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Veteran players of the NBA have been given a much-needed assist for their twilight years. The player representatives of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) announced this week they will fund health insurance for all retired NBA players with at least three years of service in the league.
"The game has never before been more popular, and all the players in our league today recognize that we're only in this position because of the hard work and dedication of the men who came before us," says Chris Paul, NBPA President and nine-time All-Star. "It's important that we take care of our entire extended NBA family, and I'm proud of my fellow players for taking this unprecedented step to ensure the health and well-being of our predecessors."
The unanimous vote — which took place during the NBPA Summer Meeting on June 26 — established a "multi-faceted health insurance program" through UnitedHealthcare. This retirement program is the first of its kind among North American professional sports, according to a statement.
The current NBPA retirement proposal includes:
- Retired players with between three and six years of NBA service time, but who are not yet eligible for Medicare, would be offered a plan that includes medical, hospital and prescription drug coverage with modest out-of-pocket costs for deductibles and co-pays.
- Those with between seven and nine years of service would be offered the same coverage with even lower out-of-pocket costs.
- Retired players with at least 10 years of service would be offered the same coverage as the seven-to-nine-year players, and would include coverage for their entire family.
- Retired players with three to nine years of service who are eligible for Medicare would be offered a $0 deductible and $0 co-pay plan along with a low-cost prescription drug plan; those with 10+ years of service to receive this coverage for themselves and their spouse.
The open enrollment period for retired players would begin this fall, with coverage beginning on Jan. 1, 2017.
The average NBA player's career lasts just over four years, according to the NBPA.
This isn't the NBPA's first foray into the health concern for its retired players. Since joining two years ago, Executive Director of the NBPA Michele Roberts and her executive team have inaugurated a cardiac screening program for retired players and other initiatives designed to prepare current players for retirement.
"Providing healthcare security for players who came before them has been on the players' minds for the past year and they worked closely with us to make it happen," Roberts says. "We're also thrilled to partner with UnitedHealthcare on this initiative. We had many choices, but none matched UnitedHealthcare's flexibility, experience, clinical expertise, and robust tools and technologies."
The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is the union for current professional basketball players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was established in 1954.
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More than 15,000 residents of Peru's Loreto region marched on Wednesday to demand that the national oil company, Petroperú, takes over the largest oil field of the country known as Lot 192.
The field which is the source of 20 percent of the national crude production has been under the operation of transnational company Pluspetrol but their contract term ends on Aug. 29.
La Republica newspaper reported that the directing board of the state institution in charge of contract is in closed negotiations with the company Perenco based in the UK and France for the takeover of the field.
Many of Peru's Indigenous people living in affected areas are also mobilizing to secure demands before the contract is given.
Protesters in Loreto say they are not only fighting to nationalize the Lot 192 oil field but they are also struggling against the centralized power of the government in an effort to defend the regional economy.
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The peaceful march was supported by local political authorities, labor unions, social movements, and independent citizens who filled over 40 blocks armed with their voices, banners, and Peruvian flags.
Participants seem to agree that the contract for Lot 192 should not be negotiated behind closed doors because after more than 40 years of transnational companies exploiting the area, the results have not brought the development desired for Loreto.
The Minister of Mines and Energy, Rosa María Ortiz, responded to those protesting in Loreto by claiming Petroperú does not have the economic conditions to operate the field by itself.
She also promised that Petroperú would have a 25 percent participation in in the field and that would put the state company back in track in hydrocarbon explorations.
President Ollanta Humala said last week that the Petroperú should only continue with refining oil and it could increment its participation if in the future it shows more efficiency.
Lot 192 is comprised of areas inhabited by the communities of the river basins of Pastaza, Tigre, and Corrientes.
The leaders of the Apus indigenous people in the area have been protesting for years, demanding respect for their people and reparations for environmental destruction caused by oil companies.
RELATED: Indigenous Communities Resist Contamination in Peru's Amazon
The damage to the area started in 1971 with the oil activities in the close by Lot 1AB but it was only until 2011 that the communities were able to start a dialogue with the government about the contamination.
From Friday Aug. 14 to Sunday Aug. 16, representatives of these communities organized as the Quechua Indigenous Federation of Pastaza and the Federation of Native Communities of Corrientes will be meeting with high ranking government officials to restart the dialogue as indicated by the Previous Consultation Law.
Close to 30 Apus activists will be present at those meetings.
The state "must attend to the demands of the indigenous people providing land titles to their communities and fixing the damage caused to their environment," said Congresswoman Verónika Mendoza.
Together with Congressmen Manuel Dammert, she met with the Apus leaders on Thursday and gave a press conference noting the indigenous leaders willingness to dialogue with the government.
At the press conference, indigenous leaders also claimed their demands are aimed at securing their right for a safe environment and guaranteeing the safeguarding of their ancestral territories for the upcoming contract that will secure the next 30 years of the field.
They stated that "we are not against development but we are against the supposed development that kills us."

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For six years, three property owners on Martin Farm Road have waged a battle against Charles Williams over his four-car garage that they say he is using to run a car repair business. Read article at
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2. Scuff: :27 – :45. With grey pad and firm pressure, scuff all paint surfaces within 24 inches of damage. Clean.
3. Sand. :45 – 1:31. Apply masking tape around scratches to prevent repair from 'growing.' Sand the damage with 220 grit sandpaper.
4. Fill (if necessary): 1:32 – 2:44 . If damage cannot be smoothed with sandpaper, fill with putty and spreader. Wait 5-10 minutes to dry (use heat gun below 50 degrees fahrenheit). Sand with 220 grit sanpdpaer.
5. Apply primer: 2:45 – 4:45 . Cover nearby areas with paper. Shake for 30 seconds and apply 4 lights coats. Wait 15 – 20 minutes to dry (use heat gun below 50 degrees fahrenheit). Remove Sand with 600 grit sandpaper. Keep paper wet. Sand edges of primer until smooth.
6. Apply base coat: 4:45 – 7:40. Shake can 30 seconds. Test spray pattern on cardboard. Apply multple light coats, vertical and horizontal, being sure to 'blend' new paint with old. Wait 5-10 minutes to dry. Never apply masking tape to the part your are painting to avoid 'picture frame' effect.
