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BRADENTON -- With less than a week to Election Day and thousands voting early in Manatee County, the race for the mayor's seat in Bradenton is intensifying, with verbal attacks and police visits.
Richard O'Brien, a University of South Florida professor aspiring to be Bradenton's next mayor, told the Bradenton Herald that incumbent Wayne Poston swore at him in front of his family and "aggressively" accused him of removing his signs. The incident happened Sunday near the supervisor of elections' office as early voters went to the polls, O'Brien said.
"I told him to behave himself like a mayor should," O'Brien said. "I have a strict policy that no matter what they do, we'll run a clean campaign."
But Poston, who is running for a fourth term in office, said he approached O'Brien to let him know about the sign situation and that it was O'Brien who "jumps in my face and starts pointing."
"He's making this stuff up. ... He's trying to make something out of nothing," Poston said.
The altercation took place after members of the county's Democratic Party called O'Brien to let him know that Poston was at their booth, according to O'Brien.
"I went over to tell him something that happened," Poston said. "I said, 'Here's the deal, someone was removing our campaign signs and putting yours in place,' and he started yelling at me."
The third candidate in the race, City Councilwoman Marianne Barnebey, said she was not present when the
verbal exchange took place and could not comment on that matter.
"I don't know whatever Mr. O'Brien is talking about, I didn't see it, didn't witness it," Barnebey said. "In every campaign that I have been in, there have been signs that have been damaged and that go missing. It's the nature of the beast."
Joseph Bornstein of Lakewood Ranch said he was volunteering at the Democratic Party's booth providing information about candidates, particularly about President Barack Obama, when the incident happened. Several other people were nearby, he said.
"I thought it was unbecoming, unprofessional and I was really shocked," Bornstein said, adding that Poston was screaming at O'Brien.
Bornstein does not live within city limits and did not know either Poston or O'Brien prior to the confrontation, he said. The mayor's race is nonpartisan.
Poston said he has the license plate number of a vehicle that was seen when his signs were removed. He has not decided whether to ask if charges should be filed, he said.
A police officer went to O'Brien's campaign headquarters on Monday to question his campaign manager about the signs, O'Brien said.
"I think it's very inappropriate to use the police department to try to intimidate my campaign manager," O'Brien said.
An officer went over to O'Brien's office to inquire about a sign issue that came up over the weekend, Lt. John Affolter, of the Bradenton Police Department said.
"To find out if Mr. O'Brien was aware of it or had any information on it, and he did not," Affolter said.
No report had been filed against anyone as of Tuesday, Affolter said.
"The complaint that's been looked into is not necessarily of theft," Affolter said. "It's not necessarily about anything that anyone has done wrong."
The latest financial reports filed with the county's supervisor of elections' office indicate Poston has received the most contributions, $52,180.42. He has spent $15,060, some spent for fund-raising events, consulting fees and signs.
O'Brien has collected about $27,807 and spent about $23,700. Some of O'Brien's expenses include payments to campaign workers, signs and supplies and repairs for his red double-decker campaign bus.
Barnebey's contributions so far total $9,735, and expenses equal about $3,900. She has spent funds on signs, candidate qualifying fees, mailers and sponsorship of a Manatee County Crimestoppers event.
"I think it's going pretty well," Barnebey said of her campaign. "We've had an extremely positive response, and we'll continue doing what we are doing."
Campaign volunteers plan on continuing making phone calls and going door to door to talk to voters, she said.
"We've never had a woman mayor, and we've had two men for 33 years," Barnebey said. "The record shows that I listen to and respect our citizens. ... My campaign ends at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6."
Bradenton voters decided in the primary elections to eliminate runoff elections, meaning that the candidate who receives the most votes, not necessarily the majority, will win.
Poston will also continue going door to door in the final stretch to speak to voters, he said.
"We always run like we are behind, we never take anything for granted," Poston said. "We feel we are doing everything we should."
Said O'Brien: "We are going to end strong like we started. We'll leave everything in the playing field. There's a lot of people unsatisfied with the leadership that's in there."
Election Day is Nov. 6.


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NYPD- School Safety Agent has fatal heart attack after being assaulted by a student
School Safety Agent Vivian A. Samuels
New York City Police Department - Division of School Safety
New York
End of Watch: Friday, December 16, 2005
Biographical Info
Age: 56
Tour of Duty: 24 years
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Date of Incident: Friday, December 16, 2005
Weapon Used: Person
Suspect Info: Apprehended
Agent Samuels suffered a fatal heart attack after being assaulted by a student at Middle School 390.
Agent Samuels was assigned to a school holiday dance at the school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As the students were entering, a 12 year old suspect began to cause a disturbance. Agent Samuels approached the suspect to escort her from the building when the suspect struck Agent Samuels twice in the head, knocking her to the ground. Two other School Safety Agents rushed to assist Agent Samuels and were able to take the suspect into custody.
After the incident Agent Samuels got up off the ground, but collapsed just minutes later. She was taken to Kings County Hospital where she died.
Agent Samuels had served with the New York City Police Department - Division of School Safety for 24 years and is survived by two sons.
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New York City Police Department - Division of School Safety
1 Police Plaza
Room 1320
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 979-3333
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[JURIST] An Afghan Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee alleged that he has been mistreated in custody and asked to boycott his upcoming trial at his first pretrial hearing before a military commission Wednesday. Mohammed Jawad [DOD materials] is charged [press release] with attempted murder [charge sheet, PDF] and intentionally causing serious bodily harm for allegedly throwing a grenade at two US soldiers and an interpreter in their vehicle on December 17, 2002 in Kabul. Jawad did not enter a plea Wednesday. A judge said that he could still be tried and convicted in absentia should he refuse to attend future proceedings. AP has more.Jawad was the fourth Guantanamo detainee to be formally charged with war crimes under the 2006 Military Commissions Act [PDF text]. Military commission cases [DOD materials] have now been initiated against 14 current or former detainees.
[JURIST] Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada ruled [judgment, PDF; summary, PDF] Wednesday that the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms [text] do not extend to Afghan detainees captured by Canadian soldiers. Amnesty International Canada and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association [advocacy websites] had filed complaints against the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal (CFPM) [official website] in Federal Court in February 2007, alleging complicity in torture by Canadian personnel serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Amnesty alleged that Canada was violating its 1982 rights charter by turning Afghan detainees over to Afghan authorities without any protection against later cruel and unusual punishment. Mactavish held that:
I have concluded that while detainees held by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan have the rights accorded to them under the Afghan Constitution and by international law, and, in particular, by international humanitarian law, they do not have rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Furthermore, although the actions of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan in relation to the detention of non-Canadian individuals are governed by numerous international legal instruments, and may also be governed by Canadian law in certain clearly defined circumstances, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to the conduct in issue in this case.
