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ITR - North Yorkshire Trip - Day #1 - Hemsley - Michael Dixon - ITR-UK

2009-07-05T06:05:00.005+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net UK

NORTH YORKSHIRE VISIT

DAY #1

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'HEMSLEY' ON THE MOOR

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©2009

After arriving in Middlesbrough at the Bluebell Hotel/Motel at the unearthly hour of 9am and after travelling over 300 miles from 3.30am we were surprised that the Reception would allow us to deposit our bags and luggage - but - in the true Northern welcome they had us a room in minutes - no problem - now that's what I call service.

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The Bluebell is situated on a roundabout - I was a bit concerned about noise from traffic - to be honest apart from the occasional service vehicle aka ambulance (later when we came back from our day out - happens in any city sized conurbation - the only sound that night was a wedding karaoke which we listened to - more entertaining than the TV and I was blogging for ITR ...).

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The room size great for our purpose, which was a bed for the night and any meals we might need - most of the time we were going to be out and about - reaching the outback of North Yorks Moors and the occasional visit to the main towns and seaside resort.

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Bags and other unloaded - room checked out - quick dash to the loo - wash and brighten up and over to pick up Carol's mum just down the road.

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Where would we go - due to the weather, very hot and close and the fact it was a Saturday was a visit to our favourite town Hemsley about 25 miles away and right in the middle of the North Yorks Moors.

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The road is long and has many straights and bends passing through woodlands and moors - the woods mostly of fir or pine with indigenous trees - a nice blend and a sustainable source of timber I suspect.

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The only concern is that the road to Hemsley from Middlesbrough is a 'Biker's' dream and a nightmare as well - it has had numerous accidents as the lads and gals let their steeds off the leash - I'm not sure I am happy with some of the passes we've had - to be honest - it's scary and my feeling is that they should be more responsible with their driving - and - in the main most are - it's gone on for so many years it seems to be the local tradition and it, I'm sure is accepted by the locals and a good source of income to what would be a very remote town - judge for yourself the pics in the market place in Hemsley.

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Sunday is much more busy and in many ways a 'Biker's' paradise - I met some really nice guys - chatted about their bikes including the fabulous new Ducati, which arrived just before I left.

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Ducati Delights...

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Just walk around the streets of Hemsley and you'll be greeted with floral displays of nature and human habitation over centuries.

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Hemsley is, what I call, a County Town - very well to do and the locals appear to be well-heeled - the shops a blend of up-market tourist and County Town 'Proper' where you can buy your weather-proofs - riding clothes - Antiques and in recent years a plethora of cafe/restaurants to suit every taste and pocket.

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On arriving - a parking place appeared with the wish and the wish was heard - thank you. What we hadn't realized was that today of all days was the weekend for an annual Hemsley Steam Fair and it seemed for vintage vehicles too!

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The town and area were heaving with visitors for the Steam Fair. In fact, we'd noticed the fair on the right as we approached Hemsley set in the fields of Duncombe Park which homes the great house originally built by Thomas Duncombe in 1713.

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My first impression - with distant marquees - was that here was a festival - music - rock n' roll - a northern Sunrise Celebration - a minor Big Green Festival - ah, such is the thoughts that ruminate through an aging hippy mind - festival - festival - festival ~ sex - drugs and sausage rolls... (btw that was on a t'shirt at Sunrise - thought I'd slip that in... lol).

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We quickly previewed the town in search of a coffee - tea house - the temperature was rising and we needed sustenance after such a long journey - much of it at motorway-madness of 50 miles per hour with endless miles of M1 roadway updates and maintenance.

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Close to my friend and antique dealer was a, new to us, tea shop - guess what it's name was? Of course, simply 'The Tea Shop' - when you visit Hemsley don't miss this one - off the town square and out of the glare of the mainline tourist - shaded from the intense summer sun - beautifully laid out and immaculately clean - it's opposite the entrance to Hemsley Castle - just say you were recommended by Michael of InTouchRadio.net, Carol and her mum June.

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We spent a wonderful afternoon there and then departed for Stokesly on the way back to Middlesbrough... see next blog.

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Hope you're all well around the world - don't forget to send me your blogs and info for all the other ITR family.

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ITR - NORTH YORKSHIRE UK - Day #1Blog Michael Dixon ITR-UK

2009-07-04T21:32:00.006+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net UK

North Yorkshire Connection

Day #1

American Independence Day

Hi Everyone

Firstly to our American ITR Family - Celebrations for this Independence Day 2009.

I'm in North Yorkshire visiting my partner Carol's family in Middlesbrough to celebrate her mother June's 80th Birthday.

Birmingham

While here we're travelling around North Yorkshire making connections adding to the ITR (InTouchRadio.net) Family and what great people the people of the North are - friendly and food like you can't believe.

Leeds - M1 Motorway Nearly There...

Knowing we were coming up I felt it only fair to use the time wisely and to make connections wherever we travelled - even in the remote Moors and Dales of this beautiful part of the UK.

M1 Average Speed Camera's

Well we've made the trip up to North Yorkshire - some 380+ miles with at least a 1/3rd of it at 50 mph - sections of the main M42 - M1 either closed or truncated meaning an extension of the journey around Birmingham - no problem just an hindrance at 4 am after leaving sleepy Somerset at 3.25 am.

M1 Motorway

I've added some picts to elucidate the journey more fully and to give an early viewpoint of travel via main motorways here in the UK.

Birmingham

Pre Sunrise and post sunrise - tired and as a passenger loaded with Nikon pulling pictures like a bar-tender through a dirty screen but hey the intention and the energy lifted colours that could only be associated with childhood memories of breeding budgerigars in my dad's shed...

Birmingham

Hope you enjoy the pics - watch out for the later blogs...

M1 Motorway - Nice Ass...

Don't forget to send me your blogs for inclusion here on www.intouchradio.net - sharing - caring and part of the wider world of the InTouchRadio.net family.

Thirsk - North Yorks Market

Later this month - do not miss Big Green Gathering back home in Somerset Land on top of the Medips - NOT TO BE MISSED and you can also catch up with me there and we can chat - share a Chai Tea or Coffee.

Thirsk - North Yorks Market

Love

Michael Dixon

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ITR - British Telecom Bringing Back Call Centres to the UK - Michael Dixon ITR-UK

2009-07-03T09:22:00.000+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder of ITR
with Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche
Photo: FestivalImage.com

British Telecom

Bringing Back

Call Centres to the UK

From an Anonymous Subscriber within British Telecom
29.6.2009

Email Received today 29 June 2009

Hi mate, just a small bit of info from inside British Telecom.

Nigel Stagg (who is 2 levels below Ian Livingston in the hierarchy of BT) has come to the decision that the call centers need to come back to the UK permanently.

(Well it didn't take much brain power to realise that now did it... M.D.)

Currently in all the call centers around the UK people are being retrained in the areas that are currently being outsourced and taking test calls to see how well this goes across.

The best thing is that the staff in the Indian call centers will NOT be laid off, they will be kept on in a non-customer facing position.

(Good News... M.D.)

If all goes well this will hopefully open up a whole load of job in the UK, so for once British Telecom actually seems to be doing something sensible (shock! horror! heh heh).

(Are we to assume that the UK Call Centres will not have the mindless set of rules to follow and will be able to use their own initiative? Or will they follow the 1 - 10 set of instruction but just speak in a language that we can all understand? - Sorry but someone has to take responsibility and not pass the buck and we need to lose this crazy political correctness that's destroying the known world... M.D.)

I don't know if this has been made public yet or not so I would appreciate it if my name wasn't mentioned if you do blog this.
Anon

Firstly I would like to thank Anon for his brave decision to bring this to my attention - as many of you will know I have been fighting for years to get a sensible Broadband signal to our village and those villages around. M.D.

'OpenReach' is the trademark for British Telecom in the field so to speak and whilst they're not officially supposed to be affiliated to BT - they are an arm of British Telecom. The engineers are usually very good professional people and our local engineers who have attended our situation have always been welcomed here with a proper cup of coffee or tea or herbal tea and have always done what they can within the remit that they're able. so there is no complaint about 'OpenReach' nor the BT linesmen that have always done their work professionally - it's the higher levels that need to be aware of what the customer needs in this modern world and not to look at the profit and loss accounts - for if they did they would not waste so much time sending engineers down on a daily basis nor need so many people in call centres wherever they are based.

Check back on the Blogs on www.intouchradio.net or www.myspace.com/intouchradionet or www.myspace.com/i_am_michael_dixon (Networking InTouchRadio.net) and read 'What A Difference A Field Makes' - shortly after BT put a new cable across the field in question to our village but omitted to replace the main cables throughout our village.

The following is my answer to Anon at BT (British Telecom):

BT 'OpenReach' switched our pairing on the box onto a line with no other BB users and our speed went from lowest 118 kbps up to a massive actual 1389 kbps and potential of 1984 kbps but the line has continued dropping since down to 1152 kbps - the Broadband engineer thinks there is possibly a weather related issue with possible water in junction box somewhere between us and the main box and the fact that our cables between the houses and cabinet is alluminum not copper in places causing a loss of contention? I agree somewhat with him as I take a twice daily - sometimes three times, BT Test (http://www.speedtester.bt.com/)and often after bad weather the signal drops with loss of speed and noise on the telephone, an indication of his analysis above.

We're having to have our Router once again replaced, as the new ones have both developed faults on the wireless and our hub phone is non functional and often reboots itself for no apparent reason - this will be the 3rd... ah ho. Funny all the advertising indicates the latest all-dancing - all-singing praise of the best router on the market to date... Perhaps the great British BT Customers are yet again a 'work in progress' rather than doing full R & D (Research & Development)!

If BT had their wit about them they'd replace the long line between Godney Village Cabinet and Glastonbury Telephone Exchange, which is all new copper (a rare and diminishing mineral globally) now hopelessly expensive. The could 'blow' (a way of pushing through long line cables under air pressure) through an optical cable which costs pennies to produce - carries hundreds of lines and lasts indefinitely and as the 'OpenReach' engineer said "would last for over a hundred years and never run out of lines"... It is easily replaceable and that would not only save them on the number of engineer-visits to our village and the other local villages and would enable Hi Speed Broad Band to the Telephone Cabinets without loss from the Telephone Exchange at which point most of the remaining remote areas down here on the Somerset Levels would have a potential average of 6 Megs and those closest to the cabinest potentially 8 Megs.

I have been fighting for this village to have broadband enablement for over 5+ years - I managed to obtain a grant with RABBIT through Somerset Connect for each of the people in the Godney of £750 which would have gone to pay for the line and mast/s for a wireless link from Taunton - Moorlynch on the Polden Hills the signal would have then been beamed down to the Somerset Levels but most of the village were with other providers and wouldn't change to BT (knowing that the villages had left BT due to ongoing problems in the first place!).

