuilding. (fn. 17)
From 1774 local trustees were responsible for
lighting and watching Highgate except Caen Wood
Lane, which had only to be watched. The trustees,
who had to own or occupy property in the village
worth at least £20 a year, initially numbered 48,
besides the minister of Highgate chapel. Five or
more were to appoint officers and fix an annual
rate not exceeding 2s. in the £, from which persons
paying rent of less than £6 a year were to be exempt. (fn. 18)
On Hornsey's
inclusion in Edmonton poor law union from 1837
the parish workhouse was demolished and its site
was sold. (fn. 19) Hornsey tried unsuccessfully to join the
separate union formed by Hampstead in 1898 and
still had 66 paupers at Edmonton workhouse in
1903. (fn. 20)
A highway board (fn. 21) was established by the vestry
under the Highways Act, 1835. (fn. 22) Initially of 20
surveyors, it was reorganized in 1855 with 12
members representing equally the Hornsey, Highgate, and Stoke Newington divisions. It met 33
times in 1854-5 and had offices at no. 17 Highgate
High Street and in 1862 at Highgate post office. The
board appointed a salaried clerk, a rate collector,
and an assistant surveyor and public health inspector. In 1855 it claimed to be more efficient than its
predecessor, making a 6d. rate suffice for all purposes,
and promised continued improvements as well as
essential maintenance.
Rates still caused controversy. When in 1856 the
highway board tried to finance internal drainage by
assessing the beneficiaries, it was obstructed by
technical objections, forcing it to levy a highwayrate and exact payment by litigation, which served
as the test case for the Nuisance Removal Act
(1855). (fn. 23) A rate proposed in 1856 to balance the
churchwardens' accounts was defeated in vestry but
was subsequently approved in a poll. (fn. 24) When the
highway board petitioned against the Parochial
Assessments Bill, it feared that those with local
responsibility would be excluded from assessment
and that the right to appeal against the rate would
be curtailed. (fn. 25)
Hornsey's vigorous defence of communal rights
from 1848 was inspired by Joshua Toulmin Smith
of Wood Lane, Highgate (d. 1869), constitutional
lawyer and opponent of centralization, as member
of committees and chairman of the highway board
and local board. (fn. 26) In 1858 the highway board prevented the inclusion of the Stoke Newington division
in the metropolis for the purposes of paving, cleaning, and lighting. (fn. 27) It decided in 1857 not to adopt
the Vestry Clerk's Act in order to keep him answerable to the parish. (fn. 28) The vestry was unable to prevent
the filling-in of the New River and tried in vain to
stop the construction of the G.N.R. through the
parish. A Bill introduced in 1852 by the G.N.R. (fn. 29)
would have enabled it to close footpaths but Hornsey
succeeded in having the clause struck out and safeguards inserted. Footpaths were also preserved by
indicting the G.N.R. and the Archway Road Co.
The vestry carefully reviewed plans of the T. &
H.J.R. in 1857 and the highway board appointed a
railway committee to investigate proposed lines in
1860. (fn. 30) In 1860 Hornsey again petitioned against
a Bill to extend the metropolitan sewer system,
whereupon a clause saving its rights was substituted. (fn. 31) Apart from objecting to the Parochial
Assessments Bill, in 1861 the highway board opposed the Highway Bill, which threatened the
inhabitants' powers to manage affairs that required
local knowledge. (fn. 32) By such resistance Hornsey gave
a lead to neighbouring parishes.