[JURIST] A second employee of French bank Societe Generale [corporate website] has been detained in connection with the investigation into fraudulent activity allegedly committed by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel [BBC profile], the bank said Tuesday. A Societe Generale spokesperson did not name the man but did confirm that he is not the same banker questioned in late February [JURIST report]. Bloomberg reported that an official involved in the investigation had identified the second banker as Manuel Zabraniecki.Kerviel has been in custody [JURIST report] since February 8 when the Paris appeals court granted a request by prosecutors to hold Kerviel in "provisional detention" to prevent him from fleeing the country or communicating with any possible accomplices during the investigation. Societe Generale, which lost $7 billion when it was forced to unload the fraudulent positions, described the methods Kerviel supposedly used to commit the fraud in an explanatory note [PDF text]. Kerviel has maintained that he acted alone, but also says that he is being made a scapegoat [Telegraph report] by the bank, which he alleges was aware of his activities. Additionally, BusinessWeek has reported [text] that the Eurex derivatives exchange [exchange website] warned Societe Generale in November 2007 about Kerviel's unauthorized transactions. Bloomberg has more. BBC News has additional coverage.
[JURIST] The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] Wednesday upheld the conviction of Catholic priest Father Athanase Seromba [case materials] for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and increased his sentence to life in prison [press release]. Seromba, who was acquitted of the lesser charge of conspiracy to commit genocide, was in charge of a parish church where some more than 1,000 Tutsis sought refuge from Hutu forces. He was found to have ordered the bulldozing of the church and the shooting of all those who tried to escape. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2006, but in November 2007 prosecutors appealed the sentence [JURIST reports] as too lenient. The ICTR appeals chamber ruled [PDF text]:
The Appeals Chamber considers that the crimes for which Mr. Seromba has been convicted are egregious in scale and inhumanity. The Appeals Chamber stresses that Mr. Seromba knew that approximately 1,500 refugees were in the church and that they were bound to die or be seriously injured as a consequence of his approval that the church be bulldozed, knowing that the refugees had come to the church seeking safety.
[JURIST] A former militia commander testified Wednesday before the Special Court for Sierra Leone [official website] at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], describing scare tactics used by Taylor to intimidate the population and frighten his enemies. Joseph Marzah said that Taylor had ordered him to kill civilians and told him that the way to instill fear into enemies was to "play with human blood." Marzah also testified that he had been involved in an abortive assassination attempt ordered by Taylor on then-Liberian President Samuel Doe [profile]. AP has more. The Mail and Guardian has additional coverage.Taylor is generally deemed responsible for masterminding and funding intertwined civil wars in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone through the sale of so-called "blood diamonds." He has been charged [indictment, PDF; summary] by the SCSL with 11 counts of crimes against humanity, violations of the Geneva Conventions, and other violations of international humanitarian law. The specific counts include murder, rape, and the use of child soldiers. His trial, moved to The Hague for security reasons, resumed [JURIST report] in January after a multiple-month delay to allow Taylor's defense team more time to prepare.
[JURIST] The resignation [statement text] of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer [JURIST news archive] Wednesday following disclosure of his involvement with a prostitution ring subject to a federal wiretap [criminal complaint, PDF] has interrupted and potentially compromised a series of law reform initiatives championed by the former state attorney general. Among the most prominent of those is a bill to legalize gay marriage in New York passed by the state Assembly [JURIST report] last June but still stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. Also affected is the Spitzer-sponsored Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act [JURIST report; NY Daily News report] that would affirm and advance abortion rights in the state. The future of Spitzer proposals on state campaign finance laws and legislative districts is similarly uncertain. Spitzer's resignation also retrospectively casts a shadow over his vigorous but controversial campaign against corporate fraud [WSJ report], mostly conducted during his term as attorney general from 1998-2006. The New York Times has more.One piece of legislation that may now ironically stand out as an unanticipated highlight of Spitzer's administration is a statute on human trafficking [text] that went into effect November 1. Among other things, the law increased the state penalty for persons patronizing a prostitute [NYT report] to a year in jail up from a maximum of three months. Spitzer signed the legislation last year shortly after taking office as governor. He has not yet been charged with any crime under state or federal law [Mann Act text].
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We are concerned with several reported features of the new proposed legislation. First, we understand that the House leadership may introduce a bill that would require prior court approval before allowing surveillance targeting certain foreign terrorists and other national security threats located outside the United States. ... Second, we understand that the new House bill may not address the issue of providing liability protection for those private-sector firms that helped defend the Nation after the September 11 attacks. Any FISA modernization bill must include such liability protection. Through briefings and documents, we have provided Congress with access to the information that shows that liability protection is the fair and just result. In addition, private party assistance is necessary and critical to ensuring that the Intelligence Community can collect the information needed to protect our country from attack. The Senate Intelligence Committee has stated that "the intelligence community cannot obtain the intelligence it needs without assistance" from electronic communication service providers. The Committee also concluded that "without retroactive immunity, the private sector might be unwilling to cooperate with lawful Government requests in the future without unnecessary court involvement and protracted litigation. The possible reduction in intelligence that might result from this delay is simply unacceptable for the safety of our Nation." Senior intelligence officials also have testified regarding the importance of providing liability protection to such companies for this very reason. Exposing the private sector to continued litigation for assisting in efforts to defend the country understandably makes the private sector much more reluctant to cooperate. Without their cooperation, our efforts to protect the country cannot succeed.Finally, we understand that there are a number of other provisions in the proposal that indicate it does not provide the needed tools to ensure our national security. ...
The administration, which has refused to even attend negotiation sessions between the House and the Senate, has now apparently launched another round of scare tactics and falsehoods. The American people expect government officials to wrestle with these difficult issues and reach common sense solutions that protect Americans from terrorism and preserve our civil liberties. Unfortunately, the president's advisors seem more inclined to issue "my way or the highway" press releases concerning a bill the administration hasn't even read. The Congress will continue to give this issue the careful consideration it deserves and we hope the administration will change course and join us in this effort.
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[JURIST] The UK House of Commons voted 346-206 Tuesday in favor of the EU reform treaty [JURIST news archive], properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon [official website; PDF text]. MPs adopted the European Union (Amendment) Bill [text; bill materials], which will incorporate the Treaty of Lisbon into UK law, after the bill's third reading [debate transcript]. The bill now goes to the House of Lords for approval.Earlier this month, the House of Commons rejected a national referendum [JURIST report] on ratification of the EU treaty, though supporters of that proposal are hoping that the House of Lords will back a popular vote on the treaty, rather than allowing parliamentary ratification. The treaty must be ratified by all 27 EU member states before it can take effect, though each country may choose the method of ratification. Ireland, the latest country to announce its ratification plans, said Tuesday that Ireland will hold a referendum in June [EUobserver report]. Five countries have ratified the reform treaty, and so far, Ireland is the only EU member state that has chosen to hold a referendum on the issue. AFP has more.
