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I just wanted to share this because the harassment has gotten so bad now that it's spring. I feel so degraded.
On Saturday: I stayed in until almost 4 p.m., just reading and doing silly little Saturday things. I wanted to just have a nice day all to myself.
Then, I decided to go to the city center and go for a nice walk, maybe pop into a bookstore or two, and then later take myself out for a nice solo dinner, maybe at a certain amazing pizza place in my city.
I was wearing my favorite spring jacket, plus a pair of somewhat loose shorts that I paired with dark colored tights and my new high-heeled ankle boots. I like to look nice, just for me. I didn't think that my ensemble was particularly provocative; I was covered, and just the other day I had counted at least a dozen other girls wearing shorts/tights/heels, so I figured that they were now in season.
I left my building, and that's when the trouble started. On the bus, a man across the aisle couldn't keep his eyes to himself. He wasn't just looking; he was looking with a lewd smile…and breathing heavily. Creepy. But I pretended that I couldn't see him since I was sitting in the back of the bus. I didn't want to make a scene.
Later, after having a nice little wander in a couple of pretty streets, I was walking to a coffee shop when a man began to say, "Mademoiselle! Mademoiselle!" repeatedly. I finally looked his way (Maybe he needs directions?), and he told me, "Vous etes tres bien habille Mademoiselle." (You're very well dressed…he repeated 3 other variations on this theme)
*I shrug* [and proceed to ignore this man who is probably older than my father, but he won't go away].
"You're not French, are you? Where are you from?"
"It's not important"
"Oh, well if it's not important, then why don't you tell me?"
"Because it's not important."
*He sees someone he knows and goes away.
I walk a bit more, pop into a couple of stores to contemplate a new skirt (48-hour rule!), and then I decide that it's time for supper. So, I walk, probably about 20 minutes, to that pizza place. On the way, I'm whistled at no less than 5 times, and I'm also ordered to smile by a pack of men at an outdoor cafe. They also let me know that I have nice legs. There are no women around, even though it's a main street; it's completely dominated by men.
Creep Radar is on alert.
I get to the pizza place, and I'm pretty relieved that the server is a woman and that it's an awesome, family-run place. I have a nice solo meal. An hour later, it's dark (8pm-ish), and I decide to leave.
As I walk back to the main street, I have progressively freaky encounters:
1. Within the first 5 minutes, I'm barked at by two guys passing by on bicycles. Unsettling.
2. After 10 minutes, I reach the cafe square that's filled with men during the daytime but is now kind of deserted. Some dude makes his presence known behind me by saying, "Hey, sexy! Hey, you have some really sexy legs!" [I walk faster] "Hey, you're sexy, come on, that's a nice thing to say! Why won't you say anything? Come on, sexy!" After about a minute, he gets frustrated by my lack of response, calls me a "pute" [slut/whore] and goes away. Why me?
3. I decide to veer off to a section of smaller streets to avoid the rest of this main street. I quickly realize that, while these little streets are full of people during the day, all the people have gone away. I get a bad feeling, and I make sure that I have my mace in hand. It's only 8 or ten minutes more 'til I'm in the open again. I'm walking towards a street with a bunch of trendy little wine bars. There's a girl walking towards me; she suddenly picks up the pace and practically flies past me. I'm on my guard now. Suddenly, I sense movement and look down. Not a foot away is a corpulent, hairy man sitting in a car. His face is shadowed, and the window is rolled all the way down. His arm is resting where the window should be. The car is not running. I start violently, and he calls after me that "It's okay, there's nothing to be scared of." But I'm scared now. Where there's one, there could be more.
I finally emerge onto the main street in my city. I can breathe again. I vow to never go into that area alone after dark. (Although considering that it's also where I work, I can't avoid it altogether. Let's not even talk about the 40-something man who approached me on Thursday and asked if I would have a drink with him. I'm in my early 20s).
There's now a group of young guys ahead of me, talking and laughing about music. I'm relieved to have males in my general vicinity who do not exude creepiness. But I can't keep within the safe aura that being near/with decent men provides because my heels are restricting my steps. Then, I notice a different guy walking towards me. He looks at me, and then he approaches. "Please, God, no." I say in my mind. I don't look at the guy, but he looks at me, and he says, "Mademoiselle, Mademoiselle, tu es si belle! (You're so beautiful!)" [I ignore him. I'm so completely fed up with all of this by now, and I wish that I could tell him off. No really striking French comes to mind, and I can't say anything in English. If I did, it would be over. All English-speaking women are, according to all films and anecdotal accounts, easy and should be treated as such, right? Wrong.].