The growth in population of the parts of Hornsey
imbedded in Stoke Newington led in 1855 to their
receiving equal representation in the vestry with
Highgate Side and Hornsey Side. From 1871 a third
overseer for South Hornsey was appointed. Ratepayers' meetings adopted the lighting provisions of
the Lighting and Watching Act, 1834, for one estate
in 1847 (fn. 33) and another in 1854; (fn. 34) the estates were
amalgamated in 1858 in the Hornsey (Stoke Newington) district, which covered all the parish south of
Hornsey Wood House. (fn. 35) Its lighting inspectors
considered adopting the Local Government Act,
1858, from 1861, with or without the rest of Hornsey, (fn. 36) and in 1865 South Hornsey local board of
health was established for the area south of Seven
Sisters Road. (fn. 37) Disputes with neighbouring authorities resulted in attempts to annexe the area to the
metropolis (fn. 38) but were resolved by a public inquiry
in 1873 and the Metropolitan Board of Works Act,
1874. (fn. 39) South Hornsey became a U.D. in 1894, a
separate civil parish in 1895, (fn. 40) and, under the London
Government Act, 1899, a ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, whereupon
it was transferred to the county of London. (fn. 41) Under
the London Government Act, 1963, it was incorporated in Hackney L.B. in 1965, (fn. 42) when Brownswood Park became Brownswood ward and Clissold
Park was part of Defoe ward.
Hornsey escaped inclusion in the metropolitan
sewer system on several occasions. In 1848 the ratepayers of Highgate elected a sanitary committee (fn. 43)
and in 1851 the vestry appointed a standing drainage
committee, which was superseded in 1854 by the
highway board. In 1867 the parish had a bad system of drainage, apparently because the powers of
committee and board were insufficient, (fn. 44) the vestry
in 1864 having refused to adopt the Local Government Act, 1858. When South Hornsey local board
was established, a similar application by the district
of St. Michael, Highgate, failed because sewage
could not be disposed of within the district. (fn. 45) Early
in 1866 a similar proposal was rejected by Hornsey
ratepayers. (fn. 46) Under the Sanitary Act, 1866, Edmonton union appointed a committee to remove
nuisances and the vestry appointed a drainage
committee. (fn. 47) There were thus three committees
with overlapping functions, inadequate powers, and
authority to levy rates, and in 1867 the parish
adopted the Local Government Act. At that juncture
the Hornet considered Hornsey the 'worst governed
parish about London'. (fn. 48)
Hornsey local board consisted of fifteen members, who met fortnightly and had committees for
nuisance removal, sewers and water, for roads and
works, and for finance. It retained the highway
board's officers and appointed a treasurer, a clerk,
an assistant surveyor and inspector, and a rate
collector. (fn. 49) During the 1880s F. D. Askey, founder
of Hornsey radical association and town clerk
1890-1924, repeatedly attacked the board for extravagance but by 1903 it was considered efficient. (fn. 50)
Hornsey became a U.D. under the Local Government Act, 1894, and was divided into the 8 wards
of Highgate, Muswell Hill, Crouch End, Hornsey
(divided in 1903), (fn. 51) North and South Harringay,
Stroud Green, and Finsbury Park, each with 3
members. (fn. 52) The wards varied from 109 a. to 709 a.
and in population from 4,859 to 19,044 in 1901, (fn. 53)
when Clerkenwell detached was added to Hornsey
and Middlesex. (fn. 54) After a campaign started in 1897
Hornsey was incorporated as the second municipal
borough in Middlesex in 1903 (fn. 55) but it failed to
become a county borough in 1904 and 1915. (fn. 56) The
new borough had a mayor, 3 aldermen, and 27
councillors elected from 9 wards (fn. 57) and in 1907 there
were 30 councillors and 10 aldermen. (fn. 58) From 1936
there were 8 wards: Highgate, Muswell Hill,
Central Hornsey and Stround Green each returned
6 councillors, and Crouch End, North and South
Harringay, and Finsbury Park returned 3. (fn. 59) In 1956
councillors were elected for 3 years and aldermen
for 6, the full council met 8 times a year, and there
were 8 main committees. (fn. 60) At the first borough
elections there was a contest in 7 wards and a 63 per
cent poll. The first council included Liberals and
nonconformists but dominance was rapidly achieved
by the new Municipal Reformers (later Conservatives). There were 43 Conservative and 5 Labour
councillors in 1950. (fn. 61) In 1965 Hornsey joined
Tottenham and Wood Green in Haringey L.B.
