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ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Workshops. San Francisco, CA, Monday, October 31st, 2016Submitted by jsanz on Fri, 2016-07-22 16:11.
|Workshop Title
|Workshop Acronym
|Website URL
|9th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2016)
|7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2016)
|2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2016)
|5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial-2016)
|5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MobiGIS 2016)
|2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (UrbanGIS) 2016
|3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD Workshop
|8th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2016)
|ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Social Networks (LBSN 2016)
|6th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization, Tracking and Analysis (MELT 2016)
|10th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2016)
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ntroduction to gvSIG free online workshopsSubmitted by jsanz on Fri, 2016-07-22 16:15.
The gvSIG Association is now pleased to inform the "Introduction to gvSIG" summer webinars at the beginning of August.
Summer has arrived in a lot of places around the world. This is a good time to learn to use gvSIG, the open source GIS.
Do you want to create a thematic map with gvSIG or a new vector layer with your parcel, a road...? You can do it now at these open and free webinars.
There will be two webinars, that will last about 30 minutes:
- "Getting started with gvSIG" - August 3rd (14:00 UTC – Check the time in your country)
- "Vector editing, 3D view and other gvSIG tools" - August 10th (14:00 UTC – Check the time in your country)
At the first webinar we'll see how to manage a gvSIG project. We'll create new views with cartography, and we'll apply symbology and labelling. We'll introduce the reference systems, and finally we will create a thematic map to be printed or exported to a PDF file.
At the second webinar, we'll show how to create a new vector layer, where we'll digitalize several elements. We also will see the gvSIG toolbox, where we can find all the geoprocesses. We will apply one of them. We finally will see how the 3D extension works.
- Registration for the "Getting started with gvSIG" webinar: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24718/711021346f
- Registration for the "Vector editing, 3D view and other gvSIG tools" webinar: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24718/2ea6110ff3
We expect your participation!
pycsw 2.0.0 "Doug" releasedSubmitted by jsanz on Wed, 2016-07-13 08:08.
The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 2.0.0 "Doug".
The 2.0.0 "Doug" release brings major features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including:
- CSW 3 support (OGC Reference Implementation)
- Python 3 support
- WMTS harvesting (thanks @jfdickens)
- JSON output improvements
- XML output improvements
- GM03 support for Swiss metadata
- add temporal extent support to WMS layer harvesting
The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/milestone/8. Users are strongly advised to review the migration guide.
The 2.0.0 release is codenamed "Doug" in honour of Doug Nebert of the FGDC. Doug was internationally recognized as a champion of metadata, discovery and interoperability. Involved in numerous international standards bodies and spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Doug was one of the editors of the CSW 3.0 specification and encouraged pycsw developers to adopt and implement CSW 3.0 as part of US data.gov efforts. Doug's vision and expertise will always be remembered and appreciated by the pycsw development team.
pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python.
pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project.
pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU), providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures.
pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).
Source and binary downloads
The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download
Testers and developers are welcome.
The pycsw developer team.
Sol Katz Award 2016 - Call for NominationsSubmitted by jsanz on Wed, 2016-07-13 08:01.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.
The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.
Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.
Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.
Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August 4th. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by an OSGeo designated selection committee.
The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.
It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible.
Past Awardees:
- 2015: Maria Brovelli
- 2014: Gary Sherman
- 2013: Arnulf Christl
- 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
- 2011: Martin Davis
- 2010: Helena Mitasova
- 2009: Daniel Morissette
- 2008: Paul Ramsey
- 2007: Steve Lime
- 2006: Markus Neteler
- 2005: Frank Warmerdam
Selection Committee 2016
- Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
- Frank Warmerdam
- Markus Neteler
- Steve Lime
- Paul Ramsey
- Sophia Parafina
- Daniel Morissette
- Helena Mitasova
- Martin Davis
- Arnulf Christl
- Gary Sherman
- Maria Brovelli
First Anniversary edition of our Geo4All Newsletter and invitation to be our GeoAmbassadorSubmitted by jsanz on Wed, 2016-07-13 07:56.
