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The Age of Nixon
Rick Perlstein on the left, the right, the '60s, and the illusion of consensus
In May 1970 the United States saw a wave of political demonstrations—demonstrations in favor of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. The most famous was the hard hat riot of May 8, when Manhattan construction workers beat up hippies and demanded that City Hall raise the American flag. In subsequent days more marches, some spontaneous and some quietly encouraged by the White House, broke out in such cities as Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and San Diego. On May 20 approximately 100,000 union men in Manhattan held what Time called "a kind of workers' Woodstock," carrying signs with slogans such as "God Bless the Establishment." A cement mixer hauled a banner mocking New York's liberal mayor: "Lindsay for Mayor of Hanoi."
The first histories of the 1960s and early '70s weren't always sure how to treat such events, when they deigned to notice them at all. But over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in the right-wing movements that produced or cheered on such rallies. In studies ranging from Rebecca Klatch's A Generation Divided to Lisa McGirr's Suburban Warriors to John Andrew's The Other Side of the Sixties, a new wave of scholarship has pored over the defining institutions, personalities, and moments of the '60s right, deepening our understanding of the decade and illuminating the subsequent rise of Reaganism.
The most acclaimed of those books was probably the independent historian Rick Perlstein's mammoth Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001), an intelligent and absorbing account of the conservative insurgency that seized the Republican Party in 1964 only to be crushed in the November election. Now Perlstein has published an engrossing, almost novelistic sequel that extends the story through the Republican landslide of 1972. The protagonist of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner) is not Richard Nixon himself, Perlstein writes, but "the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because to do anything else…seemed to court civilizational chaos, and who, eight years later, pulled the level for the Republican for exactly the same reason."
Nixonland takes its name from a speech that John Kenneth Galbraith wrote for Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 presidential campaign: "Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland." One lesson of the book is that men like Stevenson and Galbraith weren't above slander, scare, and innuendo themselves, even if they preferred to pretend these faults existed only in the opposition. Nixonland was much larger than Nixon.
Perlstein, 38, is strongly left-liberal in his own policy preferences, but his Goldwater book was widely praised by conservatives delighted that someone had taken the time to understand their history and ideas. Nixonland is similarly fair-minded in its account of the backlash against liberalism. That is not to say that it goes easy on its subjects. Many conservatives will be unhappy to be reminded of, say, the intense racial paranoia that helped to kick-start their political successes in the '60s. At the same time, Perlstein refuses to tell the left a comforting story in which the backlash was only about race. The arrogance of the era's liberals and leftists, and the ways that manifested itself in both public policy and personal style, is a theme throughout his account.
Perlstein is already planning a third book in the series, tentatively titled From Patty Hearst to Ronald Reagan. I spoke with him at Georgetown University in April.
reason: When you put these books together, what story are you telling?
Rick Perlstein: My overriding subject is how America deals with conflict and consensus. America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.
Congress literally passed a gag rule making it illegal to talk about slavery. In structurally similar ways, in Nixonland, Chicago decided that there was no segregation in Chicago and had a Human Relations Commission whose job it was to keep the frequent housing riots of the '40s and '50s out of the papers. There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other and that's the health of the nation.
When Walter Lippman in 1963 says, "America is more united and at peace with itself than anytime before"; when people describe the Kennedy assassination as an eruption of violence with no precedent in American culture; when people say Barry Goldwater lost because he "dared question the American consensus"; when you have liberal pundits basically not seeing the coming backlash against liberalism when the evidence is right in front of their faces—what's in operation, I think, is an understudied, underexamined American discomfort with conflict.
reason: What's the relationship between the
culture wars in Nixonland and today?
Perlstein: The earliest article I've seen about those tensions was by one of my favorite writers, Dwight Macdonald. It was about the time Norman Mailer got into a fistfight with a cop in Provincetown, a resort town where Mailer lived until he died. Macdonald wrote about the sociology of the two communities that lived in this town: the artist types, some of them gay, and the townies.
He didn't quite have a language to describe it. But what he was writing about is recognizable: the idea that culturally libertarian left-wing culture is snobby, looking down their noses at us, that we work for a living, that we pay taxes, that we're somehow realer Americans than Norman Mailer and Dwight Macdonald and this crowd that sets upon us every summer.
The most eloquent writer on this dynamic wrote in the '70s. His name is Paul Cowan, and he's a hero of mine. He was the first guy to write about this in a fairly systematic way.
reason: He's the guy who covered the West Virginia textbook wars?
Perlstein: That's right. He went to West Virginia and said, "Why are these people blowing up the school board building? And why am I feeling sympathy for the people who are doing that—as a secular, left-wing, radical Jew?" He was able to think about the class politics of that, how these Appalachian folks felt these textbooks that talked about multiple answers to ethical questions were an imposition on their way of life.
How that alignment of cultural and political forces evolved was not inevitable. None of this was inevitable. And understanding it as something that has a history is very important to me.
reason: You were born in 1969, so you remember little to none of the history in Nixonland. What do you think you're seeing in this that the people who were there missed?
Perlstein: The hegemony of the left has been the dominant narrative of the '60s, because it was written by leftists. The idea that the '60s was basically an engagement between two different sides, and both sides have equal dignity and interest, was pioneered by the guy whose office we're sitting in, Mike Kazin, in his book co-written by Maurice Isserman, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, which came out in 2000.
It was in the air in the late '90s. Both these guys are baby boomers, Kazin is actually a former Weatherman, but they were writing in dialogue with younger people who hadn't experienced the '60s and were fascinated, for example, with the rise of the Young Americans for Freedom. We were fascinated with the fact that George McGovern's organizers were convinced that they would win the 1972 election because of the new 18-to-20-year-old voters—who ended up going in a majority for Richard Nixon.
reason: Do you think that changes the way you see some of the figures who have been gone over time and time again?
Perlstein: One reader of the book said I definitely seem to be rooting for the Orthogonians, which is my name for Nixon's followers who felt themselves degraded and condescended to by the liberal elites. I think it's easier to sympathize with Nixon when you realize that he was cruelly condescended to.
It's also easier to see how juvenile and destructive a figure like [hippie activist] Abbie Hoffman can be. I tell a story in the book: His police handler wasn't allowed to arrest him, because [New York Mayor] John Lindsay had come up with this policy of having brokers to each community, including the freak community and the radical blacks and the radical Puerto Ricans. So basically Hoffman baited him mercilessly to the point of smashing the precinct's trophy case.
There was a kind of dehumanization going on, on the left, of the people they called "pigs." This is a lot easier for me to see than someone who was an adolescent at the time and grew up thinking Abbie Hoffman was really cool because he was sticking it to the man.
reason: You mentioned that the McGovern "New Politics" types thought they would win with the youth vote. They also had this idea that they might draw on George Wallace's movement and its anger. You quote McGovern saying that Wallace's strong showing in Florida was "an angry cry from the guts of ordinary Americans against a system which doesn't give a damn about what's really bothering the people of this country today."