Borough of HornseyPer chevron argent and gules, in chief two oak trees eradicated proper and in base two swords in saltire proper, the latter pommelled and hilted or [Granted 1904]
Hornsey local board used the old highway board
offices, (fn. 62) until in 1869 it moved into the purposebuilt no. 99 Southwood Lane (fn. 63) on land leased from
the London Diocesan Penitentiary. The offices were
greatly enlarged in 1885 and 1916 (fn. 64) but were considered ill situated by 1894 and unsuitable in
1934-5. (fn. 65) A more central town hall, which would
also house the school board, was accordingly built
at Crouch End. (fn. 66) Designed by R. H. Uren, it won
the bronze medal of the R.I.B.A. in 1936 for the
best street frontage built in London during the
previous three years. It is of pinkish grey bricks with
dressings of Portland stone, forming two freely
grouped blocks linked by a slim 80-ft. tower and
including an assembly hall for 1,000 people. (fn. 67) In
1976 it housed Haringey's departments of town
planning and electoral registration, the offices of the
borough architect, surveyor, engineer, town safety,
area housing and youth employment officers, the
registrar of births and deaths, and the school welfare
London Borough of HaringeySable, eight rays issuing from the fess point throughout or [Granted 1965]
Under the Parliamentary Reform Act, 1885, the
Hornsey Division of Middlesex was established. (fn. 68)
In 1918, under the Representation of the People's
Act, (fn. 69) Hornsey became a parliamentary borough. (fn. 70)
Both constituencies have returned only Unionist and
Conservative M.P.s, (fn. 71) although in 1945 Hornsey
was one of three constituencies where a Communist,
despite Labour opposition, won more than 20 per
cent of the votes. (fn. 72)
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My father made a pretty damn good living
Playing music on the Beauty Way
He's gonna die with some money in his pocket
Wish I could do the same today little darling
Wish I could do the same today
Doe eyed kid and a little transistor
Tuned into Wolfman jack
I picked up a guitar heard the sirens whisper
And I never looked back little darling
And I never looked back
I worked the clubs along the Sangre de Cristos?
Polished the diamond in the rough
By the time I hit L.A. I was hotter than a pistol
But you're never hot enough little darling
You never really hot enough
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I felt the lights on the big, big stages
The fire burning in my soul
I've had those nights when my guitar rages
But it's not something you control little darling
It's not something you control
Redtail diving for a rat on Sunset
Coyote picking through the trash
Oh I wish I was lying like a cat in the sun
'stead of working like a dog for the cash little
I'm only working for the cash
Sometimes I wish I could unplug this cord
And my soul or my money I could save
Oh but every time I say I'm gonna quit the Beauty Way
I hear my bones just turning in their grave little
Bones turning in their grave
Hey yeah yeah
Hey yeah
Hey yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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After a thrilling opening round, South Africa's provincial heavyweights continue their battle for supremacy this weekend.
Last weekend's contests were closely fought affairs and all three results were decided in the dying minutes of each match. There are several interesting match-ups lined up for this weekend and due to Saturday's Rugby Championship Test between the Springboks and los Pumas in Soweto, there's a slight change in the Currie Cup programme.
There will be two encounters on Friday. In the early game, the Sharks host the Golden Lions in Durban and the Blue Bulls face high-riding Griquas later on in Pretoria.
Saturday's action sees defending champions Western Province face the table-topping Free State Cheetahs at Newlands in Cape Town. This encounter follows immediately after the clash between South Africa and Argentina.
Friday, 16 August
Sharks v Golden Lions
Blue Bulls v Griquas
Saturday, 17 August
Western Province v Free State Cheetahs
1. Cheetahs 5
2. Griquas 4
3. Western Province 2
4. Blue Bulls 2
5. Golden Lions 1
6. Sharks 1
Sharks v Golden Lions
Kings Park Stadium, Durban
The Sharks will be desperate to claim their first victory of the season after suffering a disappointing 32-30 defeat to Griquas in Durban last weekend.
Winning home fixtures will be important for all the teams in the competition and after last week's shock result against the tournament's least-fancied side the hosts cannot afford another slip-up.
The Lions, however, are also smarting after going down 30-29 to the Free State Cheetahs in Johannesburg in their opener, and will be just as determined to get their first win under their belts.
The Sharks' stand-in captain Jacques Botes is aware of the consequences of another home defeat for his side, said registering a win was critical even at such an early stage of their campaign.
