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This all happened yesterday, but have just finished B&W dev and much scanning

Well, over a year now, that folks have been living on the site, but 50 bailiffs and a hundred or so police, [including the road-block around the district, evicted the three people living there today.

Through the course of the afternoon, I watched them saw down a 300 year old beech tree to make way for some more ‘progress’.

Three people were arrested as bailiffs moved onto the site in Debdale Lane, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.

The group had been camped in the threatened trees for 15 months.

Around 50 bailiffs, along with 70 police officers who were there to ensure safety, moved in at first light on Monday morning.

Three protesters were arrested by the bailiffs for on suspicion of obstructing a court officer.

A fourth is understood to have left voluntarily.

The bailiffs say safety is their main priority while the remaining protester is located.

More photos on my blog at:

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=283456

editors note:

For those wondering what HCEO, written on the backs of some of the overalls means, they are “High Court Enforcement Officers”. From the 1 April 2004 the role of the High Court Sheriff has been abolished. A new role of High Court Enforcement Officer (HCEO) will take the place of the Sheriff.

My Indymedia entry

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302471.html

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Battle of Sherwood commences as Under-sheriff risks protestors lives

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302258.html

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BBC stories at:

Three arrested over tree protest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4071631.stm

and a little latter ….

Tree protester gives himself up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4073917.stm

http://mysite.freeserve.com/sherwood_camp

http://groups.msn.com/SherwoodForestSupportersGroup

The site mobile is / was: 07891 986 208

DEMONSTRATE AGAINST Constant & Co on Monday December 13th, Noon, Bedford Station.

Bailiff firm Constant & Co have long been the company that executes the most vicious evictions of Gypsy and Traveller sites. In recent history their work has included hurting a young boys leg, and the “mysterious” burning of two caravans they had impounded. Using hired muscle Constant and Co make their money by towing families off their own land using force. Their website states:

“Constant & Company are regularly employed to recover possession of land and buildings from unwanted occupants.

Proceedings can be brought in the High Court, County Court or Magistrates Court, but they involve delay which can be extremely expensive interms of loss of business, the cost of proceedings and the cost of clearing up following a prolonged occupation – not many people will go to a supermarket if they have to park near a group of traveler’s caravans!

Where speed is necessary to prevent great loss of trade our extremely experienced bailiffs in a well-established drill can lawfully clear a site with the absolute minimum of delay – usually within 24 to 48 hours, and usually with local police support.

After your initial telephone call, apart from keeping you advised of progress, Constant & Co will organise a speedy evict ion from beginning to end.”

Constant and Co do work in a number of other fields then bullying Travellers…

LETS “PERSUADE” THEM TO LEAVE THE TRAVELLER COMMUNITY ALONE!

Trains from London run several times an hour on the Thameslink

Line (Kings Cross Thameslink, London Bridge, Kentish Town and lots of stations in South London…)

ALSO PLANNING MEETING FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST CONSTANT’S RACIST EVICTIONS AND OTHER FORMS OF TRAVELLER SOLIDARITY:

11TH DECEMBER 7PM @ LONDON ACTION RESOURCE CENTRE, 62 FIELDGATE ST, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON…

Contact: nooneisillegal2003@yahoo.co.uk

www.travellersupport.org.uk

The mother of Nottingham schoolgirl Danielle Beccan called for forgiveness as thousands of mourners gathered at her daughter’s funeral on Friday.

Paula Platt said 14-year-old Danielle’s life was “not in vain” and she had touched the lives of many people.

More than 1,000 people gathered for her funeral at the Trent Vineyard Church.

More pictures on my PhotoBlog at:

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=261329

BBC – Danielle family lay her to rest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4005527.stm

Earlier on PhotoBlog at:

Nottingham Stands Together [on gun crime]

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=243824

Nottingham and More Guns

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=236743

Shooting of Danielle Beccan :: Nottinghamshire Police Press Conference

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=233123

Copyright-grabbing contracts are on the rise, warns Gwen Thomas of the AOP.