7. Apply clear coat: 7:40 – 9:34. Apply light coat. Apply heavier coat. Clear coat is dry in 20 minutes.
We all have things that bug us about the jobs we do. In this video I talk about some of the things that auto repair customers do that I find annoying. Well, to be fair, it's not all their fault. Still, these things do bug me.
I have a feeling this one will spark a lot of discussion. Please keep in mind this is just a response to a viewer request. I don't sit around thinking about all the things that customers do to bug me, or anyone else for that matter. If not for customers, I'd be out of a job.
That said, there are times when the job can get annoying. Here is my list of things that I feel contribute to that.
Lastly, as for waiters, I realize there often isn't a choice. As I said in the video, it's not the waiters so much as the timing that can get annoying. Customers have nothing to do with that. It's really just part of the job.
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Key Facts about University of Leeds
Research Member since 2017
33,221 students from 151 countries globally
Over 9,000 postgraduate students
7,861 staff members, the third highest employer in Leeds
About the University of Leeds
The University of Leeds (UoL), established in 1904, is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK, and are renowned globally for the quality of their teaching and research.
International Partnerships
Leeds has 70 partnerships with universities around the world, including many top-ranking institutions. Connections with countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel Netherlands, Sweden and the US result in its high level of research quality and allows for students to study abroad in partnered universities through placement years.
Leeds is also in connection with WUN, the Worldwide Universities Network, which compromises 21 research-intensive institutions spanning five continents.
The University of Leeds have launched a joint with Southwest Jiatong University (SWJTU) to deliver world-class teaching and research. The SWJTU-Leeds Joint School, based in Chengdu, China, offers a unique UK-Chinese engineering curriculum and is the first overseas school to be set up by the University of Leeds.
Notable Research Areas
The University of Leeds are a top 10 university for research power in the UK according to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
A member of The Russell Group, a research-intensive collective of 24 leading UK universities committed to research excellence.
Leeds were ranked the UK top university for the environmental impact of our research according to Times Higher Education.


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Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman is exhilarating to watch for the superb performances of its stars—Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, and Zach Galifianakis—and the technical wizardry of the camera work.
Keaton stars as Riggan, an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero, who is attempting to revive his career by mounting an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story on Broadway. In the days leading up to opening night, Riggan must deal with re-casting one of his lead actors and the possibility that his girlfriend, who is also his co-star, might be pregnant.
And to make things even more interesting it's possible Riggan is seriously losing his grip on reality as he believes he can move objects with his mind and make himself float in air. Not to mention the fact that he continuously hears the voice of his former superhero character in his head.
It's wonderful to see Keaton in a starring role again and this movie is sure to reinvigorate his career. What a treat it will be to see Keaton in the movies more regularly.
To capture the energy of the theater backstage, Inarritu filmed Birdman as a series of long, uninterrupted scenes, which blend seamlessly together and enhance rather than detract from the story.
Long takes are extremely difficult to pull off because a director can't cut away or shoot a different angle and the actors can't re-do a line without starting over from the beginning of the scene.
When it works, a long take can be quite memorable, such as the scene in Goodfellas where Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco use a back entrance through a nightclub to get to their front row table.
Assisting Inarritu's efforts are cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who found a way to light the long scenes realistically and seamlessly, editor Douglas Crise, and production designer Kevin Thompson, who does a splendid job recreating the backstage of the famous St. James theater in all its messy, rundown glory.
Adding to the vibrant energy of the movie is a jazz drum backdrop that adds a sense of urgency to every scene. Birdman is far from a madcap comedy, however, and Inarritu had the sense to add some emotion to the movie via the father-daughter relationship between Riggan and Sam (Stone), who is freshly out of rehab and working as her dad's assistant.
Stone holds her own with Keaton and Norton, who plays a talented yet unstable actor who is brought in when the lead actor is injured in a freak accident. The role gives Norton a chance to poke fun at the lengths some actors go to to achieve their art.
Everyone in the cast seems to be having fun playing up the idiosyncrasies of actors and even when something seems over-the-top, the performances are never forced. Watts is vulnerable as an actress whose lifelong dream has been to perform on Broadway and Galifianakis proves he can act without being goofy.
Even the supporting cast—notably Amy Ryan as Riggan's ex-wife, and Lindsay Duncan, as a deliciously malicious theater critic—does an excellent job.
If there is any fault in the movie it's the fact that audiences outside of Los Angeles and New York may not grasp the industry humor and digs at celebrity. When Hollywood makes a movie where it holds a mirror up to itself for a good laugh, it can alienate folks who don't care about that world.
This is a small thing really in comparison to the exceptional work by the cast and the energetic direction by Inarritu. Birdman is a thrill to watch.


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Mbozi Meteorite is one among the few amazing meteorites which exist on the surface of the earth.It is believed to have fallen several thousand years ago.
It is located on the Southern highlands of Tanzania at Ndolezi village within Mbozi District in Mbeya region.According to the guide at the site the meteorite is made of Copper,Nickel,Iron and other two metals.
Looking at the surface it is a shining hard metallic material which is undergoing slow rusting.
On top of it you can also see a small porous hole which I think it is due to the impact of air as it entered the earth's atmosphere.It is believed that the first person to see this meteorite was from Zambia who was the hunter in the region.
This meteorite is interesting in understanding the universe and various bodies found in the outer space.Furthermore it is a very useful material to inspire kids to question it's origin, build their curiosity through questioning and story telling.
Through looking at it you would think of how it got there, the amount of energy released by looking at the impact it caused on the surroundings it fell on. The surrounding area seems to have suffered the impact of heat when it landed.
Currently it is important to understand the probability of having a similar impact on earth's surface and whether there are more meteorites left in the outerspace waiting to get into earth's gravitation field.
These and more question can be answered by building curiosity, conducting research and increase exploration of the area. The video below can give a general overview of the meteorite and important facts about it.


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Training and membership qualifying examinations are conducted by the Institute. As a result of transition, re-organisation to effectively implement the provisions of the Charter Act No. 16 of 2015, the Governing Board calls for interested applicants for the underlisted position:
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Candidates with B.Sc/HND or equivalent in Business or Public Administration, Management, Social Science or Law, must attain chartered status not below the grade of Associate of the Institute.