In a way that's a liberal sympathy or appreciation for the Orthogonian position. Though of course, he calls busing a "symbol of all these grievances rolled into one" and then comes out for busing.
Perlstein: You're plunging into such a whirlwind of ironies and lost trails of history that it's hard to know where to begin.
A lot of this came out of an overintellectualization of what Americans were going through, which diagnosed an epidemic of what they called alienation. There was the idea that somehow, in the midst of all this prosperity, Americans were more miserable than they had ever been before. Real histrionic stuff.
Piled upon that abstraction was the abstraction that since Wallace and McGovern were both appealing to alienated people, maybe they could appeal to the same alienated people. It was almost a willful blindness on the part of the McGovern people to the fact that they were the bad guys in this narrative.
But on the other hand, there was a genuine economic populism in a lot of what Wallace said. He talked about "the barber and the beautician and the cop on the beat"—that's who he was speaking for. Of course, he did mean the white barber, the white beautician, the white cop on the beat. As late as 1968, he was quite explicit about that.
Part of this cultural condition that I call Nixonland is a style of Americans alienating themselves from other Americans. George Wallace would say, "The next protester who lays down in front of my limousine, that'll be the last limousine he ever lays down under." People would give him a standing ovation. And that guy lying under the limousine was probably a McGovern voter—and called "the cop on the beat" a "pig."
That's a lot of conflict. That's a lot of rage. And the people whose job it was to figure out what the battle lines were in this incredibly cacophonous ideological situation were not necessarily well-equipped to do so. They didn't have the perspective, they didn't have the hindsight we have. So you'd get someone like [New York Times columnist] James Reston writing that McGovern's politics appeal to the "conscience" constituency and blacks and women and helping professionals, and is obviously a much more viable political expression than Spiro Agnew's antiquated appeal to the prejudices of the past. Well, Agnew was the one who won the day in '72.
reason: Having written a book about Goldwater
and a book that's largely about Nixon, how do you compare the two
as historical figures?
Perlstein: Nixon is a profoundly more (long pause) capacious figure than Goldwater. Goldwater was not a quote-unquote "great man" in the sense that Nixon was.
One of the interesting things about 1965 to 1972 is what drops out of the story: the conservative movement. Nixon almost takes up the space that the conservative movement occupies in Before the Storm. Because he's such a huge figure. He commands every space that he's in. Goldwater in a lot of ways is a kind of a minor figure. He was charismatic, he was handsome, he was straight-shooting, but he was diffident and he didn't have that incredible will to power that all great politicians, for good or ill, have.
reason: Do you think he wanted to be president?
Perlstein: Goldwater? No. He said as much. Whereas not only could Nixon not imagine any other satisfying job, he didn't even find the presidency satisfying. That's how big the hole in his soul was that he had to fill with power and the ability to order the universe.
reason: The other two right-wing figures moving
in the background are Reagan and Wallace.
Perlstein: Sometimes people reveal themselves in intimate moments. What George Wallace would tell his children at dinner was that the only things that matter are money and power.
He was a very black-hearted man. He did bear certain similarities with the classic psychological profile of a fascist.
reason: How so?
Perlstein: He loved having crowds respond to his violent rhetoric. He lived for it. He took a very perverse pleasure in that.
He's a fascinating fly in the ointment. He's this extraordinary figure who ducks in and out and throws the machine off in strange ways.
reason: And Reagan?
Perlstein: Where to begin. First of all, I think that Ronald Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign is the most important political campaign in American history that I've studied. It really midwifed the language that campaigns still follow: liberal elites vs. conservative salt-of-the-earth hardworking folks. The greatest politicians are not market takers. They're market makers.
One of the things people loved to say about Reagan back in the day, when it was a lot harder for liberals to muster up any respect for him, was that he was a totally programmed candidate. People like Gary Wills made much of the fact that his handlers hired a consulting firm called BASICO, which claimed to use social science techniques to manipulate public opinion. They had big binders of positions he should take. This was seen as evidence that ultimately Reagan was an empty suit that twists with the wind. But when these people came to him and said, "Stop talking about all this nonsense about the student uprising at Berkeley, it doesn't show up on our polls as a concern, " Ronald Reagan said, "No, I'm not going to stop doing it. Every time I talk about it I get a standing ovation."
You can't tell a pollster "This is an important political issue to me" if you don't even know it's something that's available to vote on. Reagan's genius was intuiting that he could tell a new story about how to order society that made things that didn't seem political before into voting issues.
Now, it's important to understand a lot of the sadism and cruelty that was behind a lot of what Reagan was doing. When he would tell a crowd, "Look at that sign over there, 'Make love, not war'—I bet that guy can't do either" or "I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap," the stereotype of Reagan as a sunny optimist leading us to morning in America breaks down a little bit.
reason: You included some other stories that were the flipside of Reagan's "make love, not war" remark.
Perlstein: Sometimes I felt like I was writing a book about the history of sexual neuroses in the American '60s. You had cops saying about antiwar protesters, "You pull down their pants, and they ain't got no pecker." You had a janitor after the march on the Pentagon being quoted in Time saying this absurd, impossible thing, that all the garbage was panties. You had Richard Nixon saying in 1971, when these brave anti-war Vietnam veterans are encamped in the Mall, "They're just screwing chicks in their sleeping bags." On the other side, you have one of the leaders of the Columbia University strike in 1968 telling women that the cops are so sexually screwed up that if you "pick up your shirt, they won't know whether to jerk off or go blind." You have people like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin describing their ideological adversaries as "menopausal men." Basically you have every side accusing the other side of sexual dysfunction because of their ideological disagreements.
Sex was a weapon. Everything was a weapon. During the Kent State situation, which ended with four students being shot by the National Guard, part of the provocation these National Guardsmen felt was that women were looking up their names on their nameplates, calling their wives in Akron, and saying, "Guess what? I'm screwing your man over here at Kent State!"
Even putting a flower in the barrel of a gun is to a certain degree an act of cruelty. If you have someone whose job it is to follow orders and do their duty, and you taunt them for not being able to respond on a human level to an act like that, you're basically just lording your superiority over them. Love can be a hateful thing.
reason: To what extent was that gesture lording your superiority, and to what extent was it an invitation, maybe a naive invitation, to drop the gun and come over to the hippie side?
Perlstein: Oh, they did that also at Kent State. Women would say to the National Guardsmen, "Come up to my dorm room. I'll make it worth your while."
reason: You like to mix cultural history with political history. Bonnie and Clyde is one of the central texts in the book.
Perlstein: My theory is that Bonnie and Clyde was the most important text of the New Left, much more important than anything written by Paul Goodman or C. Wright Mills or Regis Debray. It made an argument about vitality and virtue vs. staidness and morality that was completely new, that resonated with young people in a way that made no sense to old people. Just the idea that the outlaws were the good guys and the bourgeois householders were the bad guys—you cannot underestimate how strange and fresh that was.
reason: But there's a long history of heroic
outlaws in American storytelling.
