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When You Create Value It Doesn't Mean You Have To Capture Every Bit Of That Value
from the share-the-value dept
In the discussion we had about Craigslist, one of the points was that while Craigslist itself only "captures" a small part of the value it's unleashed, that's not necessarily bad. First, it's good because much of that value to go out to the users of Craigslist themselves. That's why they appreciate and use Craigslist in the first place. If Craigslist tried to capture all of that value itself, people would stop using Craigslist. Now some may argue it becomes a different situation when you have third parties monetizing some of that value, but I disagree. When you look at the most successful companies in the world, they're often platforms -- they create value and capture some of it, but also allow much of that value to be monetized by others.
Look at Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook. All of them created a massive amount of value -- and all have become phenomenally successful companies -- but all of them did so by also letting others monetize large portions of the value they created. It's how you build a more long-lasting ecosystem from which you can continue to profit from over time. If you seek to capture all of the value yourself, you don't last very long.
I got to thinking about this more, after hearing the CEO of The Economist (who, one would hope, would understand these economic concepts) complaining about Flipboard capturing some of the value The Economist creates, and declaring it a "competitor" to The Economist's own digital and app ambitions.
"But you're heading down a route we've seen before – giving the opportunity to extract value to somebody else in an area that should be our own – so Flipboard is problematic."Of course, that ignores the fact that Flipboard -- an aggregator app -- provides its own value as well. People don't use Flipboard just because it includes content from The Economist. They use it because of the overall experience and the fact that it aggregates content from lots of different sources in one place. As much as The Economist, or any publication, might like to "own" the reader, that's not necessarily what the reader wants. Letting others "extract" some of that "value" can actually be a really good thing. Flipboard provides a useful service for The Economist in not only experimenting with new ways to aggregate and present content -- from which The Economist can learn -- but also in potentially expanding The Economist's audience as well, feeding much greater value back into that ecosystem.
Yes, companies need to look at the overall market and see where it is they can extract value -- but you have to wonder about those who claim eminent domain over certain parts of the marketplace. Letting others extract some (and perhaps lots) of that value can have tremendous benefits for those who do so.


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Ok, here it is … Completely change of style in compare to my eco-roporate collection. And some other stuff too however still motivational. That one could fit as music for advert with a bit of human whistle.
This one is kind of crossing between modern energetic style with some folk elements with rock organs, human whistle, accordion, nice bells and other mallet instruments. You will find there some electric guitar with nice delay. It's quite fast in tempo – 137bpm. It its very positive and cheerful – event to that degree it can be used to advertise some kids products. It make you think positively and could be use for corporate materials.
IMPORTANTAs now waiting time for approval by audiojungle team takes ages I don't wait again 2 weeks for some corrections … so, if you find this song on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lvUuPyc84&feature=related and you think this youtube version has got better mastering, just buy that one from here, drop me a line and I'll send you the youtube mastering version.
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If it's Christmastime, that must mean that Jacques Rougeau Jr. has a wrestling show just afterwards.
True to form, his Lutte Familiale promotion has a card dubbed 'Luttemania I' on Saturday, December 27th, in Laval at the Colisee, with a 7:30 p.m. bell time.
It's a bit of a homecoming for the Rougeau family, as the Colisée de Laval is where Johnny Rougeau served as a hockey coach for the Laval National of the QMJHL, which featured a young Mike Bossy as the star on the rise.
The main event pits Jacques & Raymond Rougeau against Eric Mastrocola & Handsome J.F.
The rest of the show features both some of Rougeau's students, but also other local wrestlers.
"I took a bunch of federations, there's five or six federations on my show now. I took the best matches of every federation and I put it on my show now. Everybody's happy now, even Sunny War Cloud, Jacques-Louis Comptois, Paul Leduc, Carl Leduc," Rougeau told SLAM! Wrestling. There are also wrestlers from Ottawa and ICW.
It's ironic that Rougeau is reaching out to other promotions. His strict rule that his students only work his shows, or shows that he approves of, has frustrated a lot of wrestlers.
"I don't want my guys to be identified with places where they hit with chairs, blood and all that," Rougeau explained, telling of his new partnership. "Everybody is going to the FLQ, where Paul Leduc is every Friday, because he changed his wrestling to family kind of wrestling. So that puts me in a position now where I send my boys there."
The high-flying wunderkid Kevin Steen is biggest name who has left Rougeau's mentorship. "It's his perogative. I respect him for that. If he wants to do that, that's okay. Maybe it's the way he did some things that wasn't right. He's young. I was young too," said Rougeau.
