Meetings and medical schools
The nice and naturally, unidentified individual who called me a "bitter cunt" by email is spouting off here about his displeasure that I've listed some of the businesses, local governments and educational institutions that have visited this site. I guess it's upsetting to him or her that people from different places around the country and the world are reading this site and reading among other things, about him or her and what he or she has been doing. So upsetting that he or she sees fit to harass me through my email and at other sites. This person calls this "fun" along with his or her ability to hide their identity. Nah, it's called being a coward by calling someone a "bitter cunt" and hiding behind a group of ISPs and a porn site.
What's interesting is why this person is so undone by the fact that people from all over the world drop by this site to the point where he or she has to make a fool of themselves ranting about it. Is he or she truly upset that people in New York, England, Israel and Ann Arbor, Michigan know that he or she called me a "bitter cunt"? You'd think he or she would be proud to have a global audience! You think it would instead provide quite a, well you know.
He or she has ditched their German and Swiss-owned ISPs for a much more local one linked to a porn and other adult content resources site that's been used on the internet to among other things, vandalize Wikipedia's entries where it's been banned. How fitting indeed. How pathetic as well. The postings above occurred not long after a link to the posting from my blog addressing the impact of budget cuts on community policing in both San Bernardino and Riverside was removed possibly by this same individual. He or she should be most proud that people are reading about his antics including using gender slurs and hiding behind porn sites rather than whine about whether or not this site is read in Bulgaria.
As David Niven once said, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
Indeed.
The Human Resources Board met on Monday to receive a presentation about the city council, but what was interesting is that the agenda that was handed to me by one of its members was different in content than the one posted on the board on the front wall of City Hall. The difference was that the agenda I was handed included item #5 which was titled "HR Director Updates" by the current head, Rhonda Strout. It was an update of special projects from the training division.
Former city councilman, Ed Adkison voiced the opinion at several subcommittee meetings that he wasn't sure what this board did and whether or not they could just get rid of it. They can't without being voted out of the city's charter by city residents. On another occasion, it's rumored that the city manager's office tried to push an agenda on the board until gently reminded that this board as opposed to several others actually doesn't report to them at all but to the city council office. What gives this rumor weight is that the city manager's office has had rather interesting relationships with at least two of the boards and commissions that are or have been under its office.
I asked one of the members after the meeting about whether or not the board was going to discuss the recent lawsuit filed by three former code compliance officers against the city. I received a quizzical look and then the person said, no it's not on next month's agenda. It's interesting that few if any of the labor issues impacting the city now are ever included on this board's agenda. In fact, they haven't been even though lawsuits have been filed including for the failure of the city to accommodate disabilities by former employees from several city departments including code compliance and the police department. Instead, most often the board simply listens and files away reports usually including statistics from different department heads.
Even as agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been launching investigations in other city departments. Still, not much from the board on these issues. Just receiving and filing away more presentations from city department heads.
Speaking of receiving and filing away, the Riverside City Council is meeting tonight. There are two discussion items this week including the proposed Eastside skate park which has been added to the burgeoning Riverside Renaissance list yet the agenda is still fairly sparse which as usual, will likely make the popular food places and watering holes very happy.
Dan Bernstein, of the Press Enterprise addresses the plans of UCR to install its very own medical school while Cassie MacDuff takes on the rather creative accounting practices of the Beaumont/Cherry Valley Water District.
People are shaking their heads in Hemet, a city that's facing a large budget deficit and proposed cuts yet is also paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to its departing city manager, according to the Press Enterprise.
(excerpt)
A review of settlements, contracts, and resolutions approved by the council show that the city would spend $233,080 for Davidson to leave voluntarily; $25,750 for an executive search firm to find a replacement; and $72,340 in compensation and expenses for Interim City Manager Len Wood.
Davidson served 16 months. He was Redlands' city manager from 2000 until he left for the job in Hemet in 2006.
In Hemet, at the start of the year, Davidson, along with three other top managers, received pay increases. Davidson's salary was raised by 10 percent to $253,000 a year.
The $331,170 Hemet will spend on the buyout of his contract and the search for his replacement reflects about 10 percent of the $3.1 million deficit faced by the city this year. The deficit is expected to grow to $5.6 million next year, and city officials are taking steps, including a hiring freeze and cutting expenses, to balance the budget.
Other findings from the review of the documents related to Davidson's departure:
Davidson did not resign nor was he fired. Despite requirements set in Davidson's employment contract, there was neither a letter of resignation from him nor a written notice or vote by the council asking him to leave.
A probe into the jails run by the Orange County Sheriff's Department has found that corrections deputies were watching DVDs, playing video games and reading while inmates were being beaten sometimes to death only a short distance away.
The county civil grand jury did an investigation into the jail system after the fatal beating of an inmate.
