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Dan Levy led all Bulldog golfers with a 2-over-par 74 at the Adams Cup in Newport, Rhode Island. The Elis finished twelfth after the first day of play in the highly competitive tournament.
With a team total of 317, the Elis were 29 strokes over par at the Newport National Golf Club. Behind Levy was Rick Reissman, who shot a 78, and Steve Gray with an 82. Alex Fulton finished with an 83 and Gabe Borrud, who won the Dartmouth Invitational last weekend, finished with an 84.
With 290 strokes, Furman University leads all teams, while the top individual finisher was University of South Florida's Brad Quiri, who shot a two-under-par 70.
The field at the Adams Cup is extremely competitive, featuring a number of top 50 teams. No. 12 Michigan State, No. 29 Rhode Island, No. 35 Furman, No. 46 Pepperdine, and No. 49 Mississippi are all in the running, as is 2002 NCAA champion Minnesota.
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Katy Perry brightened up our day in an orange Alexander McQueen frock, which she wore to the MusiCares Person of the Year Event, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday, Feb. 8.
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen was honored, and the 'Wide Awake' singer was on hand to celebrate. She was pretty as a peach while doing so. She paired her bright-hued column gown with Guiseppi Zanotti shows and a Judith Leiber bag. She also fashioned her ever-changing hair in with long, thick, raven-raven-hued extensions, which popped against the citrus hue of her gown.
This gorgeous gown got us excited for what she'll wear for the red carpet and broadcast at Music's Biggest Night. She wore a gold dress and a bright blue bob at last year's festivities, which took place right after her split with Russell Brand. So maybe she was getting things out of her system and expressing herself with wild and crazy.
Perhaps she's toning it down in 2013.
Perry will reportedly be attending the Grammys with her fried Allison Williams, as opposed to her BF, John Mayer. She is nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for her hit 'Wide Awake.'
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Sipsey Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Sipsey Wilderness (map) in 1975 and it now has a total of 25,770 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Alabama and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionWild-flowing creeks in northwestern Alabama converge to become the Sipsey River, 61 miles of which has been designated Wild and Scenic. Running below sandstone bluffs that rise 30 to 100 feet above the water, through a forest of often imposing second-growth trees and occasional small stands of virgin timber (some of the last virgin timber in the state), the Sipsey and its tributaries slice neatly through the Wilderness. Sinkholes, small caves, and scenic overlooks are plentiful. Less plentiful is the rare flattened musk turtle, an inhabitant of the Sipsey. Twelve established trails, all rated easy to moderate, crisscross the area. Several depart from the Sipsey River Recreation Area on the southern boundary, which has sanitary facilities, no developed campsites and a $3.00 recreation use fee. From here, Trail 209 follows the river north and joins Trail 206 after about eight miles, ending after about 2.5 more miles at a parking lot on the northern boundary. Trail 200 runs north along Borden Creek to meet an old road that gives access to the heart of Sipsey Wilderness; it, too, ends at a parking lot on the northern boundary. A 13-mile loop is possible by taking Trail 204 from the old road and following Trail 209 for the return to the recreation site. Sipsey trails receive moderate to heavy human use year-round. Wilderness camping, building campfires, hunting, and fishing are permitted. Horsepackers are allowed on designated trails.
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The South Burlington company said it had made "significant progress" by securing easements for 166 of 221 parcels needed for the route.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont Gas Systems has already spent more than $1.5 million on securing land rights for Phase I of the Addison-Rutland Natural Gas Project, and last week announced it had increased its budget for land acquisitions by more than $1 million.
This increased projected cost is part of a $35.6 million cost hike for the entire project, a bill 40 percent higher than the company told the Public Service Board last February.
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CDNN copyright violation and fraud
Posted 25 September 2006 - 10:11 AM
Posted 25 September 2006 - 10:34 AM
Bonnie -- I will beat you yet!
Posted 29 September 2006 - 03:51 PM
I'm eagerly awaiting my rank on their photographer polls to drop down below zero, once they see the post about them on the front page.
Bonnie -- I will beat you yet!
Nice job Eric!! But I seriously doubt that you will steal away my crown as world's worst underwater photographer. I'm still anxiously awaiting his Scuba Poll web designer rankings. Its been "coming soon" for about three years now.
Finally the word is getting out there that his web site does not publish real news and his rankings are bogus. I'm glad I'm not only only person exposing him. I'd love to meet this guy face to face someday. If it ever does happen I will probably not know it because he's way too much of a coward to introduce himself to me. I should be paying him a referral fee for all the business he brings me.
I voted! Did you?
Skype address: underwatercolours
Posted 13 October 2006 - 02:57 PM
Mustard made it in there now !
Ha! At least you got rated....i'm not there...Booo! But then again Mustard is not either....
Posted 13 October 2006 - 04:46 PM
I received yet another e-mail today from someone who has been exploited by CDNN, and am trying to get permission to write about the story.
