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MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. You can choose each of the monitors you want to show in the menubar.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: utility , monitor , monitoring , menu
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Sorry. Disk image is OK. I probably needed to reboot ;-)
Hmm, disk image failed to mount (OS X 10.4.11 Tiger)
I used this forever, but switched a while back to iStat Menu for its aesthetics and added menu functionality. Menu Meters was an excellent product, but didn't keep up!
Just swapped from this to iStat menu, due to my Menu Meter network display disappearing on boot more often than I would like.
I use this to monitor my CPU and bandwidth usage. It helps me explain why my mac feel slow, or why the network is slow etc...
as other said, i feel blind without it !
Love it to death, but wish it had a drop-down with running processes, CPU load, and a way to re-nice/kill the memory-hogging process. It just sucks having to bring up Activity Monitor every time the system slows down. Otherwise, MenuMeters rocks!
It's absolutely perfect.
Insanely useful. I always have processor and bandwidth displays up.
Very, very, VERY nice to have. I miss the functionality on my PCs, and though I've found alternatives, none of them are anywhere near as easy or effective.
The best part of this is each meter is also a menu that allows you to bring up relavant apple utilities or control panels. Such a timesaver.
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VAIL, Colorado - This year, 46,476 Conde Nast Traveler readers cast their votes to recognize 270 hotel spas in North America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and at sea. Aria Spa, located in the AAA Four Diamond Vail Cascade Resort, moved up 22 spots ranking second on the "Top 100 U.S. Resort Spas" list. This accolade is the perfect complement to Vail Cascade Resort's year-end awards streak, which included ranking 18 on Conde Nast Traveler's "Top 40 Resorts in the West" and 26 on its "Top 50 Ski Hotels" list.
"This achievement is the result of the collective and talented effort our therapists and staff put forth to make each guest visit to our spa truly special," said April Bingham, spa director at Aria Spa. "We are grateful to the many guests that have shared a part of their day with us and we hope to continue serving them well for years to come."
This year's Reader's Choice Poll marked the pinnacle of 22 years of research. According to Conde Nast Traveler, readers who participated in this poll had a total of 46,352 visits to hotel, resort, and cruise ship spas.
Conde Nast Traveler's 2013 Spa Poll results were derived from the 2012 Readers' Choice survey. Tabulation of the survey's 46,476 responses was done by Global Market Insite, Inc., of Marlborough, Mass. Spas were rated excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor on three criteria: Spa Facilities, Spa Staff, and Spa Treatments. Those criterion scores, representing the percentage of respondents who rated a spa excellent or very good, were averaged to determine the overall rating for the spa. A minimum number of responses were required for inclusion in these rankings.
Aria Spa earned an overall rating of 98.3 with a 100 for Spa Treatments, a 98.3 for Spa Staff, and a 96.6 for Spa Facilities. In total, only one other spa in Vail ranked in this prestigious reader's list.
To book a spa visit or a spa getaway, visit www.vailcascade.com or call 800-282-4183

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SANTA CLARA -- Embattled linebacker Aldon Smith said he's in tip-top shape physically and mentally, crediting that in part to his sobriety and a different approach to offseason workouts.
"I'm in the best shape I've been in coming into a camp, and my mind is probably in the best spot it's been in, so I'm feeling great," Smith said Thursday before the 49ers' first full-squad practice of training camp.
Smith will at some point in the "near future" leave 49ers camp to meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding potential discipline. No firm date has been set, Smith said, but one option could be during the 49ers' East Coast trip in two weeks to Baltimore.
"That's in their hands," coach Jim Harbaugh said of a potential suspension, which figures to range from two to six games, based on recent history. "They will discipline if they feel he warrants it."
Last Friday, Smith was sentenced in Santa Clara County Superior Court to 12 days of work release and three years' probation, stemming from his no-contest pleas for illegal weapon possession and drunk driving.
"He's going through a process which is accounting for mistakes he made," Harbaugh said. "He's been given an opportunity to say what he's going to do and so far he's doing that."
"This process has been a growing process and I'm in a better spot than I have been," said Smith, arguably the league's premier pass rusher who has totaled 42 sacks in 43 regular-season games.
"You go through things in life and you learn a lot. I've learned a lot from my mistakes and grown from them."
One mistake came Sept. 20, when Smith was involved in a single-car accident in San Jose's Silver Creek neighborhood, resulting in his drunk-driving arrest. Smith played two days later against the Indianapolis Colts before checking himself into a treatment center and missing the 49ers' next five games.
Smith said of his sobriety: "I've been able to maintain and it's going good."
Part of Smith's probation guidelines state that he can not consume alcohol nor enter bars during the next three years.
Aside from his off-field lifestyle, Smith believes he can grow as a player in several areas, noting: "I'm far from reaching the top so I've got some time to improve."
That meant hitting offseason workouts "really hard," including taking part in the 49ers' nine-week program while the legal cloud hovered over his 24-year-old head. So he changed up some workouts and focused on improving not only his sometimes-suspect stamina but also his power and technique.
"It's good to be back on the field, doing something I love and something I enjoy, being around my teammates and everybody around here," Smith said.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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LOS ANGELES -- All right, so we got it wrong about the Sharks.
And by "we," of course, I am talking about "me."
The prediction here for the first Stanley Cup playoff round was that the Los Angeles Kings would defeat the Sharks in six games. But the Sharks now hold a three-games-to-none lead. They are in position to complete a sweep Thursday night here at Staples Center.
It just makes me want to crawl inside an airplane wheel well and flee to Hawaii. Except that someone else thought of that first this week. Probably an L.A. Kings fan.
"Don't give us a passing grade yet," Sharks coach Todd McLellan cautioned Wednesday after a team meeting. "Because we're still taking the test."
Fair point. The Sharks might not clinch the series in Game 4. But it is only a matter of time, during which I will ponder exactly where my pre-series analysis was cross-checked into the end boards.
Here are the four elements on which I didn't count:
1. The Sharks' depth is deeper than expected. The Kings' strength through the regular season was the way they could roll four forward lines onto the ice and gradually wear down opponents. The Sharks had trouble fielding four healthy and productive lines and essentially went with just three lines. This often meant extra minutes for their top-end players, sapping their stamina.
That same situation was expected to prevail in the playoffs. But surprise! Raffi Torres and Tomas Hertl, two Sharks forwards who missed most of the winter and spring while rehabbing knee injuries, have returned for the postseason with ferocity. They have filled out the lines nicely and produced four goals between them. Meanwhile, McLellan has leveraged his new options and assembled some solid line combinations -- especially a fourth-line group that plays nine or 10 quality minutes per game and keeps the top-enders fresher.
Evidence: Tuesday in the third period, the Sharks outshot the Kings, 23-8, partially because Los Angeles' legs were getting slower while the Sharks' legs were getting stronger. More proof of depth: Matt Nieto's tip-in score on Tuesday night made him the 11th player in teal with a goal in this series.
2. Antti Niemi is outsaving and outperforming Jonathan Quick in the Nets. Niemi had a few rugged nights as the Sharks goalie late in the regular season. And in this series, he still hasn't stolen any games. But that has not been required.