Simon Bainbridge reports in the British Journal of Photography

Large publishing houses have come under attack for their use of unfair contracts, which increasingly demand widespread and ‘unnecessary’ copyright grabs. Gwen Thomas of the Association of Photographers claims that publishers are denying photographers a fair share of the future earnings that can be generated by a successful image, and she has condemned the European Union for dragging its heels on the issue. ‘Despite numerous voices calling for the development of European-wide unfair contract legislation, the EU Commission seems reluctant to take action,’ she said at the recent Pyramide Europe meeting in Riga, Latvia. ‘The latest changes in German contract law, which gives individual producers of creative works greater powers to challenge unfair contracts, shows both the need and direction it could follow,’ she added. ‘However, the lobbying power of the big publishers seems to be able to stop the rest of Europe enjoying a measure of safeguard from the disgraceful contracts that photographers and other creators are often coerced into signing.’ Pyramide Europe (of which Thomas is manager) is a European Economic Interest Group (EEIG), which acts as an umbrella organisation comprising similar organisations in all the EU countries. It is currently looking at the issue of unfair contracts. Thomas once again cited BBC Worldwide as one of the worst examples, warning: ‘Photographers, along with the rest of the creative industries, need to be able to safeguard the things they create – we are all part of the economy of intellectual property, and the big players need to operate with respect for the rights of individual creators, not trample over them simply because they are big and they can.’ She added: ‘All we are trying to establish is a system that is fair, forward looking and will allow creators to continue to create.’ Pyramide Europe would like to hear from photographers and other creators in the EU who have suffered from unfair contracts, especially if the contract is cross-border. Email Gwen Thomas at gwen@aophoto.co.uk

Copyright and ‘Copyright Grabs’ My collected links

For many journalist, and in particular, freelance photographers …..Copyright Grabs have become a standard feature of so many clients contracts. They are a ‘try-on’. These links describe the issue, and some, like the NUJ, RedEye and EP-UK suggest ways of combating such requests.

I hope others, who find themselves in a similar situation [freelance photographers] find them interesting and of some use.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_1.htm

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_3.htm#mdiv16

The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 – Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2498

http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032498.htm

NUJ Freelance Newsletter

http://media.gn.apc.org/c-basics.html

NUJ Ten things every freelance should know on copyright:

http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=56

Editorial Photographers UK – EP-UKTrading under the new copyright legislation

http://www.epuk.org/resources/abcd/trading.html

Response to Copyright Grab Attempts…

http://www.epuk.org/resources/copyright_grab_response.html

http://www.epuk.org/news/2001/08/27inside.html

http://www.epuk.org/resources/abcd/majorpoints.html

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp10017b99&sp-p=any&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=copyright

Redeye Copyright advice and information

http://www.redeye.org.uk/redeye/infodetail.asp?uvaradviceID=52

Intellectual Property – UK gov advice

http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk

The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA)

http://www.cla.co.uk

Creators’ Rights Alliance

http://www.creatorsrights.org.uk

Copywatch

http://www.copywatch.org

Yorkshire Media: Photographic Copyright and Licensing Explained

http://www.yorkshiremedia.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=2

http://www.yorkshiremedia.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=50

I joined two minutes silence at 11.00am

11 hour of the 11day of the 11 month ….. Armistice [11th November 1918]

They shall not grow old as we grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning

we will remember them……

British Legion: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk

I heard about sorryeverybody.com on CNN, following the present punch-up in Fallujah. This being the latest chapter in the violence, and probably related to the re-election of Mr Bush.

It is not proper to tar all members of any nation, ‘with the same brush’, and so was really heartened to discover this site.

The link is supposed to be at: http://www.sorryeverybody.com but it dosen’t work

[me thinks the dirty tricks dept are at it again …… :-)]

However, this is the direct link, and it does work …….

http://sorry.obey.org

This is what they say about themselves……..

