Welcome to my front porch in summer. The weather has been glorious, cool in the mornings and warm in the afternoons. Perfect for "setting a spell". Walk on down the pathway to our front door . . . under the apple tree, through the bird feeders, and past the bubbling fountain.
This is the porch swing that Mr. OTN and a friend hung for me last summer. I purchased the seat cushion from World Market and made pillows out of outdoor fabrics.
I was planning on sewing cord covers for the chains until I saw what Laurie over at Heaven's Walk did with her porch swing. Her "whimsical gypsy swing" is gorgeous. I think she did a lot more wrapping of the chains on hers, and she has wonderful flowy curtains on her porch and . . . well . . . you really should just go over there and take a look. Don't forget to come back though . . . her blog is addicting!
This was so easy to do. I simply tore strips of leftover fabric and started tying them onto the chains.
Aren't they pretty when they blow in the breeze?
My Rosette Wreath is still hanging on the porch but I've added a wild grapevine wreath behind it for more layering.
If you haven't seen the tutorial for this wreath you can link up HERE.
Next to my swing is a 3-tiered succulent planter made from a Goodwill find. Directions for this are also on a previous post that you can find it right HERE.
a lantern and a driftwood wreath.
No tutorial needed for this wreath. I simply made it by glue gunning pieces of gathered driftwood onto a purchased grapevine wreath.
I won't say it was hard to do but I did tear it apart a few times to get the driftwood to look like it had collected naturally into a pile rather than being perfectly placed. Perfection is my enemy!
with one of our Beagles, Cozy, contemplating escape, and our porch guard dog, Beauregard. He is often relegated to holding the collections I bring home until they dry out and the bugs crawl away.
I'm so happy you came by for a visit and I really hope you'll come back soon. There is always something new happening at our place!
Last weekend I went on a "great explore!" I've mentioned in previous posts that I'll be participating in my first ever French Flea Market in September, so when I heard that Haley's Cottage in Kirkland was sponsoring a French Inspired Flea Market I was ready to put on my Big Boots (sandals actually) and hit the road. I grabbed my friend Linda, who will be sharing a booth with me, and our two hubbies, who may be helpful with set construction (fingers crossed) and off we went on our adventure!
Here is a peek at some of the pretties we saw!
Isn't this emerald green couch great? They were literally stepping in to cart it away while I was snapping it's picture.
I did a little oohing and awing over these succulents in pewter pots!
While Mr. OTN was schmoozing (one of his favorite things to do) he ran into this sweet couple visiting all the way from Tennessee. A fellow blogger and photographer I had to have a picture! See the old film reels she's holding? She found them for the wall of her studio at JenniferLawrencePhotography.
and these two chairs made over into a bench. A very OldThingsNew kinda thing to do!
One booth had so much vintage jewelry that I didn't know where to start. I got a little stuck here and ended up with a pretty broach to go on my ragged old jean jacket.
A few of the vendors kindly let me take their pictures displaying their wares. Thanks ladies.
This was my favorite piece of the day with all of it's distressed wood, rusty parts and mismatched pulls. Beautiful!
At the end of our shopping day Mr. OTN made me pose for a picture myself . . . a little distressed, rusty and mismatched also. Where were you Linda?
It was a good day and I came home super motivated to get to work on my own projects. If you are in our area be sure to mark your calendars for the Queen Bee French Flea in September!


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As a parent of three young children, the distinction between weekdays and weekends that once punctuated my life is no longer relevant. Weekends are instead swamped by the demands of a trio of little princesses, and putting out spot fires such as who has control over the iPad, which Shopkins belong to whom, and encountering meltdowns over such large-scale matters as the size of the Freddo Frogs I brought home as a treat.
"Mine is too big!" the middle child wails. Beautiful stuff.
In TDBK – The Days Before Kids – each day of the week had a specific feel; the wincing and, at times, wallowing of Monday and Tuesday; the speed humps and pub trivia of Wednesday; the getting-there anticipation of Thursday; before Friday and Saturday bestowed a fallacy of freedom.
Sunday has always been a different beast. It's a day of merriment for settled souls; for others, it can be a default of headaches and grey skies. Reality invariably bites on the last day of the week; it's no wonder there have been so many memorable songs written about Sunday.
I started sketching out a list of 'Monday to Sunday' songs with a plan to whittle it down to 10. That proved too hard, so I went with 15. Here they are:
1. One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) Wilco (2011)
2. Friday On My Mind The Easybeats (1966)
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 (1983)
4. Friday I'm In Love The Cure (1992)
5. Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. Simon & Garfunkel (1964)
6. Sunday Morning The Velvet Underground (1967)
7. Monday Matt Corby (2015)
8. Drive-In Saturday David Bowie (1973)
9. Lazy Sunday Small Faces (1968)
10. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down Johnny Cash (1970)
11. Joe Harper Saturday Morning Van Morrison (1991)
12. Blue Monday New Order (1983)
13. Sunday Bloc Party (2007)
14. I Don't Like Mondays The Boomtown Rats (1979)
15. Ruby Tuesday The Rolling Stones (1967)
Bloc PartyBoomtown RatsDavid BowieEasybeatsJohnny CashMatt CorbyMondayMusicNew OrderparentingRolling StonesSimon & GarfunkelSmall FacesSundayThe CureU2Van MorrisonVelvet UndergroundweekdaysweekendsWilco
"Haley's Friendship Challenge" by Louie Lawent

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JD McPherson (Saturday)
The Hangar on the Hudson
Online sales have ended tickets may still be available at the door.
Undivided Heart & Soul is JD McPhersons first studio album in nearly three years and follows his critically acclaimed Let The Good Times Roll (2015). Co-produced by McPherson and Dan Molad (Lucius, Here We Go Magic) and recorded at the Historic RCA Studio B in Nashville, TN, the highly anticipated new album debuted on Billboards Top 200 chart, as well as at #1 for Top New Artist Albums and #1 for Americana/Folk Albums. This soul-baring collection is a snapshot of McPhersons creative process bringing the record to life, a journey filled with fear and change, then boldness, and, eventually catharsis.
JD returns to Troy NY for a two night stand at the Hangar on the Hudson.
This ticket link is for Saturday's show only.
Show @ 8pm
Opener TBA
The Hangar on the Hudson (View)
Music > Americana
Music > Rock
Music > Rockabilly
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Asian investors snap up three more Bordeaux properties
Jane Anson May 14, 2013
Patarabet
Bordeaux Vintage Guides
Chateau de Pic in the Cadillac Cotes de Bordeaux, Chateau l'Enclos in Sainte Foy la Grande and Chateau Patarabet in Saint Emilion are the latest Bordeaux estates to reportedly pass into the hands of Asian investors.
Patarabet… 'change of owner'
This follows the recent announcement of the sale of Chateau La Fleur Jonquet in the Graves to Chinese architect Wengcheng Li.
Chateau Patarabet's website has been announcing full sale of its stock 'following change of owner' for several months, but the final document has not yet been signed.
The 9ha estate has been owned by the Gombeau-Bordas family since 1920, but Madame Bordas was not prepared to comment on the expected date of completion.