"This is a vital match for both teams, but we're playing at home and you don't want to slip up in back-to-back games at home," he said.
"They'll come out firing as they always do, they like to play an attractive brand of rugby and it will demand a lot from us from a defensive point of view."
Lions coach Johan Ackermann has shuffled his starting XV and the selection of Elton Jantjies at fly-half and Marnitz Boshoff at full-back could mean that the men form Johannesburg will make more use of the boot this weekend.
They played expansively in that defeat against the Cheetahs and maybe a change of style could be on the cards from coach Johan Ackermann and his troops this weekend.
Prediction:The Sharks cannot afford another home defeat and will be desperate to make up for last week's shock result against Griquas.The Lions will be no pushovers, however, and will push them all the way. It will be another close clash, but the hosts will triumph by two points in the end!
The teams:
Sharks: 15 Odwa Ndungane, 14 SP Marais, 13 Louis Ludik, 12 Heimar Williams, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Butch James, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Jacques Botes (captain), 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Brynard Stander, 5 Marco Wentzel, 4 Edwin Hewitt, 3 Wiehahn Herbst, 2 Kyle Cooper, 1 Dale Chadwick.
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Rayno Gerber, 18 Peet Marais, 19 Tera Mtembu, 20 Cobus Reinach, 21 Fred Zeilinga, 22 Jaco van Tonder
Golden Lions: 15 Marnitz Boshoff, 14 Deon Helberg, 13 Robert De Bruin, 12 Dylan Des Fountain, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Guy Cronje, 8 Willie Britz, 7 Derick Minnie (captain), 6 Jaco Kriel, 5 Hugo Kloppers, 4 Chris van Zyl, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Martin Bezuidenhout, 1 Jacques Van Rooyen.
Replacements: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Lambert Groenewald, 19 Warwick Tecklenburg, 20 Tian Meyer, 21 Lionel Cronje, 22 Crysander Botha.
Kick-off:17:05 (15:05 GMT)
Referee: Ben Crouse
Blue Bulls v Griquas
Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria
The men from Pretoria surprised many enthusiasts when they registered a 24-24 draw with the defending champions, Western Province, last weekend.
They could so easily have won that match and only a missed conversion kick from Tony Jantjies denied them what would have been a memorable triumph.
They will look to build on that result against the men from Kimberley who caused the biggest upset of the opening round with their last-minute victory in Durban.
The Bulls dominated the last quarter of that match in Cape Town - clawing their way back from a 21-9 deficit - and coach Pine Pienaar has rewarded his charges for their fine performance by making only one enforced change to his run-on side.
"From the start I told the team they would be rewarded for good performances," Pienaar said on Tuesday.
"So nobody is guaranteed a place in the team as we feel the union and the jersey come first.
"Most of the players did well and it was a 22-man effort against Western Province."
Bulls skipper Jono Ross is not underestimating Griquas especially after their victory over the Sharks.
"Griquas are a really good side and, in the past, people said they were only tough at home, but Saturday proved they can play anywhere," Ross said.
The Kimberley-based outfit's coach Pote Human said his side's win over the Sharks have given them confidence ahead of this weekend's clash.
"We've struggled in the past to win our away games, but we have succeeded in beating the Sharks at home," Human said.
"Now we must beat the Bulls on their own turf if we are to build on that momentum. We play Western Province in two weeks' time in Kimberley and will need all the momentum we can manage against last year's Currie Cup champions."
Prediction:The Bulls will be buoyed by last weekend's result against WP and should take the honours by eight points!
The teams:
Blue Bulls: 15 J�rgen Visser, 14 Sampie Mastriet, 13 Ulrich Beyers, 12 Francois Venter, 11 Travis Ismaiel, 10 Tony Jantjies, 9 Rudy Paige, 8 Jono Ross (c), 7 Jacques du Plessis, 6 Wiaan Liebenberg, 5 Grant Hattingh, 4 Paul Willemse, 3 Frik Kirsten, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 Morn� Mellett.
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Marcell van der Merwe, 18 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 19 Jean Cook, 20 Ruan Snyman, 21 Waylon Murray, 22 Clayton Blommetjies.