Perlstein: Yeah, and they always end up dead in the end. (pause) As did Bonnie and Clyde. But then you get into some interesting, much too academic issues of psychology and spectatorship, how you can identify with a character that you're supposed to hate.
reason: I think that flux you described in political history is even stronger in cultural history, where you don't have to build a coalition. One person who loved Bonnie and Clyde, was obsessed with it for a while, wrote a song inspired by it, was Merle Haggard—who also wrote one of the right-wing cultural texts you discuss, "Okie from Muskogee," the anthem of the Silent Majority.
Perlstein: And with the I-35 bridge crashing in Minneapolis and the New Orleans levies collapsing on the other end of the Mississippi River, he recently came out with another song that said, "Let's rebuild America first." (Laughs.) A social democratic song about an infrastructure agenda!
reason: Or maybe a populist isolationist agenda.
Perlstein: Yes, also quite isolationist, in a discomfiting way I think. But all these things are in play. In the realm of culture, it almost gets to the level of subatomic physics, these strange paradoxes that are delightful to play with.
reason: Earlier you said the conservative movement almost disappeared while Nixon was on the stage. You gave a speech in 2005 where you asked, "What to make of the fact that some of the names who pioneered this anti-Nixonian movement of principle showed up in the dankest recesses of the Nixon administration?" And specifically about [Young Americans for Freedom leader turned Nixon dirty trickster] Tom Huston: "What does it mean that the member of Nixon's staff who was closest to the conservative movement, who was best-versed in its literature and its habits, was not merely the most ruthless malefactor on Richard Nixon's staff but the one most convinced he was acting on principle?"
Perlstein: I think that conservatives—and maybe even libertarians, I'm not really sure, you guys are pretty strange, I can never figure out where to put you guys—need to confront this fact.
reason: What does it say that Tom Huston took the career path that he did?
Perlstein: It says bad faith. Let me give you an excellent example. When Fred Thompson was beginning to cast about for his presidential campaign, I saw this guy quoted in an article as a kind of Thompson supporter/adviser. His name is Ken Rietz. And I said, "Where have I heard that name before?" I did a search on my hard drive and found that he was a Watergate figure. He was the head of Youth for Nixon, which was part of the Campaign to Re-Elect the President—which, incidentally, Karl Rove worked in.
Ken Rietz was all over the Watergate hearings. He was the guy whose job it was to pass the secret documents that were stolen from Edmund Muskie's campaign to the White House. At the time he was a rising star in the Republican National Committee, and because his name was in the papers around Watergate he was cashiered and lost his job at the RNC.
Well, in 1976 he shows up as the campaign manager for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in California. I found myself saying to myself, "What does it take to get thrown out of this movement?"
They made Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy into conservative talk show hosts. We're talking about felons. We're talking about a guy, Liddy, who's on the record saying he was willing to murder a newspaper columnist [Jack Anderson] on behalf of the president of the United States.
This is obviously a part of the patrimony of the conservative movement. We know about the black spots of both the liberal left and the radical left. We know about everything from the gulags to arrogant urban renewal throwing people out of their houses because of these cockamamie schemes of government bureaucrats. To a large extent, speaking as a liberal, my movement has reckoned with those sins. I'm not sure conservatives have reckoned with theirs.
reason: The book is framed by the two landslide elections in 1964 and 1972. It seems to me that there's a major difference between the two that has to be brought into the picture: LBJ had coattails and Nixon did not.
Perlstein: They're just fundamentally different politicians. Lyndon Johnson comes out of a legislative milieu. He was "the master of the Senate." Lawmaking was in his bones. When he was a kid, he used to run around the Texas legislature and watch his dad. So it makes perfect sense that he had a high commitment to campaigning for congressional candidates, and that the voters would intuit a connection between voting for Lyndon Johnson and voting for a legislator who would support Lyndon Johnson's legislative program.
I'm not sure people even knew what Nixon's legislative program was in 1972. He was a very different politician, with contempt for lawmakers. One congressman, Jerry Ford, said he treated them like "the chairman of the board of a large corporation regards his regional sales managers."
reason: Your book describes the Orthogonians' resentment for how liberals reacted to the riots, the idea that they could just throw money at the problem. You didn't write about Nixon's Black Capitalism Initiative, but in his first year in office, he basically decided to spend more money in the ghettos and try to co-opt some radicals with it. One effect, perhaps, of the conservative movement disappearing is that there's very little in the Nixon administration that conservatives can be proud of ideologically.
Perlstein: Yeah. Although it's an interesting question: What would have happened in a second Nixon term, had he been unconstrained? He did have genuine contempt for the welfare state. The reason he liked the guaranteed minimum income, along with our buddy Milton Friedman, is because he could fire all the social workers.
In 1972 [Attorney General] John Mitchell was quoted saying this country is going so far to the right you're not even going to recognize it. It was a drunken remark at a party. It's hard to say what he meant. Did he mean, "We're really going to kick some ass on 'law and order'"? Or did he mean, "Once we finally get this election behind us, we're going to dismantle the welfare state"?
Nixon's quote in regard to domestic policy was that it's all "outhouses in Peoria." He just basically didn't care. The path of least resistance was just following the liberal status quo of the day. The reason he made these gestures toward environmentalism was because it polled really well—and his number one rival, Edmund Muskie, was the leader of the environmental movement in Congress. He certainly wasn't going to spend political capital on eliminating Aid to Families with Dependent Children when he had a war to end. He was much more interested in his secret diplomacy with China and in aggrandizing his own power.
reason: The last line in the book is, "How did Nixonland end? It has not ended yet." It says something about the book that this felt really compelling as I read it.
Perlstein: (Laughs.)
reason: But then I thought, hold on. Do we live in Nixonland today? The intensity of the violence and paranoia that you describe actually feels pretty alien. Now the hard-core Red Team and Blue Team partisans have to work themselves up artificially into the sort of frenzies that came naturally to people in the '60s.
Perlstein: It's a fair criticism. When I say Nixonland is with us still, that could literally mean that things are just as ideologically intense as they were from 1965 to 1972. Or it could be that things were so ideologically intense from 1965 to 1972 that we're still kind of trailing off the exhaust fumes.
I think the latter is true. There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum. I have a friend whose people live in Sulphur, Louisiana, and they still talk about Woodstock as basically a visitation from hell.
reason: In the Goldwater book you wrote that both major presidential candidates in 1964 "would serve up rhetoric that autumn that tingled with the strains of utopianism—intercut with equal and opposite strains of apocalypticism." Is that the story of Nixonland as well?
Perlstein: Yes. I think the thing that made the '60s "the '60s" was this transit between apocalypticism and utopianism. It just suffused everyday life. In Nixonland I quote an ad for an almanac: "'Great Society' or Nation in Crisis: Who Are You to Believe?" It said, "Is America's star rising toward a new utopia, or sinking into a morass of overpopulation, poverty, and crime? Are we making enormous strides toward a golden era of peace and prosperity, or rapidly digging our own collective grave?"