Posted 19 April 2007 - 12:17 PM
Posted 19 April 2007 - 04:32 PM
At least they credited Alex for having pioneered the use of telephoto lenses underwater ;-)
- Col. John "Hannibal" Smith
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Posted 20 April 2007 - 08:16 AM
Bonnie sure has a nice publicity photo on that site. It beats Eric's hands down.
Hey, I worked hard for that! After shutting them down several times on copyright infringement and getting their hosting companies to boot them off their servers, I really thought they might dream up with something more original and creative. Its kind of fun to taunt them to see what they come up with next. So Eric's going to have to piss them off a few more times if he want my spot on that list.
Skype address: underwatercolours
Posted 21 April 2007 - 12:54 AM
Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
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Posted 22 April 2007 - 05:49 PM
Posted 23 April 2007 - 01:30 PM
Have you seen the underwater photographer ratings on ScubaLinx? Not only are the ratings totally arbitrary, but anecdotal evidence suggests that they use these rating systems (this particular one, and others) as a weapon against people who they don't like, or people who pull advertising from their websites. I am rated a whopping 1.43 out of 10, and they grabbed an entertaining photo of me that they do not have permission to use (which paints me in a negative light).
Ken Knezick and some others are taking action against the parent company, which owns Cyberdiver, ScubaLinx, ScubaPoll, and a total of 45 related domains. All of them are hosted here:
The Planet Internet Services, Inc.
1333 Stemmons Freeway, Suite #110
Dallas, TX 75207
If you have been a target of Cyber Diver and want to do something about it, please contact me, or Ken Knezick.
Check out http://divepoll.com, which posts news exposing CDNN for their fraudulent actions.
I thought you said in one of your postings that the law states you cant do anything about people putting bad things about you on the net? Its horrible when someone makes up stuff and puts it on about you isnt it. tut. So what do YOU think the best way to get out of it is?
Posted 23 April 2007 - 01:49 PM
You have misunderstood the point of this topic, which is about CDNN's copyright violations and blackmailing tactics.
I don't care if people write bad things about be on the web.
(also, I wrote nothing similar to what are are claiming).
Posted 23 April 2007 - 05:08 PM
If the idiot who runs Scubapoll had any idea of how many images I've sold because of traffic they drive to my site, they wouldn't have me on that list at all. I guess people wonder how bad I can be to deserve such a bad rating. So they check me out, like what they see, and buy from me. I've picked up a lot of website business too and have made some pretty interesting friends in all this. Putting my anti-cyber diver page on my website was the best thing I ever did. I get emails from all over the world from other people who are being blackmailed by CDNN. Us "victims" have to stick together!
I've also learned a ton about copyright because of them and as a result have collected big bucks in settlements from other infringers. Its kind of funny that the result of what CDNN is trying to do to me (ruin my business, reputation, or whatever???) has actually had the opposite affect. Thank you Cyber Diver!
The thing that scares me is what this nut case might do next to someone he hates. The words in that letter he wrote to Manthiri are coming from a very deranged individual who is already waaaaay off the deep end. I hope he doesn't show up at a trade show with a gun. I really think the FBI should get involved, if they're not already.
Skype address: underwatercolours
Posted 24 April 2007 - 01:08 AM
Lisa - Welcome to Wetpixel.
You have misunderstood the point of this topic, which is about CDNN's copyright violations and blackmailing tactics.
I don't care if people write bad things about be on the web.
(also, I wrote nothing similar to what are are claiming).
Hi. thanks for the welcome.
No im not saying you wrote nothing bad about someone. Im being serious, Its horrible when someone disses someone. I am serious when I ask what can you do about it? The interent seems to be used as a tool for revenge more and more these days and its getting out of control. Can't you report them? Is there a governing board?
Posted 14 April 2008 - 04:45 AM
Posted 14 April 2008 - 05:02 AM
Someone just forwarded me a lovely post on CDNN:
Posted 14 April 2008 - 05:36 AM
Someone just forwarded me a lovely post on CDNN:
Unreal. Do not know what to say, was going to post over there, but why bother. It sucks when people do things like that, and I am sure you have learned to take some of it in stride, but sorry someone has done that to you.
Posted 14 April 2008 - 07:16 AM
Skype address: underwatercolours
Posted 14 April 2008 - 11:09 AM
And checkout their rules here - the post is in full and absolute violation of rules 4 & 5 here:
[quoted from: http://www.scuba-for...ules/rules.html]
4. SCUBA FORUM forbids posting profanity and indecent material.
5. SCUBA FORUM forbids posting harassment, threats and personal insults.
The focus is on nurturing well-written, intelligent analysis, thoughtful commentary and spirited, civil debate as opposed to generating hundreds of thousands of often trivial and meaningless posts that reduce the forums to lowest common denominator chit-chat.
Eric Cheng is one of the most positive forces in underwater conservation today and posts like this should not be allowed on responsible forums so consider the source....
Edited by seagrant, 14 April 2008 - 11:10 AM.