[JURIST] Democrats in the US House of Representatives Tuesday failed to secure enough votes to override President George W. Bush's veto [JURIST report] of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2008 [HR 2082 materials], which would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] from using waterboarding [JURIST news archive] and other interrogation techniques not explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual. Even with a final vote of 225-188 [roll call] in favor of the bill, supporters still fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority required to overcome a presidential veto. Democrats and rights groups have denounced Bush's veto, saying the use of coercive techniques was ineffective and inhumane. Field Manual 2-22.3 [PDF text; press release], Human Intelligence Collector Operations, explicitly prohibits the use of waterboarding, electrocution, sensory deprivation, inducing hypothermia, or depriving the subject of food, water, or medical care. The 2006 manual also specifies that the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials] apply to all detainees [JURIST report] and eliminates separate standards for the questioning of prisoners of war and enemy combatants. In announcing his veto, Bush said [radio address transcript; recorded audio] that techniques outside those allowed in Army Field Manual were crucial to the effective interrogation of terror suspects, and that banning them would put the country at higher risk of attack. Bush had previously indicated his plans to veto the bill [JURIST report] in a BBC interview [transcript; recorded video] in February. AP has more.
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Joel Kotkin, Contributor
I cover demographic, social and economic trends around the world.
In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead of being praised for braving the elements, suburban homeowners have been made to feel responsible for everything from the Great Recession to obesity to global warming.
In California, the assault on the house has gained official sanction. Once the heartland of the American dream, the Golden State has begun implementing new planning laws designed to combat global warming. These draconian measures could lead to a ban on the construction of private residences, particularly on the suburban fringe. The new legislation's goal is to cram future generations of Californians into multi-family apartment buildings, turning them from car-driving suburbanites into strap-hanging urbanistas.
That's not what Californians want: Some 71% of adults in the state cite a preference for single-family houses. Furthermore, the vast majority of growth over the past decade has taken place not in high-density urban centers but in lower-density peripheral areas such as Riverside-San Bernardino. Yet popular preferences mean little in a state where environmental zealotry increasingly dictates how people should live their lives.
Some advocates do cite market forces to justify their policies. Economists on the left and right have cited the recent housing bust as proof that homes are not great investments, suggesting people would be better off leaving their money to the tender mercies of Wall Street speculators. Some demographers also suggest that young people will choose to live in high-density regions throughout their lives and that as boomers age they too will opt out of suburbs for urban apartment living.
These "facts" may be more grounded in academic mythology than reality. Some widely quoted experts, like the Anderson Forecast at UCLA, cite Census information to say that demographics are shifting demand from single-family homes to condos and apartments, although the Census asked no such question. These experts also fail to address why condo prices have dropped even more in the major California markets than single-family home prices; the percentage of starts that come from single-family houses shifts from year to year, but last year's number tracks around the same level as seen in the 1980s.
Pr. Kotkin,
You wrote:"Some 71% of adults in the state cite a preference for single-family houses. Furthermore, the vast majority of growth over the past decade has taken place not in high-density urban centers but in lower-density peripheral areas such as Riverside-San Bernardino."
I am quite certain that the vast majority of adults would *prefer* a single-family detached dwelling (SFDD). However that is not quite the point of the discussion. The question at hand is can people *afford* a SFDD. With so many people unemployed or underemployed or with negative equity in their current SFDD, there is clearly not much of a near-term market for new SFDDs. While many Californians might be *willing to pay* for SFDDs, do they have the *ability to pay*?
Further, most new SFDDs are built in bedroom communities far from places were most new jobs exist. With the price of gasoline and diesel expected climb dramatically over the next couple of decades, the cost of SFDDs distant from centers of employment become even more prohibitive. Additionally, many of these bedroom communities have a significant amount of local employment based on the construction of new SFDDs. This creates something of a Catch-22, local unemployment remains high because of low demand for SFDDs and since local unemployment is high there is little demand for SFDDs.
One of government jobs is to plan for the future. Of course the future is not what it used to be so plans have to change. I seems to me that it is entirely reasonable for local and state government to look at economic and social trends and make plans, policies, regulations, and laws accordingly.
Eventually it'll be just Mary Nichols and the Guatemalan guy who drives her to work in her Hummer. And he'll be scratching his head trying to figure out why his welfare checks keep bouncing.
I want to Drive a Hummer and Live in Yosemite NP in a 10k Sq ft Home with my wife?
Sometimes, there is a greater good served by others setting guidelines.
Kotkin, meet Prisoners' Dilemma. Prisoners' Dilemma, meet Kotkin.
Of course, *I* want to live in the sprawling mansion, next to the beach and mountains and forests and maybe lazy cows lolling around the green fields, but just far enough from the train that will whisk me downtown to the high rises where everyone else lives that the noise doesn't bother me.
Of course, everyone else wants the same. The result: suburbs, which combine the worst of all worlds.
By the end of this century California will be a much different place. Jewish Hollywood will be a thing of the past. Hispanics and Asians will dominate political life in the state. The Greater LA area may have 40 or 50 million people, with most of them living in squalid slums. Proposition 13 will be swept away like the old "rotten boroughs" of Britain. I'm glad I won't be around then.
Like Mr. Kotkin, I am a member of the "pony tail" set, but without the pony tail. If I were him, I would make losing weight my #1 priority. He looks like a good candidate for a heart attack. In the meantime, the sun is just coming up in sunny California and I will be going to the gym soon. For some people, the State is still a nice place to live in.
"assault on the house" "official sanction" "forced" "cramming"…I was in a good mood this morning until your writing scared me.
Our current sprawling suburbia SoCal, ravaged by Prop 13, lunatic no-tax pledges, and the chasm between rich and poor, is a model for no society that wants to prosper past the current generation. We have Manhattan-style density without big-city support with mass transit, local business, etc., and unless you are of the tiny minority that can afford a $1M+ house, you know that we need the kind of diverse development that Kotkin ignorantly decries.
Few children can afford to buy a home in the neighborhood where they grew up. Their parents had opportunity that has been yanked away.
Fascinating article about a state committing suicide. Truly amazing but if the voters don't toss out the folks that comeup with this nonsense then they get what they deserve. Global warming/human induced climate change is pretty much ridiculed these days (rightfully so) due to poor science and obvious social agendas pushed by its proponents. Hey, all those tax paying businesses will just move to Texas where they will be appreciated!