This newsletter is a community initiative run by the community for the community. We welcome all community members to contribute and share their updates to the newsletter for the benefit of the wider geo community. We have made 'Open Principles' as the key guideline for all articles. Relevant updates and information on free and open software, open data, open standards, open education resources are all welcome for future editions. It has been a learning curve for all of us, and we request you all to help us on this initiative.
We have great pleasure in introducing Professor Georg Gartner as our GeoAmbassador for this first Anniversary edition of our Geo4All Newsletter. More information at http://opensourcegeospatial.
So how can you contribute to enable geospatial education opportunities to all ? Everyone who is interested in enabling geospatial education opportunities to all are our GeoAmbassadors. It is not just the
thousands of OSGeo members but also thousands of colleagues in ICA, ISPRS, UCGIS, AGILE, GSDI, AGS who all work for Geoeducation opportunities for all who are our GeoAmbassadors. Geo for All is a world wide
movement that provides immediate benefit to the world.
Share the free and open educational resources and software that are available from OSGeo Live to MapStory to Teacher Training resources (developed thanks to the contributions to thousands of volunteers)
all available free and open to all at http://www.geoforall.org/
Also it is our great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at SIGTE, University of Girona [1] , Spain, as our "Geo4All" lab of the month. One of the founder labs of the Geo for All initiative, SIGTE has been contributing immensely to our teaching, research, and service activities. SIGTE colleagues have been the pioneers of a very successful summer school program dedicated to free and open geographic information software and aimed at promoting the use and development of free geospatial solutions and empowering students. Details are available at http://opensourcegeospatial.
We thank Gemma Boix, Lluís Vicens, Gemma Pons, Rosa Olivella, Ferran Orduña,Toni Hernandez, Alexandre Busquets, Josep Sitjar, Laura Olivas and all colleagues and students at SIGTE lab for their contributions to the Geo4All initiative and look forward to working and building more collaborations with all interested on this education mission.
Share the power of Geographic Information that SIGTE developed
The contributions of SIGTE colleagues is a good example of our philosophy and why we are working on Geo4All at http://opensourcegeospatial.
Let us work together work together to support open principles in education and enable Geo technologies in empowering communities and helping improving the Quality of Life and standards of living for everyone.
Let us all work together to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone.
Happy Anniversary to all.
Best wishes,
Suchith Anand
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016Submitted by jsanz on Tue, 2016-06-07 10:47.
24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016)
Call for Research, Industrial, Systems, Demonstration, and Vision Papers
Monday October 31 - Thursday November 3, 2016
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Paper Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigspatial2016
- Abstract Submission: June 14, 2016 (midnight PT)
- Paper Submission: June 21, 2016 (midnight PT)
- Acceptance Notification: August 23, 2016
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2016 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016) is the twenty fourth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). Researchers, students, and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016.
Suggested Geospatial-related topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Cartography and Geodesy
- Computational Geometry
- Computer Graphics Applications
- Computer Vision Applications
- Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
- Earth Observation
- Geographic Information Retrieval
- Geospatial Architectures and Middleware
- GPU and Novel Hardware Solutions
- Human Computer Interaction and Visualization
- Image and Video Understanding
- Location-Based Services
- Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security
- Mobile Systems and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
- Object Tracking and RFIDs
- Performance Evaluation
- Photogrammetry
- Similarity Searching
- Spatial Analysis and Integration
- Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition
- Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
- Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty
- Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms
- Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support
- Spatial Information and Society
- Spatial Modeling and Reasoning
- Spatial Query Processing and Optimization
- Spatio-Temporal Data Management
- Spatio-Temporal Sensor Networks
- Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing
- Spatio-Textual Searching
- Standardization and Interoperability
- Storage and Indexing
- Traffic Telematics
- Transportation
- Urban and Environmental Planning
- Visual Languages and Querying
- Web and Real-Time Applications
- Paper Format: Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html . It is important that previous related work (especially appearing in prior editions of the ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference and the ACM SIGSPATIAL workshops/symposia) be appropriately cited. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be considered for "Best Paper Award."
- Research Papers: Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Submissions are limited to 10 pages. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the Program Committee may accept some as poster papers that will be requested to be shortened to 4 pages.