He says, "Why won't you look at me? Look at me, Mademoiselle! I want to see you smile!" He's blocking my path, and then he steps in and grabs my arm. He just grabbed my arm. I can hardly believe that he just did that. "Look at me!" he says.
All that I can think of to do is raise my other fist and say "Laisse-moi" (leave me) in a cold, low voice. Thank God he did. (Since then I have, of course, come up with much more cutting, direct French responses and have practiced them over and over so that I'll be ready next time someone tries to grab me).
At this point, I'm angry, but above all I'm really shaken. That last one was the last straw. I see my bus approaching the next stop, and I make a run for it. 4-inch heels, but oh yes, I can run! I fly onto the bus with a "Merci" since the driver saw me running and waited a few extra seconds for me.
I tried to read to take my mind off of everything, but I just couldn't do it.
What am I supposed to do? In the grocery store, I was buying a sandwich, and a guy walking past me whispered, "You're very beautiful…you're very beautiful, do you know that, you're very beautiful" and then kept on walking. It's just so unnerving.
All winter, I would walk home or anywhere when it was dark, and I felt perfectly safe. There were people out walking their dogs or exercising. It seems that the spring has forced all of the decent people inside and/or awakened the street creeps from hibernation.
It's all about control. This isn't nice, it's harassment.
I wish that I could get a bike. It would be so liberating.
– anonymous
Location: France
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Brazil is not holding out much hope for major breakthroughs in proposed trade talks between the United States, and the four members of the South American trade bloc known as Mercosur, which includes Brazil. But Brazil is making a major push to promote its exports.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Lafer says he expects modest results from upcoming talks between Mercosur and the United States, the so-called "Four-Plus-One" trade group.
Mr. Lafer told reporters Friday he does not believe the discussions will lead Washington to drop its anti-dumping legislation or to lift its barriers against agricultural imports. For this to happen, he says, negotiations have to take place on a multilateral basis under the auspices of the World Trade Organization.
But Mr. Lafer said his country and the other three Mercosur partners will raise these issues at the Four-Plus-One talks, which are expected to get underway early next month. He said the talks will serve as a "platform" for the Mercosur nations to present their views.
Earlier this week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick invited the Mercosur countries - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - to join the United States to revive the Four-Plus-One group. The group was active during the first Bush Administration in pushing for expanded trade.
Mr. Zoellick's invitation came on the same day the International Monetary Fund agreed to a bailout of Argentina's floundering economy, prompting speculation that reviving the Four-Plus-One group was tied to the approval of the loan package. But Brazil was quick to reject any such linkage. A presidential spokesman said this week Mercosur first made the overture to Washington in June, after deciding to do so at its summit conference in the Paraguayan capital.
Meanwhile, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has taken steps to increase Brazilian exports. Among other things, his government plans to lift taxes on the production of raw materials used in making goods for export.
In a speech Thursday, Mr. Cardoso said Brazil must either export or die. He said it's a new kind of independence, either export or die. Mr. Cardoso went on to describe a world in which the strong nations defend their interests, and countries like Brazil must do more to catch up.
To loud applause from business executives and government officials, Mr. Cardoso said there is no danger for Brazil to sit down at the negotiating table, as long as it is competitive and he vowed his government will negotiate trade deals with firmness.
Brazil has had a long running trade dispute with the United States over U.S. trade barriers against Brazilian agricultural products and steel.

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The Great Fears, Beginning of a New Century
By Hans Vogel
In case you had not realized it yet, according to the Christian calendar, we are living in the third millennium. We have been doing so for some ten years. All seven billion of us here on earth. Most of us are still here, although many are dying each day, and in some areas many more are being killed each day by bombs, bullets, preventable disease and famine.
Do you remember 1999? Do you remember how we were being told "Y2K" (the year 2000, the beginning of the new millennium) would cause a disaster by upsetting all of the world's computer systems. Do you remember how we were being told teams of technicians were working round the clock to prevent the disaster from happening? In the end, when the clock struck twelve that fateful 31st of december, nothing happened. Nothing!
That is now ten years ago. If I recall correctly, in the mean time, we have had another scare or two. I believe a couple of comets or some sorts of rocks flying about in outer space were announced to be approaching our planet with dazzling speed, with no one actually being able to predict if a collision would take place.
Looking back into the less than recent past, turns of centuries on the calendar have consistently been followed by great, long-lasting wars.
When the clock struck midnight in 1899, everything went on as usual. In 1914, however, the world was changed forever when the Great War broke out, claiming millions upon millions of young victims. In the course of the war, Europeans were shocked to find out that under the veneer of their age-old, splendid civilisation, they could still revert to animal-like behaviour. When they had run out of ammunition, soldiers in the trenches, crawling about in the mud among the remains of their comrades, would kill each other with knives, shovels, bare hands, anything at all. Why? Just to gain a few yards of terrain. Thus the new century, the 20th, was born.