Britain is an island of very small proportions, all these other providers hasn't made for an easier cheaper existence but a complex convoluted set of circumstances that has done more to cause problems.

Competition outweighs the potential and we now have possibly the slowest Broadband in the western world and yet our technology invented the system in the first place - crazy but true. A lot of InTouchRadio.net friends around the world think we are stupid to accept our situation and it has been said we are technologically living in the Stone Age... they can't believe the situation we are in.

BT support the City but not the Country... more revenue and through their own greed and the political structure just look at the state this country is now in... I say no more.

Thanks for being there in support and don't forget any other info and local news will be gratefully received but not at the cost of your reputation.

Keep In Touch - best regards
Michael Dixon
ITR - UK

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ITR - A Petition You All Should Sign and They Call Themselves Human! - ITR-UK - GLOBAL

2009-06-29T08:07:00.007+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder of ITR
with Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche
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A PETITION YOU SHOULD ALL SIGN

&

THEY CALL THEMSELVES HUMAN!

WARNING!!!

A FILM YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE

An Email I have just had to reproduce omitting the sender's name for their privacy.

Please Blog this - Email this to your friends.

Let us do something to stop this right now.

Animals kill to eat - the Human Race (not all thank God) kills, it would seem, for pleasure.

Please sign the petition now - not later - and you will be doing something positive today. Thank you from the ITR World Family.

You are warned this film is linked here http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp
it contains scenes that are not for the squeamish.

InTouchRadio.net's ethos is to promote love and human connection bringing us all together as a One World Family. We need to eradicate these practices and to outlaw cruelty of every kind.

Michael Dixon

To:

Michael Dixon
InTouchRadio
www.InTouchRadio.net

Hi Michael

Here's a horrific video and petition, that your viewers and listeners should know about - definitely not for the squeamish.

If you use it please don't link my name with it - it's of global concern.

Lotsa

xxx

An InTouchRadio.net World Family Member

Name Witheld

PLEASE SIGN this petition. If you do one thing special today, please make a difference-sign this petition ... click on 'forward' then add your name

Please sign, don't watch video it’s just too painful but we have to try and stop this brutality. It's about animal rights. But if you must watch there is a link below.

With a hidden camera, animals were filmed being SKINNED ALIVE!!! They say it's done to get a more perfect ''cut'', afterwards the carcasses are tossed into a pile, still alive, and
for up to 10 minutes you can see their hearts still beating, in agony, their eyes still blinking, and the puppies little paws still shaking.

There was one pup that still lifted his head and gazed at the camera with bloodied eyes. If
you don't care to see the video, please sign and forward to your friends: this monstrosity has to be stopped, we have to act!!

Please scroll down and add your signature to the petition and send to everyone in your address book. There is no need to see the video, but if you must, be aware, it's horrible. The following video is of excruciating violence. It's painful silence affects us all deeply. If we don't protect animals from this type of brutality, we become accomplices
http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp

When the list reaches 500 names, please forward to:
PETA2@peta.org peta.org

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127 Eileen Goodman, Harrow , UK
128 Jan Buckridge, Watford , UK
129 Lisa Buckridge, Watford UK
130 Tim Peacock Watford Uk
131 yolanta zalecki
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124 Christine Roach, Cape Town South Africa
125 Dianne Marchant, London , England
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130. Allison Barker, London , UK
131 Marion Hemingway.UK
132 Nicholas Hemingway. UK
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135 Madeleine Backlund
136 Ann McDonagh
137 Lisa Stewart
138 Jane Mackenzie
139 Angela Wong, HK
140 Pimpa Songnoptaworn, Bangkok-Thailand
141 Adriaan Rodenburg, Nadi, Fiji Islands .
142 Antoon. Lolkes de beer - Buderim , Australia .
143 Frans van Kampen
144 Tonnie van Kampen
145 Brett Smith Lumwana Zambia
146 Janice Allen Qld Australia
147. Des Nortier.......I couldn't bring myself to watch the video Cal , but the description was heartbreaking enough...
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152.Colleen Gardner
153 Jenny Wemyss - Durban
154 James Wemyss
155 Marc Nel- Mauritius
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160 Joan Schoeman
161 Donnalea Hodgkinson - South Africa
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172 Michael Sham
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174 Jayde Sham
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177. Christopher Fernandes - South Africa
178. Hollee Botha - South Africa
179. Sudeepa Kallichurum - South Africa ( I really wish that someone does the same to them ... they sick )
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181. Shelley Rawsthorne - SA
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184 Doug Fairall South Africa
185 Adrienne Kelsey
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218 Cris Andrew, NZ
219 Pat Moosman NZ
220 Kim Sheppard, NSW Australia
221 Beryl Warne , NT , Australia
222 M Lemon NT Australia
223 Jody Clarke NT Australia
224 Heather Coulson ( I did watch it but only halfway….. how heart wrenching)
225 Fiona Bergmann QLD Australia
226 Udo Bergmann QLD Australia
227 Sigi Edwards Qld Australia
228 Dianne Maujean, Cairns , Australia .
229 Chris Cowans, Cairns , Australia
230 Margie Dee, Gold Coast , Australia
231 Helen Foster, Townsville , Australia
232 Glenys Price , Western Australia
233 Bev Dundas N S W Australia .
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236Nicole Mandragona VIC Australia
237. Brad Mandragon VIC Australia
238. Sami j Mandragona VIC Australia
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240. Ella Chambers VIC Australia
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244 Ida Cammarota Melbourne Australia
245 Helen Giles VIC Australia
246 Lee-Anne Mair - WA Australia
247 - Dot & John Touzell - NWS - Australia
248 - Graham Cook WA Australia
249 - Bill Mair - WA Australia
250 - Darren & Jenny Cook - QLD Australia
251-Glenn & Lois Baxter- Perth Australia
252 – Tania Gordon, Perth . WA
253 - Fran Gordon, Perth , Western Australia
234- Ronelle Macaulay , West Australia I couldn’t bear to watch something so cruel. I will send it to all I can
255 Roger Starbuck Perth Western Australia
256 Joan Knights, Perth, WA
257 Norrie Merrifield, Bindoon, Western Australia
258 Sarah Barnsley, Iluka , Western Australia ( I watched about 10 seconds and had to stop. Unfathomable and horrific. We live in a horrible world)
259 Jeanette Barnsley, Gwelup, W.Australia
260 Dorothy Bullen, New Jersey, USA
261 this is disgusting please do not watch. these people want hanging Karen jones north yorks england
262 Rhiannon jones
263 Natalie Batey
264 Yasmn batey
265 Daniel batey
266 Paul batey
267 marjorie bell
268 arthur bell
269 anyone with a sence of moral responsability
270 Paula Brown
280 Amanda Mitchell
281 Michelle Lonsdale
282 Cheryl Yates
283 Caroline Grant, Belivah QLD, Australia
284 David Richards, Belivah, QLD Ausralia
285 Ana Roper, Townsville , Australia
286 Rebecca Roper, Townsville , Australia
287 Michael Roper, Townsville, Australia
288 Andrew Roper, Australia
289 Lyndon Norton, QLD Australia
290 Joel Grady, Townsville, Australia
291 Katrina Roper, Townsville, Australia (Sick F*cks!)
292 Sonia Vass, Townsville , Australia .
293 Caroline Sale, Wodonga, Australia
294 Michelle Hansford, Yackandandah, Australia
295 Carole Carey Adelaide Australia. I couldnt look.
296 Elizebeth Wadewitz Adelaide Australia I couldn't look either - How is it possible that anyone could get away this cruelty
297 George Nowak Adelaide – Please dear God show some mercy quickly to these poor darling animals.
298 Mij Looker - Adelaide Australia
299 Sam Legoe – Adelaide Australia
300 Nicky Hurle - Gers, Franc
301 Joanna Giles, Queensland , Australia
302 Deborah Rugari
303 Jennette Metcalfe , South Australia
304 Melissa Butler , South Australia
305 Stella Deller, South Australia
306 Susanne Wilson, South Australia –absolutely inhumane – we should ban EVERY product that comes from China
307 Colette Ward Perth Western Australia. Disgusting.
308 Jane Hawkins Perth Western Australia
309 Ron Hawkins Perth Western Australia
310 Ian Hawkins Perth Western Australia
311 Sarah Hawkins Perth Western Australia
312 Jessica Hawkins Perth Western Australia
313 Helen Fierro, Western Australia
314 Eduardo Fierro, Western Australia
315 Georgina Fierro, Western Australia
316 Jennifer Mekss, Western Australia
317 Karen Watt Western Australia
318 Rhiannon Bond, Western Australia
319 Gabrielle Bond, Western Australia
320 Alicia Koufou, Western Australia
321 Nerylie Waddy, Western Australia

322 Carolyn Blackburn, Warnbro , WA
323 Sue Curtis Cooloongup WA

324 Margaret Walters Albany W.A

325 Carol Wright Albany W.A

326 Shane Jones, Sydney Australia

327 Martin Taylor, London
328 Amanda Foxley-Deschamps (Unfathomable cruelty all for the sake of fashion, disgusting)

329 Barry Waller, Melbourne Victoria

330 Jen Erceg, bibra lake, perth wa.

331 Peta Tompson, Western Australia

332 Karina Hiller, Western Australia

333 Kristie Kelly, WA

334 A Smith WA

335 Lisa Kasten WA

336 Suzy Brealey WA

337 Nicola Wellington

338 Jennette Armstrong

339 Kay McDonald WA

340 S.Sullivan WA. Where the hell are people to charge them!!!!!!!! This HAS to stop. Send it to a politician!!!

341 Jodie Dowsett Western Australia

342 Michael Dowsett Western Australia

343 Sharon Kermac WA

344 Gary Nash WA

345 shirlene jones wa

346 Sue Thompson WA
347 Sally Brothers WA

348 Roger Agopian WA Nothing is ever worth this kind of horror and cruelty. It moved me so much that I sent this to Oprah Winfrey, if we all do the same it may stop this suffering sooner, how could Oprah ignore this kind of cruelty of any living creature on this earth. Do it now & make a positive difference! oprah.com

349 Linda Smyth Victoria Aust

350 Greg Lacey Vic Australia

351 Jennette McKenzie..Victoria..Australia

352 Graeme McKenzie...Victoria..Australia

353 JACK Cockroft "" "

354Audrey Foran Lincolnshire Eng

355 Mary Ewers Lincolnshire England

356 Diane Gosling, Lincolnshire, England

357 Phil Gosling, Lincolnshire, England

358 Stuart Barnes, Nottinghamshire

359 Lynne Withey, Nottinghamshire

360 Karen Withey, Nottinghamshire

361 Karen Johns Birmingham....couldn't watch it tho.

362. Tara Gower Birmingham

363. Tracey Calver

364. Gillian Merrison, England

365 Lorraine Pitcher - Glooucestershire

366 Betty Trow SPAIN

367 Vanita Roberts Spain

368 Lynda Shelton - England - Everyone!! Please sign, and follow this up with other petitions!

369 Tonya Hountingwolf Billington, Middlesex, England / I could not watch this video, the words were already enough to knew, that this has to stop. We have to urge the politicians to stop this cruel way, just for the sake of fashion. Those poor animals are our brothers and sisters, and I am praying for their souls.