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A contract has been signed with All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California for a 2 manual and pedal instrument. It will be our Opus 151. Steve O'Connor is the Director of Music Ministries.
The history of All Saints by the Sea dates back to 1896. The sanctuary was built in 1900 and extensive rennovations are being planned prior to the installation of Opus 151.


text: Hello, and thank you for visiting theologystillmatters.com! It is out hope that the content of this page will deepen your walk with Christ, and will show that theology does not need to be a scary topic. In fact if you believe in God you are practicing theology. Theology assists us in discerning correct biblical doctrine, and helps us be better Christians. Please feel free to leave feedback, and may God bless you!


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While severe weather is expected to ramp up Friday and Saturday across sections of the Plains, the greatest threat for some communities may be dangerous flooding.
Rounds of drenching showers and thunderstorms will take aim at the southern Plains yet again heading into the weekend, possibly bringing several more inches of rain to areas already soaked.
An area stretching from Oklahoma to Texas will be at the highest risk for aggravating or renewing flooding due to heavy rain that has fallen since last week.
Places like Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas and communities in between will be in line for more downpours Friday and Saturday, following a drier Thursday.
"Oklahoma City already has had nearly 12 inches of rain on the month, so any heavy downpour can quickly cause flooding issues," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Danny Pydynowski.
Not only will the thunderstorms contain copious amounts of moisture, but some of them could be slow-moving which is concerning. Any thunderstorm will have the ability to bring rainfall rates of more than an inch an hour.
Rivers and streams are still running rather high from the deluge of rain last week and more rain will only make matters worse.
Dozens of river gauges across southern Oklahoma to eastern Texas and east to Arkansas are already reporting flooding. Portions of the Red River, especially around Gainesville, Texas, are well above the flood stage.
A Wet First Half of May
While the most concentrated area of storms will be focused across Texas and Oklahoma, any isolated storm could cause issues elsewhere.
Heavy thunderstorms earlier in the week brought water levels of the West Fork San Jacinto River north of Houston to major flood status. Major flooding is expected to continue through the end of the week as the river crests.
Motorists will want to be extra careful traveling Friday and Saturday. Roadways can turn into rivers very quickly when heavy thunderstorms strike.
"Trying to venture through the high water could become life threatening," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Brian Lada. "The water may be deeper than it appears and cause the vehicle that you are in to stall in the water or be swept away."
Just 12 inches of rushing water can carry away a small car while 2 feet can carry away most vehicles.
Those that live near streams and rivers will want to keep an eye on water levels and be ready to head to higher ground if needed.
Out of all the thunderstorm-related hazards, flooding brings the most deaths each year.
The wet weather could extend into early next week as a front hangs up and another system begins to brew across the region.
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Gray Smith & Claire-Marie Conlin - The George Vernham Dean Beer & Music Festival - 24th August 2013
My family and I had the pleasure of being entertained by Gray Smith and Claire-Marie Conlin at The George, Vernham Dean.
First off, I was really impressed with the balance of sound they achieved. I was always able to hear both the guitar and the voice, in perfect harmony, which is not the easiest thing to achieve, so bravo!
They performed a mix of material, from original to covers. I am normally a puritan when it comes to covers, however, I was surprised when I heard 'All Along the Watchtower', an original by Bob Dylan and famously covered by Jimi Hendrix. It took me a minute to recognise it, as the minor chord took centre stage above the moving base line, but as the song moved into the chorus, the chords expanded and the whole song lifted. It was subtle, quirky, but amazingly enjoyable to listen to.
They performed Lisa Loeb's 'Stay' with the same delicacy as the original, which, as a puritan – did I mention that? – was a real treat.
His voice is honest, cutting and gravelly, while her voice delivers the soulful and heavenly depth, to make this duet one to watch!
Along with some interesting, upbeat and downbeat originals, it was a great combination and, along with some cracking harmonies, my ears had a great time.
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The Church is perfect, because Christ has made her perfect. But, the local church functionally? I would be the first to admit there is no such thing as a perfect local church, because there is no such thing as perfect people or leaders. While there are some not so great things I remember from my traditional baptist upbringing and have been happy to have seen reform in my own life and in my local church philosophically, there are some things I miss about good old fashioned church that I remember from my childhood days.
1: Clear black and white preaching and teaching
Maybe it was because of a more Judeo Christian culture, maybe preachers felt more secure. Maybe it was actual urgency, or maybe it was the result of polished professional training. Maybe it was an extension of generational influence from turn of the century fireball preachers, maybe it was the normal way of a pastor before the tolerance and politically correct sensitivities had crept through the tunnels of social media and internet and into the fabrics of the minds and hearts of a nation. Whatever the case, I miss it. I miss Bible literal preaching. I miss red faces and passion. I miss heaven or hell, those are your choices. I miss the high standard of holiness. If we ever needed more step on your toes and punch you in the mouth messages about the urgency of mission in a lost culture and the Glory of God in this nation, it's now.
2: Participation and community
Softball, classes, parties, get togethers, weddings, out to eat after church, sitting around for hours with friends and family, just to be with one another, these are a few of my favorite things. Pot luck dinners, older ladies with insane ability to cook irresistible food, baby showers, visitation, taking care of each other, making sure no one in the church family was in need, I miss it. It seemed that people weren't too proud to let their brothers and sisters know when they were struggling. People would share very personal testimonies in the public gathering and ask for prayer, and the church would respond. On days when the church planned for extended fellowship and eating, those were the best attended Sunday's. Now, it seems when we plan to eat together, it's too taxing, it's out of rhythm, it's asking too much, and a day on the lake seems the better choice. I miss loud amen's and responses in church, I miss interaction. I miss the feeling that every male in the church was a father figure and ever female a mother, and that children in general had respect for other adults. I miss the lady who would pass out gum to little kids during the hand shaking time, and the "no hats" lady that would scold wayward kids for accidentally walking in to the sanctuary without reverence.