The important thing is, Niemi has been very sharp at critical moments when a big save was needed. And he's been much better than the other guy. After three games, Niemi's save percentage is .912, compared with the .852 of Kings goalie Quick -- who has been nothing at all like the mighty Quick who beat the Sharks in a playoff series a year ago by allowing only 10 goals over seven games.
Did anyone see this coming? If you raised your hand, you are a liar. Quick's goals-against average in this series is 5.78, while Niemi's is 2.58. For those unfamiliar with hockey, it is never a good thing when a man's goals-against average is higher than the number of officials on the ice (4).
3. The Sharks defensemen are plugging and persevering. On paper, this corps of Sharks defensemen may not wow anybody with highlight-video plays. But they have managed the puck skillfully and given up very few turnovers, while contributing just enough offense: Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Justin Braun have each scored a goal, and Dan Boyle has three assists.
Wednesday, when Sharks forward Patrick Marleau was asked to name the most underrated thing about his team, he answered: "Probably our defense. I don't think they get enough credit for the way they get to pucks and move the pucks out of the zone."
4. The Sharks are winning the big-bang battle. The statistic sheet claims that the hits are about even in the series. But that alone tells you something. In the past, the Sharks weren't always able to counter when an opponent tried to intimidate them with waves of contact. Now, the Sharks can counterpunch and make their own statement.
Brad Stuart, the veteran defenseman, was asked the same question as Marleau about an underrated Sharks element and made that point.
"I think it's our ability to play physical," said Stuart. "That probably hasn't been the first thing people talk about with this team. We've got some big guys, though, and they can play that way. Los Angeles is thought of as a physical team that hits hard. But we're holding our own with them."
This was not the most pointed reply I received to the "underrated" question, though. That one came from Vlasic.
"Underrated from whose perspective?" asked Vlasic. "I don't think we have anything that's underrated. I think we're a complete team. From top to bottom."
Of course, that's not true. No team is 100 percent perfect. But the statement demonstrates where the Sharks' attitudes and confidence are right now. They are headed to the second round very soon. I am in no position to argue.
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Nine Pembroke Academy students whose educational trip to Spain was jeopardized last week have learned the excursion is back on, thanks to a last-minute infusion of cash from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
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Real-time reliability R&D Long-term performance, reliability, and failures of PV components and systems are studied at NREL and through collaborations elsewhere. Analysis is performed to quantify long-term degradation, and results are shared with the community.
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Kim Jong Un's Ex-Girlfriend Executed: Report
(NEWSER) – A pretty jarring report out of North Korea, which claims that Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was executed by a machine gun-toting firing squad last week.Chosun Ilbo reports by way of sources in China that Hyon Song Wol (of "Electric Horse-Lady" fame) was arrested on Aug. 17 along with about a dozen others; Hyon was a singer, and a number of the others were members of the Unhasu Orchestra. They stood accused of making a sex tape and selling it and were shot three days later for violating the country's pornography laws.
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Moving toward a transportation system that fuels healthy people and a healthy planet.
Imagine living in one of America's great walkable communities.
Your day begins with a stroll — saying hi to neighbors, noticing blooming gardens and enticing shop windows, maybe stopping for a treat on your way to work.
Weekends are even better. You step out your door and join the hum of activity on the sidewalk en route to a coffeeshop, park, shopping district, friend's home, recreation center or house of worship.
More time on your feet provides an opportunity to reflect on your life (you feel more energetic and creative now that you're not driving all the time) and your community (it feels more alive now that everyone walks more). Even driving is more fun than it used to be with fewer cars clogging the streets.
And the really good news is that you don't need to move to another town or a more expensive neighborhood to enjoy these pleasures. Any community can become more walkable if people are willing to get off the couch to make a difference.
That's what my colleagues and I at the Every Body Walk! Collaborative and America Walks discovered researching our new book America's Walking Renaissance, which can be downloaded here for free.
We found inspiring stories from places across the U.S. where people got things started in communities not so different from where you live.
•In Baldwin Park, a racially diverse suburb of LA, high levels of childhood obesity are dropping as the result of a community-wide effort to make walking more safe and comfortable.
•In Batesville, Arkansas, and Albert Lea, Minnesota, improvements to boost walking around town are paying off in new residents, businesses and hope for the future.
•In Birmingham, a growing network of walking trails helps address problems arising from decades of economic decline, racial inequity and declining public health.
•In Arlington, Virginia, an innovative plan to transform neighborhoods into foot-friendly villages made it America's Most Walkable Suburb.
•In Phoenix, ambitious programs to encourage walking are part of a push to become America's healthiest city.
• In St. Paul, a multicultural community torn apart by freeway construction seeks revival and healing through better pedestrian connections.
• In San Francisco and New York, neighbors are teaming up with public leaders to end all traffic deaths on city streets.
• In Northeast Iowa, small town kids are growing excited about walking to and at school.
• In Seattle, groundbreaking policies curb speeding motorists and prevent traffic crashes.
• In African-American communities coast-to-coast, GirlTrek encourages women to take charge of their health by walking regularly.
• In California's Central Valley, Latino parents are organizing campaigns to make streets hospitable for people on foot.
• In Indianapolis, leaders from around the world study the Cultural Trail, a 21st-Century walk-and-bike corridor that has reinvigorated struggling business districts.
•In Greater Philadelphia, a network of bike/walk trails link the entire region — 300 miles so far with 450 more planned.
• Even in Oklahoma City, once named America's "Worst Walking City," big plans are working to make walking easier, less dangerous and more fun.
Improvements like these are popping up all over because Americans want to get back on their feet — for better health, stronger communities and happier, more relaxing lives.
The Federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) found the number of people who regularly walk rose 6 percent between 2005 and 2010 (latest figures available), a jump which translates into 20 million Americans stepping up.
But we still have a long ways to go. Only 48 percent of adults met the CDC's minimum daily recommendation for walking or other physical activity: 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week (60 minutes daily for kids).
That's the magic number that cuts your chances of suffering from depression, dementia, diabetes, colon cancer, heart disease, anxiety, high blood pressure, and other serious diseases by 40 percent or more.
The American Heart Association lauds walking as the exercise people stick with the most over time. It's free, requires no special equipment, and can be done anytime, usually right out your front door.
Last year, U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy, singled out walking as a powerful health solution in his landmark Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities.
"Walking is a simple, effective and affordable way to build physical activity into our lives," Murthy declared. "The key is to get started because even a small first effort can make a big difference in improving the personal health of an individual and the public health of the nation."
The rise in walking for recreation, transportation and exercise is also being fueled by new research showing it's good for us in many ways besides better health:
•Going out for a walk is one of the best ways to meet people and strengthen community connections, which is fun but also boosts our mental and physical health.
•Kids who walk to school do better in their classes, according to Mary Pat King, the National PTA's Director of Programs and Partnerships. Walking improves students' concentration, mood, cognitive performance and creativity, explains Dr. Richard Jackson, former Environmental Health Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
•Metropolitan regions with many walkable neighborhoods perform better economically than those with just a few, according to a new report from the George Washington University School of Business.
•Reduced anger, increased self-control and a greater sense of well-being are other documented benefits of walking, according to 100 Reasons to Walk, issued by Walk with a Doc, an organization of physicians working in 29 states.
