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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News
The Shamrock Monkey farm, Small Dole, is to close. The Animal Rights protesters claim a victory. However, they did not choose St. Patrick's Day to announce their closure.The new Power Station chimney is now ringed at the top with red lights, presumably to warn low flying aircraft.
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
- Wildlife
Reports
No new reports received over the weekend.
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
Poetry Extract:
Oh the seas will splitAnd the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the
path
And the seagulls they'll
be smiling.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand,
The hour that the ship comes
in.
- Words
of the Week
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Star:
Latest Virus Information
tropism
| trpz()m, trp- | n. L19. [2nd elem. of HELIOTROPISM etc.] Biol.
The turning of (part of) an organism in a particular direction by growth,
bending, or locomotion, in response to some special external stimulus.
Cf. TAXIS 6.tropistic a. pertaining to or constituting tropism E20.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Computer Tips
The
following image is designed for viewing at a resolution of 800 x 600 in
either Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 using medium-sized text.
If
viewed in any other way, it will not look quite right!
If viewed using the default text size, the text "Sparkling Sea" should appear partly on a partly on and partly off the image. This trick is done using the Layer facility in Dreamweaver 2. It is not a particularly useful function as if you go to your browser menu and change the text size, the text appears on another part of the page. Not only does the text appear in the wrong place, but if your revert to the default medium-sized text, the text does not always correct itself (Netscape). It is actually extremely awkward to get the text in the right place, and the Layer facility is not worth learning in this program.
This goes to the root of
hypertext page design. Not all browsers see the same thing. Netscape and
Microsoft Explorer vary on how they display colours and images in tables.
It is better to design text overlaying images in Paint Shop (see
last week).
Historical Snippets
Romano-British settlements existed in Shoreham from about AD 100 to AD 250. Iron Age and Romano-British remains (pottery, skeletons, Samian water bottle, urn) have been found near Slonk Hill, NE of Buckingham Park, and at Kingston Buci (copper wire bracelet, skulls, quern stone). Roman coins (Constantine I brass) have been found in Shoreham. Remains of a Roman Villa have been discovered in what is now the town of Southwick to the east. Southwick appeared to be the important Roman centre (toponymy). A Roman road connected Chichester (Noviomagus Regnensium) to London (Londinium) and a branch went from Croydon to Southwick and the Adur Valley mouth (Shoreham).-
- 11 April 2000
- Adur Quality of Life Forum
- Open Meeting
- Lancing Parish Hall
- 7.00 - 9.00 pm
- Adur District Council
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- Please send in any details of local events.
Events
Contact:
Natalie Brahma-Pearl
Tel: 01273 263347
- UPMYSTREET *
- http://www.upmystreet.com/
- Find you own neighbourhood. (It is a good idea if not particularly original) Click on your own home and find out the local doctors etc. The trouble is the information is not all there. I went to the site once and I bookmarked it (added it to my Favorites) but I do not expect to return for 6 months to see if it has got any better.
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- Obituary
- Mrs Doris Blount passed away peacefully in her sleep on 15 March 2000. She was brought up at Poet's Corner in Hove and lived in Shoreham for over 50 years. The funeral is on 23 March 2000.
- Details: Ray Horton 465433
Games & Leisure
Please send in any details of recommended games and web sites.
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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
For any company or organisation wanting nationwide green publicity, there is an opportunity to sponsor the journal "Glaucus" of the British Marine Life Study Society.
There remains sponsorship opportunities on the BMLSS (England) web site and other publications, including Torpedo.
Sponsorship is also available for the Adur Torpedo Electronic News Bulletin and the Shoreham-by-Sea web pages (which preceded the Adur Resource Centre web site), which would be more suitable for a local firm(s).
Web Site Design Services are available from Hulkesmouth Publishing
Normal
advertisement rules apply.
Submissions
accepted by EMail only.
Adur Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy Horton.
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