Independiente: game over.

03.05.2010 - Calígula - Quedaban cuatro (candidatos). Godoy Cruz alimentó la fe haciendo camino al andar, acumulando puntos en su lucha por la permanencia llegó a esperanzarse con un milagro desigual. Independiente…

Independiente no llegó a rendimiento crucero. Una ventaja de tres y cuatro puntos que generó un sueño expectante se diluyó en unas semanas y terminó de caerse en el propio estadio Libertadores de América. Porque si bien estos torneos pueden proporcionar campeones de racha, también exigen un mínimo de duración (o regularidad).

La irregularidad de Independiente, este equipo que insospechadamente peleó el torneo hasta el umbral, puede simbolizarse en sus individualidades: Mareque, autor y gestor de goles importantes, de pronto fallando en su lateral; o Gabbarini, de salvador de puntos a cazar mariposas en su área o el mismo Gandín, con sus momentos dulces y amargos.

Este Boca gris, lleno de conflictos y entrenadores potenciales, fue demasiado para Independiente. Para Gallego (DT), los torneos se ganan con experiencia. Hace apenas 20 días afrentaba (y arengaba) “a ver que van a decir cuando demos la vuelta contra Lanús”. Hoy cambió el tono: “estoy muy contento en Independiente, pero se tienen que hacer muchas cosas para que renueve”.

Después de todo, la brevedad del campeonato dejó un cierto espacio para la justicia: este Independiente nunca fue más que Argentinos Júniors ni Estudiantes.

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Passman la tiene adentro.

Appearances

We recall that in corporate America, when you invent, create or improve something on company time or with company assets, then the company owns the product or copyright. The most famous example is the guy who invented Post-It Notes for 3M. He got little or no recognition (or compensation) for inventing something that probably has generated untold billions for 3M - it was his job and he was paid a salary, but 3M owned the product.

We bring it up because someone was kind enough to forward us this little gem of a website:

• Welcome to ForceStrategy, a full service information technology consulting group providing best-in-class solutions to your public safety agency’s challenges. Our focus is on leveraging our experience to deliver cost-effective results to allow you to meet your objectives.

  The principal members of ForceStrategy have successfully implemented these solutions in one of the largest public safety agencies in the country. In many cases, they designed leading systems from scratch. By leveraging their expertise and cutting edges techniques, they can help you make the critical choices necessary to improve the efficiency of your agency. When you engage ForceStrategy, their technique uses the most current national best practices. These solutions have been demonstrated to hundreds of local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies around the world and have been showcased at national conferences from coast to coast. ForceStrategy will assess your problems and provide a custom solution—and manage the successful implementation of the project from start to finish, on time and within budget. We can say this because we’ve done it before, hundreds of times.

And who is ForceStrategy?

• Jonathan Lewin serves as the Chief Information Officer for one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States. When this agency adopted its community policing strategy in 1993, he played a pioneering role in developing automated solutions to support the initiative. In his current role, Lewin oversees an innovative portfolio of technology projects that together won Harvard University’s prestigious Innovations in American Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government. Lewin holds an M.A. in Public Policy from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and chairs the technology committee of a statewide criminal justice information integration board.

  Brett Goldstein was an early employee of OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN) and was responsible for designing much of the architecture of this multi-national company. As the Director of Information Technology, he played a critical role in ensuring design optimality, uptime, security and performance. After OpenTable, Goldstein joined a major law enforcement agency and was the founder of the Predictive Analytics and Data Mining initiative. In addition, he was a patrol officer in one of the busiest districts of the city receiving multiple awards for his service. Goldstein holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago, a M.S. in Criminal Justice from Suffolk University and a B.A. in Government from Connecticut College. He is currently working on his PhD.

Golly. An exempt and a connected PO working full time jobs with the City of Chicago have time to run a company? We certainly hope that it doesn't utilize knowledge and intellectual property developed at taxpayer expense. And that in-progress PhD, while working a full time job AND a start-up company, that isn't a reimbursement opportunities funded by the taxpayer?

Questions questions questions. Anyone have any answers answers answers? Better get to that website quick before it disappears. Save copies or print them up like we did just so you can remind yourself how legit everything is.

Double Speak

Can someone find the quote in the media over the past day or so where city officials, either Shortshanks or J-Fled, claim Chicago isn't a target after the NYC Times Square bombing attempt?

And then someone can tell us why the instructors over at the TO-SPOT training are telling people that there is solid intelligence that there will be a mass transit attack sometime this year?

We're just trying to reconcile the conflicting information.

St. Jude's March

Almost no media coverage. The Tribune had a series of photographs on their BreakingNews site, but other than that, coverage seemed scanty at best.

There have also appeared in our comment sections a number of denigrating posts about the those wearing yellow ribbons or the perceived lack of yellow ribbons at the march. We don't know what parade they attended, but the yellow ribbons were very much in evidence from where we were. We were told there were only 2,000 Cozzi ribbons printed and we saw a few hundred at least - some worn behind stars, some interwoven with the traditional blue ones, some blowing in the light breeze. The 025th District was overly represented with yellow ribbons - we counted over 100 in the rank and file blue shirts.

All in all, a very respectful and dignified parade. Well done.

Unpreventable Homicides

A number of killings that can't be prevented by any special missions or task forces - and this weekend was not kind:

• A Marquette Park woman is dead more than two weeks after her son shot her and allegedly murdered four family members April 14 at her South Side home.
  
  
• A man in his 70s shot two younger men in an apparent domestic dispute Sunday that unfolded in the backyard of his West Town home, and then shot himself, authorities said.
  
  The killings happened just before noon outside an apartment house in the 1700 block of West Erie Street

These can't be blamed on manpower, just people not getting along.

Clausura 2010: fecha 17 - TAPA nº 151

RIVER 2 VELEZ 1

TIGRE 1 RACING 2 

UN VIAJE CON LA GUARDIA IMPERIAL

BILARDO: APERTURA CENTRO DE ALTO RENDIMIENTO EN POSADAS

CRONOGRAMA TELEVISACION MUNDIAL EN ARGENTINA

VILLARREAL 1 BARCELONA 4

GUARDIOLA EN CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA

LAZIO 0 INTER 2

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