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by Mark Cipolloni
July 20, 2004
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Joe Heitzler
Former CART President Joseph Heitzler has been very busy making Champ
Car's two Mexican races South of the Border a huge success. Mr.
Heitzler presided as President of CART through some turbulent times and
we were able to break him away from his hectic schedule to conduct the
provocative interview. As they say, hindsight is 20/20 and Mr. Heitzler
is now able to reflect back on what was CART as well as provide
his insight into its future as Champ Car.
Joe, thanks for taking the time to be with us today.
Heitzler: It's my pleasure Mark, thanks for inviting me.
AutoRacing1: It should be noted for the reader that we were
concluding this interview when the Champ Car/IRL unification story broke
and Mr. Heitzler asked we postpone concluding the interview until that
story settled down. Now that is has, with no hope of a unified open
wheel series in sight, what is your take on the topic of unification?
Can the two series come back together?
Heitzler: It seems as if the parties are in a look-see pattern. The
participants are all positioning their respective viewpoints and feeling
their way. What else can they do given the atmosphere of mistrust,
miscommunications and all the other elements that have transpired over
the last 10 years.
AutoRacing1: We understand you have been wrapping up your work in Mexico
and that you will be devoting time to other projects in the US. Can you
bring us up to date on this - in particular what is your next project
and what does it entail?
Heitzler: While I will be focusing more attention on the U.S. I will
still spend a significant amount of time in Mexico. The Mexican
corporations are the most tenured sponsors in the series. That fact,
coupled with the desire of the Mexican corporations to expand both their
operations and their marketing programs to the U.S. warrants having a
direct relationship with the key decision makers and the management of
those corporations. Unless you have worked as closely with these
corporations as I have you probably would not know that the second
largest economic factor in the Mexican economy is the over $14 billion
dollars Hispanic consumers in the U.S. send back to Mexico each year.
That is significant! Cross border development is an essential element in
our long term business plan so I will maintain an office with a staff
full time in Mexico City.
In the U.S. there is a great deal going on that I would love to share
with you and your readers but, for all the obvious reasons, I simply cannot. What I can share is I am in the final stages of forming a new U.S.
company that will be focused on providing corporate communications
services with an emphasis on special events, such as motor sports. I'm
very excited about this new venture and look forward to sharing more
information about it with you and your readers just as soon as
everything is finalized.
AutoRacing1: We recently reported, as a rumor I might add pending our
receiving more definitive information, the Herdez press bulletin that was
released in Mexico indicating they would not sponsor racing teams in 2005. They may want to sponsor golf instead. Herdez owns a big
chunk of HERDEZ Competition. What are Herdez, Corona and Gigante
planning for 2005?
Heitzler: Our company, EMG, is in negotiations will several of these
firms and it would be premature to announce several positive
developments in this area. But they are positive.
AutoRacing1: Obviously both Mexican races were huge successes last year
and Monterrey drew well this year. What did your team do to make it all
Heitzler: One essential aspect of the success of these events is the
incredible love and passion the Mexican fans demonstrate on a daily
basis for Champ Car. The 2003 season was absolutely rewarding with 17
podiums for Mexican pilots (drivers) which helped to heighten fan
interest in our events. My people in Mexico, my core team, are some of
the most talented people I've ever worked with. There are none better.
They dedicated themselves 24/7 to ensuring these were going to be
successful events. Their passion for what they were doing was contagious
and the fans, the sponsors and even the media all fed on their energy.
You know, Mark, passion is a critical element in most every aspect of
management in Mexico. I never have had a member of my team say they
could not do something. They naturally assume they can do whatever it
is they set their minds to, and you know what, they do! It was amazing.
My biggest transition was to learn the language and, more importantly,
learn and understand the issues that truly motivate the management of
the corporations making these sizable sponsorship investments.
AutoRacing1: Is there one lesson you learned down in Mexico that you
think could help some of the promoters in the States?
Heitzler: I would without a doubt have to say the media coverage and our
relationship with the media in Mexico is totally refreshing, especially the level
of trust and interest by the media and a willingness to help make the
events successful. They have pride in the event and have taken ownership
of the Champ Car World Series and the Mexican races. The Mexican media
prefer to report the news not the rumors and they are not interested in
spinning news to suit the political agenda of a competing series. You
must remember that the fans in Mexico are overwhelmingly road racing
fans. F1 and Champ Car is what they follow. More than one of my Mexican
colleagues has asked me to explain what U.S. fans see in oval racing,
particularly NASCAR. All I can do is shrug my shoulders and shake my
head because I haven't been able to figure it out myself. Road racing
demands so much more talent from the pilots, the crews and the teams as
a whole. There simply is no comparison in my book. Another lesson
learned here in Mexico that could be exported back to the U.S. is the
way in which the Mexican sponsors integrate their participation in Champ
Car into their core advertising. They are much more effective at this.
Champ Car becomes a common thread woven into all of their advertising
and promotion. They are very aware of the value in tying it all
AutoRacing1: Are you happy to see Champ Car now in private hands? Do you
wish it was when you were President?
Heitzler: YES, very happy. As to it having been private during my time
as President of CART, honestly, I've never really considered it.
AutoRacing1: You were somewhat instrumental in helping OWRS win the
bankruptcy trial over Tony George? Do you get a lot of satisfaction out
of that?
Heitzler: Yes, but my satisfaction with that victory is derived more
from the confidence demonstrated by Mr. Forsythe in asking me to provide
my contribution. There was a lot at stake there and I would be lying if
I didn't admit it was one of the most nerve-wracking moments of my
career. I would like to share this though, Judge Otte was overwhelmed by
the support shown by CART fans. He allowed the court room to burst into
applause on more than one occasion when procedural rulings went in favor
of the OWRS bid but on those occasions when a ruling may have favored
the IRL there was only silence. No response at all from those in
attendance. I must give CART fans a lot of credit. They were sending
e-mail to Judge Otte urging him, not so much to save CART, but begging
him not to let Tony George get his hands on it just so he could kill it.
