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Shoreham-by-Sea and District, West Sussex, England
Local News
National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
Weather Forecast
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Reports
Adur
World Oceans Day 2001
The
first meeting to discuss arrangements for this Adur Festival event will
take place on 29 January 2001.
Please
express any interest to:
Andy
Horton (British Marine Life Study Society)
Glaucus@hotmail.com
or
Natalie
Brahma-Pearl (Adur District Council)
natalie.brahma-pearl@adur.gov.uk
- 19
January 2001
The first flurries of snow, hardly anything, are seen in the late morning.
Ice formed on the Lancing Ring Dewpond (Ray Hamblett)
11
January 2001
3
Red-breasted
Mergansers settle on Widewater Lagoon. There
have been reports of up to 7. In flight they seem nearly as quick as Mallards.
7
January 2001
Several
hundred Long-spined Bullheads, Taurulus
bubalis, were found up washed on the strandline on Lancing beach, West
Sussex. This has has not been recorded before and could have been caused
by localised pollution. It was breeding time for these small fish.
4 January 2001Report by Robert Clark, Sussex Sea Fisheries Committee
The overnight rainfall at Shoreham of 20 mm was the highest in England. Where is other places the dangers of floods are receding, the water table is reaching high levels, but not record levels, locally. In October 2001 the rainfall was higher.
1 January
2001
An
oiled Gannet is reported from Widewater Lagoon.This
was the first sign of a much greater oil spill off the Sussex coast with
scores of oiled Guillemots and other
birds.
All
sightings of oiled birds should be sent to the RSPCA, Tel: 0300 1234 999.
1 January 2001Report by Ray Hamblett
After the dampest autumn on record, New Years Eve brought 8 hours+ of continual rain up until and past midnight.
National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
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Words of the Week
tor
| t | n. [OE torr, perh. of British origin (cf. OWelsh torr bulge,
belly, Gael. torr bulging hill).] A rocky peak or hill, esp. in Cornwall
or Devon (freq. in place-names). Formerly also, a (pile of) rocks on the
top of a hill.
Comb.:
tor ouzel the ring ouzel
maigre | me, foreign mer | a. M16. [(O)Fr.: see MEAGRE a.] I 1 = MEAGRE a. I. M16-L17. II RC Ch. 2 Designating a day on which abstinence from meat is ordered. L17. 3 eat maigre, keep maigre, live maigre, live on a maigre diet. M-L18. 4 Of food, esp. soup: not containing meat; suitable for eating on maigre days. L18.
heuristic | hj()rstk | a. & n. E19. [Irreg. f. Gk heuriskein find, after wds in -ISTIC from vbs in -izein -IZE.] A adj. 1 Serving to find out or discover something. E19. 2 Of or pertaining to heurism in education. L19. 3 Esp. Computing. Designating or employing trial-and-error methods in problem-solving. M20. B n. 1 a Heuretic logic. E19. b A heuristic method for attempting the solution of a problem; a rule or item of information used in such a process. M20. 2 In pl. (treated as sing.). The study and use of heuristic techniques in data processing. M20.heuristical a. = HEURISTIC a. 2 M19. heuristically adv. M20.
orthography | thrfi | n. LME. [OFr. ortografie, later -graphie (mod. orthographie) f. L orthographia f. Gk, f. as ORTHO- + -GRAPHY.] 1 Correct or proper spelling; spelling according to accepted usage or convention. Also, a particular mode or system of spelling. LME. b The branch of grammar which deals with letters and their combination to represent sounds and words; the subject of spelling. L16. c An orthographer. rare (Shakes.). Only in L16. 2 (A representation in) orthographic projection, a vertical elevation. M17.orthographer n. a person skilled in orthography; a person who spells in accordance with accepted usage: L16. orthographist n. = ORTHOGRAPHER E17. orthographize v. (rare) (a)v.t. school in orthography; spell (a word) correctly; (b)v.i. follow the rules of orthography, spell correctly: L16.
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Poem of the Week
"Someday,
after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we
shall harness the energies of love.
Then,
for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
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Archaeological Society EGroup
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January 2001
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