You don't have to look far to see signs that Americans are rediscovering the joy of walking.
•Real Simple magazine declared it "America's untrendiest trend" in a cover story.
•Soul singer Pharrell Williams' "Happy" video, which highlights the sheer pleasure of strolling down the street, has been watched 850 million times.
•A recent national poll from the National Association of Realtors finds that 79 percent of Americans believe it's important to live "within an easy walk" of the places they want to go.
•Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx has announced an all-out effort to make walking safer in communities everywhere. "Bicycling and walking are as important as any other form of transportation," he declared at a major transportation conference.
•More than 10 percent of all trips in America are on foot, according to Paul Heberling, Policy Analyst at the US Department of Transportation — and 28 percent of all trips under a mile.
"The health benefits of walking are so overwhelming that to deny access to that is a violation of fundamental human rights," declared Dr. Robert D. Bullard, father of the environmental justice movement in a keynote speech at the National Walking Summit in Washington, D.C.
"All communities should have a right to a safe, sustainable, healthy, just, walkable community."
Yet it is a stark fact that children, older Americans, the poor, people of color, and people with disabilities are injured or killed more frequently while walking (or rolling, in the case of people using wheelchairs or motorized carts).
• People walking in the poorest one-third of urban census tracts are twice as likely to be killed by cars.
• African Americans are 60 percent more likely to be killed by cars while walking, and Latinos 43 percent.
• The pedestrian fatality rate rises significantly for people 45 and over, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Many disadvantaged people now think twice before traveling on foot due to dangerous traffic, crumbling sidewalks, street crime, poor lighting, or the lack of stores and public places within walking distance.
Poor conditions for walking among low-income households limit their access to jobs and education. One-third of all African Americans and one-quarter of all Latinos live without access to a car, according to a report by the Leadership Conference Education Fund, which means walking and public transit (which involves a walk) represent important pathways to opportunity.
"A big thing we could do to help low-income families is to make it easier to live without a car. And it would help middle-class families to switch from two cars to one," says Gil Penalosa, founder of 880 Cities and an immigrant from Colombia. He notes that the average cost of owning and operating one car is about $8,500 a year, even taking into account recent dips is gasoline prices.
The good news is that the right to walk is becoming a major issue, as advocates for social justice, public health, neighborhood revitalization and other causes push for policies to make walking safer and easier in communities all across America. In fact, Secretary of Transportation Foxx, the former mayor of Charlotte, has made it one of his top priorities with the Safer People, Safer Streets initiative.
Adapted from the book America's Walking Renaissance, which can be downloaded for free.
Jay Walljasper, author of the Great Neighborhood Book, writes, speaks and consuslts about how to create healthier, happier communities. He lives in Minneapolis and his website is JayWalljasper.com. Read all of Jay's MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
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As a travel addict, I love discovering new cultures and adventuring through foreign landscapes. But as an environmentalist, I struggle with my carbon footprint while wayfaring around the world. Is there a way to travel with a "green" conscience?
Travel is a form of consumption, from jet fuel to trash. It's up to you to determine how much waste you will produce on your voyage. For me, seeing the world has been an education on the environment and the challenges we face. Witnessing other cultures has inspired me to reduce my carbon footprint. Ironically, travel has made me "greener."
In this article, I've listed a seven ways you can reduce your impact on the earth. Implement these easy tricks on your next getaway to travel with a "green" conscience.
In many foreign countries, you cannot drink the tap water. Instead of purchasing dozens of bottles of water throughout your trip, bring a refillable water bottle with a built in filter. My bottle clips right onto my backpack and has saved me from contributing to landfills in several countries where recycling is not common practice.
Wasting food in some countries around the world is a sin, so never order more than you can eat. I try to order small plates, or appetizers, when eating out at restaurants to reduce my food waste.
As for packaging, to-go containers are made of Styrofoam, paper or plastic bags, which almost always end up in the garbage. Be conscious of your purchases. Street vendors sometimes offer delicious finger food, such as kabobs, which have little to no food packaging. Pack your own silverware. Refuse a straw in your drink. Every little bit helps.
Laundry machines use a lot of electricity and water. I carry the Scrubba Wash Bag when I'm backpacking. It allows me to wash my clothes with minimal water and takes only a few minutes per load. I hang dry my clothes using this packable clothesline. My travel clothes are also quick-dry fabrics or wool, so they dry quickly.
Public buses or trains are an eco-friendly option for getting around your destination. Many youth hostels have carpool sing-ups for popular trips, which is an exciting way to meet fellow travelers. On my first day in a new city, I get a map and start walking! Exploring on foot is great exercise and offers excellent people watching opportunities.
As I backpacked through Thailand recently, I noticed that the majority of the trash littered on the beaches and in the streets was from tourists. It disgusted me. Why would you come all this way to see a beautiful beach, only to destroy it?
I began picking up litter when I saw it and disposing of it properly. When I go on a hike and see trash on the trail, I pick it up. A great way to be eco-friendly while on vacation is to spend an afternoon carrying a bio-degradable trash bag and picking up litter. You can help compensate for others by going the extra mile!
In many countries, only the rich have access to air conditioning. Challenge yourself to live like the locals. Book the train car without air conditioning. Stay in the bungalow that only has a fan. By skipping out on luxury, doors can open. You may have never taken that amazing cooking class unless you were willing to compromise your comfort-zone. It can be a blessing in disguise.
Is tourism destroying the local land? In order to accommodate visitors, destinations will go to great lengths without considering the sustainability of their practices. A local delicacy may have been sustainable once, but when thousands of tourists decide to try it, that species could be in danger.
Before traveling to a new country, do your research. Are the waters overfished? Do they import their meat from another country? How much meat, fish, grain does they average local eat? How much water, gas, electricity does the average local use? This information can help you make educated discussions on your consumption.
As a green conscience traveler, you should strive to waste less and reuse more than the average tourist. Be aware of your impact. Challenge yourself. Do your research. Being eco-friendly will enhance your adventure.
Finally, allow yourself to be educated by your travels. Enhancing your eco-awareness will make you a better consumer at home and on vacation!
Photos by Guillaume Dutilh
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Part of Oklahoma City's growing trail network.
The U.S. gave up on walking in the mid-20th Century — at least planners and politicians did. People on foot were virtually banished from newly constructed neighborhoods. Experts assured us that cars and buses (and eventually helicopters and jet packs) would efficiently take us everywhere we wanted to go.
Thankfully, most Americans refused to stop walking. Today — even after 70 years of auto-centered transportation policies — more than 10 percent of all trips are on foot, according to Paul Herberling of the U.S. Department of Transportation. That number rises to 28 percent for trips under one mile.
Indeed, we are in the midst of a walking renaissance as millions of people discover a daily stroll can prevent disease, boost energy, ease stress, connect us with our communities, and is just plain fun. The number of us who regularly take a walk has risen six percent in the last decade, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to a new study from the National Association of Realtors, 79 percent of Americans — even higher for those under 35 — want to live in a place that's walkable. Walking's popularity is now reaching beyond older city neighborhoods into suburbs and the Sun Belt.
Even Oklahoma City — which was named as the "worst US walking city" in a 2008 study of 500 communities by Prevention magazine and the American Podiatric Medical Association — is embarking on big plans to become more walkable.
