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Face Time is also relevant because Charlie’s mother is in the city for a face lift-and thinks Charlie’s hitting this where she should have work done, too. Since TV reporter Charlie is in a career that’s so dependent regarding how you look-is it time for her to face reality?
During Leal’s 1995 trial, defense attorneys actually claimed that the teenager had caused her very own death by falling and hitting her head on the rock, after she attacked Leal. The jury was not moved by his story and deliberated for less than an hour before finding him blameful.

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I promised awhile ago that I would write about my medical hospitalization. This happened after I’d already had 3 psychiatric hospitalizations, so it’s interesting to me the similarities and differences that occurred between the two types.
I experienced a couple of symptoms that came on suddenly, one which was very worrysome and one which I wasn’t too worried about, but was uncomfortable.
The less worrysome symptom started while I was at a place I volunteer at. I’m not very good at listening to when my body tells me to stop something. I kept telling myself I would push through, I didn’t have much longer before I was scheduled to leave. Then the more worrysome symptom appeared and I told the supervisor I wasn’t feeling well. I rested in the break room for a bit hoping I’d feel up to going back to working. A supervisor offered to drive me home, I turned her down. Instead I took public transport.
I called my primary care doctor for an urgent appointment. My doctor wasn’t available, but there was someone else who could see me almost immediately. I saw this doctor and she told me what she strongly suspected the problem was. It was something unpleasant, but at the level I was experiencing it, not life threatening and she expected the symptoms would pass. She told me she’d make a referral for me to see someone the next day to confirm the diagnosis.
I was supposed to get a phone call soon about the exact time and location of the referral.
I went to class. I have to be doing pretty poorly to miss class. The professor noticed before the class that I wasn’t looking great and she kept commenting on how pale I looked. I was very insistent that I wanted to stay even though I wasn’t feeling well (there was no evidence that any of my symptoms were anything contagious). It was a long class though, a lecture followed by a lab. I made it through everything but the final hour. My poor lab parter was pulling most of the weight. I gave up though, I was too miserable to stay, so I left to go home. The professor was understanding.
This is very different from how things are with my psychological problems. I also went to class the day of my first psych hospitalization. There was nothing visibly wrong with me other than that maybe I was possibly quieter than normal. I’d not have been able to excuse myself from the class explaining to the professor that I was experiencing a lot of suicidal ideation, like I explained to my other professor this time about my worrysome symptom.
I hadn’t gotten any call about the so-called urgent referral for the next day. This is pretty similar to how primary care doctors have also treated my psych referrals
I went home and tried to sleep. It didn’t work very well.
I was feeling a lot worse than I had when I’d seen the doctor earlier. I was very stressed, because I had work the next day and no information about a referral (My work that day was flexible enough that if I’d ducked out for an hour to see a doctor no one would have objected) and felt worse.
I called my parents, crying. I feel like I do that too often for someone my age. They kept telling me to go to the emergency room.
I really didn’t want to go. Even though I felt horrible I felt that since I had already seen a doctor that day, who felt my situation was not an emergency, it didn’t make sense for me to go to the emergency room.
I worried that I wasn’t ill enough to go there.
This is pretty similar to how I’ve felt about seeking help for psych emergencys. I go back and forth between, ‘things are pretty bad’ to ‘but I don’t want to bother anyone’.
I agreed to go to the emergency room. The closest emergency room to me is the hospital where my 3rd psych hospitalization was. Nothing went right in that hospitalization There was not a chance I was going there, so instead I took a cab to one a little bit further, but arguably more prestigious.
I told the triage nurse, what was going on. I told her about the diagnosis that the doctor I’d seen had mentioned and how the referral hadn’t come through. I also mentioned how much worse I felt since I’d seen that doctor. On the pain scale I said I was an 8.
I’m a little unclear about the pain scale (and it’s supposed to be so simple!) I had thought that it was based on 10 being the worst pain I can imagine. I’ve since been told by some that 10 is the worst pain you’ve experienced. If I’d answered saying it was the worst I’d experienced then it would have been a 10.
This step was pretty similar to how things worked with triage at a psych hospitalization.
Then I was sent to a little room with a lot of other patients. I’ve been to the emergency room a number of times in my life for things like broken fingers, a broken foot etc. This room reminded me of the types of rooms I’d waited in for those situations. It was the group of people who could theoretically wait forever in the room without dying. I waited for about 3 hours in there. I called my parents again, crying. I told them I was going to leave, because based on how I’d been triaged they didn’t seem to think my problem was that serious. I was in a lot of pain and I figured that if I was in a lot of pain and the doctors didn’t feel it was an emergency then I may as well be in that pain at home in my comfortable bed.
I sat around for a little bit and finally asked the nurse if maybe there was a cot somewhere I could lay down on because, my pain was so much worse when sitting upright.
This is very different from my psych emergency room experiences. I’ve gotten a bed right away. Sometimes that bed was just a bed in a hallway, but it’s still a bed. Still a ton of waiting to be seen by a doctor, but they’d never put a psych patient in a room with a lot of other medical patients and only one nurse. In the psych emergency room I’ve always had a “sitter” watching me too. Here I don’t think the nurse even noticed my sobbing phone call. If I’d walked out I doubt anyone would have noticed. At a psych emergency room though you can’t just change your mind. You’re stuck there at least until you see a doctor.
I was seen shortly after the nurse found me a cot set up in the hallway. I’m not sure if this was because I’d made her more aware of how awful I felt or if it was just because I’d already waited 3 hours.
I was wheeled into another room and saw a lot of doctors and had a lot of tests. The original diagnosis the doctor told me at my primary care office was wrong and sent the ER docs on a bit of a wild goose chase while they ruled it out.
This period of time was very scary, because I didn’t know what was wrong with me. As soon as I saw a doctor I was given pain medication, so at least I was more comfortable physically, but I still didn’t know what was wrong. Many diagnoses were thrown at me as possibilities. Some of these were very serious chronic illnesses.
This is very different from a psychiatric hospitalization, where differential diagnoses are rarely discussed and it’s hard enough to even get the doctors to admit the diagnosis they’ve selected for you until maybe the end of the hospitalization. Here, diagnoses were discussed right off the bat and I was informed of reasons why they considered them.
I also saw a lot more doctors here than at any of my psychiatric hospitalizations. The most I’ve ever seen at a psychiatric emergency visit is 2 doctors and that’s only because there was a shift change.
Here I saw 4 or 5. There wasn’t a lot of waiting time in between either. Once I was past that initial 3 hour wait I had a steady stream of events, from doctors, to nurses to tests.
In my psychiatric emergency visits I’ve sat in a room by myself for nearly 24 hours with no form of entertainment, because they take your possessions, and maybe 20 minutes total of conversation with anyone working at the hospital. And this was at a supposed top tier hospital.
Here I had come prepared and brought my laptop. I was able to use the hospital’s wireless during the chunks of time where nothing was happening.
For medication they put an IV in, which is different from my psychiatric hospitalizations where my medication was taken orally.
For one of the tests I needed to drink contrast fluid. I have a bit of an oversensitive gag reflex and tend to vomit a bit too easily.
I vomited right as a doctor was walking in, because I was trying to drink the fluid. The vomiting wasn’t a symptom of the immediate problem. This is something I deal with regularly when trying to take medications. Nonetheless a nurse rushed over and gave me a medication through the IV that she said would help with the nausea.
It’s a scary thing for a person to so easily put a drug into my body, before I can even realize what is happening. I didn’t have a huge objection to it, but if she’d asked me first I’d have told her it was not necessary.
In a psych hospitalization this would be a lot harder to do. Worst case they could give someone a shot (this has never happened to me), but it would be a bigger deal to do and there are more safeties in place when giving something like this without explicit permission from the patient. It’s not done so casually.
During the course of this hospitalization I received all sorts of medications and I have no clue what any of them are, except for the morphine. In a psychiatric hospitalization I know everything I take and refuse anything without significant research ahead of time.
I contacted my work to let them know I was in the hospital. I don’t know what I would do if this had been a psychiatric hospitalization. I’d have probably had to lie. I wouldn’t feel comfortable telling them about that even though my work is in the mental health field. Actually, especially since my work is in the mental health field.