370 Julia Tarn, Bristol UK: can someone please explain why? what is the matter with mankind? do we always have to be so dam crual??? I pray for those that do this kind of thing, that one day, what they have done will haunt them seriously, and may that day be soon. Mother Earth cries her silent tears it is time we all started to heal her and all who walk and breath upon her. Mitakuye Oyasin....WE ARE ALL RELATED........

371 Jo J Shorter Soton England UK

372 Tony Thorpe, weymouth, England UK

373 Ann-Marie , Weymouth England UK

374 Sheera King, Dorset UK

375 Marina Blyth, Dorset UK

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ITR - Russell Grant Astrologer Comes Off Site at Glastonbury Festival & Visits La Lune Cafe

2009-06-28T09:13:00.014+01:00

Michael Dixon Founder InTouchRadio.net
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Saturday 27.6.2009
Glastonbury Town, Somerset UK

Russell Grant

Astrologer

Comes Off-Site & Visits Glastonbury's 'La Lune'

Astrology Cafe

Russell Grant - Astrologer
in La Lune Cafe Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

Glastonbury 27 2009
ITR-UK - GLOBAL

I was disappointed this year to have missed Glastonbury Festival but due to an accident I put my back well and truly out of kilter. For the past week I have been a very poor patient with muscle spasms causing an acute condition, even getting out of bed was a trial.

Yesterday, Saturday 27th June I took my first trip out of the house and tentatively went with my partner Carol into town (Glastonbury) to sort out a lost postal package and to have a cup of coffee in La Lune Cafe in the High Street.

Typical Glastonbury High Street Saturday
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

I did have another mission as I have been photographing pictures by Shurman, (a blog, which you may have seen recently about Shurman and the British Press) and had still to photograph some while in town.

It's funny you know but people say that Glastonbury goes very quiet when the Glastonbury Festival takes place, understandable when you consider that close on 200,000 people arrive at Pilton, about 7 miles from Glastonbury, in a very short period of time and many local people are imbibed into the structural workings of one of the worlds' largest festivals - hence lack of people in town and of course, many visitors would be, potentially, put off by the news of so many people grid-locking the roads for the festival week but not so today.

Glastonbury Lower High Street
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When we arrived in town, the Farmers' Market was setting up nicely in St.John's Car Park. We chose our local organic farm produce without any problems; sorted out the postal issue and grabbed the lottery along with the Saturday Mail and its weekly TV magazine, then we slowly, literally slowly, wandered down to the already open La Lune Cafe, the time just before 9.30am.

Media Crews Often in Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

If you pop in to La Lune Cafe the sofas at the entrance are wonderfully comfortable especially if you have a bad back like I had. We were lucky as they were empty, my back was still very tender and sore.

La Lune Cafe, High Street Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

La Lune has been open now, I believe, around two years and was set up as an astrology cafe - each of the tables are named after a star sign. It also serves as an art gallery and is the home base of Shurman Art, something I recommend you to visit and you have the opportunity to purchase some of Shurman's paintings directly from or commission works from the man himself.

Hendrix (Eyes) Shurman
(Michael Dixon's Own Shurman Painting)
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

I had only just finished photographing Shurmans' latest paintings and had to wait for Shurman to bring in the very latest, which meant another hour - this of course, gave another opportunity to indulge in just one more freshly filtered coffee, I would have gone further and tried one of the locally made croissants but due to a food intolerance I am limited on what I eat and wheat is one of those intolerance.

Shurman
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Soon the town started to fill up with locals out for their Saturday necessities intermingled with those stray visitors ignorant of the festival. It wasn't long before wristbands became evident and by 10.30am the streets were filled with off-site Glastonbury festival goers arriving on the buses from the Pilton festival site.

Seano - Glastonbury's Own Green Man Poet - Wordsmith
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I'd had to pop out to see a friend and on my return I found Carol had been in conversation with a man who I knew from the world of astrology and television, that being the famous Russell Grant who was sitting with his friend and associate Bruce.

Glastonbury Festival 2008
Pyramid Stage FOH
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

Russell and Bruce had popped into town to escape for awhile the hustle and bustle of festival life and enjoy Glastonbury towns' energy and to have a freshly made delicious La Lune juice drink and coffee, only a brief segue from festival activity and, from what I can gather, the intolerance's of some of the security and Health & Safety rigidity at Pilton. (I don't understand what the UK is coming to with so many rules and useless regualtions that others in Europe completely ignore but that's another story...).

May Day Meeting Point
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I asked about conditions on-site, it seems the rain on day one was now drying out nicely, which made me feel even more detached from my favourite stages at the festival, those being the Jazz World and the Acoustic stages, along with the myriad of other small stages that gave preference to some of music's best hidden acts and of course, the Greenpeace and wonderfully alternative Healing field.

La Lune Astrology & Art Cafe
High Street - Glastonbury

Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

Conversation now moved on, a few astrological questions posed without intrusion, and we soon realised we'd met before in my shop Touchwood Antiques home of Touchwood Music, when I used to live in the Cotswolds at Stow on the Wold. It was at this point that I mentioned some of the many people who visitied Touchwood and that we had a common link, which was David Icke who used to come to Stow on the Wold, back in the 80's and 90's. There was one other connection, a person I have interviewed, in length, at Sunrise Celebration Festival, that being the well known Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer.

Jonathan Cainer - Astrologer
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

At this point I remembered what Loretta, owner of La Lune had told me recently, that Jonathan the previous year had called in to La Lune, the the only astrological cafe in Glastonbury and discussed astrology with her. Carol, my partner, is a hobbying astrologer for over 30 years and knows Jonathan - the links continued connecting; La Lune seems the obvious place for such like minds to meet and converse their favourite subject.

The Famous 'Smokey Joe' Arrives for Glastonbury Festival
Smoky Joe is 'HIStory in the Making'

Our conversation continued and Russell asked about InTouchRadio.net, I explained the ethos and direction of ITR and hopefully we will be able to get together in the future and discuss further the global nature of ITR and perhaps we can have an astrological chat leading to an open-ended interview (which I prefer) allowing the subject matter to evolve rather than be constricted to single question sterile points? (Watch this space).

Well that was my first foray out into the world of normality, as much as Glastonbury is ever normal and what a day full of non-coincidental meetings. I would like to say thank you to Russell and Bruce for the conversation and shared thoughts about Glastonbury Festival and for allowing me to photograph them tired from their time walking around that city in a field(s) that is Glastonbury Festival.

Visiting World Musicians in Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

If you decide to visit Glastonbury you will be amazed at the alternative world that exists here and who you might just meet while having a coffee in town.

Glastonbury's Medieval Hostelry The George & Pilgrim High Street.
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

Or a pint or three at the the ancient medieval hostelry the George & Pilgrim in the High Street.

Michael Dixon
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ITR - Michael Jackson - RIP Michael - ITR-UK - GLOBAL

2009-06-26T11:02:00.003+01:00

Michael Jackson

We received the news late yesterday about Michael - and wish him peace in the land that follows this.

We send our deepest sympathies to Michael's children and family and for Michael's love to envelope them through the difficult times ahead.

Michael Jackson carried that blend of genius in his work helped in the beginning by his supportive brothers in those heady days of the 1960's and 1970's when they worked as a one family group. Michael's young energy blossomed like a flower from youth to older youth but never taming that energy called adulthood and we are the better for that in the life that Michael shared with his world family.

Many will look into the negativity of a life that has passed but the more will see beyond that veil and see the wondrous zeal that came forth into that human frame we knew as Michael Jackson.

For whatever reason we enter and depart this life Michael Jackson is one of those who will be remembered for his amazing skills as a singer, musician, dancer and entertainer which came to fruition during the 1980's with his music and video's which challenged and defied what one person could do and with choreography that still amazes.

He leaves a very empty space in the world of music which has changed so dramatically over the past 10 years or so.

I, for one, cannot see another that will lift the generations over the next 40 years as Michael Jackson did. Everyone of us in the music world know of Michael no matter our age - his presence bridged the gap between cultures and broke the American boundary between black blues and white pop and he leaves us as he will always be known for his music thrilled and entertained and the triple albums Bad - Thriller and Dangerous were, for me, the culmination of his life's work which, perhaps, emulcified in the following album HIStory.

Michael Jackson died aged 50 on the 25 June 2009 and like those others in the world of entertainment who departed before their natural time, Michael Jackson's memories will remain ever youthful and always 'The King of Pop'.

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2009-06-25T15:54:00.005+01:00

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ITR - Mini Glastonbury Festival at the Farmers' Market this Saturday - Don't Miss It - Michael ITR-UK

2009-06-24T11:40:00.007+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net (ITR)
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Glastonbury Farmers Market

has its own Mini-Festival!

St. John's Church - Glastonbury
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Do come to the market this Saturday. With the Festival on the town itself is tranquil and the roads are back to normal, between the rush of Festival arrivals and departures. All the festival-goers are fenced in a few miles away at Pilton.

Meanwhile we have our own little festival at the market, with laid-back local blues musicians Bridge 45 who'll play while you shop. With a canopy roof overhead, no mud underfoot and excellent food and drink on tap, what more could the connoisseur of the good life require?

And if you're planning on visiting the Festival on Sunday why not visit the market to prepare a picnic with:

Box Bush Farm apple juice

Leaker's artisan bread

12 Seasons chutney

Wooton Dairy sheeps cheese

and The Great Cake Company carrot cake

Or alternatively:

Lovely Drinks sparkling cordial

Somerset Cheese Co's buffalo cheese

Ham Street bacon and mushroom pasties

Granny's Larder old fashioned cakes

and Flaxdrayton Farms summer fruits

So many combinations! So many picnic opportunities!

Because of the Festival it can be a quieter market but all our producers are keen to come as usual, so do come along and give your support. We can guarantee that it will be cheaper than festival food and twice as tasty. For more information contact http://www.sfmdirect.co.uk/markets/

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ITR - RICKY TICK CLUB WINDSOR - Information and Groups Who Played There Contact www.InTouchRadio.net

2009-06-22T15:05:00.005+01:00

Michael Dixon ITR-UK
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The

Ricky Tick Club

Windsor

Berkshire (UK)

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1962 - 1968

If you have information, photos, bootleg music played there or have memories of all the Tick Clubs then please contact me - info@intouchradio.net.