"Bleak" is how Jeff Speck, urban planner and author of Walkable City, describes walking in Oklahoma City seven years ago. "Traffic sped too fast…for pedestrians to feel comfortable on the sidewalks...oversized traffic lanes encouraged highway speeds," he wrote in Planning magazine.
Oklahoma City also suffered from perhaps the worst sidewalk network in America. Most other towns conscientiously built sidewalks until the 1950s, but Oklahoma City abandoned the effort as early as the 1930s in some neighborhoods.
Mick Cornett, the city's Republican mayor since 2004, notes, "We had built an incredible quality of life, if you happened to be a car. But if you were a person, you were seemingly combating the car all day."
"We probably were last in the country for walking," Cornett admits.
This rock-bottom rating really stung in a community that had earlier been passed over by United Airlines as the site for a new maintenance facility because, despite the city's generous financial incentives, the company's CEO said he couldn't imagine asking his managers to move to Oklahoma City.
Then, a year after the walk rankings, the city again found itself in the harsh glare of unwanted media attention. This time Men's Fitness magazine stigmatized Oklahoma City as the "#2 fattest city" in America. Among the country's 100 largest cities, only Miami was more corpulent.
That's all changing now. An ambitious $18-million sidewalk-improvement fund was approved by voters as part of a tax increase that also included money for parks, transit, bike trails and senior wellness centers around town. Four busy streets heading into downtown are now being narrowed, with new "smart intersections" that provide walkers more safety with "refuge island" medians in the middle of streets and clearly marked crosswalks.
So what's driving all this pedestrian progress?
Mayor Cornett, a former sportscaster, bristled at his city being called fat and sedentary. Yet he knew that he couldn't credibly deny these charges since he'd gained enough extra pounds while in office to be labeled obese, thanks to endless rounds of breakfast and lunch meetings.
Cornett launched an initiative to get the city back in shape. Over the past seven years, he notes, Oklahoma City has added hundreds of miles of new sidewalks, built 8 miles of bike lanes on the streets (there were none in 2008), added 100 more miles to the recreational trail network, built new gyms at many public schools, created a public rowing center and started work on an whitewater kayak and rafting course on the Oklahoma River. Low-income neighborhoods, where health and obesity issues are most severe, are the biggest focus of the city's programs for healthy eating and active living.
Cornett also issued a successful Challenge for Oklahoma City residents to lose one million pounds. Over 47,000 people signed up, and lost on average 20 pounds. Cornett himself shed 38.
Mayor Mick Cornett (left) inaugurates a new sidewalk in Oklahoma City.
One major thrust of this campaign was working with fast food restaurants to offer healthier menus. Cornett is proud of this partnership and during our interview slipped into his office closet to fetch a life-sized cardboard cut-out of himself posing with Taco Bell's low-fat options, which was displayed in the chain's 40 Oklahoma City restaurants.
This all seems to be making a difference — the growth in Oklahoma City's obesity rate has slowed significantly from six percent annually to one percent, with the stage set for reductions in the future.
The mayor is quick to share credit. First and foremost, he applauds local citizens, who in 2010 voted to continue a one-cent addition to the sales tax for seven more years to pay for health initiatives. Oklahoma, he points out, is a very conservative state — the only one where Obama did not carry a single county in either 2008 or 2012.
Yet, Oklahomans are willing to support taxes when they know where their money is going. "They like projects where they can see the results," he points out. "And this is not debt and it's not a permanent tax — it's up for renewal every few years."
Cornett views this spending as a smart business move, noting that the 2010 tax referendum, and two earlier ones under previous mayors focusing on downtown revitalization, public education and overall quality of life, amassed $2 billion in public investment which in turn spawned $6 billion more in private development.
"Ever since we decided to make this a great place for people to live, the jobs started coming here and young Millennials, who want to bike and walk, are arriving in numbers we've never seen before," he says. "We are creating a city where your kids and grandkids will choose to stay. They used to go to Dallas or Houston."
"It turned out that one thing people — especially young people — wanted was better sidewalks," Cornett explains. That's why the city now builds new sidewalks as part of most repaving projects and kicks in half the cost for any homeowner or neighborhood that wants them. Developers are now required to provide sidewalks in all new projects.
As for the $18 million earmarked for sidewalks from sales tax revenue, "most of it goes where we know we need sidewalks, connecting schools and shopping centers with neighborhoods," the mayor says.
While most people consider walking essential to a good neighborhood, there's still a lot of opposition. "We hear from those who say, 'We don't need sidewalks, because no one walks here,'" Cornett says, noting that the absence of sidewalks is a big reason people don't walk.
The city is in the early stages of initiating a Safe Routes to Schools program, making it possible for more school kids to walk or bike, and a Vision Zero campaign, aimed at eliminating all traffic fatalities in the city, says Dennis Blind of the city's planning department. The city also holds Open Streets events — festivals where a street is blocked off to vehicles so people of all ages can reclaim the streets (temporarily) as public space.
"We've come a long ways in a short time," says Cristina Fernandez, who moved from Santa Monica — one of the most walkable communities in California — for an executive position at a local firm. "But we still have a long ways to go."
Walkscore, which rates the walkability of any address in America, still ranks Oklahoma City in the lower 15 percent of cities over 200,000, which is nonetheless a big improvement over last place. The city's low score can be partly explained by the fact that sprawling subdivisions, which would be classified as separate municipalities elsewhere, are inside the city limits here.
The epicenter of walking in Oklahoma City is downtown and nearby neighborhoods, which exhibit all the signs of urban vitality: sidewalk cafes, new loft apartments, refurbished old neighborhoods with local business districts, indie shops and restaurants, nightlife, sports and entertainment venues, well-populated parks, riverside bike trails, and sidewalks alive with people of all ages walking between all these spots.
An old warehouse district with a pedestrian promenade along a canal thrums with activity. A 70-acre central park is being developed that will connect downtown with a largely Latino neighborhood on the South Side via a new pedestrian bridge. A streetcar line debuts later this year that will loop through many of these neighborhoods. Protected bike lanes, which physically separate bicyclists and pedestrians from rushing traffic, will soon appear on major arteries coming in and out of downtown.
Oklahoma City's mission now is to widen the walkable section of the city outward. Local transit service has been improved (including new Sunday and evening buses), resulting in a sizable jump in ridership. The Wheeler District, a new pedestrian-focused infill neighborhood south of downtown, breaks ground this year with plans to create 2,000 homes.
North of downtown, things are already picking up. "You have a lot of young people moving into the area because they can walk," says Fernandez, who lives in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Business districts scattered throughout this part of town, some of which once harbored crack houses and brothels, now flourish with restaurants and shops catering to local residents.
Fernandez, her husband and kids are still waiting for sidewalks on their street but already are walking more "because there are now more places to walk to." An attractive streetscape to improve the pedestrian ambience of the Western Avenue business district near their home makes walking more fun.
"When we go anywhere in the neighborhood now, we usually go on foot," she says.