No one was going to judge me for this transient medical problem, but a long term mental health problem is not safe from judgment.
Eventually a diagnosis was found and treatment was planned. I was admitted to the hospital and moved from the ER. I felt a lot better knowing what was wrong.
The problem was something that was life threatening if left untreated, but not a big deal at all with access to modern medical care.
There is a part of me that mourns an opprotunity wasted here. I always have some level of suicidality and have at times wished I’d come down with something life threatening so I could die passively by just avoiding treatment. At the time of this illness, I was doing very well psychologically, but I wonder if I’d have stayed home instead of going to the ER if I’d been more depressed.
The uncertainty though is what drove me to the ER. Not knowing what was wrong freaked me out.
If I’d been more depressed and at home and known with high certainty the diagnosis (If I’d even glanced at Doctor Google I’d probably have come up with this diagnosis) I can’t say for sure that I’d have sought treatment.
Several years ago I once saw a primary care doctor at this hospital. I needed a psychiatrist referral (Don’t I always?) and could only see one at her hospital by going through a primary care doctor first.
I can’t remember exactly what I said, but I believe I gave a fairly thorough psychiatric history to her.
All through this medical hospitalization they had access to those records. I was really pleased with how that knowledge was handled. It probably helped that the records were old, but I don’t feel like I was treated at all like a person with a psych history.
I was asked 1 time how my mood was and once it was clear that I was fine, it was never asked again.
They also knew my current medications, both of which are psych medications. I was asked a number of times if I needed either of them while I was there, but I think that was more due to confusion because it’s unusual for someone to take Ritalin only some days like I do.
I was relieved that my self-injury wasn’t discovered/discussed in the medical hospitalization (It’s probably in the record from the primary care doctor). It helped that I had no fresh injuries. If anyone noticed the scars no one said anything. I was terrified of having a psych consult sent to me.
Everyone was so much more accessible than when I’ve had psychiatric hospitalizations. I had a button to call the nurse. In psychiatric hospitalizations I might walk around looking for a nurse and knock on the nurses station door to be told someone would get to me eventually. Unless it was a huge emergency, anything could wait. With the medical hospitalization, getting help when I needed it was easy.
In my hospital room I had a roommate. Unlike in a psych hospitalization, I have not a clue what she looked like. There was a curtain between us. All I know is that she was an elderly woman and that she had been there for awhile.
She was very disoriented and spent the night talking to herself.
While that might seem like it would be similar to a psychiatric hospitalization, it really wasn’t. In my hospitalizations someone that disoriented was usually given a single room instead of a double.
The largest difference between the two types of hospitalizations was length of stay. For the medical hospitalization I was there two days, counting my time in the ER. That’s shorter than the time you can be held involuntarily without a court order for a psychiatric hospitalization!
My shortest psychiatric hospitalization was one week long. They wanted to keep me longer, but I signed one of the forms requesting they either release me or get a court order. They realized they couldn’t pull off the court order so they backed down and released me.
After two days of the medical hospitalization I was very ready to get out of there and they were very ready to kick me out, so we were all on the same page.
I did spend a week at home recovering more, but at that point the worst was over. I just slept a lot.
Follow-up was also different. I’ve never had a psychiatric hospital discharge plan that didn’t fall apart within a couple of days of leaving. Then I’m left with no one to call and zero follow-up.
With the medical hospitalization they gave me an appointment at the hospital the following week and I could have continued to go to follow-up weekly as long as I felt necessary. Personally, the one follow up was all I needed. I was even able to call a number they gave me for when I had a question or ran into an issue about the treatment plan.
I’m all better now. It was an interesting experience to have a medical hospitalization after all of the psych ones.
Thank you for this. I’m still digesting, thinking about it. I’ve read your blog before (not everything, so don’t know all the details you might have mentioned); I worry about you. And I like you. I have a lot of reactions to this post (all reflective, nothing good/bad), and can’t really process them right now, but I thought maybe you would like to know your perspective is appreciated.
Thanks for the comment. There’s always that waiting right after posting to see how it was received. So it’s nice to know it was appreciated.
Tales, I love your posts in that you give so many details! I almost feel like I was there with you. A very interesting perspective, from both sides of the medical fence. I’m glad they didn’t harp on you about the psych stuff when you were there for a physical ailment.
Glad you enjoy them :) I had to hold back more details in this one than I really wanted, because I was concerned about my anonymity. I’m glad you don’t seem to feel that took away from the post.

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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Bonus- Read a DELETED scene from LILY OF THE NILE...*Contest*
Queen Cleopatra wore her black priestess gown–the one with the silver stars and the knot of Isis between her breasts. If she’d known her barge was going to arrive at the sacred isle while the blistering sun was this high, she would have worn the white linen that the Romans found so scandalous.
This time of year, ocean breezes cooled Alexandria, but here in Aswan was the driest and most withering heat anywhere in Egypt. Perspiration pooled between the queen’s shoulder blades and the servants fanned her with ostrich feathers, swaying in time with the rowers below deck, but their efforts were in vain. Even the queen’s small daughter complained of thirst.
“So drink!” Cleopatra commanded. “Iras set a cup of water right beside you.”
The girl’s fair hair coiled damply on her brow and her rose-pink lips formed a pout. “I don’t want water. Fat Mardion promised that if I came with you to Philae there’d be pomegranate juice. It’s what he drinks in the heat.”
“Which is why he’s Fat Mardion,” Cleopatra said archly, but her daughter wasn’t amused. In truth, Cleopatra wished she’d taken her trusted eunuch along because he was indulgent with the children whereas the queen herself wasn’t very patient.
It wasn’t that Selene was an ill-mannered child; it was just that the girl didn’t like to be apart from her twin brother and Cleopatra supposed she should have taken some solace in her children’s love for one another. After all, she had been raised in a nest of fratricidal Ptolemy eaglets, each willing to tear the other to shreds and her earliest terrors were born of the days when her siblings fought for the throne of Egypt.
Luckily, none of her own four children showed signs of murderous ambition. No, her children loved each other as brothers and sisters should—except for the twins, who held some bond between them that went beyond love. When separated, Selene and Helios were like half a person each, one brooding, the other complaining until they were reunited once again. Their bond touched the queen’s heart, but it also worried her, for she’d seen into the Nile of Eternity…
The oarsmen pulled up their paddles as the barge approached the landing. “Do we swim now?” Selene asked and without waiting for an answer, the girl pulled the ribbons from her hair and threw them on the deck with a flourish. Not a single servant even looked askance, delighted as they all were with the antics of the queen’s little girl.
On the riverbank, the priests had gathered. Musicians played their double-reeded clarinets, serving girls threw pink flower petals into the water, and worshippers knelt in homage to Queen Cleopatra, their Pharaoh and the New Isis. Soon, she’d greet them and give the blessings they craved from her. Then, she’d visit the Nilometer, which would tell her whether her people would feast this year, or starve. But first, before any of this, before everything, she must be a bride of Egypt. She must be Isis for Osirus. She must be divine wife to divine husband.
Iras and Charmion were already disrobing her for the ritualized lovemaking when Selene whined, “Why couldn’t Helios come with us? He’d protect us from the crocodiles.”
“Crocodiles will never harm you,” the queen said. “You’re a child of Isis and sacred to all in Egypt, even the beasts. Besides, your brothers aren’t with us because there are some things only queens can do.”
This caught her daughter’s attention. “There are things kings can’t do? Not even Kings of Egypt, like Caesarion?”
“Can a man suckle an infant?” Cleopatra asked as her hair was unbound. “Neither can a king nourish his kingdom. He can protect and defend it. He can rule his people justly. But he cannot feed his people except through Isis. This is why no man comes to be Pharaoh without wedding Pharaoh’s daughter, and why your brother Caesarion will one day need you to be a very good wife and queen.”
Selene’s emerald gaze was very shrewd and the queen decided that she’d been right to take the girl on this journey, even at so young an age. “Every year, the river rises to wash away all the dead vegetation from the dry cracked land. It deposits black fertile soil in its place. Then the farmers grow their wheat, and the laborers cut the wheat with their scythes and the bakers make it into bread.”