3: Constant invitations to the Gospel
If I remember one thing about church as a child, it was Jesus on a cross and resurrected to glorious life. It was the fact that every human MUST.DECIDE. for themselves who they will follow, Jesus or the world? In the old time religion I grew up in, there was no greater thing to talk about than that. Every lesson pointed back to it. All my grandparents sung about it, it was mentioned in every prayer, it was the theme of the beginning, middle, and ending of every service. It seemed that folks I went to church with had a real burden in their soul for neighbors who didn't go to church and who didn't know Jesus. There was a lot of going and telling, a lot of inviting to church, a lot of visiting and evangelism/outreach, altar calls, and all around focus on "getting people saved." I miss that, I miss churching with 100 other people who's priority in life is the salvation of their neighbors. Can anyone tell me what happened?
4: Reverence and priority for church gatherings
While philosophy and methodology surrounding church is not a level 1 theological concern of mine, I do miss parts of the traditional understanding of "going to church". I'm glad for the departure of "going to church" robotically and the advent of more "being the church" incarnationally types of teaching and swirl that we are now seeing. But even now, if you will venture into a local, older church near you, you might find people actually on time, and even heaven forbid, early! You would find sweet people, sitting at 5 minutes til start of service, reverent with their bibles in their laps, and hearts of expectation and reverence. You might find people who believe there really is something holy, something special, a kind of holy ground experience when a group of believers are gathered together to worship Jesus: whether its 5 people or 500. In the 80's, three to thrive (three services a week) is what it took in that culture and context to fulfill Ephesians 4 "equipping saints for ministry". It now looks more like Sunday morning and a small group, but in ways we chunked the baby with the bathwater. In tossing out what we believed to be excessive amounts of church meetings, we also demoted reverence and priority around gathering period. I miss that child like excitement and anticipation I had when my parents said, "Little Bobby, let's get ready for church!"
You could add more, and again, I could provide an equally long list and helpful theological shifts and reforms that have also taken place in our ideas about church since the "good ole" days. But, when Pastor Bobby reflects on church as "Little Bobby", he misses things he doesn't get to see a whole lot of anymore. Change starts with you and me, can you help me recover the greatest parts of "that old time religion" that were so instrumental in shaping who we are in Christ today?
-Bobby Wilkinson


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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Card
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World in Conflict is a real-time strategy video game by Massive Entertainment and to be published by Sierra Entertainment for Windows (DX9 and DX10) and the Xbox 360.
The game is set in 1989 where economic troubles cripple the Soviet Union and threaten to dissolve it. However, the title pursues a "what if" scenario where, in this case, the Soviet Union does not collapse and instead pursues a course of war to remain in power. It is an intensive new game is sure to put plenty of stress on even the latest graphics cards and we use the built-in benchmarking for our testing.
Across the board we see the GTX 295 get a good increase in performance with gains of over 20% being seen at the highest resolution. While the HD 4870 X2 is on that 30 FPS barrier, the GTX 295 manages to fly right past it.
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for how they imbue what's behind them with color." – Brian Zimmerman, DownBeat
Trombonist/composer Nick Finzer captures the uneasy mood of a turbulent time on his third album, Hear & Now. Though the title – which the album shares with the gifted and expressive sextet that Finzer has led since his debut release in 2013 – suggests an alertness to the present time and place, Finzer's music also evokes a need and hope for change, a defiant optimism that pits love against the forces of oppression.Hear & Now, due out February 17 on Outside in Music, arrives at a moment of deep uncertainty and divisiveness in the country and around the world. The album's nine tracks (eight originals along with a Duke Ellington classic) depict a range of viable reactions, from the intense energy of protest to a more meditative, reflective mood. Finzer's compositions are brought to vigorous, full-bodied life by Hear & Now, a sextet with the power and wide-ranging palette of a big band but the supple energy of a small ensemble. It's the trombonist's third outing with the band, which includes tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist Lucas Pino, guitarist Alex Wintz, pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Dave Baron, and drummer Jimmy MacBride."I wanted to capture feelings I was having about our country's social framework," Finzer says. "I started out trying to write about the emotional feeling of living in New York in 2016, but as the presidential election went on I realized that the stances I was taking were more politically oriented. Throughout the process of making the record I saw that this project was becoming more and more relevant to our reality."
Finzer doesn't name names or point fingers; nothing on Hear & Now takes a side or aligns with one party against another. It is instead a plea for a more united populace, a sonic argument for equality, tolerance and empathy. The album begins with "We The People," a reminder that togetherness is embodied in the country's founding documents. "I wasn't thinking of a particular person or a particular side," Finzer says. "I was trying to capture the intense energy of a large group of people trying to express their opinions and how important that is. When you get together with a lot of people and coalesce to fight against something, it creates this strong, base human emotion, so I was trying to capture that energy with the music."The brooding, introspective "The Silent One" follows. The piece was inspired by Finzer's frustrations over a tendency to resort to heated emotions rather than logic and subtlety in reacting to issues and problems. The music deftly illustrates the feelings of frustration and isolation one can feel in the face of the mounting volume of TV pundits and internet trolls. Directly related is "Again and Again," whose cyclical rhythms depict the history that we're doomed to repeat. And repeat.
The frenetic, harried pace of "Race to the Bottom," Finzer explains, is a reaction to "the inevitable conclusion of cutthroat capitalism. You either need to be the cheapest or the best because people don't really pay attention to the middle. So you're either in a race to the bottom or you're trying to create something meaningful. To me it's about the value of creating something unique and special because there's no way you're going to win that other battle."The mood of the album begins to rise with "New Beginnings," with its feelings of dawning hope and tenuous optimism. "Lullaby for an Old Friend," written for a friend of Finzer's who passed away, laces its melancholy with the bittersweet good cheer that time and distance allows, mingling happy memories with the inevitable sense of loss. The up-tempo "Dance of Persistence" is a swinging call to action, but also offers a relief from tension. "That one is about not giving up," he explains, "but also goes back to the thing that I love most, the thing that got me into playing jazz… when I need something to settle me I just want to play something swinging; it just makes me feel better."The album closes with the tender "Love Wins," which Finzer wrote on the day that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. More broadly it's a strong tenet of belief that ultimately the forces of love will overcome ignorance, oppression and prejudice.