Photos by AmericaWalks Case Study on Oklahoma City
Jay Walljasper writes regularly about public health and healthy communities. The former editor of Utne Reader, he is author of The Great Neighborhood Book. His website is JayWalljasper.com. Read all of Jay's MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
It's become routine for major automakers to declare their annual focus in the early months of each year, often at expos or events like the Consumer Electronics Show, which took place from January 6th through 9th. There, companies like General Motors and Volkswagen unveiled various green-thinking transportation ideas, providing consumers with an in-depth peek at what could represent green transportation in the coming months and years ahead. What was revealed showed a focus on electric vehicles and technology, with the younger demographic in mind.
With US auto sales hitting a record 17.47 million in 2015 — an increase of 5.7 percent from 2014 — it's apparent that the automobile industry is here to stay, likely being propelled in part by low gas prices.
Still, automobile makers continue to focus on the younger demographic (ages 18-29), a group that is more concerned about global warming than older adults are, according to a Gallup poll. It's this environmental attentiveness in addition to tech savviness that makes this younger niche a natural fit for the electric car movement, which is expected to be in full stride by the time many in this demographic can afford a car.
Smartphone-linked car systems are rapidly becoming the norm, showing the type of integration concept automobile makers have their focus on. In addition, the prospect of offering affordable electric cars to a generation seems poised to be the most environmentally-aware manufacturing movement to date.
One talked-about reveal at the Consumer Electronics Show was the Chevrolet Bolt, which is promoted as being the first plug-in electric car that can go long distances and is relatively affordable (priced around $30,000 after government rebates). That's a price affordable enough to still leave wallet space for essential tools like vehicle adhesive and sealer.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra showed off the car during the show, touting a battery range of around 200 miles and technologically-inclined features like a mapping system that includes routes to electric charging stations. As expected, smartphone compatibility via Apple CarPlay and Android Audio is there as well. "The Bolt delivers on our promise of low price, high range and an unparalleled level of connectivity," Barra noted. Many in the industry view the Bolt as General Motors' response to Tesla Motors' Model 3 vehicle, expected to begin production in 2017.
Another big reveal at the show came via Volkswagen, where brand chief — Herbert Diess — began by addressing the audience with an apology for the diesel emissions scandal (the Justice Department is currently suing them for billions). Once he finished the apology, he unveiled the company's BUDD-e electric van, which has a nostalgic reminiscence of microbuses of the '60s. It's certainly modern though, with at least a 233-mile range, smartphone integration and a voice control system.
For those wondering how long it will take to charge the Budd-e, VW says that a special charging system can charge the van's 101-kWh battery pack to 80 percent in just 30 minutes. With a top speed of 93mph and 124.1-inch wheelbase, the BUDD-e electric van certainly won't be lacking in either aesthetics or power.
In addition to driverless vehicle showcases from several other automobile makers, the offerings from both General Motors and Volkswagen impressed green transportation enthusiasts — showing a commitment to relatively affordable electric vehicles that can help usher the niche into the mainstream.
Photo by Inhabitat.
James White is green builder and home improvement blogger who focuses on sustainable living via his family blog Homey Improvements. He also enjoys sharing his recent discoveries with DIY projects, home tips and organic gardening. James is "Alaska Grown" but now resides in Pennsylvania. Connect with him on Twitter at @DIYfolks. Read all of James' MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
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In 2013, architect Bill McDonough and his collaborator, chemist Michael Braumgart, published the sequel to Cradle to Cradle. With the forward by President Bill Clinton, the thesis behind The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability: Designing for Abundance is that the possibility exists to design materials and products so that — rather than ending in up in a landfill somewhere — discarded products can become the feedstock for new goods and services when their useful lives are complete.
In Upcycle, you "think of every component of your design as being borrowed. It will be returned one day to the biosphere or technosphere. It is your role to return it in as good a condition as you found it, as a good neighbor would."
Finding an Electric Motor for Bicycles
That idea intrigued me and I carried it around in the back of my mind. Around the same time, I came across a small startup in Milan, Italy, that was developing an all-in-one electric motor for bicycles.
Unlike the more famous "Copenhagen" wheel, the ZeHus BIKE+ motor was amazingly compact, fitting the 250-watt electric motor and 160-watt-hour lithium battery, along with Bluetooth transceiver and a trio of sensors into a 3.2-kg package. I tracked down and chatted with one of the developers via Skype and started following their progress over the next year and a half.
Then last fall at Interbike, the annual bicycle trade show in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to try out the motor on a pair of demonstrator bikes. The test track was set up on the parking lot behind the Mandalay Bay hotel casino. It was as level as a blackjack table, so gauging the motor's hill-climbing ability wasn't really possible, but I was surprised by its torque and re-generative braking capability. I chatted with their representatives, who included the company CEO, and promised myself I would get a motor to test.
Finding a Bike Suitable for the Electric Motor
Of course, that also meant I needed to find a suitable bike on which to mount the motor. With a tip from an EV World reader, I came across Greenstar's EcoForce1 out of Minneapolis.
Assembled in China from native bamboo and recycled 6,160 aluminum tubing gussets, it seemed the perfect complement to the ZeHus motor. I arranged to buy both: the bike arriving two weeks before Christmas, the motor two days before the holiday.
With the help of Kelly Smith at the Bike Rack here in Omaha, I not only ended up with one of the most beautiful e-bikes I've ever seen, but it also turned out to be one of the lightest. Kelly's scale said it weighted 32 lbs, while my wife's digital bathroom scale indicated it was just 31.6. There are very few e-bike this light. I know of only two others in the world.
'Kickstarting' the K15 E-Bike
Every place I took the bike I kept being told, "Bill, you have to build more of them," so I decided to do just that, offering an initial 150 bikes as part of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.
I call it the K15, because it weighs less than 15 kilograms. This is not the "cheapest electric bicycle" you can buy, but it will be among the lightest and certainly one of the loveliest. It also comes closest to fulfilling Upcycles' goal of designing for abundance.
You can learn more about the quikbyke online. And click here to support the Quikbyke Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign — which begins on July 14th — as well as a form to reserve a future production version of the e-bike.
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It's like a small-town scene from Norman Rockwell, updated for the 21st Century.
A Latino family strolls leisurely through the park, immersed in conversation. Coming up fast behind is a blonde woman in designer exercise gear and earplugs, intent on maintaining her power-walking pace. Bringing up the rear is a young man with his Husky, both of them staring up at a patch of sun that has appeared from behind the clouds.
In real life, this is Albert Lea, Minnesota, a town of 18,000 working to prove that healthy lifestyles like walking and good nutrition are not just big city things. "We're not a resort town or a college town, we're an ag-based rural city promoting healthy living because it's the right thing to do and it's how we want to live and want our children to live," explains Ellen Kehr, a former city council member who is a leader in the effort to make Albert Lea healthier.
It's mistakenly assumed that no one in smaller communities walks, except between their pick-up truck and the Walmart entrance. Actually, walking is far more common in smaller communities across the country than people think. In towns of 10,000-50,000, 8.5 percent of all trips are made on foot, second only to "urban core" communities, according to the US Department of Transportation's National Household Travel Survey. In smaller towns 2500 to 10,000, walking accounts for 7.2 percent of trips--higher than in most suburban communities.
Albert Lea in many ways resembles Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. It's a place "where the women are strong…and all the children are above average." That fits with goals local citizens embraced in 2009 when they adopted a community-wide approach to wellness laid out in Blues Zones, a best-selling book by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner, which examines places around the world where people live longest and healthiest.