I commend California for sticking to their principles. Though, they seem to forget that they cannot achieve their natural environmental utopia without the silly things like people, revenue, and business.
I don't have time to do the research, so I'll let one of you poor souls jump in and do it. California was mostly Republican a few decades ago, but since the 80′s has become dependably liberal. Is their enormous debt a consequence of factors that aren't obvious? Or, can we safely assume the good old fashioned liberal agenda has spent them into their current situation?
Yes, I realize Schwartzy is a "moderate Republican". Is he the scapegoat for tripling their debt over the past seven years?
CA legislature has been Dem since 1970. The GOP actually managed to win a narrow majority 1995/96, but Willie Brown managed to change it back to Dem. Forget the maneuver, but it was uniquely Brown/CA.
For the last decade, the Dems hold about 203 votes short of 2/3. The state is so gerrymandered, the chance of a Dem seat going GOP, or vice-versa is about the same as a meteor striking me as I type. The recent redistricting proposition will likely make seats a bit more competitive, but will probably give the Dems the seat or two they need for absolute control.
Sacramento is a horror show.
California is a classic case of not letting the facts get in the way of a "good ideology". The state has been declining for years. Businesses are leaving in droves. Everywhere that "smart growth" policies have been implemented they have created the opposite of their stated objectives. They create more expensive housing, more congestion, more "carbon" yet they persist. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result, than CA is insane. I agree with Joel that California is rapidly descending in to the abyss of the uber wealthy and the economic surfs. The middle class will either flee the state or enjoy trickle up poverty. In the meantime, we have a legislature that continues to spend beyond bankruptcy and waste their time on social engineering legislation (LBGT history in schools)rather than fixing the roads. Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
This is a sad end to a once great state.
How can Prop 13 be "lunatic" when a city like San Francisco publishes a "balanced" $6.8 BILLION budget for 750,000 residents covering 64 square miles? Compare that to the entire FY budget of Arizona of $8.8 billion for 6.3 million residents distributed across 113,000 square miles?
Howard Jarvis in 1974 saw people literally being taxed out of their homes, and unless the people put controls on how much they could be taxed, the inevitable would happen. California still spends more per child for education than 90% of the other states and ranks in the bottom 5% for achievement. College students have 75% of their tuition subsidized by taxpayers and still complain about the costs. Do you think having more property tax revenue would have improved things?
Even with Prop 13, the politicians and public employee unions have managed to bankrupt the state and municipalities.
They took the Golden State and create the classic "welfare state" dominated by those who are consumers of the wealth created by others. California dodged one financial bullet in the 1990′s when the internet boom saved the state financially. So, what did the politicians do? They created more "programs" and spent themselves into bankruptcy again. Now, that's what I would call "lunacy".
And, you have no funding whatsoever to even remotely address the pending fallout when 38,000 criminals are released from your state penitentiaries.
Obviously, having some of the highest tax rates in the country isn't solving anything.
What I find so funny is some people come here and want to tell you as a home owner what is good for you. Hey folks just because you do not like a csingle family dwelling does nto mean we do nto like them. What makes a person want to place their will on another.
Quite frankly living in a condo or multi family housing indeed sucks. You pay all kinds of fees plus property tax. I guess the state wants more taxes per square inch of real estate. Guess what most people do nto like large metropolitan areas. They are dirty, polluted, and ridden with crime.
I moved out of the state years ago and I am so glad I did. I bought a 2000 square foot house for 92k. Hell in CA my fathers house built in 1920 with two houses on a lot is priced at over a million. Are you people nuts.
I guess they need to make more room for illegals out there as most legitimate people are fed up with the crap. I laugh at all the stupid stuff CA does now. I loved CA, I grew up there and now it is nothing more then a third world contry. I know I have been to many third world countries. I am truly saddened by CA's state of affairs.
Three cheers for you, Joel Kotkin! Hopefully, this information and your views will become more widely known.
It just goes to show once again that the tree-huggers, the greenies, or whatever you want to call them are really a perverse lot. They have really strange (to me) thinking. But I do have to respect their consistency: They consistently mold "facts" to fit their agenda. And they base their agenda on totally flawed premises.
On the one hand, protecting the environment would seem to be a good thing, but if the reason for protecting the environment is wrong to begin with, then you can be sure that the implementation of environmental protection is going to be wrong.
It has been my observation that the most fervent environmentalists do what they do ultimately to protect "mother earth" for mother earth's sake and the rest are sort of following along. Never mind that "mother earth" does not exist.
What does exist is Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. And He created Earth as a place for man to live, period. In other words, Earth was made for man, not man for the Earth. Once you have this perspective, your perspective on the environment becomes totally different.
Now, most of the things that environmentalists want to do are just nutty, that is, what they want to do is most often contrary to what makes life better for people. If they would and could get God's perspective on the environment, I believe it's possible that they would see their nuttiness and abandon the crazy things like they are doing in California.
This is actually part of the Agenda21 of the United Nations. The idea is to transfer wealth from the leading wealthy countries to the less wealthy third world countries. Google Agenda21 and you will find out about it. It is destructive to the American way of life. I grew up in California in its golden age. Sad to see it deteriorate. The possibilities for this state were enormous until the environmentalists and the leftists took it over. I hate to see what California will be 10-15 years from now. Very sad.
I agree with you about UN Agenda 21. The UN spawned an organization called ICLEI, International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, that provide a template to local governments for "sustainable development" and "smart growth". Most of the cities signed up for the program are in California, no surprise there, with most of those in the Bay Area. People should check and see if their city is signed up, then hang on to you wallet. ICLEI cities listed here: http://www.icleiusa.org/about-iclei/members/member-list
Having lived all my 58 years on this earth right here in California, I can speak with some authority on a few "California Traits."
1. Californians tend to think of California as "special," and of themselves as more valuable and worthwhile than people who live in "some other parts" of the country. This is common to people everywhere, but I hear so many people say "I can't imagine living anywhere else."
2. Californians elect people who love to tell others how "THEY" should live.
3. The idea of a single-family house in California as morphed from a quarter-acre lot with a 1400 square-foot house to a sixth-acre lot with a 2500 square-foot house on it. Houses are bigger, but lots are smaller and the houses are closer together.
4. More people are moving FROM California to other States than are moving TO California from other States. California's population continues to increase because of people moving to California from other countries. This is a GOOD thing. Immigration enriches us all. ( http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-12-10/bay-area/25184740_1_population-growth-california-population-california-for-other-states )
I BELIEVE some people leave California to go where jobs are, or where family are, or to "start over." I also BELIEVE some people (like myself) are leaving California to live somewhere more affordable, someplace where we can paint our house whatever colour we choose or plant what we choose or put up a storage shed on our own property without interference from a "busybody" bureaucracy.
