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September 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the first British atomic bomb tests at Maralinga in the South Australian desert. But most of us still don't know how disastrous the tests were for Australia, and why they were carried out here in the first place. Elizabeth Tynan's book Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story brings together the events, the political machinery and the stories of the veterans and victims themselves to explore the full, disturbing story of British nuclear testing in Australia.
Once upon a time, Australia suddenly found itself at the heart of a secret and shocking story. The story was about geopolitics and seismic realignments of global power. It was about science and war. It was about colonialism and the media and the outback and Indigenous people. It was about nuclear physics and government secrecy. Much of the story was shadowy, and many of the consequences were dire. Our nation was there in the middle of it, but the Australian people had virtually no power over what happened.
Our nation had been volunteered and handed over to another nation to test weapons that exploited the destructive capacity of the split atom. The British took the beautiful outback landscape of Maralinga, used it, dirtied it and then discarded it without a backward glance.
The Maralinga story was Australian secret history for many years. The desert test range was reluctant to give up its secrets, and it still holds some. But now the story can be told with more depth than ever before.
On 27 September 1956, at 5 pm, the British physicist Professor Sir William Penney gave the order to begin Britain's atomic testing program on Australian soil. On his command, an initiator within the atomic assembly switched on a stream of neutrons within a nuclear device that was bolted to a 3-metre tower. These neutrons broke apart the bonds holding the nuclei of plutonium atoms together, sparking a chain reaction and an explosion of the same magnitude of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
Soon a giant fireball was racing upwards towards the upper atmosphere and a mushroom cloud began forming, while an official party of scientists, military personnel and media looked on, awestruck. The first atomic bomb test at Maralinga in the South Australian desert, part of Operation Buffalo, had been detonated.
The test site was called One Tree, and it was in the far northern reaches of the 3200-square-kilometre desert test range that had recently acquired the name Maralinga. The site was now one of the few places in the world where nuclear weapons were being tested.
Soon after this first test – Buffalo 1 – came three more tests in the Buffalo series, followed by three major weapons tests the following year in Operation Antler. In almost all cases, predictions about fallout and contamination were wrong. Contamination travelled far and wide from the site.
The Buffalo and Antler tests were not the first atomic weapons exploded on Australian soil, however. The Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia, and another South Australian desert test site called Emu Field to the north of Maralinga, had also hosted five atomic blasts, including the biggest of all – Mosaic G2 in June 1956 at Monte Bello. That massive explosion – at least four times the size of the Hiroshima bomb, and possibly much larger – had not been expected by the Australian government or people, and created some panic about exactly what the British were up to. As usual, the fears were calmed by soothing but misleading information, and the tests proceeded.
But even worse was to come, and we now know much more about the dark secrets of the hundreds of 'minor trials' than the Australian government did at the time. The information is disturbing. The experimental series known as Vixen B, held from 1960 to 1963 at Maralinga, was the worst of these furtive tests. Vixen B left a terrible legacy of plutonium contamination, one that would take a $100 million clean-up to mitigate.
Australia became an intrinsic part of the Cold War's mad dash to create atomic weaponry, although most of the population had no idea what the government had agreed to and as a nation we had no past or future stake in nuclear technology. The British swept into Australia with their bombs and their scientists and their military personnel. They commandeered 3200 square kilometres of South Australian desert in their desire to keep up with the arms race that they had helped to initiate. Experiments on the destructive capacities of atoms proceeded without complete safeguards, including the safeguards afforded by public scrutiny and accountability. This was a disaster for Australia, but one that was covered up and kept quiet for too long. But Maralinga is part of our history and its story – the full story – needs to be told.
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Elizabeth Tynan's book Atomic Thunder is published by NewSouth in September 2016. Click here to hear Liz talk about Maralinga with Phillip Adams on ABC Radio National, and here for the full background story to the atomic tests on Richard Fidler's Conversations. The travelling exhibition Black Mist Burnt Country featuring artworks commemorating the atomic tests opens on 27 September in Sydney before travelling across Australia until 2019.


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It has been a long while since I've written any posts for this blog, my blog, or any blog blog. I could rattle off the hundreds of reasons or excuses as to why that is, but I'm going to ignore it and pretend like I've been writing once a week since the beginning of time. Go.
As my wife has so beautifully described to you on several occasions, I became a father of two boys past November. Quincy has a been an absolute riot and deserves a few hundred thousand words to describe the experience he has been in my life already, but I only know a thousand or so words (bad dad joke). Since his birth, I have gotten the pleasure to watch Lionel interact with this new human on a daily basis.
Before the birth, Sara and I did our best to try and prepare Lionel for this major life change, but I still did not know what would happen when Q-day would come. That day came and went, and both Lionel and Quincy have blessed us with an outrageous level of tolerance, love and patience. It is extremely rare to have both of them upset at once. I don't believe I have ever seen one trigger another one into some sort of fit. Granted, I know that Quincy, being less than three months old, has little to do or say, but both of them have their special ways of showing love for each other.
Lionel is down right adorable when he interacts with Quincy. He reads, he sings, he plays, and he watches "his shows" with Quincy. He gives him kisses, tries to comfort him while he is upset and even when he is rough-housing, Lionel takes a general care to not over do it with the small baby. It is remarkebly fascinating to see my oldest boy, who is on his way to three years old, coordinate and control his body around the baby. You can see him actively trying to be extremely careful. Finally, when Quincy needs immediate attention, Lionel might not always be happy to share "Mom" (that's his new name for Sara, and it is under-appreciated by "Mama"), but he shows understanding.
