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Activities on some tracts may be limited to specific time periods to avoid disturbance to colonial nesting waterbirds and endangered or threatened species such as the whooping crane. Lessees conducting activities in these areas must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and/or the National Marine Fisheries Service to ensure that their activities do not adversely impact colonial nesting waterbirds or endangered or threatened species.
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Drilling activity within two miles of the gulf shoreline in the area of Padre Island National Seashore is restricted to protect both the aesthetic and recreational values of the public beaches. Drilling is allowed within the area from two miles to three miles from shore during the tourist off-season (September 16 to March 14), but drilling activity in this strip must commence before January 15 to ensure adequate completion time before the March 14 deadline. Access to minerals in the two-mile zone along the gulf beach may be achieved by directional drilling from upland sites on Padre Island if authorized by the National Seashore, or from state tracts beyond the two-mile limit.
TB - Tract contains whooping crane critical habitat. No construction, dredging, or drilling between October 15 and April 15. No permanent structures higher than 15 feet above mean water.
All oil and gas exploration activity on this tract is restricted during the period from October 15 to April 15 to protect whooping cranes, which winter in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge area. All permanent structures on this tract must be no greater than 15 feet in height.
TC - Bird rookeries are located on or near this tract. No drilling, dredging, seismic exploration, construction activity, or watercraft landing within 1,000 feet of a rookery during nesting season between February 15 and September 1.
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Detroit's FORDIRELIFESAKE were conceived on Halloween night in 1999. They began playing many shows around their home town and quickly became an immediate sensation. In the summer of 2000 they self-released a CDEP and sold through the first pressing quickly. They played locally with bands like Poison The Well, Walls of Jericho, the Suicide Machines, New Found Glory, Waterdown, Blue Skies Burning, Grade, and Keepsake. Each time gaining more and more local fans, and selling more and more merchandise. They also began playing many weekend shows out of state to gain a following in surrounding areas like Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, and Windsor Ontario. This feverish activity led to a deal with FORGE AGAIN RECORDS who released a split CD for FORDIRELIFESAKE along with WAFFLEHOUSE.
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Legislators Hear How UMB Schools and BioPark are Creating New Jobs Across Maryland
Federal and state lawmakers have been visiting the University of Maryland, Baltimore to look at job-creating initiatives.
U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md), a graduate of the University of Maryland Law School, met with education and research leaders, small business executives, and students at the University of Maryland BioPark on Feb. 18. Earlier in the month, several members of the Maryland Senate Finance Committee met with deans of UMB's schools of dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, and nursing to discuss their initiatives for training medical professionals in rural and underserved parts of the state.
Cardin's staff said his favorite stop at the BioPark was a microbiology class of the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), part of the Baltimore City Community College (BCCC), now in its second semester at the BioPark. "It's just great for bioscience students to see [the BioPark] while they learn," said Cardin.
The LSI is part of a biosciences education pipeline the university has created through partnerships with middle and high schools, the BCCC, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
LSI Director Kathleen Kennedy Norris, PhD, said the visit was an excellent opportunity for Cardin, whom she said is "a champion" of community college education and community businesses, "to see what we are doing so that he may see some things that will help him with the jobs situation."
So far, two of a planned 12 research buildings at the BioPark include more than 20 tenants, a dozen of whom are bioscience companies employing more than 400 people.
Cardin noted the significant development within the BioPark and saw plans for its third commercial building. "And, these are tough economic times," Cardin responded. "We've got to figure out how to get these kinds of jobs to more people and [the university] is a unique area, a growth area. This is an area we think will be one of the great areas for job growth."
He continued, "Being right here with a great hospital [University of Maryland Medical Center], a great university, as well as small business startups all working together to figure out how to solve today's life sciences problems--this is very, very valuable." He told the students, "I just wanted to come by to say thanks for being here, and we want to duplicate this program nationally."