I sat near Tony George for a majority of the day, inside the docket
area, and that was really an interesting vantage point to watch from.
The last time I had seen Tony was when I attended the 2001 Indy 500 as
the CEO of CART and as a guest of then CART supporter Roger Penske. As
I'm sure you may remember, CART drivers swept the top five positions
that year. Tony, in a very private moment backstage at the awards
banquet, said it was the worst day of his life! I obviously was in a bit
of a different mood.
AutoRacing1: What do you view as the major hurdles Champ Car still has
to clear? What about Open Wheel Racing in general in the USA?
Heitzler: Sponsors and TV. Both are absolutely critical to Champ Car's
future. Champ Car needs a business plan that addresses sponsor equity
and sponsor development. They also need a single Producer/Director to do
the Champ Car broadcasts. You take the signal Champ Car produces or you
don't get a signal. Pure and simple. The same Producer/Director for
every event - a consistent look and feel for each broadcast. It becomes
a signature element of the series much like PGA golf was on CBS when
Frank Chirkinian and Chuck Will did every CBS golf telecast and set the
broadcast standard everyone else has chased ever since.
As far as a business plan is concerned they must look to the future.
Each race weekend the owner's (OWRS) jets should be full of corporate
CEOs and senior marketing executives from the world's most visible
consumer products companies all of whom need to reach the kind of
consumer that is the Champ Car fan! Champ Car fans fall, not
surprisingly, into the most highly sought after consumer demographic on
the planet. We have to begin educating key corporate decision makers in
our product and we must demonstrate to them that the Champ Car World
Series is one of the most cost efficient means for them to reach their
target customer in mass. There is nothing that gets that point across
like getting these executives to a race so they can experience it firsthand.
One last thing relative to the business plan, I would organize a
national contest to pick the best 20 or so Champ Car fans and then form
a fan advisory panel. Have them meet three to four times per year with
the owners to voice their concerns or criticisms and provide us with the
input we need to ensure Champ Car stays focused on the fans who are our
customers. Customer service is everything in any business, including
ours. It is the fans of Champ Car, together with the owners and the
sponsors, that have gotten us to this point. Without the fans where
would we be now?
AutoRacing1: Are you bullish on Champ Car, or is the jury still out?
Heitzler: Let me put it to you this way. If you were given the chance,
knowing their track records as businessmen as you do, would you invest
with Gerry, Kevin and Paul? Has Gerry Forsythe deviated one step from
the desires and objectives he had for the sport when he was the single
largest stakeholder in CART? There is a significant rationale attached
to these guys when they dedicate themselves and, more importantly, when
they allocate financial resources, to this investment. Add to that their
charisma and the promotional talents they all share and you have some
real Disney, Apple, Microsoft style aura going. I would bet the ranch on
these guys.
AutoRacing1: Should Champ Car focus on North America or make a major
effort to become a true global sports property? What changes would they
need to make to be successful at either?
Heitzler: As a global sports entertainment product they will be
enormously successful. North America is too small for this product and
the North American market is already crowded with the oval racing
entities. As tobacco bans force F1 out of their traditional venues new
opportunities for Champ Car to step in, fill the void, and introduce new
customers to our product are created.
AutoRacing1: Rumors say that NASCAR will be racing in Mexico soon. Can
you comment on that?
Heitzler: Having spent the time I have as a resident of Mexico I have
learned a lot about the culture and the business mentality of the major
companies and their consumers. Oval racing is not of any interest at
this time. Oval style racing has none of the deep seeded traditions road
racing enjoys in this country. Again, oval racing is a uniquely American
product and it does not export well. Combine the lack of interest in
oval racing with a relatively low level of disposable income at a
national level and you have some major obstacles for NASCAR to overcome.
However, on balance, there is an emerging Middle Class developing in
Mexico and as this consumer class develops they may seek out new sports
entertainment options, create a paradigm shift if you will, and develop
a taste for oval style racing with trucks and stock cars.
They could
also, just as suddenly, become big fans of ice hockey too! Who knows
what COULD happen. But given how entrenched road racing is in this
country, partially due to F1 and Champ Car, but also due to karting and
the other forms of open wheel, sports car and motorcycle racing, I think
NASCAR will have a long uphill battle to win the Mexican motorsports fan
over to their form of the sport. An example of Mexican interest in stock
car racing was seen a few weekends ago. The new stock car series was
having its first event and only drew between 800 to a 1000 spectators.
This was not a good way to start a new series and supports what I've
been saying for some time: there is no interest in oval racing in
Mexico. Recently Mexico has beaten Argentina in a major soccer
competition and that combined with the upcoming Olympics has caused the
Mexican media to focus on those events. Also the Mexican pilots are
having a tough year in the Champ Car World Series.
AutoRacing1: Obviously your Presidency at CART didn't end up the way you
had hoped. Was the situation there unworkable regardless of who was
Heitzler: I have heard some say that I was the right guy at the wrong
time. One of the individuals that I brought to the board said he had
NEVER seen as many intellectually dishonest people in his life in one
place! It is beyond my comprehension that the SEC (the Securities and
Exchange Commission) did not conduct some kind of investigation into the
activities of the CART board. These guys were asleep at the wheel and
would not support anything that represented an improvement. Now they're
all over in the IRL and look what's happened over there since they
arrived! There were only a few CART board members who wanted change but
they were always in the minority. It is my opinion that no matter who
was at the helm of CART at that time they would have been doomed from
the start just as I was. My successor went through over $100 million
dollars in cash and wiped out over $250 million of market capitalization
and this board never received one visit from an angry stockholder. It
truly puzzles me.
AutoRacing1: What do you feel was your greatest achievement as CART's
Heitzler: That I did not have a heart attack or find myself divorced!