What they've accomplished over the past five years offers both lessons and inspiration for smaller towns and cities across the US. "The idea is to make the healthy choice the easy choice," says Buettner, whose new book The Blue Zones Solution chronicles the progress in Albert Lea together with other community success stories around the world.
Blue Zones is now launching a second phase in town, in partnership with Healthways, a Tennessee-based company focusing on well-being improvement solutions.
Around one-quarter of adults in Albert Lea participated in the first Blue Zones project, along with half of local workplaces and nearly all kids in grades 3-8. Encouraging everyone to engage in more physical activity was a chief thrust of the campaign, which was funded in part by AARP.
It appears to have worked. Even on a gray, chilly weekday afterno
on, the new 5-mile trail around Fountain Lake draws more walkers and bikers than you'd expect in a town set among soybean fields of southern Minnesota. The downtown, which borders the park, is filled with people on foot heading between the bank, the library, the kitchen store, clothing stores, churches, schools, restaurants, and-- in a perfect Prairie Home Companion touch--the Sportman's Tavern, which advertises "cabbage roll hotdish" as the daily special.
Walking has increased 70 percent in the last five years, according to pedestrian counts conducted by the National Vitality Center, a local initiative working on the community health campaign. Smoking has also dropped four percent, and Blue Zones participants collectively lost almost four tons of weight, notes Buettner. Residents formed about thirty groups to walk or bike together regularly, nearly half of which are still going strong five years later.
City Council member Al Brooks, who now walks 2 ½ miles every day, credits the campaign with big improvements in his own health. "When I started four years ago, I had high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Now my cholesterol is lower, my blood pressure is 116/70 and I lost 15 p
After being launched in Albert Lea, the Blue Zones idea has now been taken to Fort Worth, Texas; Naples, Florida; Southern California; and across the states of Iowa and Hawaii.
Albert Lea's impressive health gains are paying off in many ways. Good Morning America broadcast live from the shores of Fountain Lake to tell the country what was happening here-- part of a wave of media attention which is valuable to the town's future prospects, says City Manager Chad Adams.
Adams stresses that a lively, walkable community is key to attracting businesses as well as the families and young people that Albert Lea needs to thrive in decades to come. Briana Czer, a young bank manager who moved here a year ago, thinks this strategy is working. "I like how walkable Albert Lea is. When people walk more, they socialize more. That helps connect everyone and makes me feel more part of the community," she says.
So how exactly did Albert Lea get more people back on their feet walking, especially in a rural region where driving is deeply embedded in the fabric of everyday life?
It was a combination of: 1) creating a public education campaign about the health advantages of physical activity; 2) organizing people into informal social groups to walk or bike regularly; and 3) making the city's streets and parks more safe and appealing for pedestrians. Here are some of the accomplishments:
-A community-wide focus on physical activity--enlisting civic organizations, businesses, schools, public agencies, the media and citizens--offered continual reinforcement for people to get out and walk. "It has reconnected our community in a way that I never thought possible," notes Randy Kehr, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce (and husband of Ellen Kehr). "Sociability is as important to health as exercise and eating."
-Walking groups, which serve as an incentive to get off the sofa, even when you feel lazy or it's freezing outside. This makes physical activity a social occasion to look forward to. In Albert Lea, walking groups are generally 4-10 people committed to walking together 3-7 times a week.
-Downtown was made more walkable by widening sidewalks, eliminating unnecessary traffic lanes, restoring diagonal parking, replacing some stoplights with stop signs, and "bumping out" sidewalks into the intersection, which shortens the crossing distance on busy streets.
-Sidewalks were added to six-and-a-half miles of city streets in strategic locations near schools, senior centers and businesses.
-A bikeway along Front Street now connects a state park to downtown and a commercial street on the city's west side. Bicycling has risen 74 percent on the street, according to the National Vitality Project's count.
"Small towns can reinvent themselves as places faster than big towns," explained Dan Burden--one of America's foremost authorities on walkable communities--to a roomful of city, county and state officials at Albert Lea's City Hall working on further improvements for the town.
Former Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the State of Florida, Burden is the Johnny Appleseed of urban vitality, who has brought ideas for walkability and livability to over 3500 North American communities in the past 18 years. He helped Albert Lea citizens map out their original healthy cities strategies in 2009 as part of the Blue Zones team, and has now returned for the new phase of work as the organization's Director of Innovation.
"When I first came into Albert Lea, I'll be honest, it looked like the downtown was closed," he admitted to the local officials. "There were businesses but there was no life in the streets. That's changed now. Albert Lea, I am proud of you."
Albert Lea is part of the wave of smaller communities around the country showing that walking is not just a big city pastime:
Batesville, Arkansas (pop. 10,500): Even smaller than Albert Lea, Batesville has revived its downtown by slowing traffic speeds, narrowing streets, restoring diagonal parking, bumping out sidewalks into intersections and building recreational trails along the White River.
Hamburg, New York (pop, 57,000): This upstate city is a national leader in building roundabouts, which reduce crashes and tame busy streets so that pedestrians and bicyclists feel safe crossing.
Murray, Kentucky (pop. 18,000): The streets here were so dangerous that children were prohibited from walking or biking to school. Local officials stepped in to build three miles of sidewalks around schools and in low-income neighborhoods.
Hendersonville, North Carolina (pop. 13,000): A busy road bisecting downtown was narrowed to two lanes with wider sidewalks and traffic calming features. The results: an increase in people walking and a plunge in retail vacancies to almost zero.
Photos courtesy of Blue Zones
Jay Walljasper writes, speaks, edits and consults about creating stronger, more vital communities. He is author of The Great Neighborhood Book and All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. Find him online at his personal website.
In March I showed you a photo of MPX (MOTHER's Pickup eXperiment) just as we'd crossed over the Oregon border. I wanted you to see the aerocap in its full glory, so I cropped out the punch line: MPX had been towing an automobile factory, all the way from Maryland.
Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. It wasn't a complete factory...but it was all the molds and fixtures and tools to make a Lotus 11 replica (called Kokopelli if you're googling), and it was lashed to a twin axle car trailer and it was right up there at the rated towing capacity of this compact pickup, 3500 pounds. Plus I had plenty of cargo on board the truck itself (likely approaching the rated cargo capacity of 1640 pounds if you include the weight of Yours Truly in the front seat).
I had two reasons for subjecting myself (and MPX) to the ordeal of a coast-to-coast trip with its maximum payload. The first, of course, is I needed to get all that equipment from its home to my home, and there was a continent in the way. The second is I wanted to do some real world testing with the standard hundred-horse engine in a variety of conditions, doing real truck stuff—the sort of work that makes people buy a pickup instead of a car.
Well I'll tell you, by the time I'd driven crossed the Appalachian Mountains, I'd decided that a hundred horsepower was the practical minimum with a load like this, and I hadn't even left Maryland yet. Most of my transcontinental trip was in fifth gear, but I saw a lot of fourth while approaching the Continental Divide, and no small amount of third gear in the steep stuff. And at one point, in some extremely steep stuff, I was creeping along in second, in the extreme right lane with the other professional truckers.