- Industrial Experience and Systems Papers: Industrial experience and systems papers are invited that describe original industrial experiences, challenges, and applications, as well as systems to be presented during the conference. Industrial Experience and Systems paper submissions are limited to 10 pages — append "(Industrial Paper)" or "(Systems Paper)" to the title as is appropriate. Accepted Industrial Experience and Systems papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
- Demonstration Papers: Authors are invited to submit demo papers describing original demonstrations to be presented at the conference. Submissions are limited to 4 pages — append "(Demo Paper)" to the title. Accepted demo papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
- Vision Papers: Authors are invited to submit vision papers describing visionary ideas to be presented at the conference. Submissions are limited to 4 pages — append "(Vision Paper)" to the title.
- Presentation: At least one author per accepted research, industrial experience and systems, demonstration, or vision paper must register and attend the conference to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the published conference proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the conference proceedings.
- Programming Contest: The ACM SIGSPATIAL CUP 2016, with prizes, is a geospatial-focused algorithm competition.
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Just got this bench and I put it together in about an hour (distracted by my TV shows:) but it's actually very easy although the allen key is bit of a pain. The holes lined up nicely but two of the screws would not really take, not necessary because the rest the the screws and washers went in and the bench is very sturdy. I love the modern look, yet still a bit traditional with the tufting. The bonded leather is a beautiful saddle brown, as the description says. It does not look cheap at all but it has a slight odor that should dissipate within a few days. the metal legs are a dark grayish but looks a bit brown as well, I guess due to lighting in the room. this works perfectly for me since I'm using this with a large farm table and brown metal chairs I purchased on this site as well. The bench will sit two adults comfortably and three children, I love the size! The cushion seems too firm right now but i'm sure it'll soften up with everyday use. I'm glad I purchased this, the price was great , the quality is great and I highly recommend.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? perfectly accurate
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. good quality
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This is a beautiful piece. Color of the brown on my screen was true to the color of the bench. I would have like a more subltle Tan, it's a more warm golden brown tone. It's heavy and well made. For bonded leather its a good look. It a little shiny but not cheap looking. I would recommend this product!
The bench looks good at the foot of my bed. I have Maple wood furniture and the bench works well.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? The color was accurate.
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Good quality leather.
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? The description was good.
The bench is working out well in my foyer. There are six screws attaching the bench to its base, and only 5 would good in; the other one wouldn't line up. It seems sturdy with just the five. I feel like it was a bargain!
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? Exact color match
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Medium-high quality
And I'm happy with that! Bought for my cabin as a bench for suitcases. Matches the room perfectly and it was easy to assemble.
This bench is the perfect modern addition to our living room. We use it as a coffee table/ottoman and it's the perfect width in front of our sectional sofa. Only thing I'd change is the legs look matte black in the photo but are actually painted gray.
excellent deal at this price point. Solid
The bench will be used as an ottoman in my home. It is the perfect length to sit in front of a long sofa. The saddle brown color ties my room together. It was easy to assemble. I'm happy with my purchase.
Purchased this for our church to out in the elevator lobby - tufting makes it look very classy, very pleased. Assembly was pretty simple to do.
Great deal. Color is exactly as shown in the picture, and leather looks even better in person. Easy to assemble. Very pleased.
I was looking at some vintage benches in a style similar to this but was not willing to pay the price. The legs on this are different, but otherwise it fit the bill. The "leather" is not very convincing, but I'd been looking at vinyl anyway. Sits next to a door at the bottom of the stairs, just for putting on shoes, etc. Don't know if it would hold up to more than that. So easy to put together - do pay attention to the directions and don't tighten anything fully until all parts are assembled, and then likely the holes will all match up fine, mine did.
Looks beautiful in person. Adds a nice warmth to my living room.
The color is exactly as pictured. The leather is a great quality. We use it as a coffee table. We have to use a tray on it to hold drinks, etc. It's easy to move across the rug for vacuuming. I wish that it came without the dimples, though. Then, I'd rate it a 5.
I put this together myself while my toddler was around, so that says a lot (normally my husband does these things). Pretty easy to do and seems sturdy. Looks just like the photo.
I've had this beautiful bench in my entryway for 7 years and it still looks brand new. I need a smaller version for my new home, so this will be moving to one of the bedrooms.
