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Local News
27 July 2000
The Shoreham Herald prints an unprecedented number of letters (5) protesting over the housing development at the derelict part of Southlands Hospital. Shoreham. The main complaint seems to be the use of an existing access road, e.g. St. Giles Close. Even the furore over the King's Head and Ropetackle in 1981 to 1983 never started with such a rash of complaints in the newspaper. I do not think that the protests, although honest, were particularly well informed and to the outsider may seem like personal prejudices.19 July 2000
Shoreham Maritime: Waterside NorthOn Wednesday 19 July 2000 a representative of Moss Environmental explained the latest stage in their Shoreham Maritime Plans, for the area known as Waterside North, to a few local groups.
There is a Draft document. The Weir or Barrage Plan has been officially dropped.
Medium density housing in north Shoreham. Developments in the late 30 years have eroded the green space in Shoreham to a very serious extent. Now, the guidelines operated by Adur Council advocate even greater densities of housing.
Comments should be sent to:
Alan Perrett
Adur District Council
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
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Wildlife Reports
Bats
Wildlife Interest Report
Date: Thu, 20
Jul 2000 09:30:10 +0100
From: Vincent
Smith <vince.smith@tesco.net>
Subject: Wadebridge: Bats
saved from sticky situation.
Wadebridge: Bats saved from sticky situation.
A Wadebridge man caught more
than he bargained for when he used fly-paper to
deal with a plague of insects.
His experience highlights a growing threat to wildlife he placed the sticky flypaper beneath the eaves of his property in an attempt to deal with a plague of horseflies, but the following morning he found 16 Whiskered Bats stuck to them.
Rowena Varley, of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust's bat group, was called in to save the five mothers and their 11 babies.
They were taken to the Mid-Cornwall
Bat Rescue Centre where, as Rowena said:
"Using margerine to unstick
them and baby shampoo to remove the glue, we
were able to rescue 14 of
the bats and return them to the wild, while the other two are being treated.
The man was absolutely devastated by his experience."
This type of fly catcher is becoming very popular and is freely available throughout Cornwall. Rowena urged anyone else tackling fly problems to be aware of the potential consequences to wildlife of using such products.
Report on Vince Smith's One-List/Cornish Wildlife
British
Naturalists' Association (link)
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absorb | bzb,
-sb | v.t. Pa. pple absorbed, (arch.) absorpt | -pt | . LME.
[(O)Fr. absorber or L absorbere, f. ab AB- + sorbere suck in.] 1 Include
or take (a thing) in so that it no longer has separate existence; incorporate.
LME. 2 Of water, mire, etc.: engulf. L15-L18. 3 Suck or drink
in. E17. 4 Take up (a substance, energy, etc.) by chemical or physical
action; gain energy from and reduce the intensity of (light or other radiation,
sound, etc.). E18. 5 Engross (a person, a person's attention, etc.). L18.
6 Occupy or consume (time). M19. 7 Assimilate mentally. L19.
1 E. O'NEILL The conquered
Chinese have already begun to absorb their conquerors. G. STEINER The realistic
novel reached out to absorb every new quality and locus of experience.
be absorbed by lose one's identity in. 2 T. BURNET To be absorptin a lake
of fire and brimstone. 7 R. CHURCH Lifehad more to offer me than I could
absorb.
absorbability n. the quality
of being absorbable L18. absorbable a. able to be absorbed L18. absorbance
n. the logarithm of the reciprocal of transmittance; optical density: M20.
absorbancy n. the ratio of the optical density of a solution to that of
a similar body of pure solvent M20. absorbed a. that has been absorbed;
esp. engrossed, intensely interested: M18. absorbedly | -bdli |
adv. M19. absorbedness | -bdns | n. L19. absorber n. a person
who or thing which absorbs M19. absorbing a. that absorbs; esp. engrossing,
all-engaging: M18. absorbingly adv. M19.
adsorb | dsb | v. L19. [Back-form. f. next.] Chem. 1 v.t. Collect (a substance) by adsorption. L19. 2 v.i. Undergo adsorption (on, on to, to, a surface). E20.adsorbability n. the degree to which a substance is adsorbable E20. adsorbable a. able to be adsorbed E20. adsorbate n. an adsorbed substance E20. adsorbent n. a substance on which adsorption occurs E20.
adsorption | dsp()n | n. L19.
[Blend of AD- and ABSORPTION.] Chem. The adhering of atoms or molecules
of gases, liquids, or solutes to exposed surfaces (usu. of solids).adsorptional,
adsorptive adjs. E20. adsorptively adv. M20.
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Glaucus
http://www.myth.com/mythopoeia/sea1.html
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Glaucus
was a fisherman. One day he had drawn his nets to land, and had taken a
great many fishes of various kinds. So he emptied his net, and proceeded
to sort the fishes on the grass. All of sudden, the fishes, which had been
laid out on the grass, began to revive and move their fins as if they were
in water; and while he looked on astonished, they one and all moved off
to the water, plunged in, and swam away. He did not know what to make of
it, whether some god had done it or some secret power in the herbage. "What
herb has such power?" he exclaimed; and gathering some of it, he tasted
it.
Scarce had the juices of the plant reached his palate when he found himself agitated with a longing desire for water. He could no longer restrain himself, but bidding farewell to the earth, he plunged into the stream. The gods of the water received him graciously, and admitted him to the honor of their society. He lost all sense of his former nature and consciousness. When he recovered, he found himself changed in form and mind. His hair was sea-green, and trailed behind on the water. He was endowed with the gift of prophecy and instructed Apollo in the art of soothsaying.
He
was Poseidon's son or Anthedon's or Polyvos' or Phorvos' or Nereus'. He
was a fisherman and an excellent swimmer as well as an excellent shipbuilder.
He wedded Symi and dwelt on a desert island , opposite Caria of Minor Asia,
to which he gave his wife's name. The legend declares that once as he was
carrying some fish he had caught, he got tired and put the load down on
the ground so that he could have some rest. Then one of the fish as soon
as it ate some kind of herbs, which were around, jumped into the sea again.
Glaucus, thinking that it was that herb which put new life to the fish,
tasted the herb himself and immediately he went "mad" and jumped into the
sea as well. Poseidon and the other sea-deities received him favourably
and made him immortal, too.
According to Diodorus, when
the Argonauts were on their way back to Iolkos, in the middle of the Euxinus
Pontus, they fell into heavy seas and risked their lives. Orpheas then
prayed to the gods of Samothraki and when at last the winds started to
abate, Glaucus emerged out of the sea before them. After he had foretold
what was going to happen to each Argonaut he advised them as soon as they
set foot on land, they should pray to gods and thank them.
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