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Dr. Izlam moderated a special session in the International Leadership Conference
Kathmandu, Nepal. Professor Kazi Nurul Islam served as the moderator at the 4th Session entitled "Overcoming Extremism and Promoting the Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts" during the International Leadership Conference with the theme "Addressing the Critical Challenges of our Time: The Role of Government, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations" from July 28-31, 2016.
The Program was jointly organized by the Universal Peace Federation, Parliamentary Peace Council, Nepal and the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction, Government of Nepal. There were more than 700 participants including one Prime Minister, two former Presidents, one former Vice President, eleven Ministers and 311 Parliamentarians from 29 nations. In addition, there were leading representatives from Faith-based organizations, members of the Civil Society and media from Asia Pacific. The Prime Minister of Nepal, His Excellency KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the program.
At the 4th Session, Prof. Izlam (Muslim), of the University of Dhaka, has moderated the discussions among highly reputed religious leaders, scholars and well-known interfaith activists. Among the leading peace advocates in the Session were Dr. Shivacarya Shivamurty Mahaswamy, (Hindu) Spiritual Head, Sri Taralabaher Jagatguru Brihanmath, India; Acharya Dr Lokesh Muni Ji, (Jain) Founder, Ahimsa Vishwa Bharati, India; Dr Naresh Man Bajracharya, (Buddhist) Vice Chancellor, Lumbini University, Nepal; Dr Thowrn Senneam, (Christian) Former Minister of Interior, Thailand; Dr. Dante Liban, (Christian) President, People's National Movement Federation, Philippines; and, Honourable Seraj Muhammad Khan, (Muslim) Chairman, National Standing Committee of Commerce and Member of the Parliament, Pakistan.
The 4th Session focused on the role of religions for peace building. The panel includes prominent interfaith leaders offering their strong advocacy for spiritual and religious activism to work for peace and prevent all forms of violent extremism. They called for moderation and mutual respect, stating that violence is not consistent with any religion. The Parliamentarians expressed their deep satisfaction to have a session that focused on the role of religious peace building.
In his speech as the moderator Professor Kazi Nurul Islam stated that fanaticism leads to terrorism. There are four types of fanaticism: a. Political Fanaticism, b. Ideological Fanaticism, c. Religious Fanaticism and d. State Sponsored Fanaticism. All are equally dangerous threat to national as well as world peace. More or less almost everywhere in the world there is a threat of terrorism. In view of the various types of fanaticism, Professor Islam presented the following four questions for discussions and crafting of recommendations: 1.Where do the terrorists get inspiration from? 2. Where do the terrorists get funds from? 3. Who supply them with the most expensive and most sophisticated arms? and 4.Who are the beneficiaries of these terrorist activities? He emphasized that the answers to these questions will also pave the way on how to stop terrorism.
Dr Islam boldly asserted that terrorists do not have any religion. They are neither Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists nor Christians. They are against every religion. They are enemies of peace and enemies of mankind. He has urged all the participants not to give up the hope of bringing peace on earth. We all should try to give our children, our students and our next generation, as far as possible, the real and ethical teachings of religions not only at home, but also at schools, at colleges and at other academic institutions. Dr Islam asserted that if we can make our future generations enlightened citizens of the world and if religions are not, under any circumstance, involved with dirty politics, then religious fanaticism, inter-religious hatred and their consequent terrorism in the name of religion will cease to be.
Dr. Islam has led the panel of speakers to take an oath of dedicating their lives to eradicate inhuman activities and prayed together so that peace prevails on earth as they raised their hands holding each other.
Secretary General
Universal Peace Federation
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Morning all,
The coffee is hot, my brain alert, my body slowly recovering, and the sun is rising. Not a bad Sunday morning by all accounts. It feels a particularly jubilant Sunday – not just because most of us, including myself, will have another gifted and treasured day off tomorrow before waltzing energetically into a slightly contracted 4 day week – but because my 12 day stint at work is over.
Now way back when on my surgerical rotation I had a 19 day stint – which, very nearly made me another statistic it was so bad. However, that involved surgical on-calls which, yes, are challenging, but in comparison to my first medical on-call weekend just gone, it was David and – this, Goliath.
If you've never had to work a weekend before let me shine a quick spot-light on the psychology of it. First of all, let me assure you – you are aware of this impending weekend 'on-call' shift weeks, if not months in advance, as it too in all likelihood will coincide with some cherished family event that you will no doubt (like many of the others) be unable to attend. The week before the weekend on-call is filled with dread as every exhausting day you do in that week is punctuated by the thought that there is NO weekend respite for you – just continuous exhaustion. The Friday is the most tragic as you awake, not with that "Friday feeling" but more a "Shit – I'm not even half way though the 12 days!" often accompanied by a groan that is only ever heard in times of extreme anguish. Ok, maybe that is over-kill a little. The weekend itself, we will talk about in a minute – as that is the main dish of this blog today. The week after the weekend on-call is a bit like a roller-coaster that is loaded with highs and lows. The low is definitely the monday afterwards as you awake (well in my case at least) in a flash, acutely unaware of what day it is and if you should or should not be going into work. And when you realise you do have to, it is as heart-breaking as seeing the horse in The Never Ending Story get stuck and sucked into the mud. As the week after on-call progresses you start to recover a little – you get a bit more sleep, don't have to deal with so much on-call chaos, and the weekend of rest is slowly but surely emerging from the un-ending tunnel of exhaustion and you feel the desire to push towards it. The Friday is euphoria! You have survived! It a very strange twist you become super-charged and I found myself taking on more jobs that day, doing everything double-time, all in an effort to complete the 12 days with the ward in order and satisfaction soaking my mind.
And let me just say, the sleep after a 12 day stint, is just sublime. It makes me smile just thinking about it.
What makes me smile a little less is thinking about the weekend on-call. So in the effort to remain transparent, let's talk about it.
During the weekend on-call, as a junior doctor, I am essentially the human sponge that gets to absorb all of the crap that happens during the acute admissions over the Saturday and Sunday. Let me explain how it works: when a person gets sick, they come to accident and emergency (A&E). The A&E staff then start treatment and triage the patient as either a surgical patient, a medical patient, or a patient who can be sent home straight from A&E. If it is a medical patient, they call the medical on-call team which consists of a junior doctor (me), a senior house officer, a medical registrar (God, basically), and the consultant. One of the team will then go and assess the patient and decide if they need to have a spell as an inpatient for treatment i.e. they are too unwell to go home. This patient is then transferred from an A&E bed, or chair, or cleaners cupboard (basically wherever there is space to put them) to the acute medical unit (AMU) where their treatment continues. As a junior doctor my jobs during on-call can include all manner of things from assessing and starting treatment, performing proceedures (bloods, urinary catheters etc), requesting investigations (urgent CT scans for spinal inujuries, for example) and being general dogs-body.