Looks great at the foot of my bed- easy to assemble and sturdy
Fabulous. Shiny finish but that's ok with me in my setting. I get nothing but complements.
Worked perfectly as an extension of a raised hearth. The leather has held up well and the base is very stable.
Love love love this! Awesome, looks great in person. The color is rich and makes the room a little warmer and inviting. Great to put up again the wall for just a little extra setting or a hallway, no regrets here
Looks nice against a teal wall. Cat's immediately found it and scratched it a bit but nothing noticeable. Looks more expensive than it was.

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A Day in Cake Land (part 1)
After I graduated high school, I decided to take a year off to gain experience in the food industry. I starting working with a woman who was opening a small bakery for the first time in Ann Arbor, MI. The bakery was a cupcake shop that also specialized in wedding and specialty cakes. I agreed to be her assistant pastry chef, full time, and to help her with the opening of Cake Nouveau.
After months of splattering bright green and purple paint on myself, polishing windows, and practicing recipes, the shop was ready for its grand opening. The night before, we made all the preparations for the big day. Everything was ready, except for me. This was my very first job, and my first time working in a professional kitchen.
The next morning at work, my boss and I arrived around 4 in the morning to start production. We figured that making four dozen cupcakes of each of the four flavors would be enough to feed all of the customers that day. We spent the next six hours in production for all of the food to be sold that day. First scaling out large batches of cupcake batter, quickly slapping it into the pans, and then throwing the batches into the oven.
I thought that once we were waiting for the cupcakes to finish baking that there would be some down time to clean and prepare for when we opened the bakery. Boy, was I wrong. Not only did we have MORE batter to make, but we had to prepare the buttercream to top the cupcakes. Before I realized, the entire room was littered with bowls of chocolate and vanilla buttercream, cookie dough pressed into disks, and empty cupcake pans waiting to be filled with pumpkin spice batter.
It was finally five minuets to ten, almost opening time. The finished cupcakes were in the display case and coffee was being made. I finally had a chance to clean up our very small kitchen. When the front door was finally unlocked the people started flooding in. After only an hour, we were almost out of cupcakes and I was sent to make more.
I worked as fast as I could, messily plopping fresh cupcakes batter into the pans. Our small electric oven and two small stand mixers just couldn't keep up with the amount of people lining up at the door. There was a cacophony of sound flooding in around my ears. People happily yelling out orders, pans and untensils being washed, and the loud mixers running. All the while I was running back and fourth, sweating, trying to keep up.
There was barely enough time to let the cupcakes cool before I had to pipe on the buttercream and pass them on, hot, to the waiting customers. I didn't realize just how hot they were until I noticed a few cupcakes that had not yet been snatched up by hungry patrons. The buttercream melted into a sticky pool, dropping down the side of the display case leaving a sticky mess.
It wasn't until 7 o'clock that night, and 400 cupcakes later, did we close after a successful night. After working for 15 hours, I couldn't even get out of my very dirty chefs coat before I fell asleep… on top of my covers.
All in all, the grand opening of the shop was great. I will never forget how difficult that day was, but also how much fun I had.
A shot of the small, and messy kitchen.
The other side of the kitchen. This was before we opened.
A few cupcakes ready to be served before the grand opening. In order the cupcakes are Vanilla, Chocolate, Pumpkin Spice, and Chai Tea.
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LARNED - Fort Larned National Historic Site Superintendent Kevin McMurry has opened the park's rest area on K-156.
By Jim Misunas
Activities April 8-14
The Golden Belt Community Foundation presents a check for $3,700 Monday to benefit the Camp Pawnee Project.
LARNED - Everyone is invited to a historic program presented by the Fort Larned Old Guard on Saturday, April 28, at Fort Larned National Historic Site and the City of Larned. The afternoon presentations in Larned are free.
LARNED - The staff of the Santa Fe Trail Center invites the public to a vintage baseball game at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15 on the museum grounds.
LARNED - Larned High and area musicians qualified for state competition at the Larned Regional Solo and Small Ensemble Festival Saturday at LHS and Larned Middle School.
LARNED - Larned High School has recognized its March Student Spotlights of the Month.