I'm in contact with John Mansfield who ran the Ricky Tick Club in Windsor during those heady - head stompin' funky daze throughout the 1960's.

The Ricky Tick was the place to play outside of London when bands were bands and touchable and approachable - the list would be too long of all the major acts that played there through those years whether it was at the Star & Garter Pub upstairs out back or at the Thames Hotel down by the river near Windsor Bridge or where it ended at the Old Etonian Club by the Swimming Pool adjacent to the Windsor ByPass. Later the 'Tick' found itself in other towns for a brief period after the Old Etonian Country Club tenency was curtailed.

Photo courtesy of GetSurrey.co.uk

The associations with all other major clubs with the Tick as it was known again too many to mention in this brief.

Can you help by spreading the word around - get InTouch with all those 60's bands that played the Southern Circuit and ask them to get back into those brain cells and pull out those memories.

The Shakers
Photo courtesy of GetSurrey.co.uk

John will be coming to mine soon and we will be recollecting those days that made the music of today and if you've contact with the legends that played there then ask them to get their teams to contact me.

Perhaps we can get those other Clubs such as The Wooden Bridge, Guildford, EelPie Island, Marquee (Wardour Street), Ronnie Scotts, 100 Club, Chalk Farm - all those interactive moments that need collecting for you to know what it was like to be in music when it was real bands being paid to play not paying to play; the days on the road, the Ford Transits with double back wheels, the Ford Thames with column changes, the seats changed with old aircraft seats from Heathrow. Going to get your amps repaired with Jim Marshal at Southall, Goodmans Speakers - changing those great big 18 inch drivers - Selmer in Charing Cross Road, the Gia Condor in Denmark Street... come on let's get those memories out so the musicians out there now know what it was really like back then.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you Urgently as I have the meeting soon with John Mansfield and he has so much information ready to be released.

Contact me - Michael - info@intouchradio.net

Below is a Blog from www.rocksbackpages.com which includes that other 60's landmark club - Leo's Cavern in St. Leonard's Road, Windsor, Berkshire (UK) which was part of the Ex-Servicemens' Club.

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Rolling Stones At The Ricky-Tick, January 1963

Posted Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:54pm PDT by John Pidgeon in Rock's Backpages

John Pidgeon was there at the dawn of the British blues boom. This thrilling memoir of seeing harmonica legend Cyril Davies--followed swiftly by the Rolling Stones--at Windsor's Ricky-Tick club takes you straight back to how it felt to stand on the verge of a musical revolution--complete with girls who looked like Jean Seberg!--Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages

The first time I hear Cyril Davies blow his harmonica is January 1963 at Leo's Jazz Club in Windsor. As I approach, shoulders hunched against the cold, I watch billows of cigarette smoke, lit pink and yellow by the lights inside, spill from an open door, before the thin, chill evening air is split by an inhuman scream, a siren wail that rises a tone, then subsides.

The sound nails me momentarily to the pavement, then propels me to the entrance of an unprepossessing British Legion Hall, which by day is a hang-out for pensioners who have served time, as most have, in the armed forces. At a folding table by the door I fumble distractedly in my pocket for the four-shilling entry fee, entirely absorbed by the source of this extraordinary sound: a balding, badly-dressed man, who looks middle-aged to my teenage eyes.

I struggle to relate the sound I hear to what I can see. Davies's hands are cupped in front of his mouth, a cable trailing from his fingers, but his instrument is invisible, apart from a glinting sliver revealed whenever he parts his hands, a movement matched by a modulation in the sound.

Unseen it might be, but what I'm listening to is as powerful and evocative an instrumental voice as Little Richard's piano, Buddy Holly's guitar or Ray Charles flat-top Wurlitzer soloing the opening bars of "What'd I Say." Davies can make this thing he had hidden in his hands cry, shout, and howl so my hair stands on end. And there is no room for doubt, these sounds can only be coming from him, because the other instruments on stage are drums, bass, guitar and piano, and I know the sounds they make. So does my companion--a jazz fan, hence our visit to Leo's Jazz Club--who is soon hissing from the side of his mouth that what the R&B All-Stars are playing is little different from rock 'n' roll, an opinion to which I am able to nod urgent agreement, without letting on that this is not the least of the reasons that I love it. I don't want to piss him off. He's the one with the driving license and his mother's car.

As the set progresses, a beanpole singer with a blond fringe and a teasing smile takes his turn at the microphone, but his singing is too smooth, too jazzy for my taste. Meanwhile, a black female vocal trio attempt an approximation of the Raelettes, Ray Charles' backing singers, whose visceral harmonies I know from my live Ray Charles At Newport album. Indeed Davies and the Velvettes recreate Charles' "(Night Time Is) The Right Time," though without the sex-fuelled fire of Marjorie Hendricks, and, anyway, all I have ears--and open-mouthed wonder--for are Cyril Davies and his harmonica.

The wail of Cyril Davies's harmonica tears straight to the centre of my heart, and the next day, a Saturday, I catch a bus into town and find a Hohner Marine Band harmonica in the music shop. On the way home I slip it from its snug blue box to study its simple features: twelve holes to be sucked or blown, each of them numbered--pointlessly, it seems to me, since the numbers are lost from sight even before the instrument is pressed to one's lips. On the face of it, there is even less here to master than on a recorder, and yet the repertoire of sounds conjured from it by Davies is infinitely more expansive. This comparison triggers a suspicion that learning to play like him isn't going to be easy.

In my bedroom I cup the harmonica the way I saw Davies do last night. I try some experimental sucks and blows, enough to teach me that the blow is only a tuneful means of emptying my lungs before switching to the suck that creates the more evocative notes. Remarkably, the modulated suck that "bends" the notes a semi-tone comes to me quickly, and by lunchtime I am able to ape Davies' wail at different points on the scale, but I have no records from which I can learn melodic sequences and none that I heard him play have stayed in my head. I know I have to see Davies and his R&B All-Stars again.

Fortunately, in spite of his aversion to amplified "beat music," my Leo's companion has taken a pointless shine to one of the Velvettes who, he has convinced himself, was giving him the come-on. I don't openly question why he imagines a statuesque African professional singer should have been eyeing up a grammar school sixth-former, barely out of short-back-and-sides, but gratefully accept his invitation to revisit the club the following Friday.

Although Cyril Davies thrills me as before, Long John Baldry's unctuous vocalising is even less to my taste, while the Velvettes' strident harmonies grate on my ears. During the week I have listened to Ray Charles At Newport, cementing my opinion that these three are no match for the Raelettes. As the All-Stars step off stage for the interval break, Davies waiting for no one as he hustles to the bar, my companion, blaming the smoky atmosphere, but perhaps also seizing the chance to play hard-to-get, insists that we should stretch our legs and clear our lungs.

Minutes from the British Legion Hall, in a narrow street that sides the Star & Garter Hotel, I stop, astonished, at the sound of more upbeat blues and another harmonica. I search for the sound with my eyes and see dancers silhouetted in the open windows of an upstairs room attached to the back of what is plainly more pub than hotel. On either side of the doorway that leads upstairs, black posters with white lettering announce "The Ricky-Tick Club and the Rolling Stones Every Friday 5/-." Judging by those cooling off outside, the Ricky Tick crowd is younger and hipper, and the girls prettier, than at Leo's. There are studenty types and some snappy dressers. While I move involuntarily, and, I hope, inconspicuously, to a spirited version of Benny Spellman's "Fortune Teller," the rhythm driven by maracas, my eyes lock with the wide-eyed gaze of a girl wearing black ski pants, whose dark hair is cropped as short as Jean Seberg's in A Bout De Souffle, but, as if struck by a thought, she looks away, grinds her cigarette under her heel, and disappears inside.

Hands, as always, in my pockets, I weigh the two half crowns my mother has given me as petrol money for my driver, who has halted a few yards further on and is giving me the hurry-up sign with a finger on his watch face. I shout, "I'll see you at the car at ten thirty," and duck into the doorway.

Once I've seen the Rolling Stones at the Ricky-Tick, there is no going back to Leo's. The Stones are what I've been looking for without expecting to find: a young white English group playing black American music. And they really have mastered the idiom. They won't become famous because they wear their hair like girls or urinate on a garage forecourt or get busted for drugs, but because they are white boys who play black music better than anybody has before.

The group's residency at the Ricky-Tick lasts six months, from January to July 1963, but more than forty years later I can revisit those Friday nights at will: I can see the upstairs room with the bar against one wall, a small, barely raised stage in the opposite corner, and, incongruously, fishing nets hung from the ceiling; I can hear the crowd singing along with the Stones' closing "Bye Bye Johnny," answering Mick's circling wave of a hand; I can feel the floor move under my feet as I dance with my Jean Seberg lookalike, the bouncing boards and rafters loosing plaster from the ceiling below onto the roof of the Stones' parked van, inside which Ian Stewart is trying to grab some sleep before driving the band back to their West London flat.

The above was from www.rocksbackpages.com - a great site and recommended by InTouchRadio.net:

Read hundreds more Rolling Stones interviews and reviews at www.rocksbackpages.com. Over 14,000 articles by the greatest writers from the finest rock publications of the last 40 years.

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ITR - InTouchRadio.net Welcomes Dan Barrett Broadband On-Site Specialist - ITR-UK

2009-06-21T12:31:00.002+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net
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Dan Barrett
ITR - Broadband On-Site Specialist

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Welcomes

Dan Barrett

Broadband On-Site Specialist

InTouchRadio.net (ITR) has a new family member. Dan Barrett has offered his, very kind, services to ITR in field situations or at festivals.

Dan comes from a family involvement in communications and is trained in all kinds of Broadband services including on-site and satellite connectivity.

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This will be invaluable to outside link ups not only for ITR but for those Festivals and On-Site situations.

After our own issues, due to location, still ongoing it is a relief to have someone with the understanding of remote and isolated placements.

Dan believes in the integrity and ethos of InTouchRadio being a co-operative collective, not corporate selective bringing our World's peoples together as One Family.

I look forward to our working together in the near future - if you see either Dan or me at the Festivals come on over and say hello.

Michael Dixon
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ITR - Pictures - Sunrise Celebration 2009 - Michael Dixon - ITR-UK

2009-06-16T23:48:00.000+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net
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Sunrise Celebration

2009

Pictures Now Up

Sunrise Celebration Gate
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2009

Hi Everyone

Sorry for the delay but mucho muchness going on here with Videos - Audios - Photo-ohs to get together and so many other things coming in from around this beautiful world of ours.

Sunrise Kids
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2009

Here's the link to see some of the Sunrise Celebration 2009 Pics taken mostly by yours truly - hope you enjoy them.