With work and health issues taking priority, Rougeau hasn't been out flogging tickets as hard as he has in the past, but he said that he still expects 2,500 people at the show.
The semi-final on the show is Sheik Tank Ali against Carl Leduc. There will also be a battle royal with 15 wrestlers, including Jacques' 10-year-old son, Cédric. (His oldest son, Jean-Jacques, 14, will also be on the show.)
The Colisée de Laval is at 1110 Desnoyers, St. Vincent de Paul, Laval. Tickets are $20, $15 and $10 and are available at the Colisée and at Rougeau's school at the Marché aux Puces, 6245 Métropolitain Blvd. East.
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It is still technically possible to see the original white paint of Larry Gibson's pick-up truck beneath the myriad of stickers declaring his love of West Virginia's mountains and his opposition to coal mining.
But it would be a mistake to see the truck as mere conveyance. This is a mobile command centre in Gibson's one-man 25-year war against King Coal and the highly destructive mining method known as mountaintop removal.
Windscreen-mounted video camera in working order? Check. CB Radio on to listen for miners arriving for their shifts? Check. Luminous green t-shirt and cap for maximum visibility? Check. And Gibson, who is about five feet tall and in his 60s is usually armed, like many people in this part of West Virginia.
"The mountains in West Virginia are the oldest in the world and now they are gone in the blink of an eye," he said. "I am the man who is holding the fort down here. I am the man holding them back."
Mountaintop removal begins with the clear-cutting of entire forests and then the shearing off up to 1,000 vertical feet of mountain peak. This exposes thin seams of coal that cannot easily be reached by underground tunnels.
Some 500 mountaintops across West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky have already been replaced by dry flat plateau, and 1,200 mountain streams have been buried beneath dumped rock and dirt. By 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that more than 2,200 square miles of Appalachian forest will disappear.
At some sites, the mining companies try to rebuild the silhouette of the old mountain, or replant. But mostly they leave the mountain missing its crest. In any event, nothing ever grows on the land again, locals say.
Kayford Mountain, or what Gibson calls his home place, is one of the frontline positions in an epic confrontation between the coal industry and a broad coalition of local activists, environmental organisations, national figures and Hollywood celebrities.
The struggle against mountaintop removal is also proving an uncomfortable test of Barack Obama's green credentials.
The US administration has frustrated environmentalists who had relied on the president to ban a practice that devastates landscapes and uproots hundreds of local communities.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the environmental lawyer and son of the assassinated presidential candidate, recently accused Obama of presiding over an "Appalachian apocalypse".
James Hansen, the Nasa scientist who coined the term global warming and who has become a passionate supporter of Gibson, demanded activists hold the president to account. "We can not continue to give President Obama a pass on this much longer," Hansen said.
Now Obama could be upstaged by the Senate which has taken up a bill to ban mountaintop removal by prohibiting mining companies from dumping debris in streams. The bill has support from Republicans as well as Democrats.
The bill is too late for Gibson's beloved Kayford Mountain. A short stroll from his campsite brings visitors to a view that looks like something out of a science fiction film. Giant trucks crawl over the earth on a vast yellow plateau below; at 5.10pm there is a loud blast.
"It looks to me like descriptions of places that got bombed in Hiroshima ," said Lora Webb, who lives in the nearly abandoned town of Twilight, which is surrounded by mountaintop mining. "It looks like what I would imagine if I was going to imagine what hell would look like: dry, dusty, no air or water."
Webb is about to leave Twilight herself, exhausted by blasts so forceful they have blown her out of her bed and on to the floor, shattered her glassware collection , and left a thick coating of dust on her ceiling fan.
Emerging scientific scientific evidence now suggests even more extensive damage from mountaintop removal than previously understood, with widespread and potentially permanent damage to water systems. Former mine areas are more vulnerable to erosion than unspoiled mountainside, and are at increased risk of flash floods and mud slides.
"There is irrefutable scientific evidence that the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal are substantial and they are permanent," Margaret Palmer, a professor at the University of Maryland's centre for environmental science, told a recent Senate hearing .
"You can't reverse it, at least not in any time span we can recognise as humans."
Meanwhile, the EPA has detected high levels of the heavy metal selenium, which can cause reproductive problems in humans, downstream from mine fill sites. Government biologists also detected deformities among local fish.
