If You’re Feeling Positive, Don’t Read This!
December 15th, 2007
Unless you live elsewhere other than East Sussex.
Went to Brighton Center last night to see the Manic Street Preachers, as live performances go I would say they are a bit good! Brighton Center is, unfortunately, a bit of a crap venue so the band has to perform to make up for that.
I think that a venue should be established in Eastbourne for the more mainstream bands to appear as appose to The Bootleg Beatles and Abba tribute bands we occasionally get. But, our town with all it’s potential has a council led by a load of old fashioned, bigoted idiots without a scrap of interest in driving away the “God’s Waiting Room” reputation this town has, customary, habitual, traditional, uncreative, unimaginative, a few synonyms that come to mind. They tend to cling to traditional values that are long gone, the idea of a holiday by the seaside? Oh please! All but expired in todays society except in the memories of the over 70’s who may venture here in the summer for nostalgic purposes, what happens in the future when they’re all DEAD!? The council need to be more creative and inspire the younger generation if there is going to be any prosperity in the future.
This part of the country as a whole seems to have a kind of dreary and dull atmosphere about it, (take Bexhill, Folkestone, Hailsham, Hastings, Lewes, Uckfield as examples) it’s only when you get to Brighton and westwards, that gloomy, depressive ambiance that East Sussex permeates into your soul and destroys all hopes and ambitions dissipates. Can you think of anyone extremely successful who was born and bred in Eastbourne?
Graham and Yve at the Brighton Center.
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1. cam | December 16th, 2007 at 2:19 am
ok ..may not be eastbourne but bexhill home of motor raceing and hastings television ..and though i do totally agree lol.. we had the mobiles 25 yrs ago hit the chart with drowning in berlin also top loader ..ok ok not so great but the lead singer is now writing music in america for artists and tommy cooper used to live in eastbourne with his mother.. ..going back to bexhill .. eddy izard and the guy who played “q” in bond and last but not least ME unoficial holder of the kainer of the year 2000 to 2007 😛 .. (but still agree with the post)
2. cam | December 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Frederick Soddy (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist.
Soddy was born in Eastbourne, England. He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and at Merton College, Oxford. He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900. He married Winifred Beilby in 1908.
In 1900 he became a demonstrator in chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he worked with Ernest Rutherford on radioactivity. He and Rutherford realized that the anomalous behaviour of radioactive elements was due to the fact that they decayed into other elements. This decay also produced alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. When radioactivity was first discovered, no one was sure what the cause was. It needed careful work by Soddy and Rutherford to prove that atomic transmutation was in fact occurring.
His work and essays popularising the new understanding of radioactivity was the main inspiration for H. G. Wells’s The World Set Free (1914), which features atomic bombs dropped from biplanes in a war set many years in the future. Wells’s novel is also known as The Last War and imagines a peaceful world emerging from the chaos. In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt Soddy praises WellsÂ’s The World Set Free. He also says that radioactive processes probably power the stars.
In 1903, with Sir William Ramsay at University College London, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced alpha particles composed of positively charge nuclei of helium. In the experiment a sample of radium was enclosed in a thin walled glass envelope sited within an evacuated glass bulb. Alpha particles could pass through the thin glass wall but were contained within the surrounding glass envelope. After leaving the experiment running for a long period of time a spectral analysis of the contents of the former evacuated space revealed the presence of helium. This element had recently been discovered in the solar spectrum by Bunsen and Kirchoff.[1]
From 1904 to 1914, he was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and while there he showed that uranium decays to radium. It was here also that he showed that a radioactive element may have more than one atomic mass though the chemical properties are identical; He named this concept isotope meaning ‘same place’. Soddy later showed that non-radioactive elements also could have multiple isotopes. In addition he showed that an atom moves lower in atomic number by two places on alpha emission, higher by one place on beta emission. This was a fundamental step toward understanding the relationships among families of radioactive elements.
Soddy published The Interpretation of Radium (1909) and Atomic Transmutation (1953).
In 1914 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked on research related to World War I.
In 1919 he moved to Oxford University as Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry, where, in the period up till 1936, he reorganized the laboratories and the syllabus in chemistry.
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research in radioactive decay and particularly for his formulation of the theory of isotopes.
Soddy was also interested in Technocracy and the social credit movement, which is evidenced by his publications Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt (George Allen & Unwin 1926) and Money versus Man (1933).
He rediscovered the Descartes’ theorem in 1936 and published it as poem. The kissing circles in this problem are sometimes known as Soddy circles.
He died in Brighton, England.
3. Lemmy | December 16th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Hmmm… Interesting stuff about old Soddy, but check out his birth date, Eastbourne was actually quite a fashionable place then. I’m not saying that if you’re born and bred in Eastbourne you don’t stand a chance but the evidence of my point has been given here in the fact that after an extensive Google search, the most documented case is of a guy born 130 years ago. I notice he didn’t die here as everybody else seems to!
As you correctly say there were the Mobiles and Toploader briefly in the charts but it’s unlikely that there will be many people who can name any of the members. And Eddy Izzard LOL…What a character, but can you now understand what growing up in such a place can actually do to you?
4. cam | December 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
lol mate i totally agree with the post and yes eastbourne could really do with a major shake up but i also think this whole country is going down the pan , i think you know what i mean without me writing it here.. and we are due within the nxt decade to expand to a population of 70 million so it ain`t going to get better ..ok i am slipping off subject lol but this country is becoming a soul and mind sapping shit hole.. feck i even dream of haveing a sheep farm in new zealand now( not a sexual thing either before a comments made) and i have always been proud to be english still am but things are changing.. ok had a bit of a rant there lol due to a few heavy nights i guess 😉 pssst we need a beer before crimbo so we can put the world to right.. speak soon bud
5. cam | December 16th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
oooh and heres one more for you,, just out of interest and hopefully anyone else who would like to comment .. in your eyes what to you is english what to you makes you puff your chest and feel proud of the country you live in ??
6. Lemmy | December 17th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
England to me is the back streets of the suburbs, the music and the urban stimulation. The echoes of our lost industry, urine saturated telephone boxes and wooden bus shelters, graffiti daubed benches, the sound of distant school playgrounds. But also country ways and woodland walks, styles and coastal footpaths. There’s a lot that made England what it is, especially the weather, though even that is changing, most of the chiefly British ideals that made it what it is (for me) have gone, maybe I’m just getting old.
I don’t pride myself in anything English, we are who we are and I find proud foreigners obnoxious twats, which is probably a similar way they think about our pride – and rightly so.
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