The album's one non-original is Duke Ellington's "Single Petal of a Rose," which Finzer arranged for three trombones and two bass clarinets. He chose the piece for its sense of hushed and intimate joy, but also to pay homage to one of his key influences. "Duke Ellington was the first artist that I started checking out when I began listening to and learning to play jazz," he says. "I loved the way his compositional style could embrace a theme, particular stories or ideas or characters. I also always thought it was really interesting how Ellington could use the big band and get so many interesting sounds out of it."
Finzer takes a similar approach to his own sextet, for this recording working closely with producer Ryan Truesdell, leader of the renowned Gil Evans Project and Producer for Maria Schneider – giving him some profound insights into inventive arranging. "Asking Ryan to co-produce the album ended up being probably the best decision in the process of making my records," Finzer says. "He was able to bring out extra nuances and had a great ear for making sure that we didn't miss the chance to create a magical musical moment."
A native of Rochester, New York, Finzer studied at the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard, where he was mentored by trombone legend Steve Turre. In 2011 he won the Eastern Trombone Workshop's National Jazz Trombone Competition and won an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Award in 2013 & 2015. He's released two previous albums with his Hear & Now sextet: Exposition (2013) and The Chase (2015). Aside from his own projects he's performed with the YouTube sensation, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, as well as Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Lucas Pino's No Net Nonet, Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, and Anat Cohen's new Tentet.
Tues., February 7, 7:30 p.m. – Finzer is guest artist at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY


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Gamenight: Sabres lead Islanders 2-0 after one period
First Period
15:36 - It feels like the Sabres have not had the puck at all to start this game. Shots are 5-0 in favor of the Islanders, and they have had solid possession time to this point. Stil scoreless in the first period.
12:17 - SABRES GOAL. I guess the saying is true, all it takes is one. Buffalo's first shot of the game is a good one; Jack Eichel, from his off wing, whips a great wrist shot from the right wing face-off dot and cranks it off the inside of the goal post to beat Jaroslav Halak for the goala. 1-0 BUF.
8:07 - This has not been a good period for Buffalo, save Eichel's shot that was perfectly placed for the game's only goal. New York is taking the play to the home team and possessing the puck. Shots are 8-1 in favor of the visitors and the crowd here has been sitting on their hands for much of this frame.
6:39 - SABRES GOAL. Two shots, two goals for the home team. Marco Scandella took a shot that missed the net, but the puck sligh shotted right back to the front of the net for Evan Rodgrigues. The forward gets just enough on his contested shot at the top of the crease to up Buffalo's lead to two goals. 2-0 BUF.
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Goal Summary
BUF: 7:41 - Jack Eichel (22) (Sam Reinhart, Casey Nelson). 13:21 - Evan Rodrigues (3) (Mraco Scandella, Sam Reinhart)
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Azure Network Security Best Practices
Microsoft Azure enables you to connect virtual machines and appliances to other networked devices by placing them on Azure Virtual Networks. An Azure Virtual Network is a construct that allows you to connect virtual network interface cards to a virtual network to allow TCP/IP-based communications between network enabled devices. Azure Virtual Machines connected to an Azure Virtual Network can connect to devices on the same Azure Virtual Network, different Azure Virtual Networks, on the Internet or even on your own on-premises networks.
This article discusses a collection of Azure network security best practices. These best practices are derived from our experience with Azure networking and the experiences of customers like yourself.
For each best practice, this article explains:
- What the best practice is
- Why you want to enable that best practice
- What might be the result if you fail to enable the best practice
- Possible alternatives to the best practice
- How you can learn to enable the best practice
This Azure Network Security Best Practices article is based on a consensus opinion, and Azure platform capabilities and feature sets, as they exist at the time this article was written. Opinions and technologies change over time and this article will be updated on a regular basis to reflect those changes.
Azure Network security best practices discussed in this article include:
- Logically segment subnets
- Control routing behavior
- Enable Forced Tunneling
- Use Virtual network appliances
- Deploy DMZs for security zoning
- Avoid exposure to the Internet with dedicated WAN links
- Optimize uptime and performance
- Use global load balancing
- Disable RDP Access to Azure Virtual Machines
- Enable Azure Security Center
- Extend your datacenter into Azure
Logically segment subnets
Azure Virtual Networks are similar to a LAN on your on-premises network. The idea behind an Azure Virtual Network is that you create a single private IP address space-based network on which you can place all your Azure Virtual Machines. The private IP address spaces available are in the Class A (10.0.0.0/8), Class B (172.16.0.0/12), and Class C (192.168.0.0/16) ranges.
Similar to what you do on-premises, you should segment the larger address space into subnets. You can use CIDR based subnetting principles to create your subnets.
Routing between subnets will happen automatically and you don't need to manually configure routing tables. However, the default setting is that there are no network access controls between the subnets you create on the Azure Virtual Network. In order to create network access controls between subnets, you'll need to put something between the subnets.
One of the things you can use to accomplish this task is a Network Security Group (NSG). NSGs are simple stateful packet inspection devices that use the 5-tuple (the source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port, and layer 4 protocol) approach to create allow/deny rules for network traffic. You can allow or deny traffic to and from single IP address, to and from multiple IP addresses or even to and from entire subnets.
Using NSGs for network access control between subnets enables you to put resources that belong to the same security zone or role in their own subnets. For example, think of a simple 3-tier application that has a web tier, an application logic tier and a database tier. You put virtual machines that belong to each of these tiers into their own subnets. Then you use NSGs to control traffic between the subnets:
- Web tier virtual machines can only initiate connections to the application logic machines and can only accept connections from the Internet
- Application logic virtual machines can only initiate connections with database tier and can only accept connections from the web tier
- Database tier virtual machines cannot initiate connection with anything outside of their own subnet and can only accept connections from the application logic tier
To learn more about Network Security Groups and how you can use them to logically segment your Azure Virtual Networks, see What is a Network Security Group (NSG).
Control routing behavior
When you put a virtual machine on an Azure Virtual Network, you'll notice that the virtual machine can connect to any other virtual machine on the same Azure Virtual Network, even if the other virtual machines are on different subnets. This is possible because there is a collection of system routes that are enabled by default that allow this type of communication. These default routes allow virtual machines on the same Azure Virtual Network to initiate connections with each other, and with the Internet (for outbound communications to the Internet only).