A good example of this type of community organizing is the public housing projects in that have been built in some of our larger cities or the drab apartment blocks in soviet Russia. They will be surprised when the area turns into a drug infested high crime area unexpectedly with failed schools.
One thing I've never been able to figure out – if people are actually abandoning San Francisco for the suburbs en-masse, why are the real estate prices there so absurdly high? If central city housing is, as you seem to suggest, such a bizarre, marginal, fringe commodity, why does the market value it so much more highly than suburban housing?
I'm not surprised by anything I've read here. What has surprised me is there is no mention of United Nations Agenda 21. This is precisely what you have described. The elimination of single family housing. People being herded into high rise apartments adjacent to railroad lines. Every being on earth being permitted to live as they please. Every being, that is, EXCEPT HUMAN BEINGS! The fact that it is now public policy in Jerry Brown's California comes as no surprise to me at all! It's laid out very clearly in this video entitled "Agenda 21 for Dummies" http://youtu.be/rIgHK5x-4fY
An eye-opener. The dumbing-down of America is no accident.
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"Generally, more highly educated people, who have higher incomes, consume more resources than poorly educated people, who tend to have lower incomes. In this case, more education increases the threat to sustainability. …increasing basic literacy, as it is currently taught in most countries, will not support a sustainable society."
California has lost too much of its open spaces due to overpopulation. The construction of new single family homes should have been banned years ago. However the state should also require that at least 1/4 to 1/3 of new high density housing units are large enough for a family of four (four bedrooms, four toilets/showers, a living room, den, and dining room) so that the housing is attractive to couples who want/have kids. For the same reason (and for all our benefit) the state should mandate that sports complexes, pool complexes, and parks be built alongside clusters of condominium towers. With planning, high density housing can transform our sprawling cities of concrete into greener and more beautiful and places.


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Two score and 10 years ago a great American who now casts his own statuesque shadow over Washington, D.C., delivered an imaginative proclamation. A "beacon light" blinding Jim Crow's gaze and offering hope to millions of American citizens – of all colors – marching hand in hand.
Fifty years later, we must face the tragic fact that the African-American is still not free. The life of the African-American is starved by poverty and the rapier jabs of micro-aggression. Fifty years later, African-Americans no longer live on a lonely island, but populated prisons in which they can commiserate over lost hope.
When the architect of this great speech spoke his magnificent words his voice reached the halls of Congress as a verbal offer of hope, prosperity and justice. Fifty years later, many wait in exile for the offer to be accepted and ratified.
It's obvious today that America retains superior leverage in its adhesion contract. So we again embark on the "fierce urgency of now," oxymoronically in perpetuity. Now is the time to awake not any more from the "dark and desolate valleys," but from the slow progress but still dusk and sparse plateaus of disparity to eventually rise with the sun on the hilltops of the eastern shore.
Fifty years later the discontent is not owned by one race and thus, the nation must respond to a growing and formidable threat. The "sweltering summer" will boil the nation's melting pot of which it is so proud and burn the bridges of freedom we have spent years constructing. Those who hoped that the African-American needed to "blow off steam" will be rudely awakened by the discontented charge of all Americans seeking change. Monday's morals in North Carolina will blaze Friday's trails in Oregon.
But we must continue to conduct our struggle with "dignity and discipline" where some have lost their way in misinformed rhetoric rather than informed action. We must not hate all those who disagree with us, as an injustice on the right is an injustice on the left. An injustice in Sanford, Fla., is an injustice in Newton, Conn.
"When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as access to voting booths is limited, the halls of our schools' opportunities are narrow, and the path into prison is broad.
I still say today, that in spite of the "difficulties and frustrations of the moment," we can still dream the American dream.
One day the vast red soil of Oklahoma won't be disturbed with allegations of black teens killing a white teen out of boredom.
One day, articulate black women in Illinois won't be accused of acting white, but not paid as if they were.
One day, a Hispanic youth in Pennsylvania, when compared to his white counterpart, won't have a greater chance of entering the state pen than Penn State.
One day in the state of Alabama, little black boys can join hands with little Latino boys and live as fully recognized unions.
One day all of us will rely on our own heads to invigorate every community to evoke its own spirit of self-reliance and success and not at the feet of some institution to do so for them. But we must also look to those institutions to help fill those unjust gaps, remnants of the past's lack of fierce urgency. President Barack Obama, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. Marco Rubio are fine examples of the opportunities America affords when we let freedom ring.
So, let freedom ring from the shores of Honolulu.
Let freedom ring from the Long Island Sound of the Bronx.
Let freedom ring amongst the cheers in "Death Valley" in Baton Rouge.
Let freedom ring on the sandy beaches of South Florida.
Then we can be free and thankful that "we are free at last."
Kenneth W. Chandler II is a civil rights attorney and lobbyist with degrees from Vanderbilt University Law School and UNC-Chapel Hill.


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
WORK to transform the former Southern Water depot in Newport into the Island Roads offices is well underway.
The 'eco friendly' new build at 42 Daish Way will not only house the Island Roads PFI teams, but will include a new state of the art CCTV control centre, an operations 'hub' and a permanent visitor centre.
Primary school children across the Isle of Wight are being encouraged to come up with a name for the building.
Paul Herbert, service director, said: "We are asking for ideas for names, either in a poster format with a design or simply to suggest a name, by February 15, which can be turned into a design, then converted into a sign to hang on the outside of the main reception.
"We are keen to further work in partnership with all Island schools and are currently developing a programme of school visits for 2013 and beyond to ensure that young people are engaged with and informed about the changes coming to their area, as well as career opportunities open to them for the future."
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by Jake Gully
1st February 2013, at 22:19:52
Complete Tosh - it may be relatively less environmentally damaging than the planned Asphalt Plant. It may on completion look modern and clean. Perhaps it might even win the architect a design award. However, 'eco friendly' it is not, nor will it ever be.Good to see IWCP upholding the standards of journalism!
by G Day
1st February 2013, at 09:31:11
It's a 'roads' PFI. Polluting machines drive on roads. You can use the word 'eco' as much as you like but at the end of the day there's not much about it that is going to be 'green'.
by Valerie Ching
1st February 2013, at 00:54:27
More importantly. I do wonder why when PFI deals have proven to be found unsustainable and therefore any new ones have been shied away from all around the country, that the IW council almost alone is keen to pursue this course for the roads. 25 years is a long time to lock in future councils especially when many councillors who took this decision to hand on this poisoned chalice now tell us they are headed for the exit door before the council elections this May.
