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I cover sports business with rare dip in education & local economies
This is a guest post from K. Sean Packard, CPA, who is Director of Tax at OFS. He specializes in tax planning and the preparation of tax returns for pro athletes. He can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter at @AthleteTax.
Quarterback Joe Flacco took home the Super Bowl MVP trophy Sunday night for leading the Baltimore Ravens over the San Francisco 49ers. Flacco is a free agent and is headed for a massive payday before next season, as top quarterbacks now command salaries of at least $15 million a year. Before inking his big contract, Flacco has a more immediate financial decision to make.
Flacco was awarded a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, worth an estimated $60,000, as Super Bowl MVP. The tax implications of winning the automobile are simple if he keeps the car. Flacco will owe about $25,700 in income taxes. But what if he does not want the car?
If he donates the car, he will have to work his way through a messy web of IRS rules. First, Flacco will recognize the $60,000 value of the car as income. This will increase his adjusted gross income by that amount (less the self employment tax deduction), thereby limiting his itemized deductions by about $1,800. Then, his charitable deduction will be limited to the amount for which the charity sells the car to a third party. If the charity opts not sell the car, he may deduct the car's value on the date it is donated, which means he (or the charity) would need to hire a qualified appraiser to value the car. Once a car leaves the lot, it loses about 20% of its value, so his deduction would be $48,000, not the $60,000 he recognized as income. All told, if Flacco donates the car to charity, he will still owe the IRS $6,900.
If the charity is smart when putting the car on the market, it would advertise it as the car Joe Flacco won as Super Bowl MVP. This would likely yield the charity a premium by selling the car as a collector's item. Unfortunately, Flacco would only be able to deduct his basis in the car (the value he included in income). If this happens, he still loses $2,400.
The IRS has a provision allowing the recipient of an award to avoid recognizing its value as income if he directs the payor to donate the award directly to charity if the following factors are met:
The problem is that back in 1961, Paul Hornung tried to exclude the value of the Corvette he won for being named MVP of the NFL Championship Game—back when awards were tax-exempt without the winner needing to donate them to charity. The Tax Court ruled the Corvette was income, stating that "professional football is not an activity which is 'educational,' 'artistic,' 'scientific,' or 'civic'." While the popularity and significance of the NFL on American culture has greatly expanded since this case was determined in 1967, Hornung is still the legal precedent.
If Flacco sells the car, he is not allowed to deduct the loss, because the sale of a car that was not obtained for investment purposes is considered personal. If he sells it for a profit, he will pay 15% federal tax on that gain.
So even if Flacco neither needs nor wants the car, he is stuck with a tax bill of between $2,400 and $6,900 for winning the MVP. It is a tradeoff Flacco will take every time.
Update: This is updated from the original post, which stated that Flacco could exclude the income from his return if he directed Chevrolet to donate it to charity.
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If Joe Flacco needs a Chevy Corvette, sure he direct his agent to buy one without all these complications.
A bigger concern for Joe Flacco is the 6% Louisiana income taxes imposed on his Super Bowl winnings. Not much he can do…just pay the bill
Call me crazy, but does a guy who name has been mentioned in the same sentence as the words one hundred million dollars really worry about a silly sixty nine hundred bucks in income taxes? Ha. This article is funny. The reason I am the only person to comment is because I am probably the only person who read past the first paragraph. I wonder if the author thinks that ANYONE cares how much Flacco's Corvette is going to affect his income taxes? One HUNDRED MILLION. Thats One Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero (8) Dollars.
While Flacco probably doesn't care much about $6,700. This article does serve as a good example of how the IRS handles charitable contributions in a way that is both relevant and interesting, both of which can go a long way for someone trying to understand tax code.
Excellent article and thank you for pointing out the various scenarious to instruct people on just how complicated the tax code is here in the US. As a CPA I'm not surprised by the complicated nature of the tax code, but I can never stop myself from the inevitable *face palm* that ensues.
I was taught and teach now that, pursuant to Wills v. Commissioner, 411 F.2d 537 (9th cir. 1969) and Hornung v. Commissioner, 47 T.C. 428 (1967), athletic awards do not constitute civic or artistic achievements. Has there been a new case, revenue ruling or regulation???
Very interesting read. I actually came across this article several weeks before learning about Section 74(b) in my Basics of Federal Income Tax. It is a shame that sports achievements are not covered by any of the general categories applicable to sec. 74, as sports plays such an important role in modern American society. In my opinion, such awards should be covered by section 74, as it gives athletes more motivation to donate such awards to charity. Until congress (or the courts) change the law, however, my opinion matters little.
(Big ups to professor Smith, one of the few professors capable of making fed. Tax an fascinating class).


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The following was submitted by Winchester Hospital.
In celebration of centennial, Winchester Hospital Our First Century by Ellen Knight, Ph.D., has recently been published. The book chronicles the many triumphs and challenges throughout the hospital's first 100 years, and the story is told using numerous photos.
"Dr. Knight did a masterful job of walking the reader through the hospital's history and weaving in many interesting and often humorous bits of information," said Kevin Smith, president and CEO of Winchester Hospital. "It is a nice read for anyone connected to the hospital or the community and can be enjoyed by people of all ages."
For the work of gathering source materials for the history, Knight credits many including hospital staff, the Winton Club, En Ka Society, and the Winchester Archival Center. "The story of the hospital is very much a story of the Winchester community, which has supported the hospital in many ways. The book was also a collaborative effort, with help provided by hospital staff and by local organizations and individuals. I couldn't have done it without them," said Knight.
The book was recently unveiled at the hospital and is now available for purchase at the hospital's Winton Club Gift Shop and at Book Ends in Winchester. The public is invited to attend at book signing at Book Ends on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. The cost of the book is $50 for hard cover and $25 for soft cover, all proceeds benefit Winchester Hospital.


