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Newsletter January 12, 2015 Vol. 12, No. 1
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-- Henry David Thoreau
KEEP CALM AND DANCE ON is the slogan for this year's Dinner Dance. Time is moving on and our Foundation's 12th Annual Dinner Dance is only one month away. February 9th will be here before you know it. Now is the perfect time to make your arrangements to attend this gala event and show your support of our Foundation's programs that make life better for our FCSR PromiseKids.
I can't think of a better way to entertain your clients, board members, executive staff, employees and friends than by hosting a company table at our Dinner Dance. Research has shown over and over again that employees of socially responsible companies are more loyal, trustworthy and likely to keep their jobs. Show them what your company stands for and invite your staff to participate in this hugely successful, fun and rewarding event that helps further Corporate Social Responsibility in Poland.
Our PromiseKids are back in school and abuzz with final rehearsals, costume fittings, last minute adjustments and excitement galore as they prepare for our 12th Annual Dinner Dance at the Hilton Warsaw Hotel and Convention Center on February 9th, 2015 at 18:30, Basia, FCSR Arts Director, says it's the best group of performers ever, and they can't wait to dazzle you with their dancing, singing skills, and their infectious energy!
The Hilton Staff is busy planning a delectable menu, designing the ballroom and polishing up the dance floor for our guests. The "best band in the land", 36.6 is ready to go!
We are selling tables quickly, so if you haven't done it yet, get your table reservations and payments in to Natalie ASAP! You don't want to miss this incredible celebration.
As in previous years, we don't issue tickets. We ask that table holders submit a list of their guests so we can easily identify them at the door. Ours is not a "Black Tie" event, and business casual attire will be just perfect for the occasion. The price of a table for 10 guests (2,400 PLN) is all inclusive of beer, wine, 5-star Hilton dinner, and a star-studded production by the PromiseKids.
Cocktails begin at 18:30 and the dance music ends at 23:00.
We are pleased to announce that we have "kicked off" our 2015 1% tax reduction program with the above advertisement. Polish taxpayers are encouraged to contribute 1% of the tax they owe to the Polish Government, to a charity or foundation of their choice. All contributions are voluntary. We received a great deal of support last year from our members and friends. We look forward to your continued support.
This government program provides an opportunity to take an active role in charity giving. Just let the tax office know that 1% of the money you owe to the Polish Government should be designated to the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility. At the end of the year, just like magic, your contribution will show up in our account.
Ask your accountant or contact our office if you have questions about the program, and keep your eyes open for our 1% poster.
Working to benefit a good cause increases productivity by up to 30 per cent, according to the findings of a new study from the University of Southampton.
When workers are given a social incentive such as a charitable donation linked to their job, performance increases by an average of 13 per cent, rising to 30 per cent among those who are initially the least productive.
"A lot of studies have shown how financial incentives, like bonuses and stock options, can improve performance," says University of Southampton economist Dr Mirco Tonin, lead author of the study. "But our results provide empirical support for the growing recognition that some workers are also motivated by advancing social causes through their efforts."
Performance was most improved (increasing by 26 per cent overall) when workers could decide how much of their pay they wanted contribute. When donations were optional, over half of participants chose to give a proportion of their own pay to a charity of their choice.
Researchers offered students at University of Southampton the chance to take part in the study, which involved completing four one-hour online data entry sessions over the course of a week. Productivity was measured by the number of entries students made within the sessions and the accuracy of those entries.
3.5 percent is how much real wages grew in 2014, according to estimates by Rzeczpospolita based on the data provided by the Central Statistical Office of Poland (GUS) and the National Bank of Poland (NBP).
15.8 million is how many tourists stayed in Polish hotels in 2014, according to the Chamber of Commerce of the Polish Hotel Industry.
The average monthly salary in the Polish enterprise sector grew by 2.7 percent year- on-year and amounted to PLN 4004.80 in November, according to data published by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) on Tuesday. In month-on-month terms salaries grew by 0.6 percent. Economists polled by the Polish Press Agency had expected salaries to grow by 3.6 percent y/y and by 1.3 percent m/m. Employment in the sector amounted to 5,550,800, GUS said. It inched up by 0.9 percent y/y and by 0.1 percent m/m. Analysts had expected employment to grow by 0.8 percent y/y and 0.1 percent.
One-fifth of men legally allowed to take paternity leave have taken advantage of the two-week allowable absence from work in order to take care of their newborn children. This amounts to 120,000 men on paternity between January and November of 2014. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported that demographers are noticing a shift in traditional parenting roles.
The policies may also influence the gap between women's and men's wages. Employers will get used to both men and women taking time off of work to take care of their children. Parental leave in Poland for families with newborn children have been prolonged in the last eight years to an optional leave of over one year.
UK opposition leader Ed Miliband has vowed more stringent control of opportunistic hiring of immigrants. Polish immigrants have recently been under fire from the conservatives for taking advantage of social welfare payments in the UK. Miliband wants to protect the minimum wage and stop temp agency hiring as well as recruitment abroad.
Exploitation of workers would become an offense. Polish workers would not get benefits for two years after arrival. Integration and learning English will be a priority. When people can be exploited for low wages or endangered at work, it drags the whole system down, undercutting the pay and conditions of local workers, said the Labor leader.
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported on the end of welfare tourism, commenting on the German state's more stringent laws against benefit claimants, including Polish citizens. Along with the UK and the Netherlands, the German government has passed a law that will limit the presence of foreigners who are searching for work up to six months.
Unemployed persons who don't find work within six months will lose their ability to stay in the country legally. People who simulate self-employment or receive child support through illegal means will be cut off. According to the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB), The flow of Polish migrants into Germany is climbing at a rate of 12 percent year-on-year and Germany is the country with the highest Polish immigrant population after the UK.
The future inflation index calculated by the Bureau for Investments and Economic Cycles (BIEC) rose insignificantly month-on-month in December, according to data quoted by the Polish Press Agency. Only three of the nine factors contributing to the indicator registered growth last month. Other factors acted in favor of prices decline or stability. Business expectations for price growth slightly intensified, transportation and warehousing prices and unit labor costs grew month-on-month BIEC analysts.
Our Dollar a Day program may be just what you have been looking for and the PayPal method of delivering your money makes it so easy. We pay just about $1.00 to feed one hungry Polish child a hot-meal per school day, $20.00 per month, $200.00 per year. Click PayPal below to contribute.
Make your reservations for our 12th Annual Dinner Dance on February 9th. We are waiting for you call!
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."


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Online Class
Patternmaking Basics: The Bodice Sloper
with Suzy Furrer
Crocheters need somewhere beautiful to put their hooks! Gift one of these to your favorite hooker, or make one for yourself! *Note* This can also be used/modified for knitting needles, makeup brushes, silverware, crayons, markers, paint brushes... Adjust measurements and amount of materials accordingly. BASIC SKILLS NECESSARY Basic machine or hand sewing Cutting fabric SIZING / FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Approximately 8.5" tall X 20" wide

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During the month of love we are covering all of the bases to make sure that romance, fun and gambling are all over your lives. We're giving in into the Valentine's theme and making sure that we have fun with it.
Therefore, we decided to go on a search of the kinkiest and maybe even weirdest slot machines to lure your lover. We don't know if these games will conquer their heart or spark their passion, but believe me, if you find them, you will at least have a good laugh together. And remember, humour can lead to the best of romance.
Check them out!