So don't I wish I owned a bigger truck with a bigger engine? Actually, I don't. I've had one comparably laden truck-and-trailer trip before, and that was back in '85. A long heavy haul every 30 years does not justify owning a specialized heavy hauler. If I hadn't been doing this MPX project, I might have rented a truck one-way, or found somebody who was driving a big pickup cross country and hired him or her to hook my trailer on the back. Mind you, if you haul loads like this often, it will probably be worth your while to have a big powerful pickup to haul it with, but if it's annually or less, you're probably better off renting a bigger truck for those occasional big loads, hiring somebody else to haul them, or accept that a little truck that's as good as a big truck 99 percent of the time is going to be in the slow lane for the 1 percent of the time that you're working at its limit.
There is one piece of modern technology that is essential if you're going to pull big loads with a small vehicle—don't forget that after you chug up that hill like The Little Engine That Could ("I think I can, I think I can...") you're going to come down the other side, and that means the brakes on your trailer need to be up to the job. You need electric brakes (like the trailer in the photo has), or hydraulic brakes (some trailers have brake master cylinders built into the hitch), but don't expect your mini pickup to stop your maxi trailer by itself, 'cause it won't.
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'Gossip Girl' Series Finale, 'New York, I Love You XOXO': Who's the Real Gossip Girl?
The hairbands. The fighting. The schmooching. The bad fungi explosion of lonely boy's hair. The double, triple superduper backstabbing. The dead coming back to life. Gossip Girl, where no one graduates from college and everyone sleeps with each other.
We start tonight's final finale with little interviews from all the actors and listening to Ed Westwick talk with a British accent? Oh that's just fabulous.
So what would you steal from the Gossip Girl set? Any particular article of clothing?
Last week, Bart Bass fell off the roof, as Chuck stood by and watched. But did he really die? Tonight we'll know, but we open as Dan is sitting, ever the lonely boy in need of an undershirt, in his empty apartment in the sky as Serena reads his last chapter on the plane.
For Ivy, Bart's death is good news because her lover, Lily's former husband,William, can come back to the city and they can live their love out in the open. Like she did with Rufus, which was gross.
Chuck and Blair disappear from the scene of the crime hiding in the back of a limo to a hotel. Uncle Jack (Bart Bass' younger brother) finds them. Jack tells Chuck and Blair to get married so they can't testify against each other. So Chuck gets all romantical and Blair says yes.
Police are questioning everyone, including Blair's parents (and her stepdad – the fabulous Wallace Shawn.)
Serena gets off the plane to talk to Dan about the other chapter about her. She doesn't understand why he writes the mean things and then the nice things. Which things does he mean? Dan tells Serena how he fell in love with her at a party.
Lily "happens" to run into William and he "offers" to help her out and be by her side. Seriously Lily, do you EVER learn?
Bart's death is helping a lot of people out. Nate is now free and clear to run the Spectator. Chuck and Blair are hanging out in a courthouse, hoping to tie the knot all quietly. She says she already had her princess wedding and she's ok with things as they are. But Chuck wants it to be all romantical and drags her out,
Do we even know what happened to Georgina's husband and kid? Anyway, she's heading over to Dan's when Jack's limo pulls up. He needs her help with a scheme.Ohhh, there's a little flirty flirty going on.
Ivy runs into Lily and William in the lobby. William pretends that he hasn't seen Ivy and doesn't know anything about their love affair. William says he's getting exactly what he wants – to be with Lily and Ivy should be happy that she got CeCe's money. That she's a Lifetime movie called "Nobody Gives A Damn: The Ivy Dickens Story." Yowza! Of course, Jack and Georgina see the whole thing.
Ugggh, Dan and Serena are still going back and forth. Nate and Sage are trying to figure out Gossip Girl's identity. The whole crew heads over to the art museum. Everyone is meeting at the Bethesda Fountain to see Chuck and Blair get married. Move it! Move it! Of course, someone immediately posts it to GG. Then when GG doesn't post fast enough, they call the police.
Before the wedding, Blair and Serena are fighting about Dan. Again. He's secretly listening in. Blair says Serena will never end up with a powerless scriber. Dan decides to give Nate the final chapter which is about Gossip Girl.
For real, is Chuck wearing a bedazzled bow tie with his tux? He's running to the altar to the Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere." Just as Vizzini pronounces them man and wife, the police show up. Inconceivable!
As Chuck heads to jail, the news goes out the Spectator. Who was Gossip Girl! It wasn't Dorota! Even Kristen Bell, the voice of Gossip Girl, plays a role (love her!)
It turns out to be none other than Lonely Boy himself. Dan says he wasn't born into the world but he could write himself into it. It's Dan!
Everyone is so not surprised and yet surprised.
The Rufus shows up and is very very mad at Dan because GG was very mean. Dan says Jenny's known he was Gossip Girl for years and she posted the part about her losing her virginity on her own. Dan says he's always tried to do the right thing.
Chuck and Blair are free because the police had no proof he was involved in his father's death. Everyone sits around talking about who they thought was Gossip Girl. And drinking a lot of vodka. I could have used another really sexy Chuck and Blair scene. They always did have the best chemistry.
Awwh, Blair says it's all over and they can all grow up and move over. Dan says Gossip Girl is dead but we know isn't that true.
Before you can say Prada, we've zoomed into the future, where Nate is being asked about his run for mayor, as he steps out of the Spectator's private plane. Chuck and Blair have a son, Henry, who looks about five years old. Even Eric and Jenny show up, as William and Lily snuggle on the couch.
And as "You've Got the Love" (which was the last song played on the "Sex and the City" finale, fyi) swoons through the air, Dan comes in all betuxedoed, so that we can watch Serena walk down the stairs for their own wedding.
Now we have a brand new Gossip Girl, an outsider all ready to squeal tales of woe and heartache. It's been a fun ride blogging GG with y'all. XOXO. Dawn
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Auditions for Broadway RFD's "The Cherry Orchard" will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Burnett Center on the campus of Bethany College. Sign-ups are online. Performances for "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov will be at 7:30 p.m. April 25, 26 and 27 in Burnett Center. This production is co-produced by Broadway RFD and the Bethany College Theater Department and directed by Cody Whetstone.
The Broadway RFD Summer Children's Theater Boot Camp will be June 2-20. Performances will be at 7 p.m. June 21-22.
Broadway RFD's 2013 summer musical is "Guys & Dolls" directed by Lisa Christopher. Perfomances will be at 8 p.m. July 19-20, 26-27 on the Swensson Memorial Band Shell in Swensson Park, 400 block of North Main Street. Tickets will be available at the gate.
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UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: rar , utility , unarchiving , par2
18 Opinions
Claims to be GPL, but has never released source code despite being made aware this is a breach of the licence.
I would love to see this app updated but I think it has been abandoned.
I have tried contacting the dev but no response.
if you opened a passworded file already, just click "password", enter it and click "extract".
that way you dont have to do the whole thing again.
i was wondering if there was any way for me to set the app to extract by default on the desktop... but nonetheless that's been a good app so far :)
@ dabrave:
It is possible to uncompress RAR files with passwords using UnRarX.
Just do this:
1. Launch UnRarX.
2. Click on "Password" on the toolbar.
3. Insert the password in its field.
4. Drag and drop the RAR file into the UnRarX window.
The file will be imediately uncompressed.
