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Orders to review Cambridge City Manager’s contract and to replace retiring Cambridge City Clerk Placed on File
We had a disagreement with the Cambridge Chronicle on the handling of one of the three orders considered by the Cambridge City Council concerning the employment situation of the Cambridge City Manager and the replacement of the retiring Cambridge City Clerk.
My resolution of the employment situation is to fire the Cambridge City Manager for Monteiro and hire the retiring Cambridge City Clerk to act as acting Cambridge City Manager pending international search for a new City Manager.
The third motion, which passed, appointed Donna Lopez, City Clerk Drury’s current number 2 person as Interim City Clerk because of the anticipated late February retirement and to empower the two to set up an orderly transition.
Two motions (1) to establish procedures with regard to the City Manager’s expiring contract and (2) with regard to establishing procedures to replace the City Clerk were initiated by Cambridge City Councilor Kelley and were delayed to last Monday’s meeting (2/6/12) by Councilor Davis under her powers under the city charter.
Kelley was out of state on Monday and no other councilor brought up the orders. The two orders, in accordance with the Charter provision, were automatically placed on file.
The Monteiro decision concerned the City Manager’s firing of Department Head Malvina Monteiro in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint. Very strong communications were written by a panel of the Appeals Court and by the Superior Court trial judge, plus there was an award of $3.5 million PENAL damages by the jury in addition to $1.1 million real damages. The judicial comments clearly established grounds to fire the Cambridge City Manager without his golden parachute and possibly without pension.Charles River White Geese Blog
My resolution of the employment situation is to fire the Cambridge City Manager for Monteiro and hire the retiring Cambridge City Clerk to act as acting Cambridge City Manager pending international search for a new City Manager.
The third motion, which passed, appointed Donna Lopez, City Clerk Drury’s current number 2 person as Interim City Clerk because of the anticipated late February retirement and to empower the two to set up an orderly transition.
Two motions (1) to establish procedures with regard to the City Manager’s expiring contract and (2) with regard to establishing procedures to replace the City Clerk were initiated by Cambridge City Councilor Kelley and were delayed to last Monday’s meeting (2/6/12) by Councilor Davis under her powers under the city charter.
Kelley was out of state on Monday and no other councilor brought up the orders. The two orders, in accordance with the Charter provision, were automatically placed on file.
The Monteiro decision concerned the City Manager’s firing of Department Head Malvina Monteiro in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint. Very strong communications were written by a panel of the Appeals Court and by the Superior Court trial judge, plus there was an award of $3.5 million PENAL damages by the jury in addition to $1.1 million real damages. The judicial comments clearly established grounds to fire the Cambridge City Manager without his golden parachute and possibly without pension.Charles River White Geese Blog
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Computer Lounge Drop-In Session this Wednesday
Our Computer Lounge sessions and classes are educational, informative and fun while we solve simple and complex technology problems in a low stress, supportive environment every Wednesday.
Here are some questions we explored last week:
How do ...
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16th Annual Hip Hop Dance Festival – February 23
Don’t miss this year’s star line-up for our 16th Annual Hip Hop Dance Festival on Thursday, February 23, brought to you by Introducing Art Performance Series! Naheem Garcia will be our Master of Ceremonies for ...
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Emily Lapean, Preschool Teacher
Emily Lapean graduated in 2010 from Lesley University with a bachelors degree in Child and Family Studies. Emily very much enjoys teaching, and many days feels like she learned just as much as the children ...
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16th Annual Hip Hop Festival – Thursday, February 23
Join us for the 16th Annual Hip Hop Festival, Agassiz Baldwin Community’s showcase for school age children featuring local professional and youth dance groups. This Introducing Art Performance Series event will be held at the ...
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Elly Humphrey, Assistant Preschool Teacher
Elly Humphrey is an assistant teacher in the preschool program and currently working toward her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Lesley University. She brings five years of experience working with preschool-aged children, ...
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“Creativity is Alive!”
The Fay Chandler Gallery is proud to present “Creativity Is Alive!”, jewelry, ceramics, photography, and drawing from Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (CRLS.) The art department at CRLS strives for excellence in instruction. Offerings are ...
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LWN Movie Night presents, THE TAKE, This Tuesday at 7 PM
Join Us This Tuesday Evening!
The LWN Movie Night and Discussion series began in 2011 as a way to watch and discuss movies within a community setting. Our last movie series focused on food and family ...