The 19th century was also born out of violent convulsions, namely the Napoleonic Wars, leaving millions of dead in their wake.
The War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713/14) and the Great Northern War (1700-1721) brought about such momentous changes in the political landscape of Europe, that these can be considered the true beginning of the 18th century. The beginning of the 17th century was also marked by extensive warfare, namely the Thirty Years' War that began in 1618. Before that, the 16th century was born with the outbreak of organized violence in the wake of the Reformation that was initiated by Martin Luther in 1517. Beyond that date, most wars in Europe seem to be more local in character, which does not mean they were less lethal. At any rate, since the dawn of the Modern Age, it ts the sound of guns fired in major European wars that seems to announce the beginning of a new century.
Thus it would seem that over the past half millennium at least, major, violent upheavals take place every three or four generations. In case our lives today are still determined by this fateful historical rhythm, it would seem that we are in the midst of an accelerating phase of organized violence.
Each wave of warfare has been preceded by a significant political event, taking place before the turn of the century visible on the calendar. The 17th century may be said to have been preceded by the proclamation of the Dutch republic in 1579, an event that was considered a mortal blow to the position of the King of Spain, Philip II, Europe's most powerful ruler. The 18th century was announced by the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 in England, which is just another name for the conquest of that country by the army of the Dutch Republic led by William III and his elevation to the throne. As for the 19th century, it was introduced by the Great French Revolution of 1789, while the 20th may be said to have been introduced in 1890 by Count Bismarck being sacked by Germany's new emperor William II. After all, this led to a dilution of the German-Russian understanding, which was exploited by France to form an alliance with Russia. Such an alliance was precisely what Bismarck had been trying to prevent at all cost, since it would encircle and isolate Germany in the long run.
It is obvious the current new age was introduced by the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of "real existing socialism" in Eastern Europe. Most people realized these events were momentous, but they seemed to have no other immediate result other than that of a strengthening of the capitalist system, which at first seemed beneficial to most.
At this moment, we are witnessing the end of "real existing capitalism," which is turning out to have much more in common with the system it supposedly vanquished back in the early 1990s.
So far, we have been able to observe all the parallels with preceding turns of centuries, save one: a major, prolonged international war that creates a "new order".
Sure enough, there are the imperialist wars begun by the US against the weak states of Afghanistan and Iraq. In terms of money outlays, these wars are not modest at all. They may be compared to the Boer War of 1899-1902, when mighty England fought the fiercely independent Afrikaner farmers, using the vilest of methods, unworthy of a supposedly civilized nation.
I am afraid in the near future we may witness a really major international war. Everything seems to point in that direction. But most worrying is the fact that the US, the major capitalist power, is also the one that is suffering the most. The true extent of the economic disaster in the US is certainly not being transmitted to the rest of the world, at least not by the Main Stream Media. One third of US adults are functionally illiterates, real unemployment has hit 20% but may actually be higher than that. Perhaps 60 million people in the US (if not more) are living below the poverty line. Millions have been thrown of their homes, for not being able to pay the mortgage. Their ranks are swelling every minute. Millions of children go hungry. What is left of productive industry in the US is being dismantled further, because plants are closed for bankruptcy or because production is being taken to China or elsewhere.
The US now only retains superiority in just one field. As its armies are being decimated and demoralized in the desert wastes of Afghanistan and Iraq, as the Air Force is threatened with painful budget cuts, the main strength of the US military is its fleet of bombers (often carrier based) and its nuclear arsenal. Bombing is what the US is good at, a fact that, unfortunately, too many people around the world can testify to.
The temptation to use its last remaining military advantage may be just too strong to resist.
I am afraid the 21st century has still not begun. Perhaps that is why there are so many fears. Change, yes we can...but not the kind of change you would hope for!
Nasa: world will not end in 2012 -- Telegraph
A Nasa scientist has condemned film producers over a viral marketing campaign that suggests the world will come to and end in 2012.
Sony Pictures set up a website for an organisation called the Institute for Human Continuity which predicts a cataclysmic denouement for Earth three years from now.
It suggests that "after two decades of rigorous research from the world's top astronomers, mathematicians, geologists, physicists, engineers, futurists, we know that in 2012 a series of cataclysmic forces will wreak havoc on our planet".
It even details how elections have begun for the leader of the post-2102 world, offers survival kits and asks people to sign up to a lottery to be saved.
In fact, the website is a vehicle for promoting 2012 - a disaster movie about the end of the world based on predictions in the Mayan calendar.
It stars John Cusack and is directed by Roland Emmerich, who was behind the blockbusters Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. The film will include scenes of a tsunami washing an aircraft carrier into the White House and Los Angeles falling into the sea.