"It just destroys the health of the people who live here," said Joan Linville, who lives in the town of Van and whose home was nearly buried by a mud slide from a mined mountaintop. "One little tiny coal seam and they keep tearing up the country for miles. It's the most destructive thing I have ever seen in the 70 years I have been alive and I have been in every state."
Gibson's war against coal began in the late 80s, soon after an injury forced him into early retirement from a job at General Motors in Ohio. Around the same time, mining companies began buying up locals' small plots, and began to dynamite the peaks surrounding Kayford.
Gibson refused to sell out, and based himself on the mountain in a two-room cabin without running water or mains electricity. He persuaded his extended clan to come too.
His determination made him a hero to environmentalists. Over time, the patch of mountain has become a pilgrimage to environmental and other activists, even school groups, with Gibson's wife handling the scheduling requests. Next month he is due in court with the actress Daryl Hannah to face charges over a protest action.
But Gibson also has powerful opponents. Almost half of America's electricity comes from coal, and mining companies say mountaintop removal is cheaper and more efficient than tunnelling underground.
In Washington, industry lobbyists claim that locals welcome mountaintop removal — for its development potential.
"I can take you to places in eastern Kentucky where community services were hampered because of a lack of flat space — to build factories, to build hospitals, even to build schools," said Joe Lucas of Americans for Clean Coal Electricity. "In many places, mountain-top mining, if done responsibly, allows for land to be developed for community space."
Coal mining no longer fuels West Virginia, accounting for just 7% of the economy: there are more jobs at Wal-Mart than on the coal face. But while the number of mining jobs has shrunk from a high of 150,000 to just 12,000 over the decades, the scarcity of other employment still leaves plenty of locals threatened by Gibson's crusade.
Gibson — himself the son and grandson of miners — had his fourth of July protest picnic broken up by burly men with tattooed and shaven heads, and shots were fired at his cottage in June. "They just pulled out a gun and went pop pop pop," he said.
Like other opponents of mountaintop removal, Gibson had been counting on Obama, with his election promises of a clean energy economy, to shift the power balance away from coal.
But those hopes evaporated in May when the EPA signed 42 permits for mountaintop removal while turning down only six — a higher ratio even than during the latter part of the George Bush presidency. Some 170 more permits are pending, according to the Sierra Club.
In June, the White House announced it would strengthen oversight of mining operations, but it refused to endorse a ban on the dumping of debris into mountain streams.
That stand has infuriated Obama's natural allies. Gibson sees it as pure betrayal. "I think Obama's going to fall into line like the last president we had," he said. "He has developed into a coccoon that is going to end up not being a butterfly but a corporate president."


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People can make all the judgments they want, and haters will always hate, but eventually many come around once they get a chance to drive the car, or see it modified, or generally wrap their minds around exactly what the engineers were aiming for.
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When I first talked to Subaru engineers about what makes this STI different than the previous generation, they told me the older one fell short when it came to driver control. Power-wise, the car was more than enough to handle for the average driving enthusiast. So instead of spending millions to make a few extra ponies, they developed a chassis that would be more balanced, safer and quicker around the track. It's not about numbers with the new STI, but about feeling that emotion and control.
Eager to drive the car for the first time, I took a quick flight out to Monterey, to meet with the bigwigs at Subaru. Before I knew it they had me on a bus to a little track known as Laguna Seca Raceway (ever heard of it?) where I was thrown a helmet and given the keys to a barely-driven STI. My job sucks, right?
Starting the car and taking it out of the pits for my initial warm-up lap, the first thing I noticed about the car was its steering—razor sharp and incredibly responsive. The steering wheel is tad smaller in diameter than the WRX, features a thicker cross section and uses soft materials. The ratio is much tighter than the WRX as well—13:1, as opposed to 15:1.
On my first hot lap, this was incredibly noticeable along with how well the chassis is dialed-in. After each lap I could take each corner faster and faster, yet the STI didn't even break a sweat, as the car remained balanced and gripped like glue. After the first two sessions, I was feelin' good; I'm no professional driver by any means but this car gives you that confidence.
I walked over to talk with a Subaru engineer in the pits about everything that's been changed to make the new STI much more agile. He went on to list more things than I had enough time to jot down on my notepad. Literally every part of the chassis has been touched: stiffer torsion bars, more rigid control arm bushings, higher strength steel, bigger sway bars, etc.
Then came some numbers that blew me away: lateral stiffness up 38%, roll stiffness up 24%, torsional rigidity up 40% (DUDE!). The new STI is just that much more of a handling monster compared to the outgoing model, and it falls just short of Porsche 911 territory—a car that's more than double the price! The engineer told me the new 911 was used as the benchmark throughout the STI's development. We figure with only a handful of power and chassis mods, the new STI could really give the 911 a run for its money!