'As long as I am still owner, I have no comment to make,' she told Decanter.com. It is believed, however, that the purchaser is a Singaporean investor who already owns one property in Saint Emilion.
Chateau L'Enclos has reportedly been sold to Cheng Qu, owner of the Haichang Group, and the driving force behind the Dalian wine festival in China.
He is already owner of numerous Bordeaux estates including Chateau Baby (also in Sainte Foy), Chateau Chenu-Lafitte and Chateau Branda. This 24-ha property has been owned by Isabelle and Eric Bonneville since late 2002, and has Stéphane Derenoncourt as wine consultant.
Another recent transaction, a spokesperson at the chateau confirmed, is the 44ha Chateau de Pic in Cadillac. The estate was on the market for at least three years prior to its purchase by Chinese industrialist Mr Wu, whose principal activity is the distribution of baiju alcohol in China. Wu has employed a Chinese manager to live full-time at the property.
There are at least two other transactions that are due to go through in the next month, Decanter.com understands, including one large Fronsac property.
Written by Jane Anson in Bordeaux


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The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman, who died on Monday, had a grand-diva façade that concealed a restless, exploratory spirit.Photograph by Philippe Wojazer / AFP / Getty
When Jessye Norman was ten years old, she heard a recording of the great African-American contralto Marian Anderson singing Brahms's "Alto Rhapsody." Norman later told the critic Matthew Gurewitsch, "I listened, thinking, 'But this can't just be a voice! A voice doesn't sound this rich and beautiful.' It was quite a revelation. And I wept, not knowing anything about what it meant. I just thought, 'It must be terribly important, this music.' "
Norman, who died on Monday, at the age of seventy-four, is herself an object of disbelieving awe—a phenomenon over which singers of the future can wonder and weep. In her prime, she let loose sounds of shimmering magnificence. Her timbre carried with it a sonic chiaroscuro: pure tones gleamed out of depth and shadow. I remember the dazed bliss I felt on first hearing her recording of "Im Abendrot" ("At Dusk"), from Strauss's "Four Last Songs." There was something superhuman or even extra-human about the lustre of the voice. It painted of its own accord the image that the song conjures: a sky glowing red against the encroaching dark.
This most regal of singers was born in 1945 into the Jim Crow South, beginning her life in a segregated wing of Augusta University Hospital, in Augusta, Georgia. Marian Anderson was one of the reigning symbols of African-American achievement: in Norman's childhood, memories were still fresh of the contralto's legendary performance at the Lincoln Memorial, in 1939, before a vast crowd. The racial barriers that had blocked Anderson's operatic career were lifting by the time Norman began making her way. Still, like Anderson and many others before her, she found fame in Europe first. While she was still in her twenties, she was winning acclaim at the Deutsche Oper, La Scala, and Covent Garden. Her Met début did not come until 1983.
Early on, Norman laid claim to weighty German repertory, which suited the innate power and capacious range of her voice. The Interlochen Center of the Arts has released an electrifying 1968 recording of her singing "Allmächt'ge Jungfrau," from "Tannhäuser"; she was all of twenty-two. She made her stage début in "Tannhäuser" the following year, in Berlin. This Germanic orientation was not unprecedented among African-American singers: Simon Estes was making his name in Wagner in the same period; Grace Bumbry had sung "Tannhäuser" in Bayreuth in 1961; and, back at the turn of the century, the contralto Luranah Aldridge had an abbreviated career specializing in Wagner.
Norman brought to bear an inborn authority, which had the effect of reconfiguring the racial tensions surrounding Wagner's music. Among the most word-conscious of singers, she mastered the German language and immersed herself in the texts. She justly took pride in the precision of her diction. One peculiarly touching document of her career is an account of Isolde's Transfiguration, the final monologue of "Tristan," with Herbert von Karajan leading the Vienna Philharmonic. The aged maestro, conducting this music for the last time, is obviously in love with the sound of Norman's voice, to the point of becoming distracted.
Jessye Norman in Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aneas," in 1984.Photograph from AFP / Getty
Sadly, her prime years were somewhat brief. She began encountering vocal difficulties in the nineties, particularly in her upper range. When I started regularly attending concerts and opera in New York, in 1992, problems had already set in. I recall a sometimes thrilling, sometimes excruciating attempt at Brünnhilde's "Immolation Scene" with the New York Philharmonic, in 1995. Veteran critics like Peter G. Davis, of New York, complained of a mounting tendency toward grandiose posturing. Her hauteur was immortalized in Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film, "Diva," where police, gangsters, and connoisseurs go in pursuit of an illicit tape of an aloof opera star named Cynthia Hawkins. Closer to home, Jessye Normous, the alter ego of the performer Shequida Hall, has long been a fixture of the New York drag-queen circuit.
The grand-diva façade concealed a restless, exploratory spirit. In later years, Norman became increasingly adventurous in her choice of repertory; in 1995, I heard her give a charged, sensuous reading of Messiaen's "Poèmes pour Mi." She presented programs of spirituals, gospel, and blues; she filled the huge space of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with selections from Duke Ellington's "Sacred Concerts." I last saw her perform, in 2012, when she participated in a San Francisco Symphony performance of John Cage's "Songbooks," forming an improbable trio with the vocalist-composers Meredith Monk and Joan La Barbara. In keeping with Cage's instructions, the majestic soprano sat at a typewriter and repeatedly banged out a sentence from Erik Satie, in French: "The artist has no right to waste the audience's time."
All this week, links to beloved Norman performances have bounced around social media. Some recurring favorites are her hyper-radiant unfurling of "O hehrstes Wunder," from "Die Walküre"; her voice-of-eternity turn in Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites"; her hysterically bombastic enactment of the "Marseillaise," at the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution; her shiver-inducing rendition of Ernest Chausson's "Poème de l'amour et de la mer"; and her imposing Cassandre in Berlioz's "Les Troyens," the occasion of her Met début.
"Im Abendrot" is mentioned more often than most. Norman made her classic recording of the Four Last Songs in 1983, with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. (There is also a video of a 1979 performance with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.) No performance should be described as definitive—particularly not one as idiosyncratic as this. The tempo is exceedingly slow; Norman luxuriates in the music for a full ten minutes, while singers on the order of Lisa della Casa, Lucia Popp, and Gundula Janowitz need only six or seven. The manner is monumental; there is little fragility or vulnerability. Still, Norman's version is too much a part of my own emotional history to yield to any other. After Norman's death, it became clear that many people feel the same.
The topic is death. Strauss set Joseph von Eichendorff's poem to music at the end of his long life, and, lest anyone miss the fact that he was contemplating his own twilight, he inserted a quotation from his youthful tone poem "Death and Transfiguration." The final lines are these:
O broad, tranquil peace!
So deep in the dusk!
How tired we are from travel—
Is this perhaps death?
Under Norman's aegis, "Im Abendrot" becomes a fantasy of the kind of death we all wish we could have. Before the last silence, with birdcalls in the woodwinds, there is a spell of absolute fulfillment, of all-embracing spiritual warmth. In the video with Sawallisch, the singer closes her eyes and assumes a mask of supreme wisdom.
