![]() This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. ![]() And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. Great to see so many smiling faces and my thanks to all who helped run the event.For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Last Monday the 22 nd we ran our 1 st Get Fishing event at Oulton Broad, with 26 kids having a great time, trying their hand at fishing for the first time. We have significant ideas to move this forward, but without a revenue source nothing can be achieved at the scale needed. This would provide the legal framework to either continue with unsustainable free fishing or progress this forward into some form of permit scheme. ![]() Our exploration into the feasibility of introducing a Broads Angling Permit scheme, has led to the engagement of Fish Legal and we hope to have the matter put before Queens Council by Christmas. But does this stop anglers catching them I ask! Broads Permit Scheme We have now reached a point where average daily water temperatures are above the critical 21° C so damaging for Pike. Even their own teams at Taverham Mill are pleading with us to save water. This isn’t the case on the river Wensum as all their water is abstracted from the environment either through surface or groundwater. This communications stance was challenged at the highest levels within the national drought group chaired by DEFRA on the 13 th Aug.īut their manta continues that they are fine and their reservoirs stable. There has been lots in the media about drought and water conservation or the lack of it, however Anglian Water still are saying THEIR supplies are generally fine. We believe this could the answer in being able to further model and understand the impact. Currently nobody has any scientific understanding or models that can represent this and how with rising sea levels, salinity is going to evolve within the Broads and how it can impact on its ecology. Our member Simon Slater and his company are leading on this. We have recently secured some funding to implement a bespoke salinity probe solution and communications package, which if proven successful in it’s trial has the potential to deploy a whole bunch of these probes to monitor salinity right across the Broads using it’s own radio mess network. ![]() Not at critical lethal levels for fish, but sustained and continuously progressing upstream.īoth Duncan and I went on the BBC to discuss this recently. We have seen a slow but sure increase in salinity levels 10kms upstream to levels 3 times the norm. This is seemingly now impacting on the Broads tidal rivers, with little freshwater flow keeping the tidal influence of saline at bay. We have seen flows in our rivers some of the lowest, with many fish in distress and many of the tributaries even dry. Well I’ve been banging on about climate change for many months on this blog and these past few weeks has finally brought the message home to us all.
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