Griquas: 15 Gouws Prinsloo, 14 Nico Scheepers, 13 JP Nel, 12 Howard Mnisi, 11 PJ Vermeulen, 10 Francois Brummer, 9 Jacques Coetzee, 8 Burger Schoeman, 7 Jonathan Adendorf, 6 Carel Greeff, 5 Jaco Nepgen, 4 Hilton Lobberts, 3 Lourens Adriaanse, 2 Ryno Barnes (c), 1 Steph Roberts.
Replacements: 16 Matt Dobson, 17 Nick Schonert, 18 RJ Liebenberg, 19 Leon Karemaker, 20 Marnus Hugo, 21 Du Randt Gerber, 22 Rocco Jansen.
Kick-off:19:10 (17:10 GMT)
Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen
Western Province v Free State Cheetahs
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town
Western Province owe their supporters a much improved showing after almost coming a cropper against the Bulls in their opener. The champions' draw, after dominating for most of the match, has made them determined to take the challenge to the Cheetahs.
"We need to cut down our errors and improve our discipline, otherwise Free State will make life very uncomfortable for us on Saturday," said assistant coach Robbie Fleck.
The promotion of Michael Rhodes to the second row adds experience and physicality to the home side's pack. Players like Rhodes, Rynardt Elstadt and captain Deon Fourie will be expected to take the game to the visitors while backs like Gio Aplon, Damian de Allende and Gary van Aswegen must provide the spark.
The Cheetahs got their campaign off to a perfect start with a narrow away victory against the Lions. They've managed to retain the core of their Super Rugby squad and the experience of players like Philip van der Walt, Robert Ebersohn and skipper Boom Prinsloo helped them over the line against the Lions in their opening fixture.
That trio will be expected to lead from the front but they Bloemfontein-based side will know that playing against WP in Cape Town is never easy and it will take a 15-man effort to claim their second successive away victory.
Prediction:Province seldom play poorly in front of their home fans on successive weekends, so expect a far better showing.WP to win by six points!
The teams:
Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Pat Howard, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Cheslin Kolbe, 10 Gary van Aswegen, 9 Louis Schreuder, 8 Nizaam Carr, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 De Kock Steenkamp, 4 Michael Rhodes, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Gerbrandt Grobler, 19 Rohan Kitshoff, 20 Nic Groom, 21 Kurt Coleman, 22 Ryan Nell.
Free State Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Riaan Smit, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Robert Ebersohn, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Elgar Watts, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Philip van der Walt, 7 Lappies Labuschagne, 6 Boom Prinsloo (c), 5 Waltie Vermeulen, 4 Lood de Jager, 3 John-Roy Jenkinson, 2 Hercu Liebenberg, 1 Caylib Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 Ethienne Reynecke, 17 Wian du Preez, 18 Oupa Mohoje, 19 Davon Raubenheimer, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Joubert Engelbrecht, 22 Piet Lindeque.
Kick-off:19:15 (17:15 GMT)
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan


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- Gather NEW items in quantities listed below. Assemble School Pal-Paks (SPPs) and seal the Ziploc bags. Include only those items listed below. Deviating from this list can cause an entire shipment to be rejected in customs. Set the SPPs in groups of ten (10) to determine the number of boxes needed.
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- 1 package of #2 pencils (quantity—10-12 pencils)
- 1 package of black pens (quantity—10-12 pens)
- 2 pink erasers, 2-3 inches long
- 2 rulers (6" or 12", with metric measurements)
- 1 package of colored pencils (quantity—12-15)
- 1 pair of blunt-nosed scissors
- 1 hand-held pencil sharpener
These contents will give each student a notebook, 5-6 pencils, 5-6 pens, an eraser, and a ruler. Two students will share the colored pencils, scissors, and sharpener.
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Summary: Bingo! A subscription-based service easily adapted to the needs of schools without forcing educational institutions to buy one more electronic device when we're already pushing towards 1:1 computing as fast as our little budgets will allow. Really, folks, I'm not a Google fanboy. They just do cool stuff.