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Now, Build a Great Business!7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market
By Mark Thompson Brian Tracy
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Chapter OneBecome a Great Leader
"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things—with resignations, yes, but above all with blazing serene hope."
—Corazon Aquino
Leadership is the most important requirement for business success. In simplest terms, leadership is the willingness to be accountable for results, and then to fulfill that responsibility, no matter what the external situation or pressure.
A leader is someone who is willing to do what it takes to get great things done. It doesn't happen on the first or second try. Leaders expect to fail over and over. They don't like it, but they don't quit when things don't work out. In fact, it is during difficult economic times and major crises that your character as a leader really stands out.
Why? In tough times, your competitors run for safety and survival instead of focusing on their customers. They pay less attention to quality. They slash back service and invest less in innovation. They cut back on staff at all levels. As a result, there are more great people actually available to work with you.
It is usually in a crisis that organizations reconnect with what made them great in the first place. In a crisis, leaders must make bolder decisions that will make them great in the future. It was said that "the North wind made the Vikings." In times of crisis, you have an opportunity to reignite your spirit and find better ways to delight your customers.
Your Leadership Matters
Today, more than ever, your leadership is needed. It is now time for you to step up in a new way. It is time for you to counterattack, to move forward, to innovate, to find better, faster, easier, cheaper ways to get results.
What you choose to do today—right now, in this market—can have more of an impact on your company and career than at any other time. Epictetus wrote: "Circumstances do not make the man; they only reveal him to himself."
Your ability to take charge, make hard decisions, accept responsibility, and lead effectively can have a greater impact on the success of your team or your organization than any other single factor. Everything that you do to become a more effective leader has a multiplication effect on your entire organization.
The Best and the Worst of Times
People often complain about the economy or the competition being tough, but many of the best leaders started their organizations at the worst possible time or steered them through the most difficult circumstances.
The 1970s plunged America into an era of "stagflation," with a combination of high interest rates, inflated gas prices, and miserable stock and real estate markets. It was considered a lost decade, much like the recent one we just endured.
Yet the 1970s were a time when great entrepreneurs did the unthinkable. Amid terrorist threats, massive bankruptcies, long gas lines, deregulation, and market bubbles, entrepreneurs like Charles Schwab, Steve Jobs, and Herb Kelleher each came to an extraordinary conclusion.
They decided: This is a great time to build a company!
Timing Is Overrated
Whether you are a Nobel Laureate like Muhammad Yunus or Nelson Mandela or an entrepreneur like Richard Branson or Oprah Winfrey, you don't wait for the "right time" to start something. Alan Mulally didn't just accept a job at Ford; he leaped at a huge opportunity to take the helm and make a difference when the company and his country needed him most.
Visionaries have a surprising knack for diving in at what appear to be the least propitious times. When you actually look at the environment in which they embraced their organizations, they often chose what competitors considered to be the worst possible time. Many people, looking from the outside, think these visionaries had it easy and perfectly set. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Opportunity in a Crisis
Walt Disney, Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Tom Watson (of IBM), and Thomas Edison (when he created his vision for General Electric)—all launched their dreams in miserable markets. FedEx, Sports Illustrated, Hyatt, Wikipedia, MTV, and Trader Joe's opened their doors just in time for awful recessions that defeated many other organizations. Even Google incorporated just in time for the tech bubble to burst at the end of the last century.
Leon Charney bought his first building the night Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Interest rates were in the double digits, and real estate was a bust. He plowed his rental income into twelve surrounding buildings, investing in 1.4 million square feet at Times Square. It never occurred to him that he'd become a billionaire and, today, one of the newer members of the Forbes 400 list, despite the current epic real estate slump.
Wang Chuanfu started BYD (Build Your Dream) after the dot-com crash to make advanced battery products when no one cared about the ex-professor's fantasy of a green, emission-free, battery-powered electric car. Warren Buffett bought 10 percent of BYD in 2008, making Chuanfu a billionaire and China's richest person.
False Starts
Many long-lasting organizations not only were born in bad markets, they also had unpopular products in the beginning. The list of short-lived, false starts for great companies is very, very long. It seems that business success is built on earlier failures.