Posted 14 April 2008 - 11:20 AM
If I thought it was worth my time I'd sign on and post to KJ to meet me in Riviera Beach at JASA's parking lot. But he's likely an internet bragging wuss and wouldn't show anyway....
The best use of any diving computer guru's time would be to figure out how to crash or delete CDNN from the web entirely.


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Humans 'Wired' for Terror Over Remote Radiation Threats
By PAUL VOOSEN of Greenwire
Published: March 18, 2011
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It's long been a vexing issue in the scientific community, spurred in large part by public panic over nuclear power, waste and radiation: Why the terror?
Compared to notorious killers like driving, smoking or drinking, nuclear risks -- though objectively carrying little danger in their modern deployments -- stir the deepest fears in Americans, a terror that is surfacing again as engineers strive to contain the crisis at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station.
For nuclear workers and residents near the reactors, of course, the crisis at Fukushima is a very tangible health threat. But the overwhelming global public and media response to the Japan power plant's problems -- where no one is known to have died from radiation exposure -- is set in sharp relief when compared to the reaction to thousands who perished in the earthquake and tsunami.
Public fear of radiation released halfway around the world -- the chasm between actual and perceived risk -- has helped give rise over the past three decades to a new field of social science, aptly named "risk perception." Through diligent questioning, study and an improved understanding of how humans make decisions, these scientists have been able to categorize why people instinctively fear certain risks.
And nuclear radiation, it turns out, hits all the buttons.
Radiation is difficult to comprehend, incredibly complex in its varieties and jargon -- gamma rays, ionization, sieverts -- and that alone makes it scary. Despite the inability of reactors to cause nuclear explosions, they have obvious associations with nuclear weapons. And, at high doses, radiation can cause cancer and death, and not an ordinary kind of death, said Brian Zikmund-Fisher, a health behavior professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
"Radiation can be deadly, and it's deadly in a kind of gruesome way," he said. "The emotionality of someone with radiation sickness, their hair falling out, is a gruesome image. ... It's icky in the way that being poisoned is icky. How awful -- how bad it feels."
It is important to note that at all times we are being bombarded with cosmic radiation, and Americans are, on average, exposed to 6.2 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation a year, to use a standard measure. Evidence of direct health effects from radiation exposure only begin between 100 and 200 mSv, when a very slight increase in the chance of developing cancer later in life first appears. Radiation at the Fukushima plant has reached these levels at times, but beyond the plant's boundaries, exposure has remained at low doses.
Compared with the earthquake, which while devastating was also local, people around the world can imagine being affected by the radiation at Fukushima. That makes it personal. And despite its sweeping power, they can ultimately wrap their heads around tsunami, too, Zikmund-Fisher said.
"It's a scale that I can imagine," he said. "Even the tsunami. It's huge, it's catastrophic, but I can imagine a giant wall of water. That would be bad. But it's not so strange."
Radiation is invisible. It feels like a lingering trap.
As the sociologist Kai Erickson put it, "Invisible contaminants remain a part of the surroundings -- absorbed into the grain of the landscape, the tissues of the body and, worst of all, into the genetic material of survivors. An 'all clear' is never sounded. The book of accounts is never closed."
'Dread scale'
There are still more buttons. Unlike X-rays used for medical therapy or imaging, the radiation from nuclear power is not a risk people directly choose. When we choose risk, it's less scary. It's created by humans, which inherently feels more threatening than sources like the sun or radon gas. It cannot simply be extinguished, like a fire -- uncontrollable. It is rare, alien. Familiar risks like car accidents, though far more likely to kill people, are still better accepted.
The emotional stirrings like those caused by radiation are incredibly important to how people judge risk. At all times, humans evaluate risk on cognitive and emotional levels, the parallel processes weaving in unpredictable ways. It's not about ignorance. Even someone -- say, a science reporter -- aware that flying increases radiation exposure yet does no harm can still, at the same time, feel very worried about Fukushima Daiichi, Zikmund-Fisher said.
"That's not inconsistent with how our bodies are wired," he said.
These fears are deeply human, and many of them stretch back to the original scientists who split the atom during the Manhattan Project. These researchers exercised abundant caution, more than any scientist before them, as they believed "they had powers that transcended anything humans had done before," said Spencer Weart, a science historian and author of Nuclear Fear and The Discovery of Global Warming.
"Just about everything you find with nuclear fears originated with a nuclear physicist," he said.
The risk perception field has its origins in the works of scientists like Paul Slovic and Baruch Fischhoff.
About 35 years ago -- before the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents -- the nuclear industry approached Fischhoff, who is now a professor of decision science at Carnegie Mellon University, to study why the public opposed nuclear power. He found an industry that struggled to explain, without condescension or untoward complexity, how it operated.
"The nuclear industry had done a terrible job communicating the facts of the industry," Fischhoff said, a trend that never changed. "It continues to do a horrible job of communicating."
Fischhoff's pioneering surveys looked at three groups of residents in Eugene, Oregon -- college students, the League of Women Voters, club members -- and compared them to experts from the risk assessment community, probing their perceived risks for 30 activities and technologies. The students and women's group rated nuclear power No. 1. The experts ranked it No. 20.