The students peppered Cardin with questions on stalled federal health care reform efforts on Capitol Hill. One microbiology student asked, "We are in a group that doesn't have a lobby to talk for us. Can we count on you? " Cardin said he is optimistic that a health care bill will be passed, and added, "But we will need your help for developing more answers to cure medical problems, more prevention and care."
BCCC President Carolane Williams, PhD, told Cardin, "I think the answer is to introduce students to biosciences at an early age. This campus also serves as a place for middle school students to learn about these sciences."
Later, in a meeting with small business executives, Jonathan Cohen, CEO of 20/20 GeneSystems Inc., Rockville, asked Cardin to try to help members of Congress to understand that "you need more than academic research; that you need more work from companies like those in this building to create jobs."
Earlier this month, the chair of the state Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton (D-Charles Co.), and other committee members questioned several UMB deans on each school's response to shortages of health care workers in some parts of the state.
Christian Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent, dean of the Dental School, discussed a new dental clinic the School is operating in rural Cecil County. He said the new curriculum creates a work force that "understands some of the unique problems we are facing in rural environments." He said, "This is the first experiment of its kind" to allow students to experience rural and suburban patients and situations.
Also, Stohler explained that a "Dean's Faculty" of private dentists has been volunteering time to teach since 2003 "in order to bring in the feel of working in the suburbs."
Applications to the Dental School have risen 46 percent in four years, more than double the national average.
Natalie Eddington, PhD, dean of the School of Pharmacy, reported three efforts to increase enrollment and address the shortage of pharmacists.
In 2000, in response to studies predicting pharmacist shortages nationally, the school increased its enrollment 20 percent. A second campus at the Universities [of Maryland] at Shady Grove, Montgomery County, has increased enrollment another 33 percent.
To expose the pharmacy students to rural and underserved patients, students are required to work 1,600 hours in pharmacies in community and health clinic settings.
"It's critical for pharmacists to be in rural and underserved areas because one of the major problems is a shortage of primary care physicians." She said diabetic patients, as an example, are helped by pharmacists to manage their care between their doctor visits. "Pharmacists are the most accessible health care professionals and the rural model is the best model to illustrate the critical role of pharmacists."
In 2009, the School of Medicine's department of family medicine started a Rural Clinical Rotation program for residencies in rural western and southern Maryland. Officials of the school asked the senators to be open to ways to help ease the issue of "enormous" student debt. "What worries us tremendously is that the amount of debt influences career choices," said UMB President David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil.
A projected national shortage of 260,000 registered nurses by 2025, with a shortage of about 5,000 in Maryland, is being partially met through with the largest enrollment in the school's history at the School of Nursing, said Dean Janet Allan, RN, PhD, FAAN. Between 80 to 95 percent of admissions are students from Maryland, she said.
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DeLand teen seeking world-record mohawk sent home from school
A Volusia County teen was told to go home Tuesday because of his mohawk hairstyle, according to a report.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Ashton Stonesifer was sent home by Principal Mitch Moyer at DeLand High School on Tuesday for insubordination.
The incident came a day after Moyer had warned the 17-year-old not to return to school because of his 16-inch hair spiked into a blond-tipped Liberty Spike Mohawk.
Moyer issued the warning, according to the paper, based on school board policy that makes it a principal's responsibility "to see that the dress appearance of any student shall not be extreme, to the point of creating a disturbance, or be hazardous to the student and/or others, or school property."
Moyer met with Stonesifer and his mother, agreeing that trimming the boy's hair by five inches would be a possible compromise.
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Apple MacBook Air 11in 2012
The 11in MacBook Air took top spot in El Reg's recent round-up of the best Ultrabooks – even though, strictly speaking, it isn't actually an Ultrabook, according to Intel's proprietary definition of the term. This 2012 model doesn't tamper with the winning formula, but it does provide a respectable update that should keep it at …
Summary-very nice but pricey
The trackpad on these has to be used to be believed. I can't imagine going back to anything else.