Quincy, on the flip side, has dealt with an almost three year old who thinks he's being extremely careful, is watching his every step and playing a charade of games to impress Mama and Daddy. That older brother steps, lays, screams, steamrollers (my bad), and runs all around Quincy, and of course, accidents happen. Socks get pulled on or off, pacifiers gets shoved into Quincy's face, and the swing stops rocking as big brother attempts to join in the fun. All that being said, Quincy is resilient. Quincy typically handles all these interactions with a careful studying of the scenario at hand. Clearly, he prefers the tending loving arms of his mother, but from time to time, when Mama needs a break, he's quite content when, sometimes, the entertainment duties fall to big bro.
As a father, it is absolutely fascinating watching and following Lionel grow up and learn new things. It has been just as fascinating to watch Quincy take seemingly a different course to the same conclusion in many ways. They are so similar and so different in so many ways. Perhaps I'm remembering things differently or perceiving things differently the second time around, but the best part of all has been watching them interact, learn and grow together. The sibling dynamic has been deeply meaningful, and they are so full of love and care for each other, even if, perhaps, they don't yet understand fully what it means to have a brother.

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I must admit that usually I like to write something nice and long... and maybe add a few photos... definitely quoting a bunch of science abstracts.
Today, however, I defer to The Smitten Kitchen (link below). Though not necessarily gluten free, this article brings a great deal of good advice to the table.
One of the pie crust tips I will definitely be using is the vodka tip.
Every year, I buy a fair-sized bottle of potato vodka and drop a few vanilla beans in it. This is my own version of 'vanilla extract' for baking days. It is this vanilla flavoured vodka that I will be using to make my pie crusts this Christmas.
For the flour, I must admit to getting tired of using rice flour. My daughter has decided that she doesn't like the flavour of quinoa... and so I will defer to a mix of sorghum, amaranth and arrowroot.
Also, I'll defer to lard for my crust and save any of our dairy splurges for the fillings... like in a pecan pie, for instance.
2 cups sorghum
1/4 cup amaranth
1/4 cup arrowroot
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons powdered demerara sugar (yes I buy full sugar and powder it myself with a coffee grinder)
(I'd use date sugar instead if I could get my hands on some.)
3/4 cup cold organic lard
1/4 cup cold vanilla potato vodka
1/4 cup cold water
Mix dry stuff all together.
Add half of the dry mix to the lard.
Cut the lard into half the dry mix.
Add the rest of the dry mix and continue cutting the lard.
After the mix is very well crumbled, shape into two balls and refrigerate until firm.
Roll between rolls of plastic and place into pie dish.
Sandwich this dough between two pie dishes (must be clear or light - not dark dishes).
Place pie dishes upside down in oven and bake at 200 F until done (check every 10 minutes).
I'll try for the photos later today... if I can find my camera.
Smitten Kitchen - Pie Crust 101
Fermented Sorghum: gluten free bread
Is Sorghum Safe for Celiacs?


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I would say the best way to put it is that Utahns are split about this issue. They're really not sure how they feel about it. They're broken up into a number of camps, and when we asked them what Common Core was, they really couldn't answer. —Bryan Schott, managing editor of UtahPolicy.com
SALT LAKE CITY — A plurality of likely Utah voters oppose the Common Core State Standards, but only 1 in 5 can accurately identify what they are, according to a poll released Monday by UtahPolicy.com.
The poll, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, surveyed 408 likely voters and found that 41 percent of participants opposed the Common Core compared with 29 percent who support the standards.
The remaining 30 percent responded that they were either neutral or "didn't know" when asked whether they support or oppose the Common Core, meaning the voters who either support or have no opinion of the state standards outnumber the voters who oppose them.
"I would say the best way to put it is that Utahns are split about this issue," said Bryan Schott, managing editor of UtahPolicy.com. "They're really not sure how they feel about it. They're broken up into a number of camps, and when we asked them what Common Core was, they really couldn't answer."
The Common Core State Standards are a series of educational benchmarks aimed at preparing students for higher education by defining the skills in math and English that should be mastered at each grade level.
Utah adopted the Common Core in 2010 along with the majority of the nation, but backlash has required participating states to defend their adoption, and in some instances implementation has been put on hold or abandoned outright.
But the UtahPolicy.com poll suggests that many voters continue to be unclear on what exactly the Common Core is and how Utah came to be involved with the standards.
One-fifth of participants accurately identified the Common Core as a series of standards voluntarily adopted by the State School Board and developed by a consortium of state leaders and educators.
"A lot of them thought the feds were involved, and only 21 percent really could give us the correct answer that it was put forward by the nation's governors and education experts first," Schott said.
The most common response, 29 percent, was that the standards were forced on Utah by the federal government, and an additional 19 percent believed the standards were voluntarily adopted by the state but developed by federal officials.
Seven percent of participants believed the Common Core was developed by Utah education leaders, and 17 percent responded "don't know" when asked which statement best described the standards.
Sydnee Dickson, interim deputy state superintendent, said the poll results align with the experience of state education officials who for years have fielded criticism related to the Common Core.
Opponents have often received a lot of misinformation from a variety of sources, Dickson said, and when educators are able to explain what the standards are and that the State School Board has been setting statewide standards since 1984, the conversation typically changes.
"It's rarely about the standards. In fact, most people have not read the standards," she said. "The information that we've tried to share is just the correct information about where they came from and how they were developed and who they were developed by."
Oak Norton, one of the organizers of the group Utahns Against Common Core, said the poll results demonstrate that more needs to be done to provide accurate information to the public.
"The State Office (of Education) is partly to blame for that because they have been basically touting the same story since the beginning, which is inaccurate and does not portray reality as to where Common Core came from," Norton said.
But he added that the relatively low familiarity with the standards is something that anti-Common Core groups have been able to use to their advantage because it allows them to educate and inform parents who have not already made up their minds based on false information.
"As more people become informed, more people oppose Common Core because they see that it is destroying local control of education," Norton said. "It is shifting decision-making away form the local level, even the state level, to the federal level."