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Ellen Kramer, LWN Volunteer
Dr. Ellen Kramer volunteers with the Kindergarten Afterschool as part of Living Well Network’s Cooking With Kids program. Dr. Kramer wants the students to learn that making your own food is fun, yummy, and something ...
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ANC Snow Notice
The snow has settled and you’ve noticed that, for the past few days, a nearby home’s front sidewalk remains un-passable. What’s a concerned neighbor to do? One option is to download this handy, anonymous note ...
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January LWN Yoga
After all the holiday celebrating, in January LWN Yoga will work on stretching and strengthening your abs, and on your balance as it relates to the abdomen and the feet. We will also practice an ...
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Response to Sea Island Defense
1. Response to Sea Island Defense.
2. Your Editor.
1. Response to Sea Island Defense.
Dear Mr. La Trémouille,
Thank you ever so much for picking our concerns up on your blog. I am the retired Altamaha Riverkeeper®, well at least almost retired. Having said that, if you care about our wildlife and natural resources you can never totally retire. Before I became the Altamaha Riverkeeper® I worked as a blue crab commercial fisherman on the coast of Georgia for almost 25 years until we formed the Altamaha Riverkeeper®, Inc. (ARK) in 1999. We formed the ARK because the State of Georgia had lost site of what our natural resources mean to us as a people. Without going into a long writing spell you can just about figure the rest out for yourself. Just wanted you to know a little bit about us and how much we appreciate your assistance.
Again, thank you very much,
James Holland
P.S.
To learn more about the Altamaha Riverkeeper® go on their web site at www.altamahariverkeeper.org.
To learn more about me and what I care for go on my web site www.jamesrhollandphotography.com/blog.
2. Your Editor.
The parallels between the two situations are striking, except that our enemies have very bad records both on the Charles and in the not too far away Alewife reservation where they indulged in large scale environmental destruction and mass animal killing for "flood storage" the project could not deliver and which could be achieved across the street under a parking lot.
The non profit in that situation was a fake group which fits patterns of fake groups which are associated with Cambridge.
And thank you for friending the Charles River White Geese.Charles River White Geese Blog
2. Your Editor.
1. Response to Sea Island Defense.
Dear Mr. La Trémouille,
Thank you ever so much for picking our concerns up on your blog. I am the retired Altamaha Riverkeeper®, well at least almost retired. Having said that, if you care about our wildlife and natural resources you can never totally retire. Before I became the Altamaha Riverkeeper® I worked as a blue crab commercial fisherman on the coast of Georgia for almost 25 years until we formed the Altamaha Riverkeeper®, Inc. (ARK) in 1999. We formed the ARK because the State of Georgia had lost site of what our natural resources mean to us as a people. Without going into a long writing spell you can just about figure the rest out for yourself. Just wanted you to know a little bit about us and how much we appreciate your assistance.
Again, thank you very much,
James Holland
P.S.
To learn more about the Altamaha Riverkeeper® go on their web site at www.altamahariverkeeper.org.
To learn more about me and what I care for go on my web site www.jamesrhollandphotography.com/blog.
2. Your Editor.
The parallels between the two situations are striking, except that our enemies have very bad records both on the Charles and in the not too far away Alewife reservation where they indulged in large scale environmental destruction and mass animal killing for "flood storage" the project could not deliver and which could be achieved across the street under a parking lot.
The non profit in that situation was a fake group which fits patterns of fake groups which are associated with Cambridge.
And thank you for friending the Charles River White Geese.Charles River White Geese Blog
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Why publicize the Charles River “Conservancy”’s Money?
1. A good friend: Why publicize the Charles River “Conservancy”’s Money?
2. Editor’s Reply.
1. A good friend: Why publicize the Charles River “Conservancy”’s Money?
A good friend posted the following question on facebook in response to our partial posting of the funders of the Charles River “Conservancy.”
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Robert, I am not clear what this posting is about! Plz clarify in simple terms. The White Geese at the Charles R extremely important 2 me.--thank u Robert!
2. Editor’s Reply.
This posting is a direct response to the posting concerning Sea World below.
The Sea World destruction very closely fits the attacks on the Charles River.
There are a lot of “non profits” whose behavior is destructive.
Some, like the Charles River “Conservancy” are blatant falsehoods. This group is belligerently destructive of the environment. There is a very real problem with groups claiming to be holier than thou who really are not.
The very big problem is their fooling well meaning people into hurting the cause they claim to stand for.
Like so many activists in Cambridge, it is impossible to tell the difference, at face value, from the knaves and those who have been fooled.
One way to try to do so is follow the money.