The more interesting bit is what they're clearing out as refurbs to make way for this-two years ago I never could have imagined that these things would ever reach £639 new with warranty.
Re: Summary-very nice but pricey
Indeed, the best way put me into full, gushing fanboi mode (with the requisite ElReg down votes ) is to get me started on on my 2011 13" MBA. My main system at home and also a great travel companion but bloody expensive (but not much more than comparable "Ultra Books" on sale at the time).
It looks like Apple is giving the MBA range a nice update without the added expense of a retina display. I do think a bigger SD option is needed for the 11" though - that would make it a perfect photographers' field laptop.
Re: Summary-very nice but pricey
You can buy the 13 inch base model from last year (4Gb/128GB/1.7GHz) for £789 from Apple refurb store right now. This is probably just them selling excess stock of the old model due to there being a new one. I have this model, too, and it's just lovely.
Re: Summary-very nice but pricey
Are you kidding me ? I would NEVER consider a trackpad that requires two fingers an UPGRADE. In the world of body mechanics, using MORE energy and akwardness to accomplish a task is not better just because it is different. I will take a PC trackpad with the side page scroll incorporated into the trackpad any day over apples iteration. Unless of course carpal tunnel is your flavour.
Dammit, and I just bought the "old" version last month for the wife.
Someone plase stamp "muppet" on my forehead please.
> Dammit, and I just bought the "old" version last month for the wife.
I bought my MBA just before the previous version was announced last year. Because it was within 28 days, the Apple shop were quite happy to exchange (i.e. no charge) for the newer model. I was astounded to be honest, so impressed I even paid the difference to get the i7 model.
I love my MBA, but I don't like the OSX interface. But I hate the decaying performance of Windows so I shall have to put up with OSX until MS abandons the registry model, which seems to be the root of the problem. I wish Windows 7 "just worked".
Same here
I've hardly used my Air since I got it on sale in December. The one feature i'd want from the new one is USB3 - I want a Thunderport or Firewire 3 CF card reader - can't find a reasonably prices one. No USB3 -> Thunderport adapters either.
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Macrumors runs a buyer's guide that recommends when/when not to buy a mac based on how long it's been since an update for a given model. It can be helpful to avoid this situation although sometimes one just can't wait any longer for an update.
I've had my 11" since it's release in 2010 and i can tell you exactly how many times i've needed to plug an ethernet cable into it - that number is one less than the times i've wished to do so, which was once when it would have saved me walking from the lounge to the other room to use my iMac to check the network.
Sure i can see that you might prefer an ethernet connection if using it in an office every day for work, but then in that case, you surely should be using a MacBookPro instead.
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"you surely should be using a MacBookPro instead"
Why "should" you be using a MacBook Pro just because you're in an office?
Also, the new MacBook Pro doesn't have an Ethernet port either.
Re: ethernet
I happily use an 'Air' in the office - the USB to ethernet adapter is literally tiny and weighs 20g maybe - no deal at all. Most of the time I use wifi - but if I need to go 'wired' (for some reason) it's trivial. Really don't know why people make an issue out of it - probably Mac haters as it's the only fault they can find in an 'almost perfect' ultra-notebook.
If you carry your laptop around a lot / cycle / walk to work you will certainly appreciate it's 1kg weight yet being fast enough to use as a desktop.
Re: ethernet
I also happily use a 2011 13" Air as my main office 'desktop' computer. I never bought the ethernet to usb adapter thinking I could get one if I needed it. 10 months down the line and I've still not got one.
Connected to a 30" 2560x1600 monitor makes it the perfect workhorse for enterprise with the additional bonus of great protability (weight and battery life).
It isn't used exclusively for 'office' tasks but for the analysis of scientific 'big data' in academia. Having access to a 500 core HPC cluster an ssh command away does help, though :)
Re: ethernet
The 2012 does, just not the retina display model.