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For all of you that think numbers are all it takes via metrics,here is the list and look where our two best players fall:
Gazing at this season's NBA cosmos has created more answers than questions. While it's clear that the stars of Kevin Durant and LeBron James shine the brightest, the order after them is subject to debate. Early in the season, Paul George looked like the league's third-best player. Then LaMarcus Aldridge took his turn. More recently, Blake Griffin seems to have attained that honor, but cases can be made for any number of players.
To help answer the question of who's next after Durant and James and rank the league's best players, let's take a look at this season's numbers, focusing on three measures of player value: my wins above replacement player (WARP), Basketball-Reference.com's win shares and John Hollinger's estimated wins added (EWA).
There are 11 players who rank in the top 10 of at least two of these three metrics. Here's how they compare graphically:
Besides Durant's dominance, a couple of things stand out. First, notice the consistent differences between the three stats. EWA values are the highest because replacement level is set lower than in WARP. Win shares don't explicitly use replacement level, but because credit for defense is divided equally among players on the same team, it has a smaller spread between the best players and the worst ones.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to note from the chart is how quickly talent levels off outside the top two to three players. For example, the difference in WARP between Durant and Anthony Davis (fifth, at 14.5) is larger than the gap between Davis and the 20th-best player. The top 10 is an arbitrary standard, and the difference between finishing eighth and 12th is mostly a matter of taste. So without further ado, here are the top 10:
There's room for only one designated hitter whose contributions come almost entirely at the offensive end in my top 10, and Harden gets the nod over Carmelo Anthony because he's a more efficient scorer and a better distributor. In the right situation, Anthony's superior ability to create shots for himself might carry the day. It's easy to underestimate the value of a great, but limited scorer, and Anthony probably has taken a bit too much flak for what he's not. As for Harden, as frustrating as his defensive lapses can be, he's a top-five player in terms of offensive value.
Yes, George has been terrible the past two months. However, the Pacers have been able to hold on to No. 1 in the East thanks to the cushion they built early in the season, and George was the key to that fast start. He remains eighth in both win shares and WARP, and if anything they understate his contributions to the league's best defense. After an unsustainable start from midrange, George's 2-point percentage (46.8 percent) is near what it was the past two seasons (45.7 and 47.2), suggesting that he's settled about where his true talent level lies.
Though poor defensive numbers for Davis and the Pelicans as a team remain a concern, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the way he's torching opponents at the other end of the floor. Within weeks of my suggesting Davis could eventually become a 30 PPG scorer, he's averaging 32.3 points in his past eight games (on 58.0 percent shooting) with six 30-point games in the past month. Even win shares, which reflect New Orleans' defensive woes, now has Davis as a top-10 player (he's fifth in both WARP and EWA).
Because of the time he's missed following knee surgery, Westbrook doesn't appear in any of the value rankings above, but on a per-minute basis he's been as good as ever, ranking ninth in PER and seventh in win percentage, the equivalent version of WARP. Believe that the Thunder are better without Westbrook and that his return has caused the team's slide? In the new ESPN The Magazine, Jordan Brenner explains why that's not the case.
Like Joakim Noah, Griffin has benefited from timing his rise for the second half of the season. From January onward, he has probably been the third-best player in the NBA by virtue of lifting his usage rate (from 26.8 percent of the Clippers' plays to 30.8 percent) and his assist rate (from 17.7 percent of his teammates' field goals to 20.8 percent) without sacrificing any efficiency. Over the course of the full season, Griffin falls just outside the top five.
After last year's postseason, Curry was supposed to take the next step and establish himself as one of the NBA's top players. He has done pretty much exactly that, yet the league somehow hasn't taken notice. Curry's season-long stats are similar to the second half of 2012-13, and he's fourth in both WARP and win shares. (EWA has him seventh by virtue of not crediting Curry for the Warriors' team defense.) The problem, of course, is that Golden State hasn't taken the next step as a team, falling short of preseason expectation. It's hard to put that on Curry given that no lineup with more than 250 minutes has outscored opponents by a larger margin than the Warriors' starting five (plus-15.2 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com/Stats).
Because of the time he missed with a shoulder injury, Paul probably doesn't belong on the MVP ballot this year. He ranks around 10th in each of the three value metrics. On a per-minute basis, however, Paul is in the top five. And he ranks second to Andre Iguodala of the Warriors in RAPM adjusted plus-minus, as calculated by Jeremias Engelmann. While Paul has ceded some responsibility to Griffin, he's capable of stepping back into a larger role at any time.
Love is in a unique spot. There's no track record of top-three players not appearing in the playoffs any of their first seven seasons. At the same time, there's also no track record of teams with a point differential as good as Minnesota's (plus-3.0 PPG) missing the playoffs. The Timberwolves are on track to surpass the 2000-01 Houston Rockets, who outscored opponents by 2.3 points per game, as the best lottery team by this measure since the ABA-NBA merger.
Love deserves some blame for Minnesota underperforming. According to NBA.com/stats, his true shooting percentage drops to .499 in the last five minutes with the score within five points, ranking him 32nd of the 49 players with a usage rate of at least 25 percent in such situations. And Love's poor interior defense also is a factor in the Wolves' inability to stop opponents late in games. But Minnesota might not play so many close games if the bench wasn't continually blowing leads Love helped create. The Timberwolves are plus-6.4 points per 100 possessions with Love on the court and get outscored by 11.0 points per 100 possessions with him on the bench, making the non-Love Wolves fundamentally equivalent to the Philadelphia 76ers (minus-11.4 points per 100 possessions this season).
One surprise from the advanced stats: Love has nearly caught James in both WARP and win shares. (EWA has James as the clear No. 2.) Naturally, James isn't concerned with regular-season stats, which is why it's premature to say Durant has passed him as a player, let alone anyone else.
A couple of weeks ago, I felt that Durant deserved the MVP but that James would get it by virtue of a stronger finishing kick. Since James' 61-point outburst, that hasn't really transpired, and it's now hard to see a scenario in which Durant doesn't win MVP. Based on the metrics, it will be well deserved.