What’s this site about?

Most people who think carefully understand that Americans are not really any more jingoistic or xenophobic than people in other countries, but it never hurts to reinforce, especially considering what happened on November 2nd, 2004. What must it have looked like to the world outside our borders? America proudly re-appointed her reckless, incompetent and corrupt government. How much of America? Fifty-two percent. The rest of us are aghast and dismayed.

Lots of fuss is made about the ‘global village.’ The Internet was supposed to make communication between cultures, countries and peoples painless and easy. It was supposed to build bridges. But it doesn’t do this automatically; somebody has to reach out. The Internet was supposed to lead to education and understanding. It doesn’t. Rarely do people on the internet apologize. I thought it was high time. The world needs to understand that there are people in America who don’t like what our government is doing. And from the mail we’re receiving, there are people in the international community who appreciate this.

Also, come on, it’s kind of amusing.

You can upload your own image, I have done so, saying we are also very sorry in the UK, but your apology is graciously accepted.

email: contact@sorryeverybody.com

Further posting on this at:

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300869.html

http://www.nottmagainstwar.org.uk/bbs/PostMessage.php?previous=151

and livejournal at:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/sorryeverybody

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sorryeverybody

He had an itinerary that took him from the Chase Community Centre in St Anns, near to where 14yr old Danielle Beccan was shot last month. Then on to Radford Road Police Station to discuss various schemes with Chief Constable Steve Green.

Then onto a Community Dialogue Event at Holiday Inn, St James Street, Nottingham. Have covered a lot of this ministerial visit around Nottingham.

BBC story at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3984109.stm

BBC – One arrested over teen gun death

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3731714.stm

Observer – Girl, 14, killed in drive-by shooting

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1324016,00.html

Earlier, On my blogs

Nottingham Stands Together [on gun crime]

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=243824

Shooting of Danielle Beccan :: Nottinghamshire Police Press Conference

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=233123

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2004_10_10_tash_lodge_archive.html#109745553866806407

Gun Crime and Police response – Collected Links http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_02_02_tash_lodge_archive.html#88756662

Operation ‘Real Estate’ – Nottinghamshire Police http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_02_02_tash_lodge_archive.html#88418849

Mothers Against Guns: Gun Crime, murder and shootings http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_01_26_tash_lodge_archive.html#88374768

For many journalist, and in particular, freelance photographers …..Copyright Grabs have become a standard feature of so many clients contracts. They are a ‘try-on’. These links describe the issue, and some, like the NUJ, RedEye and EP-UK suggest ways of combating such requests.

I hope others, who find themselves in a similar situation [freelance photographers] find them interesting and of some use.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_1.htm

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_3.htm#mdiv16

The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 – Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2498

http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032498.htm

NUJ Freelance Newsletter

http://media.gn.apc.org/c-basics.html

NUJ Ten things every freelance should know on copyright:

http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=56

Editorial Photographers UK – EP-UKTrading under the new copyright legislation

http://www.epuk.org/resources/abcd/trading.html

Response to Copyright Grab Attempts…

http://www.epuk.org/resources/copyright_grab_response.html

http://www.epuk.org/news/2001/08/27inside.html

http://www.epuk.org/resources/abcd/majorpoints.html

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp10017b99&sp-p=any&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=copyright

Redeye Copyright advice and information

http://www.redeye.org.uk/redeye/infodetail.asp?uvaradviceID=52

Intellectual Property – UK gov advice

http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk

The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA)

http://www.cla.co.uk

Creators’ Rights Alliance

http://www.creatorsrights.org.uk

Copywatch

http://www.copywatch.org

Yorkshire Media: Photographic Copyright and Licensing Explained

http://www.yorkshiremedia.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=2

http://www.yorkshiremedia.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=50

I am watching this series on BBCfour this week.