Seriously, though I feel that I was able to demonstrate that the fans
and the drivers were what was important. I'm also very proud of my
decision not to allow the Engine Committee to adopt the IRL engine and
chassis specs. The fact that I kept the turbo engines was a source of
great satisfaction to me. Also, I felt that we had to leave the ovals to
the oval track cartel. I cancelled the Nazareth race and recommended we
remove all the ovals from the schedule. The Texas race cancellation was
a good decision made in the interest of both driver and spectator
safety. I stand by it to this very day. I received several messages from
drivers, some who have been hurt at that track admitting that, in
hindsight, it was the right call. That catch fence was there for Kenny
Brack last year because CART REQUIRED it to be there as a condition of
racing there in 2001! But in the end there were other issues (G loading)
that could not be corrected so we did not race. I also think adding the
second Mexican race, renewing the Vancouver race and adding a third
Canadian race were strong management decisions made by my
To sum it up, Mark, I think the ultimate scorecard for my time heading
CART is the financial condition of the corporation when I left. CART's
stock was trading in the mid fourteen dollar range I think and there was
$122 MILLION in the bank. I believe we were being responsive to the fans
while working hard to increase stakeholder value in their company,
increase CART's value as a spots entertainment product, and run the
company as Wall Street expects any publicly traded company to be run. In
all of those pursuits, we succeeded.
AutoRacing1: What do you feel was your biggest disappointment while CART
Heitzler: If I could do it all over again (pauses a moment to consider)
. . . on day one I would have asked for the resignation of the entire
board of directors. This would have cleared the deck for massive and
immediate change for the better. A complete housecleaning might also
have made more untenable the actions taken by some team owners that
ultimately contributed to CART's demise. In hindsight a MAJOR mistake on
my part, Mark.
AutoRacing1: While President what was your relationship with Tony
Heitzler: We had a cordial relationship. When our drivers finished in
the top five spots in the 2001 Indy 500 I could have really hit him hard
but I decided not to rub it in. No good could have come from it. We
treated it very softly. Our guys took all his cash back to CART with
them. That was good enough I thought. I did find Tony to be dedicated
and passionate about his mission. I have no respect for his mission but
can at least respect his passion.
AutoRacing1: Was there ever any dialogue about a possible merger or
truce, or did you feel the IRL was out to put CART out of business?
Heitzler: Never any dialogue at all about a merger or truce and Tony's
intentions toward CART and now Champ Car have been painfully transparent
for some time now.
AutoRacing1: What really happened with Toyota and Honda that made them
leave CART? Is there a story that has not been told?
Heitzler: Yes, there is a compelling story and someday it needs to be
told. The fans deserve to know the truth about Toyota and Honda's
departure from CART and the truth about the pop-off valve incident. But
I regret we must save that for another time.
AutoRacing1: How do you feel about the Champ Car TV situation? Was Spike
TV the way to go?
Heitzler: The TV situation is of great concern to me. When I did the
deal with FOX it was because there were no other deals available. There
were no other suitors. This Spike deal was more than likely the only
deal available, so it needs to be made to work. Everybody needs to get
behind this deal and make it a great business decision. A win-win
proposition for everyone. Let's all stop being so critical and get
behind it. Tune in and watch! Look at it from CBS's perspective. Why would they
want Champ Car on their air given our ratings? Don't forget Spike is part of
Viacom so CBS is like our next door neighbor. Spike is available in virtually
every basic cable and basic satellite television package. The problem isn't being
on Spike. Champ Car's ratings are not what we'd like them to be but the IRL's
ratings aren't any better and they're on ABC! Promotion and advertising of the Champ Car World Series is
key. We must tell our customers where and when they can see us and
when they tune in we MUST give them the most exciting and entertaining
program we possibly can. If we do that, all the other issues, including
corporate support, will take care or themselves. If we execute on Spike
it's only a matter of time before CBS takes a second look at Champ Car
and likes what they see.
AutoRacing1: What about network TV, should OWRS buy time on CBS for the
majority of races?
Heitzler: No. Continuing to buy time is a VERY expensive proposition.
Those kinds of deals will always be there but we need to perfect our
broadcast and build our ratings back up. Then we need to find the
correct mix of sponsors and, as I've said, the rest will take care of
itself, including CBS or, by then, maybe ABC will be looking for
something people are willing to watch!
AutoRacing1: Would it make sense to tape delay the races to prime time
on Sunday evenings?
Heitzler: No! By Sunday night everyone is sports viewed out! The
Sopranos, Deadwood, dozens of movies, free over the air programming,
it's extremely competitive in prime time so Sunday night is a real tough
slot. A live broadcast supported by the simply incredible HDTV feed is
the way to go. If we can't get that then a same day tape delay airing
before prime time would be next best.
AutoRacing1: Joe, Thanks for your time. Is there anything else you would
like to add in closing?
Heitzler: Yes, there is. I never really had the chance to thank all of
the fans who voiced their support for me while I was at CART and, most
importantly, continued to support me after I left. The fan support means
a great deal to me. A very special thanks must also go to Gerry Forsythe
and Alejandro Soberon, the Chairman CIE, for their unwavering confidence
in me and for the support they provided to me as CEO of the Mexican
events we created. Mark, I think it's worth pointing out that in less
than two years we created a management team and a product from scratch
that has to date attracted over 1.2 million people to just three races!
On average that's some 400,000 people per event which, last time I
checked, is MUCH better attendance than the Indy 500 has enjoyed the last
couple of years. I am most proud of this accomplishment and of the
talented team that made it all happen.
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Irish ISP Admits To Sending Out Hundreds Of 'First Strike' Notices To Innocent Account Holders
from the yup,-this-system-works-so-well deptWith the UN report condemning three strikes, we've seen a few governments suggest a bit more caution about such laws, but over in Ireland things are getting strange. You may recall a few years back the Irish ISP Eircom got sued for not implementing a three strikes plan. While it first fought back, it eventually caved and agreed to implement a three strikes plan. There was apparently some back room dealing as well, in which Eircom wanted the recording industry to go after other ISPs as well, which has happened. In a trial testing the legitimacy of Eircom's three strikes laws, a judge ruled entirely the flip side of the UN report, claiming that kicking people off the internet was fine because it was actually copyright that was a human right, not internet access.