After picking the engineer's brain for 15 minutes, it was time for my next session. Knowing how well it handled, it was time to push the car even harder and really test the car's symmetrical all-wheel drive system and power delivery. I was impressed with how crisp each shift was. From the presentation earlier that day, I remembered the tranny mounts are stiffer and the gearbox uses a modified shift mechanism and new rod profiles— all equating to a more solid and smoother shift. Subaru nailed it!
I was also luckily behind the wheel of a Launch Edition STI, which features the short-throw shifter (an option on the standard model). After every 2.238-miles of Laguna Seca, I didn't want to pull into the pits. I just wanted to keep going. The power delivery is strong and peppy as boost kicks in after 3,000rpm. Subaru told me the ECU is retuned to be more responsive, with more accelerator input with less throttle—made for easier heel-toe action and quicker reaction times. And with four differentials working along with a new active torque vectoring system that helps improve "near limit" cornering by distributing torque to the outer wheel, the car would accelerate out of corners with control and gusto!
After more than 10 laps around the world-famous Laguna Seca, I was convinced the new Subie was a track-ready performer. But still hungry for more, the day was only half over and Subaru let me take its Launch Edition STI out in the real world where the pavement wouldn't be so smooth and the turns not as predictable.
I set out on a journey through Carmel Valley to do some real world shit. I found a 60-mile stretch of road that was desolate with nothing but twisties. I went for it, driving like I was on an actual road rally. With blind corners and sudden sharp turns, I was quickly thankful for the meaty four-piston front, dual-piston rear Brembos—they never overheated and always stopped on a dime. Subaru told me later the brake booster was improved from the previous STI for a solid and more linear feel—I'd have to agree. Continuing my road abuse, another feature that I was thankful for was the increased visibility the new STI has. Subie designers implemented narrower A-pillars, added a partition glass and lowered the instrument panel to allow drivers to see the road better.
The route I was on had some of the bumpiest, pot hole-infested roads I've seen in California. I was surprised how well the suspension, wheels and tires handled everything. I probably wouldn't have gone as hard in a lowered car or with low-profile tires. At times, I pushed the car past my driving limit and was saved by the all-wheel-drive system and active torque vectoring. There were sketchy sections on the road where if I were in a front-wheel-drive car or a vehicle not as balanced, I would have easily eaten some dirt. But the STI drove like a king. I didn't want the road to end, but it did as I finished the afternoon's drive with a high-speed run of 125mph on the open straightaway. It got there with ease, I might add.
That New Car Smell
2015 Subaru WRX STI
The Sticker $34,495 (Premium)/$37,395 (Launch Edition)/$38,495 (Limited)
Engine 2.5 liter turbocharged Boxer
The Power 305hp at 6,000rpm; 290 lb-ft at 4,000rpm
Scale Tipping 3,386lbs (Premium and Launch Edition)/3,444lbs (Limited)
Layout Front-engine, all-wheel-drive
Drivetrain standard 6-speed manual; Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive with Driver Control Center Differential (DCCD); mechanical and electronically controlled limited-slip center differential; helical limited-slip front differential and TORSEN limited-slip rear differential; short shifter (Launch Edition only)
Footwork & Chassis inverted struts with forged aluminum-alloy lower A-arms, pillow ball joint mount, coil springs and 24mm stabilizer bar (front); double-wishbone type with coil springs, damper units, stiffener bar and 20mm stabilizer bar (rear)
Brakes 13.0" front ventilated discs with four-piston calipers; 12.4" ventilated discs with dual-piston calipers
Wheels & Tires 18x8.5" cast alloys (BBS forged wheels on Launch Edition and Limited); 245/40R18 tires
At the Pump 17/23/19 (city/highway/combined)
The Competition Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, VW Golf R
Deep Thoughts While half of you are still fighting over its looks, the new STI is a handling monster and has the most power in its class. Get out and drive one!
Random Shiz About the STI
- Bye-bye hatch. The new STI will only be produced as a sedan.
- New cast wheel is 2.5lb lighter and 15% more rigid than previous STI wheel.
- The forged BBS wheels are 2lb lighter than the cast wheels (standard on Launch Edition).
- First time the STI has a decent sound system. Harmon Kardon is standard. Untz, untz!