The good guys will run away from groups running false colors. The bad guys will stay there.
Another interesting point in the funders are the educational institutions which benefit greatly and have been quite active in environmental destruction on the Charles River. These institutions very consistently lie to their students about their environmental destructiveness. Their false colors are a very major factor in fooling well meaning people into destroying the environment.Charles River White Geese Blog
2. Editor’s Reply.
1. A good friend: Why publicize the Charles River “Conservancy”’s Money?
A good friend posted the following question on facebook in response to our partial posting of the funders of the Charles River “Conservancy.”
*********
Robert, I am not clear what this posting is about! Plz clarify in simple terms. The White Geese at the Charles R extremely important 2 me.--thank u Robert!
2. Editor’s Reply.
This posting is a direct response to the posting concerning Sea World below.
The Sea World destruction very closely fits the attacks on the Charles River.
There are a lot of “non profits” whose behavior is destructive.
Some, like the Charles River “Conservancy” are blatant falsehoods. This group is belligerently destructive of the environment. There is a very real problem with groups claiming to be holier than thou who really are not.
The very big problem is their fooling well meaning people into hurting the cause they claim to stand for.
Like so many activists in Cambridge, it is impossible to tell the difference, at face value, from the knaves and those who have been fooled.
One way to try to do so is follow the money.
The good guys will run away from groups running false colors. The bad guys will stay there.
Another interesting point in the funders are the educational institutions which benefit greatly and have been quite active in environmental destruction on the Charles River. These institutions very consistently lie to their students about their environmental destructiveness. Their false colors are a very major factor in fooling well meaning people into destroying the environment.Charles River White Geese Blog
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Today Show’s Ann Curry Describes PTSD, Discouragement and Hope at Harvard Nieman Foundation
Anita Harris, PR Consultant, on Today Show's Ann Curry description of trauma, importance of caring in foreign reporting.
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Story Space 20th Anniversary Celebration Tonight
Storyteller Jay O’Callahan to perform tonight at Story Space.
Who: Jay O’Callhan, storyteller
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 7 p.m.
Where: Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.
Cost: $15 in advance/$20 at the door
This event celebrates two decades of weekly storytelling in Cambridge. The series, begun in 1992 by Brother Blue and his wife, Ruth Edmonds Hill, is still going strong. The evening will showcase some of the finest Boston area storytellers, feature one of the best in the country – Jay O’Callahan, and include music, memories and more. For more information, please visit storyspace.org.
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Selected Non Profits Funding Charles River “Conservancy”
The following is a partial list of nonprofits contributing to the environmentally destructive and falsely named Charles River Conservancy.
This is taken from an attachment to a Fall 2011 fundraising letter bragging, among other things about their fight for a new small vehicle highway on and in the Charles River on the Cambridge side. This major initiative (and not mentioned any more than they can help) would destroy hundreds of healthy trees, wetlands, and animal habitat including major portions of the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.
The CRC’s highway construction has been rejected as environmentally destructive in a joint report by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The CRC’s list is preceded with the comment: “We are grateful to our corporate sponsors and to the foundations who have supported us over the last 18 months.”
VERY prominently displayed at the top of the list are the following logos:
The Boston Foundation
Intersystems
WilmerHale
Massachusetts Environmental Trust
Bank of America
Fidelity Investiments
Converse
The first two groupings are:
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Visionary
Anonymous
George H. and Jane A. Mifflin Memorial Fund
Harold Whitsworth Pierce Charitable Trust
Rejeuvenator
Bilesikian Family Foundation
Elizabeth Taylor Fessenden Foundation
Mahoney’s Garden Center
National Grid Foundation
REI
Sanoli Aventis/Genzyme
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Elsewhere on the list are Harvard University, MIT Community Service Fund, Harvard Business School, Boston University and the New England College of Optometry.Charles River White Geese Blog
This is taken from an attachment to a Fall 2011 fundraising letter bragging, among other things about their fight for a new small vehicle highway on and in the Charles River on the Cambridge side. This major initiative (and not mentioned any more than they can help) would destroy hundreds of healthy trees, wetlands, and animal habitat including major portions of the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.
The CRC’s highway construction has been rejected as environmentally destructive in a joint report by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The CRC’s list is preceded with the comment: “We are grateful to our corporate sponsors and to the foundations who have supported us over the last 18 months.”