Fischhoff's study and further work by Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon, have found that there are two simplified scales that can track how people judge risks: dread and the unknown. The unknown includes risks that aren't observable, aren't known to those exposed; risks that carry uncertainty, or delayed effects. Dread, meanwhile, draws on associations with uncontrollable, catastrophic and fatal consequences; involuntary risks that seem inequitable, carrying dangers for future generations.
"Almost everything with nuclear goes very, very highly on that dread scale," Zikmund-Fisher said.
'Good memory for scary stuff'
The parallel cognitive and emotional understandings of risk are not a precisely settled science, though, Fischhoff added.
Often, poorly understood technologies provoke feelings of dread, and it can be difficult to tease out whether it is the emotional or cognitive response that ultimately causes the risk perception, he said. People are complicated.
However raised, these fears would exist even without the historical associations tacked onto reactors. But those exist -- in coverage of Japan, the call-backs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki are frequent, for good reason -- and they seriously stigmatize the industry, in the psychological sense of the word, said David Ropeik, a former television reporter and the author of How Risky Is It, Really? which examines risk-perception science.
"When we only have partial information to make sense of it, we compare it to what we already know," he said. Imagery of terrifying events like atomic explosions remain more readily available in the mind, and easy to call on, a dynamic known as the availability heuristic.
"We have a particularly good memory for the scary stuff," Ropeik added.
Ropeik, in a way, is atoning for past sins. During his work as a television reporter, he reported on nuclear power plants like they were a "second Satan" for two decades, he said. But during that time, he never reported the actual epidemiology of cancer risk from radiation.
Compared with many other carcinogens, radiation is relatively weak at limited exposures -- thyroid exposure to iodine being the most important concern at Fukushima -- making it difficult to sort out of the existing likelihood that a large minority of people is already bound to develop cancer in their lifetime.
Even plutonium -- deadly if inhaled -- can be outdone in risk, added Weart, the historian.
"Pound for pound, plutonium is by no means the most dangerous substance on earth," he said.
Authorities lost public trust
Weart pegs the development of nuclear fear to the huge amount of atmospheric nuclear testing that occurred during the late 1950s.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been frightening, but contained. There was a balance between nuclear hopes and terror. But reasonable fears about testing fallout, and then the Cuban missile crisis, Weart said, finally sealed nuclear's fate as a "dirty word."
Americans went through a process likely to be seen in Japan in the future, where their nuclear regulatory agencies have underplayed nuclear accidents. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was responsible for both promoting and regulating the nuclear power industry until the early 1970s, and came under strong fire for what many saw as weak regulation. Congress ultimately abolished the agency, dividing into the Energy Department and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
When the public trust is lost by these agencies, it is difficult to recover.
"Concerns about radiation have always been [tied to] worry about authority," Weart said.
Questions of authority are rising, and will soon spike, in the United States, as negligible bits of radioactive particles are detected from Fukushima. And authorities speaking to the public must appreciate that the public has mental models -- say, a model of being poisoned -- that they may association with radiation, Michigan's Zikmund-Fisher said.
"If I apply that mental model to radiation, which is probably what a lot of people are doing, than I'm probably not going to feel very safe," he said.
Despite the decades the government and industry have had to improve how they talk to the public about radiation risks, not much has improved. "We have very little by way in stock of tested messages that will make it clear to people what's going on in a credible way," Fischhoff said.
The dragging uncertainty at Fukushima has grown more powerful in its own way, too.
"Part of the reason why this is so emotionally powerful is that it doesn't feel like we know when it will end," Zikmund-Fisher said. "And that's very scary. Sometimes knowing that the bad thing is going to happen, and then it's going to be done -- it's easier to tolerate."
More on radiation:
What it is.
How it works.
How it spreads.
Click here for a special report on Japan's nuclear crisis.
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No injuries reported as two-alarm blaze strikes S. Boston supermarket
A two-alarm fire caused $100,000 damage today to a South Boston commercial building undergoing conversion into a Foodies Urban Supermarket, officials said.
The fire is believed to have started in the basement, but then traveled up the walls and into the roof of the one-story brick building at the 230 West Broadway, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald.
A single sprinkler head nearest the flames did activate, but the sprinkler did not completely extinguish the fire, he said.
"The fire got above the sprinkler and into the wall, and traveled up a little bit,'' MacDonald said. "Once it got into the walls, it was just hard to get at where the fire was. They had to open the walls and put a couple of holes in the roof.''
The fire started in electric utility closet in the basement, officials said.
MacDonald said there were a large number of workers at the property at the time, but no injuries were reported.


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Blackhawks VP/GM Stan Bowman spoke with the media Friday night to discuss the first day of NHL free agency, the team's signings and more.
On his free agency strategy...