Oh, and you would realistically need a week to complete all the tasks you are asked to do….But you usually have about 20 minutes….followed by a look of disappointed on your seniors face when you inform them you have sadly not been able to bend time (just yet) and the allocated task is not finished. Now I know how the untrained pup feels when he does he pees over the floor and the owner tells me off.
So apart from not having anything to eat of drink from when I got up to have breakfast (0530) to when I got home at 10.30pm each night over the weekend (and probably only just avoiding developing acute kideny injury), let me share with you some of the highlights. As there are just SO many I have chosen the best (no, it's not when "I finished the weekend") and the worst.
The best was definitely putting in a chest drain and draining 1.2 litres of fluid out of this guy's chest cavity while he sat on bed! To explain the guy who was in the UK from overseas while travelling had presented to A&E with increasing shortness of breath. An X-ray of his chest had shown that he had a massive left sided collection of fluid inside the cavity where his left lung sat. This is known as a pleural effusion and it meant that his lung had no space to expand when he took a breath in – as there was all this fluid in the way. As a result he was short of breath. Now the cause of the pleural effusion was a bit of a mystery – but given the specific demographics of this young man, his travel history, and the less than common presentation of a massive unilateral pleural effusion – exposure to some tropical infective process or tuberculosis, was at the top of the differential list. We worked up the patient with more blood tests and examination but knew that the best clues would lie in getting our hands on some of that pleural fluid. Plus, of course, in the process giving him some symptommatic relief for his shortness of breath! So, up comes my moment to do my first chest drain (well, a 'thoracentisis' more specifically as the drain wasnt left in place for long).
Let me explain what a thoracentis actually is. I sat the patient on the edge of the bed (like in the picture below) and then identified the 'safe triangle' of this guy's chest. The safe triangle is a zone identified by various anatomical structures ( above the horizontal line of the nipple, lateral to the lateral wall of the pectoralis major, and medial to the anterior axillay line) – that is just so that you don't hit something important like lung (causing it collapse [a pneumothorax]), or a puncture a major blood vessel. That would be very very bad. I then check this space with a portable ultrasound machine which helps me to identify the fluid and importantly any flappy bits of lung that sometimes get in the way. So once I had done all this, I inject some local anaesthetic, get my equipment ready, and then basically insert a rather large needle in between his ribs until fluid starts dripping out – that pleural effusion fluid that stopping his lung from expanding. Hey presto!
Now, in the case of my thoracentisis, it all very nearly went quite badly wrong. You see this guy starts complaining of worsening shortness of breath. "Hmmm…this is not good" was my first thought as I glanced to my medical registrar who was watching me – hoping in the process to get a reassuring nod of "it's ok" but instead got a look of "ut-oh, looks like you've won yourself a pneumothorax!". Had I just punctured and collapsed this guy's lung (i.e. a pneumothorax)? Time went rather slowly and I kept asking this guy if his breathing was getting better – every time he said no. So, being stubborn, I just kept asking the same question – until he said Yes – his breathing was feeling easier. See – persistance pays. And the reason for this symptom relief – well I had just drained 1.2 litres of fluid that had been squashing his left lung! And below is the actual photograph of my equipment and what I drained (see the full bowls and syringes…):
It was epic! So much fun. Oh and the good news was after we had done another chest X-ray – no pneumothorax. Win. Win.
You know what I have rambled on so much about this experience, I am sure you all have better things to do with your day. So with that in mind we will leave my worst moment of on-call (a patient I had to literaly walk away from as I was about to loose my cool) and let's just have a positive, cup is half full, day. The sun is out and I am sure we will all have a great week ahead.
Look out for one another. See you next week.
Dr Nick

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Dubai: When he was appointed General Commander of the Dubai Police in 2013, the late Lt. General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina took it as a badge of honour. He saw it as a chance to serve his country.
Upon his appointment, the veteran police officer said then: "Maintaining safety and security in Dubai is my top priority."
He had been at the helm of the Dubai Police since November 23, 2013, after succeeding Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim.
Well known for his high professionalism, Maj Gen Al Mazeina achived many outstanding accomplishments in the field of police and security work.
Lt. General Al Mazeina died on the night of November 24, Thursday, following a heart attack.
Birthplace, education
Lt. General Al Mazeina was born in 1961 in Deira in the Al Ras area.
Married with three children — one son and two daughters — he came from a well-known Emirati family and was educated in Dubai.
His former family home had been turned into Al Ahmadiya School.
Lt Gen Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina graduated from Dubai Police Academy and joined Dubai Police in 1983.
He held a degree in social sciences and has undertaken several training courses abroad in criminology and criminal investigations.
He also attended police training courses in the UAE, Egypt and other Arab countries. He joined the anti-narcotics section of the criminal investigations department in 1993.
He was eventually placed in charge of the section.Well known for his high professionalism.
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The well-decorated policeman's career spanned some 33 years.
Appointed deputy commander of the force in 2008, he was involved in solving a number of high-profile cases, including the Wafi Mall heist in 2009, the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, and the murder of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim.
In September this year, he led the investigation into the sensational murder case of a Filipina whose headless body was found in a desert area in Al Warqa'a on Academic City Road.
Earlier in May, he led the investigation into the rape and murder of a Jordanian boy who was kidnapped from Sharjah.
He had been the director of the General Directorate for Criminal Investigations Department at Dubai police, a role he took over in 2000.
Timeline of Lt General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina's career:
June, 13, 1983: Joined the Dubai Police
1992: Worked as an officer in the Anti-Narcotics Section, which at that time was part of CID (Criminal Investigation Department).
1993: Became an officer at the anti-narcotics section of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID)
1997: Appointed director of the Criminal Investigation Section.
2000: Appointed director of the General Directorate of the CID.
2008: Appointed as deputy police chief of the force through a decree issued by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. He held the post until 2013.
November 2013: Named the new Dubai Police Chief following a decree by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. He succeeded Lt General Dahi Khalfan Tamim.
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The 'base metals and articles of base metals' sector comprises goods and materials such as iron and steel, copper, nickel, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, other miscellaneous metals, as well as articles of such base metals. Africa is endowed with an abundance of many of these, most of which are still exported in their raw form, while others are further beneficiated locally prior to domestic use or export.
Under the United States HTS classification system, this category of products comprises Chapters 72 to 83, and the data alongside accordingly includes these categories.