Let's hope that Norman found a few such moments of repose toward the end. She suffered a spinal-cord injury in 2015, and spent her last years in a wheelchair. Still, she kept on singing, travelling, and holding forth. A video from Atlanta, in 2016, shows her glorying in one of her signature encores, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." She then exits in her wheelchair, which has become another kind of throne.
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Decentralized Data Storage Platform Storj Migrates to Ethereum Network From Bitcoin
March 29, 2017 by Joseph Young at Blockchain, Business, Ethereum, News
Storj, the open-source distributed cloud storage platform, officially migrated from the bitcoin-based Counterparty protocol to the Ethereum network on March 23. Bitcoin browser Brave is also looking to the Ethereum blockchain to add value to its offering. Storj is a protocol which operates as a decentralized data storage platform wherein...
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Storj, an emerging service provider for distributed cloud storage, has secured $3 million in a seed funding round. The offering proved to be a massive hit, with demand exceeding availability. Investors from all over participated, such as Google Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures to name a couple. While traditional data centers...
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Your dance is as spiritual as you are.
If you´re not in contact with your invisible, energetic, spiritual dimension, you´ll feel challenged at this learning stage. If you don´t believe you´re more than a physical body, I´d doubt you´ll be able to dance from your soul.
This is probably the trickiest aspect of Egyptian Dance, one that teachers are often unable to articulate.
Spirituality is easily confused with religion, New Age mambo jambo, cheesy cults. It´s considered distant, exotic, unreacheable, weird, dangerous. We tend to fear what we cannot touch.
But, as I´ve mentioned, the spirit is who you are. You may identify with the physical body but that does not define you. Your soul does.
One of the most beautiful things I´ve observed, as a teacher, is how Egyptian Dance shows students the way to their soul. It takes them by the hand, smoothly, without them realizing it. It pulls them up naturally. Inevitably.
I use specific methods – pedagogy – to open up their physical, mental and emotional bodies but, if all the other stages are properly developed, the spiritual realm takes care of itself. It flows like water running from its source towards the sea. Nobody needs to push it, or show it the way – it knows how to get to its destination. That´s exactly how I´ve witnessed the arrival to this 4th, and higher, stage of the dance path.
We start from the ground, focused on our physical body; we move upwards, and forward, integrating the mental stage which will be followed by the emotional stage.
Sooner or later, if you keep going, you´ll be lead to the spiritual stage.
I´d go as far as telling you the first 3 stages require work, focus, proper guidance, discipline – you don´t go through them without effort or a professional, awakened, teacher.
The 4th stage is effortless – it´s a flower blooming under the sun; an ascension that feels like falling; a consequence of the work you´ve done from the ground. The 4th stage is the blooming of the flower after you´ve planted its seed and watered it. If you show up to fulfill your gardening job, the flower will bloom by itself.
It´s the most beautiful show on earth. Few things give me as much pleasure as watching my students bloom into this 4th stage of development – watching them return home, finding peace and solace in their own essence.
Once they reach this stage, they can never go back to superficiality or lies about themselves and the dance. Once they´re at the top of the Pyramid, they see the Big Picture from above. Their feet may remain on the ground but their dance belongs to the Universe – they become a Bridge between Heaven and Earth.
The question is: the top of the pyramid is a lonely place. Few ever get there.


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"The Domain", Airl, female, femanine
FEMININE PRESENCE
"I have always felt that the alien being was not really trying to hide anything from me. I just never got that feeling. Her communication always seemed honest and sincere to me. But, I suppose you can never know for sure. I definitely feel that I shared a unique "bond" with the alien. It was a kind of "trust" or empathy that you have with a patient, or a child. I think this is because the alien could understand that I was really interested in "her" and had no harmful intention, nor would I allow any harm to come to her, if I could prevent it. This was true too.
I refer to the alien as "her". Actually, the being was not sexual in any way, either physiologically or psychologically. "She" did have a rather strong, feminine presence and demeanor. However, in terms of physiology, the being was "asexual" and had no internal or external reproductive organs. Her body was more like the body of a "doll" or "robot". There were no internal "organs", as the body was not constructed of biological cells. It did have a kind of "circuit" system or electrical nervous system that ran throughout the body, but I could not understand how it worked.
"Since her body was not biological it didn't need any food, air or heat, and apparently, she didn't sleep either. There were no eyelids, or eyebrows above her eyes, so the eyes didn't close. I don't think anyone could tell whether she was sleeping or awake as long as she was sitting upright in the chair. Unless she moved her body or gestured with her hand, it would be hard to tell whether she was even alive or not, unless you could perceive her thoughts.
Eventually I learned that the alien was not identified by her body, but by her "personality", so to speak. She was known by her fellow aliens as "Airl". This is the closest word I can use to describe the name using the English alphabet. I sensed that she preferred the feminine gender. I think we shared a natural, female empathy and nurturing attitude toward life and each other. I am sure she did not feel comfortable with the combative, aggressive, domineering attitude of the male officers and agents, each of whom was more concerned with their own personal self-importance and power than with discovering the secrets of the universe!"
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BODY TRAP
October 20, 2022 admin 1 Comment
"The core concept behind 'sexual reproduction' technology was the invention of a chemical/electronic interaction called "cyclical stimulus-response generators". [i] (Footnote) This is an programmed genetic mechanism which causes a seemingly spontaneous, recurring impulse to reproduce. The same technique was later adapted and applied to biological flesh bodies, including Homo Sapiens.
Another important mechanism used in the reproductive process, especially with Homo Sapiens type bodies, is the implantation of a "chemical-electrical trigger" mechanism [ii] (Footnote) in the body. The "trigger" which attracts IS-BEs to inhabit a human body, or any kind of "flesh body", is the use of an artificially imprinted electronic wave which uses "aesthetic pain" to attract the IS-BE.
Every trap in the universe, including those used to capture IS-BEs who remain free, is "baited" with an aesthetic electronic wave. The sensations caused by the aesthetic wavelength are more attractive to an IS-BE than any other sensation. When the electronic waves of pain and beauty are combined together, this causes the IS-BE to get "stuck" in the body.
The "reproductive trigger" used for lesser life forms, such as cattle and other mammals, is triggered by chemicals emitted from the scent glands, combined with reproductive chemical-electrical impulses stimulated by testosterone, or estrogen. [iii] (Footnote)
These are also interactive with nutrition levels which cause the life form to reproduce more when deprived of food sources. Starvation promotes reproductive activity as a means of perpetuating survival through future regenerations, when the current organism fails to survive. These fundamental principles have been applied throughout all species of life.
The debilitating impact and addiction to the "sexual aesthetic-pain" electronic wave [iv] (Footnote) is the reason that the ruling class of The Domain do not inhabit flesh bodies. This is also why officers of The Domain Forces only use doll bodies. This wave has proven to be the most effective trapping device ever created in the history of the universe, as far as I know.
The civilizations of The Domain and the "Old Empire" both depend on this device to "recruit" and maintain a work force of IS-BEs who inhabit flesh bodies on planets and installations. These IS-BEs are the "working class" beings who do all of the slavish, manual, undesirable work on planets."
Excerpt from the Top Secret military transcripts published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW
[i] "…"cyclical stimulus-response generators".