Honorable mention
Here are the honorable mentions who missed my list:
LaMarcus Aldridge, Portland Trail Blazers: The MVP buzz has faded with the Blazers' record. He's as complete as any big man in the NBA, but offensive inefficiency limits his value.
Chris Bosh, Miami Heat: He doesn't fare well by the value metrics, but his versatility helps make the Heat go.
DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento Kings: A top-10 player by EWA who won't make this list until he improves defensively.
Goran Dragic, Phoenix Suns: Remarkable, given his track record, that he's in this discussion at all.
Dwight Howard, Houston Rockets: I covered Howard's value at length last month.
Kyle Lowry, Toronto Raptors: The most egregious All-Star oversight.
Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls: Without question, a top-10 player the past two months. But games in November and December count the same in the standings, and Noah wasn't the same player then.
Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks: He's still a reasonable facsimile of his MVP self, save rebounding.
Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat: The case can be made he's still a top-10 player when healthy, but availability matters, too.
Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs He's a top-10 player by RAPM, but not all that close in the value metrics because of low steal and rebound rates.
Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks: The final cut. See Harden's capsule.
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Looks good if you knock down Love a few spots.
That's what I thought, but everyone seems to wants to anoint Love who walks on water compared to Blake who trudges through mud,evidently.
The Wolves should just play their starters 48 MPG then they wouldn't loose as many games despite their guys always being tired. Love has his faults, but I think people overstate his faults to try and make it seem like he isn't a high impact player. Still, he shouldn't be 3rd, probably about 5th or 6th in the same range as Blak with Paul and Curry moving to #3 and #4


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The Sabres will certainly see Henrik Lundqvist in goal Tuesday night in New York but the Rangers are suddenly thin at that position. The Blueshirts have just tweeted that old friend Marty Biron is out indefinitely with a fractured collarbone suffered today at practice. Ouch. Larry Brooks of the New York Post is reporting Biron will be out at least the rest of the regular season.
Talk about bad timing. There were plenty of backup goalies, notably Ty Conklin, on the waiver wire that could have been scooped up that went unclaimed and the team, of course, didn't make a deal for one because it didn't have a need. Or so it thought. Instead, the Rangers are calling up Cam Talbot from Connecticut of the AHL.
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Bereswill and Reagan will train alongside Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Ryuichi Kihara, as well as European bronze medalists Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek of Italy, who spend much of their time at DSC. Dungjen and Petrovskiy also coach two teams who hope to compete on the Junior Grand Prix this fall -- Kaitlin Budd and Nikita Cheban, the 2013 U.S. novice silver medalists; and Aya Takai and Brian Johnson, fourth in U.S. novice in 2013 -- as well as the new pairing of Sumire Suto and Konstantin (Stan) Chizhikov.


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Ed Cleaver accepted the position of Macon County Surveyor, according to Pat Clarke, Macon County Clerk. There were no candidates filed for the position and Cleaver was one of several write-ins.
Millicent Belt and Chelsey McVicker fashioned a Siamese Twins costume out of newspapers at a Girl Scout Campout at the Methodist Church.
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Don Tyson has been teaching in the Nursing Department at the undergraduate and graduate levels at EMU since August 1999. In addition to teaching, he currently serves as the Co-Director of the MSN program. During the summer, as well as on weekends throughout the school year, he works at Sentara – Rockingham Memorial Healthcare in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit on a prn basis. He has previous experience in a variety of clinical and administrative nursing roles related to critical care, post-anesthesia care, and quality improvement. He graduated from Goshen College in 1979 and from the University of Virginia in 1986. In April of 2012 he received his PhD in Nursing from George Mason University based on his qualitative research examining the critical thinking characteristics of African students enrolled in nursing programs in the United States. While a student at George Mason, his research focused on issues related to the uninsured and undocumented immigrants as well as critical thinking, learning style, and other issues experienced by international nursing students. He enjoys singing in the local Shenandoah Valley Choral Society, baseball, gardening, biking, and camping.
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Companies must resist the temptation to cut back on opportunities that will pay off later, advises Ross professor.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — To compensate for the sour economy and pullback on consumer spending, many companies are cutting costs like never before. But are they trimming fat or bone?
It may sound counter-intuitive, but a down economy presents an ideal scenario to invest in talent and new products, says Jeff DeGraff, clinical professor of business administration at Ross. He is one of the founders of Ann Arbor-based Innovatrium, a development community that serves as an idea market, research lab, and think tank for innovation projects and practices. In the following Q&A, DeGraff explains why now is the time to pursue new opportunities, not retreat from them.
How should companies balance fiscal responsibility with a need to position themselves for future growth?
DeGraff: There are three key things to remember about innovating in a down economy. First: you grow a business by investing in innovation when costs are low so you can monetize them when prices are high. During these recessionary times most people cut back on expenditures that lead to growth, the very things that are going to pay off in the future. They cut things like marketing, R&D, and hiring the right kind of people. In a down economy, there's an enormous glut of good talent. All of a sudden the favorable rates on advertising are better. You can do more science for less money because of the depressed economy.
What we see from the numbers, though, is quite alarming. There are two major studies done on innovation every year with thousands of C-level leaders. One is done by the Boston Consulting Group and the other is done by IBM. What both studies suggest is that in the United States, senior leaders are cutting back between 10 and 12 percent on expenditures for breakthrough types of innovation. These studies also seem to suggest that in East Asia, it's almost the opposite: They're spending more on big innovation. This is a great concern. At some point, U.S.-based firms are going to come out of the recession. And there will be a shakeout of those who have invested in the last development cycle and those who have cut back. We call these "stall points," times when incumbents lose ground and nascent competitors overtake them. There's data that suggests about half of all the Fortune 500 companies experience these stall points. The data also suggests about 80 percent of those companies that stalled never regained the trajectory of their growth.