Schott said he was surprised by the low number of poll participants who were familiar with the Common Core considering the ongoing discussion by lawmakers and the recent push by Gov. Gary Herbert to review the state's adoption of the standards.
"That tells me that there is a very vocal group that may not be a majority, but they're driving the conversation on this," he said.
Utah's lawmakers likely understand the background of the Common Core better than the average voter, Schott said, but they still have to respond to the views of their constituents.
"When you've got a loud group of constituents telling a lawmaker, 'I don't like this. I don't like this,' it's going to get his attention because those are the people who put him in office and keep him there," he said.
Though Common Core opponents may be more vocal, Dickson said there are still many people in the state who support the new standards.
In particular, she said the majority of Utah's public school educators recognize the Common Core as an improvement over the state's previous standards.
"There are a lot of supporters, and the greatest supporters are these who are actually using the standards in their classrooms," Dickson said. "The intention is to help kids be ready for their future, and I think teachers who are using these standards, by and large, know that."
The poll also asked participants who should have the primary responsibility of both setting achievement standards and determining how to reach those standards, with the most popular response in each case — 42 percent and 56 percent, respectively — being a combination of teachers, parents and local school district administrators.
The Utah Constitution grants the State School Board power to establish statewide education standards, but local school district administrators have traditionally been empowered to set curriculum and policies for reaching those standards.
"Surprisingly, the Legislature even came in behind the federal government," Schott said. "So Utahns don't want the Legislature meddling, or I guess the word they use up on the hill is 'micromanaging' schools. They don't want them setting these standards for schools. They don't want them to tell schools how to meet these standards."
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
TANTRA : A book Review
8 comments:
Thanks for the review :) I'm still waiting for my copy of the book :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for reading me. I am sure you will get your copy soon :)Delete
is about vampire? sounds interesting but i don't like reading maybe i will find audio book, thanks for reviewReplyDelete
Maja dear,Delete
I am not sure if you would find a audio book straight away, maybe later.
Thanks for always being prompt, will hop over soon :D
Looks like a mix of Indian and american sensibilities and Vampire stories. Buffy? Though I am happy to see Indian authors not shying away from experimenting.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Desi,Delete
Thanks and I agree, it feels good to see Indian writer adapting to whatever is the demand of the time.
Good to see you here :D
Ewww...vampire stories!! The story-line is interesting. I think, I'll read the book...ReplyDelete
Thanks for the wonderful review, ghaz...:))
Nice Review! Have added to my list:)ReplyDelete


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Following the rhythms of the days and the seasons and making a few things along the way.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday Craft Group - Dragon
11 comments:
- gardenmama said...
such sweetness, i love the little bit of fire : )
- May 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- twolittleseeds said...
gorgeous x
- May 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- S said...
Oh you two are just lovely.. :)S
- May 19, 2010 at 10:13 PM
- Heidi said...
She's gorgeous! A little "Puff the Magic dragon"...
- May 20, 2010 at 2:08 AM
- twigandtoadstool said...
Love your blog!!! These are wonderful...I've been wanting to do a craft group of my own up here!!! You may be the just the inspiration that I need!!!!
- May 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM
- S said...
Thank you Maureen - start small and let the spoken word spread; before you know it you will be calling for helpers to ease the preparation headaches!
She is isn't she Heidi? - perfect name too :)
- May 20, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- The Mama. said...
Adorable as usual. We're having a doll making workshop here tomorrow and as usual I cannot go as I have to work! So sad!
- May 21, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- k- said...
Could you provide a link for the pattern & also the "adaptations" you made...I love your dragon & my nieces will, too.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:09 AM
- Shannon said...
Hi K - the info for the pattern is at the bottom of the post 'Belinda the Baby Dragon' by Robyn Stickland at Silver Nutmeg Creations - email@example.com
We added a second spine frill, beads and the 'flame' which was just needle felted in at the end.
have fun!
- February 28, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- K said...
Well, all I can say is you are one formidable woman. I would LOVE to do what you do, and perhaps I will when I grow up. Which won't be soon, I promise. I've been planning a Christmas ornament remedial workshop for three years now - I mean only planning and not doing. So the fact that you can pull this together every month or so? Yeah. I bow to you.
- October 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Hinterland Mama said...
Oh Shannon. He is indeed Gorgeous!!! Thank you for sharing with us x
- April 3, 2013 at 10:30 PM


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Originally, I wanted to title this "Doing It Right vs. Doing It Wrong" but the more I looked at the situation, the more I realized how much more significant this story was. This isn't the tale of a fanboy extolling the virtues of Android to the masses. This is a significant example of why, when implemented correctly, open source solutions can be both powerful and useful without a loss in departments like user interface and user experience. Additionally, this is about how carriers can be helpful and not hurtful when it comes to contributing to Android.
There are many open source projects where the code is available for the world to see. One of the most largest places to see these kinds of projects online is github.com. Like any other open source software, Github is home to countless Android projects, from Apps to Roms, and everything in between. The code on GitHub is public, and the tools on the website that provide Wiki's and ticketing systems to collaborate with others. It's an amazing community resource, but in many situations you do not see it's adoption go much further than the community.
Enter T-Mobile, the first mobile carrier to adopt the Android platform, is now also the first to recognize the significance of putting their suggestions for Android where it matters, in the hands of developers.
Back in November, an account showed up on Github labeled "T-Mobile". After some brief confusion, T-Mobile revealed that the account did in fact belong to them. It didn't take long for code to start showing up on this account. Ideas for improving the Android system they helped bring to life, free for everyone to see, comment on, and implement into their own. Fast forward to January when T-mobile drops a really great idea. A complete Theme Manager, capable of offering complete themes for Android 2.3, as well as a method for other developers to quickly create their own complete themes. It's powerful, and theme's the entire Operating System, down to the stars in the Market. The code was there, inviting developers from all around the world to make their own.