VERY prominently displayed at the top of the list are the following logos:
The Boston Foundation
Intersystems
WilmerHale
Massachusetts Environmental Trust
Bank of America
Fidelity Investiments
Converse
The first two groupings are:
*********
Visionary
Anonymous
George H. and Jane A. Mifflin Memorial Fund
Harold Whitsworth Pierce Charitable Trust
Rejeuvenator
Bilesikian Family Foundation
Elizabeth Taylor Fessenden Foundation
Mahoney’s Garden Center
National Grid Foundation
REI
Sanoli Aventis/Genzyme
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Elsewhere on the list are Harvard University, MIT Community Service Fund, Harvard Business School, Boston University and the New England College of Optometry.Charles River White Geese Blog
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Eight Genealogy Tips from the Huffington Post
Photo from the exhibition “At the Crossroads: Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami,” at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
In today’s Huffington Post, genealogy expert, Megan Smolenyak, offers nine tips for finding your ancestors:
1. Learn to spell badly
2. Don’t assume
3. Swab, spit or swish
4. Sweat the small stuff
5. Step away from the computer
6. Map it out
7. Question what you know
8. Stay curious
Find out exactly what these tips entail here.
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Leading Nonprofits Join Sea Island in Destroying Critical Habitat in Marsh Buffer
The following link has the stench of the environmental destruction on the Charles River, right down to “non profits” fighting for environmental destruction.
http://www.protectthemarsh.org.
The title is “Leading Nonprofits Join Sea Island in Destroying Critical Habitat in Marsh Buffer.”
The Charles River Conservancy is lying with its name, but the stench is the same and it is by far not the only actor using “non profit” status. I have its publication of its contributor list.
Fortunately, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is standing up to the small vehicle highway outrage on the Charles River. It seems to have roped the Department of Conservation and Recreation into a responsible position on that highway but DCR and Cambridge are very, very destructive on their own.Charles River White Geese Blog
http://www.protectthemarsh.org.
The title is “Leading Nonprofits Join Sea Island in Destroying Critical Habitat in Marsh Buffer.”
The Charles River Conservancy is lying with its name, but the stench is the same and it is by far not the only actor using “non profit” status. I have its publication of its contributor list.
Fortunately, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is standing up to the small vehicle highway outrage on the Charles River. It seems to have roped the Department of Conservation and Recreation into a responsible position on that highway but DCR and Cambridge are very, very destructive on their own.Charles River White Geese Blog
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WHY WE LOVE THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE
Archie Mazmanian comments:
Yesterday's (2/5/12) NYTimes Sunday Review section features "Why We Love Zoos" by Diane Ackerman. Here's the closing paragraph:
"What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process we discover our shared identity. We flock to zoos for many reasons, not least to shed some of the burden of being human."
Zoos are indeed great places to go to. But so is our jewel of the Charles River where for many years we - and especially our children - could enjoy the Charles River White Geese in what ha d developed into a seemingly natural habitat. There were no bars or cages. We did not interfere with the Goose Ghetto, respecting their privacy. But we shared the Charles River with them in mutual respect. Will the Goose Ghetto be restored? Will the destructive vegetation along the banks interfering with the CRWG use of the Charles River be eliminated? Will we once again reside in harmony with the CRWG?
Imagine 50 or a 100 years from now yet another misguided governmental effort to eliminate some other Charles River fauna. Perhaps these government officials might think: "Who remembers the CRWG?"
Let's not forget.Charles River White Geese Blog
Yesterday's (2/5/12) NYTimes Sunday Review section features "Why We Love Zoos" by Diane Ackerman. Here's the closing paragraph:
"What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process we discover our shared identity. We flock to zoos for many reasons, not least to shed some of the burden of being human."
Zoos are indeed great places to go to. But so is our jewel of the Charles River where for many years we - and especially our children - could enjoy the Charles River White Geese in what ha d developed into a seemingly natural habitat. There were no bars or cages. We did not interfere with the Goose Ghetto, respecting their privacy. But we shared the Charles River with them in mutual respect. Will the Goose Ghetto be restored? Will the destructive vegetation along the banks interfering with the CRWG use of the Charles River be eliminated? Will we once again reside in harmony with the CRWG?
Imagine 50 or a 100 years from now yet another misguided governmental effort to eliminate some other Charles River fauna. Perhaps these government officials might think: "Who remembers the CRWG?"
Let's not forget.Charles River White Geese Blog
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Computer Lounge Drop-In Session this Wednesday
Our Computer Lounge sessions and classes are educational, informative and fun while we solve simple and complex technology problems in a low stress, supportive environment every Wednesday.
Our last week’s ‘Formatting in MS Word’ class was ...
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