- 1000 units will be Launch Edition models. These come in WR Blue with blue interior accents, gold BBS wheels, short shifter and keyless access and start system.
- Curb weight is only 2lb more compared to the outgoing model, but handles better and the structure is stronger.
- According to Subaru, the new STI is three times more agile than the previous model.
- Borrowed from the BRZ, a sound creator is installed so you can hear the pulsations from the intake system inside the cabin.
24-hour Nürburgring Racer
In between our sessions at Laguna Seca, I had the pleasure of seeing the new STI racecar built for the 24-hour Nürburgring Race in action. This STI will compete in the SP3T class, which is a production-based class. Due to the class restrictions, the 2.5-liter STI motor is too big, so they opted for the 2.0-liter turbo. It's been tuned to 350hp but definitely capable of more. Power is restricted with a 38mm restrictor before the turbo. The 2.0-liter is reinforced with stronger internals and still uses the stock turbo.
Our favorite part is the custom one-off carbon-fiber body kit; basically everything is carbon minus the roof! The new fenders are 2" wider than stock, which helps allow the STI to run the 18x10" BBS magnesium wheels and Dunlop slicks. The brakes remain Brembos but the team opted for Endless pads. Subaru tells us the car has been finished since November and they are getting ready for two 4-hour races at the Nürburgring before the main event in June. While the car is no doubt a monster on track, they tell us it's very easy to drive and comfortable—an important factor when it comes to endurance racing. Of course we'll never know since they wouldn't give me the keys, but I'll take their word for it.


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Point of View. It is a critical tool in the writer's arsenal.
Point of view can best be described as: through whose eyes the reader sees the story unfolding.
There's three sides to ever story, baby.
There's yours and there's mine and there's the cold hard truth.
– Don Henley, from "Long Way Home".
Point of view is what makes the reader empathize, maybe even sympathize, sometimes with the "bad" guy, making us feel like there is some good in him after all, that perhaps he is just misunderstood. Point of view is what makes the difference between a respected community leader and a power-hungry control freak.
As the words of the Don Henley song point out, the same event can be see differently through two people's eyes. I am sure you have seen this in your life, pretty much any time you get into an argument with someone. In most instances, you are not good, nor are you evil – nor is your adversary. But who is right depends on a pretty subjective point of view.
Consider this short narrative, a eulogy…
A Eulogy
It seems like just yesterday that she came into this world. She was so full of wonder, as everyone is at first. Full of energy. Full of excitement. Full of innocence. Buzzing around heedless of the world's dangers.
She seemed so young. Indeed, she was. But her type tends to grow up fast. They have to. She had to. It's who she was. It's what she was.
She learned very quickly what it's like to be hungry. Her type doesn't have food just handed to her on a silver platter, you know. She had to go out and get it. And that can be a risky business.
The crazy thing is that there is so much food available. A surplus a hundredfold or more. But those who have it don't want to share it with those who need it. They never do. They never have. Sadly, they never will.
So she took risks. She knew she had to. She knew that one day she would not return. She knew each day that there was a good chance – "good" being somewhat of an oxymoron in this case – that today would be that fateful day.
But eat we must, and so we much each take the risks necessary.
We all know how it ended. That's why we are here. We are comforted to know that she went quickly. Painlessly. That she never even saw it coming. But she is gone – slaughtered in broad daylight for no more of a crime than being hungry. By someone who had an endless supply of food, but was simply unwilling to share, but willing to kill.
Smacked by a human!
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31 million people in 10 million households face hunger every day.
It just doesn't seem right. Hunger exists even in the very communities that produce wholesome food for the United States and consumers around the world. According to USDA statistics, 31 million people in 10 million households face hunger every day. Termed "food insecurity," it means these people worry that they will run out of food before they get money to buy more. They fear the food they buy will not last. And they can't afford to eat balanced meals.
For many members of the food-producing community, these facts are more than troubling. They are a challenge to be met in a variety of ways.
Martha Pickett, vice president of operations and COO of America's Second Harvest, the largest network of hunger-relief charities in the country, says one of her predecessor's slogans — We need food, folks and funds — still applies.
George Wooten meets these needs in a very big way. The sweet-potato grower, processor, packer, shipper and broker headquartered in Chadbourn, N.C., has contributed 1.6 million pounds of vitamin-rich tubers over the last five years, placing him among Second Harvest's top five contributors by volume.
"I'm motivated from a spiritual standpoint to work with Second Harvest," he says. "I have been blessed, and there is a need out there. Second Harvest is effectively sustaining life and helping people. Last year, I was able to provide a steady enough supply that food shelves were stocked year-round with sweet potatoes — even at Thanksgiving."