“I know that.” Selene gave a delicate, and very regal, roll of her eyes.
“Then tell me why the Nile rises?” Cleopatra asked, stepping out of her black robes without inhibition. Her naked body wasn’t as perfect as it once was, but since having children of her own, she was more womanly now and perhaps more beautiful to the river god that awaited her.
“Is it part of the mysteries?” Selene asked.
“One of many. It is love,” the queen explained. “No man can rise to create life without a lover, and neither can the river.” She saw that Selene didn’t understand, so she continued, “Before the dark god Set cut Osirus into pieces, he first drowned the good god of grain in the Nile. Here at Philae, on these very river banks is where Isis first wept for her murdered husband. This is where she brought him back to life with her magic. The spirit of Osiris lives here now, in the depths of the river. Here, he waits for his love, for Isis, and each year he swells to make love to her.”
“And she comes to him as Egypt’s queen…”
“Just so,” Cleopatra said, removing her amethyst ring–a gift from Antony, a wedding ring, though Octavian’s propagandists claimed otherwise. “And so, no matter which man you take into your heart, when it comes to the land you rule, you must always love it like a faithful wife. Today we will meet the Nile and make tribute to it, like a bride to a bridegroom.”
“I’m too little to be a bride,” Selene pointed out.
Cleopatra sighed at her daughter’s innocence. “Not for long, My Sweet. One day, you’ll be a beautiful maiden, then a loving mother, and then, hopefully, a wise old crone. But of these three, it’s your life as a mother that will serve Egypt best.”
“And please the king,” Selene said.
“No.” Cleopatra stiffened. “Have a child for Isis, for Egypt and for yourself before you do it to please any man. Your children will be rulers, and their divine ichor come to them through their mother’s milk–no matter who their father might be.”
“But what of the divine Julius?”
What of him, indeed? Oh, the heartbreak! But, Cleopatra stilled her heart. There was still Caesarion, there was still Egypt, and there were her little twins, from whom the whole world expected great things.
“I loved Gaius,” Cleopatra said with as matter-of-fact a tone as she could muster when speaking of Caesar. “But I loved him too much. I stayed too long as a mortal with Caesar in Rome, and without me, the Nile fell below the cubits of death and my people suffered. It was a mistake I’ll never make again.”
With that, the queen allowed her servants to lower her down the ladder until she was standing in the shallows. The mud of the Nile was like silken bed sheets beneath her feet. The river was as warm as a lotus scented bath, and as the frogs sang their chorus, heka tingled at Cleopatra’s fingertips. Feeling the magic flowing through her, the queen held her arms out to her daughter.
“Come, Selene. Meet Osirus.”
Selene lingered at the side of the barge, unwilling to come down the ladder even when the servants encouraged her into the river. It was only when Cleopatra commanded it that the girl leapt with a splash. Her little feet didn’t reach the bottom, and she flailed in the water until the queen caught her under the arms. “Shhh, Selene. You carry Isis with you wherever you go, but you’ve been promised to Egypt. The Nile waits here, pining for your love. For your surrender and rapturous embrace.”
With that, the queen loosened her hold, knowing the little girl would have to swim on her own. Already, the Nile’s green waves lapped at Cleopatra’s consciousness, drawing her into the marshy reeds of a waking dream where life teemed.
“She is the resurrection.,” Cleopatra prayed. “She brings life from death. She gives to her kingdom an heir, she gives to her people their daily sustenance, and she gives Isis an embodiment on earth for Osiris to love.”
Cleopatra saw the frog and the minnows, the life-giving silt settling onto the fields beyond, and everywhere she turned in the water, the birds flocked and water lilies blossomed. With her fingers, she traced lazy circles into the river bringing fish leaping to the surface. She passed dried brown foliage as she made her way to shore, and it sprouted green with life again. She gazed upon the washed up carcass of a snake and it arose, coiled and shimmering. It was an Egyptian cobra and its hood swelled for her like the phallus of an eager lover.
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House of Lords backs gay and lesbian marriage bill for England and Wales and will now scrutinize it in detail
The House of Lords has backed the further passage of the equal marriage bill – meaning it has now passed a crucial hurdle.
The upper chamber of the British parliament spent two days debating the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, which has already been passed by the elected House of Commons.
Despite a fierce debate the peers rejected an amendment by Lord Geoffrey Dear which would have stopped the bill in its tracks.
In the last few minutes (4 June), a massive 390 voted to allow the bill to progress with only 148 trying to stop it – a majority of 242.
Two principles seem to have been behind the vote: Some backed the bill because they support lesbian and gay marriage, others because they see the House of Lords as an unelected chamber of revision and believe they should do a full job of scrutinizing the bill.
This will now happen with the whole house involved in analyzing the details of the law over two days later this month.
Ahead of the vote, and calling for the House of Lords to reject the bill at this stage, Dear asked: ‘Are you sure the process has been properly handled? Are you sure that all the likely consequences have been thought through? Are you sure there will be no later attempts to marriage the definition of marriage further?
‘The issue is too important for all sections of society – gay or straight – to be introduced on a whim. How can we allow it to proceed?’
Baroness Tina Stowell of Beeston, the government’s Women and Equalities Spokesperson in the House of Lords, had already tried to allay the fears Dear raised.
She said the bill was the result of a commitment to review gay marriage and the country’s largest ever public consultation.
And she argued: ‘Gay couples want to marry and many straight couples want them to be able to.’
In other developments she also responded to anti-gay Lord Norman Tebbit’s suggestion that a future lesbian queen could have an heir by artificial insemination who could one day rule.
Stowell responded: ‘The bill does not change anything in the law of succession, only the natural-born child of a husband and wife is able to accede to the throne.’
When Tebbit rose to ask if this was discriminatory, she responded: ‘Then it is discriminatory now and we are not changing it.’
Tebbit had also suggested the bill would lead to polygamy one day being allowed, something also raised earlier today by Labour Lord Daniel Brennan.
Brennan told Lords: ‘There is the “what next?” factor. It is a simple argument to propose that here is a law that says that two people of the same sex can marry because of discrimination. Why cannot a third person demand the same right and want to join that union of two to make it a union of three?
‘That is eminently simple to argue; it is based on discrimination; and I invite any subsequent speakers to explain, logically and rationally, why numerical limits overcome profound principles of discrimination, if that is what we are dealing with.
‘Polygamy is not just on the same-sex side, it can be on the heterosexual side.’
Others speaking in the debate today included Conservative party Baroness Sheila Noakes, who argued for gay and lesbian marriage from the straight standpoint.
She said: ‘As a happily married woman I will gladly extend marriage to committed couples who wish to marry someone of the same sex. I certainly reject the suggestion made yesterday that same-sex couples should invent their own name in place of marriage.
‘The clear evidence from the various polls that have asked straight-forward questions about same-sex marriage is there is a majority and an increasing one in favor.’
And she said the bill was particularly supported by young people who she said would feel the biggest impact from it.
She added: ‘If we embrace the freedom to marry in this bill it will surely bring happiness to a minority but I have heard nothing in the debate so far that points to clear or specific harm to others.’
Similar support came from Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, who is also an elected politician in the National Assembly for Wales, and warned the unelected lords of ignoring the will as evidenced by the polls in favor of gay marriage.
He said: ‘It does seem to me this house is in great danger of ignoring at its peril the realities of political and social change outside this house.’
He said he hoped his son and son-in-law would soon enjoy full equality they deserve.
And openly gay Lord Ray Collins of Highbury, criticized the homophobia by senior public figures in the lead up to the debate, including the likening of gay marriage to slavery and child abuse.
He said this could ‘cause damage to the self-esteem not only of me but young [LGBT] people in particular’.
And he highlighted the bill’s personal importance.
Collins told the Lords: ‘My husband, and I can think of no better term for him, and I have taken every opportunity to celebrate our 16 year relationship on an equal footing.
‘For me and Raphael it is for our relationship to be equal in the eyes of the law. The changes we have seen so far have helped to shape more progressive attitude and in my view, far form inciting intolerance, this measure will go a long way to challenge it.’