Playboy Slots
This game has yet to hit the online casino market, but it's out there. This slot was created by Microgaming and it is a Playboy-branded slot game that features voluptuous women in very little clothing, just one would expect a Playboy item to look like: classy and extra spicy.
Each character offers up generous cash prizes, as you may imagine. Each woman awards a unique bonus.
Planet Exotica
This is one of the weirdest slot machines I have ever heard of, since Planet Exotica takes place in an intergalactic strip club. The game's symbols feature some very attractive alien women and a number of club-related characters like bouncers. Lips, martinis, cash and space ships also line the reels.
The game's bonus feature is called Sneak-A-Peek, and the player must undress one of the alien women. She is presented on stage, fully-clothed with 15 tiles beneath her. Every tile contains an item of clothing and if three are selected in a row, then that piece of clothing is removed and the player receives a bonus cash prize.
Hunky Heroes
Now a game for the ladies! Since a large portion of online slots players are female, it makes sense that casino operators would make a game to appeal to their tastes. Hunky Heroes is an online slots game that features several handsome men in adventurous jobs. Roger is a pilot, Wade is a Navy officer, Duncan is a police officer, Patrick is a fire fighter and Brad is a life guard. Each character has their own symbols, depicting their rugged faces and several other symbols depict items they would use for work, including Speedos and helmets. There is also a Sneak-A-Peek Bonus. It is a scratch card game, that allows players to remove items of clothing from the characters' bodies if they scratch off matching symbols.
40 Shades of Santa
Get ready for this slot, since it pushes sexiness into a fine line between sexy and horrific. 40 Shades of Santa sexualizes Santa and it can be quite disturbing, since it's also based on a popular sexy book. The game is based on the provocative 50 Shades of Grey novel series, and features only red, white and black colours. The symbols include sexy lingerie, handcuffs and a pair of women's legs. The game is obviously a spoof of the series, but there is still something that is unsettling about the theme.


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Check out the LA Times Silver Lake neighborhood profile.
Many know Silver Lake for its trendy coffee shops and hip neighborhood fell but for homebuyers, it also has some stunning architectural gems. In the '20s, '30s, '40s &
'50s, many well-respected architects such as Neutra, Schindler, Wright and Ain were commissioned to build residences in this blooming area of Los Angeles. These architects were bold and embraced the opportunity to execute avant-garde ideas. The result is a neighborhood rich in significant designs that rivals many other areas of Los Angeles. From Modern to Spanish, Craftsman to English Tudor, there is a style for everyone in Silver Lake.
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Can politicians – our custodians – and leaders of big fossil fuel companies – become personally responsible for damages that occur due to their negligence?
Act of God – force majeure – An old legal term
Legal history may sound boring, but is actually very interesting and relevant to today's challenges. The reasoning about culpability (guilt) goes back to the Law of the Twelve Tables about 600 BC and the Roman Law further developed during a thousand years. "It is believed that Roman Law is rooted in the Etruscan religion, emphasising ritual". Most juridical reasonings started out in religion. There were perceived gods everywhere and they apparently all had as a hobby to more or less intervene in human plans and business. So when a ship sank or a slave was accidentally killed, it was extremely difficult to claim compensation for damages by the one who suffered losses, as you could always argue that the accident was due to intervention by a god or two.
Roman law, which international law more or less is based on, starts here. The Romans developed a legal system to ensure that trade in the Mediterranean area would go as smoothly as possible, with a minimum of risk for the investors. A shipwrecked captain would have to prove he had done everything possible to save the ship by referring to the precautionary measures he had taken, by training the crew, maintaining the boat, not overloading, when necessary throwing some heavy goods overboard etc. A legal standard that still exists in international law called "bonus pater familias" (Anners, p.289) was established: The standard of what a good, reasonable and responsible family father would have done in the same situation. (What this good person would have done was assessed by the judge / praetor (Anners, p.58).)
The reasonable person weighs four factors before he acts. First, he assesses the foreseeable risk of harm his actions or lack thereof may create and compare them to the utility he might achieve. He also calculates the extent of the risk. Thirdly, he must assess the likelihood of the risk actually causing harm to others and fourth, the possible alternative actions of less risk. The reasonable person is thus required to appropriately inform himself and act accordingly.
If the captain of a ship in the Roman time had failed to take all reasonable precautions, culpability could be established. Negligence, mistakes or intentional damage that could have affected the outcome (causality) would be the first step towards making him personally responsible. The next step would be: was the damaging event foreseeable, or would it have surprised all cautious and responsible people? If the event would come right out of the blue as a complete surprise to any sensible person, this would have been called an act of the gods, later "Act of God" or "force majeure", and the case dismissed. The investor would have to carry the loss himself, unless there was an agreement on more than one investor sharing the losses (Anners, p. 69). This is the historical roots of insurance companies.
The investors gradually developed teams of lawyers who would specialize in arguing for that the event could not have come as a complete surprise; a good and experienced captain should have foreseen…etc, and that the captain had not fulfilled the bonus pater familias standards. A third legal point was added: possible or potential damage extent. The bigger the possible damage, the higher demands on precautionary measures that should have been taken to fulfill the "bonus pater standard". A negligent and careless captain would have to argue very cleverly to get away, and to avoid risking lifelong slavery for himself and his family (Anners,p.74), he would often prefer going down with his ship. It is still a rule of honor for all captains to stay with his ship as long as possible, and be the last person to abandon it.
Gradually, expectations towards what the state or government should do to facilitate trade also grew: keep pirates away, help traders get their rights in other countries, build lighthouses, build harbors etc. If a representative of the state failed to do his duties, he would run the same risks of facing the investors' lawyers in court as a captain who negligently lost his ship.
The old Roman law still gives important guidelines to EU law and international law. New legal standards in the area of damage claims have been developed e.g. "objective responsibility for damages" in addition to "subjective". Objective responsibility means that even if you cannot directly blame an individual for the damages, they were foreseeable, and therefore the investor has to pay for damages on a third party, even if personal culpability was not established.
But still, most big insurance claims starts out establishing "force majeure" / "act of god" or not, as a first step, reflecting a more than 2500 year old legal practice.
Arab and African traders at that time became very envious of the Roman legal systems for trade, damage claims, lawyers, courts and developing insurance systems, as they had more defeatist religious perceptions of accidents and damages than the Romans. In addition they were not able to adapt new laws efficiently because e.g, Arab laws were given by a static religion, such as at a later stage the Quran (Anners, p. 172), making them rather inflexible, while the Roman laws were given by the praetor (Anners, p.70), or by the government / Ceasar, in cooperation with private enterprise, and could easily be adapted and added on when new events and interests occurred. This meant that it was more risky for Africans and Arabs to invest large sums in foreign trade. They therefore tended to keep their investments modest and static, while Romans (Western Europe) kept increasing and developing theirs.
Do we see remnants of this even today?
Another interesting question is: are the authorities behaving responsibly facing potential natural disasters – and more so when warnings about the coming disasters have been given by the most prestigious scientists in the world on anthropogenic impacts on the world's climate?
How about appropriate steps to preserve the world's biological diversity and the health of our common ecosystems? Are we diligently enforcing laws and regulations preventing poisoning and polluting the environment to the detriment of others? If other people or animals get sick or even die because of our actions or lack of proper actions — are we criminally negligent then? Can people in other countries claim compensation for our negligent behavior?