"I've always had the philosophy that if you're relying on the free agent period in July to save your team, that's probably not the prescription we're working for. Adding a player here and there is certainly understandable, but the way to build success and sustain it is to draft and develop your own players, and add in the occasional player through free agency. If I had my choice, I would do it the way we've done it recently: develop from within, have your young players emerge over time, don't rush them to the NHL and use the draft and development of your players as the way to find the good players. Fortunately, we've been able to do that, and when we do find a group that's had success, we're able to keep it together like we have this summer. I think it's the most prudent way in the salary cap world to be able to sustain success."
On newly-signed goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin...
"We spoke to Ray [Emery] quite a bit down the stretch after the season and it became apparent, talking to his agent, he was looking for a different opportunity. I can't speak for him, but it sounded like he wanted to go somewhere that he had the chance to be the number-one guy, or a different opportunity. He obviously experienced the past two seasons here and I think he enjoyed it, but I think he was looking for a little something different for himself.
"So at that point, we turned our attention to other goaltenders. It was pretty apparent when we looked at the list of goalies that were available that Nik was the best candidate for that position. We're really thrilled to add him to our team for a number of reasons: number one is that I think he will be able to be the tandem with Corey [Crawford] that we've experienced the last couple of years and has worked so well.
"We've got a goaltender who has had an accomplished career and he's still got a lot of game left in him. He's a competitive guy and wants the chance to help our team, try to come back with a strong season. For that reason, it was very appealing for both sides. We have a lot of familiarity with Nik. He was a really good goaltender with us and he sort of helped us get back on track as a franchise. It's nice to have him here now as our team's even stronger now than before.
"We were looking for someone who had not just been a backup goalie. Nik has always been a number-one guy. I think it's nice that he sees enough in our group to want to come back. He knows that Corey is the guy here, but he's comfortable in supporting him. One of the things that was so evident last year was we had two top-notch goaltenders and our team never had to change their style depending who was in net. We just played the same way every night because both goalies were excellent, and that's what we see next year as well."
On re-signing Michal Handzus, and whether he can mentor young players coming up to the NHL level...
"It's certainly nice to have some continuity. We had a lot of success with this group last year and I think Michal came in and in a short amount of time we could really see his value in a number of ways. He certainly brings some size and his faceoff ability was well-documented, along with his experience level and just the fact that our coaches are really comfortable with his ability playing many roles on our team. I think he brought a lot of good things to the table and we had a lot of success with him in the lineup.
"Brandon [Pirri] has had some good seasons in Rockford, and I think he's ready for the next step. We have a lot of depth at center, and they're all young players. Brandon is the furthest along, but we've also got Drew LeBlanc, who we added last year and is a promising player, Phillip Danault, Mark McNeill. These are four young players who we're going to give a chance in training camp. We certainly know what Michal can do, and we're going to have a nice mixture of some young players in the lineup and we have the veteran presence of Michal. It gives us that ability to utilize different players throughout the season."
On negotiations with RFA Marcus Kruger...
"We're getting closer with Marcus. We're not quite to the finish line, but we've had a couple of good discussions and we're getting close. We're hoping that will work itself out in the next couple of days. We're certainly going to get that done, it just takes a little time sometimes."
On re-signing defenseman Michal Rozsival...
"I think with defense it's critical that you have depth and experience, and you have players that you're really confident can get the job done. The way Rozsy played this year was really in excess of our expectations. We signed him later in the summer last year and hoped he would fill in, and when he was in our lineup he really contributed.
"He seems to really have the ability to help our offensive players out. He can log a lot of minutes, and he can play in defensive situations. He's a very versatile player, and we wanted to bring that back. We're going to have our same group coming back that we won the Stanley Cup with. We've got some young players who are really on the verge of breaking through, as well. That's a good thing, though; you're always going to experience some types of injuries during the season, and overall we've got a lot of guys we're confident in at the NHL level and we can work these young defensemen in slowly; we don't need to go into the season hoping they can get it done.
"I would always prefer to deal from a position of strength, having a lot of experienced NHL defensemen and then find some games for the young guys to work in. That's a recipe for success."
On whether the Blackhawks are done with free-agent signing after dealing with their own restricted free agents...
"If you look at the group we had last year, we have a very similar group coming back, which was our goal; we've been mapping this out for a long time, trying to determine which players we were going to keep. We've only had to move a couple of players out of here. We do like the stability that we have. We've had a lot of success with the group, and we have some players who are ready to be given that opportunity. I'm pretty excited for that. It's nice to have that youth and the excitement and energy they bring. The young players have had good seasons in Rockford and they really are due for the opportunity to show us what they can do at the NHL level. I like where we're at; we've got a good combination of experienced guys who have had success as a group and young players that are ready to push and look for jobs."


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MCV (molluscum contagiosum virus) can cause disfiguring lesions on the face, neck and genitals of people with HIV/AIDS. There is no therapy specifically licensed for the treatment of MCV lesions, but doctors have used, with varying degrees of success, the immune boosters Aldara (imiquimod) and DNCB, liquid nitrogen, electric "zapping" of lesions and Retin-A. Recently, doctors at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, have reported some success against MCV lesions using the antiviral drug cidofovir (Vistide).
