One way that women are better than men

 

Throughout history and in our current modern era, particularly with numerous Republican-led states trying to put women's rights back into the Stone Age, men have had certain advantages over women.

But I'm not going to discuss that here.  What I am going to discuss is where women have a distinct advantage over men --

-- having orgasms.

Based on reporting and reading (because I haven't had the chance to experience it firsthand), women have great orgasms;  body-shaking, eye-rolling, toe-curling, wildly screaming avalanches of sexual pleasure. Furthermore, in one sexual experience, solo or duo or multiple, women can have several orgasms.

Men have one.  It's good (I've had quite a few), and they have their pluses, and they do have nice bonding aspects with lovely partners.  But after one, men have to recuperate and reload, and according to most sources, the actual orgasmic phase doesn't last as long as it does for women.

NOW it turns out women can have spiritually satisfying, sensually overwhelming, full-body orgasms.

It's not fair. Seriously.

Experts reveal what it's like to feel a 'full-body orgasm' like the LA Philharmonic woman, claiming it's 'like an earthquake inside of you'

(The 'LA Philharmonic' woman is described as a woman, unnamed, who released a keening wail of excitement during a symphonic performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.)

And the other thing is -- it doesn't even require sexual stimulation (though that helps).

It's truly not fair.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 28 - June 3, 2023: Miscou Island, New Brunswick, Canada

 

Finishing up a four lighthouse sequence, and back on calendrical track, this is considered one of the top lighthouses in New Brunswick. It's in the northern part, at the entrance to Chaleur Bay.  For a closer look at the location of the Miscou Island lighthouse, which is quite wild, click right here.  It appears to be a good place for camping and hiking. 

Here's an extended amount of information from the Lighthouse Directory (of course). 

"1856 (James Murray). Active; focal plane 24.5 m (80 ft); two white flashes every 7.5 s. 25.5 m (83 ft) octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern is red. A rotating 3rd order Fresnel lens (1910) remains in use. Fog horn (4 s blast every 60 s). The keeper's house and barn were removed from the site after automation of the light in 1988, but the barn was returned in 2002. ... This historic lighthouse was built by the Colony of New Brunswick prior to the confederation of 1867 that created the Dominion of Canada. The lighthouse was extended in height by 1.8 m (6 ft) in 1903. The station was recognized as a national historic site in 1974. ... Miscou Island represents the northeastern corner of New Brunswick; it is accessible by a bridge on NB 113 completed in 1996. Located at the end of NB 113 on Birch Point at the northern end of Miscou Island, guarding the entrance to Chaleur Bay."

 As you'll see from one of the pictures below, in the autumn, the peat bogs of Miscou Island turn bright red, with a few other colors mixed in. Quite striking.

Pretty woman post, Silvia Funes

 

In a slight change from a pretty girl post (well, the dividing line between girl and woman is somewhat indistinct), this time I'm going to do a pretty woman post. The subject is an Italian woman named Silvia Funes, and she is a dancer, choreographer, and director -- here's the web site for the dance troupe, with her bio.  

She is also in superb shape, and she also HAS a superb shape. Fortunately for those who admire such shapes and shapeliness, she posts frequently on her Instagram page, SilviaFunesFifth (the dance troupe/studio is the Centro per Danzatori Fifth. 

At least one website findable by search labeled her a MILF (I'm not completely sure of the M aspect of that acronym, but I think she is based on some of the photos).  She is indeed quite attractive and certainly appeals to certain aspect of maleness.

You may peruse the captured pictures below make a personal evaluation. I chose one picture to show her professional activity as a dancing instructor and director. The rest of them, well, you can try to figure out why I chose them.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 21 - 27, 2023: Pea Point Lighthouse, New Brunswick, Canada

 

The third in the series of lighthouses in the Canadian province of New Brunswick is Pea Point Lighthouse.  This one is also on the Bay of Fundy, but considerably further southwest than Cape Enrage.  In fact, it's not very far from the U.S. - Canada border, which is also the state of Maine.  See where that is on this map. The lighthouse is on an island right next to the Connors Brothers Nature Preserve at Pea Point.

The Lighthouse Directory tells us more about it.

"1965 (station established 1878). Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); continuous white light. 10 m (34 ft) square cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, rising from one corner of a 1-story concrete fog signal building. Fog horn (two 3 s blasts every 60 s). ... Located on a small island near the Grand Manan Island ferry terminal near Black's Harbour. Although it is possible to walk to the lighthouse at low tide, treacherous footing and rapidly changing tides make this hazardous."

 Video and pictures of the Pea Point Lighthouse below.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 14-20, 2023: Cape Enragé, New Brunswick, Canada

 

Moving to the next lighthouse in our series, this post is about the Cape Enragé light. It's historic, and it also happens to be directly south of Moncton on the coast of the Bay of Fundy, which means it must have  a large tidal range.

The location of this lighthouse is right here.

Information about this lighthouse, from the Lighthouse Directory:

"1870 (station established 1838). Active; focal plane 38 m (125 ft); green flash every 6 s. 9 m (29 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern is red. Fog horn (three 2 s blasts every 60 s). 2-story wood keeper's house restored, beginning in 1993, by students from Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton. ... The light station now houses the Cape Enragé Adventure Centre, which offers a variety of activities. ... This is now the northernmost light on the Bay of Fundy's west coast."