In the coming decades we are likely to see an increasing number of total breakdowns of ecosystems. The most prominent researchers in the world have been crying out warnings for years. With climate change becoming increasingly severe, is it possible for farmers in California to sue the state authorities for negligently failing to take appropriate steps in time to prevent unnecessary damage? Can the farmers argue that the authorities knew or should have known that severe and prolonged droughts are increasingly likely because of anthropogenically enhanced global warming, and that steps should have been taken to mitigate or at least adapt and increase resilience? If so – is it conceivable that the authorities might get away by playing the "Act of God"-card?
Are we taking the mitigation and adaptation steps required by the 'bonus pater familias' standard, or do we run the risk of being culpable of negligence in spite of clear warnings from authoritative sources?
There are now many lawyers working in their free time preparing lawsuits on behalf of e.g.Vanuatu and other small island states, against the world's major emitters of greenhouse gases, the coal and oil companies of the world, and their PR companies spreading disinformation and trying to discredit the UN and the mainstream scientific communities. The big multinational fossil fuel lobbies are bracing themselves against these multi-billion dollar lawsuits by spreading as much confusion and doubt about harmful impacts of manmade global warming as possible through their propaganda industries.
Several organisations now prepare lawsuits against their own governments for gross negligence or even breaking their own laws.
E.g. according to the Norwegian constitution § 112
"Everyone has the right to an environment that ensures the health, and a nature where productivity and diversity is preserved. Nature's resources should be allocated on the basis of a long-term and comprehensive account that safeguards this right also for posterity".
What happens if a Norwegian court decides that the government of Norway breaks §112 in the constitution? Can the members of the government be punished? Be sentenced to pay compensation? See Norwegian Writer's Climate Campaign § 112 and Grandparents Climate Campaign
In the USA, the NGO called Our Children's trust, with a team of lawyers and scientists, takes state authorities to court. The mission of OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST is to establish the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate for all present and future generations.By supporting youth plaintiffs in strategic atmospheric trust litigation, OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST empowers youth to lead a game-changing effort to hold the ruling generation accountable and to compel governments in the United States and abroad to adopt and implement enforceable science-based Climate Recovery Plans. Here is a short video on the legal action
Eradicating ecocide – Support ecocide law: A fully proposed draft of the law of Ecocide was submitted into the United Nations by Polly Higgins in April 2010. The intent behind the drafting is to ensure that people and planet are put first and to create a legal duty of care to
a) prohibit the causes of mass damage and destruction,
b) prevent future significant harm from taking place and
c) pre-empt both human caused and natural Ecocides that put nations at risk of being unable to self-govern.
A law of Ecocide addresses the core issue of today: ensuring the welfare of both people and planet. Support ecocide law
The United Nations has persistently worked on an international set of laws to protect the environment. UNEP has its own division called Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC). DELC works with Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).
The best known MEAS are probably:
- UNEP / Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC).
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention)
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS)
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UN Convention on the Law of the Seas
- Anners, E. (1983) Den Europeiske rettens historie. Universitetsforlaget,Oslo.
- Climate change: at last a breakthrough to our catastrophic political impasse? (April 2015)
- The Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations Launched by Expert Group Including GJP Director Thomas Pogge
- International disaster response laws
- International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles …The Vanuatu case
- IFRC"s International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL)
- Billionaire supports reported inquiry into possible ExxonMobil cover-up (Jan 2016)
Legal actions
Urgenda case
- Urgenda Foundation filed the Climate Case against the Dutch Government. (April 2015)
- State ordered to further limit greenhouse gas emissions by Hague District court (June 2015)
Our childrens' trust – Youths vs US
- Our children's trust
- Climate Justice: A Fight for Equal Opportunity
- Hansen & al (2013) Assessing ''Dangerous Climate Change'': Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature
- Hansen, J. (2015) Youth versus Obama: Dr. Hansen's Testimony Against the Government
- World's Largest Petroleum Companies Call Youth's Landmark Climate Lawsuit "a Direct Threat to [Their] Businesses" (Nov 2015)
- Catholics back children's climate lawsuit against US government (Jan 2016)
- Professor Mary Wood on the Bill Moyers Show
- Can you sue for carbon savings, really? (June 2015)
- 21 Youths File Landmark Climate Lawsuit Against Federal Government (Aug 2015)
- 21 Teens Tell Exxon and Koch Brothers: Get Out of Our Lawsuit (Dec 2015)
- Groundbreaking Ruling: State Has Constitutional Obligation to 'Stem the Tide of Global Warming' (Nov 2015)
- Hansen, J. (2015) Golden opportunity
- Hansen, J. (2015) On the Legal Front
- Why the surprise Supreme Court decision won't thwart the Clean Power Plan
- Landmark victory in cklimate case: The Court upheld our claims that the federal government intensified the danger to our plaintiffs' lives, liberty and property. (April 2016)
- Judge Denies Motions by Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government in Landmark Climate Change Case (April 2016)
New York vs Big oil
- N.Y. Attorney General Investigates Whether Exxon Mobil Lied On Climate Change
- Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies …
- Eric Schneiderman Vs. Exxon Mobil
California vs Big oil
New Jersey vs Big oil
Big Coal and Oil culpable of deception?
- CO2's Role in Global Warming Has Been on the Oil Industry's Radar Since the 1960s
Historical records reveal early industry concern with air pollutants, including smog and CO2, and unwanted regulation. (April 2016)
- Hypocrites Unite: AGU and ExxonMobil (April 2016)
- Could a Legal Case Save Humanity From Climate Disaster? Exxon Could Face a Big Comeuppance (Feb 2016)
- Exxon Not Alone, American Petroleum Institute Knew Too (Feb 2016)
- Exxon is Flooding the World with Fossil Fuels that Could Destroy Life As We Know It (Feb 2016)
- Not Just Exxon: The Entire Oil and Gas Industry Knew The Truth About Climate Change 35 Years Ago (Dec 2015)
- COAL: When legally liable, companies don't dispute global warming (March 2015)
- Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics
to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2007)
- New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time (Dec 2015)
- Did Exxon Just Admit It's Still Funding Climate Deniers? (Nov 2015)
- Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media (Nov 2015)
- Halpern, M. (2015) Freedom to Bully How Laws Intended to Free Information are Used to Harass Researchers
- Halpern. M. (2015) Digging into big coal's climate connections – The bankruptcy filings of a Virginia coal firm have shone a rare light on a murky web of corporate attacks on climate science.
- Lord Lawson Denier Charity Investigated After Advisor Accepts Cash from Coal Company(Dec 2015)
- Busted: Academics-for-Hire Exposed for Failing to Disclose Fossil Fuel Funding (Dec 2015)
- Exxon Advertised Against Climate Change for Decades After Top Executives Knew Burning Fossil Fuels Would Warm the Planet (Sept 2015)
- Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years
- The most profoundly evil crime committed by ExxonMobil to date
- Internal Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Has Been Aware of Climate Change for Decades (Huffignton Post Aug 2015)
- Exxon's climate lie: 'No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad' (Guardian, Oct 2015)
- Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
- Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General(Nov 2015)
- Fossil fuel companies risk plague of 'asbestos' lawsuits as tide turns on climate change(Oct2015)
- EXXON: the road not taken (Nov 2015)
- 90 Oil, Gas & Coal Companies are Responsible for 63% of our CO2 Emissions in the Atmosphere. It's Time to Make Them Pay for Their Climate Damage.
Indigenous peoples' rights
Failing to take responsible action – culpability?