The doctors reported data on two male children. One was an 8 year old with a CD4+ count of 329 cells and a viral load greater than 700,000 copies. The other was 4-years-old boy who had a CD4+ count of 168 cells and a viral load of about 430,000 copies. Despite the fact that both boys had been receiving HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) for about two years, hundreds of MC lesions had developed on their bodies.
The doctors prepared a skin treatment by mixing 15 grams of cidofovir with 22.5 grams of Dermovan ointment. The lesions were treated once daily for five consecutive days each week, for eight weeks. Lesions on the face were left uncovered, but lesions on the rest of the body were covered with Scotch tape. The lesions became red and sore during the first two weeks of treatment. Most of this redness cleared during the two-day rest period after each treatment cycle. The doctors reported that the lesions healed leaving "superficial" scars. At the site of former lesions, the boys' skin became darker or, in other cases, lighter as a result of treatment. No serious side effects were reported. After two months of cidofovir therapy the MC lesions cleared and have not returned after 18 months of monitoring. According to the doctors, at the end of the study both boys showed "significant improvement in their self-image and resumed their social activities."
Archives of Dermatology 2000;136:983-985.
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In the fall of 2012, I met Polish artist Paulina Olowska. She was visiting to plan her 2013 Carnegie International installation for the Carnegie Café—we talked about the beginnings of the Dada movement at the Cabaret Voltaire and her plans to transform the museum café into a cabaret atmosphere. When Olowska later invited me to work on the performance piece for her project (and exhibit a collection of my puppets), I began thinking about creating a show about the ideals of early Dada artists.
It's difficult to think about the trauma experienced by European artists living during World War I. What were artists to do at a time when humanity was pushed to the edge, when the reality of war and suffering permeated everyday life? The Cabaret Voltaire was an outlet for artists and intellectuals to express their disgust, their needs, and their aim to redefine art. Today, wars are often managed by drones controlled from locations far from the battlefield. At home we watch football, go to the movies, and get into arguments at the supermarket as wars are being waged halfway around the world. In developing this new puppet show, I thought about the iconic figure Hugo Ball, dressed in a shiny cone-shaped bishop's outfit. I wondered what Ball, his wife Emmy Hennings, and other Zurich Dadaists of 1916 would think about the world today.
Come see our new puppet show, Flight Out of Time, this Thursday at Culture Club! Flight Out of Time (after Ball's diaries) recreates the scene of The Cabaret Voltaire. A fantastical ending suggests a prophetic element in Ball's prose. I developed the show with fellow artist and puppeteer Michael Cuccaro, and it includes an adaptation of Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto as well as a reenactment of Hugo Ball's sound poetry. You can even make your own puppet for the stage! Hope to see you there.


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The Innovator's Manifesto
Deliberate disruption for transformational growth
Disruption is a theory of innovation that explains how particular types of new products and services come to achieve success or even dominance, often at the expense of once-powerful incumbents.
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About the book
From the rise of the telephone in the late 19th century to automobiles for the masses in the 1920s to restaurant meals available to all in the 1950s to Intel in the 1970s, personal computers in the 1980s, low cost airlines in the 1990s, and social media sites today–disruption captures the essence of the "creative destruction" that has long characterized modern American capitalism.
Disruption was first explained by Clayton M. Christensen in the bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma. In 2003, Christensen and coauthor Michael E. Raynor teamed up to deliver The Innovator's Solution, a blueprint for understanding and managing the forces that influence disruption so that companies can shape high-octane business plans to create disruptive growth.
But for all this, the question remained: does disruption really work? Can disruption get beyond merely explaining the past and actually make it possible for any manager to more accurately predict the future?
Based on Raynor's research, the answer, it turns out, is "yes." In The Innovator's Manifesto,Raynor is back with specific data and analysis demonstrating that disruption has predictive power. In addition, Raynor lays bare the causal mechanisms of disruption in ways that allow the newcomer to these ideas to understand and apply them quickly and successfully, even as Raynor brings new clarity and insight to the most conscientious students of disruption.
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The Innovator's Manifesto is available in stores and through online retailers now. To order your copy, visit one of these online retailers.
Executive summary
The first objective of this book is to demonstrate that Disruption has true predictive power. The Innovator's Manifesto demonstrates this through controlled experiments–for most people, the most persuasive evidence there is when it comes to prediction. Second, this book makes the case for Disruption's unique and superior explanatory power. It lays out a definition of Disruption precise enough that Disruptive innovations can be accurately identified in advance of knowing how they ultimately fare and their results in the marketplace explained more fully and parsimoniously than by any other theory. Finally, it offers thoughts on how one can go about applying these concepts to the greatest effect at the least expense.
Prediction - Chapters one and two
The Innovator's Manifesto starts by describing the design and results of carefully controlled experiments testing the predictive power of Disruption's central claims: that an innovation has the best chance of success when it has a very different performance profile and appeals to customers of relatively little interest to dominant incumbents, and the organization commercializing it enjoys substantial strategic and operational autonomy. In contrast, attempts to introduce better-performing solutions targeted at customers valued by successful incumbents will fail.