While Baroness Glenys Thornton, Labour, Shadow Equalities Minister winding up for the opposition ended with a plea to lords opposing the bill or unsure.
She said: ‘Some who profess to believe in equal rights for everyone find it difficult to fully escape those prejudices ingrained over many years.
‘To these noble lords, I will make a plea, it is to listen to your heart and to indulge the generosity of your spirit. It would be very hard-hearted indeed not to support same-sex marriage.’
The vote today (4 June) does not mean the end of the debate. The bill still has to be scrutinized by lords in the report stage where attempts may be made to wreck it and will have to pass third reading in the house. But the majority for the bill was much greater than most expected, giving some confidence the measure can pass with sufficient work and lobbying.
Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, Britain’s leading gay lobby group, said afterwards: ‘We’re absolutely delighted. We always expected a tough challenge in the House of Lords, and Lord Dear’s “fatal motion” – very rarely used – demonstrates the lengths to which a minority of peers are, sadly, still prepared to go to deny full equality to lesbian, gay and bisexual people.’
While Peter Tatchell, a veteran gay activist who has spearheaded the Equal Love campaign, said: ‘This is a victory for love, marriage and equality. We are another step closer to our goal of equal marriage. It signals that the House of Lords accepts the principle that we should all be equal before the law.’
UPDATE: The news of the vote was greeted with cheers, blowing whistles and even the start of a conga-line dance by pro-gay marriage campaigners outside the House of the Lords, reports GSN’s reporter on the scene, Rakshita Patel, who sent us this photo.
She reports anti-gay marriage protesters also present appeared very disheartened by the result.
by Tris Reid-Smith
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Let me be honest, I am not above using canned coconut milk. With every passing year the canned milk seems to get better with less and less additives and more creamy coconut taste. But nothing compares to the taste of freshly extracted coconut milk. Food tastes heavenly when slow cooked in thin coconut milk and finished with the thick, creamy coconut milk. That is how it is done in traditional Kerala dishes like Ada Pradhaman or Pariipu Payasam or Fish Curry with Coconut Milk.
Making fresh coconut milk was an everyday task when I was a child. Dad used to de-husk the coconuts while us kids made a bee line for the coconut water. Often times we used to disappear as soon as the last drop of coconut water went passed through our lips. With good reason too – grating the coconuts and extracting the milk were part of the kitchen duties that often fell on us.
Making fresh coconut milk is simpler than you think , especially with today’s kitchen gadgets. Fresh grated coconut is the best, but if that is not available frozen coconut is a very good substitute. I would not recommend dried coconut – but if you must, soak the dried coconut in warm water for half an hour before trying to extract the milk.
The traditional way is to grate the coconut, add about 1/2 to 1 C water per each grated coconut and squeeze it with hands to coax the milk out. This mixture will be placed in a piece of cotton cloth and squeezed to extract the milk . The process will be repeated with the remaining coconut bits in the cloth to get the 2nd 3rd and possibly a 4th extraction, each with progressively less and less cream content.
This is essentially the process I follow as well , except that I use the blender and a fine mesh strainer.
Start with grated coconut or chopped coconut. If using chopped pieces, process in the blender , without adding water, till the mix looks like coarse bread crumbs. Add 1/4 to 1/2 C warm water – just warm to touch – to the coconut and set aside for 2 to 3 minutes . If working with frozen coconut, let it come t o room temperature before adding water. Pulse the coconut and warm water mix a few times. Open the blender, and you should be able to see the milky liquid settled on top – as in picture 3. Let it rest for a minute and transfer the mix to a strainer set over a bowl and press down with spatula to extract the milk.
The coconut bits remaining in the strainer is transferred back to the blender and the process is repeated. Every successive extraction of the milk produces thinner versions. Usually by the 3rd time almost all the cream would have been removed from the coconut.
I know , it is a little more involved than opening the can 🙂 but the freshness and the taste make a world of difference. Refrigerate the milk, if not planning to use right away and use it in a day or two. For longer storage , let the milk rest for a 30 minutes. Scoop up the cream that settles on top (see the pictures below) it up and freeze to use later.
The picture shows how the cream has settled after 30 minutes. The first to third extractions are left to right, in that order. Notice how there is hardly any cream settling on the top of the 3rd milk .
- Warm water gives better results.
- Do not grind the coconut to a paste, a few pulses in the blender is all you need.
- When cooking with fresh coconut milk, keep the 1st extraction or the thick milk separate. Do not boil this as it will separate. All the other versions can be boiled.
- If using as a substitute for milk in drinks, let the grated coconut sit in the warm water for 5 minutes before and after blending. Use only the 1st and second extractions.
Fresh Coconut Milk
- 2 C Grated Coconut - Packed, See Notes
- 3 - 4 C Water
- Heat the water till it is slightly warm to touch.
- Place the grated coconut in a blender jar and add 1/2 C water to it. Let it rest for a few minutes. Pulse a few times, and rest for a minute. Transfer the contents to a strainer set atop a bowl. Let the milk drain to the bowl. Press firmly with a spoon to speed up the process.
- Return the contents of the strainer back to the blender. Add 1 C water and let it rest for a minute. Pulse the blender for a few times and repeat as in the above step to extract milk.
- Repeat this process one or two more times until the extraction resembles water more than milk.
- If using frozen coconut - bring it to room temperature first.
- If using dried/ desiccated coconut, soak it in warm water for 30 minutes before processing.
- Use a fine mesh strainer or layers of cheese cloth or cotton towels.
Important: Nutrition Values are estimates. Actuals vary based on ingredients and serving size.

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After the successes of previous years, Broom Bezzums are to hit the icy roads again for Winter Carol Tour in December.
The band are pleased to announce that Eileen Healy from CorkÂ is to join them for this tourÂ as third member, adding her dark, soulful voice along with her skills asÂ an “Ol Time” and Irish fiddler.
In 2017 the tour will be throughout Germany fromÂ 30th November -Â 10thÂ DecemberÂ and will feature tracks from a special re-release of the popularÂ Winterman CD, some selected material from the currentÂ CD No Smaller than the World andÂ some arrangements of beautifulÂ winterÂ folk songs fromÂ Ireland and beyond.
The Winterman CD and the new one Â â€“ which make great Christmas presents â€“ are available at gigs and online. For a preview of the music and other information,Â click here
Broom Bezzums are looking forward toÂ an exciting set with all the emotions of the season covered, from critical and even subversive views of Christmas time to all out Yultide party atmosphere.
Broom Bezzums with Eileen Healy
Here is some footage of previous Winter Carol Tours (with Katie Doherty)
Winter Carol – Trio Tour Dates
|30th Nov 2017||53604 Bad Honnef – Folk im FeuerschlÃ¶sschen|
|1st Dec 2017||28832 Achim – Kulturhaus Alter SchÃ¼tzenhof|
|2nd Dec 2017||17398 Bugewitz – Weitblick|
|3rd Dec 2017||12209 Berlin – Petruskirche|
|4th Dec 2017||31683 Obernkirchen – Kulturfenster|
|5th Dec 2017||MÃ¼nster – House Concert|
|6th Dec 2017||Krefeld – House Concert (Invite Only)|
|7th Dec 2017||67149 Meckenheim – Rathaus|
|8th Dec 2017||75438 Knittlingen – Kulturkeller Cellarium|
|9th Dec 2017||69493 Hirschberg Grosssachsen – Zum Weissen Lamm|
Winter Carol – Duo Dates
|13th Dec 2017||42119 Wuppertal – Pauluskirche|
|16th Dec 2017||55543 Bad Kreuznach – Haus des Gastes|

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Karen Campbell, James Robertson and Helen Boden first published these pieces as part of the Declarations on Freedom for Writers and Readers project. We hope you enjoy reading them here.July 30, 2020
by Karen Campbell
You can’t see me.
I was born when I began to walk, moving into the bright beyond. Or maybe before, in the quiet mist of consciousness when I learned to pull a thread of thought from swirls.
In the beginning was the word.