The only thing that was left out of that formulation was the idea that we were living in a moderately interesting time that wasn't going to be particularly different from the time our parents lived in or our children were going to live in. The '60s excluded banality like oil excluded water.
Managing Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (NYU Press).
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and maybe even libertarians, I'm not really sure, you guys are pretty strange, I can never figure out where to put you guys
That whole "liberty" and "freedom" thing just confuses the hell out of people.
Great job, Jesse.
Yeah, awesome article.
'Nixionland'?How about LBJ?I'm always amazed at the deserved hatred of Nixon on the left while giving Johnson a pass.Both were men who wanted power for power's sake.Much like FDR they helped promote the imperial presidential model we have today.
Nixon's the one!
I'm just not sure what.
Great interview. Gonna have to read the guy's book.
A pox on both houses. There were no good guys in the 60's. There were a lot of good intentions. The civil rights movement was long overdue and moved the country in a positive direction. But even there, by the end of the 60's it had morphed into a special interest, centered on welfare and affirmative action. The war was horrible policy executed in a horrible manner. But the anti-war movement was counter productive at best, deluded and destructive more often.
I can't find many good guys of the 60's. Giving a smackdown on punks like Abbie Hoffman is long overdue. But trying to engage my sympathies for the 'love it or leave it' backlash, is going nowhere. It goes beyond the contemptible racism. The hard hat marchers where just another political faction trying to impose their priorities on everyone else.
"There was a kind of dehumanization going on, on the left, of the people they called 'pigs.'"
I wonder if it was as richly-deserved then as it is now.
That's a damn good interview.
Have you guys thought about posting mp3's of interviews (and lectures or whatnot)? I can't much be bothered with video, but I like listening to stuff like econtalk.org and NPR's Fresh Air.
I just learned about Perlstein a few days ago from a Bloggingheads video he did with David Frum (via Andrew Sullivan's blog). Here's the video:
I absolutely loathe the movement to which Perlstein has allied himself, but I have to say, I'm a big admirer of his dedication and his scholarship. After reading that Reason interview, I'm really tempted to pick up Nixonland and the other book as well.
The civil rights movement was long overdue and moved the country in a positive direction.
Most of the real work of the Civil Rights movement was done in the 50s anyway.
"Nixon's the One?!?"
"I don't care if he is one..."
-Pat Paulson
This was a great interview. I read "Before the Storm" when it came out and was highly impressed. My high opinion has not at all been diminished as a result of this interview. I will read "Nixonland" at the earliest opportunity.


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Athlete Chris Moody from Henry County High School in McDonough, Ga., has committed to Vanderbilt.
Moody committed to the Commodores during an official visit this weekend.
"I did commit," Moody told ESPN.com. "I did it because I wanted to be a part of something special. Everybody there gives me the family feeling. Coach (James) Franklin and his staff are great. I feel as if the talent there can help us be great for the future. You also hope this helps Georgia take over Nashville."
Vanderbilt is hoping to hold on to another important Georgia prospect, defensive end Josh Dawson from Tucker (Ga.) High School.
Dawson, who's been committed to Vanderbilt since June, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution it's "50-50″ whether he will sign with Vanderbilt or Georgia.
"I'm still committed to Vanderbilt but … it's just a tight race between Vanderbilt and Georgia right now," Dawson told the AJC. "I'd say they are both on top. I'm just going to have to weigh my options out. I'm going to make my final decision on where I'm going to sign on Feb. 1."
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I'll upload my wallpaper if anyone wants it
Take a screenshot of your desktop at the moment and post it
also post any cool backgrounds you have if you want
a 3x4 display? Are you for reaaal
I'll upload my wallpaper if anyone wants it
I will probably change it soon, but for about a year this is what I've had up
you have two monitors and you just use the same background for each one instead of having a cool background that continues over into the second monitor? What the h, man
Actually, I had this one previously that I edited myself, but I got tired of it.
Either way, my second monitor is always either displaying my PS3 or Xbox, so I never see the other side anyways.
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The city's Building Resiliency Task Force held its first meeting Wednesday to work on recommendations due by the summer on how individual properties in the five boroughs should be built to better withstand extreme weather events.
The dozens of task force members who met in the council's chambers in City Hall, including building experts, must create their guidelines by spring.
These recommendations are intended to help homeowners who are recovering from Sandy, as well as prevent another major storm from being as devastating.
"We have a group of people who are better than any in the world who are worrying about that for you, and that gives New Yorkers an ability to sleep a little bit easier at night," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Big-ticket items like zoning and sand dunes are the subjects of other task forces. The Building Resiliency Task Force faces the smaller but no less significant quandaries of how to build or rebuild individual properties.
"There's everything from the grid to how you build, how high you build and what construction methods you can use to build safely and sustainably," said Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway.
It is still unknown whether this task force's recommendations will become mandates outside of buildings that are not critical places like hospitals.
"Abstractly, sure, let's move everything up a couple floors. But if that seems like totally unfeasible costs, we can't do that," said Russell Unger, a member of the Building Resiliency Task Force.
The law may only kick in for new construction or become "best practices" standards.
Other outstanding questions may be more difficult to address, such as whether properties in Sandy-damaged areas should be rebuilt at all.
Homeowners on a block in the Oakwood Beach section of Staten Island joined their representatives at City Hall on Wednesday to try to arrange a government buy-back of their land.
"I think it's high time that we looked into hazard mitigation, because the city spends an enormous amount of resources in protecting them from fires and ultimately flood mitigation," said City Councilman Vincent Ignizio of Staten Island. "If we can come in and reach an agreement with the homeowners who want to be a part of this program — it's voluntary — I think it's good for them and I think it's good for the overall city."
Sandy was also a topic of another Wednesday meeting involving Mayor Michael Bloomberg's top advisors. They were studying larger questions of citywide rebuilding and readiness for the next storm, and their results are not expected for a few months.
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Steve Schilling, Team leader
Cole Nuyen, Co-leader
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It's easy to talk about innovation, and many businesses use the word and think that's enough to demonstrate that their company is on the leading edge of new ideas. That's never been the case at Fairmount Minerals and nowhere is that more evident than with the company's Business Innovation Team.
Launched in 2008, the Business Innovation Team charged itself with designing and implementing an innovation program for Fairmount, including an innovation center concept and a process for innovation input from all facilities.
Led by Steve Schilling and Cole Nuyen, the result is a thriving program that is constantly flowing with new ideas to make Fairmount Minerals a better and stronger business. Communication portals were developed to allow ideas to be submitted and considered.
It's a rigorous seven-step process to give the idea the best chance of succeeding. The seven steps are concept, feasibility, business case, development, testing and validation, implementation and launch.