The best RAR DECOMPRESSOR,
(but not when the RAR has a password... its a bit annoying)
I have had no problems with almost 99% of all RARs, but with other programs... always give me errors (unarchiver, stuffit...)
I have to try also your recommendations (zipeg)
try Zipeg: http://www.zipeg.com
it is also free
you guessed it, I'm waiting for the Unarchiver to fix those password protected files.. meanwhile...
Note: the 'test' function's behaviour is strange: after having entered a password for the archive, it still reports errors, whereas extracting works fine.
Handy for those password protected rar files that The Unarchiver chokes on.
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Moneydance is a cross-platform personal finance program. Much more stable and bug free than Quicken. Supports online banking + bill payment, budgets, various graphs and reports, multiple currencies, tracks portfolio---basically everything you would expect in a personal finance manager.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: finance , checkbook , money , budget , investment
7 Opinions
Still using Moneydance. There was a hickup with Java 6 and security, but that seems to be sorted out. Still haven't found anything better.
I moved from iBank 2 to Moneydance 2008 after a period of parallel running, and am liking it quite a bit, even compared to iBank 3. It's not as ugly as it used to be, it is feature rich with good reporting, and is very stable. I've had to say goodbye to iBank for now, but glad I've found Moneydance.
I've been using Moneydance for over 3 years on Mac and Linux.
What it like:
- Rock solid. Unlike some other apps, it never crashed, never lost data
- Cross-platform
- Real double-entry bookkeeping
- very flexible account and category setup
- can open multiple windows simultaneously
- very nice price
- mulitple currencies
- no gimmicks
- Responsive developer
- Friendly and supportive user community
What I don't like:
- the looks are not up to the standards of a spoiled OS X user
- the workflow "feels" clumsier than it is (actually the UI has many well thought-through details)
- budget planning way too limited to be useful
- reporting is very basic
I like this app, because I can really manage my finances. It has all the features I really need (and lacks somme I really want). I haven't found any other app on Mac or Linux that was flexible enough to really capture all aspects of my finances. I didn't need any odd workarounds. Unlike other apps, it doesn't annoy with visual span and doesn't pretend to make financial stuff easier than it is.
Moneydance enables (and requires) the user to really understand bookkeeping. In my book this is a good thing.
Got tired of Quicken and settled on Moneydance. Developer is responsive. It handles various currencies well (a must for me) as well as stocks, all with online lookups for rates/prices.
It has a good find and uses double-entry bookkeeping. This includes categories, which be can be a bit confusing, but makes sense once you figure it out.
In short, a great program.
Well worth the price! And much better than other big-name commercial offerings... Try it!
imagine Quicken for Mac, except everything works the way its supposed to and isn't as fugly.
the newer version really slowed down performance though! reverted to an older version.


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|USHL First All-Star Team (2000) USHL Goaltender of the Year (2000) USHL Player of the Year (2000) CCHA Second All-Star Team (2002) ECHL Playoff MVP (2004) Signed as a free agent by Nashville, July 5, 2007. Traded to Montreal by Nashville with Dustin Boyd and future considerations for Sergei Kostitsyn and future considerations, June 29, 2010. Signed as a free agent by Tampa Bay, July 1, 2010. Traded to Anaheim by Tampa Bay for Curtis McElhinney, February 24, 2011. Signed as a free agent by Charlotte (AHL). September 24, 2012. Signed as a free agent by Carolina, January 13, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Dallas, July 5, 2013. Traded to Florida by Dallas for Tim Thomas, March 5, 2014. Signed as a free agent by Washington, July 4, 2015.
|2010-11: Appeared in his fourth full NHL season, split with Anaheim and Tampa Bay…in 44 overall games, combined for a 21-10-7 record with two shutouts, a 2.77 GAA and .898 SV%…started Anaheim's final two regular season games against LA, stopping 66-of-68 shots (.971 SV%) for consecutive victories to help clinch a playoff berth on Apr. 8 and fourth-place in the Western Conference on Apr. 9…set season highs in both saves (43) and shots faced (44) in a 3-1 victory, Apr. 9 @ LA…over his final 17 games with Anaheim and Tampa Bay, stopped 416-of-452 shots for a .920 SV%, 2.23 GAA (36 GA/968 MIN) and 10-3-2 record…won his first game as a Duck on Feb. 27 vs. COL, turning away 22-of-24 shots in a 3-2 win…stopped 28-of-31 shots in his Anaheim debut, Feb. 25 vs. MIN…in 31 games with Tampa Bay, went 13-7-6 with a 2.93 GAA and .889 SV%...at the time of the trade, led the Lightning in wins and games played…in his final 11 appearances with Tampa Bay, posted a 5-2-2 record with a 2.44 GAA and .910 SV%…compiled a season best shutout streak of 121:13 from Oct. 24-Nov. 3…PLAYOFFS: Made his second postseason appearance, his first with Anaheim, in the club's CQF series vs. NSH…appeared in Game 1, stopping 20-of-24 shots in 40:56 TOI.
PERSONAL: Dan and his wife, Katie, reside in Omaha, NE during the offseason…they have two children: Kaden (3) and Kayleigh (1)…lists drawing and painting as things he can do well…says he designs a lot of his own goalie masks…does charity work for Teen Ranch, a Christian hockey school near his hometown that was influential in his development as a player and a person…lists Sharkeez as his favorite OC restaurant…Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band are his favorite musical artists…lists winning the ECHL's Kelly Cup in his first professional season as his most memorable hockey moment… his favorite NHL city to visit is Toronto, where his family resides.


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Richard L. "Dick" Kauffman Jr., 53, of 211 University Drive, Mont Alto, Pa., died Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Campus, following a lifelong battle with congenital heart disease. Born Feb. 7, 1959, in Waynesboro, he was the son of Richard L. Kauffman Sr. of Mont Alto and the late Leah Jean (Bumbaugh) Kauffman. He was a lifelong resident of the Mont Alto area. Dick graduated from Waynesboro Area Senior High School with the class of 1978. He and his wife of over, 27 years, Lauren M. "Laurie" (Hoover) Kauffman, were married on Jan. 26, 1985, in Mont Alto. They moved to the present residence in June 1986. Dick worked for six years at Landis Tool Co., Waynesboro. He later worked in the maintenance department of Mont Alto Campus of Penn State University, retiring in February. He was a member of Eagles Club Inc., George Washington Lodge 143, F&AM, Chambersburg, and the South Mountain Fish and Game. Dick enjoyed taking cruises, dinners out with friends, landscaping, and his dog, Jackson. In addition to his wife and father, he is survived by three children, Ashley (Kauffman) McCulloch and her husband Scott of Newville, Pa., Christopher Bailey and his wife Kat of Waynesboro, and James Bailey and his wife Jenny of Omaha, Neb.; and five grandchildren, Austin Bailey, Annabel Bailey, T.J. Bailey, Lyndsie Stewart, and Joshua Bailey. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, 50 S. Broad St., Waynesboro, with Mr. Daniel Kauffman officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Zion Cemetery, near Quincy, Pa. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, in the funeral home. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.bowersoxfuneralhomes.com
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