Of course, one of the problems with a three strikes provision is the fact that it's based purely on accusations, rather than convictions. And that's pretty ridiculous when the data used for the accusations is notoriously inaccurate. But, it gets even worse when an ISP like Eircom apparently sent hundreds of "first strike" notices to people who were entirely innocent, blaming it on a glitch (found via Torrentfreak). It's now leading to an investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Eircom has tried to brush it off due to a technical error having to do with daylight savings time (seriously?!?), but it highlights the larger problems with these kinds of schemes. And those problems mean that the Data Protection Commissioner is looking at the entire three strikes plan to see if it's legit:
The significance of this case goes well beyond simple technical failings however, as the complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner has triggered a wider investigation of the legality of the entire three strikes system. According to the Sunday Times, "the DPC said it was investigating the complaint 'including whether the subject matter gives rise to any questions as to the proportionality of the graduated response system operated by Eircom and the music industry'."
This is unsurprising. When the Eircom / music industry three strikes settlement was being agreed, the Data Protection Commissioner identified significant data protection problems with it. These problems remain, notwithstanding the deeply flawed High Court judgement which permitted the parties to operate the system - a judgement which, for example, decided on the question of whether or not IP addresses are personal data without once considering the views of the Article 29 Working Party. The Data Protection Commissioner was not convinced by that judgement (it was problematic at least in part because the Commissioner was not represented - the only parties before the court had a vested interest in the system being implemented). However, until a concrete complaint arose no further action could be taken.
The complaint in this case has now triggered that action, and it seems likely that the Commissioner will reach a decision reflecting his previous views that using IP addresses to cut off customers' internet connections is disproportionate and does not constitute "fair use" of personal information. If so, the Commissioner has the power and indeed the duty to issue an enforcement notice which would prevent Eircom from using personal data for this purpose - an outcome which would derail the three strikes system unless Eircom successfully challenges that notice before the courts, or unless the music industry were to succeed in its campaign to secure legislation introducing three strikes into Irish law.
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You're sick. Achy. You've got a nagging feeling that maybe this is a recurrence of that bug you picked up a few months ago.
Imagine logging on to your secured personal medical Web profile, checking results of previous lab tests, doing a few quick price comparisons on treatment options, then using your flexible spending account debit card to pay for eligible out-of-pocket costs.
That's what could soon be in store for all Minnesotans and what will be reality for the state's 50,000 employees as early as next year, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday in a major health-care rollout that he said puts Minnesota in the forefront of consumer-friendly medicine.
Speaking to a health care alliance group at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Pawlenty said his goal is to give all Minnesotans access to online personal health portfolios by 2011.
"We need to put consumers in charge," he said. "We need to give them the tools so they can make good decisions. ... This would be a significant breakthrough in the way we maintain information in this state," and could serve to lower prices, ease paperwork and give consumers control over their medical histories.
Pawlenty said he also will establish health-reimbursement accounts for state employees that would allow them to load the money on a debit card; they could use it to tap pre-tax money put away for out-of-pocket expenses without collecting receipts and submitting claims.
"The efforts we have made so far are a good start, but they are not enough," Pawlenty said.
With few resources, because he has been unwilling to raise taxes to help revamp the existing system, Pawlenty nevertheless has been slowly building what he considers a new model for health care, first creating a website that allowed Minnesotans to price-shop prescriptions and even order them from Canadian pharmacies. Other phases have adopted uniform insurance claims, created nursing home report cards and better equating payments to outcomes.
Pawlenty also created the Smart Buy Alliance, a group of employers, union groups and others that looked for ways to standardize health-care purchasing and drive down prices. It was to that group that he unveiled Tuesday's proposal.
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Rep. Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, who heads the House health and human services committee, said that Pawlenty's proposals were "worth exploring," but that more is needed to achieve genuine health-care reform.
"Minnesotans across the state are continuing to struggle with skyrocketing health-care costs and shrinking access," Thissen said. "We will work with the governor on pilot programs, but we also encourage him to focus on the everyday problems facing Minnesota in the area of health care and join us in pursuing the fundamental innovations we need. The time for test runs is past."
Pawlenty and others involved in formulating the proposal say the changes they seek are fundamental.
"What if you were in an ambulance ... had an injured person and could pull up their records instantly on the way to the hospital?" Pawlenty said. "Think of the power of that."
He said the state's major private health plans have already agreed to put pricing and quality data on a single website, which will be under construction and should be ready next year. Pawlenty said that in addition to state employees, the Carlson Companies will be offering a version to their employees.
Once the general public is able to create portfolios, he said, parents could access immunization records for their children, check insurance information, prescription histories and even possible drug interactions. A sample screen shot shows personalized graphs on blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose readings.
Dr. James Mault, director of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp., said that the technology for such secured portfolios already exists and that hospitals, providers and insurers have already signed up. Minnesota, he said, is the first state to do so.
Pawlenty, who has a personal antipathy for last-century methods of paperwork and receipts, said he looks forward to a time when everyone can use debit cards for out-of-pocket expenses.
He confessed to at one point dropping out of his own flex-spending option, offered through the state, because "I sat down and thought about the amount of paperwork I have to collect, track, enter. ... It's not worth it. In the world of 2008 we don't want people collecting receipts, pile 'em up, fill out some form, interact three times with an administrator. We're moving that to a debit program. Zip your card through and move on. That's the world we live in today."
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Gwinnett's $15 Million Myth
A few weeks ago, there was a rumor circulating that a carcass of a Bigfoot creature had been discovered in north Georgia. The only problem was that no one had been allowed to see more than pictures of it frozen in a cooler. Upon further investigation, the mass of skin and fur was revealed to be nothing more than a frozen Halloween costume.
The case of the North Georgia Sasquatch bears a resemblance to Gwinnett County's economic impact study of the Gwinnett Braves stadium, which boasts a $15 million annual boost in economic activity. The study is often mentioned by a secretive Georgia group as evidence of the stadium's economic impact, but outsiders are forbidden to examine it. My requests to see this study have received no response. And though the County's economist Alfie Meek has visited this site, and stated his confidence in his estimate, he has not shared how he estimated that the new stadium would generate a $15 million increase in economic activity.