An idea management subteam assigns roles and responsibilities for managing this process and facilitates conversations needed to keep an idea moving.
In 2012, the Fairmount family contributed 51 innovative ideas and generated more than $58,000 in cost savings.
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Phil Stella: How to 'link in' with style and class
How often does this happen to you? The day after you attend a networking event, you get a few generic email requests to connect on LinkedIn with people you chatted with for two minutes. They say, "I'd like to add you to my professional network ..."
I get several of these unsolicited requests a week from second level connections I don't even know or have only met briefly.
First, I check out their profile. For those I'm not interesting in connecting with, I simply ignore their request. For those people I am interested in, I politely respond by indicating that, "I prefer to get to know people better before formally connecting" and suggest that we begin an email dialogue.
The purpose of that dialogue is to begin to answer the question, "Is this a person I can help … or who can help me?" Notice it's an "or," not an "and." I'm continually amazed at the high percentage of people who never respond to that initial suggestion.
Full disclosure here, I've been an enthusiastic and strategic networker since before it was called networking. Some colleagues even call me the "Godfather of Networking" — I like that. I prefer high touch to high tech and view social media as an effective tool to enhance and expand relationships generally started by face-to-face or voice-to-voice conversations. If you consider that approach as old school or antiquated, I'm guilty as charged.
That said, LinkedIn allows you a fast, simple and no-cost way to make a poor impression on people you just met or don't even know. So, here are some simple best practices to help you avoid doing that and 'link in' with style and class:
1. Don't be a LinkedIn loser. Some people believe that it's more important and valuable to have quantity over quality in the number of contacts. I don't. They call themselves LIONs — Linked In Open Networkers … but loser works fine for me.
Be selective about whom you invite to connect with and whom you agree to connect with. A primary use of the site is to ask others in your network to refer or recommend you and to do the same for them. That's pretty hard to do when you don't even know the person or the only connection you have is that you're both in the same discussion group.
2. Don't be generic. When you do invite someone to connect with you, avoid the generic system-generated request. Instead, take the extra minute to craft a brief personalized note indicating why you want to connect with them.
Try something like, "Bill, I enjoyed our brief chat at the COSE meeting last night about your new venture at Glitztronics. I'd like to learn more about it and look for some ways to help each other. Please accept my invitation to LinkedIn." How hard was that? How much time did it take? More importantly, what kind of an impression did those three simple sentences likely make on Bill?
When you accept invitations from others, reply in a similar manner with a short note thanking them and suggesting some ways you might help each other.
3. Don't be superficial. When you ask people for a recommendation or referral, also send a personalized note. Make sure they know your work well enough to write a specific and meaningful testimonial. Indicate in that note which of your qualities you'd like them to highlight.
And, of course, offer to reciprocate. When you agree to write a recommendation, check out their existing ones first so you can give yours a different spin.
This all sounds like common sense and common courtesy, doesn't it? Well, our workplace culture killed off common sense years ago, and we allowed common courtesy to die off slowly from lack of use. So, if you want to connect with style and class, do it with uncommon sense and uncommon courtesy. How's that for old school?
Phil Stella runs Effective Training & Communication Inc., where he empowers business leaders to communicate confidently. A popular trainer and executive coach on workplace communications and sales presentations, he is also on the Cleveland faculty at the University of Phoenix and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. Reach him at (440) 449-0356, or email@example.com. For more information, visit www.communicate-confidently.com.
Tom Salpietra: LinkedIn for the C-Suite
I found myself several years ago looking for a new opportunity in my business life. I had changed careers once before, but this time I didn't want to make that kind of change. Instead, I wanted to find something better in the industry in which I was currently working.
As with so many other industries nowadays, I knew mine was poised for a technological revolution.
At the time, the term "social media" was just forming on the lips of those in the dot-com industry. Facebook was battling MySpace for leadership in the personal information arena, and other Internet-savvy companies were just beginning to develop networks of people involved in collecting and exchanging other types of information.
One company, LinkedIn, was quietly establishing a database of professionals that allowed subscribers to compile a list of contacts inside and/or outside their industry with the click of a button. Times certainly were changing.
Observing one of the originals
My first encounter with LinkedIn was with one of its original power users. He taught a class of outplacement recruits about establishing a LinkedIn account. I learned how to post a soft version of my resume online, develop a set of broad-based contacts and literally network my way into a job interview.
There were a number of tips and tricks he provided to get my name listed on the first page of a company's search for candidates. Some of those are still useful, while others are now obsolete due to sophisticated search engine optimization techniques.
Today, my use of LinkedIn has gone far beyond looking for a new job. It has exploded to where I am now connected with thousands of people inside and outside my own industry that have common business interests.
Nurturing and extending
I have also become a hub of introductions and contacts for others, as well as myself, by nurturing and extending my professional persona via LinkedIn.
The usefulness of LinkedIn, especially for a C-suite officer, doesn't just mean "friending" other C-suite executives. LinkedIn cuts across most company functions when it comes to people, organizations and groups of individuals with a common interest.
I use LinkedIn every time I come across a new company or name of an individual. A company's website is often the first link I tap to peruse and gather information, but a company's LinkedIn site seems to connect me deeper into the organization.
The company's LinkedIn site gives me access to people who don't appear on the company's home page. Within this space, I can look for contacts with interesting backgrounds and experiences aligned to my own company's interests or requirements.
Productivity tools abound
Many social media tools, like LinkedIn, are productivity tools for the C-suite executive. I get information and insight from the many user groups I have joined.
I participate in discussions regarding technology trends and channel opportunities. I learn about customer behavior, sometimes even competitor behavior. There are also comments and information I glean on potential new markets and future M&A business partners — everything pertinent to tier one interests of a senior executive.
If I am interested in finding a good person to fill an open job position, an outside recruiter or my HR department can always find a slate of qualified candidates. LinkedIn, however, serves as a handy tool for helping me peel back a few layers from each resume. I often get what I refer to as a 3-D view of the person behind the text of a CV.
In my humble opinion (IMHO), within the social media frenzy that now exists in cyberspace, the head of the class for business networking is LinkedIn.
Tom Salpietra is president and COO of EYE Lighting International, a manufacturer of lighting equipment. His company was awardeda the 2011 Evolution in Manufacturing Award. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ready, set, grow: Manufacturing will outpace GDP growth in 2014
Although manufacturers can expect modest 2 percent growth through the remainder of 2013, the brief lull gives opportunistic executives a chance to prepare for an uptick in business next year.
Gus Faucher, senior economist for The PNC Financial Services Group, attributes his optimistic forecast to a rise in business investments, fueled by the resolution of murky tax and sequestration issues, and the continuation of record-low interest rates.
"I think the U.S. will maintain an edge in high value-add manufacturing because we have highly skilled, productive labor," Faucher says. "Maintaining our competitive advantage requires ongoing development of our manufacturing workforce."
