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SEC Charges La Jolla Software Firm, Retail Pro, with Accounting Fraud
There was an announcement about executive changes in June, where Schechter volunteered to step down. http://www.retailpro.com/PressRelease.php?prid=31 Reading between the lines, it looks as if the SEC investigation was already underway at that point. For more, try a google of "Barry Schechter PunchLine"...— September 5, 2008 10:47 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
I LIKE it... building a stadium over the Miramar dump. I bet there would be no need for an EIR... and the Marines can use it when the Chargers are on the road for mass "good training" in the stands...— September 5, 2008 10:23 a.m.
Naysayer
Additional to #1: Oh... and nobody actually has to enroll in an EMI course to simply download the study guides and get the information. Enrollment is handled when an independent study student goes online to submit answers on the course final; until then, EMI doesn't really care who reads the study material on CEM and disaster preparedness. On the other hand, taking the finals lets one cover the walls with official certificates that in some cases are actually worth college credits... Did I mention IT'S FREE? ---- Mr. Williams, you may find EMI's Professional Development Series a useful thing for training future volunteer coordinators as a short Officer Candidate School for potential emergency managers... http://training.fema.gov/IS/searchIS.asp?keywords…— September 5, 2008 10:15 a.m.
Naysayer
While nobody is required to be an expert to speak as a member of the public, it sure helps to have done a little or even a lot of homework before stepping up to the mike. It is amazing what lands in your lap if one is prepared to enter the right words into your favorite search engine, especially if one is familiar with the buzzwords and catchphrases of the foisters of possibly pin-headed projects on the people. (uh, no offense intended, Zippy...) Having watched the Karate Kid more than once, I am reminded that if one wishes to confront, one either knows karate a lot, or one should avoid the attempt: nothing half way. With that in mind, an intelligent person with (1) an internet connection, (2) some time on one's hands, and (3) slightly more ethics than any city employee who might have cheated on this in the last two years can "attend" the online Emergency Management Institute for certification in Comprehensive Emergency Management independent study (IS) topics. Without going into the detail of how easy it is for ordinary US citizens to actually pass the exams and get certified in CEM, EMI's IS courses can give these same ordinary citizens the right kind of vocabulary that a "naysayer" can use to get the attention of a board or commission that would otherwise just rubber-stamp a development proposal without really looking at it. One interesting course that no developer in her or his right mind wants any ordinary citizen to find out about is IS-253, "Coordinating Environmental and Historic Preservation Compliance" at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is253.asp It is troublesome for a developer to get bound up in an environmental impact report, but just watch them flee the room when it is exposed that a given project just might be a hazard that justifies a local emergency planning commission waking up to evaluating it as a potential threat to homeland security and disaster preparedness...— September 5, 2008 10:05 a.m.
SEDC to be sued if not paying for outgoing prez' legal fees?
Responding to #5: You may remember around the time you were a San Diego community college student trustee that there were problems with the Grossmont College associated students corporation as it existed in the governance framework of that other district. The parallels are obvious (compare the paraphrase of then "thanks for the learning experience" with the paraphrase of now "those practices predated me"), but so far, nobody on the SEDC board or its president has been arrested in another state, trying to flee justice by crawling through a bathroom window... No, I am not reponding to comments, satirical or otherwise, describing Carolyn Smith's attempts at getting through a bathroom window... ;-) Without making accusations or having conducted a forensic audit on my own, I would suspect that the BCA (www.bcasd.org to see a swell picture of its Imperial Avenue building) and/or the Catfish Club are directly or indirectly familiar with where the money disappeared. Without a Catfish Club endorsement, it is virtually impossible to get elected as a 4th District council candidate (see the published reports of 1960s ethinc balkanization regarding the 4th and 8th districts; it has been published that non-African-American candidates in the 4th are an "affront" to the supposed majority of 4th district voters, or at least to the powers that be here in Southeast San Diego). Follow the money, and see who has the most to lose by not protecting its current political turf...— September 5, 2008 9:28 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
... oops... they're actually called gadgets...— September 4, 2008 12:19 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ For a myspace-specific extension... http://developer.myspace.com/community/myspace/my… I'm just starting to get into the documentation, but apparently a google-hosted gizmo (that's what they call 'em) is usable on all of the containers that are based on OpenSocial... myspace just happens to be the largest? I haven't put any time into looking how it might "talk" across DIFFERENT containers to combine records into one virtual container of friends, but that's just another distributed database problem across multiple DBs...— September 4, 2008 12:13 p.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
The thought of heaving freshmen brings back fond memories of daze in USD's comp sci major, where I minored in math and beer appreciation... For publicity on thangs, I've been looking at something called OpenSocial.js that is used by so-called containers of member records and their friends, message, blogs, etc. on places such as myspace and meebo. Myspace would be considered a container, and OpenSocial provides the means of accessing a particular member for messaging or whatever as well as the member's friends who are also in that same container. It is possible to construct a viral OpenSocial text display gizmo and host it for free somewhere like at google.com, where it would construct and accumulate a friend network of interested online San Diegans with amusing profile pix... The message ought to be pretty simple: "READ THE READER AND OBEY", "VOTE NO ON HOAX" or whatever suits the occassion... Not much harder to install a youtube video object in the gizmo either... it's actually nothing more than some souped-up javascript on a webpage with a known URL... but in being souped up, a myspace member ought to be able to use it to pass a message to all of her or his online friends with a push of a programmed "inform/annoy eveybody" button...— September 4, 2008 11:58 a.m.
Port of San Diego makes wild proposal for Tenth Avenue terminal
If this initiative is doomed to fail, then it is the right time for it to fail. It is likely that this initiative will be a referendum on this city's ability to rein in CCDC, SEDC, Blackwater, Sunroad, developers in general, and the assorted consultant-moneychangers who attach themselves onto anything decent and corrupt it beyond recognition before the taxpayers and voters of San Diego.— September 3, 2008 6:56 p.m.
SEDC to be sued if not paying for outgoing prez' legal fees?
Responding to #1 & #2: There seems to be an inherent conflict of interest whenever a part of local government is allowed to incorporate, then that corporation's board is not populated with at least some representatives of the local government that allowed it to form in the first place. This also explains why small cities so much love to have home-owner associations take over the details of maintaining parks and other fixtures in new developments. It's so easy for the local government to say: "We're not responsible for installing this or fixing that! See your HOA!" while local government staffers are busy looking for new fees, penalties and taxes to assess for things government is not really responsible for anymore. In any case, the brilliant city council members who actually voted years ago to approve of the CCDC/SEDC corporate redevelopment model (that exists nowhere except in San Diego) have yet to be heard from. I wonder where they are now...— September 3, 2008 6:36 p.m.