Re: ethernet
@Anon Coward
Apple sells a 29 USD / 25 British Pound Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter now, so you get the full 1 Gigabit Ethernet speed without going for a third party USB 3 to Ethernet adapter. As easy as the USB Adapter, not included but at the same price as the slower adapter and it doesn't need that 49 GBP Thunderbolt cable :) PC Ultrabooks have it tougher as USB 3 to Ethernet adapters aren't as common. They aren't included either. The option of Gigabit ethernet for 25 GBP is really a pretty good one here. At a desk you would probably prefer it connected to a Apple Thunderbolt display for convenience (it only got one Thunderbolt/Displayport port) or through those adapters that will come in September.
Belkin will be 399 dollars for the Thunderbolt Express Dock though. The Belkin is designed to also be compatible with Thunderbolt-enabled PC's too though, so it will be certified and have drivers for everything. Something the Thunderbolt Display won't. However if you want to dock it (or them) you can, it's only a modest hike over a ~250 USD docking station and those are usually for 1500 USD laptops. Plus there is always the possibility of doing it the cheap way with a screen that takes DP input (or any other input with cheap cables), and a USB-to-ethernet adapter if you need screen, ethernet, keyboard etc connected at once. Ultrabooks and other light ultraportables have enough power for most. The only thing you really can fault them for is lack of discrete graphics, though that is a fault for most notebooks if you actually like to have any power there.
"So if you bought a spare power supply for a previous MacBook Air you won't be able to use it with this one"
The converter is available from Apple for £10
Lack of a dedicated ethernet port is a bit of a fail in my boox, as Wireless is the work of Satan and anything which encourages its use is a bad thing (TM). It's OK for occasional browsing ona smartphone, anything else.....ugh.
No Ethernet
Apple make consumer devices. Consumers use wireless over wired something like 98% of the time. So it's hardly a surprise is it?
Re: No Ethernet
"Apple make consumer devices... "
What are the chances of them renaming the MacBook Pro the MacBook Con?
Re: No Ethernet
Renaming it to "Overpriced metal sheened wireless deelie for mugs" would be better, and far more accurate without calling iTards what they actually are.
Re: No Ethernet
It's funny, because so many professional musicians use Mac laptops. Even Kraftwerk who aren't "tards" by any stretch of the imagination.
Re: No Ethernet
No big deal - Starbucks doesn't offer wired ethernet
Re: No Ethernet
>Renaming it to "Overpriced metal sheened wireless deelie for mugs" would be better, and far more accurate without calling iTards what they actually are.
Does posting dumb shit like that make you feel better about your miserable self?
Re: No Ethernet
It's funny, because so many professional musicians use Mac laptops. Even Kraftwerk who aren't "tards" by any stretch of the imagination.
No sensible reason why a lot of musicians use Apple computers over other brands - the mid to high end software is available for both OS-X and Windows, and in my experience it is as stable on both platforms. For studio use, I'd much rather have a non-Apple system since I have a lot more choices with regard to things like RAID controllers, the latest SSDs, etc. For live use, most bands using laptops are simply streaming backing tracks from them, which can be accomplished from something as simple as an audio player that supports WAV or FLAC (one band I recently supported even used a mobile phone's media player, with the phone switched to flight mode!).
Is that what they use now? I know they've used modified Vaios in the past on tour a lot.
Re: No Ethernet
Musicians do. Using the ASIO protocol (instead of Windows Sound Mapper) for external sound cards is a pain in the whatsit on Windows, it keeps reverting to WSM and other weirdness. Not only that, but your soundcard won't even work if your FireWire card is made by the wrong company. Win7 won't allow you to change your default MIDI device to a softsynth without some buggering about in the registry... its all a mess, really.
Macs just work, and are quieter than most PCs out there. And multitouch iDevices have some obvious uses in a Digital Audio Workstation setting.
(happy PC CAD user)
Re: No Ethernet
> Renaming it to "Overpriced metal sheened wireless deelie for mugs" would be better, and far more accurate without calling iTards what they actually are.