As the economic recovery proceeds, in what areas will spending accelerate most? Manufacturers of home building products and materials, furnishings, appliances and so forth should have a strong 2014, thanks to the rebound in the residential real estate market. In turn, those manufacturers will purchase more production equipment, raw materials, parts and other items. The wealth effect in real estate will stimulate growth throughout the supply chain.
Will rising global demand for U.S. made products including semiconductors, medical devices and specialized materials manufacturing propel employment gains over the next few years? Post-recession hiring will wane next year as manufacturers look for productivity gains from workers added since employment levels bottomed out in early 2010. Although manufacturing is back up to 12 million workers, that's still well below the 2006 peak of 14.2 million. The mantra continues to be: Do more with less.
How could the expansion of the shale oil industry affect manufacturing? Shale oil exploration and extraction will be a boon to ancillary industries and all U.S. manufacturers that rely on natural gas for production, since it will lower energy costs over the long-term. Moreover, it will give America a much-needed competitive advantage in today's spirited global marketplace.
Augustine (Gus) Faucher is a senior economist for The PNC Financial Services Group. He is responsible for contributing to the preparation of PNC's U.S. economic forecast and alternative economic scenarios.
Talent- Driven Innovation Books for CEOs
The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley
Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt
Regenwald, 304 pages
What makes places like Silicon Valley tick? Can we replicate that magic in other places? How do you foster innovation in your own networks? Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt propose a radical new theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. They argue that free market thinking fails to consider the impact of human nature on the innovation process.
These ecosystems, or Rainforests, can only thrive when certain cultural behaviors unlock human potential. The authors provide practical tools for readers to design, build and sustain new innovation ecosystems. The Rainforest challenges the basic assumptions that economists have held for over a century and will transform the way you think about technology, business and leadership.
The Coming Jobs War
Jim Clifton
Gallup Press, 220 pages
Drawing on 75 years of Gallup studies and his own perspective as the company's chairman and CEO, Jim Clifton explains why jobs are the new global currency for leaders. To win, leaders need to compete. The business community needs to double the psychological engagement of workers so that it can compete with cheaper labor. Perhaps most importantly, leaders need to recognize universities, mentors and especially cities as a supercollider for job creation. There's not a moment to waste: the war has already begun.
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
John Kao
Free Press, 320 pages
John Kao first offers a stunning, troubling portrait of the recent erosion of U.S. competitiveness in innovation, then he takes readers on a fascinating tour of the leading innovation centers, such as those in Singapore, Denmark and Finland, which are trumping us in their more focused and creative approaches to fueling innovation. He then lays out a groundbreaking plan for a national innovation strategy that would empower the U.S. to marshal its vast resources of talent and infrastructure in ways that will produce transformative results.
How top global entrepreneurs seize the chance for expansion and success
If you are an entrepreneur, and you see what you think is a growth opportunity, you may be tempted to take the advice that's been offered many times: risk all you can and jump in head first.
But if you catch your breath, the proper decision at that time is not really what to do. Your analysis lies more with if you think the opportunity is one for growth.
With that in mind, Smart Business interviewed some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and the leadership at EY about growth opportunities. These business leaders come from the more than 60 countries at the recent EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year conference in Monte Carlo.
"We're looking at China and other Asian countries. The key to that market is to have big internationals that are creating value for their communities where we can sell our products. These are the kind of countries, those that can generate big internationals, that we are looking at."
Martin Migoya, CEO, Globant
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Argentina
"I have been tracking where I see money going. Where is the most foreign direct investment happening? Africa is clearly one. In South America, Colombia has been coming much more into its own, as have Indonesia and parts of Southeast Asia. Those are some of the markets you'll start to see. Mexico is another one you have to watch because it's close to the U.S. and its leaders have had change in their political landscape to be more pro-business."
Herb Engert, Americas Strategic Growth Markets Leader, EY
"One of the ways that we encourage innovation is we partner with a lot of technology startup companies. We look for alliances and what's next in technology that can drive improvements and enhancements in our industry.
When we see a technology that's promising we'll start working with them and provide them with real-world market feedback. That gives us the data and confidence to help them get to commercial deployment.
Our people are always looking for innovative ways to do things with the discipline of knowing that at Chevron we have to represent our brand and stand behind everything that we do and our customers expect us to keep them on that proven level of technology."
Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions
"I am in one of the newest economic blocs to emerge from Latin America, the Pacific Alliance, which seeks to create a Latin American gateway to Asian markets. Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru are members. The bloc hopes to make the commercial, economic and political forces among the members work more closely together.
The entrepreneurs representing Colombia chose me to be in that alliance two years after it was founded. What it is going to do is to join the market of those five countries — it is one market for everyone."
Mario Hernandez, founder and president, Marroquinera
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Colombia
"There continue to be tremendous opportunities in Brazil; it's a big country, a big market. It will be back on the world stage even more with the 2014 World Cup and ultimately the Summer Olympics in 2016.
But when you look at Spanish-speaking countries, certainly Mexico is attracting a lot of direct foreign investment. The new administration, the federal government there, has definitely got a strong commitment to entrepreneurship.
We are seeing that as being important to them, and we are working with them on a number of different initiatives as the U.S. State Department and others try to help foster more entrepreneurial startups and more entrepreneurial growth in Mexico, both big and small."
Bryan Pearce, Americas Director, Entrepreneur Of The Year and Venture Capital Advisory Group, EY
"There are always things you can do to improve and grow your business. You should be rethinking and retooling it every chance you get. The key thing is making sure everybody in the organization understands the story, where you're going, are you going to get there in the belief that you are doing the right thing. People want to know their purpose, so that's for me the biggest area to keep the energy going — keep a sense of purpose very strong."
Dr. Alan Ulsifer, CEO, president and chair, FYidoctors
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Canada
"Always be seeking new opportunity. Always be looking for new technologies, innovation and creativity within your people. The best ideas within our business have come from the people inside our company. You have to give opportunity to your people. Tell them it's OK to be wrong and make mistakes. That's important so people will learn from those mistakes and come up with better ideas."
Lorenzo Barrera Segovia, founder and CEO, Banco BASE
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Mexico
"The growth driver in the world is coming from entrepreneurs. They are the ones driving economic growth and driving job growth. If you look at leading indices of companies, they churn much more rapidly than they ever did before.
"It used to take 20 years to have a half of a churn in some of these indices. Now it takes four or five years. It's because the entrepreneurs are building businesses so quickly. We have to keep investing and keep recognizing their strengths."
Jim Turley, retired global chairman and CEO, EY
"It's important to understand where the trends are going. So communication and information is important. I fully support the free market system. It's a great way to understand where the best new ideas are coming from and where the value lies. We keep an eye on our competitors on technology and on alternative learning aspects. So to the extent that the web provides a better way to educate more students more efficiently, we'll be using that."
J.C. Huizenga, founder, National Heritage Academies
"I built the company based on people, not with experience from before, but willing to learn and try anything. We had a bunch of people that had never done this before. None of us had run companies. None of us had worked in high levels of companies. None of us were from Fortune 500s.