Perhaps I was born when men rolled great boulders and marked the spot. Their spot, the one so vital that they would forgo the hunt and break their skin, would bleed and sweat to position granite markers against the light. Grey granite. That sunset song. Stone marks the spot.
Of what? Of place, of time? Of boundary?
You need me to make your boundaries. And release you from them too.
I am, in truth, not for glory, nor riches, nor honours – yet often they are my banner-maidens.
I do not seek them. But nor do I shy from the light. I am there at the head of a crowd, and in the lone passage of a frightened soul; the one who is facing and facing their demons.
I am there in the bilge-water of a leaking boat, in the stifled cry, the resolute hand.
I stand witness when chains are broken.
And I live in the barred cell too, and in the burgeoning cells beneath the soil, when shoots burst through, reaching gloriously outwards to perennial hope.
Sometimes, I think I need that darkness. I wish it were not so; that I could walk alongside you companionably, and you would recognise me always, for what I am. But you seem to need dark places in which I might germinate. That solitary confinement. Dark matter against which I must push. Repression. Terror. Rhetoric which whips with words of passion and difference. The freedom to hate.
Boundaries again. Your blessing and your curse.
You think I reside in power, but I do not. I live in dignity, and choice.
I am present when a child leaves home. I am there in a prayer freely given, and when a woman takes her seat and folds her arms and will not move. I am there when a hundred thousand folk proclaim their truth, and take to the streets to march. And when others stand aside to let them, or to protect their right to disagree. I straddle dykes when they are levelled. I build them skywards to reach the stars.
I contradict you? Well. I am never steady. Never still. I am as abstract as air, and as concrete as the ground you stand on. As the things you stand for.
For your right.
What is right? Choice or obligation?
I stand by your right to disagree.
I stand by the shoulders of lawgivers, of leaders.
In the beginning was the word, and the word cannot hear.
Justice is blind. Yet I make it see.
I am there when countries are made and built and fall and are built again. But you will not find me in empires.
I am in the community breaking bread. Breaking ground. Widening doors.
I am there when one single, solitary mind is challenged to look up, and think. And think.
I am fundamental. Never fundamentalist.
What do you think of, when you think of me? Fairness? Resolve? I bring energy, education, democracy. I defend the other; I am the other. And I make. I am your Makar.
I am in the blank page, and in that first glorious mark of ink. I am in the fist clenched over heart or held high; in the song, the tears, the proud back or bended knee.
I am in the freedom to say my name.
Say it. Say it.
You may not yet know how. Because there were times when it was beaten from the very land. But you have the freedom to learn. So say it.
Saorsa. It is but a whisper on the breeze. And I am there too. I am in the wind, in the wide, in the opened window. I am in your mountains. Your lochs, your cities and your glens. I am in your deepest past and your distant future.
I am boundless – if you let me. Be.
Och, I have many names, take many forms. You know that. Do you want me bare-breasted by the guillotine? Away in a boat to Skye? Or held within one single candle, wreathed in barbs of wire? Come, help me hold my torch aloft. Light my fire. Bear my flag.
I am all in your mind.
I dwell in your dreams and disappointments. Your spirits and your guts. I am the turn of left of right of wrong. Regroup.
I am that one first step. That long look back.
I am in the moment. I am careful. I am bold.
You will sense me at the ballot box. I am never at the fight.
I dance in the early days of a better nation. If you look, you will find me in that thread of pride and self-esteem that has been almost but not quite…not ever broken or forgotten. I am in all the love and intellect that has gone before and will come again.
I am in statements, declarations. Legends, dates and lores. I am in constitutions and complexities. In reason.
In your heart.
Feel me in your mouth. I am on the tip of your lip.
Freedom. Let me out. And let me in.
*Saorsa is Gaelic for Freedom.
By Helen Boden
The night the year ends and the last bus leaves early
garden birds reoccupy the Mains Drive tarmac.
The traffic lights have been out since Christmas Eve.
The glow from the pedestrian crossing sign
makes a pillar box of the Braidburn bridge’s stone pier.
I’m not a great believer in keeping calm and carrying on
don’t think we’ll need a Ministry for Hush unless
it’s to promulgate nurture, keeping counsel
or for guidelines about not passing on our prejudices
staying in step with other species and those
who went before
before the crescendo of ring-tones sirens high decibel hand-driers
knee-jerk car horns noisy motorised everything
left us in a state of aural emergency.
Let’s not so much be against
speaking up or out when necessary
– never hush up what needs said –
but more for
listening, in order to hear
rather than to start to formulate a response.
Let’s be for listening
to chaffinch, buzzard, burn and tide
listening for nuance, dialect, inflection, influence
for calling out bias and hate-speech calmly
not standing for devices out-loud in the street
someone else’s choice of music pervading the park
premier-league matches streamed on top of Allermuir
private one-sided arguments on public transport
unnecessary racket and clamour and din.
Let’s see on-the-spot penalties for idling engines
imposed to fund cycle lanes, NHS, poets in residence
in railway stations and hypermarkets
quiet coaches by default
libraries for creaturesong, tunes of trees, calls of stones
til we can start to hear again
our own hearts beat, breath and footfall
the pulse of the fir hill
that turn-of-year quiet on the Braidburn bridge
volume still low beyond twelfth night.
By James Robertson
with grateful acknowledgment to Alasdair Gray and Denis Lee
s e e y on
h ea d
v h ear t
r i f t
g e t
o wer i t
s l ing i t
w i ng i t
a y e
you th at
w ere in t ear s be at
w as t e d
s a t on
s h at on
k e n n o o
s o liv e d o be
s we a t
s t r a i n
s t e er
r u n
f re e
o n ly
s e l s
work as if you were living in the early days of a better nation
work as if you were living in the early days of a better nation
as if the work were you living in a nation of better early days
as if days of you a nation early in living were the better work
the work living better if you were in early days as of a nation
the nation living as in a better you if days of work were early
you as if early living were a nation in the days of better work
if you the living work of a nation were better as in early days
you work early as if better days were in the living of a nation
better if the early days of you living were work as in a nation
if you work as a nation the days of better living were in early
the early days if of a better nation were in you living as work
work early as if the nation of a living you were in better days
as if the better you were a living nation in early days of work
Now we are in them,
those early days.
As if is not as this.
This is not
as good as it can get.
Better than as was,
it can be better too than
as now is.
not for glory
not for riches
not for honour
but for those
living in this nation
for whom these early days are
not so great
or growing late.


Benelli ~ Super Black Eagle II ~ 12 Ga.
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Category: Benelli Shotguns - Semi-Auto - Shotguns - Duck & Goose or Turkey 3 ½"
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Seller: Cabelas Hazelwood
Member Since: 5/10/07
First Name: Darrell
Last Name: Kohlmiller
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This is a Benelli SBE II chambered in 2 3/4, 3 and 3 1/2 inch 12 ga with full coverage camo that is in good condition for the age of the gun. The barrel is 26 inch vented rib with fiber optic front sight. The gun has been hunted but, is in good condition.
Price: Was $1,099.99 Now $899.77
Manufacturer: Newer production.
Caliber: 12 Ga.
Chambers: 2 3/4, 3 and 3 1/2 inch semi-auto.
Metal Condition: Good, shows some finish wear from normal use and due to its age.
Wood Condition: Good, shows some finish wear from normal use and due to its age.
Bore Condition: Bright and shiny.
Barrels: 26 Inch vented rib with fiber optic front sight.
Stock: Camo synthetic with checkered pistol grip.
LOP 14 1/2 inches.
Fore End: Matching camo forearm with checkering and finger grooves.
Butt Pad: Black rubber recoil pad
Weight: 7 lbs 12 oz
Sights: Fiber optic front sight on vent rib.
Chokes: Variable chokes
Item Location: Hazelwood, MO


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Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan were among late screen icons who were given tributes along with Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas and Chadwick Boseman, at the 74th British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards held in the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night.
The tribute, in the form of a video clip, paid homage to over 40 artists the world of cinema lost during the past year, including actors, writers, directors, and technicians.
The video started with a tribute to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Irrfan's name was accompanied by a line from his 2012 Hollywood film Life Of Pi.