In this first ever television history of disbelief, Jonathan Miller leads viewers on a personal journey exploring the origins of his own lack of belief and uncovering the hidden story of atheism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/atheism.shtml

and I think it splendid.

I find some quotes from Dr Miller’s case, quite compelling. Foremost of which is the Epicurean paradox

On Atheism

“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”

Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]

Epicurean paradox posits that:

If God exists, then he is all-powerful.

If God exists, then he is good.

If God is all-powerful and good, then there would be no evil.

There is evil.

Therefore God does not exist.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Then he is impotent.

Is he able, but not willing?

Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?

Whence then is evil?

Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Bertrand Russell

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While on the subject of God, and the ISM’s, I thought I would share this analysis with you:

George Melley on Religion:

Taoism – shit happens.

Bhuddism – the shit that happens to us is good.

Hinduism – the shit that happens to us has happened before.

Zen – what is the sound of shit happening.

Catholic – the shit that happens to you, you deserve.

Protestantism – the shit that happens to you, why doesn’t it happen to somebody else.

Jewish – why does this shit always happen to me.

Agnostic – I’m not sure I believe in this shit.

Atheist – I don’t believe in any of this shit.

Rastafarian – let’s smoke this shit.

George Melley Radio 4 August 1995

HEHE, Wicked 🙂

I wandered past some rocks at Beacon Hill, Leicestershire, earlier in the day, and all was normal!

Then I wandered back, an hour or so later, and blimey!! a couple of artists had created a ‘public art installation’ with two tone pink rocks ……

Peoples reaction, on turning the corner, to discover these, were quite amusing. Kids, “Gosh, look mum. Pink Rocks!” etc ……

I took pictures, they took some more, and it seems there will we an exhibition of their work, with some pictures going up in Nottingham Castle in a few months.

I’ll let to all know dear readers ….

More piccys on my PhotoBlog at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=249983

A few folk have asked me what has happened to Exodus. The Luton Dance music collective. Dirty tricks department! yea, here you go, cop this lot …………..

LODGING COMPLAINTS (Investigation into masonic attacks on Exodus Collective)http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm/…2001061917/ct=2

FIREBOMBED! PRESSURE MOUNTS ON LUTON FREE PARTY POSSE http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news60.htm

COLLECTIVE STRENGTH http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news92.htm

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE EXODUS COLLECTIVE? Part One (interview with former spokesmanGlenn Jenkins) http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm/…2003021101/ct=2

THE PHAROAH’S MEN DROWNING AGAIN (bedfordshire police activities against exodus collective) http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm/…2001061801/ct=2

The police have much to answer for after raiding members of a Lutonhousing collective in search of drugs. http://static.highbeam.com/n/newsta…sear

EXODUS UPDATE

http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm/…2001061802/ct=2

http://www.nightstorm.f9.co.uk/part…npolicetom.html

http://www.nightstorm.f9.co.uk/part…liceletter.html

http://www.nightstorm.f9.co.uk/partynews

http://www.partyvibe.com/articles/e…_of_silence.htm

Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xexodus.html

Cobalt http://www.cobaltmagazine.demon.co.uk

Exodus splits up http://www.guilfin.net/reports/?id=rwINET211

and, as you can see, the ‘dirty trick department has been active, with a few of us that do try to make progress.. hence, yet another bloody civil action …….. Beanfield, Operation solstice, Operation Daybreak, Operation Nomad, Operation Snapshot, Operation Mermaid, FIT team, sgt sulley etc. they hate us, ssooooooooo much. BUT, as they dont seem able to win squarely, within the ‘rules of evidence’ and by due process. they try subtifuge, and play dirty!!Some are quite amazed that this goes on, but i remind you all, were not playing a gentlemans’ game of cricket here…

surv – Nomad: http://tash.gn.apc.org/nomad_10.htm

surv – start: http://tash.gn.apc.org/surv_10.htm

surv – watched: http://tash.gn.apc.org/watched1.htm

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news54.htm

Exodus: Parties with a Purposehttp://tash.gn.apc.org/exodus1.htm

Exodus: To rave or to riot?http://tash.gn.apc.org/exodus2.htm

so,, mind how you go, but still go 🙂

Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc.