Sleepy Time Girl
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2009

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Umbrella & Top Hat High Party Time
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2009

Well the UK Festival Season is well under way now with Isle of Wight now behind and next week the famous Glastonbury Festival (may still be going but difficult this year - can't leap over the fence like we used to back then when festivals were free and so was our love...

Two Stars (Centre) of Bare Sole Sunrise Movie
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2009

Today like most things money raises its head and what with the anal restrictions that Health and Safety cling too - well sure you all know what I mean. We have to be safe for sure but there's safe and there's safe.

Love Hugs Sunrise
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2009

But hold your seat belt there's Bestival coming up down in Dorset and there's the other favourite of mine Big Green Gathering - one of the largest green festivals and like Sunrise a family safe, I like to call it, festival.

Chai Wallah Main Stage
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2009

Now I'm definately up for BGG and will be doing my best to be there and if you're making it please come over and say hello and let's keep InTouch - that's the ethos of InTouchRadio.net - a One World Family keeping very much InTouch.

Horn Blower - Chai Wallah Main Stage
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2009

I may, if I can, come down to Dorset - finances what they are and so on like all of us but never say never.

Chai Wallah Main Stage Audience
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2009

Hope to see some of you through this wonderful summer wherever we end up be nice if it was together.

Brighton Friends Sunrise - Big Heart Lovely Big Guy
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2009

Enjoy life and look out for one another and hope you enjoy the pics on the above link.

Sunset Over Teepee Field
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2009

Drop me a mail - let me know how things are in your part of the world, let's spread the word and keep it in the family.

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ITR - Heal The Last Stand - The Secret from Wrexham, Wales - Michael Dixon ITR - UK

2009-06-15T06:42:00.001+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net
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A few words about Heal The Last Stand from Michael Dixon:

I first met Joey Dickenson at Glastonbury (Childrens') Festival in 2007, Joey was working on model steam boats and persuaded me to buy a green steam boat with its candle burner fuel supply. Joey has a magnetic personality and is a beautiful soul. I felt I had known him forever, I would go as far as to say he radiates a pure energy and lifts all those around him.

Joey kept in contact and although we have not met since 2007 I get his regular updates and was very pleased to receive his first tracks. I did not even know that Joey was in a band when we first met and I was not sure what to expect but his enthusiasm was such that I subconsciously knew it would be good.

I did not expect, when he told me that it had been produced in his bedroom, that it would be so good. I played those tracks and I found something new each time.

Heal the Last Stand was a surprise I could not have expected but my expectation is now such that I am looking forward to receiving the new album and meeting up again soon with Joey and the other members of this Welsh secret but then again - isn't it always true that Wales produces some of the best music and vocalists that Great Britain has ever produced.

I recommend you get in touch with Heal the Last Stand and get yourself a copy.

Thoroughly recommended.

Michael Dixon
ITR - UK

Heal The Last Stand

Heal the Last Stand

are:

Thom Bithell - Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica

Joey Dickenson - Vocals/Guitar

Laura Dickenson - Vocals/Guitar/Percussion

Stan Dickenson - Vocals/Piano

Brief Biography: Established: 2007, WREXHAM, WALES.

Heal The Last Stand have a refreshing positive outlook.
Since their inception just over a year ago, these guys have been bringing good vibrations into the world, with their "Ridiculously Beautiful" harmonies.
The youngest 3 siblings of the Dickenson family have joined forces with friend Thom Bithell, to make music with heart and soul. Their stage presence, full of joy and gratitude, makes Heal' shows a profoundly memorable experience.
Expect euphoric harmonies and profound sentiments, without a trace of heartache, pain or sorrow anywhere in sight.

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News

As we speak Heal the Last Stand are huddled round their mother's Steinway at the Dickenson family home, working with producer Steve Nicholls (Camera), on 13 songs that will become “What Love is...” the current working title of their debut album.

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Having been invited back to play at Glastonbury Festival this year, Heal the Last Stand will be playing a special warm-up show at Yales Cafe Bar, Friday 19^th June, with The Roseville Band; fellow Wrexham musicians who also have the privilege of playing at the legendary festival.

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Heal' have also entered a video for their song 1, into a competition to open the main stage at this year's Green Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons. If you would like to help you can by following these simple steps:

Step 1: Visit www.greenman.net Step 2 : Register to vote in the GREEN POLL
Step 3 : Retrieve your password from your e-mail account
Step 4 : Vote for Heal the last stand and leave a comment
Step 5 : Repeat Step 4 Whenever you are online (it's possible to vote every 24 hours)
Step 6 : Encourage others to do the same

The video was recorded live at Festa de la Pau, Barcelona during their tour in May '09.

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Finally, Heal' are proud to announce a very special headline show at Bellevue Park, Friday 3^rd July. This will be an evening concert in the bandstand from 7pm-9pm, all are welcome and admission is free. The band hopes that their debut album will be available at this show; it will certainly serve as an album preview.

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Fine Details:

Glastonbury Warm-Up Show / Friday 19^th June / Yales Cafe Bar, Hill Street, Wrexham / Doors 7.30pm-10pm / Admission £2

Line-Up: Heal the Last Stand / The Roseville Band / Shane Keely (Dublin) / Man of Straw (Edinburgh)

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Green Man Festival, 21-23 August. Glanusk Park Estate, Brecon Beacons.

Competition info:

Round 1 - Voting closes at midnight on June 28 and the top 20 bands with the most votes go through to…

Round 2 - Voting closes at midnight on July 12 and the top 6 bands with the most votes go through to…

Grand Final - A live Battle of the Bands contest in London on July 23 to find one lucky winner to open Green Man 2009, judged by a panel of music industry experts.

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An Evening with Heal the Last Stand / Friday 3^rd July / the Bandstand, Bellevue Park, Bellevue Road, Wrexham. 7pm-9pm / Admission FREE

Line-Up: Heal the Last Stand

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Band Contact Details:

Laura # 07968114343

healthelaststand@gmail.com www.myspace.com/healthelaststand

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ITR - Update on Actor David Carradine - Pip Reynolds ITR West Coast Team USA

2009-06-13T16:31:00.006+01:00

Pip Reynolds - ITR - West Coast Team USA

David Carradine

Carradine Family Expert:

David's Death Not a Suicide

(E! Online)

Gina Serpe Gina Serpe

Los Angeles (E! Online) – David Carradine's family was right all along: The actor's death was not the result of suicide.

In a video statement today, brothers Keith and Robert Carradine announced that Dr. Michael Baden, the forensics expert they independently hired to carry out a second autopsy on the actor, determined that their sibling did not take his own life.

"The autopsy findings and the evidence thus far available demonstrate that Mr. Carradine's death was not the result of suicide," Baden said.

The chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police conducted the autopsy in California, after the body arrived from Bangkok earlier this week.

An initial postmortem was done in Thailand, but officials there said the results would not be back for one or two more weeks.

In their statement, the brothers of the late 72-year-old thanked fans for support during what has been a "profoundly painful time."

"First of all, we would like to thank everyone for their heartfelt expressions of love and sympathy for what we are going through," said Keith Carradine.

"Until we have all of the pending results of the investigation we respectfully ask that we be allowed to lay our beloved brother, husband and father, grandfather and great-grandfather to rest in peace and with dignity," Robert added.

They also thanked both Thai and U.S. authorities who have been working in conjunction on investigating Carradine's mysterious death.

The Kill Bill star was found dead in his luxury hotel room exactly one week ago. Police said the actor was hanging naked in his closet, a rope tied to his neck and genitals, leading to the suspicion that his death may have been the accidental result of autoerotic asphyxiation.

No funeral arrangements have yet been announced.

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ITR - Further Info Re Hope Album from Fluid Audio - Green Album - ITR - UK

2009-06-12T22:31:00.004+01:00

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'Hope'

Fluid Audio

Just received with reference to the last Blog 'Hope' Album. Not only is 50% going to help homeless street children but the album has many more merits - read on...

Michael

The Etchical Vision Behind The Album:

The CD is ISO14001 certified, all paper & card used is FSC certified, all produced by a Carbon Zero CD
manufacturing company, via the award-winning CO2 Balance. The scientific data to calculate the
embedded carbon emissions of the CD/Packaging, and offset an equivalent amount of CO2 by investing
in 100% additional carbon-offsetting schemes with immediate & many secondary benefits to
communities that simply would not happen unless we paid for them. The premises used to create the
CD/Packaging is also 100% carbon neutral and powered with green electricity, and business travel
emissions are also offset.

Eco-conscious disc manufacturing:

ISO 14000 & 14001 compliant CD manufacturing
100% Re-use of scrap polycarbonate salvaged from CD & DVD replication

Eco-conscious printing:

Sourcing of paper stock from FSC Compliant (Forestry Stewardship Council) mills and printers.
Wood fibre procured within the Sustainable Forest Initiative guidelines: every acre harvested is
reforested - 400 Million tree seedlings planted each year.
Paper products are typically recyclable, compost-able, and under the right conditions biodegradable.
No wood from old-growth or endangered forests.
Vegetable based inks.
100% alcohol-free printing.
No Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from inks or coatings, and use of quick dry glues with
Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) being eliminated.
Collection and recycling of paperboard, inks, coatings and other waste from printing processes.
60,000 tons of paper and board shipped from one supplier alone to recycler in one year.

Treat This CD With Care!

More info and purchase options here

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ITR - Hope Album by Fluid Audio 50% of Sales Go to Homeless Street Kids - ITR - UK

2009-06-12T17:43:00.002+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net (UK)

Just in and we have been asked to help, of course we're happy to be of any help on a project like this. Now how about you doing a little bit too.

Michael
ITR - UK

We are pleased to announce that 'Hope' is now available in Digipak format from the Fluid Audio web site.
www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Digital release will follow on 29th June available in all formats from the Fluid Audio digital store.

Below is a link that will allow you to download a full press release which includes comments from the artists involved in the project, samples of all the tracks from the album, artwork and an unreleased exclusive remix of 'Forever' by Ishq.

Press Kit Download:
www.box.net/shared/rl39lt97s4

We thank you for your patience and support and hope that you will enjoy the album.
A big thanks goes out to all the artists involved in the project, and to those that helped make the dream come alive x

Genre: Electroacoustic, Electronic, Ambient
Label: Fluid Audio
Format: CD Digipak/Booklet, Digital
Reference Number: FluidAudio 001
EAN Code: 3760180500178
Mastering: Vincent Villuis - Ultimae Studios
Release Date:
Digipak - 8th June 2009
Digital - 29th June 2009

Fluid Audio kick starts it’s catalogue with ‘Hope’, a compilation sprawling across 13 tracks from established artists, Digitonal, Hol Baumann, Ishq, Bersarin Quartet and James Murray, as well as up and coming producers, Field Rotation, Iambic, Snakestyle, Playb, Halogen and Ben Beiny.