1st February 2013, at 00:29:37
Lots of people on the Island also would love more public trees (lava) to be located around the island for use of residents and locals I'm told
by Don Prescott
31st January 2013, at 18:11:45
Mike,I love trees. They absorb harmful gasses. On that basis, we should plant dozens around the Egoisland Hub and Gurnard.What I find reproachful is the constant attempts to brainwash the public into believing wishful thinking predictions as facts.Like when THE Department of Energy and Climate Change (Used to be known as Global Warming, but proved false) state publicly last week that ONLY 5 people nationally signed up for the Green Deal Scam, yet Green says 2 days later that the weight of inquiries about Green Deal crashed their server!! Who to believe? Rayban or DECC? Hmmn, thats a no brainer!Now we have the Roads PFI, whose business is tarmac, that well known eco-friendly substance wanting to ensure that young people are informed about the changes coming.Well I can do that.There will be hundreds of "new homes", that nobody wants, a ruddy great supermarket, traffic jams and NO JOBS!
by Patrick Hall
31st January 2013, at 18:03:30
@Mike Crowe, Cheaper is not always better. @yan yan, it was Isle of Wight County Council plus Medina Borough Council and South Wight Borough Council before the unitary authority took over, and most if not all decisions were put to the vote, not delegated to an individual.
by Mike Crowe
31st January 2013, at 16:38:20
Don do you think there will be any trees outside to hug? (or is that old hat like the Rubicks Cube and the Hula Hoop?)
31st January 2013, at 15:28:27
Oooh! Another "eco friendly" building. Goody!Will they be applying for the Green Deal too?Maybe they can get the lovely David Green to put it on his "Speaking at" list.It also has the now compulsory "Hub" like Egoisland.Amazing how they can't do without a "Hub" nowadays.Does anyone want to borrow one off my bike?And if it rains, I have some old "hub" caps from a 1989 Cortina!Does a "permanent visitor centre" mean that visitors have to stay there forever and if they do, do they have to listen to Jayasundra wittering on about how this will be "good for the island" as well as his bank balance?Or has he gone now?"Eco", "Hubs", "Visitor centre"? Would it be possible for the CP to cut out the bull effluent that tony refers to in any future reports?NO! Don't be silly! They LOVE the "eco" bull!
31st January 2013, at 15:23:12
Wight's Black Hole ?Money Sponge Towers ?Shangri la ?
31st January 2013, at 14:33:18
Patrick, once upon a time everything, well almost everything was done by the Local District and the IOW Councils. A lot is now put out to outside contractors. Why? Because they can do it cheaper than the Isle of Wight County Council. Is that not an admission of bad management?
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If you have a garden loaded with basil, you've got it made in the shade (or sun, for that matter) because now is the time to pick all that basil and make pesto for tonight, and later.
I was fortunate to have received fresh, gorgeous basil from my neighbor's garden.
Making pesto is pretty easy. You will thank yourself later if you make a big batch. Use some now and freeze the remainder in small containers.
You definitely need a food processor for this recipe. If you don't have one, borrow one from a friend. When you return their appliance, present them with a container of pesto! They will be happy to lend you anything in the future.
Here's the basic pesto recipe:
1/4 cup nuts (pine nuts, walnuts - your choice)
2 cups packed fresh basil leaves, washed, stems removed
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 T fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
freshly ground pepper
kosher salt, as needed
1/2 cup olive oil, divided
First, toast the nuts by placing them in a small dry frying pan on medium heat. Stir them frequently and watch them until they just begin to turn light brown. Remove the nuts from the pan and place them on a plate or on a piece of tin foil and let cool.
In the bowl of a food processor, add the nuts, basil, garlic, lemon juice, cheese, pepper, a little salt and about half the olive oil. Process until smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and process more. While the machine is running, add a little more olive oil until you reach your desired consistency. You may need the whole 1/2 cup, you may need less.
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1. The commissioner shall establish and maintain one or more laboratories with such expert assistants and such facilities as are necessary for routine examinations and analyses, and for original investigations and research in matters affecting public health. The laboratories shall be known as the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research.
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§ 502. Environmental laboratories; examinations; certificates of approval
1. For the purposes of this section, �environmental laboratory� is any facility that examines or is available for the examination of samples or specimens including, but not limited to: air, stack emissions, water, wastewater, surface water, ground water, recreational waters, swimming pools, leachate, land runoff, solid waste, hazardous waste, soil, sediments and vegetation, as well as any substance that could contribute to the pollution of or that could be contaminated by material contained in such samples or specimens. Such examinations shall be limited to the qualitative or quantitative determinations of the biological, chemical, radiochemical or physical characteristics of such samples or specimens for the purposes of public or personal health protection or the protection of the environment or natural resources. Environmental laboratories shall not include non-laboratory chemical testing associated with residential water softeners and residential swimming pools.
2. No environmental laboratory may perform any examination on samples collected in the state of New York for which the commissioner issues a certificate of approval for such examination unless the laboratory has been issued such certificate of approval. Such laboratory examinations shall conform to any conditions under which the approval is granted.
3. The commissioner may issue to laboratories certificates of approval covering laboratory examinations, including but not limited to, specific procedures or specialities within such categories as wastewaters, potable waters, sediments, solid wastes, and air, and may prescribe the conditions under which such approvals will be granted. Notwithstanding any other conditions which he may prescribe, such an approval shall not be issued hereafter to a laboratory, not heretofore approved, unless the director or other person in charge of such examinations shall possess such educational and technical qualifications as the commissioner shall prescribe.
4. No state agency, authority, county, city, including the city of New York, town, village, water district, sewer district or other political subdivision of the state shall contract with any laboratory for laboratory examinations for which the commissioner issues certificates of approval pursuant to subdivision three of this section, unless such laboratory has been issued such certificate.
5. Subject to the approval of the director of the budget, the commissioner shall charge adequate and reasonable fees for the periodic inspection of out-of-state laboratories.
6. Subject to the approval of the director of the budget, the commissioner shall charge laboratories fees to recover the cost to the department of operating this program. The commissioner may waive all or any part of such fee charges for laboratories operated by the state. Fees shall include the following:
(a) a basic amount of five hundred dollars to be charged to each laboratory;
(b) the balance of the program cost from:
(1) an additional amount to be charged to each laboratory proportional to total adjusted volume of analytes performed by the laboratory in the preceding year as defined in regulations of the department, the total amount collected from which shall equal fifty percent of the balance of the program costs;
(2) an additional amount to be charged to each laboratory proportional to the number of analytes for which such laboratory maintains its certification.
Subparagraph one of paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall not apply to government laboratories.
7. For those categories, procedures or specialities as specified in subdivision three for which the commissioner has issued certificates of approval, the commissioner shall within thirty days of receipt of an application for a certificate from a laboratory existing on or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-three, which is initially required to obtain certification, review such application and issue an interim certificate of approval in the particular category, procedure or speciality to all laboratories which provide adequate documentation in their application that they are capable of performing quality work in the category, procedure or speciality under review. An interim certificate of approval in specified categories will remain valid until such time as the commissioner shall reach a determination on the application.