"Fixed Action Pattern (FAP) is an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion. Fixed action patterns are invariant and are produced by a neural network known as the innate releasing mechanism in response to an external sensory stimulus known as a sign stimulus or releaser.
A mating dance may be used as an example. Many species of birds engage in a specific series of elaborate movements, usually by a brightly colored male. How well they perform the "dance" is then used by females of the species to judge their fitness as a potential mate. The key stimulus is typically the presence of the female.
Although fixed action patterns are most common in animals with simpler cognitive capabilities, humans also demonstrate fixed action patterns. For example, infants grasp strongly with their hands as a response to tactile stimulus."
Reference: Wikipedia.org
[ii] "…chemical-electrical trigger" mechanism…"
"A taxis (plural taxes) is an innate behavioural response by an organism to a stimulus. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus. It also differs from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus that results in the illusion of directed motion due to different rates of activity depending on stimulus intensity.
For example, flagellate protozoans of the genus Euglena move towards a light source. Here the directional stimulus is light, and the orientation movement is towards the light. This reaction or behaviour is a positive one to light and specifically termed "positive phototaxis", since phototaxis is a response to a light stimulus, and the organism is moving towards the stimulus. If the organism moves away from the stimulus, then the taxis is negative. Many types of taxis have been identified and named using prefices to specify the stimulus that elicits the response. These include anemotaxis (stimulation by wind), barotaxis (pressure), chemotaxis (chemicals), galvanotaxis (electrical current), geotaxis (gravity), hydrotaxis (moisture), phototaxis (light), rheotaxis (fluid flow), thermotaxis (temperature changes) and thigmotaxis (physical contact).
Chemotaxis is a migratory response elicited by chemicals. Unicellular (e.g. protozoa) or multicellular (e.g. worms) organisms are targets of the substances. A concentration gradient of chemicals developed in a fluid phase guides the vectorial movement of responder cells or organisms.
Electrotaxis is directional movement of motile cells in response to a electric field. It has been suggested that by detecting and orientating themselves toward the electric fields. This notion is based on 1) the existence of measurable electric fields that naturally occur during wound healing, development and regeneration; and 2) cells in cultures respond to applied electric fields by directional cell."
— Reference: Wikipedia.org
[iii] "… reproductive chemical-electrical impulses stimulated by testosterone or estrogen."
"Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid.
The period of the early 1930's to the 1950's has been called "The Golden Age of Steroid Chemistry", and work during this period progressed quickly. Research in this golden age proved that this newly synthesized compound — testosterone — or rather family of compounds (for many derivatives were developed in the 1940's, 50's and 60's), was a potent multiplier of muscle, strength, and wellbeing
In both men and women, testosterone plays a key role in health and well-being as well as in sexual functioning.
The human hormone testosterone is produced in greater amounts by males, and less by females. The human hormone estrogen is produced in greater amounts by females, and less by males. On average, an adult human male body produces about forty to sixty times more testosterone than an adult female body.
Testosterone causes the appearance of masculine traits (i.e deepening voice, pubic and facial hairs, muscular build, etc.) Like men, women rely on testosterone to maintain libido, bone density and muscle mass throughout their lives."
[iv] "The debilitating impact and addiction to the "sexual aesthetic-pain" electronic wave…"
"The term Sexual addiction is used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or obsession with sex. Sexual addiction, also called sexual compulsion is a form of psychological addiction.
The behavior of sex addicts is comparable to behavior of alcoholics and addicts, where sex functions like a drug. A common definition of alcoholism is that a person has a pathological relationship with this mood altering drug. It provides a quick mood change, works every time and the user loses control over their compulsion. Like alcoholics, sex addicts' lives rotate around the constant desire for their "drug" of choice."
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In stature and appearance the body was quite short and petite. About 40 inches tall. The head was disproportionately large, relative to arms, legs and torso, which where thin. There were three "fingers" on each of two" hands" and "feet" which were somewhat prehensile. [i] (Footnote) The head had no operational "nose" or "mouth" or "ears". I understood that a space officer does not need these as space has no atmosphere to conduct sound. Therefore, sound related sensory organs are not built into the body. Nor does the body need to consume food, hence, the absence of a mouth.
The eyes were quite large. I was never able to determine the exact degree of visual acuity of which the eyes were capable, but I observed that her sense of sight must have been extremely acute. I think the lenses of the eyes, which were very dark and opaque, may also have been able to detect waves or particles beyond the visual spectrum of light. [ii] (Footnote) I suspect that this may have included the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum, [iii] (Footnote) or more, but I do not know this for sure.
When the being looked at me her gaze seemed to penetrate right through me, as though she had "x-ray vision". [iv] (Footnote) I found this a little embarrassing, at first, until I realized that she had no sexual intentions. In fact, I don't think she ever even had the thought that I was male or female.
It became very obvious after a short time with the being that her body did not require oxygen, food or water or any other external source of nutrition or energy. As I learned later, this being supplied her own "energy", which animated and operated the body. It seemed a little bit eerie at first, but I got used to the idea. It's really a very, very simple body. There is not much to it, compared to our own bodies.
Airl explained to me that it was not mechanical, like a robot, nor was it biological. It is animated directly by her as a spiritual being. Technically, from a medical standpoint, I would say that Airl's body could not even be called "alive". Her "doll" body is not a biological life form, [v] (Footnote) with cells, and so forth.
It had a smooth skin, or covering which was gray in color. The body was highly tolerant to changes in temperature, atmospheric conditions, and pressure. The limbs were quite frail, without musculature. In space there is no gravity, [vi] (Footnote)so very little muscle strength is needed. The body was used almost entirely on space craft or in low, or no-gravity environments. Since Earth has a heavy gravity, the body was not able to walk around very well as the legs were not really suited to that purpose. The feet and hands were quite flexible and agile however."
— Excerpt from the Top Secret Transcripts published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW
[i] "…prehensile…"
"The word is derived from the Latin term prehendere, meaning "to grasp." It is the quality of an organ that has adapted for grasping or holding. Examples of prehensile body parts include the tails of New World monkeys and opossums, the trunks of elephants, the tongues of giraffes, the lips of horses and the proboscides of tapir. The hands of primates are all prehensile to varying degrees, and many species (even a few humans) have prehensile feet as well. The claws of cats are also prehensile. Many extant lizards have prehensile tails (geckos, chameleons, and a species of skink). The fossil record shows prehensile tails in lizards (Simiosauria) going back many million years to the Triassic period .
Prehensility is an evolutionary adaptation that has afforded species a great natural advantage in manipulating their environment for feeding, digging, and defense. It enables many animals, such as primates, to use tools in order to complete tasks that would otherwise be impossible without highly specialized anatomy. For example, chimpanzees have the ability to use sticks to fish for termites and grubs. However, not all prehensile organs are applied to tool use- the giraffe tongue, for instance, is instead used in feeding and self-cleaning behaviors."
[ii] "… able to detect waves or particles beyond the visual spectrum of light."
The visible spectrum (or sometimes called the optical spectrum) is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths in air from about 380 to 750 nm. The corresponding wavelengths in water and other media are reduced by a factor equal to the refractive index. In terms of frequency, this corresponds to a band in the vicinity of 400-790 terahertz. A light-adapted eye generally has its maximum sensitivity at around 555 nm (540 THz), in the green region of the optical spectrum. The spectrum does not, however, contain all the corlors that the human eyes and brain can distinguish. Brown, pink, and magenta are absent, for example, because they need a mix of multiple wavelengths, preferably shades of red.