That's what's alarming. This is the best time to become more aggressive about innovation and growth. I'm not just talking about gadgets, fashion, or uses of information. I'm talking about marketing, inbound logistics, business models, design factors, and all forms of innovation. Innovation is really the only value proposition with a shelf life. It's like milk. It goes bad over time. Radical innovation doesn't stay radical for very long. So if you go to Best Buy this Christmas and see something very interesting, I guarantee you by next Christmas it's not going to be that interesting. A recession is usually a time for creative destruction. Down economies are notoriously famous for thinning the herd.
The second opportunity in a down economy is that firms in real trouble have a tendency to try more radical forms of innovation -- show stoppers and category killers. When the risk of innovating and the reward of innovating are reversed, as in a recession, people are more likely to take on increased risk to get the multiplier of a breakthrough. I'll give you some very concrete examples. About 10 to 12 years ago, Apple Computer was basically bankrupt. Now it routinely finishes first in these surveys as the most admired, innovative company in the world. How did Apple go from being dead to the top of the heap in about 10 years? Well, in the words of Bob Dylan, "When you ain't got nothing', you got nothin' to lose."
You're going to do the things you need to do because you have little choice. And it wasn't even a computer that brought them back from the edge but rather the iPod, and they didn't even develop it in their R&D center or build it themselves. They took it outside and created it under the radar. Instead of creating another Byzantine innovation process, their CEO surrounded himself with old Apple fellows, people who knew how to navigate the system and connect the dots. That's part of the brilliance of Steve Jobs. Look at IBM in the late '80s or Nintendo in the early 2000s. Nintendo had been usurped by Playstation and Xbox. But just like with a person, when you have a huge crisis, the risk of changing and the reward of changing is reversed. That is, the more radical the innovation the more likely it is born in a time of crisis. That's why alcoholics stop drinking only when they hit the bottom. That's why the financial crisis has absolutely fundamentally changed some consumer spending activities. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.
The third point is about the connectiveness of innovation. In a down economy companies have a tendency to innovate in a "federation." Capital is scarce and a firm no longer has the wherewithal to do all the investment or own all the intellectual property, so it connects with suppliers, maybe even competitors, or maybe even joins an organization whose job it is to connect the dots. That's one of the things we do here at the Innovatrium. For example, in the past a pharmaceutical company would have a huge R&D lab and do all of the drug discovery work itself. Now, instead of aligning and optimizing everything as it did five years ago, this company is weaving a web of hundreds of tier-one biotech firms, graduate students, and other service providers, and synchronizing their development efforts across this loose confederation. So they own less of the intellectual property but they've spent less to get it in these hard times. It really comes down to that old philosophy of a rising tide lifts all boats.
That makes sense, but it sounds like too few are doing it.
DeGraff: If the numbers from these surveys are accurate, what's scary is that a very large percentage of these firms are losing ground. Here's why that is important. Because innovation is time-bound, you can't say you're not going to invest in it like you're not going to paint your headquarters building this year. Well, the building will just look a little sloppy. But with innovation what you're doing is losing a product, service, or solution cycle. You're losing a whole generation of profits. The reason to innovate is that you're basically trying to create new markets and higher revenue bands, a uniqueness that creates profits.
You say this is the time to invest when many of the input costs are low, but what about companies with serious cash flow problems that can't borrow in this tight credit market?
DeGraff: That's when you go to the federation. You get wide. There are low-cost Internet companies that connect the person who has the challenge or opportunity with the person who can provide a solution. Virtual innovation site Innocentive is a good example. But this approach raises a lot of concerns about intellectual property. Who owns the rights to an idea in a global matrix? Really, it's putting enormous pressure on the old system of innovation, complete with portfolio processes and a plethora of lawyers, and I believe it will eventually destroy it.
But, okay, the economy is really bad and you can't do everything. But here's what you have to understand. What most leaders do is try something that's just a little different than what they do now, but they try to do a lot of it. They turn innovation into a continuous improvement process. They try to optimize something that's a little better. This is the kind of thing they picked up from their quality controls training.
The breakthrough innovation game is the exact opposite. You take lots of shots on goal, each highly different from the next. These experiments are bold and have a very low success rate, but since they don't require a great deal of capital, there is little risk in failure. This is how venture capitalists quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. In a federation, where many members are starved for capital, the experiments are like mini-joint ventures or hybrid collaborations. You're trying to quickly and cheaply figure out what works and what doesn't work.
The more radical the innovation, the greater the failure cycle. There is always a failure cycle, and the trick is to accelerate it; not avoid it. You don't spend a lot of money on the first version. The first version is going to need a lot of work. So you experiment in succession with versions 1A, 1B, 1C, etc., until you have some real data on the technology, competency, and market, and can begin to shape and integrate the product, service, or solution into an initial offering. Of course you are burning some resources to run these experiments and proof the concept, but you also are plotting a solution much faster than a protracted design approach where the risk of failure is often cataclysmic because of the consequences of a "big miss." You're arriving at the market faster than somebody who is trying to perfect it.
Innovation has both a forward and aft position. In the forward position, it is imperative that a firm experiments to the full extent of its capability and ambition. In the aft, the firm needs to operationalize, streamline, and scale the innovation. You're trying to churn and create forward momentum, quickly learn what works and what doesn't, and integrate these insights into the full-scale development.
I've worked with a lot of clients on a lot of projects that became very successful innovations. It's the handoff between the forward and aft positions where most innovations are fumbled. Nobody wants to be associated with failure, so most leaders are unwilling to look at something objectively and ask why it didn't work. After-action reviews are mission-critical to success but they require a lot of honesty and courage particularly in a down market. I tell students that successful innovators never bet on one horse to win but rather bet on three horses to show. It's never the one you expect that brings a good pay day.
What are some other common pitfalls companies make?