Other late artists who were remembered in the video included Ian Holm and Barbara Windsor, and the video ended with a tribute to Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.

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Music For Youth festival round-up
14 August 2014
This year’s Music For Youth National Festival celebrated its tenth year in Birmingham this summer. Nearly 11,000 young people and over 1,000 teachers came together to perform to many more thousands of friends, family and music lovers.
During the week around 300 music ensembles took to the various festival stages, which this year were expanded to include a ‘fringe’ festival on satellite stages around the city. In addition to the wide range of musical styles being performed, the festival also included a number of workshops and master classes which were presented by arts organisations from across the UK.
Two new developments this year were daily ‘Ten past two…performances by the pros’, and an Interactive Zone where people could try out the huge collection of instruments on show.
Music groups interested in taking part in the new MFY season can enter regional events from Monday 13 October, via the Music For Youth website.
Braille Music Awards
13 August 2014
The Gardner’s Trust Braille Music Literacy Award has been held annually since 1992, and is designed to encourage young musicians to use braille music.
The tests are held by the Royal National Institute of the Blind’s music advisory service, and sponsored by the Gardner’s Trust for the Blind. Open to musicians under the age of 19, the competition comprises two parts: performing a piece from memory, and reading the piece out loud, listing all the symbols used.
This year there were four winners of the award: Gelerah Tabatabaei from Mora Primary School, Brent, Luca Gatta and Zoe Dixon from New College, Worcester and Noah Mcneill from QEHS, Hexham.
Nominations now open for MT Awards 2015
4 August 2014
Now in their third year, the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence are accepting nominations for 10 award categories.
Eleven awards will be presented at a gala evening at The Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London, on the first night of next year’s Music Education Expo (12 March 2015). Nominations for ten of the awards will be accepted until Friday 24 October 2014, and all sections of the public are welcome to put forward those they want to see celebrated!
This year’s awards will be judged by an experienced panel of judges, chaired by Music Teacher editor Tom Lydon. The panel will include Professor David Saint (principal, Birmingham Conservatoire); Lucy Johnstone-McCarthy (head of music, Baden-Powell and St Peter’s C of E Junior School); Paul McManus (chief executive, Music Industries Association), and Judith Webster (chief executive, Music For Youth).
2014 winners include Vivienne Price, In Harmony Opera North, Singing Playgrounds from Ex Cathedra, Baden-Powell and St Peter’s Junior School and Drake Music Scotland.
Two new categories have been added this year: the Musicians’ Union Inspiration Award, sponsored by the Musicians’ Union, and the Best Music Education Product Award. The full list of awards features:
· Best Musical Initiative Award, sponsored by the Royal Marines Band Service
· Best Print Resource Award, sponsored by Rhinegold Publishing Ltd
· Best Digital/Technological Resource Award
· Best SEN Resource Award
· Excellence in Primary/Early Years Music Award
· Best School Music Department Award, sponsored by the MMA (Music Masters
· Musicians’ Union Inspiration Award, sponsored by the Musicians’ Union – NEW
· Best Music Education Product Award – NEW
· Best Classical Music Education Initiative Award, sponsored by Classic FM
· Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Black Cat Music and MusicPracticeRooms.com
And finally, for which nominations are not accepted:
· Music Teacher Magazine Editor’s Award, sponsored by Higgledy Piggledy Jazz
For more information about each award category, and to make a nomination, visit the Music Education Expo website.
Music teaching roadshows this September
4 August 2014
New half-day training events will be running for music teachers at seven locations across England and Wales this September. Organised by the ABRSM and Music Mark, each venue of the ‘roadshow’ will present the same sessions:
Youth Music grants to promote inclusivity
1 August 2014
The National Foundation for Youth Music has just announced a refurbishment of its grants programme, with the aim of promoting diversity and inclusivity across England.
Youth Music is currently investing £20 million in 400 projects throughout the country. Its refreshed grants programme has been streamlined to help children in challenging circumstances who cannot afford access to music education. Despite the government’s recent pledge of an extra £18 million to music education, the number of school children accessing subsidised music lessons is still running six percentage points below the number of pupils receiving free school meals. This suggests that many of the children who can least afford it are missing out on music education.
As part of its new grants programme, Youth Music will be raising the upper age limit to qualify for investment to 25 years. This is in light of the challenging transition faced by many young people in the transition from studying to employment. A new award has also been made available of £2,000-£30,000, aimed at supporting smaller organisations and projects.
Matt Griffiths, executive director of Youth Music’s, said: ‘The recent announcement of additional funds for music education is fantastic news, but Youth Music projects often focus on those organisations, musicians, and young people hidden from mainstream services and provision. It’s essential that their voices, and indeed, their music are considered as part of the musical fabric of this country. Our updated programme makes funding these projects simpler and should create even greater diversity and inclusivity amongst hubs.’
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Watch Ruston Kelly’s Devastating ‘1000 Graves’ Video
Singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly’s star has been rising since he released his critically acclaimed debut Halloween in April, winning fans with his raspy voice and introspective lyrics. This week, Kelly released the video for his song “1000 Graves,” deepening the emotional heft of his lyrical imagery and plaintive sound.
The clip, directed by Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King, is a tragic love story that plays out in non-linear fashion. The action centers on a soldier who is deployed overseas and the high-stakes romantic bond she forms with a man in her unit before violence cleaves them apart in combat. Returning home, she struggles to make sense of a world without her lover, drinking away the pain and waking up in terror.
Kelly, who married fellow performer Kacey Musgraves in October, is gearing up to join singer-songwriter John Moreland on tour through February. He’ll follow that up with a stint supporting the Gaslight Anthem singer Brian Fallon in March and April on Fallon’s solo tour.

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Eurovision 2023: How will the bidding process work and could it be Liverpool that hosts?
1 year ago
Eurovision 2021 will be held in the UK and Liverpool is a contender for hosting duties – but how does the bidding process actually work?
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC have announced that next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the UK on behalf of Ukraine.
The BBC will act as host broadcaster of the 67th annual competition after the UK’s Sam Ryder came second this year.
How does the bidding process work?
The BBC has confirmed that the process to select the host city for the 2023 contest will begin this week.
It will manage the bidding along with the EBU and expects it to be completed by the autumn.
The BBC said relevant information for prospective hosts will be issued shortly and host cities wanting information packs should make contact via an allocated email address.
Where has the contest previously been hosted in the UK?
The UK has hosted the contest in London four times (1960, 1963, 1968 and 1977), and once each in Edinburgh (1972), Brighton (1974) and Harrogate (1982).
It last hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 in Birmingham following Katrina And The Waves’ victory in Dublin with Love Shine A Light.
Hosting it in 2023 will make it the ninth time the competition has taken place in the UK – more than any other country.
How has the UK fared in Eurovision previously?
This year, British hopeful Sam Ryder won over the audience with his uplifting pop song Space Man, taking second place in the competition in Turin, Italy.
The 32-year-old Tik Tok star topped the national jury vote with 283 points, beating favourites Spain and Sweden.
It was a stark contrast to 2021 UK entry James Newman, who scored zero points and came bottom of the leader board.
To date, the UK has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times – with Sandie Shaw’s Puppet On A String in 1967, Lulu’s Boom Bang A Bang in 1969, Brotherhood Of Man’s Save Your Kisses For Me in 1976, Bucks Fizz’s Making Your Mind Up in 1981, and Katrina And The Waves in 1997.
The UK holds the record for the longest run of consecutive appearances in the Grand Final – 59 – and has also finished second a record 15 times.
How much would hosting it cost?
Hosting Eurovision can be expensive.
Azerbaijan spent a reported £48 million on hosting the event in 2012, and Hungary withdrew from competing in the 2010 contest in part due to the global financial crisis.
It is not clear whether the BBC will have to pay to host the contest from its current licence fee allocation or if it will be given further money.
It comes as the BBC needs to save a further £285 million in response to Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries’ announcement in January that the licence fee will be frozen for the next two years.
The UK already spends more on Eurovision than most participants.
It is part of the so-called big five alongside France, Germany, Italy and Spain, who each get a free pass to the Grand Final because of their financial contributions.