"Whatever you look for in people to bring them into a company — none of us had it. Most of the people came in from an entry-level position and now they're leading departments. Chobani not only became a business that grew, but Chobani was like a school to us, including myself."
Hamdi Ulukaya, founder, president and CEO, Chobani Inc.
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 United States and 2013 World Entrepreneur Of The Year
"Companies attracted by the Latin American market have to decide where to establish the operations in Latin America. They have many opportunities: Sao Paulo; Buenos Aires; Santiago, Chile; or maybe in Peru. But in Uruguay, there is a very small market. You have to operate with a different concept, much like an offshore company, to operate in Latin America."
Orlando Dovat, founder and CEO, Zonamerica
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Uruguay
How to see past the medical community's fixation on walking
Walking does not generally qualify as exercise. A movement or activity is not perceived as a stimulus by the body unless it is demanding. An activity that does not render a muscular failure — an inability of the muscle to continue, reached within one to three minutes — is not demanding.
Walking can be continued ad infinitum because there is no meaningful muscular taxation. If walking becomes impossible, it is because the subject has become sleepy, hungry, generally fatigued, ridden with blisters, injured or dehydrated.
The muscles, per se, do not fail. They can go on and on and on. And since they can go on and on, and they are never meaningfully challenged, overuse syndromes are proportionately probable.
There are exceptions. Walking may indeed be exercise for individuals whom find walking is all but impossible. In this instance of debility, walking is momentarily and meaningfully demanding. It is therefore exercise for these people — there will be an "exercise effect," but is it appropriate for such patients?
In my opinion, it is not the best form of rehabilitation for these debilitated people. I would prefer that these people were performing specific strength exercise for the musculature that is required for walking; that remaining upright and gait training is included to regain the skill of walking after the muscles are conditioned enough to provide sufficient support.
The best exercise and the best physical rehabilitation are done with high-intensity and low-force exercise that tracks muscle and joint function. These compressive forces are nourishing and healthful to our joints and articular cartilage, as well as strengthening to muscle and bone.
Even with such a benign activity as walking, our stance limb may be exposed to 2.3 times our body weight with a brisk pace. Under normal conditions this is no great issue, but for someone with a functional leg length difference, someone experiencing back pain or a person with arthritic knees, excessive walking in the name of exercise will only exacerbate these conditions, while the compressive forces of slow-speed, strength exercise are far safer and more therapeutic.
I often hear the adjective: low impact. This term is used indiscriminately to imply low force. On the contrary, low impact does not indicate low force. Relatively high force is encountered without an impact. Forces occur and vary depending on the rate of change in movement. Thus, excessive force can be encountered merely by jerking your limbs around in the air (a gas) or water (a liquid) — not just against a solid.
Notice the deliberate heel strike of those on walking programs as they briskly march about the neighborhoods or in shopping malls. And if a so-called march fracture can put a soldier out of commission, just imagine the chain of events that might follow with an elderly man or woman: immobility, foot surgery to relieve bone spurs, increased danger of falling while maneuvering with crutches, infection subsequent to surgery, and on and on.
In reality, exercise is just as much a chore as brushing one's teeth, making the bed, washing the clothes, mowing the grass, washing the dishes or taking a bath. It is an absolute requirement for a normal, healthy life, and must not be confused with recreation any more than flossing one's teeth or scrubbing the kitchen floor. Not enjoying it doesn't factor into the matter. It must be done.
I expect that some will read this and conclude that it is passé. People may feel this attitude toward walking overlooks the fact that the exercise physiologists and mainstream medicine now acknowledge strength training as an important component of exercise.
No, they don't. Strength training is not a component of exercise. It is the exercise.
Ditch the steady-state, low-intensity activities. It is anti-exercise. It is empty exercise. It is counterproductive and can even be injurious.
Joshua Trentine is president of Overload Fitness. Reach him at (216) 292-7569 or visit www.overloadfitness.com.
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How misinterpretations can mean higher taxes for closely held companies
Companies that have looked into using the IC-DISC (Interest-Charge Domestic International Sales Corporation) provisions of the tax code, intended to help U.S. companies compete internationally, might remember that the incentive essentially reduces the top federal tax rate on income from certain qualified goods and services from 39.6 to 20 percent.
"Partly because it is thought of as a manufacturing and export incentive, many companies have dismissed the IC-DISC. Many more have misinterpreted the rules, which actually do not require manufacturing or exporting," says Amit Mathur, CPA, director at WTP Advisors.
Pete Chudyk, head of the tax consulting practice at Maloney + Novotny LLC, says "We have helped many companies realize that the definition of 'qualified export' sales for IC-DISC purposes is explicitly based on use outside of the U.S., and does not literally require the exporting of goods."
Smart Business spoke with Mathur and top accounting firms about five IC-DISC myths that lead to business owners missing or underutilizing the valuable government incentive.
Myth 1: Products must be exported.
Perhaps the most widely held IC-DISC misinterpretation is that a company must export a product and sell to a foreign customer to qualify for benefits.
While the product generally must be ultimately used outside of the U.S. — without being further manufactured by another party inside the U.S. — there is no requirement that the product be exported, or that the customer be foreign. In some cases, the product may even return to the U.S. For example, an Ohio auto parts maker that sells to General Motors Co. can claim benefits if the parts are incorporated into a car GM builds in Mexico. A special component rule allows these parts to qualify after being incorporated into another product abroad that returns to the U.S.
Mike Trabert, a partner at Skoda Minotti, says "Any closely held manufacturer or distributor should examine where the ultimate use of their products occurs. While they may not consider themselves 'exporters,' significant and easy to implement tax benefits may be available."
Myth 2: The taxpayer must manufacture the product.
Closely held distributors and brokers, as well as the final manufacturers, of any U.S.-made product are eligible for IC-DISC benefits for any given qualified sale or lease. Unlike the Domestic Production Activities Deduction often enjoyed in tandem with the IC-DISC — both benefits can be claimed — manufacture by the taxpayer is not required.
Myth 3: Business operations will be disrupted.
A popular misconception is that using an IC-DISC will require a new entity to sell qualified exported goods in order to obtain the tax savings. This fear of having to alter contracts, logistics, payments, etc., is totally unfounded. There is actually no effect on cash flow or any other business operations from using an IC-DISC. Other than receiving a commission from the related operating company and immediately paying a dividend back to the company, or its owners, the IC-DISC typically does not perform any activities whatsoever.
Myth 4: IC-DISC benefits are limited to $10 million of qualified sales.
No limitation exists on the amount of qualified export sales that can generate IC-DISC benefits. Originally, the IC-DISC provided a deferral benefit, and the amount that could be deferred was related to only $10 million of qualified export sales.
Myth 5: IC-DISC commission is 4 percent of export sales or 50 percent of export income.