- How technology can help reduce the impact of natural disasters
- EPA Analysis of Chemicals Used in Fracking Is a Study of the Unknown
- Climate change is killing us. We must use the law to fight it (Guardian Feb 2016)
- Hillary Clinton Calls for Federal Investigation of Exxon (Oct 2015)
- Exxon's Climate Cover-Up Should Be Investigated By DOJ, Tobacco Prosecutor Says (Oct 2015)
Gory examples of negligence:
- Toxic chemicals exported to poor countries (Electronic waste dumped in Ghana)
- Plastic polluting our oceans. The Pacific garbage patch
- Waves of trash in Indonesia
- Midway
Norwegian Constitution § 112
Grunnlovens klima- og miljøkrav. Beate Sjåfjell. «Norge kan ikke alene oppnå det politisk omforente togradersmålet. Men Norge kan gi et betydelig bidrag, og er etter Grl. § 110 b forpliktet til å gjøre det.»
Tjæresand, Oljefondet og norske rettsregler. Pål W. Lorentzen. «Som del av vår høyeste rettskilde, Grunnloven, forplikter bestemmelsen storting, regjering og alle oss andre.»
Statoil på kant med Grunnloven. Per Bjørn Foros. «Vår frihet blir til kommende generasjoners ufrihet. Det var ikke slik de tenkte på Eidsvoll i 1814.»
Grunnloven § 112 – et fyrtårn for «det grønne skiftet». Pål W. Lorentzen. «Tydeligere innhold, moderne språkdrakt: Grunnlovens bestemmelse om beskyttelse av miljøet kan bli et effektivt virkemiddel i miljøkampen.»
Grunnlovens § 112 krever handling, ikke ord. Beate Sjåfjell. «§ 112 krever dyptgående reformer. Alternativet er å sette selve vårt eksistensgrunnlag på spill. Et slikt fundamentalt brudd på Grunnloven bør ikke få gå upåaktet hen.»
«Den Norske Stat har rettsstridig brutt Grunnloven § 112» Høyesterettsadvokat Pål W. Lorentzen har tatt ut en tenkt stevning mot Staten, på vegne av Kari og Ola Nordmann, for manglende oppfølging av det vi vet om menneskeskapt global oppvarming.


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Michael Jackson's Image: What It Means
Michael Jackson's Image: What It Means
Michael Jackson: Full NPR Music Archive
In this commentary that originally aired on All Things Considered on July 7, 1984, writer Vertamae Grosvenor says that while counts herself a longtime fan of the musical Jackson family, she doesn't plan to attend to see what the Jackson brothers, and especially Michael, have created.
The one glove doesn't bother me. Compared to Boy George, that's conservative. He doesn't do drugs, he's a vegetarian — that's healthy. He's kind to animals, he's a Jehovah's Witness: according to Rolling Stone, he goes to meetings at Kingdom Hall three times a week. Usually I don't open the door, but if Michael rang my bell I would by a watchtower.
I will not go to a concert; can't afford it — thirty dollars a ticket. Before ticket $120 computer idea was a stink bomb to the fans who made the Jacksons.
My girls were among the millions who grew up loving the Jackson 5. They were crazy about Tito, had a crush on Jackie, wanted to marry Jermaine, and fought over Marlon and Michael. They tore pictures out of Jet and Right On magazines. The Jackson 5 was a household word in black homes.
But like my grandfather used to say, by the time white folks get a cold, we've had pneumonia. The Jackson soul act became the Jackson pop act. And that's okay. Five months ago we all celebrated the 20th anniversary of The Beatles tour of America.
At the same time, CBS threw a record party for Michael at the Museum of Natural History in New York. TV clips of The Beatles' arrival showed crowds of screaming white girls. When Michael arrived at the museum, he was greeted by crowds of screaming whites and blacks, boys and girls. That's progress.
I'm not upset by the change in their music. Hey, everything changes. I am disturbed by the cosmetic change. When Michael was with the Jackson 5 soul act, he was a fine looking, sexy teenager, with his afro — we called it a "natural" — and his natural nose.
Now, like a growing number of black performers, Michael has had his nose fixed. He's exotic, non threatening. Seems to be the way to go to crossover. It's the kind of sexuality, America likes her black stars, especially the men, to have. More power to the Jacksons, though their bumps and grinds ain't the Wilson Pickett kind.


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Tue 28 Oct 2008
Brand, Ross and Manuel - the news must take some of the blamePosted by Craig under news with the tags Andrew Sachs • BBC • Fawlty Towers • Jonathan Ross • Manuel • news • Radio 2 • Russell Brand
Firstly, I'd like to make it clear that I didn't listen to Russell Brand's show which has caused all the rumpus this week - which means I'm in pretty much the same boat as most people who have complained about it.
I first heard about this at the start of the week, over a week since the show was broadcast, and at that point only two listeners had lodged complaints - and neither of them were actually about the Andrew Sachs phonecall. Later yesterday, that figure had increased to around 1,500 and it's now totalled 10,000.
Why is that? I'm pretty sure Radio 2 won't have been repeating the show so people are obviously putting in complaints based on what they are hearing on the news. The coverage has been way over the top in my opinion - yesterday it was the lead story on ITV news, which is understandable as they are always going to revel in any story which goes against the BBC, and today even the Beeb feel they have no choice but to follow suit. Were they to either not mention it at all, or just mention it briefly then they would be accused of covering it all up therefore making things worse.
At the end of the day, both Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross can really test the boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not. Their fans would argue they have probably done worse in the past, others would say that this time they have overstepped the mark.
Either way, calls for them to be sacked are wildly off target in my view. Both accept they shouldn't have done what they did, and have either apologised or are making plans to do so in person.
This story will likely rumble on, with inquiries looming about the whys and wherefores - I can understand why some are confused at how this was broadcast given it was actually pre-recorded rather than transmitted live, however it appears that the clip was played to Mr Sachs over the phone and his permission sought to air it. He claims the line wasn't very clear so he couldn't hear exactly what was said!
Whoever decides what should be reported on the news, and indeed how it is reported, need to realise that they can actually end up interfering with the stories themselves. There's no doubts that the reporting of the credit crunch, for example, is perpetuating the problem - while the TV is covered with doom and gloom stories telling everyone it's a bad time to be spending money, who would go out and do the exact opposite? Not many, that's for sure.
Similarly in this case, the massive increase in complaints lodged shows that it's the news coverage which has been the main reason for this increase - and people need to remember what they see on the news is only select clips taken out of context.
The only good thing to come of this was today's quote from Mr Sachs' daughter who said :
My father is the world's most decent man. To put him up in front of an audience for humiliation is ridiculous. Kate Baillie
Isn't that why he is famous? I think she should take up that argument with John Cleese, not Russell Brand or Jonathan Ross…
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Is there a way to write a text inside a shape in a inverted way i.e. like doing voids corresponding to the text letters inside the shape ?
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Thanks Steve,
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USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 �C (-25 �F)
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USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 �C (-5 �F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
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Allow seedheads to dry on plants; remove and collect seeds
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On Dec 16, 2004, Todd_Boland from St. John's, NL (Zone 5b) wrote:
Another lovely western North American fleabane that would be useful for a wildflower garden or rock garden. They usually grow in moister sites than other fleabanes, such as damp sunny depressions, roadside seepage areas and pond/streamsides. They will rgow in regular garden soil but do like a little extra moisture. Plants are about 6-8" tall with single mauve-purple 'daisies' in June or July.