(excerpt, Los Angeles Times)
The Sheriff's Department tried to keep the grand jury's evidence secret. The Times and the Orange County Register went to court to have the transcripts made public. They show that then-Sheriff Michael S. Carona exercised his 5th Amendment rights rather than answer the panel's questions.
The grand jury found that while one of the ranking guards at the jail in Orange exchanged personal cellphone text messages and watched the television show "Cops," a 41-year-old computer technician was stomped and beaten to death not far from the glass-walled guard station.
Though the pummeling lasted up to 50 minutes, guards said they were unaware of it until it was over. While jail logs from that day said guards checked the cellblock where the beating occurred every 30 minutes, the grand jury concluded that the area had not been checked for five hours.
The transcripts suggest that a mixture of systemic indolence and officially sanctioned inmate violence underpinned the death of the inmate, John Derek Chamberlain.
"Inmates do run the jail system," Phillip Le, a deputy on duty at the jail that day, told the grand jury. "There is more inmates than deputies."
Orange County's sheriff's department is also having further problems involving the conflict over its pension plan.
Prosecutors in the trial of three New York City Police Department officers charged in connection with a fatal onduty shooting have yet to prove their case according to legal experts.
(excerpt, Newsday)
A group of defense attorneys, none with any connection to the case, believe that so far, Queens prosecutors have not proved their case against the cops.
The lawyers said they've seen nothing that would disprove the cops' central assertion -- that they acted with legal justification when they fired 50 shots at Bell and his friends after the pals had spent the night partying at the Kalua Cabaret strip club.
"I clearly feel that the prosecution has not proven a case beyond a reasonable doubt," said Murray Richman, a top defense attorney from the Bronx who concedes he is not "pro-cop."
"The case should be tried in the courtroom and not on the courthouse steps," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown responded Friday through a spokesman.
A witness who lived in a nearby house testified that he heard shouts then shots, according to the New York Daily News.
(excerpt)
Testifying at the trial of three detectives accused of killing Bell, Nelson Rafael said he was watching television when he heard the noise around 4 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2006.
"You were able to hear that yelling all the way down at your house?" defense lawyer Anthony Ricco asked.
"Yes," Rafael said.
Rafael said he could not make out what was yelled.
"A lot of yelling and after that, gunshots," he said. "To me, it sounded like it was more than one voice. I heard yelling, but no idea what was said."
In downtown Riverside amid the ripped up pedestrian mall, is going to be an event filled with live entertainment and a scavenger hunt which offers great prizes.
It's being held on Saturday, April 26 from 3-7 p.m. At least 25 local businesses will be participating. Perhaps so that city residents will know that these businesses still exist and are in fact open amid the din of jackhammers and cement churners.
When Big Brother fights with Little Brother, who's caught in the middle? And who's stirring the embers this time?
What's interesting is why this person is so undone by the fact that people from all over the world drop by this site to the point where he or she has to make a fool of themselves ranting about it. Is he or she truly upset that people in New York, England, Israel and Ann Arbor, Michigan know that he or she called me a "bitter cunt"? You'd think he or she would be proud to have a global audience! You think it would instead provide quite a, well you know.
He or she has ditched their German and Swiss-owned ISPs for a much more local one linked to a porn and other adult content resources site that's been used on the internet to among other things, vandalize Wikipedia's entries where it's been banned. How fitting indeed. How pathetic as well. The postings above occurred not long after a link to the posting from my blog addressing the impact of budget cuts on community policing in both San Bernardino and Riverside was removed possibly by this same individual. He or she should be most proud that people are reading about his antics including using gender slurs and hiding behind porn sites rather than whine about whether or not this site is read in Bulgaria.
As David Niven once said, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
Indeed.
The Human Resources Board met on Monday to receive a presentation about the city council, but what was interesting is that the agenda that was handed to me by one of its members was different in content than the one posted on the board on the front wall of City Hall. The difference was that the agenda I was handed included item #5 which was titled "HR Director Updates" by the current head, Rhonda Strout. It was an update of special projects from the training division.
Former city councilman, Ed Adkison voiced the opinion at several subcommittee meetings that he wasn't sure what this board did and whether or not they could just get rid of it. They can't without being voted out of the city's charter by city residents. On another occasion, it's rumored that the city manager's office tried to push an agenda on the board until gently reminded that this board as opposed to several others actually doesn't report to them at all but to the city council office. What gives this rumor weight is that the city manager's office has had rather interesting relationships with at least two of the boards and commissions that are or have been under its office.
I asked one of the members after the meeting about whether or not the board was going to discuss the recent lawsuit filed by three former code compliance officers against the city. I received a quizzical look and then the person said, no it's not on next month's agenda. It's interesting that few if any of the labor issues impacting the city now are ever included on this board's agenda. In fact, they haven't been even though lawsuits have been filed including for the failure of the city to accommodate disabilities by former employees from several city departments including code compliance and the police department. Instead, most often the board simply listens and files away reports usually including statistics from different department heads.