Almost 6 months ago I wrote a post about ways to push the e-textbook market forward, making the limitations of the then e-reader of choice (the Kindle) irrelevant. Screw the Kindle, I said...just give me an e-book App to use on a variety of devices and it won't matter that a Kindle isn't in color or that e-books can't readily be shared in a school setting like paper books can be.
Not surprisingly, Google agreed with me and announced its Book Project about a month later. As I reported then, quoting the Wall Street Journal,
A key difference [from Kindle] would be that the search giant aims to let Google Book Search users "buy access" to copyrighted books with any Web-enabled computer, e-reader or mobile phone.
Bingo! A subscription-based service easily adapted to the needs of schools without forcing educational institutions to buy one more electronic device when we're already pushing towards 1:1 computing as fast as our little budgets will allow. Really, folks, I'm not a Google fanboy. They just do cool stuff.
Today, Google announced further details about its Book Search, rebranded as Google Editions. According to Ars Technica,
The books will be accessible on the Web, says Google, meaning that any computer or gadget that has a browser will be able to get to the site. The way Google Editions is being pitched, it sounds as if there won't be strict DRM on the offerings—Google says that it's meant to make books accessible from anywhere and that they can be read offline after being downloaded.
Eschewing the proprietary format used in the Kindle makes Editions even more attractive to textbook publishers who have largely been dragging their feet in the e-book movement. Ars again notes,
If anything, it means that publishers that are reluctant to commit to certain proprietary formats (cough Kindle cough) will be able to make money on e-books now without waiting to see who wins the war.
Textbook publishers who have long sought to protect their multi-billion dollar industry will also have the potential to safeguard their profits more effectively with Editions. According to the New York Times,
Many publishers have been unhappy that Amazon and others have been charging just $10 for most e-books, a price that could hurt sales the more expensive hardcover. Google said publishers will get to set prices under its system.
Publishers will get nearly two-thirds of revenue for direct sales by Google.
While textbooks clearly wouldn't be selling for $10 on Amazon, the ability to set their prices, when so many textbook publishers sell directly to schools, should further encourage movement towards more widespread electronic publishing.
Between the free and open source textbook references that are becoming widely available and a solid shove in the right direction from Editions, we're getting much closer to the libraries of electronic textbooks that students will be able to access anytime, anywhere.
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Here's a story that I experienced the movie version first. I loved the movie, each and every time I have watched it. The book is very good and easier to keep up with the story's pot smoking (puff for puff) than it has been for me and the movie.
I am reading this book for my book club.
When reading a book for a book club, I always think of the person who suggested it and ask myself,why did they like this book?
I wasn't a great fan of this novel, finding both the story and main characters tedious and obnoxious. However, this being said, I do applaud Michael Chabon's ability to create characters so devoid of any redeeming qualities, that the reader is naturally compelled to continue the story to see what is the end result.
The story line wavered between the believable and unbelievable. Mr. Chabon's use of pragmatic prose enhanced the story's credibility. But the 'madcap' adventures shared by the protagonist, as well as his writing slump of 7 years (and 2000 pages) pushed the boundaries for me.
I didn't like the story and would not recommend it to anyone but that is based on storyline alone. In terms of author's ability as a writer and story-teller, then yes, the novel is worth reading.
Good writing as usual, just not as gripping as his later stuff
Pitch. Perfect. Novel. Not just a good novel, but the first to crack in to my top 10 in a long time. HIGHLY recommended.
I still remember sitting down with this book for the first time, excited and thrilled, knowing only that I was readying another book from the author of Cavalier and Clay. Swaying back and forth over the first hundred pages, one second entranced and the next revolted, hating the main character and yet captivated by this train wreck of a man, until eventually I quit battling against the incessant pull of this book and just dove in. Of course, this novel delves in Chabon's prodigious vocabulary, and occasionally lingers almost too long over simple moments, but these are the traits Chabon's work which either draws you deeper into the story or repels you, but for myself the luxurious language intoxicates rather than disgust.
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Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book and a purpose to his life.
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In retrospect, perhaps John Hodgman should have coached Sarah Palin for her disastrous interview with Katie Couric. With Palin channeling Hodgman, Couric would have been the dumbfounded one. The man has truly elevated the art of bullshitting to poetic new heights.
