A Slideshow 60mins. 400pics Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party

Posted on 21 March 2021 by admin

A Slideshow 60mins. 400pics Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Policemen and …….. >>

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Happy Equinox 09:37 this morning

Posted on 20 March 2021 by admin

https://www.archaeoastronomy.com

2021 seasonal cusps for Northern Hemisphere ~ 0º meridian Universal Time, London
Mar 20, 12:09 PM undefined Daylight Saving ~ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:09:16 GMT
Beltaine vernal equinox imbolc winter solstice
orbital position of earth today
summer solstice Lughnasad autumnal equinox samhain
Southern Hemisphere guests, kindly swap opposing cusp names, date and times at Earth positions
 
archaeoastronomy.com’s definition of this field: The contemporary scientific study and theorization of surviving memorials constructed prior to telescopes by students of the night skies planet-wide. Such memorials might include writings and symbols engraved in stone or primitive megalithic alignments for observing and celebrating Mother Earth’s seasonal rhythms. Intercontinentally, ancient seamen and expert navigators curated databases aware of equinox, solstice and cross-quarter moments. This field interprets how ancients grasped:
A— the Sun, stars and constellations with the placement or carving of paired gnomon and target alignments,
B— comets, rhythms of the 5 visible planets, lunar eclipses, phases and standstills,
or C— an anomaly such as a localized total solar eclipse, a planetary occlusion by the Moon,
       a planetary conjunction, a supernova, an asteroid, a meteor or an unidentifiable object.
 
Earth’s annual orbit is The Master Clock because the common yardstick of our lives is the year. Years are divided by the seasons just as calendars are segmented by months. Mechanical and digital timepieces measure intervals that split into hours, minutes and seconds each spin of our planet on its axis. Yet, it is the earth’s regular, rhythmic loop around the sun that standardizes our timeframe of reference, regardless of geographic distances separating us from our acquaintances or generational distances separating us from our ancestors.
 
Our planet moves around the sun in an elliptical circuit deviating less than a second from one year to the next. Together we proceed through 8 significant, yet invisible, thresholds within each orbit. These spatial milestones mark the beginning, midpoint and end of each of our seasons. Equinoxes, Solstices and Cross Quarters are moments shared planet-wide, defined by the earth’s tilt and the sun’s position on The Ecliptic along 45° arcs.
 
To ancient civilizations fascinated and entertained by the cyclical motion of the heavens, the ability to fix these cusps just to the nearest day was highly-prized, even sacred knowledge. With modern measurements and calculators much better accuracy is possible for determining these moments.
 
This Grand Octal in the sky is largely ignored by most modern societies. Equinoxes and Solstices have become little more than footnote mentions on occasional weather reports. Cross Quarters are all but forgotten, in spite of having been observed and celebrated for centuries by Celtic people. Archaeoastronomy.com revives a tradition of marking the eight primary seasonal divisions within our common year. See time tables for our planet’s orbital milestones.
 
Archaeoastronomy’s goal is to understand how skywatchers of the past fashioned and refined systems for regulating their primitive calendars and for memorializing celestial events, both cyclical and unique. Often they relied on sunlight and shadow plays striking and passing across targets and designs aligned with the Grand Octal. Sometimes the celestial cycles of the moon, Venus and Mars captivated their attention, too. However, knowing seasonal durations and transitions was vital to success in hunting migratory prey, planting crops and harvesting them. Archaeoastronomy draws on several scientific disciplines, primarily astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, psychology and epigraphy, the decoding of ancient inscriptions.
 
For the fundamental orbital mechanics that allow Earth to experience the seasons it does, see time tables   seasons reason.
 
Astrology, scorned by today’s technology-driven science, was integral to humankind centuries ago. Certainly, for research to yield credible results, the modern scientific method is essential. Nonetheless, myth was as dominant in ancient times as mindless mass media is now. Aren’t both merely comfortable proxies for what’s real?
 
To diminish the contributions of illuminated minds of the past who shared neither today’s tools nor perspectives is to exhibit an arrogant, technocentric bias. Those authorities who tend to devalue legacy historical perspectives are only stoking the fires for the inevitable cremation of their own triumphs by a revisionist generation, of greater wisdom and superior perspective, in the future.
 