Even as agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been launching investigations in other city departments. Still, not much from the board on these issues. Just receiving and filing away more presentations from city department heads.
Speaking of receiving and filing away, the Riverside City Council is meeting tonight. There are two discussion items this week including the proposed Eastside skate park which has been added to the burgeoning Riverside Renaissance list yet the agenda is still fairly sparse which as usual, will likely make the popular food places and watering holes very happy.
Dan Bernstein, of the Press Enterprise addresses the plans of UCR to install its very own medical school while Cassie MacDuff takes on the rather creative accounting practices of the Beaumont/Cherry Valley Water District.
People are shaking their heads in Hemet, a city that's facing a large budget deficit and proposed cuts yet is also paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to its departing city manager, according to the Press Enterprise.
(excerpt)
A review of settlements, contracts, and resolutions approved by the council show that the city would spend $233,080 for Davidson to leave voluntarily; $25,750 for an executive search firm to find a replacement; and $72,340 in compensation and expenses for Interim City Manager Len Wood.
Davidson served 16 months. He was Redlands' city manager from 2000 until he left for the job in Hemet in 2006.
In Hemet, at the start of the year, Davidson, along with three other top managers, received pay increases. Davidson's salary was raised by 10 percent to $253,000 a year.
The $331,170 Hemet will spend on the buyout of his contract and the search for his replacement reflects about 10 percent of the $3.1 million deficit faced by the city this year. The deficit is expected to grow to $5.6 million next year, and city officials are taking steps, including a hiring freeze and cutting expenses, to balance the budget.
Other findings from the review of the documents related to Davidson's departure:
Davidson did not resign nor was he fired. Despite requirements set in Davidson's employment contract, there was neither a letter of resignation from him nor a written notice or vote by the council asking him to leave.
A probe into the jails run by the Orange County Sheriff's Department has found that corrections deputies were watching DVDs, playing video games and reading while inmates were being beaten sometimes to death only a short distance away.
The county civil grand jury did an investigation into the jail system after the fatal beating of an inmate.
(excerpt, Los Angeles Times)
The Sheriff's Department tried to keep the grand jury's evidence secret. The Times and the Orange County Register went to court to have the transcripts made public. They show that then-Sheriff Michael S. Carona exercised his 5th Amendment rights rather than answer the panel's questions.
The grand jury found that while one of the ranking guards at the jail in Orange exchanged personal cellphone text messages and watched the television show "Cops," a 41-year-old computer technician was stomped and beaten to death not far from the glass-walled guard station.
Though the pummeling lasted up to 50 minutes, guards said they were unaware of it until it was over. While jail logs from that day said guards checked the cellblock where the beating occurred every 30 minutes, the grand jury concluded that the area had not been checked for five hours.
The transcripts suggest that a mixture of systemic indolence and officially sanctioned inmate violence underpinned the death of the inmate, John Derek Chamberlain.
"Inmates do run the jail system," Phillip Le, a deputy on duty at the jail that day, told the grand jury. "There is more inmates than deputies."
Orange County's sheriff's department is also having further problems involving the conflict over its pension plan.
Prosecutors in the trial of three New York City Police Department officers charged in connection with a fatal onduty shooting have yet to prove their case according to legal experts.
(excerpt, Newsday)
A group of defense attorneys, none with any connection to the case, believe that so far, Queens prosecutors have not proved their case against the cops.
The lawyers said they've seen nothing that would disprove the cops' central assertion -- that they acted with legal justification when they fired 50 shots at Bell and his friends after the pals had spent the night partying at the Kalua Cabaret strip club.
"I clearly feel that the prosecution has not proven a case beyond a reasonable doubt," said Murray Richman, a top defense attorney from the Bronx who concedes he is not "pro-cop."
"The case should be tried in the courtroom and not on the courthouse steps," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown responded Friday through a spokesman.
A witness who lived in a nearby house testified that he heard shouts then shots, according to the New York Daily News.
(excerpt)
Testifying at the trial of three detectives accused of killing Bell, Nelson Rafael said he was watching television when he heard the noise around 4 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2006.
"You were able to hear that yelling all the way down at your house?" defense lawyer Anthony Ricco asked.
"Yes," Rafael said.
Rafael said he could not make out what was yelled.
"A lot of yelling and after that, gunshots," he said. "To me, it sounded like it was more than one voice. I heard yelling, but no idea what was said."
In downtown Riverside amid the ripped up pedestrian mall, is going to be an event filled with live entertainment and a scavenger hunt which offers great prizes.
It's being held on Saturday, April 26 from 3-7 p.m. At least 25 local businesses will be participating. Perhaps so that city residents will know that these businesses still exist and are in fact open amid the din of jackhammers and cement churners.
When Big Brother fights with Little Brother, who's caught in the middle? And who's stirring the embers this time?
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