jeudi 3 juin 2010
29 cámaras por partido en Sudáfrica 2010.
Llega la Copa a Sudáfrica.
mercredi 2 juin 2010
FOP Reply
- We deleted about 90 comments in the "Question for the FOP" thread. We won't be posting any there either, mostly to spare everyone the rash of vitriol. We tallied them up before flushing and we seemed to be on the losing end by a narrow margin. However, the comments seemed to come in waves. Thirty-plus comments posted between 1100 and 1230, all using the same style of capitalization, grammar, style and naughty words. Another twenty or so went up between 1700 and 1800. The other forty were questioning the whole website deal, which was exactly the purpose of the post.
- I am well aware that many FOP members read the Second City blog. I, for one, do not.
- Today, I was made aware that the FOP website was the subject of a posting on the blog. There was much innuendo associated with this posting.
- These are the facts.
- Prior to 2004 the Lodge was paying an outside vendor to host the website. A webmaster was paid for the maintenance and email fees. The website expenses for the Lodge totaled approximately $3600 a year which was not unreasonable considering the size of the site, the hours required for updates, and the hosting and email fees.
I redesigned the FOP website, took over maintenance of the site, and moved the site to a different hosting company in 2004. Blueline Webs was listed as the creator of the site at that time. I am Blueline Webs. I have maintained the site since that time. The yearly expenses for the website have dropped to $259 per year. This includes all hosting, maintenance, and email fees for the FOP main site, the Gift Shop website, and the FOP Stars Hockey Team website.
- Since 2004 I have never accepted or been offered any remuneration for my services either personally or through Blueline Webs. It was always my intent to draw on my services to the FOP purely as a referral at the time of my retirement from the Department.
Three cheers for your free work Rich - hip hip hooray! (x3).
- Rather than publish an article on the Second City blog that is based merely on innuendo, the webmaster of that entity could have made one simple phone call to satisfy his curiosity.
Zero.
And again, since you don't read the blog, you wouldn't know that we don't do phones. Phones are traceable. People answering phones like to have names. Names manage to leak out, even if it's the wrong name that your operator keeps giving to callers, opening up the FOP to a real possibility of a slander suit, especially when it's the wrong name. There's a former IAD lieutenant who ran an illegal First Amendment investigation into a few of those names without proper notifications involving some improper surveillance. Things like that reek of Red Squad and C-5 days and happen when names are bandied around.
In any event, however inadvertently, you answered the question we posed. A small suggestion - instead of linking to what might someday be a for-profit enterprise of web design, how about a little post at the bottom along the lines of "Site Design Provided Free-of-Charge by Blueline Webs." It would make you seem altruistic and eliminate any questions of the nature that we posed.
As for those demanding apologies, many of which seem to have originated from the same IP address within the span of 37 minutes, we didn't realize that we weren't allowed to pose questions to our betters who run an organization that we happen to pay dues to. We suppose it's like anyone questioning Shortshanks - just shut up, submit your taxes and pay no attention to the odd things that catch our eye and just seem to require further explanation.
Shame on us.
Wow! 44 Officers!
Mayor Daley today ordered 44 Chicago Police officers working desk jobs and in the arson unit reassigned to street duty to solve a severe manpower shortage caused by a two-year slowdown in police hiring.
Together with 86 police recruits due to graduate from the police academy on July 14, the depleted ranks will be bolstered by 130 officers by mid-summer, when the homicide rate traditionally rises and violent crime normally reaches its peak.
Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue dismissed today’s announcement as a “Band-Aid.” He noted that 16 percent of officers assigned to police districts were “detailed out” — moved to other units — as of May 25, up from 12 percent a year ago.
And the Department continues to offer overtime initiatives in lieu of hiring. It's going to get far worse before it gets any better.
I've Been Shot - Hurry Up!
A man whose car was stolen allegedly admitted to police officers he made a false call to 911 claiming he had been shot so officers would get their “asses” to the scene faster.
“ 'I’m the one who called,' ” Joshua Coleman told police when they spotted him at Englewood and Normal Tuesday afternoon, according to a police report. “ 'I said I got shot to get your asses here quicker. Are you gonna do anything about my car?' ”
Coleman, 21, an admitted gang member, first called emergency dispatchers to report that his car was stolen, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Erin Antonietti said.
When police didn't arrive immediately, he “was not pleased” and proceeded to place another 911 call, this time telling dispatchers he was shot in the leg in the 400 block of West Englewood, authorities said.
We'd like to see calls like these result in more arrests, but we don't think the courts will treat it seriously.
Sudáfrica 2010: la deflación turística.
Ocurre que mientras Sudáfrica no se ha organizado en los últimos años, se sabe que varios militantes involucrados en ataques en todo el mundo pasaron tiempo en el país a manera de refugio seguro y parada para las operaciones en otros lugares. Si sumamos la versión crítica que afirma sobre la corrupción generalizada entre la policía y los funcionarios, incluida la venta de pasaportes de Sudáfrica, que socava la lucha contra el terrorismo, el panorama puede oscurecerse aun más.
Sabemos que la absoluta mayoría del público mundialista es eminentemente europea y que los demás continentes están escasamente representados entre los espectadores. Pero la silueta que está emergiendo para esta Copa del Mundo parece bien distinta de todas las ediciones anteriores.