A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like….

Bring what you expect to find?

If not you, who?

If not now, when?

If not here, where?

In sum, this means self-reliance. It means gigs are ALWAYS better, when people attending don’t just attend , but are a main part of the act. It is obvious to all those there, when this magic happens.

This is actually where I came in. 1972 Windsor, Stonehenge etc….. These were my motives then and remain so now.

Of course the authorities have difficulty with a system that means they are not in sole charge, hence all the law and violence since the Beanfield etc……

Over time, I have been involved in raising awareness about the law changes and their implications to us all.

· Public Order Act 1986

· Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

· Noise Act

· Barry Legg MP: Places of Entertainments (Increased Penalty) Act

· Security Services Act

And now all the Acts that have been going through parliament – with the words

“conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose” being a new definition of serious crime!!!

With the new definition of serious crime, that enable the use of some ‘heavier’ police departments to be applied against us. And will be the end of all the RTS and similar gigs.

Shame eh?

Now, in ‘rave mode’, I have spent time with the Velvet Revolution and All Systems gigs, I had written ‘Sound Advice’ and the ‘Right to Party’ – to try and raise these matters in peoples minds.

Well, we have lost each of the matters I’m on about here. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in!

What I am absolutely positive about though, is that people involved in the scene,

DID NOT DO ENOUGH ABOUT ANY OF IT AS IT HAPPENED AND NOW IS STILL GOING ON.

People have to realise that self-interest and their own immediate happiness ( hedonism?), is not enough to make a festival, party rave, traveller site, gathering.

Important, but not enough.

Some folks on reading this will have been too young, to have had any objection to these changes as they have happened over recent years. But many others of you will have been.

The way parties are now organised, between those trying to conform with some pretty onerous conditions, (ie half to 2/3 of a ticket price to ‘self-police’ and pay for your own public order management and drug search.!) and those involved with the ‘free’ end of things but at continued ‘personal’ rather than ‘sheared’ risks.

This division is of course orchestrated by the other side.

This old hippy / raver? Is now of the opinion that folk have now got the party they deserve. Discuss……..

This was the brief I originally submitted to the BBC, regarding the BBCfour program, just been shown last week.

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Motives: to look for alternatives to ‘modern life’. Thoughts of sustainability, damage of modern society to environment. Thoughts of the Hopi Indian prophecies. To, ‘tread lightly on the land’. Nomadism Vs Settlement and agriculture. Farmers Vs Hunter-gatherers. A tension, back to the stone age. City life, disconnected from ‘reality’, Psychologists talk of alienation. We try to combat this with changes to lifestyle. So, ‘ways of being,’ sustainability psychology, sustainable environment. Simply experiments in life. Wanting to live and associate with those that you want to, not neighbours you hate / or hate you 🙂

None of this is an easy alternative or ‘dropping-out’. It is very ‘front-line’, dropping right in it !!

1. Windsor / festival Land-rights [peoples free festival august bank holiday] 1972-4

Development from the Hyde Park Diggers, London Squatting Movement. Early free festivals, Fun. Thames Valley Police Attack in August 1974.

2. Stonehenge [now the new Peoples Free Festival [summer solstice]

superseded Windsor 1972-4 – 1984

‘Annual General’ meeting, when the rest of the calendar of events, got made up and discussed.

[some say one reason for the opposition to the Stonehenge festival was because of the risk of interference with the deployment of the Cruise Missile convoys from Greenham and Molesworth. Cruisewatch]

3. Greenham Common. RAF station for deployment of Cruise Missiles. Media invention of the ‘Peace Convoy’. Travelled there from Stonehenge. Plug into the existing peace camp.June1982.