For more history, here is the Lighthouse Friends page. 

The pictures are below.  The lighthouse is on a bluff above some daunting cliffs.

Lighthouse of the Week, May 7-13, 2023: Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick, Canada

 

You may notice that this Lighthouse of the Week post for the first full week of May is actually being posted during the last week of May. I missed a bit of time, and a couple of weeks, on this blog, not that it matters to the state of the world.  So I'm going to do a bit of backfilling for May, and provide lighthouses for the month.

I examined some past posts, and I discovered that I had never posted a single lighthouse from the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Now, New Brunswick has a lot of coastline, including the northern shores of the Bay of Fundy, the southern coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the southern coast of Chaleur Bay.

Therefore, the next several Lighthouses of the Week will be from the province of New Brunswick.

The first one will be a traditional style, inactive but restored; the Cape Jourimain lighthouse.

It is located here. It's actually on an island, Trenholm Island, that is one of two islands that makes up the Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Area. The islands also provide support for the bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 

Lighthouse Friends has a page on it, with history.  However, it doesn't show the restored lighthouse.

So let's learn a bit about it from the Lighthouse Directory.

"1870. Inactive since 1997. 16 m (53 ft) octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. ... This historic lighthouse was deactivated in 1997 when the Confederation Bridge was completed to link New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. After being abandoned by the Coast Guard the lighthouse began to deteriorate. The nearby Cape Jourimain Nature Centre launched a drive for funds needed to repair and repaint the tower and began negotiating with Fisheries and Oceans to obtain ownership. The transfer of ownership finally took place in 2015, after the lighthouse was recognized as a Heritage Lighthouse. The lighthouse was threatened by erosion, so in August 2016 Mervil Rushton Building Movers relocated the tower 60 m (200 ft) back from the cliff. The lighthouse was restored in 2017-18 and in July 2019 it opened to the public for the first time."

Below are pictures of the restored lighthouse, followed by a video.

Video:

Well, I got excited (for a moment)

 

No, not that kind of excited.

When I read the headline on THIS article, I thought it possible, though unlikely, that an actual signal of intelligent life from somewhere else in the galaxy (pretty unlikely on this planet) had been detected.

Alien Planet Outside Our Solar System Is Sending Repeating Radio Signals Towards Earth, Scientists Say

Seriously, what would YOU think?

And if you read the article, it doesn't change your mind much, if you've jumped to a conclusion.

"The signals, which were detected by the Breakthrough Listen project, are coming from a planet called YZ Ceti, which is located about 130 light-years from Earth.

The discovery of these signals is a major step forward in the search for alien life. It is the first time that scientists have detected repeating radio signals from an Earth-like planet. The signals are also very strong, which suggests that they could be coming from an intelligent civilization."

 Wait just a minute, I thought. I can't believe that they would make a statement like this, and yet have this not be major news all over this planet.

So I looked up the research paper.

Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet-host YZ Ceti

So let's read the abstract:

"Observing magnetic star–planet interactions (SPIs) offers promise for determining the magnetic fields of exoplanets. Models of sub-Alfvénic SPIs predict that terrestrial planets in close-in orbits around M dwarfs can induce detectable stellar radio emission, manifesting as bursts of strongly polarized coherent radiation observable at specific planet orbital positions. Here we present 2–4 GHz detections of coherent radio bursts on the slowly rotating M dwarf YZ Ceti, which hosts a compact system of terrestrial planets, the innermost of which orbits with a two-day period. Two coherent bursts occur at similar orbital phases of YZ Ceti b, suggestive of an enhanced probability of bursts near that orbital phase. We model the system’s magnetospheric environment in the context of sub-Alfvénic SPIs and determine that YZ Ceti b can plausibly power the observed flux densities of the radio detections. However, we cannot rule out stellar magnetic activity without a well-characterized rate of non-planet-induced coherent radio bursts on slow rotators. YZ Ceti is therefore a candidate radio SPI system, with unique promise as a target for long-term monitoring."

What's an "M dwarf", you ask?

It took me a bit of time to find a good explanation. This page is pretty good. 

Class M Star

"A Class M star is the type that consists of some of the dimmest of the main sequence stars. Such main sequence Class M stars are known as red dwarfs, though the category can also include very late Class K stars that may be nearly convective and early Class L stars able to fuse hydrogen. They are typically described as red or red-orange. They are by far the most common type of luminous star, making up roughly 76% of all main sequence stars."

It notes that most M class stars are red dwarfs.

So, I guess, that the magnetic fields of the M-class dwarf YZ Ceti interact with the orbiting planet regularly, which generates these repeating radio signals.

Not quite as exciting as the detection of intelligent life in another solar system, but hey, it was interesting while it lasted. 

Here's a more explanatory article about all of this, and I grabbed their illustration, too.

Astronomers Detect Radio Emission Associated with Magnetic Field of Nearby Exoplanet

"YZ Ceti and one of its three known planets, YZ Ceti b, provide an ideal pair because the planet is so close to the star that it completes a full orbit in only two days.

As plasma from YZ Ceti careens off the planet’s magnetic ‘plow,’ it then interacts with the magnetic field of the star itself, which generates radio waves strong enough to be observed on Earth.

The strength of those radio waves can then be measured, allowing astronomers to determine how strong the magnetic field of the planet might be."