Wavelengths visible to the eye also pass through the "optical window", the region of the electromagnetic spectrum which passes largely unattenuated through the Earth's atmosphere (although blue light is scattered more than red light, which is the reason the sky is blue). The response of the human eye is defined by subjective testing, but the atmospheric windows are defined by physical measurement. The "visible window" is so called because it overlaps the human visible response spectrum; the near infrared windows lie just out of human response window, and the Medium Wavelength and Long Wavelength or Far Infrared are far beyond the human response region.
The eyes of many species perceive wavelengths different from the spectrum visible to the human eye. For example, many insects, such as bees, can see light in the ultraviolet, which is useful for finding nectar in flowers. For this reason, plant species whose life cycles are linked to insect pollination may owe their reproductive success to their appearance in ultraviolet light, rather than how colorful they appear to our eyes."
[iii] "… this may have included the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum…"
"The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic radiation. The "electromagnetic spectrum" (usually just spectrum) of an object is the characteristic distribution of electromagnetic radiation from that object.
The electromagnetic spectrum extends from below the frequencies used for modern radio (at the long-wavelength end) through gamma radiation (at the short-wavelength end), covering wavelengths from thousands of kilometres down to a fraction the size of an atom. It's thought that the short wavelength limit is the vicinity of the Planck length, and the long wavelength limit is the size of the universe itself, although in principle the spectrum is infinite and continuous."
[iv] "… her gaze seemed to penetrate right through me, as though she had "x-ray vision".
"In fictional stories, X-ray vision has generally been portrayed as the ability to see through layers of objects at the discretion of the holder of this superpower. People often pretend to have this ability through the use of X-ray glasses, which are a special type of "joke-around" or prank-gag toys with the secret of its "x-ray properties" being unknown. The goal is usually to see through clothing, usually to determine if someone is carrying a concealed weapon, but sometimes for purpose of seeing a person's private parts. In the non-fictional realm, X-rays have many practical uses in the fields of science and medicine. While there are devices currently extant which can "see" through clothing (using terahertz waves), most are quite bulky. However, there are night vision equipped video cameras that can be modified to see through clothing at a frequency just below visible light."
— Source Reference: Wikipedia.org
[v] …"Technically, from a medical standpoint, I would say that Airl's body could not even be called "alive". "
"The word "organism" may broadly be defined as an assembly of molecules that function as a more or less stable whole and has the properties of life. However, many sources, lexical and scientific, add conditions that are problematic to defining the word.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an organism as "[an] individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form". This definition problematically excludes non-animal and plant multi-cellular life forms such as some fungi and protista. Less controversially, perhaps, it excludes viruses and theoretically-possible man-made non-organic life forms.
Chambers Online Reference provides a much broader definition: "any living structure, such as a plant, animal, fungus or bacterium, capable of growth and reproduction". The definition "any life form capable of independent reproduction, organic or otherwise" would encompass all cellular life, as well as the possibility of synthetic life capable of independent reproduction, but would exclude viruses, which are dependent on the biochemical machinery of a host cell for reproduction. Some may use a definition that would also include viruses."
[vi] "…in space there is not gravity…"
"The terms gravitation and gravity are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but in scientific usage a distinction may be made. "Gravitation" is a general term describing the attractive influence that all objects with mass exert on each other, while "gravity" specifically refers to a force that is supposed in some theories (such as Newton's) to be the cause of this attraction. By contrast, in general relativity gravitation is due to space-time curvatures that cause inertially moving objects to accelerate towards each other.
Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation is a physical law describing the gravitational attraction between bodies with mass. It is a part of classical mechanics and was first formulated in Newton's work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687. In modern language it states the following:
Every point mass attracts every other point mass by a force pointing along the line intersecting both points. The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses:
F is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two point masses,
G is the gravitational constant,
m1 is the mass of the first point mass,
m2 is the mass of the second point mass,
r is the distance between the two point masses."


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A Pair of Kings Trump the Day!
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Following up Things Your Fantasy Or Science Fiction Story Needs, when you're writing science fiction or fantasy, there are a few things you need to do with your settings and characters to make a good, solid work.
Be clear on what you're talking about
Remember what is going to be novel and what is going to be mundane to your characters
Use your extraordinary elements to create extraordinary adventures.
So, in summary...
In one story I read, a major hullabaloo was made over the fact that the protagonist was a witch - this made her Really Super Important somehow. But because the story never explained or shown what a witch even was or did, I had no real way to understand just why everyone was making such a fuss over the character, let alone what was at stake for her and those around her as a consequence of her witchiness. From where I sat, she was basically special because the Story Said So, which made it very frustrating to read.
Many times, it seems that the authors of assorted Internet fiction have read or watched perhaps one or two stories containing a particular magical creature and simply assume that that's the way they universally or traditionally work, and so they figure that dropping the name of the creature will be enough for people to know what they're talking about without further explanation. But it just ain't so.
Out of all of the stories I can think of that involve witches, there isn't a one of them where they work the exact same way as in another work. What they can do, how they do it, and how powerful they potentially are differ significantly. In some works they may be ordinary humans who learned a skill; in other works they may have been blessed with a gift or have an inborn ability that others don't. In some stories witches can easily turn someone into a frog with a snap of their fingers; in others, magically lighting something as simple as a campfire may take a great deal of effort. Sometimes witches need special tools or ingredients to work their magic; sometimes they don't.
If there's one thing you can count on in fiction you read, it's that the fantastic creatures will differ from a universal or traditional standard somehow. There's nothing wrong with this, because quite frankly, a lot of traditional creatures don't make for very good drama, and following universal standards to the last detail easily results in a story that feels old and stale simply because there are only so many types of stories you can do if you follow all of those standards.
Whatever fantastic or supernatural element you are using, be it ghosts, aliens, vampires, fae, centaurs, mermaids, sirens, or even magic itself, you have to show people what they they are or mean in your story, or else you run the risk of leaving people clueless or with the wrong idea entirely. Simply dropping a name and expecting them to be clear on what you're talking about just doesn't work when there are so many differences between the way these things work in different works of fiction and even in traditional folklore. So whatever you do, make sure that you give people enough information that they can understand how the fantastic elements work in your world.
Whatever people are accustomed to and experience on a daily or near-daily basis is what they will perceive as normal and ordinary. If your character has grown up in a world where magic is a daily fact of life, it's not going to seem like anything especially wondrous and special. A spell to light a candle isn't going to be any more exciting or interesting to xir than a butane lighter is to you, nor is using a magical communication mirror going to seem any more remarkable than you would find using Skype with a webcam, and going to a magical school wouldn't be seen as any more exciting or interesting to xir than going to a regular middle or high school would seem to you.
On the other hand, if someone grew up in an environment where finding new information meant digging it up in a library, running around for hours trying to find the right person to ask, doing the research yourself, or summoning a spirit in a ritual that could potentially take awhile or even go horribly wrong if done improperly, that person might find an Internet search engine with which xe can easily and instantly find new information to be something utterly amazing and novel. A scholarly mage who long had nothing to write notes with but paper and ink might find a modern word processor to be a marvel, even a miracle.