The study will almost certainly never be released to the public. The reason for this is simple, the economic impact estimate of $15 million is too ridiculous to be believed. Just as a hairdryer revealed Georgia's Bigfoot to be a fraud, so too will economists quickly spot the holes in the analysis.
Economists have studied the issue of economic impact of sports facilities to death. The findings are clear: there is virtually no positive economic impact from sports facilities, games, or events. (See below for brief summaries of the economic literature on the subject.)
Because county officials refuse to release the study, I thought I would attempt to reverse-engineer it. First, I want to point to the County's citation of the study on its website.
The County's economist conservatively estimates the annual impact at approximately $15 million. Economic activity generated by the stadium and the Braves should support an additional 200 jobs countywide and generate $6.5 million in new local personal income.
Recently, Michael Pearson of the AJC talked with the study's author, who provided a more precise estimate.
County economist Alife Meek has estimated that the 72 home games scheduled for the stadium will produce $14.6 million in new economic activity in the county, a small portion of which the county will capture in the form of tax collections.
The good news is that we have a good place to start in backing out of the $14.6 million projection to determine its parts. The GCVB hired the consulting firm Conventions, Sports & Leisure International (CSL) to conduct an feasibility study of the stadium. (I think it is interesting that CSL does not have a Ph.D. economist on staff despite conducting economic impact analyses all over the country. In fact, only one employee has a graduate degree, an MBA.) Though the projected economic output of the CSL analysis differs from the County's study—it is lower—a few components are likely comparable.
Economic impact studies of this type typically focus on two types of spending: direct and indirect spending. Direct spending is the first round of spending on activities related to a facility or event. Direct spending includes spending at the event, complementary consumption such as hotel stays, other local entertainment before or after the event, and incidental expenses (gas, snacks, etc.). Indirect spending captures the second round effects of re-spending these dollars in the local economy. Sometimes "induced spending" is considered separate from indirect spending, but I see little reason to make the distinction here.
To go from direct to indirect spending, we need a multiplier. The idea behind a multiplier is that every dollar spent in the community is recirculated within the community in successive rounds with diminishing impact. (There is little reason to expect a multiplier greater than one.) I determine the multiplier used to generate the total impact of the project by looking at the impact direct spending on total output. According to the CSL study, they anticipate the stadium will cause annual net new spending to be a minimum of $6.3 million, which will lead to a minimal total output increase of $10.2 million. Thus, $6.3 * m = $10.2; and m = 1.62. We've got our multiplier, which indicates that every new dollar spent in the community will translate into a $1.62 increase in total spending. I don't put much stock in multipliers, but I'm not going to criticize this aspect of the report.
Next, I apply the multiplier to the County's estimated total impact of $14.6 million. Direct spending = $14.6 million/1.62 = $9 million. Thus, the County anticipates $9 million in new direct spending every year from the stadium. We can use this number to estimate how much the County anticipates visitors will spend when they attend a minor league game in Gwinnnett.
Before I go any further, I want to explain why net new direct spending is important. New spending is spending in the county that would not be taking place without the stadium. You cannot simply take all stadium revenue and count it as an increase in spending, because it is likely that many individuals who attend games would have spent their money within Gwinnett anyway. Right now, people in Gwinnett may go to movies, go bowling, or visit restaurants for entertainment. When the team comes, we should not count the transfer of spending from these other Gwinnett businesses (who will suffer losses) to the Braves as new windfall of spending. Therefore, this net new spending is mostly going to come from people who live outside the county who come to Gwinnett for the sole purpose of seeing the Braves, and otherwise would not have spent any money within Gwinnett's borders.
So, let's take the $9 million and divide it by the number of home games: $9 million/72 = $125,000. The CSL study anticipates the Gwinnett Braves will draw 6,500 fans a game. If 100% if the fans come from outside the county, then each fan would have to spend $19, or $76 per family of four (family calculations will come in handy a bit later). Theses expenditure numbers seem reasonable; but, the initial assumption is absurd, because many people who attend the event—I would argue the vast majority, but the CSL authors disagree—will be Gwinnett County residents.
CSL estimates that 54% of the gross direct spending will come from net new spending ($6.3 million/$11.7 million). How much revenue would the ballpark have to generate per visiting fan if 3,5000 of them (approximately 54%) came from outside the county? The answer is $36 per visitor or $144 per family of four. If a more-reasonable 1,625 fans (25%) came from outside the county, then it would take $80 per visitor, or $320 per family of four, which is outrageous.
Though, I believe the latter estimate of visitor attendance is more reasonable—there is no way that a majority of gross spending is new—I will stick with the calculation from the CSL report just to make a point. Even with their own number, the revenue expectation per fan is too high to be believable.
Every year, Team Marketing Report releases its Fan Cost Index (FCI). The FCI uses a consistent basket of goods across different teams and over time to measure the cost of going to a baseball game for a family of four.
The Fan Cost Index™ comprises the prices of two (2) adult average-price tickets, two (2) child average-price tickets, two (2) small draft beers, four (4) small soft drinks, four (4) regular-size hot dogs, parking for one (1) car, two (2) game programs and two (2) least expensive, adult-size adjustable caps.
I believe the basket is a bit on the high side—do you buy hats and programs (2!) at a game?—however, it serves the purpose of comparing costs of attendance across teams and time. In 2008, the FCI was calculated for a few minor league baseball teams. The Minor League FCI indicates that the average expenditure by a family of four attending minor-league game is $99. The most-expensive Triple-A club on the list (Indianapolis Indians) has an FCI of $112. This means that in order to generate $9 million in net new direct spending, the team would have to generate revenue 45% higher than the minor-league average or 29% more than the Triple-A maximum. This is certainly an unrealistic expectation, but that is not my main concern.
When we compare this cost to the cost of attending an Atlanta Braves game, 30 miles south, we see that the Braves offer a better experience at a similar price. The MLB FCI indicates that the average expenditure at Atlanta games is $157–a mere $13 more than the the Gwinnett club anticipates. Why would all these fans travel to see the Gwinnett Braves, when they could see the Atlanta Braves for a similar price? They won't. The point here is that these direct spending impacts defy reality, and were calculated deliberately to boost the economic impact of the stadium. Even when I factor in visiting team hotel and meal money as economic benefits, the required cost per fan falls only about $2.