Representing the third generation at the helm of the 66-year-old, family-owned Wayne E. Bailey Produce Company, Wooten says the company has carved a niche in the U.S. market. "We are a premier provider of sweet potatoes, year-round and on time. Our main outlet is with the major retail food chains. But our company has also helped the industry open a whole new avenue for marketing through food service. Currently, 20 percent of our market is with food service outlets."
America's abundance of food produces needless waste, Wooten observes. "With sweet potatoes, for instance, there is so much product that's valuable but unmarketable. We (Americans) have become so particular about the produce that we will buy and eat that marginal-looking products are unsalable. But people in need can look beyond a blemish or two and appreciate the food value that's there."
Collecting food that would otherwise go unused and distributing it to hungry people is the principle that guides America's Second Harvest, says Pickett. And farmers, from large-scale producers like Wooten to those with smaller-scale operations, see the need and become involved in alleviating hunger.
Thanks to the organization's broad base of volunteers, for every dollar that's donated, America's Second Harvest can distribute more than 30 pounds of food. This effort has also prompted a great deal of corporate involvement. One recent example is the Syngenta Rural FoodShare™ Initiative announced by Syngenta, the new agribusiness formed by the merger of Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals. With the goal of helping to alleviate -rural hunger, the company announced it would donate $500,000 in 2001 to America's Second Harvest and the Canadian Association of Food Banks.
Locally, Pickett says, "Many farmers allow volunteers to come in after a field is harvested to gather the 'second harvest.' Others plant an extra acre and donate the crop from that land to a local food bank. Many farmers volunteer their time and energy sorting and packing food products at local food banks or serving in soup kitchens. And others donate money or help in local fund-raising events.
"The challenge we face is huge, and it belongs to everyone from corporations to individuals," she says. "Donations of all sizes and kinds are making a significant difference."
For more information about joining the fight to alleviate rural hunger, visit www.secondharvest.org or call 800-771-2303 during business hours. For more information on the Syngenta Rural FoodShare initiative, visit www.syngentaruralfoodshare.com.


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Here's a look at some of the biggest events happening around the Rock River Valley this week. For a listing of more events, visit rrstar.eviesays.com/events.
Have a 'Merry and Bright' Saturday
A new celebration, "Merry and Bright: a downtown holiday," kicks off with Stroll on State from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday along State Street in downtown Rockford.
Among the activities: Stroll on State includes a candlelight stroll from City Hall, across the Rock River, to the PNC Bank Plaza for the lighting of the city's official 35-foot-tall Christmas tree. There will be decorations, carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides, roaming musicians, food from street vendors and downtown restaurants, holiday shops, Rockford City Market vendors, and Etsy shop owners. Kids can visit with Santa and real reindeer, watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and skate at the Winter Wonderland synthetic ice rink in the Register Star's parking lot.
Admission is free. For more information: gorockford.com/strollonstate
Listen to Handel's 'Messiah'
The Rockford Choral Union will present its 68th consecutive annual Thanksgiving weekend concerts of Handel's "Messiah" with a chamber orchestra, pipe organ, four nationally-acclaimed soloists, trumpet soloist, harpsichord and full chorale.
When: 7 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Trinity Lutheran Church, 200 N. First St., Rockford
Cost: Free, with goodwill offering
Information: 815-654-2748; rockfordchoralunion.org.
Drop Santa a letter
The Nicholas Conservatory Holiday Tree Lighting as well as inside and outside activities will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens, 1354 N. Second St., Rockford.
Cost is $2 for inside activities; free for outside activities. Inside from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.: make-it-and-take-it activities, musical performance by Olivia Dvorak from 3 to 5 p.m. Outside from 3 to 5 p.m.: Get a free photo with Santa, drop a letter to Santa in a mailbox, do holiday-themed activities, hear a musical performance by Jeanie B at 4 p.m., watch tree-lighting at 5 p.m.
For more information: 815-987-8800; nicholasconservatory.com.
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In August 2011, Danmer Custom Shutter's was happy to partner with Macy's and United Way at the Macy's United Way Auction. Danmer Custom Shutters provided one winning bidder with $1,000 worth of Danmer Shutters as well as a free in-home design consultation, free delivery and installation of the shutters.
Danmer Custom Shutters is pleased to announce the winning bidder of $1,000 worth of Danmer shutters from the Macy's United Way Auction was Dale and Yunt Lum.Congratulations!