IC-DISC savings result from allowable commission paid to an IC-DISC, generating an expense at ordinary rates (39.6 percent) with the same amount typically being paid from the IC-DISC to its shareholders as a dividend, taxed at dividend rates (top rate 20 percent). Many believe this commission amount is limited to 4 percent of export sales or 50 percent of export taxable income.
In reality, each qualified export transaction can use either of these basic methods, or a host of other methods explicitly encouraged in the regulations that can be more beneficial. Some methods even allow loss transactions to generate a commission.
Amit Mathur, CPA, is a director at WTP Advisors. Reach him at (216) 292-6732 or email@example.com.
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How to encourage medication adherence to decrease health costs
It was the late C. Everett Koop, a former U.S. surgeon general, who once famously said: "Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them." That's a simple way to look at a costly and complex problem — medication non-adherence — where the failure to take drugs on time in the dosages prescribed is both dangerous for patients and costly to the health care system.
"There are a number of reasons that people either don't take their medication or stop taking it before they should," says Chronis Manolis, RPh, vice president of pharmacy for UPMC Health Plan. "But what it often comes down to is a lack of understanding of the disease and a lack of respect for the condition."
Smart Business spoke with Manolis about the problem of medication non-adherence and the ways it can be addressed.
What does medication non-adherence cost?
This problem impacts the cost of health care in many ways. According to the Express Scripts Drug Trend Report, $329 billion was spent on avoidable medical and pharmacy expenses as a result of patients not being adherent to medication treatments. Approximately 50 percent of patients do not take their medication as prescribed, which results in increases in the overall cost of treating chronic conditions and increases the number of hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
Why is medication non-adherence a persistent problem?
Clearly, there are a number of reasons why people may not take their medicine as directed by their physician. Consider, for example, people who have asymptomatic conditions such as high blood pressure, cholesterol disease and Type 2 diabetes. For them, taking medication may have no immediate effect on the way they feel. And, when medicine does not make you feel better, some don't understand why they need to take it. As a consequence, many do not.
What are other factors that contribute to medication non-adherence?
Well, first, there's the cost of the prescription. If there's no generic available, it can be expensive, and a patient may simply choose not to purchase it. Then, there's forgetfulness, which is a factor for older patients, but also for others as well. Some patients may avoid taking medicine because they fear the possible side effects. Others may not take it because they do not believe that the medication is truly effective.
But, what is often the underlying cause is a basic lack of understanding of their condition. Many patients do not realize they are taking medicine now in order to stay healthy in the years to come and to avoid a more serious condition 10, 20 or 30 years later when it will be too late to treat it with medication. For some, that's a hard concept to grasp.
What kinds of solutions would help promote medication adherence?
Solving the problem of medication non-adherence is complex because there is no 'one size fits all' solution. A comprehensive, multi-pronged solution is needed to improve medication adherence.
These include promoting the need for more conversation between physicians and patients concerning the importance of medication in the overall treatment plan. There also needs to be a way to involve pharmacists more. Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to reinforce the message regarding the importance of medication. This can include encouraging patients to use their medication as prescribed and asking patients if they understand why they are taking a drug and if they understand the condition that it's being used for.
Health plans can play a role as well because they can determine if patients are refilling their prescriptions in a timely manner. Health plan pharmacists can reach out to non-adherent patients and provide customized solutions and tools for patients to improve adherence. Additionally, health plan pharmacists can help triage specific patient adherence issues to other members of the health plan's team including care managers and health coaches. For example, if cost is a factor, often less expensive generics are available. If forgetfulness is a problem, pillboxes or enrolling in refill reminder programs could work. Or, finding a substitute for the medication or changing dosing and/or frequency of the medication can eliminate side effects.
Chronis Manolis, RPh, is a vice president of pharmacy at UPMC Health Plan. Reach him at (412) 454-7642 or email@example.com.
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How to make sense of the individual mandate
Your entire employee population — even those part-time, seasonal and currently not eligible for benefits — will be increasingly impacted by health care reform. Beginning in 2014, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the "individual mandate" will require most individuals to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. The requirement to maintain coverage applies to all ages, even children.
Smart Business spoke with Craig Pritts, sales executive at JRG Advisors, the management arm of ChamberChoice, about how the individual mandate may impact your employee population.
What are the penalties for not following the individual mandate?
The penalty for not obtaining acceptable health insurance coverage will be phased in over three years and will be the greater of either a flat dollar amount or a percentage of income. In 2014, the penalty will start at $95 per person or up to 1 percent of income. In 2015, the penalty increases to $325 per person or up to 2 percent of income. For 2016 and after, the penalty goes up to $695 per person or up to 2.5 percent of income.
For penalty calculation purposes, 'income' will be defined as the taxpayer's household income minus the taxpayer's exemption (or exemptions for a married couple) and standard deductions. The penalty will be calculated on a monthly basis and will be assessed for each month in which an individual goes without coverage. There will be no penalty for a single lapse in coverage lasting less than three months in a year.
Those covered under an employer-sponsored group health plan or a government-sponsored program such as Medicare or Medicaid can continue to be covered and will not be subject to a penalty.
Who is exempt from penalty?
Individuals may be exempt if they:
- Cannot afford coverage. Those for whom a required contribution for coverage would cost more than 8 percent of their household income.
- Experience a gap in coverage for less than three consecutive months.
- Have income below the tax-filing threshold.
- Receive a hardship exemption from the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Are incarcerated.
- Are members of a Native American tribe.
According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), if they are eligible for an exemption for a single day of a month, they will be treated as exempt for the entire month.
How will the IRS enforce the penalties?
Beginning in 2015, everyone who files a federal income tax return for the previous year will be required to report which family members are exempt from the individual mandate and whether each person not exempt had insurance coverage. A penalty will be owed for each nonexempt family member without coverage. Married couples filing a joint return will be jointly liable for the penalties that apply to either or both of them. Anyone claiming a dependent will be responsible for reporting and paying the penalty for that dependent.
The IRS will assess and collect penalties in the same manner as taxes. However, the ACA imposes certain limitations on the IRS's ability to collect. It's anticipated that assessable penalties will be subtracted from individual tax refunds, if applicable.
How will tax credits help people comply with the individual mandate?
The ACA created a premium tax credit to help eligible individuals and families purchase health insurance through an affordable insurance exchange, making coverage more affordable. Taxpayers may qualify for a premium tax credit if their annual household income is between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level for their family size; if they cannot be claimed as a dependent by another taxpayer; or if they are not eligible for minimum essential coverage, which is coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan or Medicare or Medicaid plans.
The health insurance arena is changing, and individuals have a responsibility to comply with new legislation or pay a penalty. Understanding the legislation is challenging, to say the least. It's good to work with an advisor who has the resources to help employees sort through the confusion, understand options and responsibilities, and find the best solution to fit their needs.
Craig Pritts is a sales executive at JRG Advisors, the management arm of ChamberChoice. Reach him at (412) 456-7253 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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