Another consideration is that even the direct spending at the stadium won't stay in the county for long. The majority of the labor expenditures will go to players and coaches; groups who have higher than average saving rates and are likely to have homes outside Gwinnett. Profits to the team will be distributed to Liberty Media shareholders who are dispersed around the world and spent elsewhere.
The fact that stadium proponents succeed at trumpeting such ridiculous numbers is disturbing. Villanova sociologist Rick Eckstein has studied stadium proposals and finds a common factor in succesful stadium campaigns.
In a just-released article in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, my colleagues and I studied media coverage of 23 publicly financed stadium initiatives in 16 different cities, including Philadelphia. We found that the mainstream media in most of these cities is noticeably biased toward supporting publicly financed stadiums, which has a significant impact on the initiatives' success.
This bias usually takes the form of uncritically parroting stadium proponents' economic and social promises, quoting stadium supporters far more frequently than stadium opponents, overlooking the numerous objective academic studies on the topic, and failing to independently examine the multitude of failed stadium-centered promises throughout the country, especially those in oft-cited "success cities" such as Denver and Cleveland.
This isn't the first instance of justifying expenditures based on numbers that were generated to serve a political function rather than provide objective cost analysis. The problem is that often times local media pick up stadium proponents talking points without viewing them critically.
The following papers provide summaries of the economic literature on the impact of sports facilities on economic development. I hope they are instructive.
There now exists almost twenty years of research on the economic impact of professional sports franchises and facilities on the local economy. The results in this literature are strikingly consistent. No matter what cities or geographical areas are examined, no matter what estimators are used, no matter what model specifications are used, and no matter what variables are used, articles published in peer reviewed economics journals contain almost no evidence that professional sports franchises and facilities have a measurable economic impact on the economy.
Feng (2008), Volume 2, Chapter 6
A growing body of independent empirical research has shown that professional sports facilities and teams have little or no significant positive impacts or even negative effects on the metropolitan economy. Different from the promotional economic impact studies from consulting firms, these independent studies usually employ a pooled time-series and cross-section regression model to examine the impact of sports facilities and teams on local economic development in terms of aggregate or per capita personal income and employment growth. These retrospective studies provide no significant evidence of positive effects when comparing metropolitan areas with a professional sports team to the ones without a team.
This survey of a sample of Ph.D. economists in the American Economic Association reports that 85% agree that government subsidies to professional sports franchises ought to be eliminated. 10% are neutral, and only 5% disagree.
Figure created from numbers reported in paper.
Local political and community leaders and the owners of professional sports teams frequently claim that professional sports facilities and franchises are important engines of economic development in urban areas. These structures and teams allegedly contribute millions of dollars of net new spending annually and create hundreds of new jobs, and provide justification for hundreds of millions of dollars of public subsidies for the construction of many new professional sports facilities in the United Sates over the past decade. Despite these claims, economists have found no evidence of positive economic impact of professional sports teams and facilities on urban economies. We critically review the debate on the economic effects of professional sports and their role as an engine of urban economic redevelopment, with an emphasis on recent economic research.
Siegfried and Zimbalist (2000)
Few fields of empirical economic research offer virtual unanimity of findings. Yet, independent work on the economic impact of stadiums and arenas has uniformly found that there is no statistically significant positive correlation between sports facility construction and economic development (Baade and Dye, 1990; Baim, 1992; Rosentraub, 1994; Baade, 1996; Noll and Zimbalist, 1997; Waldon, 1997; Coates and Humphreys, 1999).
These results stand in distinct contrast to the promotional studies that are typically done by consulting firms under the hire of teams or local chambers of commerce supporting facility development. Typically, such promotional studies project future impact and almost inevitably adopt unrealistic assumptions regarding local value added, new spending, and associated multipliers. They often use a regional input-output model that depends on outdated technical coefficients which are treated as invariant to shifts in supply and demand (Center for Economic and Management Research, 1991; Deloitte & Touche, 1994, 1996; KPMG, 1996; Economic Research Associates, 1996; KPMG, 1998; C.H. Johnson Consulting, 1999).
If Gwinnett County officials want to claim the stadium as an economic stimulus, the burden of proof is on them to prove it. It's time for these numbers to be challenged.
UPDATE: I just ran across this interview of Brad Humphreys by Keith Law.
BP: How is it that owners and politicians manage to fudge the data so easily?
BH: Because nobody ever calls them on it. The media read these economic impact studies and take them at face value. They report the results as if they are facts and not wild guesses or outright overstatements.
Part of the problem is that the impact studies use methodologies that might appear reasonable to a layperson. It's sort of like using batting average as the ultimate measure of a baseball player's offensive output.
Also, nobody ever goes back and looks at how many jobs were actually created, or how much additional tax revenue was generated. There's just no assessment. Except in the academic literature to which not many people pay attention.
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I have been told that there is no such report on the economic impact of the stadium outside of the CSL report. This is substantiated by the fact that Alife Meeek stated no formal study on this has been completed in the article by Michael Pearson of the AJC.
So the way I see the $14.6 million in economic impact is, $6.9 million in ticket sales ( 8k tickets sold per game at an average price of $12 with 72 home games), $1.08 million in parking revenue ( 5k cars at $3 each with 72 home games), and then $3.45 million in food sales ($6 each person, 8k people with 72 home games), anf about $3.2 million in team promotional sales (t-shirts, hats, etc).
I really think my 10 year old could have done a better job that the ones involved in this.
jc — do the economic impact studies take into account things like increased property value (and increased property taxes) for real estate around a sports complex? do new developments (shopping centers or apartments) tend to follow shortly after a stadium is built in a neighborhood? is there any measure that shows neighborhoods around a sports complex become more desirable? or is that another myth told by the teams and pols?