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AppCleaner 3.4
AppCleaner is an application which will easily allow you to deinstall your applications. It is not enough to put an application in the trash to remove it. Other small files are created by the application and unnecessarily fill up your hard disk. AppCleaner is able to find these small files and lets you remove your applications properly.
Download File Size: 2.6 MB
AppDelete 4.3.3
AppDelete is an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. Now you will no longer have to hunt through your system to find these items and delete them manually. Or worse, just let them sit on your Mac forever even though the application is long gone!
Download File Size: 5.6 MB
AppleJack 1.6
Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track. The important thing is that you don't need another startup disk with you. All you need to do is restart in Single User Mode (SUM), by holding down the command and s keys at startup, and then typing applejack, or applejack auto (which will run through all the tasks automatically), or applejack auto restart (which will also restart the computer automatically at the end of the process).
Download File Size: 381 Kb
AppTrap 1.2.3
OK, here's a fairly simple idea: what if applications could be uninstalled as easily as they are installed, in other words, by drag-and-drop. Wait, I can already hear you say: "They can! By using x, y or z!". Well, nice try, sunshine!
Neither x, y or z are truly that simple, right? What can be considered the exact opposite of dragging an application to the Applications folder? Opening another application, dragging the unwanted application to that application, clicking a button, clicking another button, quitting? Nope!
The exact opposite would have to be... dragging the application to the trash. Ah, there you go! This is exactly what AppTrap does. Whenever you drag an application to the trash, a dialog window will pop up, asking if you want to delete the associated system files too. Simple as that.
Download File Size: 1.3 MB
CineBench R15.038
It's a real-world test suite that assesses your computer's performace capabilities. Maxon Cinebench is based on Maxon's award winning animation software Cinema 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. Maxon software has been used in blockbuster movies such and Spiderman, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more.
Maxon Cinebench runs several tests on your computer to measure the performance of the main processor and the graphics card under real world circumstances. The benchmark application makes use of up to 16 CPUs or CPU cores and is available for Windows (32- and 64-Bit) and Macintosh (PPC- and Intel-based).
The resulting values among different Operating Systems are 100% comparable and therefore very useful with regard to purchasing decision-making. It can also be used as a marketing tool for hardware vendors or simply to compare hardware among colleagues or friends.
Download File Size: 85.2 MB
Sell a man a fish when he really needs to know how to fish himself, and you're ripping him off. Then too, there are times when he needs you to throw him a line.
CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easier to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish, and ultimately can become a handy work of reference.
It doesn't try to rip you off - it tries to teach you, so you become more independent and don't need that line thrown at you all the time.
The CLIX package includes a starter command database file with over 1,500 (one thousand five hundred - yes, you read it right) system commands for investigating your system status, for cleaning out your junk files, for getting at secret settings for the Dock, the Finder, and all of your most used applications - and all sorted for easy access, any way you wish.
You also gain access for the first time to the tens of thousands of files in your BSD subsystem.
If it can be done in OS X, it can be done in CLIX; if it can't be done in CLIX, it can't be done.
And most importantly, the CLIX system is infinitely extensible: you can add to it at any time, and in any way you please.
Download File Size: 254 Kb
Cocktail 11.1
Disk - Automatically check S.M.A.R.T. status of disks; Enable or disable journaling Set disk sleep (spindown) time; etc. System - Run periodic maintenance scripts; Purge inactive memory and optimize virtual memory etc. Network - Change speed, duplex and MTU of network cards Easily optimize network settings for common connection types Modify IP configuration parameters Configure File Sharing settings Interface - Customize look and features of Finder, Dock, login window and other system services Pilot - Clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button
Download File Size: 3 MB
coconutBattery 3.3.3
With coconutBattery you are always aware of your current battery health. It shows you live information about the battery in your Mac and iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) including:
Age of your Mac, iOS device and battery
How often the battery was charged
Your battery health (capacity in relation to the original capacity your battery had when it left the factory)
and much more...
Download File Size: 5.9 MB
coconutIdentityCard 3.4
Ever wondered where your Mac or iPhone was manufactured? coconutID can give you this information. coconutID can also calculate when your Mac or iPhone was manufactured
Download File Size: 1.3 MB
Data Rescue 5.0
Do you have a corrupt hard drive or one that no longer mounts? Are other tools failing to even recognize your bad drive? Did you accidentally delete pictures from your digital camera?
Data Rescue is the best data recovery utility on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive. Other utilities can cause more damage to your hard drive and files by trying to 'fix' the problem, instead of focusing on recovering your files.
The Demo Version of Data Rescue 4 will allow you to run a full scan on your drive, visualize the scan results, and look at all recoverable files.
If at anytime you find your files and need to recover them, please proceed to upgrade your software to the full version
Download File Size: 16.3 MB
Disk Drill 3.5
Disk Drill can scan and recover data from virtually any storage device - including internal Mac hard drives, external hard drives, cameras, iPods, USB flash drives, Kindles, and memory cards. In many cases, Disk Drill can read your device even if it is failing, unreadable, or has lost a partition. Combining several powerful scanning algorithms, Disk Drill provides a complete Mac data recovery solution.
The demo will show you files that have been deleted. You'll need to pay the price to recover them.
Download File Size: 22.6 MB
DiskWarrior 5.0
DiskWarrior is the safest, the most technologically advanced, and the most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage available for any computer. DiskWarrior uses a different approach to disk directory repair than other programs. DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. Instead of patching the original directory, it uses a patent-pending technology to quickly build a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files and folders that you thought were lost and that no other program could recover.
Purchase & Download File Size: 19 MB
Drive Genius 3.2.5
Get faster performance from your Mac while also protecting it with Drive Genius. The award-winning DrivePulse feature alerts you to hard drive issues before they become major problems. Top features like Defrag and DriveSlim® will help keep your Mac running fast. BootWell lets you create a special bootable secondary drive to Defrag or Repair your main Mac hard drive.
The Repartition tool allows you to manage your hard drive space by creating, deleting and resizing volumes without erasing them. This helps you manage and organize your Mac hard drive more efficiently.
And much more.
Download File Size: 942 MB
dupeGuru 4.0.3
dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same. dupeGuru runs on Mac OS X and Linux.
Download File Size: 4.5 MB
EtreCheck 3.4.6
EtreCheck will help you:
Find serious problems on your Mac,
Remove annoying adware,
Get help on Apple Support Communities,
See just what your Mac is doing on the inside.
EtreCheck does not install files in hidden directories,
EtreCheck reports protect your personal information when posted online,
EtreCheck makes no changes without your consent.
EtreCheck will not slow down your machine,
EtreCheck will not cause other apps to crash,
EtreCheck uses little memory while running and no memory when not running
Download File Size: 7.4 MB
Exif Untrasher 1.5
Have you ever deleted images from your digital camera's memory card and needed them afterwards? In spring 2003 I ran into that problem after processing some images using a buggy shell script: About 35 of those files were gone and of course (remember Murphy's Law) I had deleted the camera's memory card before ... I found out how to restore the images using a hex-editor, but it turned out to be pretty tedious. This was the moment when the idea for "Exif Untrasher" was born.
Download File Size: 186 Kb
File Buddy 10.0.3
File Buddy 8 is quite simply the most powerful and popular high-level file utility available for use with Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 Tiger. File Buddy 8 has been optimized for the latest versions of Mac OS X, adds an administrator mode, and much more.