According to the website scientists have been tracking a previously unknown Planet X which is on the edge of the solar system and on a collision course with Earth.
But the site has been so successful that hundreds of people have been convinced that something terrible is about to befall the planet.
Dr David Morrison, a senior scientist at Nasa's Astrobiology Institute, said he had received more than 1,000 inquiries from worried members of the public.
That included teenagers saying they would rather commit suicide than witness the world end. Dr Morrison said the website was "ethically wrong". But Vikki Luya, Sony's publicity director said: "It is very clear that this site is connected to a fictional movie. This can readily be seen in the logos on the site."
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Today I am sharing with you the first in a series of LO's I have made of my BIL's recent wedding to the gorgeous Jess. All of the layouts feature the bold bright colours of Teresa Collins' Spring Fling Collection, and fabulous pieces of 2Crafty Chipboard.
Surrounding the beautiful bride is the 2Crafty Frame Juliet's.
The frame has been heat embossed with Perfect Pearls, which gives it a shiny, shimmery effect.
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Thank you Keith January 21, 2011Posted by WillardWhyte in Communications, hope, Justice, Politics.
Tags: journalism, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, politics
for raising your voice, though there were times it topped the wall to my ears.
But right or wrong, you spoke for truth … and against the pretty narrative, the brazen grab, the bald-faced bulbous lie.
And too many just take the money and cower.
And above all else, I always got the sense that you felt that you could be wrong. As we all are on occasion.
So rest up for a bit and see and hear and taste and feel the world. Then tell us all again sometime how it all boils down to your mind.
We'll be waiting.
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Been a wee bit busy. . .
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Memorial Day! We did, and today was our Anniversary so we took an extra day off of work to enjoy it! Love, love, love long weekends!
It was a busy and productive weekend. We spent most of the weekend updating our bathroom! The old wallpaper was peeling, the light fixture was rusting, everything was just majorly outdated and OLD.
So, we decided to bring it into the new century and revamp it a bit.
I found a bathroom that I loved that was an apple green with white accents. So, we have used this pic as our "muse". It's gonna take a LOT of work to get ours somewhat similar but we are trying and so far I love the changes.
Jeff is on the fence about the color but I think it is growing on him, as he tends to like more traditional colors.
Like I said, we still have a lot of work ahead and I am sure getting this done will be our or (my) weekend project for a while. But, that's ok because it will be well worth it!
This week is Maddie's last week at school and believe me, she is super excited for the summer! Third grade has been a challenge but she has managed to still be on the honor roll and breeze through. She's a whiz and I can not believe my baby is going to be 10 and in 4th grade this year!
My mom is still hobbling around, the dr's put her in 2 boots so she is at least able to walk around a bit. Poor thing, I feel so bad for her. Hopefully, her ankles will heal soon!
Our pup Shelby, is still hurt but she is at least able to use her leg. She seems to just have lost use of her paw but she hasn't it let her slow her down a bit. So, we are very thankful for that!
Lastly, I checked on the foreclosure down the street and I am having the hardest time getting info about it. Has anyone bought a foreclosure? I have spoken to the "master in equity" and he currently has no info about it. So, we will just wait and keep checking. We are content where we are right now, just still wanting to buy so we can make all the changes we would love to make and make a home "ours".
That time will come though, I have hope!
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- Heather said...
the bathroom sounds cute! need pics!
we are doing the house hunting thing too. not sure where you'd get info on the foreclosure. maybe try putting the address in to realtor.com and see if it shows up. hopefully someone has a better idea.
the house we have an offer on went into foreclosure while our contract is pending. i have no idea how that affects the process other than dragging it out. we have been asked to extend our contract several times while the bank does their thing.
i do know that foreclosures are sometimes not very well taken care of by their previous owners. our realtor says that is changing, i guess due to the economy. more and more people are losing their homes which is sad...but the homes are in better shape than before.
my only other advice...stay away from "short sells". seems to be an endless ploy.
- May 27, 2009 at 1:46 AM
- Stephanie said...
Thanks for your insight, Heather. I really hope the home you have an offer on comes through! :)
- May 27, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Pam said...
I love the color of your bathroom! It's so fresh! You can't go wrong with a good green and white combo. My baby is going into 4th grade in the fall, too. They grow up way too fast.
I read Heather's comment on repo's and short sells. When we were looking for a house we had an offer on a short sell - asking price. We waited 6 weeks before they came back with any type of answer. Then it was that the 2nd mortgage holder wanted us to up our offer. We offered asking price! We said 'screw it'. They ended up months later selling the thing for $7,000 less than we had offered. I would never look into a short sell again, either.