Strange how tossers like you can't support their overpriced claim with links to where one can find a comparable PC for half the price of a Mac. Put up or shut up, please.
I read these have a 300 charge life on the batteries? On El Reg I think. Doesn't that mean you'll need the battery replaced in under a year?
I checked mine the other day out of interest... well over the 300 charge mark, nearly at 400, no degredation on the battery at all. Works like a charm
Apple quote 1000 cycles til 80% capacity
...and whilst those are their figures, I've seen Mac Book Pros that have been left plugged in almost constantly, yet still have usable battery life after several years- more can be said for some other laptops.
Battery Cycles
1000 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1519
Yeah why not post 50 charge cycles or other complete cr@p - do the research - it's at least 1000 'full' charge cycles and then only to 80% capacity - so you could basically do a full charge / recharge 1000 times (about 3 years) and only have lost 20% capacity.
The realistic 'life' of the battery is probably around 1500-2000 cycles and thats 'full' 0-100% cycles - not just topping off after 20% used etc.
Calm down dear, it's only the internet!
You're right, I was thinking of the Retina displayed Macbook Pro. Said to hold about 80 percent of its charge after 300 recharges.
Have a look at the MacBook Air lineup and it's surprising how little difference there is between the 4 models. There's a £400 difference between top and bottom but only the cpu (tiny difference) and hdd is different. Normally Apple would at least put in some silly downgrades/upgrades to make more of a separation between the top and bottom models.
Good to see the default RAM is now 4Gb, could never understand paying ~£800 for a computer with 2Gb
No mobile broadband
This formfactor is useless with out pervasive connectivity to networks and Apple still doesn't provide mobile broadband on it's laptops.
Re: No mobile broadband
Mifi, job done. You can even plug the Mifi in and use it as a USB modem.
Whatever mobile broadband module they would fit would be the wrong one for some people. So buy the correct one for you in your country.
Re: No mobile broadband
Strange. Apple seem to be having no trouble at all selling these, despite their being so "useless".
Your name is Larry Page and I claim my £5.
Re: No mobile broadband
The trouble with putting mobile broadband in a laptop is that the upgrade cycle for mobile broadband is much faster than that for laptops. Every year's mobile broadband modems and mobile phones support faster data than the last year's, and every now and then we go on a bit upgrade like the one from HSDPA to LTE that is forthcoming. Average life for a laptop is something like four years, and by the end of that you will be using a very old and slow standard for your mobile broadband. This is bad for you, and the networks don't like it either, as old standards use their spectrum less efficiently than do new standards. (I have a mobile broadband contract with Three, and they encourage me to upgrade my hardware quite frequently, sometimes by offering me a new modem completely free with no obligations. This is much less of a problem with smartphones and their upgrade cycle of 18 months or so. We are waiting to see whether this will be a problem with tablets, as I am not sure anyone knows what the typical upgrade cycle length will be there yet).
So once your laptop is a couple of years old, you shouldn't be using internal mobile broadband hardware even if you have it. People will, though, which is why it is best for it not to be installed in the laptop in the first place.
Re: No mobile broadband
Eh? Why pay extra to have a 3G modem built in when you have a perfectly decent one in your smartphone you can connect to over Wi-Fi?
Re: No mobile broadband
"Every year's mobile broadband modems and mobile phones support faster data than the last year's,"
Doesn't seem like it in the UK unfortunately. Last time I tried using mobile data the rate was still pitiful. I'll have to do some more speedtests for precise figures, but it's not good.
Re: No mobile broadband
iPhone on 3G network + Tethering = mobile broadband (connected via either Bluetooth or WiFi)
link says it all
I have no view on others finding Apple desirable. My test market of three relatively sensible teenagers/young adults tells me that all of their Apple laptops have suffered component failure (it's how I found out about iFixit) and each of them have "consumed" at least two iPods.