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Our client loves where they ended up on the last contest, but would like to see a few iterations of the attached images.
Here's what I put last time (for this same company) but you probably wont need it. All I want is a redesign of the attached logos.
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Cube idea: They like that it's a cube, but we can flatten it, keep it 3D, change colors, or whatever else we want. He like the cube because it's symmetrical and represents exactness. Try solid colors with defined edges.
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Revenge is not a new current in Mexico's drug wars. Journalists who investigate too deeply are often killed, making Mexico one of the most dangerous places to report from. Prosecutors seeking justice often face the same fate.
But suspected members of the La Familia cartel in the state of Michoacán gave new meaning to the word over the weekend – even in hardened Mexico – after gunmen shot up police stations across the country, killing five officers and two soldiers by the time the revenge attacks were over on Saturday.
Mexican authorities say the series of assaults, among the most brazen since Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched an antidrug offensive in Mexico in December 2006, were a direct response to the arrest of one of their alleged leaders early Saturday.
Mexico's 'Tet offensive'?
It was characterized as a Mexican version of the "Tet offensive" by one columnist – a turning point in a nation's loss of faith that Mexico can come out from under the force of organized crime. And that questioning is perhaps no greater than in Michoacán, Mr. Calderón's home state, where his military effort began, and where a grenade was launched in a public plaza last year.
"This attack and [the grenade incident] are not just simply examples of gang violence. They have a much more profound impact on the public psyche," says Bruce Bagley, a Latin America drugs expert at the University of Miami. "They erode confidence in Calderón's strategy and the legitimacy of the state response."
Brutal retaliation
Authorities told the Associated Press that the attacks were a retaliatory response to the arrest of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, believed to be a head of the La Familia cartel, on Saturday morning in Morelia, the capital of Michoacán.
Throughout that day, gunmen attacked federal police stations in seven cities across the state, as well as in Guanajuato and Guerrero states. The following day a hotel in Michoacán, in the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, was shot into but no one was injured.
Two men have since been arrested in the attacks against government authorities, among the worst the nation has seen since Calderón sent 45,000 troops across the country to lessen the grip of organized crime that reaches into police forces, government institutions, and mountain villas across the country. Some 11,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006.
But even here, where beheadings and public death threats are a new norm, the weekend attacks seemed to raise the stakes.
Writing in the Milenio newspaper, columnist Ciro Gómez Leyva described the public mood: "In the war against the narcos, July 11 seems like a kind of Tet offensive, the synchronized, made-for-Hollywood offensive by the ... North Vietnamese Army that, despite being characterized as a military disaster, created the perception that the otherwise invincible US army would never win in Vietnam."
Another blow to Calderón
The attacks over the weekend will do little to bolster Calderón's national action party, which already fared poorly well in legislative elections last week.
"The [drug gangs] are demonstrating to the government that their security strategy has only limited impact," says Mr. Bagley. "They demonstrated that they have ongoing capacity to intimidate, coerce, and carry out violence against police despite the militarization."
This message resounds in Michoacán, where the military has manned the streets the longest, and where La Familia has grown into one of the nation's most powerful outfits. "In Michoacán, they have become a force to be reckoned with," says Bagley.


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PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks and @LosDbacks) have announced two second-half concerts featuring Christian-rock band Third Day for Faith & Family Night on Aug. 23 and Mexican-pop artist Cristian Castro for Hispanic Heritage Day on Sept. 27.
Four-time Grammy Award winner Third Day will perform on the field after the D-backs vs. Padres game on Aug. 23 to headline Faith & Family Night. Third Day has sold more than 10 million albums in the United States and has received 24 Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Awards. The band has one RIAA Platinum album and eight RIAA Gold albums and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2009. A portion of ticket sales from Faith & Family Night ticket packages will benefit Hopefest and their mission to help the local homeless community. For more information, visit www.dbacks.com/faith.
Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop star Cristian Castro will perform after the D-backs vs. Cardinals game on Sept. 27 at Chase Field in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Day, presented by Budweiser. Castro has been nominated multiple times for Latin Grammy Awards and has won countless awards, including being named the Best Male Pop Artist in 2012 (Premios Oye). Prior to the game, fans can enjoy a Hispanic Heritage Street Festival, presented by APS, and 20,000 fans will receive a Los D-backs T-shirt, courtesy of Gila River Casinos. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.dbacks.com.


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Grilled Steaks with Pineapple, Zucchini, Mushroom Kebabs
The Chimichuri Sauce atop our Grilled Flank Steaks was a big hit at our house, which was surprising as I am one of those that do not like cilantro (supposedly) and Mike has a pronounced distaste for parsley (and cilantro, for that matter). When my Mom was in town last week I used the leftover sauce as a marinade for our vegetable & pineapple kebabs that accompanied grilled ribeye steaks & classic baked potatoes. The combination of the spicy, herb & lime juice sauce was amazing combined with the sweet pineapple on the grill- really special.
Grilled Pineapple & Vegetable Kebabs
marinated in Chimichurri Sauce
1 large zucchini, halved and sliced
1 pint of mushrooms
1 red onion, quartered
1/2 pineapple, 1-inch cubes
Chimichurri Sauce
8 bamboo skewers
Soak the bambook skewers in water for 10 minutes or more to keep them from burning on the grill.
Place all of the vegetables and pineapple pieces in a large bowl. Add chimichurri sauce and toss, coating each piece. Thread the vegetables and pineapple onto a bamboo skewers, alternating them as you go.
Grill them for about 4 minutes on each side until they begin to cook thru and soften. You can brush extra sauce on as you go for even more flavor.
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Chris Pommer and James Brown trade stories about Toronto's design community
The mix of people who arrived for Lloyd Alter's party reflected the city's diverse professions and interests (but all passionate about culture and the arts). There was Hillary, the opera singer, with husband Wouter, an energy trader. Alex, a curator of textiles attended with partner Paul, a noted lighting designer. Neighbours John and Amy, film makers, contrasted M&A lawyer Barb and husband Martin, senior manager of an information technology company. Don, who runs a pharmaceutical company, and his MBA wife Cindy rounded out the non-architects.