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Michelangelo The Creation of Adam [pass me another beer]

Posted on 20 March 2021 by admin

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A guitarist face

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Hraach – Dle Yaman

Posted on 20 March 2021 by admin

Current favourite. playing over and over again

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As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution

Posted on 19 March 2021 by admin

“As a 45-year old taxpayer, I object to this persecution.  I am glad my son enjoys the camaraderie and happiness that is the predominant experience at a rave.  I am proud that he is intelligently experienced in the use of drugs, although I am horrified that this makes him a criminal.  By taking away the freedom of one group, the freedom of us all is lost.  I need my right to silence, my son needs his right to dance in groups of more than 10 people.

All of us need the right to opt out of conventional lifestyles”

Guardian Reader

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The right to peaceful protest is a traditional and legitimate expression of a point of view.

Posted on 19 March 2021 by admin

“The right to peaceful protest is a traditional and legitimate expression of a point of view. Peaceful protest is public, open and visible. It is designed to inform, persuade and cajole. It may be a nuisance; it may even be intended to be. It is often noisy and inconvenient. But it is a legitimate form of public expression, protected by the European Convention on Human Rights”

Peter Thornton QC

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Portrait of a firebreather

Posted on 18 March 2021 by admin
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Portrait of a boy with a small horse

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Portrait of a photographer

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Portrait at carnival

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin
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Portrait x3

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Boy and horse

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin
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You recently signed the petition “Don’t criminalise trespass”:

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin

Dear Alan Lodge,

You recently signed the petition “Don’t criminalise trespass”:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300139

MPs will debate the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 March in the main House of Commons chamber.

This is a Second Reading debate, where Members debate the general principles of the Bill. At the end of the debate, the Commons decides whether the Bill should be given its second reading, meaning it can proceed to the next stage.

The Government has said that this Bill will create a criminal offence of residing in a vehicle on land without permission, but that the new offence has been framed in such a way as to ensure that the rights of ramblers and others to enjoy the countryside are not impacted. The Government has said that the Bill will also give the police the power to seize vehicles, and strengthen existing powers.

You can read the Government’s factsheet about this Bill’s provisions on unauthorised encampments here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-factsheets/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-unauthorised-encampments-factsheet

Watch the debate, which should start at approximately 3.30pm on Monday and 12.30pm on Tuesday, here:

Monday 15 March: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/b1c475ce-a63f-4769-9070-566963040718

Tuesday 16 March: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/67a700ab-4500-4fdb-802b-f2e06854f6e1

You’ll be able to read a transcript of the debates a few hours after they happen: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons

Find out more about Second Readings here: https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage-bill/lords/lrds-commons-second-reading/

This debate is in addition to any debate the Petitions Committee schedules on this petition. We’ll message you to let you know as soon as the Committee schedules a debate on this petition.

Thanks,
The Petitions team
UK Government and Parliament

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Charity launch new easy to use tool to help challenge harsh new anti-trepass laws

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin

Following a debate in parliament last night, the Government have voted to move to a second reading of the policing bill, and plan to bring in harsh new laws for nomadic people.

Friends, Families and Travellers have created a quick and easy form to use as a way to write and to your MP and to raise your concerns about the discriminatory new proposals in the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

The form will take minutes to complete and it’s really really important to help preserve a nomadic way of life.

This video link below explains what the new laws could mean for you
https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2021/03/charity-launch-new-easy-use-tool-help-challenge-harsh-new-anti-trepass-laws

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What could new Government laws mean for Gypsies and Travellers?

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin
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Statement regarding government plans to criminalise trespass

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin

Traveller Movement and Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association issue statement regarding government plans to criminalise trespass.
https://travellermovement.org.uk/news-news/162-traveller-movement-and-gypsy-roma-traveller-police-association-respond-to-home-office-announcement-to-criminalise-trespass

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“Traveller Vehicles” 40 page A5 zine

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin

My latest creation …. “Traveller Vehicles” 40 page A5 zine. Available in my shop at:

https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/product/traveller-vehicles

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Photo Surveillance

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin
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‘erb

Posted on 17 March 2021 by admin

“Of all the things, why must we have no ‘erb?  Because ‘erb is the healing of the nation and when we smoke ‘erb we can communicate with each other and live better.  When you smoke ‘erb you see the system in front of you, and people don’t want war when they smoke ‘erb.”

Robert Nesta Marley O.M.

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