DeGraff: Here's the challenge for all of us who advocate for radical innovation. When will the dollar go up? What will healthcare reform look like? What's going to happen in the Middle East next year? There's an important thing to understand -- innovation pays in the future where there is no data. It's an epistemological problem. The only thing you can really measure are enablers: things that help you get to the future. This is the classic trap everybody falls into. Leaders love to measure innovation by looking backwards. It tells them a lot about last year but little about the market today or next year. The year 2008 was so disruptive that it laid most of these types of metrics to waste. These types of measure are not going to be predictive and they may actually be counter-predictive. Measuring the pathway to today could be the worst thing you could possibly do. So when we start measuring how to get to the future, we're not going to measure the future. We're going to measure things like the diversity of our product pipeline, technology adaptation rates, and markets we are speculating.
Once you have a handle on what's really happening now, you can begin to optimize and employ more efficient measures. How you innovate is what you innovate! And the same is true for how you measure it. When you don't, when it becomes discontinuous, you hedge. You hedge not just for typical business school reasons (to mitigate risk), you hedge to prospect upside opportunity: Where's the new market? I'll tell you who's done a great job with this: Google. Google makes 97 percent of its profits on a single item, Adwords. Now go to the Google beta page and you'll see dozens of beta products. Consider their foray into phones and other new technology, which is very exciting. Why would Google spread out like that? They are trying to get a line of sight as to what's next. People often say Google is trying to turn all these initiatives into winning products. Not so. They're just trying to find the next one that breaks big.
How much of a barrier can corporate culture be to innovation?
DeGraff: I think culture is infinitely more powerful than strategy. Just because you have the right strategy doesn't mean you have the right culture to pull it off. An innovation culture has to be sufficiently flexible to promote enlightened trial and error and sufficiently inclusive to encourage diverse skills and points of view. Innovation requires linking disparate functions, like finance with HR or marketing with manufacturing.
The culture needs to support the four key elements of innovation. One, you have to have high-quality targets. Innovation rookies read the latest "you can do it" business book and try to boil the ocean. On the other hand, you get leaders beaten down by years of bureaucracy and "no-no-no" bosses who say you are powerless to do anything fresh. You have to get that magnitude and speed right. You have to set a target you can hit, something beyond the incremental and short of the inconceivable. That requires understanding how to spot an opportunity. The way to do that is to pay attention to what moves. Just like in real life, the more animate something is the more alive it is. It's searching for power, progeny, or pleasure. If it is moving less, it's in decay, decline. Innovation happens where the world is growing. People think they create growth. You ride these big trends, these big movements. They're not created by any one person or any one government and no one person or government can stop it.
The second element is deep and diverse domain expertise. Innovation happens at the edges of disciplines. It happens in between business and engineering, medicine, and law. It doesn't just happen in them, it happens in the space between them. So if you're going to make this work, you need experts from a variety of fields relevant to your endeavor.
Innovation is not an amateur sport. It may be true that Larry Paige and Sergey Brin built Google in a garage in Palo Alto. But they were two PhD students in computer engineering at Stanford. Do they sound like amateurs to you? If you're building a new business model for financial services or designing an artificial heart valve, you need experts; not amateurs. Put together a diverse advisory team. These should be people who do not always agree with you because the death of innovation is homogeneity and too much alignment. Constructive conflict is good. It produces productive tension. Alignment is overrated. Biodiversity is underrated.
The third element of innovation is to take multiple shots on goal, which we have already discussed. The first version won't be very good, but you keep learning with each version as you quickly move through that process.
The fourth element is that you learn from your mistakes through after-action reviews. You have to get smart. A lot of people take shots on goal and they remain in the dark about why things are not working. Pay attention to the mistakes, because that's where you're going to find the next set of questions, and if you're lucky, a few answers. Find out how you created a solution and who was involved.
That raises another interesting point. Companies love to bet on innovation processes. What you discover in a down market is that it's people and projects that connect organizations. So who are your innovators? And it's not your inventors. It's the person who knows how to navigate the system, someone who can get through the capital committee and hire some smart folks outside the traditional gene pool.
What are your client companies asking you most about right now?
DeGraff: The first big thing they're asking me is how they can develop innovation black belts. They love Google, they love Genetech, they love IDEO, but what they really want is their own capability to do that. The craft of innovation is no different than learning to play an instrument or speak a language or become a doctor: See one, do one, teach one. Innovation leaders need to be apprenticed, given tools, coaching, and the practical experience that comes from working on real innovation projects. To be honest, not everyone can do it. You can be a great innovator playing many different positions, but you definitely have to have some of the self-authorizing behavior and field of view to do this.
Second, which product and service companies are racing to remake themselves as solution companies? This partially comes from these federated agreements. They are looking to connect with the supply chain, with customers, with universities, and thread them together as valuable bundles. The great news is that they have all of these technologies, but the real challenges are the cultural elements, and how to monetize solutions. People are trying to put this cross-boundary form of innovation together but none of the traditional mechanisms really fit.
We have to re-invent the apparatus. In the old days, the intellectual property was run by the legal division. They basically told you that you couldn't do anything. Now try to develop a solution with a dozen businesses in a federation. If a peer has the same restrictions, it'll take you a year to make that deal. So people are now going around these traditional functions and approaches. They're creating these deals that say, if it's the source code or platform, we all own it, and we all kick in X amount to fund it. If it's an application built on top of it, we own the Y part of that and of course our specialty is Z, so we're going to make that proprietary and use it as our competitive advantage.
Finally, clients are asking us to create integrated innovation systems for them based on what we have learned from this array of projects, people, and solutions. The trick is to create the integrated system last. That's because you don't know what you don't know yet. As they say in the Nike ads, "Just do it."
—Terry Kosdrosky
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The concept of 3D television has dominated this year's Consumer Electronics Show, with major manufacturers showing off televisions that can carry the techology that was once thought to be a rare movie theater treat. But what's making real news are the content providers that are now pledging programming that will literally jump off your screen.
ESPN has announced it will broadcast sporting events in 3D starting with this year's World Cup in June. Discovery Communications also announced they will launch a 3D channel in 2011 in a joint venture with Imax and Sony. Panasonic and DirecTV are teaming up to create three 3D satellite channels by June. Samsung, Dreamworks and Technicolor announced an alliance for the "delivery of a complere 3D home entertainment solution" in 2010.