Danmer Custom Shutters was proud to partner with Macy's and United Way to help United Way with their goals of improving worldwide education, help families reach financial stability, and promote healthy lifestyles for individuals and families.


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TRAVEL TALES | On holiday
Can you guys where I'm going and what I'm doing through 9th of June? Quick stopover in Amsterdam > Renting a cottage in Finland > Country bliss > Sauna > Helsinki > Buy as much Marimekko as possible > Sleeper train to Moscow > Meet Rouge Bunny Rouge team > Russian wedding > Standing up in the Russian wedding!!! > River boat on the Volga > Too much vodka (and, apparently, congac > St. Petersburg > Sleeper train to Helsinki...
And then the rest of the trip, which is yet another pictorial, taking you, this time, down the eastern seaboard of the US, until we hit the southern-most point in Key West, baby.
Enjoy the holiday weekend!
For the next two weeks there's a new blog featured in this space each day. To mix it up, I've picked my non-beauty favourites.
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We all get them – negative comments on our blogs. Or, we all leave them – negative comments on blogs. Stephen Drucker, Editor in Chief of House Beautiful, in the April Editor's Letter chose to address this subject: negative criticism in blogging and design in general. Linda, Megan and I take up the subject where Drucker left off. Like I said, I don't think we'll be getting the cover anytime soon.
(OK. Let's be real here. It's not like I would get the cover for any work of mine anyway. Who am I kidding??? But, it sounds good.)
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Some Texas grain producers expect Roundup-resistant volunteer cotton to pop up in corn and sorghum fields this coming season due to a dry fall and winter, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert.
"We are facing a similar situation to the 2009 season, when volunteer cotton was a problem in corn," said Dr. Gaylon Morgan, AgriLife Extension cotton specialist. "Volunteer cotton in non-cotton fields is especially important to producers in South and Central Texas who are actively involved in the Boll Weevil Eradication program."
Though a problem, Morgan said it's important for producers not to get discouraged and treat volunteer cotton during the early stages. If left until later, treatment options begin to be limited.
"We've found only four products that were effective at the five-to six-leaf stage," he said.
Attendees at the recent Texas Plant Protection Association Conference heard the latest research efforts led by the AgriLife Extension team of Danny Fromme, Morgan, Matt Matocha, Paul Baumann and Dale Mott.
Research trials
Research trials were funded by the Texas Corn Producers Board and the Texas Cotton Producers. The problem began during the drought of 2009 and has continued to escalate, Morgan said.
"The key is to manage the volunteer cotton while it is small and while more herbicides are effective," he said. "If the volunteer cotton is not destroyed early in the season, the cotton plants persist under the corn canopy, then following harvest the cotton plants will flourish and will be an excellent host for the boll weevil."
AgriLife Extension trials were conducted at four locations across the state from the Panhandle region, South Central Texas and South Texas.
Status (5 ounces), Laudis (3 ounces), and Halex GT + Atrazine (58 + 32 ounces) were the only over-the-top products that provided 99 percent control at the one/ two-leaf stage with greater than 1 percent volunteer plants at 65 days after treatment.
"Other products, such as Ignite 280 and Sharpen, were highly effective but must be applied through hoods or post-directed," Morgan said.
At the five-leaf stage, Starane Ultra (6.4 ounces), Status (5 ounces-10 ounces) and 2,4-D Amine (16 ounces) over-the-top provided greater than 90 percent control of volunteer cotton, Morgan said, but none completely prevented volunteer plants, which ranged from 4 percent to 11 percent at 70 days after treatment.
Control costs
Producer costs per acre were minimized when applications were applied during early plant growth. At the one/two-leaf stage, the cost per acre for Status was $13.25, Ignite 280 ($11.33 per acre), Laudis ($13.59 per acre). Some less expensive products were evaluated, like 2,4-D and atrazine, but they were slightly less effective in this trial.
"Looking ahead to next growing season, the problem is waiting to happen as many of the cotton seeds left over from pickers/stripper are in the ground, but it's been too dry for germination," Morgan said.
"Based on the current weather patterns, producers will need to make plans to deal with volunteer cotton this spring. Additionally, producers will need to pay attention in post-harvest of corn because any surviving cotton plants tend to flourish once corn begins to mature," Morgan said.