While the default system routes are useful for many deployment scenarios, there are times when you want to customize the routing configuration for your deployments. These customizations will allow you to configure the next hop address to reach specific destinations.
We recommend that you configure User-Defined Routes when you deploy a virtual network security appliance, which is discussed in a later best practice.
User Defined Routes are not required and the default system routes works in most instances.
You can learn more about User-Defined Routes and how to configure them by reading the article What are User Defined Routes and IP Forwarding.
Enable Forced Tunneling
To better understand forced tunneling, it's useful to understand what "split tunneling" is. The most common example of split tunneling is seen with VPN connections. Imagine that you establish a VPN connection from your hotel room to your corporate network. This connection allows you to access corporate resources and all communications to your corporate network go through the VPN tunnel.
What happens when you want to connect to resources on the Internet? When split tunneling is enabled, those connections go directly to the Internet and not through the VPN tunnel. Some security experts consider this to be a potential risk and therefore recommend that split tunneling is disabled and all connections. Connections destined for the Internet and connections destined for corporate resources should go through the VPN tunnel. The advantage of doing this is that connections to the Internet are then forced through the corporate network security devices, which wouldn't be the case if the VPN client connected to the Internet outside of the VPN tunnel.
Now let's bring this back to virtual machines on an Azure Virtual Network. The default routes for an Azure Virtual Network allow virtual machines to initiate traffic to the Internet. This too can represent a security risk, as these outbound connections could increase the attack surface of a virtual machine and be leveraged by attackers. For this reason, we recommend that you enable forced tunneling on your virtual machines when you have cross-premises connectivity between your Azure Virtual Network and your on-premises network. Cross premises connectivity is discussed later in this Azure networking best practices document.
If you do not have a cross premises connection, make sure you take advantage of Network Security Groups (discussed earlier) or Azure virtual network security appliances (discussed next) to prevent outbound connections to the Internet from your Azure Virtual Machines.
To learn more about forced tunneling and how to enable it, see Configure Forced Tunneling using PowerShell and Azure Resource Manager.
Use virtual network appliances
While Network Security Groups and User-Defined Routing can provide a certain measure of network security at the network and transport layers of the OSI model, there are going to be situations where you'll want or need to enable security at high levels of the stack. In such situations, we recommend that you deploy virtual network security appliances provided by Azure partners.
Azure network security appliances can deliver enhanced levels of security over what is provided by network level controls. Some of the network security capabilities provided by virtual network security appliances include:
- Firewalling
- Intrusion detection/Intrusion Prevention
- Vulnerability management
- Application control
- Network-based anomaly detection
- Web filtering
- Antivirus
- Botnet protection
If you require a higher level of network security than you can obtain with network level access controls, then we recommend that you investigate and deploy Azure virtual network security appliances.
To learn about what Azure virtual network security appliances are available, and about their capabilities, visit the Azure Marketplace and search for "security" and "network security."
Deploy DMZs for security zoning
A DMZ or "perimeter network" is a physical or logical network segment that is designed to provide an additional layer of security between your assets and the Internet. The intent of the DMZ is to place specialized network access control devices on the edge of the DMZ network so that only desired traffic is allowed past the network security device and into your Azure Virtual Network.
DMZs are useful because you can focus your network access control management, monitoring, logging, and reporting on the devices at the edge of your Azure Virtual Network. Here you would typically enable DDoS prevention, Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention systems (IDS/IPS), firewall rules and policies, web filtering, network antimalware and more. The network security devices sit between the Internet and your Azure Virtual Network and have an interface on both networks.
While this is the basic design of a DMZ, there are many different DMZ designs, such as back-to-back, tri-homed, multi-homed, and others.
We recommend for all high security deployments that you consider deploying a DMZ to enhance the level of network security for your Azure resources.
To learn more about DMZs and how to deploy them in Azure, see Microsoft Cloud Services and Network Security.
Avoid exposure to the Internet with dedicated WAN links
Many organizations have chosen the Hybrid IT route. In hybrid IT, some of the company's information assets are in Azure, while others remain on-premises. In many cases,, some components of a service will be running in Azure while other components remain on-premises.
In the hybrid IT scenario, there is usually some type of cross-premises connectivity. This cross-premises connectivity allows the company to connect their on-premises networks to Azure Virtual Networks. There are two cross-premises connectivity solutions available:
- Site-to-site VPN
- ExpressRoute
Site-to-site VPN represents a virtual private connection between your on-premises network and an Azure Virtual Network. This connection takes place over the Internet and allows you to "tunnel" information inside an encrypted link between your network and Azure. Site-to-site VPN is a secure, mature technology that has been deployed by enterprises of all sizes for decades. Tunnel encryption is performed using IPsec tunnel mode.
While site-to-site VPN is a trusted, reliable, and established technology, traffic within the tunnel does traverse the Internet. In addition, bandwidth is relatively constrained to a maximum of about 200 Mbps.
If you require an exceptional level of security or performance for your cross-premises connections, we recommend that you use Azure ExpressRoute for your cross-premises connectivity. ExpressRoute is a dedicated WAN link between your on-premises location or an Exchange hosting provider. Because this is a telco connection, your data doesn't travel over the Internet and therefore is not exposed to the potential risks inherent in Internet communications.
To learn more about how Azure ExpressRoute works and how to deploy, see ExpressRoute Technical Overview.
Optimize uptime and performance
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) comprise the triad of today's most influential security model. Confidentiality is about encryption and privacy, integrity is about making sure that data is not changed by unauthorized personnel, and availability is about making sure that authorized individuals are able to access the information they are authorized to access. Failure in any one of these areas represents a potential breach in security.
Availability can be thought of as being about uptime and performance. If a service is down, information can't be accessed. If performance is so poor as to make the data unusable, then we can consider the data to be inaccessible. Therefore, from a security perspective, we need to do whatever we can to make sure our services have optimal uptime and performance. A popular and effective method used to enhance availability and performance is to use load balancing. Load balancing is a method of distributing network traffic across servers that are part of a service. For example, if you have front-end web servers as part of your service, you can use load balancing to distribute the traffic across your multiple front-end web servers.