Anyway, thanks so much for coming by my blog and leaving me some bathroom love! Hope yours get finished quickly for you.
- May 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM


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How could you tell unless you are listening really hard? Oh and by the way. My cousin's version on the 360 is messed up. On Face-off or Pro Face-off you can't hear player 2. Any help?
Guitar Hero 3 For Wii Audio Flaw Answered
I was meaning to post this sooner but completely forgot. Anyway, If you don't already know, Guitar Hero 3 Legends of Rock for the Wii has a disk flaw. The flaw makes the sound in mono instead of the Dobly Digital Surround Sound that is advertised on the box. Activision will replace it for free though. The way you can tell if you have a flawed version of the disk is if you look right above the Activision logo and if theres a little white star there or not. If there is one you have the new version and don't need a replacement. If not you can go here, fill out the form and then they will send you an envelope for you to put your old one in and send back and then finally you get sent a new version. I just thought I'd let you know. Good Luck!
--Note-- If you send them a disk thats anything other than the old version of the Wii GH3 game they won't send anything back.
I have no idea why his is messed up.He may just have a faulty disk. But the problem with mine was that when you played pro or face off when it was one players turn it would suddenly switch all sound to those speakers on his side. When it was the 2nd players turn it would do the same and make it sound like crap. But oh well its free and comes with a faceplate :)
Well he did get it used.
Thanks dude, I guess I got the flawed one. I haven't noticed it that much too send it back to Activision.
no problem. with mine for some reason it makes it sound really weird when playing multiplayer so im probably going to send it back
Well if everything goes good then I will do the same. Post back.
I finally got mine back today and it sounds a lot better. They also gave me a free faceplate because I didn't bug them or call them about it.


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I opted for the pondicherry vanilla ice cream, topped with hazelnut plus a bit of raspberry sauce on the side. Pretty tasty stuff and it's always a good thing when you can see and taste the vanilla!
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- Yes, but the sale price will be removed when the gold price is updated.
- I see no products under "Gold priced products" ( WooCommerce -> Gold Price )
- This is because you have no gold products, e.g. products with Custom Fields named karat and values 24, 22, 18 or 14. See screenshots to better understand.
- What "Product was on sale, can't calculate sale price" means?
- Means that the product no longer is on sale, as the plugin can't calculate sale prices and just removed it.
There is a handy link to edit the product, if one whishes to put it on sale again.
- Means that the product no longer is on sale, as the plugin can't calculate sale prices and just removed it.
can you pleas add 16 karat option
very good work but can you pleas add option off 16 karat
great plugin
this is exactly what i was looking for
Nice Plug-in
Very useful plug-in
Product Weight column is not appearing in my theme, kindly add one more option by which it is able to calculate product price based on its shipping weight.
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2.6.6 2016.10.22
- Updated for WordPress 4.6.1 and WooCommerce 2.6.6, added a message when a gold product has a non-calculated price.
2.4.4 2015.08.18
- Updated for WordPress 4.3 and WooCommerce 2.4, small cosmetic changes.
- Fixed admin screen where at products list it always showed 24k price, thanks cutter2222 for informing the issue
- Updated to be compatible with WooCommerce 2.1
- Fixed 'Product has zero weight, can't calculate price based on weight.' but product had weight
- Added 14k option.
- Improved message when there are no gold products.
- Fixed error 'You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.'
- Added 18k option.
- Added message when there are no gold products.
- Fixed 'posts_per_page'
- Initial plugin release.


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December Lemons: An Unexpected Sight
When I took a walk this week, I did a double take when I passed the yard where this tree lives. I had never noticed the lemon tree there before. As you can see, it's grown quite high. This is no dwarf in a half wine barrel that can be moved to a warm spot when it's cold.
|I was surprised to see this lemon tree in my neighborhood. © B. Radisavljevic
My husband found ice on his windshield one morning of the week I passed this tree. All the experts told me citrus would not grow here in Paso Robles. This is not the first tree I've seen that proved them wrong.
Our Orange Tree in Newbury Park
We had a very productive nature navel orange tree at our Newbury Park house in Southern California before we moved here. The climate was perfect for citrus and everyone had citrus trees in their yards. The climate was just right -- except the day it snowed. It snows in Newbury Park about once every twenty years.
|Our Orange Tree in Ventura County the Day it Snowed, © B. Radisavljevic
The tree survived with no help from us. I guess an occasional really cold day or night won't kill a tree. I'll be keeping an eye on that lemon tree if we have a really cold spell with freezing temperatures for several nights in a row. I hope this beautiful tree lives a long and productive life. May its owners enjoy lemons for years to come.