If your character had spent a long time in an environment where running into alien races was a relatively regular occurrence, meeting an alien wouldn't seem any more remarkable to xir than running into someone from another country on the Internet seems to you. And while a city of sparkling golden spires may invoke awe and gawking for the first few visits, after awhile the novelty will wear off and by the fiftieth visit you probably won't be gawking much, if at all. Meanwhile, natives of the city wouldn't be doing any gawking at all - to them, it's just as mundane and unremarkable as your local neighborhood is to you. While your eye might be drawn by the strange alien fashions around you, to the aliens they're just as ordinary as jeans and t-shirts are to you.
However, if your character is supposed to be an alien from a highly advanced civilization lost on Earth, that alien might find xirself almost helpless. Sure, maybe the computer systems in its spaceship can plot a course between planets, but that doesn't mean the alien would know how to use a laptop or smartphone any more than the average early 21st century American would know how to operate an ENIAC or Commodore PET. Maybe the alien has some kind of advanced kitchen appliances that can assemble a meal in a matter of minutes, but that doesn't mean xe'll have the first idea how to use a toaster any more than the average college student would know how to get the temperature right and cook in a Medieval oven. And in general, many, if not most of the things that you take for granted might seem pretty strange and interesting
Similarly, if your character is an ordinary human transported to an alien or magical world and doesn't react to the shiny new things by gawking and staring in awe at least a little bit, that's pretty unrealistic, too. Such characters are pretty obviously written by writers who themselves have become numb to the wonders of the fantastic worlds their characters are supposed to have just entered, and are failing to take into account that their characters should still feel a lot more awe and wonder.
Whether you're writing a story about a mermaid coming to land and attending a human high school, a human entering the realm of the fae and falling in love with one, an alien trying to blend in on Earth, or someone just trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic future, ask yourself: what kind of adventures and shenanigans can happen directly because and only because of the fantastic elements in your story? How might characters with access to fantastic phlebotinums try to solve their problems, as opposed to characters who only have access or ordinary and mundane ones? How might fantastic characters solve their problems when only mundane elements are around?
If your mermaid in highschool doesn't do anything or be involved in anything that couldn't happen to any highschool student in the exact same way, people who picked up your story looking for an honest-to-goodness mermaid adventure are going to be very disappointed when they realize that your story is essentially interchangeable with any number of other highschool dramas except perhaps for the fact that your character really likes going to the beach alone. If your protagonist does nothing that a human protagonist couldn't do and gets into no adventures or trouble that could only happen because your protagonist is a mermaid, then why are you writing about a mermaid in the first place?
Likewise, if nothing in your story would really change if you made your vampire love interest human all along, then there's no point to having a vampire love interest. If your crew of space explorers don't do or experience anything that couldn't happen or happen that way if they weren't exploring space and fantastic alien worlds, then they might as well be ordinary humans living on Earth. While your basic plot premise and characters should be able to hold up even if there are no fantastic elements involved (EG, "three friends must stop an evil would-be tyrant despite incompetent and corrupt politicians" or "a group of unlikely companions with criminal histories must band together to stop a threat" are solid enough premises for any type of story), your fantastic elements must be more than mere set pieces and costumes or else there is no point to having them.
(A caveat - the plot where two lovers are forbidden or discouraged from being together because of enmity between their kinds or because the masquerade must be upheld is very frequently used, so used on its own is rather likely to create a story that feels stale and old.)
Your story needs to make it clear how the fantastic elements you're using work in your story or setting rather than just assuming that people will immediately know exactly what you mean. Because these things typically work very differently in different works of fiction and folklore, if you fail to show them how they're supposed to work in your story, you risk leaving people clueless or with the wrong idea.
If your character would be familiar with something, it shouldn't seem especially strange or curious to xir, even if it's strange or curious to you. If your character wouldn't be familiar with something, it should seem strange and curious to xir, even if it's completely boring and ordinary to you.
You need to use your fantastic elements to create plots and scenarios that couldn't happen or happen the same way if the fantastic elements weren't there - otherwise, they're just gimmicks and serve no purpose.
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Michelle: "I need more help around this house. You act like such a kid. Where is your ambition? You are way too laid back. You seem lazy to me, and I can't see how you will ever get anywhere in your life. I feel like the mom here. Can't you just grow up?"
Bill: "I'm not goofing off; I'm enjoying my life. You are so uptight. Why can't you chill out?"
Bill responded defensively to Michelle's criticism, which resulted in mutual anger and an impasse. When they had suffered a great deal, they were motivated to come to counseling and receive some help. Through the counseling sessions Michelle got curious enough to take a deep look at her part in their breakdown. As she examined the content of her concerns with Bill, Michele was able to become aware of a part of herself that felt overworked and overly responsible. She noticed that she got aggravated whenever she perceived Bill as "not handling his part." Michelle was able to identify that she was terribly envious of Bill's ability to take such good care of himself.
Out of this inner exploration, Michelle became aware that her inner driver was in control of most of her life, and that she was in serious need of more "down time." She had to face her fears about taking this time, and why she had so much resistance to taking it. When Michelle was finally able to own up to how much she admired Bill's capacity for being good to himself, and how lacking she felt in that area, then she could open to letting him teach her about responsible self-care. Instead of feeling resentful about how he took time off to play, she could learn from him.
As Michelle began to change, Bill, rather than continuing to see their situation as "Michelle's problem," began to recognize ways in which he was contributing to the situation. He began to learn from Michelle's industrious and giving nature, and offered to do more of the household upkeep.
When we learn effective conflict management skills, we learn to look at ourselves more of the time rather than at the other person. And in that exploration, we learn to uncover the ways in which "every accusation is an autobiography." That is, the concerns that I have about you reflect aspects of myself that I haven't yet fully recognized or accepted. It's this lack of internal resolution that causes us to meet our partner's responses with anger, frustration, and judgment rather than with curiosity, understanding, or openness.
When Michelle took on the practice of seeing Bill as a mirror to show her things about herself that would be helpful, she discovered some important information that equipped her to make better decisions in her life. She could recognize in Bill the part of herself that she had been denying. Michelle admitted that the overly responsible part of herself had been in control most of her life. She admitted that her pushy style had been offensive to family, friends and co-workers over the years, and had cost her cooperation and closeness with them.
Bill accepted responsibility for the way he contributed to the situation, rather than continuing to see their arguments as Michelle's problem. As they both began doing their parts, Michelle felt less angry towards Bill and he, having nothing to defend himself against, became motivated to take on more responsibilities around the house.
This couple went on to establish a strong working partnership. Bill is still the more playful one, but contributes enough to the household and their partnership to satisfy them both. Michelle learned a great deal about being more adept at taking care of herself by allowing for more rest and relaxation. And she learned too, about being more tolerant and respectful of different ways of being in the world. Michelle realizes that when she is having a strong emotional response to Bill that there is some valuable information present for her to discover about herself, information that can enhance her life.