This distribution of traffic increases availability because if one of the web servers becomes unavailable, the load balancer stops sending traffic to that server and redirects it to the servers that are still online. Load balancing also helps performance, because the processor, network and memory overhead for serving requests is distributed across all the load balanced servers.
We recommend that you employ load balancing whenever you can, and as appropriate for your services. We'll address appropriateness in the following sections: At the Azure Virtual Network level, Azure provides you with three primary load balancing options:
- HTTP-based load balancing
- External load balancing
- Internal load balancing
HTTP-based Load Balancing
HTTP-based load balancing bases decisions about what server to send connections using characteristics of the HTTP protocol. Azure has an HTTP load balancer that goes by the name of Application Gateway.
We recommend that you use Azure Application Gateway when:
- Applications that require requests from the same user/client session to reach the same back-end virtual machine. Examples of this would be shopping cart apps and web mail servers.
- Applications that want to free web server farms from SSL termination overhead by taking advantage of Application Gateway's SSL offload feature.
- Applications, such as a content delivery network, that requires multiple HTTP requests on the same long-running TCP connection to be routed or load balanced to different back-end servers.
To learn more about how Azure Application Gateway works and how you can use it in your deployments, see Application Gateway Overview.
External Load Balancing
External load balancing takes place when incoming connections from the Internet are load balanced among your servers located in an Azure Virtual Network. The Azure External Load balancer can provide you this capability and we recommend that you use it when you don't require the sticky sessions or SSL offload.
In contrast to HTTP-based load balancing, the External Load Balancer uses information at the network and transport layers of the OSI networking model to make decisions on what server to load balance connection to.
We recommend that you use External Load Balancing whenever you have stateless applications accepting incoming requests from the Internet.
To learn more about how the Azure External Load Balancer works and how you can deploy it, see Get Started Creating an Internet Facing Load Balancer in Resource Manager using PowerShell.
Internal Load Balancing
Internal load balancing is similar to external load balancing and uses the same mechanism to load balance connections to the servers behind them. The only difference is that the load balancer in this case is accepting connections from virtual machines that are not on the Internet. In most cases, the connections that are accepted for load balancing are initiated by devices on an Azure Virtual Network.
We recommend that you use internal load balancing for scenarios that benefit from this capability, such as when you need to load balance connections to SQL Servers or internal web servers.
To learn more about how Azure Internal Load Balancing works and how you can deploy it, see Get Started Creating an Internal Load Balancer using PowerShell.
Use global load balancing
Public cloud computing makes it possible to deploy globally distributed applications that have components located in datacenters all over the world. This is possible on Microsoft Azure due to Azure's global datacenter presence. In contrast to the load balancing technologies mentioned earlier, global load balancing makes it possible to make services available even when entire datacenters might become unavailable.
You can get this type of global load balancing in Azure by taking advantage of Azure Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager makes is possible to load balance connections to your services based on the location of the user.
For example, if the user is making a request to your service from the EU, the connection is directed to your services located in an EU datacenter. This part of Traffic Manager global load balancing helps to improve performance because connecting to the nearest datacenter is faster than connecting to datacenters that are far away.
On the availability side, global load balancing makes sure that your service is available even if an entire datacenter should become unavailable.
For example, if an Azure datacenter should become unavailable due to environmental reasons or due to outages (such as regional network failures), connections to your service would be rerouted to the nearest online datacenter. This global load balancing is accomplished by taking advantage of DNS policies that you can create in Traffic Manager.
We recommend that you use Traffic Manager for any cloud solution you develop that has a widely distributed scope across multiple regions and requires the highest level of uptime possible.
To learn more about Azure Traffic Manager and how to deploy it, see What is Traffic Manager.
Disable RDP/SSH Access to Azure Virtual Machines
It is possible to reach Azure Virtual Machines using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and the Secure Shell (SSH) protocols. These protocols make it possible to manage virtual machines from remote locations and are standard in datacenter computing.
The potential security problem with using these protocols over the Internet is that attackers can use various brute force techniques to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines. Once the attackers gain access, they can use your virtual machine as a launch point for compromising other machines on your Azure Virtual Network or even attack networked devices outside of Azure.
Because of this, we recommend that you disable direct RDP and SSH access to your Azure Virtual Machines from the Internet. After direct RDP and SSH access from the Internet is disabled, you have other options you can use to access these virtual machines for remote management:
- Point-to-site VPN
- Site-to-site VPN
- ExpressRoute
Point-to-site VPN is another term for a remote access VPN client/server connection. A point-to-site VPN enables a single user to connect to an Azure Virtual Network over the Internet. After the point-to-site connection is established, the user will be able to use RDP or SSH to connect to any virtual machines located on the Azure Virtual Network that the user connected to via point-to-site VPN. This assumes that the user is authorized to reach those virtual machines.
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Damhan Mc Fadden (27) of Kilmacowen, Ballysadare and Julian Flohr (35) of Rusheen Ard, Caltra, both in County Sligo, are charged with membership of an unlawful organisation, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na h Eireann, otherwise the IRA on August 14th.
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I like the sound of this. Now we can have some money to go into things that we actually need (unless the extra money will be wastefully spent on other things in the military).
If we did not make such stupid weapons there would be peace all over the world.
Just IMAGINE.
Imagine: No Nuclear Bombz
Getting rid of all the weapons wouldn't = peace around the world
Keep in mind there are a lot of countries like north korea cuba and other's would would attack.
And it would only be a matter of time before some one greedy and lusting for power would try to take over the world or a few countries, and with no weapons to fight back they would have little to nothing to stop them.
Granted weapons of massdestruction we could probably live with out but than again you have to remember there are just countries out there that don't want peace they want to rule and would sooner or later build there own and probably even use them, the only thing keeping them from doing that is the fact that there enemy will use the same weapons on them if they do.
Long story short lets stop making them but keep a few.. but lets SAY were still making them maybe that would work or maybe thats what there doing now?
meh, still enough nukes to kill everyone several times over.
surely this would only apply to strategic nukes? and not tactical nukes? (there is an oxymoron for you if the ever was one)
of course, he won't take action against Israel, who are also in violation of the treaty.
No nukes and Japan would have taken over East Asia?...
Sorry for the bad quality but you get the point
Not bad. I don't think nuclear bombs are even going to be used by the USA, since they normally don't try to kill everyone. Think they learned a lesson awhile ago.