The changing nature of the power supply connector is in marked contrast to, e.g., most mobes
You don't have to be a Greenpeace nutter to wonder if this is great.
Looking forward to using the flames for the govt's renewable heat initiative.
Re: link says it all
I didn't flame you, but want to point out that whilst it would be nice for Apple to use MicroUSB, there are a lot of iDevice chargers and cables out there, and docks and car systems. Sensibly, their charger is a generic USB charger supplied with a cable.
Nokia, on the other hand USED to be a de facto standard- every house in the land had a Nokia charger - buy a Nokia phone and you'll never run out of juice. Then they went small, and now they sport Mini and Micro USB sockets but won't bloody charge from them!
As regards Greenpeace, I have seen a lot of Macs outlive their PC brothers - if only because someone has got fed up with Windows slowing down and just bought a new PC.
Re: link says it all
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
The reason for no ethernet port is that it's simply too thin. I have the previous generation one and the bottom part (not screen) is barely thick enough for a USB port let alone a relatively chunky ethernet port.
I used the USB to ethernet adapter if I had to have 'wired' ethernet (very rare these days) - so a thunderbolt version will be good and it's such a minor issue to have to leave one in my laptop case.
I have the i7 2011 'Air and I have the USB to Ethernet adapter which I bought 'just in case'.
I've used it twice - both times in hotel rooms.
I do wish there was some sort of filter for this crap.
Yes, Apple make expensive consumer-centric products which are annoying locked down (Retina MBP battery gluing and RAM-soldering are 2012's idiotic ideas it seems). Yes, they attract zealots. My experience is that a Macs allows me to get more work done with less faffing around - people time is more expensive than kit.
At out small software development services company we started using Macs to do iOS development only, but now we're replacing the Windows boxes with Macs as they reach end of life. I tried a couple of flavours of GNU/Linux a couple of years back but it was too painful on laptops - wireless, 3G, suspend/resume issues, audio and printer driver issues. With Macs we get all the handy command line tooling (out of the box and with Macports) without the GNU/Linux laptop pain or the Windows cygwin pain.
YMMV, buy what makes you happy. TBH I miss my old Thinkpads, before Lenovo started making them out of cheese.
Re: "iTards"
I second the motion for an iHater filter. They can be allowed back in when they back up their claims with evidence.
They are especially irritating because the rest of us would like to talk rationality about the future of the kit that we use, and new ideas and standards often pop up on Apple kit. I'm a PC user. Take the ThunderBolt interface for instance - that has the potential to blur the distinction between desktop and laptop, offering as it does the ability to offload a discrete graphics card into a docking station, as Sony have used it for on the equally pricey Vaio Z (along with fast external storage and a monitor to boot). Exciting stuff, in so far as tech goes.
That's high end kit at the moment, but give it a year or two. This stuff will affect us more than one manufacturer deciding now that many of its users don't use Ethernet enough to warrant a dedicated socket. Shit, one relative of mine bought a new laptop purely because her old Toshiba didn't have a caps-lock light or a SD Card slot...
Viva la difference.
Re: "iTards"
Thunderbolt is, of course, a copper wire implementation of Intel's LightPeak technology which is fibre optic. Sony vaio Z uses LightPeak which is why it's got the bandwidth for the GPU. Eventually I expect apple will get around to putting LightPeak proper in its laptops but at the moment even the connector hasn't been standardised. The Sony vaio z uses a modified USB interface containing both a fibre connection and a wired connection for USB.
The brilliant thing about thunderbolt/LightPeak is that it's just a fast data channel and any protocol can run over it. I expect to be able to wire my gaff up for fibre optic in the next few years and then I'll have a single fast data bus running around it with all my computers, tvs, monitors, projectors, etc, hanging off it and no more need for shitty wifi, power Ethernet adapters, etc., etc. Please sort out the connector standard intel, ta!