It's powerful enough to ensure that no matter what rom it's running on, the same functionality exists throughout. It's a theme platform that bypasses accusations of fragmentation entirely, and beyond that the software alone is responsible for directing the resources, so if for some reason an element is not present, it simply does not get themed. What's more, developers are free to implement this immediately.
You might have heard of this small team of Android developers that make this thing called CyanogenMod. Their build of Android is free to all, made from the core open source properties of Android, and includes their own upgrades and modifications to enhance everything from battery life down to the lockscreen. The team had been following and collaborating with the T-Mobile github repository and had now provided them with a nearly plug and play system that can theme the entire OS. It did not take long at all for Theme Picker to show up on a nightly build of CyanogenMod, ready to go. Theme Picker has not been deemed ready for human consumption just yet, so you won't find it in places like the Market. It is, however, a shining example of things to come.
There are few things in my experience that go from idea to concept to deployment in such a short time, and be so incredibly successful. T-Mobile's attempting to work with the community instead of creating closed systems and forcing the user and the developer to do things their way. For example, a similar implementation of themes arrived on Sprint's network, dubbed SprintID. In an attempt to create an environment that aided the user, they created a system that few enjoyed using, and many felt was more difficult.
Only in moving forward will we see whether or not T-Mobile's Theme Picker will be met with success or failure, but it is undoubtedly easier to use, and will provide the community with the ability to create their own themes, and even improve upon T-Mobile's Theme Picker software. This is a clear case for the benefit of collaborated open source, the origin to which Android was built on, and a great example of what happens when the carriers cooperate with the developers.


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I hope eventually back deformation and out-of-sequence deformation will be linked with such studies to understand how collisional orogens behave temporally.
Tectonic evolution and understanding fold-and-thrust belts
In this blog Guest Editor Professor Olivier Lacombe discusses the latest thematic issue from Geological Magazine on Tectonic evolution and mechanics of basement-involved fold-and-thrust belts.
"Defining the structural style of fold-and-thrust belts is an important step for understanding the factors that control their long and short-term dynamics, for comprehending seismic hazards associated with them, and for assessing their economic potential. While the thin-skinned model (no basement involvement) has long been the driving methodology for cross section construction and restoration of foreland fold-and-thrust belts, a wealth of new geological and geophysical studies have shown that they are often thick-skinned, that is, basement-involved.
One of the key processes by which basement becomes involved in fold-and-thrust belts is the inversion of pre-existing extensional faults. Inversion tectonics is a widespread process that exerts a strong control on the structural and mechanical evolution of fold-and-thrust belts. Basement fault reactivation may induce localization of thrusts and folds, result in the incorporation of crystalline thrust sheets into the fold-and-thrust belt, cause out-of-sequence thrusting and folding of shallow thrust sheets, and lead to the development of accommodation structures such as lateral ramps.
However, extensional faults may sometimes not get reactivated despite being suitably oriented. In fact, inversion tectonics is a highly selective process that depends not only on the orientation of the faults with respect to the applied stress field and on the friction along the fault planes, but also on the contrast of strength between the inherited fault zones and the surrounding crustal rocks. This points toward the importance of rheology : not only is the rheology of a structurally homogenous crust markedly different from that of a crust in which pre-existing fault zones are suitably oriented for reactivation, but even in a pre-fractured crust, brittle thickness and strength are strongly dependent on the nature of the geotherm. Basement involvement in shortening requires an overall specific thermo-mechanical behavior of the lithosphere, e.g, a young thermo-tectonic age, so the lithosphere is generally rather hot, hence mechanically weak.
Basement-involvement in fold-and-thrust belts also raises the questions of the way the orogen is mechanically coupled to the foreland and how orogenic stresses are transmitted far into the pro or the retro-foreland through the crust and mantle lithosphere. Specific boundary conditions sometimes appear to be necessary, like those encountered in flat-slab subduction setting (e.g., Sierras Pampeanas, Laramide uplifts).
This special issue illustrates some of the diverse research that is being carried out on basement-involved fold-and-thrust belts. It aims at contributing to a better understanding of fold-and-thrust belts in particular, but also of orogenic processes and of the rheology of the continental lithosphere in general."
All articles in the thematic issue Tectonic evolution and mechanics of basement-involved fold-and-thrust belts are freely available until 1st January 2017.


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186 Seaside,
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The Eastbourne Picture Theatre opened on Seaside in June 1914. It was equipped with a 'Clavorchestra' organ which was manufactured by Brindley and Forster of Sheffield. In 1915 it was re-named Empire Cinema and in 1921 it was re-named Elysium Cinema.
In 1936 it came under the ownership of Randolph E. Richards and was re-vamped and underwent yet another name change to Gaiety Cinema. The Gaiety Cinema was closed during the heavy German bombing of the South Coast in September and October 1940 and remained closed until 1942.
In 1966, Randolph E. Richards sold the Gaiety Cinema and his other Eastbourne cinema, the Picturedrome to Classic Cinemas Ltd. and the Gaiety Cinema was re-named New Classic Cinema. It was closed on 17th November 1973. The building became a funeral home.
By 2016 it was the Princess-Empire, a childrens beauty salon.
In 2005, it was designated a Grade II Listed building by English Heritage.
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If it's the one I think it is in Seaside Road, then the Eastbourne Constitutional Club occupies part of the ground floor of the building. The cinema was actually on the top floor, I believe
Follow this link to 3 pictures taken in May 2008
This is in Seaside Road but is NOT the cinema which shared premises with the Constitutional Club – that was the Tivoli and the above photos are of the Tivoli, not the New Classic. The New classic became the Manhattan Nightclub following closure, this too closed and after a long period of dereliction, the cinema was converted into the Reef'n'Beef restaurant and bar.