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5933 m² Land available in Pringle Bay
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5933 m² Land available in Pringle Bay
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This very large, elevated stand offers fine living within walking distance of the beach.
In a sought after area it offers views of False Bay and the Kogelberg.
It is set back from the beach which adds to privacy.
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Approximately 85 km from Cape Town, Pringle Bay is a unique and charming small coastal village situated in a World Biosphere Reserve. Pringle Bay is situated on the famous Whale Route; it is an overwhelming experience to watch those gentle giants from so close by.
Pringle Bay is surrounded by mountains on three sides and overlooks the Ocean with Cape Point in the distance. It abounds with wildlife and beautiful flora and is part of the Sixth Floral Kingdom of the planet.
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Candela? Lumen? Lux? What do they mean?
From Cantitoe Road:
It's not possible to make a direct comparison among these units because they measure different things. For the purposes of cycling, Lux is what you're looking for because it measures light intensity in a given area – the area in front of you which (we hope) is where you're going.
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Your terms for lighting are not quite correct. All three are measures of intensity (AKA strength). Lumen is the base metric and describes total potential light energy emitted in all directions.
Lux is as you stated illumination per area (lumens per square meter = lux). Lux values change with distance so lux is not typically used unless you know the distance from light to target and he size of the beam of light.
Candellas are lumens broadcast in a particular direction (lumens per solid angle). Candellas (AKA center beam candle power) can be used to compare too spotlights with the same beam angle. For example 25-degrees at 1000 candellas.
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whats the difference between strength and intensity?
Scott above has it correct- CBCP is the value used in professional lighting calculations. All architectural and most theatrical fixtures have a CBCP value that can be used with the Inverse Square Law to calculate the lux (or footcandles) at a given distance. One Lux = 1 lumen per square meter; 1 FC = 1 lumen per square foot. 1 Lux = 10.76 FC as there are 10.76 square feet in a square meter.
Although there are hundreds of thousands of light fixtures that have been tested an have light output data, none seem to be bicycle lights. It's a shame that the bicycle light manufacturers would rather hide behind unusable data than provide meaningful information.
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Lux is indeed the measure of light intensity in an area at a given distance from the light source. With Trelock lights, maximum brightness is measured at 10 meters with a light field of 4 meters in width. Click here for an illustration.
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I believe the main takeaway here is that beam angle is very important. A bright light that does not project properly will not illuminate an object located any distance away.


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The apology was delivered by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who made the Aboriginal apology part of his election campaign. Rudd spoke of the "stolen generations" of Aboriginal children who were removed from their families beginning in 1910 up to the 1970s, for purposes of integration and protection. The objective may have been noble but the impact of its implementation resulted in lost familial bonds, cultural disorientation, and psychological maladies; where the children often lived in harsh conditions and were subjected to untold abuses. The indignities and dehumanization of the Aborigines started when state and federal laws developed a premise that the Aborigines were a doomed race, and saving the children was a more humane alternative. This policy remained a secret until 1997 when a government inquiry and a high profile movie exposed it; sparking a mass movement among white Australians demanding an apology. This policy was in essence barbaric and regarded the Aborigines as less than human.
The admission of guilt is believed supported by a very significant majority of Australians. Former PM John Howard maintained that the current generation should not be held accountable for the misdeeds of the past, and offered regrets instead. Under Howard's term, the Aboriginal issues received very little interest and sympathy from the Conservative Coalition government. Howard's indifference welled up in a riot in inner Sydney in 2004, resulting from years of frustration and anger. The way in which the Police handled the conflict generated more attention towards building stronger relationships with Aboriginal community leaders. Howard lost to Rudd in last November's election in what many Australians regarded as Howard's End.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up the largest group estimated at 450,000 people. The entire Aboriginal community in Australia is estimated at 750,000, of the country's 21,000,000 population. A 2005 Social Justice Report shows that Aborigines have a life span 17 years lower than whites, and their infant mortality rate is 3 times that of the non-indigenous rate. They are likelier to have chronic and communicable diseases, poorer mental health, and disabilities. Their average income is only 62% of the standard, they have lower education, more likely to be unemployed, have higher stress rates, poorer access to primary health care, have inadequate diets, are are most likely law breakers. As Prime Minister Rudd expressed..."the apology is symbolic, but there's a lot of hard work to be done to reverse those inequalities."
Some segments of the conservatives disagree with the apology, arguing that Aboriginal compensation claims will be reinvigorated. They see a scenario where future generations will be sorry for this act. But the welcome received for the first time in 107 years by the members of Parliament, from the Aborigines, seem to dispute the conservatives' fear. Performing a traditional dance that welcomed the lawmakers and provided safe passage to the edifice that stands on their land, for which they haven't been compensated; Ngunnawal elder Matilda House explained the protocol : "It is a good, and honest, and decent and very human act to reach out and make sure everyone has a place and is welcome." This tradition has been done for thousands of years. It has twice more of the substance of humanity embedded into it than those who conceived of the policy of integration, which was nothing but inhumanity and a disgraceful blow to the respectability of Australians.