Explanation - Chapters three, four, and five
A common challenge in research of any kind and certainly in the field of applied management, is determining the extent to which one can "generalize beyond the sample." Thankfully, we can claim a credible understanding of what will happen in circumstances we have not tested directly if we have a correct understanding of why results turn out as they do. In reality, as is often the case, such judgments are not binary: one is more or less justified in generalizing beyond the sample depending on the sample, what one hopes to generalize and how far beyond the sample one wishes to go.
Application - Chapters six, seven, and eight
Whatever scientific rigor and theoretical elegance might characterize Disruption, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And so how to apply Disruption successfully is addressed next. The examples and tools in these chapters are intended to start you–whether you are an investor, an entrepreneur, a manager, or a corporate M&A strategist–down the road to using Disruption effectively.
Critical acclaim
The Innovator's Manifesto, as well as other books authored by Michael Raynor, have received critical acclaim from business and thought leaders across a wide variety of field.
"What makes The Innovator's Manifesto so significant is that it is perhaps the first and in my view the most significant and successful effort yet to move the field of innovation from the intuitive stage into the world of empirical management. [Raynor] has elaborated upon particular elements of Disruption in ways that make clear when and how the theory can be applied. And he has provided frameworks for its application that will enable most any business to reap the benefits that Disruption makes possible."
-Clayton M. Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of the bestselling books The Innovator's DNA, The Innovator's Dilemma, and The Innovator's Solution
"Raynor has been able to prove in a powerful manner that the concept of Disruption can–in fact–predict success and failure at an early stage. Although intuitively simple, the concept remains difficult to grasp fully. This book takes away some of the mystery and helps managers to apply it to their own new business initiatives."
-John Bell, Head Strategy and Partnerships, Philips Corporate Technologies, Philips Research
"Disruption has been an intriguing way to think about innovation. But The Innovator's Manifestoprovides both validation for the theory of Disruption and an incisive set of tests that are a first for the field of strategy. It also offers practicing managers a way to use Disruption to shape and implement strategy. Thanks to the wide range of compelling illustrations and the practical tools provided here, innovation no longer has to be the blind 'bet' that it has been for so long for so many."
-Bill Fischer, Co-author of The Idea Hunter and Professor for Technology Management & Innovation, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
"The Innovator's Manifesto will convince you that the theory of disruptive Innovation has true predictive power. Not only does Michael Raynor prove that using Disruption dramatically improves the odds of identifying successful strategies early, he moves Christensen's theory forward, demonstrating with new clarity and insight why disruptive innovators emerge on top so consistently. As a professional investor, The Innovator's Dilemma was game-changing for me."
-Whitney Johnson, President and co-Founder, Rose Park Advisors
"In this original, deeply thoughtful, and compelling work, Raynor demonstrates the unique power of disruptive Strategy in identifying and fostering successful innovations. Based on a wealth of practical experience, balanced in its reasoning and bold in its prescriptions, this book will undoubtedly become invaluable for executives and investors alike."
-Leo M. Tilman, President, L.M.Tilman & Co.; Faculty, Columbia University; author of Financial Darwinism
"The Innovator's Manifesto is brilliantly written and one of the most insightful strategy books of the last decade. Not only does it apply a rigorous scientific approach to understanding business disruptions, it also provides practical applications and suggestions for companies–and leaders–who want to remain relevant in the turbulent decade ahead. This book is a must-read for strategy professionals and practitioners alike."
-Allen Morrison, Professor of Management Practice, INSEAD North America
Acclaim for the book
Media coverage
The articles below feature some of the media coverage for The Innovator's Manifesto.
Michael Raynor in conversation with Karen Kerr, Live Talks Business Forum | February 21, 2012
Books: disruptive influence, Financial Times | October 24, 2011
Which business book should you listen to?, The Globe and Mail | October 06, 2011
Michael E. Raynor: An interview by Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz | September 28, 2011
Understanding the role of disruption, Canadian Innovation Centre | September 05, 2011
Schumpeter reloaded, Innovation Excellence | August 29, 2011
Move with the speed of disruption, Inc.com | August 26, 2011
"The Business of Life" on KKZZ 1400, Coachron Tunick | August 24, 2011
New book offers a 'Manifesto' for innovators, CNBC | August 18, 2011
Innovation: Minimizing failure or maximizing success?, TEDxBayArea | August 16, 2011
Predicting success, BNET | August 16, 2011
Lang & O'Leary exchange, CBC News | August 11, 2011
Profit from "Disruptive" innovation, The Street | August 10, 2011
Book review: The Innovator's Manifesto, Productivity Alberta | August 2011
Disruptive Innovation: The Southwest Airlines case revisited, Emerald Strategy & Leadership
Disruption theory as a predictor of innovation success/failure, Emerald Strategy & Leadership
Copyright © 2011 by Michael E. Raynor. All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Morgan Stanley on Friday reported a plunge in fourth-quarter earnings, but its shares were up more than 4%. What gives?