8. The commissioner may adopt and amend rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this title.
9. A person who intentionally violates or refuses or omits to comply with subdivision two of this section, or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction, by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment. A second or subsequent conviction shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment.
10. Renumbered 9 by L.2010, c. 58, pt. A, § 24, eff. July 2, 2010, deemed eff. April 1, 2010.
(L.1953, c. 879. Amended L.1981, c. 517, § 1; L.1983, c. 614, § 1; L.1984, c. 901, § 1; L.1989, c. 685, §§ 1, 2; L.1992, c. 699, § 1; L.2010, c. 58, pt. A, § 24, eff. July 2, 2010, deemed eff. April 1, 2010.)
§ 503. Laboratories; state hospitals; service to counties and municipalities
1. The director of any hospital in the department, with the approval of the commissioner, may enter into a contract with proper municipal or county officials under which the laboratory service of the hospital may be made available to municipalities or counties or parts thereof when in his judgment such a contract shall be in the interest of public health and not prejudicial to the interest or work of the institution.
2. The treasurer of the hospital, or the director thereof, if there is no treasurer, shall receive all moneys paid in consideration of such contract and pay the same into the general fund of the state.
1. The commissioner is authorized to designate approved laboratories or institutions wherein properly conducted scientific tests, experiments or investigations, involving the use of living animals, may be performed or conducted.
2. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules under which such approvals shall be granted, and shall cause such rules to be published, and copies thereof shall be conspicuously posted in each such laboratory or institution.
(b) Such rules of the commissioner shall include requirements that all animals shall be kindly and humanely treated, properly fed and suitably housed, and that commensurate with experimental needs and with the physiologic function under study, all tests, experiments and investigations involving pain shall be performed under adequate anesthesia.
3. The commissioner or his duly authorized representative shall inspect such laboratories or institutions to insure compliance with the rules and standards promulgated by him.
4. (a) The approval of a laboratory or institution by the commissioner for the purposes herein set forth shall be limited to a period not exceeding one year but may be renewed from year to year upon proper application to the commissioner.
(b) Each such approval may be revoked at any time for failure to comply with the rules promulgated by the commissioner.
5. The performance of animal experimentation without approval by the commissioner as herein provided shall constitute a misdemeanor.
CREDIT(S)(L.1953, c. 879.)


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August Turak, Contributor
I write about Service and Selflessness: the Secret to Success.
But failure was not an option for Mobley, and after many a dark night of the soul he hit upon the answer that turned IBM into the fastest growing and most admired corporation in the world…
In 1955 IBM's legendary CEO, Tom Watson Jr., gave my mentor, Louis R. Mobley, a blank check and carte blanche to create The IBM Executive School. Fresh from successfully implementing IBM's first supervisor and middle management training programs, Mobley confidently set about churning out executives as well.
The first thing he did, in conjunction with GE and DuPont, was hire the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the same company that still does the SATs, to identify the skills that make great leaders great. Once these intellectual skills were identified, Mobley and his colleagues at GE and DuPont assumed that spitting out executives would simply mean "training to the test."
ETS dutifully rounded up a bunch of proven leaders and tested them every which way from Sunday looking for their common skills. The results were astounding and more than a little disturbing. As Mobley put it, "No matter what bell shaped curve we drew, successful leaders fell on the extreme edges. The only thing they seemed to have in common was having nothing in common. ETS was so frustrated that they offered us our money back."
But failure wasn't an option for Mobley, and after many a dark night of the soul he finally hit upon the answer. Unlike supervisors and middle managers, what successful executives shared were not skills and knowledge but values and attitudes. And over time Mobley identified the values and attitudes that great leaders share.
1) Great Leaders Thrive on Ambiguity. While most of us like black and white decisions, successful leaders are comfortable with what Mobley called, "shades of gray." Great leaders are able to hold apparent contradictions in tension. They use the tension these paradoxes produce to come up with innovative ideas.
2) Great Leaders Love Blank Sheets of Paper. Supervisors and middle managers use a framework of policies and procedures to guide them to the proper decision. They want a plan that reduces their job to filling in the blanks or what Mobley called "following the bouncing ball." By contrast, leaders create the blanks that managers fill in. Like some business Einstein intent on reinventing the universe, every great leader relishes the opportunity to "think things through" from scratch.
3) Great Leaders are Secure People. Successful executives thrive on differences of opinion. They surround themselves with the best people they can find: people strong enough to hold a contrary opinion and argue vociferously for it. Great leaders crave challenges, and this means hiring the most challenging people they can find with no regard for whether today's challenger might be tomorrow's rival.
4) Great Leaders Want Options. Long before it became fashionable, Mobley was a huge proponent of diversity. However his definition meant a diversity of opinion rather than the kind we usually associate with political correctness. Mobley's great leader constantly demands diverse options from his team, and uses these options to produce creative decisions.
5) Great Leaders are Tough Enough to Face Facts. At heart Mobley was a spiritual man who valued the Truth for the Truth's sake. Successful executives face facts, and this means being open to the truth even when it is not what we want to hear. One of the most successful executives I know offers cash rewards to anyone in his company who can prove him wrong. Great leaders have a nose for B.S and abhor it.
6) Great Leaders Stick Their Necks Out. It is a natural human trait to fear being evaluated. We crave wiggle room so we can deflect blame and get off the hook when things go wrong. In business what is often passed off as a collaborative effort is actually just an attempt to avoid individual accountability. Great leaders want to be measured and evaluated. They continually look for ways to measure things that may seem immeasurable, and they cheerfully accept the blame when they are wrong or fail to deliver. The old adage that success has a 1000 fathers while failure is an orphan does not apply to great leadership.
7) Great Leaders Believe in Themselves. While great leaders crave advice, options, and strong colleagues, they all share a profound belief in themselves and their judgment. Mobley described great leaders as "people stubbornly following their star who don't know how to quit." Holding this stubbornness in tension with a willingness to be wrong is perhaps the greatest trick that every great leader must perform.
8) Great Leaders are Deep Thinkers. Managers get things done. Executives must decide on the things worth doing in the first place. Though very difficult to quantify, great leaders are deep thinkers. They constantly dive below surface "facts" searching for new ways to knit those facts together. Great leaders are generalists not specialists driven by an omnivorous curiosity. They know that the answers they are seeking will probably emerge from outside business and from disciplines that may seem utterly unrelated.