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Survey of London: volume 20: St Martin-in-the-Fields, pt III: Trafalgar Square & Neighbourhood
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'The Vestry Hall, Vicarage and Church Schools', Survey of London: volume 20: St Martin-in-the-Fields, pt III: Trafalgar Square & Neighbourhood (1940), pp. 55. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68411 Date accessed: 29 November 2014.
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Historical Notes
The buildings in St. Martin's Place which comprise the Vestry Hall,
Vicarage, and National Schools were erected circa 1830 as part of the Charing
Cross improvement scheme. The façade of the schools bears the inscription
"St. Martin's National Schools. Built by Subscription on Ground the
Gift of His Majesty King George IV. MDCCCXXX." (fn. a) By the deed of
grant, dated 20th July, 1833, the Crown conveyed to the Vicar and Churchwardens a piece of ground on the north side of the churchyard 98 feet by
28 feet together with the school building lately erected there to be used as
a National School for the education of poor children of the parish. A nominal
rent of £1 per annum was to be paid.
In 1841 owing to lack of space the school was allowed the use of the
upper floor of the Vestry Hall, which was converted into classrooms and has
since remained part of the school. The premises were reconditioned in 1907,
after the Council took over the duties of the London School Board.
The present vicarage was erected at the same time as the vestry
hall and school at the expense of the Rev. George Richards, who was then
vicar of the parish.
The earliest record of a parish school at St. Martin's is an entry in the churchwardens'
accounts for 1571: "payd to geyls quarrell for setinge the scolhowse wyndowe & for vj newe q'rels
iijs ijd." Ben Jonson received his early education at this school, which was probably situated beside
the church. In 1614–15 a new schoolhouse and vestry room was built adjoining the church on the
south side. This building is shown in Vertue's drawing of the old church (Plates 8 and 9). The
Vestry met in the upper room, the school being housed on the ground floor until 1693, when the
scholars were transferred to Archbishop Tenison's school (see p. 113). The old schoolroom was
used as a session house from 1706 until the church was pulled down. A new vestry hall was built
at the south-east corner of the churchyard in 1728, and demolished in 1828. The parochial charity
school which was the real ancestor of the present National School was started in 1699 at Hungerford
Market (see Survey of London, Vol. XVIII). It subsequently occupied premises in Hemmings Row
and Castle Street (see pp. 113–4).
The old vicarage stood at the north-east corner of the Churchyard. It was apparently
newly built in 1579 when a certain Thomas Davyes was accused of taking away "dyuerse peces of
Wood & framed tymber" from the Vicarage House, (ref. 79) which the Vicar, Christopher Hayward, was
then building, and carrying them into the neighbouring garden of Mr. Styward. (fn. b) The vicarage
was rebuilt in 1666–7. (ref. 35)
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This light seabass dish is sunshine on a plate. Healthy, quick and vibrant; it'll make you smile come rain or shine!
Ingredients (Serves 4)
- 1 bulb garlic
- 200g potatoes
- 1 pinch saffron
- 4 seabass fillets (pin boned and de-scaled)
- 400g vine cherry tomatoes
- 1 bunch of basil
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Preparation Method:
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 180C.
Step 2:
Put the milk and saffron into a small saucepan, bring to just below boiling. Take off the heat then leave to infuse.
Step 3:
To roast the garlic, cut the top off the garlic clove, wrap in foil and then put in the oven for 40 minutes (you can do this the day before if you wish).
Step 4:
Place the seabass fillets in a baking dish, arrange the tomatoes around the fish, and pour over the olive oil and the balsamic vinegar.
Step 5:
Peel and cut the potatoes into medium pieces. Place in a saucepan, cover with water and put on the heat. Bring to the boil, then turn down and simmer for 15 minutes. At this point put the sea bass in the oven (it needs 30 minutes) then drain off the potatoes and add the saffron infused milk, squeeze out the garlic cloves from their skin and add a tablespoon of olive oil, season and mash.
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When the sea bass is cooked, sprinkle with the basil leaves and serve with the tomatoes and mash.