If the quarter's results were underwhelming, hopes for the future weren't. The bank sketched out plans that include higher margins for the wealth management unit, more lending and higher dividends, among other rosy returns.
It's all part of a bigger storyline at Morgan Stanley, which since the financial crisis has been working to transform itself from a freewheeling investment bank to an institution focused on the steady, if boring, business of wealth management. Central to that strategy is the retail brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; in 2013, Morgan Stanley finished buying out Citigroup Inc.'s stake.
Here's a deeper look at what caught analysts' attention this quarter.
Big legal expenses: Net income plummeted 56%, excluding an accounting charge, to $433 million from $982 million a year ago. (Add in the accounting charge and the drop was even steeper, down about 70% to $192 million.) The main culprit was an extra $1.2 billion that the bank set aside for potential legal expenses, which it said had to do with "litigation and investigations related to residential mortgage-backed securities and the credit crisis."
Earnings per share amounted to just 20 cents excluding the accounting charge. Analysts polled by FactSet had predicted a much higher 43 cents. The legal expenses consumed a whopping 40 cents a share.
But here's the funny thing. Investors apparently chose to ignore the litigation overhang, which isn't all that unusual: Investors are typically more interested in clarity when it comes to lawsuits rather than the actual allegations of wrongdoing. Axe the legal expenses, and add a 10-cent-per-share tax benefit, and Morgan Stanley made 50 cents a share, beating expectations.
All this despite the fact that the bank provided only a modicum of clarity about what lies on the horizon.
"Obviously, we cannot predict the future," CEO James Gorman said in a call with analysts. But "we believe this move represents significant progress towards putting these matters behind us."
Two guesses for what might be coming: The bank still has to deal with a mortgage-backed securities lawsuit filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has already wrangled settlements from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup. Observers also wonder if the government's RMBS Working Group, the midwife to J.P. Morgan's blockbuster $13 billion settlement with the government in November, will pursue other banks as hotly as it pursued J.P. Morgan.
Revenue: Revenue rose nearly 10% over the year to $8.20 billion, which beat expectations of $8.03 billion. Revenue grew across units, in the investment bank, wealth management and investment management alike.
Fixed income: A sharp drop in the unit that trades fixed income and commodities, or FICC, dominated the banking industry's storyline in the third quarter. It was especially harsh at Morgan Stanley, where the unit's revenue dropped 44%.
This time around, revenue from FICC was down 14% -- hardly a happy milestone, but a big improvement. More importantly, Morgan Stanley said it is ahead of schedule with plans for scaling back the unit. It is also rejiggering fixed-income "from a highly segregated to a highly centralized model," Gorman said in a call with analysts, so that costs and technology can be better allocated. And the bank indicated that it might sell pipeline operator TransMontaigne.
As at other banks, the FICC unit has been crippled by stricter regulations and lackluster markets, and earlier this month its top interest-rate trader left.
"Parts of the business did well, parts of it didn't," Gorman said. "The new management has a plan to drive this higher. We are confident about that plan."
For reference, recall that rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc. keeps saying that it remains all-in on FICC.
Dividends and buybacks: The bank pledged to raise the dividend and increase stock buybacks. It gave scant details, but investors still welcomed the news. Until just recently, the bank concentrated its excess capital toward finishing the purchase of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
Wealth management: The bank also raised its margin target for the wealth management unit, saying it now expects to achieve 22% to 25% by the end of 2015. That is up from the 20% to 22% target the bank set in mid-2013. The bank also sketched out plans for increasing the plain-vanilla business of making loans to customers; having the larger deposit base of the full Morgan Stanley Smith Barney gives it the leeway to do so.
Return on equity: Morgan Stanley's return on equity levels have underwhelmed in recent years. On Friday, the bank reiterated its goal for reaching ROE of more than 10%. It didn't give a timeline, but it's an ambitious goal, basically a doubling of the 2013 level.
Glenn Schorr, an analyst at ISI Financials, said the bank's ROE was still weak. But, he added, "most investors will likely be happy with the more stable and less capital-intensive business mix."
-- Christina Rexrode
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Which one? That's likely to be the biggest question buyers of Honda's new line of middleweight streetbikes will face.
Affordable, practical, fun and easy to ride, the CB500F is an astoundingly good all-round motorcycle. It'd make a great first bike for a novice rider, a great commuter for anyone on a budget or just a great second or third bike for someone who doesn't always need to pull something expensive and difficult out of the garage just to get from A to B.
For novice riders, a 600cc+ sport bike is simply too much. For American tastes, a 250 is often too small. Could this new Honda CBR500R be just right? We think so.
Breaking down the barriers to motorcycling is the goal here. And with the new CTX700, Honda has succeeded in doing just that, opening the door to future generations who'll get addicted to the awesome world of riding. At the same time, this Honda manages to be fun and entertaining for those of us lucky enough to have been riding for years.
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