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The Amherst Fire Department is off to a busy start in 2013 after responding to a fire early New Year's Day .
Firefighters responded to a one alarm basement fire in 28 Christian Hill Road at 2:52 a.m. The fire had spread to the first floor wall and into the attic when they arrived on the scene.
Milford fire department was requested to the scene to assist in checking fire extension in the attic, while Merrimack Fire covered the Amherst Central fire station while Amherst crews extinguished and dug out a fire in the first floor wall.
The fire was quickly extinguished and controlled after an hour battling the blaze.
Amherst Fire Chief Mark Boynton said that the fire origin and cause investigation determine the fire started in the wall behind the fireplace was accidental and caused improper installation. The residents sustained considerable fire, smoke and water damage to the first floor.


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So you were probably expecting the second part of our "Tale of Two Worlds" this week, but my train of thought was interrupted by a couple items in the news coming out of the professional astronomy community about two other recently discovered worlds — orbiting stars other than our own.
The search for planets orbiting other stars seldom involves observing them directly. Planets only shine by the light reflected from the stars they orbit, and even the largest planets are a very small fraction of the size of a star. The planets are therefore extremely dim objects, and are always located so close to their parent star that the brightness of the star greatly overwhelms the planet, making it (usually) impossible to view in even the largest telescopes.
However, there are two greatly successful techniques for indirectly detecting the presence of planets orbiting stars in our local region of the galaxy. The planets announced this week were discovered using each of these methods, giving a great opportunity to understand how modern astronomers are able to gain so much detail about objects that we may never directly see in a telescope.
Any two masses in the universe are attracted to each other by the force of gravity. This force increases with the mass of the objects, and as the distance between them decreases. The Sun's gravity pulls upon Earth and keeps us in our orbit. The Earth in return pulls ever so sightly on the Sun, and will very, very slightly cause the Sun to wobble back and forth in its path as it orbits the center of our galaxy. So, a star with a planet will show a continual periodic motion, with one period completing with every orbit of the planet around the star.
The next piece of the story is a bit more complicated, and starts with an analogy. Think of what a passing train's whistle, or racing car's engine, sounds like as it comes by you. The sound of the whistle or engine starts at a high pitch, and then drops to a lower pitch after passing you. This change in the pitch of the sound is the Doppler Shift, creating higher frequency sound waves from an approaching object, and lower frequencies as the object moves away from you.
The same phenomenon occurs with light waves. Objects moving toward us have their light "shifted" to higher frequencies — toward the blue end of the visible spectrum; objects travelling away appear shifted toward the red, lower frequency, end. The faster the object is moving, the greater the amount of the shift.
Modern astronomers separate the light of stars into spectra using extremely high precision optical instruments that can measure vanishingly small shifts in the light emitted. This allows us to know the speed and direction of motion (toward or away from Earth) of the stars down to a few feet per second.
In an amazing result announced last week, researchers using this technique have detected an Earth-sized planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B — in the star system nearest to our own, located a mere 4.3 light years from Earth. The Alpha Centauri system consists of three stars - two stars (boringly named A and B) similar in brightness and structure to the Sun, and a much dimmer third star (Proxima), closer to Earth, but more distant from the brighter pair.
The discovered planet orbits extremely close to Alpha Centauri B — at only 3.7 million miles from the star, about 1/10th the distance between Mercury and our Sun, and completes one orbit in a mere 3.2 days. The velocity change caused by the pull of this small planet upon its star amounted to only about 4 feet per second - right at the limit of this incredibly sensitive technique.
With a surface temperature estimated at 2,200 degrees (Fahrenheit), this is not a planet we would be wanting to colonize! However, using models of the physics involved in solar system formation, we find that small rocky Earth-like planets tend to be formed in batches. So, the discovery of one such planet at Alpha Centauri B may very well indicate that other such planets, farther from the star and therefore cooler, are also present.
The second discovery announced this week used a completely different approach to planet detection, and with a fascinating twist. If a planet's orbit around its star is oriented such that it passes between Earth and the star during its orbit, the planet will block a very small portion of the light coming to us from that star during each "transit". If you recall, Venus passed between Earth and the Sun back in April, blocking about 1/1000th of the light from the Sun during its
transit — not particularly noticeable.
Using extremely sensitive cameras on an orbiting telescope — the Kepler Mission — light blockages as small as 1 part in a million can be detected. The Kepler spacecraft has been imaging 100,000 stars in the constellation Cygnus continuously for the past 4 years, collecting immense amounts of data which are to be searched to find extremely small dips in light output in each of the target stars, occuring on a regular period, that would indicate the presence of a planet.
Kepler has already detected 77 planets which have been confirmed through additional observation, however the sheer volume of data being generated by this instrument has presented a difficult problem for the astronomical community - but that challenge has been met with a very creative solution.
The human mind has a highly evolved capability for detecting patterns, far more sophisticated than our best computer algorithms. The Kepler data sets can be presented visually to any human mind, and with a minimum of training, the types of patterns marking possible planet blockages can be recognized. This fact lead the Kepler scientists to an awesome idea - letting the interested public become directly involved in the search for planets.
The website is www.PlanetHunters.org. After registering and reading some very simple instructions, you are presented with measurements of light vs time coming from target stars. You will indicate sections of the measurements that look like planet transits. Software will compare your observations with dozens of others. Those observations fitting a pattern will be sent on to researchers who will then closely examine these candidate observations.
The announcement came this week of the first discovery completed through this process, and what a discovery it was! The identified candidate star system was a pair of pairs of stars — two binary star systems orbiting each other; a total of four stars. Using the massive telescopes the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the presence of a Neptune-sized planet, about 8 times larger than Earth, orbiting one of the pairs of stars was confirmed, by predicting and then observing additional transits of the planet.