And how is worse any than Western Imperialism?
It's our nuclear weapons that have kept the peace since WWII. Obama's stance will make America look weak in the eye's of our enemies and invite an attack. By saying that if there's a chemical or biological attack we will only respond with conventional means will most likely be seen as a green light for our enemies to do just that. The unintended consequences of this decision will lead to an explosion of chemical and biological programs. Well Obama is destroying our economy he may as well weaken us in every way possible while he's at it.
Nukes=low level brushfire wars
No nukes=the return of world wars
^ This.
Nicely said. We only have 2 1/2 years left, so I'm not really all that worried.. It's not like one person alone can really do that much damage anyway,
The Nuke scarred my parents lives forever. Lets hope They never use the Nuke.
Stop talking wet, the world and humans will be here for alot longer than 2.5 years.


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Designing new products is no longer just about 'blue-sky thinking'. E&T talks to Keith Goffin, co-author of 'Innovation Management', to find out what other factors should be addressed to ensure you stand out from the crowd.
'Innovation management is about getting more and better products successfully to market,' says Keith Goffin, one half of the authorship duo behind a book that looks into why organisations find it so difficult to fulfil this straightforward commercial and technical ambition.
Called 'Innovation Management', the book is aimed at MBA students as well as practising managers. Packed full of case studies – there are 77 of them, with more than half directly relevant to the SET sector – a second edition has just been published to bring readers up to speed with current thinking.
Subtitle 'Strategy and implementation using the Pentathlon Framework' draws its inspiration from the sporting quest for excellence – but why the pentathlon rather than a sprint or a marathon?
'Just as with the Olympics, in a multidisciplinary event you don't get the gold medal if you're good in just one area,' explains Goffin. 'The Innovation Pentathlon Framework is the result of research that allows companies to evaluate their ability to manage innovation. When we developed it, we found that managers struggle because they see innovation as complex, and are unable break it down into easy-to-understand components of equal value. That's what the framework does.'
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Goffin is Professor of Innovation and New Product Development at Cranfield School of Management. But before anyone runs away with the idea that his book is a work of purely academic theory, it's worth noting his broad experience in industry prior to entering academia.
Goffin cut his teeth at a medical equipment manufacturer where he was responsible for bringing some highly successful – and, he freely admits, not so successful – products to market. It's this combination of research and experience that make Goffin and co-author Rick Mitchell well placed to write the book.
'Most managers know that you need creativity to drive innovation,' says Goffin. 'It's an important area, but certainly not the only one. We've found that some companies are more about ideas, with the result that nothing gets done, while others are good at the implementation process for ideas that aren't all that great.'
Enter the Innovation Pentathlon Framework: a simple and yet subtle approach to evaluating whether your business has all the ingredients in the mix, in the right measure.
'What we do with the framework is get companies to apply it so see where they need to concentrate. Rather than simply acknowledging that they need to get better at innovation, it forces them to focus on what it is they need to do to achieve this,' Goffin says.
He goes on to explain that a recent survey in the food and beverages sector found that 90 per cent of new products fail. 'So many companies are losing money. That's why it's so important to be good at innovation management. To avoid being one of the many companies that fail.'
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'Innovation Management' was originally published in 2005, so what's happened in the past five years to make a second edition necessary? 'The discipline of innovation management has developed and more things are now known. But that's positive and negative.'
A proliferation of buzzwords and jargon is obscuring what's really going on. 'For example, there are a lot of advantages to open innovation but the downside has not been sufficiently recognised.
'Lots of companies are jumping on the open-innovation bandwagon – with R&D bringing ideas from outside into the company – but it doesn't always work as in, say, the highly publicised case of Procter & Gamble. So in the new edition of the book we're trying to bring some balance into the equation.'
Which brings us back to the 'pentathlon'. Open innovation, says Goffin, is a front-end concept, but you still have four other areas of equal importance to attend to. 'And you've got to be careful, because if you are sending out the message to your engineers that R&D isn't the central source of ideas in your company, you run a real risk of demotivating them. And this comes down to another component of the pentathlon, which is related to whether you are creating the right culture of innovation.'
I suggest to Goffin that the received wisdom is that innovation is always and only about ideas. The four subsidiary points of his pentathlon – prioritisation, implementation, strategy and organisation culture – are just that: fancy ways of applying the brakes to creativity. Most companies are resistant to innovation (although they pretend not to be). For them, the path of least resistance is to do something in a specific time-honoured way, because that's the way it's always been done.
Goffin laughs at this. It's a viewpoint he's familiar with. 'The five points are of equal importance and you've got to find the right balance. If one of your aims is to make R&D more productive, you can save 25 per cent of the budget. But are you taking out thinking time? On paper, the department may look more efficient, but have you killed the best ideas? You might find that if you try to change the culture then that might have an effect on the way ideas are generated, and vice versa.'
As a result innovation management is much more ambiguous than, say, quality management, where the objective and means of achieving it are more clearly defined. 'When you are trying to improve quality, everything is known. Whereas, in innovation management there is complexity. There's more you can apply from social science than from pure science.'
Duplicated effort
So where are we going wrong? Why aren't we all coming up with the next icons of modern product launches? 'The main reason behind 90 per cent product failure is that many of the products hitting the market are very similar to existing ones.'
There's some interesting research that finds a company's chances of success increase by three or four times if its product is differentiated and different from what's already available. 'But a lot of companies – because they use focus groups – are told by their customers that what they want is what they already have, only faster, smaller, cheaper. Companies then implement this feedback and find themselves all on the same trajectory.'
So actually coming up with what could be 'really exciting' for customers is a crucial factor, and as another of Goffin's – 'Identifying Hidden Needs' – makes abundantly clear: the customer isn't always right, is easily suggestible and by dint of not being an innovator, doesn't know what's possible.
Goffin admits that the pentathlon is an 'unfinished journey'. There are a number of topics within innovation management that need developing and books like this need to be constantly updated. Before open innovation there was the all-pervading fashion of 'disruptive technology' where innovations subvert the expectations of the market place in terms of price or application.
'There will be another fashion that can be applied. But individually, none of them will solve your innovation management problems.'


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