Overall, exports under this category of products from AGOA beneficiaries to the US rose steadily between 2000 and 2008, before dropping sharply in 2009 not least as a consequence of the global financial (and economic) crisis. The period to 2011 saw a rapid expansion of exports, followed by a period of decline, and lately, some stability. 2016 exports were near to those in 2000 at AGOA's inception. The chart above tracks AGOA-beneficiaries' exports to the US in this category (clicking on categories in the chart's legend blends these in and out respectively).
Many products classified within these chapters are AGOA eligible. Overall, during 2016 approximately 60% of such products exported by AGOA beneficiary countries entered the USA under preference; the remaining 40% did not claim (or qualify) for any preferences albeit that many of these are already duty-free.
Ferroalloys comprise the largest product category exported under preference (AGOA/GSP), followed by aluminum plates and sheets. Other significant product categories exported under preference include copper bars and manganese. Beneficiated articles account for much lower shares of exports from AGOA beneficiary countries, but include aluminum wire, parts for hand-tools, articles made of iron, steel, aluminum, knives and cutting blades, armored safes, kitchen articles and so forth (see data in third table on right).
Amongst AGOA beneficiaries, South Africa accounts for the largest share of exports in this category, albeit smaller contributions are recorded by countries such as Mozambique, Gabon, Mauritiania, Zambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria and others.
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Dee's 65 mile round the Island walking challenge
Reaching the age of 60 is a milestone and as Dee approaches her 60th Birthday she has decided to mark the occasion by walking a massive 65 miles round the Island in one go on the 30th April 2016.
What we will tell you about in this episode:
In the News
This week in the news Tony tells us about another returning festival in 2016, Riverfest on the 21st of May.
Ali has some more Bake Off News, hot on the heels of Mary Berry's visits to the Isle of Wight Great British Bake off winner Nadiya Hussain booked to attend this years Garlic Festival on the 20th August 2016.
Upcoming Events
East Cowes Business Association Family Fun Day to celebrate St George's Day - 11am - 3:30pm. 12 Noon children's fancy dress parade and competition with great prizes, and at 1pm a shield decorating competition for the kids, as well as coconut shy, swing boats and other entertainment.
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Arkaim is the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of century-old cultures, an observatory, a natural reserve and a place to feel the power. This archaeological complex of the Transurals already famous in the whole world is described like that. Our informational illustration in infographics format will open up the mysteries of Arkaim.
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Predators Sign Mattias Ekholm to a Six-Year Contractby Press Release / Nashville Predators
Nashville, Tenn. (October 26, 2014) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Monday that restricted free agent defenseman Mattias Ekholm has signed a six-year, $22.5 million contract that carries an average annual value of $3.75 million.
Ekholm, 25 (5/24/90), has a goal and two assists in seven games in 2015-16, giving him 30 points (9g-21a) and 66 penalty minutes in 152 career games since the 2011-12 season. In his second full NHL campaign in 2014-15, the Borlange, Sweden, native doubled his rookie point total (7g-11a-18pts from 1g-8a-9pts), improved plus/minus rating by 20 points (+12 from -8) and increased his average ice time by more than two minutes (19:00 from 16:49). The 6-4, 215-pound blueliner also made his postseason debut last spring, suiting up for all six of Nashville's Stanley Cup Playoff contests (+4), tying for the team lead in plus/minus rating and averaging 26:24 of ice time.
Nashville's seventh choice, 102nd overall (fourth round), in the 2009 Entry Draft, Ekholm has represented Sweden in the past two World Championships, helping the Tre Kronor to a bronze medal in 2014, being named one of the nation's three best players after tying for second (with Predators teammate Roman Josi) among tournament defensemen in points (2g-5a-7pts), while leading all Swedish skaters in average ice time (21:56). He also earned a bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championship, tying for the tournament lead with a +10 rating, and helped the Tre Kronor win the 2008 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament.
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I've had this wee outfit finished for weeks now, but wanted to postpone sharing it until I had given it to our friends, Matt and Holly. They are expecting their first baby in a few weeks (or so) and I knew I wanted to knit something for her. I figured they would be inundated with cute little pink goodies, so I wanted to make it both cute AND cool. Matt is the creative director at our church and happens to be a self-admitted Mac geek.
It didn't take me long to figure out what I wanted to do:
I got a lot of hugs.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Finally, I can share
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Labels: baby knits, Mac
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HI. I found your blog through Brandi Wilson and I love this outfit. I saw it about a year ago but had no one to make one for. Now I am expecting and due in a few months and I was wondering if you sell your patterns. I would love to make one for my son...due in Oct. Thanks, Melissa
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Two weeks ago I put a call out on Twitter for very kind parents to volunteer to receive a crochet hair bow or bow tie in return for some photos I could use.
The response was amazing.
I can't thank Steff, Anna, Rachel H and Emma, Esme and Rachel enough! (Esme and Rachel, yours will be in the post on Monday!)
Thanks to the wonderful Steff, these bows have a name. The Pea Bow's!
Here are four of the gorgeous recipients.
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Posted on: 1st December 2015 | Category: Trips and excursions
Surval trip to Stuttgart
On Friday morning, Surval students departed for the Christmas trip to Stuttgart. Half way there, we stopped to visit one of the biggest and best known Zoos in Europa: Basel Zoo. The students were able to see many new born baby animals, from giraffe to kangaroo and the adorable young chimpanzees. There was time for a little souvenir shopping and then we were on our way to Stuttgart to experience the Weinachtsmarkt. A spectacular buffet was had at the Le Meridian hotel in Stuttgart: every possible food was on offer from fantastic fois gras, through several meat and fish dishes and naturally the ever popular chocolate fondue fountain. A great way to finish the first day.
On Saturday morning our knowledgeable guide gave us some fascinating insights into this interesting region. We learned about the people who shaped the city, and interpreted the rich symbolism of the buildings. Then onto the Mercedes-Benz museum where the exhibition tells this amazing story in the context of the social, economic and political history of Europe and the world. From the earliest racing cars, vehicles for leisure, emergency and military use, an actual 'Pope-mobile' and one of the M-class cars used in the movie Jurassic Park. A welcome pit stop in the museum's excellent restaurant refuelled us to continue our tour of this architecturally stunning building.
After a busy morning students were given some free time. Shopping was high on most of the Surval students' list of things to do, and there were plenty of opportunities. The traditional indoor Stuttgart Markthalle, packed with local delicacies, the famous and atmospheric Stuttgart Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) and the fascinating Esslingen Medieval Market with demonstrations of artisan skills, all provided bags of goodies to take home.
On Sunday morning the level of excitement reached fever pitch as we left Stuttgart for a day at Europa Park. Everyone packed up and checked out of the hotel in record time, anxious not to lose a minute on the rides. There were seasonal food specialities to try, souvenirs to buy and terrifyingly exciting rides for the thrill-seekers.