There are plenty of legendary examples. Apple's Newton PDA was too bulky and expensive to succeed way back in 1993, but it paved the way for Research in Motion to bring the Blackberry to market and for Nokia to make smart phones a huge success long before Apple's iPhone.
Hewlett-Packard is at the top of its game today, growing at a feverish pace and overtaking rival Dell to become No. 1 in market share in PCs. But it didn't start out that way. Among its first electronic products was a device to make urinals flush automatically and a "shock" machine for dieters. Both were busts.
Humble Beginnings
One of Fortune's most admired companies in 2010, Marriott, didn't start as a hotel; it was an A&W root beer stand. Procter & Gamble began as just one of eighteen candle makers in Cincinnati.
Finnish engineer Fredrik Idestam started a wood-pulp mill on the banks of the river Nokia and found great success making toilet paper, then expanded to manufacturing rubber boots and generating electricity. In 1981, that same company, Nokia, invented the world's first multinational cellular network, and today it is the largest mobile phone and digital camera maker.
Technology powerhouse Wipro started as a shortening business in India, which then through fits and starts entered the soap business and even made hydraulic cylinders. Azim Premji eventually converted Wipro into a $5 billion IT company, and his personal net worth today is approximately $17 billion.
Try and Try Again
Charles Schwab's first half dozen ventures didn't reach his high hopes. But finally he created a discount brokerage business that was such a hit that it was acquired in the 1980s by Bank of America, which at the time was the world's largest bank. Unfortunately, that deal didn't generate the business that everyone imagined, so Schwab stretched to buy his company back a few years later for more than four times the price for which he sold it!
To reduce his debt in the leveraged buyback, he took Schwab public on the New York Stock Exchange, but just weeks before the Great Crash of 1987. The stock fell by more than 70 percent in a day and didn't recover to its initial public offering (IPO) price for about five years.
Success Against All Odds
Chuck Schwab credits his perseverance to parents who witnessed the Great Depression. They cultivated his ambitions to help millions of people achieve their own financial independence. Despite tough times, great families launch many leaders like Schwab, but not as often as you would hope. Many of the great ones had neither the timing nor the families to give them a good start.
Major General Gale Pollock's earliest memories are of her dad threatening her with guns and knives. She was eleven when she confronted her alcoholic father. "Men don't hurt women and daddies don't hurt their daughters!" she declared, facing up to him and choking back tears. Every moment of truth for this woman has been a conscious choice to change things for the better. As a young teen, Pollock's mentor—who had encouraged her during her dangerous early days with her dad—came back from Vietnam with his legs blown off. She was devastated, but turned that anger into action. She signed up as an Army nurse who would later become the first woman to lead the Army medical system.
When controversy broke in 2007 about the quality of health care in military hospitals, she was recruited to jump on that grenade as surgeon general, with a high possibility that she would fail and her career would be destroyed. She took heavy fire, but she turned the legacy of the Army hospitals around.
Character and Competence
What do the people we've described here have in common? Leadership.
To be successful as a leader, you need a combination of two ingredients: character and competence. You need to be a person of integrity. Someone people trust and are willing to follow.
To be trusted in business, you must be trustworthy. You must believe in yourself, your company, the essential goodness of your products and services, and in your people. You need to believe that you are offering an excellent product or service in every way, one that makes a difference in the lives of your customers. You must lead by example and inspire others to join you in the exciting project of building a great company.
At the same time, you must become excellent at the key capabilities and functions of leadership and set yourself on a course of continuous improvement throughout your career.
"You need the humility to remind yourself that you've got to get better at everything you do," insisted Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, when we spoke with him. "I don't know about you, but I'm never done growing my company or myself."
Level 5 Leadership
Management guru Jim Collins uses the phrase "level 5 leadership" to describe the characteristic of the best leaders, those who build great companies. The most fascinating and distinguishing characteristic of level 5 is an often misunderstood trait: humility.
As it happens, humility doesn't actually mean being humble. People who are crazy enough to launch businesses as the economy is falling apart and then fight Goliath-size adversaries, are not exactly humble. Humility simply means you have a "burning, driving, relentless ambition to serve and to win," Collins told me, "without the arrogance to delude yourself into believing that you are all knowing or always right."