Ukraine will automatically qualify for the Grand Final in 2023 alongside the Big Five.
Could the contest take place in Liverpool?
Liverpool has officially expressed its interesting in hosting Eurovision. The M&S Bank Arena seems like the perfect setting with a capacity of 11,000 and we are UNESCO City of Music after all.
With an enviable events calendar that features some of the best large-scale music activities – Africa Oyé, Liverpool International music Festival and Sound City to name a few, a diverse music scene and of course being home to one of the greatest bands ever with the Beatles, Liverpool’s music credentials are second to none.
What has Liverpool’s Mayor said about the bid?
“We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and would like the opportunity for Liverpool to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest and in doing so pay tribute to their wonderful country.
“We are an events city and no one can stage a party like us. Culture is synonymous with Liverpool and we tick all the boxes to be next year’s host – great venues, enviable experience, a world-renowned music heritage, UNESCO City of Music status and of course the warm Scouse welcome that just can’t be beaten.
“The event would become a beacon of hope around the world and we hope that Liverpool as an unrivalled music brand is given serious consideration by the decision-makers.”
Which other city’s could be contenders?
London’s O2 is a strong contender as the largest indoor arena in the capital.
The 20,000-capacity venue has hosted some of the biggest stars in the world, including Adele, Queen + Adam Lambert, Billie Eilish, The Rolling Stones, as well as events like the Brit Awards.
The OVO Arena Wembley could also be in contention as the second largest in London, with a capacity of 12,500.
A return to Brighton would be a nice homage to when the Brighton Dome hosted the event in 1974, when Abba won with Waterloo.
Venues within major UK cities such as Manchester or Newcastle could be considered in line with the Government’s “levelling up” plan.
The OVO Hydro in Glasgow could also host the contest for the UK as the largest entertainment venue in Scotland with a maximum capacity of 14,300.
Immediately following Monday’s announcement, Sheffield City Council and Manchester City Council both registered their interest in being hosts.
A tweet from Sheffield City Council said it has told Eurovision organisers the city would “love” to stage the contest.
The official account tweeted: “We’ve told Eurovision we’d love to host… watch this space.”
And Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, tweeted: “Manchester will be bidding to host @Eurovision @bbceurovision. A world class music city, brilliant venues, experience in hosting major events, and of course one of the UK’s largest Ukrainian populations – we are confident we will make it a #eurovision to remember. More to follow.”

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Khao Sok National Park
Between the Andaman sea and the Gulf of Thailand laysthe Khao Sok National Park. I got myself a hut in the jungle and did a few jungle treks in the National Park. One night I slept in a floating raft house on the Chiaw Lan lake. I didn't need an alarm to wake up, the sounds of the monkeys in the trees was enough!


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Between the Scouts center and Jersey Gold on the 5 Mile Road is an area of land that may as well be like the rest of the public space around it, despite being private land. There's a ruin here but I've no idea what its story is.
Now, I'm not recommending you venture onto private land, that's entirely your decision. For what it's worth, my view on "trespassing" (there is no such offence in Jersey) is - if it's not invading anyone's privacy and you're not causing any damage, then land that isn't obviously a garden is fair game for exploration if no-one is using it or making any serious attempts to secure it. Where's the harm?
This bunker's entrances were too hard to reach when we were there, so there are no photos, I don't know if it's open, but I'm familiar with these shelters now so I'm not all that bothered about going in.
For a good shot of the kind of storage room that I didn't photograph, see a Guernsey example at http://bunkersite.com/locations/ci/guernsey/uwako-langenberg-1.php and do have a look around that website for other examples of this type of bunker - there are at least 3 in Guernsey by the looks of it (the other 2 being at uwako-krossen and uwako-rundbucht) with some fascinating differences.
The term U/WaKoFest is a bit of a mouthful, isn't it? The U/ means Unterstand, or shelter, and you might come across the terms Gruppenunterstande (for a Group of 10 men) or Doppelgruppenunterstande (double size for 2 groups of 10). A plan of the 20 man version of this shelter can be seen in a forum thread here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=146786
That thread also discusses how a range of bunkers were designed between the 500 and 600 series by Waffen Prüfung Fest and this particular type of shelter may be better described as their number 44 type Gruppenunterstande.
Waffen = Weapons
Kommission = (have a guess!)
Festungen = Fortification
The contraction "WaKoFest" is made up from these words, as these bunkers were first known from a 1941 Progress Report of the Commission for Weapons and Fortifications. There are a number of different types of WaKoFest bunkers (see that forum thread) hence the U/ to refer to the Unterstand type.
There are 11 of these shelters in Jersey.
2 here on the private side of the road at WN Lewis Tower
2 not far away at Kempt Tower (one under the mound between the car park and the tower)
1 at "High Tower" (now used as a teaching room at the St.Ouen's Pond bird hide)
2 at RN Steps 43 (i.e. the beachguards / El Tico area) - I don't know where yet.
1 buried at La Carriere (no idea where exactly!)
1 at Strongpoint Corbiere (with adjacent ringstand) on the inside corner just above the main road, sealed but explored in the 1990s and found to be rather flooded. Not joined internally to the ringstand.
1 out at Elizabeth Castle "Nord"
1 at Sorel B (near the end of the road before the parking / turning area overlooking the west side of the quarry), sealed with concrete at each entrance.
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Welcome to our Friday mailbag edition!
Every week, we receive great questions from your fellow readers. And every Friday, I answer as many as I can.
This week, the conversation turns to the BRICS expansion I’ve been writing about (catch up here and here)… competition for the U.S. in the natural gas markets… and the inner workings of the global monetary system…
What are your thoughts on the Saudis joining the BRICS and dumping the petrodollar?
– Charlie P.
Thanks for writing in, Charlie.
This question couldn’t have come at a better time, with the BRICS gaining more and more attention lately.
As a reminder, BRICS represents the world’s leading developing countries. It’s short for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
On August 24, the BRICS announced six new member countries at its annual leader’s summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia, as you pointed out, will join Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in the BRICS+ bloc from January 1 next year.
So, it’s no longer just Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
And that’s a big deal. Here’s why.
The BRICS bloc is a global energy powerhouse. And we know that events in global energy markets can significantly affect energy prices right here in our own backyard.
BRICS countries currently account for about 68% of the world’s coal production, 21% of oil production, and 25% of natural gas production.
And guess what… the share of global fossil fuel production will grow even further with the BRICS’ recent expansion.
By adding three of the world’s largest oil producers – Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the UAE – the group is solidifying its role in a major global trade sector: oil exports.
This puts the BRICS in a unique position to challenge Western dominance. And one major way that it’s looking to do that is by reducing dependence on the U.S. dollar.
For the most part, the BRICS countries still primarily use the U.S. dollar for their transactions. But that could soon change with the addition of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the UAE.
You can be sure that the expanded BRICS alliance will make every effort to reduce U.S. dollar transactions in the global oil market… or even consider replacing the dollar with an alternative currency.
This move could siphon off a portion of U.S. oil trade. That’s the petrodollar trade you mention.
This would be a direct challenge to the U.S. dollar’s exclusive role in oil markets. Today, over 90% of all oil traded globally is priced in U.S. dollars. This is why the dollar is often referred to as the “petrodollar.”
If BRICS manages to cut down the use of the dollar in global oil transactions, that would be a major blow to the petrodollar. It would mean less demand for the U.S. dollar in international markets.
This could cause the dollar’s value to drop. And it could affect its status as a global reserve currency and make it less appealing to investors and central banks.
To be clear, the “dumping of the petrodollar” is not a scenario that will unfold overnight or even in the near future.
Yes, Brazil’s president floated the idea of BRICS nations having their own currency for trade and investment at the recent summit.
But many people were quick to point out the practical challenges, given the significant economic, political, and geographical differences among member countries.
Plus, the BRICS group lacks the institutional power and framework to issue any currency.
BRICS is not a binding organization like NATO. It can’t mandate its members to do anything, nor does it have UN-like sanctioning power.
It’s like a members-only club for countries that have a bone to pick with the U.S. and the West in general.
Now, don’t get me wrong – there’s a real desire in some parts of the world to reduce U.S. dominance and move away from the dollar.