More Information Than You Require is Hodgman's second book of "fake trivia." His first one, 2005's Areas of My Expertise, landed him a regular gig as the snarky, mild-mannered expert-on-all-things on The Daily Show. And that role led to playing the pudgy PC incarnate in those Apple ads, among other acting jobs.
Consisting almost entirely of made-up "facts," Areas of My Expertise comically aped the almanac format. By charging willy-nilly from one impossibly obscure topic to the next--i.e., how to tell an omen from a portent--Expertise created the illusion of being part of some larger volume that indeed contained all the world's knowledge, as it boldly claimed. It also possessed a dark Thomas Pynchon-esque view of a world, filled with ninja con-women, starling-infested hotel rooms, and a nation of mysterious wandering hobos. And, improbably enough, it was gut-bustingly hilarious.
Like most sequels, More Information is more predictable and less fun than the original. Instead of a list of 700 hobo names that the first book offered, we get 700 mole-man names. Expertise had fanciful descriptions of all 50 states; the new book proffers fanciful descriptions of the country's presidents (the stout William Taft, we learn "kept a cow on the [White House] lawn for fresh milk and that he would occasionally drink blood from his neck like a Masai warrior.")
It'll sell well, thanks to the Daily Show crowd. But could we expect more from Hodgman, a one-time literary agent, than semantic whimsies? Hodgman is in danger of becoming another Paul Reubens, who was genius enough to create Pee Wee Herman, but not quite smart enough to escape his caricature.
One chapter of the new book, "How to Be Famous," points in a powerful new, though less hyperactive, direction. It chronicles his oddball rise to fame, and muses on the nature of media. Hodgman recounts, as a somewhat androgynous teen, being forced to kiss a Charlie Chaplin imposter during a Universal Studios tour, a disturbing and surreal incident that, in his telling, speaks volumes about the neediness that drives people to chase fame. "[B]eing on television is like wearing a disguise that only other people can see," he writes. Too bad he didn't risk a whole book on such uncanny observations.


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Getting into a routine with your baby is a personal thing. You'll learn to read your baby's cues to develop a pattern of eating, sleeping, and playing that meets your little one's needs and works for your family.
That said, it can be a big help to see what other moms and dads are doing. We asked parents of 7- and 8-month-olds to share their baby's daily schedule, then picked the seven below as a helpful representation. (If you have a baby this age, share your routine in the comments section at the bottom of this page!)
As you're creating a schedule for your baby, keep in mind that at 7 and 8 months most babies need:
Editor's note: This schedule is a parent-led routine.
This is for a day when my older daughter doesn't have preschool or a playdate.
7 a.m.: Wake up and nurse for about 20 minutes.
7:30 a.m.: Play on the floor or outside with her sister.
8 a.m.: Breakfast, usually rice cereal or oatmeal and fruit (baby food).
8:30 a.m.: More playtime.
Between 9 and 9:30 a.m.: Nurse for about 15 minutes, then nap.
11 a.m.: Wake up and play.
Noon: Lunch (baby food — a fruit and a veggie).
12:30 p.m.: Play.
1:30 p.m.: Nurse for about 20 minutes, then nap.
3:30 p.m.: Wake up and play.
4 p.m.: Nurse for about 20 minutes.
5 p.m.: Dinner (baby food).
5:30 p.m.: Play, go for a walk.
6:30 p.m.: Bath.
7 p.m.: Nurse for about 20 minutes, then bed.
1:30 a.m.: She usually wakes up for a 20-minute nursing session.
Editor's note: This schedule is a parent-led routine.
Here's what a typical day looks like for Gage:
8 a.m.: Wake up and have an 8-ounce bottle.
8:30 a.m.: Breakfast — baby food — a large jar of fruit.
9 a.m.: Playtime on the floor, crawling, and following his sisters into their playroom.
10 a.m.: 6-ounce bottle and nap time.
Noon: Wake up.
12:30 p.m.: Lunch — baby food — a large jar of meat and veggies.
1 p.m.: Playtime and outside time with his sisters.
2 p.m.: 6-ounce bottle and nap time.