As a level 5 leader, you don't believe you are perfect. You're just convinced that you have what it takes to succeed and that you can get better. You are always looking for new ways to take your game to the next level.
You Can Always Get Better
Bezos's belief that he could create a new type of "virtual" retail store with a mission so massive as to justify the wildly optimistic metaphor of "Amazon" as his company's name was anything but humble! Yet he had the humility to craft a business plan that focused on the fundamentals of leadership in customer service at a time when it was unpopular and at odds with his dotcom era competitors.
While other Internet companies expanded at the speed of light, Amazon's obsession with organizing its products and getting its services working better than anyone else's ironically resulted in complaints about "slower" growth and unprofitability. When the dot-com bubble burst, Amazon survived and prospered while others imploded. After five years of losses, Bezos produced his first profit. This type of humility, combined with the discipline to commit yourself to continuous personal and organizational improvement, is what gives you the "winning edge" in your position and enables your company to outperform your competition.
Would you have imagined that an online company would be among the top 25 companies in customer service, on the same list with a company like the Ritz-Carlton, which has physical places and people to meet and greet you in person? BusinessWeek and J. D. Powers once again lauded Amazon on their list of Customer Service Champs in 2010.
As we'll discuss extensively in this book, the key to winning customers and building businesses has to do with exceeding expectations in comparison with the other alternatives out there. This requires leadership at all levels. Amazon knows how to compete for consumers, and even during the Great Recession, Amazon's net sales soared 28 percent to more than $24 billion in 2009, and net profits jumped 40 percent to nearly a billion dollars.
Nobody Does It Alone
No one does anything worthwhile entirely by themselves. As the leader, your job is to get results through others. One of the best ways to get the most out of your people is to treat them like volunteers, as if they were working for you voluntarily—because they are! Just because you pay them doesn't mean that your best people have to work for you. They are free agents who could go elsewhere, and often do.
Since every person is different in some way (often in many ways), the very best leaders have the greatest flexibility in their styles of working with other people. Some people respond best to praise; others need different incentives to get things done. Your ability to get the very best out of the people who report to you is a key measure of your effectiveness as a leader.
The Three P's of Leadership
Three principles are essential to understanding yourself and each member of your team. Most important, they are the key to peak performance.
1. Purpose: Why does what you do matter to others? Why exactly do you do what you do? Why do you get up in the morning and work at this job, in this company or industry, producing this particular product or service for this particular type of customer? Your purpose defines how you want to help or improve the life or work of your customer.
2. Passion: What turns you on? This question gets to the emotional side of what you do. It is all about what matters to you. While purpose relates to how people view their role in serving others, passion arises when you are doing what you love to do. When you are working at the right job for you, you experience a continuous flow of energy. You like doing your work and learning more about it. You like to talk about your work with others and admire the people who are the best in your chosen field.
Imagine that you were financially independent and you had no limitations on what you could do, be, or have. What would you choose to do even if you weren't getting paid for it? Your answer will often point you toward your passion.
3. Performance: Goals come last. Performance is all about breaking down your dreams into actionable steps for which you hold yourself and your team accountable every day. This is where purpose and passion intersect to get things done. As we learned in our World Success Survey for Success Built to Last, the challenge is to find a balance between your perception of what you must do for the world—your purpose—and your own passions. When you've found those two things, then it is time to create goals and keep score.
Bad goals happen to good people when they set goals too early. Only after you've found something that matters to other people, and something that you love to do, can you be successful at achieving your goals over the long haul.
A Billion Dollars Blowing in the Wind
Aloys Wobben founded German windmill manufacturer Enercon twenty-five years ago, humbly building his first wind turbine in his backyard. He loved tinkering with things like that, and his inspiration came from growing up near the breezy Baltic. He hoped that someday his invention would also be useful to other people. When his passion produced a machine that worked and he found a market that loved it, he set goals and plans to build a great business.
Today, Enercon is the world's fourth-largest windmill producer, with 14 percent market share and turbines deployed in thirty countries. Wobben is now also worth $3.5 billion, but that hasn't changed his geeky interest in building turbines. There's no way he's giving up his first love—his passion for engineering. But what has made him so successful in business is that he feels that he can use that passion to change the world.