The design and architecture profession were well represented. Kim Storey and James Brown, of Brown and Storey Architects, came as did Chris Pommer of PLANT Architects. Architects Bob Allsop and Catherine Nasmith complimented friends Carol and Roman of KMA architects (of course, Lloyd, his partner Kelly, daughter Emma, and son Hugh, rounded out the group and, like all good hosts, their preparation and dedicated attention to detail made the evening a great success).
As you might imagine, Toronto's preoccupation with its new art institutions surfaced in this group too. Some spoke out in favour of architecture as spectacle while others decried the lack of functional considerations. "After all, how is art going to fit in all of those awkward angles?" "Let's get people into the buildings so art and culture can do the rest," was one answer.
Hillary, the opera singer, spoke well of the new Four Seasons Opera House. The inside scoop from the opera world is that the acoustics in Diamond and Schmidt's hall are, "perfect."
Talk soon turned to the upcoming city election. Someone in the gathering went to school with David Miller. Mayor Miller's past survived our repeated demands for inside information. It turns out, according to the source, he was a good person to call your friend then and is, today, a worthy mayor. Adam Vaughn's name came up as a strong candidate for councillor although some said that ward's existing councillor serves the constituents well.
For those who might wonder, and in reference to the Globe's dinner story, one Blackberry did surface during the course of the evening but only to note the URL of this site.
The difficulty cultural producers have making a living here was a prime topic for discussion although it was agreed things are improving. As the evening's conversation exhausted itself over rich food (the cheese course was particularly noteworthy) and fine wine, environmental sustainability became a big topic. Deservedly so. Pollution caused by the Island Airport was a regret. Can we ever get the waterfront right?
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If you are using Bitmain AntMiner U1 USB Bitcoin ASIC miners there is something important that you should be well aware of in order to get the maximum performance and ensure optimal stability on the long run for these devices. Obviously we are going to be talking about power consumption and usage of these small ASIC miners that are designed to be powered by USB. The manufacturer has rated them at 2 watt power consumption from the USB port with a hasrate of 1.6 GH/s and tha is leaving you about 0.5W headroom for overclocking before reaching the maximum power that a normal USB 2.0 port can provide you with. But we decided to check if the Bitmain rating is rally true and to see for ourselves what is the actual power consumption of the AntiMiner U1 devices. As you can see on the photo above the power usage of the U1 miner is just 0.086A at 5V or a total of 0.43 watts is what you get with the device connected to a PC, but with no mining software running.
As soon as you fire up cgminer or another compatible mining software and the AntMiner U1 starts working at 1.6 GH/s the power consumption increases significantly that what you get in idle mode. At first we've measured 0.385A current used or about 1.925 watts – a bit below the manufacturer's rating, however this is the power usage while the device is still cool. Just a few minutes later since everything gets hotter (thermal images) after the AntMiner U1 starts operating and the power usage increases along with the temperature of the chips. In just about 10 minutes after starting to mine with the device the current usage increases to 0.405A or a total of 2.025W of power, something that does not seem that much higher at first, but as you start to overclock the device you will notice that the gap between a well cooled AntMiner U1 and a very hot miner increases. The problem is that the higher power consumption leads to more heat and can also result in less performance when overclocking.
Here are the results we've got as a power consumption of the AntMiner U1 device connected on a USB 2.0 port. Have in mind that USB 2.0 ports have a standard limit on maximum current they can provide to a connected device of 0.5A or 2.5W in total and this can lead to lower performance you can get when overclocking as you might be hitting the interface power limit and not the device's:
1.6 GH/s – 0.405A
1.8 GH/s – 0.456A
2.0 GH/s – 0.505A
2.2 GH/s – ~~~~~~
We have moved the AntMiner U1 to a USB port to contnue with our overclocking experiments. Have in mind that USB 3.0 ports have an increased limit of the current they can supply to a device of 0.9A at 5V or 4.5W of power, so we could continue to overclock the USB ASIC further:
2.2 GH/s – 0.568A
2.4 GH/s – 0.633A
2.6 GH/s – 0.701A
2.8 GH/s – ~~~~~~
As you can see from the results above hitting 2.2 GH/s on a USB 2.0 port was not possible as we were hitting the limit of the power the interface can provide already at 2 GH/s. Moving to USB 3.0 we could squeeze up to 2.6 GH/s by increasing the operating frequency of the device and having more power available to use from the USB port. Have in mind that overclocking the device requires an adequate cooling to be provided, so you need to be prepared for that before starting to go past the "stock" 1.6 GH/s hashrate. As you can see from our results the maximum we could get was below the maximum power the USB 3.0 interface can provide, the reason for that is that for higher performance you would also have to increase the voltage that the processor of the device operates at (default 0.8V) in order for it to continue working fine at a higher frequency. This can be done by replacing two resistors on the device and the procedure is described in the AntMiner U1 manual. Have in mind though that increasing the voltage can damage the device, so do have in mind should you decide to go for a hardware modification for even higher performance. Increasing the voltage will also seriously increase the power consumption and will require even better cooling in order not to overheat the miner!
– To download the Bitmain AntMiner U1 manual for additional details about overclocking…
If you have Bitmain AntMiner U1 USB sticks for Bitcoin (BTC) mining you would need to use a special version of cgminer miner software that is compiled to support these BTC ASIC devices. Below you will find cgminer 3.8.5 compiled for Windows that has support for the AntMiner U1 USB ASIC miners along with example BAT files to run the USB ASIC at "stock" frequency for 1.6 GH/s, along with settings for running the device at 1.8 GH/s, 2.0 GH/s and 2.2 GH/s. Just make sure that if you overclock the AntMiner U1 for higher hashrate to ensure that the device is properly cooled – you need to provide additional fan blowing on the device to cool it down when it is overclocked. Do not, and we really mean that you should not overclock the AntMiner U1 without additional cooling or there is risk of damaging the device from the heat generated by it during mining!
– You can download cgminer 3.8.5 with AntMiner U1 support for Windows here…