The planet has been catalogued as "PH1", after the website's name. Although even now the discovery of planets beyond our solar system has become routine, we can look forward to many more opportunities for what I will term "community science" to both engage the public in scientific research, and to enable discoveries that may be otherwise lost without the use of our uniquely human intelligences joined through modern technology.
Before leaving you this week, I'll mention that I am now registering families for my Spring 2013 Introduction to Astronomy class, held here at my home in Southbury. If you are interested in this class, please visit www.turnerclasses.com for more information.


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Storage area networks (SANs) are complicated, and how crucial SAN components are configured affects SAN performance. Questions about SAN performance tuning keep coming to the Ask the Expert section of SearchStorage.com. It seems as if many shops are currently trying to figure out ways to squeeze some more performance out of their SANs.
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"Ballet took £2.1 million, classical music £900,000, popular music £500,000 and comedy £100,000. The other two non-theatrical categories were film documentaries, which generated £2.2 million, and museum exhibitions, which took £900,000."
US TV Networks Make Progress On Diversity
Andy Serkis, Star Of A Movie Medium That's Anti-Star By Its Very Nature
"Serkis, whose resume includes playing some of the least likely critical favorites of all time – Gollum, King Kong, and Godzilla – seems like an ideal spokesman for motion-capture if it wants high-brow cred. … [Yet] the singular focus on him in some ways clashes with the collaborative, chameleonic spirit of motion-capture, a field that has a long and glorious tradition of eschewing thespian concerns entirely."
TV Edges Out Movies At This Year's Comic-Con
Despite All Ukraine's Troubles (And A Near-Cancellation), The "Cannes Of The East" Goes Ahead
The Odessa International Film Festival "almost didn't happen [this year], after the annexation of Crimea in March, and the events of 2 May, when 43 pro-Russian activists died in Odessa in a fire started in unclear circumstances. The festival was, however, eventually given the go-ahead, albeit on a drastically reduced budget, and helped by a crowdfunding campaign."
Take That, Ken Burns! Why "Drunk History" Sorta Works As Documentary Television
"The show is exactly what the title says. A narrator … gets very, very drunk, on camera. As she downs her whiskeys or fancy cocktails, she delivers a historical account … It is ridiculous – and very funny. The surprising part is that it's also a perversely effective way to deliver historical information."
The Physicists Who Are Redefining The Art Of Animation
There is "an expanding cadre of high-level physicists, engineers and other scientists, including many former NASA employees, who have left careers in aerospace and academia to work in the movie business. Demand for their services has grown as animated movies, once created by hand, push the boundaries of what can be created on a computer screen."
Rome's Cinecittà Opens A Theme Park
"In its nearly 80-year history, the Cinecittà film studio lured the world's greatest directors and biggest movie stars to this Italian capital, earning it the title of Hollywood on the Tiber. Now the studio, its fortunes in decline and its edges fraying, is hoping to attract some less famous visitors when Cinecittà World, a new theme park dedicated to its golden era, opens on Thursday."
Fending Off Murdoch, Time Warner Strips Shareholders Of Right To Call Meetings
Have Computer Special Effects Stolen The Magic From Movies?
Why Crowdfunding Doesn't Necessarily Create A Successful Movie
Netflix Profits Double
The Way TV Is Currently Programmed Is Anachronistic (It Soon Won't Be)
The Surprisingly Savvy Weird Al Internet Machine
"So as we try to make sense of Mandatory Fun, Al's fourteenth studio album – and as we round into the fourth decade of his career – it's becoming clear that his old-school/new-school media business playbook is a little genius. In many corners of the English-language Internet, this week has been Al-saturated, his new music videos and songs unavoidable. How does he do it? Where will it lead? And will this be his media strategy forever?"
BBC Cut Spending On Talent By £6 Million
Roger Ebert Predicted This Would Happen (But He Didn't Know The Movie Would Be About Him)
"Sitting on my sofa, push-button dialing system by my side, I can't help but feel that I'm filing a dispatch from a future entertainment universe. We should embrace and celebrate the fact that we can now watch great movies on TV the same day they're in theaters. And yet this development feels like it's brought on more consternation than joy."
Dear Video Game Documentarians: Step Up Your Game
Well, That's One Fewer Competitor For Netflix And Amazon
When Hercule Poirot Retires (Or At Least When Actor David Suchet Finishes Playing Him)
Educators Look At Multi-User Video Games As Effective Teaching Systems
The Deep Comfort Of Mediocre Sitcoms
"The easy tropes and practiced banter, the reliable fulfilling of a sitcom's tasks, contributed to a sense of permanence. … Here was a world void of dread, danger, and anxiety, a place in which work and play were indistinguishable, in which jobs just meant different aesthetics attached to the same basic glee." Exhibit A: Just Shoot Me.
How A Decade Of Digital Distribution Has Hurt The Creative Economy
"It's only common sense that the devaluation creative industries face is having a sustained negative effect on the investment available for sustainable artistic careers. Through new groups like the Content Creators Coalition, artists have begun to advocate for themselves. But forging an internet that takes individual rights (including privacy), cultural diversity and sustainable progress seriously also requires that consumers get on board."
Canadian Customs Threatens To Destroy Filmmaker's Work
What If 21st Century Fox Really Had Bought Time Warner?
Former Dictator Manuel Noriega Sues Video Game Maker Over Its Portrayal Of Him
I'm Sorry I Ever Invented The Phrase "Manic Pixie Dream Girl", Says Film Critic
Video Game Industry's Obsession With Big Sales Hurts The Art Form
"It's as if, through sales figures, profits and other assorted fiscal headlines video games will be able to buy their way to legitimacy. How fitting that a medium which typically encourages its players to exert dominance over the competition would frame its worth as a battle, usually with cinema, as if this were a fight to be won, as if the winner would somehow usurp the loser, as if each venue for human expression didn't have unique capacity for joy, wonder and meaning."


