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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News
The new Power Station chimney has now been erected. I estimate it to be 100 metres high (the height was not written in the Evening Argus report - the old chimney was 107 metres high). The new Gas Power Station is expected to be completed by the winter.Plans are in progress for the Shoreham Port Open Day.
You heard the details here first!Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
Letter to the HeraldDear Editor.
BROWN SOIL AND GREEN GRASS
FRESH AIR FOR THE TOWNSSwathing through the indignation of the proposed building on the green fields, I still do not know if the new homes initiative actually represents an increase in needed accommodation over the present number of homes built each year.
It seems to me that in the Adur district they have been building on school playing fields with high density housing ever since I can remember. There is another important issue called “Town Cramming”. If every part of the town is infilled with brick and concrete, the town turns itself into a city, or an urban extension to Brighton. This is exactly the reason why people want to leave the cities in the first place.
The Lord Rogers recipe for revitalising the cities by building high density terraced homes would seem to have only a limited scope in Adur.
Best wishes,
Andy Horton.
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
15
March 2000
The Herring Gulls
in St. Mary's Churchyard are making a mess of the church's roof. Is somebody
feeding them?
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
Extract:
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey".(Canute)
Cnut
(Knud, Knut)- ?995-1035, King of England 1016-1035, of
Denmark
1018-1035, of Norway 1028-1035.
- Words
of the Week
- Star: Latest Virus Information
vortex | vteks
| n. Pl. -exes, -ices | -siz | . M17. [L (var. of VERTEX) an
eddy of water, wind, or flame, f. vortere, vertere to turn.] 1 a
In Cartesian theory: any of the rapidly revolving collections of fine particles
supposed to fill all space and by their rotation to account for the motions
of the universe; the whirling movement of such a collection of particles.
Usu. in pl. M17. b Physics. A rapid motion of particles round an
axis; a whirl of atoms, fluid, or vapour. M19. 2 A violent eddy of the
air; a cyclone; the central portion of this. Also, an eddying mass of fire.
M17. 3 A swirling mass of water; a whirlpool. E18. 4 fig. a A whirl
or constant round of frenetic activity, rapid change, etc. M18. b A place
or state into which people or things are irresistibly drawn. L18. 5 The
group of vorticist artists. E20.
2 Monitor (Texas) A tornado
that sucked a man into its vortex. 4a D. CECIL She plunged him into a vortex
of social activity. M. IGNATIEFF Someone who kept his distance from the
vortex of Petersburg intrigue. b J. WAIN streatham, Tooting, Fulham--vanished
places, swallowed up in the vortex of London.
Comb.: vortex shedding the
periodic detachment of vortices from an object in a fluid flow, causing
a varying force to be experienced by the object; vortex sheet a region
of vortices that is created at the interface of two masses of fluid having
different velocities along the interface; vortex street: see STREET n.
3a; vortex turbine, vortex wheel a turbine in which the water enters tangentially
at the circumference and is discharged at the centre.
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Computer Tips
These two diagrams show what can be done reasonably simply, by someone (like me) who may be artistically inclined but does not have the skills with the pencil or paintbrush. These are not works of art but functional plans for a purpose.
The first scale survey was the rough drawing drawn up by David Wood for the World Ocean's Day Exhibition at Coronation Green on 3 June 2000. The most important part of the first drawing are the two rectangular (drawn to scale) boxes in the bottom left hand corner. These are the marquees that have to be arranged on the green in between the flower beds which the Adur DC Parks Department decided to install after the first survey.
On paper they can be cut out and arranged where you want. However, by using the popular shareware program called Paint Shop the boxes can be moved with the cursor.
The procedure is:
1. Make sure the Tool
Palette is on view (View menu)
2. Define the rectangle
geometric area selection (easy).
3. Draw the rectangle
over the area you wish to move and drag it across.
4. Save the file under
a different name.
I also find Paint Shop the
easiest method to place text on a diagram. This is reasonably easy as well.
However, there was one thing to do before that. I wanted a colour diagram,
and I find Photoshop easiest for this. I dare say it can be done
in Paint Shop. It is important to fill the background colours in first,
before overlaying the text.
Historical Snippets
1871 Of the 161 sailing ships registered at Shoreham, 88 had been built there.
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- Adur World Oceans Day 3 June 2000
- Link to Shoreham Port Open Day 9 July 2000
- Please send in any details of local events.
Events
German U-Boats***
- http://uboat.net/boats.htm
- Certainly not to everyone's taste, but this site has been for years and was up and running before most people had even heard of the Internet. It shows what can be done by the diligent researcher. Despite huge amounts of information on every single U-boat in World War II plus others as well, the pages are easy to navigate. It even includes interviews with living U-boat captains.
Sussex Books
This book is excellent and I will have to purchase a copy from the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton. I have the Shoreham Library copy out on loan.
ISBN
0
948723 33 5
Games & Leisure
Please send in any details of recommended games and web sites.
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