Then back to school (and wi-fi) in the evening to share photos and news of the trip with friends and family around the world!
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Sara Brimer is a soprano and the token American with the world-renowned Swingle Singers. The first and only Tennessean to sing with the long-established group, she studied music education at East Tennessee University, where she performed leading roles in operas such as Le Nozze di Figaro, Pirates of Penzance, and La Divina, and supporting roles in Carmen, Dido, and Aeneas. Sara has also performed leading roles in multiple musical theater productions, and she joined The Swingle Singers in 2009.
You can learn more about her and The Swingle Singers on their website, and don't forget to Like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
Sara, I know you guys are busy right now and we really appreciate you taking the time to answer a few questions. Now, you guys made the ambitious decision to release two full-length albums in the span of a year as part of the celebration for the group's 50th anniversary. What different things were you looking to achieve with each album?
The first album, "Weather to Fly," started off as a collection of recent music we've been doing that people kept asking for. It's turned into something of a stepping stone for the album coming up in 2014. We are so proud of "Weather to Fly" and Bill [Hare] and Erik [Bosio] did such a phenomenal job, we really view it as a perfect set up for the next album.
For "Weather to Fly," the group worked with well-known a cappella producers like Bill and Erik, but for the upcoming anniversary album you're working with someone more experienced in pop music and less so in a cappella music. How different is the process, and how do you think it is affecting the group's decisions for the album and perhaps even in concert (if at all)?
A cappella music is so brilliantly niche and focused yet for those exact reasons it does present some drawbacks sometimes. The process has been really enlightening for us, just working with someone new is eye-opening but when their expertise is not in your genre it's even more so. We've had to decide what works best for us as a team of people trying to produce something groundbreaking. Groundbreaking not just in the a cappella world and that is a daunting task some days. It's made us consider as a real possibility what we as creative people want to hear, not just what is expected of us.
In the past few months, you guys have been in Sweden, the United States, the Philippines, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and of course the UK. Where have you not been yet that you'd like to perform?
I personally would really like to perform in Australia. I'd also like to do more in South America, places like Argentina and Mexico.
You guys have performed at a number of a cappella festivals around the world. How do you find the audiences at these festivals to be different from your typical audiences?
They get it. You walk on that stage and you are so nervous because everything you do is under Super-scrutiny but at the same time you feel that this audience is holding you up, supporting you no matter what. It's a fantastic feeling of family and community. A typical audience can be wonderful and so attentive but there will still be some people who walk away not understanding what happened.
With such a long and storied history, does the current group have any relationship with some of the earliest members?
We are still in regular contact with our founder, Ward Swingle. We are great friends with many of the past members, we find ourselves surrounded quite often in the session singing world. You are almost guaranteed to have an ex-Swingle or two or 15 doing music for films and advertisements. It's pretty cool to be pals with people who have done your job in the past.
As part of this 50th anniversary, have you guys gone back to look at some of the old performances, albums, photos, etc.? If so, did anything surprise or impress you?
Yes, we've actually been pretty nostalgic during this whole process, while still looking forward and moving on. Because it is the 50th, people seem to be coming out of the woodwork with old albums and records to show us old photos of the group. It's really incredible to linked to this kind of magnitude of a history.
You are a classically trained vocalist. What was it like for you being on the stage performing at La Scala?
I will say that I bragged quite heavily to my sister who is actually becoming a successful opera singer. I made it to La Scala first!! I know she will be there one day and in quite a more appropriate role for La Scala. It was a chance of a lifetime and I was totally dumbstruck to be honest. You can sense the people who have sung there previously and the weight of their professional careers. I felt really out of place but also right where I belonged in a funny way.
With such a broad range of styles, the Swingle Singers are probably the most versatile group performing a cappella music today. How do you as a group (or you individually) choose new songs?
We try it out. If something has potential, if the majority of the group like an idea or a song, then we'll give it a go. There have been songs we've arranged or written that filled a purpose for that time and place and then directly afterwards we chucked it in the bin! Sometimes it only takes on person to dislike performing a song and that is enough for us to get rid of it. The important thing I think is that we tried it. How do you know you like a certain type of food or not unless you try it? Music can surprise you, if you don't try new stuff you don't allow yourself much room for surprises. If someone has an idea or a song they'd like to try we listen to it and the ideas behind it, decide if it might have a place alongside our other songs and if it might then we try it. What is it about a piece that draws you to it, that makes you listen to it over and over again, can you create that too? What's keeping you from trying?
This is just a small fraction of the questions I'd love to ask you, but we have to leave something for the workshops at SoJam. Thank you for taking the time, and we look forward to seeing you guys in North Carolina next week!


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"Citizen Journalism is an excellent form of knowledge democracy". Following are the words quoted by Mr. Owais Mangalwala, producer of renowned programs like "State of Sharia" and "Wired and active" on Dawn News Channel. He is associated with Dawn since 2007 and is currently producing and anchoring the show "Citizen Journalism".
He addressed a seminar on Citizen Journalism at Jinnah University for Woman on 29th Jan 2011. Answering a question he himself posed, Mr. Mangalwala explained that when a citizen wants the world to view things from his perspective then he is termed as a citizen journalist. The basic motive of Citizen Journalism is to provide audiences with the tools so that they may communicate and report news to each other.
He elucidated the following types of journalism
1. Sharing of experience
2. Sharing of opinion
3. Sharing of discovery
4. Sharing of expertise
Mr. Mangalwala explained the fact that a media organization is in constant need of people. Through this platform we can correct the media as well as highlight core and non-core issues.
Following are the key points of Citizen Journalism illustrated by him
1. The necessity to be real
2. Remember that everything and anything can be reported
3. Write and express your point of view
4. Never underestimate yourself
5. Be descriptive but never exaggerate
6. Accuracy is the key
7. Use of correct grammar
8. Follow a code of conduct
9. Avoid plagiarism
10. Expand your knowledge on the art of reporting
11. Find a mentor
12. Take feedback and implement it
He said that a journalist should perform his duty in a fruitful manner only then can the audience decipher the difference between news and noise. Realizing the external pressures on media, he interperated that though Citizen Journalism might not play a huge role in the development of the society but it is surely a step towards bringing a positive change. Dawn News Channel is also trying to organize an awarding and certificating ceremony for Citizen Journalists.
The seminar is followed by a survey on Dawn News Channel morning show "Mast Morning" hosted by Maira Khan.


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CJ Stone: Why I (re)wrote The Trials Of Arthur
I wrote the original version of The Trials of Arthur between 2000 and 2003.
It was a book I'd wanted to write for a long time.
I'd originally come across Arthur Pendragon in the mid-nineties, through my good friend Steve Andrews, while I was working on my first book, Fierce Dancing.