A photo of the New Classic as the Manhattan can be seen here:–
The back of this cinema with a wicked interior hard to get to see as it;s owned by a plumbing shop is at the rear of my flat. I would love some help to get this beautiful interior seen by us movie buffs and it can be done so please help. langmike29'gmail.com
That cinema "cine variety" is the old Gaiety Cinema which became a bingo hall and was then closed down. The Plummers Mate took it over and at one time there was a problem with the local council and it was boarded up.The photo above is not the Gaiety that is the cinema which was opposite and is now an undertakers. I used to go to the Gaiety with my Father way back in the 50's/60's.
The correct details are now 186 Seaside, Eastbourne, BN22 7QR. 01323 325800. Was the Empire Cinema but now called 'Princes-Empire' in memory. Search facebook Princess Empire for lots of up to photos and what this building has become or pop in, ask to speak to Rich and mention cinemeatreasures website for a tour of the building. www.princess-empire.co.uk
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Nelson Mandela's memorial service, held yesterday, has been met with a mixed reception, with criticism being levelled against everything from the political posturing of the speakers to that selfie. Some of the tributes however, particularly President Obama's, were genuinely moving. But if you were deaf you wouldn't know that -- the sign language interpreter was just winging it.
The as-yet-unnamed interpreter, who stood beside local politicians and world leaders alike throughout the event at Johannesburg's FNB football stadium, may have been moving his hands around but, according to experts, was doing so without any meaning. None of South Africa's 11 official languages could be discerned by leading deaf groups around the globe, nor any standard American signing gestures.
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This page is only for specific complaints about Longwood. If you have a complaint, feel free to share it. Add it by clicking here. If you have a specific horror story that you want to tell us, add it here.
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Longwood & Alcohol (add complaint)
- On drinking alcohol: I am the parent of a LU student that I believe has been harrassed by the Longwood and local Farmville police. He has been stopped numerous times and accused of underage drinking. Four times he has been accused by the local Prince Edward county jurisdiction. Twice he had not even been drinking and when he repeatedly requested a breathalyzer, he was refused. He just received a jail sentence of 12 months in jail with 8 month reduced, a $721 fine, and his license revoked. All of this for walking from one dorm to another and accused by the LU police of possession of alcohol under the age of 21 - and this happened one month before his 21st birthday. Only in Prince Edward County do they put you in jail for underage drinking. I am appalled that this continues to happen everyday to kids attending LU."The toughest policy in Virginia is that of Longwood ... all violations of underage drinking are relayed to parents." - Cavalier Daily Newspaper
- This complaint is confirmed by the Longwood Student Handbook: "The Office of Honor and Judicial Programs will ... inform parents of students under the age of 21 years old about behavior associated with alcohol and drug abuse" [1]
- A student asks: "Why should longwood be allowed to notify your parents on your drinking if parents are not allowed to have any contact with your professors without your expressed written permission?"
- When I went Longwood the police were horrible. I've had a sober friend walking down the road get stopped by a cop just because he "seemed drunk." Was it any coincidence that my friend is black?
- The Alcohol Policy at Longwood and the laws in Farmville need to be changed.
- Cops stop kids walking home when they "look drunk" - I've known several cases where this has encouraged kids to drive instead of walk when intoxicated!!
- Also I have known cops to pull over designated drivers with a car full of people and either cite or arrest everyone who is intoxicated in the car... hello! they have a dd! would you rather them drive themselves to avoid being pulled over because their car is full?!
- There was actually a discussion in one of my classes and we all came to the conclusion that you are less likely to be stopped by the police if you drive rather than walk.
- Well, I actually sent a complaint to Longwood, because I have been stopped several times at night by night cops, sometimes just sitting around. Since I'm not contributing money to Longwood, my opinion made no impact, but I made a complaint about the police harassment. The person in charge of the police force responded: "You were concerned that there was no reason for the officer to suspect you being drunk, in fact alcohol abuse is a significant problem facing the nations universities and finding someone sitting or standing around at two or three in the morning, is one of the indicators of someone that may be intoxicated. And the only way that the officer would know is to approach and ask." In otherwords, if you're out late at night, even if you're SITTING -- you will be harassed.
- I agree. I graduated in '04, and there was a long standing joke that it "Was always safer to drive drunk than walk drunk". Longwood PD and Farmville PD would target anyone and everyone walking after a certain hour at night.
- Also, watch out when walking anywhere near a bar. It doesn't matter who you are or what you have been doing if you walk near a bar there is a good chance the police will harass you. I had to borrow a book from a friend of mine who was living in the landings. On the way back to my apartment I walked by mulligans where I was met by an officer who shined a light directly in my eyes and asked to see my ID. I gave it to him, got it back, took a breathalizer and then told him was an idiot after the breathalizer registered .00. This is unbelievable.
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Longwood Housing (add complaint)
- Not only are there plenty of horror stories about housing, but Longwood reserves the right to make you STAY in their university dorms until your Senior year. [2]
- This school is not very good about responding to work orders.
- Longwood also does a horrible job dealing with roommate problems.
- I live in an off-campus apartment complex under Longwood's control. I live with an RA and IT SUCKS!!!! Not only do I have no freedom to do as I please, but I have to follow the same on-campus rules in an apartment that you would have to follow as if you were living in a dorm.