4. Molesworth Peace Camp RAF station for deployment of Cruise Missiles. up to Feb 1985.

Field Marshal Hesltine and evictions

5. Battle of the Beanfield. Operation Solstice. Hants / wilts border. Legal cloak of High Court Injunction. 1st June 1985

6. Stoney Cross. Operation Daybreak. Re-run of the previous year, across 7 counties, much stress, but with less violence [police watched with much media interest]. Medieval Brigands speech. Setting for Section 39 Public Order Act 1986. [enacted April 1987]. Now Criminal Trespass. “If three people bring 12 vehicle on land, for the common purpose of residing there, then they commit and offence”.

7. Free Parties 1988 onward. section 39 was about ‘common purpose of residing’ What If they don’t stay long enough for the criminal trespass to take effect, but move after a night. Hence now a nocturnal activity.

8. Caslemorton Common. 1992 [and four similar events within weeks in that area]. Michael .Howard [bless him], now thinks of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Operation Snapshot, vast increase in Surveillance. Strengthen POA 86, and now include music style, repetitive beats etc…

9. Enviro protests: Twyford , Newbury, Birmingham Roads, Manchester Airport etc

10. Traveller and modern trav / ravers / free party person, now leave country in large numbers 1995. European countries enact similar laws, to offset people reason to leave UK >>

11. Reclaim The Streets [RTS] in cities invented, to out-manoeuvre rural road blocks. and still be able to gather. 1996 onwards

12. Anti-social behaviour Act 2003. + ‘Gathering’ of more than two. Terrorism Act 2000

People of Nottingham have held a minute’s silence to remember schoolgirl Danielle Beccan – who was shot and killed as she returned home from the Goose fair.

Family and friends of the 14-year-old joined community and church leaders to pay their respects and to call on the city to reject gun culture.

The city’s mayor said: “By standing together as a community we will work to make our city safer. Guns have no place in Nottingham. Not in Nottingham.”

The Shooting of Danielle Beccan, was the latest example of gun violence in Nottingham.

More pictures at:

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=243824

A previous entry on my blog, including the foral tributes at the scene and the press conference.

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=236743

Have advised and contributed to a BBC prog about festival / stonehenge / travellers etc.

There is much about such nasties as the “Battle of the Beanfield” etc

Its on later today. Set your videos if you can ….

New Age Travellers: Time Shift / BBC four – Thursday 21st Oct 9.00pm

New Age Travellers are regarded by many as pariahs. With unique and never before seen archive this week’s Time Shift takes a fresh look at those who’ve often been called soap dodging, anti-social, drug taking scroungers.

From their origins in the early seventies, as idealists looking for an alternative way of life, we see how legislation and increasing fragmentation have eroded both the appeal and viability of being a New Age Traveller. Narrated by Paul McGann.

Videoplus: 9058781

Thursday 21st Oct 9.00pm

Repeated

Thursday 21st Oct 11.30pm

Friday 22nd Oct 02.40am

Sunday 24th Oct 12.00am

Thu 21 Oct, 21:00-21:40 40mins Stereo Widescreen

Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift

Subject Factual; Documentaries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/listings/programme.shtml?day=thursday&filename=20041021/20041021_2100_4544_40856_40

http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=47&programmeId=22538884&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp

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Have now stuff about it to a couple of stonehenge Yahoo group and for more info, Check out:

Indymedia

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/299693.html

Urban75

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2249134#post2249134

Pete Lawrence: Time Shift Series Editor says:

Travellers have roamed Britain for centuries and New Age Travellers have adopted many Gypsy traditions in an attempt to become genuine nomads themselves. Challenging mainstream society has been central to their motivation, Inevitably this has brought them into conflict with landowners and the police.