* View and edit a wide range of file and folder information in the info window.
* See how many files and folders are in a folder or on entire volumes.
* Create droplet applications which can automatically change file system attributes to items dropped on them, including the contents of folders.
* Use file Viewers to quickly view the content of multiple files.
* Rename files based on patterns, sequences and dates. Create droplets to automate any renaming process.
* Create droplets to scan for duplicate files.
* Find files and folders using an extensive set of search criteria. Conveniently perform a wide variety of actions on found items.
* Use File Buddy 8's new Administrator mode to work with files and folders to which you would not normally have access.
* Use contextual menus to accomplish many tasks in a single step.
* Create custom icons: from PICTs on the clipboard; from the contents of graphics files and, PDF files; from other icons; for folders using a variety of templates; with blank icons; using only small icons. View complete icon families with the icon family viewer.
* Create aliases. Find and repair broken aliases.
* Find empty files and folders, orphaned files, duplicate files, broken aliases, and unused preference files.
* Move, delete, and copy files. Even copy invisible files and use options to skip copying files or copy them with modified names when an item already exists with that name.
* Delete data and resource forks from files.
* Create snapshots to track the changes on a disk, such as files installed by an installer. Use snapshots to uninstall applications.
Download File Size: 5.3 MB
FileSalvage 9.0
Data recovery software for Mac OS X that will retrieve files that have been deleted (undelete), rescue data from corrupted media, and recover lost files from your hard drive or storage device.
If you've lost data and you need to get it back, FileSalvage is your best choice for getting it back. FileSalvage is the ultimate Mac OS X tool for data recovery. FileSalvage recovers deleted files, damaged or missing volumes and even formatted disks.
An exhaustive scan of the drive is performed to locate lost partitions and files. Your are presented with view of files so that you can copy your lost files to another safe location such as your iDisk, a networked drive or external Firewire drive.
FileSalvage recovers data from hard drives, CD-ROM, external devices (Zip, Jaz, Syquest), digital camera cards, Apple iPods, and much more! FileSalvage is compatible with Apple Mac OS X.
Download File Size: 10.2 MB
Find Any File 1.8.9
Find Any File is a program for Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.
Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations, where available. This lets you search for file properties such as name, dates, size, etc., but not for file content (use Spotlight or EasyFind for that).
Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn't, e.g. those inside bundles and packages and in inside folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.
Finally, it is quite fast. A search only takes a few seconds on an internal hard disk or SSD. Try for yourself!
Download File Size: 8 MB
Geekbench 4.2.0
Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Geekbench tries to measure the performance an average application can expect from the computer being benchmarked. As such, all of the benchmarks in Geekbench are written in platform-neutral C and C++, and have no platform-specific optimizations, and Geekbench is compiled with what we consider the de-facto standard compiler for each platform, with the compiler switches suggested by the compiler for release code.
Download File Size: 85.9 MB
GeekTool 3.3.1
GeekTool shows system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).
Use File mode to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/tmp/console.log or /var/log/system.log, or Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like "df" to check space left on filesystems, "uptime" to monitor load of your machine... FInally, Image mode helps you monitor bandwith usage, CPU loads, memory availability of your server, via tools like MRTG or RRD.
Download File Size: 7.4 MB
GrandPerspective 1.9.1
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.
Download File Size: 2.1 MB
Hardware Monitor 5.31
Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all available hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. It can also store and export readings. The application Temperature Monitor is available for free, but is limited to accessing temperature sensors only. The application Hardware Monitor is commercial shareware, but can access additional sensors if your computer is equipped with them. This includes the following sensor types:
Battery sensors on portable computers
Voltage sensors
Current (amperage) sensors
Fan speed sensors
Sensors for pulse-width controlled fans
Power and load sensors
Moreover, the applications can display additional technical information about your computer. Among other information this includes:
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Manufacturing information
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iTrash 3.5
Applications distribute several files throughout your system storage devices. Deleting an application itself is mostly not enough and will leave files untouched. iTrash uses a special search algorithm to find all related files and deletes them when asked.
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iStat Menus 5.2
iStat menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. CPU, Memory, Disks, Network, Temps, Fans, Bluetooth, Date & Time
Download File Size: 29.5 MB
MacTracker 7.5.6
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPods, AirPort Base Stations, Newtons, and Mac OS X versions.
Download File Size: 49 MB
MenuMeters 1.9.2
MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a PowerBook's small screen. Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login.
The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts.
- The CPU Meter can display system load both as a total percentage, or broken out as user and system time.
- The Disk Activity Meter displays disk activity to local disks on the system (anything that is a IOKit BlockStorage driver).
- The Memory Meter can display current memory usage as either a pie chart, thermometer, history graph, or as used/free totals.
- The Net Meter can display network throughput as arrows, bytes per second, and/or as a graph.
Download File Size: 469 Kb
MenuMeters for OS X El Capitan 10.11 (and later)
OmniDiskSweeper 1.9
OmniDiskSweeper is a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper makes this easy by highlighting the biggest files on your disks, and by noting which files are used by the system, so you don't accidentally delete important files.
Download File Size: 2.2 MB
OnyX 3.3.9
Repair permissions. Securely delete files and folders (Important: You should not perform this operation on a solid-state drive or Fusion drive.) OnyX is a maintenance, optimization, and personalization utility. It also makes it possible to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, and Safari, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, preview the different logs and CrashReporter, and more.
Download File Size: 30.2 MB
PhotoRescue 3.4
PhotoRescue is an advanced data-recovery solution for digital photography media. Whether you have erased your pictures or formatted your card by mistake, or you have experienced a crash, PhotoRescue may help.
- Works with all the types of media used in digital camera (SD Cards, CF Cards, Memeory Sticks, etc... etc...
- Cutting edge QT based user interface: common cross-platform interface. No learning curve or differences between versions.
- Up-to-Date RAW file recovery support: supports latest cameras such as the Canon 400D and many more...
- Improved Movie recovery: we keep increasing the maximum movie recovery size.
- One year of free updates: keep abreast of technology changes, new file formats and technologies.
- Unlimited recoveries: use our program as many times as you need to use it.
- No media size limits. No recovery limits. Non expiring license: the program is yours to keep and use.
- No copy protection: no unfriendly copy protection scheme or intrusive activation mechanism.
- Free demo with guaranteed previews: unlike some of our competitors who use the small embedded thumbnail as a preview of the recovery, we generate our preview on the fly, from actual card data.
Download File Size: 3.9 MB
Preferential Treatment 1.1.8
This application will check your preference files (both in your user's preference folder and the system's preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool. If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash. You may also double-click on a file in the found files table to open it in the application of your choice (you can designate the default application from the preferences). There is also an option to save the results of a scan to a text file. (Note: if you trash a file before saving a report, the report will not include information on the file you moved to the trash.)
"Preferential Treatment" is basically a GUI wrapped around the "plutil" command line tool provided by Apple Computer, Inc. since Mac OS X 10.2 (see "man plutil" in the Terminal). "plutil" just checks to see if .plist files are valid XML. This application is no panacea but it does help to fix blatantly corrupt preference files.
Download File Size: 512 Kb
Sloth 1.9
Sloth is a program that displays a list of all open files in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system -- this list includes IP and Unix sockets, character devices and directories. This list is presented along with the names of applications using the file and their process IDs. Sloth thus makes it easy to find out which applications are using which files. Includes support for list filtering, process killing, sorting, timed updating and more.