- Triple housing is 100% unbearable. My daughter lives in a triple dorm, and has about three square inches of room to herself! They are set up originally so that one bed is a bunk, but if the girls are not keen on sleeping just under the ceiling (who would be?) then they have to find a way to make three beds fit where really only two were ever designed to. Her chest of drawers is in the closet, and the bathroom is way too tiny for three girls. Its really ridiculous that so much is paid for housing, and the dorms shown at orientation are so much nicer, and on 'move in' day, I had to do everything I could to convince her to stay. Its sad, this is a huge transition for kids, and some cope less well - but to have to live in such cramped conditions with complete strangers and no space at all, is very hard. Her deposit must have been one of the first to arrive, which is evidently what the dorm choices were based on, and she certainly would NEVER have chosen to live like this and has thought about transferring just for that reason.
- I am a parent of a LU student who is female and lives in a triple. We opted to rent her a loft at extra expense because the other two girls refused to bunk their beds and my daughter was forced to put her dresser in a closet also. These girls are cheerleaders and choose to party my daughter doesn't drink and likes to stay in. Needless to say it is 2 against 1 in this room and when the RA got involved my daughter was theatened physically. Needless to say, she will be transfering and I will never recommend Longwood Universiy to any seniors I know of.
The Social Scene (add complaint)
- The student quality of life at Longwood receives a dismal 69, on a scale of 60-99, which is the lowest rating we've found in Virginia (Princeton Review).
- Longwood is located in Farmville, VA - a tiny town where the best entertainment is going to the Wal*Mart.
- An estimated 35% of students leave town for the weekends, but this seems low (US News).
- Longwood is more greek oriented than any website about colleges would make you believe.. When you go to longwood, you really won't belong unless you're part of a sorority or frat. However, involving yourself in a longwood university sorority or frat is a positive experience. It greatly allows you to get involved on campus in many other clubs and organizations. Greek life at longwood is a positive community and an experience that you will never forget. It makes you stay involved, keep your grades up, and makes you well rounded.
- The greeks are EVERYWHERE. The girls travel in flocks and make it impossible to walk in the D-Hall without bumping into them. The frat boys are racist and homophobic, not to mention LOUD and OBNOXIOUS. I'm so sick of the Greek alphabet. Try being social without having to define yourself under some banner you ignorant sheep!
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Transportation (add complaint)
- CARS! As Freshman you can't have them. And this REALLY sucks, since there is hardly anything to do in Farmville. Well, actually, there is a bus and it DOES take you to Wal*Mart. Yay!
- Be careful when riding the FAB ( Farmville Area Bus). If you don't get motion sickness you will after riding the FAB, since they wont let you have your own car as a freshman.
- The FAB used to come to Longwood Village every half-hour or so (not to be confused with Lancer Village). Without notice, they stopped coming here. The first day of school I waited a half-an-hour for the bus to come, but it never did. Goes to show how much they care about their riders. Oh and thank you Longwood University for notifying your students.
- If you're lucky enough to have a car, the parking is HORRIBLE.
- When it comes down to it, they just don't have enough spots for all the Longwood University students.
- They charge outrageous fees for parking, even though Farmville is in the middle of nowhere.
- Longwood University is building up and around, yet they can't seem to get the idea that they need parking garages not a new sports center.
- For more see the horror stories about parking at Longwood University.
- I needed to go to the local Wal*Mart one evening, since everything else in this town closes at 5:30pm and even earlier on Sundays, if they open at all. The FAB schedule claims that they stop running at 7:30 on weekdays. It was probably late November/early December and 2 of my friends and I stood at the FAB stop across from the French Residence Hall from 6:30pm to nearly 7:15pm. Mind you, it was in the lower 30's/upper 20's and extremely windy. The FAB never came. Also, the phone number on the FAB bus stop signs is useless. I know several people who have called that number and I have yet to hear of anyone actually answering it.
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Others (add complaint)
- Need a job? There are very few jobs in Farmville - many freshman work at the dining hall. But they teat you horribly and definitely don't pay a living wage. You start out at around $5.15 / hr, and get a 10 cent increase after working there for a year.
- Longwood dorms have a 12:00 midnight curfew. This means you can't have ANYONE of the opposite sex (except the RA's or the RTA's) over after midnight. For some, this wasn't strictly enforced - but at Tabb, it definitely was.
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- Longwood is really stupid. They dont need a new sports facility they need a new Dinning HALL!! its sooo crowded during lunch and dinner times unless you go for dinner at 4:30!
- According to an anon user, when they award scholarships, they don't always pay them out
- DHall hours are ridiculous!! I arrived at 6:30pm to find that the workers were already packing and cleaning the food up! Do normal people eat dinner at 4pm? I don't think so.. DHall's hours need to be changed immediately!!!
- On the foreign language department: Many professors are horrible, especially the French professors. If you go to Longwood University, don't ever take French, you wont learn anything.
- The school markets itself too much for a University. It desperately wants to increase enrollment. They have launched numerous radio ad campaigns, website advertisements, and promotes it's small achievements too much.
- Other students disagree, see Props
- My friend was being tailgated by a police officer for over a mile on the main street through Farmville. Plenty of room to get around him. My friend was obeying the speed limit. But sped up to keep some distance between the cars. The cop pulled him over for it and gave him a speeding ticket.
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I shot this story in Costa Rica on a ranch for Hello! Fashion Magazine, a monthly fashion magazine based in London. The western theme had been assigned by the editor and I'll admit - in the beginning I was a little worried about how my feminine approach to fashion photography would compliment this editorial story. The editor wanted to create a cinematic approach; to accomplish this, I decided to shoot many of the shots in landscape format and on my 50mm to give a feel for the environment and atmosphere. Karolina Wallace, our model, was perfectly cast because she embodied the bohemian vibe well, and expressed a wide range of emotion. Her confidence in front of the camera made the story even more inspiring to shoot.
