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This was my opthalmologist… He never did anything to me, I feel left out.

(2008, March). Oakland county news briefs.
Retrieved March 27, 2008, from Detroit Free Press Web site:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803260370

Township police want patients of ophthalmologist Matthew Lloyd Burman, to call investigators with information about possible inappropriate physical contact by Burman.
Burman, 64, was arraigned Tuesday in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac on a charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and a $500 fine, upon conviction.
The charges were brought following an investigation into an alleged August incident between Burman and a patient at Burman’s office at 10 W. Square Lake Road.
Burman pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,000 bond. His trial is scheduled for May before Circuit Judge Steven Andrews.
Anyone with information about further incidents involving Burman is asked to call investigators at 248-433-7760 anytime.

My company just keeps on changing. The “Home Depot Crew” think that speed and change is a good thing. Yes, to a point. Everyone is so off balance that a lot of people are having a tough time keeping up. Although it’s touted as moving the company forward and streamlining (fill in all the other buzzwords), the working level people are losing focus.

Higgins, Tim (2008, March). Chrysler shuffles development execs again. Retrieved March 28, 2008, from Detroit Free Press Web site: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803260313

For the second time in two months, Chrysler LLC has announced changes to the ranks of top executives overseeing vehicle development.

The latest shakeup comes with the departure of Michael Donoughe, the Chrysler vice president who had been leading the efforts to come up with future product in the midsize car segment.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said late Tuesday that Donoughe left in a dispute with senior managers.

David Barnas, a Chrysler spokesman, declined to talk about why Donoughe left other than to say: “Chrysler denies that the departure had anything to do with a clash with management.”

In late January, Chrysler announced a reorganization of its product development and said that Donoughe would lead future midsize car development, calling it “an important vehicle category worldwide.”

His job on the so-called Project D is believed to have begun last fall after Bob Nardelli took over as Chrysler’s chief executive. Previously, Donoughe had overseen key vehicles such as the Dodge Ram and Jeep Wrangler.

Chrysler’s current lineup of midsize cars — the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger — has struggled and the company is trying to better compete.

With Donoughe’s departure, Chrysler has turned to Mark Chernoby to lead development of a new midsize car as vice president and chief engineer for Chrysler’s future midsize product team.Chernoby had been vice president of core components, processes and international engineering.

 

 

James Issner replaces Chernoby in that role. Issner had been vice president of advance vehicle engineering.

 

 

Lou Rhodes, who is president of Chrysler’s ENVI — an effort to bring electric-drive vehicles and related advanced-propulsion technologies to market — will take on the additional title of vice president of advance vehicle engineering.

 

 

Contact TIM HIGGINS at 313-222-8784 or thiggins@freepress.com.

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City of Detroit Kym Worthy just annouced that the city has brought a total of 12 charges against the Mayor and his “sideline whore” Christine Beatty.

As I listen to this announcement live on TV, I feel bad that Ms. Worthy’s speech sounds like it was written by a college student and read like a college freshman. This announcement is going out live to all the major news networks but heck, she’s all we’ve got. I hope she gets some type of conviction in this whole thing.

Look at Elliot Spitzer, the governer of New York who was caught with his pants down. He gracefully resigned, as did Christine Beatty when this whole story broke.

Based on the behavior of the mayor in this whole scandal, he’s just going to tell the city to “Fuck off” and go on doing what he always does. At least Coleman Young kept a lot of his shenanigans low profile and never got this far.

The funny thing about this city is that the people that live here will say he should stay in office… he’s allowed to make mistakes… he’s done a good job… , there’s no logic to any of these statements. The people in the city of Detroit are so beat down by the economy and the state of the city that they just don’t want to speak up and put this guy out of office.

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In his State of the City address Kwame gets pissed off at the end of his speech and lets fly the race card. He verbally attacked Ken Cockrel Jr., head of city council.

Kwame fucked up plain and simple, he lied under oath, and his behavior is so childish. But then again, he is one of the youngest, and best dressed mayors around.
His acts have brought on this onslaught and they are not false accusations.

Everyone in the audience at his speech was hand picked, like Bush speeches, so you hear the most ass kissing ever heard.

Chrysler announced they will be closing their twenty person design studio in California.
The article states that “we are leveraging resources worldwide”.

Now think about this…
Bob Nardelli is running the company. He was at GE but most recently he was CEO of Home Depot.
I guess his thinking is that at Home Depot we stocked the shelves with items at the lowest price we could get them and customers would come in a buy what they needed. HD would then make a tidy profit.

I can see it where all Chrysler vehicles are going to be supplied and built by the cheapest material and labor force, put “on the shelf” and customers come in and buy them. Gradually all the design activity will be done by these suppliers. There may be a skeleton group of Chrysler employees that oversee the purchasing and maybe the quality but really Chrysler will just become another storefront, reselling goods designed and built by others. Kind of like toilets, faucets, lumber, nuts & bolts. Home Depot itself never designed or manufactured anything.

Read the article in Motor Authority

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