As suggested by its title, ‘Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife “through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe [and] images formed to inspire”. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street.

Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music.

Although we are living in a world of injustice - where the rich get richer, while those in need get left behind - there is often an inherent hope in those who suffer the most. Where people have the least they value more, the simple things that others take for granted. While some are disconnected from the true meaning of life, there are others who appreciate the beauty and awe of the world and what is has to offer. In these souls is a spark of light that no corrupt power can extinguish. Despite the negativity that we are all faced with in life, the human spirit can always overcome. Whether this is in the innocent laughter of a child, the compassion shown from one suffering human being to another, or through the creative translation of emotion into sound, the joy of life is communicated all around us - we need only be willing to open our hearts to it.

Track List:

1.Forever - Ishq
2.Hopeful - Snakestyle
3.Regenzeit - Field Rotation
4.Fingersand - James Murray
5.Turn The Seasons - Iambic
6.Was uns Bleibt - Bersarin Quartett
7.Acoustics Of The Piano - Playb
8.Sunriser - Halogen
9.Start Again - Ben Beiny
10.Flags - Iambic
11.We Three - Digitonal
12.Time To Change - Hol Baumann
13.A Part Of You - Ben Beiny (Digipak bonus track)

What The Artists Say:

Iambic:

My two tracks, Flags and Turn the Seasons, were intended to give the listener a blank canvass to paint their emotions of Hope on. It occurred to me before writing the tunes that each individual lives in hope for some thing or other, hope is what prevents many peoples lives from becoming mundane, or keeps them hanging on when times are tough. So my two tunes - both being quite different - represent each aspect of Hope.

Playb:

When I was asked to contribute to this compilation it quickly came to my mind to remix 'Acoustics Of The Piano' because of the special circumstances with which it was created. I was experiencing hard times, the kind when you feel that there is no way out though you cling to some kind of hope regardless of how difficult things get. Children who are born in disadvantaged situations stir up so much admiration within me. I see sadness in their eyes but at the same time a passion to live. I am proud to be associated with this project, and proves that music is a tool to make people aware of social injustice.

Field Rotation:

Regenzeit (German for rainy season) describes the meaning of rain from different points of view. In the temperate zone of the earth rain is part of the daily weather, nothing special. For millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions rain gives hope – the hope for a better life after the aridity, an efficient harvest and the end of starvation, the hope for enough rain to refill the fountains and riverbeds to survive the following dry season. Regenzeit is about all the people who pray and hope for rain.

Ishq:

Hope for me rests in a belief and remembrance that we are all eternal beings and live forever. When we die we do not - we awake into a new world and all we take with us is the love and essence of ourselves whether positive or negative. The false prophecy we call death is simply that - one of the root causes of mankind's drive toward destructive selfish materialism and consumption. To 'take', 'have', 'be', 'want' NOW.....at the expense of others with no consideration for the whole or the future or the planet is the result of a hopeless belief in death which motivates many to build castles made of sand and seek unnecessary levels of wealth and power so in turn they may feel 'protected' from death. Fear fundamentally of death make humans greedy. Greed - the opposite from sharing is a result of a hopeless belief in death deep within us and breed into us and taught to us. We are told and taught a lie from birth....Fear creates greed which results in many living lives of hopelessness as others live like kings.

My hope is people will remember more 'before' this life and remember the eternal self which lives forever
as this will help free us from the slavery of materialism and the selfishness which misleads us. We can build a world of equality where we all share and we all profit and all rise as one.
Its very simple - Share and we create HOPE and love. HOPE and faith in eternity leads to us to want for nothing more than to help others and so we may all evolve.
I hope we eventually realise this on earth and share and remember who we really are when the body is left behind.

Snakestyle:

With the music I make, I try to create something that gently catches your attention, hypnotises you, helps you think, and takes you to a place where you feel reassured. It's great that there are people out there who genuinely believe in music and its ability to give people hope and make a difference. It inspires me to keep going, to keep doing what i do, and I hope that people find a sense of hope while listening to this project. Best wishes. Snakestyle

Some Facts:

An estimated 40 million children live on the streets of Latin America's densely populated cities (unicef).

Observers from our partner in Guatemala say that street children there have a life expectancy of around four years on the street.

Unicef reported in 2004 that in Guatemala in the first 10 months of 2002, gangs or security forces killed 408 children and youths, but most street children were killed by drive by shootings.

THINK ABOUT IT!

More about Toybox Charity here

wwww.fluidaudio.co.uk

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ITR - One Nation Under A Groove on Afghanistan Radio Bringing Peace - ITR - Denmark

2009-06-12T10:18:00.003+01:00

Henrik Andersen of One Nation Under A Groove
ITR Denmark

Press release:
June 2009
Band:

Andersen

'One Nation Under A Groove'

Danish band played on Afghan radio station.

The Danish band “One Nation Under A Groove” has experienced something unique. An Afghan radio station has played songs from their debut album ”Guardian Angel”. Perhaps the songs are still on air throughout Afghanistan

1st June 2009 the Danish band “One Nation Under A Groove” with lead singer Henrik Andersen received a mail from Edwin Pinaroc, Radio Editor-in-chief, CJPOTF, HQ ISAF, Kabul, Afghanistan:

”Hello Henrik, I am - right now - no longer in Afghanistan, but when I was there I did air some of your music on my radio station”. Canadian Pinaroc works at ISAFs radio station in Kabul. (ISAF: International Security Assistance Force)

This radio station is trying to reach the Afghans via information in English and Pashtu. The radio produces news and often plays Afghan pop and Bollywood-music from India; Indian music is very popular in Afghanistan. Due to the Indian elements in the music produced by One Nation Under A Groove (sitar and the Indian rhythmic singing; ”Konnakol”), the radio editor-in-chief Edwin Pinaroc has chosen to play several songs from the Danes debut album ”Guardian Angel”, an album with English lyrics.

“It’s difficult to get more information from Afghanistan right now, so we don’t know how the Afghans have responded to our music. But we’re the first Danes, singing in English, who have been on air in Afghan radio”, says lead singer and composer Henrik Andersen.

Contact via the Danish Defence Command.

The producer of the band, Morten Buschmann, has been working for the Danish Defence Command in Copenhagen as a senior journalist and editor.

“Via his job Morten found the address and sent our album to Edwin Pinaroc. We don’t know whether ISAF still plays our songs because it’s difficult to get in touch with Kabul. But we’re extremely happy. And, we do hope that our music, somehow, can build a peaceful cultural bridge between Denmark and Afghanistan. This is our small contribution to peace in the area”, says Henrik Andersen. For the time being, Denmark has approximately 500 soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the province of Helmand.

Indie Indian western world pop One Nation Under A Groove released their debut album ”Guardian Angel” on 18th July 2008. Henrik Andersen lives in Copenhagen and plays guitar, sitar, veena, sings the leadvokal, human beatbox and the Indian vocal rhythms "Konnakol"; a rhythmic style of singing without words. The band calls it a ”new and different kind of rap”. The 12 songs are soul/triphop/pop/world music with lyrics in English.

One Nation Under A Groove has many thousand fans on My Space, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and their website: www.onenation.dk.

Right now One Nation Under A Groove is recording their second album, and meanwhile, ”Guardian Angel” is played on many radio stations throughout the world –USA, UK, Netherland, Belgium, India, Germany, Brazil, Schwitzerland, Bhutan (!) and, now, in Afghanistan, too.

One Nation Under A Groove is:
Henrik Andersen: Lead singer, guitarist.
Morten Buschmann: Drums, producer.
Flemming Pedersen: Keyboards.

Band homepage: www.onenation.dk
(Lots of photos – for free downloading)
Music – six songs from ”Guardian Angel”:
www.myspace.com/henrikandersenkingofnothing

Love and peace,
Henrik Andersen
&
Morten Buschmann

Falkoner Allé 24, 2. th.
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Mobile: +45 26 15 44 74
Mail: Buschmann@webspeed.dk

Michael Dixon ITR - UK Comments:
I was lucky enough to have a copy of One Nation Under A Groove's album 'Guardian Angel' - my first listen was in the bath under headphones - as I listened I fell into a half-sleep drifting in and out of a world where Indian overtones blended seamlessly with Western cultural imagery and linking Western instruments with those of a culture that preceeds our modern knowingness. I love the blends that Henrik has managed to bring together and with the knowledge of his recent trips to India collecting his music as a journeyer not only from that Continent but from all the other global strategic points that compass our world I am looking forward to the new album that is nearing completion and I can only say experience One Nation Under A Groove and enjoy, like I did, that dreamy bath time first listen. When I am listening to music that comes in from around the world I often put on the headphones and drift off to sleep - in the morning I connect with that sub-conscious self that never sleeps and I have another clarity at a deeper level. If you get 'InTouch' with Henrik or Morten please say that you connected through InTouchRadio.net it all helps in the thread of contacts that the InTouchRadio.net global family promotes - a One World Family. Love Michael x

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ITR - Help Needed to Stop DeForestation Amazon Rain Forest - Avaaz - InTouchRadio.net UK - GLOBAL

2009-06-11T15:13:00.004+01:00

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net (UK)

Michael Asks You to Support Avaaz

Please Read On

The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

Peru's government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let's stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon:

Sign the Petition on this link below

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=250570722&v=3461

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

In solidarity,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj, Taren and the entire Avaaz team.

Sources:

Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm

Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru

On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943

Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M. Finer et al:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932

Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’, Survival International, 8 June:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640

Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm

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Thank you for signing this petition urging the Peruvian government to engage in a peaceful and honest dialogue with indigenous people to end the conflict, secure their rights and save the Amazon.

Please help us build a bold number of signatures. Forward the following link to all your friends and family!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

Thanks again for your help,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Pascal, Graziela, Iain, Paul, Brett, Ben, Raj and the entire Avaaz team.
------------------------

Dear friends,

The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

In solidarity,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj, Taren and the entire Avaaz team.

Sources:

# Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm

# Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru

# On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943

# Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M. Finer et al:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932

# Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’, Survival International, 8 June:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640

# Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm

# Amazon Watch website:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/

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ITR - PLEASE TAKE ACTION BY ASKING YOUR MP TO SIGN HOUSE OF COMMONS EARLY DAY MOTION (EDM) No 1573.

2009-06-10T22:24:00.003+01:00

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Further to the previous Blog here is extra information just sent in...

PLEASE TAKE ACTION BY ASKING YOUR MP TO SIGN HOUSE OF COMMONS EARLY DAY MOTION (EDM) No 1573.