9) Great Leaders are Ruthlessly Honest with Themselves. Self-knowledge is perhaps the most critical trait that all great leaders share. Leaders question assumptions and disrupt complacency by relentlessly asking the question: "What is the business of the business?" This exercise develops and refines the organization's mission and purpose, and it is little more than the age old question "Who am I?" applied collectively. If you are not clear about the purpose of your own life how can you provide a sense of organizational purpose for others?
10) Great Leaders are Passionate. They may be loudly charismatic or quietly intense, but all great leaders care deeply about what they are doing and why they are doing it. Perhaps most importantly they care about people. Every business is a people business, and passionately caring about people whether they are employees, customers, vendors or stockholders is an essential leadership value.
Once Mobley compiled his list, he was faced with another even more difficult problem: How do you instill values and transform attitudes? He discovered that unlike supervisors and middle managers, executives shared another trait: They were constitutionally untrainable and reacted with hostility to any effort to "brainwash" them with "training." Worse, Mobley discovered that values and attitudes are not only impervious to typical training techniques, but hectoring people to change often had the unintended consequence of hardening existing attitudes instead.
As the result some deep thinking of his own, Mobley eventually realized that what was needed was "a revolution in consciousness" rather than the kind of step by step curriculum that leads to a single "right answer." Taking a leap of faith, he decided that the values and attitudes he was looking for could only be brought about as a side benefit or unintended consequence of what almost might be termed "spiritual work." Rather than converging on a super set of skills, the IBM Executive School fostered the divergence that values uniqueness and individual authenticity.
The risk of failure was real, but if Mobley was going to produce people willing to stick out their necks he had to stick out his own first. He abandoned lectures and books in favor of games, simulations and other experiential techniques designed, not to "train," but to "blow people's minds."
As for the personal accountability and measuring results, Mobley's record speaks for itself. He ran the IBM Executive School from 1956-1966. It was his students that turned IBM into the fastest growing and most admired corporation in the world in the 1960s and 70s…
For more great leadership strategies read my book: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing; July 2013). Follow me on Twitter @augustturak, Facebook http://facebook.com/aturak, or check out my website http://www.augustturak.com/
I like that info. Especially how execs are untrainable.
Reinforces one of my own observations. ;-)
Also makes me wonder which one of his successful students shut down the executive school. I mean, IBM faltered in the 80s.
IBM faltered in the mid-1980s's through the early 1990′s because they were, at that time, an inbred culture without diversity of thought! The presidents of IBM all came from the mainframe division … because that was traditionally the most profitable section of IBM. They tolerated the other business units selling to smaller firms because they saw them as future mainframe customers.
As a "professional hire" in 1980 with an MBA and years of professional business experience elsewhere, I was expected to run a copier and pick up checks for a year while I learned "the IBM way". Needless to say, I learned the reward system early and my brief IBM career profited from that perspective.
As a "trainee" in 1980, I had the chance to ask my "legendary" divisional VP of small systems marketing "why isn't IBM advertising on TV … especially with the trend toward smaller, less expensive systems?". His response was the equivalent of my asking why the emperor had no clothes. He said "You obviously are someone who doesn't know the first thing about marketing computers!".
Arrogance like this was what bred:
– my 1983 departure to found the company that I am President and CEO of today
– ignoring the competitive threat from mini and micro systems
– the great 1990 crash of IBM
– the hiring of an outsider – Lou Gerstner … who did what I would have done if I were running IBM at that time!
Today's IBM is vastly different that that of the past … while they blew MANY opportunities, they are still a force to be reckoned with today!
August Turak, this is a good list – an admirable list. Your byline says, that you write about "Service and Selflessness: the Secret to Success." Do you not find it interesting that this is not one of the traits or lessons of great leadership listed? I guess it might fall under "Great Leaders are Passionate" but that is pretty broad and really doesn't capture the essence of the thought.
I have just published a paper on "We Are All Assistants, Volume II of Tom Watson Sr. Essays on Leadership." Watson told his executives in the heart of the Great Depression, September 1st, 1930 the following:
"When you give men authority it affects them differently. Some men think, 'I have been given authority to tell these other men what to do.' Consequently, they are not able to tell anybody what to do that will be of any value. When a man is given a promotion, his responsibility has been extended and the first thing for him to do is to worry a little over it instead of taking a great deal of pride in his new power. His first duty is to sit down and to think seriously about his responsibility and how he can aid his coworkers"
Now that is education – right from the guy that holds the executive's paycheck in his hands. It took Tom Watson Sr. 46 years and Tom Watson Jr. 15 years on top of that to build a corporation that would grow in the 60′s and 70′s. An Executive school is an important component (Tom Watson Sr. started them actually during the Great Depression – so Mobley had some history to build from) but it was one piece of the puzzle. Although the IBM education in the 80′s when I went was magnificent, if we hadn't had Executive Interviews (EI's), Opinion Surveys, Management Briefs, Wild Duck speeches from Junior, Open Doors, Respect for the Individual (and the other six basic IBM beliefs) and fundamentally the IBM culture supported at the very top of IBM; the schools would have been meaningless.
Peter E. Greulich
Author, Speaker and Publisher
Author of The World's Greatest Salesman and Tom Watson Sr. Essays on Leadership
A very insightful post, August! Thank you for sharing.
Of course there are more traits of great leaders – how about traits eleven and twelve?
Number 11 – While good leaders have followers, great leaders foster other leaders
Number 12 – While good leaders have followers, great leaders know when to lead and when to follow – because great leaders have to be found throughout an orgnisation not just at its head.
IIRC Martin Seligman said the best predictive indicator of success in most areas (education, sports, military, business) is the "optimistic explanatory style". When one thinks of failures as temporary, isolated and not personal, he remains persistent and takes appropriate risks. (I do remember Seligman saying accounting is NOT a field for optimists, though :)


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While thousands of people have responded to the recent emergency call for blood and platelet donations from the American Red Cross, there remains an urgent need for platelet donors, as well as donors with types O negative, B negative and A negative blood. Right now blood products are being distributed to area hospitals almost as quickly as donations are coming in.
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Old man winter will soon rear his ugly head. And that means its time to prepare your yard for the harsh months to come — winterize it if you will.
However, raking the autumn leaves, taming garden beds, subduing the hedges and untangling the water hoses can be difficult for older adults and the disabled.
Shorewood Connects hopes to address the issue with its annual Yard Clean-Up Day on Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to noon, linking volunteers with those who need a hand with yard chores.
Organizer Sue Kelly said 150 volunteers are needed this year to meet the demand for help, and it's a chance to give back to the community and help your neighbors.
Older and disabled adults seeking more information about yard clean-up should contact Elizabeth Price of the Shorewood Senior Resource Center (414) 847-2727.
If you'd like to volunteer, call Sue Kelley at 961-7262 or email at email@example.com. Pre-registration is required.