Download File Size: 429 Kb
TechTool Pro 9.5.3
Besides the new features, TechTool Pro 4 also contains updated versions of its time-tested repair and diagnostic features. Like volume repair and data recovery, which can save the most important element of your computer: your data. Like its predecessor, TechTool Pro 4 can also tests all of the critical hardware on your system like the CPU, memory, controllers and even the power supply that feeds all of these devices. The program can also check other important aspects of your system like internet connections, network and even some third-party external peripherals.
XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, GPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data. The goal of XRG is to be a functional system monitor that has a clean and flexible interface, so it doesn't intrude on the rest of your Mac experience.
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Vehicle2010 Mazda 6 s Touring Plus 4dr Sedan (3.7L 6cyl 6A)
ReviewIf you're like me and want to have some fun while driving but don't want to pay top dollar to get it, than the Mazda 6 Sport V6 is for you. I test drove every car in its class and some cars above it (much more expensive) and the Mazda outperformed dollar for dollar every time. I've had mine for a month now and I still have to take a look at it each time I get in or out and think to myself "what a beautiful car"
Best FeaturesThe engine power and sport shift mode, styling, cabin and trunk room, intuitive control locations, bluetooth, etc,, et,c, etc.
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Letter(s) from Tatyana Efremova to Scott (Ireland)
Letter 1
hello my dear Scotty!!!
How at you an affair? I'm fine.
Lovely, I understand, that you will work, and we can meet you only then when you are exempted from work. I understand it. I think, that it not a problem. For this time I could will get acquainted with your native and to spend time with them. You count it correct? In fact, I as need to know your native, I need to understand as they will concern to me if I want that they were to me relatives. It too is very important FOR me.
I yesterday went to travel agency to find out all about my travel to you. I talked to the worker of agency, and all have found out from him. I have explained to him, that I want to depart to you for two months to DUBLIN. he has understood my intentions and has told, that on such case, in travel agency can give a tourist package deal. he has told, that such package deal to Dublin for two months will cost to me 1095 euros.
I too have been struck with the sum which is required to me for travel to you. I was interested at the worker of travel agency why I should pay 1095 euros if tickets cost about 400 euros. he has explained to me, that is included in a package deal from travel agency. he has told, that in me it is required To issue the passport for travel abroad and the visa, the medical policy, an insurance policy, tickets. he as has told cost of everything, that it is required to me. Initially I will need to issue my passport for travel abroad, which cost 142 euros. Registration of such passport of the passport borrows 10-15 working days. After registration of the passport I will need to issue the visa, cost of the visa makes 54 dollars, term of registration of the visa from 7 till 12 working days. As I need to issue the medical policy - 45 euros, and insurance the policy, which cost - 324 euros. Insurance and medical policies are necessary for all citizens, going abroad. After registration of all documents, I can buy air tickets and fly to you. Cost of air tickets Dublin (in both sides), makes 395 euros. I pay other sum for services of travel agency. I can be to Ireland about two months. That I was explained by the worker of travel agency. I hope, now you understand why I should pay for travel to you such big sum. It is really big sum.
Scotty, I understand, that it is serious and the purpose and certainly the sum too. And the more so for you. And I want to tell, that I there is nothing you I do not oblige. And there is nothing I do not ask. If really you think, that you and I can become good pair then it is necessary to conceive our meeting. I want to hope, that our meeting will change our life in the best side. And this step is very serious for both of us. And your answer for me very much much means.
Lovely, I understand, that for you the most expensive gift shall be I.
But nevertheless Russian culture demands it that I have given you a gift from myself. I think, you will not refuse it.
On it I finish the letter. I hope to see your letter again.
Yours faithfully yours Tatyana.
Letter 2
Hello my dear Scott!!!
How are you my dear??? I'm ok!!!
I now on work.
I am happy to see again yours the letter. I am very glad, that you have perfectly carried out the day off, and that you too have very well slept. Means also you as well as I like well and to have a sleep more:))))
Lovely, I have really been concerned with that you cannot spend time long time with me. But I am grateful to you that you have explained all to me. I now understand all.
Lovely, I already spoke you, that today I shall go to agency to take away tickets. I went today there to a lunch break, and recently have come back for work, and have decided to write to you at once.
Some data of air tickets in which my arrival is specified:
Start: MOSCOW 21:20 Wednesday on April, 23 2008
Arrival: LONDON 22:15 Wednesday on April, 23 2008
Flight: BA 875, the plane: Boeing 767-200
Start: LONDON 06:40 Thursday on April, 24 2008
Arrival: DUBLIN 08:00 Thursday on April, 24 2008
Flight: BA 5949, the plane: Airbus Industrie A321
General time in a way: 13 hour. 40 minutes.
When I received the tickets, the worker of travel agency informed me news which I did not expect to hear. I really was in confusion. This news to me was impact.
To me spoke that at you in the country the law on that is accepted for that what to arrive to you to the country it is necessary to have money for hands. To me spoke that many countries do such law. This money refer to to average living wages. It is made for that what to you the country there did not arrive immigrants. I spoke in travel agency why they did not speak me about it earlier? They spoke me that it not terribly and they thought that I can find money. Because I will not need to spend them. I only need to show them at the airport. I should not spend them. At stay of two months in Ireland I will need to have 2400 euros. It is the sum pays off with the account that every day to me is necessary to have 40 euros.
I should have this money with me at the airport when I shall go through customs. And I should show them at customs. If I shall not have with myself money me will simply not let in the Ireland. But I should not spend this money. I will need to show them only. And when I shall come in the Ireland I at once can give you this money at the airport. I should have them only for customs.
Scott, I have really been upset with this news. Now I do not know where to find such money. I am valid in confusion. Lovely I shall not spend this money. They are necessary to show only at entrance to Ireland, that at me is money with itself and that they have understood that I not the immigrant.
I am very much upset with confluence of such circumstances. I now do not have any mood.
Lovely, I shall try to call to you within the next few days. Now only your voice by phone gives to me happiness.
I shall finish on it the letter.
I shall wait for your following letter.
Kiss you!!!
Yours Tatyana!!!!!!
Letter 3
Hello my dear Scott!!!
I am very much upset, I on the verge of nervous failure, I now am in a condition of a shock!!!! At me hands now are very much shaked! I can not believe that it has taken place with me! Now I understand in what awful country I live! Such wild events might occur only here! It is very hurt me!
It is awful. Today since the morning I have arrived to Moscow. Having taken away the bags I have left a train. I have gone to an exit from station. There was a lot of people, and with me close all time there were any suspicious men. But I went further, and then someone has pushed me, and I have felt, that someone touched my bag. When I have looked, the bag was on a place, but those two men was not already close. It seemed to me suspicious. I have looked attentively at the bag, and have seen, that it have cut, and then I have found out, that in it there is no my purse and an envelope in which were money which I should was show at customs house. I was horrified, I began to shout, whom our militiamen did not come, and I have told him, that at me have stolen money. We have run to search for them. But there was a lot of people, and we have not found them, they already by this time had time to escape probably from station. I did not know what to do. I felt fear, horror and feebleness.
I now have no any mood. Money which needed to be shown when I shall take off, they are not. I now do not know what to do. I do not know, that to me to do with my flight to you.
My lovely those gangsters have taken away money which you have sent me that I could show them at customs house. I now do not know, that with it to do, I have lost all money for our meeting. I now do not know, that with our meeting. My lovely I has lost all money, and now I do not know, how I shall pass through customs house. My lovely I need to have money, but those gangsters have taken away all money which you have given me. My lovely I very much want to meet you, I hope, that it is not destroyed. My lovely, what we can solve with it?