Dear Local Works supporter,

The Sustainable Communities Act is going from strength-to-strength. One-in-three of English Councils have resolved to use it, representing 50% of the population. This is brilliant and a clear example of how people power can make a real difference.

Following the MPs' expenses scandal over the past three weeks it has become undeniable that our national political system is in a mess. .A mess that could lead to more centralisation, and the possible weakening of the Sustainable Communties Act: or a mess that could lead to more power for local commumnties and the strengthening of the Act. I am sure you will want the latter: that means that it is citizens everywhere who can get us out of this mess - not politicians..

As you may have heard, Gordon Brown is making an announcement today about constitutional reform. What he is proposing sounds like just more of the same: vague promises and with Gordon Brown himself having the final say.

THE WESTMINSTER VILLAGE CANNOT SAVE US

This is a textbook example of how not to sort out the mess that the UK's political system has got itself into. The Westminster Village and party politics can't save us – it is the Westminster Village that got us into this situation in the first place. Does Gordon Brown seriously believe that the solution is just yet more consultation?

There is a better way. Just as the Sustainable Communities Act requires councils to establish community panels to make proposals, Parliament could set up a Citizens' Convention to look into how to make our political system more accountable and ethical and give the final say to the public. Like a jury, a Citizens' Convention would consist of ordinary members of the public. It would be independent of government. Protected by statute, the process couldn't be halted by a general election.

Fortunately a number of MPs across the political spectrum do get it. On Monday, Labour MP Martin Caton – supported by a cross-party group of MPs – tabled the Citizens' Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill[1]. This would set up a Citizens' Convention and would require Parliament to respond to its proposals. It would be make recommendations on, among other things:

How to bring elected representatives to book when they step out of line;
How to change the way in which Parliament is run to ensure that the government is properly held to account;
Whether to change our electoral system, and how.

The Convention – or 5% of the public – could insist on a referendum if any of its proposals were rejected. The public would have the final say.

The Citizens' Convention Bill could become law in a matter of weeks if the party leaders agreed to give it parliamentary time. We just need to convince them.

TAKE ACTION TODAY!

It is crucial we make this happen. Following the expenses scandal, the UK's political system has never been more discredited. More people are disengaged with politics than ever. All the party leaders now say they accept that we need to open up our political system. These are fine words, but what we need now is action.

That's why I'm asking you to write to your MP right away and ask them to:

Support the “Citizens Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill” by signing Early Day Motion 1573;
Urge their Party Leader to take steps to enable it to become law in this session of Parliament; and
In the interests of transparency and clarity, to let you know whether they will support this Bill.

(An “Early Day Motion” is a sort of petition which MPs can sign to publicly express their opinion. They rarely get debated but they play a crucial role in demonstrating how strongly MPs feel about a certain issue).

To make it easy for you, our friends at 38 Degrees have created this handy tool to help you write to your MP in a matter of minutes. Simply type in your post code, personalise the standard letter (including your own words will make it much more effective) and off it goes.

By spending just five minutes doing this today, you will make a big difference. With the Sustainable Communities Act you have already proven that people power can make a big difference. The political class know they are on the ropes at the moment. We have never had a better chance to get real reform.

Best wishes,

Steve Shaw

Local Works

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ITR - We Need A Change UK & GLOBAL - ITR - UK

2009-06-10T15:38:00.006+01:00

We Need A Change

(UK & GLOBAL)

Dear friends

British politics is broken.

Politicians have got themselves into a mess and can't be trusted to sort it out.

That's why I've just written to my MP calling for them to support the Citizens' Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill.

If made law, this Bill would set up a panel of ordinary people - like a jury - to decide how parliament and government can be made more accountable and ethical. You should write to your MP too:

[URL HERE]

This isn't about yet another government consultation - the Bill would stop MPs from being able to just ignore the Citizens' Conventions' conclusions.

Let's make this happen.

Thanks!

Michael Dixon

Although the ethos of ITR is not to have a side to any information that we receive from around the world. I'm concerned with the theatre that British Politics have been performing recently and I'm sure these theatricals, for that is all we can call them, is replicated in most other countries. Currently there are astrological aspects that are affecting, shaking the foundations of which our modern world is built upon, and from what I gather this is going to be effective for some time to come. It will rock those foundations and bring many of those foundations tumbling down, this has been clearly seen with the fall of the banks and other monetary institutions - soon, I'm sure we'll see the end of the stranglehold of the powers that be - our own politicians of all parties have been exposed and the mayhem that is causes, I feel, are for the best. But this has a charge; the loss of jobs and the closure of many worrkplaces which some of us were foretelling 3 years ago. No change comes without some disturbance of the environment in which we exist. As we see things that we no longer agree with we should have the right to say no and be heard. The blog that has been sent over appears to be a way forward and maybe we should all now say no to those things we disagree with and to those changes that are forced on us without our control, wishes or permission. What we decide to do here can be done in those other countries around this world of ours - we have rights and our rights should and must be heard - this is democrasy. Don't forget to let me hear from you around the world with your input and your information that can be shared with each other.

Some useful links to follow:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2007/ukpga_20070023_en_1

http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/?page_id=537

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ITR - Actor David Carradine Found Dead in Bangkok from Pip Reynolds ITR USA

2009-06-04T15:46:00.001+01:00

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Actor David Carradine

Found Dead in Bangkok

By GRANT PECK,
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BANGKOK – Much like the character that made him famous, David Carradine was always seeking, both spiritually and professionally, his life forever intertwined with the Shaolin priest he played in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu."
Just as the character, Kwai Chang Caine, roamed the 19th Century American West, Carradine spent his latter years searching for the path to Hollywood stardom, accepting low-budget roles while pursuing interests in Asian herbs, exercise and philosophy, and making instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts.
Carradine was found dead Thursday in Thailand. The 72-year-old actor appeared to have hanged himself in a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel, said Lt. Teerapop Luanseng, the officer responsible for investigating the death.
"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police were investigating and suspected suicide, though one of his managers questioned that theory.
"All we can say is, we know David would never have committed suicide," said Tiffany Smith, of Binder & Associates, his management company. "We're just waiting for them to finish the investigation and find out what really happened. He really appreciated everything life has to give ... and that's not something David would ever do to himself."
Carradine had flown to Thailand last week and began work on "Stretch" two days before his death, Smith said. He had several other projects lined up after the action film, which was being directed by Charles De Meaux with Carradine in the lead.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday.
"I was deeply saddened by the news of David Carradine's passing," said director Martin Scorcese. "We met when we made 'Boxcar Bertha' together, almost 40 years ago. I have very fond memories of our time together on that picture and on 'Mean Streets,' where he agreed to do a brief cameo."
Carradine came from an acting family. His father, John, made a career playing creepy, eccentric characters in film and on stage. Half-brothers Keith, Robert and Bruce also became actors, and actress Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine's daughter.
"My Uncle David was a brilliantly talented, fiercely intelligent and generous man. He was the nexus of our family in so many ways, and drew us together over the years and kept us connected," Plimpton said Thursday.
Carradine was "in good spirits" when he left the U.S. for Thailand on May 29 to work on "Stretch," Smith said.
"David was excited to do it and excited to be a part of it," she said by phone from Beverly Hills.
Filming began Tuesday, she said, adding that the crew was devastated by Carradine's death and did not wish to speak publicly about it for the time being.
The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid Thursday morning. It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a curtain cord and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.
Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy that would be done Friday.
Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, "Bound for Glory."
But he was best known for "Kung Fu," which aired from 1972-75.
Carradine, a martial arts practitioner himself, played Caine, an orphan who was raised by Shaolin monks and fled China after killing the emperor's nephew in retaliation for the murder of his kung fu master.
Pursued by revenge assassins from China, Caine wanders the American West in search of his half-brother Danny. His conscience forces him to fight injustice wherever he encounters it, fueled by flashbacks to his training in which his master famously refers to him as "Grasshopper."
Carradine left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself.
"I wasn't like a TV star in those days. I was like a rock 'n' roll star," Carradine said in an interview with Associated Press Radio in 1996. "It was a phenomenon kind of thing. ... It was very special."
Actor Rainn Wilson, star of TV's "The Office," said on Twitter: "R.I.P. David Carradine. You were a true hero to so many of us children of the 70s. We'll miss you, Kwai Chang Caine."
Carradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."
He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill — Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill.
In "Kill Bill — Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.
Bill was a complete contrast to Caine, the soft-spoken refugee serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West.
"David's always been kind of a seeker of knowledge and of wisdom in his own inimitable way," Keith Carradine, said in a 1995 interview.
After "Kung Fu," Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick "Death Race 2000." He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western "The Long Riders." But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films.
Tarantino's films changed that.
"All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004.
"There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight."
In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes.
"You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me.
"It's time to do nothing but look forward."
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Associated Press writer Polly Anderson and Entertainment Writers Erin Carlson and Jake Coyle in New York and David Germain in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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ITR - The Green Tara Gathering 5-6-7 June 2009 meet Lama Ahbay Rinpoche

2009-06-04T13:53:00.008+01:00

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The Green Tara Gathering 5-6-7 June 2009

InTouchRadio.net's Michael Dixon says:

I would like to add a few words to the following with reference to The Green Tara Gathering on the 5 - 6 - 7th of June. I met Lama Ahbay Rinpoche at the Sunrise Celebration Festival last weekend and I can only say to you go and meet this very special being.

Michael & Lama Ahbay Rinpoche at Sunrise Festival

I was interviewing and presenting with the media at Sunrise and had been talking to Sarah (of this Blog) when Lama Ahbay arrived - the feeling I had as we spoke was, for me, one of those very special moments and I felt honoured to have met him. His mission is so important to the survival and rebirth of the Tibetan nation please go and give your support. Michael Dixon

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Lama Ahbay's Mission Starts Age 7

Spend A Weekend With Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche And The Tibetan Monks

The Green Tara Gathering 5-6-7 June 2009

Directions To The Green Tara Gathering Here

Tickets available

Spell, Book and Candle upstairs in the Colewell Centre Weymouth or on The Gate

This Website Is Dedicated With Love To My Wonderful Friend Geshe Lama Ahbay Tulku Jigme Thupton Tender Rinpoche, A Truly Wonderful Human Being.

Lama Ahbay Rinpoche became a monk when he was 7yrs old, he left his parents to live in a monastery far,

far away, without shedding a tear or clinging to his mother, his path and mission were clear before him.

His last incarnation was still fresh behind him, in his previous incarnation his parents had passed away

while he was young and he went to live in a cave, where he practiced his religious studies and performed

his Puja's (rituals), as he grew up he became famous for his supernatural powers, the animals of the forest, the

deer and the monkeys would come to him and people from all walks of life would seek him out for a blessing,

he lived like this in the cave for a long time, like our own beloved Merlin.