Fergus Colville’s Time Shift documentary takes a fresh look; following the story from the early 1970s search for an alternative way of life, to the present day, where legislation and increasing fragmentation have eroded both the appeal and viability of being a New Age Traveller.

We managed to get some unique and previously unscreened archive of the Stonehenge festivals which helps to give a different perspective on the news reporting of the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/travellers.shtml

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1329036,00.html

John Naughton

Sunday October 17, 2004

The Observer

FIVE years ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine – a very eminent scholar who specialises in international relations. He looks like someone out of central casting – grey hair, an absent-minded bearing, with a penchant for elegant but crumpled corduroy suits. He has an acute sense of history, and often seems to view everything from an altitude of 30,000 feet. We were talking about the internet, and the challenge it represented to the established order. I had outlined what I saw as the amazing potential of the network to transform access to information, make it impossible for governments and media establishments to hush up scandals, undermine established corporations, create new kinds of businesses which had hitherto been inconceivable, etc, etc – in short, to change the world.

My friend courteously heard me out. Then he said: ‘Well, we’ll see. Perhaps this technology is indeed a revolutionary threat to the established order. But I wouldn’t bet on it.’

Five years on, I’m not so sure I would bet on it either. Consider this report from Thursday’s Guardian. ‘Last week, Rackspace, a [web] hosting company with headquarters in Texas, handed two of its London-based servers to the FBI after a subpoena for their contents was issued by a US district court. The servers contained material belonging to the Independent Media Centre – better known as Indymedia (www.indymedia.org) – a conglomeration of global radical anti-globalisation sites produced by ordinary citizens.’

Now one of the interesting things about Indymedia is that much of its content is produced by amateurs – what it calls ‘citizen journalists’. Its Internet Service Provider, Rackspace, said it was merely complying with a court order ‘which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering’. Indymedia has been unable to find out why its material has been seized and its sites disabled. Is it because, somewhere in its web pages, there are genuinely sinister things? Or just material that someone – the Attorney-General of the United States, for example – doesn’t like? In the Kafkaesque world bequeathed to us by Osama bin Laden and his opponents, we simply don’t know.

The moral of the Indymedia story is that, when push comes to shove with the established order, the internet usually blinks first. While in principle the net provides the most unfettered and uncensored communications medium in history, in practice it has a critical weak link – the fact that in order to access the net, everyone has to go through an ISP. And ISPs are, for the most part, commercial companies – organisations owned by shareholders and run by accountants and lawyers who tend to see the upholding of liberty and free speech as loss-making activities best avoided. What this means is that the moment a threatening letter arrives, they tend to take down the site ‘just to be on the safe side’.

And usually they do this without examining whether the complaint has even superficial validity. You think I jest? Well, consider the findings of an experiment conducted recently by an activist group called ‘Bits of Freedom’. They signed up with 10 Dutch ISPs and then put online a work by a famous Dutch author, Multatuli, who died more than 100 years ago. The online versions stated that the work was in the public domain. The group then set up a fake society which claimed to be the copyright holder of the work and sent out complaints to all 10 ISPs using a Hotmail address, demanding that they take down this ‘copyrighted’ material. Seven out of ten removed the site – one within just three hours. One ISP forwarded all the personal details of the site owner to the sender of the fake takedown notice without even being asked to do so. Only one ISP pointed out that the copyright on the work had expired many years ago. Or, to put it another way, only one of the 10 ISPs bothered to look at the supposedly offending material.

The moral is clear. If you want to censor someone, just get your lawyer to write a snotty letter to the ISP that hosts his or her site. More generally, those of us who worry about freedom will have to address the issue of ISPs. There may be a case, for example, for NGOs across the world to band together to set up an ISP which would be prepared to investigate and vigorously contest complaints and injunctions from the established order. The days when we could assume that we could ‘publish and be damned’ on the net are over.

john.naughton@observer.co.uk

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1329036,00.html

Have advised and contributed to a BBC prog about festival / stonehenge / travellers etc.