"After corn harvest, producers need to be take care of any volunteer cotton plants in a timely manner with chemical or mechanical methods," he said. "Volunteer cotton is a concern both from the frontend and after-harvest of the grain crops. In a producer's defense, they are juggling application timings and the economics of management options. Volunteer cotton is a challenge to manage. However, this is an important issue since it ties directly into the boll weevil eradication efforts and is enforced by the Texas Department of Agriculture."


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The PlayStation 4 will be unleashed on the public on November 15, and with it will come over 20 games designed with Sony's next gen system in mind. That number will grow as the launch day turns into the launch window, and the launch window yields to the first year of the PS4's life. At the moment, there are around 140 games confirmed for the PS4 and more are sure to follow.
But for those that are planning on picking up a PS4 on launch day, when November 15 rolls around there will be at least 20 choices for you to consider when deciding what game (or games) you should take home with your new console, or download once you are set up. Other games will come out soon after, but these are the titles that will certainly be available through the Christmas season, making them some of the most important games of the year.
The first and most obvious thing you will notice when you fire up a PS4 is the upgrade in graphics. That also makes the visuals one of the easiest things to focus on with the next gen games, at least until we've spent some time with the consoles and the games and really tested them to see what they can do. With that in mind check out the 20 PS4 launch titles, each with an accompanying screenshot. There will be a few others available to download as well, but these are the ones we are keeping a close eye on. As with the PS4, all the games on this list will be released on November 15.


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Definition of bike
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The word "bike" uses 4 letters: B E I K.
Direct anagrams of bike:
Words formed by adding one letter before or after bike (in bold), or to beik in any order:
b - kibbe d - biked i - bikie kibei r - biker s - bikes kibes
Shorter words found within bike:
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The United States is considering launching a punitive strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, blamed by the U.S. and the Syrian opposition for an Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The U.S. said the attack killed 1,429 people, including at least 426 children. Those numbers are significantly higher than the death toll of 355 provided by the aid group Doctors Without Borders.
President Barack Obama said he has decided that the United States should take military action against Syria but is seeking congressional authorization for the use of force in a vote expected after Congress returns to work Sept. 9.
Here's a look at key Syria developments around the world Monday amid heightened tensions over potential military action:
Obama will host Sen. John McCain at the White House, hoping his opponent in the 2008 presidential election will help sell the idea of a U.S. military intervention in Syria to a nation scarred by more than a decade of war. The Obama administration is trying to rally support for the strike among Americans and their congressman and senators.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said information the U.S. showed Moscow to blame the Syrian regime for the alleged chemical weapons attack was "absolutely unconvincing." He said Monday "there was nothing specific" in the evidence: "no geographic coordinates, no names, no proof that the tests were carried out by the professionals." He did not say what tests he was referring to.
The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Syria said 7 million Syrians, or almost one-third of the population, have been displaced by the country's civil war. Tarik Kurdi told The Associated Press that 5 million of the displaced are still in Syria while about 2 million have fled to neighboring countries. Before the conflict's outbreak Syria had a population of about 23 million people.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was scheduled to meet with the leaders of Parliament's defense and foreign affairs committees. The prime minister's office said Ayrault will give the lawmakers an update on Syria and show them a declassified report on Syria's chemical weapons to back up France's claim that the Assad regime was responsible for the attack.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said his country urged the U.S. not to take unilateral action against Syria. He said Washington briefed Beijing about the matter and that China is concerned about chemical weapons use but that the country opposes the U.S. acting alone. Hong didn't address the possibility of the U.S. acting together with France's government, which supports a strike. Beijing would almost certainly be opposed to any strike.
Australia offered moral support for a military strike in Syria. Patrick Low, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr's spokesman, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called last week and that Australia supports the U.S. taking action. He said Kerry didn't ask for military assistance and Australia didn't offer it. Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott defended his controversial weekend comments on the Syrian civil war. He had described both sides in the conflict as "baddies versus baddies."
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger in Germany's upcoming election said late Sunday they wouldn't participate in military action against Syria. Merkel said there must be "a collective answer by the U.N." to the use of chemical weapons in Syria as she faced center-left rival Peer Steinbrueck in a televised debate. Steinbrueck said he wouldn't participate in military action as chancellor and would "greatly regret it" if the U.S. strikes alone without an international mandate.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels he is convinced the Syrian government used chemical weapons and insisted a strong reaction is needed to show dictators that such weapons cannot be used with impunity. He said Monday that the alliance would defend Turkey if the member state is attacked in retaliation following a strike against Syria. NATO will remain a forum for allies to consult about action but Fogh Rasmussen did not envision any additional NATO role.
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