We were tackling the majority of the elements - bright midday sun and wind (two photographer nightmare scenarios) and at the end of the day we all left with sand mustaches and sand and dirt in our hair that stayed with us for days after we left. There was a limited amount of space at the ranch and the majority of the shots we had to shoot later in the day when the sun was in golden hour - which suited the theme of the story. Whilst the sun was at it's highest, we chose to shoot on the ranch porch and the old car. In the car we were also battling a group of howler monkeys who had taken over the mango trees above us to eat. Now and again a mango would hit the roof of the car and the tin roof beside us and we would all run for cover!
We didn't shoot with lighting because we wanted to approach it as naturally as possible with the 'actress' in her element. Instead, we decided to use reflectors and scrims to bounce or diffuse the light.
What did I learn? I love the quote 'never get comfortable or comfortability is the enemy of innovation'. Had this been a shoot I had planned or pitched to a magazine - I would never have chosen something so different from what I'm usually inspired by. The shoot found it's place in my portfolio and is one of my favorite shoots of 2015 so far.
Whenever I'm approached by photographers or other creatives and I'm asked the question 'how do you get inspired'? I tell them - first look into what you're personally inspired by. Personal inspiration will ultimately be the defining point in your style. Shoot what you love and the rest will follow. The biggest lesson I was taught this year is to look outside of the obvious and don't be afraid to let others put inspiration in front of us. You will always learn something.


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One of the brightest lights ever to shine during the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s, Mississippi-born sharecropper-turned-activist Fannie Lou Hamer was the very embodiment of courageous, principled struggle.
As an organizer working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committtee, Hamer stood up to the racist terrorism of the South by daring to register blacks to vote. As "reward" for her work, white cops once arrested Hamer and beat her so savagely and for so long that she nearly died. Although the incident left her partially blind in one eye, she continued to fight.
Later, as vice-chair of the famed Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party—formed in response the state's bigoted, all-white DNC delegation—Hamer shamed and enraged (and frightened) mainline Dems by challenging the party's delegation credentials and threatening to derail Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential run. When Johnson (who loathed Hamer and once insulted her as "that illiterate woman") called himself compromising by offering the MFDP two meaningless "at-large" seats on the delegation, Hamer and her group chose to walk out of the convention rather than sell out to the illusion of power.
Quoth Fannie Lou: "We didn't come all this way for no two seats…"
This is the woman who once said "we want ours and we want ours now;" the woman famous for telling the world that she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired;" the woman who, when a scared black minister once tried to rebuff voting-rights organizers by claiming he didn't want to bring politics into his church, said, "He's telling a big lie because every dollar bill got a politician on it and the preacher love it. And if this man don't choose to be a shepherd, he can be a sheep and follow the shepherd."
And now you're trying to tell me that this woman would support Robert Ficano?
The Detroit News wrote:
Wayne County Excutive Robert Ficano received the endorsement Tuesday of the Rev. Wendell Anthony and the Fannie Lou Hamer Political Action Committee.
Anthony, who founded the PAC in 1991, said because of Ficano's experience and commitment to the community, he "deserves another opportunity" to lead the county.
The incumbent has been dogged by controversy since four former Ficano aides and a contractor have been convicted of corruption or obstructing justice. In addition, the county has an accumulated deficit around $175 million.
"We are very much aware of the many issues and challenges that face our county," Anthony said, speaking at the Fellowship Chapel Church on the city's west side. "We are not indifferent to any mistakes that may have been made in the county of Wayne by any particular individual. However, we believe that more has been done right and has been proven to be a benefit to our citizens than any speculation or negative suggestion."
The Fannie Lou Hamer PAC bills itself as backing candidates who "further the cause of African-Americans primarily and persons neglected and often over-looked by the electoral process."
Sorry, but I call that bullshit.
I mean, obviously, the PAC has the right to back anybody it wants. And in a field of largely unimpressive candidates vying for the county executive job, Ficano is hardly the only stomach-turning option in the race (though he may likely be the worst).
But to attach Fannie Lou Hamer's name to this PAC endorsement garbage? To give even the suggestion that Hamer, a woman who devoted her life to combating political rot and injustice, would back a man whose administration gave us the likes of Turkia "severance payoff" Mullin and Mike "hair plugs" Grundy and left us with the embarrassing husk of an overpriced, unfinished jailhouse? To lead people to think that Hamer would support an executive who gave away millions to cronies even as he proposed closing down the city's lone water park, one that serves a largely poor and working-class black community?
Dishonoring Values
To exploit her name while dishonoring her values?
That is 31 flavors of just-plain wrong.
It's not merely that nothing about Hamer's history suggests that she would approve of someone using her name to promote shady politicians. Rather, it's that everything we know about her suggests she would have fought against Robert Ficano tooth and toenail.
How then can anyone in good conscience co-opt Hamer's image to cover off on an endorsement of a candidate whose shady behavior has been so antithetical to her raison d'etre when she was alive? What next, the Malcolm X Tea Party Movement? The Martin Luther King Jr. Gun Club? The Black Panthers for Machine Politics Association? (Oh, wait…)
At what point do we become "sick and tired" of seeing history's populist heroes pimped, played and used to make selfish opportunists seem noble?
Deal Cut?
I don't know what deal, if any, was cut to get the "Fannie Lou Hamer" PAC to back a guy who not only has proven himself unsuited for office but who probably won't win anyway. I don't know how much in notes "with a politician on it" was exchanged.
But I do know that Robert Ficano doesn't deserve the votes of those "often overlooked by the electoral process"—and that the late great Fannie Lou Hamer deserves a whole lot more respect than having her name sullied by pairing it in any way with his.


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I call myself a cyclist. From teaching spin classes to training for century rides to jumping in the occasional race, I'm kind of into the sport.
That being said, there are a couple places I feel pretty darn clueless.
One of those places is when it comes to the sport itself. I know the Tour de France, folks. I know the Giro D'Italia. I know Clara Hughes. I know lululemon has a women's team
that I want to be on (#bhag).