Reconciliation will soon follow, and this generation of Australians will be proudest of all, for they have accomplished a feat that roused a moral rebirth and reaffirmed the singular purpose and unified destiny of mankind: as coequal and coexisting guardians of the earth. We are one.
And to the Lakota Indians and other tribes in America, and elsewhere in the world: your time will come to pass. Hopefully before your race is wiped out.


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"The important thing to do in response to making a monumental mistake is to compound it." Charles P. Pierce
No Tears: Eric Cantor's $5.5 million lost to Dave Brat's $122,000, behind the slogan "Dollars don't vote – you do." Cantor - one of the meanest self-serving cretins in Congress , which is a dubious but hard-won distinction these days - did not lose over immigration policy, but over corporate control of our political system. Brat, by the way, isn't dealing from a full deck either, having not gotten over a teen-age crush on Ayn Rand.
Multiple Choice: Elizabeth Warren's bill to let student loan borrowers refinance their school loans at lower rates was blocked by a) the same party that blocked a minimum wage increase, b) Republicans, or c) all the above.
School Supplies: Add bulletproof blankets to the list.
Castor Oil: Under the pretense of fighting cyberbulling, Canada wants to let the government "remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars". For your own good, of course. As usual.
Our Gang: Louie Gohmert (Revivalist-TX) reminded the House that all non-Christians were going to Hell. In Indiana, a GOP legislative candidate points out that he is the only candidate with "the guts to just let [poor people] wither and die." A GOP candidate in OK has repeatedly advocating that gays be stoned to death. And an op-ed in the Washington Post claims the way to stop violence against women is for all the women to get married because "married fathers provide direct protection by watching out for the physical welfare of their wives and daughters."
The Question: Trying out his stand-up routine, Mohamed El-Erian wonders "What if the Fed has created a bubble?"
Scapegoats: A California judge has decided that doing away with teacher tenure will cure all the problems of the public school system. Overnight parents will become supportive of the school administration, children will do their homework, mom and dad will live together and stop doing drugs, gangs will take up knitting and more talented, highly skilled people will turn to teaching as a rewarding career. Then again, maybe it's a little more complicated than that.
Making Allowances: Two years after graduation, half of the graduates are still depending on their parents or other family members for financial help. Less than half have found full-time jobs and less than 30% said they were completely self-sufficient.
Scared Straight: Faced budget problems, raising medical costs as inmates age, and overcrowding, California is going to privatize its prisons, beginning with new inmates. When the street gets the word, crime rates will plummet.
Idle Hands: Will the capture of the Northern Iraqi oil fields by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant drive up world oil prices? Ask me about what camels do in the desert.
Behind the Headline: "Dozens indicted in Georgia food stamp fraud case" seems to suggest that the villains are welfare queens, when it was actually 54 people who opened grocery stores in order to buy food stamps at a discount and to turn them in to the federal government for face value. And that's not an acceptable way to swindle the government; they should have formed a bank.
Is Our Children Learning: In New Jersey, Child Services has threatened to put a 13 year old up for adoption if the kid's father doesn't get him psychological counseling because the boy twirled his pencil in class.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq – Coalition forces fired upon a mosque compound in Fallujah that officials said was a safe haven for enemy fighters on Wednesday as U.S. Marines continued their advance into northern areas of the city.
Marines waged a six-hour battle around the mosque with militants holed up inside before a Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire missile at the base of its minaret and an F-16 dropped a bomb, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.
There is no report of civilian casualties, the military said, disputing earlier witness accounts that as many as 40 people died.
"What we're seeing in Iraq today is a power play between those who favor terrorism and a return to oppression and those who want freedom and self government," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (search) said at the Pentagon Wednesday. He warned that those who oppose progress "will not be permitted to derail it."
"U.S. forces are on the offense … we will certainly not allow fugitives from Iraqi justice to stop progress for a better life for 25 million Iraqi people," Rumsfeld said. "The United States will stand resolute with the Iraqi people."
The fighting in Fallujah (search) and neighboring Ramadi (search), where commanders confirmed 12 Marines were killed and at least 20 wounded Tuesday, was part of an intensified opposition from some Sunnis and Shiites stretching from Kirkuk in the north to near Basra in the south. At least 60 Iraqis were killed and more than 120 wounded in overnight fighting in Fallujah.