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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Amelia Island Artist Shrimp Expressions
"Rock Shrimp" is one of many whimsically decorated shrimp sculptures that you'll run into these days on a saunter through town. Each of a dozen of these beauties was adopted by a local business and an artist to raise money and awareness for Micah's Place, our local center for domestic violence. The project is called "Shrimp Expression," and will conclude in the fall with the auction of said shrimp for - hopefully - enormous sums of money. In the meantime, we'll have the summer to enjoy - and be photographed with - these colorful characters.
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- itsJUSTme said...
Hi, welcome back!!! Missed you!
The shrimp is hilarious!
- June 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
So glad you're back! and so happy to see Lulu's back as well!
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Georg Ernst Stahl (22 October 1659[1] – 24 May 1734) was a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an explanation for chemical processes.[2] He died in Berlin.
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He was born in St. John's Parish in Ansbach, Germany on October 21, 1659. His father was Johann Lorentz Stahl.[3] He was raised in Pietism, which influenced his viewpoints on the world. His interests in chemistry were due to the influence a professor of medicine, Jacob Barner, and a chemist, Johann Kunckel von Löwenstjern.[4] In the late 1670s, Stahl moved to Germany to study medicine at the University of Jena. Stahl's success at Jena earned him a M.D. around 1683 and then he went on to teach at the same university.
Teaching at the university gained him such a good reputation that in 1687 he was hired as the personal physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen-Weimar. In 1693, he joined his old college friend Friedrich Hoffmann at the University of Halle.[4] In 1694, he held the chair of medicine at the University of Halle. From 1715 until his death, he was the physician and counselor to King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and in charge of Berlin's Medical Board.[3] He had two wives, who had died from puerperal fever in 1696 and 1706. He also had a son Johnathan and a daughter who died in 1708.[2]
Stahl's main focus was on the distinction between the living and nonliving. Although he did not support the views of iatro-mechanists, he believed that all non- living creatures are mechanical and so are living things to a certain degree.[3] His views were that nonliving things are stable throughout time and did not rapidly change. On the other hand, living things are subject to change and have a tendency to decompose.
Stahl professed an animistic system, in opposition to the materialism of Hermann Boerhaave and Friedrich Hoffmann. His main argument on living things was that there is an agent responsible for delaying this decomposition of living things and that agent is the anima or soul of the living organism. The anima controls all of the physical processes that happen in the body. It not only just controls the mechanical aspects of it but the direction and goals of them too.[2] How the anima controls these processes is through motion. He believed that the three important motions of the body are the circulation of blood, excretion and secretion.
These beliefs were reflected in his views on medicine. He thought that medicine should deal with the body as a whole and its anima, rather than the specific parts of a body. Having knowledge on the specific mechanical parts of the body is not very useful.[2] His views had been criticized by Gottfried Leibniz with whom he exchanged letters, later published in a book titled Negotium otiosum seu σκιαμαχία (1720).[5] Also, during the first part of the 18th century, Stahl's ideas on the non-physical part of the body were disregarded while his mechanistic ideas on the body were accepted by the works done by Hermann Boerhaave and Friedrich Hoffmann.[6]
The best of Stahl's work in chemistry was done while he was a professor at Halle. Just like medicine, he believed that chemistry could not be reduced to mechanistic views. Although he believed in atoms, he did not believe that atomic theories were enough to describe the chemical processes that go on. He believed that atoms could not be isolated individually and that they join together to form elements. He took an empirical approach when establishing his descriptions of chemistry.[4]
Stahl used the works of Johann Joachim Becher to help him come up with explanations of chemical phenomena. The main theory that Stahl got from J.J Becher was the theory of phlogiston. This theory did not have any experimental back up until Stahl worked on it. Stahl was able to make this theory applicable to chemistry.[4] This theory was later replaced by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's theory of oxidation.[3] He also propounded a view of fermentation which in some respects resembles that supported by Justus von Liebig a century and half later. Although his theory was replaced, Stahl's theory of phlogiston is seen to be the transition between alchemy and chemistry.[4]
- "Zymotechnia fundamentalis" (1697)
- "Disquisitio de mechanismi et organismi diversitate" (1706)
- "Paraenesis, ad aliena a medica doctrine arcendum" (1706)
- "De vera diversitate corporis mixti et vivi" (1706)
- "Theoria medica vera" (1708)
- "Georgii Ernesti Stahlii opusculum chymico-physico-medicum : seu schediasmatum, a pluribus annis variis occasionibus in publicum emissorum nunc quadantenus etiam auctorum et deficientibus passim exemplaribus in unum volumen iam collectorum, fasciculus publicae luci redditus / Praemißa praefationis loco authoris epistola ad Michaelem Alberti" (1715) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- "Specimen Beccherianum" (1718)[2]
- Philosophical Principles of Universal Chemistry (1730), Peter Shaw, translator, from Open Library.
- "Materia medica : das ist: Zubereitung, Krafft und Würckung, derer sonderlich durch chymische Kunst erfundenen Artzneyen" (1744), Vol. 1&2 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- ^ Stahl's date of birth is often given erroneously as 1660. The correct date is recorded in the parish register of St. John's church, Ansbach. See Gottlieb, B.J. (1942). "Vitalistisches Denken in Deutschland im Anschluss an Georg Ernst Stahl". Klinische Wochenschrift 21 (20): 445–448. doi:10.1007/bf01773817.
- ^ a b c d e "Stahl, Georg Ernst." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 12. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 599-606. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 May 2013./
- ^ a b c d "Georg Ernst Stahl". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 25 May. 2013/
- ^ a b c d e Magill, Frank N. "Georg Ernst Stahl." Dictionary of World Biography. 1st ed. 1999. Print.//
- ^ Smets, Alexis. The Controversy Between Leibniz and Stahl on the Theory of Chemistry Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Hist. Chem.
- ^ Vartanian, Aram. "Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660–1734)." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Donald M. Borchert. 2nd ed. Vol. 9. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 202-203. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 May 2013.
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