But seriously, if a little girl who decided to take up cycling as her sport of choice asked me who she could look up to or what her pie in the sky goal might be, I wouldn't know. I remember watching a video about women's stage racing and then thinking that it's silly that there isn't a women's Tour De France, although this news about La Course, which will run after the Tour this year is exciting and might be signalling change. I liked this article from The Independent which talked about women's cycling (in Britain, specifically). It talks about making cycling more desirable to women via its image and encouraging them to take up the sport and why this is important:
"Sport should always look at how it can get involved at the grass-roots level, because only then can you say you're useful to society. … Otherwise, riding around in circles is fairly pointless."
I haven't seen the documentary "Half the Road," but the trailer and the website offer some insight into the issue around the lack of women's pro cycling exposure.
On a similar note about increasing exposure and driving up women's participation in the sport, I saw another story in the news last week that was encouraging: this press release about the British Cycling and the Football Association joining up to increase exposure to women's sport.They're talking about using bike riding as a social thing. Sounds good to me!
I wish that it wasn't the case that we needed to talk about ways to up the exposure but in the meantime, I'm happy that the women's side of the sport is going after–and getting–more attention. Seeing a pro lady riding a bike is one of those things that I think has a ton of potential. Most little girls learn to ride a bike–and cycling is one of the sports that I think could be within reach for them–if they knew it was an option. Without role models and examples of female athletes in the sport, we're not raising a group of girls who know that it's available to them. If we want to change the state of the sport, I think this is one of the biggest problems, which is why I think this news and these kinds of campaigns and partnerships are worthy of talking about. I see the benefits of increasing the exposure twofold: one, you're helping to advance the women's side of the sport; and, two, you're helping to spur on mass participation. It's not crazy to suggest that the average person go for a bike ride as a form of (easily accessible) exercise–and there are benefits beyond health that go along with more people cycling (consider if they took up exercise and commuting, for instance!)–male or female.
The world needs more cyclists!
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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Carnegie-Mellon universities studied 110 apps available on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
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A solo kayaker aims to raise thousands of pounds for the RNLI by paddling 2015 miles round all the charity's Scottish lifeboat stations.
Nick Ray, 51, will leave on May 1st and take between three and four months to kayak to the RNLI's 47 lifeboat stations – including the Western Isles' three RNLI stations at Barra, Leverburgh and Stornway.
Nick, who has been living on a yacht in the marina on the Isle of Kerrera, just off Oban, will start at Kippford on the Solway Firth and travel clockwise before finishing in Eyemouth close to the border.
His trip is inspired by the account by Brian Wilson of his solo sea kayak journey around Scotland in the 1980s.
Nick said: "Ever since then I have wanted to emulate his adventure and I have held onto the dream of kayaking around Scotland too. The idea for this particular trip came to fruition when I reach Nicholas Leach's excellent book 'The Lifeboat Service in Scotland: Station by Station'.
"It suddenly occurred to me that it would be an amazing challenge to visit each of the 47 active RNLI lifeboat stations detailed in his book in one continuous sea kayak journey and, in doing so, fulfil my ambition of a circumnavigation of the Scottish coastline.'
Nick's varied career includes a spell as an instructor at Outward Bound Wales in Aberdovey. Many of his colleagues were on the lifeboat crew and Nick helped with the launching and retrieving of the then Atlantic lifeboat.
Nick, a kayaker since 1986, will be camping during his journey and he hopes to raise up to £5,000 for the RNLI.
He expanded: "I won't be putting in huge distances a day – I don't want to put myself under time pressures which would run the risk of me making marginal decisions.
"I am fascinated by the connection coastal communities have with the sea and I want to understand more about the volunteer service, its ethos and what motivates the volunteers to join the lifeboat.
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So, after every review video I make, I ask the question - who do you want to see next? And say the usual spiel of "put a comment in the video, or by PM, or whatever forum you're on", and it then takes me about a week and a half to tally up the votes from Youtube, The Sodor Island Forums, Sodor Island 3D, Sudrian Railway Modellers Forum, The Permanent Way Model Forum, the Bachmann USA Forums...and so on and so forth!
Although around 50-100 votes are on Youtube, and around 5-15 on each of those forums, the majority of the votes come in my inbox, with Youtubers giving me some terrific reasons as to why I should make a review on such and such character.
This month it's been a bit easier as people are homing in on specific characters more and more. Less votes for less well known characters, more votes on the major characters who are left.
So, if you haven't already guessed - the choice of the next video review is (drum roll), Edward the Blue Engine - coming in a red Hornby box, and a blue Bachmann Blister Pack.
The votes for the top five characters I tallied up since the 20th May are as follows:
1st - Edward - 257 Votes
2nd - Henry - 103 Votes
3rd - Gordon - 23 Votes
4th - Emily - 17 Votes
5th - Bill & Ben - 9 Votes
2nd - Henry - 103 Votes
3rd - Gordon - 23 Votes
4th - Emily - 17 Votes
5th - Bill & Ben - 9 Votes
And the wooden spoon this week goes out to Lady...who got 11 votes despite not actually being a model in either the Bachmann or Hornby ranges. 11 of those votes were cast by the same person.
This I did not pick up on until writing this blog entry. Annoying.
Emily actually got 18 votes - 17 for, 1 against - first time that's happened, and it made me laugh to read it! Kudos to that viewer :)
Edward was by far and away the top choice this month, and that gives me great delight as he has been - and always shall be - my favourite character in the series. Closely followed by Gordon, for obvious reasons!
Drop me a line here in this blog entry if you have anything you feel absolutely MUST be discussed in the Edward VS Edward video - any and all suggestions gratefully received.
And of course, suggestions for an Ertl model in the "star on a reasonably priced flat truck" cameo - thanks to theirishthomas for that great suggestion on the Spencer video!
Until next time!