Marines making incursions toward Fallujah's city center on Wednesday battled gunmen in the streets. Mosque loudspeakers blared calls for jihad, or holy war, and women were seen carrying guns in the streets.
Both cities are located in the so-called Sunni Triangle (search) — the area that has proved to pose the most danger to coalition forces that is chock full of Saddam Hussein loyalists. The burst of anti-American violence comes just before Friday's one-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to U.S.-led forces.
In other Iraq developments Wednesday:
— Senior defense officials told Fox News of at least two incidents in which Western reporters were kidnapped in two separate cities in Iraq. Two journalists and two security guards were later released.
— Polish troops killed the head of the Karbala office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (search) during clashes in the holy Shiite city, Iraqi police said. But Arab networks reported that "a member" — not the head — of al-Sadr's office was killed.
— A U.S. helicopter made a controlled landing in Baquoba after being hit by small-arms fire but no one was injured.
— Operations from the Syrian border to the Baghdad suburbs have resulted in the capture or death of a significant number of anti-Iraqi forces and foreign terrorists, the U.S. military said.
— Reuters reported that one U.S. Marine was killed when his convoy was attacked in Baghdad.
'Everyone in That Mosque Was an Insurgent'
U.S. Marines attacked the mosque compound in Fallujah only after coming under enemy fire from inside the buildings, said Lt. James Vanzant of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
"Everyone in that mosque was an insurgent," Vanzant said, referring to claims that 40 people were killed inside.
U.S. Central Command issued a statement Wednesday afternoon that said one anti-coalition insurgent was killed. Marines used air support to breach a wall several hundred yards away from the actual structure of the Haj Musheen Abdul Aziz Az-Kubaysi (search) mosque after they came under fire.
"They were taking a tremendous amount of fire," U.S. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (search), a top military official in Baghdad, told Fox News.
"We always observe religious sites. We don't want to make the situation worse by going after a place that has such a significance for the people ... but when a site such as a mosque is clearly used to incite violence ... it loses its protected status."
Fox News' Oliver North received a phone call from a Marine officer in Fallujah, who verified that during a search operation near the mosque, U.S. forces were fired upon by mortars and RPGs from inside the compound. Marines returned fire but purposefully did not hit the mosque.
The wall was intentionally breached so Marines could enter the courtyard around the religious shrine, the officer said. There were no U.S. casualties, he said, nor was there damage to the actual shrine.
"The anti-coalition forces firing from the mosque wrongfully violated the law of war by conducting offensive military operations from a protected structure," the Centcom statement said. "As a result, the mosque lost its protected status and therefore became a lawful military target."
Following the strike, Marines recovered a fully functional mortar from inside the compound.
Kimmitt said military officials believe al-Sadr is hiding in a mosque somewhere in the center of Iraq.
"We think we're making a dent on his forces … the remainder of the country, frankly, is moving on," Kimmitt said.
'Bullets Flying All Over the Place'
In Ramadi, fighting was so intense that commanders went to the unit headquarters to pull people who wouldn't normally fight into the combat, military sources said.
"This is not like any other firefight we've seen so far," military sources in Iraq said. "There are bullets flying all over the place."
Several Iraqis called the coalition tip line to help identify, isolate and combat the insurgents, a U.S. military statement said. When the fighting subsided, the statement said, Ramadi remained under the local Iraqi government's supervision.
Meanwhile, Kimmitt vowed to "destroy" a Shiite militia that, along with Sunni Muslim guerrillas, waged the most extensive fighting since Bush declared the war over in May.
Kimmitt said U.S. forces were trying to hunt down members of the al-Mahdi Army in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City (search) in Baghdad, while U.S. and coalition forces were working to prevent militiamen from seizing government buildings and police stations in southern cities.
Kimmitt called on the cleric al-Sadr to surrender. "If he wants to calm the situation ... he can turn himself in to a local Iraqi police station and he can face justice," Kimmitt said.
Although the fighting appears to be mainly by al-Sadr's militia, senior U.S. officials said there is a growing feeling that most of the weekend's attackers were also former regime elements and Baath Party members.
"All the Iraqi people that are watching this understand this. It all comes down to extremism versus moderation," Kimmitt said. "The extremists want to ... take this country back to an authoritarian regime or even worse ... some sort of Talibanization of this country."
Marines this week launched Operation Vigilant Resolve (search) to root out Sunni Muslim guerrillas from Fallujah in retaliation for last week's killing of four American civilian contractors whose bodied were burned, dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge in the city.
Tuesday and Wednesday's casualties could have brought the total since Sunday to about 30 Americans and more than 150 Iraqis killed.
Fox News' Bret Baier, Mike Emanuel, Ian McCaleb, David Piper, James Rosen and The Associated Press contributed to this report.