I now sit in the Internet of cafe, and I do not know what to do. My flight will be in the evening. And I do not know, that to me to do.
I shall not go through it!
I can not will consult with it!
I can be broken at any moment!
where you? I very much need in you!
Please answer me faster!
I shall wait for your letter.
Please, faster!
Yours Tatyana.


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Is Asthma Linked To Air Pollution?
March 21, 2002
Self-reported asthma cases have doubled in the United States over the past 20 years, and pediatric cases rose from 3.7 percent of children to 6.9 percent between 1980 and 1996. Pre-existing lung ailments can be aggravated by exposure to air pollutants, but does air pollution cause asthma?
A study in the medical journal Lancet (Feb. 3, 2002) compared asthma rates among children in 12 southern California communities from 1993 to 1998 with measured levels of ozone, airborne particulates, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants.
- The only pollutant for which it found a correlation with asthma was ozone.
- In the four communities with the highest ozone levels, the 8 percent of children in three or more team sports were 3.1 times as likely as less-active children to become asthmatic.
- But in the eight communities with lower ozone levels, asthma was unrelated to sports participation.
- And overall asthma rates did not differ between the high- and low-pollution areas.
During the study period, four "high-ozone" study areas exceeded federal standards by about 50 days per year. However, such high pollution levels no longer occur anywhere in the United States. In fact:
- The four "high-ozone" communities now average 11 ozone exceedances per year, a reduction of almost 80 percent; Crestline, Calif., with the worst ozone in the nation, exceeds the standard 23 days annually (see figure).
- Ozone levels in America's next most polluted metro areas -- Fresno, Houston and Atlanta -- are much lower than the levels associated with increased asthma risk.
- Overall, ozone levels dropped 24 percent nationwide between 1980 and 1999, and other pollutants declined substantially.
It's hard to see how decreasing pollution could cause increasing asthma. Yet in media reports, regulators and public health advocates insisted the study proves the need for stricter ozone regulations.
Source: Joel Schwartz (Reason Public Policy Institute), "Breathe Easier on Asthma-Air Pollution Link," Brief Analysis No. 390, March 21, 2002, National Center for Policy Analysis.
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See also "New Asthma Estimates: Tracking Prevalence, Health Care, and Mortality," National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, 2002.
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Ravens won't be distracted from task
When the Baltimore Ravens arrived in New Orleans on Monday night, they more than likely expected the culmination of the month-long Ray Lewis Farewell Tour that the media had been throwing him since the start of the postseason.
Instead, those Ravens have dealt with controversial comments from Bernard Pollard, even more controversial comments from Ed Reed and a whole lot of talk about deer-antler spray.
And guess what?
None of it matters.
Another team? Maybe they'd be affected by the apparent distractions from a surprisingly hectic week leading up to the Super Bowl. Another group of guys? For sure.
But these Baltimore Ravens are not like any other team in the league. If anything, all this "hate" and "work of the devil" (Ray Lewis's words, not mine) will galvanize them. They'll rally around this like few teams ever have gathered around adversity ever before.
I picked the Ravens to beat the Giants in Week 16 of the regular season. They'd lost three straight games, they were coming off their worst offensive effort of the year and there was a new offensive coordinator calling plays for just the second game.
The Ravens dominated the Giants that day. They did so in a fashion that was so overwhelmingly noticeable that I made a point in my Cheat Sheet column the next week: "It's not a popular pick, but if healthy, this Ravens team could be the team that makes the wild-card-round-to-Super Bowl-parade journey this year."
The Packers did it in 2010. The Giants did it in 2011.
I rolled the dice on the team that looked like this year's team of destiny. I said, "Why not?" with a squad that was going with a completely different offensive line for the postseason. Days before the Ravens faced the Colts in the wild-card round, John Harbaugh moved veteran Bryant McKinnie to left offensive tackle, Michael Oher to right tackle and rookie Kelechi Osemele to left guard.
How'd that work out? In the three games since the shakeup, Joe Flacco has been sacked just four times. In truth, no one's gotten to Flacco this month. Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney got very little pressure in the wild-card round, Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil were both invisible in Denver, and we heard very little from any of the Patriots' pass rushers in the AFC Championship Game. No one really has ruffled Flacco's feathers.
The offensive line isn't going to get the cover of a magazine or much national buzz, but it's been incredible of late.
So have my Cheat Sheet picks.
I took the Ravens to beat the Colts. They did.
Then, I took the Ravens to beat the Broncos in Denver. They did.
And, of course, I wasn't getting off the Ravens' train before the AFC Championship Game. I took them to beat the Patriots. They did.
If you think I'm getting off the Ravens' train now, you're crazy.
Five reasons why I think they have the edge:
1. This Ray Lewis thing is real
You can roll your eyes all you want. You can moan and groan that there will be multiple camera angles of Lewis crying during Alicia Keys' rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Be cynical. Be skeptical. Call him selfish for making this run all about him. But do so with the knowledge that the Ravens' players would laugh in your face at such disdain. Having spent time with the Ravens (and being in their team hotel this week), I can assure you the Ray Lewis Factor is a real one. These players — from the youngest guys to the oldest — love Ray Lewis. They want to win this for him. They will win this for him.
2. Two weeks is more than one week
No team has faced Colin Kaepernick with two weeks to prepare for him. I am certain the Ravens' coaching staff cooked up something very sound and very effective the past two weeks. The one team that saw Kaepernick play extensively in two games absolutely shut him down the second time they played. That team? The St. Louis Rams. Don't be shocked if you see many of the same techniques the Rams employed in their overtime victory over the 49ers weaved into the Ravens' defensive game plan.
3. The kicker
I don't trust 49ers kicker David Akers at all. I'd trust Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker to kick a big field goal, baby-sit a child or just be an all-around sweet guy.
4. The Jacoby Jones factor
You know he's due for a big play. It wouldn't be right if he wasn't.
5. Joe "Elite" Flacco
During this Ravens postseason run, Flacco has completed 51 of 93 passes for 853 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions for a 114.7 rating. If he throws three more touchdown passes, he ties Joe Montana's single-postseason record for TD passes.
When it's all said and done and the Ravens are hoisting that Lombardi Trophy, the questions will start from the press box and will begin tricking down to Twitter and so forth, soon afterwards.
You know where I'm going: "Is Joe Flacco elite?"
If he wins this one, you better believe it. Not only has Flacco been flawless on the stat sheet, but he also became the first quarterback in NFL history to beat both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in their buildings in the same postseason.
If he wins, Flacco not only gets whatever money he wants this offseason from the Ravens, but he also gets that "elite" label.
Move over Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger and the Manning brothers. You'll have company after this one.
I pushed all my chips to the center of the table and went with the Ravens as our next Super Bowl champs after Week 16. There's no way I'm switching gears now.
I won't bore you with the X's and O's, any more stats, or the individual matchups that Baltimore has a distinct edge in.
I'm just really digging the Ravens' vibe this week. It didn't go exactly as they had planned before their plane arrived, but they rolled with the punches, stuck together and turned to football.
Now, there's just one thing left to do. They've got to go out and play the game.
That, amazingly, could be the easiest part of the Ravens' Super Bowl week.
The Pick: Ravens 27, 49ers 23
MVP: Joe Flacco
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