There was something about the story which caught my imagination.
Just to give you a brief outline: Arthur Pendragon is this ex-soldier, ex-builder, ex-biker who had some sort of a brain storm back in 1986 and decided he was King Arthur. When I heard about him he was already moderately famous, not only as a media figure – he had been on the Clive Anderson show and had had a number of radio and TV documentaries made about him – but he was also central to the campaign for open access to Stonehenge and heavily involved in the road protest scene of the time. By the time I met him, late in 1996, he was living on-site at the Newbury bypass, then the most prominent and fiercely contested of the road building schemes.
Fierce Dancing had featured a road protest and I had already acquired the status of a sort of spokesman for the movement through my columns in the Guardian and the Big Issue.
It was more than just a protest scene. There was something profound and archaic at its heart. It seemed to evoke feelings and ideas that came from a very deep place. It was tribal. It was animistic. It was archetypal. Arthur's story seemed to fit in well with the general ethos. I spent the better part of 1996 chasing all over the UK looking for him.
I finally met him in August of that year, at Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire, where we both got very drunk, after which, still drunk, I drove him and another bunch of drunken people over to Bath, where we got even drunker.
That was something Arthur and I did a lot of in our early days.
At the time my writing style was very tongue-in-cheek, and Arthur seemed a very tongue-in-cheek kind of hero. He often referred to himself as "the nutter who thinks he's King Arthur", which tells you a lot about Arthur's approach to his identity. Had I written the book then it would almost certainly have been a comedy. I would have played it for laughs. It still is a comedy to a large extent, meaning that there are a lot of funny bits in the book. But it also has a serious point, something I'm not sure I would have been so clear about back in 1996.
So, then, the book didn't get written in 1996. Other things got in the way. And by 2000, when I finally got round to starting work on it, my life had taken an uncomfortable turn. I was no longer a Guardian writer, and I was no longer writing for Faber & Faber either. The book was commissioned by Thorsons/Element, a New Age imprint of Harper Collins. I felt I was going down in the world. And it wasn't me who got the commission, it was Arthur. So I was going to have to accept joint authorship, and I no longer had complete control over the end product. This was difficult. I was writing to please Arthur, not writing to please myself, which had a detrimental effect upon my style. I was never anywhere near as confident writing this book as I had been with the others.
Arthur's view of himself is conditioned by his own self-mythologizing, of course. This is something we all do, but it is greatly compounded when you are not only self-mythologizing in the normal way but also identifying yourself with a mythological hero who is attempting to bring the mythology up to date. This is like mythologizing cubed. Mythology times mythology times mythology.
Arthur thinks he's Arthur because he always has been Arthur. But clearly there had been a life before this which I insisted on exploring. As I said at the time, it will make the book all the more believable if we know where Arthur comes from. This tends to give the book a kind of hagiographical quality at first as in Arthur's mind he was always destined to be Arthur. This is one of the prime weaknesses of the original book. Arthur emerges as a hero because of some sort of inherent quality he was born with, rather than as someone who stepped up to the mark and took on the role, which I now think is much nearer the truth. It's not that Arthur is Arthur because he always was Arthur. It's that he's Arthur because he's made himself Arthur. He's worked at the role and made it come true. He's evoked the name and taken the consequences. He adopted the name without necessarily knowing what it would involve. But then the name turned round and bit him and he's never really been the same since.
So I was never very happy with the first part of the book. It was too much "Arthur did this" and "Arthur did that" and "good old Arthur", without looking into the context or paying very much attention to anyone else.
Later I started writing about the protest movement, and this is when the original book starts to get really good. In that version of the book, it takes off around the half-way mark, and in the rewrite I've virtually done nothing to change the second half. It was always very good and it still is very good.
The book came out in 2003 and then quietly died a death. By 2009 it was out of print, and Arthur had managed to get the rights back. That's when he approached me and asked if I could get the book back into print.
Thus it was that in early 2010 I started rewriting the book.
The first thing I did was to get rid of the introduction, which I had never liked. It was slow and clumsy and introduced you to characters that later were to play very little part in the book. It rambles all over the place while never locating you anywhere in particular. Later in the book I had made a decision that whenever a place is evoked we would really enter that place. We would step across its threshold and visualise it. If anyone reading this is ever planning to write a book, I would suggest this as good advice. Be there. Make it live. Make the pages come to life. This is very much what I failed to do in the original introduction.
So the new first chapter takes you right into the heart of an adventure: on the Prescelly Mountains in Pembrokeshire, at Halloween in 1994. We are introduced to people as archetypes. It's not only Arthur as an archetype, but everyone else as an archetype too. This is a much more satisfying way of entering the book. Arthur is seen as one of many, not one on his own, and his story seems all the more profound for that. It is the story of a whole culture.
We also bring in another innovation: the story of the pagan calendar which runs like a thread throughout the book. Each of the pagan festivals is invoked, starting with Samhain, and ending with the Autumn equinox. This is absolutely precise, as Samhain represents the pagan New Year.
The book still has Arthur at its heart, of course, but it is also much more about the people around him too. It's about people remaking themselves, just as Arthur remade himself. It is about the making of a culture as much as the making of a man.
The new book has 24 chapters whereas the old book had 17. This makes a difference of seven chapters. But two of the old chapters have been jettisoned, so in fact there are nine brand new chapters in this book. Two of them were written by Arthur, and the rest by myself. You'll be able to tell the difference. Arthur's chapters are very much more tongue-in-cheek than mine, meaning that he's continued the book I might have written in 1996 and proved to me that he still is a tongue-in-cheek hero.
As for its relevance: it is not about contemporary events, but about things which happened back in the 90s. However, it is about protest, and there are even more things to protest about now than there ever were. The book is virtually a handbook for successful protest. We could subtitle it: How To Protest And Stay Sane!
It is also about challenging the mores of the dominant culture. It is about forging a new identity, about seeking something authentic in a world of dross, about finding something real in a world conditioned by advertising slogans. In other words, it is more deeply relevant now than it ever was.
At our first meeting with the publishers back in 2000 I had asked Arthur what he wanted the message of the book to be.
"If I can do it, anyone can!" he said.
Which doesn't mean you have to wear a dress and a crown to emulate him. It just means you have to be authentically yourself.
The Trials of Arthur – now on Kindle
Yep, The Trials of Arthur by Arthur Pendragon by CJ Stone is now available on Kindle priced £2.05, and just in time for the Solstice too.
But it's not the Trials of Arthur that you may already know. This is a new, revised version containing seven new chapters from both authors and much that is rejigged, reworked and generally loved up. To give you a sense of how much revision there has been, the new version is over 20,000 words longer than the original.