Wobben's story illustrates what we mean by the three P's of leadership. Wobben is driven by a sense of purpose: He is on a mission to power the world. In addition, he's found other people who share that sense of importance and urgency in doing this work. Wind turbines are his passion and theirs. He might be happy to do it alone in his garage, but it's even more fun working with like-minded experts who feel that way too. With both purpose and passion working in harmony, he has been able to recruit equally impassioned people who share his vision for creating a high-performance, world-class company.
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Many Trade-Offs in Raising Medicare Eligibility Age
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans are living longer, and Republicans want to raise the Medicare eligibility age as part of any deal to reduce the government's huge deficits.
But what sounds like a prudent sacrifice for an aging society that must watch its budget could have some surprising consequences, including higher premiums for people on Medicare.
Unlike tax hikes, which spawn hard partisan divisions, increasing the Medicare age could help ease a budget compromise because President Barack Obama has previously been willing to consider it. A worried AARP, the seniors' lobby, is already running ads knocking down the idea as a quick fix that would cause long-term problems. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doesn't like it either.
But for Republicans seeking more than just tweaks to benefit programs, raising the current eligibility age of 65 has become a top priority in the quest to rein in a costly government's out-of-control spending. If Obama and the GOP can't agree soon on a budget outline, it may trigger tax increases and spending cuts that would threaten the attempt at an economic recovery.
Increasing the eligibility age to 67 would reduce Medicare spending by about 5 percent annually, compounding into hundreds of billions of dollars over time. But things aren't that simple.
"This is a policy change that seems straightforward, but has surprising ripple effects," said Tricia Neuman, a leading Medicare expert with the Kaiser Family Foundation. "It's a simple thing to describe, and the justification is that people are living longer, but I don't think people have thought through the indirect effects."
Among the cost shifts identified in a Kaiser study:
- Higher monthly premiums for seniors on Medicare. Their costs would go up because keeping younger, healthier 65- and 66-year-olds out of Medicare's insurance pool would raise costs for the rest. The increase would be about 3 percent when the higher eligibility age is fully phased in.
- Higher premiums for private coverage under Obama's health overhaul. That's because older adults would stick with private insurance for two extra years before moving into Medicare. Compared with younger adults, they are more expensive to insure.
- An increase in employer costs because older workers would try to stay on company insurance plans.
- Higher out-of-pocket health care costs for two out of three older adults whose entry into Medicare would be delayed.
The Congressional Budget Office has also projected an increase in the number of uninsured. That possibility becomes more real with populous states like Texas saying they won't accept the Medicaid expansion in Obama's health overhaul, which would provide coverage to low-income adults. Then there's the impact on people with physically demanding jobs, for whom extending their working years may be difficult.
Still, the idea isn't going away.
Polls show that many Americans are willing to consider raising the age at which people become eligible for Medicare benefits as part of a plan to reduce deficits, even if on the whole it's still unpopular.
During the 1980s, Republican President Ronald Reagan and Democrat congressional leaders agreed to gradually increase the age for receiving full Social Security benefits from 65 to 67. But they didn't touch Medicare eligibility.
Since then, some policy experts have advocated aligning the Medicare and Social Security eligibility ages through a gradual phase-in that would spare those close to retirement.
The idea gained new life when Republicans won the House in 2010, and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., embraced it. Obama indicated he was open to it during budget talks with Republicans in 2011. But the president quickly retreated, and now says he's not willing to consider cutting Medicare unless Congress agrees to raise taxes on the wealthy.
The No. 2 Democrat in the House, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, says raising the eligibility age and other cuts "clearly are on the table," although he doesn't see much chance for them if Republicans don't yield on taxes.
For his part, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has relented from pursuing other major changes to Medicare, such as privatization. But when it comes to the eligibility age, he is still pushing.
AARP and other groups representing older adults are mobilizing against it.
"We are prepared to oppose this one pretty strongly," said AARP legislative policy director David Certner. "It's a pretty big deal."


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Album: Anniversary Anthems
Yesterday, Huey's lips were smiling
Yesterday, when Huey was around
She would never have no fear
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The day that Huey dies.
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Yesterday, she still had Huey
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