Michelle has become accomplished in her pattern of tuning in to her own experience to the point that she regularly intercepted even a whisper of accusation in her mind toward Bill or anyone else. Before it comes flying out of her mouth, she takes a look to see if there is something that she can learn about herself. She has learned enough to have a sturdy working partnership with Bill, a more compassionate relationship with herself, and enjoys the added bonus of more fun and play.


Vistara®, a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) from Natera, Inc, screens for single-gene disorders after 9 weeks' gestation. Complementing the Panorama® NIPT, Vistara tests for major anatomic abnormalities and chromosome imbalances that have a combined incidence rate of 1 in 600 (higher than Down syndrome). These mutations can cause severe conditions affecting skeletal, cardiac, and neurologic systems, such as Noonan syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, craniosynostosis syndromes, achondroplasia, and Rett syndrome. Standard NIPT commonly cannot detect these de novo (not inherited) mutations. Ultrasound exams may either completely miss the disorders or identify nonspecific findings later in pregnancy.
Natera says that Vistara has a combined analytical sensitivity of >99% and a combined analytical specificity of >99% in validation studies.
The UltravisionTM Trocar device from Alesi Surgical Technologies uses a low-energy electrostatic charge to eliminate the surgical smoke generated by cutting instruments during laparoscopic surgery. Electrostatic precipitation accelerates the natural process of sedimentation; Ultravision creates negatively charged gas ions that draw water vapor and particulate matter away from the surgical site toward "positive" patient tissue.
Alesi says that bench studies comparing Ultravision with a vacuum-system when using monopolar, bipolar, and ultrasonic instruments show that its device is faster and more efficient than smoke evacuation. When switched on before cutting, Ultravision precipitates 99% of particles within 30 seconds. After 1 minute of continuous use, Ultravision precipitates 99.9% of particles, independent of particle size, from 7 nm to 10 µm. Smoke evacuation removes 30.2% of particles after 1 minute, according to Alesi.
The CompuFlo®Epidural from Milestone Scientific uses pressure-sensing technology to identify the epidural space, and provides a computer-controlled drug delivery system.
Knowing the precise needle location during an epidural injection procedure provides a measure of safety not available to physicians who use conventional syringes. Milestone says that its CompuFlo Epidural allows anesthesiologists to use both hands to advance and direct the needle, and to confirm the epidural space with 99% accuracy on the first attempt.
CompuFlo Epidural differentiates tissue types for the medical professional via visual and audio feedback, leading to precise location guidance as the needle advances toward the intended area. It also allows for controlled needle exit pressure, precise flow rate and drug volumes, and patient treatment documentation.
Philips recently announced enhancements to its EPIQ 7 and 5 and Affiniti 70 ultrasound systems. According to Philips, the eL18-4 transducer provides high-detail resolution and image uniformity with penetration for enhanced diagnostic quality in 1st- and 2nd-trimester obstetric exams. aBiometry AssistAI, with anatomical intelligence of fetal anatomy, streamlines fetal measurement by preplacing measurement cursors on selected structures. The new TouchVue control-panel interface on TrueVue allows practitioners to interact with finger gestures and to direct 3D-volume rotation and internal light-source position. The 2D Tilt feature offered on the 3D9-v3 transducer provides lateral scanning of anatomic structures that are off-axis without having to manually angle the transducer.
These new features complement the existing suite of Philips ObGyn ultrasound visualization tools: TrueVue, GlassVue, aRevealAI, and MaxVue.


Park MGM Las Vegas formerly The Monte Carlo Las Vegas is a solid fusion of European refinement, American dazzle and true Las Vegas hospitality. From the moment one catches sight of the remarkable entrance, with its Renaissance statues and cascading fountains, the Park MGM evokes an elegance unique not only to Las Vegas, but to the world.
The amenities at the Park MGM Las Vegas reflect both sides of the Atlantic. The 90,000-square-foot casino offers a broad range of gaming, from roulette to high-stakes baccarat. Dining runs the gamut from the exotic Asian pleasures of the Dragon Noodle Co. to the fine dining of Blackstone's Steak House -- and the rollicking Monte Carlo Pub & Brewery has six fresh brews to gratify the palate. Rooms are tastefully accented with brass fixtures, Italian marble and polished granite. Six different pools, including a wave pool, cool down visitors in a lush garden setting. And in a notable coup, World Champion Magician Lance Burton will be rocking his namesake showroom with his spectacular illusions until the year 2009.
Luxuriate in one of 3,002 deluxe rooms. These oversized guest rooms feature Italian marble and granite finishes as well as brass fixtures. Tasteful cherry furniture and turn-of-the-century decor surround you in elegance. 24 hour room service is available for all guests.
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British Government Denies Reports That A Child-murderer Will Be Sent To Canada
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 03 Sep, 2019 07:47 PM
A media report that Britain is considering sending a child-murderer to Canada is false, the British Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
The news coverage prompted Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to tweet on Sunday that he found it "disturbing that this pedophile child killer might come to Canada."
"As prime minister I won't let him come here. Where does Trudeau stand?" Scheer's tweet read. "Our country should not be a dumping ground for murderers, terrorists, and perverts."
The Daily Star, a U.K. tabloid, cited unnamed sources in reporting that Jon Venables, who was 10 years old when he abducted and killed a toddler in 1993, would be sent to Canada because of the high cost of keeping his real identity a secret in Britain. Other British outlets followed suit, relying on the Daily Star's original story.
"This story is categorically untrue," wrote U.K. Ministry of Justice spokesman Richard Mellor, in an emailed statement to The Canadian Press.
In 1993, Venables and Robert Thompson, who was also 10 at the time, abducted two-year-old James Bulger from a shopping centre in northern England and beat him to death.
The pair was convicted of murder and after spending eight years in youth custody were released in 2001 with new identities and a court order protecting their anonymity.
Venables was then convicted on child pornography charges in 2010, reigniting a debate in Britain over whether he should have been released in the first place.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada declined to comment on the case, citing privacy laws. The department said in a statement that it could only provide information on a specific case with consent of the individual involved.
However, the department said that some people are considered "inadmissible" under Canada's immigration law for various reasons, including having a criminal record or posing a risk to Canada's security.
Venables is not known to have any particular connection to Canada.
Versions of the story have circulated for years, most recently in June, sometimes including the idea that Venables might go to Australia or New Zealand instead.
B.C. Mother Who Smothered Daughter Must Wait 15 Years Before Applying For Parole
A British Columbia mother found guilty of the second-degree murder of her eight-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 15 years.
Driving Home The 'Back To School' Message
On September 3, 2019, students across the Surrey School District will be starting a new year of study and the aim of the Surrey RCMP Traffic Enforcement Unit is to ensure those students are safe while they travel to and from school.
Abbotsford Police Seek Driver And Pedestrian Witnesses Of Fatal Collision
Specifically, police are seeking to speak to the driver of the van pictured below.
Single Vehicle Roll-over Incident Snares Traffic In New West Intersection
A single-vehicle roll-over incident is causing traffic congestion at the intersection of East 8th Avenue and East Columbia Street in the New Westminster neighbourhood of Sapperton.
Wanted: Man Believed To Be Tied To Lower Mainland Gang Conflict
Vancouver Police are appealing for help to find 45-year-old Romano Martodihardjo, currently wanted Canada-wide for firearms offences and possession of stolen property.