All this raises the question of whether it is worth spending £2.05 for people who have already read the paperback. And to be honest, it is – this wasn't the original intention, you understand, originally we were only going to tweak a few bits for the Kindle. But something possessed the authors and they got carried away, to the point that they are now ecstatically happy and convinced that the book is "everything it could possibly be."
The Trials of Arthur was already an extraordinary book – a biography that is equal parts heroic and mad as all hell, a deep insight into what it means to be alive, and the definitive book about the protest scene of the late twentieth century. Anyone not already familiar with the story is strongly advised to at least have a glance at the free sample.
We'll get Arthur or Chris on here soon to explain themselves soon but if you want to quiz them sooner, you'll find them at Stonehenge by the Heel Stone for the Solstice. Happy Midsummer!
'The Trials of Arthur' now back in print
To help celebrate the longest day, The Trials of Arthur by Arthur Pendragon and CJ Stone has finally been republished!
It's available from Amazon and from The Big Hand (with free p&p in the UK and £3 off.)
Go and look here for more information about the book – or download the complete ebook and read it for free.
You can also download the press release, if you are that way inclined.
Have a wonderful solstice everyone!
CJ Stone interview
The Trials of Arthur tells the story of how a biker and ex-squaddie decided that he was King Arthur and that his quest was to free Stonehenge from the government's exclusion zone. This he eventually achieved – after first finding Excalibur, being crowned a Druid King and being arrested over 30 times. It is an extraordinary book and, as its co-author CJ Stone is currently hammering away at a sequel, it seemed time to ask him to explain himself. To that end, John Higgs, the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, tracked him down and spoke to him at length:
JH – I'm delighted that Trials of Arthur is being republished, Chris, and that a sequel is on the way. Why are you writing about Arthur again?
CJS – Because I always said I would, and the re-release of Trials has reminded me how much I left out of that book, how much more needs to be said. What you don't get in that book is what it felt like to be Arthur, and that is what we're hoping to capture in this new one. Mostly, though, because it is all still relevant; to seek the roots of who we are as beings, and to find that in the mythological and the legendary. Arthur and I, between us, as resurrecting the legend of Arthur in this 21st century context in the hope of acting as a signpost for where we think humanity should be going. It's up to other people to decide whether they want to follow it or not.
JH – This sounds like it's coming from a more certain place than the first book. Is it true you were fairly cynical about Arthur when you started?
CJS – John, I was never cynical about Arthur. I'm not a cynical person. I'm a sceptic, which I think means something else. But at the same time I have this capacity to believe two contradictory things at the same time. I've always done it. So, while I was sceptical about Arthur at first, I was also fascinated by the whole story and wanted very much to explore it. I believed it on one level, while disbelieving it at the same time.
Being a sceptic, I reserve my judgement on the whole reincarnation thing. You ask Arthur, and he'll tell you he believes he is the reincarnation of the historical Arthur, but I just don't know about that. I don't have enough perspective to judge. So my formula has always been: it's not who he says he is that matters, it's what he does, and if he acts in a way that you think Arthur would act, if the things he does live up to the ideal, then it doesn't matter if Arthur is the reincarnation of some legendary King: what matters is that he fulfils the role in a modern context.
Arthur himself says a number of things which suggest this idea. Like that line about there being three King Arthur's: "There was the pre-Roman Arthur, and the post-Roman Arthur, and the post Thatcher Arthur and that's me."
JH – So focusing on what he does is the key to taking him seriously?
CJS – I always took him seriously on one level, but I also always saw him as a comedy figure too. You know: he can be very funny about this weird role he's taken on, and there's a kind of glint in his eye when he's fired up about something. He won't take shit, but he does it all with a sense of humour. So I guess when I first was thinking about him it would have been as a form of comedy: "the nutter who thinks he's King Arthur", which is his own occasional take on himself of course.
But then there's a sort of magic that kicks in. Things happen around Arthur that I think even Arthur can't explain. So on the one hand he is just a mad biker druid-type who thinks he's King Arthur, on the other hand there's a self-activating portion of him on some deep, deep level – the term is "archetypal" – that calls on a something deep in you. I mean: you talk about something "higher", but I think it might be something "deeper".
JH – I think we're talking about the same thing.
CJS – Absolutely. Maybe there's no contradiction there. Naturally the higher you go the greater the depth you create.
Anyway: so Arthur activates that and "things happen". This is that level of synchronicity that Arthur refers to as "the magic". The magic kicks in. Coincidences happen. The right people turn up at the right time. The Warband isn't an organisation as such. It is just a loose conglomeration of these "activated" beings. There's no formal gathering. So people arrive on the scene and then they disappear and it's as if Arthur, on the magical level, is making this happen. The main occurrence of this for me, which I mention in the book, was when I rang up Thorsons looking for a book deal, and the editor had Arthur in the room with her at that exact moment. So we just came together through the ether, as it were. It was the magic that brought our skills into conjunction.
JH – Looking over what he's achieved, the name 'Arthur' has both given him visibility but also robbed him of credibility – for many people, anyway. Do you think the pros of taking that name have outweighed the cons? Could he have achieved the same without becoming Arthur?
Another one of Arthur's sayings is: "I'm the best Arthur we've got, and if a better Arthur comes along, then I'll get out of the way." This is a variation on that old exhortation to "lead, follow, or get out of the way." Arthur is, both on an individual level, and a symbolic level, a leader. He leads from in front, he doesn't push from behind. And in a sense maybe, this is the true meaning of the name "Arthur": it's as much a title as a name. It means leader.
JH – Absolutely. That's one of the better ways to get your head around him, I think, to view the name 'Arthur' as a strange type of title.
CJS – There was this dysfunctional boy from an army family, a soldier and then a biker, who, at some weird juncture in his life adopts this name and then it's as if all the responsibility for living the life that the name represents is dumped on his lap. At this point he "becomes" Arthur. It doesn't matter if he is the reincarnation or not. If he hadn't lived up to the role none of that would matter, and by living up to the role he activates it on a magical level: he makes it real. I've adopted the role as writer, and by living up to it to the best of my ability I am making it real. You'd know that too, John.
Of course, by going round calling yourself King Arthur you are opening yourself up to ridicule, and to me, this is Arthur's bravest act. He knows he will be laughed at. He knows people will point fingers and snigger at him, but, as he says, there's one thing that unites all of his detractors and this is the fact that they haven't met him yet. You meet him and you can't help but be charmed by him; and I mean that in both senses of the word: he is both charming on a personal and on a magical level. He charms you into believing his crazy story.