When he was about 30yrs old the local people who loved him thought it was a shame the way the Holy Man was living,

so together they built The Yiga Choeling Monastery in Eastern Tibet,

on a steep mountain with spectacular views only accessible by foot, not even a donkey can get up there,

they carried every rock by hand to show their devotion, this was back in the early 1930s,

there was room for 25 monks to study there with the Holy Man and life was blissful

for about 25 years until that fateful day in 1959, other lamas had urged the Holy Man to flee

the coming invasion into exile, but he refused because he didn't want to leave his flock behind saying he would

follow them later, in 1959 the invading army arrived and destroyed the Yiga Choeling Monastery,

torturing and killing everyone they found, Monks, Nuns, Men, Women and Children were shown no mercy,

in spite of all the tragedies around him by some miracle the Holy Man survived and lived for many years

hidden in a small room giving secret teachings and tending to his flocks spiritual needs until he died aged 80,

the locals out of love for him rebuilt the Monastery again stone by stone ready for his return,

currently there are 9 monks living in the monastery, Lama Ahbay is responsible for all their needs

even though he cannot enter Tibet to visit them.

After the allotted time after the old Masters death 2 of the Holy Mans students who loved him very much,

Geshe Jampa Tenzin and Geshe Lobsang Choepal went in search of his next incarnation.

They searched in vain for many years, then one day they were visiting a monastery in India and

Geshe Jampa Tenzin was giving out sweets and chocolates to the young monks as was his habit,

when he met a 9yr old monk, he noticed a profound difference with this young monk,

something in his mind clicked as he recognized the soul of the old master in the eyes of this child,

he went to tell his friend about the incident and they wondered if it could really be true,

was their long search really over.

They went to see Shapa Choejay Rinpoche, a famous Oracle who ranks third in Geluk

(the path of compassion and wisdom).

When asked about the boy the Oracle replied he is the one but we better check with The Dalai Lama,

as it is a matter of such importance.

The Dalai Lama officially recognized him when he was 12 yrs old as Lama Ahbay Tulku Rinpoche The Third.

It is the tradition of the Tibetans that once a reincarnation is recognized he or she must complete

the same education as their previous incarnations before they continues their mission,

now nearly 25 years after The Dalai Lama officially recognized him he has attained the level of Geshe,

a Master of Tibetan philosophy and he is ready to continue his mission of founding monasteries

that will house, feed, cloth and educate refugee monks, the monks need to become refugees

because it is virtually impossible to become a monk inside

Tibet as it requires special permission from Chinese officials.

It is our mission to help him on his mission in every way we can.

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ITR - Sunrise Celebration 2009 Come Join the Fun and Bare Your Sole

2009-05-30T07:37:00.008+01:00

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SUNRISE CELEBRATION 2009

Mini Update

Hi everyone - just rushed back to upload a video 'Sunrise Celebrators Bare Sole' for InfinitePossibility.org & GunghoMedia who are with me at Sunrise this year - fun collaborators in some fields under the sun.

If you're able to come on down - there's still some tickets for Weekend or Sunday going and you'll have a wonderful time with some great people and you can come have a chat too - we're camped right by the Press Interview Tent near Production.

Sunrise this year is more contained and in several fields just on the outskirts of Bruton - they're guiding us in from the A361 near Frome the main link road that goes through South Somerset and approach Bruton this way - they're asking people not to go through Bruton - not only is it a small town easily congested but also one of the worst one-way systems ever divised - do try to make it down - we're describing it as a home in a field where the kids are running in the truest hippy way just like when I used to go to those festivals in the 60's.

There's great Organic food and the site water comes from this Organic farm's own pure Water Well - so none of your freaked out water here - just water straight from the well.

I met the Environment people yesterday and they've said its the tightest run festival they've been too and were enjoying their work - in fact, they didn't want to leave they were enjoying it so much.

I can confirm that too - I was up at 5am and the crews were already going round cleaning up - I found just one item of litter on my walk around the site later - but that's what Sunrise is all about - sustainability and taking responsibility - I wonder if the other festivals will be nearly as clean this year?

All the staff are wonderful and friendly from the Green Security (watching out for you environmentally) to the Gate Security and the teams of volunteer workers - all smiles and all from very different locations within the UK and from other countries.

You'll meet many nationalities here all making the trek to Sunrise which gives it that world family atmosphere that InTouchRadio.net promotes - One World - One Family.

This film that Brian Viziondanz (InfinitePossibility.org) and Paul Maple of Gungho Media worked through the night to produce was rushed without sleep after working all day getting those one-off shots and incredibly it worke out brilliantly - have a look I sneaked in on the end... there's the occasional mic shot off cam sneaks in (oops!) - hope you enjoy it but better still make your weekend the best this year - full of fun - sun and some beautiful people - this is your real Hippy Festival and I reckon the best.

Lots of Love and as I say 'Far Out Man' - keeping it Cool and Chilled and interesting in my little tent...

Michael x - Big Hugs to our InTouchRadio World Family of Friends.

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ITR - Are You Ready to Express Your Inner Hippy? Find Out This Week Only in Somerset at Sunrise Festival

2009-05-27T20:56:00.002+01:00

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This Week At Sunrise Celebration Festival
Near
Frome/Bruton
South Somerset

Are You Ready to

Express Your Inner Hippy?

Is the world going to end in 2012? Are we all ruled by a secret race of reptiles? Are we unwittingly possessed by alien spirits from the Pleiades star cluster? Is there a portal to another dimension hidden in Stonehenge? Do invisible lines of earth energy link Westminster to Warminster? Has the secret of time travel already been discovered?

Can we all learn to levitate? Do crystals hold the key to a Cancer cure?

All these questions and more will be asked at Sunrise Festival in Somerset this weekend. Surprisingly, many will be answered - in great depth and convincing detail. In the “Avalon Rising” talk tent a host of experts from the cutting edge of the alternative world will be sharing their theories, publicising their facts and delivering a series of mind boggling talks and workshops.

In amongst the weird, the wacky and the woo woo, there’ll even be Jonathan Cainer, astrologer for no less a champion of far out new age beliefs than the Daily Mail... explaining how a rare astrological alignment of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron is about to change your lives. And after that, he’ll be joining in with a firewalk!

Even if hippy trippy talks are not your cup of Chai, you’ll find an abundance of witches and fairies, druids and pagans, green men and white ladies all dancing around this award winning festival on a beautiful organic farm, accompanied by a selection of world class music from up and coming bands plus famous legends from the live performance scene.

Needless to say, the entire event is greener than a plate of spinach,

powered on 100% renewable energy with only organic food and drink on sale. Those not planning to teleport can take the train to Bruton station... or even (five to a car please) drive along the A359.Tickets cost 99 earth pounds with discounts for kids, families and light beings from the planet Zarg (full intergalactic travel documents must be shown)

Check out www.sunrisecelebration.com

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Come and say hello - Ask at the Press Area.

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ITR - Jonathan Cainer Daily Mail Astrologer to do the Walk of Fire at Sunrise Festival - Read All About It

2009-05-25T22:43:00.006+01:00

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Astrologer Jonathan Cainer

Does Fire Walk

Sunrise Festival

With only a few days to go things are really hotting up at Gilcombe Farm, Bruton where Sunrise festival is being held. Jonathan Cainer will literally be on fire at this year’s event. On Sunday night he will be performing a fire walk in the main field.

Jonathan Cainer

'Astrologer'

Jonathan Cainer is one of the UKs most well respected and loved astrologers. His Daily Mail astrology readings are followed by hundreds thousands and he is the personal astrologer to the stars. Jonathan has long been a supporter of Sunrise and this year he’s taking his love for the festival one step too far, some might say, and actually walking on fire.

He is performing this crazy stunt to celebrate the rare astrological alignment of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron which hasn’t taken place for 180 years.

“This alignment will be at its most powerful this weekend and from an astrological point of view this is the perfect weekend to go let your hair down at a festival. It symbolises a time when the impossible becomes possible, when fears and problems can be overcome”, says Jonathan.

Sunrise

“At the moment most of us have to walk on fire- faced with the recession we are dealing with trepidation and uncertainty, but this alignment speaks of a freedom from fear. Gestures of faith made at this time are auspicious, so take on a daunting challenge and win. I’m not saying everyone should walk on fire but face up to a fear and see how it goes.”

Wizard Wellbeing, as seen on the BBC programme ‘The One Show’, will be hauling his hot coals down to the festival and performing fire walks throughout the event with one of the most spectacular display happening at the closing ceremony on Sunday evening. Festival goers can themselves walk over the hot coals if they register online before the festival at: www.sunrisecelebration.com

Sunrise Fun

The Fire walking isn’t the only must see at the festival this year, with a full line up of music and entertainment taking place from Thursday evening and going right through to Sunday night. Sunrise is a great family experience to have in the latter part of the half term holidays.

Sunrise - Sunset - Night Life

There will also be a Tibetan temple on site with Buddhist monks performing the beautiful ‘Tsam’ dance which has been banned in Tibet. The ‘Fashion In Transition’ ethical fashion show will be happening at 2pm on Friday, preformed by award winning Somerset comic dance troop ‘Mean Feet’.

Small World

Sunrise Festival

There will be Live Graffiti on Saturday as part of the festival theme this year- 3000BC vs 3000AD, which also includes a massive site wide fancy dress party on Saturday night.

Sunrise Magic

On Saturday afternoon the ‘Sunrise Summer Slam Showdown’, poetry slam competition is happening, hosted by ‘Wandering Word’, infamous on the Bristol underground poetry circuit. “Calling all spoken word artists, rappers, poetic pugilists and vocal virgins to the mic to win two tickets to Sunrise Off Grid, come and be wowed by lyrical gymnastics and spoken word spectaculars under the Sunrise sunshine”, says Yasmin, Sunrise’s creative production genius. To sign up for the poetry slam go to renegade_tourist@hotmail.com

Other things happening include a Sun worshipper’s planetarium in association with the Royal Astronomical Association, a native American medicine wheel and a Tipi circle plus much much more.

The whole Sunday of the event will be dedicated to the ‘Transition Towns’ movement, a phenomenon which has taken the UK by storm and is helping everyone make the steps towards a greener future. This will include talks, family workshops and a recycled clothing parade.

All this and more, including a great music line up, headlined by The Bays, The Dub Pistols, Pama International, Martha Tilston, Lazy Habits and Baka Beyond.

With the weather reports looking sunny and hot for this weekend Sunrise promises to start the festival season off with a bang. There are still some tickets available through the website, adults £99 kids £25 and a limited number will be available on the gate, adults £115, kids £25, Sunday only tickets £35 and kids go free.

To find out more of what’s on at this year’s Sunrise and to book your tickets go to: www.sunrisecelebration.com

Katherine Ritchie

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