4 p.m.: Wake up, have 4-ounce bottle, story time, and play time.
5:30 p.m.: Sit in highchair watching Mommy make dinner.
6 p.m.: Dinner — baby food — a half jar of veggies and a half jar of fruit.
6:30 p.m.: Playing on the floor or in his sisters' playroom.
7:15 p.m.: Bath time.
7:45 p.m.: 8-ounce bottle and down to bed for the night.


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Kuchai / Kuchay / Kutsai is a native of China and Japan. It is cultivated in Manila and its environs by the Chinese. Its introduction in the Philippines is uncertain; but must have been in early times.
Kuchai is a kind of leek, ranked-scented, green, growing from 20 to 40 centimeters high. The bulbs are small, white and clustered. The leaves are green, grasslike, very narrowly linear, flattish, 15 to 30 centimeters long, and 3 to 6 millimeters wide. The umbel ha many or few white flowers. The perianth is bell-shaped. The fruits are on pedicels of 2 to 3 centimeters in length, obovoid, 3 –lobed, 5 to 7 millimeters in diameter. The seeds are black, depressed, globose or reniform, 2.5 to 3 millimeters in diameter. The plant seldom flowers in the Philippines.
Both leaves and young scapes are used to flavor vegetables, meat, and seafoods. It can also be eaten raw, blanced or sauteed. Its medical uses include treatment of wounds, stomach ache, tumors, intestinal disorders, and scabies.
Kuchai is an excellent source of calcium, phosphorus, and iron. The leaves are mainly used for the preparation of Chinese dishes, and often cooked with liver.
Externally the fresh leaves and bulbs are used as an antiseptic and vulnerary. The leaves when taken internally, according to Stuart, act as a cordial. Mensut reports that the whole plant is used in Indo-China as a diuretic.
ALLIUM ODORUM Linn. KUCHAI
Allium porrum Merr. non Linn.
Allium tuberosum Roxb.
Allium angulosum Lour. non Linn.
Allium tricoccum Blanco non Ait.
Local names: Kuchai (Tag.); ganda (Bis.); pererro (Sp.); kieu-tsai, kutsai (Chinese).


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City officials are willing to consider additional money for slavery museum, but want more openness about the project.
By PAMELA GOULD
Thanksgiving is just days away, but for the Fredericksburg City Council and U.S. National Slavery Museum, it's starting to look more like July.
Once again, museum officials are talking about asking the city for more financial help for what museum founder L. Douglas Wilder says will be a roughly $100 million structure.
And once again, some council members want more open communication before proceeding with such considerations.
In July, with the same issues on the table, things got so hot that Executive Director Vonita W. Foster abruptly withdrew the museum's request for a waiver of construction fees. Her action, without explanation, sparked speculation that Richmond's new mayor might be pulling his dream project out of Fredericksburg and moving it to the former capital of the Confederacy.
Days later, Foster and Wilder said there were no plans to relocate.
This week, some council members reissued their plea for openness after getting an accountant's report outlining how the museum spent $1 million the city lent it to perform governmental services within the Celebrate Virginia South tax district.
The spring 2002 agreement gave museum officials the money to help move the tourism development along. The funds cannot be used to build the museum itself.
The money is being repaid with interest through a tax on businesses in the district. As of July 1, $281,723.38 had been repaid. Newer data was not available yesterday.
The museum, inspired by then-Gov. Wilder's trip to Goree Island in West Africa, is to be built on 38 acres overlooking the Rappahannock River in the Fredericksburg portion of Celebrate Virginia.
The accounting report sent last week to City Manager Phil Rodenberg meets the requirements of the loan agreement, according to those who have seen it. Still, some council members have questions.
They raised two main issues: the $547,761 spent on office and administrative expenses, and the release of the studies paid for with city money.
The accounting report states that $3,900 was spent on a traffic study; $10,094 on demographic and marketing studies to assess the economic impact of the museum on the community; and $255,621 on preliminary plans, civil engineering plans and environmental and cultural resource assessments.
On Tuesday, spokesman Michael J. Smith said museum officials don't plan to release any of the studies.