I saw this at first hand once: this "charm". We were in the Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, the year I started writing the book. It was a Fellowship of Isis meeting. Someone had made a film about Arthur, and had asked him to introduce it. It was a crazy day all round. It was the Year of the Snake in Chinese astrological terms and the Fellowship of Isis people were passing snakes around, all these crazy bohemian spiritual types in pagan fancy-dress and in the same building the Iraqi Communist Party were having a meeting. I'd noticed this when I first came into the building, as there was a sign in the hall telling you which room they were in. And then later, I could see these two faces peering in through the round window into the hall and I knew immediately it was the Iraqi Communist Party. I would have been the only person there to have made that connection and acknowledged them for who they were: these two, quiet, serious-faced Iraqis in western dress. I wonder what they would have made of all the strange goings-on in the hall? This was before the invasion, of course. Before 9/11 and all of that. That's just an illustration of what that day was like.
But me and Arthur being who we are – or were at the time – we sloped off to the pub. It was Sunday afternoon and Arthur was in his full Druid outfit. And we walked into the pub which was full of Geordie steel erectors down from Newcastle on some building project, and it was as if we'd stepped onto a stage: everybody turned to look at him, and then immediately everyone was screaming with laughter. Someone actually pointed at him and said, "look, it's King Arthur." They were all pissing themselves at him. It was like he'd become a comedy routine – and you wonder why he drinks? And within half an hour he'd won the whole pub over. He walked into the pub with no money and now the whole world wants to buy him a drink. That was the charm. He charmed all of those drinks out of them, and then charmed them into at least a sceptical acceptance that he was who he said he was: not crazy at all. Real shit.
I remember one conversation I overheard. Arthur was telling some guy that he used to be a steel erector – which is true, another of those coincidences – and the guy said, in his Geordie accent, "so that was before you's went loopy like?" But half an hour later Arthur was persuading him to come along to Stonehenge to take part in the solstice celebrations that year and you could see: the guy was fascinated by it all. He was lapping it up.
You see, its adventure isn't it? It's a life outside the routine. Arthur represents that. And then he unites people. First of all by making them all laugh at him or sneer at him, and then by calling on the spirit of adventure that lies within us all: the spirit that will challenge the forces of repression, but not in a dark or an angry way, in a funny way, in a fantasy way. Not by marching up and down and shouting, but just by living out this crazy life on the front line between fantasy and reality.
Could have achieved the same under another name? Of course not. It's the name that has the magic. The name is resonant of so many things. For a start, it represents something ancient in the British landscape and in the British psyche: something real and authentic. So what Arthur does is to challenge the modern world – this criminal world of corporate irresponsibility – from the position of something more ancient, more authentic, more true. True justice as opposed to fake justice. Real truth, real honour. So when the man, Arthur, calls upon the name he is activating some deep reality which calls us all to rise up and challenge the corporate takeover of our world and to get back to our deeper selves.
No, he has to be Arthur, otherwise it doesn't make sense. Otherwise he's just a politician. It's like when he stands for election. He's got this keen political and legal brain. He's very bright, and he could easily be a politician. If he wasn't going round calling himself King Arthur, if he had a shave and joined some political party – maybe the Green Party – you could even imagine him getting himself elected. But this is the point. The whole political world is fake. Politicians are fake. Political parties are fake. They'll say anything to get elected. They lie to you. And then you have this guy who says he's King Arthur – claiming to be some imaginary King, some legendary figure from a mythological past that might not ever have existed – and he's more real than they are. He's not fake. He's not lying. He's never going to get elected, of course, but he's there, offering the alternative, this grubby biker-king who lives in a caravan on the outskirts of Amesbury and who smells of damp and decay, who is simply not tempted by money or the corporate world, who is living his life according to his beliefs and not according to someone else's greedy agenda.
JH – One of the most interesting things about Arthur for me is how the way he lives forces you to question how well you live up to your own higher values. Have you gone under the sword, and pledged yourself to Truth, Honour and Justice?
CJS – I've actually been under the sword three times. I think I'm the only person to have done that. In case our readers don't know what that is: Arthur has a sword which, on a variety of levels, qualifies as "the Sword of Britain", not least because it has been acknowledged as such in the British Courts. All of that is in the book. Anyway, he knights you with this sword, making you swear to truth, honour and justice. Well you can't argue with that, can you? Who can say they are against truth, honour and justice?
JH – I'm all for Truth and Justice. I'm not that arsed about Honour.
CJS – The first time I went under the sword was at Avebury, I think around Lammas time 1996, when I was just a sceptical journalist looking for a good story, I did it in such a way that I accepted the spirit of the oath without taking it too seriously. You're on your knees when you take the oath, and then what Arthur does is he "raises you up" to an embrace, and then gives you your rank. There are three ranks as you might know: brother-knight, quest-knight and shield-knight. So the first time he raised me as a brother-knight, which is as someone whose feet are firmly established in the modern era. As Arthur says, it is our quest as brother-knights, to save our world and to bring back the ideals of truth, honour and justice, that the original knights have returned to help us fulfil.
Then later, after we'd got the book deal, he raised me up again at Stanton Drew stone circle just outside Bristol, with Ronald Hutton as a witness, and this time he raised me as a quest-knight, because I was on a quest to write this book.
JH – He raised me as a quest-knight too. It came out of the blue, he just sort of lunged at me. What was interesting about that was I had no time to think about it, I was just presented with this vow and had to react instinctively. He didn't have his sword though as we were in a London pub – the Kings Head in Southwark, suitably enough – so he used his hand, which I think makes me a handmaiden as well as a quest-knight. So I'm in this quantum state where I'm both greatly honoured and a lowly wretch, which sounds about right.
CJS – My third time was in Glastonbury, after we'd finished the book, at some wild drinking party at a mutual friend's house. I'd sort of retired downstairs with the drunken spins, while everyone else was upstairs, and I suddenly had this weird revelation about me being the reincarnation of Chretien de Troyes, and how I'd written about Arthur in a past life but had never actually met him, and now I was meeting him for the first time. So I kind of stormed upstairs to where the party was going on, filled up with this revelation, and, as I burst into the room everything kind of kicked into place. I looked, and there was my friend Denny with a silver goblet in her hand. And then my eyes settled on a silver platter on the table, and then on a stave leaning on the wall, and then onto Arthur's sword. If you know about Chretien you'll know that in his Romance of the Grail, the grail is actually four objects, called The Four Hallows of the Holy Grail: a sword, a lance (or stave), a cup (or grail) and a silver platter. So that was what I was looking at in the room: the Four Hallows of the Holy Grail made manifest in the 21st Century. This is the thing that Arthur always refers to as "real shit". Something is really happening here.