The recent BRICS expansion is an important step in that direction, and it suggests a potential challenger to the U.S. dollar.
But as I’ve been writing, there’s an even more imminent threat.
As regular readers know, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and the financial elite are set to enact the biggest change to our money since 1971.
I’ve found evidence that they’re colluding to virtually “ban” cash – leading to the end of the dollar as we know it.
If you missed my recent video presentation with all the details, including my playbook for protecting and growing your wealth as this overhaul unfolds, click here to learn more.
How can the U.S. compete in the LNG markets when Iran and especially Qatar dominate supply?
– Gary & Kathie
Hi, Gary & Kathie! Thanks for writing in about liquefied natural gas (LNG). This is a great time to provide an update.
For readers not aware, LNG is how natural gas can be transported via ocean around the world.
In the U.S., natural gas is sent to terminals along the coast (mostly the Gulf and East coasts) where the gas is cooled to its liquid form at -260 degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s then loaded onto specialized ships for transport around the world. By converting it to a liquid, the volume of natural gas is about 600 times smaller than its gaseous state which makes transfer by ship economically viable.
LNG has also become a focal point for energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Europe being cut off from Russian natural gas supplies. And natural gas-producing countries around the world are stepping up to fill the supply gap with LNG.
But I think your question should be more about who can compete with the U.S.
That’s because the U.S. is already the top producer of natural gas globally. It has become a force to reckon with in the export market.
U.S. natural gas exports hit 6.9 trillion cubic feet last year, which is a 326% increase over the past decade. We’ve been exporting more natural gas than we import since 2017, so this isn’t a new development.
You’re right that other nations like Qatar and Australia dominated the LNG market in the past.
But thanks to ongoing investments in building more LNG infrastructure and our massive domestic shale reserves of natural gas, U.S. LNG exports have increased every year since 2016.
And the U.S. isn’t just set to become the top LNG country in the world… That’s a feat already accomplished.
The U.S. led the world in LNG export volumes back in the first half of 2022. It gave up that title briefly due to a fire at a large export terminal.
But the nation retook the top spot in the first half of this year, averaging 11.6 billion cubic feet of LNG every day… more than any other country including Qatar and Australia.
And it’s a lead that’s expected to grow.
Over the shorter term, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting that U.S. LNG volumes will reach over 15 billion cubic feet per day by the end of 2024 as two new export terminals come online.
That’s more than 30% higher compared to current output.
Over the longer term, another report sees additional LNG investments topping $100 billion by the end of this decade. That’s because global LNG demand is expected to increase by another 57% through 2035.
While Qatar and Australia are trying to keep up with their own LNG investments, the U.S. is expected to maintain global LNG leadership over at least the next five years based on planned projects and those under construction.
So I’m comfortable in saying that the U.S. should maintain its number one status in the LNG market for the foreseeable future.
And the exciting thing for investors is that there are many ways to play LNG demand for both share price appreciation and dividend income.
At my Energy Distortion Monitor advisory, we’ve already locked in four natural gas winners since last year. And we’re sitting on four other open gains, including two picks with a dividend yield of about 6% each.
Click here to learn more about this energy megatrend, along with my favorite ways to play it.
Where do countries borrow their money from in large quantities? If it’s the IMF, aren’t its funds raised by countries giving money to keep the IMF in control?
So how do countries so indebted fund the IMF so the IMF lends it back to the indebted countries? Does any debt really get paid back or does it over time just create a new monetary system to wipe out all the debt… Then, we start again?
– Craig L.
Thanks, Craig! It’s a great question, and the answer is multifaceted.
First things first, countries borrow money from various sources, not just the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
These include other countries, international organizations like the World Bank, private banks, and financial markets.
When a country faces financial challenges or needs to invest in infrastructure or social programs, it often seeks external financing to bridge the gap.
That’s where the IMF comes in.
Countries usually borrow from the IMF when they face financial problems. For example, they might need help managing balance of payments issues, implementing reforms, handling crises, or boosting policy credibility.
Even a strong U.S. dollar can wreak havoc on countries’ finances.
We saw this in 2022, when Egypt, Pakistan, and Ghana asked the IMF for bailouts.
A strong dollar made their own currencies weaker. And it made it harder for them to repay dollar-denominated debt and to trade for goods and raw materials. The IMF stepped in as a financial lifeline.
Now, it’s true that the IMF’s funds come from contributions made by its member countries.
When a country becomes a member of the IMF, it commits to providing a certain amount of money to the institution.
These contributions, often called quotas, are a bit like membership fees. The size of a country’s quota is determined by its economic size and financial strength.
So, you might be wondering, how does this work? How can heavily indebted countries contribute money to the IMF while they’re struggling with their own financial problems?
It’s an interesting dynamic.
It’s like contributing to a collective emergency fund. It’s a way of showing solidarity and being part of a global financial safety net.
When a country invests in the IMF, it’s essentially saying, “I’ll pitch in to help stabilize the global economy and provide assistance to other countries in times of need.”
Now, here’s where it gets a bit more complex.
Above, I mentioned that countries might borrow from the IMF when they face balance of payments problems. That means they’re struggling to pay for their imports or service their foreign debt.
The IMF steps in with financial support to help these countries stabilize their economies. This support often comes with conditions, such as implementing economic reforms to address underlying issues.
But, to your point, it might seem like a circular process. How can countries in debt contribute to the IMF, which then lends them money back?
It’s not a one-to-one exchange.
When countries contribute to the IMF, they’re essentially pooling their resources with other member countries to create a global financial safety net.
They don’t contribute with the expectation of receiving their contributions back in the form of loans.
As for debt repayment, that’s another complex issue. Some debt does get paid back, while in other cases, countries may negotiate with their creditors to restructure their debt.
Debt restructuring involves changing the terms of the loans, like stretching out the time to pay back or reducing interest rates. All of this is aimed at making things easier for the country that borrowed the cash.
I wrote about the IMF, the World Bank, and central banks’ roles in the global monetary system in my 2018 book, Collusion. I’ve shared a few excerpts in these pages, which you can read here.
And that’s all for this week’s mailbag! Thanks to everyone who wrote in.
If I didn’t get to your question this week, look out for my response in a future Friday mailbag edition.
I do my best to respond to as many of your questions and comments as I can. Just remember, I can’t give personal investment advice.
And if there are any other topics you’d like me to write about, I’d love to hear from you. Write me at [email protected].
Happy investing… and have a fantastic weekend!
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In an attempt to check the progress of the Finance Bill 2017 brought in by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the opposition on Wednesday plans to bring its own amendments to the much-debated bill in the Rajya Sabha.
Wednesday will also see a 7-hour long debate in the Lok Sabha on the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill which the government wants to roll out before 1 July. The BJP-led NDA government has so far enjoyed an easy run in the Budget session, enabling it to table the important GST and Finance Bill.
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Crucial GST Bill to be Debated in Lok Sabha
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Lok Sabha will discuss the GST Bill on Wednesday.
The Centre which plans to roll out the Bill by 1 July hoping for favourable discussions on four crucial bills related to the GST which were tabled in the lower house by Arun Jaitley on Tuesday.
Describing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill as “revolutionary”, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday expressed hope that all the GST related bills would be passed with consensus in the current budget session of Parliament.
Jaitley had introduced the GST Bill, 2017, along with three other related bills in the Lok Sabha, providing for a maximum GST rate of 40 percent on Tuesday.
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The Congress will move amendments to the GST bills on Wednesday, as it has concerns about some clauses in the bills and the manner of tabling those in Parliament, said a party leader on Tuesday.
Concerns were voiced in a strategy meeting of the Congress MPs in the Lok Sabha. The meeting was chaired by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, who is said to have encouraged the MPs to play the role of a “constructive opposition”.
Party sources said that Gandhi also told the members that the party should not be seen as a party against the GST.
Some senior Congress MPs also felt that the party should not be seen as one that is opposed to the proposed tax regime.
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Yechury has argued that the absence of these provisions will see companies indulging in fudging accounts to seek undue income-tax benefits or route its funds through shell companies.
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