There is much about such nasties as the “Battle of the Beanfield” etc

They have moved it a few times. but production have emailed me last week again. The latest transmission date is:

New Age Travellers: Time Shift / BBC four – Thursday 21st Oct 9.00pm

New Age Travellers are regarded by many as pariahs. With unique and never before seen archive this week’s Time Shift takes a fresh look at those who’ve often been called soap dodging, anti-social, drug taking scroungers.

From their origins in the early seventies, as idealists looking for an alternative way of life, we see how legislation and increasing fragmentation have eroded both the appeal and viability of being a New Age Traveller. Narrated by Paul McGann.

Videoplus: 9058781

Thursday 21st Oct 9.00pm

Repeated

Thursday 21st Oct 11.30pm

Friday 22nd Oct 02.40am

Sunday 24th Oct 12.00am

Thu 21 Oct, 21:00-21:40 40mins Stereo Widescreen

Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift

Subject Factual; Documentaries

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The reason I’m selling this kit, is because I now have a ‘dedicated’ Nikon flashgun, suitable for use with my Nikon Digital …… [So, I don’t need two …!]

Metz Mecablitz 45 CL-3 Flashgun Kit

As with all the Metz flashguns the first number refers to the guide number basically the power of the flashgun. [Guide Number 45 at 100ASA].

The flashgun is a standard hammerhead unit with the battery pack fitting into the handle, a rechargeable Nicad battery pack is supplied or you can use 6 AA batteries.

The flash unit can be attached to the camera using the tripod socket and the bracket that comes with the flashgun. The bracket attaches to the bottom of the flashgun by a bayonet type clip and a locking screw this enables the flash to be removed from the bracket quickly.

It has 6 auto, 3 manual and TTL settings.

The Metz mecablitz 45 CL 3 is a powerful flashgun designed for both professional and amateur photographers. It is fully integrated in the SCA 300 adapter system and – in conjunction with an SCA 300A connecting cable, thus supporting all leading cameras. It enables the user to take full advantage of practically all functions of an AF camera.

Flashgun supplied in excellent condition. Owned since new. Not a mark on it!

Items supplied:

Mecablitz 45 CL-3 Flashgun

nicad rechargable battery pack

Charger Unit

Spare ‘cage’ for AA batteries

Wide Angle Diffuser

SynchLead

angle bracket

Original Operating Instructions Book

Please note:

SCA 300A system cable together with Nikon and Olympus modules, are available seperately

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I have just joined the UK Weatherworld Forum / Group at: http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk

Being a photographer, weather has always been important, since I photograph mainly outside …..

Currently, I’m trying to learn now to accuratly predict an ‘Inversion’. Since when they happen, especially in the hills, the conditions contribute to some fantastic piccys.

Any readers here, can offer me any advice??

Here is my posting on the tread there.

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/thread-view.asp?threadid=15848&posts=1

I’m a photographer, with an interest in landscape, hill walking etc.

Being based in Nottingham, I am a frequent visitor to the Derbyshire Peak District and other high ground. Now, on a few occasions, I have climbed hills, to discover at altitude, blue sky above, and clouds below, in the valleys. This is of course, an inversion.

I have photographed the landscape under these conditions and thoroughly enjoyed the results. I would like to do so much more.

Now, from my reading, I know that this is a more common feature in the autumn/winter, but not exclusively so. I know it is associated with anticyclone conditions, cold nights, still air.

However, this is not a great deal of help, in my effort at such predictions.

So, seeking more practical advice.

I would like to look at a weather forecast, and interpret it with a view to jumping in the car and driving out to the Peak District, or, sometimes perhaps, Snowdonia. I have done this so many times now, spending time and large amounts of petrol, to be disappointed by the conditions I find on my arrival.

Please anyone help me with some more concrete advice on how I might predict an inversion, before setting out on a long journey.

More piccys on my PhotoBlog at:

http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=237562