Surrey's Anti-gang Unit Targets 10-Year-Olds Amid Middle-class Gang Problems
Sgt. Mike Sanchez didn't expect to find himself working in elementary schools as a senior officer with the RCMP's gang enforcement unit in Surrey, B.C.


Jason Derulo traveled to Larnaca in September 2017.
Jason Derulo went to the beach while in Neo Chorio in September 2017.
Jason Derulo walked around the gorgeous grounds of Aphrodite Beach in September 2017.
It was "Time for Temple" for Daniel Dae Kim when he came here in August 2017.
Jason Derulo experienced some "Louisiana Hot Showers" when he was at Golden Nugget, Lake Charles in August 2017.


For over twenty years there has been a debate in Sausalito over a 2-acre parcel of land that is now part of Open Space Sausalito. This was the largest parcel of zoned residential, undeveloped property in the city. Zoned for mulit-family dwelling and located between Lincoln and Butte Streets abutting Highway 101, this land has been attractive to both developers and affordable housing advocates. Also active in the debate were area neighbors. They enjoy the open space and the enrichment it adds to their lives. There are also frequent visitors and inhabitants here that often have no voice in these debates and in this instance, it was their voice that carried the most weight.
Area wildlife have discovered in this small slice of undeveloped land, an important refuge. Biologist Jennifer Berry used motion-detection cameras to record wildlife traveling to the property in search of water. It was determined that this small parcel has one of 2 area riparian zones running through it is connected to other area open spaces. Waldo Creek is a year-round waterway and feeds into the Bay. It is also documented in U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Wetlands Inventory. As a natural waterway, it is the lifeline for grey fox, squirrel, deer, and other area wildlife. There are also numerous resident and migratory bird species such as owl, quail, red-tailed hawk, and falcons who frequent this small haven.
Butte Street Task Force was formed and mandated to examine the available options and make recommendations to the city of Sausalito as a means to resolve the issue. In 2014 they recommended that the city find a land trust to buy the land and keep it as open space. In 2016 Open Space Sausalito came up with $225,000 to purchase half the property from the Hunt Family Trust — fueled in part by an $82,000. grant from the Transportation Authority of Marin and Caltrans. These funds were made available as a mitigation project to compensate for work elsewhere that affected the environment.
Marin Open Space Trust played a key backup role in the preservation of the Sausalito property. Early in the local efforts to preserve the property, MOST provided technical support to the neighbors who were organizing to purchase the land to prevent its development. Later in the acquisition process, MOST offered to hold a conservation easement and accept responsibility for its permanent preservation as open space to satisfy the City's requirement for additional assurance that the property would remain undeveloped. By providing the means to meet these requirements, the city has now transferred its interest in the parcel to the local non-profit, Open Space Sausalito.
The Makin Grade Purchase in San Rafael was made by Marin Open Space Trust, with the support of generous neighbors. Two undeveloped lots on a wooded hillside in San Rafael are now part of San Rafael's public open space, Oakwood Open Space.
Initially spearheaded by area residents Bill Carney and Tamra Peters, the $399,000 acquisition was funded from neighborhood donations and negotiated by Marin Open Space Trust. We are dedicating the land at no cost to the city. This land will be added to an existing 33 acres of city-owned open space situated at the end of Greenwood Avenue in the Gerstle Park neighborhood, south of downtown, straddling the Ross border.
Initially, there had been concerns by San Rafael council members due to an unwritten policy regarding the acceptance of land — and it was feared they would reject the offer because of concerns of liability and maintenance. The overwhelming community support for the move influenced the council's decision, Mayor Gary Phillips said.
The terms negotiated by Marin Open Space Trust have set the standard for future negotiations regarding land acquisitions. "I think we have made out a template going forward if we are going to consider in the future such dedications," he said. "This is the dedication that proves the exception.", said Councilman Andrew McCullough after the vote.
The two 1.5-acre lots are part of the Oakwood subdivision made up of 45 residential parcels, established in the mid-1980s. A graded trail runs from the street through the adjoining properties to the Oakwood Open Space and follows the historic route of the old San Rafael-Bolinas stagecoach line.
Carney and Peters, who live across from the trail, wanted to preserve the natural beauty of the wooded area and contacted the Marin Open Space Trust. They collected 175 signatures through a petition. The Marin Conservation League, San Rafael Heritage, the Federation of San Rafael Neighborhoods and others also added their support to the petition.
The sale is in escrow until January 2017.


I love wildflowers, especially poppies. I've tried to grow them several times but I've never had success. Here in the south, wildflowers are planted alongside the expressway at different locations and I enjoy seeing them in bloom during the spring.
I believe we will be back in that area this summer, so I will bookmark this for when we go. I love fields of flowers.
If I lived in the area, I'd be mapping out Sunday drives and Saturday hikes right now. So many beautiful locations with gorgeous flowers. Channel Islands would be at the top of my list.
I love flowers and love going to places to see them. I've never been to LA and is planning a trip in a few months. I will keep these in mind. Thanks for sharing.
Holy cow, look at all of those wildflowers! I never would have thought that there were so many in LA…I'm so jealous. The Midwest does have some beautiful greenery during the summer, though.
Those are some beautiful flowers! I would love to hike and see those!
These all look like fabulous destinations! L.A. Is somewhere I've wanted to visit for a while, so we'll definitely have to try a few of these places out!
I would have that the place where the Hollywood sign would be on this list. I thought it was more wild because of the hiking/trails there.
I haven't been to Los Angeles in years. I would love to come here and see the wildflowers!
I love wildflowers. If I were in the Los Angeles area I would definitely visit all of these locations to see them.
Wildflowers are by far the best part of spring in the midwest. Who knew LA had such a beautiful variety! Can't wait for Spring.
Wow, some of them look like the whole area is just blanketed by wildflowers. The picture showing the flowers on the cliff by the water is terrific.
So pretty! I grew up in San Diego and the California poppy is one of my favorite flowers, they we are bright! I do not live there anymore but we spend a lot of our summer in southern California, it is a wonderful place!
I am also excited about Spring! More fun and outdoor activities for family. You list of places are must visit. Its really beautiful!
I love seeing and smelling flowers. I would love to visit some of these places. There's something so peaceful and beautiful about seeing flower gardens.
How gorgeous! Wildflowers are a beautiful sight. I have never been to CA but it sure it on my trip list.
Oh wow, even though my allergies would be going nuts! But this view would be so worth it, I love the pictures it kind of reminds me of Wizard of Oz!
I have only been to L.A. once and didn't realize there were so many sights where one could see wild flowers. How beautiful! This is definitely something I'd like to check out the next time I go.
So pretty! I didn't realize LA had so many beautiful open areas.
There are a ton, even in downtown LA!


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Strachtitz ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Putbus im Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Geografie und Verkehrsanbindung
Strachtitz liegt südwestlich der Kernstadt Putbus und nördlich von Krimvitz an der Landesstraße 29. Östlich liegt das 72 ha große Naturschutzgebiet Wreechener See.

Weblinks

Ort im Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen
Geographie (Putbus)
Ort auf Rügen

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