The third category of knight in the Arthurian hierarchy are the shield knights. These are the guys who, like Arthur himself, supposedly remember their past lives. So that's what I did at this point. I insisted on being raised up as a shield knight, having rediscovered my true identity as Chretien de Troyes.
JH – I didn't know any of this.
CJS – OK, I know that might sound a bit crazy, and I've never been quite sure of the exact meaning of the revelation after that night – I was very, very drunk – but on a symbolic level it still works. Just as Arthur embodies the spirit of Arthur as it was passed down to us through the generations, so I embody the spirit of Chretien. And there's an interesting thing here, because it was Chretien who popularised the Arthurian romance. Without Chretien it would just be a Welsh folk-tale. It was Chretien who gave it international fame and so brought Arthur and the "Matter of Britain" to European attention. Without Chretien we might well have forgotten Arthur.
JH – Going back the Matter of Britain, the Sickness on the Land and all that – that still seems relevant today, but for me it would relate to the greed of the bankers, the hypocrisy of Fleet Street, the short-termism of our politics and so on. Arthur's very much a part of the Druid world and the issues he takes on are very much Druid ones – such as the return of the human remains removed from Stonehenge by archaeologists. As a non-druid I can see how that may be admirable but I'd personally like a King Arthur who goes beyond that and concerns himself with bigger issues in the wider society. Do you think he'll ever concern himself with things like this, or would he just not work in that context?
CJS – I must admit I agree with this one. I think this is where he sells himself short as generally I don't have much time for the Druid thing. It's the weakness in the book, as far as I'm concerned. The Druids – the modern Druids, as we don't know anything at all about the ancient Druids – are basically gentleman dilettante types. Ronald Hutton refers to them as Romantics, one of the last flowerings of the Romantic movement, and I can see that, but a lot of these current Druids are just vain egotists more intent upon blowing their own trumpet than taking on or challenging any of the establishment values. It's all about personal power for them, about their own individual status. Arthur is much bigger than that, and he's at his best when he is part of a larger movement. That was the whole thing about the protest movement of the 90s: Arthur just fitted into that so well. It suited his lifestyle and his way of being. So he was fighting for the land – that's a key Arthurian theme – but at the same time you have all these Situationist anarchists, like Reclaim The Streets, and Arthur fitted into that as well. He was part of a broad political and spiritual movement. He was showing people how to go about things, being a real leader. That was his great time.
Trouble is, the last time he took to doing anything like that it almost killed him. He was involved in a protest at Winchester and all that living outside and digging tunnels etc, he got pneumonia and almost died. Partly that was my fault. I wrote this article in the Independent about him being too fat and too old to going down holes, and, being Arthur, he took that as a challenge and proceeded to go down the tunnels. Sort of: "I'll show you."
But, you see, from Chretien's perspective he shouldn't be doing any of that anyway. If you read Chretien, Arthur is not the central figure. He's sitting there feasting and carousing. It's like a big party happening all the time. It's his knights who go out on adventures. His job is to send them out there on their quests. That's what I think Arthur should be doing now. He should be sitting and enjoying himself, and letting the young knights come to him, and then sending them on their way with whatever quests he thinks would suit them. So yes, taking on the banks and corporate greed and the corporate colonial takeover of our country, those sorts of things, but it should be the knights doing this. Arthur has a great strategic brain, and can think of all sorts of campaigns, but I think it's up to others to go out and fulfil those things now.
On the other hand, his current campaign at Stonehenge has a deeper significance I think. It's to do with the ancestors, and the guardians and the spirits of the place: this place which is the very heart of Britain. It's always been Stonehenge which has activated Arthur, ever since his biker days. So while it seems like a minor point on one level, on another, perhaps it is fundamental to what he is trying to do. By bringing the bones of the dead back to their rightful place, maybe he is helping to create the magic which is at the heart of the hope of a British national revival: helping to activate the magic at the heart of these islands, which is what Arthur, the mythological figure, the "once-and-future King" of legend, has returned to fulfil.
The Trials of Arthur is available as a free ebook (below), and will be republished as a paperback on June 21st. It's sequel, La Vie D'Arthur, will follow before the end of the year.
The Trials of Arthur in Automata form
The Trials of Arthur is now available as an ebook and will shortly be republished in paperback, but if you prefer your stories in a more physical form the full tale is told just as well here, in an automata built by Sophie Naylor:
Thanks to Susanna for forwarding the link.
The Trials of Arthur – free ebook and Vote Pendragon!
The Trials of Arthur: The Life & Times of a Modern Day King by Arthur Pendragon and CJ Stone will be back in print in a new paperback edition in the very near future. The ebook, however, is ready now, and is free to download, print, read online and generally do with what you will. By clicking on 'share' in the top right hand of the widget below, you'll be able to include it in your own blogs, social networks and webpages.
Arthur, meanwhile, is standing as an independent parliamentary candidate for Salisbury. Details of his campaign are here, and also on this facebook page.
La Vie D'Arthur, the sequel to The Trials of Arthur, is coming soon.
Big Changes for La Vie D'Arthur
This lovely thing is the first copy of La Vie D'Arthur, which was to be published on May 1st. It will be the only copy. We're not going to publish that book now. No, we're going to publish 2 books instead.
To recap: Arthur Pendragon, a notorious Druid King, and CJ Stone, a remarkable writer, produced a book called The Trails of Arthur which was published to much acclaim in 2003. The Big Hand intended to reprint this book. CJ wanted to rewrite a few bits, Arthur wanted to use his preferred title, and The Big Hand wanted a less shit cover. The result is what you see here. And it is a marvellous thing in its own right.
Except… there was some concern that those who had read Trials might buy it, thinking that it was a new book. And while it had new bits, it wasn't different enough to justify buying twice. Then there was the new cover, by photographer Vanessa Winship. Vanessa had managed to capture something about Arthur that CJ felt the original book had not.
Then something happened to CJ. Christ knows what it was, he started to write about Arthur again and words just started pouring out. A few short questions in an email would produce thousands of words in response. Longer essays about the original book followed. A new book, a sequel, is starting to emerge. It has to, really, he will burst otherwise. Some strange Spirit has taken him. It is best to stand back and not interfere.
Arthur himself is far calmer about the whole thing. It turns out that he recently wrote another 70,000 words or so, which will form the basis of the bulk of his contribution. Always ahead of the ball, that's Arthur.
So, The Big Hand will now bring you two books. This new book, which will reclaim that cover image and the title La Vie D'Arthur, should be on your bookshelf by the end of the year. It will bring the story up to date and supply much new insight from older and wiser minds. Before then, we will reprint the Trials of Arthur, the definitive account of his life in the 20th Century, as the original text. This should be available by the summer solstice, with the free ebook coming a little earlier.
So – much to look forward to. Expect updates over the coming months.


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